There are many things that I learned from the movie 13 which was very surprising to me. There were many things I did learn as I was growing up and seeing what was happening around me when I was young. The overall of the movie was good and I really liked how they incorporated music to each time period.

Many things like the civil war and the civil movements reminded me of history class but the idea of laws passed by Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton really made me see how black people were targeted. The images bring many different emotions from horror to sadness to numbness. There is no words to described to all the horror that all these people have gone through.

We can see how black people’s life are shortened from the beginning of the civil war. The story of Trayvon Martin and many other black people sheds a light on the lives of black people during my time growing up. Donald Trump becoming president will set us back on fixing the problem of mass incarceration.

When I first entered the exhibition, I felt some sort of chill down my spine. The atmosphere in the exhibition was a bit creepy to me. The blood, the dolls, and the faceless manikins made me a little scared and to add to that, there was some mysterious and chilling music playing. At one part of the music, I heard a woman humming, but it sounded like screaming to me.

The first piece that first caught my eye was the one to the right in a long, see through case. It had bottles of blood and also a random hand holding a bottle. This is not the only piece of art with blood in it. As I walked around, there were blood in others too. I noticed that there was a sofa with some blood on it. What I also noticed was that all the art pieces seemed out of place to me. There were random pieces that were placed together and I could not see what the connection was or the overall concept that Althoff was going for. For example, what happened to the two guys at the right side of the exhibition? My first thought was that they passed out from drinking because I saw cups on the table, but I overheard someone else saying that they were dead. Right next to them was a manikin with a pink-colored dress. What’s the connection between them?

After looking around at the artwork, one piece that definitely caught my eye was the drawing of a naked man with a large cut on his back. When I looked closer at the artwork, I realized that the man had a knife on his back and he was cutting himself. The drawing was also not in color. The man was drawn with a pen (to me) and it was on plain white paper. I thought that the man was crazy and also a bit scary because who would want to cut themselves? The man in the drawing made me question the significance of the artwork.

Is the mother’s view on how her daughter will become a slut (such as hemming a dress when the hem is coming down so that it’ll prevent the girl from looking like a slut or squatting down to play marbles) the same as the society’s or is it just what the mother seen what sluts were like during her time (her own bias view)?

What is the meaning of death to the narrator? Why did he drag out Macabea’s death? Is her slow death his fear of dying?

Why does the author want his story to be cold and what does he mean when he said he has the “right to be sadly cold”? What is he trying to reveal here?

The relationship between the son and the father was not good at first because the son hated his father for acting a certain way, but as the son got older and his father’s death became near, he began to experience the real world and what his father was trying to teach him. On the same day his father died, his mother gave birth. If he were to say something about their father to his youngest sibling, what will it be? Will he act the way his father did when he was young towards his youngest sibling?

Why does Freud only discuss about the sexual desires of the male children in a family and not the female? Freud said how the child has “no hesitation in attributing to his mother as many fictitious love-affairs as he himself has competitors”… what about his sister? Does his sister feel the same for the father? Or does the sexual desires in family romance strongly affects the male child?

What does Clarissa’s reaction to a woman having a baby before being married tells us about her? Why did she react this way? When Peter said “the death of her soul,” does this mean that Peter have never seen this side of her or was this the worst side that Peter have seen of her?

A homeless man on the train said he needed some change to get some food tonight. Donna sat down on a seat and stared at her feet.

The train doors closed. The man walked down the car, holding a cup in his dried hands. Donna’s eyes moved to the empty seats around her and then, she closed her eyes. She clutched her bag and tried to sleep.

Poor guy, she thought. It seems that there is at least one of them every day. “Excuse me, does this train go to City Hall?” Ross, (a man sitting to her right) asked. She slowly opened her eyes. She looks quite exhausted, he thought. Donna looked at him and said the train will stop at City Hall.

The train doors opened and a woman came in. She held a blue backpack and left it opened. She walked to the end of the train, stopping next to every person. What is she doing? She took something out of her bag and placed the item right next to the person. No smile. No words. No eye contact.

The woman made her way towards Donna and Ross. She put her hand in her bag and pulled out a small paper and a tissue pack. She placed them on the empty seat in front of Donna. Donna stretches her neck to read the little note. Please help, it said. Struggling to pay rent and mother of two young kids. Donna bit her lip and inhaled.

Why are some lines of the poem indented? For example, in the 7th stanza, the last line “So how should I presume?” this line is not aligned with the rest of the poem. What effect does this have on the poem?