Jordy Mejia

      Jordy Mejia

803/Cunningham

 

       Martin Espada's poem "New Bathroom Policy at English High School" "Revolutionary Spanish Lesson'' and' 'Two Mexicanos Lynched in Santa Cruz, California,may,3,1877''  make the reader think about white people taking over the Hispanics control of freedom. The white people have power and they don't let the Hispanics have their rights.            

     '' New bathroom policy'' makes me think about how people will respond to their fear. The way that the principal responds to this is by banning Spanish from the bathroom. The principal bans Spanish only because he heard his name when the boys where talking. It makes him feel nervous because he can't understand what the boys were saying about him.it is not fair that they can't speak Spanish with their friends in the bathroom. The principal thinks that he could do that only because he has the power to do so.                                                                                                                                                                       

     Espada's poem ''Revolutionary Spanish Lesson'' makes the reader think about disrespect. An example from the text is that they mispronounce his name and he just wants to buy a toy pistol and a beret and hijack a busload of republican tourists. When Espada says that he wants to buy a toy pistol he is just angry at people that mispronounce his name which makes him fell disrespected.                                                                

     Espada's poem ''Two Mexicanos Lynched in Santa Cruz, California ,May3,1877''makes me think that it wasn't fair for the Mexicans to not have a trial in the court and sent to death by people of the town who choose what to do to them, and did not care. An example from the poem is that they took pictures of them when they were hanging as if it was a joke for them. This teaches me that you should give all your respect even if that person was dead or alive. You should not always take stuff like if it was a joke for you , you should always take it serous and it's not justice for the Mexicans.                                                                                                                                                                                                        

     In Martin Espada's poems ''New Bathroom Policy at the English High School'' ''Revolutionary Spanish Lesson'' and ''Two Mexicanos Lynched in Santa Cruz, California, May 3, 1877'' all the poems make me think that white people have all the respect to them but not the Hispanics. This makes me angry because that means if I was there then no one will give me the respect that I should have as everyone else.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

 

Jorge Montes

Jorge Montes

7/29/14

     The poem "Two Mexicanos Lynched in Santa Cruz, California, May3,  May3, 1877," "Revolutionary Spanish Lesson," and "The New Bathroom Policy at English High School," by Martin Espada makes the reader  think about discrimination against Latinos. How Espada shows discrimination against Latinos is in each of his poems a person is discriminating against another person due to their race, culture and skin color. Espada is expressing his feelings through these poems and wants to make the reader realize that he doesn't like people mistreating and discriminating against others.

    The poem "New Bathroom Policy at English High School" makes the reader think about all the things that have to do with discrimination, unfair equal treatment towards a specific person due to a cause. One example from the text that makes me think this is "New Bathroom Policy at English High School" it says "So he decides/ to ban Spanish/ from the bathrooms." This shows discrimination because the principal is not allowing the children to speak their native language which is Spanish. This happens be their native language which is Spanish. This happens because the principal since the principal is next to the stalls he hears the children speak Spanish not only that, he also hears his name while they speak Spanish. This causes him to ban Spanish. This makes the reader think that they're victims of unfair treatment because the principal just banned Spanish from all the bathrooms at his high school which is an unfair equal treatment because the children can only speak English at his high school.

     In Espada's poem "Revolutionary Spanish lesson,"  the reader is asked to think about rebellion. The reader knows or thinks what it is like to rebel against something or someone. In the text it says that "for the bilingual swat team to helicopter overhead, begging me to be reasonable." This shows rebellion because the narrator is being commanded by a swat. This happens because he has kidnapped a busload of tourist – a fantasy of he has in response to his name being mispronounced.This makes him rebel. This teaches the reader that sometimes people rebel against something or someone, it makes them rebel so they can stand up for themselves and rebel against a religion or a general thing.

     In Espada's poem "Two Mexicanos Lynched in Santa Cruz, California, May3, 1877" the reader is asked to think about discrimination. The reader knows or thinks what it is like to discriminate against someone based on their culture, race, skin color, etc. in the text it says "When forty gringo vigilantes cheered the rope that snapped two Mexicanos into the grimacing sleep of broken necks."  This shows discrimination because two Mexicanos were being killed by gringo  vigilantes. This happens because the gringos killed to Mexicans with ropes instead of letting the legal system give them a trial. This teaches the reader that discrimination is not good because people think they're better than others and maybe also mistreat them in some way which causes discrimination and the person feels that they're being put down in a certain way just because of their skin color.

