Poem 5

For horace silver

You can feel the jazz stream just from the poem, it's soothing and relaxing. Though there is a sense of power in it because when you mention the gosple, it shows that he wasnt just a musician he had some insperation under everything. It took a lot out of him to get out of his element, but still he wasn't faced with fear. He was faced with courage to show the world what he had.

Poem 4

For herman poole blount aka sun ra

I believe that this guy was a soul seeker, meaning that anyone who talks to him enjoyed his company, he gave off a good presence. He could turn almost anything into the most soothing music you will hear, but it was more than music he was talking about. Every musician has a code that you must untangle, and his was just the beginning.

Poem 3

For bill evans

In the beginning of the poem, it seemed like the man had fallen in love with music, he caught his eye, and most importantly it caught his heart. He was addicted always wanting more, and never could have enough. Everyone admired him and was amazed by his talents, he could do wonders with a strike of a cord, and the music was like heaven to everyone sitting in the room. Not a grey day passed while the music was playing, unfortunately what he was playing wasnt music, he didn't have songs, the strokes and riples was his life passing him by everyday. He my friend was addicted to cocaine

Poem 2

Dave brubeck

I like the quote that you used here, it's insperational and powerful, because it sets peoples belifes for something higher than they originally planned. Usually we set a goal, and the goal is only half of what we can really achieve, instead of reaching high and far, we usualy stay close to home.

"and there is a time where you can be beyond yourself.
you can be better than your technique. you can be
better than most of your usual ideas."
dave brubeck

Poem

For Charlie haden

I believe this poem express a man becomeing one with what he loves to do. He doesnt fear what other people tell him, everyone has their doubts and belifes about where they are headed and what they will do in life. But instead of worrying all the time, the begin to live life. Which is what the speaker is talking about, as he becomes one with his instrument the rest of his worries don't seem to matter anymore, and he continues doing what he loves.

evaluation

This has been an interesting class; I understand the structure of how you designed the class from the beginning now that I’m at the end. I understand why we had to learn about the paradigm shift before you could introduce us to different cultures, and ways of living. I really enjoyed the lesson on paradigm shift a lot because it’s a way to expand and grow, not only through education, but also by expanding and growing through yourself. I’ve learned that you might think what you are doing is the best thing, because that’s all you’ve learned how to do. As a person we learn to protect ourselves and ourselves alone, but through different cultures we learn things different ways. And not everyone is always out to protect themselves; others are willing to help people because it was something they were raised to do. Along with different cultures, I’ve also learned that people have to agree to disagree; this is referring to a lot of the cases, on which people believe happened, and in the way it happened. When I learned that not everyone believe that the holocaust exist I was terrified, it actually scared me to believe that there were people who didn’t believe that such a drastic event like that could happen. I then looked at it from a different perspective; I had to see it from another angle which was from the KKK. A lot of people believe that the KKK had died a long time ago, that is doesn’t still exist today. Well those people are wrong, as much as people don’t want to believe that things had happened, and that there are things that still do happen they should face reality, but they won’t. People are a lot happier believing what they believe goes on outside, and what they feel that they should seclude from themselves as well as others, just to live a normal, decent life style. Professor Mcnair, is a great professor. I’ve had him for two semesters now, and I wouldn’t change him in the upcoming semester. Coming into the school, I random picked a professor, who was Mcnair. That semester everyone told me how hard his class was, how everyone was dropping out to another lady. I just looked at them and thought to myself, if they think he is hard, imagine going to a University. Mcnair, might be a little rough on the edges but he does it because he cares, and because he knows there is more potential in you then you lead to believe, so he tries to pull it out as much as possible. Over all Professor Mcnair is a wonderful professor and I’m glad to have a Professor with such talent and charisma as he does.

Reflection 21

I’ve never opposed to anyone having feeling about another person, same sex or not. I don’t see why it should be anyone else’s business to prop around in people’s lives and declare who they can and can not have a relationship with, unless its your parents, and even to that extent they really don’t have any control over it. I’m not an atheist, I do believe that there is a higher spirit that has control over what happens to us when we die, and the only thing we can about it now, is to live our life and make mistakes. Though I do believe that religion pushes people so far out of the edge, that they are not themselves anymore, they are what they want people to perceive them as, which is anything that is holy and innocent. But why is same sex or even heterosexual love looked down upon? If G-d doesn’t discriminate against races becoming intimate with one another, then why would it matter if the same sex, or heterosexual as people develop a relationship within an intimate level with each other. I don’t think G-d has anything to do with who hooks up with whom, and who someone falls in love with. I believe that society doesn’t believe that same sex as well as heterosexual love should be accepted because it isn’t a social norm, there for it isn’t right, and what their doing is a sin. I think people have such nerve’s to go in and talk about same sex as well as heterosexual’s love out in the open, because it’s basically talking about another person’s business and putting it out so the whole world can talk about it. Plus, why not allow someone the experience of a life time. Love isn’t only for a certain race, or class. Love happens all over, and it shows your responsibility and helps you grow as a person. Why wouldn’t you allow someone the opportunity to find love, base on whom they love? At the end of the day, I don’t believe race, or gender can tell you who you can or can not fall in love with. Everyone believes that the same sex as well as heterosexual will go after people who are not attracted to their same sex, yet society believe that they will force people to believe what they believe, and do what they do. Which is not true, they just want to be like any other person with the freedom, and future of having a life with the person they fall in love with and choose to marry.

Reflection 16

This was the hardest response I had to deal with, just because the graphic level of what actually happen, was too grooms for me to handle. I don’t understand the human mind, and how some can be full of love and kindness, and other full hatred and murder. The biggest Genocide and ethnic cleansing we’ve encountered and known about world wide would be the holocaust. But that wasn’t the only one worth talking about, during our history years I’ve never seen anything so gruesome, or rather never chose to see something as gruesome as the Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur genocide and ethnic cleansing. In Bosnia many women have been raped, men and young boys have been beaten and used for hard labor, and worst killed because they do not fit the stereotype of a pure ethnic group. Hearing this I was astonished and appalled how someone could, anyone want to be apart of something that can destroy humans because they don’t fit into what you believe to be the perfect ethnic group. It tares me open; I can’t seem to find anyone who even closely resembles perfection. Never mind wipe out millions of people, because they don’t hold up to your standards. Who are you to decide who lives, and who dies? And who are you to decide, what type of characteristics and physical traits one must have so that they can survive. As well as Dafur, why would you capture blacks from villages just to massacre them? These things aren’t normal, and I thought that after what happened to the Jews almost wiping out a whole religion, that no one would ever think about doing such G-d awful things because we learn from our history, so our history won’t become our future. Though apparently this isn’t true, I’ve learned that history is known to repeat itself if it’s in the hands of wrong doers. I never really understood why people do the things they do, especially when it’s something as serious as this. Though I have learned that just because we don’t know it happens, doesn’t mean it’s not happening. Many things have been kept hidden for obvious reasons, but mainly because if anyone really does know what goes on 100% of the time, then no one would be safe, and everyone would run around paranoid. At a sense ignorance is bliss, because what you don’t know won’t hurt you, and at the same time, you already have you own stuff to deal with.

