Lolita-AN

I chose my topic on the theme of exploitation, violence, and oppression because it is a reoccurring issue that happens throughout the world and is apart of history. This is especially true in the history of slavery. The gallery walk was extremely helpful because the questions and suggestions from from peers, who will eventually be a reader and audience for the paper. A technique I used in writing the paper was to find powerful and stand out quotes from Wideman's "Damballah" and Hooks' "Language" that supported my theme and wrote about how it affected Orion's situation. By choosing this quotes that I thought were important it was easier to elaborate. The comments and suggestions on the draft were really helpful because you mentioned to link Hook's reading to my paper and it worked out together so perfectly. My first draft was just a quick outline of how my paper was going to be shaped. I did not really go into detailed specifics on the issues of exploitation, violence and oppression. What I like about my paper is that I added some important U.S. history documents and linked it to how slaves were treated at that time, when “all men are created equal”.