Johana P. Martinez
Professor Nina Perez
WST 3015
April 14, 2010
The Secret Life of Bees
The movie that I chose is The Secret life of bees by Sue Monk Kidd, which is also a book with the same title. The movie is about how the main character, Lily is very unhappy because her dad doesn't pay attention to her and their relationship is not a healthy one. The abusive relationship is so strong that Lily believes her mother's death is her fault. T-Ray her father barely pays attention to her, he pretty much treat her like a servant and isn't really a good dad figure.It comes to the point that Lily cant take it anymore that she runs away, with her goes her friend Rosalyn, where they end up going to the Boatwright family, which hides a secret of her mother's past. While they are at the Boatwright's residency, August the oldest sister of three, show Lily how to handle the bees, and while doing this Lily becomes more in touch with nature and how the bees honey are processed and other stuff. While doing this though Lily has been fighting of these demons in her head that have tormented her, which are the death of her mum, and why her dad treats her so bad. During her stay at the Boatwright house, Lily getsto experience that warm home loving feeling fro these three ladies, even though one of the sisters who is played by Alicia Key, June at first doesnt like the idea of having strangers at her house, especially a white girl and her black friend. Many things happened in the house that play a role in how Lily matures and deals with her tormented past. The movie has little things that connect to ecofeminism and the feminism, for example in the beginning we see that Lily hides a box under an orchard tree that has her mothers belongings this can be connected with ecofeminism because of the dualism involved in it like her emotions are in that box, and materialistic stuff but underneath the earth, Lily is connected with nature and the thought of her mother with her.(Kirk & Okazawa-Rey 540). Another is the whole concept of the bee procedure, the way the Boatwright sisters handle the process of honey and the way they connect with nature by doing this, this is a procedure that helps them meditate and come one on one with nature(King, 560). There are stereotypes in this movie, first that black people are not educated or cultured, that they are all delinquents and poor, but in the movie they show a black women who can write Rosalyn, three black women that are cultured and not poor but well of, who are the Boatwright sisters, so clearly the author and director wanted to change that image or myths of black people. Also the stereotype that all white people hated black folks, and in the movie it did show those who were against black, but there were also those who were helping black people in that time era. Overall this movie depicts dualism by ecofeminism, because it has nature involved, with joy, sorrow, death, anger, forgiveness and many other things.
Work Cited
Kirk, Gwyn, and Margo Okazawa-Rey. Women's Lives: Multicultural Perspectives. Fifth Edition. Boston: McGraw Hill Higher Education, 2010.
King, Ynestra. The Ecofeminist Imperative. Women's Lives: Multicultural Perspectives. Fifth Edition. Boston: McGraw Hill Higher Education, 1983.
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Monday, April 5, 2010
Personal Narrative Blog
Johana P. Martinez
Jeannina Perez
WST 3015
April 5, 2010
Baghdad Burning Monday, September 29, 2003
Sheikhs and Trbes
On this blog, Riverbend talks about the different types of Sheikhs and tribes there are. She begins by explaining how marrying a cousin is not as popular as it used to be in Baghdad and other cities surrounding them. Riverbend talks about the history of a Sheikhs and how each one of them is responsible for their tribe. Also how the word marrying your cousin is term is refer as, everyone who is not your grandparents siblings, aunts or uncles, are your cousin and you can marry them. The duty of the Sheikhs is to take care of his tribe, by settling disputes, if they are about war or marital arguments. Even though the Sheikhs words isn't the law most people of his clan will follow what they are told to do. Riverbend goes on telling how this leader of the clan will pick up an orphanage and take him as his own. She then begins talking about how how after the occupation of Irak, Jay Garner met up with leader, religious figures and Sheikhs to propose that they support the Americans. According to the Sheikhs when the americans invaded, bombs were thrown to their houses killings their wives, parents, children etc. It is true what the reading on the "Living in a Globalizing World." when war break out perhaps one of the most far-reaching effects of war is the normalization of violence in everyday life (Kirk and Okazawa-Rey 504). Riverbend tells us about customs in this blog in particular, when she explains how foreign countries like the United states tend to have a misleading perception on leaders of clans. The United States believe that these leaders might all have to be part of a terrorist group or are working with other leaders to attack the states, but Riverbend states is that these leaders are highly respected they are look upon as someone with wisdom, and are there to settle arguments as mention before, that instead of having these misconceptions we should learned to understand someones culture.
With Riverbend i would characterized her blog as personal and political. She writes both her experience as well as the politics behind it. For example in the blog about will work for food, she talk about a women who was trying to help her company since she was an electrical engineer, but because of being a women she was denied to not help, and since she didnt like the answer they gave she protested, and an army came in to her house open fire and killed her (Riverbend529). This is an example of the politics in her blog as well as some of her own experince as being lucky to b enot important or else you are a target to the militia. It seems that because of Riverbends blogs, she is telling us what really goes on on that side of the world, how women are being treated and how media portrays things that are usually in correct or misinformed.
