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W6: Part B John Muir (1838-1914)

W6: Part B John Muir (1838-1914)

• John Muir was born in Dunbar, Scotland and came to the United States with his family in 1849. He studied chemistry, geology, and botany at the University of Wisconsin and began the extended explorations of the natural world from his famous journey. He kept notes from his travels, chart different terrains and finally “My Fist Summer in the Sierra” was first published in 1914. His writing such as “The mountains of California (1894) and “The Yosemite” (1921)” and his public advocacy has important and great influence on United States environmental policy. Part of his effort, the Yosemite area was named a national park, and a portion of the Grand Canyon was set aside as a National Monument. Many sites in California are named after John Muir such as Muir Woods in Marin County and the Sierra Nevada’s famous John Muir Trail (p. 298).
• In the story of “From the Mountains of California”, John Muir describes the bounds of California as “charming and glorifying every landscape”. He describes the mountains, the terrains and every rock seems to glow with LIFE (p.300) He is an inspiration to many nature lover and the epitome of modern environmentalism. He describes the plains and spacious valleys with charming groves, meadows and thickets of blooming blushes (p.300). He describes the early springs as paradise of bees and flowers, and birds are busy building their nests and the sunshine is balmy and delightful (p.302)
• He wants the reader to see what he sees, is the beautiful nature of California. The detail characterizations of trees, flowers, ice fountains, animals and foliage makes the reader envision and preserving the timeless portrait of the wilderness and he called it “the Range of Light” (p.299).
• The changing seasons, natural forces that shape the landscape makes the readers appreciate the human experience and emotional attachment that John Muir dedicated his life to the preservation of natural process.

Reference:

Hicks, J., Houston, J., Kingston, M., & Young, A., (2000). The literature of California. Writing from the golden state. University Of California Press Berkley and Los Angeles California

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W6: Part A Edwin Markham (1852-1940)

W6: Part A Edwin Markham (1852-1940)

• Born in Oregon but grew up in San Jose, Vacaville and attended Christian College in Santa Rosa. Markham begun writing poetry while teaching in Placerville and Oakland. In 1899, Markham wrote a poetry titled “The Man with the hoe”, which made him famous overnight and made a four-page leaflet by William Randolph Hearst of San Francisco Examiner on Sunday, January 15, 1899.
• The poem of “The Man with the hoe” was created after Edwin Markham viewed Jean-Francois Millet’s world-famous painting of a peasant leaning a hoe. He was inspired to write this poem in 1899 and became popular because of its different interpretation of readers and critics. The popularity of this poem made into many languages and ten thousand magazines and newspapers.
• It seems that the poem generated much debate and controversy concerning the labor practices of the time. As you read the poem, “Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans”, “emptiness of ages in his face”, and “on his back the burden of the world”. You will feel the struggles, tiredness, the loneliness of injustice that many laborer and farmers suffers from greedy landowners or corporations.
• I believe this poem was popular to many readers because it shows the true nature and describes exploitation of many and different cultures worldwide. Its shows that laborers and farmers do not have the power over landowner and corporations when Markham said “O masters, lord and rulers in all lands” and “Is this the handiwork you give to God”. Markham also describes the injustice when he said “how will you ever straighten up this shape” and “touch it again with immortality” and the dream and hope of change by saying “give back the upward looking and the light”, “rebuild in it the music and dreams” and “make right the immemorial infamies”.
• It is a cry for justice and a poem of hope and change that many of our laborers and farmers suffers every day. They are tired, low paying and little dignity as human when they work long hours and no time off.

Extra Credit W5: Reading Notes

Extra Credit W5: Reading Notes

• As part of the reading for Week # 5, we have read De Burton, Jackson, Miller, Bierce and Foote as part of analysis and project work. We have to do two Project Action Plans. I have identified two stories that has similarities and yet differences in terms of authors and story that they have written. I developed Project Work that I need to create and post it in my Google Site.
•  I compare and contrast the story of Maria Amparo Ruiz-De Burton and Ambrose Bierce, in terms of thinking of future generation of communication and thinking machine. In De Burton story, she describes from her first paragraph how she wishes that the misfortune that was happening to people in San Diego can be known in Alameda, in order to spread the injustice that many Californios have suffered from the so called “squatters”.
• In the story of Ambrose Bierce, he described the creation of thinking machine in the first paragraph as well. “Are you serious? - do you really believe that a machine thinks? (p.235). Then Bierce describe what machine as instrument or organization by which power is applied and made effective, or desired to produce”
• As I review the two stories, similarities that I have noticed of the two stories have the cultural climate where Burton and Bierce wants to give emphasis of race and discrimination of the person and the machine. They discriminate against Mexican and Machine that they think both of these creatures do not belong to our society. We tend to judge people by the look and color of their skin. We judge them because they are different yet the same.

