Thursday, June 18, 2009
2nd class assignment!
This is our second week of school and I really enjoyed reading all the short stories, and having the mini book clubs! I want to say from the first seven short stories we read my favorite was Orientation by Daniel Orozco. It was basically the first day of this employee and he is being informed about all the people in the office and all the precautions he must take. He is shown where his and everyone's cubicle are located. Is told that he should never answer his phone and let all the calls go to voicemail. They don't allow personal phone calls, only emergency calls are allowed but it must approved by your supervisor! If the supervisor is not available you then ask Philip Spiers and he will check with Clarissa Nicks. You may be let go if you don't ask for permission before making a emergency phone call! If I was in a situation like that I don't think I could wait to get approval from someone to make a emergency phone call. What are these people thinking! We have a life outside of the cubicle, kids and spouses so I would of just walked out. That is me personally. John Lafountaine uses the womens restroom occassionally and Russelle Nash is in love with Amanda Pierce, Amanda Pierce has a six years old son named Jamie who is autistic, her husband is a lawyer and she is in love with Albert Bosch and he is in love with Ellie Trapper. Ellie Trapper hates Albert Bosch and loves Curtis Lance. Curtis Lance hates Ellie Trapper and he handels all the office supplies. Anika Bloom is the person you want to stay away from unless you want to know how and when you are going to die. I can really relate to his story I have worked in many offices and once you get to know just one person, you know them all! The story I least liked, was A Party Down at the Square by Ralph Ellison. This story was about a black man in Birmingham, Alabama being burned to death because the color of his skin. I don't care about stories that have to do with discrimination towards a person because of their race, gender, religion etc. I try my hardest to teach my children that we are all humans and deserve the same respect all people. By all means we all have feelings. I will going to share with you one of my own personal experiences, when the whole thing about the illegal immigrants was going on, I hated going out in public. Never failed people would look at me with evil eyes, and you could read the expression on their faces wondering do you belong here! I would make it a point to talk to my children out loud in English, just so that people knew I spoke and understood! It came to the point where I told one of my sisters that I was willing to put a black dot on my forehead and change who I was. She told me no one can change who we are, we are not at wrong, we are US BORN CITIZENS like them! To be honest I don't know anything about the hispanic culture. I actually learned what Cinco de Mayo was all about a couple of years ago. I went to the same schools as some of you did or do. What makes me different?
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Oh, Olivia. That's terrible. I'm sorry that you would feel this way, but I'm not surprised.
ReplyDelete"The Party Down at the Square" was hard for me to read, too. I mean, it made me physically ill. I wonder if more people were able to see into our past like that, would they be willing to make off-hand racial slurs today?
Olivia, I enjoyed reading Orientation too. Mainly because I could picture myself there. And I really didn't enjoy A Party Down at the Square much either. As bad as it was though, I still kept reading it!
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