IDENTITY ROUGH DRAFT

                                                                          Identity

         Identity comes natural in every person’s life and is very important aspect in a person’s life to know the details and definition of their own identity. Connecting my own self-identity to the story “How to Tame a Wild Tongue" by Gloria Anzaludua and relating my personal life through identity has some positives. My identity in my personal opinion is very average but has a connection through my culture, identity gender, language and family. 

         Growing up I was always taught the right way to perform in life, all thanks to my father. My father was always on me for a good reason, which is to keep my focus on track in my life. My family grew up in Long Island, New York as well as Brooklyn, New York. Growing up with a Sicilian family and hearing accents all the time make my gender that much stronger. Females in the United States always have a boost more than men. Females and males do get deprived a lot at the same time. When being around a Sicilian family and being born in another state, gets you adapted to that lifestyle.  My family is usually loud, and we are known to be loud because of our culture and growing into it.

           My identity involves a lot as in family, food, and my culture. Living with an Italian family, I always smell the homemade eggplant, rigatoni and pasta with hot steam coming up from the top in which my mother makes in the kitchen. When my mom starts cooking, I know that we will be having a really good dinner by just taking a breather and smelling the red tomato sauce pasta being cooked. My father was always cooking as well, he was always known for being at the BBQ, the smell of the homemade BBQ sauce to marinate onto the ribs. My father loves the preparation of getting a meal together for his family. It is my father’s favorite thing to do. Also, Relating Gloria story and what her family was like Anzaldua writes, “Homemade white cheese sizzling in a pan, melting inside a folded tortilla” (111). She explains what her identity is formed off and food was a major image in Gloria mind.  My family is very large and I have a lot of cousins through both sides of my Sicilian family. An aspect of having a huge family, in which they are all very hyper and loud, always comes to me in a good way. Family is blood in which they will be by your side forever.  I remember my family always going to my grandmother’s house because her house was the main house we have dinners out. I walk in my grandmothers front door,” Grandma!! I can hear you from a block away to when I was pulling up into the driveway, who were you speaking to?” I asked. My grandma replies, “I was not talking to any one Natalie, I was just talking to everyone in the family”. Therefore, Italians talk loud and not only to one person but they have multiple conversations at one time. Culture comes big in my gender in which I was grew up in the Italian-American culture relating this to Gloria Anzaludua’s story of her identity,  Mexican-American and can speak Spanish and English.  My culture growing up was the daily routine; school, homework, play, shower and then bedtime again when I was a little girl.

     Overall, shaping my identity in my own life has a big part in a person in every way; gender, culture and language all feature a huge part in my life also connected to Gloria Anzaluda story. I felt my closer connection was about her story and I could relate more to what she had said in her story.   

Mercury Reader: A Custom Publication. New York: Pearson Learning Solutions, 2010. Print.    

week 7: #2

        Reading Anzaldua story “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” by Gloria Anzaldua, about her identity and how it was shaped by her culture or religion and the history of her language was very interesting to read and hear how her identity shaped her. Connecting her story with my identity is a lot alike but there are some differences in between us. My identity is very straight forward I am full Sicilian but I was not born in Italy. My family grew up in Long Island, Brooklyn New York. Comparing my identity to Anzaldua and her identity speaking Latin and being Mexican and "Chicana" you can tell was struggles for her because of the way she was explaining the story and I can relate because I can speak full English and my family was born in New York but I do not know how to speak full Italian. Furthermore, my aunts and uncles all have accents and do speak full English. Gloria was a Mexican-American writer and relating to me, I am an excellent writer with full understandings of English but am only is speaking a little bit of Italian language. Gloria telling us in her story about her language and when it was almost "not okay" to speak Spanish or she would get something said to her. “I remember being caught speaking Spanish at recess-that was good for three licks on the knuckles with a sharp ruler"(103). Therefore, Gloria didn’t feel comfortable even speaking her own language in which she speaks daily. In my opinion, that is not right and not fair. If I were in Gloria position, I would have done something even though at the time it was a different time period. There should be a right to people who speak a language, can have every right to speak it at school and wherever they go. Today is different, all peoples identity shape who they are today and who they will become today. Learning or already knowing two languages is a 100% positive to have when having a job or getting a career to live your life successful.  My identity is known for myself and having the rights to a lot things and not be getting “yelled” at or having to be insecure about yourself because you are speaking your own language out at school. Today if a lady and man were in Gloria position, the world would be a whole racist community. Back in the day, people knew what their identity was but for the most part they did care if people were colored skin, spoke a different language, walked a certain way or had an ascent.  When able to speak two different languages, you can really feel and relate to Gloria because she basically talks about in her story that she is mistreated and unable to speak her own language even when she is just trying to tell the teacher how to pronounce  her name. When telling someone that speaks two languages to stop speaking another language other than English said is going to ruin the Spanish language. Although, Gloria went through a hard time with her identity and the way it surrounded her was very unfair. I made a connection to Gloria by having the two languages and the feeling of what people think about it and have to say

