Gigi's First Year English

Gigi Paniagua December 14, 2017 Professor Curtis-Cummins Social Change In the book, Persepolis , by Marjane Satrapi, and Borderlands , by Gloria Anzaldua, there were social changes as these authors experienced growing up in different environments. Satrapi went through physical and emotional change throughout her life, starting with the war. She embraces her culture and stood up for what she believed in no matter how much her country was undergoing change. Anzaldua sees the social change when she compares her experiences from her culture and the United States. Both the authors experienced social change at a young age and grew up to be mature as they went through the Islamic Revolution or racism. The cultural change in the book, Persepolis, encountered many changes among women. To begin with, women had to wear a veil as it became a social value. Satrapi showed an example of rebellion as her and her classmates used their veils as jump rope when they went out to play. At the b...

Gloria Anzaluda 1. El Otro Mexico is about the border that distinguishes people based on their race. The author starts off by introducing the importance of the Mexican-American war. The author really acknowledges the fact that immigrants have their own names based on what the whites call them. For example, aliens or  savages. 2. 1. "After Mexican-American resisters robbed a train in Brownsville, Texas onOctober 18, 1915, Angelo vigilante groups began lynching Chicanos"(8). When I first read this passage I was extremely shocked. I have heard stories of whites taking over what os not theirs and blackmailing farmers to leave. Families were killed and a lot of people left their ranches and farms. This is devastating because whites basically wanted the war to happen so they can take over land that wasn't even theirs in the first place.     2. "I remember being caught speaking Spanish at recess-that was gapped fro me three licks on the knuckles with a sharp ruler...

Hide and Seek This chapter is about Marjane giving up on herself and experiencing new things. She had to take in rude comments from people because of her race and background. She eventually got a boyfriend and became a drug dealer. Marjane changed as a character because she was went from a shy and innocent girl to a rebellious girl. The change Marjane went through was very new to her but she didn't mind. I guess you could say she didn't care much anymore and continued to stick with doing drugs. She smoked so much that her boyfriend, Markus, became very irritated. He started blowing her off on dates, not care for being there for her birthday, and eventually cheated on her. To add on, his mother kicked out Marjane from their house due to the fact that she was from Iran and assumed Marjane was using Marcus for an Australian passport. On the other hand, Marjane became her school's trusted drug dealer. She was an excellent student who often got along with teachers and didn'...

Persepolis 1. Persepolis takes place during the Iranian Revolution and Marjane is one of the characters that portrays what she has been through. In the passage, she was going through some sort of change in her life physically and emotionally. She went to study abroad in Europe and had encountered many hardships. She was homeless and was hanging out with the wrong group of people. Marjane Satrapi always spoke up for herself no matter how strict her lifestyle was. 2.  Page 187: Marjane is going through physical change and doesn't know she feels about it. She is growing up and gets a beauty mark, which she thought was hideous. She cut her hair short and different and eventually made a group of friends who smoked weed a lot. I think Marjane went through her first stage of change because she was living a new life in a new country.   Page 194: The box where it shows all her memories was deep. She wanted everything to be back to normal and everything was happening too fast for h...

Ta-nehisi Coates Between the World and Me 1. The first thing I thought when I read this passage was that a white police officer killed an innocent black man. I assumed that it was the usual incident that happens most of the time in my generation. This book portrays the difficulties African Americans have to go through in order to survive. Police officers or white people in general are privileged and the passage demonstrated how African Americans don't ever get justice due to their race. 2.  "Prince had been driving to see his fiancee. He was killed yards from her home"(77). This is an example of injustice that African Americans go through. Innocent black people have been murdered and police officers are set free knowing well enough they did something wrong. Racism still exists today and people are blinded to see that. "Forgiving the killer of Prince Jones would have seemed irrelevant to me"(79). People say forgive and forget but this is not the case in th...

Researching my problem solution paper wasn't easy but I did learn even more information about my issue. Writing down all my ideas and information into it was pretty difficult due to the fact that I didn't want to sound repetitive compared to my last essay. I wrote about sex trafficking in third world countries and the different solution  we can do to help as an international community. There isn't much awareness about this issue and it has become one of the most important topics I have encountered. Seeing the difficult lifestyle most of these women and children have to go through is truly devastating and I hope to bring out awareness about this topic. Comparing this issue to my Book Club book is pretty similar because Persepolis is in a time of the Islamic Revolution. Women were treated unfairly like being forced to wear the veil, being disrespected in public, and the Shah was dangerous.