Working Mothers

This week we read "Working Mothers are Benefiting the Family" by Supreet Mann. It was about if working mothers in todays society is ruining or benefiting the family. Supreet Mann argues against those who believed that working mothers are harming the family. She believes that they are actually benefiting the family and teaches children valuable life lessons. A few of her examples are financial benefits, setting a good example/ role model, parents who work have stronger relationships, and daycare help children be more interactive with other children.

I agree to Supreet Mann's opinion that working mothers are rather benefiting the family than tearing them down. I believe that in a household of a mother and father who are both working and bringing in two incomes rather than one is beneficial to the family. Also, the mother would not always have to depend on the father to bring in the income. Another reason why I believe that a working mother is beneficial is because when a mother is working, it benefits the mother by having a social life. It helps the mother to be social with other people rather than staying at home without a social life.

The American Dream

In "Hiding from Reality" by Bob Herbert, he talks about how the American Dream is no longer possible due to economy, jobs, and many others. He states that the government doesn't over enough jobs and opportunities for all of those who are in need of jobs. As of right now according to Bob Herbert, we are nothing close to that happening. An example he gives is in New York City where the mayor hires Cathleen Black who has no experience in the public education, but she is going to make "public school" a better place by laying off thousands of public school teachers. That is in no way going to help educate kids into even trying to live the "American Dream".

I agree to Bob Herbert. He is right that the rich gets richer and the poor just gets poorer. As of right now, half of my family has been laid off from their previous jobs and are unable to find new ones right now. We all support each other and thats all we have as of right now, family. Living the American Dream is hard because we live in an economy that is going no where, maybe slowly but still no where. To live an "American Dream" we are to work hard, get educated and we are promised to be successful. But not today, we go to school and are not even promised to get the classes we need because there is a shortage of teachers or units. Its hard to live the American Dream.

TSIS CH. 9

In "They Say I Say" chapter nine talks about incorporating our own voice into our essays according to our audiences. It says that "academic writing can be relaxed, easy to follow, and even a little bit fun" (121). Writing shouldn't always be formal and it would be more interesting for the reader to read. It also points out that it depends who the reader is and the purpose to decide whether writing in our own voice would be appropriate.

Chapter nine was one of my favorite chapters, only because it was a little humorous! I laughed at certain parts. My favorite part was the example given by Geneva Smitherman on page 125 when she talks about Black Americans. Her humor was when she used phrases such as "people who done gone to school and read all dem books and still don't know nothin!" and "verbal strategy for black rappers to talk about how bad they is". I thought this was funny because she wrote in "oral tradition" which made it very interesting to read and funny. And as of today's "rappers" it connected they two points she was making.