Judith Ortiz Cofer

During the American Revolution women’s equality was put into question when women were not offered the same rights as men. One of the early women to advocate this idea was Judith Sargent Murray. Judith Sargent Murray was an early American woman who proposed Women’s rights, an essayist, playwright, poet, and letter writer. Murray’s ideas about women’s rights were considered extreme in the 1700s. Murray asserted education should be equally offered to women as the same as men and argued for women to…

When a car is out on the road, the driver has the responsibility to make moral and ethical decisions concerning not only his or her safety, but also the safety of others. Similarly, fully automatic self-driving cars would be expected to do the same. Designing self-driving cars is a difficult process as many ethical decision-making codes have to be programmed into the cars. Ethical principles have to be reviewed carefully before they are implemented into the self-driving cars so that the public…

Judith Sargent Murry is not a well-known name in everyday life, but to women activists and historians she was a key part of the women’s rights in the eighteenth century. She was an advocate for women’s right to an education. Judith’s upbringing had a lot to do with her work toward equality. She was raised in a wealthy household where her brothers had an excellent education and she was not given the same opportunities. Judith wrote many manuscripts, essays, and poems throughout her life. One of…

Mary Kelley ENC 1002 Dr. V. Hunt 21 Apr. 2017 Growing Up in a Military Family “The Changeling” By: Judith Ortiz Cofer As a young girl Vying for my father’s attention, I invented a game that made him look up From his reading and shake his head As if both baffled and amused. In my brothers closet, id change Into his dungarees—the rough material Molding me into boy shape; hide My long hair under an army helmet He’d been given by father, and emerge Transformed into the legendary Che Of grown-up…

experiences and opportunities handed to them, and nowadays it is a universally held belief that every person is deserving of the right to achieve greatness. However, Judith Ortiz Cofer shows how some people are constrained by other people’s pre-conceived notions, and are unfairly limited in their ability to achieve greatness. Ortiz Cofer is a Puerto Rican born professor at the University of Georgia and in her piece “The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria” she makes an effort…

According to traditional stereotypes men are solid and prevailing, whereas females are submissive. In the Exemplification paragraph, “Don’t call me a hot tamale” By Judith Ortiz Cofer, reminds me of How people stereotype each other by Gender, and plays an image in my head of how many portray Gender stereotypes. It is known that society teaches Women to wear dresses, serve food, and take care of babies. On the other hand, men are taught to do any hardware, labor jobs and anything that…

Judith Ortiz Cofer’s essay, “The Myth of the Latin Woman”, shows us the different stereotypes that she personally had to deal with over the years. Growing up in the United States and being born in Puerto Rico made her want to “belong” as she resented the stereotype that her Hispanic appearance brought on. One main difference between Puerto Rico and the United States that she goes into great detail about is the culture clash of clothing styles. Cofer gets the readers to consider what it would be…

society’s downfall, it has become normal. In the essay “The Myth of the Latin Women” written as an example of her experiences, Judith Ortiz Cofer explains how her Latin culture is stereotyped, misunderstood and how she thinks it came to be. Everyone, more specifically everyone who is different, like Latin women, is wronged by the stereotyping and misunderstanding. Cofer provides examples of how she and other Latin women grew up and she believes the stereotyping begins with her customs brought…

Through her written work in The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria, Judith Ortiz Cofer expresses her experiences thus far in America as a Puerto Rican immigrant. She shares how the differences between her traditions and culture and those of Americans caus her to not feel a sense of belonging among others in the United States. The differences provoke stereotypes that Cofer is not able to escape, no matter what she accomplishes in life. These stereotypes are a direct result…

stop it. In The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria, Dr. Judith Ortiz Cofer provides some insight on the stereotypes that plague Latina women as well as the reasoning behind it and personal examples that she’s experienced. Malcolm X and Dr. Cofer are both members of minority races who handled their assimilation into the American culture differently. Aside from being members of minority races, X and Cofer were U.S. citizens that not only tried to fit in with their “white…