Forging my identity, who am I?
Manuel Mora Hernández
Subjetcs: SPEC, Techology, English
Teachers: Ana Luisa Apéstegui, Sylvia Castro and Hannia Orozco.
3 Trimester
2023
Who I am?
At this point in life I can't really say who I am because that develops with experience and obviously with the age. But I will give a brief description of who I am.
I am an honest person, who likes to help others by giving them a hand, I am normally very perfectionist and detail-oriented, responsible, I have the ability to quickly adapt to the circumstances that arise in my life. Since I was very little I like music a lot, I like to dance, sing, make rhythms, songs, I think that my father's family and my father have instilled a lot of music in me. I like sports, especially soccer and volleyball. When I have a lot of things to do or lead something, I am organized and can handle the situation in the best way. I like new experiences, for example trying new foods, trips, etc.
Who was Zora Hurston?
Zora Hurston was a folklorist, an anthropologist and a writer. She was born on January 7, 1891. In a place called Notasulga, Alabama in the United States. She was one of the most original and liberal writers. She was a great role model in the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s. He commented on how African Americans lived in those years and told us about their folklore.
Summary of the essay: "How it feels to be, colored me"
The essay tells about a girl who lived in Eatonville, Florida, USA. She said that there were only people of color in that place. The only white people didn't come to that place very often. Everything was going well, until Zora's parents, the girl's name, wanted to send her to study at a school in Jacksonville. When Zora arrived at that place, she felt a very strange change, and at that moment she felt like a colored girl.
In 1928, Zora Hurston published this great essay. She presented this essay as a "white magazine sympathetic to the writers of the Harlem Renaissance" (Phrase said by World Tomorrow). She published this book, but she died poor, and at that time her book was not discovered. But after years, this book has become an inspiration of freedom, for many African-American people and many authors.
Zora was very confused, and she began to explain the history of slavery and how people of color were treated there. She compared herself to white people, as if she were a dragged black rock. But she reflected that despite all the changes, she was still her and that no one with any bad comment was going to change her opinion.
Zora told everything from the point of view of a person of color, when everyone was different from her, which was, white people. She often felt discriminated against, but she didn't get angry, rather, she wondered how a person could refuse her company. She used a metaphor, saying that she felt like a brown bag, in the middle of many different colored bags. She said if the contents of those bags were spilled, we could find many things. She then said that if we could all look at the contents of the bags and not just the color, everything would be easier. Because a brown bag can have the same mess that a bag of another color can have. It means that people have to look at what's inside the bag, that is, at the person, and not just what's outside.
What is the "Zora Bag" and how it is related to forge an identity?
How it is related to forge an identity?
What is the "Zora Bag"?
The Zora Bag is a type of representation that Zora gave to bags, based on her experiences of discrimination. He commented that there are many bags referring to people's skin, his bag was brown. But he said that inside all the bags there are many details, they can be small things, with value or without value, and she gave many more examples, of things that could be in the bags. What Zora wanted to teach, was that if we poured everything that was in the bags and then filled them again without affecting the contents so much, nothing would be different from the other bags, it wouldn't alter the contents. That is, you have to look at what people are like on the inside and not just on the outside. Zora ended the essay with this phrase: “A little bit of more or less colored glass wouldn't matter,” meaning that if one already knows the person well, the skin wouldn't matter.
Everything in this story is related to forging an identity. Because it makes us think that we have to work hard and know ourselves better internally or psychologically because that, is something very valuable and, it is useless to focus only on a person's appearance because you don't know what the person is really like. So don't compare yourself to anyone and be yourself, because you don't know the true face of people. Don't judge a book by its cover and value yourself just as you are. Because anyway, we are all humans, and we aren't perfect.
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Forging my identity, who am I?
Manuel Mora Hernández
Subjetcs: SPEC, Techology, English
Teachers: Ana Luisa Apéstegui, Sylvia Castro and Hannia Orozco.
3 Trimester
2023
Who I am?
At this point in life I can't really say who I am because that develops with experience and obviously with the age. But I will give a brief description of who I am.
I am an honest person, who likes to help others by giving them a hand, I am normally very perfectionist and detail-oriented, responsible, I have the ability to quickly adapt to the circumstances that arise in my life. Since I was very little I like music a lot, I like to dance, sing, make rhythms, songs, I think that my father's family and my father have instilled a lot of music in me. I like sports, especially soccer and volleyball. When I have a lot of things to do or lead something, I am organized and can handle the situation in the best way. I like new experiences, for example trying new foods, trips, etc.
Who was Zora Hurston?
Zora Hurston was a folklorist, an anthropologist and a writer. She was born on January 7, 1891. In a place called Notasulga, Alabama in the United States. She was one of the most original and liberal writers. She was a great role model in the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s. He commented on how African Americans lived in those years and told us about their folklore.
Summary of the essay: "How it feels to be, colored me"
The essay tells about a girl who lived in Eatonville, Florida, USA. She said that there were only people of color in that place. The only white people didn't come to that place very often. Everything was going well, until Zora's parents, the girl's name, wanted to send her to study at a school in Jacksonville. When Zora arrived at that place, she felt a very strange change, and at that moment she felt like a colored girl.
In 1928, Zora Hurston published this great essay. She presented this essay as a "white magazine sympathetic to the writers of the Harlem Renaissance" (Phrase said by World Tomorrow). She published this book, but she died poor, and at that time her book was not discovered. But after years, this book has become an inspiration of freedom, for many African-American people and many authors.
Zora was very confused, and she began to explain the history of slavery and how people of color were treated there. She compared herself to white people, as if she were a dragged black rock. But she reflected that despite all the changes, she was still her and that no one with any bad comment was going to change her opinion.
Zora told everything from the point of view of a person of color, when everyone was different from her, which was, white people. She often felt discriminated against, but she didn't get angry, rather, she wondered how a person could refuse her company. She used a metaphor, saying that she felt like a brown bag, in the middle of many different colored bags. She said if the contents of those bags were spilled, we could find many things. She then said that if we could all look at the contents of the bags and not just the color, everything would be easier. Because a brown bag can have the same mess that a bag of another color can have. It means that people have to look at what's inside the bag, that is, at the person, and not just what's outside.
What is the "Zora Bag" and how it is related to forge an identity?
How it is related to forge an identity?
What is the "Zora Bag"?
The Zora Bag is a type of representation that Zora gave to bags, based on her experiences of discrimination. He commented that there are many bags referring to people's skin, his bag was brown. But he said that inside all the bags there are many details, they can be small things, with value or without value, and she gave many more examples, of things that could be in the bags. What Zora wanted to teach, was that if we poured everything that was in the bags and then filled them again without affecting the contents so much, nothing would be different from the other bags, it wouldn't alter the contents. That is, you have to look at what people are like on the inside and not just on the outside. Zora ended the essay with this phrase: “A little bit of more or less colored glass wouldn't matter,” meaning that if one already knows the person well, the skin wouldn't matter.
Everything in this story is related to forging an identity. Because it makes us think that we have to work hard and know ourselves better internally or psychologically because that, is something very valuable and, it is useless to focus only on a person's appearance because you don't know what the person is really like. So don't compare yourself to anyone and be yourself, because you don't know the true face of people. Don't judge a book by its cover and value yourself just as you are. Because anyway, we are all humans, and we aren't perfect.