Do you think this is funny?

Before I state my reaction to this true story, I want to say something about the movie. The movie was boring. I didn't feel excitement, nor was I intrigued while watching it.

       My opinion on this true story:

 It was bound to happen, it wasn't even the first time it had happened. I am not sure why we are studying this event, it's not that important in human history. I did identify myself with it though. I also fight for my rights. 

      About her telling her secret:

I am not in a position to judge her decisions, nor anyone's. Everyone does what they want to do, as long as it does not affect me. Yet, I don't think it was a bad thing that she told the truth. It was an honest, and true to self thing to do. Also, I believe that judging someone by their sexual orientation is stupid! Like, it's not anyone business who you decide to love and be intimate with. In fact, i don't believe in sexual orientations, and I know it's controversial but it's my honest opinion.I believe people fall in love with a person, not to the gender of the person. 

Also, when she admitted to be lesbian in front of her superiors, she did not know it was prohibited to admit it in the army. That's why she didn't have that much of a conflict with admitting it, specially since it didn't affect her efficiency in her job. She was a simple citizen, working hard to get by in life. 

I want to include that this all began because in her interview, she was asked if she ever committed immoral conducts. Obviously she felt that she didn't do such things, but to be secure, she asked what were these conducts. One of them was "stating of being a homosexual." Now, why would she lie about that?

Serving in Silence Answer's

1) Describe these reactions:
A. Military

When Margarethe Cammermeyer told the military about her sexuality, their reaction was to immediately discharge her, but as an “Honorable Discharge”.

B. Father

When she told her father, he somehow understood, but feared for her position in the army. Also, he believed that she should not tell everyone about it because it was an inside-of-the-house matter.
C. Children (in order from oldest to youngest):

Matt: He said he already knew and he understood completely.

David: He was understanding and decided to go to live with his mom after he had problems with his dad.

Andy: He asked her if she decided to become a lesbian, but accepted her anyways.

Tom: At first, he was avoiding her. But as the movie goes on we see that he accepts her mom in the end.

2)Margarethe's decision to tell:
A.  The military: Margarethe had never been asked before whether she was a homosexual or not, so she was never put in that position before. In the moment she was asked, she did not lie about her feelings and told the truth even though she was sure that would affect her in a bad way. The Army felt that it would have been better if she had kept that information to herself.
B. Her children: As Margarethe told the military and was facing the problem, she decided to fight back and sue the Army. Of course, this will to fight would bring a lot of public attention to her and that would affect, not only her, but also the members of her family, including her children, and that was why she decided to tell them the truth.
C. Her father: Margarethe was particularly afraid of telling her father, being the oldest and most conservative of her immediate family. When her father told her that he was coming to live with her, she decided to tell him before he found out by himself when he arrived.

3) What is your reaction to this true story? Do you believe that she should have kept her secret or told it to everyone? Explain your reasons why.

I think she did a good thing telling people and not lying, since she wasn't doing anything wrong.  I know that at this decade was a taboo, so she did make a statement by suing the military, because they had no reason to fire or discharge her.

4)How would Dr. Kinsey explain the Margarethe Cammermeyer’s sexuality?  She is a mother of 4 boys so how can she be lesbian? Is it her choice?

Dr. Kinsey might have said that Margarethe’s sexuality changed over time.  First she was married to a man and had four children.  According to Kinsey, it would be normal to love a man, and over time, love a woman.  Margarethe made her choice to marry and have children.  One might argue that she had been distracted from her homosexual identity for a time. Then she meets Diane.  For whatever reason, Margarethe had been able to discover, or re-discover, her identity as a woman who is attracted to other women.  In turn, it was her decision to act and live with Diane.Once, she was married to a man and had four children.  For many years, she was married to a man she loved.  Then she divorces the man soon to assert her interest in women.  She then meets Diane whom she had fallen in love with.  Margarethe made her choice, two choices.

What does Margareth believe about her sexaulity as it relates to her identity?

