5 titles for my blog are.

Alien, growing up nica, coming to America nicaraguan style, lost in English translation, its hard out here for a teen.

What did I learn about others from my experience? I learned compassion for other people who are new to America and don’t speak English since I know how that feeling is.

What did I learn about the world and my part in it?

I learned that if you new its hard but what I learned was that I, capable of learning new things when the need is greater then the my wants in life. I am the type who does things on the level of needs I have.

Significant details of the settings of your story

My first setting in my story is North Hollywood California

it was very ghetto. We lived in a apartment one bedroom with concrete for floor there was gang violence several gun shots several fights and yelling and screaming daily.

In nicaragua it was very beautiful “out in the wild” but the cities were poor and so much poverty.

Texas was huge a lot of Mexicans we are nicaraguan although we are latino there are still cultural differences.

Florida was huge as well and several cubans and columbians and nicaraguans it kind of reminded me of Nicaragua.

Arizona so diverse several different cultures and so many types of people .

Current Life setting

Tucson the current city I reside in. Out of all the cities I have lived in Tucson is my favorite and shockingly it only started being my favorite this year. Different states and cities are so full of traffic and there’s no cultural diversity as much as there is in Arizona. The weather in Arizona is hot but Tucson is not as hot as Phoenix. Tucson isn’t a large city like Phoenix but it is lager then Nogales rio rico and other cities. Tucson has a lot of hiking trails downtown is so adverse and artistic we are gaining a lot of new business. Cost of living is fairly affordable minimum wage is higher than a lot of other states. Personally I like it because I don’t have to worry about job security school system is poor but I feel like we are improving.

Concept Word: Adversity, new, challenge, family,Immigration

Looks like	Adversity: A new student  New: just made Challenge: school Family: mom Immigration: my family
Sounds like	Adversity: Silence because you don’t know anyone New: new wardrobe Challenge: a dare Family: Mexican music Immigration: horror music
Smells like	Adversity: a full lunchroom  New: just bought shoes Challenge: a brand new smell Family: home cooking Immigration: pupas
Tastes like	Adversity: like eating alone New: freshness Challenge: rusty Family: homemade tacos Immigration: carne asada
Feels like	Adversity: lonely New: just washed blankets Challenge: your climbing Family: warmth Immigration: fear
Reminds me of	Adversity: my childhood New: when I got my 1st car Challenge: race Family: hug Immigration: adapting
Is the opposite of	Adveristy:  My kids childhood New:old Challenge: routine Family: orphan Immigration: American
Is	Me Me  Me Me me

Growing up with parents that are immigrants

> Exposition: My mother and father came to America in July 14, 1989 under political asylum from Nicaragua.

>Conflict/Inciting Incident: Growing up my parents didn’t speak or write or read english that well.

>Rising Action: my parents learned english they took classes at a community center at the same time they worked two jobs and raised me and my two brothers.

>Climax: Growing up most of my friends had American born parents.

>Falling Action: There were many cultural differences between me my friends and my own family it was like I didn’t belong anywhere.

>Resolution: I had to find away that i could self identify myself since I was born in America but raised by immigrants.

>Argument: Growing up with parents that are immigrants made me strong made cultural diverse and understanding of both aspects.

essay 2 ideas

1. sex crime
2. teen pregnancy
3. experience in a toxic relationship

I have come to believe that there are victims and survivors.

I am a surviror of a sex crime I had kept my silence because i felt as if I did not want to be labeled a victim but you are only a victim if you dont face it as a survivor you talk about it share your experience wiht others and hopefully your experience will help other victims become survivors.

• Had you written a rhetorical analysis before? This was my first time writing a rhetorical analysis. What aspects of a rhetorical analysis did you learn about that you hadn’t considered before? everything was new for me .
• What did you learn about your piece or your author’s perspective that you otherwise wouldn’t have discovered? I learned alot actually I always knew this song was deep but never sat an thought about he actual message.
• What are the ways you effectively prepared, revised, and bettered your writing for the Essay 1 final draft? What ways do you wish to continue to improve for Essay 2 and 3? i revised as much as i could with the time I could spend. Essay 2 will be better related too more time is going to be dedicated.
• What questions do you still have about rhetorical analysis? What questions do you have about the writing process? About grammar? I have been taught well in this class its just the time i need to invest in.

Ingrid (Nina) Picado

Spencer

WRT101S

October 2, 2019 

Tupac Shakur Brenda’s Got a Baby

The rapper, poet, and actor Tupac Shakur released the music video for his debut album 2Pacalypse Now in 1991. “Brenda’s Got a Baby,” the music video, was released on 0 October 20, 1991. The song Brenda’s Got a Baby was controversial, and the record label Interscope Records did attempt to stop it from being released. Shakur stated, “My music makes you think.” It was his platform to illustrate for the community what poverty-stricken families go through who suffer from alcohol, drug abuse, and sexual abuse. Shakur came across a newspaper article that read “Baby Saved From Compactor, Where Mother 12, Says She Put Him.” March 28, 1991. That was the only information given to society; no follow up news article was published. Include a thesis statement here. 