Reference:

Hicks, J., Houston, J., Kingston, M., & Young, A., (2000). The literature of California. Writing from the golden state. University Of California Press Berkley and Los Angeles California

W5: Project Action Plan # 2

W5: Project Action Plan # 2

• I decided to use Maria Amparo Ruiz-De Burton part of my project. In the story of “Squatter and the Don”, Burton seems to show she was upset and bitter to what Treaty of Hidalgo Guadalupe supposed to protect and does to Californios. Instead, Burton describe it as “I thought that the rights of the Spanish people were protected by our treaty with Mexico”, but “Mexico did not pay much attention to the future welfare of the children she left to their fate in the hands of a nation which had no sympathies for us” (p. 248) Burton also describe the how cruel and injustice our government when they allowed “landowners have to pay the taxes on the land cultivated by the preemptors, and upon all the improvement they make and enjoy” it is the “the natives” like Burton who must bear of taxation, while the titles are in the courts, and thus the pre-emptors hold the land free” (p.253).

Reference:

Hicks, J., Houston, J., Kingston, M., & Young, A., (2000). The literature of California. Writing from the golden state. University Of California Press Berkley and Los Angeles California

W5: Project Action Plan

W5: Project Action Plan

• I will compare and contrast elements of two different texts of Maria Amparo Ruiz-De Burton and Ambrose Bierce writing. I will explore the similarities and differences between two characters in the texts, or examine how one theme is handled in similar and dissimilar ways in two different texts.
• Maria Amparo Ruiz De Burton and Ambrose Bierce have similarities in a way that I feel that these two stories have discussed the future generation of technology
• Similarities that I have noticed of the two stories were the cultural climate where Burton and Bierce wants to give emphasis of race and discrimination of the person and the machine. They discriminate against Mexican and Machine that they think both of these creatures do not belong to our society.
• Even though Bierce put more cynical, and doubtful stories than Burton, the message was both authors wants to give to their readers the idea of justice and revenge. It does not matter whether you are human or machine, when rage and revenge comes to your head because of defeat and injustice, people or machine will find ways to get at back at them and revenge their defeat.

W5: Project Work

W5: Project Work

Compare and contrast elements of two different texts. For example, explore the similarities and differences between two characters in the texts, or examine how one theme is handled in similar and dissimilar ways in two different texts.

• I will compare and contrast of two different stories of Maria Amparo Ruiz De Burton and Ambrose Bierce and I feel that these two stories have many similarities in the themes of the future generation of technology.
• The two authors Maria Amparo Ruiz De Burton and Ambrose Bierce came from different backyard. Burton was Mexican and came from elite family, where Ambrose Bierce came from simple and humble family background.
• The two authors have dedicated their life to find justice to people who were political and culturally unjust. Ambrose Bierce was an investigative reporter who traveled to Washington D.C. and went to Mexico to join the Mexican revolution, while Maria Amparo Ruiz-De Burton, married to United States Army Henry Burton saw the mistreatment and political sacrifice of the Californios and started writing and expose the common practice of “squatting” in California.
• In 1885, Maria Amparo Ruiz De Burton wrote a story of “From the Squatter and the Don”, by first describing how would communication would be great in time of spreading injustice and cruelty to many Californios She describes “if there had been such a thing as communication by telephone in the days of 72’, and there had been those magic wires spanning the distance between William Darrell’s house in Alameda County and that of Don Mariano Alamar in San Diego County, with power to transmit the human voice for five hundred miles, a listener at either end would have heard various discussions upon the same subject, differentiated only by circumstances” (p.244)
• In 1877, Ambrose Bierce wrote a story of “Moxon’s Master”, by answering the question “What is a machine?” Any instrument or organization by which power is applied and made effective, or a desired effect produced (p. 235)
• These two stories have similarities in a way that cruelty, emotionless and act as machine in terms of no sympathy to feeling of others are the theme of the stories. In Burton story, despite the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo of 1848, in which the United States will give respects the rights of Mexicans and Spanish Citizen, but the squatters took over without respect or thinking about the burden they put to many Californios land owner. No emotions and not thinking the consequences of their actions. In Moxon’s Master story, the Chess-playing automation kills Moxon in an apparent fit of rage.
• Another similarity I have noticed of the two stories were the cultural climate where Burton and Bierce wants to give emphasis of race and discrimination of the person and the machine. They discriminate against Mexican and Machine that they think both of these creatures do not belong to our society.
• The difference in these two authors were Ambrose Bierce was a dark comic satirist, a vitriolic essayist and dreaded reviewer. His vision grew weird and cynical that the California writers thought that his writing was absurd and nonsense (p.235) While Maria Amparo Ruiz-De Burton was proud defender not merely of the legal rights of the Californios but also of “our race”. Her novels have been republished with extensive introductions by Arte Publico Press (p.244)