Margarethe tells her sons when she reveals her sexual orientation to them, that she has somehow always known that she was a homosexual. It is not something that she chose to be but something that defines her as a human being. She explained to her family, her superiors and the man that interviewed her for her security clearance, how her sexuality is characterized by her identifying and forming emotional bonds with women and that in turn is part of what makes her who she is.

Student Research Conference

In on our Advance English class, we were asked to do a reflection on the Award Ceremony of The English Literature Contest 2015. We were very proud of two of our classmates, since they won 2^nd and 3^rd place in such contest. I attended this conference, but sadly I had to go early since I was called for work, and didn't stay much time in the ceremony. For this reason, I will be doing a reflection on the Skit we did for a Student Research Conference, a couple of weeks ago. We were assigned to create a skit with a discrimination topic, and performed it in front of an audience.

My group and I, THE writers, choose the topic about racism to Latin Americans. So we created a scene, where a professional person has to go on a business trip and is wrongfully accused by a TSA agent. Creating the skit was a bit of a struggle, since we are not producers or actors, and to write a whole play is not easy. We have to think of every single detail, and as easy that may sound, it’s not. Another hard part of doing this skit was including a poem about discrimination into the script. My group and I decided to make the poem part of the dialogue. It was hard to make it work, and make it look like a normal dialogue but that the audience understood it was a reference. It was scary, since it was different than doing it in front of the class; instead we were perform it in front of strangers. We had to make them understand what we were doing and why, and deliver the message. At the end of the day, I enjoyed writing the play and acting in it.  It was a good experience since we could see what playwrights and actors go through and we take for granted. 

Blog Reflection

I know that as human beings we are supposed to know a little about everything and that the requirement classes we take are because we are going to need them eventually. I also understand that this blog helps us to express ourselves to the outside world, how we do so and how we respond to feedback. But let's be honest, I don't like to write at all and literature is not my strongest subject. I did not feel comfortable writing this blog; since I felt it was pressured and I couldn't truly write what I wanted because I had to follow some type of pattern in our writing. I think I like the journal better because I could keep a relation to myself and figure some stuff about me. On the contrary, I haven't learned anything from writing in this blog. I think this class has been more of "how to be a writer" instead of teaching us how to publish, which ways are better and what should we expect from the world or something like that. Instead, they leave us to write freely and to learn by ourselves what writing is good and what writing is bad. And yes, we have to think by ourselves, but we are in this class to learn and improve our writing style.

Maybe the only thing I could learn about this blog is how to take feedback, and how to give feedback, somehow. I think feedback should be the good type of criticism, let this be that what we say helps the writer improve. But it will be better if we could say what we really believe and think. When we are given a process to follow on feedback, this may makes us hold back into what we really think of the work. I think that I like to keep things short and straight to the point. Just a brief introduction, the facts, and a conclusion. That’s how my writing and publishing will be from now on. 

**added may 5,2015**

Well, I have written 15 blog post, including this one, and most of them are between 300-500 words (some more, some less). Since day one, I think my writing has changed in a way that I now state more of my opinions and it's more personal and direct to my writers than before. One of the blog posts that was most significant to me was the one where I had to talk about myself, called "So you wanna get to know me?". I think this blog post it's of more significance to me since I had to talk about myself, which I don't usually do and that I mostly try to avoid. It was a rare experience, and the outcome of it was not what I was expecting when I started writing it. As my development as a student, this blog has help me be more responsible and be more careful of the things I publish to the world. It was a nice journey, but it take a lot of time even though it was worth it.

The TSA

In our Advance English class we were assigned to create a skit about discrimination and perform it. So my group and I, THE writers, choose the topic about racism to Latin Americans. So we created a scene, where a professional person has to go on a business trip and is wrongfully accused by a TSA agent. The TSA agent is a redneck U.S. citizen who believes all Latin Americans are illegal immigrants, dumb, and filthy “creatures”.

