The beginning of my sophomore year of high school, I tried out for the school musical. It was an incredible experience that I would relive if I ever had the opportunity. During auditions I met many cool people that I never knew before. All of them had an affect on my life in some kind of way, and I would never forget them. One in particular that changed my life, was my now best friend forever Johari Mackey.
When I first met Johari we were auditioning for the school musical. We were in the dance portion of the audition, and I was and still am a horrible choreographer. I first noticed Johari because we were both next to each other at the back of the stage. I was impressed that she was just a freshman with so much talent being able to pick up dance steps so easily and perform them well also. Not only could she dance, but she had a voice to match! We really had great chemistry from the start. I’ve always liked to be around girls I could talk to who are not judgmental. It was amazing how Johari just got me, and I got her. Eventually, when the directors posted the people who made the cast, I was ecstatic that Johari and I made the cast! Are relationship was great before, but after the musical, our relationship grew even further.
As time went on as well as rehearsals, I noticed Johari and me spending more and more time together; on the bus, sitting together wherever we were. We spent so much time together that a boy asked us if we were boyfriend and girlfriend. I was about to answer no, until Johari came out and told him we were best friends. We have many things in common such as, our careers, and our colleges we want to go to, and the things we like to do in our free time.
After the musical was done and over, Johari and I decided to join the speech team. During this period, we spent Saturdays around each other. This was also the time I noticed how much Johari meant to me. It was an awkward feeling for a week or so because I had never in my life had a friend as close as her before, and I honestly couldn’t and still can’t imagine my life without her in it.
Now it is a new year, and Johari and I are still best friends forever. We have gotten into arguments about things, and sometimes some arguments were worse than others. However our friendship is real, so we learn how to forgive each other, and that’s what keeps our friendship strong. When I look back on this year and a half I’ve known Johari, I can’t believe that someone entered my life, and became so important to me like she did. When I think of how I met her and how I never expected someone like her to enter my life, I always think of the quote, “life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re going to get.”
Monday, January 26, 2009
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Bernice Bobs Her Hair!
"Bernice Bobs Her Hair" by F. Scott Fitzgerald teaches a very important lesson about superficial popularity, and the cruel pressures which demand that individuals conform to the standards of a social set. It was interesting to watch the development of the main character, a quiet, passive person who longed for popularity, then found it, then lost it, and finally became strong and independent. The story is about an eighteen-year old girl named Bernice who is visiting her snobbish cousin, Marjorie. At first, Bernice is considered boring and dull by Marjorie and her friends, because she can't make witty conversation and doesn't dress fashionably. Bernice finally agrees to let Marjorie teach her how to be popular. According to Marjorie's superficial formula for popularity, conversation must be carefully planned and rehearsed in order to shock and amuse the audience. For conversational purposes, Marjorie suggests that Bernice use the topic of bobbing her hair.
When I read this story, I can see how it can appeal to the audiences’ pathos. Many people have had problems with trying to be something they’re not, and would do almost anything to be popular even if that means losing themselves in the process. In this story, you can see that happening pretty quickly with Bernice. However, you can see why Bernice would want to change because of how her cousins treat her. Nobody wants to be the oddball in the crowd, and usually just wants to fit in and be like everyone else. From this story you can tell that F. Scott Fitzgerald knows what he is talking about with peer pressure and the urge to fit in, therefore establishing the credibility that he is trustworthy in the message he is trying to get across to the audience.
'Bernice Bobs Her Hair' is a story that incorporates sexuality and innocence at the same time. Indeed, the fundamental basis of this story is the concept of social acceptance, an idea that appears to escape the young woman's self-perception; as a means by which to draw attention to herself, she decides to do one of the most shocking things imaginable which is to cut her long tresses. This can show how this drastic cry for acceptance is one that Fitzgerald utilizes in order to demonstrate the lengths to which people will go to become one of the crowd, clearly illustrating the ethos and pathos of society.
When I read this story, I can see how it can appeal to the audiences’ pathos. Many people have had problems with trying to be something they’re not, and would do almost anything to be popular even if that means losing themselves in the process. In this story, you can see that happening pretty quickly with Bernice. However, you can see why Bernice would want to change because of how her cousins treat her. Nobody wants to be the oddball in the crowd, and usually just wants to fit in and be like everyone else. From this story you can tell that F. Scott Fitzgerald knows what he is talking about with peer pressure and the urge to fit in, therefore establishing the credibility that he is trustworthy in the message he is trying to get across to the audience.
