Author Archives: demendoza

At my high school, there was not much diversity in terms of essays. I really only ever had to write two types, research and literature analysis. Don’t get me wrong, just because I only wrote two kinds of essays doesn’t mean … Continue reading →

A while ago, when I was searching for an article for my previous research, I didn’t realize I did it the ‘wrong way’ until way later. The whole purpose of getting articles (online) is to get more sources which provide … Continue reading →

In this post, I will just be letting my thoughts go loose as I try to come up with a conclusion for an idea brought out in one of my research sources. The article by Michael Hemsch, “Communism vs. Democracy?”, … Continue reading →

Reading Brandon’s blog post, “Wikipedia!!”, made me realize just how much I actually owe to and appreciate Wikipedia. In practice, Wikipedia is our human collective knowledge. Wikipedia is our crowd sourced communal hub for learning. I don’t know, it’s kind of cool … Continue reading →

In his article, “What Is It We Do When We Write Articles Like This One- and How Can We Get Students to Join Us?”, Michael Kleine reflects on what creates a good research procedure; he boils it down to a … Continue reading →

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YDYfByEPAY   One of my favorite archival artifacts that I discovered was an editorial post in the October 11, 1951 school newspaper titled “Boastful America”. In this article, the editor warns the students to act like good Christians, because if … Continue reading →

Earlier I had laid out my plans and notes-to-self on how I would approach my first day of archival research. In hindsight, I would say I started off on a good foot. I did not find everything I was hoping … Continue reading →

Ever since learning about them in high school World History, I’ve been eager to apply The Red Scares into examples for my essays, or use them to derive prompts/ideas for other essays. I don’t know what it is about The Red … Continue reading →

Ah! Sorry there was a delay on this blog, I had accidentally read the syllabus wrong and not only read the wrong article, but did the wrong work too >:(. Anyway… I have an assignment for my philosophy class coming … Continue reading →

When I first began reading this article (?), I didn’t know what it was going to explore. Blame it on my inability to recognize the short summary at the start of the article, or the break from when I last … Continue reading →