Juan F. Perea and Richard Rodriguez readings

In the excerpt from Los Olvidados, Juan Perea, compares or describes invisibility as an illness or death. He says that the United States is trying to take away their culture and the way of life, making them "invisible." For example, the United States prohibits spanish and would not even make New Mexico a state until the country was predominantly spanish. In this excerpt, he describes the "indvisible people" as the Latinos in the United States. The United States makes them invisible by assimilating them to the American culture and not letting them use the spanish language. Juan sees public language as a need for the society to experience different cultures.
In the excerpt from Hunger of Memory, Richard Rodriguez, believes that he was at a disadvantage when he was not taught two languages. He thinks thta it would be harder for someone to learn a second language when they were older. He talks about how afraid he is when nobody speaks Spanish like he does. He feels like if everybody would just be bilingual and learn spanish also that it would be a better transition. In this case Richard did not transition well to the assimilation of American society and he believes that assimilating takes away apart of your individuality.

Sojourner Truth

In the beginning Sojourner Truth talks about what was going on in her day back then. The first part of her speech was ethos because the sources that she was talking about was credible and trustworthy words. She got the audience's attention by repeating how she was a black women and she was not being treated like a normal women. She brings in logos by supporting her arguement of why women should vote. She starts talking about women and how strong they are no matter what color was on their skin. In the last part of her speech, she brings in pathos when she starts talking about seeing all of her children being taken away from her and sold.

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Blog# 8: The Long Goodbye: Mother's Day in Federal Prison

"The Long Goodbye: Mother's Day in Federal Prison," by Amanda Coyne was a very good personal profile. I liked how the beginning started out in the middle of a scene and you didn't quite know what was going on. The only thing that gave away the story was the title. If the author would have made a better title that was more interesting and something that made you guess what the story was going to be about, I would have liked the story more because it would have kept me in suspense longer. After I read the title, I knew exactly what it was going to be about and the suspense was gone.
Overall though, the story was really interesting. I thought it was funny how the old lady just starts telling them about her whole life story and about her messed up children. Grandmas do this all the time. They will talk to random strangers about the craziest things. I thought the story about her daughter and her son was sad. I think the sadest thing was that her son hit her like her husband or boyfriend used too. She shouldn't be the one in jail. She should be able to take care of her son.
The author was very descriptive and she told the story very well. The only parts I got confused with were who everybody was. I think the problem was that there were too many stories with in one profile. Also, I feel like it was a memoir because there was no historical reference to the prison. I really didn't learn anything from it.

Blog # 7: I'm Not Leaving Until I Eat This Thing and The NewYork Pickpocket Academy

"I'm Not Leaving Until I Eat This Thing" by John T. Edge, was a very interesting profile. I thought it was very gross, yet intriging. Pickled pig lips are not the everyday subject that people talk about all the time or at all. I didn't even know that pickled pig lips even existed! Personally, they sounded really gross from the descriptions. When he started explaining the process of the ladies taking the frozen pigs and cutting off their lips and slicing the fat away; all I could think of was them doing that to an actual person. How disgusting! I also didn't believe that anyone would ask for different colored pickled lips for holidays and special events. Who would even eat them. I felt like he was lying about how people sold pickled pig lips everyday and they are in demand. I feel like oil is in demand, not pickled pig lips. That part of a pig is supposed to be thrown away, not another orderve.
Other than how gross the subject was, I thought John T. Edge did a very good job of describing the people, the pickled pig lips product company and the pickled pig lips. I could picture the man with the dark mustache who delivered the pickled pig lips. I liked the part where he said the pickled pig lips were in like "Kool-Aid- red slurry of hot sauce, vinegar, salt and food coloring." This part was yet disgusting, but so descriptive that I could taste it. One other thing that bothered me about this profile was that I feel like he jumped around a lot. The story didn't really flow. He would go from a personal experience of trying to eat a pickled pig lip to describing the man who was delivering them. I think it was the history of the pickled pig lips that really messed up the flow of the profile.
"The NewYork Pickpocket Academy" by John McPhee, was very confusing. I didn't understand the profile at all. All the pickpocketing that he described coming from different people at different times in Brooklyn made this profile story the most confusing. When he started talking about the random women who got pickpocketed was just another turn around in the story. The little boy was really random too. A good part to this story was that he showed that people are stealers and thieves, but they also are good people. For example, after the lady got pickpocketed other people in the market started putting money and food together for her. I thought it was ironic how the lady went home and then came back to the market to spend the donated money that she lost and possibly get pickpocketed again.