Blog 11: The Concept of The Other,

I think it is less complicated to say “I am a sexist” than “I am a racist”. It is something I have always felt but didn’t ever know how to express. For a person who’s very open minded I tend to fall back into an ignorant mindset. At times I can be very racist. When I was younger my grandmother always had a problem with dark skin people. She would always disparage them and make them seem as a minutia to this world. Unfortunately I began to carry with her false beliefs. There is always something about those general stereotypes  that people have buried within their minds that makes “the others”  very different from you. In my case, the others would have to be African Americas.  Being young and living in a place with strictly minorities I learned through my ethnicity that African Americans are being looked at as obnoxious and very pest like.

 Every time me and my grandmother would walk down Harlem on the East and West side she would mention how she was right on disliking them. There would be homeless, bad smell and garbage everywhere. They would be hollering or someone would be robbing another one. This is when I began to think like her, she seemed very right. She felt that because she was part of a minority group she didn’t have the rights to behave the way  they do. I began to believe her. Now that I am more of an adult I feel like she was wrong. Not everyone is the way they are due to their ethnicity.  I first spoke to an African American when I was in High School and I began to see that not everything was just how she described  to me.  I wont find myself hanging out with an African American because somewhere deep in me I have a little bit of my grandmother in me. I honestly wouldn’t judge but in order to have a piece of mind I would stray if there’s nothing positive.

Blog three.

When I was a child I didn’t really believe in many things. Kids believe in Santa Clause; I think my mother never sugar coated anything as I was a child. She always kept things quite frank with me. The only thing that has clung to me as a belief is Christianity, which many would call false. As silly as it seem I believed once that the sun was as big as my eyes could tell. It was an illusion stuck within my head and when I attended middle school that’s when I learned the actual truth. 

Blog 10

In the English major it has always interest me to learn about things related to text. It serves my own illusion and reality. As a former student in an AP English course in High School I read texts from Ernest Hemingway to Shakespeare.  We then further discussed the book. It is why I am really interested in learning more about Oedipus and the King. In this class I would enjoy reading articles written by well-known writers to give our students and better idea of what a good writer is and how well their ideas are put onto paper.

 As a writer I am aware that my strengths are structuring my essays or my blogs. I like to put things in order. If I write something that is out of place I would begin to feel discourage in my writing. My weakness is the introduction and the conclusion. My mind tends to go blank every time I’m starting an essay. And the conclusion is difficult for me also because it becomes a little arduous to conjure up sentences that define a closure of my entire essay. 

Using blogs doesn’t really make a difference for me. Half of the essays I have written were on a computer. Therefore it feels like I’m typing things and just placing them at a public sight. The only difference is that I don’t have to print it and hand it in. One thing that is really helping me is that I am writing something constantly. If I were to just not put an effort in completing some of my task my essays wouldn’t be worthy of reading.  I rather write things down by hand than being online. It distracts me much too easily.

My strongest piece of writing in my blog would have to be my Matrix essay, mostly because I enjoy the subject and because I feel comfortable writing of something that is very controversial.  My weakest entry would have to be blog five simply because as I reread I felt like I didn’t grasp the main concept of what my task was. I’m sure other blogs are not as good as I would like them to be, then again I am only considered a beginner.