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Many who have been raped often have trouble forgiving their rapist; it's also hard for them to completly heal. I interviewed two of my friends- a victim, and a friend of a victim, to hear how they dealt with this traumatizing experience.
Throughout the project, I learned things about my friends that I never knew before. The amount of courage they showed, and the forgiveness they gave just amazed me. They taught me that even when a trusted friend or family member crosses the line and hurts you, that you should forgive them. In a way, they themselves crossed emotional boundaries when they found the bravery to get over this experience (and not dwell in the past) and to eventually tell the authorities about it. Some who have been raped can never get themselves to tell anyone, and for my friends to cross those emotional boundaries to tell me their story was just great. They taught me to never hang on to things that only cause you pain.
Also, this project taught me plenty on how to use Audacity, and how to edit audio so that it sounds okay. I had to edit out my friends voices because they wanted to be some-what anonymous, and it was fun and interesting to learn about that as well. Finally, I learned how to convert .mov files to .mp3 just by using itunes- made everything a lot easier.
"Education"
As soon as the project was assigned, I know what my topic is going to be able. It is the most hottest topic that my family would love to discuss every time they meet each other-----education. This topic pops out of my mind like a light bulb when Ms. Pahomov announced this benchmark to the class. You see, in my family, I can sort of gain more attention within my family when I get decent grades. In my family, it is more like a academic competition. At first, I thought that it is just a normal expectation that was put on me by my grandfather. But, it is more than that.
After I interviewed my father and my uncle, I discovered the various hardships that my father need to go though after he had quit his school too early and the consequences he needed to face when he came to America. Like my father who didn’t know a single English word, my uncle came to America when he was in his 20s. I didn’t know that my father’s expectations is based on the fact, that he didn’t want me to experience the same hardship and the various difficulties he had experienced in this life. He is just like any other parent, who want his child to be better than him. (The same reasons behind the strict conduct on grades also applies to my cousins.)
I realized that I am now pressed under a even higher pressure because I will be the first person in my family to go to college. Every single one of my family’s expectations and hopes are placed on me. So, I feel really uncomfortable after I heard about it, and I am even more scare to get an Asian F on my report card. Since, it would certainly disappoint my whole family and knocked down their expectations of me.
Crossing Boundaries: Openly Gay
But after going through this interview, I got to experience my Dad's lives and hear about the struggles they had.
Nuestras Actividades
Su nombre es Bella. Bella es 15 años, ella es muy divertida, sociable, boba, y comíca. Ella encanta escribe poems. Todos los dias come. Así que ella encanta concina.
Anger Boundaries
Reflection:
After interviewing my friend Emmanuel on his anger problems and crossing boundaries I learned people can cross boundaries in good ways and bad ways. As I was interviewing Emmanuel I learn that control your anger can be hard for you. I learned that it can impact your life. I also learn that it shouldn't impact the people around you because they can't handle your anger. I really didn't learn anything about myself well interviewing Emmanuel about his anger because I don't have anger issues and if I feel like Im having anger problems with a situation I can control it. My weakness was just editing, audio problems, trying to figure out the parts were I messed up and putting everything in order. My strengths were finishing the final piece and getting everything in order. Doing this project made me realize the actually meaning to crossing boundaries.
Originality in Appearance
From the project of crossing boundaries I learned that people are influenced by society and influenced on how things should be other than how you want it to be. As I was interviewing Haji and Marley I learned what influences their unique style which to me is cool because they both have different reasons on why they dress differently to stray away from trends. Crossing boundaries is a way for people to be different and a way for people to stress their originality. In my topic of crossing boundaries the cause is people following the same trends and the affect would be people straying from the trends. The cost could be the loss of popularity or even respect but you gain you individualism and your own self respect. I really didn't learn anything about myself during this process but if I were to take a lesson out of it it would be to just be yourself and do what you feel is right and dress for you and not anyone else. I think I got good information from the interviews that really showed off my topic. My interviews were my strength in this whole process, I felt like I made good questions to reflect on my topic. My weakness would just be the editing of the audio for smooth transitions but I did what I was capable of doing. This project made me think of people around the world who are going through the same thing and that is trying to find that thing that makes them original.
