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A Look Back

I have created many themes and ideas when creating my blog. I have four essays in my blog so far that really are a lot different from each other, yet all focus around the same idea which is me. This blog is focused on me, Steven Inman. These four essays revolve around something that I care about. I have one essay on the NBA lockout, one on Major League baseball, one on my most memorable literacy moment and lastly an essay on how kids are shaping the world because of technology based off of the film “The Social Network” and in that order. I choose that order based off of what essays I felt I liked best. Obviously sports are a very important part of me, and that reflects in my first two essays. I believe my target audience would be people who would want insight on the topics I wrote about, the NBA and MLB. I would be happy to answer any sports questions and I believe I know baseball, basketball and even football very well. Hopefully one day I’ll have my own sports talk show preferably talking New York Sports. I got a twice a week radio show talking sports at WSJU radio at St. Johns University and it has proven to me that, it is what I want to do in life. Hopefully my target audience would be people willing to learn more about those topics, along with my very inspiration English teacher Robert Mundy, who is going to look over my entire blog.

The best part of Professor Mundy’s English class, which inspired me to create this blog, would definitely be the freedom to write about everything or anything that I wanted to. Instead of writing a 7 page paper on some history event that nobody really cares about, my final paper was on the NBA lockout and how that affects, the players, the owners and most importantly the fans who cant go a single day without reading something about their favorite sports team.

The blog gave me the opportunity to learn more about the things I want to learn about. I also had the opportunity to “remix” my four essay pieces. It gives my readers a bit of a different look to what I am doing here. It gives a different view to my 4 essays. I already talked about my favorite two pieces, the NBA lockout and a baseball as a cultural artifact. The essay I had the most problem with, was definitely my favorite literacy moment. I felt it gave me a little bit of a “bad light” on how I wasn’t always on the same page with my teachers and was always looking for a shortcut when it came to reading and writing material that I didn’t want to read and write about. I felt that moment really impacted my writing skills and my thoughts on writing. I believe Professor Mundy’s class really changed that as now I really enjoy writing, especially when its about topics I like talking about. I think it is very important to get my opinion out and I feel as if I am much more able to do that now especially with this blog. Before this class I was a kid who didn’t really know what he wanted to do in life, and was always looking for academic shortcuts and didn’t believe I could get much out of most classes. Now when I am allowed to talk about something I want write about, it inspires me to write longer and better. I believe the essays I did were perhaps the best essays I ever wrote and I hope you all enjoy them.