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My Retrospective

 Over this past semester, I've been confronted with my inconsistent tendencies with every assignment, activity, and writing project. I've always known that I despised structured writing. In AP U.S History, I hated writing DBQ's. Researched-based essays felt shallow to me, and writing concisely was never my goal. I came into this semester off the kinetic energy fueling me from last semester-interpreting theatre design. In this class, I could be much more poetic, metaphorically complex, and use rhetoric to compliment the author's own usage. I consistently prioritize freedom, but at what cost? For this writing class, I risk my grade. Further than that, I risk understanding. I always want to challenge my audience, but for them to also understand the basic content I'm trying to convey. My audience will not always come from a highly English-literate audience. With immigrant parents, I should naturally feel considerate writing in a simpler way that is easily accessible, bu...
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Review of Primary Sources

 For today's blog, I will be reviewing a primary/academic source I found on Proquest that I'm examing to use for my fourth writing project. Here is the link:  https://www.proquest.com/docview/2533657132/B073FBB320B84DD8PQ/2 Bibliography: 100 Years Later, A Survivor's Story Of The Tulsa Race Massacre. NPR, 2021. ProQuest, http://libproxy.usc.edu/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/other-sources/100-years-later-survivors-story-tulsa-race/docview/2533657132/se-2?accountid=14749. This is a sound byte of an interview in an archived NPR broadcast. It was published last year and has a blurb at the beginning depicting the situation. Because of these two factors I question the validity of the source as being primary, however, I believe that the content of the interview is very raw and beneficial for the direct context of the situation. In regards to the Tulsa Massacre, the recorded audio is descriptive, candid, and insightful. Additionally, proquest is a very reliable database. I wou...
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Tulsa Race Massacre

 For my fourth writing project for Writ150, I am choosing to write about the Tulsa Race Massacre. I came across this topic while reading the required materials, specifically from the Smithsonian article on the 'Civil Season'. This topic touches a personal spot for me because Tulsa was only an hour away from where I lived for most of my life. I lived in Northwest Arkansas up until leaving for college, but in my ten years of education within the Arkansas school system, I was never educated on the Tulsa Race Massacre. Such a horrifying event was left unmentioned in my history or social studies classes. It is incredibly maddening to realize at my current age. I and the rest of my peers were left completely ignorant of a historically significant event that would've shed light on the current racial injustices today. For my re-evaluation, I will be dissecting specifically how this topic is addressed in the Midwest and maybe even specifically Arkansas. 
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Sources for Third Writing Project

 My top source at the moment is one I found off of Credo.  https://search-credoreference-com.libproxy2.usc.edu/content/entry/sagetrans/health_care_discrimination/0 I used the keywords "trans health" and it showed up. It's interesting because before I tried to be more specific but it backfired. I tried "trans youth health injustice" and only definitions of transgender would appear as well as healthcare issues of the LGBTQ community. I tried "trans health issues" and the articles that would appear were actually too medical-based discussing general health issues encountered by trans individuals rather than systemic/discriminatory issues. My search strategy was to first use google to really find what I was looking for then to use keywords I found in those article titles into my credible search engines. This one is the best one I have found so far. It is more informational than argumentative so it allowed me to learn and curate my own argument rather than l...
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Topic Discussion for Third Writing Project

 I want to talk about trans health. Specifically more on adolescent to young adult trans health. The biggest issue I see as of now coming from Arkansas (a rural, conservative area) is the lack of accessibility, information, and resources to questioning children and young adults distressed over their gender identity without a safe place/professionals to help. Growing up in America in a traditional Vietnamese family has made learning about transsexual identities a big taboo and always in a negative "don't ever be like that" type of way. I think I can understand already the social issues that can affect the physiology of trans youth and the insecurities of seeking out positive resources. If they even existed. The current perception and approach to addressing trans questioning youth is one that is in accusatory tones and shame. Followed by a rushed band-aid solution that can often be harmful psychologically to the child/teen. The type of research I need to do is how these soc...
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Source

Article Link "A reparation we need now; Manhattan Beach and Los Angeles County should return or pay for a wrongly taken Bruce's Beach." Los Angeles Times, Mar 30, 2021. ProQuest, http://libproxy.usc.edu/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/newspapers/reparation-we-need-now-manhattan-beach-los/docview/2506446406/se-2?accountid=14749. This article supports my argument to further provide reparations for the descendants/inhabitants of Bruce's Beach. The article highlights evidence for unjust wrongings and how the eminent domain was an act of racism. I will use the article to elaborate the just cause for the community and LA County to do more to repay the homage they wrecked. 
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Generational Wealth Disparity

A relevant example of this is the residents of Chavez Ravine. After the land was forcibly taken by the Los Angeles Mayor and sold to Walter O'Malley to build the Dodgers Stadium, displaced people were left without homes and property. Without property to pass down generationally, these families could not accumulate wealth. The growing housing industry and the inflation rate have allowed properties to boom, w/o properties due to displacement-indigenous peoples have nowhere to live or property investment. Tackling this problem first requires that we provide indigenous families with property in some way. The housing market in the modern world requires at least a 10% down payment, and the average single-family household price ranges from 200,000-to 400,000 nationwide. So per family, that is at least $20,000 to $40,000 to even consider buying a house, let alone meeting the monthly principle. To address this issue, I propose two possible solutions: a) Providing that downpayment per househ...
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