Classification: A city is very different from a small town in Minnesota. In San Francisco there are people living on the streets, you can hear sirens all night long, there are people eating out of trash cans, etc.
Cause/effect: Going on a trip with my mother to San Francisco helped us bond help us understand each other more.
Persuasion: Everyone should make an attempt to take a trip with a family member alone at some point in their life.
“My attitude was the same as Dick Cheney’s: I was special, I had ‘other priorities.’ Let other people do it”
This man wanted so badly to avoid war. The draft forced men into fighting for their country, and sometimes dying for it unwillingly. He eventually grew huge respect for the people who had to fight in wars, but at the time he was scared out of his mind of being drafted. I think when somebody is forced into something that intense then they wouldn’t try as hard to do it. It wasn’t his goal in life. Someone else tried to force him into it. Some people might call him a coward, but in my opinion, I think he was brave to want to be with his family and live his life to the fullest. I don’t think you have to risk your life to be considered brave.
Car came from a parking lot.
Car is a white Civic.
Car drove into boat.
Person escaped the car.
Boat is docked.
Car is dangling between the boat and land.
Lady staring at the camera…
Woman might be the person who owns the car.
Possibly happened during the day.
“I had joined that multitude of Negro men and women in America who are brainwashed into believing that the black people are ‘inferior’ and white people ’superior’ that they will even violate and mutilate their God-created bodies to try to look ‘pretty’ by white standards”
I chose this sentence in the essay because it seemed to be the strongest. Probably because it’s the thesis statement. He tells the story of this experience of changing himself to look more like a white person which is the whole point of the essay.
The bolded part I would have to say I have a problem with?… Just because he talks about black people changing themselves to be like white people. This goes against my views, because he makes it sounds like white people don’t know what it’s like to try and change themselves. The discrimination against black people has died down so much, but it seems like white people are still being treated like they’re all members of the KKK. I’m all for being proud of your heritage, but why discriminate against another race in this day and age for your ancestors being discriminated against in the past? Don’t get me wrong… I understand that racism still exists, but I’m just saying that white people shouldn’t be judged like they don’t have their own independent thoughts…
Oof… I just rambled… 0_o
I will probably drop by and visit Florence tomorrow when I’m done with all of my classes.
I’m planning on writing about her life once she left home and started being independent. When she was 18 she moved away from home and started working 3 jobs, going to school for business, and still found time to fall in love.
Some of the questions I’m going to ask her are…
What made you decide to move to Duluth?
How did this impact your family?
Did you finish school? If not, do you regret it? If so, what did you do once you finished?
What were your 3 jobs?
What did you do at your jobs?
How long were you engaged for?
When was your daughter born?
This is my awesome partner, Florence!
She is a super nice lady who is happy and upbeat considering the trauma that she’s had in her life.
From the stories that I heard on Thursday, I’d have to say that she is quite the woman. : ]
Start out with the basics to get to know the person…
What’s your name?
When were you born?
Were/are you married?
Do you have any kids? If so, any grandkids?
Where did you live and what was it like living there?
Then move on to…
When you were a kid, what kind of environment did you grow up in?
What was education like when you were a kid?
What major historical events effected you and how? Wars, movements, the depression?
What was your family like?
What are some memorable moments of them?
I didn’t know my grandmother too well. She lived in a nursing home for as long as I could remember until she died due to a stroke. She and my grandfather raised my aunts, my uncle and my dad on a farm in Two Harbors. My grandmother not only did the cooking and cleaning, but she worked on the farm doing the mens work too. When she entered the nursing home she refused care thinking that she could do everything herself. I’m impressed by her, because she didn’t give into the usual womans role. She hated people seeing her as weak and she fought to try and change peoples minds of what woman can or cannot do. I probably wont get the chance to live on a farm when I’m older, but if I did then it would be a nice experience to go through what she did.
“All these people want is what we hetero types take for granted: the opportunity to drop to one knee in a white-tablecloth restaurant and pledge eternal fealty in the eyes of the waiters and the world.”
This makes me incredibly sad. Straight people do take for granted that they can show affection in public without being harassed. Marriage is about love and the government should legalize it in all states so every person can share their life with the person they’re crazy about.
Thesis statement - “Gay people are being asked to form a more perfect union. In the process, perhaps they can teach us something that we casual citizens and spouses badly need to learn.” In this quote the man says that straight people can learn something from gay people which sums up him talking about how no straight marriage is perfect. Even Britney Spears’ spur of the moment, Vegas hook-up is more acceptable than a gay couple who have been together for years. This thought it ridiculous. Same-sex marriage should be considered as equal as hetero-marriages.
“They are men who view the real women in their lives in the same manner they would view a Playboy model, a waitress at Hooters or a prostitute- as objects that exist solely for their pleasure and convenience.”
“Pornographic magazines and lewd posters reduce women to a commodity that can be purchased and owned, divorcing the physical manifestation from the person within.”
These two sentences caught my attention the most. I’ve seen situations where men demean women to feel better about themselves and I think it brings a good point in the essay. I consider it really low for one person to try to subjugate another for their own benefit. The men who view women this way expect no more from them than pleasure and making babies. These things effect women in different ways by exposing them to battering and rape. The women then see themselves in the image their boyfriend or husband see them in and think its the truth. It eventually leads to eating disorders, depression or other problems.
“Some argue that the proliferation of pornography and other sexually explicit images of women is both harmless for society and inevitable.”- This is the thesis statement. I think the writer was trying to say that the the more women are shown as objects of sex, the more they are stuck in that perspective.
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