Tuesday, December 14, 2010
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I had a pretty good weekend. On Friday i went to my lake house with my parents. All i did was sit in my room and play video games but there is nothing else to do in the winter anyway. I hate cold weather, it puts me in a bad mood. On Saturday i went to my cousins for his mom's graduation party. It was pretty cool but i felt like i was babysitting the whole time cause there was a lot of little kids there. The food wasnt that great which was a huge dissapointment because that was the whole reason why i wanted to go. On saturday night i went to my friend Richards house and we chilled with a lot of cool people. That was a really fun night. On Sunday i didnt really do anything but sit around and be lazy but thats what Sundays are for anyways. Today in class Mr. Potter said that there is something cool going on for class tomorrow so thats cool.
Monday, December 6, 2010
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My weekend was pretty fun but just another average weekend. In class we are talking about gay people and how they are mistreated. My group chose military to talk about but some of the other options were school and religion i think. In our story we read about two gay guys joined the military and after a while one of the guys confessed being gay. They were both discharged from the military. This makes no sense to me. Being gay or straight has nothing to do with the way you perform in the military. To me they are taking away human rights when they say you cant be in the military when you are gay. Its really not fair that those men were discharged from the military. The discussions in class are pretty interesting and make english more enjoyable we should have them more.
Monday, November 29, 2010
human rights
Nightjohn takes place on a slave plantation. The main characters are Sarny and John. Sarny is and average african american girl who is interested in learning. One day John comes along and is brought into the plantation. When John asks for some chewing tobacco, Sarny makes a deal that John will teach her for the tobacco she gives him. So letter by letter John teaches Sarny how to sound out letters and then put words together. John was once free but returned to the south for this very reason. To teach other african americans how to read. Sarny's mom mammy sees John teaching Sarny and he hits him and tells him to stop. She says that she will get in trouble for trying to learn but John convinves mammy that it is the right thing to do.
Mascot is a story about a boy named Malcom X. Malcom first tries to be a boxer but after losing twice he was very embarassed. His actions got him sent to a reform school where he there became a mascot where he was not really of the other students. He did very well in this school getting good grades and having good relationships with some of his teachers. But he does not feel that they treat him like a person but a mascot.His half sister comes to visit him form Boston. He starts to look up to her. Then later has a chance to go visit her and when he does he feels a great sense of community with other black people that he has never felt before. He tells his teacher Mr. Ostrowski that he wants to be a lawyer and his teacher tells him to be realistic and that its not going to happen. Malcom ends up moving to Boston with his half sister where he is happy.
The movie the great debaters, Nightjohn, and Mascot all relate because they deal with african americans and how they are treated unfairly. They are not recieving the human rights that they deserve. In Nightjohn and the great debaters they are trying to make a change to being treated so unfairly. In nightjohn John is trying to help out other african americans by teaching them how to read. In the great debaters they say how they are treated so unfairly in their debates. In Nightjohn there was slavery taking place but not in the other two. Extreme racism takes place in all three of these stories. The great debaters and Mascot both deal with Boston. Harvard is in Boston and that is where the final debate is at where they beat Harvard. In Mascot Malcom moves to Boston to live with his sister. These stories show that african americans did not recieve human rights.
Mascot is a story about a boy named Malcom X. Malcom first tries to be a boxer but after losing twice he was very embarassed. His actions got him sent to a reform school where he there became a mascot where he was not really of the other students. He did very well in this school getting good grades and having good relationships with some of his teachers. But he does not feel that they treat him like a person but a mascot.His half sister comes to visit him form Boston. He starts to look up to her. Then later has a chance to go visit her and when he does he feels a great sense of community with other black people that he has never felt before. He tells his teacher Mr. Ostrowski that he wants to be a lawyer and his teacher tells him to be realistic and that its not going to happen. Malcom ends up moving to Boston with his half sister where he is happy.
The movie the great debaters, Nightjohn, and Mascot all relate because they deal with african americans and how they are treated unfairly. They are not recieving the human rights that they deserve. In Nightjohn and the great debaters they are trying to make a change to being treated so unfairly. In nightjohn John is trying to help out other african americans by teaching them how to read. In the great debaters they say how they are treated so unfairly in their debates. In Nightjohn there was slavery taking place but not in the other two. Extreme racism takes place in all three of these stories. The great debaters and Mascot both deal with Boston. Harvard is in Boston and that is where the final debate is at where they beat Harvard. In Mascot Malcom moves to Boston to live with his sister. These stories show that african americans did not recieve human rights.
Sunday, November 21, 2010
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So my weekend was pretty fun. I went to my friends wedding and it was in Toledo. We stayed at this resort thing and i chilled with my cousin Tommy most of the time. There was a pool there and we went swimming for a while after the reception. there was also this raquetball room or something and we did that for a while. There was lots of good food there and that kind of stuff too. On friday i chilled with al alex and richard. We had a lot of fun playing games and stuff like that. Im pretty excited that we only have a two day week and then a super long weekend with a lot of good food like turkey and stuff. That sounds so amazing right now im pretty hungry so im going to go eat see ya.
