I Dream A World

Their is alot of people who've wanted to change the world, and have. The simplist words have changed the way the world to make it to where it is today. Abraham Lincon changed the way the new world was when whites dominated and took blacks in as slaves. Martin Luther King Jr. said a great speech yet again to stop segragation of people. The United States of America changed that not only will white men reign as president but elected a Black President. And just the other day my english teacher told me about another man who wanted to change the world from what he saw... to what he wanted it to be. A man named Langston Hughes (1902-1967), a african-american/ native american/ white man born in Harlem New York. Mr. Langston Hughes is a man of knowledge when he writes a poem called "I Dream A World". In this poem I see not a man just sitting down in class doing this as an assignment but a man, no a person with a thought that the world should be a better place. When he wrote this, he wrote it in his day which was different from today. This poem still applies today but imagine what he wanted to change... he has no idea how it should really be changed now.

I dream a world
where man
No other man will scorn,
Where love will bless the earth
And
peace its paths adorn.
I dream a world where all
Will know sweet freedom's
way,
Where greed no longer saps the soul
Nor avarice blights our day.
A
world I dream where black or white,
Whatever race you be,
Will share the
bounties of the earth
And every man is free,
Where wretchedness will hang
its head
And joy, like a pearl,
Attends the needs of all mankind--
Of
such I dream, my world!

(Langston Hughes)

 

 

 

A School For Dangerous Girls

A School for Dangerous girls is exactly what your thinking right now, it is infact a school for dangerous girls. A school for girls who have done something bad; In society, In school, At home or maybe some girls arn't really bad but its other people who think they are. They can be sent to this school for the biggest crimes in the book like Murder, Assult and Battery, Drugs, Attempt Suicide, Manslaughter, and some other really bad and exciting crimes. Or they could of done nothing less then get in an argument with their parents, get bad grades, or be "too close" to their bestfriend, something that is really boring and shouldn't be sent to a private school for. As a young teen Angela Cardenas gets sent to this school for dangerous girls called Hidden Oak. When she arrives she finds out that it isn't just a regular private school but more like a prision, a psycologists office, a insane assylem, or soon to be. The school's mission is very clear when Angela first gets there and that is " To take girls who've caused trouble and to reform them into model citizens". The first month of the school is orientation, not just a regular talk about how the school works but proof of it and to make sure the girls are ready to go into the main school. The girls can't have any of their stuff, they get new uniforms for the year and it is mandatory to go see your psycologist daily to see who you really are and what not. The school not only has that but their P.E. is like a boot camp to go into war, starting with the fatty's. During this first month Angela finds new friends and trys to stay Angela Free world and not Angela Trapped. The first days were hard because Angela was not a girl to be tampered with, and when she found friends that could be her friends like Carmen Pope and Juin Carpenter she started to feel not so locked up. Juin was a crazy bitch who had been there before and knew the ropes, they had all gotten really close and came up with the coven. The coven that would sneek out on saterdays and just relax. When finally the end of the month was coming up and girls slowly started dissapearing... When Angela finally got taken away she found out that they were slowly moving girls into the main school, and found out that she was on Gold Thread thinking it was for the goody too-shoes and the Purple Threads were the girls who were bad to thee bone. The gold threaders were the girls who got a little bit more freedom then the purple because the administration thought the purple threads would contaminate the other girls who they thought could reform into model citezen. Angela had not wanted anything to do with it. She also started to worry about Juin and someothers when her and her friends decided to look for them. When one day they were found locked away in another building crying for help. A later day came that when Angela got into alot of itty bitty troubles the administration decided to purple thread her. When she got down there she found out it was a war zone, a mini gang-land every girl for herself. Down there the teachers would only come once a day for two hours. Finally after going insane from all the crazy shit going on in that abondon building her and her friends from the purple thread and gold thread decided to break out....

