Talking point #7

 “Anita Hill is a Boy” by Peggy Orenstein

This article talks about...so i couldnt blog yesterday but i went back and looked at the article and it wasnt that bad. it talks about how educators around the country are working to develop a gender-fair curricula, they are offering self defense to young girls, sex ed classes to elementary students and setting up a class about sexual harassment. 

 When boys feel like they're being forced to admire a women they try to pick one that they think behaves sort of like a man. Thats what they can best relate too."

i find this quote very true because if boys tries to admire a girly girly he feels "gay" so by picking a girl that is more rough around the edges and likes the same things as him...it is a lot easier for him to admire that girl.

"If I told them I was interested in women’s history, they’d call me a fag. So I just take it and don’t talk about it." 

Men are embarrassed about showing off women history because they wont feel mascatlent because they dont have the history men up there. plus most men dont know a lot about women history or their rights that they fought for. most men just research and learn about male history. men should study more on women and learn the about equality.

Talking Point #6

"One More River to Cross"- Recognizing the Real Injury in Brown: A Prerequisite to Sharping New Remedies. By: Charles Lawrence

This reading By Lawrence talks about how blacks where separated from whites students and how America has been struggling from equality. There was a very big focus on Brown vs Board of Education and blacks where not able to get the same education as everyone else. This has caused many people of color to not get the education that they should of gotten, so with that they aren't able to proceed into a greater field of education.

"Once blacks are labeled as inferior, they are denied access to equal societal opportunities. The resulting inadequate educational preparation, poverty of cultural backgrounds, and lack of experience constitute real limitations on their ability to contribute to society, and the prophecy of their inferiority is fulfilled."

I found this quote very interesting because it reminds me of Haven because once the black students are labeled no one wants to help them. people seem to stop caring and look the other way. no student should feel inferior or even superior to anyone else. school should be a place where they should feel comfortable and able to learn because if they get taught that they are inferior that will carry on into their life and then their lives might turn out the way they should of.

"The small cadre of lawyers who formulated and implemented the BTCYWIl strategy were well aware that the desegregation of schools would not be a panacea. Their ultimate goal was full political and civil equality for Blacks; they knew that this could not be achieved until the entire system of segregation had been destroyed."

Even though segregation was not really solved during this case, it did mix things up and kind of influenced the world on segregation. in today's world i feel like we should take a chance and stand up for things instead of being afraid that what we are fighting for might be shot down. but if you take a chance, the issue might not fully be solved but something might come out of it. 

"The ultimate goal was full political and civil equality for blacks; they knew that this could not be achieved until the entire system of segregation had been destroyed.Equality of education is not enough, there can be no equality under a segregated system. The American negro is not a dominate minority; therefore he must fight for complete elimination of segregation as his ultimate goal."

Segregation should be fought against, people of color should never feel inferior to anyone. whites shouldn't feel superior to people of color. everyone should be equal and everyone should get the same equality. a colored persons goal should never be to eliminate segregation, segregation should not even exist so should be no goal or it shouldn't be the person of colors goal, it should be the white persons goal because they are the ones that are doing the segregation.

Over all i think that this article was focusing on how people if color have been fighting for segregation for the longest time and they have been hurt during the segregation of schools because they weren't getting the same opportunities as everyone else. this article was a little confusing but over all segregation has caused a lot of problems that need to be fixed. 

talking point #5

In The Service Of What? The Politics of Service Learning by Joseph Kahne and Joel Westheimer

 Kahne and Westheimer argue in this article that service learning helps the students that are being taught and also help the people that are working with the students. Not only do they talk about how service learning helps the students and teachers it also helps show the aspects and ideas service learning brings.

"Efforts to integrate service learning activities into the curriculum have great potential and deserve the support they are now receiving. To date. however, little attention has been given to sorting out the goals and motivations that underlie the spectrum of service learning projects emerging in schools throughout the country. Is it beneficial to point out such differences and risk creating some opposition to service learning? We think so. Clarifying different goals provides educators with an opportunity to consider systematically a range of possible priorities (including some they might otherwise not consider) and the relation of these to their practice. "

service learning is something that you cant just walk through and not be interactive with. you need to be active and motivated because you will get a lot more out of the whole experience. You cant just walk through things because then you wont get the important things out of it. when i do my service learning through VIPS i cant just walk through things because that wont help anyone. yeah i might be going through the process but I'm not interacting with the students so they are getting anything out of it. Service learning is a great thing and people need to put more into it because you aren't just helping the children, you are helping yourself too.

