Instructions:
- Choose one of the poems or the short story from our reading list for this week (“Blessed are the Poor in Spirit,” “Torture,” “Everyday Use,” Latin Women Pray’, OR “Quinceanera”).
- Find one news article about a current event that resonates with this literary text’s ideas, specifically as they concern gender and race, gender and socio-economic class, OR gender and sexuality (LBGTQ+). You must choose a news article from a reputable source (The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, etc.), and it must not be an opinion piece or an editorial. The current event can be local, national, or international.
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Assignment:
How does the literary text that you have chosen correspond to the news coverage of the current event? What new perspective does the text from our reading list offer on the current event? For your analysis, use one specific news source, citing it properly. Do not choose an opinion piece or an editorial.
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Suggestions:
- For this assignment, you should not assume that your audience has read the news source. That means that you should open with a concise summary of the news article. Make sure that you give your analysis twice as much space in the journal entry than you give to summary, however.
- For this assignment, you should assume that your audience has read the literary text. That means that you should not summarize it.
- The CSS Library has subscriptions to many newspapers if you run into a firewall online.
- The current event should be concrete, specific, and recent. It can be local, national, or international.
- As stated in the instructions, choose an article from a reputable source, and do not choose an opinion piece.
- While the prompt asks only about a correspondence between the two texts, you are instructed to choose a news article that concerns intersectional oppression; therefore, in your entry, you should discuss gender and race, socio-economic class, or sexuality.
- Format: 500 words, MLA style
ENG 2230 Intersectional Reading Journal Entry 1 Answer
In her poem “Blessed Are The Poor in Spirit”, Alice Walker notes “…we join with others
And, in spirit, feel the world, and suffering, the same as them” (Walker, 26). This means understanding the pain of others as our own. This poem reminds us we have the responsibility of speaking against what is wrong. According to Balousha, et al, more than 200 Palestinians including 59 children have died from the Palestinian and Israel wars within the last one month. The US through President Biden is working to have a ceasefire. However, the article notes that there is no definite deadline for a ceasefire.
The war between the two nations ignite serious discussions on who is right and who is wrong. It becomes a political issue, rather than a moral issue. With the deaths of innocent children and women on both sides. It is crucial for the world to intervene and address this war. Alice Walker in her poem talks about joining others in their suffering as being poor in spirit……..
