Brooke McGreevy FNED 346-07

For my blog post I am choosing option number five which is extended comments on someone else’s blog. For my blog post I will be writing it based on my classmate Emily Giuliani’s blog post. In the beginning she makes a broad statement staying although the article addresses educational matters, politics is politics no matter what, they are ignoring to address one of the biggest problems which is sexism and I couldn’t agree more with her. With today’s generation sexism is being ignored just as much as education where it shouldn’t. Today many people are scared to face the unknow never-mind address it but times are changing and so are people whether everyone likes it or not, it’s what we have to face and try to understand and accept it. Emily addresses how both articles show major impact in a political view but in two different ways. She addresses how there’s a lack of education due to issues like native language, race and gender where now girls are getting looked down on the same way ch...

Jill Soloway on Donald Trump, Locker Rooms and Toxic Masculinity             This article talks about how nearly all sexual violence is done by men and how the fraise, “boys will be boys” will forever exsist and nothing will change. The article also talks about how there is also a term called, “locker-room talk” which isn’t just talk about women, it talks about different and certain kind of women.  The author addresses this because it happens everywhere especially with our president Donald Trump states, “grab them by the p-y.” Jill Soloway explains to the readers how this needs to be addressed right away because if we let our president talk about anything in however way he wants to say what he is trying to say, then we are making it okay for everyone else to do so as well. More individuals will talk women in a terrible way which can create conflicts in elections.  This makes me think back to the readi...

Safe Spaces  Gerri August              In the reading “Safe Spaces” by Gerri August, explains that classrooms are considered to be a safe zone where common interest and individual differences coexist. Many students encounter cultural and ethnic norms different from those of their family. The author also addresses how we need to pay more attention and keep LGBT youth more safe. Many people aren’t accepting of any sexuality besides being straight. August states, “Justin, a promising musician, was bullied because of his sexual orientation. He took his life after finishing freshman year. After Justin’s death, his mother campaigned to change district policies that required teachers to remain neutral regarding issues of sexual orientation” (pg.84). In today’s generation LGBT is becoming an up-raising situation where younger adults along with children and older parents or people in general aren’t sure how to react or...

            After reading Unlearning the Myths That Blind Us, by Linda Christensen, she addresses how many women are angry that they have never seen an African American, Asian or a Hispanic person in a cartoon, especially in a Disney movie. Christensen states, “Women who aren’t white begin to feel left out and ugly because they never get to play the princess”. Also later on she states, “Happiness means getting a man, and transformed from wretched conditions can be achieved through consumption- in their case, through new clothes and a new hairstyle” . Both of these quotes mean a lot in a women’s eyes. No women should feel ugly or ashamed of themselves just because of their race or from what they see on cartoons or online that betray someone as beautiful. There is no such thing as a perfect human being, I know some women and especially men think that there is such a thing as a perfect women but every women on this planet ...

Journal Prompt 1 Day One (Johnathan Kozol style)               For my service learning project I am tutoring kindergarten at Charles N. Fortes Elementary school. The school is located on Daboll St in Providence. The neighborhood around the school is considered low income and the school has a wide range of students from different ethnicity. According to greatschools.org website, Charles N. Fortes Elementary School has 66% Hispanic, 17% African American, 6% White and 5% Asian. For my first day, I had to park on one of the side streets right next to the school. Approaching     the school for the side you could not tell at all that is was an elementary school plus it was also confusing approaching the school from one of the side streets because there’s another elementary school right next door and almost looks like they should be connected. But the entrance to Fortes Elementary is facing Bucklin Street then on the main road you will see that...

In this reading, the Author Richard Rodriguez main argument is that, in any type of school students that have grown up in a bilingual home shouldn’t be discouraged to not speak their language whether that’s Spanish, French, Italian or any other language. Rodriguez continues to talk about when he was in school,  he would of felt less afraid and trusted the teachers more and would of responded with ease if the teachers had greeted him in Spanish. He also believed that the English language is not for him to use. His teachers at the school were getting frustrated with Rodriguez because he only wanted to speak Spanish because that’s what he was more comfortable with. In the reading Rodriguez teachers asks his parents if they could practice speaking English at home so he would be more comfortable speaking it in school. Nobody should have to give up their dominate language just to fit in and be socially accepted by others around them. On page 34 it states, “ they agreed to giv...

Jonathan Kozol  Amazing Grace              The author Jonathan Kozol main point in this reading is that, if some children grow up in an environment that isn’t healthy for them to be around, they could potentially grow into those poor habits around them. Kozol uses Brook Avenue in New York as an example. The author states, “In 1991 the median household income was $7,600 according to New York Times (pg.3, Kozol).” A pastor from St. Ann Church states, “More than 95 percent are poor, the poorest of the poor, poor by any standard I can think of (pg. 3, Kozol).” Both of these quotes can show people that the people who do live in these environment’s will be exposed to many things meaning drugs, alcohol or may have to give up some things in order to surviving meaning possibly going through a few nights without heat in order to eat. As you continue to read the author also states, “Nearly 4,000 heroin injectors, many who...