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My Final Reflection          My 6 weeks here have made me grow as a person. A person who wasn't comfortable with the environment and was overwhelmed with the work, to a person who is very comfortable and found a way to manage my work. In Media literacy class, I have learned about media. Media is an array of modern communication technologies that disseminate information to large audiences, such as movies, video games, Twitter, radio, internet, Instagram, Tik Tok, Magazines, Television, newspapers, etc. This definition has helped me determine the different genres I could use for this writing course. Reading other people's work gave me ideas I never thought of. These ideas were great, but I felt like I didn't have the right information. I remember when the PSA assignment came around, I remember a documentary Super Size Me from school. I used clips from the documentary showing why fast food is unhealthy for you. People liked the idea I was going for and somethi...

  Summary #1      In this Graphic Novel , we see how GMOs are beneficial and awful for the world, animals, and humans. A girl scientist first tells us what is a GMO for people who don't know what it is. She tells the benefits first by stating, "I can grow in all environments" and they can produce more products. Now she gets to the negative side of our health and environment, by stating if a human eats GM food, "A chemical substance will be left in the body... this can lead to more than 20 kinds of diseases!". The diseases are Thyloid cancer, Alzheimer, etc. I feel like GMOs are dangerous because we don't know what they use in GM foods. This specific quote from the graphic novel, "Then, the farmer needs to use a herbicide to kill them (lead to water pollution)... And more Carbon-Dioxide is released into the atmosphere". This supports my opinion because we know herbicide is used to manipulate undesirable vegetation which is a good thing, but we don...