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Mexican Cholos
This Friday I went to the session titled “Orale Ese: the Mexican Cholo”. While watching the girl present her topic based on the stereotype of Mexican Cholos, lower class Mexican commonly associated with gangs, represented heavily inaccurately in movies and simultaneously applying the Latino Threat Narrative to her research paper. I honestly went in very unaware of her topic and uninterested, however watching her present her completed topic and the process she when through to achieve that final topic was actually very helpful. I think that in her research paper what set her a part was taking a topic that can become quickly overused because the image of Mexican Cholos is shown throughout the hit Netflix show Narcos, but she revamps it by looking at Mexican Cholos in a different …show more content…
First, she talked about if you don’t like your topic, don’t force it because it helps for you to actually be invested in your topic in some way which would force you to actually to want to write it. If you just choose a topic for no reason it sometimes leads to procrastination and making the whole project way harder than it needs to be. She also talked to us about the importance of the conclusion. Personally, I never really liked the conclusion because I feel really forced to figure up how to wrap about my paper when I established everything I wanted to say in the body paragraphs. As a result, my conclusion ends up being about 2-3 sentences worth of just trying to figure out some way to end. Her ideas for a conclusion were helpful because she said its important to state why this topic mattered to you, why should it matter to others, and reinstate key points, and (optionally) close about something you learned. I think that I’ll use her suggestions for how to write a conclusion next time because this was probably the most helpful advice from the whole

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