Tatooed By My Past

Academic writing is like being in the military. You have to have everything lined up in the correct format, and if not, you get penalized harshly. I hate writing for a grade, because what you write is judged based on someone else's point of view. Every time I drop an assignment in the drop box, my heart races with stress, because I'm about to be judged and criticized on my writing. Academic writing is similar to man writing a letter to his wife and kids from jail. He has to be very careful with every words he writes on the paper, because certain words can be used against him, which may cause his letter to be rejected. Just like jail writing, academic writing has so many rules and formats, that makes you want to pull out your hair for each assignment. This type of writing keeps the writer from being free. Just as Dr. Samuel Johnson was a "Jack of many trades," so am I, but with handcuffs on. Johnson was very versatile in his writing. Because of his social an...

"Guilty", was the verdict of most women that could not read, because they simply were not allowed to. Most married women depended on their husbands to be their voice. Their husband were the ones that read and did the politicking. It was not a  necessity for women to learn to read. Since the women had no voice, men were able to write what the wanted to write about them, and nothing would be said. The men could joke and criticize them as much as they wanted to, because the women had no defense. So, how could the women be charged with writing incorrectly, when they were not allowed to write or read. "I'm incorrect: the learned say that I write well, but not their way." So, how could the men really judge the women, when the women were not allowed to use their voice to fight back. If only the women had a chance to express themselves and fight back, would the men back into corners out of fear of being expose themselves. The women were literally ghost writers,...

Blog #5 Aphra Behn was trying to understand men of color, but she chose a certain kind of colored men. She wanted the glory in her documentary, because her heart was on her assignement and not on her subject. This is the way the Americans looked at African and any other race that wanted white. All races other than white, were prospects for future captivity. "Far from condemning slavery, however, Behn seems to take its existence for granted … The enslavement of Oroonoko and his companions is lamented because it is based on the kind of treacherous overreaching practiced by tradesmen, but slavery itself is condoned … The narrator (Behn) objects to the royal class of people being enslaved, not to the act of enslavement itself." Behn never really saw slavery as a bad thing. she looked at slavery as a way of life. Slavery was just another way Americans stole and sold to become wealthy. This was not her fault, she only believe what she was taught by her parents. She looked a Oroon...