" No Named Woman" - The Woman Warrior

This story touched my heart as well, it made me think about the role we must keep up with as a woman especially depending on what culture you come from. I recognized that in the Asian culture that family is very important. This woman killed herself and her new born child because she knew if she would have left her child alive her family will treat it unfairly. She drowned herself in the well because she committed adultery. She was named the " No Named Woman" because during this story that was being told by a mother to her daughter because her named was not mentioned through out the story. It shows the difference between the roles of women and men in a community, men on the hand would have gotten praised over the same thing she did. That turns my attention to cultures that has those double standards and ever wonder if we can ever get over it.

No Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid

This  story really touched me because it reminded me of my homeland Jamaica. Kincaid goes on about tourists not knowing the full story of her homeland Antigua. She explains that her country's government really only cares about the part of her country that attracts tourist. They invest all their money into the parts that make money and that's not always a bad thing, but her point was what about the parts of Antigua that needs the funds as well. What happened to the parts of Antigua that is just made up of her people and who needs to add more schools and concreted roads. This reminds me of Jamaica because similar events are occurring. I hate that the Caribbean government itself has been so corrupted whereas people now have to figure out that their beautiful country is deteriorating before their own eyes. Why wont the government put the same funds and investments into their own people?

Its Not an Oxymoron

My minds wanders to many different questions when I was reading this article, questions like How is this different than many different cultures around the world?  As to suppose to how women are viewed in all cultures of the world. And is there a place in the world whereas women are viewed as the head of the household? And if not, why would things change now? Yes, women opinions should be heard, as a women I will stand up for that matter, however my opinion will never change that we will never be valued completely the same as men. We have to look at the facts there has not been one woman president, women can get a same job as a man, but we will never be valued the same. We are still seventy cents to their dollar. Will we ever get the equality rights that we are still fighting for since the women committee to let us have the right to vote in the 1940's? Can we be compared to man in equality? This goes back to the times of the bible where it was conveyed that a woman was made from the help of a man. And because that is what we are taught as a child sticks with us, and most people still have that mentally today. Hopefully one day we will get equal rights, but we need to be careful because at the end of the day men still rule everything around us.

Borderlands

              In class today, we discussed the chapter in the book Borderlands, it mainly pointed out the question of the author's identity, culture, and ideas of how that mixture comes alive in the authors point of view. I found it very interesting how the author expresses her opinion that she should express her ideas in any language that she pleases. She has a Latina background, and she wants to be able to have writings that are published in Spanish, English, or even a mixture of both. She explains that the United States of America is robbing her of her culture because in the education systems, they were giving her classes to lose her accent. With all this occurring she also has to keep in mind that she was born in the US. So why is the educational systems going against her?
             That makes a connection to myself because I wasn't born in this country, neither of my family that is here as well. As a young age I was forced to loose my Jamaican accent because it didn't identify as " proper English". Both I do still try to  hold on to my culture as much as I can. Does this mean I have abide by the saying " When in Rome, do what the Romans do?"

Can Comics Really Be Considered Literature?

                The topic came up in class today that if comic books can be really considered a piece of literature; at first my mind went straight to thinking negatively of this topic. I thought "How can couple words on a page and a book mostly filled with pictures be considered literature?" but as the class went on I realized through the presentation that there is way more that goes into comic books then I thought.When the breakdown was on the board about the comics and what was in  importance my thoughts on the topic has changed. I thought that due to my lack of experience with comic books, I wouldn't know the specifics about comic books and their way of them being written can have indeed have  logic.                
                  What I've realized most about the breakdown of the presentation today was that there was a lot of questions that came up about the author perspective on things and how as the reader was suppose to "read between the lines".  The differences of how the frames are lined up and were organized differently that meant something than in what the author was trying to deliver. Some things in the illustrations we as the readers should identify so we can ask ourselves what is the author's purpose of making certain things this way and why. Furthermore, I've learn to not to be so negative when it comes to topics that I am ignorant of.

Remembered Rapture

            On Thursday September 11, 2014, the topic of discussion was from a chapter of the book  Remembered Rapture . The chapter's title was "Class of Politics Writing", my view of this chapter was that it was a expression of the author and how she feels towards her community. She was frustrated and she felt like new voices needed to be heard. She hated the fact of people in her social class weren't stepping up the plate and making their opinions matter in what world they we're living in. While analyzing this text, I made some connections to what's happening today as, even though this text was written in 1999, we still have some of those same issues to deal with today.  I feel like we need to stand up and have our voices heard about whats going on with the "war" between civilians and the police force. The abuse the police officers are able to get away with are starting to become scary and ridiculous. The police force is a sense of security, and we shouldn't be afraid of our protection. Most parents are worried about their children everyday and those parents shouldn't have to worry about the ones protecting them, are the ones that are actually hurting them.  We also need to rise up and have our voices heard. The police force must know their boundaries towards their interactions with the civilians.