Blogger 3 - Poverty

A social problem that we have going on among our society would be poverty. Many people can't provide for their families. Minimum wage jobs don't help at all! I personally know someone who can't afford to buy his children uniform for school, he goes to a church to get free clothes for himself, his wife, and their children. It's a really sad situation but unfortunately many more people go through the same problem.

 I have this other friend who lives in a studio apartment with her three children. It's really hard for her to provide for the children. All her kids are either one year or two years apart. She had a job but she was paying the babysitter more then half her paycheck a week. She eventually ended up quitting! Even though  she's using government assistance she wants to be independent.  Not only does poverty affect the adult but it also affects their children.

The reason why I chose to write about poverty is because not only do I know people who are struggling but is also a common problem in our society. Writing about poverty remind me of all those poor children in Tijuana selling gums, candies even juggling balls to entertain the people that are coming back to California to get money. Those kids work from young to take bread to the table.

Genre: Drama, Visual/ pictures, Spatial.

Topic: Poverty, Financial Issues, Dependent

Rhetorical Strategies: Emotional

What makes us different?

Sugei Jimenez

Professor Reyes

Blogger #3

9/30/2015

What makes us Different?

I researched many ads, YouTube videos, even a few articles and the amount of information given was endless. There was so much talk about this issue, but one specific thing caught my attention. The thing that caught my attention was not a particular piece, but rather a repeated word, Feminism. In all honesty, I get that women are more prone to gender inequality, but does that issue end there?

Gender: the state of being male or female used with reference to social and cultural differences rather than biological ones.

Gender inequality, an existing issue that I have grown up seeing as far back as I can remember. The one thing that bothers me most is how people only view gender inequality as only and generally susceptible to women, but in reality gender inequality works both ways towards men, women and everything in between; The spectrum that gender inequality falls upon is very broad anywhere in terms of love, education, race, age etc.., My issue towards the subject at hand is, why do we particularly generalize gender in equality towards women? Because I have come to realize that it is not.

I kept researching and researching yet I only found articles on feminism and that is what bothers me. Why is it that I cannot find an article that talks about various types of gender inequality? Why? Why can I not find and article on gender inequality towards men, for example, some can argue that the man was created to be the head of a household as well as the money root in his family, why does that description not fall into a woman’s image? This issue is as much of a gender inequality as any others being presented.

Gender Inequality, The Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/gender-inequality/

Emma Watson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWmXb3MGUpM&spfreload=10

Ad

https://www.medreps.com/medical-sales-careers/gender-inequality-in-the-workplace-how-gender-equality-effects-medical-sales/

Genres: Articles, comics, memes, Informational

Topics: Male and Female, inequality, roles, gender, stereotypes, agency, issues, abuse, communication, differences,

Rhetorical Strategies: Images, structure, wording, placement

 

                                                                

 

 

A meme by Kiesha Bowles (Blogger 3)

My social problem is appropriation of black women or the negative image of black women in media. I chose this text as a social issue because it's in relation to my every day life. I like it because it quickly explains the message enough to even those who do not understand or are unfamiliar with this social issue can easily understand the authors message even if they do not agree with the message. It's interesting because this meme briefly went viral on twitter and any one who disagreed felt as though it was due to insecurities and not because of how black women are negatively portrayed in media. It made me realize that I should help spread awareness not just for black women but our younger generation to live in a more comfortable world. To take action by not promoting the problem in media through likes and retweets. To educate those around me little by little to promote change in media because my generation is taking control over media. Its changing for the better as time passes along.