I believe doing this script is really important since still nowadays we have to deal with discrimination. I live in a Caribbean island, so that means I’m also Latin Americans, and racism also affects me and all my fellow citizens, too.

I also learned the process of writing a small play, and all the details and focus it needs to be done well. We have to think of everything, and don’t let a single detail out. So it was a little stressful when it came to writing the whole thing, but at the end it gave a great feeling to know we had created something out of scratch. Also we had to perform this play we wrote. Looking for the props, how to use them, the little space we had, and using the right tone so the audience could hear us was a real struggle. But at the end of the day, the struggle was worth it and I believe we did a good job. Also, my fellow classmates, who put on as many hard work as my group did, did an excellent job on their skits and we all gave a great message about discrimination and how should it be put to a stop.

"The 60's" by Mark Piznarski

So if you haven't read my recent post about the 1960s, please do so. Here is the link: http://jeanettemarquez.blogspot.com/2015/04/what-happened-1960s.html

So, like I said, I'm going to adapt the next two types of discrimination into the mini-series "The 60's" directed by Mark Piznarski; and these are racial and gender discrimination.

Let’s start with racial. In the movie we are presented with two families and one of these are the Taylors. The Taylors are an African-American family, and we are presented with a son, Emmet, and his father, who is a minister in a church. His father was a pacifist activist of the civil right movements. He believed that they could achieve their goal by being calmed and pacific, and showing the world how even when they weren’t being aggressive, “white” people still harmed them, and sometimes even killed them. We can see how the father gets beaten up at the beginning by sitting down in a “white” café, trying to make a difference. This is because “white” people didn’t believe that “black” and “white” could be at the same place, because “black” people were “less” than “white” people. Because of this and more discrimination to black people, Emmet believes the best way to stop “white” people, and prove them they could also be like them, was violence and creating a riot. We can see later in the series that this turns into a bad ending, since it gets the dad killed by mistake because of Emmet’s act of rebellion.

Next I’ll be talking about gender discrimination. Like I said before, there were two families. I already talked about the Taylors, now I’m going to talk about the Herlihys. The Herlihys were a normal “white” American family, with a housewife, a veteran, three children (one girl and two boys), and raised in a religious manner. What I’m going to talk about is the mother, the daughter and one of the son’s girlfriend, called Sarah. Ok, so I wanna be brief so sorry if I let things out. First of all, we have the daughter, Katie, who doesn’t like to follow the rules as to what a woman and girl should do, so she sneaks out to a party and sleeps with a musician. After this, she gets knocked up and her father accuses her of not doing things the traditional way, and how he was ashamed of her. So she decides to leave him and raise her baby on her own. For this, she seeks the help of the father, which really doesn’t help much, but at least haves a place where she can live and people will help her take care of the child. I believe she was brave, to go out to the world and do things by herself, considering this was an era where women didn’t had much power. Let’s continue to talk about her mother. This woman was a typical mom, who cooked, stayed home, took care of the children, and contributed to everything her husband did. We can see how she takes a stand against him when she decides to sign the petition her son was asking, that was to bring the troops homes and stop the war. The husband tells her how can she do that when he does not approves of such thing, but she lets him know how she respects his opinion but he also has to respect hers. For me this is very important, since women had little voice in this decade. Talking about women’s voice let’s talk about Sarah. Sarah was an activist against the war. So, she loved when this brave man stood in front of a bus to make a stand and had lots of good ideas to stop the war and human rights. We can see later on how, he treats her like a shadow and she can’t stand this because she wants her voice to be heard and that people take her seriously for who she is, not for the man she stands behind.

I know I could’ve go in deeper, but right now that’s all I can think of. I hope you could understand how discrimination affected in this decade, and be clear that there were more types of discrimination than the ones stated above. Thanks for taking the time to read!

