Excerpt From A Self Portrait Barbara Jordan Analysis

To be able to prepare yourself in your education, you have to learn the process of reasoning first. “Excerpt from a Self-Portrait” by Barbara Jordan was written to inform her reader the experience she had to adjusting to a new world. In order to lean and live up to ones potential, he has to be familiar with the process of thinking. Adjusting to new changes where there’s sexism & racism doesn’t make it easy for who isn’t familiar to this new world. Therefore, I am able to connect to Jordan’s experience. She was a young woman who was also a minority in a world that was different then what she was living in before. Even ‘till this day sexism is a major issue in our community. Jordan expressed herself as feeling ‘delighted’ when she would get called upon to recite class. She also mentions that in law school one of her professors had Lady’s day. “There were certain favored people who always got called on, then on some rare occasions a professor” (52)… I remember in high school the boys’ soccer team always compared themselves to the girls’ soccer team. The boy’s soccer team always made fun of the girls soccer team. I always …show more content…
Jordan had to adjust to a new world when she got accepted to attend law school. “…it occurred to me that if I was going to succeed at this strange new adventure, I would have to read (52)…” I had to adjust to new changes when I started my college classes at MCC-Blue River. It was a different and unique environment to what I was used to. I was a new student and I didn’t know anyone at this college. At first it was a bit hard for me because I had my 5 year old experience in my head. I thought that I was going to be treated the same for being a minority, so I stayed isolated from everyone for about 2 months. Having that said, if one wants to succeed at a new strange adventure, being a minority isn’t helpful he has to work two times harder than everyone