Extra Credit Haiti Retreat

I didn’t know what to say about Haiti when the earthquake hit. To my surprised I didn’t think we would do anything, because in all honesty we haven’t. I was acting on what, I’ve been taught to act on, and that is always question everything we do even when were doing it. I understood why Haiti needed help but I never really understood why we were helping them. America has really never helped Haiti unless it was to benefit them and make them look supportive. When I went to the Haiti Retreat presentation, I was baffled. I didn’t know what to expect, but what I didn’t expect is exactly what I encountered. I enjoyed the music that they played, and the talent that they possessed to play such wonderful and enlightening music. I also wondered how they could play with such force when it sounded so passionate. I also watched how everyone, even though they didn’t know the words to the song, and perhaps it was their first time hearing the song, moved to the beat. There was even a point and time where everyone got up and danced together, and that when I knew you have to make the best of with what you got, even though what you got, is not a lot. Then it hit me, that’s what Haiti has been living with, they barely have anything, and when something so tragic as an earthquake happen they have less than what they originally had, which wasn’t a lot. And it isn’t the greed or the spite of America to look like the hero to help them out, but the caring consciousness that everyone has to lend a helping hand when someone is in need. That night it showed me, that everyone can come together, despite the differences one might have, or the conflict. Just for one night, people can come together and put their differences aside, and enjoy themselves, for who they are, and for what is to become of them and their surroundings.

Emmett Till

The poem was strongly moving. I just learned about Emmett Till's case, and I understand how gruesome this case would be to show too elementary and middle school kids, but I believe that when you get to high school kids should learn about this case during black history month. It’s a shame that not many people know about Emmett Till’s case but I believe that this poem showed more than the mess of Emmett Till’s case it showed him as a person and a different way of viewing the case. Instead of seeing him as a slaughter case, there is more to a human the revenge, hurt, and sorrow. It is easy to hurt, and it is easy to lash out on someone for their mistakes, but I believe that it takes much courage to understand that people have hurt you, and some people do thing that anger you, but what is it to you after you lash out on them, what is it to you to hurt them as badly as they’ve hurt you? The pain never dies, and the hurt inside you will continue, until you bring peace within yourself. The past shows us what we’ve done and what has happen to whites and blacks, but what has happen then only affects how we act now. The hatred in us between the two races is what you make of it, why hate someone for what their ancestors did? And why belittle someone? If you think you are more powerful, stronger and wiser, than prove it. There is no need to make someone feel like they are nothing, because everyone means something to someone, even if they don’t mean anything to you.

Reflection 20

I believe that intersexuality, is the same thing as a heterosexual, which means that at birth they were born with both a penis and a vagina. Though they were born with both they do not have both for the rest of their life. At birth the parents must choose which one they want to be, which in reality it really isn’t the parent’s choice. If you have both it is easier to cut the penis off and make you into a girl. It’s all science, and a lot of surgery, but in the long run, if you wanted a boy, you got a girl. I don’t believe you know your child is a heterosexual when it is in the womb. Studies have also lead us to believe that once a child is a heterosexual it is told that they experiment with the other sex, but end up living the life of a straight person. There is talk that heterosexuals trigger the creative side of the brain, and that they are more artistically, and musically talented, musicians like Ceria, and Lady Gaga are heterosexuals. As for transgenders, there is years of mental and physical battle for them, I believe out of everyone the transgenders have it the worst. When you grow up, you have to learn to like yourself to believe in yourself, and have confidence with yourself. Transgenders never feel that confidence and don’t feel conferable in their own skin, unless they changed their gender. The sign of transgenders are usually the tom boy, which is really a girl, I’m not saying that, that is always the case, but transgenders girls usually try to fit in with the boys, and are really into sports, or musically talented. Some transgenders only go as far, as dressing up as the opposite sex and going out with the opposite sex, where as others go to the extreme of a physical transformation. They don’t feel conferable in their skin, which means if they are a girl they want to be a boy, and if they are a boy, they want to be a girl. The physical formation is painful, they have to wait a year, taking hormones and pills that help their body get ready for the surgery, it also helps the person get used to the lifestyle of the sex they want to be, and show them what it takes to be a guy, and how society will treat you. I say that transgenders has it the worst, because finally when they are happy and are conferable to be where they are at, society still rejects them. Just because the surgery gave you a penis or a vagina doesn’t mean the rest of your physical features show that you are fully the opposite gender. I know a person who went through the process, he was a guy who changed into a girl, yet he still has the manly facial features, and the big hands. The little, but noticeable things that still set them apart, from truly being what they want to be.

Reflection 19

I’ve never been opposed to homosexuality, I always thought of it as an interesting subject. When I was in seventh grade I had met my best friend Amairen, I would soon find out some years later, that she was a lesbian. I have been place in the homosexuality environment since then, and during my high school years I’ve come to realize that some of my best friends where homosexuals. I’ve learned that the cause of homosexuality is that you are simply born with it, and I believe that’s true. Society has been degraded from the old times, and simply girls really mistreat their bodies and expose themselves in matters that aren’t really proper. I believe that now, homosexuality is quote on quote in. Girls are more to explore the stages of homosexuality, but when they do so it effects with homosexuals who really are looking for other homosexuals, this is where my views have changed. I don’t believe you are homosexual if you have just decided a couple of months that you are one, I believe you have to be in a relationship and deal with what society says about you, for you to really be a homosexual. Yes, I have put standards for someone to be something, but it is ridiculous on how society has taken to the extremes about homosexuals. Like I said before, homosexuals are born with it. It isn’t a disease or something that can be cure; it’s their way of life, something that they can find happiness in. I’ve always been open minded to situations, but I believe homosexuality isn’t a situation. It’s a process that some people go through, like other people. They go through relationships, they have heart breaks, and yes they even have sex. Their no different from you or I and they live life the same way you do. What always bothered me about society was that everyone who was not a homosexual thought that they would constantly get hit on by a homosexual. Everyone has standards, if the girl next to you is straight and she doesn’t take interest in you, what makes you think a homosexual will? We all have standards we aren’t out to get anything with a penis, or anything with a vagina we want emotions, attractions, and someone who cares for us too. Society is still getting used to homosexuality, and sometimes they just need the knowledge about it, instead of constantly thinking that change is a bad thing, because this isn’t change, its been happening for years, now its just come out of its shell.

