April 27.2009

How are your reflection papers coming? What do you want your classmates to look at?

Until now I have confusion with the reflection paper. The things that I did not understand was, should I choose a paper to write the reflection paper or should I just mix the whole papers that I wrote for this class? Besides, I was not sure if my paper should be based on the class discussion and reading and relate to the paper I chose. Last thing is should I just use the first paper I wrote and compare to the papers that I wrote for this class. Another choice was should I compare with the papers that I wrote during high school year which definitely shows the improvement of my writing.
These are the problems that I am facing for the reflection papers.

I want my classmates to check the sentence organization and I want my classmates to check the sentence structures. It would be better if they check my grammar and repeated sentences or words however, the most important things that i want is, the organization of my paper.

Overall if I am able to solve this questions for my reflection paper then I might able to have better reflection paper. Besides, if my classmates checks the sentence organization and repeated sentences or words that it would create better paper for me.

Toward a New Consciousness

From reading the 'Toward a New Consciousness', I was able realize it talks about discrimination and racism in our world. The article, itself relates to different cultures such as Mexicans and Indians. Moreover the article discuss about the humiliation that Indians or other peoples had to suffer from Whites. Based on the reading, it seems that the whites are portrayed as a superior and powerful, however, other people than Whites seems to depicted as weaker than them. Since this article seems to look back to her experiences and emotional feelings, this article is definitely relate to reflection. Besides, this reading strongly reflect to different cultures experiences and feelings. Consequently, these are the reasons that this article is assigned for our reading assignment.

Looking back at the blogs that I have written, I was able to realize that some sentences was not well organized or run out. Due to time consumption, it seems that I was not able to have time to reorganize and edit the paragraphs or delete the repeated sentences. Now from looking back at the previous writings, I am able to realize that I need to try to proof read and make sure if the sentences or paragraphs are well organized.

Overall the reading, Toward a New Consciousness is a well written paper which reflect to the author's experiences and other peoples' experiences. Besides it seems that my previous writings needs some proof read for better sentence structure and organization.

What is reflection?

From my point of view, the definition of reflection is 'looking back.' People usually writie reflection paper after reading different articles, poems, or videos. Bascially, reflection is looking back the things that you experienced in your life and write your emotion or feelings from your reading or experience.

Once I had to watch a '9/11' documentary on September 11th. After watching the documentary, he assigned us to write a reflection paper. Although I did not know how to start the reflection paper, later I realized that the reflection paper needs a few description of the documentary with my emotion. From writing the reflction paper, I was able to understand how I felt from watching the documentary.Bascially when you reflect your thoughts and emotions is a way to write the reflection paper.

Overall, reflection is looking back at your thoughts and experiences and write your emotion and feeling. From my point of view, writing a relfection paper can help people to organize their thoughts and feeling toward things that they read or experienced.

Pocahontas (vedio + reading passage)

I used to watch Disney cartoons when I was young and Pocahontas is one of the movies that I enjoyed to watch. From a child point of view, the cartoon was depicted as interesting and colorful pictures. As I get older, my perspective have started to change. Now, I start to rethink over how Native Americans' might feel about the colonization from other countires.

From watching the cartoon, 'Pocahontas' , I felt that the immigrants or people who came from England were potrayed as a greedy and selfish people who want gold and resources in order to satisfy their lives. Besides, Native Americans and immigrants from England called them each other 'savages.' Since they are both strangers, it seems that they called them as 'savages.'

After watching the vedio, I had a chance to read a passage about pocahontas. The truth is that I was not able to understand the passage clearly, however, I was able to understand the author wrote the article based on the Native Americans. The vedio and the article is based on the Native Americans. However, from my perspective, the vedio is created from American point of view. However, the article, itself is written for the Native Americans to claim the author's opinions. Consequently, the vedio and reading passage provided me a chance to rethin about the Native Americans.

paper #2 + reaction from reading.

Until now I do not have a clear idea of my paper. However, as I brainstorm some ideas it seems that it will give some ideas for my paper. From our class discussion, I can get some ideas for my paper. Besides, it seems that some people confront gender and sexuality issues from living in modern society. Based on the ideas I should try to combine and organize for my paper.

From reading the, 'Gays and Lesbians of First Nations', I did not clearly understand the meaning of the "two spirited poeple." From my point of view, "two spirited people" is relate to bisexual. Besides, it seems that "two spirited people" are the Native American people and it seems that they are the plays important role for their tribes. Each people seems to have their role.

Although this short story breifly talks about the "two spirited people", it seems to need extra infromation for readers. I was able to have some ideas of "two spirited people", however, I was not able to specifically understand the "two spirited people."

Paper #2

Until now, I did not really think about paper #2. However, it seems that it needs some research from different sources. Although I feel that All Our Relations were easier than the Conquest, it seems that the Conquest will provide more information than All Our Relations. Compare to the Conquest, it seems All Our Relation only focus on few topics. However, the Conquest seems to focus on different topics and have a lot of sources. According to these information, I might chose to use the Conquest for paper #2, which means that my topic may focus on gender and sexuality. Due to this decision, I might need to find some journals which relate to gender and sexuality as well as a book which can support my ideas.

These days, there are a lot of issues going on in our world, especially focusing on gender and sexuality incidents. There was an incidents which relates to gender and sexuality issues. Once woman opened a door for a man and this man raped this woman. Due to the law, the government decided that it was all woman's fault and this man did not have any punishment from raping this woman. This clearly shows that the discrimination between female and male.

From the reading and the sources, I will able to write the paper #2. I might relate the readings and experiences from Egypt and the society in Middle Eastern countries. It might be a difficult task for me, however, it seems to be an interesting research paper, since it is based on the gender and sexualtiy issues.

Analyze peom ( you see this body)

I chose to analyze the poem called, 'you see this body' which is written by Marcie Rendon. After reading this poem, I felt sorry for Indians who had to suffer from humiliation and harassments. While I was reading the poem, I was able to depict a big picture of the poem however, I had hard time with analyzing each stanzas in the poem. Basically the poem I chose was about Indians who suffered from past events such as Trail of Tears and Wounded Knee. Besides, the poem express their innocents from talking about their identity. Indians lost their identity and they also do not have rights or choices to fight against the intruders. There were few stanzas which talked about the gender and sexuality in the poem. It seems that it does not directly mention about them, however, if you keep reading the poem you might able to figure out the hidden meaning that the author is trying to say. Some stanzas like, stanza 6 expresses the inequality and sexual harassments that they had to face during that period. Although I had a big picture of the poem, there were some parts that I was not able to understand. Especially, while I was reading the last three stanzas in the poem, I was not able to understand clearly. Consequently, the poem expresses their sorrow and agony that they had to face from the intruders.