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Week#12 writing tools. For this week's writing tools, I found a pretty cool flowchart for tool#36, Mix Narrative Modes. I was in the I.B program for high school so writing in first person was STRICTLY forbidden and HARSHLY frowned upon; so writing nothing but third- person is still very unnatural to me.
On re re re re repeat
Week#11 Writing Tools
For this week's writing tools, I am going to focus on tool#33 Repeat, Repeat, Repeat. As I child I used to and still do love Shel Silverstein, the poet. If you don't remember him, he's the poet with kind of the creepy illustrations, I'm sure you heard of him. This is one of my favorite poems from him and he literally repeats the same two phrases over and over again; I know the repetition has a different usage in poems, but I think i has the same effect of displaying it to the audience the main focus of your idea.
Now Calling Goldilocks to the Stands
Issue#4 Argument Beyond Pro and Con Let's conversate, not argue! From this chapter, it definitely focused on how to present and organize your arguments so you can persuade people into accepting your argument. In order to do this we need to shield our argument with cause and effect! providing good evidence! and organize, organize, organize! I love how they used a sandwich analogy in order to build up a great paragraph presenting your argument. It was a good visual which represents on how to build effective arguments.
Issue#5 Research: More than Detective Work
Organization is key! This chapter definitely focus on how organization is the main step on presenting what is actually worth reading. It also explicates the importance of tracking down sources (seeking out both quality and quantity) it also is especially important to recognize the legit compared the un-legit sources! Credibility is an important key.
Overall, these two chapter were just reviews for me since high school... so I didn't it find it super eye-opening but it was definitely a good review.
Here Comes the Boom
This is Week 10 writing tools, I am going to focus on tool # 29. The tool says to foreshadow dramatic events and introduce it subtly. I found this cartoon from a writer and I thought it was hilarious how there were the middle-age women sitting down for a book club in their mu-mu dresses and the lady just goes "boom" in the room. I thought it was a a great introduce of suspense and letting the audience "HERE COMES TO BOOM"
Use Your Words Babe
This is week 9 writing tools and I found an image for Tool 26, "Use Dialogue as a Form of Action" This image is from Anina Bennett, it is from her website of "Visual Language: Writing for Comics"
She focuses on how in cartoons we can use "word" bubbles to express more than words but actions and what is physically happening in the situation. I thought this was appropriate since we are reading the "Making Comics" book.
We don't have to sprint,small steps are okay. Just March On.
In Chapter 8 of her book, Garbacik lays a concrete foundation of how transgender appeared into the world and the difficult steps and advances the transgenders of the world made in the world. Garbacik discusses the history of how being transgender was viewed in the past, it was associated strongly with psychosexual disorders and was once referred to as a condition called "metamorphosis sexualis paranoica" (i'm guessing this name basically says someone has a huge paranoia about changing their gender). In history, it was viewed as a great disease, which must be cured.
However, in present times, there are so many different operations (super advanced operations) so people can fulfill their lives as living as the "right" gender, they are meant to be. There are definitely precautions though, any person who wants to go through the surgeries, they must go through mental examinations; and even when they achieve they want to live as, transgenders are faced with more horrific aspects such as; they have very high rates of suicides, more dependence on drugs and more psychological disorders.
My Response: I thought this chapter was interesting because i never got a first-hand experience with transgenders. I never really met one and did not get to really hear any stories. What I thought was most intriguing was the such great advances on the surgeries; I was surprised to see that people were so "accepting" of turning people into other genders; and living in this society, I was pleasantly surprised how much advances we have made in the medical direction.
LOOKING FORWARD: Awwww, bye Garbacik! She leaves me with some hope of how "oh, look how far we have came!" "we are making great progress, but there can be more done" and now IT IS IN MY HANDS. After reading this book, I feel so enlightened with information that I honestly never really knew, and honestly never really bothered to look up on my own and study. I definitely value what I have learned through this book because I feel like if everything was explained step by step and inch by inch to the society of how gender and heteronormality were also set up by men and how SOCIETY CREATED it, it can be deconstructed and we will be able to create a completely whole new input.
