Aswin

Cancel Culture is very common in our society. We all know someone, a celebrity or a friend that has been canceled somehow, and with that being said, the question being posed, is cancel culture an effective method to hold individuals accountable for their actions ? Well it depends on various perspectives. Firstly, what is cancel culture ? Cancel culture refers to the practice of canceling public figures or common individuals after they have done or said something that is considered offensive, controversial, or harmful. It might sound like it’s a useful method but it has its pros and cons.   Cancel culture can hold individuals or organizations accountable for their actions, especially when some fail to address their behavior. It can also serve us a method for social justice or accountability for people with a lot of power. For example, a famous NBA player, Ja Morant was suspended and fined from the NBA because of an incident where he showed his gun on a live stream. This wasn’t liked...

  Ever since I was born, I had what some would call superhero identities. My first years of preschool, I didn’t care what the teacher called me because I was too young to realize that my name was being mispronounced but around second grade, it started to affect me. My name is supposed to be pronounced Aswin - us/win which is different from how it’s spelled. But I don’t know what the right way to pronounce it is anymore. My name has been pronounced so many different ways that I forgot what the right way is. My first grade Indian math teacher, with her really thick accent pronounced it as us/win, my 4th grade Indian-Australian teacher pronounced it as Azz/win, I have no idea where she got Z from, after I moved to the states, my PE teacher pronounced it as Ush/wins, he added a S to my name, but the most common pronunciation was Ash/win which is I am now used too. When lived in India, when someone asked my name, I would pronounce it as us/win but in the states I pronounce it Ash/win, e...

 Blog Title -  Basketball Player Credits Kobe Bryant For Inspiring Him To Score 4 Points In Rec League Game link -  https://www.theonion.com/basketball-player-credits-kobe-bryant-for-inspiring-him-1851261195 The blogs main focus is about a local basketball player, Alan Jennings who credits Kobe and his motivational speeches that apparently motivated Jennings to go and score 4 points in an amazing 48 to 12, wait for it, LOSS. The blog has uses sarcasm, irony and humorous tone to mock Alan Jennings and his amazing performance. Firstly, the blog starts of by saying “pointing up in the sky as he landed a backs shot”, the way this is being described, someone would think that this shot mattered a lot and it was a important point in the game. But later as the read on, we find out that this the second shot that went in for Jennings who had previously scored only 2 pts, overall a huge 4 pts out of 12 shots. Then blogs states that Jennings credits Kobe and Kobe’s dedication and his...