Doc Roldan’s Blog: Writing on Writing

The Bar Association is trying to make it a requirement that law schools admit a more diverse population. Most of the Law Schools in the United States, however, do not require applicants to specify race. I don’t think this requirement should be passed because it show that schools don’t accept people based on race. If they require people to specify race then those who do not get accepted may think it is because of the color of their skin.

The advertisements for My Anti-Drug I feel are a very effective way to appeal to teenagers to either quite a drug or to not experiment with drugs. The advertisements give three types of antidrug which are labeled at the bottom, Courage, Regret, and the person themselves. This is a way to broaden its audience and use pathos to get in touch with people’s feelings. People will feel for the picture and the people’s stories in the blogs, and let emotions do the rest of the talking.

Cody Blackburn - (Sect: 1660)

The U.S. Department of Justice: Common Muslim American Head Covering gives a brief description of Muslims and their head coverings. It gives a description of the women head scarf called a hijab, as well as, the skullcap many Muslim men wear. The U.S. Department of Justice also provides instructions for searching a Muslim wearing a head scarf or skullcap. I believe this was done, in order, to ensure the welfare of Muslims. Since September 11, Muslims have experienced severe mistreatment and racial profiling by law enforcement. The U.S. Department in their instructions on how to search a Muslim , in my opinion, is trying to reduce the mistreatment and racial profiling Muslims have been subjected to endure.

Brittney Parks

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This cartoon is extremely humorous in every aspect of it. Everywhere in society, no matter what country, all men say they can never understand women and all women say the same of men. Even though they all proclaim that they are not able of comprehending the other, they are still tremendously dependent on each other, and cannot live without the one another which is human nature. It is funny though because the author made “woman” a language that can only be understood by females, which is a statement all men would agree upon. Even the way they are seated and the wife’s facial expressions say so much, yet she knows her husband will not understand and keeps quiet. I guess it’s just a fact of life.
~ Iman Suliman

Mariam Rahmani ,in her article” Wearing a Head Scarf Is My Choice as a Muslim; Please Respect”, speaks out against the French law, which forbids wearing religious symbols in public schools, such as the hijab, a head scarf worn by Muslim women.The French law is intended to liberate the Muslim girls; however, Rahmani strongly disagree. She compares the French banning of the hijab in public schools to the negative views of the hijab in the Western world. Mariam Rahmani argues that the Western perspective of the hijab as oppressive is completely ridiculous. In her opinion, the hijab helps one not to focus on the superficial things, which is strongly displayed in the media. Rahmani argues that Muslim girls are independent and strong minded capable young women. Mariam believes that the negative views about Muslim women can be altered if society becomes more tolerate and understanding. I believe Mariam Rahmani makes a compelling argument, and uses her personal experiences and views effectively to prove her point.

Brittney Parks

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This article explicitly deals with the level of religious tolerance allowed in American society without being labeled sexist. Clearly from the article the author tries to argue her case using emotion and irrelevant comparisons to justify her outcome. Cohen only offers one side of the argument and further goes on to condemn the innocent without equal representation. Thus the backlash from the Orthodox Jews, who I agree with religiously and ideologically. Furthermore the overwhelming amount of opposing responses show that the one sided argument is rigidly incorrect.

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This article which is the first one I am reading from chapter twenty-eight, discusses the importance of religions in different countries in relevance to their economic wellbeing. The study done by the Pew institute random samples people from all over the world and ranks them on the level they feel religion plays an important part in their lives. The article instead of arguing then displays graphs and charts with the evidence to appeal to those who visually interpret the results and further more the article sums up the results. Ethos is used to exemplify the argument in this article.

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The government has decided to ban displays of religious symbols in French public schools. Most specifically the hijab, so Muslim girls aren’t allowed to wear them in school. People have viewed the hijab as the oppression of women when in actually it isn’t. Hijab is symbolic of inner beauty because it takes the focus off of appearance and puts it on personality and intelligence instead. Rahmani sees the ignorance in people for not understanding. I see what she is saying because society chooses to be ignorance instead of educating themselves on the value of the hijab and now they are trying to demean it and insult it by taking it away from the girls. People can walk around with their religious symbols and still have an open arena of encouragement. If anything this could be better because now students can ask questions and inform themselves on different cultures and symbols.     