What happened: The 1960s

When we think of the 60's decade we mostly think about hippies, peace, love, and the death of Kennedy. I can bet when this decade started most of the people thought it was going to be the change of an era where discrimination was going to disappear and was going to stop. Well, sad to disappoint you guys but it was nothing like that. Here I am to comment how the 1960s were in the USA.

We found discrimination everywhere in society in this decade. Discrimination coming from race to gender and even political believes. Even though these problems existed in the decades past this one, they performed an important part in the 1960s, since people created movements to go against these wrongful things. 

From the beginning of the 1960s, there was the Vietnam War in process and, as we know, the United States decided to interfere. This cause many people doubt were the government stands, since the US had nothing to do with that war and, still, they were sending a big number of troops to fight in a war that wasn’t even theirs. And this means killing unnecessary and providing violence instead of suggesting peace. It’s obvious the government did not like that and went against the peace activists that were trying to bring the troops home and stop the war. Also, as always, women were being discriminated, since people didn’t tend to believe that women have equal rights and are supposed to be housewives, or stand behind a man. Women were not expected to have a voice and be independent. The last, but not least important, type of discrimination I’ll be talking about is racial. Did you know that after years of being banned, the KKK surged back (supposedly secretly) in the 1960s? I think this is enough to say how black people were still being discriminated, and black people decided to continue the civil right movement since they considered it was unfair to them, which it was.

Ok, so I know it’s not much but there is a really brief summary of types of discrimination so in my next post you can know what I am talking about when I adapt what I’ve talked about into a mini series called “The 60’s”.

See you in the next post!

How about equality?

Trifles by Susan Glaspell is a one-act play that was performed on August 8, 1916. 1916. If you haven't read it, please go to this link,"Trifles", and do so. 

So if you read it, you know the story it’s about a murder. But even though the main idea it’s about an unsolved murder scene, there is a second topic I would like to discuss; and this is discrimination to women. Since the first scene, we can see how the sheriff, county attorney and neighbor practically ignore the women in the room, when they are talking and reviewing every step of the crime. In this time, women were shadows. Women were expected to know how to cook, clean, get married, have kids, take care of the children, stay home, keep everything in place, and tolerate the arrogance of their husbands. It was like this: if you were born a girl your job was to be a slave to the man you decide to marry. And don't get me wrong, some women like to clean, cook, take care of the house, etc. And that is not a bad thing; the bad thing is when women are obligated to do such things for a stupid society standard. And we can see this in this play.  The men start to make fun of women for commenting on the undone quilt, and asking if she was going to knot it or quilt it; which is ironic because at the end of the play that the answer to that “silly” thing that women are wondering, is metaphorically used as the verdict of the case. What is really unbelievable is that this play was written almost 100 years ago, and as of today, women still have to fight for rights and equality. If you are thinking “But it is better than it was 100 years ago” let me tell you, you are right. But even though it’s better, it’s still a problem in society how women cannot be taken seriously just for GENDER. OKAY, GENDER!!! Not intellectuality, responsibility, punctuality, teamwork; you know, stuff like that, but for THE GENDER THEY WERE BORN WITH. People, its 2015 and we still find it “odd” when a women wants to run for a political campaign, joins the army, it’s in the Supreme Court, CEO of a company, good athlete, etc, etc, etc. And yes, the widow did killed the man, but come on, she was that little bird in a cage, singing, wanting to be free and fly away, and her husband killed everything that made her human. She wanted to be free, to be able to live a life where she was no prisoner, so she chose to kill the bastard who took away her humanity. I’m not saying it was a good strategy, since she got caught and all, and murder is awfully wrong. But the husband had already committed murder, yeah, he killed his wife’s soul. And she wanted it back, so she did what she had to do. I repeat, I am not in favor of murder, but I am in favor of humanity and everyone deserves to be able to be happy and themselves. No matter the race, gender, ethnicity, type of music you listen, etc.; what matters is personality and that we all accept each other’s as we are: people.