Reflection 18

I myself was wondering, can you really make a political matter, a racist matter? If you look at it from the surface you can see it just as it is, a political matter. The Haitians didn’t have the same privileges as the Cubans because they weren’t govern the same way. The Cubans were run by communist, were as the Haitians were run by a democratic government. It was plan and simple, if the Cubans ever got sent back to Cuba knowing they tried to escape, they would have been sent back and would have been taken to jail, or even worse, politically persecuted. Were as the Haitians would of just been sent back to the poverty which the had originally came from. Now when they talk about racism, they have a part of a case. The United States is discriminating towards the Haitians because they are denying them the privilege to stay in America. Then it goes into a political matter because the Cubans have something to offer to the United States, in the 1960’s Cubans brought their own wealth, and they were highly educated. We didn’t mind the wet foot dry foot rule, because it was beneficial for us. If Cuba didn’t want their educated citizens, then we would gladly take them, and use them for our benefits. Where the Cubans didn’t mind because they were away from their communist country, and were able to make a living, because truth be told, most of the Cubans were smarter than the average American citizen. Now when it comes to the Haitians they were the poorest country in the hemisphere, they didn’t have enough money to keep their citizens alive, never mind give them a decent education. The Haitians had nothing to offer America, they had labor skills, and the skills to stay alive, though they were not educated, and they had no money. Where the Cubans could work there way up with the kind of skills they brought to America, the Haitians weren’t as privilege to have those skills; instead they had other kind of skills that would still leave the Haitians at the bottom. This case is a racial matter, but in a way the Americans tried to help the Haitians they had a dictator ship once, and America took him out. We can’t help a country by constantly bringing in people, because it doesn’t really help their country, it just helps the citizens that leave and never come back. Though for the ones still there it’s all about what happens in the country instead of the ones who makes it out. I believe that this is more of a political matter than a racist one, sure there are some racist points, but there are more details then meet the eye.

Reflection 17

I’ve learned that racism doesn’t happen because of one person, it happens when a group of people come together and believe in something so strongly that they go out of their way and make other people lives more difficult. I’ve learned that all races are affected by racism, whether you are Black, White, Native American, or even Hispanic. And now that I’ve come to this realization, Hispanics are even racist towards each other because of their own different background. There has been this rivalry between Porto Rica's and Cubans since as long as anyone can remember. I agree that some stories play out like Disney movies, but there are others that are very crucial where racism become a big part of their lives. Viewing these standpoints I’ve also learned that there are different types of racism. Avoidance is one of them; I thought it was good to avoid someone you don’t like because that way you don’t cause confrontation with the other person. I’ve learned that some people use avoidance as a way of racism, avoiding someone can easily become neglecting them, thinking you are more superior then they are, and that you can degrade them just by avoiding them. I didn’t know that silence can say so much, and I’m sure that many people don’t know that they are being raciest. Because if this is so, then the Amish have been racist to new cultures for many years now, because they are going out of their way to reject the new ways of technology and of culture, and by doing so I’m sure by not converting they believe that their way of living is a more sophisticated living then we have it. Another concern is that children have such racial behaviors when they are young, I’m not sure if they don’t know better, or more of they weren’t taught with the up most respect to respect others, no matter what race. But children play the racist role while they are young; part of racism is antilocution; this is when someone verbally rejects someone else. Children do this all the time at school or even around the neighborhood. They learn at such a young age, what to say to get their way and to get people to listen to them. Some kids are labeled bullies because they pick on little kids; this is a form of racism because they are rejecting different cultures that don’t fit to their liking. Racism isn’t just about discriminating; it’s more on how you treat others.

Reflection 15

I was amazed how some people couldn’t believe that such a drastic event happened, not only that they couldn’t believe it, which is an understatement, but that they were in denial that it ever happened. In eight grade I grew an obsession on the Holocaust it was a fixation that I had to know what happened, whether your survived the concentration camps or didn’t I wanted to know their story. Their stories amazed me; I was heartbroken and overwhelmed just reading the experiences that they went through. I never doubted anything they said, I was just amazed how far they made it, and some how hard they struggled to stay alive. This one book I read told the story of a man who wasn’t exactly the strongest worker over their so they didn’t work him to death, but pretty close to it. They were moving from concentration camps to concentration camp in winter time, he was lucky just to have pants, or even a shirt on. As they were walking to the next concentration camp he collapsed feared that he couldn’t go on anymore, the guard told him that if he stayed there he would die. As fear was rushed into him, he had no choice but to move on. He was one of the lucky survivors who made it out alive, though later in life he learned that when he was all set to give up on that winter day, two days later he would have been saved and no longer had to be part of the concentration camps. Reading these stories I never knew how people where in such denial about certain situations. But now I’ve learned to look at things through other people’s point of view. Just because something is going on in the world, doesn’t make you realize why it is going on or maybe it doesn’t register that it really did happen, and it wasn’t just a rumor. I also believe that if you weren’t introduced about it, or it wasn’t talked about around you then, it wasn’t true. A similar event is the KKK, the KKK was said to be provoked during early times, and we believe that it has come to an end because we don’t hear about it. Though up north, it isn’t that they just hear about it, but they also witness parades, and African American cops fear for their lives and refuse certain shifts because of how strong the KKK is up there. I believe that people don’t believe things happen, because they were never taught certain events, and such disbelief can also come from traditions, maybe if they believe that none of it happens, and then they can’t install hate and fear into that generation.