"Suffering with Love"
While doing this interview I learned a lot of things while doing this podcast. I learn that my family is really messed up, that they supposedly want the best for my sister and I. I notice that they only want them selfs to be happy, use it doesnt matter, as long as my parents are happy they think we are happy. Well that is not the case. Falling in love is scary, not because we'll get hurt, it's because they fact that the people we are suppose to trust, won't like our partner and try pulling us apart. As they are doing to my sister.
I learn my sister has so much pain in her. While telling her story she wanted to cry, but she didn't, she kept that smile I see her fake everyday. She tried hard not to cry while telling her story, I know it may not sound like she wanted to cry but that how good she is because she been trying so hard not to cry for past year or so. As my sister I know her well. She likes to hide her feelings from other. She keeps away to avoid me seeing her cry, but sometimes she breaks down and comes to me and cries in my arms. She is in pain, and the people we thought we could trust are making us go threw that pain. I am in a similar situation my self but not as bad as she is. I learn so much threw doing this podcast, I learn how to edit which I never knew. I learned how to understand how my sister is feeling.
The comments with my peers I agree with them. They were positive comments. I think I did good as well. Had a little mistakes around, I fixed them up and my podcast was like I wanted it to be. Doing this podcast taught me a lot. This was my favorite project because it was interesting to know how others cross boundaries, how other people feel.
"Crossing Career Boundaries" by Jaime Christmas
Crossing Class Lines
My father, associates with people in his everyday life have very different backgrounds
than him. People who he does not share many common similarities with. He is an outsider. How did he get here? Listen to this podcast to find out!
Through the process of interviewing my father and mother, I learned things I had no knowledge of before. I learned aspects of his life I did not know about, aspects of my parents relationship that were new to me, and ideas about crossing boundaries filled my head.
When crossing boundaries, there are things to be gained and things to be lost. When my father went to college, he did the unexpected, and crossed boundaries. No one in his family had, and in that way, he lost some ability to communicate openly with them. What he did gain was a whole new perspective on life, and a window into a world he had never know. It was like he got an invitation to a party that he had always dreamed about attending. When he got there, he learned that no matter how fancy the party, you can still feel out of place.
When you cross a boundary, you are leaving the past behind. You can’t un-cross a boundary. If no one crossed boundaries, no one would ever do anything original, or new. We would be trapped in our routines. It is an important thing to do, and despite it’s possible downsides, everyone should try to cross at least one boundary. It is something to be both taken with caution and celebrated.
"Sometimes it is Okay to Cross a Boundary"
I learned that crossing a boundary can be so effortless, in good and bad ways. I also used to think that crossing a boundary was always a bad thing, until I did this interview. I also learned that there was a whole logic behind my mother leaving her job. I didn't know that until I questioned her about the topic. It was nice to learn another side of my mother yet interesting to finally see why my mother crossed the boundary that she didn't. I used to be too little to know why she left, and as I grew older, it wasn't really something I considered I wanted to know. However, doing this project made me realize what it means to cross a boundary and that people around cross boundaries all the time without us even knowing.
Hamlet Close Reading
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. The play is set in the Kingdom of Denmark and it dramatizes Prince Hamlet’s revenge to his uncle for murdering Hamlet’s father. The play portrays both true and acted madness and explores various themes such as family, revenge, madness, etc.
One of Hamlet’s most famous soliloquies is his ‘’Tis now the very witching time of night’’, which falls in
the Act 3, Scene 2 (pages 380-391).
This soliloquy is a really interesting and important one since it lets the reader know what Hamlet’s plans are.
Prior to this
monologue, Prince Hamlet’s mother, Queen Gertrude, sends an order for Hamlet to
go to her chamber to have a talk with her. After the play, Hamlet asks for a
short amount of time alone. Thrilled
because his plan worked out, he experiences a surge of confidence and
delivers this soliloquy in which he plans out the conversation with his mother
and talks about how confident of himself he is.