Reference:

Hicks, J., Houston, J., Kingston, M., & Young, A., (2000). The literature of California. Writing from the golden state. University Of California Press Berkley and Los Angeles California

W5: Analysis

W5: Analysis

• It is interesting that the two stories of Maria Amparo Ruiz De Burton and Ambrose Bierce are somewhat similar in the themes of the future generation of technology.
• In 1885, Maria Amparo Ruiz De Burton wrote a story of “From the Squatter and the Don”, by first describing how would communication would be great in time of spreading injustice and cruelty to many Californios She describes “if there had been such a thing as communication by telephone in the days of 72’, and there had been those magic wires spanning the distance between William Darrell’s house in Alameda County and that of Don Mariano Alamar in San Diego County, with power to transmit the human voice for five hundred miles, a listener at either end would have heard various discussions upon the same subject, differentiated only by circumstances” (p.244)
• In 1877, Ambrose Bierce wrote a story of “Moxon’s Master”, by answering the question “What is a machine?” Any instrument or organization by which power is applied and made effective, or a desired effect produced (p. 235)
• These two stories have similarities in a way that cruelty, emotionless and act as machine in terms of no sympathy to feeling of others are the theme of the stories. In Burton story, despite the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo of 1848, in which the United States will give respects the rights of Mexicans and Spanish Citizen, but the squatters took over without respect or thinking about the burden they put to many Californios land owner. No emotions and not thinking the consequences of their actions. In Moxon’s Master story, the Chess-playing automation kills Moxon in an apparent fit of rage.
• We argue that human is different from a machine because they do not have feeling and not real. Actually, humans are crueler and do not think of consequences of their action because they use their emotions such as jealousy and rage. Machine do not emotion that dictate the consequences of their actions.

W5: Part B Ambrose Bierce

W5: Part B Ambrose Bierce

• He came to California after the Civil War and stayed for almost twenty years
• Bierce has master tales of psychological trauma in war, depicted in such classic short stories as “Chickamauga” and “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”.
• Bierce later extended his psychological interest to the supernatural and the macabre in stories such as “Moxon’s Master”
• Moxon’s Master is a short story that talks machine and can they really think.
• It is interesting the Ambrose Bierce was already thinking of machine in the early part of 19^th century.
• He describes “what is a machine” -Any instrument or organizations by which power is applied and made effective, or desired effect produced”
• And you admit that he thinks- or thinks he thinks
• Moxon who are so excited to play chess and noted that the opponent was a machine- an automaton chess player.
• Moxon finally reach a win and said “checkmate”. The automaton chess player seems did not like that Moxon won the game and stood up and grab Moxon neck and choke Moxon to death.
• If you think that machine does not think and feel. Why would an automaton chess player what seems to be a feeling defeat and anger?
• Do they have consciousness and intelligence of a machine that can decide to kill whenever they want?
• They do not think as human because human emotion and intelligence would put into consideration of killing someone without consequences of punishment.
• Even though the technology far exceeds our expectation, in terms of intelligence and action. but the human emotion, such as love, care and hope are important factor that differentiate us from machine.
• It does not matter if they can cry with you. Do you really can say that machine can have the human side of feeling and emotions.

W5: Part A: Ruiz De Burton

W5: Ruiz De Burton

• Maria del Amparo Ruiz Arango was married to Henry Burton of the United States Army in July 1847
• Ruiz De Burton accompanied her husband to Army posts in the East. While fighting in the Civil War, Henry Burton contracted malaria, from which he died in 1869.
• Angered at the hypocrisy and duplicity she had seen around her, she wrote “Who Would Have Thought It? (1872) and “The Squatter and the Don (1885)”. It was published by a pen name “C. Loyal”
• In the story of “The Squatter and the Don”, was about Californios families was trying to fight for their land that squatters “take up lands” from them.
• Despite the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo of 1848, in which the United States will give respects the rights of Mexicans and Spanish Citizen, but the squatters took over without respect.
• The problem with this story was invading by the Darrell, one of the families that squatter Alamar Ranch owned by Don Mariano Alamar.
• The political and economic invasion of the squatters was not just at the people level but at the Government and Congress helped to pass law declaring all lands in California open to preemption.
• Squatters do not just want any government land but they want Spanish Land, because they said “they have too much”.
• The squatters wanted to vote to conquered many Spanish Land and while the litigation was in process, the squatters locate their claims and raise crops on many Spanish Owners, in which they convert into money to fights for out titles
• Son Mariano, Gabriel and Victoriano- his two sons-had also silently witnesses Darrell’s lawful appropriations of their own property, and all they can do was biting their lips and flushed face.
• The injustice and hardship that was imposed to them, by the squatters that they enjoy the land by cultivating it while the real owner had to pay taxes with all these claimed land by the squatters.

