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Blog Post for Community Essay

I wrote this essay feeling very interested. I do believe that when you are interested in a topic you do write more and the ideas come to you more smoothly. I got the idea of this community because I do consider myself to be a part of the community also Investments and financial literacy is a topic I enjoy speaking about. It took me a good amount of time to write this essay. I just decided to write down my thoughts on paper and that is how I wrote through this essay. I did not outline. I believe my process is to think and then to write exactly what I am thinking in a way that others can understand. When I am writing what I tend to think about a lot is , “is what I am saying making sense, can anyone understand. I like most that I underlined the fact that in a community there are subdivisions and with subdivisions in a community there are even more subdivisions. It is important to understand that some within communities are communities. I hope to improve my ability to communicate. I feel like it is possible for me to get my point across more effectively. I hope to continuously adapt how I write and use different strategies to convey my points. I am excited to learn more about writing and the different strategies that are used when writing. I am also excited to read new books and learn more about the author’s and how they write. Analyzing how the authors write will assist me in becoming a better writer and allow me to continue changing and molding my writing to be better. Moving forward I will also be reading other books that I find interesting, using the writing style in these books I will also learn a lot. It is easy to see that people have a pattern when writing and I am starting to notice patterns in my writing as well, especially in the way I like to convey ideas. Writing about the community was surprisingly refreshing. Different people have different communities, in our assignment it opened the question about community. Community is something that is often questioned and also left as well. People a lot of times find themselves exiting one community and going into another as life progresses. The communities we identify with change as life goes on and this is seen extensively through everyone’s life. Communities also have many different variations within one community. The ability for a community to change someone’s life and make an individual feel embraced is also very important. Communities allow individuals to be a part of a group. And this can help an individual in their life as they now have people with similar interests as those around them. Being able to call on a community for advice and to look at a community and put in your own two cents is important. Group decisions can be formed and the community can shape a new mission and drive. 

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Blog Post about Colin Dickey’s chapter

One quote that I found to stand out to me was “That slave owners could not have fully dehumanized these men and women, because they were first and foremost people, is important, but it’s worth recognizing that slavery’s objective was to make them both present and absent simultaneously —to enslave someone was not necessarily to efface that person entirely but to render him or her a ghost.“ This was such a powerful quote because I believe it shows how slaves were seen in this time. They were seen as a ghost their voice was not heard. They effectively silenced a group of people. They made sure that slaves were not allowed to speak their mind and that they did as they were told. This quote shows and explains what slaves seen as a whole no presence just ghosts. I also saw a word that I did not know, the word efface this also made this quote stand out to me more. Efface meaning is to erase, so I believe that in the ending part of the quote the author is saying that the goal was not to erase slaves presence. The goal was to make there presence be unknown and untraceable like a ghost. Meaning all of the important things that individuals discuss and agree upon as a society was not to be discussed with slaves and that they would not get a voice to effect change on any of the problems that our society faces. It made me think about how many voices today are still silenced. And that many people to this day do not have the ability to effect change on problems that they should have a say so in. I believe that it is important to see that today the same problem is faced today. It is very important that we do realize that although we are in a different time it is important to understand history as it seems that a lot of the problems faced in history continue to be problems we face today.

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