Journal #1 Essays - Grammatical Number, Singular They,

Journal #1 September 7, 2017 A single story can be dangerous, because some people can take it the wrong way because in the ted talks video she was talking about how "Nigerian males are physical abusers" and then she went on to say that "Young American writers were serial killers". What I think the speakers message was that she wanted to tell her story of Nigeria. She also said that "if we reject single story's then there will never be single story's to be told". Whenever I look at somebody I see somebody that has a story. So yes whenever I do look at somebody I see a single story. The story I see whenever I look at somebody is that they are going thru a lot of things and they just need help and support sometimes. It is important to read and explore variety of literature so you can learn about other places and what other people are trying to explain to us. Also it helps you to learn new things that you didn't know about other places in the world. Journal #2 September 8, 2017 I don't know much about the Native Americans. All I know is that they founded our country and they used to hunt and they used buffalo skin for tools and clothing. I guess Christopher Columbus would be a single story about the Native Americans. The general perspective is that they have their owns laws and most Americans think that it's not fair. But in all fairness, they do have to follow the rules that Americans have. I think that everybody is equal and they all have the same rules and that we should treat everybody the way we wanted to be treated.