My journal

When I first started writing the journal, it was weird since I'm not an open person so the fact that I had to work with my first thoughts and go straight to the jugular was a strange thing for me to do. I've had journals before, but I couldn't discipline myself to write in them. I always thought it was a waste of my time and that it didn't contribute anything to my life. Through the process of writing this journal I've learned that writing is a good pleasant way to know yourself better. I figured out that my best thoughts come at night and when I'm on a desk better than any other place. I also learned that I cannot write in the morning. My mind is totally blank, full of hate and complains. I thought I hated writing that maybe it was not my "thing" and that I would be bored of it after the first week I started the journal. And suddenly, I found myself writing in public places, shutting everything in the background and just writing my soul out in the notebook. As of today, I have 35 entrees, which is great considering I started the journal later than everyone else and I don’t think I will stop writing in it. I really like having a place to express my feelings and see how my mind works. At first it was hard to follow all the rules, because I over think a lot and it was hard not to stop writing and letting every first thought in the pages. But after a while, it got easier and now it’s something I can do naturally. I believe its impressive to read what you've written, if you follow the rules, and observing how your mind works and how personal you can get if you do not resist yourself in writing what you are actually feeling. So I encourage anybody who reads this to keep a journal, and at least write in it 10 minutes a day, every day and you will learn so much about how your mind works and your real emotions at that moment. For example, one time I was pretending I was fine with everything, that I was alright and that the situation that had happened to me had not affected me in any way. And after that, I started writing in the journal with this sentence “Today, I'm feeling fine (…)” and at the end of that journal I figured out how mad, hurt and sad I was. I wrote 5 pages on how mad and disappointed I was. I would've never admitted that to myself if it wasn't that I was writing non-stopping and eventually it came to me admitting that I was not fine at all. So as you can see, writing in the journal can be a really helpful way to stay true to yourself. 

I really don't want to share this

No Title

The suffering, the crying, the fighting,

The fear, the feelings, the hurting,

All the time invested,

Is it worth the pain?

Is it worth the effort?

Will we ever be again?

Or will it all be regret?

To live with loving someone

Who stopped loving you;

To an unsaid goodbye;

To lose a relative to a cancer

That ate away their brain or heart;

Is it worth it to live this way?

Or is it better to go away-

To a faraway place

Where everything is new and

There is no pain

It’s a mystery, this place

We’ll never know how it is-

Unless, we are there.

But is it worth it?

To take a chance

To leave everything

behind

For this unknown place-

And a new meaning for life?

I bet it is

Why a room with a view?

Some people may think that social structures are important, and are needed to keep a society "running". And apparently, in the movie "A Room with a View" it's an important topic. What I could mostly understand was that because the man the protagonist loved was foreign, she couldn't be with him because that would've been a total scandal and downgrade to the woman’s family. And in England, in the time setting of the movie, the lowest at the social structure pyramid were the foreign. I believe this is totally pathetic, and people should be with the one they love no matter what. I mean, she obviously didn't like the man that asked for her hand, but she still continued with the engagement because it was going to be good for the family name (or I guess). But she was with another person, and you are telling me it’s alright to marry someone you don't love just for social status? But this was a different time and place, so who am I to judge the lifestyle they had? To be honest, I saw the film twice and I didn’t find another social problem apart from the one I stated before. So if you did found something else, and you feel like sharing, please comment below what you noticed and let me and other readers gain from your knowledge.  

What I really liked about this movie was the way I interpreted the title. We can see that when Lucy and her aunt arrive to Italy, they are given a room with no view, and some gentlemen and his son gave away their room, that had a view, to the ladies so they could be happy, and also because they didn't need a room with a view to feel better. Well, I think the room with no view represents the protagonists closed world. It represents her life before she met her new lover, how she saw the world; just plain 4 walls and that was it. But then, this new lover gave her a room with a view, to see something new and beautiful of the world. A view that inspires her to get out of her comfort zone and don't follow the already established social structure. So, this new man gave her reasons to be true to herself and the one she loves, to not settle for 4 plain walls, but to look for a room with a view to be remembered that there is more to the world that we may think.

