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"I believe the greater the handicap,
the greater the triumph."
John H. Johnson
the greater the triumph."
John H. Johnson
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Reflection
As few of us women of about 60 in number sat to discuss the funeral arrangement of one of the brothers in church who just passed and how the women have been working so hard to give the brother a befitting funeral ceremony, a lady raised her voice that “with all our efforts as women, men still see us as being less than them.” I asked about the pain and confusion that has also enveloped the deceased son. Is anyone concerned about his emotional moments or trying period? This two important issues brought my mind back to the documentary on Miss Representation and The Mask You Live In. After watching Miss Representation which talked about the misrepresentation of women I asked myself these three questions: how has the documentary impacted my being, knowing and doing. How it impacted my being, I have always told myself that women are specially created by God to be strong, builders, intelligent, multitasking, home organizer, great mothers, sisters, aunts, great friends and supporters. By subjecting women to be less than men or object of ridicule without encouragement from the men is totally wrong and unacceptable. How has it impact my Knowing, the documentary has not really changed anything from what I am already aware of about how women are being treated or looked upon. I have worked with women who are at top management levels, and my very own sister happens to be one of them whom her husband divorced because of her position and influence Will the miss representation of women affect my doing negatively, I would say “no.” I look at men or other women who bring strong women down as being weak and less confident. Woman or women is just an identity, women are not created with a tag on their heads as less human or less than men. We are just the architect of all these believe about women being subject to the men. The media as an entity needs to stop blowing the issue of miss representation of women out of proportion, and begin to portray women positively to the world. Once that is done and great things are promoted especially about great women, people will begin to see women from a different perspective with lots of respect. The Mask You Live In which was the second documentary, talked about male kids with pains and emotions enveloped on the inside of them without even the parents sensing such issue and this mostly lead some of male teenagers into some awkward situations in life. How has this documentary impacted my being, knowing and doing? These are issues that I have dealt with as a journalist as I researched on why some teenagers or even grown up men do the things they do. It was discovered that about 85% to 90% of male children lack attention and affection from their parents. As a result some of them end up miserable or join bad gangs for solace. How has it impact my knowing? Like I said, it is not something new to me but I am glad that some other people in our discourse community will learn from this and begin to pay more attention and show affection to their children irrespective of their ages. I met a 6-year boy during my research on “Why some children put up some weird behavior”, the boy narrated how he has been neglected since his younger brother was born and that the only thing that comes to his mind was to get rid of the younger brother so as to win his mother’s love back. How has it impacted my doing? There is need for media awareness campaign on how to have a good parent-child relationship. I already know this but for the purpose of the discourse community, parents need to do more work of being friends to their children by going very low to their levels in order to get the best out of them. It is also very important to know that no matter how young your child is he or she deserve respect with dignity.
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Reflection “A discourse I will mean: a socially accepted association among ways of using language, of thinking, and of acting that can be used to identify oneself as a member of a socially meaningful group or “social network” James said. While we pulled our chairs to seat at the writers’ conference where I met James Paul Gee the author of “What is Literacy” among other great writers. “Does it mean it covers all facets of life in terms of specialization, because my lecturer also explained to us in class that my English composition class is a discourse community” James nodded to affirm the claim as we sat and went on discussing on the subject matter (Our Discourse Community Values). It was very obvious that James knew much about writing as he explained more to me about Our Discourse Community Values. As we went on discussing, another prolific writer and poet Pablo Neruda writer of “We Are Many” joined us in the conversation. “This is Pablo Neruda” James introduced him and vise-versa. Pablo lit up the conversation with jokes and fun but James quickly interjected by telling him that I want to be a writer and to also know more about discourse community values. Pablo was pleased to hear that while he promised to help in whichever way I feel he would be of assistance which I was glad to hear. Some of the values as writers James and Pablo explained were certain guidelines as a writer which they said include ones identity; that I must derive joy in writing; I must also know why and how I am writing; I will need to specify my target audience and lastly, my writing has to be based on past, present and future connection so as to have meaning among other values. Furthermore, Pablo asked if I have ever felt something each time I write and he explained to me how he usually feel using this statement “while I write, I am far away; and when I come back, I have already left. I should like to see if the same thing happens to other people as it does to me, to see if as many people are as I am, and if they seem the same way to themselves.” I was quick to answer that the same thing do happen to me when I am writing especially my emotional scenes in my English writing class. That was when James jumped to my question of that as writers we belong to one discourse community because we feel and reason the same way because we are in the writing community with the same value. That was when the discourse community thing really started making meaning to me. James went further to explain it with this follow-up statement “Discourses are inherently ideological, they crucially involve a set of values and viewpoints in terms of which one must speak and act, at least while being in the discourse, otherwise one doesn’t count as being in it.” I wanted to be clearer as I asked this question “Which means, one has to be fully involved just the way I am in the English Composition class or as a writer.” I could not thank them enough for these information and the opportunity and privilege given to me to be in their midst. James, finally added that “there are many points one can make about discourse” and he also stressed it that one of the values of being in the discourse community is involvement and commitment depending on where you belong. James, Pablo and myself later joined in the open conference after the 20-minutes interaction with one another which was the opportunity I had to speak with James and Pablo. I also met other writers too at the conference. Reflection
The purpose of the digital post is to reflect on what I have learnt so far since I started the English composition I00 course based on my blog. I am going to explain three major concerns as regards to my blog which include suffering, flourishing and functioning in relation with my website design. The design that are segmented into Home; About; Narrative Project; Research Project; Contact and Blog are what I would base my assessment on using the above three criteria (Suffering, Flourishing, Functioning) to judge my performance. Home Page: Functioning I would say it is functioning because quotes, photo and my three goals as well as the welcome write-up the background are done but not as expected especially with uploading pictures to the background which I am still struggling with. I am still improving by the day to make it better. About Page: Functioning My about page is functioning because I being able to do a few things to the best of my knowledge or ability but will continue to improve on it as time goes on. Narrative Project: Functioning I think I would say it is functioning because activities are taking place on the page, but I know there are still more to be done particularly my drafts which I keep working on. My background image is messed up and cannot fix it properly, which why my personal photo is yet to be on the background until I am able to get it fixed. Research Project: Functioning Is this page up to date? That is the question I am asking myself now. I would say not quite but there is certainly room for improvement because I definitely know how I started and where I am today as per what I can now do on my web page. Contact Page: Suffering Honestly, regarding my contact I do not know what to do aside from the my photo, quotes I have not added any other field but I would ask question as I have always being do so as to be sure of what needs to be done on this page. Blog Page: Functioning This page is functioning because this is the page where almost every of my posts go to for blogging. My photo, quotes are there but just like I said concerning the other pages there is room for improvement. Reflection Before now, I never knew the difference between genre of writing in terms of fictions or non-fiction, and specific style of writing. My identity as a writer is now becoming clearer and more meaningful to me and I have been able to identify my style which is more of non-fiction and emotional scene. I see myself in the future being a motivational speaker and writing my memoire based on my emotional life and experiences. Bellow is my video on reflection and I hope you enjoy it. |
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