'Bernice Bobs Her Hair' is a story that incorporates sexuality and innocence at the same time. Indeed, the fundamental basis of this story is the concept of social acceptance, an idea that appears to escape the young woman's self-perception; as a means by which to draw attention to herself, she decides to do one of the most shocking things imaginable which is to cut her long tresses. This can show how this drastic cry for acceptance is one that Fitzgerald utilizes in order to demonstrate the lengths to which people will go to become one of the crowd, clearly illustrating the ethos and pathos of society.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
II
1. Alliteration- the repitition of initial sounds in adjacent words or syllablesAllusion- An implied or indirect reference to literatureMetaphor- A figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between themSimile- A figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as
2. Abraham Lincolns Gettysburg Address. Because he's referring back to history and he is referring to Lincoln's desires for America during the reconstruction.
3. "unalienable Rights" of " Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happpiness"Bible: " and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together."
4. Let freedom ring; Go back
5. Justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.
6. Until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.
7. Allusion; As a reminder of what African Americans have been through. With torture and pains; the invisible chains or leashes held on colored people. One hundred years later they were still unable to live equally.
8. Go back; let freedom ring
9. To let the people know that this is eventually going to happen regardless of teh opposings' desires. To remind people of his vision as a dream.
10. King speaks of cashing a check that had insufficient funds. King makes us think about the wrongs taht have been done to colored people. He makes you think of the literal meaning of times and how its almost like he took the past to predict the future. It seems as though he was giving America a heads up off what was going to happen in the new millenium. He also referrs to the wrongs of wanting cash, the "freedom" check. Then going to cash it but it has insufficient funds meaning they didnt get the freedoms promised.
III
1. Kings dream was not only freedom for all but also to have equality amongst everyone. Though he was speaking as the voice of African Americans he also made it clear that he not only wanted a better life for the fellow people but also those of future generations and for everyone all around. He fought as a peace activist. However his great speech seemed to touch many peoples hearts, which is what it was meant for. It was meant to make people realize how they should want to live. His speech gave hope for people to also be brave. Peace was the main idea of his speech and was also the way that he wanted future people to live. He wanted what was promised for the people of America originally when the Declaration of Independence was signed. All his of his words were from sources such as the Bible and Gettysburg Address, to prove his words to be correct for what he was saying. He also wanted everyone to act together as one as THE United States.
2. Segregation, Discrimination, Stealing freedoms and rights from Negroes.
3.Having the rights to Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. However many people would take the American Dream to mean freedom and happines and riches and wealth. Many foreigners come to pursue the riches and fame or riches or even just more money then what they were getting in their country.
4. These are specific areas where acts of racial discrimination and segregation have happened. They could also be places where civil wrongs have been done such as a lynching. these are also southern areas where segregation was most popular.
5. Yes, because he was a man who fought for equal rights and he made it so plain without saying that the white man has done us wrong. He made that as an underlying meaning while keeping in mind his audience and who they are and the possible effects of him saying something wrong or racially corrupting. His speech gave many people faith that "We Shall Overcome Someday".
IV
1.The belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others.
2a. I believe that everyone has a conscience even if people does not like a person because of their skin color, I believe that deep inside themselves they still don't want any brutal pain and harm to come to that person. The KKK did many horrible things to southern blacks, which may have sparked the conscience of the rest of the country
2b.
3. I believe that todays skinheads are just as dangerous if not more dangerous than back in history. Skinheads today are not talked about and brought out in the public eye as much as it was back then, therefore, with this known by them, they feel like they can get away with anything, and feel that they are more superior to any other person. So yes, they are dangerous, if not more.
4. I believe that Kings' dream has been accomplished, and stepped on at the same time. You have African Americans and Caucasians getting along with each other, however Martin Luther King, as well as many other civil rights activists did not give there lives so that we could become thugs, gangsters, drug dealers, and dropouts. It makes me furious when I see thugs out on the street, and fighting, and killing each other. They don't realize the opportunity that they have to be somebody in this world. Its basically as if they don't even realize, or care that in the past it was almost impossible for black man, and especially a black woman, to get a propper education to make something with their lives, and to see them throw that away for drugs and "the thug life" is degrating not only to Martin Luther King, but to themselves.
