Immigrants in Our Own Land

The poem I have chosen to write about is “Immigrants in Our Own Land”. This Poem really caught my attention because this is kind of what my parents back ground is. They are hispanic, my parents came from a small town called Tlalmanalco it is an hour south of Mexico City. Jimmy Santiago Baca really gets into detail from them leaving their old world and coming to the new world. The transaction from leaving thier and going to the new world wasn’t what they expected. They expected a change, the change was for them to get better jobs and not have to deal with people coming to their doors and destroying them down. They left there to raise their children in a better different place. When they arrived they found out it was worst then the old world. The new world was just a let down. Some children would become gangsters other would just have nothing in life while others got killed. People would look at them like they didn’t belong there, giving them dirt stares. My family didn’t go through so much of this but what they did go through was coming here and working for lots of hours a day a getting paid nothing! Dishwasher was may dads first job, when he got here he thought he was going to progress and make money but only to find out that it was worse. Another huge thing that Jimmy said was that discrimination was till going on. Blacks with blacks, whites with whites and chicanos and indians by themselves. This poem really caught my attention because I know people who through this things and its hard to even think of it.

Topic Proposal

Topic Proposal
Humberto Soriano
3-10-11



The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood is very strange book to me. There are many topics to pick from the reason why I pick this specific one is because I think it will help me understand the book a little better. How do this people live in such a crazy society? The research I would be doing is about learning about the many different cults. The reason why I have picked this topic once again is because I want to get better understanding about the book.

Mid-Session Blog

What has been your biggest challenge in this class so far? What has been your biggest success?
My biggest challenge in this class is staying up with the homework every week. My biggest success has been to keeping up on my very first online class.
2. How have the readings in the class affected you?
The reading in the class has affected me in many ways like improving my reading because this is one of the subjects I struggle in the most.
3. How is literary analysis different from other types of writing you have done in college?
It is different in that literary analysis your comparing and contrasting while in other classes you base the story you read with true events that has taken place in once life.
4. What are your goals for the second half of the session? What do you hope to improve or accomplish?
My goal is to turn in everything in because my grade is really low and I need to pass the class to go on to a University. I hope to accomplish many things one of them is to turn everything in and pass the class with at least a C.

Good Readers and good writers

Nabokov’s believe of a good reader is a re-reader. I do agree with him because when a reader doesn't understand the material then he re-reads it. Re-reading and understanding the material until it is clear is the right thing to do because then that is when you have a good understanding. In my believe characteristics of a good reader are that understanding the material is very important. Good synthesis is also required because thinking outside the lines is important to have an open mind about what you are reading. I do not consider myself a good reader at all because i will read things and don’t understand them then I will re-read it and still wont get a good understanding, but i have got a little better over the years. One of the reasons is why I don’t practice it often. In the future I think I would really like to get better and maybe even write a book of my own.