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Week 8 reflection plus old updates to glossary of haunting

This week reading was an article called “A Cyborg Manifesto”. This article explores the concept of a cyborg and explains what a cyborg is in relation to Sex, Gender, and Sexuality. The author explains what constitutes a robot and what it is from our perception. The author also explains the social impact of having cyborgs.

The best summary of this article can be seen from when it states “A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction. Social reality is lived social relations, our most important political construction, a world-changing fiction.”(pg.1). The article continues to talk about on parameter needed to constitute a machine as cyborg. The article explains that a cyborg is a hybrid or a synthesis of bio and technology and its intellectual being has impact on race, genger and sexuallity. The way we make cyborgs and interact with the will change how we view humans and interact with other people.

The author of this article talks about the role of gender in society. The authors analysis includes gender in relation to cyborgs but also includes an analysis of gender with analyzing societal power structures. The author explains how cyborgs are sex neutral and do not have a genger. The gender given to the robot is the gender given to it in the perception of its creator. When giving it a gender the robots sex is limited to what its creator preception f gendger is and what they believe makes a man a man and women a women. The author also explains the role of gender in society. The author throughout the article explains how cyborgs and the rise of technology can lead to unemployment and other issues and how these issues would affect both male and females.

The two main things the author discusses is gender and robots. So what is the main message, the main takeaway by making these analyzations and connections. I believe that she is being critical of traditional feminism and using cyborgs as crux to further cement the point that gender is what we humans make of it and we should not be tethered to what we believe and fight for. The author is using this article and this comparison to a cyborg to convince women to let go of traditional feminism and encourages women to fight for equal rights beyond the traditional boundaries of gender.  (As you can see I was confused reading this and read this a couple of times trying to understand the author’s message, sorry for contradictions).

From my understanding of what I have read the monster of this book is the structure of society. The monster is how everything is categorized based on gender and gender roles and how these gender roles can influence how and why people fight for rights. THis article encourages people to break away from traditional feminism and no look at gender as binary. Opening ones eyes and fighting for rights for all women regardless of their race. Sexuallity and identificatrion is important.

Glossary of Haunting addition

Week 8

Robotic -

Limited, weak, unable to grow. To have everything of one's existence defined for them the moment they are born without any  potential to change, in a state of complete stagnation, defined by society with a limited role to play.

Week1

Venus -

No future, no hope, to have one's reality stolen from them, to be improssend without ever having a voice. To only be exemplified as numbers as a paper and not to have their voice heard. To loose your home, to loose your family, to lose everything and never be heard. Not to be heard by your family, friends or society. Not to be heard by future generations.

Week2

Dystopian future-

A reality in which there are oppressors and oppressed. A reality in which the will of the many is ignored. A reality where their is needed suffering and pain.. A future that humanity does not hope for, a future humanity will not fight for, a future where oppressors will torment the oppressed. A future where in which humanity has lost its humanity.

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Being chronically ill has taught me so many valuable things about medicine that you don’t find in books. Sometimes dealing with doctors and insurance and medication is a nightmare and I have gone home from appointments crying in anger at the way I was treated or dismissed, but I have also learned a lot from my experiences as far as how to be (or not be) a doctor.

Doctors don’t know everything about everything. That’s ok. The difference comes down to how they deal with a situation that’s out of their depth.

First I saw a young doctor at a clinic, probably only a few years older than me, probably straight out of residency. He was friendly, and people seemed to like him, but when he encountered me, he was out of his depth. He had heard of EDS in a lecture, no doubt, he was familiar with the name but not with important basic facts about it, like how there’s a ton of different subtypes, and that it’s comorbid with a lot of other problems. I know this information because I live with it and have had to educate myself. I do not expect doctors to have encyclopaedic knowledge of every uncommon disease they may never even encounter in a clinical setting. That’s why I learn it, and bring sources and information sheets with me. This young doctor may have been friendly, but his ego was far larger than his skill deserved. Instead of listening to me, he dismissed my symptoms, refused to explain why he didn’t agree with me, didn’t give me the referrals I asked for, interpreted my test results in the most superficial way to the point of actually being inaccurate, and eventually just turned around and accused me of being crazy.

