Ronnye’s Comments (group member since Sep 14, 2011)

Ronnye’s comments from the 815 Discussion group.

I do not think that the man is wrong, but in other peoples eyes, it might be wrong. Because in the court of law, this man is stealing, but he is just stealing one piece of bread. Its not as if hes stealing 30 pieces of bread and its for a good cause too. This man is just trying to save his family from starvation and he isn't even killing anyone in the process. Plus, I'm sure other people would do the same if they where in that situation. Then, if the man did steal just one piece of bread, I'm sure it didn't harm the man he stole from's business, so in reality no one got hurt. Therefor I think the answer to this question is no, he is not wrong.

With all of the singing and the dancing, I could find some realism in it(note:I found the singing and dancing annoying except the end when Maria sang to Tony's death, that was beautiful). Any way all of these gang wars and forbidden love happens all the time in the world. I mean in New York City there are definitively gang wars that are even taking place right now. Plus, some people like in other countries are forbidden to love someone else and must love or marry someone that the parents choose. Like in the movie, when Fernando(I think that was the Shark's gang leader's name) told Maria that when she grew older she was to marry Chino. Regarding how the gang members started saying that they where misunderstood, well many people are misunderstood. plus they where not raised properly, which is why they got themselves in that situation.

Well obviously there is racism in the world. I mean how many times do you see black people or Hispanics getting blamed for being criminals or like Mexicans being border hoppers or taco eaters I mean racism is still alive. Then another topic is fighting for honor. Well most people fight for dignity, they fight so that way people don't "step all over them" in a sense that people might think they are weak so they take advantage of them. Which is probably why most people fight, so that people don't call them weaklings. I mean everyone in the world experiences that, no matter who you are, you do things because you wanna prove to someone that your capable of something.

My character is Dallas Winston. He is definitively a person who fights for himself. I mean his whole life has not been for anyone else except for him. I mean only later on in the book do we find that he actually cared about Johnny, but he never did anything else for the gang instead, he caused them more trouble by killing himself. By killing himself he made his whole gang cry and sob for his death. On the page where it describes his death, we see lots of the gang members including Soda start to cry and causes Pony to go unconscious because of the incident. Dally also never cared about what others thought about him. Instead he just kept on causing trouble to prove how tough he was. Dallas wasn't even with the gang much, he just cared about mostly his own survival. This is why i think he is loyal only to himself, because lets face it he only mainly cared about himself except for Johnny which is not the entire gang.

I am choosing the test prep piece "Neighbors," to compare to the Outsiders. I think that "Neighbors," best compares to the Outsiders because of the relations between the Socs and the greasers. They are both separated by the FENCE, that is stated in the poem of "Neighbors." The Socs do not know much about the greasers, nor do the greasers know anything about the Socs. For example, in the poem it states that this one side is theirs and the other side is mine. This is similar to the Socs and greasers, because they separate themselves by where they are form. They separate themselves by West Side or East Side. Dally even states that if they are to win this rumble, the Socs will stay out of their side forever, or at least for a while any way. Another example would be from the line in the poem that states keep your bikes on your own side. It show or represents that the greaser or Socs don't want each other to be on one another's side. Which is why they are fighting a rumble, so they could leave each other alone. Cool first time being first.

I kind of agree with Cherry's statement which is, "Things are rough all over." The fact is that i kind of don't think that rich people have problems or at least some meaningful problems. Sure their problems might be like,"Oh I didn't get my favorite sweater from Milan," or "I just want people to say 'no' to me." Things like that make me say "Come on really? Is that really a big problem?" Its just so child like for the rich people to be complaining and also unrealistic. I mean I do agree with the fact that everyone has problems, but is it meaningful? Is it really something that important? Or something childish. Personally I think rich people or the Socs have it all. I think that their problems are not so big compared to the greasers who have basically nothing. Cherry did have a right to say this if she meant like they actually had problems because everyone has problems. But I do not think that the Socs problems are that big.

I agree with this statement partly. I mean we where not necessarily born to just unit men, we where born for causes unknown and probably for just survival. But I agree with him in the fact that we should unite man in a community, because this brings us together and would stop many of the problems occurring in our world. My only problem is again where he states that man was born for this one cause. I mean that can't be what we are born for. We are not immortal it does not matter what we do in the present because it will always change in the future, so our duty cannot be to unite man.

A real situation in which a community united to make a change was during WWII. A handful of nations united to stop the Nazis from taking control of all of Europe and Africa. They ended up changing the coarse of the war and also advanced in technology. This war even helped America recover from its Depression when lots of factories opened in order to help in the war. With that said a destruction o a community would probably be when the KKK broke up because of the lack of members and also probably because they where getting killed and such.

