4B

During “Stereotyping of Arabs by the U.S Ensures Years of Turmoil”, it was hard to find any hotspots that stood out to me. The first spot I chose to write about was on page 202. It says that “We are in for many more years of turmoil and misery in the Middle East, where one of the main problems is, to put it as plainly as possible, U.S. power. What the United States refuses to see clearly it can hardly hope to remedy”. This is the same thing that he's been saying throughout the rest of the paper, just condensed. I think that he is hypocritical because he talks about the U.S judging the middle east and here he is judging the U.S
Also, on page 200 where it says that the U.S propaganda talks down on the Middle East. Yes, of course there are Americans that talk down about the middle east. Are we just suppose to ignore the terrorist attacks we've seen come from groups in the middle east? It's not easy to be uplifting about the people who have began to tear your country apart. Maybe not everyone in the middle east is dangerous, but it's hard to think about anyone else except for the ones that created 9/11. Everyone has opinions and I'm sure the middle east doesn't always say the nicest things about the U.S.

After reading “The Second Coming” by William Butler Yeats, I had two hotspots. The first one was on page 221 where it says, “The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned”. This was one of my hotspots because really, it sounds creepy. I don't really know what the whole poem is saying but it sounds like the world is coming to an end or being attacked in some way. When it says that the ceremony of innocence is drowned, it sounds to me like everywhere something bad is happening and the innocence is being taken away. The whole poem sounds like something major is about to take place, I'm just not sure what it is.
My second hotspot was on page 222. It says, “A shape with lion body and the head of a man, a gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, is moving it's slow thighs, while all about it reel shadows of the indignant birds.” This was one of my hotspots because I can picture this image in my head and it makes me feel included in the poem. I also thought it was weird that he said it was a shape with a lion body but with the head of a man. To me, this sounds like something in the old times so it makes me feel like this poem isn't recent. I think I don't know much about what's going on because it's an old Christian poem and I'm not too familiar with those are the stories that they tell. After researching what “The Second Coming” is, it said that it was Christ coming back to earth. If this is true, I think this is a weird way of showing it happening. If I were to imagine Christ coming back to earth, I would picture more of a pleasant picture, not one that sounds so scary. I think that the shape that he is describing is suppose to be Christ coming back, and that doesn't sound like what I would imagine for that scenario. I would pick more of a human, or wings or something bright and beautiful. That's why this poem confused me. Not to mention, I'm no poet.