Blog Assignment #3 Describing a historical photo

I chose a photo from Edward Kelty's Photo's of Circus People. I enjoy the amount of contrast in the photo. Major Mite, the supposed 'smallest man in the world' is standing next to Sky High Jack Earl, someone who is almost quadruple the height of Major Mite. To me, Major Mite just looks like a baby in a top hat and a suit. Sky High Jack Earl is wearing what looks like a soldier's uniform. Both seem prett content, though i cant really tell with Major Mite, considering that he has a literal baby face. From the looks of this photo,  I would think both Major Mite and Sky High Jack Earl live happy lives, which is pretty odd to me. If I would part of a "Freakshow" I don't think I would be happy being showcased and degraded at the same time. Just being called a "freak" is so humiliating. These people didn't have a choice to be "normal". Sometimes joining the circus is the only choice for people who get rejected by society for being themselves. I'm sure Major Mite knows it. I'm sure Sky High Jack Earl knows it. But looking unhappy isn't going to get the circus any more customers, so for now, they fake it. They hide their sorrow for just a few moments.

Blog Assignment #2

The essay I chose for this blog assignment is "Demetria Martinez's "Inherit the Earth; The Things They Carried". A quote that grabbed my attention was the second sentence of "The Things They Carried".
"At First Christian Church in Tucson, a museum-quality display hold, among a number of objects, the following: empty plastic water jugs, a backpack, a baby bottle, soap, Colgate toothpaste, a hairbrush, a sardine can, a sock and used AeroMexico tickets."
I found this sentence interesting because of the string of items in the display hold. They are ordinary objects found in a home. It made me wonder why exactly the items were on display.  The first sentence of "Inherit the Earth" also caught my attention.
"The Arizona sun is melting like a pat of butter on the mountain flanks Tucson's west side."
The line made me imagine butter melting on a pan. It was almost as if I was there watching the sun set.  The last line "The desert holds letters lost or left behind. "I love you," reads a handwritten letter in Spanish. "I need you... I hope that very soon we can be together forever." This line ended the essay in a very good way. It shows the the large amounts of loved ones lost in the journey through the desert.
The writer's story attracted me because I am familiar with stories of immigration. Being latino, I think I can relate better to latinx writers.