Milan Ramos Professor Rachel English comp 2 5/25/26 The Quiet Healers: How Cats Heal Across Cultures and Centuries For millennia, cats have occupied a unique place in human life neither fully wild or entirely domestic, independent yet really companionable. Their presence in a room changes the energy taken place. Stroke a cat’s fur, the ripple of its purr against your palm, and something shifts: breath slows, shoulders drop, the mind quiets. This is not merely out of nowhere . Research in biology, psychology, and anthropology increasingly confirms what countless cat owners, even myself, have long known that cats possess a genuine capacity to heal. But “healing,” in this context, must…

Blog 11 Milans bubble feelings  I worked on projects on both classes and this is my last blog post I just wanted to end it off with i really enjoyed these two classes and amazing teachers and classmates I didn’t get to conversate with everyone but just discussing and doing assignments and expressing opinions and reading together was fun i havent felt like this in school in awhile everything be feeling so stuck and for a grade and not growing but i feel like i learned a lot during this little time we had I was facing a lot of medical problems that i never had before during this time…

Blog 10 Milans bubble feelings  In angela class we were discussing another reading and conversating about it how to take field  notes and it helped me with another class anth 101 which i learned ethnography and anthropology is basically tied together and in that other class i did fieldnotes in but it was explained a lot more complicated and this actually helped give me clarity which was nice.

Blog 9 Milans bubble feelings In Ms Rachel’s class we was talking about our autobiographies and what we had to do and talking out loud to classmates about where we were leading with and asking questions when needed and gave me clarity on what i need to do with my map and outlining it i also took a tutoring help because i was struggling with my outline and all went swimmingly .

Blog 8- Milans bubble feelings  Monday and Wednesday class in ms rachel was about the methods and journaling as genre which was interesting to me about my life and mapping it out which was hard for me because i was struggling to find what was important and not too long to talk about it and w had woman join our class to help us i don’t recall her name but she asked how it was going with my ideas and she helped me narrow it down a little. Overall good class of finding ideas and talking with classmates at my table to see if they were also struggling.

Blog 7- Milans bubble feelings In Ms Rachel’s class we picked a topic we wanted to know more about as a class and it was ironic that majority of us picked the same reading on worker control in Venezuela which was interesting and i was still working around what about cats i wanted to research about. In Angela’s class we was discussing a reading and talking about it in class which is always so fun and i love hearing peoples view points and its perfect for me in the learning process im very much a more hands on and interactive person and i learned more about me and learned i…

Blog 6- Milans bubble feelings  In Ms Rachel’s class we continued the survived the plague video and wrote in our blue books about it i found it very therapeutic and interesting we also was partnered up to discuss our research topic i was a little confused about how it was going to be and my partner brandon and me surprising picked creatures i picked cats and he picked the immortal jellyfish which was funny because we had to pick a topic we liked .  In Ms Angela’s class we read a little of Feminist Ethnography and Social Reproduction Theory and I was taken back on mens view points and how…

Blog 5- Milans bubble feelings In Ms Rachel’s class on monday we read the story “horror story’ by carmen maria machado and i loved the way it was told because it was a horror about a two woman in a house and it was scary at first with things going missing and them getting into arguments and a woman appearing that wasn’t her wife and it shifting to her wife and a dead body in her bed with her but the more we read the more it wasn’t really a horror but a marriage that was failing and i never read something like that i loved it . On wednesday…

Blog 4- Milans bubble feelings  In Ms Angela’s class we watched peoples park which was wild to see it was a project where this white man and half asian woman went to a park in china and filmed a video in a very slow pace and the woman or man was being pushed on a wheelchair with a camera around the park with no consent from the people in the park in silence and no boundaries and watching the video and discussing it in class was so interesting because the park was beautiful and was so nice to see a culture from my own park and what its like but…

Blog 3- Milan bubble feelings I wasn’t in class those days due to me being unwell but i did look into the digital map at the time and read the readings on Ai and this line “ I have worked for all sorts of people since then, geniuses and morons, quick-witted and dull, bighearted and narrow. I’ve had many kinds of jobs, but since that conversation with my father I have never considered the level of labor to be the measure of myself, and I have never placed the security of a job above the value of home.” from The Work You Do, the Person You Are stood out to…