''Tis
now the very witching time of night,
When churchyards
yawn, and hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this
world: now could I drink hot blood,
And do such bitter
business as the day
Would quake to look
on. Soft!
now to my mother. —
O heart, lose not
thy nature; let not ever
The soul of Nero
enter this firm bosom:
Let me be cruel, not
unnatural;
I will speak daggers
to her, but use none;
My tongue and soul
in this be hypocrites, —
How in my words
somever she be shent,
To give them seals
never, my soul, consent!''
‘’Tis
now the very witching time of night’’, Hamlet starts his
monologue with a reference to the people who use the darkness (middle of the
night) to do their dirty work.
‘’When churchyards yawn, and hell itself
breathes out",
refers to the middle Ages, where people used to bury the bodies at their local
church graveyard. At the time during which Hamlet occurs, Europe was suffering
from the ‘’Black Death Plague’’. Art during this period was very dark and often
represented the Devil and demons.
"Soft! Now to my mother.’’
At
this point, he has been considering how to deal with the situation he’s currently
facing. He wants to speak the truth to his mother without being too harsh. He
knows that if he makes the wrong move at the wrong time, there could be a lot
of trouble. That’s why he plans everything out, including his conversations
with his mother.
"O heart, lose not thy nature; let not ever
The soul of Nero
enter this firm bosom:
Let me be cruel, not
unnatural;’’
These lines are hard to understand since a lot of people
don’t know who ‘’Nero’’ was. Nero was a Roman Emperor who was quite famous for
being crazy and murdering his mother. He was extremely cruel and executed people
in awful ways.
"
I will speak daggers to her, but use none;
My tongue and soul
in this be hypocrites"
‘’How
in my words somever she be shent,
To give them seals
never, my soul, consent!’’
Seals were used during the Middle Ages like signatures are
used today. Since Hamlet was the Prince of Denmark, he had his own seal and used
it whenever he wanted to consent something. He is basically saying that he
didn’t consent the actions his mom took when he married Hamlet’s own uncle.
And who am I?
Yo Hablo en la clase de español en la clase de español
I feel in english
Yo estudio español, en la clase de español.
I laugh in english
Yo Echo bromas español en español
In english I feel the earth the earth beneath my feet
En español entiendo la srta manuel
Fornication
When I heard that this project was going to be about crossing boundaries, I wasn't sure who I'd interview. So I began to think about people who had a set a boundaries placed around them. Immediately, I thought of people who belong to a religion. Most of my family is apart of the Christian religion, but then I had to think of someone who'd broken a rule. My aunt came to mind. Fornication is a big sin amongst Christians, and that was a sin that she'd committed.
I learned that my aunt is very devoted to her faith and her religion, but her love and devotion for her children is even more powerful. Although she may have been ashamed at first to be carrying a bastard child, she was no longer ashamed once the children arrived. Not because she didn't want the child to feel unwanted, but because she was genuinely happy to have brought them into this world.
SLA Poets Compete
"HE" por Micah Henry
Family Does whats best
Thursday, March 7th, District half-day
I , Yo
Yo ayado en casa en español
I go shopping in english
Yo estadio en español
I hang out with friends in english
Yo leo en español
I talk on the phone in english
Yo corro en español
I sleep in english
Yo escribo en españiol
Poem en español
Estudio en español
I play video games in english
Jugo la deportes n español
I read in english
Traduco en español
I fight in english
Trabajar een spanish
I am in english
I
I sing in English,
I laugh in English,
I dream in English,
I shoot for the stars in English.
Leo en español.
Estudio en español.
Hablo en español.
Español es no soy yo,
English is me.
I- Spanish/ English poem
Poema
I - Amirah :)
Estudio en español
I dance in english
Cocino en español
I listen to music in english
Salo con mi novio en español (just kidding)
I swim in english
Trabajo en español