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.

Chapter 6

Based on the reading, we can research about the equality of Native Indians such as, what kind of problems or issues that are continuing in U.S.A and what kind of discrimination that they are facing from sexual harassment or humiliation. Since it was also talking about the Indians spirituality of controlling their land, I might also research about the equality of controlling the land base in U.S.A.

It seems that just keeping track of URL is more convenient however, the annoted bibliography seems to be helpful. Since the annoted bibilography explains each URL, it seems to be helpful when I need to use the information for my paper or for other uses. However, when I just site the URL, it may keep track of the sites that I used, however, it may not show the explanation of each sites. Consequently, the annote bibliography is more useful and helpful for my paper.

From my view, I prefer to use annoted bibiliography for the research paper but I would not recomment for other paper which does not need to relate to the sources that I found. Due to time cosumption, I would not recomment annoted bibiliography for other writing or paper. For some reasons, annoted time bibliography will cause time consumption for writing the papers.