Arlene Penaloza

talk wrong accents  nonstandard way  speaking wrong  not pursuing higher education  speak loud (anger) cultural disconnection  speak proper learn what they hear the most  stigmatized  Oreo (black that talks white) dis, this, that, dat, aint, isn't  standard English  teachers don't pay attention to those student who speak broken English so those kids don't learn  way in which correction needs to happen  if you tell a kid they speak wrong they shut down, become disengaged, they feel like they don't fit in "when you tell me I don't speak a certain way it takes away a part of me"  Ebonics

To me Halloween means the beginning of all the holiday seasons. Specifically the Halloween holiday to me means the day everyone can dress up for one day/night and be whoever they want and just have fun. Growing up my family would say Halloween was like celebrating the dead so that's why in Mexican traditions we celebrates Halloween and day of the dead, to remember those who have passed and just celebrate their life.

difficulty in assignments what do you struggle in what others can do and not do  exercising your difficulties  helps exercise and expand  reread  go back  get a clearer understanding  writing form or an informal essay  "The goal is to use difficulty as a focus for writing"(2).  Maybe to enhance the way you write you need to challenge yourself, and think outside of the tiny box. "Focusing in on our difficulties thus becomes a way for all readers to work with text in a new way"(2). while learning to write in new harder ways to challenge yourself its good to make it a little out of reach.  Questions:  Why is it good to challenge yourself? what are good ways to challenge yourself? 

I think the article I liked the most was by Gloria Anzaldua, I feel like I related to this one more because of how she was Mexican and also wanted to express that with her language. The author used a lot of Spanglish words and it was a good way to relate to the Mexican American readers because they usually grow up with English and Spanish in their households, just like me so I think it was very interesting and it made the article more interesting and engaging to read since it was different than plain English. For reading strategies I jotted down ideas and summarized the meanings after every paragraph. These texts were not that difficult to read and I did enjoy these articles.

Should writers use their own English culture critic Stanley  what should college teach?  only way to speak pout is to write  to get ahead of the world power with attitude rights to whatever langue  people can speak what ever they want  no one should take langue  away from anyone else  encouraging teacher to patronize  Instead of prescribing how folks should write or speak we wanna recognize  enlarge our perspective  “vulnerable to prejudice. People usually an prejudice because they are vulnerable. They want to seem more dominate in their race when in reality its not based on race and there is no dominate.   “I have a right to my own language,”To be able to speak in the language you chose and desire is our rights. in the amendment people have hey right to speak in any language and about anything as long as its not against another race.  “Yes, you do, and I am not here to take that language from you;...

Gloria Anzaldua  Born in 1942 in Rio Grande Valley field worker got in trouble for speaking out  overcoming traditional silence  flies don't enter a closed mouth  her home where she speaks the language she wants  with her family, sister brother  different developed Spanish linguistic terrorism  Chicanos that speak basically Spanglish  if you want to hurt me make fun of my language  los pobres  Norteno music  mex-tex  corridos  people of color suffer economically  la Raza  "If you want to be American, speak 'American.' If you don't like it, go back to Mexico where you belong." Gloria is at school and a teacher got mad at her for over speaking when she was just trying to fix the pronunciation of her name. The teacher then say is she wants to be American she needs to speak it and if not to go back where she came from which is what makes Gloria enraged and why she doesn't want to hold her wild to...

Essay 2 was a lot different from essay 1. I feel as if I had an easier time writing about essay two than I did figuring out what to express for my fist essay. What I found challenging was finding a visual I could relate to. Writing this essay also gave me sense of learning to look deeper into an image. All in all I enjoyed writing this essay and I feel as if maybe writing is starting to grow on me. I could say I struggled a little deciding what I was going to write about. I wasn't sure if I was going to capture the right meaning of this visual of if I interpreted the meaning of it correctly so I was a little intimidated to go off on a mural that was painted on our school campus. But as I looked at it and study the visual I saw some meaning towards it. Also after looking up the real meaning behind it I could easily say the message portrayed and the message I received was mutual. The assignment helped me look at images in a different way now because I focus more on the meaning. whe...

growing up getting more involved  strong  strong minded  wants to help everyone  coming of age  new experiences  growth  dignity knows who she wants to be  hatred toward war anger is growing learning more about the bad of war “Anyway, that's how it is! Either they obey the law, or they're expelled!! And make sure they wear their veils correctly..."she is saying that everyone must obey. The rules are annoying and very specific and no one can express themselves but it is life or death.  “War always takes you by surprise.” Marjane is saying that life is basically like surprises. You never know what to expect and that can be a good thing or  bad thing.  "You think I'm stupid?! I can tell by your tie!  you stupid piece of westernized trash!" Marjane is saying this because she is angry. She doesn't think the war is right so all the people that are involved she does not care for and has heater hatred towards ...

I think I did well on choosing a visual that I can relate to and find a lot of things to write about. I would like specific feed back on formatting maybe some grammar changes and if my writing is informative enough. I would also like some help in maybe adding more advanced descriotion for the text.

A girl named  Marjane 10 years old in 1980 very religious  wanted to be a prophet  school said she was sick wanted the world to be peaceful  none of the old people to be sick  decided the way she could be the prophet  become a doctor to help sick people didn't like how they had to wear the hijab  faith not unshakable   against those of the revolution the war that killed millions  speaks her mind  leader   Marjane is a motivational leader who speaks some motivational words to her friends. For example, "The revolution is like a bicycle. when the wheels don't turn, it falls"(10). She was saying if the revolution doesn't revolve as planned it'll eventually crumble and stop.  Although Marjane is just a young little girl she still worries about others like her grandma ,"can I help you."(26). She asked her grandma if she could help her with anything after she had come of a long day with aching feet.  ...

Over the weekend I wasn't able to go sight seeing, but I did find a visual that was very interesting and significant to me. The visual I choose was the native American mural on the Cesar Chavez building. This mural caught my eye because I am a small portion of native American so to see that our culture is view as an importance to the point where we are recognized as "still here". It makes me feel grateful and unified with the community, because my culture is recognized and it gives our campus another hint of cultural diversity.