...En 101 4 February 2015 Inner Relief Gloria Anzaldua uses words to describe how she felt just like many other people can relate to especially with discussing feelings of growing up. Anzaldua is an advocate and a realist. She was devastated, stuck between cultures and ancestries. She did not know which way to turn. She pushed forward and took action. Anzaldua describes herself, “As a Mestiza I have no country, my homeland cast me out, yet every country is mine because I am every woman’s sister or potential lover”(Anzaldua 102). In this depiction of who she is, she sees it as what it is. A common theme within Anzaldua is dialogue of being right or being happy. Acceptance is one thing that Anzaldua strives for, but cannot fully grasp. It is with this struggle Anzaldua constructs a new mestizo consciousness to deal with or combat such systemic marginalization. She sees the problems with society, culture, societal norms, and even herself. Chapter 7 in the beginning tries to focus on the, “struggle of flesh, a struggle of borders, and inner war”(Anzaldua 100). This is similar to the previous paragraphs quote of having no country. Alzaldua faces the dilemma of mix breed. Generations of her family are from Mexico, but now she is an American, where norms impressed upon her are much more radically different than of her ancestors. She is different from her family while also being different than the white American value system at that time. This is what the quote above is refereeing...
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...Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza is a much so divided passage that attests the unpredictability of living in the psychic, social, and social territory some place in the middle of México and the United States. With Gloria Anzaldúa calling the United States/Mexico border "una herida abierta", an open wound, is actually justifiable. The agony and delight of the borderlands, maybe no more noteworthy or lesser than the feelings mixed by living anyplace contradictions proliferate, societies conflict and merge, and life is existed on an edge; which originate from a wound that won't mend but is perpetually recuperating. These grounds have dependably been here; the waterway of individuals has streamed for a considerable length...
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...Madeline Steffey Intersectionality with Kimberle Crenshaw and Gloria Anzaldua Intersectionality can be described as the study of the intersection of different forms of discrimination experienced by individuals who are members of multiple minority groups. For example, a Hispanic woman faces barriers in society not only because she is Hispanic, but also because she is a woman and one could not fully understand her oppression without taking both of these aspects into consideration. Kimberly Crenshaw and Gloria Anzaldua both provide accounts of intersectionality and utilize different approaches in their explanations. I will begin by analyzing their approaches separately, then I will explain how Crenshaw might object to Anzaldua’s account because it does not contain adequate factual evidence or realistic solutions. As a response from Anzaldua to Crenshaw’s objections, I will assert that Anzaldua effectively used personal and cultural experiences to reflect on intersectionality. Throughout her life, Anzaldua felt like she lived within borders. That in order to live and survive, she had to cross borders continuously. This is because multiple aspects of her life typically result in societal discrimination. She is unique in that she is a minority in several ways such as being a mix of Mexican and Anglo-Saxon, as well as being a lesbian. These aspects overlap and intertwine, which results in intersectionality. When crossing borders, one has to adapt to the different norms that are...
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...did society know that women truly believed that this was the case, and it was an idea worth fighting for. Over the course of the twentieth-century, women have fought and protested for equality among men in a male-dominate society. Women have rallied under one of the best known slogans of the movement the “personal is political”, the concept that the personal (private) life should be addressed equally with the public (political) life that had yet to integrate women into its realm. “the personal is political refers to the private life or “realm” of women having anything to do with marriage, children or household roles and the public realm of men having anything to do with business, politics, art, or sports. Renowed poet and writer Gloria Anzaldua has her own interpretation of what the “personal is political” means and what she was challenging specifically when she argued using her own experiences such as the loss of culture through the loss of language, and sexism in language as a starting point. “The personal is political” played a very significant role in helping shape the women’s rights movement from its roots all the way to its end in the 1960’s with the advent of the Civil Rights Act. T.V. Reed, an English professor specializing in U.S. social movements at Washington State University and author of the book “The Art of Protest” proposed the idea that women of the movement focused primarily on conscious-raising of “the personal is political” out to the public en masse by...
