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    Vale Saavedra
    • Jun 21
    • 25 min

    Code-Switching in Context: English in Korean Hip Hop

    Introduction Code-switching, the practice of alternating between two or more languages, has become a popular topic of study and discussio...

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    Valentina Saavedra
    • Apr 29
    • 1 min

    A Little Exploration into Korean

    이미지 자기자신을판단하는것은매우흔한일이다. 대부분의경우그들의외모가판단의대상이되기도하고, 때때로는그들의성격이나말하는방식이그대상이되기도한다. 사람들은이렇게자기자신에대해이야기할때,그중특히자신의신체에대해이야기할때스스로를가혹하게대한다. 나또한항상나를가혹하...

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    Valentina Saavedra
    • Dec 13, 2019
    • 2 min

    3 Color Eye Look ("Yes, Please!" by ColourPop)

    I know as much as the next guy how impossible it can get to wake up in the morning. On days when it becomes too much to leave your bed be...

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    Valentina Saavedra
    • Jan 8, 2019
    • 2 min

    My Skincare Routine (and why it's important to keep one)

    Skincare: the always daunting but very important task that should be apart of everyone's life. Whether it be one or ten steps, having som...

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    Valentina Saavedra and Vincent Liu
    • Dec 18, 2018
    • 16 min

    Chinese Migrant Workers: Contemporary Conditions and Representation

    INTRODUCTION Globalization, according to Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology (2006), is the “reorganization of time, space, people, and thi...

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    Valentina Saavedra
    • Oct 13, 2018
    • 4 min

    Prescriptivism vs Descriptivism

    you might be thinking, why in the world is this the start to a paper… clearly it doesnt fit the format that youre used to when starting a...

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    Valentina Saavedra
    • May 2, 2018
    • 13 min

    The Meaning Behind "On the Road at Eighteen" by Yu Hua

    The intricacies that surround a narrative invites more than one simple interpretation of that account. The Past and the Punishments by Yu...

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    Valentina Saavedra
    • Apr 24, 2018
    • 8 min

    Strange Tales: Female Sexuality in Strange Beings

    The discourse that surrounds female sexuality in Pu Songling’s Strange Tales from a Chinse Studio represents it as is something to be fea...

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    Valentina Saavedra
    • Mar 23, 2018
    • 9 min

    Identity of Immigrant Spouses and North Korean Refugees

    Discourse and representation has a lasting effect on the way society as a whole views a community. The identity that is constructed thro...

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    Valentina Saavedra
    • Dec 17, 2017
    • 14 min

    The Construction of Crooked Hillary

    Throughout his campaign in 2016, Donald Trump branded each of his opponents with identities that he constructed through both his spoken a...

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    Valentina Saavedra
    • Dec 9, 2017
    • 20 min

    Ethics as Applied to My Life

    I have come to realize that even if I am not explicitly mentioned in a work that indexes ethics, each person faces the same ethical chall...

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    Valentina Saavedra
    • Dec 1, 2017
    • 11 min

    Culturally Relevant Pedagogy

    It has become increasingly evident to me that diversity in the school system should be praised and used to further education rather than ...

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    Valentina Saavedra
    • Sep 11, 2017
    • 1 min

    Language: Made to be Shared

    Sitting outside in the Miami heat, a third grader decided to create her own language rather than create mud pies. Scrambling in and out o...

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