W4: Project Planning

W4: Project Planning.

I have chosen the short story Shoshone Land by Mary Hunter Austin. Shoshone Land was part of Austin first book “The Land of Little Rain”. It is a story of a medicine man, his memories about his hometown, environment, and his tragic death. Mary Hunter Austin was born September 9, 1868 in Carlinville, Illinois. She graduated from Blackburn College in 1888. On that same year, Mary moved to California and settled in the San Joaquin Valley. She married her husband Stafford Wallace Austin on May 18, 1891 and dedicated her life to study of Indian Life in the regions of Mojave Desert. She was considered one of the early American Southwest writer, feminist, defender of Native American rights and her classic novel “The Land of Little Rain”, was first published in 1903 (Doyle, 1939).

Austin describe “Shoshone Land” as a struggle of one medicine man named Winnenap to go back to his homeland “Shoshone Tribe” and cultural, social and political struggle to stay with the Paiute Tribe as a hostage in order to keep the long peace and save his honor and the word of his vanished kin. Winnenap, was born as a Shoshone. He was regards as their “Shaman”, an ancient healing man that has the respect and, have access to the world of good and evil spirits and a way of life in many Native Indian Tribes. As the years goes by, Winnenap realized that going back to Shoshone Land was only in his dream and impossible to achieved Winnenap recognized that he was indeed all alone, and can only reminisced on the land he truly loved by remembering the wildlife, the plants, plains and painted hills

Austin described the beautiful nature of old red-cones of craters, mineral earth, draughty valleys, bighorn, and amazing wolves of Shoshone. Austin also showed the political, cultural values and beliefs and class power the ended Winnenap life. Austin described the viscous nature of Native Tribe Paiute and manner of his Winnenap death was cruel, with intentions and no honor.

Austin described the nature, environment, spiritual and supernatural are supreme that conquer the human life. Class distinction are very evident in this story. Councils and Communal towns decide and make the final judgement of Winnenap and blame him on hundreds of death of Paiute Tribe from disease that European brought from their country.

Week 1 Time Strategies

Week 1: Time Strategies

Week 1: Time Strategies

We all know that we are very busy people. We go to work to provide financial support to our families. We go to school to better our future, our career goal and development. We have children and household to take care every day. People are depending on us and time Strategies is the key in order to handle every task and responsibilities.

For me, I put everything on my calendar. My work, my school, doctor and dental appointment. Assignment and Project that will be due soon and Project need brainstorming and tracking when is the due date.

Having weekly Calendar really helps me, especially when upcoming assignment and project. Since we have a lot of reading. I tried to read during my work break, while I’m walking in the treadmill

I tried to do all my assignment ahead of time. I tried to keep track of it at all times.

W4: Feedback Strategies

W4: Feedback Strategies

• Providing feedback can often give two results. It can encourage the writer to better their writing or discourage the writer to correct what needed to fix in their writing. Sometimes people are hesitant to give feedback because of negative impact to the writer.
• Giving feedback and explanation of what they are doing correctly and incorrectly are essential to see what can a writer can do to improve their writing technique.
• Giving good feedback can focus on essentially on what the writer is doing right.
• It can be productive to a writer’s learning when they are provided with an explanation and example as to what is accurate and inaccurate about their work.
• It is important to remember that we need to consider and be sensitive when giving feedback. We need to balance between not wanting to hurt or offend the writer’s feelings and providing proper encouragement is essential.
• Highlight the areas of that the writer has done well, and highlight the areas that need more focus because the writer can see where to focus and better their writing
• Feedback is a good learning opportunities and explain the learning cannot happen without correct and incorrect practice.
• Without giving constructive criticism or feedback, writer would not know if their writing needs improvement or not.
• Giving feedback and accepting feedback can help focus the writer in regards to the learning goals they need or want to meet and what they want to do next.
• We also need to remember that the choice of words when we give feedback are very important and essential to the writer’s feeling. We do not want to give the impression that the writer is incompetent or incapable of good writing.
• Often, the nature of feedback or comments can have significant impact to the writer. If the feedback are more judgmental, the writer motivation to write can diminished or stops all together.