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...Christopher Cox Patricia Huhn English 121 20 February 2012 Education and Language Education and its effects on the individual is the primary focus of the essays by Richard Rodriguez, Leslie Silko, Firoozeh Dumas, and Gloria Anzaldua. Rodriquez’s “Achievement of Desire” illustrates how education can take the place of one’s cultural tradition in pursuit of knowledge. The loss of language is the focus of Silko’s speech, “Language and Literature from a Pueblo Indian Perspective”. “The F Word” by Firoozeh Dumas shows how profound words in one language can be funny in another, as well as hurtful. In “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” by Gloria Anzaldua, she talks about how the education system tried to remove her culture by taking away her language. The two authors take opposite views on education and how it directly affected their lives. While embracing education by becoming a scholarship boy, Rodriquez shows how his desire for knowledge overcame his families’ desire for cultural tradition. Anzaldua expresses her feelings about how education continually tried to forcefully remove her Spanish heritage. The term “scholarship boy” came from Richard Hoggart’s The Uses of Literacy and means that the student must move between two culturally extreme environments during their progression of education. In Rodriquez’s account of his early educational experiences, he demonstrates Hoggart’s core definition of being a scholarship boy to the tee. While finishing his dissertation...
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...high school level because it has to deal with such a contrasting subject. This book has shown me the hardships that people have to go through and that everyone should have human rights. Borderlands/La Fonterra, Gloria Anzaldua paints a moving portrait of the search for her missing identity in a world that refuses to allow one. The physical borderland between the U.S. and Mexico helps create the psychological "fence" that a she is put through when she is denied a culture and a place in society. "She has this fear that she has no names… that she has many names…that she doesn't know her names." This quote shows the rich nature of her writing and the amount of energy she feels while writing this poem. Anzaldua, who as both a woman and a Chicana, grew up in an atmosphere of oppression and confusion. "It's not a comfortable territory to live in, this place of contradictions,", "Hatred, anger and exploitation are the prominent features of this landscape." It is also a landscape where the question "Who Am I?" is not readily or easily answered. "The culture and the Church insist that women are subservient to males." I know it’s weird for a male to be reading about women’s rights, but it’s actually pretty interesting to see how other people deal with their personal battles. Anzaldúa begins the book by using imagery to illustrate the incredible pain the border has brought to the mestizos by both dividing their culture and fencing...
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...A Family Celebration Gloria Daniels November 26, 2010 American Intercontinental University Abstract The purpose of a family celebration is meet new family members, friends, talk about old times and exchange address and phone numbers to keep in touch with each other, this will help to pass information about the next family celebration. There will be lots of food prepared a number of family members, and you can also exchange recipes. Taking pictures is also a good way to keep up with family members, at least until next time there’s a celebration. Start today planning your very own family celebration; it doesn’t have to be an occasion just putting one together is a great reward. A Family Celebration Having a family celebration is all about having fun while preparing one together. When there’s a celebration there will be a lot to talk about, such as past memories about the kids, and how mischievous they were. Thesis: “Even though getting in touch with everybody is hard work; contacting, and preparing for a family celebration is worth it, it’s about fun, food and family.” You’re having a family celebration for your mother and father’s 50th anniversary, and putting a guest list together will take some time, so start with the guest list. All of their friends live all over the state and it will take some time contacting them. When that list is finished, start on the children and last will be all family members because they live close by. Good organization is...
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...would say, 'How true, how true!' Nancy Reagan, Political Activist A woman is like a tea bag. She only knows her strength when put in hot water. Aristotle, Philosopher If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. James Thurber, American Humorist I hate women because they always know where things are. Malcolm de Chazal, Mauritian Writer A woman knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking. Jules Michelet, French Historian Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions. Freya Stark, Author The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised. Gloria Steinem, American Feminist Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by...