Reflection 18

I myself was wondering, can you really make a political matter, a racist matter? If you look at it from the surface you can see it just as it is, a political matter. The Haitians didn’t have the same privileges as the Cubans because they weren’t govern the same way. The Cubans were run by communist, were as the Haitians were run by a democratic government. It was plan and simple, if the Cubans ever got sent back to Cuba knowing they tried to escape, they would have been sent back and would have been taken to jail, or even worse, politically persecuted. Were as the Haitians would of just been sent back to the poverty which the had originally came from. Now when they talk about racism, they have a part of a case. The United States is discriminating towards the Haitians because they are denying them the privilege to stay in America. Then it goes into a political matter because the Cubans have something to offer to the United States, in the 1960’s Cubans brought their own wealth, and they were highly educated. We didn’t mind the wet foot dry foot rule, because it was beneficial for us. If Cuba didn’t want their educated citizens, then we would gladly take them, and use them for our benefits. Where the Cubans didn’t mind because they were away from their communist country, and were able to make a living, because truth be told, most of the Cubans were smarter than the average American citizen. Now when it comes to the Haitians they were the poorest country in the hemisphere, they didn’t have enough money to keep their citizens alive, never mind give them a decent education. The Haitians had nothing to offer America, they had labor skills, and the skills to stay alive, though they were not educated, and they had no money. Where the Cubans could work there way up with the kind of skills they brought to America, the Haitians weren’t as privilege to have those skills; instead they had other kind of skills that would still leave the Haitians at the bottom. This case is a racial matter, but in a way the Americans tried to help the Haitians they had a dictator ship once, and America took him out. We can’t help a country by constantly bringing in people, because it doesn’t really help their country, it just helps the citizens that leave and never come back. Though for the ones still there it’s all about what happens in the country instead of the ones who makes it out. I believe that this is more of a political matter than a racist one, sure there are some racist points, but there are more details then meet the eye.

Refelction 14

I agree with Jim Cole to a point, when he states if I rather live in a world that discrimination is illegal, or would I rather live in a world where no one desires to discriminate. In my opinion I wouldn’t live in either one, part of it is if you don’t desire to discriminate than what other desires have you lost? I also believe that people need the chaos in their life to feel a common bound to when things go right once in a while. I don’t believe discrimination is right, but I do believe that once people stop discriminating than that means there will be eternal peace, and I don’t think people can live like that. I believe we all think how wonderful it would be to live in a world where everything is just that easy, everyone loves, and lives, and dies of natural causes. But in reality when everything is handed to you, what are you really living for? Coming back to the topic of discriminating I don’t believe everyone knows what they do, until they do it, and once they’ve done it their used to it. For example, take cell phones, once you have a cell phone and a couple of months go by, a new cell phone comes out, then you want another cell phone, and the many months go by, and the phones just replenish because that’s how our economy works, we don’t want what’s old we want everything knew, and up to date. I also believe that, that’s how it works with discrimination, but discrimination in the example of a cell phone, once the group who is being discriminated has lost of interest, then they discriminate someone else, and it continues. Of course the discriminating never stops, it’s who they discriminate that changes, and not everyone goes along with this change, because reality is most people who discriminate have been passed down with that hatred for generation to generation, and they don’t even know why they discriminate against that group, they just know to do so is to fit in, and no one wants to be left out. Another part of discrimination is what you believe in, and that is what the generation passed down from generation accounts for, but they only give you half the part, just because they believe it, doesn’t mean you half to. Believing to discriminate because they do, means that they have some facts that you believe in, there for you will discriminate as well. As for your vales, it’s passed on from what your parents taught you, into what you believe is right and wrong. For example having your son or daughter forbidden to date an African American, this is a side effect of your value; because you think sense you have such high expectations that if she date’s someone of an African American decent then it will cloud her judgment. Your attitude is where your values and beliefs are put into one and acted upon people.

Reflection 13

The passage talked about reinventing ourselves, this includes our self-esteem. I believe you have to have a major shift in order for you to really accept yourself as a person. At a young age we are taught to be careless, because we are still growing, but between our teen years until we are senior citizens we are judge, and criticized day in and day out. The self-esteem we manage can only hold on for so long until we manage to crack, but what about those people who don’t crack? What about the ones who know how to handle particular situations without having a mental breakdown? I believe those people have come to accept themselves as a human. The next question you ask is that aren’t we all human, yes, yes we are. But as Freud said to be a human we must be, a lot of people interpret things in different ways. Though I believe that in order to be a human you must accept yourself for who you are and what you’ve done, that to me is being, and to be is to live. Many people don’t accept the things that they’ve done because they have put it behind them, making whatever they’ve done become their past. But I believe you cannot live your future without understanding your past. People like to take you for what you are now, minus the bad and take in the good. But I’ve learned to truly accept someone you must take in the good, as well as the bad. How can you expect people to accept you, when you yourself can’t accept who you are? This is where reinventing ourselves come into place, we need to accept ourselves. We are the most self centered creatures on this planet, if we don’t think highly of ourselves, then who would? Your self-esteem can be managed by many factors whether it comes from within, or whether it comes from your environment and other people. Your surrounding has a huge influence on how your self-esteem will increase or decrease throughout the day. But that is if you let other people affect how you see yourself, the greatest power is to accept your self-esteem from within and you are the influence of your self-esteem. I believe to understand the self you have to listen to yourself, there are a lot of influences that can make you swing every which way, but deep down you are the one making the decision, and only you can decided. Also because you are making the decisions it’s you who will end up facing the consequences whether it is a good or bad outcome. When you learn that things shift, you’ll learn that they shift for your benefit, if you’re the one doing the shifting.

