Out of the five assigned educational narratives, Malcolm X's "Learning to Read" excerpt was by far my favorite. It's an interesting and inspirational story, and it's written in a clear and to-the-point manner. I simply don't have any bad things to say about it. Compared to this story, all of the other articles had their own flaws which weren't really present in "Learning to Read". To start, Feross Aboukhadiejeh's blog post was definitely a runner-up for being my favorite, the only problem being that his story with learning to program is a lot less inspirational and can't be as relatable to as many people as learning to read. The whole premise of "How I Learned to Live Google-Free" is flawed, in that it is all based on the assumption that relying on Google as a search engine or YouTube as a video streaming website is somehow bad. I don't agree with that at all, and it really invalidates much of what Joshua Romero has to say in his article. That aside, the topic is still very specific and quite meaningless compared to any of the other four narratives, and I would argue that it is unquestionably the worst of the five assigned readings. "How I Learned to Love Traveling Solo" suffers from the same issue: the target audience of people who are both interested in and have the opportunity to travel alone is very small; I could not relate to anything in the article. And finally, we have Mike Rose's excerpt about his early education. The problem here is I don't have any idea who Mike Rose is, so by default I'm already not particularly interested in his education, and when the majority of the excerpt is spent describing in great detail his class mates and teachers instead of anything that is actually pertinent to the reader, I cared even less after finishing the reading. None of these critiques can be applied to Malcolm X's writing, which is why I say it is my favorite of the five.