I learned that I am not consistent with keeping track of my blog. As a reader I never found any interest in keeping track of what i thought was interesting and what part of a book makes me feel a certain way. This is a skill that i lack in, but this is what I learned while making this blog is that i was able to be organizing ideas and knowing what content is best to put onto this blog.
Writing things in a blog is much more fun mainly because I get to use a computer meanwhile a journal is something that can be stolen, and its awkward for me to carry a journal that contains my thoughts about a topic.To me, journals are a mess, and there is a limited amount of space of what i want to write meanwhile a blog is endless which i love.
I do believe that writing things on the internet should be limited because the internet was made to get words around the world, so why should there be any sort of limit to having that freedom/right to type whatever you want. You can say that the internet is a privilege for people and doing bad things on the internet would take away that privilege
Throughout the media people can hide who they really are so people cant be real online. In our reality, our personalities determine who we are, not the media. Teenagers can say whatever they want on social media. It can be a good or bad thing, but some of these things should not be told in front of someones face. Bad words alone cause problems and saying them directly to peoples faces is wrong. There are many people that talk so much nonsense and are afraid to confront others and say those things in front of them.
I would definitely attempt to create and keep track of another blog. This time I would try to make my blog more appealing because I can, as well as trying to be articulate with my posts because all of these posts dont have a lot of sophisticated use of words which i regret now, and i would surely fix that.
Sunday, June 14, 2015
Sunday, May 17, 2015
the Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
The book, The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie, so far is about a Indian boy named Junior, who goes through medical issues and poverty with his family. He lives on the "Rez" a neighborhood where only people of color are living. He has a best friend named Rowdy, who he claims to communicate more with, rather than his older sibling. Within this book, there are some social issues that the author points out. Some social issues include; poverty, racism, and friendship struggles. These issues are hinted out through Junior's life being in the Rez and transferring schools that is another neighborhood.
One of the ways that the author shows poverty within this books is when Junior's dad drives him to school and drops him off. During that scene, Junior's father gives him lunch money, however, Junior mentions the fact that he is always getting free lunch. He also refers to himself as a "Only Indian and a sad sack who needed charity." This shows how Junior and his family are going through poverty. Not to mention the fact that they may have to pay medical bills because of Junior's medical problems that he is having with his brain, along with the seizures that he is having "at least 2 times per week." In addition, there was a moment when there was an image comparing what a white person would wear and what he wears. This image also relates to how the author points out racism in this book. Anyways, he described himself wearing a "K mart t-shirt, sears blue jeans, garbage book bag, and canvas tennis shoes", the way he describes it though is as if the outfit is outdated because he even mentions that where his school is located is "hope."
One way that the author shows a sign of racism was through the image of what he is wearing in comparison to what a typical white person is wearing as described in the above paragraph. Furthermore, there was a scene where Junior decides to transfer schools. He later learns that the school is in a white neighborhood. He breaks the news to his friend Rowdy, who then is devastated and yells at Junior saying that he would rather be with white people rather than his best friend, who is indian. He even punches Junior, but then is forced to face the facts that he is moving.
In conclusion, this book points out that poverty and racism are issues within Earth and those issues are used in Junior's life. These issues are very hard to deal with because they are found almost everywhere you go and the way the author expresses these issues within this book gives me a good glimpse of what some people could be going through with their life.
One of the ways that the author shows poverty within this books is when Junior's dad drives him to school and drops him off. During that scene, Junior's father gives him lunch money, however, Junior mentions the fact that he is always getting free lunch. He also refers to himself as a "Only Indian and a sad sack who needed charity." This shows how Junior and his family are going through poverty. Not to mention the fact that they may have to pay medical bills because of Junior's medical problems that he is having with his brain, along with the seizures that he is having "at least 2 times per week." In addition, there was a moment when there was an image comparing what a white person would wear and what he wears. This image also relates to how the author points out racism in this book. Anyways, he described himself wearing a "K mart t-shirt, sears blue jeans, garbage book bag, and canvas tennis shoes", the way he describes it though is as if the outfit is outdated because he even mentions that where his school is located is "hope."
One way that the author shows a sign of racism was through the image of what he is wearing in comparison to what a typical white person is wearing as described in the above paragraph. Furthermore, there was a scene where Junior decides to transfer schools. He later learns that the school is in a white neighborhood. He breaks the news to his friend Rowdy, who then is devastated and yells at Junior saying that he would rather be with white people rather than his best friend, who is indian. He even punches Junior, but then is forced to face the facts that he is moving.
In conclusion, this book points out that poverty and racism are issues within Earth and those issues are used in Junior's life. These issues are very hard to deal with because they are found almost everywhere you go and the way the author expresses these issues within this book gives me a good glimpse of what some people could be going through with their life.
