I know what to do. I know what not to do. You constantly mention and require that I do certain things. Even though I am sick and tired of it, I will do your chores. I will follow your instruction on what to do in public. I will listen to you when you talk to me. I will all these things but I do want some freedom.

I want to be able to make decisions on my own. I want to be free from all this housework for once. I want to learn things on my own and live my life for once. I want no more than to get one day of freedom from your instructions. Instead of saying, “this is how to hem a dress when you see the hem coming down and so to prevent yourself from looking like the slut I know you are so bent on becoming,” you should be telling me how I should go out into the world and let myself be. Instead of telling me to, “make sure it gets plenty of water or else it makes your throat itch when you are eating it,” you should let me go into the world on my own and let me grow what I want.

I am willing to follow all your instructions but I just want some freedom on my own.

Feeling miserable, Bin Bin woke up and got ready to leave his house. Walking to the station, he noticed there’s construction going on and does not feel like walking through the extra long path but he had to. Bin Bin got on the N train at the 62nd street train station in Brooklyn. He notices a guy holding a parcel with a coffee on top of it and feels unease, decides to step a bit farther away from the guy. The train finally arrived at 23rd street and Bin Bin got off the train and noticed how empty the station is. He wonders if he is too early for school. He started walking towards Baruch and noticed all the huge buses which reminds him of his hate towards traffic which is probably not a good thing to have living in a city like New York City.

Today, I went to the Museum of Modern Arts and made my way up to the fifth floor to see the exhibition called “Paintings and Sculptures 1”. As I made my way across the exhibition, the painting that most caught me was this one called “Fishing Boat, Collioure” by Andre Derain. It was painted in 1905 by using Oil on canvas. It was part of the Philip L. Goodwin Collection from 1958.

The thing that struck me the most about this painting was the use of colors. It’s a very colorful picture. You can make out the boats to be of a blue color with red interior which is peculiar since boats in real life aren’t for the most part blue with a red interior. The faces of people on this painting has red and yellow faces. For these reasons, the painting feels very abstract. It feels as if Andre Derain was painting a scene but in an entirely colorful universal compared to the dull colors of such a scene if viewed in the colors of our world. The picture isn’t very detailed and is mostly filled with polygons of circles and lines. You can make out the basic shapes of everything to tell it’s a bunch of boats in a water environment and the artist is sitting on a dock painting the scene or remembering a scene he had on his mind but he can’t tell the exact details. Overall, this painting is very abstract for its features. From the varieties of colors to the simplistic designs, the artist painted a wonderful scene.

A Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglas and M. NourbeSe Philip’s “Discourse on the Logic of Language” both touches on the topic of language and how slavery is involved with language. Frederick talks about language with his surroundings and how he learned to move away from the slavery oppression while M. NourbeSe Philip talks about language familiarity and how slavery suppressed people and their language.

Frederick talks about how he learns the language of his people and the language of his opposing white people. This goes on to help him win from the oppression put on him by the white people who controlled slavery. He learned language and through that, he learned to think for himself. He learned to question his surroundings and learned how to go against this world that is trying to suppress him.

M. NourbeSe Philip talked about the suppressed slaves. They feel that they have no “mother tongue”. They don’t know how to communicate through English since that is not how they and their family are used to talking even though white people are using it everywhere. They were not taught to use this language so they had “anguish” towards the English language.

Overall, both poems portray how the slaves and African American race are suppressed in terms of communication and language. Frederick goes against the suppression while M. NourbeSe Philip talks about how it feels to be suppressed by the English language.

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1. “In vain the plutonic rocks send their old heat against my approach, In vain the mastodon retreats beneath its own powder’d bones, In vain objects stand leagues off and assume manifold shapes, In vain the ocean settling in hollows and the great monsters lying low, In vain the buzzard houses herself with the sky, In vain the snake slides through the creepers and logs, In vain the elk takes to the inner passes of the woods” – Whitman, 31

This quote talks about different natures and different animals interacting with their environment. I can feel exactly that by going to the Museum of Natural History. This place attracts many people of different cultures, interacting and admiring the history of mankind. Whether they are a citizen or a tourist, people love to visit this place.

2. “I hear the sound I love, the sound of the human voice, I hear all sounds running together, combined, fused or following, Sounds of the city and sounds out of the city, sounds of the day and night” – Whitman, 26

I chose Time Square for this quote since Time Square is one of the liveliest part of the city. When I go to Time Square, I can feel the city come alive. The combination of the smell, sights, and sounds lets me feel the whole of what New York City has to offer.

3. “I find my familiar woods, I climb the plateaus and scale the peaks, to cut deep dry creepers with my ax. I gather enough to make a load, I stroll singing through the marketplace” – Journey to West, 432

This is how I feel every time I go to Soho. The first part describe how I located my favorite stores then I would have to get through the crowd of people. After doing all this work, I can finally shop in the stores.