Author Archives: Jessica Bajorek

In my family, our tradition is to make fudge. It’s not some carefully crafted recipe from generations past; it comes off the back of a container of fluff that you could get at any supermarket, but somehow, it’s still ours. My mom told me once that I could only stir it over the stove clockwise,Continue reading “Blog Post #5 Food Essay”

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PRbAVR-VSh4peX7LnGkHFmjU3bRDTFyg/view?usp=sharing Here’s more information on all of the stuff we reference 🙂 : https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/bbma/7801216/bts-video-top-social-artist-win-billboard-music-awards-2017 https://www.newsweek.com/japanese-tv-show-cancels-k-pop-group-bts-whose-member-word-hugely-insulting-1208484 https://www.kpopstarz.com/articles/291812/20200304/twice-nayeon-s-stalker-threatens-her.htm http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20181019000634 https://www.newsweek.com/k-pop-rose-terminate-contract-j-star-payment-issue-lawsuit-1489664 http://en.koreaportal.com/articles/44716/20180426/bts-2018-update-jimin-tripped-j-hope-hurt-what-happened-at-the-airport-video.htm

Morgan Spurlock’s documentary Supersize Me is a film that’s been showing up in health education classes for years as a testament to why eating fast food is bad for you. Throughout the documentary, Spurlock makes himself the subject of an experiment, one that proves taxing to his body and to his drive. Food in thisContinue reading “Blog Post #4”

In Karen Palmer’s text The Reader Is the Protagonist, Palmer highlights the rather unbelievable arc her life has taken. She describes her experience having to pack up and leave her life in California to escape an abusive situation and find new roots in Boulder, Colorado. Palmer refers to this abrupt life change as “do-it-yourself witnessContinue reading “Reader’s Choice”

For my podcast assignment, I would like to explore what it is like to be a Kpop fan. I may specifically focus on the group BTS since theirs is the largest fandom within the Kpop community. I would like to address the culture of fans in how they are constantly attempting to break new recordsContinue reading “Blog Post #3”

The following is a draft of my memoir as I have it right now. At the end, I have posted my thoughts after my peer review session with Benny. ______________________ His hands were working, a knife whittling away the skin of a potato. An open-air pan sizzled in the mid-summer heat, bringing with it theContinue reading “Blog Post #2”

For my borrowed memoir, I want to focus on mortality. I chose to write about a vacation I took with my family when I was eight to go visit my grandfather in West Virginia. This was the last vacation we went on together as a whole family, aunts, uncles, cousins, siblings, and parents included. WhenContinue reading “Blog Post #1”

Patricia Hampl begins her essay with a vignette was to grab her reader’s attention, then to subvert their assumptions about the piece as a whole. As Hampl states on page 3 of her essay, the vignette “isn’t a story, just a moment, the beginning of what could perhaps become the story” (Hampl 24). This makesContinue reading “A Response to I Could Tell You Stories by Patricia Hampl”