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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