In "Coinage for Caring," I maintained intercultural awareness when offering alternative Dia de los Muertos and Christmas celebratory techniques through methods of displaying care, respect, and consideration without appropriating or misattributing culture-centric practices and symbols. Afterwards, I presented my work using multi-media to an academic audience at the 2019 Corpus Christi Symposiums of Care Graduate Conference (footage and photographs to follow). Throughout, I conducted multi-media research including critical observing, interviewing, and information synthesis to manage the project and create my end piece. In "Mouthfuls of Metal," I implemented logical thinking and thorough content analysis to chronologically relay my life's defining events. Both projects necessitated collaborative copy editing through constructive peer review.
In revision of my memoir, “Mouthfuls of Metal,” I textured my setting through scene incorporation and time-stamped flashbacks, accentuated characters through dialogue and description, and established motif, story-line flow, and conflict through recurrent diction. In revision of literary journalism piece for the Corpus Christi 2019 Symposiums of Care Graduate Conference, “Coinage for Caring: Christmas, Capitalism, and Día de los Muertos,” I crafted sensory imagery and thematic metaphor to explore the relationship between traditionalism, consumerism, and traditionalism.
