My name is Meylin Murillo and I live in downtown Oakland, CA.

Where I grew up there were a lot of trees,dust, fruits,animals and almost most of the people only use flip flops and the people the live there do not have that much of fancy clothes.

I describe myself as a shy, honest, happy, and funny person that loves to be nice and to help people.

As a daughter I describe myself as a helpful daughter and sometimes annoying.

Some of my aspects of my identity are that i love pizza, i love to play soccer, and that my favorite soccer team is Barcelona.

First of all I put a picture showing what Dominant Narrative is, I put a picture of Donald Trump. I put a picture of Donald Trump as one of my Dominant Narrative  because it shows how mean he is and what bad things he says about Latin people but i think he talks bad about latin people because he has more power than us and we have less. I also put 2 more pictures describing Dominant Narrative, and one of the pictures were one girl talking bad about soccer, sometimes people would not like a game but that doesn’t mean they have to be talking bad of it because every people has different choices so nobody has the right to say bad things about other people’s thoughts or feelings. The other picture i put of Dominant Narrative was a rich guy talking bad about poor people he says “ that rich people don’t like to be around poor people” but that’s mean because it doesn’t matter if you are poor or rich God make all the people in the world equal but sometimes some people has more privileges than others. I think that people shouldn’t say nothing about others because that can happen to them too and they would not feel good or like when  people would say things like that about them. When i see this pictures I didn’t got mad but i got kind of sad because I think that sometimes even big people act with no mature. They just say things bad because they always want to feel bigger than us. 

First of all I put 3 pictures showing Counter Narrative, one of the pictures that I put to show Counter Narrative was a girl with a poster that said “ Donald Trump is racist” I put that picture because it shows how some people respond to what people that has more powerful than us treat us. I put this picture because I think that what it says on the poster is true. I also put a picture showing that not all people would like soccer but a lot of people do. Soccer for some people and me is like a part of our heart because when we have problems and bad things are happening to us we can at least forget it a little. The last pictures I put was a picture that says that sometimes people that has more than us or more power says bad things of people that has less to make them feel even better but sometimes they are having more trouble than the people that has less. This images make me feel good because I feel that this pictures really go with me, they make me feel proud of myself and how I am. 

The images that I put inside of my shadowbox were pictures that describe me on what I like and things that I love to do. For example I put a picture of my favorite soccer team that was Barcelona. Barcelona describe me because I think is the best team ever and I also love to play soccer and it’s my favorite team. I also put a picture of Candy, she is a girl.  When I use to be small I use to watch it every day and almost all the time, It was my favorite T.V show and

I still like it. I also put some pictures of my favorite book because I really like that book and it was the first book I read in this country. I put a lot of pictures that describe me and what I love to do. All this images affect me in a really good way because they all make me feel proud of myself and make me who I am.

In conclusion I think people might say about me that I might be a normal girl because I’m kind 

of quiet when I don’t have my friends around me. I describe myself as a not normal person because sometimes I get crazy for nothing or just by being surrounded by my friends and also because when I don’t have my friends I act like a normal girl. Telling the story of who I really am is important because they might not tell all the truth so it would be important to me to tell the truth so nothing would put me down or a lied. What I learn in this unit is that Counter Narrative is when you tell your side of the story and Dominant Narrative is when somebody that has more power than you tell a story about you that is not all of it true.