Response to "All The Reasons Why Zoos should be Banned"

In your post, you should first and foremost reflect on the way it is synthesizing and presenting research and information. How does it make an argument, is it effective? After addressing the genre of this piece as a research essay, you can feel free to respond holistically to the content: do you agree/disagree and why?

Your response should be no less than 200 words. You do not need to comment on a peers' post, but you most certainly can.

Here is the link again:

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/why-we-should-close-all-zoos-778

Online Class Response

Please post briefly (but no less than 100 words) about how your research is going, what resources and databases have been especially useful, any questions you have, etc. Posts should be made by 10PM Wednesday. You should also make one reply to one of your peers' postsby the time we meet again in class on Thursday.

Please include your name in your post.

Discussion of "I Once Was Miss America"

Please post your response to Roxane Gay's short essay here. It can be pretty open ended, but some things you may want to address are the overall structure or language of the piece; the way Gay inserts herself into the narrative; the comment on race; the comment on genre (various genres really); the way this essay complicates or engages with ideology/pop culture; etc.

Your response should be no less than 200 words.