Blog Assignment #7: "Author's Note" on Your Personal Memoir

“That’s when she told me the entire story.  Keisha was in foster care since she was born. Her mother was a crack addict and was doing drugs during her pregnancy. Nobody knows were she is or her condition. Keisha was born in Marcy housing park in Brooklyn. Left there alone then found by a cop who took her to the hospital. Her father was in jail, she did not tell me of what he was convicted for. All I know is that it most of been something serious because until now he has not gotten out. Also it is evident that his incarceration is drug related. Her family members did not want her. After she told me this all I felt was sadness, disappointment, but I wasn't mad at Keisha.”
This piece is about my best friend. I thought I knew everything about her, and in high school I found out she was in foster care. She was my inspiration for this piece, the idea came to me when I was eating lunch with her. She told me that when she turns twenty-one if she does not have a job and a steady place to live, the foster care agency would place her in a shelter. I turned this assignment in to late to be able to revise it for my final portfolio.  However, if I was able to revise it the first thing I would change is the title.  The writing of this assignment did not come easy to me. I was having trouble with being pleased with my work, before I gave it in to my professor I most had written it over about 4 times. As soon as I mentioned her being located in a mental institution Wurtzel Prozac Nation popped in my head. I think I was thinking about because I can just imagine the depression she most of had being in an institution with a bunch of stranger.

Blog assignment #6: Planning an Interview for a ‘Personal Profile’

For this blog I was thinking of interviewing my sister.  I was planning to aim for the struggle of a student that attended an expensive private college. The large amount of loan left and the difficult part of finding a job that is able to pay the student the amount they are suppose to get paid with the amount of education they have earned.  I  would be leaning a lot on the math aspect.
I plan to ask her:
How much does it cost to attend the college you graduated from?
How much do you have in loans?
How much do you get paid?

Another idea is to interview my friend. I would like to show the aspect of a homosexual man working with children. The children reaction to sexual preference and his actions. His coworkers and parents reaction to his preference. I could also start leaning towards his parents reaction when he told them about his preference.
I plan to ask him:
At what age did you discover you were attracted to the same sex?
Do your students ever ask why you talk or walk differently then other man in there life’s?
How long have you been working for Board of Education?

I think that when an interview format is just question and answer the reader becomes bored and uninterested. In order to make my essay more interesting I was planning to make it in a story format. I would also like to see if there becomes a large difference between my interview and an actual professional interviewer. I believe that there would be a difference since I know the people I am interviewing and I can act like myself around them.