Blog about Pooja Makhijani, School Lunch

In this story the young indian girl, Makhijani, is proud of her Indian roots but really wants to involve herself with American culture especially in her school lunch. Everyday her mom makes her native foods from their country and wraps it in her lunch box and sends her to school. Her mother is extremely proud of their culture and would never think of making a lunch for her daughter of American food. She feels it doesn't represent them and she feels its in her daughters best interest and nutrition to not give her Coca Cola and peanut butter and jelly but the native foods that her family loves. And every day Makhijani watches the other children eat their American lunches such as chicken fingers or mini pizzas while she throws away her unique foods such as her sandwhich of aloo tikkis. She wants to have normal American foods like the other kids but feels she sticks out like a sore thumb with her unique Indian cuisine. Until one day when a little girl from Pakistan comes to class named Aisha. Aisha is dressed in her cultures clothes that are called chappals on her feet and a dupatta on her body. However Aisha buys lunch everyday from the cafeteria at schoolwith many other kids in their class. They come back with things such as chicken nuggets, mini pizzas, etc. One day Aisha and Makhijani sit together during lunch. As they are talking Aisha notices that Makhijani has unique looking delicious foods in her lunch. She immediately recoginizes it as aloo tikkis and says that she wishes her mother would pack her that for lunch everyday. So Majhijani comes up with an idea that they will trade lunches everyday and she gets the American food. This arrangement works wonderfully and she loves that she found a way to Americanize her self without hurting her mothers feelings because her mother does not know that she is giving her lunch away. Majhijani does not plan to tell her and quietly enjoys her American cafeteria food everyday for the rest of the year.

Blog on Why I want a Wife

"Why I Want a Wife" by Judy Brady makes me upset and it makes me never want to become a wife that has all of these responsibilities. First of all I believe that a marriage is a partenership and that the husband would split the duties such as time with the children, arranging the appointments, taking nights off, etc. with the wife and she would get all the pleasures that he does. I also believe that in a marriage you are committed for life and it is your responsibility that you promised in the wedding vows to take care of your offspring and remain faithful to your spouse. Sometimes when you get frustrated it might be nice to imagine just finding someone new and start your brand new life with them leaving everything behind but in all actuality leaving the past behind is impossible. Also every woman I feel is entitled to a great education and a career so, yes the wife would probably find day care for the children but when they're sick or have appointment and practices the husband and wife would take turns in getting them there or helping them. In organizing social events if it is the husbands event he can make the arrangements and the wife can make her own. Now not all these rules are so definied there may be times when the husband needs to help the wife and vice versa but that is what a marriage is helping eachother in times of need. On the other hand I completely understand why Judy Brady wrote this essay. It would be so nice for someone to take all this time to do and organize everything in your life for you. You would have nothing to worry about and life would be easy. However, you would not actually be living your life then and really not being involved with your family at all probably means you shouldn't have one. So having a wife to do everything for you would be nice but I'm really sorry thats probably not going to happen.