Must Be Nice To Have A Wife

   Throughout the entire passage Judy Brady expresses her argument in every way: from the heart, from character, from values, and from facts and reason.  She is very clear in stating that just because in this case a wife is stay home does not mean that her duties are any less or troublesome than the husband and that many things can go unnoticed on a day to day basis. Her style of writing kind of reminds me of Martin Luther King Jr. “I Have A Dream…” speech because of the repetition of a particular phrase to make their point. In the past this has proven to be an very effective form of writing to basically drill into the audiences head what they are trying to accomplish, another good example of this method although I do not agree for what he used it for but was an effective speaker never the less was Hitler. Its seems as Brady was mainly targeting what could easily be described as “chauvinist males” because in that period of time it kind of was understandable that women did need to accomplish all of these duties and then some because of their role as “supporters” but not only was her main target “chauvinist males”  but “suppress women” who needed to know that there job is just as important, but in my opinion way more, as their husbands in maintaining not only themselves, their husband, their children,  their house, their career, and the members of the family together and individually social life. Much has changed and has improved for women thru the women’s right movement but small pieces of our linger past can still be seen in some matrimonies.

The World Is Here!

Unfortunately much still exist to this day, all though there has been much improvement over the past years of people being more acceptable of other cultures and embracing other influences, there are still struggles that many people encounter still due to race, religion, color, etc. as Ishmael Reed wrote in his editorial  It has been several times that I myself have been able to overhear other peoples conversations and see how prejudice or unwilling they are to broaden their horizons and see how our diverse culture has molded us and allowed, possibly forced us to progress economically, industrially and culturally. If the chauvinism and xenophobia in the world did not exist today we would not have allot of the extremist groups we see today that have caused many atrocities today but also in the past to name a few the 911 attacks on The Twin Towers in New York, the Nazi and the genocide of the Jewish people, and the Christian Crusades. Even governments trying to be a super power over the other instead of helping each other freely to overcome obstacles and work together to help improve every one as a whole.

Both Ishmael Reed and Oliver Goldsmith share similar views at to being tolerant and accepting that the worlds cultures are blending although centuries apart both are still able to see that prejudice, chauvinism and xenophobia exist and to this day as I stated above. It seems like it goes on to prove that this is nothing new and that many people do face on a day to day life. It is interesting me though that Oliver Goldsmith was very opened minded given his time of not having as much information readily available like Ishmael Reed like: travel, broader newspapers,  internet, and tv to name a few. Goldsmith comment, “…he would not be unable to form such a conclusion unless he was to travel and meet citizens of those countries,” he gave to the gentleman when asked about his insight was very enlightening given the idea that history has taught us the people in our past were less acceptable to new ideas and customs and that moving on to today we are a little more tolerant of change and I believe largely is due to the ease of access of information and be able to manipulate the information for our benefit.

How It Feels to Be Colored Me

1. Does this essay speak to you in any way?
    Yes it does, in some ways I can relate, as a child i never noticed any difference and never bothered to pay attention to the color or race. As a child I was more into having fun and trying to get to know the people around me, i guess the in the innocence of youth the curiosity for ones color is not there but instead of how to have fun, I wounder why that maybe lost as we get older.

2. What do you notice about her choice of word, her image, and her tone?
    She is very descriptive in her choice of words she really gives the reader an image to put to the words to describe how she feels. Her tone thru out the story is more upbeat and more of not really understanding why just because of color someone could be different. She has more of a curiosity type tone thru out parts of the story when she is not being descriptive. 


3. How about you?  Was there a time in your life you were suddenly aware of differences in people?  How did you feel about it?
    As a youth up until i was in high school I would have to say no the only differences would just be skin color but no difference in peoples capabilities to me everyone was the same. Wasn't until I got to high school when i noticed a few differences but mostly between the sexes in having different privileges but did not become more apparent when joining the workforce after high school. I have always had a very well diverse set of friends.