ENG 100-Young Adult Lit.

When I was little I was interested in what I believed most boys my age were into. Things like superheroes, cartoons, and other little kid things. When I was about 8 this focus changed almost overnight when my dad brought me to my first baseball game. My parents helped me find my biggest passion when they decided to send me to that game with my dad. Sports allowed me (an only child) to make friends and learn how to be a teammate. To learn what it felt like to succeed and to learn what it felt like to fail. And most importantly they allowed me to bond and strengthen my relationship with my dad. Now 20 I have been across the country with him to see all 30 MLB stadiums over several years and crossed off a bucket list father-son item. Final stadium of our trip I've played four sports, but my favorites are baseball and soccer. These are also the ones that I know a lot about the racism and barrier in their history's. It took people to bravely stand together to prove th...

When I first started reading Dreadnought, a novel by April Daniels, I quickly thought back to a class I took spring semester last year. I wanted to switch out of one of my classes and decided that I wanted to knock out one of my cornerstones. I ended up focusing on my history cornerstone but didn’t want to take a conventional history class—something like the classes that focus on early 13th-century history didn’t interest me—this was because I really wanted to take a class that I would both interested in and engaged with. Since I was switching in to a class late, I had limited options, so the class that I ended up taking was a gender and sexuality studies class. The class looked at how women and sexuality were treated in the past. And how this past has affected current stigmas or treatment, while also looking to find ways to best help accept people and support their choices. This theme can be seen when reading Dreadnought, a novel in which a boy becomes one of the world’s mos...