My comment on Matthew S. Blog:
Hey Matt, I'd like to start out by saying great blog. Now to your blog, I think what you did really well on your blog that most people, including myself didn't do as much is give a cultural thought process women go through, for example yours was the lack of birth knowledge Latina women have. Which I wasn't aware of, because of the many stereotypes and experiences I've seen, such as summer school as you know. Was that, because many Latina women have children at early ages they were the most knowledgable, when it came of birth. The other great point you made was the lack of birth knowledge in Americans in general, because since childhood we've been taught sex, baby shower, hospital birth. Most Americans probably think that home births, is prehistoric. You also filled in a gap I never asked myself, which was the way Latina american have children, which is basically the same way all americans have their children, the hospital. Besides that you're blog was superb, besides a few typos, and I would of liked to see you're personal conclusion about birth, all in all again, great blog.
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My comment on Jessica C. Blog:
One of the main reasons I choose to read your blog Jessica, is because your topic of choice was abortion, which we didn't talk much about in class. One of the things you did really well in your blog, is getting me to understand, and leave after reading your blog know a lot more about it. For example I thought abortions was free checkup as long as you had health insurance, the other is that I didn't know that abortion rate was so high, 25% of the world, that's about 1.8 billion women, crazy. The other good thing you did in your blog was addressing what we learned in class, to show why you're blog is an important topic. I only have two things of feedback I'd like you to take into mind, one is that before reading your blogI didn't expect much, because the first thing I noticed was the lack of uppercase letters. Which isn't a big deal, but formatting, does so much to the appearance, making readers more interested to read anything, and I feel that your blog is too important to not appear revealing. All in all great blog, and i look forward to reading more of your blogs to come.
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My comment on Chris M. blog:
What made your project unique was that it wasn't an essay throughout out the whole thing, but an interview. Which to me is more interactive, especially after reading 3 other blogs, which don't get me wrong, were good. But it was nice to see something a bit different. To start off I think you had a really lucky interviewee, to have both home and hospital birth is pretty unique, i'm surprised she even did a home birth with the lack of knowledge of home births. Based on what we've learn in class and my knowledge from research, I can see why the mother wanted to have a feel of both births. Which also doesn't surprise me that she liked the home birth more. I never wrote or said this on neither my blog or in class, but I believe that the reason many women who have hospital births don't feel automatically connected to the baby as soon as it's born is because hospital births are made to tire the mothers out. It only makes sense, because they're on the spot and are constantly being sub textually rushed. But in a home birth since it's in the comfortable familiar environment of their home, and they're not rushed, it gives the mothers more time to focus on herself and the baby than other people, and after the baby is born they're more connected, because of the focus and will power she had to deliver it. Besides that you had a superb blog, and congratulations.
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My Comment on Deans Blog:
Hey Dean, I saw you left me a comment on my blog, so I thought I should return the favor. To start off you're blog thought me a lot about OB/GYNs every time i heard that word, I always thought "What the hell is that?". You gave clear and thorough examples and statistics about OB/GYN's, and the reasons people become OB/GYN's. Another thing you did great on, were your sources, which i thought were pretty interesting. One thing I think you could of done a bit better on, was making your blog a bit longer, because you have so many good sources which could of helped expand it. Also in the beginning of your blog to stall time, you should of given and example about what an OB/GYN is and the definition, I feel like you focussed too much on statistics more than their jobs. Other than that, great blog, and I'll look out for more of your blogs, great work again.
Rigel. Thank you for taking the time to write a very detailed blog. I agree with your point that people are naive about their situations and this is what I uncovered throughout the project. Also the point about summer school helped me understand more because yes in summer school there were a few pregnant teenagers mostly latin and yes they did fit a stereotype if not many of them. To answer your question, I feel that latin women do not have kids when they are most knowledgeable meaning at a yonger age. I feel that they have kids because they force themselves to be significant and this is one way to do it. I feel that it is an attention thing but also a situational thing. Sometimes these teens get caught up and they feel its cute to be pregnant and feeling woozy in every class, but to me I find it upsetting because they seem to degrade a whole culture and that makes me feel like latin women have no hope. This is just the way I feel about things like teen pregnancy. Thank you for your comments.
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