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...HURRICANE BOB The world is filled with many wonders and natural disasters that are powerful enough to remember forever. It has always historically seemed that most natural disasters are weather related and Mother Nature in her fury can be some of the most awesome spectacles on the planet. Hurricane Bob was one of the most catastrophic and vigorous natural disasters to hit the east coast United States in the past century. On August 16th 1991, a tropical depression formed 200 miles to the east of the Bahamas. As the storm slowly moved to the northwest, twenty four hours later it became Hurricane Bob, a vastly powerful Hurricane with a scale reading of 3 out of 5. Bob moved up the east coast accelerating toward Cape Hatteras where it peaked with winds of 135mph. It continued to do so as the Hurricane then arrived in Massachusetts and Cape Cod. This is where most of the disaster and corruption took place. With the Hurricane at full force, communities of Rhode Island and Southeast Massachusetts were highly impacted. The 100mph plus winds did the most damage to homes, buildings, power lines, and trees. Cape Cod was virtually inaccessible on the roadways and highways. Trees down and all sorts of blowing debris blocked them. Practically all of the rivers and lakes both salt water and fresh were completely over flown. Cars in certain areas were up to the windshield and even the majority of SUV’s couldn’t trek their way trough the storm. On the Outskirts of Cape Cod, Nantucket and...
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...Besides being at the brink of madness caused by her self-denial of the passing of her fame, Norma Desmond had also become rather sexual-transgressive. Some male traits shown in Norma consist of her dominance - she demands over Max, financial independence - owns factories which constantly makes profits and her assertive nature - she fearlessly confronts her passion for Joe. The way Norma is ridiculously insane to a degree of dark humour brings sympathy, entertainment and a corrupted depiction of celebrity to audiences. Her dramatic movements, superficial appearances and script-alike dialogues reveal this. This is an illustration the self-possessiveness of celebrities as a result of the illusions of fame. Joe Gillis, is a laconic character who interacts with Norma in a reciprocally dependent relationship. Without Gillis, Norma feels lifeless, loveless and powerless, she depends on him emotionally, Max, who is entirely devoted to Norma. He accepts reality however chooses to conform to Norma's insane world of delusions and even supports her - "Madame is the greatest star of them all." Norma is repeatedly filmed as a silhouette, which gives a feeling of eeriness as well as depicting perhaps the notion that Norma Desmond's fame is merely a silhouette, a shadow, an illusion. The angles in Sunset Boulevard positioned the audience to see Norma as an alienated character time and again filmed from a lower-angle view, with her standing on the top of a staircase. This alienation of...
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...Jian Chen ENG 68 Pro. Hight 7/10/2015 Self-knowledge Many people always want to be a famous movie star, and it is not rare to wonder what it would be like to have the general public know one's name. While this desire for fame is not unusual, it is not always healthy. The film “Sunset Boulevard” describes a faded silent movie star, Norma, who has one great desire to make a return and be famous once again. Although she was a hugely successful actress during the silent film period, she never realizes that times have changed and left her behind. At last, her hunger for fame destroys her. This film uses Norma’s mansion to tell a deep message about how deceptive is people wrapped in gorgeous appearance; the dialogue between she and Joe and her former director showed her egotistical character; the ending suggests that it is very valuable to know oneself. People who live in the past are foolish and ignorant. When Joe went into Norma’s mansion, he was shocked. The mansion was totally different with outside. The outside was deserted and dirty. The tennis court and the swimming pool were neglected, and there were even several disgusting mice in it. However, the inside was distinguishing. It was full of framed photos of herself and memories of her past, and she even had a movie theater. She was completely sucked into a world of herself. This mansion was a symbol of her empty inside which could not be covered by fancy outside. The world is dynamic and changing, and it will not...
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...Opportunity Statement 1) Job to be Done: Fix the Stevens Shuttle GPS APP System currently being used. 2) Symptoms of Problems: As of right now, the GPS system takes a while to update itself and students are often confused the exact location of Shuttle. This often causes students to be delay to class or meeting. 3) Current Practice and Supporting Systems The current shuttle system obtains a certain route for the AM and PM shift. Students often check an App on their cell phones and online called Transloc transit visualization. This app is supposed to allow students to view the Stevens Shuttle on real time location. The location of shuttle often freezes on map location and it can take up to 10 minutes to show real time vehicle location. With the rate of location delay, students can’t really tell the shuttle’s current location once the location of vehicle is moved on the map. The Shuttle does not normally wait more than one minute after arrival on each destination. Once everyone is dropped off the shuttle normally takes off if they see no one around. If the App decides to freeze at that moment, students might just have to walk to their destination or wait for another Shuttle which can take up to 15-20 minutes. 4) Summary of Deficiencies with Current Practice and Products Systems a) Students are often confused to how long the shuttle will take to arrive at their pick up location. b) Students often leave campus on foot very late at night due...
