My Essays

            The first time I started my University writing class in the fall I knew I was not going to like it at all, for the fact that I dislike writing. I dislike it because I feel I never make sense, I dislike thinking how am going to start my essay and even more when I think how I am going to end it. To think I’m going to spend hours trying to put a paper together makes me just not want to do. I do not like writing at all! As I started to experience the different activities we have done during the fall and now in the spring semester, I have seen that even thou I dislike writing, I always write more than what it’s ask for. I have learned many things in these two semesters of my University Writing class. I have developed to put on paper how to express my thoughts about women and how it affects me in many ways. I have learned that I can write about anything. I have learned to see the places in different ways, and that some places or things represent many different kinds of emotions and have changed my way of thinking. I have seen and read how people have experience an unfairness, inequality and violence.

WOMEN CAN DO IT

            Women have overcome so many things that have made them powerful. “One of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you” a song by Sinatra, Nancy expresses that women will and have overcome to people to show them they can do better than just being stuck at home babysitting , being housewives, and treating men like kings.  Women have showed many men and people that do not believe women can be something other than housewives and that they cannot do better than them. As in today in Mexico, they have a lady running for president. Even though there has been some drama, she has overcome to proof many people wrong. That she is good at things and has the power to run for president.

Many women have stand up to think like a man and act like a lady to find their way out of things. Women are not dumb anymore they have the guts to do whatever they want to improve their own way of living and have a successful life. In the poem “It a Women World” by Eavan Boland, I see that her poem states that women are always going to be the same. They are always going to be considered as housewives and objects. I feel that she made this poem to show women how society is talking about them. The poem is like a push up for women to look upon things and start doing something for themselves. I know there are women out there have changed. I’m making a difference in this world because I come to school to get a good career. I want to have a successful life to show many other women out there they can do it if they try. If one day I get married I would want to have my own job and have my own money. Living in this world today you never know what can happen and having things are your own can help you a lot on the future.

I have my best friend that got pregnant when we were in high school; she comes to CSUN as well and has a job. She is always busy, she now does not have time to hang out as before and I miss that, but I am very proud of her because she is able to manage school, work and her beautiful baby girl. After some personal conflicts she has faced with her partner she now stands alone without his help but she is doing what is best for her and her baby. If I was in her situation I would have done the same, keep going with my life and do the best for my kids.

I learned that you can use anything to write a paper. You can use a song, picture, or an object to express what you think about it. So many things can express what they want in different ways like for example a songwriter can talk about his life, about a love one, or even to give out a message. The song “Stan” by Eminem expresses obsession over an artists and how that lead him to kill his partner, his baby, and his himself. His partner being affected of his actions was hurt in many ways mentality and emotionality. The other song I use to express my rhetorical thinking was the song also sang by Eminem ft. Rihanna, “I love the way you lie”. The song expresses how love can be very challenging and have many obstacles but if there is true love you can overcome those conflicts. The video expresses the way this couple is handling their relationship it shows the violence and the love they have. In my point of view I feel it should not be that way. Once there violence in the relationship a girl should walk away, women do not need that. I have learned there are things where you can go in deep to figure out what they are really saying, or what kind of meaning they have.

                                                                                         

So many things can be unfair in life. Persepolis showed a lot about unfairness, inequality, and violence. In the Persepolis written by Marjane Satrapi, Marji’s experiences the differences in social class, where at the end social class really did not have any meaning because it depended on people that came from the low social class. Marji’s did not understand why they had to go by social class but during the revolutions in Iran everyone had to stay on their social class level. Love was for forbidden for people like her maid she felled in with someone in the different social class as hers. A life depended on a window washer, one of Marji’s uncles was ill and their window washer became the director of the hospital and he had to give him a  permission to fly out of the country to a better hospital but after a mistreat, the window washer who now was the director of the hospital deny his permission. Poor young kids were sent to war and were promise a better life but it was all a lie.

After reading this book made me see life a different way. It made me value what I have and to cherish the moments I have had with my love ones. I am one of those persons that never ask for more than what I have. If I want something I earn it. Why? Because I always think and look upon what others of what they have and what they don’t have. Some have a home, car and everything but others do not have anything. There are too many people out there homeless, kids suffering from hunger and others that are in a bad position. Luckily me, I have not been through that position, or have lived what Marji lived but when I see others have like her, that’s when I know I should value even more what I have. Social class to me is not important I see everyone the same, we are all humans’ beings in this world. We all have feelings, we all have different ways and styles but we are all the same. There should not be forbidden love for anyone including for gays or lesbians and in others, if there is love there is love. I feel that everyone should be treated equal and there should not be any racism in this world

There are many places in L.A that I have not visit. I have live in the valley my whole life, and when we got to experience the different places my classmates visit I got to see the L.A different. Some of those places were very historical and others where fun to go and visit. I see L.A like a two face because, a place can always represent something good but once you go and see and experience that place it is not that good as its represented.  I say that because I  went to visit the L.A Zoo and as a little girl I saw it like the best place ever to see animals, but now that am older and I see things in  a different way I saw that was not the best place. When I was younger I really did not pay attention to how the animals were living. I did not leave the park happy I was just upset of the how animals were placed in small cages and did not really have much for people like kids to educate. I know they can do more to make the Zoo better and I know they can fix to make the homes for these animals much bigger and make it look more like their habitat. I related the place I visited to the movie Madagascar, how the animals want to leave the public space and actually go to their real home. The L.A Zoo is filled with kids. Most families and schools take kids for them to get educated and L.A Zoo needs to make it more of an educational place so kids can get a good concept of the L.A Zoo.

I do not like writing at all but I should see the good side of it. Writing has showed many good things like for example you can always have something to write about even though if you think you don’t. When I first started my semester in my University writing class I was given a rock, and I have wrote things about that rock, for example what it means to me. All the activities that I have done during these two semesters have showed to see things in different ways and write them down. To learned something from it and have respect for it. If I was to not write essays at all I would not have learned and seen things in a different way and express what I actually feel about them. Having time on writing about something can always bring you to learn good things from it and I have learned that. I have developed my understanding of things to written on paper and also to see places in a different way.