Should Marijuana Become Legalized?

QUESTION: SHOULD MARIJUANA BE LEGALIZED?

Why is marijuana illegal?

What negative effects does it have?

What positive effects does it have?

Why was is first illegalized?
What kind of drug is it?

What does it do?
Can it help medically?

What is its scientific compound?

Compare and Contrast to drugs that are legal?
In what age is it most prevalent?

How does it affect learning?

Myths surrounding Marijuana?

Marijuana and social media?

Marijuana throughout history and now? (Compare/contrast)

Marijuana vs federal govt.

Marijuana vs states.

Marijuana vs republicans.

Marijuana vs democrats.

Marijuana propaganda.

QUOTES FROM "STILL SEPERATE..." : PART 2

"the economic needs of a society are hound to be reflected to some rational degree within the policies and purposes of public schools."

"Very few people who are not involved with inner-city schools have any real idea of the extremes to which the mercantile distortion of the purposes and character of education have been taken or how unabashedly proponents of these practices are willing to defend them. "

"Corporate leaders, when they speak of education, sometimes pay lip-service to the notion of "good critical and analytic skills," but it is reasonable to ask whether they have in mind the critical analysis of their priorities"

QUOTES FROM STILL SEPARATE, STILL UNEQUAL: AMERICA'S EDUCATIONAL APARTHAID

"One of the most disheartening experiences for those who grew up in the years when Martin Luther King Jr. and Thurgood Marshall were alive is to visit public schools today that bear their names, or names of other honored leaders of the integration struggles that produced the temporary progress that took place in the three decades after Brown v. Board of Education, and to find out how many of these schools are bastions of contemporary segregation."

"Perhaps most damaging to any serious effort to address racial segregation openly is the refusal of most of the major arbiters of culture in our northern cities to confront or even clearly name an obvious reality they would have castigated with a passionate determination in another section of the nation fifty years before—and which, moreover, they still castigate today in retrospective writings that assign it to a comfortably distant and allegedly concluded era of the past."

"School systems themselves repeatedly employ this euphemism in describing the composition of their student populations. In a school I visited in the fall of 2004 in Kansas City, Missouri, for example, a document distributed to visitors reports that the school's curriculum "addresses the needs of children from diverse backgrounds." But as I went from class to class, I did not encounter any children who were white or Asian—or Hispanic, for that matter—and when I was later provided with precise statistics for the demographics of the school, I learned that 99.6 percent of students there were African American."

REVISION OF LAST POST (JEAN ANYON)

Because I don’t study with New Books I won’t get a job?

In today’s society we are faced with many obstacles including our education, and how it influences our future. In Jean Anyon’s essay “Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work”, we are shown how different social classes coincide in statistical evidence that the higher in class the better future we have. Social class is essential in determining your future because the amount of money you have impacts the quality of learning you receive because it influences the materials that are available to you. Also, it impacts the type of teacher you are provided with, and the way you are taught.

The amount of money you have affects the educational material you’re able to use. The quality of the materials that you use impact key components in your learning style. For example, coming from a middle class home I used textbooks to read my text and study. My friend who had went to a prestige school was given an iPad to download the book onto there. The IPad included many different options that an obviously text book does not. Which are highlighting and inserting personal comments digitally, the ability to search a sentence or word in the internet, and being able to be more digitally connected about the information. Options like these make learning much more interactive and flexible to your learning capabilities.  In the text Anyon states when referring to the affluent professional school “the teachers ask the student to grab the geoboards from the back and to grab rubber bands…” (6) And when referring to a working class school states “the children were told to copy the steps as notes.”(3) Having interactive material to learn with makes the class easier to learn and provides more motivation.

            Furthermore, social class influences the teacher you’re provided with and how you’re taught. The way you’re taught and the style of learning you’re provided with impacts your attitude towards the class. 

So because i don't have money for new books, I won't make it?

According to Jean Anyon in 1980, someone of a low social class usually does not have the opportunity in becoming a doctor, or lawyer, etc. I feel as that view is highly dated, there are numerous of people who have come from nothing, that have the mindset that I will become whatever I set my mind to. The United States offers so many opportunities for citizens that are descend from poverty. There are millions of success stories of individuals that grew up in the city streets and are now millionaires.

