Journal 1: Read to Ta-Nehisi Coates”Losing My Innocence,’ (

Journal 1: Read to Ta-Nehisi Coates”Losing My Innocence,’ (attached) and respond to the following promptquestions in 250 words. Prompt: Coates describes hisneighborhood as ‘a world apart’ from that ‘other world’ hewitnessed on television, in particular the world that belonged to the idealizedwhite, middle-class, suburban family of Mr. Belvedere, a populartelevision sitcom at the time: ‘There were little white boys with completecollections of football cards, and their only want was a popular girlfriend andtheir only worry was poison oak. That other world was suburban and endless,organized around pot roasts, blueberry pies, fireworks, ice cream sundaes,immaculate bathrooms, and small toy trucks that were loosed in wooded backyardswith streams and glens’ (par.4). Reflect on how television, film, books,YouTube, and other media have opened up worlds for you, as the sitcom Mr.Belvedere did for the young Coates. Think of one or two examples ofother worlds you have witnessed through the media and the impressions you haveof them. For example, do you think the other worlds represented in the mediaare real and attainable or just fantasy? Lastly, Coates explains, ‘I felt,but did not yet understand, the relation between that other world and me.’What do you fell and understand about the relation between the world in whichyou live and the other worlds you see in the media? Journal 2:Read Lily Wong’s essay ‘Eating the Hyphen’ (attached)and respond to the two sets of questions that follow in 250 words.A) Take a moment to reflect on the title of this essay. Whatdoes Wong mean by ‘eating the hyphen’? How do you define what thisphrase means? And how does this title preview the larger argument Wong ismaking in this essay? B) Reflecting on what she sees asthe ‘contradictions’ within her own experiences as an eater, Wongwrestles with the question of how to define truly ‘authentic’ Chineseor American food? Do you have a standard for measuring the’authenticity’ of a given food? Do you think such a standard isnecessary? Why or why not?