Colors

In America there is every different color of people. Also in America all colors are welcome but recently in the year 2010 there is many problems facing colors or should I say race. Some of the big problems facing certain people in the U.S are there is going to be an opening of a Islamic Mosque in New York City a few blocks away from Ground Zero, and because of it a prist in Florida is having a burning of the Quran; The bible of the islamic people.

Everyone knows the reason why ground zero is called ground zero. It is a memorial site for all the people who died in the attack from Alcida, it is very respected by all people because of it. During the recent months a group of islamic people living in New York wanted to build a religious site for them to worship and just be in their own culture away from their culture, they call it a Mosque. The problem that have people have and makes them all crazy is that the mosque is going to be a few blocks away from ground zero. People think it's a bad idea because people don't really know who crashed the planes into the twin towers except that they were islamic and having an islamic religous building a few blocks away from ground zero would be disrespectful to those who died. Also with our president having a islamic backround agreed and the people now think that Mr. President is on their side and not americas. During all of this some people care roughly about it and some people care but dont think its a huge deal. One man in Ganesville Florida took it to the heart and thought it was wrong of letting the islamic group do that and thinks they should be in hell for it. So what Pastor Terry Jones decided to do to show the islamic community the they weren't the only ones who could cause damage to another culture he would have a big book burning of the Quran on the day of September 11th the day that 9/11 happened. So if people thought that the mosque was a big deal they had no idea what was a big deal when this happened, but what was worse? All people didn't know what to think when they heard about this, about how both of these tied together. With this big contraversy would it cause other things to link to it or would it just push other problems to be bigger problems, like the new law in Arizona that all immagrants have to be deported, or that our president is black and some people think that don't think thats right or any other problem facing race.

Why is it that this is a free country where all people are created equal and that Abraham Lincon fixed that colored people can work together, that Martin Luther King Jr stopped racism and all this happen so long ago but still to this day racism is still happening to this day. Its a bit different now because colors can work together and be together but it's still happening even though people don't think that it is. But what can we do about this? 

The Mutha Freaken New York Times!!!

The United States for the last nine years has been in a war with Iraq, Afghanistan and maybe some other Middle Eastern countries. During the war the U.S has been in tremendous trouble because of it. It has caused so much debt to the U.S and put many people out of their jobs and houses, Businesses had trouble keeping the business going and many people were living in poverty. This Poverty in the U.S is said to be one of the worst crisis's since the Great Depression.

The Recent New York Times says that the "Poverty Rate Rose Sharply In 2009, says Senses Bureau". Its says that 4 million Americans found or one in seven people found themselves living in poverty in 2009, and the million that weren't in poverty by expanded unemployment and other assistants. The rate of the poverty reached its highest since 1994. People have started living with family or even friends or some people find roommates (roommates, more then one) to live with. All people have been effected by this, Blacks, Whites and Hispanics and everyone in between, but what have they been doing to survive and how is the Government going to fix the dramatic increase? The New York Times also says that Government benefits like food stamps and tax credits, which can provide hundreds or even thousands of dollars in extra income, are not included in calculating whether a family’s income falls above or below the poverty line, but raises the cost in housing, medical care and energy without considering large regional differences of all of the raises in cost. To help this situation the Federal Government will issue an alternate calculations next year that will include important non cash and after-tax income and also account for regional differences in the cost of living.

To me this means that there are no jobs, not nearly as much housing or money to go around for all the people in the world. The Depression was long but America made sacrifices and got through it, but I'm not sure that with the way the world is today no one will work together to get out this poverty. Hopefully the Government comes up with ideas and works together if not everyone is going to be savages in the streets. RAWR.

Religion, Culture and Literature... One Big Happy Meal

Religion is when you believe in something higher than you, like god or a superbeing or something that is the cause of nature and the purpose of the universe.

Culture is the way you were raised and where, what you believe in, what you do and how you do it.

