Author Archives: mrateau1

    If you were to ask people my age what they’re top 3 favorite things are, the vast majority of them would put food on the short list.  I know I would.  I love food, but if you were to ask me what my favorite food is, I honestly couldn’t tell you.  I could fillContinue reading “Food Essay”

The coronavirus is really messing everything up, but there is something to take from all of this.

In Super Size Me!, Spurlock uses himself as an example to show the harmfulness of fast food.  Right off the bat, Spurlock gives factual information about fast food in the U.S, including that the U.S is the fattest country in the world.  As much as this information should strike some sort of emotion in people,Continue reading “Don’t Super Size Me!”

     The essay begins with Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah on her way to James Arthur Baldwin’s home.  It’s the first time that she has a little extra money in her pocket, and a day-trip to the influential novelist’s home seems to her like a good way to spend the money.  She talks about her prior intenseContinue reading “The Weight of James Baldwin”

For my borrowed memoir, I want to write about something that happened recently.  It was winter break, January 18th to be specific, and I was watching “Coco” on Disney+ for the first time with my mom and my brother.  It was my suggestion– or more accurately, my decision– to watch the movie, but it wasContinue reading “My Borrowed Memoir”

In Hampl’s chapter “Memories and Imagination”, she develops the beginning of a story only for readers to later realize that many of the details which she was writing were not entirely true. Her reasoning isn’t only for her own entertainment or simply because she is a compulsive liar. There is a certain rationale for whyContinue reading “Hampl’s Rationale”

Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde. This is the first post on my new blog. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Subscribe below to get notified when I post new updates.

This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right. You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click theContinue reading “Introduce Yourself (Example Post)”