In 2014, we are ALL ABOUT advancing into new, unexplored areas (I mean seriously, did you see how many freaking iphones were developed in the past couple of years?!). Since we are so obsessed with striding forward and making advances, we should seize this opportunity to advancing into a more accepting world and a world where everyone is included and accepted for just they way they are. Yes, I know freaking corny but a girl can dream right? You never know, it's possible.
We are living in a world of Facade
In Chapter 7 of her book, titled Queer Theory Garbacik explores the whole base of what "queer" actually is and the underlying theme it is to it. She starts off introducing Judith Butler and she introduces the fact how "feminists would defeat their own goal of gender equality it is continued to focus on category of women, as a natural unity of experience." She expresses that women shouldn't be separated into one single group and try to compare and contrast what they are lacking; but rather try to get rid of the "natural" differences between men and women.
Garbacik also expresses the idea of the queer theory is to not make homosexual "natural" like heterosexual but adopt the idea of how gender is a "cultural fiction" and remove the barriers. By utilizing this concept, we can make "cis-gender" as a facade and it is not the "normal" in the world. Now, what is the definition of Queer, it is a new form of identification for BOTH gender and sexuality at once and it is a "term" to not narrow someone into a specific category and fence them into something they are fully NOT. People fall into countless and un-measurable spectrum. She leaves her audience with the concerns of how Queer is still stigmatized by people who do not FULLY understand and accept the idea of what queer really is; we must promote inclusivity. My Response: I thought this chapter was super interesting. I will be honest and I thought the term queer was another way to call someone gay (in more derogatory way). I never really understood and grasped the underlying idea of what was underneath the term queer.
This chapter really introduced me into a whole new level of self-discovery, and how to I guess label myself in this world. All this time, i was sure I was a girl, sort of/kind of feminine, I liked boys so I must be heterosexual.... Now I am just confused. Like Barthes stated in this chapter, "humans aren't able to think freely because society affects our identity so much," did my society LIMIT me to venture out to discovering what I am in full potential? I really think to my self; is there MORE to me than who I thought I was or who I AM....
Don't Push Me cuz, I'm Close to the Edge
Week 8 Writing Tools
I am using tool 21, "Know When to Back Off and When to Show Off" I like the saying "when topic is most serious, understate; when least serious, exaggerate"
Ugly Version: When I got in the accident, I was driving on North I-25. It was about one o’clock in the morning, and I remember that there was a super thick fog. I was barely able to see and it was scary. All I remember is that I was driving in my lane, and suddenly I saw this huge bright lights, and a loud noise and I woke up in the hospital.
Pretty Version: It was a foggy night, I was driving on North I-25, not a car around. It was a dark early morning and there was a cool breeze from the window. Driving down, oblivious; I saw big lights, loud sound and I was unconscious.
Did that work?? I tried to be super understated while talking about my crash that happened when i was about sixteen. I like it because it builds up suspense about what is going to happen and it doesn't climax too fast.
Isn't it About Time?
In chapter 6 of her book, Garbacik brings forth the concept of gay and lesbian activism in the US and across the world. She introduces to her audience of the battles the Gay and Lesbian communities are fighting through to achieve their equal rights.
Garbacik calls this battle “the homophile movement,” which is a movement for lobbying tolerance for homosexuality. This movement did not have specific rights they wanted to achieve but they wanted just all-around general equality, which everyone deserves.
Then she goes on and educates her audience about the commonly used word “homosexual.”She expresses her concern about how this word used so wrong and generally used to call someone who is gay or lesbian. The usage of this word limits so much different aspects of being gay or lesbian and everything else because this cages the idea of sexual binary.
She then explains the history of the hardships the gay and lesbians went through; detailing a lot of specifics/ For example, during World War II, there was the “don’t ask, don’t tell” secret rule about being gay and back in the day, people used to view being gay or lesbian as a disorder.
