Gatto says that school or boring and childish. It's boring to both the students and the children, because it's like the kids are learning the same thing over and over again and they already know the material. Techers feel that it's boring for them to be teaching kids who don't give them their full undivided attention and they spent all of their time trying to put together lessons to help them succeed and they treat them like their nothing. Gatto feels that school is childish because you have those kids who goof off and act up and you teachers who does the same thing. Teachers blame students for things. Nobody really acts mature anymore. They tend to show movies and let kids do work on computers, nine times of ten during the time that child should be working, their doing something they have no business doing, for example, they have to type a paper but instead their on youtube, facebook, twitter or some type of social network.
Growing up I use to think school was very boring, go other the same topic for about a week or two and then having to go through the same thing all over the next year. Most times I still kind of think school can be boring, it depend on what the teacher has planned for that day, and sometimes I really feel like some of the assignments are pointless and has nothing to do with anything. In high school I really felt that the students were childish for their ages, they did stupid things, they didn't do their work, they skipped class, like to me that was vey dumb. Most times students fail to realize that what we do in school is to benefit us and not the teacher. Whether the students are in class or not, they still get their paycheck, so why would they worry about you not being there? Although there are some teachers who worry about their students and actually care about there education so they step in and try to help them.
I hope that sooner than later, students get themselves together, because we have too much to lose and I want to see more students graduate from high school on time, with no kids, and ready for college. There has to be someone in their life to help guide them in the right direction and I'm sure it is, students just need to step up and do what's needed to be done. They say the next generation will be worse than the one we are in now, and I pray everyone could get their lives together and prove statistics wrong. Everybody would be just fine if we all did or jobs.
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Niedeckers Poetry
Niedeckers poetry is hard to comprehend at times, her word choices and the way she tells her life stories are also sometimes hard to grasp also and in order for me to understand, I have to search on google. There are a few poems of hers that's easy to kind of get a good idea. Her poems are based on her daily life living in Fort Atkinson, WI with her mom (whom is hearing impaired) where it is always raining and getting flooded, causing destruction around her home and the town. There was a poem she wrote about her family which only really consists of her and her mom, her father wasn't really around and she talks about how she spends time with her mom. Almost all of her poems pertain her mother, and they seem to have a very close relationship with one another. She does a lot of the work around the house for her mom, she helps take care of her. Most times I never know the way Niedecker feelings about certain things, she doesn't really express them in a way for me to understand, but depending on the poem and what she's talking about, sometimes it's easy to figure out.
I have a story similar to Niedecker how it always rains in her town, and one time we had a nonstop raining day and we were upset because it was all wet and nasty outside and even our basement floor had gotten flooded out. I like the bond that Niedecker has with her mother, I'm the same way with my mom. My mom is more like my best friend, I can talk to her about any and everything and she won't judge me, she'll just give me the best advice and hope that I take it into consideration which I do. I always help her and she always helps me. My father is in my life so I can't really compare the two lives together (my life and Niedeckers).
Sometimes I wonder when I'm reading Niedeckers poems, what makes her choose the wordings she choose for her poems. Although it's different, like I said before it's kind of difficult for me to understand. If she was alive, I would want to ask her, what her life was like living the way the lived, did she ever have hopes and dreams, where and what she wanted to do with her life and did she ever feel like she was alone. Did she not have a friend or two that lived nearby, what she did with her free time or did she just sit up with her mom all day everyday.
I have a story similar to Niedecker how it always rains in her town, and one time we had a nonstop raining day and we were upset because it was all wet and nasty outside and even our basement floor had gotten flooded out. I like the bond that Niedecker has with her mother, I'm the same way with my mom. My mom is more like my best friend, I can talk to her about any and everything and she won't judge me, she'll just give me the best advice and hope that I take it into consideration which I do. I always help her and she always helps me. My father is in my life so I can't really compare the two lives together (my life and Niedeckers).
Sometimes I wonder when I'm reading Niedeckers poems, what makes her choose the wordings she choose for her poems. Although it's different, like I said before it's kind of difficult for me to understand. If she was alive, I would want to ask her, what her life was like living the way the lived, did she ever have hopes and dreams, where and what she wanted to do with her life and did she ever feel like she was alone. Did she not have a friend or two that lived nearby, what she did with her free time or did she just sit up with her mom all day everyday.
