Mitiana Williams' ENG 216.02 Blog :D

Hello Everyone! MW here, and this week has been a crazy one. I won't bore you with the details, so let's dive into the topic for this week. We are talking about prison reform this week and the truth of incarceration.  We watched the Prisoners of Riker Island for our film this week and, truthfully, it was a horrifying film to watch.  A scene that stuck out to me quite a bit was the women's quarters of the prison. They even said in the film that most of the women there should be in rehab for addiction or mental illness, not in prison. This film made me think of group one's topic of criminal psychology. Even though these women are not killing anyone, most of them anyways, are being placed in prison to rot away instead of getting the help they need to get better for themselves and their children. Another scene that stood out to me was the pregnant women's place. This truly made my heart wrench with sadness and despair with these women in prison with their babies. Prison...

 Hey everyone, this week we will be talking about identity. First, I want to ask everyone, what do you think about yourself when you think of identity? For me, I think of my race, my culture, then my personality, and what things I do that I identify with.  What boxes do I put myself in? I feel like I put myself into the artist box and expect myself to be a creative individual. I also put myself into the girlfriend box and expect myself to be a great girlfriend, a good sister, and a good daughter. I think a lot of the boxes I put myself in our boxes that others would put me in: sister, Asian, daughter, woman, etc.  I feel like there are a lot of changes happening in my personal life where some boxes I'm in don't feel the same the next week or day. An example of one of these is the lazy box. I sometimes put myself under the lazy label, but then I think about what I love to do and don't feel like I am a lazy person, but the moment someone calls me lazy, I question it.  ...

Good afternoon everyone!  I have watched the Cultivating Curiosity video of the week and it really hit home. This week the video was about why learning isn't enjoyable anymore and how to revive curiosity when we get to this point. In the beginning, where he describes the passion for learning in high school and the loss of that in college, hit the most for me. It hit home because I feel like that was exactly what happened to me in my first year of college. I was excited to be in university, something I had looked forward to my entire life.  I didn't acknowledge that I had become a statistic for my grades essentially until I started looking into applying to colleges during my freshman year of high school. I remember learning being something I did well at naturally. When needing 'good enough grades to get into college though, I feel my mindset toward grades changed drastically.                             ...

Good Afternoon Everyone! Mitiana, here. WooHoo! It's my birthday month! Today we will be talking about group one's topic of anxiety/ depression in the world.  First, I want to talk  about the movie we watched in class on Tuesday, Nadiya: Anxiety And Me. In this film, we explored Nadiya Hussain's panic disorder and severe anxiety. She searched within the UK to explore her options when it comes to  treatment  for her experiences.  I really relate to what Nadiya was exploring in the film because I as well suffer with moderate  anxiety and anxiety attacks. While it is not as extreme as Nadiya's condition, I can relate to her struggle when finding a treatment plan. I have tried to talk to people, not professionals. for my anxiety and was not met with understanding. This caused my anxiety and depression to continue in a downward spiral. Seeing Nadiya going to the schools to talk about anxiety within school hit very close to home for me because...