Sunday, October 16, 2011

Prison Cruelty by Frank Tannunbaum

The prison system is created to keep bad men and women behind high concrete walls. Frank Tannunbaum, explains about the mental more cruel methods to keep them isolated inside by the warden's ideal system. The idea of punishment with a punishment is an unfair consequence, common and vigilant citizen, rather than finding this idea more plural to every single human being, the idea does not qualify criminals. The three elements of keep a criminal inside, i understand that with a lot of corrupted minds trapped inside, combining these thoughts can create chaos inside a solitary facility.

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

From Teaching as a Subversive Activity by Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner

This reading, coauthored by Postman and Weingartner, new vice-verse, and as both these authors noted "somewhat impractical" ideas or proposals of how teachers show perceive their way of teaching. Their proposals go against all the fundaments preestablised by generations of educational boards. To have a teacher teach out of their subject and have then step inside the shoes of a student is a small result. Teachers have already gone through the stage of learning. Postman and Weingartner, also share, to exploded teachers and their leveled abilities of how to teach. These ideas on how to reform the educational teaching experience may have some results, but having to submit to reform and give up all the educational traditional criteria, only seems to call for disorder.

From Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde

Lorde, explains the harshness of her young educational experience and physical attributes that caused a challenges, obstacles, and meet unfriendly. Despite her disability of blindness, Lorde, obtains the ability to read at a young age with the help from a "mile-high woman" librarian. Mrs. Baker, the courteous, "quiet voiced", librarian that taught, Lorde, how to read and caused her to speak her first words, was the arm that pulled her away from the depths of feeling hopeless and with not significances. Lorde, speaks of Mrs. Baker, as the spring of life, what gave her strength and reason to move forward, to appreciate reading and writing. She was introduced to a new view of life. The discouragement and segregating practices of her shameless past teachers seem to have had no effect other positive results, she pushed forward. This reading introduces a display of various obstacles with overcoming results.

Sunday, September 18, 2011

Shooting Dad by Sarah Vowell

The reading, "Shooting Dad", by Vowell is a settling dispute of prolonged political differences. Her father a gun driven republican, with the enthusiasm of heavy artillery. He's the patriotic symbol of her life, while she takes the less and more logical and reasonable rode of the democratic party. Against the beliefs of her fathers political choices, the love, the sole purpose of being excepted by the creator, the man that gave her life, she puts aside her own political guard. She chooses to be apart of her fathers live rather than vanquish it because of the virtuous differences and realizes that big oppositions carry small similarities.

Mother of the Year by Paul Theroux

"Big family", had the same ring for me as "savage tribes", Theroux, notes that their was a notion between the composed words, that they held a reflection, this idea involved the family in the story, but an opinion portrayed by main character, J.P. Protagonist of the story is the symbol of analysis, for he goes through the hardship of a neglecting mother, the family hatred that his brothers and sisters were born to be corrupted with, only to be the one that understands the person that he was raised by through years of tolerant abuse "the matriarch of a big happy family", the family J.P was forced to be inhabited in was a disordered, malfunctioned, dishonest, and in this case, women controlled which explains the deceiving mother. A mother is someone that can provide you with undivided care, food, love, and in certain cases wealth, but none of this attributes fell upon J.P's, for she was one against ideas of family support and everything that it stood for.

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Boys and Girls by Alice Munro

This short story written by, Alice Munro, is a great read. The life of a young girl, under the confusion of muscilinity, seeks to reach more to the graces of manly work and pushs away the kind and less repelling oudors of women work. The young girl, excieted and curious, worked under disgusting conditions of blood and gore, side by side with her father. She continues working, misunderstanding conversations from her father, for instance; "like to have you meet my new hired hands", she drew on to a misinterpreted fact, assume that her dad viewed her much more than a girl, but never absolutely a boy. The fact that her mother would speak to her about her life to show her a sense of relation that she might have one day with the relavent stories. Rather, her father kept words of his life to himself, but only because it's unlike for a girl to know about the crazy things her father might have done. I speak for all of us, as a man, I did not have a choice to help my father or not with outside chores, it was something that I can only do because of the fact that my body is more biologically powerful than my sister. Being raised under the inhabitance of man and his jobs, would never garantee a switch in the preestablished brian of a young girl to end up liking everything a boy would. Unfortunately for the young girl in the story, as she got older, the recorded conversation of her mother and feminist advice her grandmother gave her sunk in, she began to unfold her innerself as the socially constructed girl type.    

Monday, September 12, 2011

From the War Against Boys by Christina Hoff Sommers

Writer, Sommers, did a great job on balancing the differential ideas of writers, Pollack, Pipher, and Gilligon, by mixing up her own work, how men are increasingly falling in disruptive and emotional identity or in her words "substantial rise in male distress". Sommers, varies many types of theories about male and female gender out comes based on the "patriarchal culture" and social constructionist". However, the fact is that they remain as theories and the solid proof would be based on the nurture that male or female might have encountered through young childhood life. Surprisingly, Sommers takes a different direction to write that if we adsorb everything that, Pollack, Pipher, and Gilligon wrote, then we might as well assume that the United States is diving down devastation. Not every adult male is in a state of crisis nor girl or boy in disorder by social rejection, Statistics show more improvement in women with school, and decreasing mediocre levels for men, but the probability of whether they become filled with issues an unstable problems can only be decided by chance.