Welcome to the blog for Prof. John Talbird's English 101 class. The purpose of this site is two-fold: 1) to continue the conversations we start in class (or to start conversations before we get to class) and 2) to practice our writing, reading, and thinking on a weekly basis in an informal setting.
Saturday, April 28, 2018
Friday, April 27, 2018
Tuesday, April 24, 2018
Racism
Monday, April 23, 2018
A Bus Ticket and a World Away
- Green refers to Betty Jean Ward's family as "a happy normal family." And in the next paragraph she writes "And then they weren't." (147) What does it mean to be a "normal" family?
- What other stories in Ch. 12 made an impact on you?
- Ch. 8 is titled "Nigger Lovers." Why is it titled this? What do you think about Green, a white woman, titling her chapter this? What do you think about your white professor asking you about this?
- How did closing the schools affect white children?
Wednesday, April 18, 2018
Journalism changed her
Tuesday, April 17, 2018
Monday, April 16, 2018
The Segregation Academy
Saturday, April 14, 2018
Friday, April 13, 2018
Segregation/Desegregation
I found this too interested because nowadays would be considered a "Mongrel Nation" in their eyes then. I honestly believed it would have been a better and a more logical explanation than based on their opinions, why they wanted to be segregated. Their generation was being brainwashed, I'm sure other whites disagreed but was too scared to speak up. I am happy, I live in the modern society where the law has changed allowing people to be free to date or marry whoever they desire with no penalty attached like what the Loving's family had to go through.
Wednesday, April 11, 2018
Tuesday, April 10, 2018
l admirer Kristen Green honesty and determination to find out the truth why her grandfather ,Robert Taylor,and the leaders in Virginia decided to segregate white and blacks school and also built a new white school for white kidsl and denied blacks from attending high school,also blacks were send to run- dowm building to attend school without no water ,heat and classroom in their area. At the same time the t white students enjoy these privileges.
Monday, April 9, 2018
Loving
Prince Edward County
In the 1896 Plessy vs. Ferguson Supreme Court ruling, it was decreed that separate facilities (bathroom, water fountains, schools, etc.) were acceptable as long as they were "equal." This is what allowed Jim Crow laws to exist (mostly but not exclusively in the South). This is what allowed Prince Edward County (among other school districts throughout the US) to have segregated schools. It seems that it was generally white people who wanted segregated schools and black people who wanted desegregated schools (feel free to disagree w/ me if you do). What were the reasons for both views?
Kristen Green says that this is a hybrid genre, a combination of history and memoir. How does she bring her own story into the history? (This is similar to your assignment #4--a text which explores the intersection between the personal and the public).
What was so bad about a desegregated school--in the view of the white leaders of Prince Edward County--that led them to close the public schools? This is a complex question which we should spend time discussing as the semester winds down. In fact, we may want to see how it connects to other questions currently in our lives: For instance, what is the threat of illegal immigrants (including DACA kids who were brought here as children) going to our public colleges? Just so you know that the North isn't completely innocent: Although undocumented immigrants can attend CUNY, winners of academic prizes in CUNY can't receive cash awards.
Saturday, April 7, 2018
Undocumented Students
Thursday, April 5, 2018
Undocumented
segregation
After reading Some Thing Must Be Done About Prince Edward county Narrative by Kristen Green l realised that thre was a bad behavior in the Virginia because Robert Taylor and the his friends used their power to locked public school the because supreme court issued an order that segregation is unconstitutional that and white and blacksvmust have equal opportunities in school. Robert and his friends building a new private school for white students. Also black parents were forced to sent their kids to out of town school, let them their children stay home or let their kids live with relatives in order to go to school. On the other hand Robert built a new private school for white students. After many court battles blacks get a run down school with no heat, water ,supplies science laboratory. but white kids enjoy all these privileges until a brilliant lntellegent young black girl BarbaraJohns led a protest after she was left outside standing on the street for more than two hours waiting for bus, to be picked to go to school but instead the white kids were picked by the bus.
underground college
The undocumented immigrants should be allowed to go back to school, and not deposited back to their country is not their fault they were boughAmerican by their parents over strayed and jeopardize their Visa This students are working and going to school to better their lives American is a land of opportunity Congress let them enjoy this opportunities without your help, their dreams and hopes will be ruined.
Sunday, April 1, 2018
Good afternoon my 101 peeps,
On this Resurrection Sunday I feel extremely compelled to follow in the likeness of my Savior in the essence of allowing God Himself to resurrect those things inside me that I've killed that would've matured me and pushed me toward my destiny! I know my greatness, I know my capabilities yet I buried them. I feared the unknown, THAT ENDS NOW. As we enjoy our Sunday no matter our beliefs or religions. I ask that we all take time to be grateful and be humble. Love, peace and happiness to you all.