Emily Vieira's Fall 2018 Blog

I am choosing to write this blog using Josh’s blog post . I thought he did a great job explaining the two different service learning project approaches. Josh makes the argument, “ I can't help but wonder if anything is really accomplished by the service learning project if the students aren't required to be involved in the community and developing actual relationships with those in need.” I couldn’t agree more. I think that Ms. Adams approach is appropriate for the restrictions of teaching a seventh grade classroom. The kids cannot go into the community to give service to the ones in need due to a lack of transportation. Having people come and talk to the students is a great idea to make up for their lack of communication with the community. However, I do not think it is as successful as Mr. Johnson’s approach. Mr. Johnson has his students working hand and hand in the community. They are able to build relationships with all sorts of people and learn through those relationships...

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In the New York Times’ article Stay Abrams Didn’t Play it safe . Neither do these female candidates, the author writes about the many women in today’s politics.  A great quote stated by Abrams was, “Today I stood here with people who look like my mother and represent our families and our struggle,” she told the union members. “And you said, ‘We choose you to lead this fight.’” The quote is essential in noting that women and black families are finally being apart of the political race. They are fighting for themselves and the people like them. Liza delpit’s article, A Silenced Dialogue is a great representation of what these women running in the political battle are crushing. Delpit argues that the people in power are the people who run what information is useful to the world. In this day, men are the people of power. Women are breaking away from being silenced by men. They are raising their voices and pushing through the silenced barriers. In Jill Soloway’s article on Donald Tru...

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On October 4th, I attended the Matthew Shepard event at Roberts Hall on the Rhode Island campus. The event is in memory of Matthew Shepard, a young man who was murdered by two men acting on a hate crime. Judy Shepard, Matthew’s mother, has spent the last twenty years preaching the need to end hate and promote acceptance. She spent much of her time at Rhode Island College urging the audience to go and vote. She believes that voting the right people into office will change the widespread hate in the United States. America has changed quite a bit since Matthew was murdered for being gay. More and more people are coming out, celebrities, government officials, and many more public figures. A person’s identity, gender and orientation has become accepted more and more over the years yet, there is still a problem. Adoption laws are all over the place, many states do not let gay couples adopt. In over 30 states, a person can be fired for the sole reason of being gay. Socially, the gay communi...

Safe Spaced & 11 and Gender Fluid This week’s reading focus mainly on the LGBTQ+ community. I like to believe that I am apart of this community by being an ally. At a very young age, being homosexual was perceived as abnormal or wrong inside my household. My parents never really spoke of it, the term “That’s gay” was use on the daily. I knew the basics of being gay, you know, a guy liking a guy and a girl liking a girl. But I never understood it. I never understood what people who were gay had been through and continued to go through. It wasn’t until my cousin Gabrielle started to question herself that it made me take a step back. Asking her what she was going through was a tough topic for her but also so interesting me to. First, she was asexual then she was pansexual. I remember my father just hating every part of it. Him and his friends would laugh about it, “What the hell is pansexual” they would all say or “People can’t like both sexes, that’s not possible.” It was then on ...

“We are not only taught certain styles of violence, the latest fashions, and sex roles by TV, movies, magazines, and comic strips: we are also taught how to succeed, how to love, how to buy, how to conquer, how to forget the past and suppress the future. We are taught, more than anything else, how not to rebel.” This quote represents the overall control the media has on our everyday life. It is through media that people learn most, if not all, of their information. People watch and read the media then dream of having this impossible lifestyle. The media teaches us what to think and how to think. The media guides us in the direction that it’s broadcasters what us to go in. Thus, controlling our every move and teaching us not to rebel. “Many who watched cartoons before we start our study say they can no longer enjoy them. Now instead of seeing a bunch of ducks in clothes. They see the racism, sexism, and violence that swim under the surface of the stories.” This quote is essentia...