Refelction 12

Even though everyone doesn’t like what Freud’s theories might be, that doesn’t mean they are one hundred percent wrong. I believe every psychologist has a little truth in their theories. When Freud talks about his Ethos, and Thanatos theories he is talking about what people live for and how people have the power to kill people, with out even realizing it. I think the people who don’t believe in Freud’s theories, don’t understand what man kind is capable of, whether it is good or bad. The Ethos and Thanatos also blends in with the id, ego, and the superego. I think that people still consider it important is because that even though not many people reach all of these stages, it still holds truth to most. I think that Freud is constantly switching his theories, and in a way I believe that theories need to be switch because changes are made. I enjoy his Ethos and Thanatos theory because it stands true no matter what. We are human, we live and learn and make mistakes. But one thing life has taught us, is to thrive and seek for a companion, or to thrive and seek for love. Society is responsible for the way we view love, but we are responsible of constantly yearning for it. We spend our entire lives to find happiness, and most of us believe that happiness is found once we’ve found love. Though after a period of loving someone Thanatos comes and tares us apart over what, jealousy, envy, over thinking, and interpreting the situation in how you see it, not how it is seen. But that’s why I believe that Freud can change his theories, and why throughout his life he has. People think and believe what society has taught them to think and to believe. For example, now society believe that when getting married, there is a high chance you will get divorce because now things aren’t lasting as long as they used to, due to a variety of variables. Due to this we are looking for ethos our whole lives to be drawn to such a powerful thing, and once we have it within months we start thinking about Thanatos because our society believe that nothing last forever, so we find our own mistakes and make them so that things don’t last. Freud theories work on the human mind, because they hold true to some, because when you believe something and you feel strong enough about it, the chance it what ever you believe will happen.

Reflection 11

I believe being a teacher, is two jobs in one. Not only do you have to teach a child the subject matter, but you have to care for one as well. Have you ever heard the saying it’s not what you say, but it’s how you say it. Well throughout only months, I’ve learned that, that is the key thing to being a teacher. It might sound crazy, but it’s true. Students aren’t ready to have you take them by the horns and run with it. They want things dumb down, and they want things to come easy. Of course this isn’t always the case, you can’t expect to meet everyone’s needs, and everyone has needs. In this situation, you are teaching the student through the eyes of the many beholders. You are put in the perspective that you can’t only teach the material, but you have to relate it to them, because as humans it’s always about the, me factor, and you have to meet that me factor in order to get some sort of learning accomplished. Even though this might seem like variety of importance, the main key is depending on how you say something, is what they interpret and what they learn. Another thing that is important to me for becoming a teacher in reading about beliefs, values, and attitudes, is that you have to explain all the factors. Everyone has their comfortable way of living and how they like to run their life, and for everyone else it’s a little different from the person before. That’s why you can’t only have one person’s opinion when teaching something for the benefit of someone learning from it. You have to teach it through variety of opinions because just because you see something one way, doesn’t mean another person can see it from that same way, and you have to be ready to understand where your students are coming from, and help them have a better understanding of where not you just are coming from, but the world. Beliefs, values, and attitudes are things that you are brought up with, what you do with them, and how you use them are up to you. Still your beliefs, values, and attitudes change when you’re span of knowledge increases. Everyday you learn something knew, whether you apply it in life situations, or think about it as a useless math problem, your learning, and things can be alter just by an event or even a phrase that will affect you. The thing is teachers teach you what they already know, their not doing anything different with you, then the next person who comes along. It’s really you, who is starting to understand, and cope with what is being taught.

Human Diversity reflection 10

I agree with most of the things from Teaching from inclusion. I believe that it takes time to change for the better, because old habits never seem to quite die. Also, not everything is changeable. You know the difference between right and wrong, but in a culture, there might not be such a thing as right or wrong. Just because the student doesn’t follow things the way you see them, doesn’t mean it is wrong, their beliefs might be different, and instead of changing them, we might have to adapt to how they think, even if it’s not what we believe. Students are very sensitive, their going through the hormones and the teenage life, things are not as always as easy as we believe them to be. They always think the world is out to get them, and so are you. You have to watch what you say around students, and most importantly, it’s not what you say, it’s how you say it. Your tone of voice can affect the words that you speak and how the student interprets what you are saying. Another case is that, you should stop blaming yourself for every time a student cries, or gets upset. Half the time a kid has a sudden outburst in your class from something you say, might not always have to deal with you. Like I said before, they are teenagers, and their all about fitting in and trying to survive their high school years. Now all these examples are for later on in the school year. Getting to know your kids is usually done the first day of school. The first day of school is the most important part because, everything is about first impressions. What you say, how they act, what they wear, how your classroom is organized, all depends on how conferrable the student will be in your classroom. The most important thing on the first day of school is to get them out of their comfort zone, not only with you, but with the people around them. The individual sees themselves as an I the first day they walk into class, eventually during the school year, you should have them see themselves as a, we, instead of an I. This involves social interactions from, discussing something about them the first day of class to working on a group project. The first day of school is also important because, often you make an ass out of you and the other person by making assumptions. Yes assumptions, we do it every day whether we are inside the classroom or outside in the real world. We stereotype, we don’t know we do it because it’s out of habit. In the classroom environment we single out who we want to sit next to, and who we want to talk to by stereotyping. That’s why some teachers change their seating charts each semester. Your classroom atmosphere is also important it will depend on how your students react towards one another. In the classroom we are still learning, we are not only learning the material that is given to us by the teachers, but day to day reactions and how to handle different situations. In a classroom as teachers we can manage these situations by showing the students that not everything they say or do is right, and stop their behavior. If you continue to let students continue their misinformation that they have learned, they will not accept the reality of the situation and learn responsibility from not repeating things that might damaged them socially. Being a teacher isn’t only about learning how to teach the subject, but also how to teach kids the golden rule, and how to survive out there in the real world. School isn’t just a learning environment, but it’s also a social event.

Reflection 9

How aware you are, depends on what you’ve experienced, and of your understanding of that experience. Your awareness is not just about what you see, but it’s how you see it. We all know that not every individual is the same, so not everyone sees things the way you may see them. Awareness allows people to see things the way they want to see them, whether it’s through their morals, beliefs, or just how they feel about the situation. When you look at awareness through your morals, you’re also looking at things through your beliefs because they coincide with one another. When you’re awareness triggers something as familiar as the difference between a Christian, and a Catholic it’s from your past experience from being brought up in a religious setting, and what morals you choose to live by. Where as the experience you have what you feel about your awareness, is that the situation has come up before, have you ever had a gut feeling? This is exactly what a awareness feeling is, the part where you don’t know why what your about to do is good or bad, you’ve never done it before, and you haven’t experienced it, you just know that it shouldn’t be done. This awareness can also be influenced and changed by your perception, because as you get older your perception might change from what its original though about the problem was. Instead of creating a problem, you now have an understanding of a situation, but it’s not necessarily a problem. Awareness is more of a thinking process were the consciousness is your reaction, and control of your awareness. For example, remember your gut feeling? When your consciousness comes into control it allows you to act on your gut feeling. Your awareness allows you to feel what’s right and what’s wrong, were your consciousness allows you to respond to these feelings. They also stated that your consciousness keeps things in for safe keeping. I believe that this is true. I believe that it doesn’t only keep things for safe keeping, but it also hides things to protect you. As humans we are entitled to our own mistakes, and sometimes we say things without thinking. I believe that our awareness and conscious works together and helps us keep things in, so we don’t end up damaging ourselves. For example our awareness allows you to feel this gut feeling and the consciousness stops you from acting, and the end result, might be that some things are better left unsaid.