Genre: meme
Topics: Feminism, racism, stereotypes, appropriation,
Rhetoric: Juxtaposition, repetition

Speak Up Don't be Affraid

                                                   Speak Up Dont be Affraid

     BULLIES, are mean insecure people, with issues of their own. Growing up I was bullied, never physically but verbally. Always being made fun. Calling me names, singing hurtful songs to me, just being plain mean. At points I would of preferred of being physically abuse cause at least that pain will go away, but verbally is worse. Words hurt more, they stay with you, stuck in your mind. You start believing all the stuff they are calling you, that your self esteem starts to suffer and you start to feel horrible about yourself. As I grew up I learned and I realize that the more you fear a bully the more power you give them, the best thing was to do was ignore them, even if they kept on hurting you and insisting. Statistics for bullying now have increased. It is estimated that 160,000 children missed school, due to the fear of attack or intimidation by other students. American schools harbor approximately 2.1 million bullies and 2.7 million of their victims. 282,000 students are physically attacked in secondary schools each month. Another statistic reports that revenge is the strongest motive for school shootings. With these stats we would think or imagine that we would have a solution to the bullying problem at schools or any place that happens. Yes there are some solutions, talking to a teacher, parent, or an adult. But that can only go far, we need a stronger solution, so the next generation of kids can have an easier way to "escape".  Growing up I learned to deal with my bullies, i learned to stand up to them, and cause of it, it made me a stronger wiser person mentally. We all have to help and stand up for the person that is being bullie, no man left behind.

http://www.makebeatsnotbeatdowns.org/facts_new.html

Genre: website, article, statistics
Topics: Bullying, children, abuse, physically, verbally
Rhetorical strategies: informational (statistics), personal experience

Vigilante computer hacking

                                            Anonymous

Ali Mohammed al-Nimr was arrested in 2012 for being apart of anti-government protests and possession of illegal firearms, which he says he is innocent of. People are saying he is being punished because his uncle who was sentenced to death in 2014 was a religious leader and a human rights activist. Ali Mohammed al-Nimr can be beheaded and crucified at any moment. Hacktivist group Anonymous have launched Operation Nmir and have started taking down government run websites including the Saudi Airlines website, the website for the Ministry of Justice and many more.  Anonymous demands the release of Ali Mohammed al-Nimr and that the Saudi Government stop the sentencing innocent people to jail and/or death. They state "This is stage 1, You do not want to proceed anymore stages, you have been warned Saudi Arabia Government." 

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/anonymous-hackers-target-saudi-government-6530666
 Genre: web article, news, informational.
Topics: life and death, wrongly persecuted, computer hacking, government, activism.
Rhetorical strategies: video, links to other articles, pictures, quotes.

Social Issue Blogger #3

            One Social issue that I find interesting is the concept of racism in less than privileged environments. It is widely accepted and known I feel in poverty stricken neighborhoods or areas that racism is alive and prosperous. I grew up in between borders of the cities, Long Beach and Compton. I have experienced the effects of racism shape me, along with my peers both negatively and otherwise. I state otherwise because there is I feel no positive effects of such ideals.

            The concept that I find the most interesting and I have talks with people that I am close with is the idea in racism of segregation. Segregation focused more on the effect it has on formation of the social groups. Growing up and always getting asked “What are you?” and after answering, I was always curious as to how the person would react. I am a mixture of African American, Hispanic, and Caucasian. Why would anyone care what I am? Why should it matter? Is it just curiosity or are you trying to label me as “Mexican” or “light skin” or “White”? I eventually found patterns in segregation in high school, college, work, and everyday life more common. Young minds seem not to care during development of the mind and as we mature, racism and social profiling seem to subconsciously shape who we hang out with, or who we choose to allow around us.

            It is shame of this segregation that develops in our attitude; that repels people that may in other cases have become friends.

