In this week’s English Composition classes, we watched a movie called ” How to Survive the Plague.” It was a movie about the AIDS epidemic that mostly affected the LGBTQ+ community. They began to create a group called ACT UP. The group protested for a cure for aids and to push out more effective drugs that can treat aids. A lot of people in ACT UP had aids or knew someone who had aids. The movie was very moving because we got to see their fight to get better medicine and treatments faster, but we all saw their losses, such as people in the ACT UP group slowly losing the battle against AIDS. After watching the movie, we brainstormed ideas for our Autobiography and what genre we were going to write it in. I choose the genre alive at the end of the world. This is related to our class in Ethnographic Methods at Work because we have to include an object in our writing that helps express more emotion. The object must mean something personal or be a good point in the story. Discussing with Professor Angela, she recommended that my object should be a dress. The dress has great significance in the story because it expresses the importance of having a sweet 15 and the feeling of standing out on the big day. I can also ​​emphasise the relation of the color of the dress to my sister’s dress and its similarities.