LiteracywithLateja

The responsibility of managing fast food intake should remain a personal responsibility, because a person’s personal health should be their own personal business. Imagine having rules and regulations about what you can or can’t put in your body, because other people don’t want to take care of themselves and are relying on the government to do it for them. As he stated in his article, Radley Balko has highlighted many issues on why the government shouldn’t interfere with the obesity issue. Ranging from the mere fact that he believes that obesity should be a personal issue to listing the consequences that government interference would have. He states, “And if the government is paying for my anti-cholesterol medication, what incentive is there for me to put down the cheeseburger?” He makes the assumption that people would care more about their health and actually be more cautious about the food they eat, if they were spending their own money on medication and medical bills, and I agree w...

The debate about whether or not Pop Culture is good has been around for a long time, and the answer might vary depending on who you ask. Many people believe that Pop Culture has been hijacked by mainstream media and now they are using the name to try to brainwash people into following the new ‘pop culture.’ Others disagree and claim that not only is pop culture good for them, but it is also beneficial to the world as a whole. Google describes ‘pop culture’ as “modern popular culture transmitted via the mass media and aimed particularly at younger people,” so it’s no surprise that many of the bashings that pop culture receive are from people in the older generation. In his Ted Talk, Alexander O. Phillippe makes the claim that Pop Culture is actually more than just ‘a movie’ or ‘a popular meme,’ but it is good because it brings people together. If a funny picture, video or tweet went viral on a social media platform, the assumption is that a lot of people probably saw it and said pictur...

  Growing up in Jamaica had a lot of impact on my literacy skills. From a very young age, it was instilled in me to be a good reader and somewhat of a writer. By the age of 2, I was able to spell and write my name, my parents’ name and my address. My mother, being my inspiration and best literacy supporter, taught me most of the concepts of reading, like sounding out words that I don’t know, and remembering the words that I was previously taught. She would draw letters and have me trace over them, or play the letter game with me, which consisted of each of us taking turns to draw a letter mid-air and the other would have to guess what letter it was. Another non-school related influence that I had were my older cousins. Of course, my other family members played a role in my literacy development as well, but I spent most of my time playing and conversing with my cousins, so it was natural that I picked up on some of the things that they were doing, which included speaking and reading...