GMO

GMO

Eric Riojas 

Genetically Modified Food (GMO) is a process where genes from the DNA of one species are extracted and artificially forced into the genes of an unrelated plant. Many people believe that they are a risk to humans. A person doesn’t even have to eat a GMO to suffer from side affects. Just coming in contact with them can cause multiple types of side affects. One reason GMOs are produced is to combat insects on crops. Like corn and cotton these two crops are are engineered to produce their own built-in pesticide in every cell. While it kills insects that feed off them it has been known to cause allergies and flu like symptoms in people.  GM soy has up to seven times more trypsin inhibitor—a known soy allergen. Soon after GM soy was introduced to the UK, soy allergies skyrocketed by 50%. Multiple studies done on animals have either given them extreme reactions or killed them from GMOs. One human feeding study showed that the gene inserted into GM soy transfers into the DNA of bacteria living inside our intestines and  continues to function. Which means if we stop eating GMOs we will still have the harmful GMO protein being produced inside us. It’s hard not to eat GMOs considering that the majority of our nation’s crops are already genetically modified. The modified crops can also contaminate other crops that are natural. If contaminated pollen is transferred by the wind to a crop that is all natural it will change that natural crop. If that happens the farmer who owns that crop now owes the company who has the patten for that specific type of GMO that is produced. Was that always the plan?  

http://www.responsibletechnology.org/gmo-dangers/health-risks/articles-about-risks-by-jeffrey-smith/Doctors-Warn-Avoid-Genetically-Modified-Food-May-2009

Genere: Informative, Educational

Topics: Health Risks, Side Affects, Animal and Human Testing,

Rhetorical Strategies: Bolding Heading, 

     BULLYING             BLOGGER #3
 
       When most people think of bullying they imagine boys punching, kicking,and hitting one another. But physical bullying is just one type of bullying that kids participate in. In certain schools they mostly show six most common types of bullying found in other schools. Physical bullying is the most obvious form of bullying. It occurs when kids use physical action to gain power and control over their targets, which has happened to me as a kid. Ive always been bullied by the way talk, walk, eat and dressed. I dont think I deserve to be beaten because of the way i talked....THATS CRAZY! As i got older I knew how to defend myself and fight back. All i can say is bullying is not a good thing to do, people have feelings just like you do!

Social Issues

Human Trafficking

Human trafficking, the illegal movement of people, typically for the purposes of forced labor or commercial sexual exploitation. Anyone can be a victim, men, women, children, anyone. However, there are more women than men, and more adults than children who are trapped and forced in the system. Traffickers recruit or transfer people, they do this by forcing, threatening, abducting, or persuading them with payments and benefits. Human trafficking is a serious crime and violation of human rights.  I’m surprised this isn’t known as a bigger issue such as bullying or abortion. Nearly 21 million people worldwide are victims of this kind of abuse. Young girls are forced to sell sex by knocking on cab doors at truck stops, prostitute individuals are forced to make hundreds of dollars in nightly quotas, and traffickers sell women and children online everyday. This caught my interest because I have never heard human trafficking being talked about while social issues were being discussed. The most popular issue is abuse. We talk about animal abuse, child abuse, spouse abuse,  drug abuse but never the abuse of human rights.

Genre: Article, Website.

Topics: Abuse, Equality, Rights, Crime, Sexism, Worldwide Issue.

Rhetorical Strategies: Informational (Statistics).

Alcohol Abuse in the U.S. Blogger: 3

   Alcohol abuse may becoming a bigger deal than society in the United States wants to believe. Though it is "legal" there are many draw backs to the harmful drug

The amount of alcohol that is consumed in 2013 was 86.8 percent of people ages 18 and older reported that they drank alcohol at some point in their lifetime. 70.7 percent reported that they drank in the past year. 56.4 percent reported that they consumed alcohol in the last month. Now we transition to the amount of alcohol-related deaths. Nearly 88,000 people (approximately 62,00 men and 26,000 women) die from alcohol- related causes annually, making it the third leading preventable cause of deaths in the United States. In 2013 alcohol-impaired driving fatalities accounted for 10,076 deaths (30.8 percent of overall driving fatalities.) The sad thing about these numbers, is that it could all be avoided. Kids today are starting to drink younger and its only going to make these numbers unfortunately increase.

The reason I chose to write about this article, is that I've seen first hand what alcohol can do to a person. The scary thing is that people are starting to drink just to be socially acceptable and don't think about the dangers that they put themselves and others in. In my opinion, i think there needs to be something done about it. 