W4: Analysis

W4: Analysis

• The Stories of John Rollin Ridge (Yellow Bird) and Bret Harte (“The Outcast of Poker Flats”.) are somewhat similar yet different. Both stories are about crime, drama, injustice and death. In the book of “Yellow Bird”, the Story of Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta, the Celebrated California Bandit was a daring spirit, generous and has noble nature. Joaquin Murieta was an honest, and have the respect over the community because of his helpful nature. But his warm-hearted soul was paid by violent conduct by American lawless men by beating him and his family and stealing his wealth. In the story of “The Outcasts of Poker Flats”, Mr. John Oakhurst, a gambler, whose only fault that he is a good gambler and defeated many people at cards. He never killed, hurt or rob money for people. For this reason, he had won a lot of their money and people of Poker Flat do not like that. A secret committee of leaders had decided and determined to get rid the town of all improper people. At first, they want to set an example by hanging Mr. Oakhurst and reimbursed themselves from his pockets of the sums he had won from them.
• Both of the characters Murieta and Oakhurst suffered from cruelty of people that thinks that they were better than them. The discrimination and prejudice never goes away, whenever you go. These two stories were so sad that makes you feel their pain and suffering. People who are pushed to the limit can act this way as well. People often times thinks they are above them because of the color of their skin. They think just because they do not speak fluent English, they are stupid and incapable.
• There is no excuse of hurting people through beating and stealing their wealth. There is no excuse or justice by freezing people to death. If you put a person on this kind of physical, emotional and economic distress and suffering, who can blame them to do and act violent to the people who discriminated them.
• The only difference from both stories was that Murieta killed many American because of revenge, punishment and Oakhurst did not hold grudge against the secret commissioner and instead he tried to rescue and cared for people that was outcast from the Poker Flat.

W4: Part B. Bret Harte (1836-1902)

W4: Part B. Bret Harte (1836-1902)

• Bret Harte was really Francis Harte. He was an American short story writer and poet, best remembered for “The Luck of Roaring Camp and the “The Outcast of Poker Flats”.
• In the story of “The Outcasts of Poker Flats”, people are being discriminated by the town leaders because of their behavior and habit. It’s seems that they that Poker Flat would be a better place to live if these people were gone.
• Mr. John Oakhurst, a gambler and defeated many people at cards. For this reason, he had won a lot of their money and people of Poker Flat do not like that.
• Mr. Oakhurst was noticing that people were talking about him and that cannot be good.
• A secret committee of leaders had decided and determined to get rid the town of all improper people.
• At first, they want to set an example by hanging Mr. Oakhurst and reimbursed themselves from his pockets of the sums he had won from them.
• They decided not to hang Mr. Oakhurst but he was told to leave Poker Flat forever.
• Besides Oakhurst, two women, named “Duchess” and “Mother Shipton” were considered low morals and man called “Uncle Billy” who drink too much and has stolen some gold were added to the “outcast” of Poke Flats.
• The four of them left the Poker Flats to pursue other places to live.
• The “Duchess cried and said that they will die on the road
• Mother Shipton and Uncle Billy cursed. Mother Shipton said she would like to “cut their hearts out”
• The road to Sandy Bar, a camp not too far away, but it was high up in the cold Sierra Mountains.
• The road was anything but smooth. They weather are dry, cold and bracing air of the Sierras were not suitable.
• Mother Shipton became tired and she said she cannot go on any further Mr. Oakhurst wanted to move on but the three were not convinced and started to drink alcohol brought by Uncle Billy.
• The three of them sleep and left Mr. Oakhurst awake and watching them.
• Mr. Oakhurst thought of living the three, but realized he was not that person.
• While resting on the rock, he heard his name and he saw Tom Simson. A gambler that Mr. Oakhurst defeated easily and realized that it is not fair to defeat him so easily and returned his money.
• By Mr. Oakhurst returning Tom Simson’s money. He said to Mr. Oakhurst that he will be his friend for life.
• Tom Simson brought along his new wife, Piney Woods. They run away because Piney’s father do not approve of their marriage.
• The weather became colder, wind increase and started to snow. Mr. Oakhurst noticed that Uncle Billy was gone and took all the horses, Mr. Oakhurst told the group about what Uncle Billy did and gave hope to let the snow subside before they can travel on foot.
• But the third day, the snow piled high around the hut – a hopeless, uncharted, trackless seas of white snow. They could no longer see the path.
• Food was running low and after one week, they still had not moved. They tried to keep up their spirit by playing an accordion that came from Tom Simson pack. Piney Woods played the accordion and they all sang song.
• They were having a difficult time to replenish their fires and they were all hungry.
• Mother Shipton called Oakhurst and showed him a bag of food. She saved the food for the others. She said “Give em to the child” and she went quietly and face the wall and died.
• John Oakhurst knew that none of them would live out the storm. He decided to send Tom Simson back to Poker Flat and get help. Oakhurst gave Tom snowshoes so he can reach Poker Flat as soon as possible.
• John Oakhurst also left the hut and both ladies, promised that he will get help as well.
• John Oakhurst did not return, the two women were too hungry and weak to even add more wood to the fire.
• Duchess and Piney had frozen to death when the help arrived.
• John Oakhurst was found dead under a tree, a playing card was stuck into the wood by a knife with written words “Beneath this tree lies the body of John Oakhurst, who struck a streak of bad luck on the 23^rd of November, 1850 and handed in his Check on the 7^th December, 1850.”
• A single bullet in his heart though still calm as in life.

