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Diverse Sources

Quotes collected by: Valerie Mondello

Source: Bailey Duncan

Identifying information about the source:

Senior

Caucasian 

From: Cypress 

Business major

Works as a hotel concierge 

      1.What is your opinion about the proposed federal immigration polices to revoke DACA protections? "I just don't think it's right to promise a group of people the chance to stay in this country to just then take it away."

    2. What, if anything, concerns you about immigration reform?  "Honestly the scariest thing about the reforms is the thought of all the families that are being torn apart over papers."

  3. Do you feel undocumented individuals should be detained and deported?

       "No, I don't believe anyone should be detained and kept somewhere. But I do think that they need to go about coming into this country legally so that this wont be an issue in their lives anymore."

4.   Do you personally know someone who is living in the U.S. illegally? How does that influence your opinion? 

       "My friend from high school lives here illegally, I don't know the whole story but I know his family is very protective of who he tells the truth to. Knowing him personally, it makes me think about how many other normal kids could be kicked out of the country even though it wasn't their choice to come here illegally."

 6.     With Texas State being an Hispanic-serving institution, do you feel administrators are adequately serving DREAMERS and protecting the student body?

      "Protection isn't really the issue that I think about. I think the teachers should do more to educate the students who aren't Hispanic about what's going on in our government."

7.     How do you feel about the White Supremacy fliers that were posted on campus encouraging people to deport undocumented citizens?

     "I honestly didn't see any of those fliers but I think its messed up and cruel for no reason. White supremacy is a way bigger issue and the Texas State should really have some sort of system to keep people in check."

An Aspiring College Senior Dives into the World of Public Relations

SAN MARCOS -- Twenty two year old Texas State senior, Chloe Willis is on the verge of completing her academic journey just in time to start her new venture into the exciting world of public relations.


Growing up in the town of El Paso, Texas, Willis was raised with her three older brothers by her side. She always knew she wanted to eventually go into the field of public relations. With this idea in mind, Willis chose to attend Texas State University with the plan of leaving after acquiring a bachelors degree in PR. With this degree, Chloe plans to work with celebrities and all of the public relations business that comes with being in the lime light. In her spare time, Willis enjoys spending time with her family and friends at home or at the square.

Her love and interest for the world of celebrities sparked from one of her personal favorites, Rihanna. Willis has always held an interest for the hip hop side of the music industry. Her dream is to work with the top stars of this industry. With the help of her degree she will be applying for internships all around the country to see where this interest takes her. With the world at her fingertips, nothing is impossible for her and the world should be on the lookout for future public relations star, Chloe Willis.

Bewilderment is the feeling of being lost but with a familiar feeli of where you are where you can be safe. It is important to our lives because it gives us some comfort when being put into new situations and offers an opposite idea against clarity which is being completly sure of surroundings actions and ideas one of these concepts can not exist without the other. Bewilderment offers an ability to look at things from a new perspective and get new understandings about subjects from around the world.

What is Bewilderment?

Bewilderment is the great unknown of the future, we don’t understand what may lay ahead of us in our life. It’s the “why” of curiosity of adventure that humans chase. I defined it as a wonder of the unexplained future that allies. In the short story BEWILDERMENT by Fanny Howe, she talks about the subject of how it’s used in our lives such as we all have our own personal views on the uncertainty of the world such a questioning everything in the world, about unproved science and religion. She talks about how it’s more like a dream and we want to believe that our fantasy is the truth. She pictures is as if we were walking on a spiral outwards with no end. We just move around and explore but never gain any steps forward. There I disagree and say that we just don’t keep moving forward unaware of what we do. I say that we take those steps and gain some ground to advance in our lives that’s why we seek knowledge and religion. Certainty is only gained by someone’s or ones self’s personal experience most of the time and it’s very critical that it plays a huge role in our lives. This is why, we make judgments and life decisions based on experience. This is very important because without it we will always repeat the same mistakes in our lives and we will live in a world of Bewilderment forever and never advance in anything. So I say that we will need both in life to fuel our adventure side and our wanting of understanding. And then comes results or experience which turns into certainty. So life needs both not just one because we can’t always repeating what we already did and we need to build up knowledge of what we learned. And we will never know everything because after all we are only human and we will continue to explore new things.

Bewilderment

The thought of Bewilderment is constantly questioning things that we believe to exist in our reality. So we think that there is a reality that we live in but really society is found to be only a dream. We live in our imagination of what has already happened and is now seen to be a figure of a dream. What if what we know; what we see is not real. Its just an animation of what happened in the past life of ourselves so that we can continue to be curious and question life as it is. We as humans question societies actions and what we don't know. We try to figure out things because we are curious. the only certain things we know are the thoughts of experience and how it happened that is the only known outcome that has em upon us.

Bewilderment: Is it necessary?

In Fanny Howe’s essay, Bewilderment, Fanny explains what she believe bewilderment is. She connects bewilderment to uncertainty. By using the reference of a dream as bewilderment her idea of the unrestricted boundaries bewilderment becomes clearer. In a dream one’s world is limited to what they know and see. Nothing else exists outside the dreamer’s knowledge. Reality is not much different than this. Bewilder by definitions mean to cause to lose one’s sense of where on is.  Howe blames language as a contributor to the confusion we suffer in our everyday life. We cannot, with in our existing languages, express multiple actions taking place at a single instance. This limit one sense of direction and understanding of what is going on around them and there for leads to wilderness and uncertainty. This sense of bewilderment and uncertainty can be beneficial because it cause one to question. Through questioning what may seem obvious we discover and expand. Not only will one discover what something truly is but what it is not. On the other hand certainty is also necessary because without it we would question everything and nothing could be true. 

What Is Bewilderment ?

Before hand, my understanding of Bewilderment was unclear. After, reading Edward Abbey’s short story, Nature and the Environment, and other story Bewilderment. I grasped a better understanding of what bewilderment is. What I came to discover is that bewilderment is to be confused and uncertain. That life is constantly changing and unknown. These unknowns make people fill with curiosity and widen their minds. I love how these words opened my mind. In Nature and the Environment Author Edward Abbey paints a vivd and descriptive image in the readers mind with his way with words. He makes the reader feels as if they are in the dessert with him, he most defiantly makes the words jump off the page. I really enjoyed how Edward Abbey took the time to write about all the things he saw such as the birds and the way the wind sounded. He stressed an importance on the details which I feel is important in life since many people let it fly over their heads. I came to the conclusion that the author Edward Abbey is a very environmentally friendly, now that isn’t to say that bewilderment is tied in with nature. I just think thats how Abbey wanted to describe it since he has a passion for nature. Bewilderment to me means confusion in life, in all it’s aspects whether that be school, friendships, marriage, career, or romantic relations. I feel as if bewilderment is fitting to almost everything because life itself isn’t certain and that leads people to be confused and uncertain.