From this reading, I am being asked to believe or to accept that the disease Morgellons is in fact a real thing that the people are going through and whom are experiencing suffering and pain that does not go away. Reasons as to why I believe it could be a real disease is that everyone in Jamison’s story “Devil’s Bait” that she got to sit down and talk with shared their experience with the problem and they all described almost…
I see Jamison practicing empathy, according to Zaki’s definition, sharing in and developing an understanding of what the people in her essay are going through is when she meets these people at places like a coffee shop or the bathroom to talk to them. She says that she doesn’t notice their disfigure until she is up close to them to see all their sores. Jamison sits with them and asks them, the women she finds, how they feel and how…
In Adichie’s ted talk “The Danger of a Single Story”, she talks about her life story of growing up in Nigeria and how she felt there was nothing of her kind in African literature. She was always reading European and American stories. he would take the ideas of what she read and incorporate them into the stories she was writing. Her characters in her stories are what looked like the white and blue eyed. When she started to learn what…
In Velasquez-Manoff’s “Is Hawaii’s Racial Harmony A Myth?”, he claim’s that his essay does not offer a coherent whole because he wanted to explore the things that make Hawaii unique without the myths so he could talk about the contradictions. What Manoff wanted to achieve in his essay was that there are many claims and opinions on whether Hawaii is a racist place or not. The essay has contradicted opinions from people saying it’s a happy place to be and…
In Moises Velasquez-Manoff’s “Want To Be Less Racist? Move To Hawaii, he talks about the story of Dr. Pauker’s experience with leaving Hawaii and going to school out in Dartmouth. Manoff examines his interest in the subject of racial attitudes in Hawaii and how he developed these ideas for this article came from Dr. Pauker. They both talk about the idea that race is “a way to feel out of place.” When Pauker was applying for colleges, she felt that…
In Ruth Padawer’s “Sigrid Johnson Was Black. A DNA Test Says She Wasn’t”, she talks about how she experienced growing up and living her life because of who she was defined as. In this reading, Johnson tells of her story of how one DNA test changed her whole life. She went her whole life believing one thing, but she was really another. After finding out the true results, Johnson was scared and embarrassed to go out and express who she…
In “Bad Feminist,” Roxane Gay uses a lot of quotes throughout her reading for emphasis or connections to what she is saying. Some of these quotes that she had included are, “women who don’t want to be treated like shit,” and “looking great is a matter of feminism. No liberated woman would misrepresent the cause by appearing less than hale and happy.” Both of these quotes can speak a lot about what we think and feel as a woman. But,…
What does the reading suggest about the conditions that make self-definition of self expression easier or more difficult? Like Chabon, Gay uses this reading to express self expression. Chabon had talked about how his message to the readers was to be comfortable and confident with yourself. Roxane Gay in ,” Bad Feminist,” talks about this tension that she constantly feels. That tension is that there is this idea that “there is only a right way to be a woman, a…
What does the reading suggest about the conditions that make self-definition of self expression easier or more difficult? The reading suggests that you should feel comfortable and confident within yourself. If you love something, go for it. That is what Abe did. Abe was so passionate about fashion at such a young age. He was bullied as a kid, but he got over it. He was proud to be who he was. Even though his father did not like the…