Monday, November 15, 2010
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Its monday, so another week of school is starting. Sounds like so much fun. I am excited for this weekend because it is my cousins wedding. I am going to be looking pretty nice and hopefully have a great time. It is out of town so i will be gone the whole weekend wich means i cant chill with any friends so that sucks but it will still be fun. We recently got our grade cards back and i got a three point six grade point average. I am pretty happy with my grades but i still know i can always do better. Hopefully i can get better at remembering to do these blogs because i never remember and it brings my grade down. Ill see you next time.
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
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okay, i keep forgeting to do these blogs so my grade is going to be horrible. But that book we read, 12 angry men was pretty good. Ive never really known about trials or jurys and it is interesting to find out about. If i was in the jury i would have voted not guilty at the beginning like one of the dudes. I forget what juror he was but i agreed with his thoughts and how nothing was definitely true. Im curious to see what we do next in english. I just bought this sweet watch today. Its so sick ive been wanting to get one for a while and i got it. Awesome!
Monday, October 25, 2010
English
I am looking forward to watching the movie To Kill a Mockingbird. We are almost done reading To Kill a Mockingbird. It's a good book but I am looking forward to it being over. I went to my new lake house this weekend with my family. We played games and had a bonfire while we were there with my sister and her husband. When I got home I hung out with Drew and played video games. We made buffalo chicken pizza and just hung out with my sister Kelsey. Overall it was a pretty good weekend.
Sunday, October 17, 2010
english
I just finished reading chapter 11 and i thought it was pretty good. I think Jem learned a really good lesson with helping Mrs. Dubose. He also learned from Atticus too, like with the whole courage thing when he came right up to Mrs. Dubose and talked to her. Atticus seems like a very good father to scout and jem because he is always trying to make them better kids like when he made jem go that extra week to reed to Mrs. Dubose. He also leads by a positive example by supporting a black person in a case becasue thats what he believes is right and it doesnt matter that everyone else thinks he is a "nigger lover". I really dont want to wake up for school tomorrow
Sunday, October 10, 2010
english
Another post, ok so the research paper is done with and we have started to read the book To Kill a Mockingbird. So far it seems like a good book but have not gotten that far into it yet. This week coming up is only a three day week so im excited about that and im pretty sure we have early release on one of the days. I had a pretty good weekend although i did not go to homecoming. I've never gone to a homecoming and i dont really intend on it as i dont really enjoy dancing or that type of thing. My weekend consisted of sleeping in and sitting on the couch watching football. So it was really relaxing and i finally got some much needed sleep. Im ready for this week of school cause its going to be a quick one.
Sunday, October 3, 2010
english
Alright so my research paper is still not finished and it is almost midnight. This should be a long night, I still have to make changes to my final draft and print off some of my sources. But anyways, my weekend was pretty fun. Although i wish i would have worked on my research project besides just now. I chilled with my cousin Tommy for most of the weekend and we had a pretty good time. Ohio State did not look very good against Illinois yesterday, but they never do for some reason. I swear they play their best game of the year against OSU every year. I do not know what i am going to do about my research paper it is not quite long enough and i need to add some stuff to make it four pages. But at least after tonight i will not have to worry about it anymore. I just hope i can get a decent grade on it and not fail miserably. I am excited to read the book to kill a mockingbird because it is a classic book and i am looking forward to seeing what it is all about. Well it looks like i finished just in time. Now i have to get back to the research project.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
english
Finally this research project is almost over, all i have to do is type up my final draft. It really wasnt too terrible but im glad it is almost over with. Hopefully i get a good grade on it because i keep forgetting to do these blogs and it is probably bringing my grade down. Also, i have not done any responses so i need to get on that after i finish up this blog. So far this school year Mr. Potter is one of my favorite teachers because he is usually a chill dude and just lets us do what we need to do. I like that he doesn't lecture at all which is a nice change from my other classes. In my research paper im not really sure that the court made the right decision because no one was ever caught for the murder.
Sunday, September 19, 2010
english
I really dont like doing this research paper at all. It is very boring and serves no purpose what so ever. Who cares about a court case that has already passed. I just see the whole thing as an incredible waste of time. Either researching for the paper or typing this right now is probably the most annoying thing i have had to do so far for school. But as Mr. Potter put it this is going to be over with in three weeks and i wont have to worry about it ever again. Hopefully i can pull together on this research paper and get a decent grade. That would be most good.
Sunday, September 12, 2010
english class
After this week in english i realized that i enjoy fiction over non-fiction. In a fiction piece of writing anything can happen where as non-fiction is what really happened. But non-fiction can be interesting to, for example the story we read in class where the lady would make up stories to entertain herself. On another topic, it took me a while to choose a topic for writing my persuasive essay. I ended up feeling the most strongly about banning cigarettes. I feel very strongly about this topic because cigarettes are extremely bad for you and kill people every day. They are also very expensive, and people that are addicted are using so much of there money on something that is killing them.
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