New York, New York Posts

Doing this “assignment” over the quarter has been a rather different experience for me. Before this I honestly never use to read the newspaper or go online to get information from the newspaper. Back home growing up, the newspaper was always left at the end of the driveway until one day we decided to simply cancel the prescription all together that way we wouldn’t be wasting the mail man’s time and the companies money on printing papers for people whom didn’t want it in the first place. Either way, what I am trying to say is that this is a new experience for me. My reading habits have increased, by no fault of my own unfortunately hah. It hasn’t been too bad to read a few more things a week and be educated on what is happening around me in this world instead of staying in my own bubble. I feel this should be a more common assignment for more classes. It’s a good idea to expose students too that way they don’t develop into grownups that are self-centered and don’t think about the big picture of the World. For instance,, without this assignment I would have never of found out about things going on in the Middle East, which seem to be the main focus of today’s media. Stories like New York’s acceptance of gay marriage, to stories about presidential candidates and their personal lives. All of these stories influenced my capability to spark conversations with people about something interesting that was of importance in our lives. Unfortunately, the one thing the Times has not influenced me on is my writing style and skills. Regrettably the majority of newspaper articles are written on the reading level of a 5th grader, a level in which I surpassed many years ago. However, either way I still enjoy the articles that they daily produce regardless of the reading level that I read it at.