Then I went to someone else, someone who’s been a doctor for 35 years. She also didn’t know much about EDS; probably less, in fact. But she listened to me explain my symptoms and how they were connected, and she freely admitted that this was not her specialty and helped me figure out who in the practice might be the best fit for me. She listened, she recognised her limitations as a clinician, and helped me figure out what to do next. She never looked down on me for having done my research, in fact, she complimented it and said I should be a doctor (I told her that was the plan). She did not imply I was faking it, she did not treat me like a drug seeker, and when we talked about my circulation problems requiring compression wear to control swelling, she said “wow, that is unusual, that usually happens in older people” but without the too-common implication that I was too young to really have any problems. And then she helped me find someone who could be of more use than she could, because that’s the best thing for me as the patient.

Two things were different. She was older and well-established and she doesn’t have anything to prove. She also told me that she knows what it’s like to be frustrated, because she has several autoimmune issues. She understands chronic illness, which is a strength I know I can bring to medicine, and which is so important. And there is WAY more to respect about someone who is not afraid to say “I don’t know” than someone who would rather hurt the patient than admit they have a blind spot.

And from a patient’s perspective, I have learned how important it is to advocate for yourself. If someone isn’t working, find someone else. Be confident in yourself. You have to be, or else the gaslighting and incompetence gets to you and you start thinking that maybe it is all in your head, and you doubt yourself and suffer. You can’t let that happen. You have to own your experiences. Write them down if necessary. Keep going until you find the answers you need. Know what tests to ask for and how to interpret them. Understand the physiology of your problems to the best of your ability. Know how your body works. Look up how your medications work. Think about more than the symptom at hand; look at your body as a system. Talk to other people with your conditions and ask what helps them, what specialist diagnosed them, etc. Don’t be afraid to speak up if you think a treatment isn’t working for you. Don’t be afraid to dump your jerk doc and get a second opinion. It’s your body and you’re the best advocate for yourself.

Believe pain. Listen to patients’ holistic experience. I went so long without knowing what was wrong because I saw so many specialists who looked at one thing and not the rest of me. The orthopaedist sees a kid with a tweaked knee and that’s all they think, they don’t look at my skin and my scars and my circulation problems. The cardiologist doesn’t evaluate me according to the Beighton score. It takes an extraordinarily observant doctor or a very well-educated patient to put the pieces together. You can’t expect every patient to have a biology background, so make sure you’re that doctor and that you look beyond what is directly in front of you.

When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras, but remember that zebras do exist, and if you’re standing in the savannah looking at a black and white creature, claiming that it’s four black and white horses standing next to each other and ignoring the fact that it doesn’t have sixteen legs and four heads, you need to re-evaluate your anchors and your biases.

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week 7 reading reflection

This week I read an article “Disability Justice” is Simply Another Term for Love and the intro to the book “ Disability and Difference in Global Contexts ”. I feel like both reading shared a common theme this week. From my understanding both reading talked about the impact of disabilities and how they can vary from person to person depending on who you are. So a black or queer person may get different treatment from a white disabled person. The readings explore how devastating it can be for a minority to get a disability.

As mentioned earlier I believe the article ““Disability Justice” is Simply Another Term for Love and the intro to the book “ explains how disabilities can affect the treatment of people depending on their sexuallity and race and the importance it is for people of these groups to have a safe place. I get these two impressions from the article from when it states “ disabled people who would give anything to be able to have this kind of space” and shouldn't be that we have to leave racial justice and people of color spaces to be able to fully name and examine how abled supremacy and white supremacy work hand-in-hand to oppress and target disabled people of color “. From these two quotes which the author touches on again through her article we can see that her two main messages is that disable minorities are oppressed and we need understand how this oppression happens and that the author wishes there were more safe spaces for disabled people to talk.

The haunted dynamics in this article are those who are oppressed or treated wrongly because they are minority with a disability. Race, gender and sexuality all play a role on disabled persons treatment, of one person is slightly out of what people consider norm or accept they will more likely feel mistreatment. The monsters in this article are those who oppress and mistreat others (white supremacist ). I do see a future where people are held accountable for their actions, right now we have laws in place to protect disabled people from discrimination, obviously they are not enough, but at least because of these laws they have some protection.  