Work cited:
Kirk, Gwyn, and Margo Okazawa-Rey. Women and the Military, War, and Peace, Women's Studies. Women's Lives Multicultural Perspectives. 5th ed. New York: McGraw Hill, 2010.3-18.
Riverbend. Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog From Iraq(203-04)-Excerpts. Women's Studies. Women's Lives Multicultural Perspectives. 5th ed. New York: McGraw Hill, 2010.3-18.
Riverbend. "Sheikhs and Trbes." Web log post. Baghdad Burning. 29 Sept. 2003.
Jeannina Perez
WST 3015
April 5, 2010
Baghdad Burning Monday, September 29, 2003
Sheikhs and Trbes
On this blog, Riverbend talks about the different types of Sheikhs and tribes there are. She begins by explaining how marrying a cousin is not as popular as it used to be in Baghdad and other cities surrounding them. Riverbend talks about the history of a Sheikhs and how each one of them is responsible for their tribe. Also how the word marrying your cousin is term is refer as, everyone who is not your grandparents siblings, aunts or uncles, are your cousin and you can marry them. The duty of the Sheikhs is to take care of his tribe, by settling disputes, if they are about war or marital arguments. Even though the Sheikhs words isn't the law most people of his clan will follow what they are told to do. Riverbend goes on telling how this leader of the clan will pick up an orphanage and take him as his own. She then begins talking about how how after the occupation of Irak, Jay Garner met up with leader, religious figures and Sheikhs to propose that they support the Americans. According to the Sheikhs when the americans invaded, bombs were thrown to their houses killings their wives, parents, children etc. It is true what the reading on the "Living in a Globalizing World." when war break out perhaps one of the most far-reaching effects of war is the normalization of violence in everyday life (Kirk and Okazawa-Rey 504). Riverbend tells us about customs in this blog in particular, when she explains how foreign countries like the United states tend to have a misleading perception on leaders of clans. The United States believe that these leaders might all have to be part of a terrorist group or are working with other leaders to attack the states, but Riverbend states is that these leaders are highly respected they are look upon as someone with wisdom, and are there to settle arguments as mention before, that instead of having these misconceptions we should learned to understand someones culture.
With Riverbend i would characterized her blog as personal and political. She writes both her experience as well as the politics behind it. For example in the blog about will work for food, she talk about a women who was trying to help her company since she was an electrical engineer, but because of being a women she was denied to not help, and since she didnt like the answer they gave she protested, and an army came in to her house open fire and killed her (Riverbend529). This is an example of the politics in her blog as well as some of her own experince as being lucky to b enot important or else you are a target to the militia. It seems that because of Riverbends blogs, she is telling us what really goes on on that side of the world, how women are being treated and how media portrays things that are usually in correct or misinformed.
Work cited:
Kirk, Gwyn, and Margo Okazawa-Rey. Women and the Military, War, and Peace, Women's Studies. Women's Lives Multicultural Perspectives. 5th ed. New York: McGraw Hill, 2010.3-18.
Riverbend. Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog From Iraq(203-04)-Excerpts. Women's Studies. Women's Lives Multicultural Perspectives. 5th ed. New York: McGraw Hill, 2010.3-18.
Riverbend. "Sheikhs and Trbes." Web log post. Baghdad Burning. 29 Sept. 2003.
Three facts for Harriet E. Wilson
Johana Martinez
Nina Perez
03/05/10
*In 1867 she joins the Massachusetts Spiritualistic Association, where she talks to a crowd of people about supporting labor reform and the education of children in spiritualistic doctrine
*1859 her book, Our Nig, or sketches from the life of a free black is published
*1867 is known as the colored medium and gives an address in the Great Spiritualist camp, where over 3,000 people attended. she was known for being a great advocate for the spiritualist movement as well as fighting for people rights, like the labor reform and the education for children.
work cited:
Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black. 1859
HE Wilson - New York: Vintage, 1983
Nina Perez
03/05/10
*In 1867 she joins the Massachusetts Spiritualistic Association, where she talks to a crowd of people about supporting labor reform and the education of children in spiritualistic doctrine
*1859 her book, Our Nig, or sketches from the life of a free black is published
*1867 is known as the colored medium and gives an address in the Great Spiritualist camp, where over 3,000 people attended. she was known for being a great advocate for the spiritualist movement as well as fighting for people rights, like the labor reform and the education for children.
work cited:
Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black. 1859
HE Wilson - New York: Vintage, 1983
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