we cannot but chuse to hear

The whole oil thing (spill) has gotten out of hand. This is like one of the things that get everyone saying this is the end of the world. The oil spill disaster will forever be here for all our kids and even grandkids. This oil is not only messing up our water but our food and essentially our lives. Why are people so greedy and not worrying about other people’s pains? Have we lost our sense of humanity? Bp has a lot of blame on them and I do not blame people for ding that because in fact it is their fault and greed that got us in this predicament.

fix the shading on the children's faces!

Even before reading this poem I saw this on the news and I thought it was just plain crazy. You first ask someone to paint you a painting then after you tell them the boy in the painting is too dark lighten him up. They were of course not talking about his personality but his skin color. In this poem I felt that you hit it on the head it is just plain about racism. We of course do not choose our race just like the boy in the painting he didn't choose to be that shade of color but his creator did so why change him. Till this day there are still forms of racism that it even reared its ugly head in a painting. So we need to change as human being and know that we are just one people.

"Arizona god dam!"

The "Arizona god dam!" is about how things was all good in Arizona then it went wrong. The people who are suppose to be the leaders are the ones doing the corruption. You talked a case where they wouldn’t let the individual have a say in the matter. Also there was a holiday where they wouldn’t let it become one “the Martin Luther king” which I really do not know why. The only reason I can see would be an issue of racism. Sure enough it seems like the way you wrote the poem you went through some racism in your life time.

Quiz # 10

Quiz # 9

Reflection #16

What I understand about intersexuality and transsexuality is that intersexuality is when a person has both female and male characteristics and transexuality is when a person has a physical sex that is different from their biological one. So basically, the person looks like a women but feels like a man. When reading information about these kind of information I feel that man I wonder what intersexual and transsexual are going through in certain societies where even homosexuals are not accepted. To know that you are biologically born a certain way you did not or do not have a choice to be born that way but you are. That has a big impact on me because a lot of times people are so quick to condemn someone because they believe that a person choose to be homosexual or choose to like the same sex, but in this case these people did not choose their gender or biologically choose who they are it just happen that way they were born that way. I have learned last semester about have an extra chromosomes that can alter a person’s characteristics but reading about it in depth is in fact just amazing. To know that people can be born a certain way other then the two ways I knew which were being “female” or “male”. The way I want to look at this is if I were born that way I wouldn’t want to be treated different because I am out of the norm of the population. A lot of the time we blame the parents or the friends and society for making someone gay or lesbian when in fact even that would not be true. But now when a person is born as an intersexual or transsexual who can you blame for that? No one the person is born like that end of story. Learning about this has truly helped me to be even more understanding about the way people are and their gender preferences. How can someone blame someone for being born a certain way? I think if even after reading something like this people are still resentful of the person I believe that person has a problem and needs to seek help. My eyes are truly open about the way things are and they way things can be in the world. Everyone is different point blank and if people have a hard time accepting that then we as a country need to do our jobs my giving everyone information to help them be informed about what they do not know or think they know.

Reflection #15

What is the cause of homosexuality? I would not say I knew exactly the cause of homosexuality, but I believe it is that people are born that way. A lot of the time majority of the world look down on gays and really hate the concept of being homosexual. Why is it every time we come across something different from us or out of the “norm” we are reluctant to accept it? What is so horrible about a person not liking the same things we like or the same sex (male or female) we like? I just believe people are just so afraid of difference. But why? When you are born into a certain culture there are things that are hard to accept because we are taught not to accept same sex relationships (well in some culture). I used to be someone who had a hard time dealing with the fact that some of my friends were gay or people around me like the same sex. I’m raise in a culture where if you are a homosexual you are renounced by your parents and community. So when you are young you accept things as basically being “law” or the “rule”. Even people around you have that same mentality so you believe it as the truth. They even say things like “you are a girl act like one” girls are suppose to like boys and boys are suppose to like girls. When you get to a certain age and they see you a little close to the same sex they do not want you to be that close because you can turn gay. Another thing with the gender role, is that boys are to act “manly” like ballet would not be consider manly but girly so therefore by a guy being in ballet you would be look at as being homosexual; a lot of people do not see it as oh he just likes ballet but there is something odd about that boys do not go into that unless they are gay. The reality of the matter is most people think like that and even the ones that say they do not do. They catch their self guessing “he likes to cook he might be gay” because cooking is looked as a girly thing to do. In the society there are in fact gender roles whether we want it or not they are there they are put out by our families, friends, and the mass media. After my past experience with my homosexual friends I could care less if someone is gay because we are people no matter what my beliefs may be I know that they are just like you and me. Also in this class I learned things to show me that that it is our culture that a lot of times shape our way of thinking. If I were raised in a homosexual community and everyone around me were homosexual then I would see being gay as a normally thing for me. Then one day I met a heterosexual I would find that person to be weird out of the norm. So that is why people have a hard time accepting people that are gay because they are different from what they are used to.