Topic: Politics

Thesis Stament:

Why does out country still use a two party system?

Would a multi-party system benefit our country benefit our country more than the current two party system we use?

How would a multi-pary political system effect our country?

Essay Questions

Topic: Politics

1: Why do many groups claim we should have freedom of speech, yet bash somebody's opinion if it is not the same as there own?

2: Why do people resort to violence over political topics that are out of our control?

3: Why do we only have a two party system?

4: Why do people never seem to find anything they like about the opposing candidate?

5: Why do people burn the American flag if they do not agree with something?

6: Why do people refuse to come together after an election?

7: Why do people politicians constantly break the law, yet rarely get punished the way a normal citizen would be?

8: Would our country benefit from having multiple leaders rather than 1 leader?

9: Why do elections always end up with candidates arguing over each others faults, rather than talking about policies that will benefit our country?

10: What is the actual motive for somebody running for political office?

NWA and McBride

Personally, I believe that the song Fuck The Police by NWA does not correctly depict police officers. Calling all police officer racist minority killers who are out to harm people is just as untrue as saying all black people are drug dealers or killers. Most police officers do there job correctly each day without profiling people based on gender or race. However there are a few officers that do abuse there powers and abuse minority groups such as Hispanics and African Americans. This does not mean that all cops are like that, however the media only seems to report on the few situations where it does occur and does not show the positives that law enforcement officers do on a daily bases to keep all Americans safe. The artists in both songs do have the right to express themselves however they would like. Although, by calling all police officers racists, saying you are going to shoot them and making threats at them seemed to do more harm than good. In my opinion, saying “take out a cop or two” is going to make cops very suspicious when pulling over an African American in an urban area. How would you feel if somebody said they were going to shoot you simply because of the job you have in society and you were one of the cops that did nothing wrong? I personally believe that McBride would not fully agree with what NWA did with there song. He would agree with the fact that there is an issue that needed to be addressed between African Americans and police officers. However, he would not agree with the way that NWA got the attention off the police officers. There are many other more peaceful ways to grab the attention off police officers that don’t involve making death threats to them. 

The general concept of identifying a human is based off many factors, some more important than others. Out of the 8 main factors to identity, personality is by far the most crucial piece. Personality is one of the few identity factors that is actually controlled by the human, unlike subjects such as gender and race. Due to the fact that personality is a controllable factor, it helps show a greater portion of who the person truly is. Personality can show how a person treats other people, if they are enjoyable to be with and also if they have respect for others. Topics like that can not be shown simply by looking at the color of someones skin or what gender they are. Race and culture are also topics that may not truly show how a person truly is. Religion can be very deceiving because although people may claim to be a certain religion, it does not always dictate how they act. Something such as social economic status is also not the most important piece to discovering a true identity because economic status can be very misleading. Somebody may appear to be very rich but could be living a very stressful, sad life with an unhappy family compared to a family that may not have much money but is as happy as a family could be. If you have a bad personality, all of the money in the world could not change how a person acts. Anybody can control the way they act and what most people tend to forget is that being respectful, kind and courteous doesn't cost a cent. 

"How To Tame A Wild Tongue" Response Questions

1: In the opening scene the dentist tells Anzaldua to control her wild tongue because it is pushing out the cotton and pushing back the drills as well. This connects to the overall theme of the essay because the entire texted is named “How To Tame A Wild Tongue”. In my opinion, it seems as if Anzaldua was offended by what the dentist said.

2: Throughout the text, Anzaldua wrote in both English and Spanish. Although I do not speak any Spanish, I was able to use the english text before and after the phrases in Spanish to help try and break down the meaning. However, I couldn't not understand a few part that were written in Spanish so I used google translate to help find the meaning.

3: I do believe that there is a standard, proper Spanish language and Chicano Spanish is known as nonstandard. It is very similar to the many dialects of Italian that I am familiar with. My family is from the south of Italy so they speak there own dialect with different words than the northerners speak. If somebody is from the far south and the far north, they may both technically speak Italian but they will have no idea what they are each saying because the dialect is so different. 

4: Speaking in Academic English, I feel, Is very important to becoming identified as and American. Although people may be able to speak English, speaking is correctly will make a large different when peaking it to another person. Many people may speak English but it may come across as if the words are in the wrong order, almost as if the person thought go the words in their native language and translated them word for word in their head and spoke them. In most languages, the way sentences are worded vary based on each language.

5: The forms of English identities that I know are: Proper English, Standard English, Working Class English and Broken English.

