Blog #10

Looking at the gender roles of society in America during the 1950s, a very popular show comes to mind, “Leave it to Beaver”. Looking at this show a particular episode highlights gender roles nicely and that is “Wally’s Dream Girl” in season 4.  This episode gives an insight to how life was for the average middle-class American family in the 50s. There was very distinct gender roles during this time, the standard family was known as the “nuclear family”. The nuclear family consisted of a husband who works and provides for the family along with maybe a few kids and a stay at home wife that takes care of the kids, cooks, cleans, (etc...).  In this episode the ‘nuclear family’ is shown specifically through Beaver’s family and the way they all act towards and treat each other. Comparing this television series to something modern like “Modern Family” we can see how gender roles have changed in 50 years.

            It would be smart to recap on the “Leave it to beaver” episode in order for everyone to have a clearer comprehension of what this essay will be written about. First off, Leave it to Beaver was a show aired during the 50’s about a family of four with two boys a husband and a wife. In this particular episode the older boy, Wally, is suddenly “in love” with the new girl from Indianapolis at school. Wally begins  to try to impress her by dressing up and smelling nice before going to school. His parents notice something is up when he starts doing this and the mother, June, begins to become concerned.  June and her husband, Ward, have a talk and Ward realizes the only reason Wally would be acting like this is because of a girl. Wally is too shy to ask her out so June calls her mother and invites the girl to a picnic at Friend's Lake. June did this without Wally’s approval but after Wally realizes that June is a regular person and is allergic to things like chicken and the sun. Later June begins to apologize to Wally but instead Wally thanks his mom for helping him realize that June isn’t his actual dream girl.

Blog #9: Rewriting Past Sentences

1. The first type of people are those who don’t think about what they are posting before they post it and then those who take their time and plan something that they know would reflect them in the way they want to be seen.

1. The first people don't take there time before posting something, however, the second people makes sure they are posting something that reflects them in a positive way.

2.In anything that anyone writes diction is always an important aspect in how people read and form opinions on that particular work.

2. I any piece of writing diction plays a major role in affecting the readers opinion on it.

3.One main example is a paper about the same topic written to your best friend will be a lot different than written to your boss or professor.

3.One example is a paper about the same topic written to your best friend will be a lot different than written to your boss or professor.

4.In this tweet my audience was directed towards my followers whom of which are mostly composed of my friends. 

4. IN this particular tweet the audience was my followers on twitter, which are mostly my friends.

5.This was my goal of using the incorrect grammar because I knew that it would reflect me in the way I wanted to be reflected to this certain audience.

5. I achieved y goal of the tweet by using my incorrect grammar and portraying myself in the way i wanted to be shown to this audience.

6.  Whether that is to persuade, to someone get something off their chest, or to just let people know their opinion about something.

6. Whether that is to persuade someone, to get something off my chest, or to just let people know their opinion about something.

7. For this tweet my purpose wasn’t to have someone respond rather than to just get my opinion out in the public.

7. For my tweet the purpose was to just get my opinions out in the public rather than have any sort of response.

8.It is quite extraordinary how from something so small as one sentence can let you in on so much about a person.

8. It is quite extraordinary how a simple sentence can show you so much about a person

9.Every time I ever make a tweet I always think about the kind of persona that I am giving out and the way people will view it.

9. Every time I make a tweet i always reflect on the persona that i am giving out through this tweet.

10.In the case of my tweet about the bucks in the playoffs this reflects my true identity in many ways such as my views on things, my interests and even my overall attitude.

10.In the case of my tweet about the Bucks in the playoffs this reflects my true identity in many ways such as my views on things, my interests and even my overall attitude.



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Blog #8 "How to Watch your Brother Die"

In the story "How to Watch Your Brother Die" by Michael Lassey, there is a conflict between these two brothers. Through the context of the story we can infer that one brother is a homosexual and one is heterosexual. The heterosexual brother has very traditional views and doesn't want to accept that his brother is a homosexual. He doesn't like the idea of it and it goes against what he believes in. The twist to the story is that the homosexual brother is dying. As his brother is dying the heterosexual brother begins to become closer to his brother and more accepting of his way of life. The heterosexual is so set on his traditional views throughout the poem that this is surprising that he starts learning to accept him. In the poem the heterosexual even says that he would rather hug his children than his brother's lover. Both this poem and the commercial that we watched are trying to show that there are many different sexuality in the world and that we need to be accepting of all of them.  Both of these display this message in a different way but both are just as effective. The commercial was showing that everyday life was the same through a gay couple while the poem was showing that even someone with the most traaditonal views can learn to be accepting.



