Anzaldua Reading

Pre-Reading:

I have herd the word ethnocentrism before from my Sociology class. I think it is an important word to understand because if you do understand this word and believe in it, it can make you a more rounded person  as well as making you less judgmental to other cultures.

Questions for Discussion and Journaling

1: When authors don't clue you in to there discourse community I think it makes the reader think harder and deeper about trying to understand the discourse community. Its almost a tool that an author can use to make a reader have a latent ability. The reader might not see themselves learning the discourse community, but in essence they really are because there putting some much though into it. I know it worked on me because I went through this whole process that I just explained.

3: I definitely believe that the author has to trust and believe herself to be a successful writer. If you don't I really don't see how far you can go in writing. If you don't trust yourself I don't know what that would do to you, but it just wouldn't make sense, it's kind of a hard aspect to understand..

Applying and Exploring

2: No, I believe if you preform in less common ways it gets the point across better because it's not the same old format. I believe that were more inclined to understand something if it's presented in a way were not used to and when we see something were not used to it grabs our attention.

3: I agree that images are more direct than words. I always like the saying "a picture is worth a thousand words" and that quote makes sense to me because I feel that you can connect in more ways with an image rather than words. I see a lot of commercials about raising money for starving kids and when I see an image of a starving kid it hits me harder than when I look at words about starving kids. I think an image gives you different reactions in your brain than words do and because of this we can get more emotional out of pictures. As for a specific situation for using images rather than words would be when your trying to hit someones emotional spot because images can say a lot