Include 1. Writing Assignment 7 and 2. the peer review comments. Send as 1 word document pasted and attached. Writing Assignment 8 should be the first of the three documents. Make sure you look at the checklist at the end of the essay.
The second homework assignment is to bring in a visual argument or item representing women for International Woman's Day. Students will post their arguments on the blog afterwards. Comment on the presentations in your group by name. I will post a link on Thursday.
We didn't get to the WLTC exercises from Chapter 5. We will run through them Thursday and then get into groups for the peer reviews and presentations.
Tuesday we will talk about fallacies and the two types of arguments: deductive and inductive. We will talk about formal fallacies and informal fallacies. I will also show you a film about argumentation.
We started the morning with poetry on the topic of "Exile." Brianna and I read the poetry, she in Spanish, I in English. The book is State of Exile is by Cristina Peri Rossi, translated by Marilyn Buck. Listen to Marilyn Buck talk about the work. Visit http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100595160
Post your freewrite posts here.
We then got into groups and shared Writing Assignment 7 and then began discussing The New Jim Crow. Keep reading and pulling arguments from each chapter to share.
We then got into groups and shared Writing Assignment 7 and then began discussing The New Jim Crow. Keep reading and pulling arguments from each chapter to share.
For Writing Assignment 8, use the story of Robert "Yummy" Sandifer (March 12, 1983-September 1, 1994) to illustrate your argument along with the kids or characters in the films. One student drew a parallel between Yummy and Duc, one of the kids in Juvies. As we spoke I realized that Monster, the role model-guardian that Yummy trusted who betrayed this trust, could be compared to the female officer who acted like she was Duc's friend and then turned on him. She didn't have him killed, but 25 years to life is a close second to death. In both cases Yummy's and Duc's, the two children are victims.
This writer used examples from the media in his set up, when TV nor music influenced the behavior of the Yummy or Duc, violence just seemed a part of the landscape that was their lives. As a part of the broad net called violence, certainly the media's influence of their young audiences should be taken into account, but here is where a joining word can connect the premises for us, otherwise perhaps this example is a tangent that needs deleting.
This writer used examples from the media in his set up, when TV nor music influenced the behavior of the Yummy or Duc, violence just seemed a part of the landscape that was their lives. As a part of the broad net called violence, certainly the media's influence of their young audiences should be taken into account, but here is where a joining word can connect the premises for us, otherwise perhaps this example is a tangent that needs deleting.
Liliulachelle Finley
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English 5
7 March 2012
Freewrite: Exile
To be sent into exile is to, in reality, be left with nothing. All a person can really have during exile is their faith and hope that a better day will come. Being exiled is having everything you loved, cherished or hoped to achieve being taken away from you. This is not a choice. No one really ever wants to be exiled. It is forced upon a person. My uncle's wife tries hard everyday to forget the pillaging of her village in the Phillipines. There, as she watched everything rapidly and viciously unfold before her, she felt she was exiled from all the friends she had, the family she knew, the people she associated with, and the home she slept, ate and made memories in. Everything was taken away from her forcefully and she was alone. She came to America all by herself, not knowing whether her family members were alive or not. Is this how a convict feels within the walls of the prisons? They really have no knowledge of what goes on everyday with their loved ones, they are sent into exile and labeled a "convict," "criminal," "scum" for the rest of their life because their voices have been shut out by the criminal justice system and society. They feel hopeless and the only memories they will ever really make are with their cellmates, and those may not ever be pleasant. They're like Simba from "The Lion King," when he was exiled; they worry each and every day of what the next daay will bring them.
Monsoon Pandey
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English 5
7 March, 2012
Freewrite: Exile
The way I see it, being exiled is one of the worst form of punishment. A person being exiled is denied their natural right of belonging somewhere and are forced to leave behind their home, their friends and families, and all the memories they have with that place. In some cases, being exiled might actually be worse than being sentenced to prison for life because at least at prison one knows where they are and what they have to do. They have certain tasks that they need to do in daily basis and have shelter and food served to them. When someone is exiled, however, everything that once belonged to them is taken away and they are left clueless to start all over again from the scratch.
Being exiled is not very common in United States anymore, but people get deported all the time which is very similar to being exiled. The only difference between being exiled and deportation is that when exiled, one is being removed from their homeland to somewhere else, whereas deportation is when one is sent back to their homeland from the country they are currently residing in.
