If I Asked For A Grade Essay

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I Could ask for an A grade, but I think that all students want an A in your class. When I first come to your class, I was intimidated and thinking that I would not survive the semester, I got a bad grade in my primary essay, as a result I wanted to drop off. The prompt about the “City Mouse and the Suburban Mouse” was short, and it was hard for me to write an essay without summarizing it. However, I decided to stay and finish the semester, and I told myself that I would enjoy your class work harder and improve my grade.
The second essay, the topic about Africa got my attention, and I was so involved and enthusiastic about learning the subject. It was the fist time that I heard about King Leopold, who is a tyrant and vicious person. It was …show more content…

I realized that there was so much to learn in your class in such a short time. As a consequence, I did not see the time pass in your class, this is how much I liked. I found myself more focus on what I was learning than what grade I wanted to get. When you gave back the essay, I was choked that I earned an A. At that same night, I had to open a decent bottle of wine to celebrate, is not every day that I score a excellent grade.
As a Latina black women and feminist, I love reading and analyzing “Harlem of Shadows” by MaKay and “Black Women” by Senghor. I love how the writers talked about women in which is ignored most of the time in history, and that is why I related to the poem so much. I enjoyed reading it over and over, and the funny thing was that very time I read; I had different interpretation about the poem. The little poems had so much to say, to show and to make the reads to reflect about social problems that is targeting the black women. When I first moved to United States from Brazil, I experienced racism in first hand. It was a cultural shock to me, and the question that raised in my mind was, how a country that is supposed to be the first-world is so uneducated about race?

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