6: I personally do not use a “secret language” when communicating with my friends, although I defiantly tend to use more swear words and put downs while with my friends. 

7: When speaking with my friends I would consider the language I use as non-standard English. However, while speaking to my parents, customers at work or a professor, I tend to use standard English. I use standard English because I do not want to come across as uneducated or disrespectful when speaking to adults or people I am not friendly with.

8: The statement “I am my language” means that whatever language you speak resembles your culture and where you come from. For example, all through America, english is spoken many different ways with difference accents. If somebody from New York was speaking english and somebody from Alabama was speaking English, you would be able to tell the general area where they came from. 

9: During the introduction, Anzaldua was told by a dentist how she needs to control her tongue. To Anzaldua, this resembled her losing her culture and her language . However, in the final paragraph, Anzaldua says how many cultures have given up there language due to societal pressures. They connect because it shows how Anzaldua will be strong and not give up her Los Chicanos culture, even if society wants her to become a regular, average American.

10: I believe that the language you speak defiantly shows a major piece of your true identity. Your language resembles where you came from and your cultural beliefs. However, that is only 2 of the 8 pieces of identity. Language does make up your entire identity, things such as personality, race, gender and many more pieces are what also make up true identity. 

11: To me identity is some what important, but not the “end all be all”. It is important to have an identity that is true to what you believe is right and who you want to be, but it is not the most ruling piece in who somebody truly is. Somebody identity to one person can change when they speak to somebody else. Anzaldua, I believe, feels it is important to identify as somebody they want to be. For example, Anzaldua identifies as a Chicano woman who is proud of her culture. An example of this is when Anzaldua says “Chicano Spanish sprang out of the Chicanos’ need to identify ourselves as a distinct people”(245). This shows how Anzaldua is proud to be a Chicano an wants to be identified as one, not as somebody that doesn't resemble her culture.

1: For most of my life I played baseball. I began playing in Pre School playing T-Ball and played every year up untill Junior Year in highschool. At that point I decided I would rather work and earn money than play baseball every weekend.

2: I am very passionate about cars. In the blog below I posted a picture of my own car. My friends and I all enjoy modifying our cars, cleaning them and going to car shows when we have free time. Ever since I was little I have enjoyed cars and now Im old enough to own my own and modify it the way I would modify fake cars in video games.

3: One of the biggest lies a told was lie me and my father told my mother. It was my couisns birthday party and me and my dad had been looking at cars for me because my 17th birthday was coming up. We were very bored at the birthday party so my father and I snuck out and told my mom we were going home but in reality we went to go buy my car. She was not very happy with us when we came home with a car becuase she wanted to be there when I chose a car.

4: When I write, it is a mixture of both having an outline and also words simply coming to my head. When I make a full out line of the exact things I want to say, it doesnt always come out to sound as natrual as if I were to do some planning and some free thinking.

5: My writing experience has been overall pretty good so far. I feel that I am a better writer than I am a reader because writing is usually my thoughts rather than analyzing somebody else's thoughts from hundreds of years ago. Overall, I would like to do better with grammar and punctiation as silly as that may sound. I'm sure I have already made a ton of grammatical errors just in this blog.

6: The last book I read cover to cover was Hamlet becuase it was the last book I had to read for my senior literature class. Easily my least favorite book of all time.

7: I use social media almost everyday. I snapchat everyday of the week, I read twitter almost every day. Maybe I'll post something every few days but not too frequently and I go on instagram everyday and only post something once every few weeks. Usually its a picture of my car.

8: This semester, the most important thing I would like to learn is to over all become a more mature written. I would like to be able to write in a more mature manner and also improve upon my grammer.

9: My defention of identity is an individuals true personality. Somebody may pretend to be someone that they are not, but their true identity is the person they truely are and not the person they try to be.

10: An issue that is important to me is the way police officers are being treated. On a personal level, I know many country workers such as Firemen, Police Officers and Sherifs Officers in my town. They are made out to be terrible people because of the way the media portrays them to be killers and bad people. However, they are just like you and I doing there job that helps keep everybody safe.

11: As a writer, I would rate my self a B overall. I feel as if I make my points very clear when I write, however my writing is far from perfect.

What's up guys, this is my blog. My name is Anthony Martino, some of my intrests are cars and sports. Above is a picture of my car, 2006 Dodge Charger R/T. I work at Best Buy in the TV and Car Audio deparments. Hope this will be a good semester!