These posts contain a piece of my topic of how I am excluded as an immigrant. In my first blog post, I revisited an old essay and wrote about my aunt’s immigration process. While I was writing about her immigration process I realized…

The work “The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black” by Tommy Curry is one of the most interesting books I have ever read because of its engrossing content about the United States race relations. The author of…

As I was researching a study that interested me was “Immigration Application Denial Rates jump 37% Under Trump”[1]by David Bier because it statistically demonstrates that Immigration Application denial has remarkably incremented under Trump’s administration. This study highlights that the USCIS…

I took a philosophy course in which the first selected reading during the semester was “The Concept of the Political” by Carl Schmitt. The professor at the time explained that he chose to lecture on that book because of Schmitt…

A moment was when my grandmother as a resident petitioned my aunt and she was falsely acussed of committing fraud. My aunt was full of hope because she was going to be able to provide a better education to her…

The kitchen in the apartment that I reside has characteristically been my safe haven to complete assignments. It is the place where my ideas become coherent and where I seek refuge when I try to find answers to questions. When…

“Around the World with Narratives” by Grecia Catalan was the literary narrative that captivated me the most because Spanish is also my first language. I grew up in the Dominican Republic where I was taught Spanish and was learning French…