When first discussing this, I thought, I really don’t care if mascots are portrayed as Indian warriors, bulls, or dolphins. It’s just a mascot if you ask me, and it doesn’t make fun on the Indians, it uplifts them and makes them seem strong. But now that I’ve thought about it and looked at it from and Indians perspective, it’s kind of unjust. All Indians aren’t warriors and they all don’t hunt and feast and live in huts 9as I once thought). They’re people, but they’re being put in the same categories as animals. Most mascots are animals and personally I wouldn’t like to be placed on the same level as an animal. It’s degrading me as a person, and as a race. I thought that if someone was to make a mascot of a black strong man it would kind of offend me, especially if the person who acts as the mascot wasn’t African American. Then I would feel like African Americans are being made fun of. So I feel that you can only really despise the Mascot if it really offends you individually. At first I would’ve never even paid the Mascot any attention because first of all it has nothing to do with basketball, the only sport I watch, and it’s not and African American. So I feel as if I cannot really criticize something that has nothing to do with me. I just feel like it should only be offensive to Indians, and if they don’t complain then neither should we who are not Indians.
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American Dream Comparison for The Great Gatsby and A Raisin in the Sun
The Great Gatsby and A Raisin in the Sun shared similar American Dreams. The characters motives seemed cohesive in each story, being that in both stories, the main characters had a dream, and all of their actions were based upon getting that dream to become reality. Tom and daisy Buchanan wanted to live a fancy, flashy, rich and happy lifestyle. To make that come true, Tom, kept the fanciest cars, lived in the “better egg”, and associated himself with high class people. Daisy decided to live a happy life by spending time with Gatsby, who made her happier than Tom. Tom went so far as to make Wilson think Gatsby killed his wife, so that his life wouldn’t defer to the level of Wilson’s. He put that thought into Wilson’s head and Wilson killed himself and Gatsby, while to and Daisy went on enjoying their lives. In A Raisin in the Sun Walter wanted so badly to not be poor. He wanted to be able to give his son, wife, mother, and sister everything they wanted and needed. So he decided that even though his mother wanted him to make a wise move with the family’s money, that he’d go out and invest it all, even the money that was going to pay for his sister’s college. So, in both stories the dreams that the characters have push them to do crazy things! They’re pushed to their limits by their dreams, but sometimes when you want something so bad you’ll do anything to get it.
But being that both of the stories took place in two different time frames, two different settings, and under two different circumstances, the American Dreams were fairly different. In The Great Gatsby having money was a usual thing, it wasn’t an American Dream it was just a part of their everyday life. In A Raisin in the Sun, Walter’s family was all African Americans, in a “white-owned” society. During those times, for blacks, to be rich, was definitely an American Dream. In one scene where Walter gave his son a few quarters his wife became upset, because she knew they couldn’t afford to just give their son that type of money. They needed every penny in their household. So wanting to be rich was surely a Dream, and Walter was certain to make it come true. Walter seemed to think money made you happier. Whereas in The Great Gatsby most of the main characters had money, but they were looking for happiness. For instance Tom and Daisy were married, with a child, and riches, but they weren’t happy because they were both having affairs. Walter’s mother just wanted a peaceful family and a nice home with rooms. She didn’t care too much for the money, only if it would get her the nice home she wanted. But when Nick described the luxuries of Gatsby’s home, like a gold toilet seat, it lets you know just how different the two American Dreams were. But no matter how different they were, both stories had characters who would kill and steal to get where they wanted to be in life,
Reflection - American Dream
Throughout the process of this American Dream project I've learned many things. One was that there are very different thoughts on what the American dream is within my community. Many people thought that the American Dream varied with age, and it did, but the American Dream mostly relied on personal experiences and personal views. YOU have to first decide what you want out of life, and that determines YOUR American Dream. If you only want small things like a regular nice home, and children, I don't think accomplishing that would be hard. But for me, I want to be a millionaire, a doctor, and maybe one day open my own hospital. So, to make that happen i have to work above and beyond hard. But overall doing this project i learned that only YOU can be your downfall and only YOU can rise to the occasion and make it happen.
American Dream Project Proposal
What neighborhood do you live in?
- Living the "flashy" lifestyle
- Having all the most fashionable clothes, shoes, and cars.
- Hunger of wanting to be rich
- Garfield Community - near ktown
How would you describe your neighborhood and how do you plan on exploring its unique personality?
- My neighborhood is prodominantly filled with African Americans. Everybody knows everybody, and everyone has grown up with one another over the years. I live near ktown where the blocks are hard to differentiate if you havent been here before. Everyone is familiar with one another and there is a scarce of new faces. A lot of teens in the area go to neighborhood highschools, and they're really the community. The children make the neighborhood. There's a fire station in the neighborhood, old town houses, and some modern houses. Parks and schools are old and rundown. The neiughborhood itself is in need of a makeover. There are boys on every corner, and as for every boy you see on the corner there's a cop.
Who are you going to interview?
- Cheron Massonburg (mother)
- Montrell Bowgan ( 17yr old boy in the neighborhood)
-other
What are the Demographics of your area?
