"the men we carry in our minds" thinking about the text blog

1. The men he knew "were twisted and maimed in ways visible and invisible. The nails of their hands were black and split, the hands tatooed with scars. Some had lost fingers.." some people got ulcers from racing the conveyor belt. The laborers' ankles and knees hurt from years of standing on concrete, some lost most of their hearing, squinted because they couldn't see very well etc... but what he noticed the most was that men wore out faster than women, women would be able to live to an old age.
2. Those men never seat or break down like mules, and he almost never saw them work at all. They just looked bored 24/7. They were people that would just sit around and wait for the wars, transfers, leaves, promotions, and the end of their hitch. He says soldiers are like the hammer was for driving nails.
3. These men he spoke about where business men. they dressed nicely and wore hats and luxuries, something the laboring man did not have. it seemed to him it was farther than ever to reach to that point in their society with minority groups. An example he showed was when his father worked his way to a white shirt and tie job but because of the earlier years of labor had finished his body quickly and didn't retain the job for long because he was too battered up that his body couldn't take it anymore.
4. His father had worked his way to a white collar job in a an office, until he had to stop.
5. According to Sanders women has had a better life because the men were the ones working their butts of day and night with no rest because when the men would get home the would have to work more to keep their home together. And that they weren't the ones being shipped off to a war to die. Because when the man of the family lost their job and money would stop coming in then the men were the ones who had failed , not the women.
6. The white man was never laid off or lining up to get welfare because they always had money and had cars more than then Sander's house, unlike the the minority and laboring man that lived in "los barrios" and "ghettos".
7. They want to share the power and glory and the say over their future for jobs worth their ability, and the right to live in peace that the rich white man has, like the white man's daughters'.

summary self-evaluation blog

Q: What was the most challenging part of writing the summary? What was the least challenging? Why?
A: The most challenging part about writing the summary was sectioning out the paragraphs and seeing which went together because some looked like they all went together, but there would be a slight difference. Also, trying to make everything make sense and putting the right transition words so it doesn't sound redundent.
Q: Did you get the grade you expected on this summary? Why or why not?
A: I really didn't expect anything because i wasn't sure if i had done it write or not. but i do wish i had done better on both the first and second part of the assignment.
Q: Based upon my comments, the summary rubric and the concept handout, what do you think your strengths are?
A: i don't know what my strengths were; just that i did the assignment with time, and got help when i needed it. But i feel that my weaknesses were that i don't know how to put down what i am thinking or explain it well; i overwhelm myself.
Q: How will you improve for the next summary?
A: maybe get more help on stuff that I'm not certain of, and ask more questions, also not psyching myself out for something thats pretty simple.

feminist shouldn't be a dirty word

1. do the author's survey results indicate that feminist is, by and large, a dirty word for her fellow students? what in the essay makes you agree or disagree?
-yes because they agree with what a feminist is but do not say or consider themselves feminists. like for example we know what bad words are or what certain ones mean, and we might use them in certain situations, but there are situationa where you don't say bad words and you don't use them.
2. what reasons does libby offer why there are not more self-identified feminists?
-she asks some boys why they aren't feminist and they responded that feminists are only for girls and that that wasn't their place to be. or others don't consider themselves feminists because they agree with it but do not do anything to support it, so they feel its inappropriate to identify themselves like that. also, they call themselves feminists because they don't think these problems still exist anymore.
3. why does she think more people should identify themselves as feminists?
-becuase feminisms is not just for females, but for both female and males.

Memorization blog

the way i noticed that i can memorize things easier is when i have to memorize a topic in class i write down notes in class that make sense to me. then i write and re-write it over and over then causing me to memorize what i was writing down. aslo another way i use to memorize i use the method that you showed us in class when you gave us the in class to memorize. with the words i make a sentence and i use it to memorize. but i probably can only memorize it for a little while and it stays in my short-term memory.

Transfer Motivational Conference blog

The biggest highlight of the transfer Motivational Conference for me was the workshop i attended. the workshop i attended was called "que toca la musica: an historical overview of chicano music". It was about how chicano music came to be and how all types of muscic has influenced it. like for instance jimi hendrix, marvin gaye, cold blood, brenton led zepplin, james brown, the beatles, etta james, billy stewart, towere of power, and even micheal jackson. But not only musicians have influenced but the times they where living also, like there was a time where they were locking up all the chicanos in penetentionaries, and when people can out they would share what they had been through in their time there in music. also, groups would writes songs from the heart of what it was to be mexican and what the mexican people have been through having to cross the border and the american dream altoether. The speaker at my workshop really caught my attention in the way he spoke, his and gestures, the music of choice he used to show exapmles, and some of what he was spea=king of really got me into the topic of chicano studies and music. i feel that if they offered this at foothill i would take this class in a heartbeat. Another thing that was important to me at the transfer motivational conference at sacramento state was when the guest speaker was speaking which was none other than cruz reynoso, the first latino superior court justice. he spoke about how he believes that community college education should be free. and he spoke about his past experiances fighting alongside with cesar chavez to improve minority in california.

Anzaldua Blog response #2: The Anti-Essay.

In "How To Tame a Wild Tongue" Gloria Anzuldua writes about the spanish language and how it has transformed. Like for example as pointed out by Anzuldua castilian spanish (proper spanish) you would say "maíz, cohete, lado, or mojado" but in the newly used spanish or Tex-Mex you'd say "maiz, cuete, lao, or mojao". She also writes about how our language has influenced our identity in an non-traditional way. All these points she writes about in this article is written in an academic format. In other words, it allows you or the reader to "enter" that conversation and contribute to those ideas. She wrote it this way so it can people can relate to what she is writing about. Not just one culture can relate to this topic, although it is aimed mostly to the latino community. Also, she tries to report in a way what is occurring with the Mexican culture, Anglos are trying to get rid of the Spanish language in the United States. You can see this throughout the whole essay but this is where it caught my attention the most,

“’we’re going to have to control your tongue’ the dentist says… My mouth is the motherlode. The dentist is cleaning out my roots. I get a whiff of the stench when I gasp… ‘We’re going to have to do something about that tongue,’ I hear anger rising in his voice. My tongue keeps pushing out the wads of cotton, pushing back the drills, the long thin needles. ‘I’ve never seen anything as strong or as stubborn,’ he says. And I think, how do you tame a wild tongue, train it to be quiet, how do you brindle and saddle it?...” (para # 1-2.

Even though you it’s not facts or anything you see where she is going with it. It’s the attention grabber, you have to think and compare what similarities it has with the Spanish language. Basically her question is how are you going to control a language that is so strong and so present throughout the world? When she says the dentist, an American, is cleaning out her roots, she means her culture and language, and he starts getting angry because her tongue keeps interfering with the cleaning of her “roots”. Her tongue is fighting it, because you can’t control Spanish in the US like the Americans tried to do. Spanish has evolved, and is getting harder and harder to get rid of. I feel that soon it’s going to take over.