"Service learning makes students active participants in service projects that aim to respond to the needs of the community while furthering the academic goals of students."

i think that this quote really explains what the article is talking about. it supports the argument well because it pretty much says that service learning is good and is not bad in any way.

"Educators and legislators alike maintain that service learning can improve the community and invigorate the classroom, providing rich educational experiences for students at all levels of schooling." 

i think this quote is talking about how legislators and educators believe that service learning is a great way to get children to more involved and to help them get a better education. it in riches the educational experience and allows the children to get one on one help. it challenges the students in a great way and makes them learning in a better community. 

over all it was kind of hard to read this article, it was a little weird for me, i didn't understand everything but i think i got the  main idea but its hard to tell. Service learning is a great experience and that people should put more effort into it. it defiantly helps everyone because not only are the students learning and also helping the teachers. when i do my service learning, i kind of want it to last longer because it is so great to see the children so eager to learn and do more games with me, and when it is time for them to leave, they want to stay longer. this really shows that service learning is a great experience and it is a great thing to do. 

Talking Point # 4

Unlearning the Myths that Bind Us by Linda Christensen

This article talks about the importance of questioning the cartoons, movies, books,that we have watched and read while we were young. It also put us in categories like sexist, racist, and stereotypes and violence. Everyone has watched a Disney movie or seen cartoons on tv and read books on these three subjects.  They were always all over the place, there is no way someone wasnt able to watch or read these things. 

"Many student don't want to believe that they have been manipulated by children's media or advertising. no one wants to admit that they've been "handled" by media. They assure me that they make their own choices and the media has no power over them-as they sit with Fubu, Nike, Timberlands or whatever latest fashion rage might be."

This shows that the media does influence people even if they really don't think that it as. You see new clothes on television and magazines and people automatically feel like they need those products. Girls see other girls on television wearing certain things and they go out and buy those things because they are the latest fashion and will be more womanly then other girls that don't have these products. It goes the same with boys, they buy things so that they can stand out and feel more powerful. the media does have a lot of power over us and many people do not realize this.

"Look, Ursula the sea witch is ugly and smart. hey shes kind of dark looking. the young, pretty ones only want to hook their man; the old, pretty ones are mean because they are losing their looks. Kenneth noticed that people of color and poor people are either absent or servants to the rich, white, pretty people." 

I never really noticed this before but a lot of cartoons do have the white people being the rich and successful people and the colored are usually the ugly poor ones. i was thinking about Cinderella, she is a white girl who lives in a house of ugly white people. She goes to the ball and meets a handsome white prince. there was no part in that story where there was a colored person that was all dressed up and looking beautiful. A lot of stories are like this. Sleeping Beauty, again you have a white girl and a white man being all rich and beautiful and you have a darker person being the wicked ugly witch that causes the beautiful white girl to fall asleep forever. Its never the other way around. the only story that i can think of is Pocahontas, you have a beautiful Indian girl falling in love with a rich white man. Its a step up from the other stories, at least you have a colored person being a beautiful. But the only thing is that she has to marry a white man. Also, in the Lion King, you have the dark lion being the bad guy and the light lions being the good guys. There is also a lot of violence in the movie that shouldn't be in there. Cartoons are very different once you look closely at them. 

"for some the lesson doesn't end in the the classroom. many who watched cartoons before we start our study say they can no longer enjoy them. now instead of seeing a bunch of ducks in clothes, they see the racism, sexism and violence that swim under the surface of the stories."

I have noticed the same thing as i looked back at the cartoons and stories. every cartoon that i watched when i was a child were very sexiest and racist and most of them they were violent. Even Tom and Jerry is very violent. blowing and shooting each other. I first thought that it was just funny but  really it isn't any more. violence shouldn't be part of a young child's life and sexism shouldn't be either.These stereotypes are put into people of different classes, races, and sex which may not be accepted by the outside world but also as a self-realization and acceptance. you have to look close to see these things, and if you don't see them then you aren't looking close enough.

I liked this article because it really opened my eyes on these cartoons. i never really noticed these things before but now that i really look at them i notice everything. The media has been influencing people for the longest time and it even starts when they are young. children are told that you need to have money, and you need to be white and beautiful to be successful. But everyone needs to realized that you don't need any of that to be successful and happy. you should be yourself and not have the media influence them.