Aaron Villanueva
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English 5
March 7, 2012
Free Write: Exile
“Exile” is taking away the rights and freedom of others from their own native land. In denotation terms, it is the expulsion of their native land. My question is how can one be banned from their own nation? I guess being in American the only form that is close to “exile” is imprisonment. Since people in prison are stripped away from their rights and freedom banished from society, one can see that this is a form of “exile”. The only difference is that instead of being banned from your native land, you are kept in your native land trapped in a corner separated from what is going on in the real world. Again in prison, you have nothing. According what I am reading in The New Jim Crow, there are many examples of “exile”. People fear the police that they forget their own rights. When one is being searched by the police, one has the right to tell the police no. While I was listening to the poem, I pictured a lot of obscene imagery. It is the struggles of the people who have been hurt by others who have more power. Based on the poem, there was this woman who was raped 5 times then was given to the dogs. Because of this fear of people who has more power, she was taken away of her own freedom just like some of the examples given in the New Jim Crow.
Ana Cristina Muro
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English 5
6 March 2012
Free write: Exile
Exile takes lives. Your breath is taken away. You have no hope. It can kill you and many times, you won’t come back. You won’t be able to get back on your feet. Exile is when they take you from somewhere. It seems it comes from the word Exit. At times it seems once you leave you won’t be able to come back you are forbidden. Only people with great courage can rehabilitate from this horrendous experience. In prison you are also exiled from the country. It is not voluntarily. You are forced to leave your own country for various reasons. It seems it might only happen to bad people but it may also happen to innocent people that were at the wrong place at the wrong time. Exile seems to be as solitary; you are alone with no company from others. Many people look down when you pass, as if you don’t exist and as if you are not worth it.
Thanhhuong Nguyen
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English 5
March 7, 2012
Freewrite: Exile
To me, an “Exile” is forcing one’s to leave and can’t return from their homeland by the government or communist. This is a hard decision to live by, but if you have to leave, you just have to leave or else there will be consequences. It is just like the North and South Korea. They are being exile from each other; one’s can’t go in each other side or else they’ll get kill by the communist. Also, the Vietnam War in 1975 is similar to it. The communist took over Vietnam and exile most civilians and made them into Refugees. I know some of the refugees that have to leave everything behind and travel by boats rather than staying and suffered or being killed. In America, being exile away from home into prison is not harsh. When you’re in prison, you already know why you’re in there; you commit a crime. As long as you’re in prison, you’re not that far from your love ones and they might be able to see you.
Saba Ghanem
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English 5
3/7/12
free-write on exile
Exile is a state of being. It's to be an outcast from the norms, from life and to be deprived of one's simplest rights. It's to disconnect oneself from the inside and adopt numbness of feelings over helplessness, whether by self-will or by the enforcement of others. The poem exile translated by Marilyn Buck shows the feelings of a women who is imprisoned or on exile. She goes into the detail of what they endured from hunger, to rape, and extreme brutality. To be in exile in her case is to become an object of abuse.
Edwin Peabody
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English 5
7 March 2012
Exile is to be away from ones home, city-state or country while either being explicitly refused permission to return and or being threatened with imprisonment or death upon return. Exile is a cold feeling. It is to not be apart of or something like an outcast. The feeling of exile can ruin a person mentally and physically. Exile is to feel disconnected from something or the feeling of not belonging. Prisoners often experience the feeling of exile. They are taking out of the normal world and put into a cage by force to live alone. Prisoners are viewed as dangerous people who don’t belong in the regular world.
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English 5
March 08, 2012
The woman that I admire is my mother. She is incredibly determined, having worked three jobs in order to get herself through night school. She did this while often having to carry her drunken father home from his office. She single handedly raise both my sister and I. She had a job as an investment banker and decided to leave this occupation and join the Coast Guard in order to do some good in the world. She was rejected from OCS two times but refused to give up and is now going to retire as one of 36 women captains in the Coast Guard at this time. She has instilled in me that it is not about how much money you make in life, but the people you affect and the good that you do. My mother is not perfect, but she is constantly attempting to achieve a certain level of self improvement and to help anyone in need. This is why she is my hero.