Family Life
After reading "The Color of Family Ties" by Gerstel and Sarkisian, I found the article interesting. They talked about blacks and latinos/as and how their family ties are weaker than the whites. Extended families and the help they provide for their relatives. They talked about how blacks and latinos/as receive lower income than whites and education. How social class rather than culture is the key to understanding the differences, etc. But the part that really caught my attention was the part about the extended families, simply because I can relate to what the passage was stating. Families rely on their extended family members when they are in bad situations or when they are down and out. Extended families tend to help with transportation, household problems, and child care support. Also when they have a family member that's in need of shelter, they're willing to take them in their home for a while. This particular situation has to do with black and latino/as families, simply because their families don't have as much as whites.
From personal experience there's been times when family members needed help whether it was getting help trying to pay bills, having transportation from place to place, or even finding a babysitter. Almost every household in my family have a car, and most of them have at least one or two cars and 3 at the most, so whenever someone who doesn't have a car or their car is messed up, someone with more than one vehicle wouldn't have a problem with letting them borrow a car to get around. In my family there are also a lot of children, and when their parents have to work or run errands, their in need of babysitters. My family is very helpful when it comes to helping with the children.
I always wondered what life would be like when I got older and here I am at 18 going on 19 years old and I see what it's about. Growing up I always wondered why I couldn't get everything I wanted because in my eyes I didn't really know the expenses of life itself. Ex: having to pay bills, making sure there is food in the house, gas, etc. Now that I'm older I see why things went the way they did and that's why I chose to further my education so I can get a great job, have a family and don't have to really worry about stuff. I see the single adults with children in my family and it doesn't seem like it's no fun trying to take care of kids and stay on top of everything on your own.
From personal experience there's been times when family members needed help whether it was getting help trying to pay bills, having transportation from place to place, or even finding a babysitter. Almost every household in my family have a car, and most of them have at least one or two cars and 3 at the most, so whenever someone who doesn't have a car or their car is messed up, someone with more than one vehicle wouldn't have a problem with letting them borrow a car to get around. In my family there are also a lot of children, and when their parents have to work or run errands, their in need of babysitters. My family is very helpful when it comes to helping with the children.
I always wondered what life would be like when I got older and here I am at 18 going on 19 years old and I see what it's about. Growing up I always wondered why I couldn't get everything I wanted because in my eyes I didn't really know the expenses of life itself. Ex: having to pay bills, making sure there is food in the house, gas, etc. Now that I'm older I see why things went the way they did and that's why I chose to further my education so I can get a great job, have a family and don't have to really worry about stuff. I see the single adults with children in my family and it doesn't seem like it's no fun trying to take care of kids and stay on top of everything on your own.
Thursday, October 10, 2013
Sticking to the "Code"
Something that stood out to me in the "Guy Code" is the "Real Guy's Top Ten List". 1. Boys don't cry", 2. "It's better to be mad than sad", 3. "Don't get mad get even", 4. "Take it like a man", %. He who has the most toys when he dies, win." 6. "Just do it" or "Ride or Die". 7. "Size Matters". 8. "I don't stop to ask for directions". 9. "Nice guys finish last" and 10. "It's all good". To me, most of these statements is the reason most guys today stay in so much trouble. Trying to get even with the next guy and they end up doing something bad. They tell them to "Take it like a man", when they get hurt I know some of them wants to express the way they are feeling but since they have other guys around them they don't want to embarrass themselves and cry or anything. When a man shows his emotions it means that he is showing his weakness and he should be this "strong man" at all times. which isn't fair.
One time my brothers and male cousins were bike riding. My brother had someone on the handle bars which made it difficult for him to stop the bike using it's brakes, so he ended up crashing into one of my cousins bikes and he flew off of the bike which later landed on him. He was screaming crying in pain and all of the guys thought it was kind of funny for him to be crying so they told him to "suck it up" because he was a boy. Not knowing he had broken his leg and had to be rushed to the hospital. He had surgery on his leg and they put a cast on it so he had to walk around with crutches for a few months. I felt really bad for him.
