Comparing to chapter one, chapter two seems to specifically talks about people who got abused from boarding school. This boarding school looks like a factories or even worser than factories. This boarding school was formalized under Grant's Peace Policy in 1869. Teenagers or students were kidnapped and were treated like animals. Most people who were sent to these places were not able to survive. Some die from a massive and tremendous amount of work and some die from hunger. Later it discuss about the project they were seeking for survivors from these boarding school.
After reading this chapter, I felt sorry for people who were treated so harsh and suffer from filthy and abnormal people. I cannot believe that these situation could happen and treat human begins like animal. Some people know that discrimination and racism should not continue however, it seems that it is hard for some people to keep their promise for not discriminating others. These people might need to think as a discriminated person which might provide a chance to think the feeling of people who suffered from discrimination and racism.
From reading chapter 2, the topic discrimination and racism reminded the stories that I read in All Our Relations and society in Middle Eastern countires. All Our Relations provided me a chance to understand the sorrow and pain of Native American. Moreover, I was also able to think the society in the Middle Eastern countires. For instance, living Egypt morethan two years, I was able to realize that the society in Egypt was totally different from my country, Korea. It seemed that in Egypt women had last opportunity to claim for their rights. Also, the social inequality could be shown from their upper and lower class in Egypt.
As a result, from reading chapter two I was able to realize another society in our world which reminded the reading, All Our Realtions and the society in the Middle Eastern countreis.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Monday, February 23, 2009
Conquest - Chapter 1
" Rape is nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear." (p.7)
Chapter one was based on the discrimination and racism which was shown in Native American, African American, immigrants in States, and other countries' people. The quote strongly reflect to the whole chapter one which basically describes the fearfulness of women against the men and the humiliation that they had to experienced through their lives. The author claims that non whites were always humiliated or raped by the whites. During that time, they did not have enough power to claim for their rights or justify their innocence. One of the issues was discussing about the female Chinese immigrants who were described as prostitutes. Many native American women was raped and did not had the right to sue the people who raped them. Through the reading, I could realize that they suffered and did not have a right to claim for justice. Discrimination and racism created the invisible hierarchy which made non whites to suffer and live poor live. Basically the quote summarize the whole story that the author is trying to say in chapter one.
Chapter one was based on the discrimination and racism which was shown in Native American, African American, immigrants in States, and other countries' people. The quote strongly reflect to the whole chapter one which basically describes the fearfulness of women against the men and the humiliation that they had to experienced through their lives. The author claims that non whites were always humiliated or raped by the whites. During that time, they did not have enough power to claim for their rights or justify their innocence. One of the issues was discussing about the female Chinese immigrants who were described as prostitutes. Many native American women was raped and did not had the right to sue the people who raped them. Through the reading, I could realize that they suffered and did not have a right to claim for justice. Discrimination and racism created the invisible hierarchy which made non whites to suffer and live poor live. Basically the quote summarize the whole story that the author is trying to say in chapter one.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Video
After watching the video, ' manoomin: a Minnesota way of Life',I was able to realize that Indians are still facing problems and difficulties. Basically the video was talking about the wild rice which have harvested until these days. It seems that they are claiming that Indians might lose the right of harvesting the rice. It discussed about whether that the Indian should keep the growing the rice or not. The video shows that Indians are losing their true identity and now they do not have a power to grow rice in their land. In my opinion, the government should allow Indians to keep growing the rice. If they lose the right of growing the rice then it means that Indians are losing part of their identity.
The video reminded me the reading, ' All our relations' , which also talks about the life of Indians and difficulties that they had to faced. It seemed that both video and the reading, show the sufferings of their lives.
The video reminded me the reading, ' All our relations' , which also talks about the life of Indians and difficulties that they had to faced. It seemed that both video and the reading, show the sufferings of their lives.
Monday, February 16, 2009
Chapter 3
After reading chapter 3, I once realized again that the Native American had to suffered a lot from people who came from outside of their country. Chapter 3 mainly discuss about the Innun and mention about the invaders and things that they did to them. The way they treated was so disrespectful which made me provoked while I was reading. It seems that chapter 2 and chapter 3 is discussing about different tribes of Native Americans which is the similarity of the writing style of the author.
While I was reading chapter 3, there were few things that I did not clearly understand such as, the dam issues. I have understood that building dams caused destructiveness for ecosystem and caused innocent death. However, when the author was talking about the process of construction I did not clearly understand it.
I realized that in chapter 3, that Innuns' lost their identity from invaders and start to lose their lands. Moreover, the invaders started to humiliate them and seems that they are claiming that these people are uncivilized. These shows that their identity is starting to falling apart.