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...1) Describe the post-WWII frustrations felt by women such as Betty Friedan. 2) During the era of “Rosie the Riveter”, what gains did women make in the workforce? How did these women feel about themselves and their contributions? What did society as a whole think? 3) What role did mass media play during the 1950s and 1960s in regard to supporting or undermining the “feminine mystique”? 4) Which television heroine -- Alice, Lucy, or Miss Brooks -- came the closest to TRULY overcoming the feminine mystique, and elaborate on that heroine’s situation and relationship to the men in her life. 1)Describe the post-WWII frustrations felt by women such as Betty Friedan Betty Friedan and other women were frustrated about their roles as women in society and in the household. Many women weren’t pleased being the typical housewife, they wanted to be someone and have their own identity. When women started working during WWII they found the heroine they wanted for themselves. After the war, most women stopped working and went back to being housewives. Betty Friedan was frustrated at this and didn’t comprehend why women stopped working. 2) During the era of “Rosie the Riveter”, what gains did women make in the workforce? How did these women feel about themselves and their contributions? What did society as a whole think? While most of the men were out in the field battling war, women were the only ones left to the do the work the men had left without employment. Advertising at one...
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...Cherrylyn Tingle Radiology Officer Ramon Tour Transportation Head Ramon Tour Transportation Head Gel Linis San. Eng.Head Gel Linis San. Eng.Head Mon Makisig Security Head Mon Makisig Security Head Angel Cabanilla ER Head Angel Cabanilla ER Head Vanessa Javillonar Nursery/DR Head Vanessa Javillonar Nursery/DR Head Sam Lee ICU Head Sam Lee ICU Head Lea Co OPD Head Lea Co OPD Head Jestene Pagaduan Surgical Head Jestene Pagaduan Surgical Head Catlyn Lucero OR Head Catlyn Lucero OR Head Sol Belen Medical Head (Micu) Sol Belen Medical Head (Micu) Helen Co Billing Head Helen Co Billing Head Anna Pera Accounting Head Anna Pera Accounting Head Jesus Cruz Chaplain Jesus Cruz Chaplain Gloria Sona Laundry Head Gloria Sona Laundry Head Jerilee Cabanit Dietary Head Jerilee Cabanit Dietary Head Jomar Rafanan Information Admitting Head Jomar Rafanan Information Admitting Head Peter Santos Pharmacology Head Peter Santos Pharmacology Head Pedro Matiyaga Adm. Marketing Pedro Matiyaga Adm. Marketing Mark Cruz Engineering Maintenance Mark Cruz Engineering Maintenance Juan Masipag Human Resource Officer Juan Masipag Human Resource Officer Rhodora Garcia Nsg. Director Supervisor Rhodora Garcia Nsg. Director Supervisor Macerick Ocaoi Chief of Finance Macerick Ocaoi Chief of...
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...Mary Erbeck Professor Joan Robinson ENG 102: Composition II March 21, 2015 Remember Our Power Feminist Gloria Steinem cofounded and became editor of Ms. Magazine to which she published her article “Wonder Woman.” In her article, Steinem wrote about Wonder Woman’s background and life along with the representation of women in comic books and how these different depictions can influence and inspire predominately younger audiences regardless of gender. Steinem’s style is focused mainly on logos to relay a clear image of Wonder Woman as a character and her impact on readers. She ultimately wanted to inform the reader of the importance of Wonder Woman’s effect on youth in a platform largely directed by the patriarchy and she made a compelling case with a strong, justified logos and clear ethos. Steinem first wrote about her youth as a comic book reader and how comic books were the easily accessible and cheap building blocks to her reading comprehension along with “cereal boxes and ketchup labels” (Steinem). She discussed the psychology behind the need for superheroes in children’s mindsets as a way to better cope with reality and express their individualism but with every superhero being a man young women, like Steinem, had to project their consciousness into male characters suppressing their womanhood to only being a damsel in distress. Steinem wrote that Wonder Woman “rescued” her at the age of seven from the “weak, bosomy, blonde heroines” (Steinem) with her strength, wisdom...
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