Genre: Informitive, Web Article, 

Topics: Alcoholism, stats, Drunk Driving, abuse, Kids, school, society, social

Rhetorical Strategies: Pictures, text, Title

Please Stop

                                                        

Spousal abuse is a worldwide issue; it’s when one person tries to dominate their relationship with physical violence.

                    I remember waking up on one Christmas morning looking for a pair of cap guns I received as a gift. Looking though the house I could not find them so I began to look for mom, I heard voices in the garage so went there opening the door I saw my father hitting my mother with my toy guns.             

Spousal abuse does not discriminate, it happens to all ages, Relationships, heterosexual, same-sex partners’ ethnic back grounds, economic levels. As women are more commonly abused men are also victims of abuse.

The abuse did not end with my mother, it slowly flowed to the kids first the oldest until it arrived to me.

The bottom line is that spousal abuse /domestic violence is never acceptable in anyone’s life. It destroys one self-esteem it creates future abuse by the victims them self.

   I remember the day it ended I walked in to the house after football practice, my father was screaming at my older brother. My brother had been abused physically and mentally for many years to the point that when my father screamed at him he would freeze and shake uncontrollably.

Spousal abuse is not the loss of control of the abuser it’s the choice made on how they will control you.

Dominance

Humiliation

Isolation

Threats

Intimidation

Denial and blame

Looking at my brother I realized, that this would never happen again. It began with violence and it ended with violence. After that day some said that I needed to be watched in case I followed my father’s footsteps.

There are many avenues to take and look for help starting with the police and help centers. Help centers are broken down by the following.

For men

For women

For teens

For gay men and women

For immigrants

End the cycle of abuse speak up and take action.

                                                                                                                                                                   

Genre

Pictures of abused women

Tragedy

Topics

Spousal abuse

Domestic abuse 

Physical Violence 

Verbal Abuse 

Mental Abuse

Rhetorical Strategies

Double Voice two stories in one article

Mixing words in-between pictures

                                                                                                         

                                                                               

Drug Addiction

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/the-real-cause-of-addicti_b_6506936.html

The Likely Cause of Addiction Has Been Discovered, and It Is Not What You Think | Johann Hari

                           I chose this blog because the subject is one that is very close and personal to me.  I searched through many online sources on the social issue of drug addiction; poems, statistic data reporting, jokes, memes, and lastly articles. This article was very interesting to me, I guess cause it shed a different light on an all too familiar subject.

Genre:   Informative, research

Topics: Drugs, war on drugs, mental health, addiction and recovery

Rhetorical Strategies: The writer switches back and forth with the rat experiments and human studies

The bullying stats say enough

Molina, Luis

English 105

Professor Amanda Reyes

The bullying stats say enough

            According to a dailymail.com article, 45% of kids and teens are being bullied on a daily basis, 70% of them have considered changing their appearance based on this bullying, and 24% of those kids/teens have had suicidal thoughts. The article tackles the issue of cyber bullying and why it’s easy for kids to bully on the internet due to being anonymous. Experts from this article also say that schools don’t do anything to help the students and stop bullying. As a person who was both verbally and physically bullied in middle school and high school this topic, these statistics, and this article mean a lot to me. Verbal bullying hurts just as much if not more than physical bullying because it causes kids to lose their self-esteem, the words and insults stick with kids and teens for a long time. This article surprises me since bullying is such a major issue but schools won’t do anything about it. Being bullied as a young person feels absolutely terrible since that is the age when people become very insecure and verbal harassment can do a lot of damage.

Genre: informative

Topics: bullying, cyberbullying, kids, teenagers, suicide, harassment.

Rhetorical strategies: starts article with bullet points listing the statistics and first sentence gets to the point. Also uses pictures of bullying.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3217658/Nearly-half-school-pupils-say-bullied-day-quarter-felt-suicidal-way-treated.html

Animals, all of us.