What remains to be accomplished is the abolishment of racism. Although it may be something that will never be gone, it still is a need for this country. Also, we need to get people who does not want education within their lives, and doesn't strive to be something in this world, in some kind of system, because they make it that much harder for people who do try to be something and contribute to society. A perfect example is school. How you have the class clowns, and the diligent working students. The diligent working students could learn so much more if it wasn't for the class clowns interupting the class all the time.
1. Alliteration- the repitition of initial sounds in adjacent words or syllablesAllusion- An implied or indirect reference to literatureMetaphor- A figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between themSimile- A figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as
2. Abraham Lincolns Gettysburg Address. Because he's referring back to history and he is referring to Lincoln's desires for America during the reconstruction.
3. "unalienable Rights" of " Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happpiness"Bible: " and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together."
4. Let freedom ring; Go back
5. Justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.
6. Until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.
7. Allusion; As a reminder of what African Americans have been through. With torture and pains; the invisible chains or leashes held on colored people. One hundred years later they were still unable to live equally.
8. Go back; let freedom ring
9. To let the people know that this is eventually going to happen regardless of teh opposings' desires. To remind people of his vision as a dream.
10. King speaks of cashing a check that had insufficient funds. King makes us think about the wrongs taht have been done to colored people. He makes you think of the literal meaning of times and how its almost like he took the past to predict the future. It seems as though he was giving America a heads up off what was going to happen in the new millenium. He also referrs to the wrongs of wanting cash, the "freedom" check. Then going to cash it but it has insufficient funds meaning they didnt get the freedoms promised.
III
1. Kings dream was not only freedom for all but also to have equality amongst everyone. Though he was speaking as the voice of African Americans he also made it clear that he not only wanted a better life for the fellow people but also those of future generations and for everyone all around. He fought as a peace activist. However his great speech seemed to touch many peoples hearts, which is what it was meant for. It was meant to make people realize how they should want to live. His speech gave hope for people to also be brave. Peace was the main idea of his speech and was also the way that he wanted future people to live. He wanted what was promised for the people of America originally when the Declaration of Independence was signed. All his of his words were from sources such as the Bible and Gettysburg Address, to prove his words to be correct for what he was saying. He also wanted everyone to act together as one as THE United States.
2. Segregation, Discrimination, Stealing freedoms and rights from Negroes.
3.Having the rights to Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. However many people would take the American Dream to mean freedom and happines and riches and wealth. Many foreigners come to pursue the riches and fame or riches or even just more money then what they were getting in their country.
4. These are specific areas where acts of racial discrimination and segregation have happened. They could also be places where civil wrongs have been done such as a lynching. these are also southern areas where segregation was most popular.
5. Yes, because he was a man who fought for equal rights and he made it so plain without saying that the white man has done us wrong. He made that as an underlying meaning while keeping in mind his audience and who they are and the possible effects of him saying something wrong or racially corrupting. His speech gave many people faith that "We Shall Overcome Someday".
IV
1.The belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others.
2a. I believe that everyone has a conscience even if people does not like a person because of their skin color, I believe that deep inside themselves they still don't want any brutal pain and harm to come to that person. The KKK did many horrible things to southern blacks, which may have sparked the conscience of the rest of the country
2b.
3. I believe that todays skinheads are just as dangerous if not more dangerous than back in history. Skinheads today are not talked about and brought out in the public eye as much as it was back then, therefore, with this known by them, they feel like they can get away with anything, and feel that they are more superior to any other person. So yes, they are dangerous, if not more.
4. I believe that Kings' dream has been accomplished, and stepped on at the same time. You have African Americans and Caucasians getting along with each other, however Martin Luther King, as well as many other civil rights activists did not give there lives so that we could become thugs, gangsters, drug dealers, and dropouts. It makes me furious when I see thugs out on the street, and fighting, and killing each other. They don't realize the opportunity that they have to be somebody in this world. Its basically as if they don't even realize, or care that in the past it was almost impossible for black man, and especially a black woman, to get a propper education to make something with their lives, and to see them throw that away for drugs and "the thug life" is degrating not only to Martin Luther King, but to themselves.
What remains to be accomplished is the abolishment of racism. Although it may be something that will never be gone, it still is a need for this country. Also, we need to get people who does not want education within their lives, and doesn't strive to be something in this world, in some kind of system, because they make it that much harder for people who do try to be something and contribute to society. A perfect example is school. How you have the class clowns, and the diligent working students. The diligent working students could learn so much more if it wasn't for the class clowns interupting the class all the time.
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