final week

   I'm glad to meet your guys in English 101 D24G class. And thanks for professor Talbird's teaching. I enjoy my first semester in QCC and I hope I will do better in next semester. I hope your guys have a happy holiday.

It was a great semester. I get to learn how to write a essay in a better way. Thankyou prof. John Talbird. The last Day of the class was great. Wish all of you happy holidays and Good luck with the finals.

todays social gathering

want to thank everyone in class especially Professor Talbird for a great semester. had an awesome time with everyone today. it was fun to just relax and get to know one another. also want to wish everyone a happy holiday and a successful finals week.

Final Week

Since this is a partial week, any entries you make on the blog between now and the final will be extra credit. If you haven't had a chance to respond to Green's book or the film Loving, then you can do that now. Also, you may respond to your classmates' readings. Give a shout out to any readings you particularly liked. Finally, use this space to reflect on what you've learned about yourself as a writer/reader/thinker this term and what you would like to continue to work on through 102 and beyond.

Green Book chapter 21

the topic about the choosing segregation is something that is very rare even after all of the fights that this country had about it. However, in my personal experience, I think is just more about being comfortable with people who share the same culture as you, who speak the same language as you, and overall that can understand you. In my school, there was a lot of this choosing segregation, people often hang out with people from their same ethnicity. You always see Chinese people with Chinese people, or Latinos with Latinos and on and on. However, when people started to get more used to the language and the different people around them, they started to break apart from those groups and started to engage in those with more diversity. But that only happens with senior students not among the freshman. Therefore, the choosing segregation is most likely to be about the feelings of identified with the other person, about sharing the same backgrounds and experiences, but overall its the feel comfort.

loving

The movie “Mr and Mrs loving” was a great movie. This movie was about two couples who grew up in central virginia and decided to get married. Only troble was he was white and she was black. After being told that interracial marriage was not legal in virginia,they got married in washington DC and retun home. Both couples  got arrested  on their wedding night a put them in prison. Judge explained them that God separated races for a reason and didnot intend to mix them.They got exiled for 25 years from virginia.
They both settled in washington where they learned about civil rights movement.A letter to the Attorney brings a lawyer connected to the ACLU to their aid. The supreme court decides to hear there case and finally they wins the case and decided to move back to virginia and bouild their own house and lived a happy life. This movie shows the power of love. They never gave up and kept on fighting for their love and wins the case. it was a great movie

Mr. and Mrs Loving movie

       Last week, we finished the movie "Loving" in the class. After that, it gave me a lot of things to think about racial issues in the past and today. The movie was talking about the story of Richard and Mildred Loving. They  made history when their fight for the state of Virginia to recognize their interracial marriage made it all the way to the Supreme Court in 1967. At first, they fell in love with each other, and they lawfully wedded in Washington, D.C. but their union was not legal in Virginia. Then, they were arrested.  In order to continue to stay together, Lovings were forced to  move to D.C. and for the next five years, the Lovings lived in exile while they raised their three children. Even though their life looked good, they still were homesick and scared and felt uncomfortable in a strange city. They tried to go back to Virginia covertly but failed. Eventually, under the help of Robert F. Kennedy, they won and The Supreme Court’s Ruling Struck Down the Country’s Last Segregation Laws. The movie had a happy ending. Loving's action played an important role in racial issues and inspired more couple like them to pursuit their love.

      Besides that, I understood love is not a thing to be laid aside. When Lovings were arrested and were forced to segregate, they disagreed and overcame adversities together. The rest of the Lovings’ lives were not without difficulties. Although Richard died in car accident, Mildred remained their marriage, didn't remarry. I was moved by their steadfast love. What's more, I was moved by Richard's words. He said to Mildred, 'I will take care of you.'


     

Mr and Mrs Loving Part 2

On the second day of class we got to finish the ending of the movie and I was interested to know how the movie would end and if the Lovings would win the court case. The movie showed how difficult it was for the Lovings living back in Virginia, from having to sneak around and having to be careful of everything they did, like they were constantly being watched but not knowing by who. All I wanted was for the Lovings to win the case and proof everyone that they were no danger to the world as everyone kept on saying,  it just got me really frustrated that people would even think like that, as. The movie ended with the Lovings winning the case and I was really happy to know it ended with the family being together once again in Virginia, but then again it was not an easy process for them to win back there freedom. Overall it was a great movie and it showed the audience how difficult it was for and interracial couple to get married something everyone should have the right to do.

