Rodriguez and Garcia

In the reading of Rodriguez I felt the struggle to fit in with the community and family life as someone who is trying to understand different languages. I have not been through this myself. Although, back in high school I had an internship that allowed me to teach 5th grade classes in a few Providence schools. All these schools were made of different cultures. The students in classrooms for the most part were great, the students who acted up struggled with languages. A lot of the students first language was spanish. The students were trying to understand how to speak and write in English. I do not speak spanish so this was hard on me to teach them how to learn about health. The way around this was another student would tell the other student what I was saying or I drew pictures of what I was saying. This worked, this was a form of language in away that I knew how to use to teach within the two years I was with the internship. Students loved my methods of teaching and we had a strong bond where students could trust me, and with that trust I gained control of the class and my students listened and the students that acted up stopped and learned that there are ways around a language barrier. Rodriguez was in my opinion was pressured into learning English instead of a more respectful approach. Nuns ran his school, nuns are known to be tough teachers. They would force him to speak in English when he didn't feel comfortable at speaking yet, he was used to speaking in spanish. He felt like he didn't fit in so he acted out or stayed quite. Nuns went to his house talked to his parents to tell them about it and to practice more at home. This happened and his world turned upside down. His family life changed and nothing was the same as it once was. As time moved on, he finally learned more about the English language and was confident in the community, and felt he belonged. Now, schools use translanguaging  in teaching in the classrooms.

Garcia writes about translanguaging and how it helps in schools in this point in time. "Translanguaging refers to the language practices of bilingual people." In some cases the child is the one who speaks more then one language instead of the parents. I have seen this by working at a store around 5 years ago. A child and her mother went through my check out lane I tried to speak to the mother about her total but she did not understand me, until her child spoke to her in spanish and her child who looked to be around 8 years old helped her mother out by telling her what I was saying and in return she told me what her mom was saying. This child I thought was smart, because even I have tried to learn a new language many times and still have many issues trying to get it right, she did it perfectly. Translanguaging "does not connote ignorance, alien status, or foreignness." " Translanguaging is a language practice of many bilingual American students in our classrooms." It helps students with ways to "teach both rigorous content and language for academic use."It makes students more confident and willing to work in schools, its positive and reassuring.

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Paris is Burning : Social Justice Event

Event  was Wednesday 2-13-19 12:30-2 pm.

Paris is Burning is of a culture of the ball culture in New York City. This is an African-American, Latino, gay and transgender community that works together to provide a culture of difference in there society. This documentary was filmed toward the end of the golden age and expressed race, class, gender, and a person's sexuality.
For these people in New York City they feel stronger walking down a runway. They feel proud of who they are and what they do. People who attend these balls also feel confident in them self. In order to rule a ball you need to be confident and proud of who you are in order to rule and become a mother of the ball or house. Someone needs to go above and beyond there own goals to win a ball and be awarded a trophy.
Also when in this community find your place where you fit in and you will feel good about yourself. If you do not do this you will be tossed aside and be unexpected into the community. Children in this community steal stuff to go to a ball just for one night. Some of these children do not have parents or family's they either live in shelters or on the streets or with friends. These children barely eat, they do not have money for food or clothes. In the end they feel better about themselves and they are noticed and excepted on the runways.
Some enjoy the satisfaction of the joy and fun that is on the runway. Some enjoy the fame and the physical high. A saying is in my own words more balls less drugs would equal a better world and that this would not hurt you to do.
Time changes things. But does not change everything. Blacks and gays have a hard time going places. Also, whites have more power. Parents can not except there child for who they are or who they would like to be. A parent could be against people being gay or bi, and transsexual. this could lead to horrible things like a parent giving up on there child and not caring about them or for them.
Some children can decide to be transsexual at a young age, resulting in broken homes, no parents and sadness, or they could already come from this. In the balls groups become family and friends.
Om the streets you think of a fight to be to the death or with knifes and guns, but at a ball fights are done by the walk you do to win a trophy. This is called voguing and this art form is hopefully going to be speed around the world. These people also say that if they were rich, they would spreed the wealth and not claim it all to them self's out of greed.
These people are the minority but pictured as the rich powerful white person. Things are taken but not given and this is way of life for the past 400 years. You pay for the label in stores, these people gain the wealth. People used to create there own style not anymore. The reason why not everyone can afford it, but people have dreams but they are hard to get or to earn. This art form has raised money for AIDS and homeless. In this world you can not always trust people because you can end up dead.
In this world we need love for one another, support, and to help each other out. People need to care and be real to yourself and to others do not hide yourself.
In New York people want these different people dead or they would like to hurt them or see them put into jail. Life is a fight, it is hard and trans-gendered people are a main target. Murder happens all the time because of hate.
"Yelling out from their graves for justice."