   In conclusion, these three poems by Martin Espada teach the reader about discrimination because they make the reader think about discrimination in each of the poems and they effects of it specifically discrimination against Latino. How Espada does this is he gets an idea in the readers head that all these three poems make the reader think about what each of the Espada's poems are about.                

      

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nathaniel Batista Espada essay

Nathaniel Batista

Martin Espada's poem

"The new bathroom policy at English high school"

"Revolutionary Spanish lesson" and

"Two mexicanos lynched in Santa Cruz, California May 3, 1877"

Teach the reader about discrimination.

The poem "New Bathroom policy at English High school" is about discrimination

An example from the text that makes me think is when the Spanish language is taken away at the school because the principal is afraid.

 

In Espada's poem "Revolutionary Spanish Lesson" the reader is asked to think about discrimination.

We think about this because he wants to kidnap a busload of tourists and make them chant  anti American slogans in Spanish. He wants to do this because they don't say his name right.

We learn not to make people feel bad and we have to respect each other

Espada's poem "Two Mexicanos"

 makes the reader think about this case in the poem it saying when  they kill  the Mexican people without a trial and don't treat them fairly.

This teaches us that everybody should be treated equally.

In conclusion this three poem by Espada teach about discrimination

His poem teach there the reader  to think about discrimination

Edwin Duran

Edwin  Duran                                                                                                                         7/14/14

All Summer In A Day

 

A group of children who live on Venus where it always rains have never seen the

Sun, everyone except a girl named Margot.

Margot stood apart from the other children. The reason why she stood apart is

because, Margot used to live on Earth. She used to experience the Sun, something the other

children only dreamed about. The other children couldn't remember a day where it didn't

rain.

Margot used to talk about the Sun. She used to talk about how it looks and feels. The

other children would get jealous because they felt like she was bragging it upon them. The

children eventually start to hate and bully her. They call her names and mistreat her. Also

the Scientists on TV predicted that the Sun will come out today, the first time in 7 years!

While the Sun starts to come out the children start to bully Margot and throw her in

a closet. The children were jealous of her because she has already experienced the Sun. The

Sun comes out and all the children go outside to play and forget about Margot. While the

children are playing the mood and surrounding changes. They notice that locking Margot in

the closet was an awful, terrible thing to do.

Experiences like that can change people. Jealousy and Bullying not only hurts the

person you are mean to but also yourself.

 

Destiny Sargent

The poems, '"The Mexicanos lynched in Santa Cruz, California, "The Revolutionary Spanish Lesson", and "The New Bathroom Policy at English High School" by Martin Espada make the reader think of how Mexicans experience discrimination. Martin Espada's point of view was to get readers to feel his anger by showing proof of how Latinos were being treated back then and now. The poems all show discrimination against someone and want the reader to get the feeling of what this means.

 

The poem "New Bathroom Policy at English High School," makes me feel that people should have the right to do anything they were born to. If somebody had banned something from me, I would feel disappointed. It's not fair and I think it's a privilege that people should be able to speak out their feelings.  In the poem, "The principal overheard two students in the bathroom talking in Spanish, and the one word he could make out was his name. " He assumed that they were talking badly about him, so he banned Spanish in the bathrooms.

In Espada's poem "Revolutionary Spanish Lesson," it makes the reader think about how people don't like to be disrespected. I think that the speaker's name means something to him the he gets mad when someone mispronounces his name. In the text it says, "I want to buy a toy pistol…..put on dark sunglasses." He wants to respond like a revolutionary- like a Che Guevara. He wants to do something crazy when somebody disrespects him. This shows that people don't like to be disrespected and feel that everyone deserves respect.