Sunday, May 3, 2015
How it went down by Kekla Magoon
(This post wont make sense if you dont read the last one: http://thebananacrisis.blogspot.com/2015/04/how-it-went-down-by-kekla-magoon.html?m=1 )
A few ways that this is irritating is the way his relatives and family members describe him as. They describe him as "non violent", "kind", really nothing that describes him as someone violent who gets into trouble. Another thing to mentoon was that Jack Franklin didnt really have the right to shoot Tariq Johnson after Tariq calling him a "cracker" as he was arguing with another padestrian. That is the reason why I find the situation irritating
Sunday, April 19, 2015
How it went down by Kekla Magoon
So far, there book "How it went down" is about a tragedy occured when 16-year old Trariq Johnson had died due to 2 gunshot wounds. The book also mentions how the sixteen year old was black, amd the shooter, Jack Franklin was white. Then, Tariq's friends amd family and other padestrians are question to find out more details within Tariq's death. I am a bit curious to know why the author if this book included what skin color Tariq was and what color skin the shooter was. The author is probably trying to hint out America's problem with racial slurs and situations.
On the very first page of the story, the character Jennica describes the shooter's skin color as a "more of a whispy, dirty white like clouds on an average winter day". Then when people were asked what they saw, the character Noodle saw Tariq and a "light guy into it. Guy looked like a refrigerator." So far two people have described the man's skin color which is strange to why this was added. Then Noodle heard Tariq telling a man who just came out of his car to "mind your own business, cracker." These quotes demonstrate today's use of words to describe someone. Also, everyone so far is describing Jack Franklin (the shooter) as "the white guy" which is another phrase that I hear people use.
In conclusion, i think the author is trying to hint out a problem in America in which black people are being shot, but witnesses describing the shooters in such a racially way rather than using adjectives like big, small, etc. In my opinion, the situation in this book relates so much to today's problems to cases like Michael Brown, along with how people describe the situation.
Sunday, March 15, 2015
Blog Revision
Original Blog Post from : http://thebananacrisis.blogspot.com/2014/11/non-fiction-critical-analysis.html
In the article, "Post-Racial Teens Struggle with a World that isn't" by Greg Toppo describes society as "Racially diverse" along with details illustrating how people of color, and races such as Chinese, Hispanic, etc. are being discriminated without much thought. This means that Mr.Toppo mainly focuses on how people of different races feel about being discriminated a lot but aren't getting help because people are not paying attention to their misery and don't bother to help. He gathers information from past surveys with quoting people of color that have either been discriminated or been witnessing discrimination. Mr.Toppo then also quotes several white American people who attempt to make racism less of a situation. Mr.Toppo mostly focuses on what people of color want, and how they think and feel, Mr.Toppo may be trying to lead readers to be thinking more about racism and what people of color have to go through everyday.
One of the ways Mr.Toppo wants readers to think more about the way people of color are being treated is by giving statistics on from past surveys from racially situations. First, he quotes a survey of a debate on Interracial marriages. It concludes that "5% say interracial marriages are 'bad thing for society'...And 93% say it's OK for African American and white people to Interracially date." What stands out within this quote is "OK", this shows that Mr.Toppo is more on the African American side of this particular survey/debate because of the way he quoted that it is "OK" for interracial dating/marriages. As mentioned before, Mr.Toppo quotes people of color who have been discriminated before. Many of them describe the difficulties of living a normal life like rest of the people. A teenage black girl even says, "I do wonder if the skin color that I am is going to determine my future and what I'm doing to do" and stating how she isn't getting help from people around her. Other people of color state how racism is just being ignored because it hasn't stopped even after 200 years and counting. Thus, Mr.Toppo wants the world to know that this is a big issue that needs to be observed more because it isn't fair to treat somebody unfairly only because of their skin color.In the article, "Post-Racial Teens Struggle with a World that isn't" by Greg Toppo describes society as "Racially diverse" along with details illustrating how people of color, and races such as Chinese, Hispanic, etc. are being discriminated without much thought. This means that Mr.Toppo mainly focuses on how people of different races feel about being discriminated a lot but aren't getting help because people are not paying attention to their misery and don't bother to help. He gathers information from past surveys with quoting people of color that have either been discriminated or been witnessing discrimination. Mr.Toppo then also quotes several white American people who attempt to make racism less of a situation. Mr.Toppo mostly focuses on what people of color want, and how they think and feel, Mr.Toppo may be trying to lead readers to be thinking more about racism and what people of color have to go through everyday.