I am for this, it is positive and creative.
Kozol: It relates to this because of culture and race and wealth. People both in Kozol and Paris is Burning have mix culture and race and are poor no one is rich. children are hungry people on the streets, lack of family. Both happen in New York.
Johnson: This relates to sexual orientation and how people react to people who are not straight. Gay people and so on are treated differently because they are different then others, but they are not treated fairly and sometime robbed and hurt sometime murdered in the streets.
Delpit: "Children have the right to their own language, their own culture." Children can make there own language and there own culture though who they are as a person. Each person is there own art form and expresses this in there own way.
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Kozol

I have learned something new about New York City. I never knew some parts of the Bronx were in such horrible conditions. People of all ages men, woman and children witnessing horrible things or doing these things everyday. Such things include suicide, murder, drugs, and prostitution. They do things like this to either end their lives because its hard to survive or they do these things to live because there poor health can not let them live a good life and have a good job to support them and there family. People can barley get assistance from the state or not at all. As I read Kozol's article I found myself in tears. This made me upset because of the conditions these people have to live in. I was heart broken because of the children that had to live either on the streets going from home to home or church to church. Children asking for food from many of the food banks, parents not being able to afford a home or a good place to stay, no heat in the winter and no break from the heat in the summer. Bugs over run places in which they live and eat, they walk on the bodies while they sleep and land in the food supplies. Some children can not even get free or reduced lunch "because they are classified as only poor not destitute." This is not right in my opinion, the state should do more to help these poor people and help reduce the drug and crime rates. A lot of people in the Bronx area go around with AIDS. AIDS is passed around by rape and by people who do not even know they have it. They are scarred to even get tested. The hospitals are in really bad shape and you sometimes have to care for yourself. The hospitals are under staffed and there is lack of help. When you go you could be waiting 2-3 days before you get a room  and you could get even more ill waiting for one, because you have to wait with other sick and dying people. If you get a room it could not be cleaned, you would have to clean it yourself which is horrible. If you go to a hospital it is for help not to be the hospitals lackey. These are conditions New York needs to work on and manage. A girl committed suicide do to an overdose and her father didn't have the money to bury her. He tired really hard to get donations but in the end could not get enough money. The city ended up burying her body because of lack of founds for the funeral. Although when the city buries a body you get no stone over your grave, you just get a number. A saying in this reading stood out to me " City don't have the money for the living. I guess they think: Why waste it on the dead?" This is truly sad it hurts me to think of these things happening in the world and there is barely anything I can do about it. I have my own life to run which is hard enough I try to help out the community the ways I know how too. Though I know if more people helped out and governments cared more about their people these things that are happening could be a thing of the past. Kozol seemed to blame this on the city but also it was the peoples way of thinking and living and not doing anything to help themselves as well, even though the city made it hard on them to live.
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Kristof

Kristof explained his story of a friend who was intelligent and worked hard. Rick Goff was his friend's name and he died without getting his wroth in society. Goff was born in a lower class and in the article it says that many of the lower class people in America get opportunity. He was married twice and divorced twice. He raised two children on his own and helped out his ex- wife which wound him up closer to his death bed. It is said that America is the land of opportunity, but I say it is not if lower class people can not be of higher class just because they were born into a low class in society. The government needs to realize the issues surrounding this and come up with a solution to this problem, America has. Ted Nugent said " that the takers in society are entitlement chumps and gluttonous, soulless pigs."  I agree with statement because it does seem like this. Another thing he said was that it was "compared the poor to toenail fungus." This is a strong statement because that is most likely how the poor feel. Living of low sums of cash barley making it while the rich bath them self in what ever they want when they want it not caring who doesn't have there abilities. The rich see the poor as rats on a street or waste in the sewer they could care less, at least that's what I got out of reading this article. The poor see the rich as controllers above everyone else and high in power and to powerful to take down, sad that we have come to live like this. I think the world would be a better place if we could see eye to eye and solve these insane problems we have to live with. This happens a lot everywhere and is not fair to others that are trying to live a good life.

Kristof

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