Human Diversity reflection 5

Human Diversity Reflection 5
In Culture, what it is, they talked about having a variety of cultural experiences, to realize someone’s full potential and to fulfill their worth. I belief that this is true, you can’t only look at a perspective from your point of view. There are other people who are of different culture who have a different point of view, they might not agree with what you’re saying but that doesn’t make either one of you wrong. What we experience is how we see things through other people’s eyes. Luckily I grew up in Miami which is the most cultural city in the U.S. I can’t imagine walking in other peoples shoes, but I do see things the way that most people couldn’t pin point to save their life. I learned that there is no point in feeding someone your way, because just because it’s the right way, doesn’t mean it’s their right way. Like a math problem there are many different ways to solve an equation, and just because you didn’t solve it their way, doesn’t mean your answer isn’t right. The two theories in the, is it culture, if it’s the object who makes the product or is it the value who makes the product. In my opinion society has come out with many objects some useful others, not so useful. I don’t believe an object can make the product, because in production, you will encounter many objects, but why does this product last? I don’t consider value in, how much the product is worth, rather how long this product will last me. People are stingy with their money, and they don’t like change. So how do companies get their money, they make a product with great value, meaning a couple of years, and then continue to come out with objects that make the product value to increase. That way, you don’t see the change in the value, you just see more objects for your value, to increase your style of living, because although we are not use to change, we like change in our everyday life, it is something we look forward to. As for the transformation, creating a context, it’s not whether you have a solution to the problem or not, because people don’t want to hear what you have to say. This is their way of solving problems that might be created within the way you solve a problem. What ever needs to be done has to be done their way, whether you know how to do it their way or not. This cuts out the middle man, and leaves no room for change, just improvement of a way of living, whether it’s complex or simple.

Human Diversity reflection 8

Human Diversity Reflection 8
This all comes down to Nature vs. Nurture really, the thing is the way you were brought up is what your parents wanted you to see, and what your parents thought you could do without for a couple of more years. What your parents install in you are morals and understanding that the life isn’t such a great place, but no matter how badly you mess up in your life time, their will be people who support, cherish and love you no matter what your decision is. Now of course along these guidelines are some called for good spanking because discipline is part of growing up. There are responsibilities as well as consequences for your actions, so choose wisely. Where as the media gives you life, when your ready for it or not, it doesn’t explain why you or given it, or what you do with it, and it sure as hell doesn’t help you out with it. It wants you to take life by the horns and run with it, what you do with it, isn’t really their concerns, and if you live or die, it’s just another person who wasn’t fit to survive in a world so young. I believe parents bring you up with compassion and morals. They teach you what is right in their eyes, and how to protect yourself from others. Where as society throws life tough lessons at you, and if you can’t deal with them, then why are you standing there, type of deal. I sure as hell didn’t learn gender roles only from one party, your society, the media, and my parents play a big role of who does what and what should be done. Though everyone plays their cards a little different, and nothing is right or wrong in a world where you make the rules.
I believe people are defined by what's in their mind and not what they are physiologically or actually. A girl can kiss other girls for attention but that doesn't make her gay. She would actually have to like girls in her mind to be gay. Her actions don't speak for what's really in her mind. So if in your mind you are a boy, then you are a boy. I think that everything we do and act upon is all in the moment, of what we think. If we linger over something for so long, and tell our mind how much we miss something, then no matter how bad or good that person is we will continue to miss that person. Society has taught us to think Barbies are for girls were hot wheels are for guys, also that woman are house wives, and men bring home the cash. Society makes you think that’s how things are suppose to run, but your family can show you different alternatives. And even so it can be also seen the other way around, were your family installs sexiest beliefs in you and you see different from what the media has to say.

Extra Credit Nou Led, Nou La

Nou Led, Nou La
The Nou Led, Nou La experience was quiet moving. I kept contemplating over each piece whether it was a poem, a life story, or the way they played music. It wasn’t a judgment factor; it was more of an interest in their factor. This was my first time attending an event at Miami Dade and you can tell that when a country needs help we are will to lend a helping hand. Some poets and writers expressed sorrow and appreciation for the help. While others didn’t quiet see the Haitian movement as a down fall. Now of course this was a tragic matter, there is no doubt about that. But not everyone see things from a negative perspective. There was one lady there, whom I cant remember her name, but she gave an extraordinary and different perspective on the whole Haitian dilemma. Her words were that, everything happens for a reason. Whether what you experience is, good, the bad, or the right and wrong. Things happen so you can learn from the situations, and grow as a person. Now no one wants to be apart of something as tragic as Haiti, but what Haiti encounters allows them to grow as individuals and as a country. What Haiti witness from their desperate time, is the willingness people have to help them, they are not our country, but they are still people who are in dire need of support, donations, and a lot of spirit so that they can continue moving on day by day. Before the writer, a band was playing Haitian music. And I came to realize that not everything was about poor Hatit, it was more about, yes, that did happen, now lets try to rebuild ourselves and try again. And I believe that’s what the music did to the people in the audience. It wasn’t feeding us their culture, it was showing how people we tend to mix music with an uplifting spirit, and with unhappy times, we need music to motivate us to look forward. Showing us that times are bad, but we can make them good. Even though there were some high spirits in the auditorium, the truth of the matter is that what happen, happened. People died, cities destroyed, and now everyone has to start from scratch. Another writer lost her baby brother due to the earth quakes. What happen is real, and its extended its hurt, it pain, and its suffering through the whole world. So not only should we help with donations and sympathetic talks, but we should also give power to our lives. To say that we are here today and we will still be standing here tomorrow.

