You've every right to your honest opinion. However, it's not just that teacher who holds that opinion. The novel is considered a landmark in American literature. Did your paper indicate that you didn't care for the book or did you infer that it wasn't a good book? In college, my class was...
When I make a statement and someone says, "That's just your opinion". Duh! Who else's opinion would I give? If I give someone else's opinion, I credit them ("Pauline Kael said it was trash").
I love coffee and a good dinner is not complete without a strong cup of coffee to top it off. However, your aversion to it is personal and we all find something gross that other people love. Mine is milk which I find the most disgusting piece of fluid on the planet. Even as a kid I refused to...
It intakes oxygen and outputs carbon dioxide just like your mouth does. If your mouth is capable of giving out covid19 and taking it in, so does your nose.
When wearing required masks, I'm baffled by some people who wear the mask below the nose covering the mouth rather than over the nose. Oxygen in and carbon dioxide out from both so why do people think open nose is okay? Just askin'.