Identity

The motion picture "Running Brave" it's about a half-Indian half-white boy, who loves to run and gets a scholarship to Kansas University to be on the cross country varsity team. Throughout the movie we can see how the protagonist, Billy Mills, struggles with the ethnicity problem at this decade. At first we can see how the coach didn't want to recruit him because he was half-Indian, and he believed Indians were quitters and couldn’t adapt to the "white" people lifestyle. Native Americans where really proud of their origins and they didn’t want to do anything with white people, and we can see this at the beginning of the movie when Billy is leaving for college and his family/friends tell him to remember which half of his is better than the other one, obviously referring to the Indian one. I will like to make something clear; Indian is not the right term for this people, since they are not Indians but Native Americans.  But the movie uses this term so I’m going to continue using this wrong term.

The movie has a great message, since it touches a part that most of us don’t dare to talk about: identity. Billy Mills feels that he should stay true to his half-Indian part and not give in to the white half. But he now lives in a “white” world, as the movie states, and he has to learn to live there. It’s hard for him since he is discriminated by everyone all because his ethnicity. But he doesn’t give up; he has a goal and he is going to achieve it, one way or another. He adapts and learns to live in this world, but learning to live in this new world earns him problems with his relatives back at the reservation. He gets a visit from them, and they judge him because they believe he has forgotten who he truly was and where he was from. So he has problems from both parts, and he feels lost and doesn’t know where he truly belongs. He feels he doesn’t know his real identity. At first this makes him stop running, all of this and pressure had made him lost the love he had for running in the first place. But he gets back up, he graduates, trains, joins the marines, and go to the Olympics; and he wins, because no matter the bad things life brings us we can always get back up and continue the race. And “it takes a winner to come from behind and win”.

So it’s important to know, that identity means who you are and staying true to yourself. No matter where you come from or where you go, your identity is who you truly are no matter where or with whom. 

On looking (tl;dr)

If I agree with something, is that is all about perspective. We don't see what other people see, and they don't see what we see. That’s why it’s important to be seeing every side to the story. But that’s pretty much impossible since we cannot know everything. And that’s something much human beings don't understand. But that’s not the point here. The point is, that we must not think that our opinion and point of view is always right and the only one that matters in this world. It's also important to know, that what people see is what people believe. 

So if you have a chance to read On Looking by Alexandra Horowitz, do so because it may change the way you think and see things. Although, I believe it's way too long for the message it's trying to deliver. 

**If you have time, watch Brain Games S02E01, it's about focus and attention, and how our brain works**

So you wanna get to know me?

"I'm Nobody! Who are you?

Are you – Nobody – too?" I’m Nobody! Who are you? (Emily Dickinson)

Hasn't it happened to you that someone asks you to tell him/she something about you, to describe yourself, and you just stand there with this confused looked because your mind just went blank and apparently you know nothing about yourself? Well, that’s the story of my life. I have a blank page to fill with who I am, to give you a brief summary of my life, and yet I have nothing to tell. So, let’s start with my name. Hi, I'm Jeanette Liz Janice Marquez Rodriguez (long name, I know) and I study chemical engineering in the University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez. This semester I decided to get out of my comfort zone, and took courses in the Rio Piedras campus. Who am I kidding? I was practically force to come here for personal, health and family reasons. But that’s a topic for some other time. Now let’s talk about me. Well, I hate talking about myself and having the attention on me.  I'm a very reserved person, and I don't like to bother or make other people uncomfortable with my presence. And that’s the thing, I think I bother everyone so I'm always scared to meet new people or even talk to my actual friends. I don’t talk about my situations, worries or stuff that happens to me because I truly believe people don't care about me or my life.

