Intro

My name is Mireya and I am a senior at ASU. I chose my first name as my blog handle first of all because it is such a unique name and I am pretty sure no one in the class has it. I think that it really points out that I am from another place other than the U.S. however it also gives a bit of interesting perspective about me.
I am a Justice Studies major with two minors in sociology and political science and if the opportunity comes I would like to attend Law school next year. If it does not happen then I will get my masters in Legal studies from the Sandra D’ Law School also here in ASU. I am packed with excitement however a bit paranoid because it is my first time doing a blog and after all the confusion I just got this sort of down which is why I am barely posting it, not because I am slacking. I am doing my best at attempting to manage full-time work, 15 credit hours, and an intern that I just got this Monday for a nonprofit organization. I also have at home a 13 month year old who seems like I don’t know three kids in have other responsibilities which involve a youth ministry in a local church close to ASU. Which is why this class seemed interesting to take.
I know and acknowledge my roles as women, a wife, a mother, a daughter, a student, and an employee. I would like to understand and identify from this class some of the basic things that I live in my everyday life by reflecting on stories and theory that speak to me. The women of the 21^st century that is not just at her house but making things happen. I hope to be and learn more of how I can also affect history and future women of my society.
One of the first things that came to my mind when I can think of the past roles of women is the movie MONA LISA SMILES, it is clear of the injustice. The idea of a woman was set as a role model that had nothing to say just to do as her husband said. Work was just unbearable. I think justice is a notion of understand and having a choice which gives dignity to a person. Some issues of justice that I am concerned of are family, work, immigration. First of all of these issues have impacted me in some way personally. Justice is not vengeance it is finding true meaning of dignity in a person. For example. I took a class about Immigration and justice and I saw well first at hand from family members and in the class how at time we tend to scrutinize people and better yet label them as legal and illegal being so that all are human. Justice is an act that gives dignity and sometimes entails the truth but at times our judgments are beyond a clear view of what has to be done… Going fort to the injustices. I will use the same example with immigration. Students that I know of here in ASU were born in other countries other than the United States however lived all of their lives and gone through the school system until entering a university level, in order to continue with school some have to pay more than 10,000 dollars in tuition for just one semester, I really don’t see the justice in a person who is out of state can automatically become instate after being in the state for a year or two and then having the privilege of paying in state tuition while a student that has been living in the state but is “illegal” has to pay as much or more. I don’t see the justice in that.
I believe that there are still inequalities in how women are treated. As a mother and being married I can sense in ways that there are injustices. Employers might think that I might ask for days off or not be on time due to the fact that I have children. Also maybe in government or state jobs I think there might be inequalities just due to gender. Engineering is one that I have seen more inequalities. I used to help my mom in a cleaning company that she has and she clean and managed a engineering firm and I just saw 3 women out im guessing 100 employees. The bathrooms where around 10 and only 1 was for women. There is still a notion that women can only get into some areas or fields. I know that when I got into justice studies my area of interest was to work for the DEA and my mother told me it was too dangerous for me. I never really asked her whether it was due to my gender or in general. Hopefully I will understand both injustice and justices this way I can be aware of both and actually act towards them.