Mr and Mrs Loving Movie part one

When watching the movie in class and seeing how what I read in the book "Something must be done about Prince Edward County was being portrayed very well I got really interested in the movie. The movie started really well showing how both white and black people lived in the town of Virginia as it showed the audience how segregation was still going on in this time period as the movie progressed. On the first day we got to see half of the movie but already you could tell were things were headed. It just left me shocked to see how,  just the marriage of two people who love each could be like the end of the world, just because they were an interracial couple. It showed me how serious and dangerous it was for interracial couples to get married at this time and it really hurt me to see that.

PEC Review

Much like my Loving Review and in class discussions my feelings towards the novel are precisely the same. All my points and arguments have been said several times and seem rather pointless at this point. This novel feels like a task rather than enjoyment and while many see that I usually find reading to be a privilege and reward than a chore. I find the topics in PEC to be compelling and moving but like stated countless times there not appropriately utilized. And before I continue, I want to say in a technical aspect or grammatical this novel is excellent. Kristen Greens narrative is easy to follow. Everything besides that I disliked. The storytelling and lack of emotion and the white guilt aspect.
When she speaks about her grandfather being a racist and what not it seems like she's guilty or ashamed and while many would feel that I feel she stretched it out severely. Just because you have a racist heritage doesn't mean you should feel guilty or feel shame. And that shame you feel is not in any way comparable to the oppression blacks felt in America. I almost laugh at the idea of a privileged white woman comparing her struggles to people who were literally killed for trying to join a system. I digress. This book does a poor job of showing empathy and compassion. It also does a poor job in explaining the struggles of the time. If you need to really read and re-read the text to feel emotion the way I did or to imagine what those time felt like its because there's none there. This book is a textbook example of dry reading. Maybe its because a journalist wrote this and like stated in class journalist have a more objective-minded political stance than a heartfelt entertainment poise. None the less this book was like trying to cut steak with a butter knife.

Loving Review

The first half of this movie was painfully dull to me. Maybe it was the lack of emotions or the lack of investment on my behalf to this film, but it seemed rather bland. The love story just seemed rather cold and tasteless. Visually the movie catches my attention, but the acting on Richards behalf was intensely stiff. Regardless if that is the intention of the director of if that's genuinely how Richard was I felt no dept in the first half of the film. It was politically charged and seemed overzealous regarding showing struggle. Maybe this has to do with the discussion in class where we spoke about Kristen Green writing about black struggle. Maybe Jeff Nichols shouldn't make a film about love and black oppression. Perhaps it wasn't my cup of tea, or perhaps I'm exhausted of race politics it being in class or outside. In my perspective, this first half of the film essentially made me not look forward to the continuation.

The second half of the film I must admit picked up. I'm not sure if it was the pace of the climax of the film, but it did redeem itself in some scenarios. If we're breaking the movie in twos Id, give the first half a 4 and the second half a 7. The transcendence was less political and more about love. Which is ironic because the second half law and politics have more to do with the film than the first half. Which is also ironic because in the first half it's more about love and companionship than the second. I'm not sure why I felt this or how this happened, but it did. The second half didn't seem like civil rights propaganda and more about a forbidden love film. I still dislike Richard, but Mildred and Bernie seem to have stolen the show for me. Overall I would not recommend this film, but it does have its gold moments. Honestly seldom do you feel the emotion in this film besides when Rich is drunk and crying and when he lays on her lap. 

The lovings movie

The movie was a very different point of view for me. Normally, people at this time, don't know how is to suffer from something like that. To suffer from not being able to be free to love whoever they want,  to feel consequences to do so, to be in constant fear that one day they will be forced to separate from each other. How hard was for them to know that many people seem their marriage as a threat to the community. How people were seeing their kids as something bad and even call them names like bastards.
I think today will be difficult for people to be openly against interracial marriages even though they have negative feelings about it. Most importantly, I do think that in today’s society, people still think that is better to preserve their races and marry someone of the same race. I know because even part of my family still thinks in that way. However, there is a lot of change since then and it's even normal to see people who identify themselves as multiracial. There’s a lot of differences from the past, but they're still a lot of changes to make to be able to see a big change.

“Loving” thoughts.

The movie “loving” so far has been great to watch. Many parts of the movie how ever did get me annoyed. Like why was it such a big issue for a white person to marry a black girl? If the 2 individuals love each other they have the right to be together. However, the craziest part of it all both states are in the same country, yet Washington, D.C. allows it and Virginia doesn’t.  The couple should have the right to live and raise there family where they choose disregarding their race. I am looking forward to see what’s going to happen as the movie goes on, will the attorney who showed up be able to fix there problem ? Many questions have raised in my mind.