Journal Entries - Literary/Non-literary Text by Alexia Wosene https://padlet.com/alexiawosene1/lpuz7h1e9b579kp9 en-us 2020-10-18 06:02:17 UTC 2024-12-30 08:16:17 UTC hello@padlet.com Gary Chambers uses various conventions in his speech, specifically focused on tone in order to evoke emotions of guilt and self consciousness towards his present panel audience and more broad audience of US citizens. Chambers uses a very austere tone throughout his speech, which is reflective of his anger towards the regressive actions and behavior he has seen and continues to historically in this country. Towards the end of his speech his tone becomes much more cautionary, which serves to not only conclude his final statements regarding the wrongful decisions made by his state, but to give his audience a chance to self reflect on their poor decisions and how significant they are in contributing to a society that praises and normalizes oppression of Black Americans. alexiawosene1 https://padlet.com/alexiawosene1/lpuz7h1e9b579kp9/wish/839857420 2020-10-19 05:24:58 UTC https://padlet.com/alexiawosene1/lpuz7h1e9b579kp9/wish/839857420 In George W. Bush's Speech regarding the event of 9/11, he demonstrates a strong use of Ethos, Pathos, and Logos. Ethos is clearly a direct factor of his message, as he was the President of the United States at the time of this event. He emphasizes appeals of Pathos, not only because this was an emotionally traumatizing event, but as President and a human being he felt incredibly saddened for his country and citizens. Lastly, he places an emphasis on Logos, in order to reassure the people of his country that he is going to use his position to provide recovery that was very much necessary for Americans. alexiawosene1 https://padlet.com/alexiawosene1/lpuz7h1e9b579kp9/wish/839930096 2020-10-19 06:02:18 UTC https://padlet.com/alexiawosene1/lpuz7h1e9b579kp9/wish/839930096 I found myself very invested in the excerpt from Maxine Hong Kingston. What primarily drew my attention to it out of the pieces we've read, is its title and the actual context within Kingston's story. I took away a common theme of fault in language, and with a more widespread yet personally vulnerable approach. The consciousness that one can reach of their broken language, that ultimately leads them to live a life in fear. I wondered, how could she title this "From the Woman Warrior" when her own personal story is very contrary to your ideal warrior. Kingston expressed the many withdraws that her broken language caused in aspects of her social and academic life. It is very clearly highlighted in the text that for her and Chinese American girls in and outside of her life, language was a massive barrier in their academic life, which not only was to their conscious but of those around them. Even her "own people" such her Mother and family faced this same obstacle and scrutinized her although they were no different. My now final inference of the title "From the Woman Warrior" is that despite language always being such a limited aspect of Kingston's identity, she was able to morph into a warrior and end up being acknowledged in such important roles of Literature. alexiawosene1 https://padlet.com/alexiawosene1/lpuz7h1e9b579kp9/wish/859962345 2020-10-25 22:58:24 UTC https://padlet.com/alexiawosene1/lpuz7h1e9b579kp9/wish/859962345 As someone who is a part of the LGBTQ+ community, I admire the contributions of Ellen DeGeneres towards allowing more discussion towards the topic of Gender and Sexuality, not just as a person but also career wise. To be looked down on and told that your existence isn't valid based on how you choose to identify is completely irrational, and it leads me to think what I would do if I was in her shoes. On top of being a women, identifying as LGBTQ+, and a person of color, I cannot imagine the amount of antagonism I would have faced if I took those steps during the time that Ellen DeGeneres openly came out. Although she is a bit controversial now, I do think that having a figure like her that decided to do this really allowed a lot of people to feel comfort in a society filled with so much discomfort, even such a point to which people decided to not take their lives which is powerful. alexiawosene1 https://padlet.com/alexiawosene1/lpuz7h1e9b579kp9/wish/918795110 2020-11-12 23:15:03 UTC https://padlet.com/alexiawosene1/lpuz7h1e9b579kp9/wish/918795110 I learned a lot about the consciousness that individuals then become aware of from such broken language, through the excerpts we focused on this week. In Hong Kingston, Tan, and Anzaldua, there were strong similarities between family relationships with native language and English that was perceived as the "foreign/colonizers" language. I personally related a lot to these excerpts specifically Mora's because I grew up with a Mother and Father from Ethiopia and despite understanding Amharic my whole life I have had obstacles speaking it. I have made countless efforts to improve it just as Elena, but instead tend to be looked down on for that and left out of my family in that aspect of language. alexiawosene1 https://padlet.com/alexiawosene1/lpuz7h1e9b579kp9/wish/918827401 2020-11-12 23:35:07 UTC https://padlet.com/alexiawosene1/lpuz7h1e9b579kp9/wish/918827401 alexiawosene1 https://padlet.com/alexiawosene1/lpuz7h1e9b579kp9/wish/918871158 2020-11-13 00:02:47 UTC https://padlet.com/alexiawosene1/lpuz7h1e9b579kp9/wish/918871158 https://www.anglo-ethiopian.org/publications/articles.php?type=A&reference=publications/articles/2005winter/challengeamharic.php alexiawosene1 https://padlet.com/alexiawosene1/lpuz7h1e9b579kp9/wish/918909564 2020-11-13 00:24:52 UTC https://padlet.com/alexiawosene1/lpuz7h1e9b579kp9/wish/918909564