This poem "Two Mexicanos," makes the reader think about racism and how people get treated because of their race. Espada starts describing the lynching, "More than the moment when forty vigilantes cheered the rope that snapped two Mexicanos into the grimacing sleep of broken necks." What bothers him the most is described in the last stanza, "Remain the faces of the lynching party." This bothers Espada because of the fact they took a picture of what they've done. I don't think that was fair because everyone deserves to be treated the same way as you want to be treated. In the story it says "Two Mexicanos were being lynched by forty gringo vigilantes."  They were lynched without getting the same treatment when breaking the law.  The vigilantes took justice into their own hands.   This shows that people were racist in the past and are still treating other people differently than what they should be treating them.

 

These poems are all the same in different ways. They all show how treating someone differently by their race is a cruel thing to do. Nobody deserves discrimination or being treated poorly. disrespect because of race is wrong. Espada expresses his feelings about the unjust lynching of the two Latinos in "Two Mexicanos."  He expresses his feelings about discrimination of Latinos in "New Bathroom Policy," and "Revolutionary Spanish Lesson." These poems make sure that people today understand they should stand for what's right and speak up to what's wrong.

Jordy Mejia

Jordy Mejia                                                                           7/16/14           803                                                                                                                                    In Ray Bradbury's short story, ''All summer in a day '' kids on  Venus only saw rain. A young girl Margot was the only one who saw the sun. The kids were jealous that she had seen the sun because  she  told  about it to the kids and wrote the poetry.                                                     In the story ''all summer in a day'' we are introduced to the reason the children might be jealous of Margot. ''Margot stood apart from them, from these children who could ever remember a time when there wasn't rain and rain and rain.'' This shows that she is different from them because she has experienced the sun and they have not. We learn that Margot used to live on Earth when she experienced the sun, something the other children could dream about.

          In the middle of the story we see how the children's jealousy makes them mean. They begin to hurt Margot and they push her away. For example they throw Margot in the closet. Another example is that a kid takes her poem. The last example is that they harass her and bore her. In the story it says they surged about her, caught her up, and bore her, protesting and pleading, and crying, back into the tunnel a room, a closet where they slammed and locked the door. This shows that the kid's jealousy affected Margot. This means that the problem got out of hand.   

After the children locked Margot in the closet they run outside to enjoy their glorious hours in the sun. When it's over the mood changes they realize the terrible thing they did by locking Margot it the closet. The children did all of this because they were jealous that Margot remembered the sun.

          In Ray Bradbury's short story "All summer in a Day", emotions such as jealousy can make us behave in a way that we regret. This story teaches the reader to think before acting because when we act out against others we only hurt ourselves.

Gabriel Cordero

All summer in a Day                                            Gabriel Cordero

 

         Jealousy is a central theme in the story "All Summer in a Day "We see how jealousy affects the children in the story when they locked Margot on the closet so that she can't experience the sun with them. They ate jealous because Margot knows what the sun feels and looks like. This makes me think that jealousy makes you mean. After the sun the children remembered they locked Margot in the closet. We get the feeling that they are regret for doing this. This makes me think that jealousy doesn't only hurt the people who are doing it but it also hurts us.

 

         In the beginning we learn why the children are jealous of Margot. She remembers what the sun looks like because she used to live on Earth. "It's like a penny." "No its not" the children cried. This shows us that the children reject the idea that Margot knows what the sun is like. They are so upset that she has experienced the sun and they haven't that they won't even listen to her.

     

         In the middle of the story we continue to see how the children's jealousy is making them mean towards Margot. One example is when kid pushed her and said "Get Away! ".  Also in the text it says, "Hey everyone let's put her in before the teacher comes ". That shows us that the jealousy was getting out of hand.

 

        Towards the end of the story the children's gets out of control. The children decided to lock Margot in the closet so that she that she won't see the sun again.  "They surged about her, caught her up and bore her protesting, and then pleading and crying back into a tunnel room, a closet, where they slammed closed and locked". This shows us how out of control the children's jealousy got. The children don't even seem to be thinking about what they are doing. They just want to hurt Margot.

 

    Bradbury teaches us that we might regret acting impulsively in response to our emotions. The children in this story seem to regret locking Margot in the closet after they realize what they done. This makes the reader think about their own behavior and its consequences.