It can be used all day long between white people, the word cracker. It could be comparable to two African Americans, or blacks using the N word between them. For example I could say, “yo my cracker ass cracker, what are you doing?” As soon as a black person uses the word to describe a white person it becomes derogatory. Not knowing I believe is the worst thing of all, because I thought the word came from slave or land owners around the 1800`s. When land owners or slave traders would travel from house to house say in North Carolina they would use wagons pulled by horses. This could be best described as a scene out of the movie “Django.” Cracker is the man or men on top of the carriage of would carry the whip and crack it on the slave who was last in line to hurry them up. It could be as many as a hundred people traveling from one plantation to another.

Most people like you and I hear the word cracker and think of Saltines or maybe Ritz something to put peanut butter or cheese on. These are name brand crackers we can put in soup. Cracker could be best described as one who breaks into a locked computer or network system. I`m personally researching the word as a more racial slur for poor white people, sometimes it`s used in natural context or conversations between two whites or more. The actual and factual meaning comes from around 1783. The use of “crackers” specifies men who are descended from convicts that were transported from Great Britain to Virginia at different times. Benjamin Franklin wrote in his memoirs (1790) crackers are equal to people that are wild and as savage as the Indians who would inhabit the “desert[ed] woods and mountains.” “The Ballet or the Bullet,” speech that Malcolm X gave in 1964 used the word cracker directly as a derogatory term and I quote, “It`s time for you and me to stop sitting in this country letting some cracker senators, Northerner crackers and Southern crackers, sit there in Washington D.C., and come to a conclusion in their mind that you and I are supposed to have civil rights. There`s no white man going to tell me anything about my rights.” Also on November 29th 1993 a speech given at Kean College in New Jersey, Khallid Abdul Muhammad, a spokesman for the Nation of Islam called the Pope John Paul the II ” a no good cracker.” The point is I could go on referencing this word and how a black or Africa American man used it as a derogatory slur or racial slur. If you are not talking about the food it is just as bad as a white man using the N word and I`m not talking about ninjas.

So in conclusion I feel that if you knew better, you would do better. It`s very important to inform, because I do not believe the saying “ignorance is bliss.” I one hundred percent disagree. Having to do with white Northerners and white Southerners, the word resonates the same with the two, no matter what the financial background is. The word cracker is a sharp racial insult period anywhere you go in the United States. This term may not carry the same weight in other countries, but being someone that has been raised as an American it`s not okay to say. I don`t know why some whites use this term when amongst other whites.

I personally remember writing in a journal every day, Monday through Friday excluding holidays in the third grade. It was a vanilla colored journal that every kid got to keep track of progress or to express them selves. Most of the time I wrote maybe a half of a page or drew on the front, because I think of myself as some what of an artist or an entrepreneur.

The most literate person in my life is one of my mothers friends named Carolyn D. She is around seventy two years old. She reads and writes a lot kind of all the time. One of her characteristics could be one of a non-narcissist. I have learned to be more honest like her, because one lie leads to another. It is kind of like a snowball effect and the shit rolls down hill in this instance.

It`s a fact that men who can`t spell or punctuate properly can NOT meet a woman on a dating app. Like Plenty Of Fish (POF) or Tinder. So writing could be very important to one who is single. This could be considered a social impact if I were single, but I`m not.

Personally I carry an LG phone which I just found out stands for Life`s Good. Which is a total upgrade to the phone I had, let`s just say Obama did one good thing while he was in office. LOL. I usually carry a pen in my pocket whether it by a black or blue ink or casino pen. Maybe it is a Bic and if I said Bic to one of my friends they`d assume lighter. Don`t ask why but most of my friends happen to be smokers, but this is about me so back to the subject.

Writing in the near future means to me being able to express my self period. It could be in a song, short story, fictional, non-fictional, auto-biography or speech. Maybe I will be writing a new resume or filling out paperwork for my regular physician either way writing is super important to me. I could not even imagine not being able to sign my John Hancock.