Week 6: #3

        When it comes to growing up and becoming a teenager and then becoming an adult really gets your mind to thinking. Talking about chores and the fact that they have been around for millions of years in families and growing up. I had very modern chores around my household when I was growing up. There are four people in my family; my dad, mom, brother and myself. Chores came very easily and natural in my family. It was easier because there were four of us and my parents were always doing a chore around the house. My father was always barbequing, taking out the garbage’s, taking care of the back yard, carrying heavy objects, and the manly father stuff a father would do. On the other hand, he loved doing all that stuff. These I would call chores, it was something he was doing every single day. My mother would do what a lady in the modern and now days would do as chores. Laundry, cleaning the house, vacuuming, dishes, keeping the house organized. All these things my mother was doing around my house every single day to make sure my brother and I lived in a good environment and learn to teach our kids to do chores and help their parents out as they get older. Also, learning and growing up to be respectful and to do whatever your parents ask. My brother and I had similar chores but they varied. My parents would make sure that my brother and I had our rooms always clean in case we had company over. My mom was always a very responsible and had a lot of hospitality toward her guests whether it was family or not. We always had to make sure that under our bed wasn’t cluttered with stuff so the dust can build up. My mom had me do a chore of watering the plants in the backyard and the front yard three times a week for about eight minutes every time. It is always important to keep the front and the back of your house green and not brown. My brother and I also had a chore of keeping our toys in the bucket. We both had so many toys and for the most part, the toys were always lying around everywhere to trip on. “ when you are done playing with the toy put it back in the bucket when you are finished with it then get another toy” my mom said. Which is very true, and my brother and I started slowing putting away our toys. All the chores my brother and I had to do when we were growing up were very modern and neutral. The roles my parents take on are very traditional gender roles for each gender male and female. My brother and I had very reasonable chores growing up; chores that we will make traditional to teach our kids how to be respectful and to help out their parents growing up as a young child. Chores are part of life and have a huge traditional effect on millions of families all from all over the world.

revision of the amendments

 Revising the Amendments:

Stating that the 13th amendment is an issue on the right to people neither slavery nor the involuntary servitude to commit a crime in which the party shall be convicted to the united states or any other place to their jurisdiction.

The fourteenth amendment is an issue on the all persons born to have the united states to be citizens and the reside of the united states. Also, that no shall state should have enforce on any of the laws or have the power to be citizens in the united states and congress  to furthermore enforce.

The fifteenth Amendment overall is an issue on the united states to have the right to vote and shall  not be denied or said no too. The united states by no circumstances accept congress, to confirm on race,color which comes from the servitude.

Journal write WEEK 5

1) Using the index of your textbook loop up: Dawes Severalty Act and paraphrase (including citations) what you learned.

