Blog #4

Blog Entry #4

            The articles that i chose to write the essay entry were Mother Tongue by Amy Tan, Literacy Behind Bars by Malcolm X and Potato Chips and Stars by Mike Rose.  In each of these essays we see the different situations that the authors went through. I had to write about a similar issue that was happening in the three essays, and this made it difficult for me. I had to look for similar situations and connect each one of them and develop them into a whole idea in the paper.  Struggling with the way you speak, write, and/or read is something that is very hard to overcome. As I began to write the paper I saw how the paper was going to go.

            These three articles talked or were referring to the same kind of idea; literacy. This means the way you talk, write and/or read in a particular language. The authors of these essays had difficulties with the literacy and although it was hard to succeed they did it with patience. Malcolm X learned grammatical structure reading behind the bars of jail, Mike Rose learned reading book from the library and Amy Tan learned the importance of grammatical structure because of the way her mom expressed or talk a foreign language. Although they learned differently the three of them could understand the importance of good language skills.

Blog entry #3

In this particular type of writing I had difficulties on the ways I should write the paper. I really was not sure about what things I was supposed to do or to write. But as I started reading the article it got a little easier for me to understand what was asked. The article that I chose to do this summary talked about the differences and similarities between two musical genres that are very popular now days; Country-and-Western and Rap. These two musical genres, besides the rhythm, are very similar in what they express things that are happening in our society. I really enjoyed summarizing this article. This article as I said before talks about two particular music genres and both of them express the same idea through different rhythms and that is the reason I enjoyed it. Given the opportunity of doing it again and better I would change all the mistakes that I did and guide myself through the comments that the teacher did. All the help that I was offered I took it and took the best out of it. The OWL Purdue lab was a little hard for me to use because I have not used it before but with the practice I finally understood it. And the text was definitely important.