For paper number three it was a process I haven’t gone through in a while. Having a research question for a literary paper, and comparing two texts wasn’t something new for me. In the beginning, I was moving a little slow with things, just trying to get back into the groove of writing a paper…

Typically we look at religion as a building block or even the glue for a relationship. Looking at the short story “Goodbye, Columbus” by Philip Roth, and the film “Keeping the Faith” directed by Edward Norton, a new understanding of religious relationships is made. Goodbye, Columbus’ love interests and main characters are Neil and Brenda,…

Religion typically is used to bring communities, family, and people together. In the short story What must I say to you, Author Norma Rosen uses religion a little differently. Between the main character, her husband, and Mrs. Cooper, the caretaker of their child, you can see how religion plays its own role. In what must…

Ima and Abba, mom and dad. But they’re my grandparents. Since the day I was born and even now my grandparents have played such a major role in my life. Once I was born my grandparents wanted me to call them Mama and Papa which is common in Hispanic culture. Myparents didn’t like that idea,…

Welcome to CUNY Academic Commons. Im Bella Rivera, and through the eight-course learning outcomes, I learned to engage in the collaborative and social aspects of the writing process. I worked on three essays this semester, a personal essay, an argumentative essay, and a literary comparative essay. Jumping into my Essay “My Four Way Relationship”, I…