W4: Part A John Rollin Ridge (Yellow Bird)

John Rollin Ridge (Yellow Bird)

• He was called the first American Indian to publish a novel.
• His poems and stories “Yellow Bird”, the English version of his tribal name.
• Born in Georgia of a Cherokee father and a white mother, he attended school for a while in New England.
• In 1839, after settling in Oklahoma, Ridge’s father, and grandfather were assassinated by members of the tribe’s anti-removal faction while the rest of his family.
• At this point, Ridge was so consumed and frustration, he killed a man.
• In 1850, he had founded his way to California, and began to write periodical and the much-talked about Mexican bandit led to The Life and Times of Joaquin Murieta: The Celebrated California Bandit.
• The Story of Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta, the Celebrated California Bandit was a daring spirit, generous and has noble nature.
• He was an honest, and have the respect over the community because of his helpful nature.
• But his warm-hearted soul was paid by violent conduct by American lawless men by beating him and his family and stealing from him.
• He tried to forget what just happen to him but another tragedy happened again. Once again, he was beaten and they killed his half-brother over a horse that he just borrowed.
• This wanton cruelty and the tyranny of prejudice of him being a Mexican had reached its climax.
• Murieta learned to killed and steal from the American who he just wants to return the favor.
• Murieta’s revenge was nearly complete and wiped out the people who put him on misery.
• This story is so sad that makes you feel their pain and suffering. People who are pushed to the limit can act this way as well.
• The discrimination never goes away, whenever you go. People often times thinks they are above them because of the color of their skin. They think just because they do not speak fluent English, they are stupid and incapable.
• To this day, we see people discriminate because of the color of their skin, and people become tired of the suffering and insult, they resort to violence like Murieta did.
• If you put a person on this kind of physical, emotional and economic distress and  suffering, who can blame them to do and act violent to the people who discriminated them.

ECW3- Taking Stocks

ECW3-Taking Stock

• This is where I created a back-up files and review my Declaration each week, in order to gain points.
• This can also help me on my weekly progress in the class.
• I can track my assignment, project and reading, in order for me to be on time for submission
• Back up files can help me save in in my computer, in an event that my blog was lost or erased.

ECW3- Extra Credit- English 205

                                                            Ina Coolbrith (1841-1928)

• Ina Coolbrith was born Josephine Smith to Mormon parents in Nauvoo, Illinois
• Joseph Smith was Ina Coolbrith uncle and founder of the Mormon Church.
• She assumed the name Ina Donna Coolbrith and moved to San Francisco in 1862.
• Her poetry was soon published and in 1868 Bret Harte named her Co-editor of the Overland Monthly.
• She hosted many literary salons and her literary fortunes thrived.
• Unfortunately, her personal life was marked as loss and turmoil and financial mean to support her niece and nephew began a career as a librarian that lasted for eighteen years.
• She continues to serve as a literary mentor and had a major influence on the young Jack London.
• She was named the state’s first poet laureate in 1915, the first such honor to be bestowed in the United States.
• She was an amazing woman, who dedicated her life on providing mentor-ship to help others write poetry.
• She continue to pursue her mission to nurture the poetry and history 
• It is amazing how woman like Ina Coolbrith was considered to be one of the best poet of her time and during the time when male-ego and domination conquered the 19th century America.