Aisha Shotande

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This article shows that religion is mostly important in countries that are not as successful economically, with the exception of the United States. It seems that those that are poorer hold religion to a higher pedestal. Europe for instance is very successful and less than have of there nation values religion.

Aisha Shotande

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Rushin has portrayed the “Wise guy” perspective of America quite nicely. He used examples of our many shirts and television shows that are dedicated to sarcasm and “wise guy” comments. Even at the end he gives the readers hope that not all of us are bad but then reveals to us that it is just another wise crack from the American culture. Yes America has cracks and sarcasm but we have our sympathy as well. Our country shouldn’t be generalized by a few shirts and shows, people should be able take the good in with the bad.

Aisha Shotande

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This picture applies to all of us. There is nothing a moment in time where one of us can say that we never looked someone over and stereotyped them. This picture lets us now that not all teens are looking a way to get high. This girl calls herself an artist, a therapist, and a kick boxer. This picture also lets us know that we can be our own anti-drug because the choices we make are ours.

Aisha Shotande

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Lee speaks of how language borders affect immigrants and their children. He tells the story of how his mother had troubles with everyday tasks because she could speak little to no English. His mother would use to carry around a book to help her translate Korean to English and yet it seemed to do her little good. He uses the pathos to compare his mother’s embarrassing moments with language. Because she didn’t speak English she had it hard even trying to grocery shop to the point where she had to wait for her son to get home from school in order to buy food. Even if one cannot relate to her we can sympathize with her, because she tried so hard even tell her dieing moment.

Aisha Shotande

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Dorfman has expressed his need for our nation to appreciate other languages and cultures by being multilingual. He lets them know that children won’t be losing Shakespeare or anything for that matter; instead they will be gaining so much more by integrating languages. He sees both methods of working because he has been through it all.

Aisha Shotande

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This article is really entertaining and shows a different perspective of names, one which I am familiar to. The majority of the people are usually the ones to make fun of weird names, yet there are still many of us that own them. Firoozeh truly portrays how people with foreign names struggle here because most people cannot pronounce them. Till today, people butcher my name, calling me I-Man, Emin, I-min, or just hey you. Whenever I was young, I always introduced my self as faith because thats what my name means so I didn’t want to go through the trouble of correcting everyone. Now though, I am accepting of peoples challenges especially since they themselves try hard to learn my name, and it’s not even that difficult. The author explains our perspective in a metaphoric manner that connect her to any reader, even if their name is as easy as Sarah.
~ Iman Suliman

This article interests me because I can relate to it extremely. Being a bilingual speaker with english as a second language for my family, I constantly speak arabic with my mom in public. At times, people look at us unusually or other times, they smile because they do the same with their family members in a different language. I did not ever think of it as being disrespectful to those in my surroundings at all, especially since we always spoke english if english only speakers were with us, similar to the author Marquez. My mother does understand english, but speaking our cultural tongue is the only way to keep our culture alive while living in America. It also helps me and my siblings keep the language fresh in our minds since we speak it constantly with our family. That is a must if you don’t want to get sucked into the english only world by losing your native tongue.
~Iman Suliman

This article explains that the reason many Muslim women wear head scarves is because they believe it causes them to focus on their personality rather than physical looks. They say it “helps demand respect as an equal to any man rather than as an object for his physical pleasure.” I think this is a very courageous thing for Muslim women to do in America because they have to face ridicule and views as being different from the norm. I don’t think its wrong for them to wear a scarf. It’s their decision and it does not affect me in any way.

Shelby Knox is a college student who has decided to save sex for marriage; however is disturbed by the fact that her high school’s hometown has some of the highest rates of teen pregnancy and STDs in the nation. She decided that this is because her school only teaches abstinence as the only form of prevention. She tried to start a sex education program at the school, but its administration resisted. I think the school is being ignorant because whether you teach sex education or not, people are going to still have sex. I believe it’s better to inform students about their risks and how to prevent the worst, rather by only teaching abstinence.

This article shows that research has found that most wealthy nations place a lower importance on religion compared to poorer nations, with the exception of the United States. It claims that 59 percent of Americans place a high value on religion. I find this to be surprising because I thought there are many more countries who believe religion is very important.