Garbacik then sheds a light on to present times and she discusses the severity of hate crimes against gays and lesbians and how the politics and the government are working on policies in order to protect their well-deserved human/equal rights.
My Response: Reading through this chapter, I got to witness or rather be informed about the history and hardships gays and lesbians fought throughout history. I also find it fascinating how views of "homosexuality" has advanced into different directions, which explores different possibilities and areas that is waited to be studied.
Colors of Happily Ever After
In chapter 5 of her book, Garbacik introduces her audience to the totally intertwined, downright confusing and historical aspects of Sexual Orientation. She first starts off with explaining what "sexuality" really is. Sexuality based on Garbacik is the "top dog" and it trumps all over identity, gender roles and sexual orientation. She definitely stresses the idea that sexuality is so nature-based that she basically describes as "sex-before-language."
Then she shifts her focus onto the "oversimplified and stereotyped" couples in society and story books. She expresses the concern of how a couple is so marginalized into a relationship or a title for a woman and a man's relationship and she jumps right into the main course of the chapter.
She describes 2 different views the "essentialist thinkers" who believe that identity is natural and unchangeable.... our sexuality is predisposed to us. The "constructionist thinkers" who believe that sexuality can't be understood "in a single, unchanging identity. Sexuality can mean variety of things depending on culture, time, relationship.... basically humans' sexual orientation can change overtime.
She also discusses the sad inner-prejudice within the LGBTQ world and even in the scene of minority, there are still more prejudices.
My Response: This was definitely one of my favorite chapters by far, It provided me a great insight into a world that I never really had access to. The most interesting aspect that I found was the "minority bashing" that was happening in a group that is already so marginalized. For example Garbacik mentions how homosexuality was basically studied on men, not on women... Once AGAIN, women are even discriminated and undermined even in an "outgroup." Another example of minority bashing was the fact how the gay people don't agree with orientation spectrum and thus, totally disregarding bisexuals, asexuals and other types of sexual orientation. I found this very interesting because it gave me..... an opportunity to relate. Although I was born in Chicago, Illinois, USA I am Korean and I definitely sometimes feel like a minority, especially in such a Caucasian dominated school, I hardly ever notice since I became "white-washed." I really wondered if the gay community feels like I do sometimes
On Wednesdays we wear pink. IF you're a girl of course.
In Chapter 4, Garbacik introduces the idea of how the gender roles is constructed as soon as we are born. Even when we are drooling, cooing, not being able to KNOW what we want, humans are constructing building blocks for what we are (gender) supposed to be. Garbacik expresses how "parenting and early social interaction" impacts SO immensely to what our gender roles.
When we are children, we are placed (forcefully and without intention) to "appropriate" places regarding our gender. Girls receive "toys of the home" and boys receive "toys of the world" and from there on we live out our lives living under the influence what is female and what is male.
As humans grow up to children and adults the roles we have been assigned to is even more signified by: First in cartoons, girl smurfs has to be "sexy" and wear dresses because she's a girl. Second in jobs, girls should go into career fields that is appropriate for girls well because they are girls and they just wouldn't look right if they were doing a man's job.
Garbacik expresses her concerns about how our assigned, not chosen gender roles really limit people of exploring what they truly are.
My Response: As soon as I read this, I was a little bit torn. I definitely agree with Garbacik on how girls are and boys are "forced" into gender roles by their parents. However, when I was a child, I refused to play with barbies (I mean how freaking creepy are they?), I begged for legos (boys' toy of the world) or cars. I used to BAWL if my mom put me in a dress, and I basically chose to only wear my cool Osh Kosh B'gosh jeans wherever I went. This really made me curious on the fact that maybe this is why I grew up to be the way I am... I love boy clothes, when I go shopping, i usually go for what guys wear and "male" sneakers. I was just thiking that.
This chapter also made me feel how confused transgender kids would feel in their childhood. Imagine being forced to like things that you just don't enjoy and your parents exposing you to cartoon,s toys, clothes and haircuts that just doesn't suit or represent who you are.