I see fear in this image, I see pain. I see confusion, I see sadness. It almost looks as this eye is teared up and ready to cry. Who's eye is this? My eye? Your eye? Your mothers eye,,maybe your best friend's eye. This is your meal. This is the rack of ribs, the pork chop. I knew I would have a hard time reading the article for this assignment, but it called my interest more than anything else on the social issues list. How can I sit here, and advocate animal rights, if I too, eat meat? I'd never, in a million years, eat my cat or my dog. I love them dearly. They wait for me at the door when I come home from work, they lay by my side when I sleep, and they play together on the bathroom floor while I get ready for work. What makes an abused animal any less special than my pets? What makes my pets any less than me? I work, I bring home the kibble. But language is a barrier that separates us, and allows us to feel superior to other living things, in many ways, This included other human beings as well. We build sky scrapers, come up with cures to ailments, we have created cars, which are amazing, airplanes, computers. Can a dog do that? No. But does that mean that they don't feel pain? If I punch my cat in the face, it will hurt. He will be in pain, he may even bleed. He is a living thing, just like me. Our intelligence levels vary greatly, but why does he deserve to hurt?  This article opened my mind to the things that go on in the world. Silent victims. They can't tell us the pain they go through. I wanted to cry. I can never imagine my little ones going through what others go though. Many abusers (as in those who harm their partner or a child) started off abusing an animal. It begins in the home. Animal abuse and domestic violence go hand in hand. Someone who hurts an animal, will not hesitate to hurt a person. It is a thin line, and abuse is all about control. There are times when a child who is being abused, in turn, abuses an animal. A good example of this is child actress Judith Barsi.

  Barsi lived in a home with an abusive stepfather, and a mother who refused to leave. She was emotionally and physically abused by her father, some examples being him throwing pots and pans at her and causing a nose bleed, and threatening to cut her and her mother's throats. She then began exhibiting strange behavior such as plucking out her own eyelashes and yanking out her cat's whiskers.

Another example would be Brenda Ann Spencer, who started shooting at elementary school children, killing 2, the principal, and a custodian; she used to light cat and dog's tails on fire.

Abuse is a cycle. If we truly are the dominant species, we should be smarter than to let it continue.I will admit, I am biased. I love animals, and I don't know how anyone can not. They have a beating heart, just like any other living, breathing, feeling creature.

Genre: Abuse, Internet Articles, Domestic Violence, Animal Abuse
Topics:Domestic & Animal abuse are linked, It starts in the home, so many go unheard, silent victims
Rhetorical strategy: Use of images, use of examples, being personal.

Blogger#3 Drug Abuse: Marijuana

Jose Melena

Blogger #3 Drug Abuse: Marijuana

 

Drugs have become more of a social issue than what people might think otherwise. Especially in schools around the country. More kids are using drugs in a younger age than ever before. Especially the use of Marijuana.

 

 

                          Marijuana consumption has been one of the major problems in society. Lately consumption of this drug has become a problem in the school system. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse it is estimated that the use of Marijuana among 8^th graders is at 6.5 percent, among 10^th graders at 16.6 percent, and among 12^th graders at 21.2 percent. However the use of Marijuana has remained stable. Nevertheless it causes problems to society specifically to the youth in the schools. The social trends have not helped by any means stop the consumption of Marijuana and other drugs. Through Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter students have used these forms of social media to promote and advertise the use of Marijuana. Media have made the appearance of Marijuana appealing and persuasive, through the likes of celebrities. In order to decrease these types of persuasion, the Government should banned any type of paraphernalia on these sites. Also the Government should try to reach kids at a younger age and informed them the consequence of using drugs cause.

 

I chose this topic because, I sense that kids are using drugs at a younger age. Kids are becoming more vulnerable to drugs through the use of social media. I remember when I was in school the youngest person that I witnessed using drugs was in the 9^th grade. Today kids, are known to use drugs since Elementary school. This has become a major problem in society. 