The second thing I read this week was the intro to the book “Disability and Difference in Global Contexts “. This intro was probably one of my favorite readings so far in the quarter. Most of the article that I read are more analytical but this one was more personal from the authors perspective. The intro talks about how he was diagnosed with a brain tumor and how she was worried it would affect them, not justice there medical future but their social and financial aspect of their future as well. One example of this is the fact the author was extran nervous that her husband would have a seizure in public , causing people to panic as seen here he black male body, already a source of terror in white patriarchy (Davis, 1983; hooks, 1985), when transformed during a grand mal seizure— with rolled- back eyes, harsh grunting sounds, mouth drooling bloody foam”. The author is worried how people react to his seizure because of his skin color. The overall point that the author is trying to make is that minorities with disabilities to have fair treatment in public, and should have more safe places.

The haunted dynamics are the people like the author's husband, people who have to suffer or be extra careful because they are minority. The monsters are the people who would oppress or alienate disabled minority people. As stated earlier I do believe there can be justice for the haunted. Race and gender are correlated into the way one is treated.

Addition to Glossary of Haunting

Disabled -

The people who are the same as you and I. People who love, care , laugh just like you and I. people with emotions and feelings just like you and I. People who are just trying to survive like you and I.

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drone makers: hey yall ... we could use these bad boys to save lives

drone makers: drones could revolutionize the way we distribute goods, food deserts could be no more

drone makers: we could make leaps and bounds on environmental research

drone makers: theres just so much we can do with them to improve the world for all

The United States Government: okay, or we could only give research grants to the drones that do the opposite of all that

The United States Government: how about we instead use them to kill shitloads of people and cut funding to all that helpful nonsense

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I apologize for submitting reflection late. I had a lot going on this week and I lost track of my time.

Reading reflection 6

This week I read two article. The first article I wrote is called “Infiltrated Intimacies: The Case of Palestinian Returnees”. The second article which I had read during the week is called “TARGETING Mediating US Drone Wars”. The first article talks about how palestinians are forced out of their homes and the struggle and danger that they face returning home. The second article talks about the U.S usage of drones and why it would be better if the U.S limited its use of drones for its fight with terror.

The first article “Infilitrated inftimcasies focuses on how palestinians are in danger when returning to their home because they are seen as infiltrators. The article explains by calling refugees , who trying to return home infiltrators allows the government their to take more aggressive and violent people returning home. This can be seen from the article from when it states”The politico-legal category of the “infiltrator” justified not only the expulsion of Palestinians, but also an expansion of the Israeli military regime” The article articulates why the why being called infiltrators is bad and how the palestinians are hurt because of it.

In this reading those with orphaned beginnings are those who are forced out of their home and can’t return (palestinians). The haunted dynamics are the people who died and could not return home because of this conflict. The library's future is if the two groups can make peace with each other. I am not sure if the monsters will ever see justice, also what would justice look like in this case?

The other article which I read this week “TARGETING Mediating US Drone Wars”  is about what the titles says, explaining why the united states should limit its use of drones. The author examines two main things in this article to make his point. The first thing the article looks at is use and the cost of drones. The second thing the article does is look at the drones use in Yemen and Pakistan. One reasons which the author argues for the limited use of drones is the unchecked brutality as it is seen from when the article states “  A photo of 19 year-old Sadaullah Wazir is accompanied by a caption that indicates he was 15 when he lost both of his legs and an eye in a drone attack that destroyed his home and killed nine people” drones cause a lot of damage, their work goes unnoticed and they are devastating, leading to innocent people getting hurt. The article itself is much more articulate and this is one of the main points that the article makes in explaining the why drones are bad.  

The haunted dynamics in this reading are those who are the innocent killed by the drones. The monsters are those who allow for the use of these weapons and murder of the innocent. The future which will hold these powers accountable is when there is better and more restrictions for future use.

Addition to haunting glossary

Injustice

The constant pain those with lesser power face. Those who have to suffer, face loss and endure. This is when you feel loss, and there's no justice, no rectification for wrong actions. Just pain, with no end or healing.

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Ethnic 115 week 5 reading reflection

A must-read from Sinan Antoon in The New York Times: Fifteen Years Ago, America Destroyed My Country

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week 5 reading reflection ethnic 115

Quick apology, this blog post was rushed because I have three midterms this week, plus other hw assignments.

