Anime vs. Cartoons

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One of the major projects that rounded off my 2016 was my final research assignment for EN319: Advanced Composition. Because our professor allowed us to work with formats besides the traditional essay, I elected to do a self-curated slideshow presentation comparing the history of Japanese anime and American cartoons.



As the intent behind this project is for it be browsed without my curation, I won't elaborate too much on its content, but I hope you'll enjoy my presentation, if not also learn something from it! (If the embedded slides do not work, this project can also be found here.)

Updates!

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Wow, it's been a very long time since I posted anything on this blog! Looks like the last time was in (*squints) 2016 and lot has happened/changed since then!

Probably the most important of those changes is that I am now pursuing just an English for Education B.A., not double majoring with that and Secondary Education. This change happened towards the end of 2017 as my long-term goals began to sharpen and I determined that keeping the Education major would be a much longer route to those goals. From my perspective, although I will not be finishing the program, I believe it's given me an excellent foundation in the basic aspects of teaching, regardless of the age level I will be working with in the future.

On that note, my aforementioned current long-term career goals is to teach English composition at the college level and I am inching ever forward. Dropping Secondary Education shaved off 1.5 - 2 more years as an undergrad and I am now in my last semester, hurtling steadily towards graduation with a B.A. in English with an emphasis in Education. I'm more than excited to close this chapter of my life and move on to the next one - grad school!

As for this the fate of this blog, I had wanted to keep it up to date after finishing my Technology for Education class, but found that difficult with the workloads of the following semesters. I will try, though, to start posting things here over the remainder of this semester. This blog will most see major projects from my previous classes and in the future, hopefully projects from my graduate level classes, as well. By the time everything is posted, this blog will probably resemble a portfolio more than a site for rambling and listicles, haha.

That's all I have to say for now! I will hope you will look forward to future updates!