Maya Dobjensky
DeleteProfessor Sabir
English 5
March 8, 2012
I usually associate the term "exile" with the banishing of an individual from a nation as a result of a political protest. When I hear "exile" I immediately think of poets, artists, political activists, and humanitarians forced to leave their country for telling the truth about a government. However, I also think of someone being exiled from their family, community, or home town. Exile can lead to major depression and questions surrounding identity.
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English 5
March 08, 2012
Exile to me is not banishment, but abandonment. It is a place, a people, a culture, a society stating we have no faith in you and you have no worth to us. Exile is stripping a person of their comfort and protections. It is not setting one free but throwing one to face the army of the horrors of the world with no ammunition and certainly no shield. Exile does not create resolution, but resentment. It does not protect those who conduct the exile and dehumanizes the one who is exiled.
Evelyn Rodriguez
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English 5
7 March 2012
Exile means to be away from your own country or city. This separation could have happened either by choice or because the authority has expelled you from there. Exile also means to feel disconnected or like you do not belong in a place. Exile deprives you from being happy in the place that you belong. Being exiled comes along with suffering, sorrow, and loss of hope. Exile also comes along with feeling loneliness. Many of the times you may feel like you are being ignored and that you are invisible in other peoples eyes. In order to get back on your feet and rehabilitate from this horrible experience, you have to be a strong-minded person.
Daniela Debergue
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English 5
12 March 2012
Exile Freewrite
Exile is all in the mind. It is a state of feeling lonely and useless from being cast away by others. However, exile doesn't always have to be negative. It should be used as a time of reflection; a time to build a new path and adapt a new mindset for yourself. This often means stepping outside of one's comfort zone, either mentally or physically. Even when exiled from everything and everyone, one can never be exiled from one's own self. Therefore, one is never truly alone. Usually there is a reason one is exiled. Sometimes these reasons are justified, and sometimes they aren't. It often takes a change of mind and/or heart to get back, should one choose to do so. Sometimes being exiled means you weren't meant to be in that first place to begin with.
Ronald Parker
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English 5
6 March 2012
Free write: Exile
Throughout life when I heard the word exile I always thought of someone being kicked out of a group or something they belonged to. They could have been kicked out because of the fact they didn’t agree with certain things or they did something which labeled them as a traitor. After listening to the poem I see different religions or cultures have other ways of having an exile. It seemed as if the female was an innocent girl who had been raped, beat and other horrible things happened to her in her life. Not receiving help but yet being disowned is how it was dealt with.
Tiffanya Richardson
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English 5
March 7, 2012
Exile
When I hear the word exile, I imagine being completely separate from God. I envision complete darkness, cold, no love. No love to be shown and no love to be given. Exile is a total lack of comprehension and connection. Understanding becomes nonexistent. All mercy has disappeared. Decisions at that point are vital for your very existence. Exile is counting the years, days, hours, minutes, down to the very second, until eventually time no longer has any meaning. Time becomes space; a never ending space of suffering. Your ability to comprehend is vanished. All forms of mercy have disappeared. You slowly slip; fading away into the nothingness of time, space. You blend into the pain, the loneliness, the nothingness. Exile is a lack of mercy, your final denial of a chance at understanding.
Lola Levi
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3/7/2012
Exile
I believe that Exile is, to not have access to something,some place, or to not have the freedom to do, have, to see places or things. Meaning that your rights are limited because of some reason or another.
I also feel that, I have been in a position of Exile. I had a felony, which is to have a conviction of a crime, that the courts would not consider minimal or less than. Where I did feel like I was not able to have or do certain things because of failure to pass background clearances.
Jacob Mendoza
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English 5
March 7, 2012
Exile
When I think of the word exile it makes me think of other words with the same meaning such as banish, banned, and other words. To be exiled is to be removed from a certain place and to never be allowed back. Usually someone is banned because they have done something really bad or because they have brought great shame to themselves and their loved ones. Being exiled is like being removed from a wolf pack and being forced a life of loneliness and sorrow.
Adalie Villalobos
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English 5
The word exile to me means being banned from everything. It means to be removed from whatever situation the person is in. Exile means loneliness and disconnection from the world and society. To be exiled from something or somewhere must feel horrible unless the plan was to be exiled in the first place.