In my opinion, I feel that racism will always be an issue no matter how much people want to stop it. When people do make organizations to prove that all people of color have their own voice and together we can live together, to me it is a massive waste of time and money that is being spent. Racism all started off with white people and white people actually corrupt their own land. The injustice that is being served and not being eliminated is horrible. On the plus side everyone is still technically free and America is progressing very well as a nation.
Sunday, March 1, 2015
Revised Blog Post
http://thebananacrisis.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-absolute-true-diary-of-part-time.html
The book, The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie, is about a young boy named Junior, or Arnold, who lives in poverty with his family. He lives on the "Rez" a neighborhood where only people of color are live (this book is based on segregation). He has a best friend named Rowdy, who he claims to communicate more with, rather than his older sibling. Junior always looks up to Rowdy whenever he is going through a rough situation or when he just wants to talk to somebody. His friendship with Rowdy is strong, but develops both positively by teaching themselves that their friendship cant last forever and negatively through constant fighting and developing a rivalry.
One of the ways that their friendship developed positively is by having both of them learn that even though they wont be able to see each other throughout their lives all the time, they will always remember each other and they are kept in a special place in their hearts. In the end of the book, Rowdy visits Junior by surprise and tries to make things better after their massive rivalry. However, Junior admits that we wants to explore the world as much as he can, but this means that he would have to leave his old town and his best Rowdy. Rowdy accepts his decision and comes to a conclusion that they will be separate. Another way that their friendship develops is when Junior tells Rowdy that he will be attending to another school in a white neighborhood. Feeling depressed Rowdy breaks into tears and giving him the thought of being alone for the rest of his life. This shows how much Rowdy cares about Junior and having Junior leave caused a big impact on Rowdy, thus showing how their friendship is strong.
On the other hand, their friendship does take a negative turn when Rowdy starts behavior more aggressive and puerile. At Junior's new school, there was a basketball game against his old school. As expected, Rowdy was on the opposing team and Junior had to face him in a game of basketball. During the game Rowdy bashes his elbow against Junior, causing Junior to be unconscious. This shows the anger that Rowdy has against Junior. Also, Rowdy starts to disrespect Junior and grows a grudge against him. Junior on the other hand tries to act mature and calm no matter how hard Rowdy is on him. This shows how bad things got when Junior made a choice of leaving.
In conclusion, the friendship between Junior and Rowdy changes throughout the book. It starts of positive, then severely negative especially when Rowdy starts behaving childish, and then back to a neutral. Their relation does end, but in a positive note. They both forgive each other for the decisions they have made and they move on with their lives, but always remember each other as friends that they use to be.
The book, The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie, is about a young boy named Junior, or Arnold, who lives in poverty with his family. He lives on the "Rez" a neighborhood where only people of color are live (this book is based on segregation). He has a best friend named Rowdy, who he claims to communicate more with, rather than his older sibling. Junior always looks up to Rowdy whenever he is going through a rough situation or when he just wants to talk to somebody. His friendship with Rowdy is strong, but develops both positively by teaching themselves that their friendship cant last forever and negatively through constant fighting and developing a rivalry.
One of the ways that their friendship developed positively is by having both of them learn that even though they wont be able to see each other throughout their lives all the time, they will always remember each other and they are kept in a special place in their hearts. In the end of the book, Rowdy visits Junior by surprise and tries to make things better after their massive rivalry. However, Junior admits that we wants to explore the world as much as he can, but this means that he would have to leave his old town and his best Rowdy. Rowdy accepts his decision and comes to a conclusion that they will be separate. Another way that their friendship develops is when Junior tells Rowdy that he will be attending to another school in a white neighborhood. Feeling depressed Rowdy breaks into tears and giving him the thought of being alone for the rest of his life. This shows how much Rowdy cares about Junior and having Junior leave caused a big impact on Rowdy, thus showing how their friendship is strong.
On the other hand, their friendship does take a negative turn when Rowdy starts behavior more aggressive and puerile. At Junior's new school, there was a basketball game against his old school. As expected, Rowdy was on the opposing team and Junior had to face him in a game of basketball. During the game Rowdy bashes his elbow against Junior, causing Junior to be unconscious. This shows the anger that Rowdy has against Junior. Also, Rowdy starts to disrespect Junior and grows a grudge against him. Junior on the other hand tries to act mature and calm no matter how hard Rowdy is on him. This shows how bad things got when Junior made a choice of leaving.
In conclusion, the friendship between Junior and Rowdy changes throughout the book. It starts of positive, then severely negative especially when Rowdy starts behaving childish, and then back to a neutral. Their relation does end, but in a positive note. They both forgive each other for the decisions they have made and they move on with their lives, but always remember each other as friends that they use to be.