On my own writing wish list is a I-Pad, could be newer or an older version. I`m easy. All of my life I have been an Android guy through and through. I hate my Aunts I-Phone and she swears by it. I don`t like being in the dark, but when it comes to I-Phones or I-Pads I am. I hate that now in days those are the only two choices, Mac or PC, Android or Apple. Hate is a strong word but I feel pretty strong about this.

The one and only thing I can think of that might benefit my fellow students or colleagues is a place called UBreakIFix. It is spelled just like that and is located on Sunset and Stephanie. It comes highly recommended from a costumer that was in the store when I happened to wonder in there one Sunday afternoon. I was just trying to factory reset a cell phone, actually the LG I`m using. The gentleman that helped me was super nice and eventually did the factory reset on my phone free of charge, because I`m computer illiterate. I had to set up a new google account after finding out the old password from my significant other. I believe there are more then one location in town, but that is where I went to. It reminded me of a few really smart guys trying to launch a bigger business, like getting Google off the ground. This place sells a vile call Liquid Glass. You are able to cover all your touch screen devices such as tablets, cell phones and touch screen laptops.

I am the very proud owner of a HP laptop with an Intel 5 core, 8th generation and is full touch screen. I found out the hard way that a seventeen inch screen is way too big, but like I said earlier I`m computer illiterate. I also use the LG cell phone which is very helpful or handy when you are in a unknown part of town and find your self starving. Location on and data on I`m finding the closets Mexican restaurant or taco shop. It also helps me keep in touch with family and friends.

Learning new technology to me can be compared to playing a brand new video game that just came out. Like Call Of Duty for example. The very first round of killing I might just straight out plain out suck period. The second time you get a little better gradually. Have you ever heard the saying practice makes perfect. Well that saying goes for all and every instrument whether it be a trumpet or an I-Phone X. It can be difficult in the beginning. It gets a little easier the more and more time you have under your belt using that particular instrument.

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The writer should state his or her thesis also in the conversation what that thesis is responding to. Make it clear to the audience or reader. To keep the auciences attention the writer must explain what he or she is responding to usually early in the conversation or discussion. Summarize what “they say” as soon as you can in your text, and remind readers of it at strategic points as your text unfolds. As soon as possible state your own position and the one it`s responding to together and that you think of the two as a unit. Best to summarize the ideas you`re responding to briefly at the start of your text, and to delay later, give your readers a quick preview of what is motivating your argument.

It says that people don`t like to summarize maybe because they are lazy, the writer doesn`t want to go back into his or her text or what they wrote to explain it as a whole more writers need to summarize. It say in “They Say, I Say” that the writer should state their own position and the one responding to together as one, like a single unit as they say. Bring up your ideas briefly or summarize at the start. Then go into more detail and elaborate to the readers what is motivating the writers argument.

Peter Elbow calls it “believing game” if you can not play this game you may be so biased that they undermine your credibility with readers.

The authors you end up summarizing at the college level really just “say” or “discuss things or text they usually urge,” “emphasize,” and “complain about.” When you summarize or introduce a quote, try to use colorful or vivid verbs. Kind of like the perfect fabric a tailor could use to sew a dress or perfect suit, to properly interject a quotation you need to introduce the statement or quotation or explain why you think the quote is so important and what you believe it is saying, by your opinion, or what it means by your way of seeing it.

In conclusion I personally don`t think you can over analyze a quotation. It`s always better to over elaborate opposed to not giving enough information or leave your reader dangling.

1. Your preferred name (While your name will appear in your post, we sometimes like to go by other names or nicknames) : Mike

2. A picture/Video (Although, not required): NA

3. Major: Nursing

4. What year in college (or high school). : First year.

5. Field of interest post-college/certificate: Associates.

6. Any hobbies or interests: Drawing, art and self improvement.

7. What you enjoy about writing: Self expression.

8. What fears you might have about this class (we can get around those!): Failing.

9. If you could teach the world something or had a platform where you could send one message to the world, what would it be and why?: Cherish each second of each day, because tomorrow is not promised to anyone.