This week I read an article for ethnic 115 and part of a book. The article name is “Monster, Terrorist, Fag: The War on Terrorism and the Production of Docile Patriots” and the book’s name is “ The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Metropolitan Books; 2007)”. Both books were interesting reads. I specifcally liked the article because it gave me a new perspective which I had not thought of before.

The article which I read talks about how race and gender talks about how “monster-terrorist ” are made and how society plays a role in influencing them. This can be seen from the article from when it says “ The same Western, colonial modernity that created the psyche created the racial and sexual monster. In other words, what links the monster-terrorist to the figure of the individual to be corrected is first and foremost the racialized and deviant psyche” . From my understanding the author is trying to say the society helps create these monsters by influencing their psyche and when they are in this monsters psyche they commit these horrible acts. I feel like I am greatly simplifying the depth of the author’s message , but I believe this sentence is the best way I can encapsulate the author’s message.

In this article the haunted dynamics are those who get hurt by the “monster” or terrorist with the ill psyche. The monster which is created is influenced by race and sexuallity. The concept orphaned beginning may be applied to the monster in this article, disillusioned by society, the person then becomes a monster. I don't have to imagine a future where society can hold these monster accountable because I believes society try to hold these monsters accountable for their actions right now.

The second thing which I read this week was the book “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Metropolitan Books; 2007)’. Before I begin talking about the book I want to make clear that due to the time constraints I only read the first 35 pages of this book, so my analysis of the book may not be accurate and reflective of the books contents. From my limited understanding of this reading so far: the book talks about how push administration took advantage of the horrible events such as the Iraq war to exert political economic influence. I get this understanding from when the book says “The Bush administration immediately seized upon the fear generated by the attacks not only to launch the "War on Terror" but to ensure that it is an

almost completely for-profit venture,”.  The bush administration took advantage of the war on terror and used it for profits.

The monster in this story are the monsters who took advantage of the shock from the war for economic gain. I do not think that the monster will ever be held accountable. I am not sure how orphaned beginnings play a role in this book.  Again from this book we can disillusioned people allowing unjust actions to happen.

Word for Glossary of Haunting

Disillusioned -

Not connected from reality, allowing monster to commit horrible actions or being so detached from reality that one becomes the monster on their own.

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Week 4 reflection

This week I read three articles.  One article which I read is “ Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses” written by Oyèrónké Oyěwùmí. This article talks about two main points one that african people used to have a different concept of sexes before western influence came to africa. Another thing the article which the article talks how the western influence came from colonialism and how colonialism led to demise of african idea. This ideas can be seen from the article from when it says “African society like that of the Yoruba, conceptual categories and theoretical formulations that derive from Western experiences had to be unpacked” The person writing this article here is explaining how through their researched they saw a lot of african ideas came from western culture, which was due to colonialism.

This article relates to the concept of orphan beginnings in the sense the alot of african culture and ideas were lost due to colonialism. A lot of unique ideas which were not considered acceptable or civilized were forced out of their culture. The articles monsters are the colonials the ones who oppress and get rid of other people’s ideas. Even though colonialism has ended in africa the influence of western culture and the loss of african culture seem permanent.

Another article which I read was called “Visualizing the Body: WESTERN THEORIES AND AFRICAN SUBJECTS” also written by Oyèrónké Oyěwùmí. Talks about how there are different views on the body and how gender is a social construct because the view we categorize our body and the way we look at sexes is determined by society. I got the impression from when the article said “Consequently, since the body is the bedrock on which the social order is founded, the body is always in view and on view. As such, it invites a gaze, a gaze of difference, a gaze of differentiation — the most historically constant being the gendered gaze. “ The author here is clearly stating how view are bodies is determined by society and gender is part of those views on the human body. Over here I would say that the orphan beginnings are progressive views on gender because most of people's understanding of the human body is either boy or girl. Monsters are those who who forced out or deny other perceptions of the human body that do not conform to the standard norms.

The third article which I read this week is called Irua Ria Atumia and Anti-Colonial Struggles Among the Gı˜ku˜yu˜ of Kenya: A Counter Narrative on “Female Genital Mutilation”. This article talks about exactly about what the article title says. The article talks about anti-colonialism and dispels the myth that Female Genital Mutilation is oppression but actually a form of empowerment in their society. I got this impression from the article from when it stated “. To these women, irua ria atumia did not brutalize their bodies and sexuality – colonizers” . Here the article clearly states how their actions derived from their culture was not hurting them but the pressive colonial rule was the real cause of their suffering.