Also it proves to be also vice versa for millionaires, there are plenty of people who come from very wealthy families, or are wealthy themselves that have ended up on local city streets. Your social class does not determine your future. Who you become is entirely up to you, although it is more difficult when you are switching into a higher social class it is definitely possible. That’s because in this day and age we are given immense chances to do whatever it is we desire.

In the 1980s opportunities where much slimmer, and society had different approaches to situations. We also dealt with more controversial and judgmental views. Views that are now not seen as frequently seen or used. We have a more motivational and accepting society, of course we still have our faults, but we are not subjected to the same category as the one we did fall into 35 years ago. 

What's up bro!

Do I think student's should have the right to use their own language?Why or Why Not?

Depending in which setting an individual is being put in they should speak in different linguistic preferences. For example, when writing a personal narrative, students should actually be encouraged to use their own native language, because it bring more of their style and personality into the writing piece which is what a personal narrative is about, but when touching upon more serious formatted papers they should be in one language, the native language used within the country they are studying. Also, when conducting scientific research, because this type of information should be conveyed in a uni-lingual and universal language, such as English. 

 

This video gives an insider view on international speakers that struggle with adjusting to the English Language, it provides the viewer with more reasoning on why professors and teachers should be more understanding and try best to understand the student, instead of criticizing so heavily, 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7pYB6W049I

Anzaldua Assignment 1

Kaylene Diaz

30 August 2015

Prof. Young

English 1100

                                              Reading Response Questions to “How to Tame A Wild Tongue”

1.        Anzaldua’s opening anecdote of her being in the dentist chair is a representation of the struggle she faces with speaking the American and correct Mexican-Spanish languages. “How to Tame a Wild Tongue”, represents that struggle as well, and so she incorporated a story which could be used figuratively to explain the actual issue at hand.

2.       The Spanish that Anzaldua uses throughout her writing was to show how difficult it was for her to adapt to the English language and to depict to us how it felt when she was trying to read foreign words. I personally understood everything that was said, being that I am a native Spanish speaker.

3.        Academic English can be defined as Standard English and Chicano English can be defined as nonstandard, reason being that Chicano English is English with a twist of Spanish. It could most definitely be a slang derivative of the formal language.

4.       Speaking and writing in academic English is a necessity because it is required in this country to learn, get a job, and understand what is going on around you. Also, when knowing academic one is identified differently to of those who do not know academic English.

5.       Anzualdua explains the difference types of Spanish identities and it made me thing of all the different English identities there are amongst the language. For example, there is proper English, which is used in formal situations. There is also various derivatives of slangs depending what ethnic background you are from. There is also a way of speaking that has changed over the different types of social groups you are part of.

6.       Unlike in the text, when Anzualdua speaks of “Pachuco” a different way of communication with her friends. I do not use a secret language amongst my peers.

7.        Chicano Spanish can be compared to non-standard English. I speak nonstandard English with my mother, since I am bilingual, I speak what you may call “Spanglish” which is half Spanish, and half English. With my friends I speak in slang English which is heavily influenced by music, society, and media. To my professor I attempt to speak my best formal (Standard) English. I think that the reason for which I do this is because I have a different relationship with each person, which means that I have a different kind of identity to each individual.

8.       Anzualdua does a lot of reference to the fact that her language defines who she is. “I am my Language”, she states, this says to me that who you are is impacted greatly on your cultural background; depending on what language you speak you are altered differently from another who’s cultural background differs.

9.       In the introduction Anzaldua speaks upon how wild tongues cannot be tamed but only cut out, and that relates to the conclusion, because there she explains that despite everything wild tongue’s will remain and that her cultural social group will eventually prosper.

10.   The language you speak can be definitely part of your identity because it defines your cultural background. Whom you can communicate with, which could impact your way of thinking and your social groups.

11.  Identity is severely important to me, because I myself am a native Spanish speaker, and I can strongly agree that language differs me from those who do not speak the language. Anzaldua believes it is very important to have identity, you are showed that when she states “ I will have my voice: Indian, Spanish, White. I will have my serpent’s tongue- my woman’s voice, my sexual voice, my poet’s voice. I will overcome the tradition silence”, she is declaring her identity through these words. Allowing us to see how important it is for to claim herself.