Human diversity reflection 6

Human diversity reflection 6
I don’t think anyone would of liked to be on of the little rock nine, just the fact is that it would change what we are and we would have to be put into their perspective of what they see and go through. Rather than what we’ve been through and what were still going through. Regarding to reacting at the sound of carrying guns to school, I believe that is a safety issue and it should be taken seriously. Having a gun for protection is protecting you, but what about the other side to a story? You can protect yourself because you know how to use a gun, but what about the people who don’t know how to use guns? You have students carrying guns just to feel safe, but what if danger does come by, people are going to be shooting other people because they fear for their lives. Carrying a gun has death written all over it, because people make mistakes, and people get them selves into situations that causes death, and unfortunately guns don’t kill people, people kill people. The thing is no one wants to see you go places where they haven’t gone, and do something with your life, because the truth is that they want to do the things you’ve done, and they want to go to the places you’ve been. This just means that you are advancing you are becoming something of yourself, and no one likes a little competition, especially competition that comes from, out of your element. People aren’t use to change and the truth is you really don’t get use to change. You are either born open minded, go through experiences to cause you to be opened minded, or you don’t accept things that you stand to believe aren’t true. When people holler and scream for you to get off the street, that’s the fear that they enforce in you, so you know that you’re not welcome. Depending on what type of person you are your embrace the challenge and move on to your dreams with a few pumps on the road. But knowing society, people get the best of other people, are reactions are caused by other peoples actions. Society has a great affect on people, and I know with my characteristics I am easily drawn into fear, and will easily be scared out of a place with the worst intentions. I look up to the people who have the courage to stand up to society and their judgmental aspects, and I look down on society members that feel its okay to judge a book by its cover, and not by what they have to offer.

Human Diversity reflection 7

Human Diversity reflection 7
Rites of passages are important because its people’s beliefs, its how your family brought you up, and it is what makes you who you are today. Rites of passages aren’t discriminated between what’s right and what’s wrong, just like believing in your own religion isn’t right or wrong. Your belief is what you stand by, its how you were brought up, and the only way you know when you are young. Rites of passages don’t only happen in your religion or culture; it also comes up in society. A rite of passage is a memorable event, which will forever change you as a person. Whether its getting your high school to diploma, tell getting married, these are rites of passages. Can you label these rites of passages wrong or right?
If not, then you shouldn’t be able to label Facing Mt Kenya, Sitting Quietly, and the Sambia rites of passages as wrong or right. In Facing Mt Kenya they discuss that their rites of passage doesn’t begin with male circum session like we are use to. Instead this task is design for young girls. It is a painful process for young ladies, they go through a surgical procedure were they cut the nerve were the woman gets all the pleasure from sex. This is rites of passage that every girl has to go through, the ancestors take special privilege in working on the procedure to make sure things are done, right. This isn’t that the girls have the surgery and get it over with; it takes time to prepare the girls to have this surgery, putting them on diets. They also have a celebration for the girls who make it through the surgery, and they have a healing process for the young ladies. As for sitting quietly this rites of passage is primarily towards the young men in the village. These boys have to go through fierce training; no I’m not talking military. They are training to be fearless, and stand up for themselves, because no one is always going to be around to help you out. Men are suppose to be fearless and are suppose to be tough, to concur any mission that lies ahead of them, with courage and capability to be a leader, their own leader. During these rites of passage, they don’t only torture the boys; they also torture the boy’s mothers. It’s okay to see your boy go in a child and come out a man, but would you feel differently if your boy came in and never came back out? As for the Sambia article, this rite of passage affects both young woman and young men. The women are given such power within their bodies that they couldn’t even dream of, and of course don’t know how to use these powers for good. They are brought up that woman are used for house chores, sex, marriage, and baby making, in the words of today, a house wife. Were as the men don’t have the power at their feet, they have to constantly be working for their power, they have to be the man of the house, constantly bringing home the money, bringing home food, and be build into a strong and brave man who can defend his family as well as his village. This is not only what makes a man and a woman, but this creates the future and generations to come.
The rite of passages is related to formal education because education isn’t something that you just grow up knowing. It isn’t implanted in your brain by birth, and your parents tell you to run off and go figure out the world with it. Education is about learning, step by step and day by day. We aren’t only learning how to read, write, solve solutions, and blow things up. But we are learning why the world goes round, and how we are apart of this world. What makes us significant in this world? I believe that the rite of passage is part of the education, what characterizes who we want to be, and how we can contribute to society. That’s all education is, learning more about us, and what we like. So at a certain place and time, when were ready, we have to go out there and show society what were made of, and what we can contribute to it, give back to it, what it gave us.

Human Diversity reflection 4

Human Diversity reflection 4

I believe that you can never be well-prepared for diversity. It is an ongoing learning experience that takes years to master, with plenty of knowledge to learn from through your experience. Life is full of lessons, once you’ve learned your lesson; you then will be greeted with another lesson to be learned. The experiences I have gone through that have made me understand and become aware of diversity are first being introduced and associated with gays, and lesbians.
My best friend in the sixth grade came out of the closet, during high school. This to me was quite a shocker, yet I was raised to have an open mind and even though this was relatively new to me, I didn’t have a negative reaction. Now most people say, that it’s fine for their friends to be gay, as long as they don’t hit on them and keep their distance. Well I got the best of both worlds. My best friend was a lesbian, and my best friend first hardcore crush was, me! The day she told me, I was taken back, I never realized that she was a lesbian never mind saw me in that way. She began to tell me how much she liked me back in middle school and how when we always hung out with my boyfriend, she wished it was her and not him. Even though she went through tremendous pain keeping it a secret from her friends and family, she also realized that she couldn’t make a person like her. It doesn’t matter if your gay or straight, if the person doesn’t like you there is nothing you can do about it. So, that’s what she did, she moved on. She realized that I was happier being with who I wanted to be with, that all she wanted from me, was for me to be happy. I know this sounds like a happily ever after, but as the years continued so does growing up.
My best friend continued to be there for me through my high school years, and while I was carried away with the boys, she had wrapped herself in her own love story. My best friend fell in love with the girl that helped her come out of the closet. The good news is that this time, the girl was also a lesbian. As the year went by, they started talking, and eventually kicked the notch up to dating. And we all know once you start dating that where the trouble lye’s. Her girlfriend now wasn’t just a lesbian, but she wanted to become transgendered. This is the story of our lives, once we have successfully completed something and getting what we want, everything changes.
Both of these girls became my best friends at one point or another, through the drama, conflict, and misunderstanding, everyone was able to work out what they wanted. Not everyone got what they wanted, but they did get an important life lesson out of all of these, and no life lesson is ever the same for each of us. This shift has taught me about diversity is that nothing should surprise you, everything goes off a little but in reality it’s the same understanding as you and I. A lot of people don’t understand how gays and lesbians have a relationship, but it’s not any different than us. We all still go day to day sometimes year to year trying to find someone we are compatible with to date, they go through the same things. In a relationship, they have fights, they have sex, and they have trust, just like we do. The difference is not what they do, it’s who they are. But we can say that about an African American dating a White woman, it’s not wrong, it’s just not common, and that my friend is diversity for you.