 

 

Genre: Research, Article, Informative,

 

Topics: Drug abuse, Marijuana consumption, High, Middle, and Elementary students. Government, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter. National Institute on Drug Abuse

 

Rhetorical Strategies:  Pictures of drug abuse, Informative, 

 

 

Roberto Martinez Bullying

BULLYING

What is to bully? To bully is the action of using superior strength or influence to intimidate someone, typically to force him or her to do what one wants. That is how google defines bullying. In my definition bullying is far more than just intimidation, or superior strength, or just making someone do something. Bullying is an action that causes someone to think about his/her life makes people feel insecure about not just something but everything they do. This is a lot more serious than just making someone do something. I myself am a great example of this I have been bullied, I have been made fun of, made to feel as if I am nothing, I’ve been there. I was in the position where I had the superior strength so why was I being bullied? The funniest thing is that everyone believes it’s a joke when I tell them. Examples of what they would say would be “how is a 6.2, 280 pound football player being bullied?” “Duuude you bench 260 pounds, you squat more than half a ton who the hell would dare to punk on you”. It doesn’t matter who you are what position in life you got as long as there is an idiot who believes the stupidest thing is funny and other people would find it funny or not even act because they are afraid of being the next victim. This is the reason I chose this “social problem” although it is more like a social disease, I also chose and like this short film because it shows how the bully feels when one of his family members is being put through the same thing he’s putting another person through, not that I find pleasure in any way from seeing this happen, but it opens the bully’s eyes and forces him to see the horrific things he’s been doing and agreeing with. This short film made me think of no matter who you are, bullying will affect you too. As shown in the short film bullying affected the bully. Happily this short film didn’t end in a horrific event but there is many situations like this that end with suicide. There is a percentage of 14% of teenagers have considered suicide and about 7% have actually committed it all because of bullying.

 The links below are

The Short Film : Bullying – Stop It

And the definition of bullying on google

Also the link below that is the website where I got the percentages

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYVvE4tr2BI

https://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+bullying&ie=&oe=

http://www.bullyingstatistics.org/content/bullying-and-suicide.html

Genre: website, video, definition
Topic: bullying
Rhetorical strategies: personal experience

Spouse Abuse

Garcia, Vanessa

Spouse Abuse 

There has been many cases on spouse abuse and many don't really know the reason on why it happens or why victims stay in the situation they are in. 

 

Many of the victims stay in the abuse relationship due to not having many resources of there own. Another reason is that they are afraid to contact the police, deal with social workers, or even speak out and being look at with shame. They would rather stay and deal with the pain in silent and in a dark place. 

 

An abusive wife can stay because they simply love their husband. The wife can love their husband because they like the feeling of the relief after the pain due to the abusive. 

 

I decided to chose this topic due to many cases that are due to spouse abuse. Many are not being notice and also this topic hasn't been talked about or even been looked at. Many victims really don't know what are different resources that they have or even where they can go or who they can call for help. 

http://www.giftfromwithin.org/html/spousal.html

Genre:   Abuse articles 

             Pictures of abuse 

Topics:   spouse abuse 

              domestic abuse 

              women abuse  

Rhetorical Strategies:  

             pictures of abuse 

             reasons 

             explaining on the reasons 

                        

Bullying; A Social Issue

 http://www.pbs.org/parents/education/going-to-school/social/tough-stuff/

     This article was an article that I found on a PBS website.  PBS stands for Public Broadcasting Service.  This article talks about bullying and how it affects a child.  The article states that bullying can be physical or mental and can be exhibited by an individual or a group of people.  Something that I found extremely interesting within this article is that "classic bullying" which refers to child-on-child bullying is not common and the article states that it normally happens in "cliques"; where a group of children gang up against one child.  The article goes on to to explain that girls often are involved in "indirect bullying"  which means that girls do not bully their victims to their faces but rather start insidious rumors behind the other persons back.  In comparison, boys often bully and "name-call" directly.  A common type of bullying that takes place in many schools is boys being called "gay" or little girls being called "lesbians"  due to them being different.  Children this age do not know what they are calling each other when calling their peers lesbian or gays but associate these terms with "loser" or being different.  Lawrence Cohen, Ph.D writes,  “Most kids who are cruel to others are not physically big and tough kids. Instead, they often are super-popular students who wield power malevolently, or who influence bigger ‘bullies’ to pick on social outcasts. Many bullies are picked on a lot themselves and take this out on others, so the same child is both a victim and a perpetrator.”  Basically what Dr. Cohen is writing is that bullies are products of bullying.  

