Thursday, April 30, 2015
How to have a conversation with you parents
If they start giving you advice or instructions, just agree to it, even if you really don't agree with it or you know that you won't follow their instructions.
If they won't stop giving you instructions just stare at their nose and nod, while trying to remember what the dative plural ending is for 2nd declension neuter.
You should make eye contact with them, even though you don't really care about what they are saying, and don't yawn or sigh because they get pissed off. Also, don't go on your phone while they are talking, unless you are sure they won't see. Otherwise, they will take it and claim that
If your relatives are over, greet them with a hug. It had better not be a half hearted hug or your mom will yell at you for not being welcoming. Then talk with them about The Redskins or whatever they want to talk about.
If you have to ask for something, make sure you have done most of the regular chores, and anything your parents have been nagging you about. You know they will ask about that when you want something, so just be prepared and do it before hand. Also, try to make what you are asking for related to school, even if you didn't think it was related to school. It will help your chances a lot. If you are asking for something over the weekend, make sure you are not in your pajamas, and haven't been on your phone all day.
If you actually want to make a conversation, then talk about your grades and the lack of trouble you have been in. This is all they really care about, just like all you care is if they agree to what you asked for.
If they start yelling at you, think of things you will regret not saying later and say them, and think of things you will regret saying later and stop yourself from saying them. Don't walk away from them while they are talking (which is a strategy for defusing a situation we learned in health), because they will get more angry and yell at you more (thanks health class). If they are yelling at you about the instructions they gave but you didn't follow, take the same steps you did when they were giving the advice and repeat. Don't worry about it - what ever they are trying to advise or instruct you to do they will eventually do themselves.
If they won't stop giving you instructions just stare at their nose and nod, while trying to remember what the dative plural ending is for 2nd declension neuter.
You should make eye contact with them, even though you don't really care about what they are saying, and don't yawn or sigh because they get pissed off. Also, don't go on your phone while they are talking, unless you are sure they won't see. Otherwise, they will take it and claim that
If your relatives are over, greet them with a hug. It had better not be a half hearted hug or your mom will yell at you for not being welcoming. Then talk with them about The Redskins or whatever they want to talk about.
If you have to ask for something, make sure you have done most of the regular chores, and anything your parents have been nagging you about. You know they will ask about that when you want something, so just be prepared and do it before hand. Also, try to make what you are asking for related to school, even if you didn't think it was related to school. It will help your chances a lot. If you are asking for something over the weekend, make sure you are not in your pajamas, and haven't been on your phone all day.
If you actually want to make a conversation, then talk about your grades and the lack of trouble you have been in. This is all they really care about, just like all you care is if they agree to what you asked for.
If they start yelling at you, think of things you will regret not saying later and say them, and think of things you will regret saying later and stop yourself from saying them. Don't walk away from them while they are talking (which is a strategy for defusing a situation we learned in health), because they will get more angry and yell at you more (thanks health class). If they are yelling at you about the instructions they gave but you didn't follow, take the same steps you did when they were giving the advice and repeat. Don't worry about it - what ever they are trying to advise or instruct you to do they will eventually do themselves.
Monday, April 27, 2015
Objective Correlative
Cale Houghton An Objective Correlative of my Emotional State
Currently, I am drifting through the middle of a wide river, hanging onto a piece of driftwood. Every time I try to swim towards a shore, the current pulls me back into the center of the river. The current is lazy when I just drift though. I have been on the river for a very long time, and in the past I have had to ride through many rapids, hanging tight to the piece of driftwood. I am still tired from these rapids, and I know that there will be more to come. I feel confident that I can hold onto the driftwood until the end of the river if I am paying attention the whole time, but I also am worried that one mistake will cause me to drown.
Thursday, April 16, 2015
Monday, March 30, 2015
Task 4
"So for a time I had a partner-my husband and I, soldiers together just as when we were little soldiers playing in the village. We rode side by side into battle. When I became pregnant, during the last 4 months, I wore my armor altered so that I looked like a powerful big man," (Kingston, 39).Kingston, Maxine Hongston. "White Tigers." "The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts." New York: Knopf, 1976. 34. Print.
So Mu Lan here was at war, disguised as a man, and suddenly got married and pregnant. My original thoughts on this was that it didn't seem like good parenting to get pregnant in the middle of a war, because it seems like the baby would die.
The content in this part of the story is odd because, as I said before, a pregnant woman is fighting in a war. First of all, at the time women were supposed to be wives, but here she was fighting anyway. But the story explains that. She was fighting because she had been trained from a young girl, and fought in place of her father. But then I wondered why she was fighting if she was pregnant? Also, I thought about if she is supposed to be disguising as a man to fight in the army, then why did she get a husband?
In the balad, Mu Lan never gets a husband or gets pregnant. In the balad she tells her family that she does not have any man in her heart. Also, it's just unexpected that an army member would get pregnant, because of the dangerous conditions. But in this version she does. At the same time as going out and kicking everybody's ass, Mu Lan is fulfilling the traditional roles of a woman. She is a warrior, but she also is pursuing what she wants to do, even though these womanly characteristics clash with the ones people connect with masculinity.
I can't tell why Kingston wrote this for sure, but it might relate to her childhood. Her mother told her she would be just a wife. But at the same time, her mother taught her the original story of Mu Lan. So to me this fan fiction seems like a balance between those two things. She roughly follows the story of this swords woman, but also goes back to the values her mother taught her. And the swords woman in the story doesn't feel embarrassed of her feminine traits even though she doesn't make them public knowledge. So it seems that Kingston made this fan-fiction, and then put her own morals into it. Maybe that is a writing style.
So Mu Lan here was at war, disguised as a man, and suddenly got married and pregnant. My original thoughts on this was that it didn't seem like good parenting to get pregnant in the middle of a war, because it seems like the baby would die.
The content in this part of the story is odd because, as I said before, a pregnant woman is fighting in a war. First of all, at the time women were supposed to be wives, but here she was fighting anyway. But the story explains that. She was fighting because she had been trained from a young girl, and fought in place of her father. But then I wondered why she was fighting if she was pregnant? Also, I thought about if she is supposed to be disguising as a man to fight in the army, then why did she get a husband?
In the balad, Mu Lan never gets a husband or gets pregnant. In the balad she tells her family that she does not have any man in her heart. Also, it's just unexpected that an army member would get pregnant, because of the dangerous conditions. But in this version she does. At the same time as going out and kicking everybody's ass, Mu Lan is fulfilling the traditional roles of a woman. She is a warrior, but she also is pursuing what she wants to do, even though these womanly characteristics clash with the ones people connect with masculinity.
I can't tell why Kingston wrote this for sure, but it might relate to her childhood. Her mother told her she would be just a wife. But at the same time, her mother taught her the original story of Mu Lan. So to me this fan fiction seems like a balance between those two things. She roughly follows the story of this swords woman, but also goes back to the values her mother taught her. And the swords woman in the story doesn't feel embarrassed of her feminine traits even though she doesn't make them public knowledge. So it seems that Kingston made this fan-fiction, and then put her own morals into it. Maybe that is a writing style.
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
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