Strategies used in my research paper

The strategies that I plan to use in my paper is Strategy 1 which is make your source speak.  This strategy is to begin quoting and summarizing in order to help with your analysis.  Don't just quote or paraphrase things from your article without giving them meaning as to why you picked them.  Also include how the source has led you to your conclusion.  

Another strategy is Find your own role in the conversation, this is when you don't just record what your source is saying you need to incorporate your own thoughts and ideas from what they wrote.  

"White Privilege and Male Privilege"

In this article she is forcing the issue that white's have higher privileges then those of a different race.  Also that male white's have a even more higher privilege.  She goes on about male privilege and about the advantages that they receive such as in schooling.  What are the other examples, where is this coming from and what is she referring too in particular.  What is the reasoning that she is demonstrating that males are go very highly recognized and why women are not.  She then explains how white's have more privilege then blacks.  She is making there assumptions after observing her normal day and her day at work.  She is stating that whites are offered more and that it is not based on the color of their skin.  In other words are blacks based on the color of their skin?  What does this mean to compare your average daily life with the life of an African American.  What if the roles were switched around?  Would she get treated differently if she was working for a boss that was black and most of her co workers were black? She refers to about schooling and how when she was in school they were taught a pattern that whites are taught to think about their lives, in which case what about most schools now that have many types of race?  Would her logic and assumptions apply to everyone everywhere or just to where she is ? Also her talking about the white privilege and how it exists what about the homeless white people that you see on the streets begging for money or food.  Are they considered privileged also? 

Benjamin DeMott

In this article he describes how the relationships between blacks and white.  He makes many references to movies that where white people have long lasting relationships with blacks.  He demonstrates that when whites are friends with blacks others will treat them differently.  

In the article he repeats himself a lot when describing certain movies and other sections of articles describing that people perceive that blacks are the dangerous ones and why white people befriend them.  When he is making examples he goes through all times of history looking at what higher authority has said about blacks and from articles that he has read.  

"What you Eat"

In the story "What You Eat" is about the relationship between a father and his son.  The father is very stern with his son and makes him do what he says.  His father's rule is what ever you kill you have to eat, therefore when the son kills a bird he has to eat it.  On one occasion the son accidentally killed his pet dog and in return his father expected his son to eat him, but he refused.  After the awhile the father started drinking a lot and coming home drunk.  The son was trying to prevent this from happening by standing in the road waiting for his drunk father and drive home drunk.  On one occasion the father hit the son, but the son didn't die.   The son is trying to prove to his father that obviously he doesn't like him drinking and that he is very unhappy.  The son is trying to get killed by his father and wanting him to eat him afterwards, teaching the father his lesson.  

Observations from gallery

From the piece Sunday Morning she used very bright colors especially green, brown and red.  In the painting there an older man on his way to church in the early morning.  He is dressed up and is walking alone, his cloths are detailed but not so much detailed as the objects in his surroundings.  The chickens and the dog are very detailed, but the sticks and the house in the background seem to be very plain and not very detailed.  It seems that the painter wanted your eyes to focus on him which is in the center of the painting and the chickens and dog which seem to be in almost all of her paintings.  

The painting Full Litter with Pigs is a picture with two mother pigs feeding their piglets.  There is a man on the other side of the fence with a pipe and watching them, he is in a lot of the paintings and is the painters husband.  He is always painted in the same cloths which are brown and almost always has a pipe.  The sticks and twigs are not very detailed and the grass isn't detailed either. There is a small shed or house in the background which is very detailed and drawing your attention towards it, and the shed is in the center of the picture behind the pigs.  She uses very bright colors in the background showing fields and mountains. 

 

Address to the nation post 9/11- analysis

In George Bush's address to the nation he includes very brief but detailed of the events that happened about the buildings that collapsed and about the people who's lives ended because of an evil act.  In the speech he mentions America and Americans a lot putting emphasis that we are a nation together and that we should all remain close together in helping to protect each other. He talks about how our main focus is finding whoever caused this disaster and the people who helped them with the act.  In his speech even though there is some detail I think that there could have been more in detailing more what he as the president is going to do in fixing what has been done. Also in the speech he mentions that we are going to stand up against the war against terrorism.  In that he is demonstrating that there is going to be a war and that the American people should not be afraid.  

Writing Analytically with Readings/Cell Phones

This generation is always using their cell phones or always have them with them.  It is rare that someone would leave the house to go to school or work with out one.  The reading is showing examples of how much Americans rely on their cell phones and how much people use them.  Even though cell phones are much apart of out everyday life they are useful to have.  Such as in emergencies which is often sometimes why people buy them in the first place even though they will use them all the time and not just for emergencies.  In the reading he touches on giving cell phones to kids and how the parent's excuses is that in case of emergencies and so they know where there kid is at all times.  In that the parents are not trusting their kids that they won't get into any trouble or that they are lying to their parents about where they are going.  I do have to agree that I find it very annoying when others are on there phone if you are trying to talk to them or they are in a quiet area.  However I do own one myself and I think in the appropriate setting they are useful and can help you with emergencies.