Genre: Web Site Article

Topics: Bullying Girls vs Boys, Causes/Results of Bullying, Perpetrators of Bullying

Rhetorical Strategies: 

-Audience: Parents of Children/ Public (adults)

-Purpose: To inform about causes of bullying and bullying in general

-Context: Bullying in schools

Blogger Entry #3: Social Issue Break-Down

Due: Wednesday, Sept. 30th

1. Pick a social problem/issue that you are interested in  (ex: hunger, poverty, ageism, alcoholism, bullying, spousal abuse... for more examples of contemporary social issues check out: 
1. http://lib.guides.umd.edu/c.php?g=326995&p=2194601
2. http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0516/2005018778.html  
3. topics list under handouts  
2. Select a text that has to do with your social issue
1. ex: article, book, show, movie, commercial, ad, speech, poem, building, etc. 
3. Write a paragraph response about your text.  This can be any kind of response
1. ex: summary, why you chose it, what you liked about it, why it caught your interest, what it made you think of or realize, etc. 
4. Break it Down
1. Genre
2. Topics
3. Rhetorical Strategies *include examples

CHALLENGE:   write your paragraph using the double-voice technique   .... this is optional

Speak, YOU! Blogger #2

                              I think that different languages is a beautiful thing. The fact that the stories told by both of the women, are told in a manner that you can tell it has caused distress in their lives, is heinous. All, of  their lives they have had to struggle with being thought of as maybe, ignorant or defiant. But, the bright side is they overcame that stereotype and negativity. You could even say that they gave a voice to people that may not have had the words. I mean, obviously they have become successful, educated writers and speakers; in all of the many languages that they can speak. I really liked the quote, quoted in Gloria Anzalduas How to Tame a Wild Tongue, "Who is to say that robbing a people of its language is less violent than war." - Ray Gwyn Smith. It must be hard to always hear people say " last time I checked we were in America, speak English." I know that it bothers me when I hear someone I am with say this. This is very diverse country, with many, many tongues spoken.  It really makes the person speaking negatively look stupid. I mean if the people you are calling "stupid and lazy" attempts to understand you and often times exceeds that understanding, and there is no effort to reciprocate; then really who is "lazy and stupid." I like to learn from everyone, well almost everyone.

Blogger 2

Sanchez Monica
English 105
Professor Amanda Reyes

English and Spanish are the languages I speak! Bilingual is what I defined myself to be. After watching Jamila's Lyiscotts video I realized that not only did I speak two primary languages but in fact I speak other languages. Everyone has another language that they speak. For instance, when they are around their friends they talk different from when they are around their parents in oppose to being at a job. In her video she sounds very confident about being trilingual, she's passionate about it. There is a point where she even says she will not let anyone tell her how to speak nor what is the right way. Her video reminds me of Gloria Anzalduas story. In Gloria's story she's a Mexican girl being treated differently at school. Gloria's teacher makes it even harder for her to adapt in school. She was constantly criticized all the time and was called a traitor just because of the languages she spoke. Her teacher use to punish her when she spoke Spanish, even when she would say something in "Spanglish". No matter what, Gloria never let anyone change the way she talked she kept being who she wanted to be and not what others wanted.

 

   Delcid, Heaven
  
   Proff. Reyes

   English 105
 
   Sept. 23           


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                  The  big way that learning a new language changes your way of thinking is that language is a gateway to culture. Culture do differ dramatically, even if people are fairly similar on a fundamental level of psychologically speaking. Culture offers a different identity  and perspective that tends to be more homogenous within a group of people who all speak the same language..

