Hey there everyone. So I am writing this blog about the
attending the writing center and what we did and why we went there. There were
professors from all around the CUNY system and some students from the Graduate
Center. Professors gathered around together to talk about how to improve the English
work around the CUNY system. Also how to get students attention and make English
assignments fun instead of a burden. There was a group where they took all the
students English work and made books out of it. That was a great idea to come
up with including everyone’s work. The best idea to get all the students to
communicate and get them involved was the social media. Which we have been
doing assigned by Professor Coopers and
also Professor Shwartz who is also from LaGaurdia Community College have been
doing. Now a day’s everyone is on their smart phones on social media. We have
been engaged on Instagram even out of class posting pictures about climate
change. So even if we are not in class we have been thinking about class. Writing
blogs was another thing we did in class. Instead of writing in papers and
handing it in every week we wrote blogs. It was a great idea and also saved
many papers saving the trees. I loved it and I would love it if other
professors around the CUNY system did it too.
Sanjida jahan English 101
Sunday, June 8, 2014
Monday, May 19, 2014
Anti-Islamic Hate crime incident
A graph from the Southern Poverty Law Center shows the number
of anti-Islamic hate crimes from the year 1995 to 2008; starting from zero to
five hundred. Though there were Anti-Islamic hate crime incidents throughout
time but it sky rocketed the year of 2001. That’s the year when 9/11 happened;
it is understandable why the Anti-Islamic hate crimes increased that year. It
is told that the reason behind 9/11 were Muslims. So the hate for the Muslims
came out during that year causing all the hate crimes against the Muslims. Zeitoun
might have been a victim of the Anti-Islamic Hate; because he is Muslim it was
easy to target him. I’d say that because he was in New Orleans helping people
in need and trying to save his business and property. There could not be any other
reason to detain him but for the hate that the people had for the Muslims. The confusing
thing about this graph was that it did not indicate what part of the country it
was showing from.
Monday, May 12, 2014
in class blog on Zeitoun
Examples of Islamophobia are shown throughout the book Zeitoun;
Islamophobia means the fear of Muslim people and being prejudice against them. In
the book Zeitoun by Dave Eggers we read about Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun who
are living a typical American dream are being discriminated after Hurricane
Katrina in New Orleans because they are Muslims. One proof that comes from the
reading is where Kathy converted to Islam and tried to explain to her friends
and family but they took in a negative way. Eggers write “in the eyes of her
mother and siblings it was as if she’d renounced her family and all they stood
for” (Eggers, 67). According to Kathy’s family because she converted to Islam
they feel Kathy has abandoned everything she stood for all her life. We also see how
Islamophobia is affecting Zeitoun, where Zeitoun is taken away by military and
put into military base inside a bus stand. Zeitoun is thinking about the
incidents that happened to him, where he is “accused of terrorism” (Eggers,
218). Throughout the book we read about Zeitoun living his life with his family
and after Hurricane Katrina he is helping neighbors and just trying to save his
home and business. He was doing the right thing all along but because he is
Muslim he was being judged. Being a Muslim can change the way people think and
look at you. Looking into the matter how Kathy’s family reacted after she
converted to Islam. They thought Kathy completely changed into a different
person just because she converted.
Monday, May 5, 2014
zeitoun
In need of help our government always slacks behind and the common people comes in help to protect us. The common people are risking their lives to help others where our government who we rely on is not there for us. The book Zeitoun is about Abdulrahman Zeitoun who moved from Syria to New Orleans, who's living up to the American Dream and goes through all the crises before, during and after Hurricane Sandy. Zeitoun stays behind abondoning his family to help others after hurricane Sandy. When he could not help an elderly women he went out to seek help from the government. Where he tried to stop military personnel but no one stopped "ignored their canoe and their call for assistance" (Eggers, 101). The military personnel ignored Zetoun's call for help. This reminds m
Saturday, April 12, 2014
Unconcerned Blog 3
Hello everyone I am back writing about the victims of Sandy
again, this story really got me emotional. Its about Deedra Cheatham who is
part of the Gowanus houses community based organization for Racial and Economic
Equality. There’s a limit on neglecting issues that are so severe, where it
comes to the victims of Hurricane Sandy they have been neglected. When people
are in need of help we seek it from our government but they are not concerned. In
her mother’s apartment the steam pipe exploded and she could not reach 911, 311
or 707 “the only way I got help was to stop the cop car that was patrolling around”
(No help). In the time of emergency and help is this really how we get helped. We
have a government that’s really “unconcerned” (No help) by unconcerned I mean
NYCHA came three days later to check on Deedra and her family asking if they
were okay and they did not even get a good response back from NYCHA. NYCHA does
not have any answers.
Monday, April 7, 2014
Blanking the Beach and Key Word
Good
afternoon class, I am back writing in response from Naomi Kliens writing
"Blanking the Beach" sharing if New York completed its job towards
the people who suffered from Hurricane Sandy. New york specially the
Housing Authority was really careless and incompetent towards it job and responsibilities.
In the chapter Blanking the Beach, Naomi Klien writes about the Tsunami that
hit Sri Lanka in 2004 and how the community that lived on the beach did not
contribute to the economic growth of the country. If they were moved to a
different place their “place could be put to a more profitable use” (Klien,67).
Government is doing what they planned before the wave just making the “buffer zone
looked like little more than an excuse” (Klien,67). Buffer zone is when people
or communities are moved and government uses their place to more profitable
use. This shows the negligence of Sri Lanka’s government towards its people. Instead
of helping the victims Sri Lanka made that place into a vacation spot for the
rich. After Hurricane Sandy many people from New York were displaced from their
homes and NYCHA did not fix their homes. They were sent back to the homes that
were “unlivable” to begin with.
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
Sandy Storyline Blog Two
Hello
everyone, today I will be writing this blog about the victims of Hurricane Sandy
which is required for my English 101 class. This assignment asked me to
summarize two stories about the victims of Hurricane Sandy after listening to
what happened to them from the website called “Sandy Storyline”. This website
includes many heart touching stories of the people who suffered and are still
suffering from Hurricane Sandy. From many I will be talking only about John
Watson and Barbara Ross.
John Watson
and his family lived in Coney Island till Hurricane Sandy flooded their home
and they were displaced to Jamaica, Queens. They have been living there for two
and a half months because there were molds in their home and it was considered
to be unlivable. When it was time to move back home nothing was fixed “I do
everything that is asked of me but nothing is done in the other end” (Watson).
NYCHA (New York City Housing Authority) had enough time to renovate his home to
live in but they did nothing to fix it. This tells me that we can complain and
tell the government all we want but they will not come in help for us. In the
book climate casino by William Nordhaus, the motive of that book is to let
everyone know what is going on about climate change. What’s the point of
telling everyone if no one comes to help or does anything about these
conflicts.
Where our government
and authorities are not doing anything to help us we have people like Barbara
Ross, who are willing to help the community. While majority of the people
stayed home safe she felt “the best place to be is to be part of the community
sharing the experiences good or bad” (Ross). She and her friend was trying to
save a museum that he opened, asking the police for help they say “go home
there’s nothing that you can do” (police). She volunteers for environmental group
called “Times up” and they created energy bikes which runs by human power. So they
pumped out the water from the museum using those energy bikes. It’s nice to
know that there are still people who care about the community they live in. This
aspect is very similar to a thought Nordhaus shares “people around the world
need to understand and accept” (Nordhaus, 9). If everyone around the world and
comes together all the problems can be solved.
http://www.sandystoryline.com/
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