I read "Bug Bites"

1.) Genre:Non-fiction Article
2.) Purpose:to inform

3.) CI:To help people eat bugs

4.) Supporting Idea #1 Eating bugs has been a life style for other countries
a.)Eastern Africa eat grasshoppers
b.) Mexicans eat ant tacos
c.) Japanese people eat baby bees

5.)Supporting Idea #2 Bugs are healthy
a.)Grasshoppers have lots of protein
b.)Helps kids grow taller and stronger
c.)Insects have high iron and calcium

6.)Supporting Idea #3 Other animals we eat are bug related
a.)honey comes from bees
b.)lobsters are arthropods
c.)Shrimp and crab are other types of bugs as well

I just finished reading an article on the "Rolling Stones," that is about an oil pipeline that runs from Canad all the way to the Gulf. This 17 mile long pipeline causes so many "green" protesters, to crowd around Obama's house. This article was in favor of the protester's point of view and complemented on Obama's decision with the problem. Instead of handling it , Obama simply postponed it to make it an election problem. Plus this article is biased in the fact that they give more reasons to support the "green" side and not the oil companies side. But, this article was not completely biased. Instead of just supporting the "green" side, they did have some reasons why the pipe line should be continued. For example, they state that it creates more jobs at each station, making it better for the economy. The author was probably in a state of, "eh I don't care I just wan't to get this over with." Probably proving why the article wasn't so biased at all.

I think "Sorry for Not Being A Stereotype," is like The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian, because for one, both of the characters are native Americans themselves. Also, many people think of the Natives to live in the tepees, and to have long braided hair. It also applies to true diary, because the white man is always thinking of the natives as the ones they see in textbooks or in movies. Not only that, but the natives are treated badly as well. For instance, in "Sorry for Not Being A Stereotype," the woman told Rita to "go back to your own country." How do people say that to other people? Plus, the natives were the first ones in America, so what she said is not only untrue and pretty dumb, but as well as mean too.

Arnold's life is different the the author's life because, Arnold was born and raise on the reservation, while the author of "Sorry for Not Being A Stereotype," was born and raised in Chicago. Also, Arnold's perspective of the white people is not really hatred, but more of admiring. Arnold even believes that all hope is white and that everything good is white. For Rita, she thinks of the white people as stuck up and insensible.

um MS.Flagg, You did not give me the "Sorry I'm Not a Stereotype" article. I will ask for it tomorrow, sorry again that I could not do it. :(

I think when Arnold says that he will "die" on the reservation, that it does not necessarily mean that he will physically die. I think what he means is that if he does not leave the res, he will be a person with no life and no opportunities for the future. While he is saying this, I think that in his mind, he is thinking about how his sister was unable to fulfill her dream of becoming a romance novel writer. What he is also trying to say is that, if he stays on the res, all he is going to be is a shut in and that's all. He won't be able to accomplish his dream of making cartoons or anything else he might want to be. To him, leaving the res and going to the white men is his only hope. Its basically what he said in the passage, that he thinks hope is white. In conclusion, if he doesn't leave the res, not only will he lose all his hope, but spiritually as well, he will "die".

The reason I think Rowdy doesn't go with Arnold is because, I think he does not want to be judged and mistreated by the white men at Reardan. Also, he doesn't want to betray his own tribe and be mistreated even more by his own people. He might also like being the top dog at the res and that he is afraid that being at Reardan will mean losing the only thing good he has besides Arnold.

I think when MR.P says "Kill the Indian to save the child," He means that all the other natives are mistreating Arnold, and by killing the other native's spirit, he could stop them from harming Arnold. Also, the fact that Arnold had the desire to learn from something new, showed that he was not like the other natives. It showed that he was "Killing the Indian..." and looking for something more educational and seeing something beyond the Indian reservation.
I think, when Arnold says that his sister is trapped, he means that his sister is enclosed in her daydreams of being successful. She is trapped in all her romance novels of how good life was for them, but for her she has nothing else to do. She has basically given up hope on her dream of becoming a writer. Plus with all the depressing things surrounding her, it makes her dreams, be just a meaningless dream. That in fact she doesn't have what it takes to be a writer, that its only in her novels.

I interviewed my dad, which was hard because he usually never opens up about his childhood so, this was actually hard to get. So, when interviewed my dad he said that it was a bike he had when he was 7 years old. A bike to him was a big thing, because his family was very poor at the time so having enough for a bike was huge for him. He used his bike after school all the time. The bike came with training wheels and usually when your starting to use a bike, its a good thing, but not for him. He was learning how to use the bike one day, and since the ground was cracked and had spike coming out, and he got stuck on one of the spikes. His training wheel was stuck on one of the spikes and was falling off balance, he tried to position his way , so that way he wouldn't fall, but instead, he fell all the way down the hill he was riding. From that day forward, he learned the "hard" way, riding a bike on a two wheeler, and surprisingly he didn't fall while riding the two wheeler.