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Kiah Rothschild 9-12-11   Reflection paper I choose my paper after reading the Language article by bell hooks. The discussion of how language holds power over a person really stood out to me after looking at the paper topic under power and inequality. I felt I could pull out many good points from the article that would fit perfectly under power and inequality. Our class did a workshop group that really helped me because I was able to get ideas from my classmates that I did not think of myself. One major new piece of information I got was how slavery was a language in its self. I never thought of it to be a type of language till it was brought to my attention. My paper changed by some of my old comments I realized were not qualified to be seen as a fair statement to make, so I rephrased them to make them qualified. Most importantly I loved how in my paper I was able to prove how African Americans used the white men weapon against them by learning their ways and making it work for blacks in a good way.