Poem by Me

In Your Eyes

I saw myself in your eyes

First time I knew it was love

I never thought it would end

We were meant to be as one

I could have stayed

But I chose to say goodbye

How could I let you go?

Oh, take me back to the start

You were all I ever wanted

But I always run away

I wish we could go back

In your eyes I'd like to stay

Trifles

"Trifles" is a one-act play by Susan Glaspell. This is the story of the murder investigation of John Wright. The male characters are doing the official investigation while the female characters are doing their own unofficial investigation. The men are investigating the murder scene and asking questions to the neighbor who went to the house that day. The wife was the one who found him and when Mr. Hanes asked him about her husband she laughed and said he had died of a rope around his neck. The women are looking for things around the house and the men think those things are not important. The men say that "women are used to worrying over trifles". Trifle is a thing of little value or importance. Mrs. Wright was the one who murdered her husband but they never suspect her. We see how the men think a woman is incapable of murdering a man just because she is a woman. The men just see women as housekeepers and they think they only exist to be their wives. This explains how in that time women were presented like less than men. We still sometimes see this in the world, some men think they're much more than any woman.

The Second Part of "The 60's"

In the second half of the miniseries; Brian returns from Vietnam, Michael is still involved in politics on a campaign, Katie had her child, and Emmet feels responsible for the death of his father. They are all facing things from the choices they made in the past and they have to deal with how their lives are now. Brian returned from the Vietnam war with several problems and was traumatized. Brian dealt with all of this alone because he didn't know how to fit in the society anymore and his father didn't give him much support. When Michael sees how his brother returned from war, he fights even harder against the war and he was looking for signatures to bring troops fighting in the war. His father didn't support Michael either. Katie reunited with her brothers and brings her child with her, she felt like she was finally home because she was never happy away from it. After the death of his father, Emmet realizes he should keep fighting for his right but in a peaceful way, as his father taught him. He became part of a group that fed children who were poor.

In the end we see how the father of Brian, Michael, and Katie finally accepts them and their choices. He learned it was better to love them in spite of their choices than to have to live without them. They returned home and were finally happy. Emmet learned to live with the things his father always taught him and the example he gave him, he visited his grave looking for forgiveness, he needed to forgive himself from the seat of his father to finally move on and be happy.

A Room with a View

"A Room with a View"  is a british drama movie by James Ivory. This movie is about a young English movie name Lucy Honeychurch that makes her first visit to Florence, Italy in the early 1900's. She meets a young man named George Emerson and must decide whether to follow through with her marriage in England or follow her heart and her attraction to George. This movie presents the differences in social classes in that period. Lucy faces the situation of having to decide if she should live a pleasant but unhappy life following society's rules or to break free from the expectations of society and norms with choosing her happiness. Everyone in their life will have similar decisions that will be between choosing what's right for society or choosing what's right for you. We are divided in the social classes and not everyone has the free will to choose their way of life.

Society expect us to be good, to follow the norms, and to live up to what they teach since we're born. We have little say in what we should have because we have to follow what everyone else won't criticize. Most of the time, we choose the easy path, we prefer to do what other people tell us is right instead of following our dreams and what we really want. This is the problem with society, if you're from a high social class you are expected to be even more, so this makes those people many times be unhappy. People want to fit in these social classes so they do everything in their power to please everyone except themselves.

The First Part of "The 60's"

"The 60's" is a miniseries that presents how national issues and events profoundly affect two families, one white and one black, in the 1960s America. The Herlihys, the white family, have a son named Brian that goes to Vietnam when he joins the Marines, Michael who gets involved in politics, and their daughter Katie that gets pregnant and leaves home. The Taylors, the African-American family, is a faher who's a minister and civil rights organizer and his son Emmet that joins the Black Panthers serving as a bodyguard for Fed Hampton. The son always thought they had to fight for their right and acts with violence multiple times. His father sees him in a riot and tries to stop him by taking his gun, this leads to his death by a police officer that shoots him.

In this first part, we see discrimination against black people and how they were badly treated all their life. They couldn't fight for their rights and every time they did they were punished. We also see discrimination against women and how men had more rights and better chances at defending themselves. There is also discrimination against the political views and against ideologies of social movements. We see how Katie, still in high school, gets pregnant and has to leave her home, she's faced with this all alone and then joins a hippie commute. Brian joins the Marines after leaving high school and goes to Vietnam to fight in the war. Michael who meets a girl and starts a relationship with her, he fought for his ideals and fought against the war. We see Emmet, who all his life his father told him he had to live peacefully because he wanted him to be safe, but Emmet always knew he wanted to fight for a better life and for all of the African-Americans who were mistreated.

This discriminations will always exist, they existed in the 1960s and they still exist now. Even though it's not the same as before and we all have more rights and a better life, there are still people who suffer from this in their daily lives.

My Journal Experience

My journal experience was a life changing experience. When the semester started I wasn't excited at all to have to write in a journal for the English class. I thought this was going to be something that I was just gonna want to get over with. When I started writing in my journal, I only wrote about silly things that didn't have anything to do with me. I only wrote about the things I saw when I was writing, or something that I was doing, but never about what I really wanted to write. I thought it was stupid to have a journal and actually write about your feelings or thoughts. As I kept writing I figured I could try to write about what was really on my mind, what was really bothering me. When I did this, I discovered what an amazing feeling it gave me. Writing what I was feeling was a great feeling, it was like finally opening up to somebody and letting go of what I had deep inside of me for so long. I've always been a private person, and now more that ever, so I don't usually talk about my feelings or things like that. This is why it felt so great, 'cause I finally could let go of so many things. After this time, writing in my journal was so much easier. I always wrote what I wanted to write, what was on my mind. I wrote mostly about how I was feeling in the moment, or of some situation I'd had that had changed me.

Writing in my journal made me a better person, I learned things about myself I didn't know and I discovered how I really felt about some situations. I honestly think I'm going to keep having a journal,  it helped me in so many ways I can't even describe. At the beginning of the semester I didn't even want a journal and now I don't want to live without one. This is something I would've never thought. This journal know me better than anyone in the world, it know secrets I haven't told anyone and it knows how I really feel. This is something I want to keep having in my life, this journal is my truest friend.