Looking at the Dawes Severalty Act, in which was a law that was enforced and passed in 1887. It was the most important legal development in the Indian-white relations which was more than three centuries. Knowing they want to end the tribal- act the Dawes act let the tribal lands into small plots for giving each member in the tribe. Each tribal was a family, and each was given amounts of land and acres to children. They were sorted up in different amount of acres. The speculators had their eye on the tribal, in which the Indians wanted to have a backup plan in case so they had the federal government in trust since 25 years. Also, American citizenship that actually accepted the Indians was from the tribe and learned to adopt the civil life of gaining the white relations. The Dawes act took part in which 47 million of acres of property and land were given to Indians and their families. There was also another 90 million acres which were really fertile and were sold to the white settlers. Although Indians didn’t know much about farming or what it even was. There was a lease that was granted rather than attacking and chasing the land from the Indians. Farming was woman work, and in 1943, the government decided to have the idea of an ownership and in 138 million acres of Indian land decreased 48 million in which 1/2 was barren. In the tribal life, there was a main chief who was basically the main leader who was in charge of the unique life of living. It was basically a slaughter. It was finally realized when the plain Indians discovered that you can make leather out of buffalo which was around 1871. It was valuable leather in which hunters Williams F. “buffalo Bill” was also his hunting name. He was killing a lot of helpless beats between 1872-1874. A lot of people liked the taste and was basically all gone. There was also a “buffalo nickel” who was a designer. The Indians went to over board and were no longer could live off their buffalo in which there were a lot of problems going on with the Indians. For an example, poverty, unemployment, alcoholism all fell into the category of wards to the state. The Indians were forced to become like the whites and were expected to be able to read and write and started to appear into smaller areas which had became more crowded. The hunter Buffalo bill had a smart idea and he turned everything discussed above into a profitable business back in 1883. It was running for more than three decades in a row and showing off to the United States and Europe. Over more, it was coming to an end with the era so in 1885 they basically clustered into battle and little big horn performed in the show.


Divine, Robert A. America past and Present. 8th ed. Vol.2 Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall,2010.print.




 

Reflection Report

Looking at the reconstruction and learning about the historical events in the civil war that happened in the 1800's and up. Between all the executive and learning about the radicals and non-radicals as we did in our presentations today, we said our speech in which we were in the past when all these historical events were happening. Between the southern and the northerners there were a lot of miss communication and there was still doubt between the whites and the blacks. The land, violence, economic, humanitarian were all the reason for the civilization. The viewed it by freedman and recognizing the land and labor, the civil war of the south in the landscape and took effect in the economy. Everything was going out of hand, and tearing the city up with fire and what not. For example, like Richmond and Atlanta. Looking at the wealth, the confederate currency were gone and emancipation of the slaves were propertied of the productive assets and the wealth came in about 1865 is when it was half in 1860. Looking at the capital-labor relationship of sharecropping- and meant to have the fixed share to the crop produced. Blacks that were affecting with the sharecropping, there was a direction of landownership about Learning about the rule in the south. Do you think its fair republican rule in the south? 1867, Republican Party dominated a won the constitution in 1868 from the blacks to the slaves. There were a lot of difficulties that when on between the whites and the blacks. Southern corruption was to suffrage to uneducated blacks or to the radical reconstruction which was to have a claim. Blacks had more of responsibilities toward the radical and state government to have a few major offices. Also, black legislators have the accept ion  to have loans and the railroads for an example, in which people pay most for their votes and the men, who had their constituents on civil rights or educational issues. Also looking at the education in which blacks should have the right to vote or be able to learn just like the whites but there was always some kind of drama around. Introducing the black codes, they had no exceptions as to what they wanted. There were rules the “slaves” had to go through. In 1865-1866 is when the black codes were enforced and had the huge power affect to the blacks. There were also ex-slaves who had children and were enforcing the black codes with no choice. There was re-enslavement for many reasons to that. Freedman people have the slaves lined up and the slaves that were involved with marriage had their own definitions to the reasons they have children. 50% of slaves in their opinion did not get married legally. They chose to be with their partner and not follow the rules that can have affect on them but as of right now there is critizing people against them and furthermore will have the effect on their own children in the future. Yes, they did care for each other but did not care about the marriage.