Sunday, February 22, 2015
DEFRIENDED by Ruth Baron
Defriended, by Ruth Baron, is about a typicsl teenage boy named Jason, who loves social media. He encounters a girl named Lacey, they chat through facebook, but each time Jason tries to meet her in person, she is always giving excuses to not meet. Jason takes a journey to find out why Lacey does not want to meet him in person until he learns that Lacey was dead. Jason gets theories that he chatting with someone dead, or someone who is trying to lure him to a trap. Throughout this book, Jason seems to be a stalker because he is desperate to find Lacey and meet her in person. In my opinion, i think Jason is really oblivious with his theories because there is no logical reason to be comminucating with the dead through social media such as Facebook.
The reason why Jason is oblivious throughout this book is, as mentioned already, he thinks that he is chatting with a dead person. It is already bad that he used his phone during class time, and almost every minute because that is a lot of time spent on his phone, but thinking that he was talking to a dead person is mortifying. Firstly, it was creepy when Jason decides to go Lacey's parents to get a little information about her. Secondly, after finding out that Lacey was dead, he does research on Lacey's past and see if it was true. This makes Jason a huge stalker because he is forcing himself to find information about someone that he met online. There was also a scene where he goes to visit Lacey's grave. It surprises me how Jason didn't immediately expect that someone was palying with him, which in fact, someone was, and Jason fell into a trap. Thus, this makes Jason quite the oblivious teenager because he could have gotten himself seriously hurt when falling into a trap by chatting with somone through social media.
Anything can happen on social media such as cyberbullying, and people pretending to be someone who they are not to trick people into falling into a trap, which is what Jason fell into. This book overall was not amazing, but I can see how social media is dangerous. Being in Jason's situation, I would immediately stop talking to someone who was dead because you never know what dangers can happen.
Saturday, January 10, 2015
Blog Review
http://chiara803.blogspot.com/2014/11/reading-response-absolutely-true-diary.html
I read Chiara's response on The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, and I felt that it was very detailed and interesting response I have read. She/he mainly focuses on two of the main characters and how their friendship have been developing and chsnging throughout the story because of the conflict that was going on. I have read this book before and I made a blog post, but what I did is focus on the social issue within this book. Looking at how Chiara did his/her blog post makes me compare the two and see what differences this book made think and feel.b
Some of the highlights in this Chiara's blog posts were the amount of quotes to support and orove the sprAay she felt about Arnold's and Rowdy's friendship. This part stood out to me; " 'He wiped his eyes, stared at his wet hand, and screamed. I'm sure that everybody on the rez heard that scream. It was the worst thing I'd ever heard. It was pain, pure pain.' This text shows that Rowdy really loved his best friend. He was in pain. His best friend who he relied on and cared for was leaving him to the school that he hated, and there was nothing that he could do about it." Although I would have used a different quote, when she quotes when Rowdy starts crying was very powerful along with stating how that exact quote supported her claim of the two relationships were strong and how it "drastically over the course of the book." G
Another important highlight in Chiara's post was on the third paragraph when she/he explains the a moment when Rowdy was infuriated with Arnold because of when Arnold leaves to another school. The sort of twist in this paragraph exceeded of what I thought it was going to be. She/he states "I believe that Rowdy is extremely angered by Arnold at this point, since he feels as if ArnOld betrayed him by joining the opposing basketball team. Their relationship does take a turn for the better though, when they suddenly mutually decide that all this rivalry needs to stop, and Rowdy visits Arnold's house by surprise." That "twist" of how she/he describes the angry Rowdy was to how then Rowdy understands that Arnold wants to move on was amzingly done. K
All in all, I think Chiara did an excellent job choosing an issue in this book, describing her claim, and supporting it with powerful quotes from the book along with elaborating why these quotes support her claim. I do believe that Chiara's conclusion can be more sophisticated by explaining of what she would of done in this situation and how she could of dealt with it just to "interact" with ideas and possible solutions.
