From Shon Mordo: What would you do if you were in Gerald's position? Would you approach the head of the university? If so, how would you approach him, i.e. passionately and angrily like Gerald, or would you calmly debate him on the merits of your position?
From Aaren Alvaro: How would you interpret Yamashita's actual reading of I-Hotel and the one from the reader?
From Chris Kimma, on page 61 of the reader: "Nick paid our whole month's rent, which was ten dollars for the five of us in the small room. But one night Jose came to our room with a Mexican girl and asked for the rest of Nick's money. 'I would like to have twenty-five dollars.' Jose said to his brother, looking at the girl morosely. 'What for?' Nick asked. 'Lupe wants and abortion,' Jose said."
Twenty-five dollars was two and a half months rent, why would the rest of the
five staying in the room allow Jose to take the money and risk living out on the
streets? Was it Filipino culture to marry someone you got pregnant? They seemed
to be living a pretty rough life, why wouldn't they just leave the Mexican woman
on her own?
From Aaren Alvaro: How would you interpret Yamashita's actual reading of I-Hotel and the one from the reader?
From Chris Kimma, on page 61 of the reader: "Nick paid our whole month's rent, which was ten dollars for the five of us in the small room. But one night Jose came to our room with a Mexican girl and asked for the rest of Nick's money. 'I would like to have twenty-five dollars.' Jose said to his brother, looking at the girl morosely. 'What for?' Nick asked. 'Lupe wants and abortion,' Jose said."
Twenty-five dollars was two and a half months rent, why would the rest of the
five staying in the room allow Jose to take the money and risk living out on the
streets? Was it Filipino culture to marry someone you got pregnant? They seemed
to be living a pretty rough life, why wouldn't they just leave the Mexican woman
on her own?
I would try to reason with the president.If he has his own view about what occured then i should hear him out and reason if what i did was right or wrong. Getting angry at someone makes the situation worse because both are trying to defend their own views without thinking about the others.
ReplyDeleteI agree what Bryan Ly has said , if i were in Gerald's situation i would be defensive because he was only trying to protect.in my opinion i assumed that Gerald was only trying to protect someone from harm and violence rather than being a part of the protesting. Instead Sam took it the wrong way as if Gerald was going against the Sam's belief.
ReplyDeleteI would try to reason with the president. Yelling and screaming with him will not achieve anything. If i have good points then the president will see that and will change his position about the topic.
ReplyDeleteInstead of arguing or debating with the president, I would just give him advice. I would tell him what i thought he was doing wrong, use the student strikes as an example of him getting nowhere with his method, and suggest a new way to deal with the situation. I believe this approach is best. Arguing would get me nowhere and trying to reason with someone who is close-minded and stubborn would be just as complicated and difficult as arguing. This way it will allow the president to reflect on the problem at hand. And it give him the opportunity to do the right thing and not force him into doing anything.
ReplyDeleteI would not have approached the head of the university unless I had a reason to do so. If I was passionate about the strike, I would have approached him more formally. It would have been the ideal situation to talk directly to the administration directly. If a polite and formal conversation were to have taken place, strikes and protests were irrelevant because there would be no need to try to gain the attention of the administration.
ReplyDeleteHonestly, after engaging in a conversation such as there, yea I would try to reason with him showing that the protesters weren't all troubled youth or just there to cause trouble, but get him to acknowledge that some were passionate students like they were about jazz. It just seems to me that their conversation was in vain because they got too defensive over one's own belief.
ReplyDeleteI don't really know if its filipino culture to marry the girl you get pregnant, but I think that they were just being nice to her. Also, if she couldn't get the abortion she would probably want to move in or get money for the kid which would be more money than the abortion. The second time he got a girl pregnant he just left though so he probably was just less experienced the first time or seomthing
ReplyDeleteQ1: If I were in Gerald's position, I would grab this opportunity to talk with the president calmly. I may go out to protest angrily to get attention, but I would never ever talk to the president angrily. The more anger you show to the president, the less chance the president will listen to you. He might think all the students were as crazy as me. As long as I have the chance to approach the leader, I will show the president my understanding of his view, but at the same time I will show him my point of view.
ReplyDeleteQ3: They could have ignored the Mexican woman, but it may be not moral thing to do according to their culture. Although they were poor, they still had the sense of being responsible for what they did. I guess in Asian culture, most men may feel it is their responsible to take care of their women. That is why they all agree to give away the rest of money to the woman for abortion.
I would try to reason with the president as well. If he really was a president, he would be open to whatever I had to say. I would provide him with some good points and maybe he would take it into consideration.
ReplyDeleteThey really could've just left the Mexican woman on her own but really though, you would have to have no sense of morals to do that. I mean come on now, getting a girl pregnant and leaving her on her own? That's just inhumane. At LEAST give her some money to get an abortion. That's the most responsible thing you could do at that point.
I would try to talk in a calm and effective manner to the president. I would try to reason with him. I think that getting angry just gets you nowhere, and it'll be better if both sides talk it out, rather than jumping to conclusions.
ReplyDeleteThe rest of the guys allowed Jose to take the money out of a sense of camaraderie. They were each others only sense of family in the United States. In a place tremendously hostile to them, they had to stay together, even if it meant they had to risk being kicked out into the street.
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