- African American community
- Rarely any new people move here
- A bunch of abandoned buildings
- old houses
What parts of the American Dream do you think are present in your neighborhood?
- Living the "flashy" lifestyle
- Having all the most fashionable clothes, shoes, and cars.
- Hunger of wanting to be rich
American Dreammmmm.
Hadiyah Pendleton is a fifth teen year old girl who was murdered on her way home from school one afternoon. She was mistaken for a gang member and shot in killed. I though this article related to the American dream because my idea of the American dream is a society where there’s peace and everyone is just striving to get what they don’t have or what they dream of one day receiving. A child loosing their lives wasn’t what I had in mind when thinking of the ideal “American dream”.
Freedom was one thing that I thought was apart of the American dream, but who wants freedom in a world full of violence. Things like this make me wish there was still a feudal system, so that I’d have a king or vassal as my protector. I was thinking of the American dream and only happy things came to mind. For me the America dream is a fairytale lifestyle, where you are living the wealthiest life, but I forgot gruesome acts like Hadiyah’s murder happen everyday.
How can we have a fairytale like life when we can’t even conquer peace no fairytales end with a young fifth teen year old girl dying, by the hands of another human being? So compar4ing this to the American dream makes me re-think my vision of what should be the American dream. I think a more realistic ideal would be a society with more protection and peace. Maybe once we pass those marks then wealth, maids, equality, and everything else imaginable would be a plausible American dream.
Favorite Scary Movie
My favorite scary movie would have to be the new released thriller, Mama. In this movie two little girls are basically kidnapped from their father who murdered their mom, but he knows he can't run for long with the girls so he attempts to kill them, but some mysterious ghost kills him before he can. The girls stay in a cabin far out in the woods living with the ghost who raises them for a few years, until they get discovered. And they become their uncle and his girlfriend's responsibility, but they come with many complications.
Victoria, the older sister seemed to me as the child I would've taken in because once she realized she could have a real family with her uncle and his girl friend. She was the child who was ready to leave the ghost Mama alone and forget about her. But the younger sister was naive. Every time Mama came to her Uncle's house to visit she would play with her or sometimes leave the house. But when others began to notice that the girls didn't come to their Uncle's alone Mama got protective. She saw the two girls as her own child whom she'd killed. So she tried to kill anyone in her way of being with the girls. Then Mama realized she had to kill the two girls for them to be with her forever. But in the end Mama could only take one, the younger sister.
This is my favorite scary movie because it doesn't end the typical way. Both sisters don't end up in a happy home. One sister actually dies, and it ends with no epilogue. Its just like hey one sister stays and one goes. Even the plot is different because the ghost we all would've thought was the girls mother isn't even their mom. There's just a coincidence that the girls call the ghost mama. But the way this whole movie is set up is backwards, but understandable. It's not your average scary movie and everyone doesn't end happily ever after.
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Victoria, the older sister seemed to me as the child I would've taken in because once she realized she could have a real family with her uncle and his girl friend. She was the child who was ready to leave the ghost Mama alone and forget about her. But the younger sister was naive. Every time Mama came to her Uncle's house to visit she would play with her or sometimes leave the house. But when others began to notice that the girls didn't come to their Uncle's alone Mama got protective. She saw the two girls as her own child whom she'd killed. So she tried to kill anyone in her way of being with the girls. Then Mama realized she had to kill the two girls for them to be with her forever. But in the end Mama could only take one, the younger sister.
This is my favorite scary movie because it doesn't end the typical way. Both sisters don't end up in a happy home. One sister actually dies, and it ends with no epilogue. Its just like hey one sister stays and one goes. Even the plot is different because the ghost we all would've thought was the girls mother isn't even their mom. There's just a coincidence that the girls call the ghost mama. But the way this whole movie is set up is backwards, but understandable. It's not your average scary movie and everyone doesn't end happily ever after.
Word count: 340
Thankful post :)
This
thanksgiving the classmate that I am most thankful for is Stephanie Okiro. She
is not only a motivating friend, but she’s also fun to be around. We always
work together in 2nd period, like we did in Algebra last year. She,
at times, is overly energetic but I love that about her. She’s never gloomy and
always outgoing. She is my motivator in classes as well as track. I’m thankful
I have her in my life because she makes me want to do better in everything I do.
Community Stories
Here is New York p.903
I think White starts off by defining New York by what it isn'tnto gie a visual of what it doesn't look like. So you wont compare New York with other big beautiful places. So that all of the images of the other places an be erased from your mind when you're thinking of New York. The contradiction about what the traveler sees is just like the beginning. Its trying to help you invision whats going on by showing you with words. The traveler is basically seeing New York in the morning when the action begins. The empire and Manhattan seem to be what White thinks contributes to New York's beauty. Some problems in New York areevery pplace is out of order, its either too hot or not hot enough, the sea hits every end of New York, and rats are everywhere, too. But they overcome these problems by unifying as a statte and being unique. They do it by being "cosmopolitian". They're at ease with New York. It's their home. The neighborhoods are all "self sufficient". They all have their own tthings they specify on. They're all dediated to pople of the same needs and wants. This reminds me of downtown Chicago aside from the west, north, east, and south side. The downtown area is fast paste and busy, the north side iss very suburban like. The west and south are the ghettos and the east side is the quiet side of town.
