Journal #23

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Journal #23:

Q= "Truth is powerful, and it prevails.”   ---Sojourner Truth

A= When viewing the claim Sojourner Truth's claim, what she is claiming is that when making any decision or running for anything, speak the truth because it will always excel. However, I don't agree with this quote because their have been many instances where the truth was spoken and it didn't necessarily prevail at the moment. When agreeing with this quote many may believe that Truth is maybe talking about the presidential elections, but with the years escalating many of the political leaders rather use the tactic of deception than actual truth. Instead of talking of the truth's of how the world is facing many problems and they know how to fix it, they rather make the other look as negative as possible so they can look better than them.
     An example of how the quote Truth states isn't correct is the situation between Galilei and Copernicus. When Copernicus states that the solar system was heliocentric (meaning the Sun was the middle) everyone didn't believe him and for religious reasons he went to jail, even when he told the truth. Galilei, however, achieved many praise for his geocentric idea, where the Earth is the center of everything. Although Copernicus told the truth, he didn't prevail and was jailed to death with his claim. Since his claim is now a belief and norm in our societal knowledge, although he prevailed it was too late for him.

Journal #21

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Journal #21:

Q= “If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.”

                                                        ---Dolly Parton

A= One of the normal implementations of human beings are the dreaded "bad days". In contrast, everyone looks forward for those days that truly make you happy. Whether something as small as seeing your crush, or something big like waking up with the person that was made for you. The shift of days can come completely by surprise, and the quote by Dolly Parton supports this. In order to have a good day, you will sadly have to go through those bad days. The quote doesn't have to completely be about days, but could also show the process of an accomplishment.
     Accomplishments are those things that have made us truly struggle in order to achieve our goals. When finally accomplishing our goal, we often value the journey rather than the outcome. In Dolly Parton, the goal can be seen as the rainbow and those hard fought days to get to that rainbow would be the rain. Everyone will have to go through this because it's a part of life. If struggle wasn't a thing, neither would happiness because their wouldn't be a pathway to get to that emotion.

Journal #20

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Journal #20:

Q= “I learned that courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”

                                                                                                                ---Nelson Mandela

A= In Nelson Mandela's quote about fear, he explains the ideal "correct" definition of courage, someone who triumphs fear. I agree with the statement because of the reality it represents. Usually, for me at least, when thinking about someone courageous, we think of the person to have no fear, but that's impossible. Everyone has fears no matter what, and thus giving the context that someone who is courageous simply triumphs it's fears. There have been many courageous acts from people that have been portrayed as heroic and putting his fears away, but in reality the person just prioritizes others than himself/herself. The specific event that I'll be discussing about and how Mandela's quote portrays it correctly, will be the many helpers of the Underground Railroads during the years of Slavery.

    In this event, the Underground Slave Tunnels were made by slave and some white people who believed slavery was wrong. Those people would have been killed on the spot. With this threat present, the workers still continued because they prioritized the many lives of slaves who ran away from their "owners". The workers could not have lost this fear, thus making this fear always present. However, they push aside their fears of death and do what's right and helped save many lives.

 

Journal #19

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Journal #19:

Q=“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.”

                                                            ---Assata Shakur

 

A= One of the most common forms of "fighting for what you believe in" is the method of striking. This involves gathering as much supporters of something you too believe in, and spreading awareness to everyone around. The quote by Assata Shakur describes the ideology behind the method really well.  Alike her comments, all of the groups who have accomplished what their goal was had to go against the belief for what they're were protesting for. There have been many popular protests, and of the most famous that comes up to mind, for me, is Caesar Chavez's type of "protest". He boycotted by announcing to all the participants to not buy fruit from the markets, which caused farms to fail because of the lack of sails. He did this because workers weren't getting the pay they wanted. The boycott resulted in them receiving more pay, which was a success for them. There are also other ways the implications of this quote is true.  There are the ways black people have fought for their freedom, the way slaves fought for the escape of being a slave, and the representations of women for being equal like men.

