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There are many authors agree that many people feel the need to cover in life based on their ethnicity, sex or even because of a disability. In the article, “The Dignity of Disabled Lives” both Yoshino and Solomon relate because they both talk about covering identities because they feel they can’t act a certain way. Solomon states that, “most people with disabilities both give more to and get more from life than their nondisabled peers may be inclined to guess.” This shows that people feel the need to cover just fort their disability when in reality they are normal people but judged for their outside appearance in the world. Yoshino aggress with this because in the article, ” “she explains how people are categorized for their disability and the challenges they face to fit in with others. Yoshino states….

In the article,  “Teacher Who Was Suspended After She Showed Photo of Her Wife Reaches $100,000 Settlement,” by Michael Levenson, people can be discriminated against for many unnecessary reason including your sexual orientation. This is exactly what happened to Stacy Bailey and she was suspended from the school she teaches at because she showed off her wife to the class. This is unfair because other people are discriminating against her because she is L.G.B.T.Q. Bailey might feel the pressure of losing her job because of her sexual orientation so she can not always comment on certain things when her case was brought to court. This is unfair because her sexual orientation has nothing to do with the students in any way and she should be bale to express her interest in some way to her students. Bailey says, “I think it’s important for teachers like me to be able to be themselves in their workplaces without fear.” This is very important because feeling safe in your own environment will not cause you to feel left out. When the parents categorize Bailey for her sexual orientation that shows not all people gave an open mind set and only want to be associate with people they agree with.

In the article,  “She’s Considered the Mother of Disability Rights…,” by David Taylor sometimes people are called different things for the way they look. In this case Judy Heumann was referred to as “able-bodied.” During the “The Daily Show”, Trevor Noah called her this because of her disability. Many people may feel the need to cover their disability so they are not referred to as able-bodies, but Heumann according to Susan Mizner is “the mother of the disability rights movement in so many ways” — an activist “who doesn’t take crap, never has.” Instead of letting people put her down she stood up for her own rights and what she believed was right. Categorizing someone for their disability is what America did to her when she was younger by not giving her the same opportunities in life. America excludes disabled people because sometime people believe they don’t have the same potential in life. This is very wrong and so this is a main reason why people why disabilities often feel the need to cover or not stand up for what is right in life.

Old sentence: Both Gay and Lin talk about the challenges they face through the way they believe categorizing perceives themselves or other people in the world.

New sentence: Both Gay and Lin talk about the challenges they face through the way other people in the world categorize them and how it makes them feel about themselves.

A strength from my paper is when I changed my thesis because it showed how I had a deeper thinking into my paper and taking an approach on confidence throughout the paper. A weakness I really need to workout on is my wording because it didn’t see confusing to me but the way I explained it was confusing to the reader. I remember in high school I seemed to struggle with rereading my work and looking for small errors in my paper. I think that I have analysis throughout my paper it’s just all the small working and spelling errors that hurt my paper.

Inclusion is hard in life because often times people try and act a different way and cover their true identify. In Kenji Yoshino’s, “My Daughter Passes for White” she explains the challenges of having to cover yourself to fit in and her identity as an Asian-American. people cover their identities because they are often categorized for their ethnicity, religion, and sex. Yoshino states an explain of Franklin Roosevelt who felt the feed to cover because of his disability, “Franklin Delano Roosevelt covered his disability by ensuring his wheelchair was always hidden behind a desk before his Cabinet entered.” (P. 453) This is an explanation of how even famous people feel pushed to cover so they are not judged in life and feel comfortable with their surroundings.

Perceiving categorization can have many different perspectives especially towards the topic about race. Monoff includes her own perspective on how race is seen differently and how that can effect how people from all cultures view each other. In the essay, “Want to Be Less Racist? Move to Hawaii,” by Moises Velasquez-Monoff explain how race is seen differently in Hawaii from the United States. Monoff states that,” in Hawaii, the children, including those who were white, tended not to express the same essentialist ideas about race. They were not race-blind…. But they did not attribute to race in inherent qualities” aggression or book smarts.” Kids in Hawaii tend to see race as inherited qualities as kids in the Unites Sates see race from a more stereotype point of view. This is a problem because Monoff saw this when she enrolled in a primarily white institution, Dartmouth that she was out of place and prejudice is a serious problem in the world. Not only are being being stereotypes but also categorizing the Hawaii culture and putting a name on them through the “Aloha spirit”. Monoff also includes her perspective on ethnic jokes by saying, “ethnic jokes are so common it can be jarring for people who aren’t from Hawaii.” Ultimately opinions from different people can be a problem throughout societies which leads to major problem of categorizing people and cultures in the world.

Learning Outcomes

Students who complete English 110 should

1. Demonstrate the ability to approach writing as a recursive process that requires substantial revision of drafts for content, organization, and clarity (global revision), as well as editing and proofreading (local revision).
2. Be able to integrate their ideas with those of others using summary, paraphrase, quotation, analysis, and synthesis of relevant sources.
3. Employ techniques of active reading, critical reading, and informal reading response for inquiry, learning, and thinking.
4. Be able to critique their own and others’ work by emphasizing global revision early in the writing process and local revision later in the process.
5. Document their work using appropriate conventions (MLA).
6. Control sentence-level error (grammar, punctuation, spelling).

Categorizing people and yourself can cause pressure and even a divide among other women. Gay wants to express her concern that women shouldn’t act a certain way then they want to be in life. This complexity of categorizing yourself is shown through articles that she includes in her novel , “Bad feminists.” She believes she is a “Bad feminists” to resist the pressure of wanting to be someone else. Gay includes a perspective from actress Melissa Leo who states, “we are categorizing and labeled from the moment we come into this world by gender, race, hair color, eye color, and so fourth.”(pg.164) This is a problem that Gay brings up because one main problem with feminists is that they don’t mention women of color or those who don’t fit the role of a feminist. This concept of feminisms is a factor that leads to serotyping and a damaging issue in society. She confronts this issue by addressing these race issue often overlooked by many people. Her ultimate goal is to make feminisms more inclusive for all women.

Your identity and name is an essential part of life to define who you are as a person. In the article, “Does My Child’s Name Erase My Identity?,” Lin struggles with this as she doesn’t want to give her daughter the same name as her. Lin states, “the discussion about multicultural families is often about the benefits of multiplicity but less about the loss that comes from the fact that memories can only hold so much.” I think that by giving her daughter the same name as her it can help keep her name alive for generations to come and appreciate her name and identify as a person more. Throughout the article it explains how Lin goes through her head debating weather she should give her daughters her name and in the end she realizes that it will keep their culture alive for years to come. Lin’s name is very close to her culture being unique so keeping the name in the family only hold her Japanese’s heritage and her daughter will appreciate the name caring on in the future as well.