In this chapter, I really enjoyed all the illustrations, especially the vaan diagrams showing the typical jobs for men and women. The diagram definitely bolstered the differences that women and men are treated with. I honestly could live without the illustrations of the historic people; the illustration just seemed forced to make the chapter more "colorful" but I do not think it is necessary.
Another Cinderella Story
In chapter#3, the author discusses the offensive degradation women faced throughout history. She discusses the term of Feminism: which is the movement that is to place women as equal beings as males. She explicates the the important women figures such as Eleanor Roosevelt and Emma Goldman and their efforts to give women equal rights.
The author also brought on how the media influenced the "role of women": how the media misrepresented women and degraded women into these home-body, motherly "beings" in order to encourage women to become like these model beings rather than having their own thoughts (subliminal messages).
My response:
First of all, I really admire the women in history who worked so hard to gain equal rights as men. This chapter brought up several questions for me such as; if in present time, we are trying to develop into a multi-gender society, shouldn't the "female gender role" disappear as well?
I feel as if the issues of women roles and LGBTQ roles are situated and considered as completely different things when they are they are going through the same issues.
Bow Down
In chapter#2 of GSFB the author presents the historical construction of gender roles. In the pre-historic time, men were the hunter and providers and the women "sat and twiddled" their thumbs in the dark caves they lived in. But there were definite oddities; the bonobo group females were actually known for dominating over the males.
In the ancient times, apparently because of "Adam and Eve" women were seen as "downfall of men." This implicated that men were fearful of women's powers and their strong capabilities. In ancient Egypt, there was a huge rise in women in power, such as the notorious Cleopatra.
Then the "Western Perspective" comes around and says no-no to women having equal rights and power as men. They believed women should be kept below men and they even stopped nuns from helping the sick since it gave them more power.
The author ends with the fact that ever since women started to fight back, regain resources... they were free.
My Response:
What is the fascination about men? Why are they so much greater than women? I just want to ask all the people in history who thought that way. I got my previous question answered about how did history really influence the gender roles?
Since being a total biology geek, I was most interested in the Charles Darwin section. I was such a huge fan of Charles Darwin and I was kind of disappointed to hear that he disregarded and didn't study animals that did not display MALE characteristics.
It's a Boy!... a Girl?
in chapter#1 of Gender Sexuality for Beginners, Garbacik focuses her attention on how biologically different "males" and "females" are. She starts off by defining the terms "sex," "gender" "sexuality" and others in order to familiarize her audience with the topics.
She distinguishes what the Western society (specifically) separates out what we expect from girls and what we expect from boys in society. She discusses how our society loves to label everything for us and expresses her concerns on how we pick "female" or "gender" on a form and how limited and handicapped we are to express our own, personal gender that we assign ourselves.
Next she dives deep into detailed explanations about the anatomical differences between females and males. She explains how certain female brain parts are larger than males and all that detailed stuff then she ends with how every individual... differs. What's the point of having a gender?
My Response:
Through reading this chapter I really began to question myself. I am six feet tall, I am taller than average guys, I have larger hands than my girl friends, I love guy clothing, and tend to dress more tomboyish. I have waist-long, down to my butt hair, I have itty bitty feet, I have a high voice, and I love make up... WHAT THE HELL AM I?
But I know I am a cis woman because I never really questioned my gender and I was always attracted to "males." But there are infinite amount of factors that determine what we are... who we are.
In order to answer some questions, I really thought the image for this chapter was unnecessary, it didn't really help... It just felt like the images were forced on there just to look a little bit more friendly.
This chapter raised a question for me. IF we strive towards making our society more accepted towards variety of gender and sex... what would happen to our organization?? Although it is very important for everyone being able to be themselves... isn't it important to have some kind of order?
Veni. Vidi. Vici.
Writing Tools Week#7
This week's writing tools were all about varying and experimenting with sentence, paragraph lengths in order to steer the audience into your world of writing, and make them feel what you are trying to convey.