The article relates to orphan beginnings  because women are being oppressed or being viewed as being oppressed because of their cultural beliefs and people are trying to take that away from their. The monsters are the people who are telling others weather or not their culture is empowering or not.

Over all all three articles talked about views on gender and the impacts of colonialism. The people who supported colonialism and robbing weaker society of their culture were the monster in this weeks articles. I libretory future seen in these writings is the fact the people research their lost culture and that they protest against colonial expectations. None of the article mentioned anything about the future where the monsters are held accountable for their actions.

Addition To Glossary of Haunting

Anti-Colonialism:

Liberation from oppression, liberation from imprisonment, a way to keep ones values, away to keep one's beliefs, a way to stay free and maintain your identity by ridding yourself of your oppressors.

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Some of y’all really seem to think that saying “I’m not racist” or “I’m not homophobic” or any other variation of that is some sort of magic spell to protect you from being called out for being offensive

Like if someone tells you that you said something bigoted or offensive, don’t argue with them about it bc if you’re not a part of that community, you don’t have any right to determine what is or isn’t offensive.

Just acknowledge that you made a mistake and apologize, that’s literally all you have to do to correct yourself.

It’s not that difficult, y’all are just assholes

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Week 3 reading reflections

There were three readings this week. The first reading that I am going to talk about is This Bridge Called My Back edited by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa, which contains a bunch of short stories. The short story which I liked the most is the wealder. The message from this story is that even though we all might be slightly different we are fundamentally the same. This can be seen from the writing from when it states “we all come from the same rock”, indicating we all are the same.  I like this excerpt because I feel like it highlights a fundamental problem in any given society. The problem of segregation and seclusion. It is important to remember that people all are equal and we are all fundamentally the  same , but people forget that sometimes and that can lead to unfair treatment of other payment.

In this reading the orphaned beginnings are that people in society are being alienated. People who are treated differently just because they are a different ethnicity or look different from the general public.The monsters in the story are those who segregate or alienate people. I don’t see a future where people would be held accountable for unfair actions such as racism or segregation.

The second reading that I did this week was The race for theory. This article had two main message for its readers. The first one was that words and discourse is very complex and language has many layers in it. I got this impression from the article from when it states “Language as one form of pleasure is immediately restricted, and becomes heavy, abstract, prescriptive, monotonous. Variety, multiplicity, eroticism are difficult to control”. The other message that I got from the article is that theory on race can be limiting , but it is important to understand because it affects people.

The Third Article that I read was “ Is Paris Burning?” Highlights society gender roles and how they are perceived by people in society. I think this is an important and interesting topic. The article explains this through analysing the film paris is burning. THe film politics “race, gender, and class are both progressive and reactionary”. My main understanding which can be wrong, was that the film was progressive but focused on white patriarchy and ignored and was aggressive towards unconventional gender roles.

Also based on this week's reading the word that I would add to the glossary of haunting is Alienation. Alienation - segregation and mistreatment of those that are not conforming to societal norms. I would choose to add this because I feel like this word fundamentally captures and connects the theme of all the reading this week.

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Assignment 2

This my second assignment for Ethnic 115. It is an audio recording of post apocalyptic future . https://drive.google.com/open?id=1fJ4UgGah9zZ_2_4ao4Gy2oLCXtG3kave. The original writing piece is here https://drive.google.com/open?id=19NQPnuxEifji2tTGbWntfpC6j5025uwSHsNoqSZGZ2o  . I deviate from the written script abit when recording. Again I recommend downloading the audio file and play it on your personal player. I hope you enjoy :) .

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week 2 reflection 2

This was was one of the more complex readings so far. I was able to get that when talking about the dystopian future. This article emphasis the power structures in society and how the current oppressed people are going to be the first to obressed again. I will reread this article to help gain a better understanding of the author's message and hopefully help make a template for my own writing assignment.