I read Chiara's response on The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, and I felt that it was very detailed and interesting response I have read. She/he mainly focuses on two of the main characters and how their friendship have been developing and chsnging throughout the story because of the conflict that was going on. I have read this book before and I made a blog post, but what I did is focus on the social issue within this book. Looking at how Chiara did his/her blog post makes me compare the two and see what differences this book made think and feel.b
Some of the highlights in this Chiara's blog posts were the amount of quotes to support and orove the sprAay she felt about Arnold's and Rowdy's friendship. This part stood out to me; " 'He wiped his eyes, stared at his wet hand, and screamed. I'm sure that everybody on the rez heard that scream. It was the worst thing I'd ever heard. It was pain, pure pain.' This text shows that Rowdy really loved his best friend. He was in pain. His best friend who he relied on and cared for was leaving him to the school that he hated, and there was nothing that he could do about it." Although I would have used a different quote, when she quotes when Rowdy starts crying was very powerful along with stating how that exact quote supported her claim of the two relationships were strong and how it "drastically over the course of the book." G
Another important highlight in Chiara's post was on the third paragraph when she/he explains the a moment when Rowdy was infuriated with Arnold because of when Arnold leaves to another school. The sort of twist in this paragraph exceeded of what I thought it was going to be. She/he states "I believe that Rowdy is extremely angered by Arnold at this point, since he feels as if ArnOld betrayed him by joining the opposing basketball team. Their relationship does take a turn for the better though, when they suddenly mutually decide that all this rivalry needs to stop, and Rowdy visits Arnold's house by surprise." That "twist" of how she/he describes the angry Rowdy was to how then Rowdy understands that Arnold wants to move on was amzingly done. K
All in all, I think Chiara did an excellent job choosing an issue in this book, describing her claim, and supporting it with powerful quotes from the book along with elaborating why these quotes support her claim. I do believe that Chiara's conclusion can be more sophisticated by explaining of what she would of done in this situation and how she could of dealt with it just to "interact" with ideas and possible solutions.
Saturday, January 3, 2015
Non-Fiction Critical Analysis
In the article, "Post-Racial Teens Struggle with a World that isn't" by Greg Toppo describes society as "racially diverse" along with details illustrating how people of color, and races such as Chinese, Hispanic, etc. are being discriminated without much thought. Mr.Toppo pays close attention to African Americans who have been discriminated for their entire lives and express on what they want to say and how they feel about being treated unfairly. He gathers information from past surveys Laing with quoting African Americans that have either been discriminated or been witnessing discrimination. Mr.Toppo then also quotes several white American people who attempt to make racism less of a situation. Mr.Toppo mostly focuses on what African Americans want, and how they think and feel, Mr.Toppo may be trying to lead readers to be thinking more about racism and what African Americans have to go through everyday.
One of the ways Mr.Toppo wants readers to think more about the way Africa Americans are being treated is by giving statistics on from past surveys from racially situations. First, he quotes a survey of a debate on interracially marriages. It comes to a conclusion that "5% say interracial marriages are 'bad thing for society'...And 93% say it's OK for African American and white people to interracially date." What stands out within this quote is "OK", this shows that Mr.Toppo is more on the African American side of this particular survey/debate because of the way he quoted that it is "OK" for interracial dating/marriages. As mentioned before, Mr.Toppo quotes African Americans who have been discriminated before. Many of them say things such as, "I do wonder if the skin color that I am is going to determine my future and what I'm doing to do" along with saying things that people don't pay attention to racism in depth, rather than just ignore it. Thus, Mr.Toppo wants the world to know that this is a big issue that needs to be observed more because it isn't fair to treat somebody unfairly only because of their skin color.
In my opinion, I feel that racism will always be an issue no matter how much people want to stop it by making organizations to lessen the issue. Racism is a part of history that is always going to be repeated and it frustrates me that people think that they are more superior than others just because of their skin color. We are all human, what difference is their just because of skin color, and that is what I feel about racism. A misleading course of action that was caused by white Americans to think that they are above all people of color for what reason, none.
One of the ways Mr.Toppo wants readers to think more about the way Africa Americans are being treated is by giving statistics on from past surveys from racially situations. First, he quotes a survey of a debate on interracially marriages. It comes to a conclusion that "5% say interracial marriages are 'bad thing for society'...And 93% say it's OK for African American and white people to interracially date." What stands out within this quote is "OK", this shows that Mr.Toppo is more on the African American side of this particular survey/debate because of the way he quoted that it is "OK" for interracial dating/marriages. As mentioned before, Mr.Toppo quotes African Americans who have been discriminated before. Many of them say things such as, "I do wonder if the skin color that I am is going to determine my future and what I'm doing to do" along with saying things that people don't pay attention to racism in depth, rather than just ignore it. Thus, Mr.Toppo wants the world to know that this is a big issue that needs to be observed more because it isn't fair to treat somebody unfairly only because of their skin color.
In my opinion, I feel that racism will always be an issue no matter how much people want to stop it by making organizations to lessen the issue. Racism is a part of history that is always going to be repeated and it frustrates me that people think that they are more superior than others just because of their skin color. We are all human, what difference is their just because of skin color, and that is what I feel about racism. A misleading course of action that was caused by white Americans to think that they are above all people of color for what reason, none.
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