About half a year before I was called a liar, treated as if I were a criminal, and suspended from school for reporting being harassed for the third semester in a row of my attendance

https://youtu.be/BabQ56wcwWM




I wrote the paper being discussed in those videos while I was homeless in 2016.  It was much more difficult for me to write that paper than to do the homework for my other classes, because I didn't need a computer for those classes.  I did have a tablet, but it didn't work.  

When I tried to use the computers at the school's library and computer labs, I was harassed.  I also had the time constraints of being homeless; although my curfew was extended to 10:00 p.m., I still had to schedule my entire life around the shelter's schedule, which is what everyone who is homeless has to do for everything.  My extended curfew also didn't mean that I could sleep past 6:00 a.m., Sunday-Saturday.  

I finished that paper and sent it electronically, right before the school's library was about to close and at the deadline for when the paper was due.  I did not have time to proofread it before sending it.    

The professor knew that I was homeless and knew that I did not have consistent access to a working computer.   

Identifying and researching a writer who wasn't part of the class's itinerary wasn't a requirement for that paper.  I spent the first few weeks of the assignment at Google, trying to locate a black writer who could be considered a contemporary to Mr. Miller.  I had never heard of Marita Bonner before; I think that most people haven't.  The contrast paper that I subsequently wrote wasn't inspired by or based on anything that was previously written by anyone.  

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