Non-Radicals Speech

Non-Radical Speech

We favor the 13^th amendment, the emancipation of slavery, and the14th amendment to be secure in one’s house supported by Oath or affirmation of citizenship;   although our southern states are in economic turmoil, we— the leaders of this great country—must work together in order to regain economic security.  Before emancipation, the south had a stable economy.  After emancipation, the economy dropped 50% due to the “unemployment” of the newly freed slaves and the lack of resources available to the former plantation owners to hire these “freedmen”.  We would like to stop the inevitable southern economic collapse, by instating codes of demeanor.  The freedman is equal, but is an inexperienced in exercising the rights of citizenship; Many of these new citizens are unemployed, and no longer under the care of their former slave owners.  Hence, we must confront what we believe to be the imminent economic collapse of the southern, states [J1] [J1] , which in part was created by this new influx of unemployed freedman.  Our current situation is dealing with the aftermath of Civil War.  Emancipation [J2][J1]  

“South’s per capita wealth in 1865 was only about half what it had been in 1860” (pg.215).  The south has been burned [J2] [J3] to the ground, and is in dire need of reconstruction by implementing laws for everyone; therefore, we must take action and have confidence in our great states’ legislative system to reconstruct the south.  “Several major cities, including Atlanta and Richmond, were gutted by fire” (pg. 215), and factories and railroads were dismantled.  We must ask ourselves, what is obtainable, given the resources easily excess able to reconstruct our once great plantations, railroad, and factories?  We will, the government of our United States by using the capitols already existing.  The people of the land are crying out for the guidance, we will be there to answer.  

            Do we want illiterate freedmen voting for the country’s officials?  It is said we wish for the freedman to lose their right to vote [J3] [J4], but in all actuality, we simply wish to keep the ignorant from having that right.  They have yet to fully understand what exactly they have been given, and until they do, must be kept from making any decisions that can affect the Nation’s Constitution.  A Literacy Test does just that [J4] [J5].  We want everyone to have the rights and freedom stated in the 13^th and 14^th amendments we wish to make sure they qualify to vote and are capable of handling the given responsibility.  The right to vote is a responsibility to have; however, a freedman unable to read English and understand English creating a liability.  [J5] [J6].  A literacy test is needed to separate the citizens that do and do not understand what exactly it means to vote for political leaders.   This will prevent the ignorant from distorting the current or future outcome of any laws, articles, or amendments to come.  Yes, this means only the properly educated citizens will be allowed to vote, but this does not mean that the uneducated shall have their right to vote stripped.  It means the freedman shall lose their right if they fail the literacy test; however, only until they have proven the competence of proper citizenship, by passing a literacy test.  This was not mentioned and might be so it would be later on as a standard to who can vote.  [J7][J5] 

Issues of the freedman’s unemployment can be addressed as a reflection on their character.  [J8][J5]   We would like to impose laws to protect the society as a whole to secure the success of our economically disabled states.  The freedman can pursue contract work, and if he does not have, work will be considered vagrant; these people have no structure and are seen as wanderers.  Each state shall have their own way of dealing with freedmen and, for their own well-being, if deemed vagrant, may be arrested and held.  .  While in confinement, freedman would be given a chance to progress in the new unionized society.  This of course should be seen as an act committed to their own safety, as well as the publics.  The distraught freedman should be kept from entering towns where they are unknown and can be seen as a threat.  We wish to settle them down [J6] [J9], these contracts will do so by giving them a job and a place to live, until they are properly ready to move, and what person has the means to relocate.   To secure their movements, freedman may be seen as separate but equal citizens, their rights to equal facilities, for the general safety of the citizens.  This right to own property or choice of occupation, but will be seen as a necessity.  Necessity [J7] [J10].  Our equal man should be respected for the households they have formed; therefore, giving the freedmen a separate but equal place to express themselves; however, this may lead to the refinement of public places and facilities, as well as set boundaries around their currently qualifying choice of occupations, given their skill needed to efficiently perform employment. Let us be honest about what the majority of freedman capability to be productive citizens.

Our wounded Southern States can and will recover economically with a helping hand.  We have design, and the resource of citizens already occupying these states.  Are we going to let the southern unionized states shrivel up and die?  No- we will work together, initiating laws to enable the freedman structural support to establish them in society.  We will oblige the skills the freedman possesses, supporting employment, and facilitating their need of money, after the destructive Civil War.     

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