 

 

Journal #18

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Journal #18:

Q="The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
                                                            ---Albert Camus
A= One of the most common statements that the United States is the "land of the free", however, the statement isn't accurate. There have been many acts of enslavement towards different races and individuals. In a symbolic aspect, it is even possible to say us citizens aren't free because of the amount of constraints that the U.S has implemented on us. When thinking of this quote, what exactly would be considered as "absolutely free"? I disagree with this statement because in order to be absolutely free, you must be able to do ANYTHING without being critiqued about it negatively by others. There may be a very small amount of solutions to be able to achieve this standard, but it is certainly possible. When I personally think of a world that's absolutely free, I envision how animals are in the wild. They live in a world without any punishment for actions, discrimination, or currency that causes many people to go through life a horrible way. Nothing but how life was attended, the ideology of Survival of the Fittest. There are many reasons why this will happen no time soon. There's the invention of technology, the advancement of what human beings consider as ethical, and the savagery that most of us do not have.
One of the reasons that this is unreachable is because of the invention and advancement of technology today. In the year 2017, human beings have never depended on technology as much as we have. The recent struggle for teens are that the can't live a day without their cellphones or the internet, me included. Also, if the technology weren't available, humanity would most likely have been wiped out by diseased where animals either go through with the disease and live, or die. Humans can never do that because of how dependent we are with these resources that have been made by man. *timer up* 

Journal #17

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Journal #17:

Q= For the past five weeks, we’ve studied how language perpetuates ideology and hegemony throughout the world via mass communication. Specifically, we’ve looked at how language is used to construct norms in relationship to gender, and now race. Let’s transition the conversation now to look at how language is used to resist, deny, or reconstruct the status quo. For this journal, offer examples that are either modern or historical, in which language has been used to challenge ideological norms.

A= Language is, in my opinion, the most powerful thing in this whole world because you can do so much with it. Express your love for someone, help out others that are in need of help, and standing for what you believe in that's right. A very famous example of how language can be used to resist was started by Claudette Colvin. Colvin used her beliefs and words to express the problem of racial problems towards those with 'colored' skin. In our society today, many women and men take a part of the Women's march to express the rights that women deserve because of their equality. The attendees of these events use their words to resist and deny the amount of segregation putting placed on females because of there "gender".

Journal #16

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Journal #16:

We’ve become such a narcissistic, “me-first” society that common courtesies have gone right out the door – with a moral fiber that’s barely a thread. And while I’m hardly a religious zealot, I do think a large part of the problem is the secularization of our culture at the hands of the allegedly tolerant and compassionate “progressives.” We’ve taken God out of our schools and poke

fun at religion; we devalue human life by condoning abortion and branding anyone who stands up for the unborn a woman-hating Neanderthal. Two-parent households are considered an anachronism; a woman who stays home with the kids instead of getting a job and relegating child rearing to day care is deemed lazy. We all but legalize a drug, marijuana, that takes away ambition and drive, and we attack anyone who’s successful and wealthy – regardless of how hard they work, or how many sacrifices they’ve made in life to get where they’re at. Government has become not an enabler of the private sector, but it’s a misguided Robin Hood, at the expense of personal responsibility – and personal values.

                                                             ---Stephen Arnold

Articulate the central claim that Arnold makes and discuss the ways in which you agree or disagree with his position. Support your argument by providing reasons and examples from your own experiences, observations, or readings.

A= Arnold's central claim is on how we truly have changed our looks on wrongs to right. We under look at the fact that these problems that are considered as "normal" in our society are present, but we somehow accept it. Not because of how we are, but because of what our focus is primarily on. While what can be called as entertainment on Television distracts us, there are children being abused, mothers being mentally and physically hurt, and way more problems in this world. I too can be considered as a hypocrite because I too not think of this while I live on with my life, but that doesn't mean I'll continue forgetting these problems. Thanks to the exposure of this article to me, I will always have that in the back of my mind. Exposure is the start of anything and everything, so in order to truly express these issues out to the public, there must be many conversations about this subject. The quote by Stephen Arnold truly captivates the ideas of its purpose.