I invested everything to the maximum in all my assignments, in all essays and research papers. Now I will talk about what I felt and how I experienced each of them.

My first task was ” Formal Letter of Introduction”. There, I described myself as a creative person, creative in everything. I tried to tell about myself as much as possible, so that anyone who reads this could feel what is in my heart. At some point, I thought it necessary to write about my background, about culture, so that people would get rid of prejudices. Today’s generation is ambiguous about a particular race, culture, country. 

Many people have a prejudice that Russian people are aggressive, depressive and renounce everything that is not similar to Russian culture. However, it is not true. In my example, I wanted to show that everything depends only on the person and his upbringing. Introducing myself, I felt like I made a step on the way to the writer. It is because you always think as accurately as possible to describe yourself so that people reading you can understand.

My second job was “Critical Response to Ngugi Wa Thiongo”. This work was for me the first serious work where I needed to conduct a critical analysis of the work. At first, the topic of colonization seemed to me difficult, because earlier I had not encountered the literature about this phenomenon of humanity and for me, this was the first time. However, I was filled with this topic and became interested in it, reading such works as this.

In this paper, I developed the theme of literature in the period of colonialism. The author wanted us to understand African literature such as a mirror for society. He claims that literature is used as a reflection of our traditions for the uniqueness of our culture. I chose this particular work, because it seemed to me one of the most emotional among all that I read during these semester. It is not easy to feel the pain of a person, longing for something native, because we live in a more peaceful time. This work made me grow and look at literature from a critical angle, more rationally and thoughtfully.

Further, there is a work about Bharati Mukherjee and her piece “Two Ways to Belong to America”. This was my in-class presentation. This task did not seem difficult to me, but I read a lot of resources about it. Mukherjee’s work features not only cultural clashes but undercurrents of violence. The author presents a divert view of the influence race has on the application of American immigration regulations. The presentation is also associated with the colonization of the island of Antigua, the writer’s homeland. Studying not only “Two Ways to Belong to America” but also the history of colonization in general, I learned many interesting facts about the history of England and all the lands they colonized.

I think this piece is worth reading for everyone. In “Two Ways to Belong in America.” She utilizes several rhetorical strategies to show that immigrants can be assimilated into the American culture, but that they should not be deported if they choose not to conform to said culture. Also, “Two Ways to Belong in America” symbolizes optional paths to American citizenship where the boundary is based on race, nationality as well as the ease of denouncing descendant cultures. 

My in-class essay seemed to me the most difficult. For this work, I chose post-colonization from Critical Lenses. I did the investigation based on the literature used in my past, above-mentioned works. This work seemed to me difficult since it was hard for me to build a link between the post-colononization idea and postcolonial literature. My question was whether postcolonial literature encourages aggression or, on the contrary, does not cause rejection. Postcolonialism often attracts a discussion of the problems of slavery, migration, suppression and resistance, differences, race, gender may be defined as post-colonial.

All the same, analyzing the works of Jamaica Kincaid and Ngugi Wa Thiongo I realized that postcolonial literature does not cause aggression rather than induces its appearance. On the one hand, the work led me to big reflections, since it was difficult to find an interesting non-rhetorical question. In Critical Lenses there were other topics, but I felt a spiritual approach specifically to this topic.

The last work that brought me the most pleasure in the development process – research paper. I am fully absorbed in this work, as it concerns me. For me, the human attitude to beauty and mental qualities is very important. In my essay, I considered such issues as an excessive assessment of appearance and negligent attitude to gender. I think everyone deserves love and respect for themselves, despite the background.

Working through this work, I learned to use various types of resources for analysis. I also used the Jamaica Kincaid mentioned above as one of the main examples, since it faced such a problem – racism and colonization. I felt a significant advancement in myself as a writer when I reread my work. I consider it the most worthy in my portfolio so far. It reflects my attitude to this problem, it can be seen in the paragraph with my personal example.

All in all, I feel really good about English 110 class. Also, I always read comments that my professor left on my works. It was the motivation for me to rework and reread my assignments to improve them in the right way. I would really recommend everyone to delve deeply in every piece you read because it might be hidden intent that may encourage everyone to think about this or that work.