By K. Tran Can EV cars and solar roof tiles save Mother Earth? Can spaceships and planetary colonization save humanity? If so, can Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, be our leader to save humankind? People who sacrifice themselves to benefit society is, in my own terms, a hero. Also, a hero is …
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By K. Tran Some beings are born as heroes. Some beings work to become a hero. And some beings are given a path to become a hero. Carol Danvers, the woman to become the hero known as Captain Marvel, encompasses all of these features in becoming a hero. In the movie, we see glimpses of …
By K. Tran. Imagine your dad was killed by your uncle, and you had to take care of yourself from a very young age in the streets of Oakland. You are of African descent and unprivileged…until you grow up to learn you are the son of a King of a powerful nation know as Wakanda, …
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By K. Tran Imagine your neighbors squatting on the streets. Now imagine them relieving their feces onto the very streets you walk on every day. Quite unsanitary. In this blog post, I will reflect upon my awareness campaign on Bill Gate’s charitable project to reinvent the toilet to improve the sanitation in countries that need …
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By K. Tran Have you ever wanted to reaffirm your stance in your arguments, but you do so somewhat conversationally? I do, too! The authors of They Say/I Say defines metacommentary as “a way in commenting on your claims and telling others how–and how not–to think about them.” Typically, metacommentaries appear as effective indicators of …
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By K. Tran How formal should writers sound when writing let’s say an academic essay? Graff and Birkenstein, the authors of They Say/ I Say, said “Although we don’t want to suggest that you avoid using sophisticated, academic terms in your writing, we encourage you to draw upon the kinds of expressions and turns of …
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By K. Tran How fixated are you that school is the road to personal success a hundred percent of the time? Would you consider a person who dropped out of high school or college a failure? Do you think a drop-out’s point of view matters? Well, you should hear what a drop-out has to say. …
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By K. Tran “Grab their attention with something snappy or cute.” Is that really it for an intro? According to, The Craft Of Research, there is so much more to do in an introduction if your essay. In order to reel in your audience, you would need a “contextualizing background”, “statement of the problem”, and a “response to …
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By K. Tran What’s the difference between one’s reason and one’s evidence? Consider a snippet of a discussion from The Craft of Research, Fourth Edition, between a mother and child: Child: I need new sneakers. Look. These are too small. Parent: Your feet haven’t grown that much in a month, and they don’t seem to …
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By K. Tran We typically think our favorite athletes are our heroes when they display our country’s great strength during the Super Bowl or Olympics. But we often don’t see beyond this surface as they entertain us. Yusra Mardini, an eighteen-year-old Olympian Syrian swimmer, risked her amazing life to save other refugees as they were …
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