Characters from Missouri 1101

Claudia Mendoza
Prof. Young
English 1101
Character introduction

Characters from Missouri

The Reverend

• He is actually a recognizable character from Part I in the story 
• Reverend Martin who had once left John Brown's army and built one of his own. 
• He was threatened by Fred once when he was back in Brown's army, and he felt anxious for revenge since he was embarrassed. 
• When he and his army went down by the creek where Fred and Onion were, he found their horses about a quarter mile away from their location. 
• He only saw Fred by the creek after he told Onion to hide with The Good Lord Bird.
• He recognized Fred right away, and even though Fred didn't take out a gun at him or recognized him right away, he straight just shot at him, blasted him through the chest in cold blood.
• He said, "That'll teach you to draw on me, you apple-headed, horse-thieving, nigger-loving bastard" (McBride 113).
• While having an argument with his army for killing unarmed Fred, he ended off by shutting them down. Saying , "Brown won't tarry when he finds his boy dead out here. You wanna wait till he comes?" 
• He then set out to found John Brown. 
• While fighting, he and his army set fire to the houses of Free Staters, and shot them.
• He felt proud of killing both Fred and the Old Man, yelling it across all Osawatomie.

Sibonia

• She is Libby's sister. 
• She comes off as crazy, because she kept yelling over Onion after he was asking for Bob. 
• She is an "outside nigger" (slave) who lives in the slave pen in the back of the hotel. 
• She sets on a box wherever it goes. 
• She piles mud balls, but says that Onion is troubled, because he playing folks for a fool.
• She makes a deal with Onion, so she can get a bill of sale, or a pass since he know letters. 
• She is going to inform Onion on where Bob is. 
• She is the leader of the Insurrection. 

Pie

• She was a mulatto beauty who was all class.
• She was also a whore who belonged to Ms. Abby.
• She was the "mother Onion never knowed, the sister he never had, and his first love."
• Pie was going to get taught how to know letters from Onion. 
• While she set him up as a girl and get him a minor job from Ms. Abby. 
• She also had money saved up in secret. 
• She showed Henry how to look and act as a girl.

Ms. Abby

• She is the owner of the "high-class" Pikesville Hotel. 
• She was angly ass white woman according to Onion.
• She ran a lot of businesses, like Dutch Henry. 
• She was also a good slaveholder. 
• She loaned Bob out.

Darg

• He is a character that is feared throughout Ms. Abby's hotel.
• A big ass colored man, he tall and ugly too. 
• He was the boss of the slave yard.

English 1101 Reading Log Questions

Claudia Mendoza
English 1101 3G
Prof. Young
Reading Log Questions

Reading Log Questions.

1. The Good Lord Bird means things that you can find out about yourself or the world that will last a lifetime of understanding.
"But that one there... That's an angel. They say a feather from a Good Lord Bird'll bring you understanding that'll last your whole life. Understanding is what I lacks, Onion. Memories and things." Said Frederick. (Page 33)
2. Henry's nickname is Onion, and he earned that nickname by John Brown after he gave him a good luck dusty onion as a symbol to welcome him to the family and celebrate his freedom from being a slave and he took a bite of it.
"I calls her little Onion henceforth for my own reasons." Said John Brown to his son. (Page 28)
3. Henry's rationale to keep on living with his life was his fear and lazyness. He didn't want to join John Brown's army, in which he didn't clarify on his gender to John Brown. Even though one of John Brown's sons found out his actual gender, Henry made him promise not to say anything and keep it hidden by giving Frederick the feather which John Brown gave Henry. 
Then to make sure to Frederick wouldn't tell when they got back  he told him "Fred, you remembers our deal ?" (Page 35)

Is it permissible to lie? 1101

Claudia Mendoza
English 1101
Prof. Young
February 1st, 2016

Is it permissible to lie? If so, when? If not, why not?

           It’s not good to lie at all. In reality lying is bad. Although, under some circumstances where it won’t hurt to lie a little bit, it would be permissible. If it’s appropriate enough to give a little “white lie”, then do it. But if it’s a lie that’s going to lead to another lie and so on, it’s definitely going to catch up with you.  Lies are never good, because it always comes back to bite you in the ass if you don’t remember which you probably won’t since it’s not the truth. If someone gets hurts by the truth they have to face reality, because lying always comes back around like karma. Therefore, it’s not good to lie back to bac, because then you’re going to get caught in a big lie. If you find yourself in a situation where you lied but it causes you to lie further, then you should just stop there. There might be a situation that after some time passes, a person asks you about something you lied about and you might forget and then you get caught in a lie. It causes people to not trust in you and may cause you to lose relationships with people due to it. Lying can take over you because you’ll find every situation an “appropriate” situation to lie in, and that’s not good. It might start with a white lie, but that little lie can consume you. Therefore, it’s not right to lie at all, if a person can’t take the truth then that’s up to them. A little lie to spare someone’s feelings might become a bad habit but it’s not always bad, because you obviously don’t want to lie to someone close to you. Just remember that there’s a limit to lying. That’s just my opinion about whether it's permissible or not to lie.

