Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Opression Essay

In my essay i will talk about times I've been opressed times other have been opressed and i will even compare. I will also talk about the word opression and what it means to be opressed just incase you haven't been through or exprienced it. Its just about everyday when someone is being opressed. So if you will listen closely then you will know what the word means and you will have a small feeling of how it feels to opressed.
Theres book i read the name of it is called The Black boy. He was a kid that wrote a book and had a dream of writing a book. Well he did just that he wrote a book. No one had faith in him or did they think it was a good idea. His own family members even thought it was a bad idea his own mother even told him that he need to grow up and stop acting as if he was a kid. She also told him that he wasn't a kid anymore and that he should come to reality. The point of me telling you this is to tell you that was a way of opression cause his own family was trying to keep him down.
A time when i was opressed well ive been opressed a bunch of times. People often tell me that i cant make it to the nfl . I dont let any of it bother me because Iknow what im capable of doing. If i work hard i can make to the nfl on eof my favorite sayings is you are your own obstacle and i want let anyone stop me from doing my dream. Thats away that i have been opressed. I just dont show i cause i dont let that bother me at all.

Song Of A Bird

My mind is trapped and i feel as if im cursed
Never had freedom so i dont know how it feels to be hurt
I feel caged and want to be saved
Someone help me because i feel caged.
I cant wait until the day im free
I might as well be blind cause i cant see
what i want to that is.
Plus im always cautious because im afraid
Someone help me i feel caged.
No one knows my pain cause their not me.
Spend the day as me and you will see
Just how much it sucks to be me.
Every one on earth Should Cherish being free.
Cause you you wouldnt like to be me.
Someone help me because i feel caged.

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Our Lives No Longer Belong To Us

I agree with wiesel on that. if isee someone is in danger i wont just say kill me but if im trying to save him and i get killed in the doing then ol weel

Night Describing Charaters

In the story night there was there was this guy that you would call a block leader. he wsant mean to the people at all. In fact he was a very cool person. Midway through the book he told some of the people about the selection and that they must get completeley undressed and that they would have to go in one by one. He said once you get through one of the rooms dont walk slowly run as fas tas you can run as if the devil was behind you and dont look back.he was very cool guy he helped them out and gave pointers and tips when he didnt have to. So that was the block leader and thats my character desciption for the block leader in the story Night.

Black Boy Dear Readers

Hi. My name is Richard Wright. Im a african american. Im still in school and i dont often get into alot of trouble. I wrote a book and other dont seem to think that it was a good idea no one supported me i had no help and no one thought it was a good idea for me to write a book but i did. my own parents even thought i was crazy and told me that i need to grow up and that it was time that i stop acting like a little kid and be serious. I thought it would be interesting for me to write a book since no one believed in me so thats what i did hope you all enjoy.

Black Boy Analyzing Dialouge

The dialouge that i chose was the one when the little black boy and his family had a conversation about him writing a story and it being published. In the dialouge the boy was talking about his book to another kid that he knew. They was talking and the boy basked him hey you didnt get that book published did you. He replied who told you to do that. He said nobody and the other little boy said well if no one told you to do it then why did you do it. Even his family questioned him about the book. Not just that his own mother asked him whotold you to wwrite that book she told him that he is getting older and that it was time that he acted like he was. She alsom said by writing those stories your only making a fool of yourself. I chose that dialouge because it was funny how back then they thought you was crazy for writing and how they got in trouble for it but now days kids take it for granite.

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Biogarphy

The biography that i read is on Cornell Hayes better known as nelly a former graduate of University City High School. I chose to review nelly's biography because i think hes a great rapper and he seems like a very cool person. Not to mention he graduated from the same highschool that i attend . So i thought it would be cool for me to learn about one of our local celebrities. Thats why i thought it would be cool for me to talk about his life.
When Nelly was a toddler he lived in spain until he was about three years old. Thats when he moved from spain to st. louis and started school at the age of seven nellys parents got into a divorce and not just that nelly admitted that use to get into alot of fights and troulbe as a child cause hungout with alot of the older guys. Well that was atleast he was always in trouble until got to highschool and realized his talents and love for the game of baseball. Not only was he good at baseball he was great i mean for a while it looked like he was going to be a baseball player straight out of highschool until he realiized he could rap as well.
It wasnt long after he figured out that he could rap before he made a group named the St.lunatics. after nelly and his group was established two years later he dropped a single called gimmie what you got and sold almost 10,000 copies nelly continued the st lunatics while playing shortstop for the st.louis amateur baseball association. If he would have continued playing he would have went pro in baseball but shortly before going pro he was signed and he got his big break.
Once nelly got his big recording deal with universal it wasnt long before he blew up and became this big star that he is now. Shortly after that he dropped a album called country grammer and that shipped patinum then double platinum and so on after that and thats how nelly became the big star and role model that he is to this day.