The essay Silent Dancing was a little confusing to me, most of the time I couldn't tell who was talking to who. The speaker was changed too much without any kind of notice. Buut what I did get from it was that her father was extremely protective of his family, so much to the point that he didn't even want them to talk to people of the same nationalality. I found that very odd, because most people would rather talk to people of the same race, mainly for comfort though. I also saw that the mother didn't agree with this because she would still go to the smaller grocery stores around the neighborhood eventhough her husband told her not to.

I don't totally agree with Burklo's essay on "Houselessness and Homelessness" because not everybody is the same. He may see "homeless" people as being more houseless than homeless, but that's only his perspective. He doesn't know how those people feel about whether to say they are houseless or homeless, because more than likely to them they feel like they are both houseless and homeless. As for those people who have a house but spend most of their time in a hotel because of business, you have to consider the time that they are at home. They may feel more at home at their house no matter how little time they spend at home, it all depends on the persons opinion.