W3: Analysis of Shoshone Land and Nursling of the Sky

W3:  Analysis of Shoshone Land and Nursling of the Sky

• These two short stories and essays came from a book title “The Land of Little Rain” by American writer Mary Hunter Austin.
• Mary Hunter Austin detailed the landscape and inhabitant of the American Southwest, where human, animals and nature collide.
• In the story of Shoshone Land, Austin gave detailed description of life and inhabitant of Shoshone Land of bighorn, the wapiti, and the Wolf, nesting place of buzzards, land of cloud that nourished trees and wild things that live without drink. It is a desert Valley, blown sand fills and fills about the lower branches, piling pyramidal dunes, from the top of which the mesquite twigs flourish greenly. She also describes how life in Shoshone Land when annual adjustment of tribal difficulties happens. When the deer shifted their feeding ground, if the wild sheep have come back to Waban, or certain springs run full and dry. After describing the beautiful Shoshone Land. The story quickly changes to a sad story of killing and dying. Winnenap died, as do most medicine-man of the Paiutes. Paiute Tribe men seldom seek medical attention. They understand the wounds, broken bones and bullet holes are the injuries that needing medical attention. But for Paiute Tribe, measles, pneumonia, and smallpox are witchcraft that it is not acceptable to die from it. For Paiute Tribe, when tree patients die under the medicine-men ministration, the medicine-man yield his life and his office. Winnenap was medicine-man for fifteen years and very skilled in healing herbs. Paiute Tribe plagues of diseases, killed half of the children of campoodie were in their shallow graves with beads sprinkled over them Winnenap hide from the plaques of diseases and Paiute Tribe killed him for it. The savageness of killing someone and blame Winnenap to what many of campoodie people do not know, is that the disease killed one third of campoodie people died. It is the measles, pneumonia and smallpox that killed them not the medicine-man.
• In the story of “Nurslings of the Sky”, Austin describe nature such as a disastrous storm can be brutal, unforgiving that when the fume of gods rising from their meeting place under the rim of the world, it will break upon you with terrible mewing and mouthing winds. They scoop watercourses, manure the pines, twist them to a finer fiber and if you keep reasonable out of the track of their affairs, do you no harm. Indians must learn storm’s appointed paths, seasons and warnings. Storms does not pick and choose places to destroy. They can create flood that can washes frail house and files snow over the cabins and camp. But we know that it was the fault of neither the water nor the snow. Sometimes Indians build houses on a water scar or the rubble of a steep slope and at the Kearsarge at the foot of a steep where storms can destroy anything at its paths. We cannot blame the storms or events of the nature but the people poor thinking of where to place their home and destroyed We know when a storm is about to come. Their first effect of cloud study is a sense of presence and intention in storm processes. We know, one expects that there are two seasons, wet and dry. Indians have learned the use of smoke signals from these dust pillars as they learn most things direct from the tutelage of the earth. We know different animals leaves an area when snows, storm, dry desert winds are about to come. The story seems to see how people and animals adapt to wet and dry weather. It is interesting how people have dealt with the weather by determining and adapting when to plant potatoes and gloze over the eternal meaning of the skies
• Austin collection of stories shows how nature, people and animals collide in good and bad ways. She gave us a detailed images of the land, where Native Americans appreciate the beauty of its landscape. The sadness of ignorance and killing an innocent man because nobody to blame but their own nature and habits. People have lost an innate ability to know and reflect what nature can bring and can be beneficial what true meaning of the skies. The cultural and political conflict that links these two stories together.

W3RN: Part B - Nurslings of the Sky

W3RN: Part B Nurslings of the Sky

• The story of “Nurslings of the Sky” is about disastrous storms that when the fume of gods rising from their meeting place under the rim of the world, it will break upon you with terrible mewing and mouthing winds
• They scoop watercourses, manure the pines, twist them to a finer fiber and if you keep reasonable out of the track of their affairs, do you no harm.
• Indians must learn storm’s appointed paths, seasons and warnings.
• Storms does not pick and choose places to destroy. They can create flood that can washes frail house and files snow over the cabins and camp.
• But we know that it was the fault of neither the water nor the snow.
• Sometimes Indians build houses on a water scar or the rubble of a steep slope and at the Kearsarge at the foot of a steep where storms can destroy anything at its paths.
• We cannot blame the storms or events of the nature but the people poor thinking of where to place their home and destroyed
• We know when a storm is about to come. Their first effect of cloud study is a sense of presence and intention in storm processes.
• We know, one expects that there are two seasons, wet and dry.
• Indians have learned the use of smoke signals from these dust pillars as they learn most things direct from the tutelage of the earth.
• We know different animals leaves an area when snows, storm, dry desert winds are about to come.
• The story seems to see how people and animals adapt to wet and dry weather.
• It is interesting how people have dealt with the weather by determining and adapting when to plant potatoes and gloze over the eternal meaning of the skies
• People have lost an innate ability to know and reflect what nature can bring and can be beneficial what true meaning of the skies.’

