Daniel J. Aguilar

Many people can say that Pop culture is a wondrous thing and that it has a positive effect on today's society. However, there are another select few who believe that pop culture has a negative effect towards society. Pop Culture can be interpreted in various different ways. While there are pros, there are also cons. Pop culture can be quite harmful to today’s society. An example of this could be social media. In Malcolm Gladwell's Small Change, he states,” the evangelists of social media don’t understand this distinctions: they seem to still believe that a facebook friend is the same as a real friend and that signing up for a donor registry in Silicon Valley today is activism in the same sense as sitting at a segregated lunch counter at Greensboro in 1960.”  While people are being “activists” on social media, I feel that the way that they express their concerns about certain subjects can be much better. When I mean much better, I mean that they could definitely go out in...

   The first memories I have about reading is when at an early age, even before I began my school years, my mom and dad read to me every night before bed.   Listening to the different stories that they read to me opened my curiosity for reading and learning.   Literacy was a subject that played a key role in my family life.   Learning how to become literate at the age of five years old was an experience that I will never forget.   Being the short and adorable kindergartner that I was long ago, the teacher wanted to expose the class to literacy for it was keen for a student to start reading at such an early age. Trying to scan the text from left to right, I tried to grasp what I was reading, as well as, enjoy what I was reading. It was like a baby taking his or her first steps, quite exciting. My interest continuously broadened as I relentlessly picked up one book after another. Also, my teachers acknowledged my curiosity and they began to feed my...