Getting to know you 1101

Getting to Know You

1. Sincerely, I don't play sports. Sadly, I'm not athletic and I have no interest in sports, unless I'm watching them. I do have a sport I'm interested in playing but only as a minor hobby which is Racquetball, but I haven't tried it yet, it just seems fun. 
2. In my free time, I like to spend time listening to music, reading, or spending time with my family or boyfriends. 
3. The most ridiculous lie I've ever told was in college. I parked in a visitor's parking spot and when I was about to get away with it and leave with my friend to go somewhere else, public safety comes to my window and asks if I'm a student and I said no. He asked what I was doing there and I just said I came to drop my cousin off. But he noticed I stayed for an hour and he tells me how do I take an hour to drop her off, and I said well I was helping her with things inside and he said to not do it again because I didn't get a visitor's pass but I told him that it was because they never told me anything when I drive in to pick her up and then I drove off. 
4. When I write an essay or anything, I don't have an outline. I just sit in front of my laptop and write just about anything that flows in my mind.
5. My writing experience so far has been well off. I've had ups and downs in my writing grades but it turns out well. I've learned a lot throughout the years and I can say that I've learned a lot about writing. Therefore, I just want practice my writing and learn more to write better. 
6. The most recent book I've read from cover to cover has been "The Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell. 
7. I often write on social media a lot, maybe like once a day but I don't post things as much I explore social media instead. 
8. The most important I should learn this semester is to learn more about my major which is International Business because I'm just excited to see what awaits in my career. 
9. My definition of a hero is someone that comes in a clutch. Someone that comes at an unexpected time to save you, be it physically saving you or emotionally. Overall, a hero to me is someone with a good heart.
10. I can't recall the last time I failed at something well. But I can remember of one time that I let someone go and I felt regret after it. 
11. Rate as a writer: B. 

3 Citations from "Still Separate, Still Unequal: America's Educational Apartheid"

Claudia Mendoza
English 1100 3J
October 24, 2015
Prof. Young

3 Citations that peaked my interest from Jonathan Kozol's "Still Separate, Still Unequal: America's Educational Apartheid":

1. Words, in these cases, cease to have real meaning; or, rather, they mean the opposite of what they say. 
2. "'If people of New York woke up one day and learned that we were gone, that we had simply died or left somewhere else, how would they feel?' ... 'I think they'd he relieved,' this very solemn girl replied."
3. Equality itself-equality alone-is now, it seems, the article of faith to which most of the principals of inner-city public schools subscribe. 

Toni Morrison

Blog Response to Jean Anyon

Claudia Mendoza
English 1100_3J
Prof. Young
24 September 2015

Do you agree that Social Class is related to Education?

     Jean Anyon decided to conduct a research on Education according to Social Classes. In her research she includes Behavior in a classroom, attitude towards learning grammar, and attitude towards science. According to Anyon, the education of the schools students attend to differ based on Social Class. She separates Social Classes and Schools by four categories. These four categories being: Working Class, Middle Class, Affluent Profession School, and Executive Elite Schools. These categories go from the "poor" to the "rich", and based on how these social classes can influence the type of schools your child attends. Having reviewed "Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work" by Jean Anyon, I disagree with her claims that teachers provide different instruction. 

     She doesn't have all the data in her research wrong, but one weak spot for this research would be the time. This was release on 1980 and we are now in 2015. When I attended elementary school, middle school, along with high school it was from 2002 to 2015. It is about 20 years apart from the research to when I started attending school, you may say it's not much but the difference may be vast because of the advancements of society. 

     I attended elementary school, School #18 in Paterson, NJ. It was a Working Class School. It may have been similar to how Anyon described but it was also different in a way that would contradict her general outlook on a Working Class school. Some rules that apply in working class schools are "no talking back", and "follow rules". These aren't different than my school, or any schools I attended. School #18 may not have been the best school in Paterson at all, but you learn a lot of things from there. There were a lot of issues with behavior in my school but we had all we needed. We had Texas Instrument calcuators, and we were one of the schools that first had a Smart Board. I don't know how schools ran back in 1980 but now the government is very involved in education and gives "poor" schools a big budget.
     As far as teaching skills, I'd say my teachers were pretty good. They taught well, taught us to use our creativity in our writing and even math! They taught ways to remember the multiplication table easier, and made us write journals to enforce creative writing. They asked a lot of questions, which at that time was annoying because, I couldn't exactly explained how I solved a problem, I just did it. They made us work independent as well in "centers" which are groups. School #18 was a good school as far as I'm concerned. They teach differently than what Anyon would describe the education in a working class school.
     She mentions that teachers focus more on students' behavior when they're from working class, and I'm going to be honest, that may be correct. That's why they bring in teachers that are more tougher to working class schools. My school had teachers that would legit throw a book on the floor if we didn't listen. As far as talking back, the teachers at School #18 would call someone to take the student to the office. If it's a bad case, they would suspend a student. The teacher's though, wouldn't focus vastly on our behavior, they would focus on our improvement. It would be unfair if they only focus on behavior. Moving on to a middle class school in 8th grade,  was very different. It wasn't crappy looking like school #18, it was big, and it had lockers. They taught well, but I realized sometimes School #18 made it easier by teaching us tricks to remember stuff.
    I believe all students should have the same type of education though. I don't see why they can't teach us the same stuff if at the end education will get everyone far. It just depends on the students' potential and their effort. If they want to really go ahead and become someone big in life they could. Just as how a kid can go from the ghetto to wearing Audemars Piguet; a rich kid can go from wearing Louis Vuitton since birth to wearing a construction uniform.


   
 

School #18 Auditorium 


   

Quotes from Social Class and Education

     3 Quotes from Social Class and Education

     "In one of the working-class schools, the class had a science period several times a week. On the three occasions observed, the children were not called upon to set up experiments or to give explanations for facts or concepts. Rather, on each occasion the teacher told them in his own words what the book said. The children copied the teacher's sentences from the board."

     "Work tasks do not usually request creativity. Serious attention is rarely given in school work on how the children develop or express their own feelings and ideas, either linguistically or in graphic form."
 
     "Their criteria were: whether the student spoke clearly, whether the lesson was interesting, whether the student made any mistakes, and whether he or she kept control of the class. On an occasion when a child did not maintain control, the teacher said, 'When you're up there, you have authority and you have to use it. I'll back you up.'"