While I was reading chapter 3, there were few things that I did not clearly understand such as, the dam issues. I have understood that building dams caused destructiveness for ecosystem and caused innocent death. However, when the author was talking about the process of construction I did not clearly understand it.
I realized that in chapter 3, that Innuns' lost their identity from invaders and start to lose their lands. Moreover, the invaders started to humiliate them and seems that they are claiming that these people are uncivilized. These shows that their identity is starting to falling apart.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Chapter 2
After reading the chapater2, I had a few questions with the paragraphs that I did not understand. However, it seems that class discussion might help me to answer my questions.
Basically chapter 2 is talking about the Seminoles and it also discuss about the panthers. Chapter two is portrayed Native Americans' sorrow and agony from losing their territory and challenges that they had to face. Native Americans' had to face face wars and they also had to move their territory. The author seems to claim that they lost their land and everything.
At the end the author depicted Whites as styrofoam cup, " The Sytrofoam cup is the white man's way. They have no rules or regulations in tehir way of life. They way they do but in reality, they do not." (All our relations, 44) She seems to claiming that their nature and everything is messed up and polluted because of intervention of Whites. Besides, she also claims that the destruction and poisoned environment is from whites and at the end of the chapter two she says, ' the Independent traditional seminoles "continue to teach us about how to be better citizents.' Perhaps, in the end, to be better humans." (All our relations, 45)
Overall, chapter two seems to portrayed Seminoles and Native Americans sorrow and agony from the experiences and challenges that they had to face from the intruders. The author is basically claming that the destruction of the envrionment and the pollution is all caused by the intervention of Whites.
Basically chapter 2 is talking about the Seminoles and it also discuss about the panthers. Chapter two is portrayed Native Americans' sorrow and agony from losing their territory and challenges that they had to face. Native Americans' had to face face wars and they also had to move their territory. The author seems to claim that they lost their land and everything.
At the end the author depicted Whites as styrofoam cup, " The Sytrofoam cup is the white man's way. They have no rules or regulations in tehir way of life. They way they do but in reality, they do not." (All our relations, 44) She seems to claiming that their nature and everything is messed up and polluted because of intervention of Whites. Besides, she also claims that the destruction and poisoned environment is from whites and at the end of the chapter two she says, ' the Independent traditional seminoles "continue to teach us about how to be better citizents.' Perhaps, in the end, to be better humans." (All our relations, 45)
Overall, chapter two seems to portrayed Seminoles and Native Americans sorrow and agony from the experiences and challenges that they had to face from the intruders. The author is basically claming that the destruction of the envrionment and the pollution is all caused by the intervention of Whites.
Monday, February 9, 2009
Paper #1 + Chapter 1 (Feb. 9)
After finishing the paper #1, I was able to identify my identity which could not be found before. I was able to find my identity from creating, reading and writing.
From creating I was able to find the facial look which can be the small aspect of my identity. I realized that distinct appearance of people can be one of the process of finding my identity. For reading, I was able to relate to my past memories from reading the article that I read during the class and I was also able to relate to past experiences when I was high school student. I found that reading cannot be found from any other subjects for finidng my identity. From reading I was able to relate to my past experiences which was about my personality, persistence and confidence. For writing, especially writing letters or papers provided me a chance to find myself. Besides, I realized that writing letters or diaries made me to recall the past memories which helps me to identify myself. After defining these three topics I was able to find who I am. Although it seems that i did not find every parts of my identity, at least now I realize few aspects of my identity.
After finishing my paper, I did not satisfied with it. However, it seems it helped me to find some parts of my identity. Defining my identity will help me to understand myself and realize who I am. Although I had some difficulties with finding my identity, I feel like that from process of learning my identity provided me a great opportunity to find myself.
After reading chapter 1, I realized that the author is mainly discussing about the affection of polluted chemicals to American Indians. GM dump toxic chemical matericals is causing negative affect to people who live near the factory or river such as, Akwesane and Mahawks. Especially people who ate fish in the river had cancer and diseases. The American Indians who ate these fishes are claiming that GM should stop polluting the river and they need to try to recover the polluted rivers. In order to protect their health, they had to stop eating fish from the river. However, they are irritated and provoked from banning their staple food, fish. Although I was not able to understand some parts of story in the chapter one, it seems that I understand the big picture of this chapter.
