Poetry Jan 28.2008

After reading the poetry, I tried to figure out the meaning of them. However, I had a hard time with figuring out the meanings. It seems that most poetries was talking about one main idea, ' American Indian.' Plus, the authors are trying to say that American Indian has lost their identity and eager to get it back.

The poetry seem to relate to the previous reading. For instance, in the reading, the author mainly talks about the American Indian and sever lives they experienced. One of the poem that I read also talks about American Indian and she claims that they had a harsh and severe lives. She also claims that American Indians had to live lives with sorrow and grief. Basically the reading and poetry both talks about the American Indian harsh life.

The Curious Research provided an opportunity to experience the ways to research the information. It provided several different ways to research for the information. However some of the information that the book provided seems to the information that I knew before.

Analyzing poem (Helen Betty Osborne – Marilyn Dumont)

After reading the poems, I decided to analyze the poem called, ‘Helen Betty Osborne’ (Marilyn Dumont).

The first stanza, the author talks to a girl name, ‘Betty.’ In here this girl name might represent everyone who is a native girl in America or it might represent herself. The author is saying that every female native Americans and including herself are facing loneliness, anxiety, and horror from living a town where, few Indians are residing. This seems to represent their sorrow and grief.

The second stanza, basically expresses their innocence and sorrow from describing the incidents that might happened in past days. The word such as, skinning, scraping, pounding, and packing are well expressed to describe their severe lives.

The last stanza, the author is saying if she writes the poem then it will be about herself and other female native Americans who had to suffer without any reasons. At the end, she stops writing; however, it seems that she has a lot of things to tell to readers about the innocence of femal native Americans.

Identity

At least once, people might have thought about their identity from experiencing different topics they learned. One of my classes mainly discussed about identity and autobiography from using avatars and readings. From creating avatars and readings, I was able to find my true identity.

Avatars are visual representation of yourselves which shows the characters of each persons look. I created my avatar from distinguishing my facial look which contains small eyes with round nose, a birthmark, and black hairs. Especially, the location of the birthmark shows who I am and it represents only one person, myself. Creating avatar provided an opportunity to find my identity which is figuring out the characters of my face.

Avatar was just the starting point of finding my identity, after reading the articles I was able to find who I am and understand myself. Especially the article, “Gee, You Don’t Seem Like an Indian From the Reservation”, provided a great help to find my identity. This article was about an American Indian who hates and fear of white American. At the end of the article, it seems that the author found true self from confronting different experiences. Then how did this article helped me to find myself? Ok, the answer is that the reading the article reminded me the past experiences that I experienced before. Consequently, reading the article assisted me to understand myself, such as, realizing that I am a person who does not have enough confidence or persistence to concentrate.

Overall, creating avatar and reading the article helped me to find my identity. Avatar became the starting point of finding my identity and then later the article provided a chance to understand my true myself. Now I know that the characters of my face are the small eyes with round nose, location of birth point, and black hairs. Moreover, I found that I am a person who needs confidence and concentration in order to live in our society.

Monday class

Based on the Moday lecture, our class discussed about feminsim. From my understanding, feminism is an equality between men and women. Besides, based on the Oxford dictionary the definision is, the advocacy of women's rights on the grounds of political, social, and economic equality to men. People who support these thoughts are called feminists. According to the lecture, some famous feminists are Thomas Paine (founding father of USA),Abigail Adams (first lady),Susan B. Anthony (women's rights movement) and Sojourner Truth (slave, abolitionist and women's rights movement)

Some negative ideas of feminsim is that they are hippies, only women, lesbians, and they do not shave. Moreover, most people think that the feminists should have generous and calm looking however, the truth is, their looking doesn't really matter. The importance thing is that the feminsts should be the person who is ready to fight for the rights for our society. They usually deal with gender inequality and claims for rights for women. For instance, they may confront some incidents such as a woman who got rapped by man or social heiracy in different regions.

From the discussion, I was able to understand who can be the feminsits and who are the famous feminists in our world. These discussion provided some chances to have some knowledges of feminists.