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  Shevantai Gooden, Amir Arnold and Andreana Clark Dr. Cantice Greene English 1101 15 March 2022 Rhetorical Reading Response on “Does Going to College Mean Becoming Someone New?”             In the personal essay “Does Going to College Mean Becoming Someone New,” written by Kevin Davis, the author investigates whether college requires you to change who are or not. Davis supports his thoughts on the subject by giving evidence. The author cited the works of researchers in order to provide the evidence needed to support his points. The intended audience of the essay are college students.             I agree with Davis’ point that going to college does mean becoming someone new because there are certain aspects of yourself that you must change to fit into a college environment. I related to the author when he says that what was expected of him in high school was m...

  Shevantai Gooden, Amir Arnold and Andreana Clark Dr. Cantice Greene English 1101 14 March 2022 Rhetorical Reading Response on “How I Learned to Read and Write” In the autobiographical essay “How I Learned to Read and Write,” (1845) written by Frederick Douglas, Douglas describes his journey in learning to read and write. Douglas illustrates the many obstacles and difficulties he had to overcome when learning to read and write. The author develops his story by providing evidence and giving descriptions of how he learned to read and write. The author uses quotations in the story to give evidence of what others have said to him. Douglas’s intended audience for this essay were slaveholders and other people interested in learning about his journey in becoming a literate slave. After reading the essay, I felt sympathy for Douglas and other slaves who were deprived of literacy and their freedom. I also felt hatred for the slaveholders who stole these slaves from their mother...