Author Archives: Alexander Kang

I’m not particularly sure about what makes an essay great. From what I can tell from this article, that’s about 5,000 words long, is that it’s very relatable. And the whole article does explain a lot of things that a normal person would understand with basic knowledge. The way it’s written is for the generalContinue reading “What Makes An Essay Great?”

What makes this essay much more interesting than just talking on and on about an annual food festival held in Maine about Lobsters is that he make the essay just not about it the festival. I don’t know about anyone else in the world but, I love food in general. I find out random factsContinue reading “Lobster Food Festival”

To start off, the platform, Medium is a member subscription-based article website where people can write about anything and everything that they would like to write about. So having Royte talk about “sex, trash, and nature in the city” is a particular type of topic that only a selected amount of people would like toContinue reading “MidWood Nature”

For our group work, it’s very similar and seems about right when he talks about knowing “everything about something”. We as a group are doing something similar to what Jay Rosen is talking about. We took something about Arcadia made it in our way a “niche” about ghost stories on campus. Sure Arcadia is somewhatContinue reading “Everything About Something”

To start off, I was in a group with three people so we decided to have one person listen to one whole episode while the other two listen to half of a episode. I only had listened to half an episode (which was only 13 minutes). From those 13 minutes, it sets up what kindContinue reading “Podcast Pilots”

In the beginning, she had a bit of difficulty finding the first clue as to how to find Hans. She contacted his art teacher way from before and started asking questions. She was confused as to why there were so many different foods and such on the buckle asked if the teacher if he wasContinue reading “The Mystery Show”

In my opinion, I think the worst case of authorial misconduct has to be Fareed Zakaria. He has this, sort of, reputation to repeat things that he has already has said in the past. Such as saying similar things at a graduation commencement at Harvard and Duke. He said very, very similar things compared toContinue reading “Plagiarism”

Compared to the Fast Fashion podcast, this podcast was in collaboration with multiple people within the industry. There were multiple experts in their own specific fields and it was a complete change from the previous podcast that we listened to. In the attempt to really downsize this hugely complex problem, they brought in agents, peopleContinue reading “Giant Pool of Money”

I would say that both the podcast and article bring different things on the table. The article is bringing more of a historical artifact and the podcast is going on the more modern type of fashion compared to the Great Depression era. From the author of the article “How Depression-Era Women Made Dresses Out ofContinue reading “Fast Fashion”

Everything that everyone says about the suburbs being the best place for Americans isn’t all that true. Just like everything else in life, there are pros and cons to many different things. Adam Conover goes into research of many different things that make the suburbs so “safe”. He goes into the history of lawns, housingContinue reading “Adam Ruins Everything”