Name: Habibah Dawodu. Topic: Richard Rodriguez. Course: Critical writing. Yes I have. He name is Richard Rodriguez. He is an American born Mexican. He was born in San Francisco on July 31 1944 to his Mexican father and mother. He attended a catholic school from first grade till he graduated high school. He got a Bachelor degree in English at Stanford University in 1967, a Masters in Philosophy at Columbia University in 1969, he also studied English Renaissance literature at University of California, Berkeley from 1969­1972. He is the author of Hunger of memory: The education of Richard Rodriguez published in 1983 and other books. I wish to know if he ever regretted some of the things he said that provoked people. I think the issue he presents are sensitive and critical in the society that most people tend to overlook. I agree with him because he has said some true facts about ethnicity, social class and racism the world faces. I think the author cosmology is based on everyone’s individual uniqueness. The first thing I thought of after reading the title was black people slavery. I thought the discussion would be about a survivor of slavery and slave trade or someone doing a research on the relationship between race and slavery. Reading from the first three paragraphs, I believe the writer is taking me to a personal experience he had in his youth. It appears that the author is talking about his life as an undergraduate. The text is well­structured and developed, the author writing flows and matches u