The “factual” thing in this contexts is something staged to make the audience feel the emotion and make it more acceptance and make sense. #hwa3 #tinymemoir

The emotion of coming to a new environment and facing new people, culture and school could be real to a certain extent. But that didn’t actually happened factually. It’s a performance because it’s shaped by intents, contexts and audiences. #hwa3 #tinymemoir

When I first come to the U.S., I had lunch alone everyday and afraid to talk to people. The environment scared me so much. #hwa3 #tinymemoir

'a bleeding heart explorer who takes the world by storm with her amazing group of pals' well now this is a performance of what is rather the story of an empath and her best friend in their small town. emotionally it feels much larger #hwa3 #tinymemoir

#hwa3 #tinymemoir I am my own biggest enemy. Im really not but I feel I am a lot of the time. Its something I tell myself so much that sometimes it feels like its true. It relates to the idea of the medium. I am my darkest medium, I cant get it out of my own head.

Rutgers has a good football team. Okay, the stats definitely don't back this up. But as a Rutgers student, I'm choosing to believe it anyway, and I'm hoping we pull off a few big wins this season to prove it.
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#hwa3 #tinymemoir I read books and leave reviews online for a living. This is a performance cause although everytime I do read a book I leave a review on Goodreads, it is not my job and it is completely voluntary, so this is a performance because it is an act of fiction, an invention I wish was true

“The Mets will win the World Series.” It’s factually something I know isn't true, but emotionally it feels true because I keep believing it every season, because that's what it's like to be a fan. #hwa3 #tinymemoir

I won't be able to pass my Algorithms class. This is a performance because I say it with the intent of having other people understand. I took plenty of time to choose what I wanted to use an example for the context of this class #hwa3 #tinymemoir

"I love staying at college more than my own home." This is a performance because I do like college and the independence, but I do really enjoy going home and being in my own room so it's factually wrong. I'm changing elements of this sentence to amplify a certain emotion to others. #hwa3 #tinymemoir

"I spent three years attempting to bench press the weight of my own expectations, but the barbell never moved." This is a performance by using exaggeration and metaphors such as emotions having weights. I perform my emotional truth rather than recounting literal facts. #hwa3 #tinymemoir

"I have spent my whole life knowing exactly what I want to do" This line is not completely true because I have changed my mind before but also emotionally true because the grand scheme of how I see my life going is the same. #hwa3 #tinymemoir

Memoir: I stood frozen, finally hitting the game-winning shot after erasing every missed shot of my past.
Reality: The literal game didn't happen that way, I didn't miss every shot. But the emotional "high" of the situation outweighed the facts for me

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