The "guy code" is sometimes ridiculous to me just for the simple fact that, guys are human too, they have feelings and just because they show them it makes them a "punk" or "wimp" or "sissy". It isn't fair that they have to hold everything in. I understand that what it's only making them stronger as boys to men but sometimes they should get a little leeway. They shouldn't always have to feel like their trapped in box, just because they're males.
One time my brothers and male cousins were bike riding. My brother had someone on the handle bars which made it difficult for him to stop the bike using it's brakes, so he ended up crashing into one of my cousins bikes and he flew off of the bike which later landed on him. He was screaming crying in pain and all of the guys thought it was kind of funny for him to be crying so they told him to "suck it up" because he was a boy. Not knowing he had broken his leg and had to be rushed to the hospital. He had surgery on his leg and they put a cast on it so he had to walk around with crutches for a few months. I felt really bad for him.
The "guy code" is sometimes ridiculous to me just for the simple fact that, guys are human too, they have feelings and just because they show them it makes them a "punk" or "wimp" or "sissy". It isn't fair that they have to hold everything in. I understand that what it's only making them stronger as boys to men but sometimes they should get a little leeway. They shouldn't always have to feel like their trapped in box, just because they're males.
Monday, September 9, 2013
My Life!
Hello.
My name is Johniece "Joni", I was born and raised in Racine, WI. on March 6. 1995. My parents are Kimberly and Maurice. I'm the oldest of all of my sibilings, my mother has 9 children but one passed away back in 2007 and my father has one other daughter besides me. All of my life I have been living with my grandmother, except for when I moved to Fort Wayne, Indiana with my mom for about a year and a half. After that I went back home to my grandmother. Growing up I loved to dance, dance was all around me. When I was 3 years old I was apart of my churches praise and worship dance team. I had a passion for dancing so I continued dancing and in the 8th grade I became captain of the dance group I was in called, "Unfinished Business" which came after the group "Sisters Of Color" (the dance team my mom was apart of before they were caught in a tornado in Illinois and majority of the team was hospitalized.) The dance group lasted all the way to my senior year of high school because the girls no longer wanted to dance, they preferred to chase after the guys instead. We had lots of fun during the time we were together because, we performed in many places for numerous people. Another thing I enjoy doing is running track. I ran track my sophomore, junior and senior year of high school, and I loved it. I ran open 400's & 800's and 4*4 (1600 meter relay) & 4*8 (3200 meter relay). Sometimes I wish I would have ran as a freshman but I was too scared and shy to do anything. I thought I would be terrible and no one would want me on the team. When I actually tried it, I realized I was better than I thought. Now that I'm in college, I run cross country, I enjoy it but not as much as I did running track. Hopefully we can start up a track and dance team.
My name is Johniece "Joni", I was born and raised in Racine, WI. on March 6. 1995. My parents are Kimberly and Maurice. I'm the oldest of all of my sibilings, my mother has 9 children but one passed away back in 2007 and my father has one other daughter besides me. All of my life I have been living with my grandmother, except for when I moved to Fort Wayne, Indiana with my mom for about a year and a half. After that I went back home to my grandmother. Growing up I loved to dance, dance was all around me. When I was 3 years old I was apart of my churches praise and worship dance team. I had a passion for dancing so I continued dancing and in the 8th grade I became captain of the dance group I was in called, "Unfinished Business" which came after the group "Sisters Of Color" (the dance team my mom was apart of before they were caught in a tornado in Illinois and majority of the team was hospitalized.) The dance group lasted all the way to my senior year of high school because the girls no longer wanted to dance, they preferred to chase after the guys instead. We had lots of fun during the time we were together because, we performed in many places for numerous people. Another thing I enjoy doing is running track. I ran track my sophomore, junior and senior year of high school, and I loved it. I ran open 400's & 800's and 4*4 (1600 meter relay) & 4*8 (3200 meter relay). Sometimes I wish I would have ran as a freshman but I was too scared and shy to do anything. I thought I would be terrible and no one would want me on the team. When I actually tried it, I realized I was better than I thought. Now that I'm in college, I run cross country, I enjoy it but not as much as I did running track. Hopefully we can start up a track and dance team.
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