But here I go, and I'll give it a try. I love to watch series, movies and read books. Watching moving pictures help me see a new perspective of situations and life. The acting and the way a person and a setting can catch and create feelings in me, it’s magical. Not all movies/series can do that, but when you find the right one, it’s magical. Meanwhile, reading a book makes my imagination gets to work and you can learn so many things by doing it. I found pleasure in my readings, because there is no best feeling to reading a good book, and study the different points of view that other people may have. The way your mind creates the setting and characters, even if it’s an autobiography, you find things you never thought you would experience. Like my mother would say, “When I read books, I travel to places I've never been, without moving from my bed.” Doesn’t mean she won't like to travel but that it gives her more inspiration to do it.

I love to dance, its one of my biggest passions in life. I believe I'm a nice, considerate person who will give anything for the persons she loves; even tho some people may consider me a total B. I never had a normal childhood, or a normal family, and I had to go through some rough stuff to get to where I am today, and I don't regret any of it. All those situations taught me how to be the strong person I am today. I’m not a positive or negative but a realistic one. I know how things work, and I don't expect more or less than what life is.  I consider myself a walking paradox, a walking self-contradicting disaster. I want to be happy, but I think of things that make me sad. I’m lazy, yet I’m ambitious. I say I don’t care, but I really do. I crave attention, but reject it when it comes my way. I’m a conflicted contradiction. If I can’t figure myself out, there’s no way anyone else has.

 I’m not scared of taking things to an extreme; actually I am an extreme person. I don’t like in-betweens, I prefer all or nothing; and yeah I understand that sometimes we have to settle to what we have, but why? Why settle to something less, if I can achieve better things in life? I believe that if I work hard enough, someday it will all pay off. I believe that to give up, it’s a waste of time. I want to be different from my family, and I want to become a better person. I want to be successful, and I have my goals clear, and I almost lost track of them, but here I am again, because if I don’t try then I won't get anywhere in life. But also, I am lost in life. I don't even know myself, my taste or preferences.

So, you want to get to know me? Good luck.

The Use of Force

First of all, what exactly is the use of force? You may think the title pretty much explain itself, but let’s dig a little deeper. The use of force can be defined as when you use strength or a certain force you are in possession of, and imply it in other people, stuff or situations. It’s having the power to have something done and use it. Let’s talk about person to person use of force. As mostly everything, the use of force has two sides to be considered: the person implying the force (person 1) and the person who it’s implied to (person 2). Sometimes the person 1 doesn’t need to use the “use of force” on person 2, and it becomes unfair, because things can have been done a better way, where person 2 didn’t need to suffer the way it did. But we have a second case, where person 2 needs something, somethings that has to be done. When person 2 imposes to receive or do what it need to, it’s actually using the use of force, and this leaves person 1 with no other choice but to use the use of force on person 2. In the story “The use of force” by William Carlos William there’s a combined case of the two discussed before. Here, we can see a doctor who is not in the best behavior or attitude toward the patient and a patient who strongly refuses to being examined by a doctor. When you read the story you think “Wow, that doctor is so imprudent and what he did was totally unnecessary”; but what about the girls attitude? She was obviously depriving the doctor from doing his job and she knew she was sick, but she still was a stuck up and didn’t cooperate when she had to, when it was all for her own health. So the doctor had to do what he had to for the little girls’ health and wellbeing. But, we can all agree that he took it a little to the extreme, for example, he saw that the girl was bleeding and he didn’t stop the pressure and force he was using on her. He even says, “But the worst of it was that I too had got beyond reason. I could have torn the child apart in my own fury and enjoyed it. It was a pleasure to attack her. My face was burning with it.” He wanted to use the use of force, knowing her parents will agree being afraid she was dying, to see her hurt, to hear her screams and he could feel he had the power in the situation. I don’t know about you, but for me that’s a little psychotic. They both were wrong, and by implying the use of force they made the situation a lot worse. So in general, is the use of force really necessary, or is it much easier if both parties cooperate and have a peaceful agreement upon the situation?

"The use of force" by William Carlos Williams