W3RN: Part A- Shoshone Land

W3RN Part A Shoshone Land

• The Shoshone Land is about a medicine man named Winnenap. He was born in Shoshone but was captured by the Paiute Tribe.
• Winnenap lived with Paiute Tribe gingerly but he despised them.
• Winnenap was homesick and misses his wife and children and he said if he is in Shoshone Land he would always speaks English.
• It is interesting that on the story, Winnenap became hostage because to keep the long peace which the authority of the whites. But there was no order in the tribe, nor any power that could have lawfully restraint. He chooses to stay with the Paiute Tribe to keep hos hone and the word of his vanished kin.
• After describing Winnenap life with Paiute Tribe, the story turned to a detailed description of the environment and wildlife of Shoshone Land.
• The story describes Shoshone Land of bighorn, the wapiti, and the Wolf, nesting place of buzzards, land of cloud nourished trees and wild things that live without drink.
• Shoshone Land is a desert Valley, blown sand fills and fills about the lower branches, piling pyramidal dunes, from the top of which the mesquite twigs flourish greenly
• Shoshone Land live like their trees with great spaces between, and in pairs and in family groups they set up wattle huts by the infrequent springs.
• The story also describe how life in Shoshone Land when annual adjustment of tribal difficulties happens. When the deer shifted their feeding ground, if the wild sheep have come back to Waban, or certain springs run full and dry.
• After describing the beautiful Shoshone Land. The story quickly changes to a sad story of killing and dying. Winnenap died, as do most medicine-man of the Paiutes.
• Paiute Tribe men seldom seek medical attention. They understand the wounds, broken bones and bullet holes are the injuries that needing medical attention.
• But for Paiute Tribe, measles, pneumonia, and smallpox are witchcraft that it is not acceptable to die from it.
• For Paiute Tribe, when tree patients die under the medicine-men ministration, the medicine-man yield his life and his office.
• Winnenap was medicine-man for fifteen years and very skilled in healing herbs.
• Paiute Tribe plagues of diseases, killed half of the children of campoodie were in their shallow graves with beads sprinkled over them
• Winnenap hide from the plaques of diseases and Paiute Tribe killed him for it.
• The savageness of killing someone and blame Winnenap to what many of campoodie people do not know, is that the disease killed one third of campoodie people died. It is the measles, pneumonia and smallpox that killed them not the medicine-man.

Week 2, Analysis- The Creation (Maidu)

Week 2 Analysis

• People of different culture and traditions have their version of stories that describe the creation of the world. Many of the ancestors, parents and grandparents handed down these stories to their children and grandchildren. In Maidu culture and traditions, the story of creation was also handed down from their parents and grandparents.
• For Maidu, the creation of earth was filled with water, no sun, no moon and no stars. Earthmaker came down from up and above and looking for a land. Earthmaker traveled that world wondered why is there no land in sight. He pondered to create lands because the Earthmaker realized and said “that if in this world, you keep floating and looking around, hungering, but indeed eating nothing” This is a good example that Maidu myth and real life Maidu hunting and gathering of food are important to their well-being. They correlate this myth to Maidu nature to hunt for food as far away because of fear of hunger.
• It is so interesting when Earthmaker decided to create the land and make the world larger, he used his mighty feet to stretch the earth far to the East, the West, the North, and the South and rested of various ropes. Earthmaker reasoned to make the world larger so he can travel around in.
• After Earthmaker created the land and was pleased with it, Earthmaker realized that he was alone and lonely. Earthmaker made creatures, two by two. He made a pure white creature and then he made another one which, though also white, was a little different. Earthmaker created female and male human beings that can grow and grow and can make more people. Earthmaker gave human beings intelligence, wisdom and the means of survival. Earthmaker said” when you have been born, different kinds of food will grow. Then, after you will be clever enough to survive”
• Similarities of these kind of stories, the creation of the world can relate to other culture and traditions. A good example was the creation of Adam and Eve in the Bible. God created Adam first and followed by Eve but somewhat different. This is the beginning of the world in many Christian Faith.
• The Maidu Creation story was a story of mythical and adventure but somehow can relate to our everyday life. Earthmaker gave human being their separate lands, languages and physical traits. Earthmaker gave them intelligence, wisdom, and the means of survival. Today, we practice our culture and traditions because of how we are race as child. We developed a separation from different people because of our land, language and physical traits. Countries are build based of the intelligence of those culture. This Maidu creation story is one example of how our world created. Different version can be read and found with much similarities and difference because how our ancestors focus human were created and means of survival.