1.
In my opinion maybe “Para Teresa” was written in
Spanish because it was a note to Teresa and she indicated they were both Hispanic.
I think maybe she was trying to show her that they were one of the same, that
they came from the same place. I first read the poem how it was, not noticing
the translation in the foot notes. After I read it again in completion, in English,
I loved it. I completely related to the girl writing this. I was raised the
same way as the author, sent to private catholic school by my Hispanic family,
wanting me to go further in school than they were able to. I was also raised
not allowed to wear makeup or dye my hair, I wasn’t allowed to paint my nails
til I was 16! Also like the author, I never resented my family for it, I accepted
my family for who they were and loved being apart of it. I think the author was
trying to explain herself to Teresa, to make her understand that she understood
her.
2.
This poem was written reflectively, much later
than when the event in the bathroom occurred. Both girls were in elementary
school, but it had a lasting impression on the author, for her to be writing
about it when she was already 28. She says in her poem, in Spanish “Because I
recognized a great truth then that made me a rebel” I think that “great truth”
stuck with her, her entire life and she was just now expressing it. Now able to
express what she couldn’t as a child. In elementary school she probably had no
words to explain what education meant to her and why she was doing what she
was, she was just a child being attacked in a restroom, but as an adult she not
only understands herself and Teresa, she accepts her, and what happened. She
ends the poem, in Spanish “And do you know what, I understand you. Even more, I
respect you. And, if you permit me, I name you my sister.”
6.
The article I found on Proposition 30 was from
The Los Angeles Times on August 16, 2012. The title was “Gov. Jerry Brown
formally kicks off Prop. 30 tax hike campaign”. This article focuses on the governor
of California Jerry Brown beginning his campaign for proposition 30, which is a
1 to 3 percent tax increase for residents earning more than 250,000 dollars a
year, which in turn should give about 8 billion to public schools and
universities. In Jerry Brown’s words about the proposition “It’s about taking
money from the most blessed and giving to the schools”. The article goes on to
describe an opposing proposition, prop 38, which vows to earn more money for
schools than prop 30, but there is a tax increase for anyone earning more than
7,316 dollars a year. Which is everybody! Concerns from the community, mostly local business
owners, making more than 250,000$ a year, saying that this “presentation is a
shell game” that the money won’t be used for schools. In my opinion, hiking
taxes for the people who earn that much money a year, couldn’t be a bad thing.
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