ANTHONY GOODMAN
Is This My Tradition?10/4/2017
American traditions that can relate to the “lottery” is the actual lottery, the ;lottery in America is like the opposite cultural tradition but the same way the tradition is made or how it actually works. The lotter in both the story and in America are traditions where everyone in one day picks a random ticket that will change their life forever but in this case the outcomes of their very different in the story and in our American tradition. In the story the lottery the outcome is horrible by someone being stoned to death which is obviously an awful outcome, but in our American culture we have a good outcome where you become rich.Even though our lottery is “good” I believe that the lottery in our culture I believe it can also destroy people's lives like in the story, I believe this because money changes people and can make them lose their morals and destroy their life as easily as a person with a stone can ruin someone's life. In the end these two traditions are negative positions to be in even though you become rich from our tradition. A time in my life when I decided to break away from a cultural tradition is when I had work the day my family was having our annual family reunion. It was the week of the family reunion and I had completely forgotten that it was that weekend, and I told my work that I was available that day. The whole day I was questioning if I should skip work for the family reunion or disappoint my parents and most my family and tell them I wouldn't be able to see them for another year. I knew I couldn't disappoint my family that traveled from around the country just to see our whole family together. I decided to not show up to work to see my family and not break our family tradition because it is morally right in my eyes to put family over work or money. In the end of this situation I was pretty confident that I made the right choice because I got to see all the people I love in my family once again and did not really have any repercussions from my work for skipping that day, I believe that the tradition my family made is stronger and worth dealing with any problem to see them.
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Should I Stay Or Should I Go?9/27/2017
The girl in the story is at a bar with her partner in Spain in 1927 and is talking over drinks whether she should get an abortion or not.Well the girl in the story seems unsure about everything she is doing, it seems like she was dependent on the man in the beginning of the story somewhat waiting for him to decide to do something and asks how he feel and then when he asks the same she replies with it doesn't matter. Later on she starts to say things that would make her seem more independent and strong like calling out how they always do the same things and how the man never pays attention to her. The girl also seems to be in love witht the man even though he really tries to push her to get an abortion without telling her to get an abortion. She has to make a choice because the man somewhat implies that if she keeps the baby he is going to leave her so she is stuck in a hard situation. The way the girl acts at the end of the story makes the reader think that she starts to think in her way and decides to keep the baby. A time in my life where I had to make a choice to stay or leave a difficult situation was when my friend and I were walking home from a party one weekend and my friend may have been a lot more drunk than I was on this fine walk home on a cool summers night. After about half way through our voyage of Marple Township he decided to pass out on a nice green, and lively patch of grass. I was very intoxicated and did not know what to do in this situation I slapped him and shook his body but he was in a very deep sleep. I thought to myself should I leave my good friend here to wake up at ten in the morning to thirty missed calls from his mom and be in lots of trouble or carry him to his house. As the great friend I am I chose to pick my friend off the ground and carry him home in the middle of the night on my shoulders sneak into his house drop him off to his bed then get the hell out of his house and go home. As I entered my friends home everything I decided to do seemed a lot more loud than it was. The doors creaking and when I dropped my friend on his bed it seemed to be a hundred times louder than usual. As I ran out of my friends house my footsteps sounded like huge thuds, like my feet became heavier or decided to become bricks. The Powers That Be?9/13/2017
In this blog post, I will explore Margaret's choices when she works a job as a servant for a very racist woman named Ms. Cullinan. In the reading, we witness the experiences that Margaret has at her work where she is treated harshly for the color of her skin. The choice that Margaret made was probably not a right choice for her as an employee, but it was a great choice for her as a person with good morals and is not ready to be treated differently because of race or color. This is a bad choice as an employee because she will most likely be punished and the people who she works for might make it more difficult for her at her work environment because those cups and the casserole dish had a lot of value to the people in the house; these dishes were passed down through the generations of the family. Margaret's act of rebellion broke what Mrs. Cullinan considered priceless heirlooms. After that, Margaret angered the people she works for from her actions. On the other side of this topic where you can look at Margaret smashing the cups and dish as a good thing is that she has made a statement that she is not going to put up with the racism and mistreatment in the house and look at her smashing those plates as a huge moral victory for Margaret not just because she pissed her employer's off and had the satisfaction of looking at them cry but she also got them to call her by her real name and not Mary. After all this I side with the decision to break the dish because she showed the employers she's not just going to sit by and let them treat her as if she is less than a real person. A personal time in my life when I had either resist or not resist a challenge is when my wrestling coach told me I had to move down a weight class to to wrestle the future state champion at 220 pounds for that year; it seemed like I really didn't have a choice. I could make my coach angry and let up six points for the team or step up and go out there and get embarrassed by a future state champion. It was a very nervous time in my life it seemed like an hour of sitting there deciding if I should because I would most likely be embarrassed in front of a huge crowd of people by the future state champion, but I took the challenge, because if I didn't our team would forfeit at that weight and give up six team points. After an hour of waiting and warming up it was finally time and I cannot think of a time in my life where my heart was racing faster and I didn't have a million scenarios of what could happen in my head, after all this time of me messing with my own brain I went out and actually put up a fight, don't get me wrong he beat me pretty bad but I also messed with his head as a nobody who got a good amount of points on him and then almost pinned him in the last period, but he called an injury time out and there was lots of controversy that my coach was freaking out about on the side of the mat. In the end I lost but I earned a lot of respect that night from the wrestling community. Anthony GoodmanThis blog will be about my English Comp assignments and my life Archives
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