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What issue is meaningful to you?  As a Criminology major, we learn about all different types of violence that occur within our society. The type of violence that was most impactful to me was domestic violence. Domestic violence is a major issue, especially during this pandemic were currently in. Personally, I think domestic violence isContinue reading “Blog 7”

Blog 6: Lynette Adkins is the author of YouTube video which encompasses interviews with students at UT, the University of Texas. The author of this video is not explicitly visible, rather her presence is implicit. The audio of Lynette Adkins is predominate in the video as she interviews several students. The information regarding the authorContinue reading “Blog 6”

The article “Critical Race Theory Counterstory as Allegory: A Rhetorical Trope to Raise Awareness About Arizona’s Ban on Ethnic Studies” written by Aja Y. Martinez displays resistance writing throughout the piece. Martinez takes a differential writing technique in comparison to what we have read thus far in class, wherein she utilizes fictional storytelling to represent a universalContinue reading “Blog 5”

The article; From Silence to Words: Writing as a Strugglenarrated by Min-zhan Luilluminates her personal experiences to demonstrate the identity struggle arising from a conflict between home and school discourses. The narrator grew up in China, attending a Chinese school uniform to the standardized Chinese language. Conversantly, at home her parents raised her to be educatedContinue reading “Blog 4”

Language is exceedingly complex because of its uniqueness across individuals, “The human use of language is not a simple phenomenon: sophisticated research in linguistics and sociology has demonstrated incontrovertibly that many long held and passionately cherished notions about language are misleading at best, and often completely erroneous” (SRTOL, pg 1). We are socialized to understandContinue reading “Blog 3”

            Pratt’s “Kill the Indian, Save the Man” exemplifies Indian savagery and civilized whiteness. Pratt argument entails killing all those of the Indian race as his justified understanding of saving them as well as the society; “all the Indian there is in race should be dead. Kill the Indian in him, and save the man” (HarvardContinue reading “Blog 1”

Freire’s takes a stance regarding oppression within a society in his novel The Pedagogy of the Oppressed. The passage assigned to my group begins with “The pedagogy of the oppressed, animated by authentic, humanist (not humanitarian) generosity, presents itself as a pedagogy of humankind”, and ends with  “One aspect of the reply is to be found inContinue reading “Blog 2”