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Authors Note Steven Pope

1)For my paper I chose the theme of looking at healing throughout the bell hooks essay. I figured it would be a challenge since we are so used to hearing about the harsh reality that slavery had. I wanted to kind of get away from the whole slavery issue, but I really wanted to know how the people of that time got through their situation. 2) The new thing I learned from the gallery walk was questions that I didn't think about. I felt it made it easier in a way to complete my paper because the questions and suggestions kind of formed the direction in which I went because the theme of Healing is very broad and I needed to figure out where I was going to go with it. 3) I made a lot of changes to my paper. One thing I did was I corrected it thoroughly and I also took Dr. Schettler's advice on grammar errors. I figured that she's a lot better of a writer than myself and its always good to have someone else's feedback in regards to grammar, questions and comments. I also changed paragraphs around and even changed some of my sentence structure to help organization because it just wasn't flowing the way I wanted. 4) Looking back at this whole assignment, I really enjoyed it, because it does shed a different light on the whole slavery issue that a lot of people aren't really used to hearing. It sympathized rather than pointing the finger and I really wanted to know how African Americans dealt with that situation way back. I enjoyed most writing and thinking with a different perspective. To me, it opens your eyes in a different way and thus, brings further understanding.