Literature is anything that is written down, or read, or some literature is even spoken.
How does Religion, Culture and Literature relate to everything and where did it all start?
In the beginning of time all Cultures like Egypt, Rome, Greece all had religious beliefs. They had a god or gods that they thought was higher then them to believe in, like a little kid believes in a superhero. They also had a way of communicating like writing and speaking with each other in their own way, this being their literature. In every culture how did all this writing and believing start? I think it all started just as an accident because no one knows who the first people were so you can't say that it was one Culture that started it all. The accident being that a group of people needed to communicate with each other to keep on living or else they wouldn't know what to do, with out the talking or maybe hand movements and mumbling life wouldn't of came this far. So after they discovered how to communicate, the group of people probably thought that there was something else out there making everything in the world happen, like natural disasters or just simple things like rain and wind. This could of been the basis of religion because they believed that something bigger was making all this happen, God or Gods. The praising for the gods all started because of something that the people needed like rain for their crops or for strength for their hunters or something like that, and with all this happening to this group they needed to write down what was going on in their lives. This is where I think the cave paintings and stuff like the hieroglyphics came in to tell stories about the lives of the people.
The literature told what happened to the group, like what they believed in and how their culture was thus making religion, culture, and literature all one in their own way.

My Famous Haiku

A Haiku is a Japanese way to write poems. There's two ways to write these poems one way is three lines of 5,7,5 syllables. Or there's three lines of 17 syllables.

My Haiku is three lines of 17.

Green, Blue, Gray, Brown with White around see what happens in any weather.

Black or White and everything in between all dance their own salsa.

Add some color here and there, throw in a Cha Cha and live your life now.

Where The Heart Is

A young girl name Novalee Nation who has issues with sevens is now seventeen and seven months pregnant. Novalee and her boyfriend who is also the father of the child, Willy Jack are on there way to California so they can start a new life. Novalee's Future life consists of a beautiful house with a perfect family, but Willy Jacks future life consists of going to Cali to get a job at the railroad and cut off his finger so he can get a big check. On the way to California from Tennessee in a beat up car with no floor on the passengers side, no AC and Novalee being pregnant needed the bathroom 24/7 they finally stopped at a Wal-Mart, she went in to use the bathroom and buy new shoes and when she paid for her items her change was Seven dollars and seventy seven cents ($7.77) and suddenly she had a cold shiver down her spine and started to run out the door when she already knew Willy Jack was gone, he had left her.
A few months went by and she had been living in the Wal-Mart and she had met some new friends in the town, but one special night from coming back from a friends she had layed down and felt a sudden pain in her stomach and then it was time for the baby to come, but she was in shock and couldn't do much, when her friend came bursting through the door of the Wal-Mart to her aid. She woke in the hospital with her baby now born. The owner of Wal-Mart came to see her to offer her a job she accepted, she got tons of letters from people she didn't know with either money inside or gifts or even a few threats. After she got sent home her friend Sister Husband let her stay with her where eventually lived there for the next few years and even the rest of her life. The little girls name was Americus Nation and she even had issues with sevens. Seven months old she got stolen and left out in the cold, Seven years old her dad came back to see Novalee and her. In a tornado Sister Husband died and left the land and a big check to Novalee and Americus to rebuild the house and they did and lived there for the rest of their days.
As for Willy Jack he got sent to jail, and wrote a song while in there and got out and became famous then he got into drugs and lost his label and so after that he went crazy and fell in to a trains way and lost both of his legs. Some how he made it back to Oklahoma to see his daughter and Novalee but she got to him before he got to her and in the end made peace with eachother and took him back home.

Show and Tell

Show and Tell is a day where you take something you want to show to all your friends, this thing has to be really cool that everyone in class will say "wow I want that" or "thats so cool".  Show and Tell usually takes place when your in Elementry School or sometimes in Middle School. When were little we think everything is special and we want to show it all, but now that were older we actually know what we really think is special.

My something special is a silver ring with a red ruby at the top and words that are engraved around the ruby that say United States Army. The reason it's so special to me is because my dad gave it to me. I don't really look at it or tell anyone that I have it, its just a thing that I have and it's sort of special. 

The New Year....

This is where it starts.