To be Young Black and Gifted
Growing up in Chicag for Hansberry was a regular childhood. She played games, was the irritating younger sibling who the others weren't fond of after age five. When she was sick she was pampered. She looked up to her father. He was very hard working and he held his head in a certain way that made Hansberry "certan that there wa nothing he was afraid of". Her parents instilled the ideas that thy weren't better than anyone but they were superior to everyone. They were taught that they were products and most mistreated races of man. Hansberry, being the youngest, was at first liked by the older kids. Then she became a "pest" bothering thhem with having to take her to the washroom, the movies, and watching her at night. She was the irritating younger sibling who eventually had to learn to play alone because they didnt want to play with her. The racial conflicts of the community and compassionate of the family are represented in the end. The "white neighborhood" they lived in had people mobbed around their house, leaving Hansberry's mom to watch and protect her children. Hansberry's father wasn't there because he was fighting in D.C with the NAACP in a more goverend and political way. In the end her family showed a more compassionate side of them. Their mother showed affection, because she was her childrens' protector. In the end they seemed more family like to me. they seemed more like real people intead of how they appeared in the beginning, stern and conceitd.
I think White starts off by defining New York by what it isn'tnto gie a visual of what it doesn't look like. So you wont compare New York with other big beautiful places. So that all of the images of the other places an be erased from your mind when you're thinking of New York. The contradiction about what the traveler sees is just like the beginning. Its trying to help you invision whats going on by showing you with words. The traveler is basically seeing New York in the morning when the action begins. The empire and Manhattan seem to be what White thinks contributes to New York's beauty. Some problems in New York areevery pplace is out of order, its either too hot or not hot enough, the sea hits every end of New York, and rats are everywhere, too. But they overcome these problems by unifying as a statte and being unique. They do it by being "cosmopolitian". They're at ease with New York. It's their home. The neighborhoods are all "self sufficient". They all have their own tthings they specify on. They're all dediated to pople of the same needs and wants. This reminds me of downtown Chicago aside from the west, north, east, and south side. The downtown area is fast paste and busy, the north side iss very suburban like. The west and south are the ghettos and the east side is the quiet side of town.
To be Young Black and Gifted
Growing up in Chicag for Hansberry was a regular childhood. She played games, was the irritating younger sibling who the others weren't fond of after age five. When she was sick she was pampered. She looked up to her father. He was very hard working and he held his head in a certain way that made Hansberry "certan that there wa nothing he was afraid of". Her parents instilled the ideas that thy weren't better than anyone but they were superior to everyone. They were taught that they were products and most mistreated races of man. Hansberry, being the youngest, was at first liked by the older kids. Then she became a "pest" bothering thhem with having to take her to the washroom, the movies, and watching her at night. She was the irritating younger sibling who eventually had to learn to play alone because they didnt want to play with her. The racial conflicts of the community and compassionate of the family are represented in the end. The "white neighborhood" they lived in had people mobbed around their house, leaving Hansberry's mom to watch and protect her children. Hansberry's father wasn't there because he was fighting in D.C with the NAACP in a more goverend and political way. In the end her family showed a more compassionate side of them. Their mother showed affection, because she was her childrens' protector. In the end they seemed more family like to me. they seemed more like real people intead of how they appeared in the beginning, stern and conceitd.
The Crucible.
The Crucible was overall an incredible play. The mischevious charactrs, the innocent characters, and the characters who really weren't that important all made the play even more better. I admired Elizabeth for being a strong and loving wife, untill I figured out she remarried soon after his death. She seemed to care for him so much. She stayed with him after his affair with abigail, and even lied to the court for him, even though she was known for being honest. But, I wasn't too fond of her when she didn't convince Proctor to confess and live. I though Paris was a little greedy. He didn't care about others lives, he only cared abouot himself. But then again, if I were in his position i think I may've been looked upon as greedy too. I would've been scared for my life, too. So in so many ways I'm saying I sort of feel like Paris's reasoning for wanting the hangings to be postponed was reasonable. I took pitty on Marry Warren. i felt so bad for when she couldn't faint and then the girls started to act as if Marry Warren was in the form of a bird. I just felt so sad for her, because she wasn't sounding convincing at all. Nothing she did or said was sounding believable, not even to me, the reader, and I knew the truth. I think Danforth wasn't a very good judge, because he killed innocent people and innocent people comply to commiting witch craft. Then he had people like Elizabeth in the court. So from there I knew everything was going down hill. It sort of ended the way I though it would. I knew Elizabeth would somehow ditch the drama, and Proctor would realized he'd been a bad husband. But I never thought it would come to Proctor's death. Overall the play was pretty good, I enjoyed it once I got the plot of the story.
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