My Projects
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As an aspiring editor and writer, research is one of the most important aspects of my process. Below are works collected throughout my time enrolled in ASU's English MA program. In each work, I discover, analyze and try to understand broader aspects of culture, literacy and literature as it applies to not only students but also, society at large.
Food Waste Within the Political Economy: Wasted! The Story of Food Waste, Documentary
“Use everything, waste nothing” are the four words Anthony Bourdain uses in the first two minutes of the 2017 documentary Wasted! The Story of Food Waste, directed by Anna Chai and Nari Kye. Food waste contributes to the usage of...
Technoculture: An Online Journal of Technology in Society
In the Zeitgeist of technological information, Technoculture provides its audience with engaging and creative works spanning on a range of broad topics such as media, entertainment and of course, technology. Technoculture makes it clear to anyone interested in submitting to the journal that, its readers are “not necessarily academics”...
A presentation representing environmental issues, using anaylsis of Michael Jackson's "Earth Song"
Ecomedia VoiceThread Presentation
Composing Project Unit Assignment: Social Writing – WRT 110, on The Composition Skill of Communication
A project showcasing a course and unit(s) encouraging the use of technological mediums, due to technology being an integral part of social writing, what it means and how it is used. Technology throughout the created course, as it’s also done in various other facets of the modern life, intended for the use for research, peer-to-peer dialogue, and virtual projects.
Sanctified Land
How both Ana Castillo’s So Far from God & Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange, religious frameworks and environmental instability are used to critique spiritual and ecologies crises
In both Ana Castillo’s So Far from God and Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange the land of the United States of America, and surrounding countries, are imagined as sanctified, upholding the ideology that within occupation of these certain lands, faith systems cannot be separated from environmental crises...
Literacy Theory
Literacy is the ability to articulate both contextualized information and thoughts into a readable and comprehensive form while also successfully comprehending written word. Markers of modern literacy expectations are not only defined and measured by skills of reading writing and comprehension of the two, but are also...
A presentation on effective literacy, its importance and how we can move forward.