This FIQWS course is a great way to open yourself up during your undergraduate year. When I was signing up for classes, to be honest I only took the class because it was a required but after being enrolled in the class, I loved it! Before this course, I didn’t know much about the African American authors and poets. I remember the professor asking the entire class how many African American poets or authors do you know and I could only recall about three. Now at the end of the semester I know numerous of these writers and poets. This class taught me to reflect off of today’s society and the society that was present in the poems and books we were reading in class and not much has changed. I learned that you can tell someone a word but, it doesn’t mean it’s true. For example the term “equality” is used very loosely when there are many places in the world that don’t fulfil to that term. Also, I loved how this course changed my way of thinking, that not every word has a literal meaning, you can change it and give it a new meaning. This course has better developed my writing. I learned new rhetorical and literary devices to help me analyze other authors or poets’ work.This teaching was very helpful to me because I better understood why authors or poets write the way they write. There were many different rhetorical and literary devices that I didn’t know about. Before this class, to analyze a text I would usually just summarize it and write a few thoughts explaining it. These rhetorical and literary devices allowed me to better explain my work for the audience to understand and explain why I used that method of writing. Some of the essay assignments that I’ve written for this course are the Poetics Analysis essay, The Poetic Project, The My Community Needs essay, and the Researched Critical Analysis essay. The Poetics Analysis essay was the first essay I wrote for this course. In this essay I had to revise my summary and response paper with a deeper analysis of the poetics and significance of their selected poems  including sufficient cultural and literary terminology from both courses. For that essay I wrote about a poem called Bars fight by Lucy Terry and On Being Brought from Africa to America by Phillis Wheatley. I didn’t really do that great on that essay due to that being the first essay of the course and I didn’t really know any rhetorical or literary devices but if I was able to write this essay again I would easily understand the prompt and know exactly what to write. The Poetic Project was a bit difficult to write.The Poetic project was to develop your own poetry and demonstrate your ability to discuss your work using poetic terminology and related course themes. That project was difficult because it was my first time writing poems and I didn’t know what to write about. I also had specific forms I had to write in and through my own poems response to the other poets I have read in class. I believe this was one of my best pieces yet the hardest piece to complete. The analysis of the Poetic project was not that difficult because I already knew what rhetorical and literary devices I used so all I had to do was to explain my poem(s) and explain why I used those devices. The My Community Needs Essay was  to select an aspect of your identity and the related community(ies) to which you belong. To explore not only this identity and community, but how you engage with this/these communities, and identify community issues that are significant and or/problematic, noting how the community is communicating these needs to others .The essay was okay because it was kinda hard to stay on topic without moving on a topic related to it yet different at the same time. I felt like it was hard to choose a topic because there are numerous issues occuring in my community, but I ended up writing about the one with most evidence and information. Evidence and information is very important in an essay because it is what makes your essay official. The Researched Critical Essay was my final essay piece for the course and it captured everything I learned in this course. In this essay I had to craft an argumentative essay in response to your selected essay topic question examining the course text The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead. In conjunction with the FIQWS topic course themes, your task is to critically examine the text, draw conclusions about the work from a specific point of view, while creating a cohesive, well supported argument to persuade your audience that your thesis and claims are valid and insightful. I felt like this essay was the easiest to write because it wrapped up everything I was doing from the beginning of the semester until the end. The difficult part of this essay was looking for the perfect evidence and being able to analyze it in my essay. This course is a course I would love to take again to learn more about my history and also improve my writing skills. I had challenges in the beginning of the course with analyzing a text and my own gtext but, as I moved on towards the end of the semester I have learned so many different writing techniques and a different writing language that will benefit me in the future.