From creating I was able to find the facial look which can be the small aspect of my identity. I realized that distinct appearance of people can be one of the process of finding my identity. For reading, I was able to relate to my past memories from reading the article that I read during the class and I was also able to relate to past experiences when I was high school student. I found that reading cannot be found from any other subjects for finidng my identity. From reading I was able to relate to my past experiences which was about my personality, persistence and confidence. For writing, especially writing letters or papers provided me a chance to find myself. Besides, I realized that writing letters or diaries made me to recall the past memories which helps me to identify myself. After defining these three topics I was able to find who I am. Although it seems that i did not find every parts of my identity, at least now I realize few aspects of my identity.
After finishing my paper, I did not satisfied with it. However, it seems it helped me to find some parts of my identity. Defining my identity will help me to understand myself and realize who I am. Although I had some difficulties with finding my identity, I feel like that from process of learning my identity provided me a great opportunity to find myself.
After reading chapter 1, I realized that the author is mainly discussing about the affection of polluted chemicals to American Indians. GM dump toxic chemical matericals is causing negative affect to people who live near the factory or river such as, Akwesane and Mahawks. Especially people who ate fish in the river had cancer and diseases. The American Indians who ate these fishes are claiming that GM should stop polluting the river and they need to try to recover the polluted rivers. In order to protect their health, they had to stop eating fish from the river. However, they are irritated and provoked from banning their staple food, fish. Although I was not able to understand some parts of story in the chapter one, it seems that I understand the big picture of this chapter.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Feb. 4th 2008
Although it was first time, I pretty enjoyed this writing group. I had some technology problems with opening the document and sending it to others. We were able to go over some papers, however, we were not able to comment for each papers. However, we send each others papers from using each emails. Until now I am not sure that how our group will improve and what will change but I believe that our group will get better each time.
The only thing that I did not like about my group is that they did not send any comments of my paper. If they send some comments then it might helped me a lot. In the future, I hope they will send some comments for my paper which will help me to improve my writing and organization for my paper.
Another thing that I did not like was that our group was not able to discuss and comment during the class time. Since some people did not prepare or finished the paper, they were not able to comment each others paper. Although they did not finish their paper, I think it would be much better if they keep continuing discussing their paper and check the organization. Then it mihgt help each people for writing their second draft of their paper.
I hope for next paper that my writing group will prepare for their rough draft and comments on each other peoples' paper. Even they do not prepare for their paper, I hope that each people will continue with commenting their each other paper.
The only thing that I did not like about my group is that they did not send any comments of my paper. If they send some comments then it might helped me a lot. In the future, I hope they will send some comments for my paper which will help me to improve my writing and organization for my paper.
Another thing that I did not like was that our group was not able to discuss and comment during the class time. Since some people did not prepare or finished the paper, they were not able to comment each others paper. Although they did not finish their paper, I think it would be much better if they keep continuing discussing their paper and check the organization. Then it mihgt help each people for writing their second draft of their paper.
I hope for next paper that my writing group will prepare for their rough draft and comments on each other peoples' paper. Even they do not prepare for their paper, I hope that each people will continue with commenting their each other paper.
Monday, February 2, 2009
Paper #1 questions
* How was it writing Draft #1? * What problems have you had? * What have you found to be easy? * So far, what's valuable in this paper? * Is it hard or easy to write 3-4 pages, double spaced on yourself?Why do you think that? *What are three things you want to talk about in your writing groups today? (Some ideas: focus, organization, audience, coherence, thesis, transitions but NOT grammar Or sentence-structure unless you are sure have no other problems )
Writing paper #1 is not a easy assignment for me. I had some hard times with writing Paper #1, especially from relating my experiences and readings to my identity. Since I had difficulties with identifying myself, it was hard for be to fill up 3-4 pages even it was double spaced. However, this assignment seem to be valuable for me because it provided me an opportunity to identify myself. Until now I have some ideas how to write my paer, however, I am confused with how to relate the experiences and readings to my identity.
For today discussion , I would like to focus an organization, transition and some sentence structures. Since I had some difficulties with identifying myself, I would like to talk about it. After solving this problem, I would like my group to read my paper and go over the sentences which need transition or sentence which really need to revise from my group. Besides, I would like my group to check the organization of my paper.
Writing paper #1 is not a easy assignment for me. I had some hard times with writing Paper #1, especially from relating my experiences and readings to my identity. Since I had difficulties with identifying myself, it was hard for be to fill up 3-4 pages even it was double spaced. However, this assignment seem to be valuable for me because it provided me an opportunity to identify myself. Until now I have some ideas how to write my paer, however, I am confused with how to relate the experiences and readings to my identity.
For today discussion , I would like to focus an organization, transition and some sentence structures. Since I had some difficulties with identifying myself, I would like to talk about it. After solving this problem, I would like my group to read my paper and go over the sentences which need transition or sentence which really need to revise from my group. Besides, I would like my group to check the organization of my paper.
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