Human Diversity reflection 3

Paradigms are comparing a problem, based of a variety of series, which all lead up to the same outcome. Yet sometimes it doesn’t lead to the same outcome, it can also mean that, your theories allow you to make your assumption, but your assumptions might not be equal to the assumptions of another person. You can have as many theories as you want to allow you to help make your assumption, and your assumption doesn’t always equal right or wrong, as most people would think. If the person has a theory that make perfect sense, and if you add it up to an assumption that is valid, than their solution is correct. A paradigm isn’t how other people view you problems, its how you view you problems, and the theories and logically ways that you come up with, that help you solve your problem. This isn’t necessary the right or wrong way; it just helps you cope with how you deal with the situation.
As for a paradigm shift, this is when a person creates a challenging solution to problems, that he must create a solution by himself. He can create a solution that goes above and beyond the original problem, because of further problems dealing with the same solution. A paradigm shift, allows us to see multiple problems and solutions at a time, but that doesn’t mean we handle every problem and solution now. The problem and solutions are for later dates, which still conflict with the problem that you are facing today, but months from now, the problem will come again, with a different solution. What we get isn’t always what we see, when we write things on paper they make sense, but it usually takes time for us to experience the things, that later on in life we understand why they happen.
Yes, I have had a paradigm shift; I think everyone has had one without realizing it. The paradigm shift I had was, when I was younger everyone kept telling me to let go of a situation, because it was harmful for me to hold on to something that was lost many months ago. Instead of letting go, I continue to try to savior the relationship, while my partner was trying to end it. At the end it wasn’t me who let go, it was him. I began to think about the past, and why things ended the way they did. I also tried to allow myself to grasp onto what happen, and what was the cause of it. At the end there were many solutions to my problem. Yet, there became more than just one problem. At the end, I knew I could only handle one situation at a time, and the rest will unravel due time.
It’s important for teachers to experience a paradigm shift, because not everything is going to happen right here, and right now. Things come and go, but other things happen at a later date. No one can sit around waiting for something to happen without taking action. Not only towards yourself, but also towards others, in order to help others you must grasp the concept of helpings yourself, so you can help others. It doesn’t make sense for a psychologist to help their patients, when those their selves aren’t getting treated. So in order to teach what we know, we need to experience, and live through what we know, and grasp the concept, so we can teach others.

Human Diversity reflection 2

In A Beginning they talked about different ways society has changed to become who, and what it is today. People think that change comes from technology, or growing up. Even though technology does change a great deal of things, it isn’t the only aspect of change. Also growing up is a type of change, but what makes the difference is what surrounds you that is truly changing? What surrounds us isn’t what change, but how we act towards things, has a great affect on what the outcome will be, and that can change every time. For example, dealing with a problem, how we deal with problems is bases on our past experiences, or what we observe through others, or television. Depending on how you handle your problem, is how your out come will be and how you shift your life to transforming. The problem is that we don’t take kindly to change; we change because we have to not because we want to. It’s the cycle around us that keeps changing and in order to keep up, to survive we must change with it, and that also means when we are in the womb, to becoming a baby, a toddler, a ten, a young adult, and a senior citizen. Another way to transform is by alternating. When we alteration something, it usually to upgrade. We turn something that isn’t so great, into something that is extraordinary, and beneficial. As for the other article creating context, they weren’t talking about our surroundings per-say, they were talking about us and how we contribute to the changes, and transformation. What they talked about was our self concept, which entitles us to our beliefs, attitudes, and our opinions. The way we are entitled to our own opinions and beliefs is also a way that affects how we see other. This is a form of transformation, but it isn’t changed by transformation, this is based on pure society. What society wants, they will get. You are no different then the person next to you and you will find someone very similar to you. Your beliefs are someone else’s; because that’s they way society has raised you. In order to form a belief you have to gather a group of people to believe in your same ideas to make it work. Another personal issue is your self-esteem. Depending on your self-esteem it makes you who you are today. Whether it is good or bad, how you see yourself is how you view others, whether it is in a negative or positive way. Everything is changing, whether we like it or not, and sometimes we don’t even notice the changes when it happens.

Human diversity reflection one

I learned that our species can only evolve from here. It’s not that we choose to stay stupid, but we grow to learn more, each and everyday. When humans learned the use of fire, their brains grew bigger. It’s not because we learned how to make it; which did help us in the long run. But the way we used fire to benefit us, helped us evolved as a greater species. We learned that fire was a great substance, but how we used it is something entirely different. We used it to monopolize us as a greater species. Instead of being at the bottom of the food chain, we had a fighting chance. We used fire for our convinced, for warmth, and to survive. Having fire also allowed us to hunt; this was the greater deal for us because it shaped us to becoming who we are today. We weren’t only hunted by animals; we were also hunted by each other. Man and man can meet every single day, but every single day they train to be the best, and destroy who ever are weak. Hence when we saw uses for fire, we saw uses for physical usage of ourselves. Once man invented the wheel, our brain had function in an entirely different way, it wasn’t the use of our body to over power each other. It was the use of our mind, to give our body a break, and work other areas so that everything is equally dominated to be powerful. As for the history of writing, connects with inventing the wheel because, they use a creative path for us to not only challenge ourselves physically but also to challenge our selves creatively. Being a pre teaching intern, this information is useful because of the insight of the pass. We constantly are trying to beat each others, and reach our maximum power. In doing so we need to exercise the rest of our brain rather than using physical damage. We must be well rounded to cope with society, and adapt to their needs. There for our past inventions have shaped us to use not only physical strength but also creative techniques to defeat our component. We learn not to defeat anyone unparticular, but just to survive, as the human race. We are taught, power, love, and restrictions. Yet we are also taught manipulation, hatred, and defeat. What we have in front of us our tools, we can use to get what we want. Just how we get there is up to us.