Public Writing Project

I want to direct your attention to either of the following opportunities to meet the Public Writing Project:

In Class Writing: Question #2

A time that made me realized that me and an old friend of mine were two completely different people was when she gained this jealously towards me during middle school years. We had classes together since the 7th grade, and I was very antisocial during my junior years of middle school, so I would usually spend most of my free time with my math teacher, in whom I created a deep bond with.  This was also during a time where I was bullied constantly by my peers and those who've just seen me at random and chose not to like me. However, my "friend" noticed how much time I would spend with our teacher (also during this time, we weren't exactly on the best of terms, and we also had the same group of friends in whom I also did not talk to at the time). She admitted to me when we started talking again, that she was jealous and annoyed by the fact that I was "the teacher's pet" and it annoyed her so much that she started to develop this distaste towards me. I was surprised to hear that coming from her because out of all people I've stopped talking to, I though she would've been the least likeliest person to be so judgemental towards me. Fast forward in college, we've rekindled our so-called relationship after years of not seeing each other after graduating middle school, but I had to put a stop to it. One day, I had a conversation with her and another friend of ours, and Ive been noticing every time I'd say something, she would respond disrespectfully as If I didn't hear what she said. The moment that shocked me was when she said she hated her parents because her parents were Christians and she had no belief in Christianity whatsoever. She hated the fact that they were forcefully lecturing her on Christianity, when she said she's an antichrist type of person. She basically worships  the devil, which is the complete opposite of what her parents want her to go by. As a christian woman, this really made me change my point of view towards her. I completely stopped hanging out with her a couple of days after, and never saw her on campus again.

In Class Writing: Yamazaki

The fact that Yamazaki had known one of the attackers personally growing up from his high school is most definitely hard for him to comprehend, because he was an individual that seemed to have good morals at the time, but all of that seemingly has changed drastically the moment Yamazaki saw him on television. He began to feel betrayed and realized that anyone could be capable of anything.  Yamazaki had a gut feeling that something was odd about that classmate. He seemed to possess abnormal behaviors but didn't fully pay attention to what his classmate would really be capable of accomplishing. It is very selfish and ignorant for people to pretend as if they don't see someone in agonizing pain, passing them by on the street as if they don't even exist. Yamazaki was evidently sick, and people just passed him by as if he wasn't someone who had feelings like any other human being would. I felt sympathy for Yamazaki when some of the people that worked with him just passed him by as if nothing was really wrong with him, when in reality he was suffocating internally to maintain his focus. However, not everyone is to be trusted in times like during the attack, so it is understandable for people to withdraw or remove themselves for when they see something unusual. A disastrous event such as the sarin attack prevents a helping hand to be passed forward. Even though some individuals who knew Yamazaki had experienced the side effects of sarin, and the fact that they've continuously kept asking him what happened that day, they don't dig in to the fact that Yamazaki may have been brutally traumatized having to relive those moments by telling each person what he'd gone through.

In-class Writing: Question #1

A tragic event in my life that brought me closer to someone was the death of my Uncle Phil.  He lived in Staten Island with his 2 children and my aunt.  I was also there for the moment of his death.  Being that his family lived in Staten Island I was never really close with my cousins because I would rarely see them.  His death resulted in me growing much closer with my cousins because I wanted to look out for them since they had lost their father and since I couldn't imagine my life without mine.  I would always check up on them through texts and calls and would even help my aunt by driving to Staten Island to bring my cousin to his baseball games and tournaments.

In-class Writing: Question #3

It was last year and I was in Biology class. I had a shooting pain from my groin to my lower back, which I had thought was just soreness at the time.  I began to feel very overheated in class and was sweating profusely. I then proceeded to get a drink of water, but I had to leave the classroom because my professor wouldn't allow us to drink in class.  With every step I took, I felt my equilibrium becoming more and more distorted. By the time I made my way through the door and into the hallway, I could barely stand and decided to try and lean against the wall to help keep my body upright.  I remember sliding down the wall slowly until everything around me went dark.  I had fainted.  I woke up to about 5 of my classmates and my professor standing over me asking if I was alright.  I was so grateful for the help I received from my classmates because without them my professor would have never known that I passed out because from the whiteboard he was lecturing from there wasn't a view out the door.  The nurse was called and I eventually was taken to the emergency room by ambulance.  This event in my life affected me greatly because many things could have gone wrong for me and the fact that my classmates were looking out for me and got me the assistance I needed really touched me. 

Underground and its similarity to 9/11

In Ken'ichi  Yamazaki story reminded me so much about 9/11. After everything was going on with the gas attack, Yamazaki saw the news of the terrorists and recognized one. With that said he was lucky that he ad least knew about the person and knew what he could expect especially if he gone to school with him. The story about Yamazaki was horrible story is a terrorist attacking the subway system in Tokyo reminded me a lot on the 9/11 incident because of horror of visualizing two of New York's most important led alone tallest building falling on innocent people after being crashed by two hijack air liner holding passengers in full capacity and used for terrorizing the world.

Underground.


this attack gave him something positive. now he has better communication with his girlfriend. its incredible that he went to the same school that one of the person who did this. He said that he will help other people if he saw them sick. But he saw the people in the train felling, and he didn’t do anything to help. He even asked himself if they were dead or passed out. And then he was expecting people to help him even though he didn’t help them. As human beings sometimes we expect people to do things for us that we will not do for others. He said that the guy that did this was weird. I think people should pay attention because sometimes they are student and people that are mentally ill, and they can have something in their heads. Even that I thinks, does people knew what they were doing. And the worse part is that they think it was because of religion but I think something is behind it. From any point of view it doens’t matter is it’s for religion or for whatever reason I think its terrorism.