I decided to use tool# 18 and 19 on an essay I wrote about my favorite Shakespearean play, A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Before:
The quote “Before milk-white, now purple with love’s wound” (2.1.167) creates an imagery; the color “milk-white” symbolizes pureness and innocence and the color purple represents the color of a deep bruise from the impact of pain. The imagery represents how love starts off with innocence, pureness and a constant feeling of happiness without any woes; however, the once “milk-white” love does get bruised and stained from constant beating. The multiple couples in the play go through the ironic journey of love involving euphoric happiness and the agonizing bruises that love leaves behind.
After:
"Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound." (2.1.167)
The color "milk-white" symbolize pureness and innocence. While the color purple symbolize deep bruising and pain.
The imagery represents the course of love; in the beginning love starts innocent, pure then it begins to wilt, stained, bruised from constant pain.
The irony of love.
Okay, honestly I don't know if I agree with our "tool provider" on this week's tools I don't know if it actually made my writing better; it definitely made it more dramatic, clean and straight to the point. I honestly enjoyed and still enjoy writing lengthy paragraphs, but since all my writing are usually long and lengthy, I decided to give short paragraphs a try this time.
Let's Get Busy!
Summary of Introduction:
The author, Jaimee Garbacik introduced to her audience of how the issues of gender and sexuality have been sweeped under the rug for a really long time now. She expresses the importance of people coming to senses of the issues of today regarding gender and sexuality. She really puts her focus into the youth and how the youth of the LGBTQIA "world" have been suffering enough although there are many aids and organizations in order to improve the state of their own world. She also addresses the problem that is "intertwined" and "within" the minority groups in this world. She speaks out loud and proud how keeping quiet about the issues will not solve itself and there must be something done in order to improve.
Rhetorical Analysis
Reading this introduction helped me understand the hardships that LGBTQIA goes through. I love how she INSTANTLY presents her audience with pathos with using strong words such as "turbulent" and "suicide" along with her passionate tone really got me wild up that this issue must be directed! I loved how she was able to "get' to me in the first two paragraphs by addressing very serious issues.
She proved her ethos by expressing her lack of bias (in my personal opinion). Although, her main focus was on gender and sexuality but she also brought up other issues such as racism, global warming and classism. She doesn't say that the most important issue of the world was of gender and sexuality but other worldly issues contribute to everything. She also improved her ethos by mentioning of her personal interviews with service providers, academics, activists and many young people. She has many different point of views in her work and how she actually did her research. This also provides insight on her logos since she mentions statistics of teenage suicide rates, history of politics and history of what happened to people of LGBTQIA world.
Who Let the Dogs Out
Week#6 Writing Tools Activity
This week's writing tools' had a theme of accessorizing and letting your writing have a spot of realism. I enjoy writing that has great imagery, metaphor and symbolism! And I hope that going over these tools in the book helps me understand how these tools make writing stronger
I am going to use tool#14 and 15 in this revision. This is a writing that I need in my Shakespeare for Nonmajors.
Before:
In William Shakespeare’s King Lear, he illustrates two fathers faced with the situation of having children who want their power, and with children who truly loves them. The two fathers in the play; Lear and Gloucester face their children with the issue of who is going to inherit their power, riches and land. Lear and Gloucester makes horrible mistakes on choosing the wrong children to trust and give power to; they suffer through the consequences.
After:
In William Shakespeare’s King Lear, he illustrates two fathers faced with the dilemma choosing children who desperately thirst for their power, and with children who truly loves them. The two fathers in the play; Lear and Gloucester face their children with the issue of who is going to inherit their power, riches and land. Lear and Gloucester makes horrible mistakes on choosing the wrong children to trust and give power to; they definitely suffer through the consequences of making the fatal mistake of distrusting the child they should have trust.
Well, of course this paper being about a Shakespeare play, I have the advantage of using tool 15 since all of the characters' names are so freaking unique and impossible to pronounce right.
Also, with replacing the words I had with more expressive and appropriate words helped with "digging for concrete and specific details that appeal to senses" I wanted to emphasize more on how Lear and Gloucester REALLY suffered because of their children, and i think the revised version helped with bringing my message out forth.