In connection to the course I see that the power structures in society determine who live lavishly and who are oppressed. In class we talk about the history of police and how the police were made catch slaves. In relation to today black people are systemically challenged and thus are more likely will go to jail in their lifetime. The same concept applies to what the author is saying in their story. The people who are oppressed today will be oppressed later.

This was a good read, but I like the other readings more so far. I found this reading to be more difficult than the others and I am not sure if I took away everything that the author was trying to explain. Overall it was a good read and it had a good message.

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Week 2 reflection 1

         This week the article which I read was The ‘Botanical Gardens of the Dispossessed’ written by Suriname Maroons. This article discusses slave from the gardening plantation escaped and survived by farming their own crops which they had brought from their own lands. The people who ran away from this slavery are known as Maroons. The article goes in depth and explains in detail about the different types of crops that they grow.

        This reading reminded me from last weeks readings in the since that the people forced on to the plantation were forced away from their home and had orphan beginnings. This also shows that the people who were forced away from their home have made a new home to where they were forced to go. This was main connections I could make to the course material, if someone sees something else please let me know. I also found it interesting how the study revealed that the maroon’s crops had a unique biodiversity that can be linked back to old world crops. The only reason why Maroons have these unique crops was because their ancestors who were forced to become slaves kept the seeds with them so they can grow food. This a primary cause and effect relationship where we can see that the past is still impactful on the present.

      I also personally found this article to be interesting overall. It brought in some connection from present to past and I appreciate that. As someone who personally does not study ethics or history on daily basis I found the author’s connections interesting. I have very rarely studied history were one gives a direct example of how it affected a group of people. Usually when people make connections like this it more vague and explain the impact on a huge region. I like how the author went into great detail studying each crop and looked at their past and present when writing this article.

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Assignment one ETHNIC 115

This is a link to my first Assignment. In this assignment I had to make a three minute audio recording of daily life of ucsd. The main objective of this assignment was to use ambient sound to portray your action. I tried to do so, but I also added narration to explain what was happening since I have never made anything like this before and for me I felt like narration was an essential part of telling a story.  All of the ambient sounds in the audio are recorded by me except for the buss sounds because the audio which I had taken of the bus moving was not clear and the sound of me yawning because I could not make any good audio recordings of myself yawning. Anyways I hope you like it :) .    https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Gr6nzQjbbPw0er9jAoH1pMH_P8bEaZPB  

Also I recommend downloading audio file so you can open it up in player and forward and remind. I personally do not like the audio player built into google drive.

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This week I read two articles. The first article that I read was called “Venus in Two Acts.” written by Saidiya Hartman. This article was kind of difficult but the main take away which I got from this article was the girl venus is not a single girl but she is symbolic of many girls in the triangle slave trade who did not have a voice or fair treatment. The author of the article explains how there is no written record on these girls. No thoughts or opinions in history which can express the emotions they felt or the suffering they were first to endure. The author explains how she can guess how venus felt or though so she can not give venus a voice. This article relates to the course because this is an example of orphaned beginnings. In this article we see a girl venus who is torn from her home and family and home; a girl who is forced to lose her sense of home , family, belonging and being forced half a world a way into a life of abuse and servitude.

Another article which I have read this week is called “Haunting: a glossary” by Eve Tuck and C. Ree. This article talks about many things . The main take away which I got from this is that the author is sympathetic of the ghosts who are haunting. The author used ghosts to represent people who were wronged in the past and how the ghosts are haunting people who did them wrong. THe author then takes this metaphor to more broad sense and explains how the native americans are the ghosts in the country and the only way to right the wrong and to stop their haunting is to return their land to them. The haunting happens because the ghost was wronged and instead of viewing the ghost as pesterance another way to look at it is to appease ghost because the ghosts may not be haunting because they are evil but they are in pursuit for justice.

These two articles talk about complex problems. The first article brings up how african american people were forcefully brought here. The second article talks about how native americans are wronged and the only way to rectify the wrong is to return the land to the native americans. This raises the issue for the people who were forced to come the U.S. They did not want to come here but they were forced to, They did not have a choice and now after all this time many of them have a home here. Would the authors of “Hanting: a glossary” see it as justice for even them to leave native American Land? These article shows me that there have been many wrongs done in U.S history and since their were so many people wronged it maybe impossible to appease all the ghost and rectify all the wrongs.

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