 In the Lyrics for Brenda’s Got a Baby Shakur states, “I hear Brenda has got a baby But, Brenda’s barely got a brain. A damn shame, the girl, can barely spell her name.” That statement symbolizes ethos in part, stating I hear Brenda has got a baby because Brenda does have a baby. 

The Lyrics continue with, “But, Brenda’s barely got a brain. A damn shame the girl can barely spell her name.” this verse is pathos because of the emotion Shakur is saying he feels towards Brenda having a baby so young and not being mentally capable of having a child yet related to not even being able to spell her name since she is so young. In the music video, it shows Brenda walking in the street with a baby and Shakur and a group of his friends behind Brenda. 

Shakur is talking about Brenda and the group of friends state (That is not our problem that’s up to Brenda’s family.) “Well, let me show ya how it affects the whole community.” In that statement, Shakur provides the listener/audience/his group of friends a view different view onto that issue of young minority teen pregnancy affected by drug abuse molestation and poverty. Shakur offers a voice to these teens and offers a different perspective to the community that some might not even realize or think about. “’cause you are in the ghetto does not mean you cannot grow. However, oh, that is a thought, my revelation. Do whatever it takes to resist the temptation.” That is a claim that is pathos in a sense he is saying where you are born or where you are from should not define you. Shakur uses that verse as pathos if you are from “The Hood” that specific verse hits close to home, and Shakur being from the ghetto knows how to speak to his audience in that form.

 Shakur continues trying to convince the audience how Brenda having a baby affects the whole community one way it does is stated by the verse “She tried to hide her pregnancy from her family who didn’t care to see, or give a damn if she went out and had a church of kids. As long as the check came, they got first dibs.” In this statement, he brings up a common issue in poverty-stricken homes when parents don’t care and use kids and grandkids for welfare income, and instead of using it for what it is intended for, it is used for drugs or alcohol or both. “She’s 12 years old, and she’s having a baby in love with the molester, who’s sexing her crazy, and yet she thinks he will be with her forever and dreams of a world with the two of them are together Whatever, he left her, and she had the baby solo.”         

           Shakur touches base on another problem in the ghetto how teens get manipulated by older men or men in general and have sex with them and impregnate them and leave them to care for a baby on their own. Shakur goes into detail on how Brenda gave birth, “She had it on the bathroom floor and didn’t know, so she didn’t know, what to throw away and what to keep she wrapped the baby up and threw him in the trash heap I guess she thought she would get away, wouldn’t hear the cries she didn’t realize. How much the baby had her eyes. Now the baby’s in the trash heap balling.” In the news article’s reality, the twelve-year-old threw the baby in the trash heap, and a sanitation worker found the baby, and it was still alive; it was treated for hypothermia. In Shakur’s song, for Brenda’s got a baby, Brenda ends up going back for the baby and trying to take care of it. “Now the baby is in the trash heap balling mama can’t help her, but it hurts to hear him calling. Brenda wants to run away mama say you’re making me lose pay and social workers here every day.” t This shows how little interest Brenda moms have in her; the mother doesn’t even care what Brenda is going through. “Now Brenda’s gotta make her own way Can’t go to her family; they won’t let her stay no money, no babysitter, she couldn’t keep a job.” Brenda left her home since her mother didn’t want her there. “s “She couldn’t keep a job She tried to sell crack, but end up getting robbed.” This is a big issue in the ghetto; some teens have nowhere else to turn but to crime, to survive, they sell drugs or steal. “so now, what’s next? There ain’t nothing left to sell. So she sees sex as a way of leaving hell it is paying the rent, so she really can’t complain.” Brenda is so desperate; she has no education, no trade, no skill. S She is so young and naïve and just had no one to help her in thriving in life. How is this possible in the United States of America, the land of the free, the land of opportunity? Opportunity, how can this happen to a young teen? It breaks my heart because so many more have gone through this. She felt she had no other option but to sell her body and prostitute herself. “Prostitute, Found slain, and Brenda is her name, she has got a baby.”

That is the last lyric. Shakur’s powerful message was how the poverty-stricken community needs to pay attention to how one life affected by this affects all of the community. Moreover, He brought to light these real problems within the country and how no one is helping, so we must help ourselves and help each other, and I agree entirely with his claim, and I empathize with every lyric of this truly touching, moving song.

                                                           Works Cited

             Shakur, Tupac. “Brenda’s Got a Baby.” 2Pacalypse Now. Interscope Records, 20 Oct. 1991.

Shakur, Tupac Amaru. “Brenda’s Got a Baby lyrics.” LyricFind, Universal Music Publishing.