The portfolio presented has been compiled to capture all strange aspects of my life from different points of view. Throughout the fall semester of 2019 at Moraine Valley, I have produced a total of four essays and a short video that effectively communicate to one another on various levels about the kind of person I am. The stranger that I discovered within myself was brought out and exposed within the first essay in this portfolio. I was given the task of looking past my normal everyday self and exposing whatever is behind my “mask.” The next assignment required me to find the stranger within a person I was either very close to or distant to. This form of research into a person allows me to further my question development skills because of the deep information that I needed to get out of that person. The interview that I created with a friend of mine really showed me just how to format these questions in order to get the specific answers that I needed. If my questions do not come with lengthy responses, I can always ask follow up questions to get a more thoughtful response which gives me a better look at the “stranger” within this person. This was a good transition coming from the first assignment because of the fact that I had already look deeper into myself, therefore looking into another person isn't as difficult because I already did it to myself. Diving into this third essay, I knew that things had to be a little different. Making my everyday path strange was a challenge in itself. This was no longer a person or an object; but more of an idea. When working on this project in particular I realized that it was not so much a physical aspect, but rather a spiritual one. The way in which we all associate a certain location with a memory or experience dictates the attitude that we have toward that location. Any thoughts that you might have had in or around that area shapes the way in which you view it from that point on. Making my daily journey strange made me realize all of this all at once. Following this assignment, came the hate essay. I believe that although this assignment seemed the easiest because it was a narrative, it was the most difficult for me because of how good of a spirit I am. I cannot hate on any race, gender, or ethnicity because that is not how I was raised to be. This posed the greatest challenge for me. I believed that this tied back to previous assignments because we essentially had to create a character that would hate on anything strange to them such as another race or sexuality preference. Hating on things strange led us into our final assignment which revolved around empathy. I suppose that since these last two did not have to correlate, that connection was not entirely conveyed but the empathy video was all made possible by the work of all team members within my learning circle. The empathy project concluded the entire evolution of this portfolio. Finding the stranger within ourselves, others, and our surroundings led to a hatred of this strange and ended in sympathy. Looking at the bigger picture, one can really see just how seamlessly all five pieces flowed from one to the next and ended on a moving note . Please enjoy my personal portfolio.