Roberto Martinez blogger entry #2

Roberto Martinez

Honestly why is speaking with different identities wrong when I was a kid I was punished just because I would speak slang. My mother thought it was a sign that she raised me wrong, but it was just the way society was you would try to fit in. Although in “Gloria Anzaldua’s”  “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” It was wrong, it is how ignorant people would talk. But as she explains “Anzaldua is arguing for the ways in which identity is intertwined with the way we speak and for the ways in which people can be made to feel ashamed of their own tongues. Keeping hers wild – ignoring the closing of linguistic borders – is anzaldua’s way of asserting identity.” In anzaldua’s point of view it was her way of being herself. Now the point of view that “Jamila Lysicott” is that “now you may think that it is ignorant to speak broken English”. The connection I made between “Gloria Anzaldua” and “Jamila Lyiscott” is that whatever time and wherever you are there is always is a negative connotation if you speak differently, and or speak slang. You are looked upon as if you are an ignorant.

Through her Eyes

Through her Eyes

Gloria Anzaluda walks us through the history of the changing Mexican language from her

perspective, From the boarder towns in America to the different states in Mexico. Through here eyes 

we are shown the difficulties in growing up in a country that insist that you learn a different 

language, to being judged and ridiculed by her own people. Learning of the different languages she 

finds and finally embraces them with pride she concludes that she can and will speak these languages 

when she pleases, and with whom she wants to. All this comes at a time of change not only to her 

but the country she is raised in. The influence of this particular time in history has motivated Gloria 

to to make, seek and push for changes in what she believes to be unjust.

Languages

Jose Lopez

Proff. Reyes

English 105

September 21

                                                                          Languages

Language is the method used by humans to communicate. There are different languages in the world, and even within those languages, there are also different versions of the same language. For Example: Spanish and English are two different languages, but within those languages there are different versions of themselves that differentiate according to the region where that language is spoken. The accents vary and even some slang words. That doesn't stop there because even if you speak one language, you speak it in different tones. For example: When one is at school, one tries to speak in a more professional manner than usual, compared to the way one speaks when spending time with friends. Just like Gloria Anzaldua states "we speak many languages", meaning we speak the same language but change the tone depending with who we talk to.  Jamila Lysicott seems to agree by stating that she speaks english in 3 different ways. She explains how she uses one language for each: Home, friends and School.

                                       

Common Grounds

Sugei Jimenez

Professor Reyes

Blogger #2

English

Common Grounds

“…this is the impending problem at hand,” – Jamila Lyiscott

“…But who controls our language?” – Jamila Lyiscott

“…cultural traitor, you’re speaking the oppressor’s language…” - Anzuldua

“…I just follow to them people but-ti done…” – Jamila Lyiscott

Our tongues, are they really?

 Is the standard academic language we speak and use as formality really what identifies our articulacy?

 The common ground between Anzuldua, Lyiscott and I is that we practice a forced language that is structured and oppressed upon us by our oppressor, our oppressor: family, education and location.

 In Anzuldua’s, “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” she speaks about her history in regards to her usage of multiple languages as a Chicana here in America. She says that she practices,

“Un lenguaje que corresponde a un modo de vivir.”

Anzuldua practices the language that fits her location because it’s the one that corresponds to that location.

In Lyiscott’s Ted talk, “3 Languages”, she says,

“…I had to barrow your language because mine was stolen…”

Lyiscott uses the English language because her language was not suited to the principle of the American system.

Common grounds, I’m articulate, we are articulate, even without a degree certified by the states.

Anzuldua’s Tongues

·         Standard English

·         Working class and slang English

·         Standard Spanish

·         Standard Mexican Spanish

·         North Mexican Spanish dialect

·         Chicano Spanish

·         Tex-Mex

·         Pachuco

Lyiscott Tongues

·         Home

·         School

·         Friends

                                                 

As for myself, I speak it all, English, Slang, Spanglish, Anger, Sophistication, Baby Talk, Anger, Spanish, Trash and Bullshit, amongst many others and I refuse to identify myself through a forced language.