Author: Perla Sanchez

04/28/19

Creative Re-Mix

I will create a short presentation with videos and a trivia game showing the hardships that inmates face when they get out of prisons and solutions to this problem.

04/2/19

Blog post #2

 

This movie is one of my favorite movies ever and highly recommend if you are interested and have not seen it to watch it. until recently I did not really thought about it as being connected to the idea of displacement until I rewatched it. It is about how a mom tells her daughter that if she goes outside she will die due to a rare sickness she has.  throughout the movie, it is seen how the mom does everything in her power to keep her daughter isolated from the world. This relates to displacement because she feels displaced in her own home. Not being able to go outside and enjoy a normal teenage life makes her feel isolated, alone and like she is not really living. This relates to the power that displacement can have in a person to the point where they don’t feel that they belong and in her situation, she does not know anything about the outside world or how to fit into society.

 

by : Perla Sanchez

03/31/19

Displacement video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwbRXXsYbUc

 

This video shows how Rachel from friends feels displaced because she escaped her wedding and now is struggling to get accustomed to the normal working people life because she was always surrounded by riches and luxuries. it is seen how even though she moved away from her parents hold she is still using her credits cards which shows she is not fully independent from her parents. not having to work a day in her life has left her with not skills which is why she can’t find a job anywhere. Everywhere she goes to apply they harshly reject her because of her lack of experience and skills. This clearly relates to displacement because even she does not know how to live like her friends and is having trouble getting accustomed to “the real world “

03/19/19

Blog post #1

Identity

White-Mexican looks like a Latina,
not my label
a question
from a Guatemalan student
who’s come undone
in my ESL class,
doesn’t get my kind
I try to describe
how I grew up
in Caucasian corn country
surrounded by houses
on cul-de-sacs
that all looked the same,
how we were alone
in a town of 5000,
one black family,
one Indian family,
one Asian family,
and one household of Mexicans,
no two, us and the Renterias
to whom we were related by marriage
before and after my divorce,
and they were mixed;
still, it was a good living,
happy in our cocooness,
our oneness,
separated by money
one direction
color on the other:
classes, classes, classes,
day and night
we took lessons:
piano, jazz, tap, ballet,
the dance team, trumpet,
trombone, tennis, Finishing School,
and one awful summer golf;
Christened, Confirmed, Cathechismized;
it all cut me in several places,
molding of head and heart
making me ultrasensitive,
then and now,
an observer of the outside,
an outsider among my own kind,
my very shade,
mysterious aloof
black haired beauty
who can’t speak Spanish,
living among blue eyed dyed blond bombshells,
who held up her head higher
because she’s shy not stuck-up,
understood, undenied, sacrificed to at any price
by my beloved little brown parents
who taught me well
gave up so much
so their daughters could shine
and they’d swell with pride
at the life they had given us,
on Sundays we basked
in mutual admiration after mass
singing our church songs while making breakfast,
according to the unspoken doctrine in our house of:
fast first eat later after communion,
we intruded with our Mexican music
bellowing out the open windows
the smell of bacon frying,
pancakes baking, coffee
and eggs scrambled to order
it wafted out on beautiful summer mornings
out of our house in Pleasant Hill, Iowa,
perched on the highest spot
one could reach on the East Side of the street
for first and second-generation immigrants.
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– Displacement has had many definitions depending on the person. this poem describes the feeling of displacement while living in a white suburban community where everyone is so different from you and your family. The speaker feels displaced everywhere she goes because she feels like an outsider.  She goes on and explaining how she feels alone in a town of 5000 because of how different she is from everyone else. this strongly relates to the meaning of feeling displaced in your own community.
03/11/19

Question on gentrification

  1. Is gentrification good or bad for the development of a neighborhood ? in other words is gentrification something that will provide benefits or destruction? Why?
  2. Would you consider gentrification to be fair? Why?
03/4/19

Response to interpreter of Maladies

When I first started reading the story I was kind of confused as to what was going on and why the story was titled interpreter of maladies after reading the story I was amazed at what the title actually referred to Mr. Kapasi’s job as a doctor which means that he diagnoses people’s pains/ discomforts. I was kind of suspicious when Mrs. Dan stated to show signs that she was intrigued by Mr. Kapasi and not paying much attention to her husband. Just the fact the Mr. Kapasi allowed himself to be entertained by her and thinking of a future with her knowing that she is with somebody else was not the best thing to do. Throughout the story, he continues to take even more interest in Mrs. Dan knowing that her husband and children are there too which I found really disrespectful because he is supposed to be their tour guide so he is supposed to be Profesional and not think of such things. Since Mrs. Das is so unhappy in her relationship she feels as if she can’t even trust her husband because she is not in love with him. By her saying that the kid is not his it was surprising to me because she seems to be really proud of the things she did before getting married.  The ending was a bit confusing to me because I was left wondering why he would remember that family out of all the others. Is it because of Mrs.Dan or some other unknown reason.

02/10/19

3 Ideas For Personal Narrative

  1. When my family had to move to the Bronx because the rent in our building was increasing dramatically.
  2. When I first came here from the Dominican Republic
  3. The National Monument in the Dominican Republic is a meaningful place for me.
  4. (Just in case) how knowing 2 different languages shape me
02/3/19

3 Questions On “Shadow Cities”

  1. Andre Aciman describes many locations as being a reminder of her home. Has any neighborhood had this sort of impact in your life reminding you of your roots?
  2. What do you think the author means when he states ” if part of the city goes, part of us dies as well”?
  3. Do you have a special place in the city like Andre Aciman that takes you back in time? if you do then where is it? and how does it impact you?