Month: November 2021

Today, I read Nub’s response to Paula Mirando’s article, “Shared Experiences of Multiethnic Children in Stealing Buddha’s Dinner”. Both of us mentioned that the theme of Mirando’s article is to illustrate the experience and hardships of being a multi-cultured person. Nub also mentioned that the character in “Stealing Buddha’s Dinner“, suffers from finding her identity where she isn’t able to fit into the multi-cultures that she is part of. I also mentioned this point, but the difference in our response is that I talked about my first-hand experience, which is the reason why I can relate to that person. Another difference in our response is that Nub wrote the essay more analytically because he included more examples and how those examples help support the theme of the story. On the other hand, I only use minimal examples and most of them support the theme and my own experience. There is one part where Nub mentioned how multicultured felt a “guilt at not being able to identify with all aspects of his or her heritage [which] may lead to anger, shame, or self-hatred” (Mirando, page. 130). I wanted to include this part in my reading response, but I forgot to. I found that interesting how exclusion and leads to people feeling these negative emotions towards themselves.

Honestly, right now I am not sure what to write for a proposal argument essay. Though, in my public speaking class, we are doing proposal essays, specifically about either taking down monuments or leaving them up. I plan to talk about putting up Corrie Ten Boom’s statue because she helped many Jewish people escape from the Nazis. I thought it would be interesting to talk about this person because she’s pretty heroic.

The purpose of this essay addressing a problem with a vision to solve it. I was wondering if this has to be current problems, or could this be previous problems. There are actually several things that I am interested to talk about. 1) Abortion and the problem with the society (workspace and opportunities) 2)Freedom of Religion 3)The problem with Identity and Labels

I am not sure what to talk about. 🙁

After watching her interview, it helped the audience understand first-hand knowledge of what she was going through. When reading her essay, it just felt like one experience and event that has happened, but hearing her talk through her experience makes the audience really put themselves in her shoes. It was inspiring and heart-warming to hear that her relationship with her grandma is what influenced her to read poems because she said that her grandma would use to chant Chinese poems with her on her grandma’s back. This is when she started to find that poetry was her safe place. Although she was influenced by her grandmother, she was also the one that was strict with her and restricted her from going to the poetry camp. Even though these events were painful to her, she wrote these poems about these situations out of a funny and “witty” experience. This not only tells her situation but, ironically, entertains the audience by making them laugh. I found it interesting that her poetry is in conversation form!