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Blog # 7

In Boyer Rickel’s “Pass”, Rickel talks about his life as a boy in the 1950’s. He wrote that as if he were standing there watching himself in the past. In the past Rickel would always try to be someone that he is not in order to fit in with the crowd that he was surrounded in. Rickel would try to match his identity to the identities of those surrounding him in order to feel more secure and normal. This was the normal of America in the 1950’s, that if you weren’t like everyone else you didn’t fit in.  However, now America has changed drastically to become very diverse and very accepting of different cultures and ways if life.

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Video Blog #6

link to video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15Q5qGgfz_Q

"Real Cost Commercial: "Your Teeth" - Menthol Version." YouTube. YouTube, n.d. Web. 06 Oct. 2015.

Blog #5 Comparing Texts

In Sloans essay "Birth of Cool" the whole essay is written in first person as compared to "How to Draw a Glass Mountain" in which that essay switches from first person to flashbacks of the past.  In my opinion "Birth of Cool" was a far more interesting piece. For me it was a lot easier to stay with the story and to pay attention to what was happening.  The main thing that makes it a lot easier to follow is the fact that it was just from one persons view. Everyone's different views in "How to Draw a Glass Mountain" left me confused on who's to follow. In the second story i thought that clicking on the links was a bit of a distraction. As i am reading i get into the flow of the story and can put myself in it but if there is a disruption like that it takes me out of my flow. "Birth of Cool" is a far more effective essay and I would rather read and use that format in the future.

Sloan, Aisha. "Birth of the Cool." Writing as Revision, 4^th edition. Eds. Beth Alvarado and Barbara Cully. 544-550. Needham Heights: Pearson Custom, 2011. Print.

Sloan, Aisha. "How to Draw a Glass Mountain: Los Angeles and the Architecture of Segregation, by Aisha Sloan : Essays : Terrain.org." How to Draw a Glass Mountain: Los Angeles and the Architecture of Segregation, by Aisha Sloan : Essays : Terrain.org. 1 June 2010. Web. 30 Sept. 2015.

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Blog #4 Dear Chicago

Dear Chicago,
You have been my home for 13 long years. I've grown up with you and you helped shape me as a person. I have experienced so much about you, yet there is so much more still to learn. There are some parts of you that I don't miss such as, the crowdedness of your streets.All the annoying Chicago Bears fans walking around. But at the same time the things that I don't miss are the things i miss the most because that is what makes you, you. That is what makes you home.

Chicago has its own culture. You can almost consider it it's own world. The people there are one of a kind. They have their own accents they have their own way about life. I would say that most people there aren't the friendliest type. That's just how it is there and the people there love it like that because that is what they are accustomed to. Chicago you are one of a kind.

Almost every relationship I have made with anyone was in Chicago. You hold all of my memories as a child and you make up most of my childhood.  I could never forget you as hard as I tried. Which is good thing because i don't want to ever forgive you. I don't know if I will ever move back. I've had my time in Chicago and although i don't regret it and i do miss i want to experience different cities and different cultures.


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Blog #2 "Pass" on Identity vs. Persona

“Pass” by Boyer Rickel,  Is a story on a young man who is trying to give out the persona of being a manly man while in his true identity he isn't and he doesn't feel comfortable in a situation where he has to act manly.

"Pass," by Boyer Rickel, is a story of a young man that tries to be someone he's not. He gives off the persona of being a "manly man" while, in reality, he is far from that.  When it comes to a situation where he has to be manly, he obviously isn't comfortable. 

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Blog #1 Thoughts On "What I Am"

                “What I Am” brought up many emotions as I was reading it.  This story is very relatable to anyone who as a close connection with their family such as I.  As the story switched from person to person I began to put myself in their shoes or relate that person to someone in my own family. For example, when the mother is out in the cold just waiting for her son pretty boy to get back this reminded me of my own mother and how I know she cares so much about our family.  Parts like that of the story made me feel happy and reminded me of good things. However when the story would talk about the death of pretty boy and the death of the mother this made me feel upset and sad. The way this story was written and how it switched from different time periods and different people gave me a very unique perspective of other people’s reactions and feelings to the circumstances that happened in the story.  This variety of perspectives allowed me to feel and understand many different emotions from the story and they were the reason I went from being happy to sad and then back to happy so quickly.  In this story the identity of the family was very obvious to me. This family was very close-knit and never forgot where they came from. 


Tapahonso, Luci. "What I Am." Writing as Revision, 4^th edition. Eds. Beth Alvarado and Barbara Cully. 450-453. Needham Heights: Pearson Custom, 2011. Print.


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