5 questions that I would ask my subject

1.)What was your best experience about high school?
I would ask this question because i want to start off with highschool knowledge first.

2.) explain how did you make it through high school dispite all of the obsticles from both school and home you had to go through?
I would ask this because this is where i would know what psuhed her to get through things even at her worst of times.

3.) Was there any outside motivation that you would like to share that helped you along the way?
Motivation is a big part of a person being succesful, we all have some kind of motivation in us.

4.)What made you choose college even though it was hard for you to pass high school and why?
I want to know why did she want to continue her education.

5.) How has your life been since you took that road of extending your education?
It's important to know how did it turn out for people after having degrees under there belt

Casa: A Partial Rememberance of a Puerto Rican Childhood - Judith Ortiz Cofer

A cautionary tale that i heard in my family was between my sisters. How they talk about feminine things and how there bodies work differently than males bodies. They must of thought that i was sleep in my room because I was young and they didn’t want me to hear about what are the certain names of the parts that were on a females body. That night I was listening outside there door about how they get periods. I didn’t know what that meant until I kept ease dropping and when I started to hear bleeding and they have to stick this thing called a tampon inside of it to stop the excessive bleeding, I almost puked because i was young and I couldn’t believe what my ears were hearing. I covered my mouth trying not to make a sound because it was so nasty. That wasn't even the crazy part because afterwards they started to talk about having sex and who will be the first one out of them both to have the first child. I learned a lot that night by just ease dropping on conversations said by my sisters. It was bad because I wasn't supposed to know that kind of stuff until the time was right.

Maya Angelou - Sister Flowers

A memorable childhood experience for me was when i was in school. I was very angery at alot of things in my life, and i took it out on people at school. I was bad and didn't feel like i had to listen to anybody. At times it would get so bad that if someone would aggervate me by just touchingmy things it would tick me off to the point that i would go off and storm around and knock everything over. I would have the class very scared at times and didn't care about it. They would call my parents and i would get into trouble but i would just go back and do the same thing. They would also send me out of school for sometime and that wouldn't work.

One day it got the point that i went so far that, i had hurt myself in the action. I don't know what happen to me but that must have rung a bell in my head because from then on i started to think about how things would affect my life .

Interests on task 2

Ø  Why are you interested in these subjects? im interested in writing about my how school has been a struggle for them and how they over came the obstucles. 

Ø  What makes him/her interesting and unique? Writng about my sister is unique because i was there all of the times when i knew she was struggling but she didn't kno that i knew about it since i was so younger than her. I also knew about the times when she accomplished things and she was happy for all of the hard work that has paid off.

Ø  What sort of questions would you ask and why?  I would just ask how did youy overcome those times that you were stuck and felt like u didnt have nobody?, and also questions like how does it feel to be succesful after you thought you wouldnt have made it?

Ø  What sort of problems do you think may arise for Task Two? I hope nothing goes wrong but one thing i was looking at was the way you want it worded when it's in the speakers words

Ø  What do you anticipate? Why?  I anticipate this to be very interesting because for once its not about you, you get to sit and listen about other peoples views on things.

Ø  What questions do you have for Task Two? I have no questions just want to see how it goes, thanks.

Self-Evaluation

What is the thesis for your paper? My theis is about my mother and how her action/ decisions afected my family and I. My Mother was never the best decision maker that my sisters and I had ever seen.

What was the most helpful advice you received from your peer evaluation? The most helpful thing that I got feed back from my peers was the punctuation and my grammer, but I always had big problems with that as i am learning now. That was one of the biggest things i had my teacher look for when it was evaluated.

What was the most helpful information you received in class for your paper? The most helpful information again was my punctuation and grammer but another that I remember was more detail. If i put more detail in this paper it would be a lot better.

How many drafts of this paper do you think you wrote and how/when did you write them? For example, did you compose at the keyboard, did you write lots of notes to yourself, did you pre-write or outline, did you write in small chunks of time or sit down and produce an entire draft at one sitting? One Thing about me is when I have an assignment that requires for me type a paper, I write down on hand first. I think a lot better when i am in my room in the quiet thinking things through. Like if its two page requirement then I write four pages because it evens out things.

What would you do differently with this paper to make it more effectively, or what did you try to do that you just don’t think you got a good handle on? To make this paper more effective is just follow what ny peers and instructor has asked me to do in my feed backs because they will know better than you when they are on the outside looking in.

What are most pleased with about this paper? The way that I can express my feelings towards my past and how i feel about them now that i am older and thought more about situations and why the way they happen. 

"On becoming a Chicano" Richard Rodriguez

I am an African American and I have not experienced the worse of what my race has went through but I’ve seen it and just sit back and think why. All of this things were unnecessary and could have been a different way for the way we were treated and also for the other how they could have chose a different way then what was presented at the time. Most of my own kind doesn’t even know how bad our ancestors had to go through to just to make good things happen for our race. They know that they were not going to get the opportunities to do things because years and years went past and it wasn't happening for them. They all could have given up but that still died for these rights and we as blacks are throwing them away. My race identity is exactly what people think of us now because what we are nowhere close to what we should be known for and that's grateful for everything that's here for us.



The only experiences that I have been through are how people still fear us because of the actions we bring upon ourselves. No one really sees what happens, and witnesses the real things, why we are like this but they assume because of television and other races do not know what to expect when they are faces with the reality of us. Other races don't want to take that chance of letting their guards down and the possibility of getting ran over.



Our lives are similar because just as blacks were fighting for their rights, the Hispanics were fights for their lives hoping that other countries will not take over theirs. I also understand that we are both minorities in this world and will always be because our races were not started here. Blacks are slightly larger than the Hispanics here because we were here first and they came here for better opportunities

"How It Feels to Be Colored Me" Zora Neale Hurston

 I label myself as an American that was born in the United States of America. I don't believe in racism, there is no reason for being racist. We are all one as every human being should think. I understand that we all have different races but I don't believe people should be down graded from where they come from, or from the flip side the rich races should not be upgraded and treated with royalty. I also want to label myself as equal, fair to be treated fair just like the person beside me.




I look at myself as a person that is finally getting the opportunity that our race has fought for. I still walk around and be reminded of my race because of other races how I am out and people hold on to there spouses or their belongings because people are so stereotypical about African Americans and thinking that we are all the same. I can not so much as blame them because we are to blame to for our actions. It's not right for people to judge us but most others don't know but what they see on TV and a lot of people are scared and are being safe because no one wants to take any chances. there are some situations when we treated and talked to like we are still children because most don't think we have the ability to learn quickly, and that also upsets all of us because we are not even given a chance before we are degraded.



There is not much to compare because I do agree with everything not being the same. A lot has gotten better as far as equality is concerned, like she was giving performances to the whites and they would throw silver at her like she wasn't nothing but she didn't understand because she was younger and she didn't understand what was going on. Now and days people just look at you funny and do not give you the respect you deserve. I know everything is not perfect now but it's getting better and it will continue to get better, and I acknowledge the things that Zora Neale Hurston had to go just to make it easier for people like me to make in this world and be treated fairly