Gloria Anzaldua, author of How to Tame a Wild Tongue, is a woman of Mexican decent that writes about the struggles of living in an American society where specific languages are looked upon as distasteful and are indirectly shunned. Anzaldua also expresses her emotion that is connected to the multiple languages she speaks and how they are identified in the different cultures she experiences. In How to Tame a Wild Tongue, Anzaldua lists eight separate "languages" that she speaks. Although there are so many of them, they all derive from English or Spanish; they are simply the two languages mixed together in multiple ways. Anzaldua writes that she speaks Standard English, Working class and slang English, Tex-Mex, Chicano Spanish, North Mexican dialect, Pachuco, Standard Mexican Spanish, and Standard Spanish, each one being quite different from the one before.
(128) In America there exist a parody between skin color and ethnicity: race and ethnicity are often confused and creates questions of identity of the people subjected there under. In the essay” Black and Latino” Roberto Santiago is identified as a Puerto Rican (Latino) with a black skin color. This creates confusion that is foreign to Roberto who, being of Puerto Rican descent rarely considers skin color in his culture. Puerto Ricans are known to have varying skin color ranging from black to white as a result of the mixing of African, Whites and Spaniards. Puerto Ricans, identifying as Hispanic, do not recognize a
Amusing in the sense that two lines in a story about a fictional doll can be taken and distorted to cause so much anger in one community. After researching and reading more on this topic I was able to understand the feelings this community felt. They felt not only was it attacking the neighborhood but the people in the neighborhood. Their reasoning is that Pilsen is mostly hispanics and anyone who reads the story would associate the derogatory statements with the race. Stories like this do cause people to think the worst.
What is your race? Have you ever been suspected of committing such a wrong doing, thinking, just because of your race? Don’t we hate it when others judge us based on our looks? It is offensive for us because they have made assumptions based on our physical appearance and those assumptions could, or most likely, be wrong. Physical appearance is not enough justification or evidence for others to think of who we may be.
They already have been doing so for many years now, and have earned their place in the military. In fact, they do a better job than men in certain areas of expertise. Gender does not matter It does not matter who is wearing a military uniform as long as that person can perform all the tasks expected from a soldier. I support the point being made In the article that women should not join army because of three main reasons- a) physically weaker compared to men Yes, there is no denying this fact but as I already said as long as she is able to do the expected jobs, there is no valid argument to ask her to stand down. This fact states that under normal circumstances, a male is physically stronger compared to a female of same age and background.
Growing up in the United States as a young Latina girl has its difficulties. I may not be Puerto Rican , but I am Colombian, and I for one understand the racial inequalities placed upon us. Caleñas , Paisas , even Gringas have to deal with the harsh comments of being looked on as cocaine mules. Even portrayed as having a humongous butt ,over sized breasts and long black hair ; the Latina in reality is your average independent , strong and beautiful woman. “The Myth of the Latin Woman,” Judith Ortiz Cofer talks about her life in America as a Puerto Rican.
War and Gender In her article, “G.I. Jane Breaks the combat barrier,” Lizette Alvarez (2009) reports that military women are by no means inferior to men, but they been manacled by military policy. First, Alvarez shows that U.S. military women rarely join the combat in American before, but military women are showing their valor at combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. Second, Alvarez states that women’s success must be quiet because this will contradict the policies set in place. Third, Alvarez posits that military women are indispensable in the Iraq and Afghanistan because women can do as much as men do, or even more than men do for cultural reasons.
Assignment 1 Legal rights and privileges of women in Blackstone’s day with those of American women in the mid-twentieth century bear no resemblance. Over the years women have fought long and hard to be able to obtain and maintain legal rights and privileges that the male gender is born into. Females were molded and primed to play the part as an obedient wife and mother with instruction that your thoughts and opinions are kept to yourself. The perseverance of brave women helped today’s generation of women such as myself have the same equal rights as that of men. During the Blackstone era women lost the limited amount of rights they did possess when they got married for example; “that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended
Cynthia Moore: How do you see your career growing or changing? Jenny Graves: I feel my career growing all the time as the days go by, because I gain more experience and more insight on being an educator. I am always learning new things from my students that help me to better my way of helping them. Cynthia Moore: What do you think teachers today lack the most? Jenny Graves: During my years of teaching I have notice that most of the time they lack passion for what they do which causes them not to put all their effort forward.
She understood and I have learned my lesson with stereotyping people to be something they aren’t. The argument this could fall under the ad hominem fallacy. Reason being that a woman who works for the army and doesn’t like deployments. That person could very much love the army, but hate deployments and have a valid reason why. Example being that she hates to be away from her family, but loves serving her country just by being in the