The Search for Zora

Searching for Zora Neale Hurston had left many unanswered questions that required Walker and Charrolate to go to Eatonville and find their answers. Whenever Walker had found a clue about her beloved hero, she followed it to the very end, and for the most part it left her assuming  the worst had happened to Zora. Like when she went to the funeral home and they said that she died of malnutrition, it had almost crushed our detectives. So it wasn't until the end of her search that she found what had really happened to her inspiration and was able to clear everything up.

While Walker is searching for the unanswered questions of how Zora Neale Hurston came to be in an unmarked grave in the middle of nowhere, she realizes some things about herself. She sort of feels that like reading through all of Zora's books and history, she felt like she knew her. Even at one point in her search she states that she even believed the lie that she was saying about how she was Zora's niece. It's through all this that she realizes that she can be as strong and can be as amazing and intelligent as her inspiration. It lets her know that it doesn't matter where she's from, she can make something out of herself. 

Poem of a Mad Black Women

Us women may love with our hearts
but first everyone lusts with their eyes.
Everyone, consists of men being men.
They tell us what we want to hear to sway our over-whelmed loving minds.
We have dreams of peace and harmony for our entire marrige
Then the harsh reality of life comes and shows us the translucent light
that is the failing of our love.

What The Future Contains For Our Janie

The upcoming year will be a year that will not only answer many questions for her, but will ask questions as well. When she goes off with Joe Stark her questions of how love should be get answered in the best way she can believe. He is loving of her, wants to treat her right, and do everything he is suppose to. The year answers what she desires most and how that makes her feel.
The upcoming year would also ask questions because what about what Nanny said? She doesn't just forget about what her Grandma told her about love,  so she still questions that about Jody. Also if her choice to go with Jody was a good idea because she doesn't know what that year will have for her.

Getting to Know Yourself

To go on a journey of self-discovery is to go through an adventure to find something out about yourself. You go into the journey with one impression of yourself and come out with something new. It can be a good thing or something that you had forgotten about.

When people go on a self-discovery journey it is because something has gone wrong. There's many things that could have gone wrong but whatever it is they go on it to fix it.

I had been hanging put with the wrong people for awhile in middle school and it wasn't until I had been rude to one of my teachers that I realized that I needed to fix myself! So I had apologized to my teacher and even though they didn't like it I had stopped hanging out with that old group of people. It might not be like all heroic and crazy like in movies, but it was a simple journey that helped me better myself.

Wasn't my best post, but I'm bored outta my mind!!!

It's Called Backstabbing for a Reason

Those people that "have your best interest at heart" don't say something that will hurt you. They will watch out for you and protect you from those other trouble makers that say things to start drama because they have nothing better to do with their lives. It is when you do something wrong that they will pull you aside and talk with you alone to make sure things are okay.

People that make things up behind your back are called backstabbers and many people know this as a universal term for people that don't care about you. I learned this for myself because someone that I thought would never hurt me went behind my back and started talking stuff about me to someone that was very important to me. It was because of this that that relationship was strained and my trust in people faded.

People with your best interest at heart would never hurt you or say something behind your back. I learned something from my dad that I will always remember. He told me that I will only have a few TRUE friends my entire life....so far he's been right.

Fakebook of Myrtle

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Questions....

Why did Nick think that Gatsby ws lying about his past?
What's going on with Daisy's daughter?
Why did Nick write down all of the people that went to Gatsby's house that summer?

Fitzgerald is a Poet

This is a valley of ashes

 — a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges

and hills and grotesque gardens;

 where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke

and, finally, with a transcendent effort,

of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air.

 Occasionally a line of gray cars crawls along an invisible track,

 gives out a ghastly creak,
 and comes to rest,
 and immediately the ash-gray men swarm up with leaden spades
and stir up an impenetrable cloud,
 which screens their obscure operations from your sight. (Fitzgerald 27)

Impressions

Recovering form a bad first impression depends on how bad it was. Also on the person that you are trying to fix it with as well.

If it was kind of a bad impression then it might be a little bit harder to bounce back from. Like if someone had seen my baby sister and I slapping each other then they might think that I am hurting her because it gets pretty intense haha. But it really is just me and her playing with each other. So I would have to show the person that we were just playing around, but after they saw what they saw I'm not sure if they would listen haa.

Then there's the person that you would try to fix it with. People take things differently and sometimes it's those things that people see the first time that either makes or brakes a good first meeting. If the person is cool and understanding, they might realize that me and my sister are playing, but if they jump to conclusions and come to the first thing that pops into their head then me and that person are probably not going to become "good friends".

So if this blog sounds kinda funky it's because I did it after work and I'm really tired, so don't judge me!

Is What We See What We Get?

Of course outward appearances are deceptive. It's the people that look innocent that usually take the last peace of food from the lunch line, or it's someone that doesn't talk much that is really one of the most amazing people to be friends with. My baby sister's outward appearance is probably the most deceptive out of anyone you will ever know. She is 3 years old and her name is Maggie. She looks all innocent playing with my other baby sister Ruthie, but the minute that she gets bored she's a completely different baby. She'll take the toy that she was playing with and go hit me with it until I play with her. She's most definitely deceptive.

We are too concerned with appearances by those swag fags walking around looking as if they are the bee's knees. They are just trying to look the part and try to go around impressing everyone with how well they can match. With regular people it's not that we're too concerned with our appearances, but we just like to look nice. I mean people might try a little hard and be concerned with it too much but only maybe to impress a certain someone....or everyone at that.

What I value in America is substantial and empty. I mean I can live without my iPod, but I value it because of all the entertainment it gives me. Then the things that are substantial are like food...because I love to eat, and family and friends and sports.

Speaking completely honestly, if it was my significant other, money would matter a little bit, but not enough to completely over power me. And my significant other's looks would have to be pretty. That's all I have to say on that.

 

Assimilation....We've All Done It

Assimilation means for different minority groups to come together and become one big group. It is a process of putting one social group with another and they are harmonious. Whenever you assimilate it is as if you are gaining and losing something. Like when little kids want to fit in they assimilate into sports or something, but the truth is that as different as someone may look, there are other people in the exact same shoes as them and fit together.

Beneatha is the character who worries about assimilation in A Raisin in the Sun. She gets very defensive when her friend Asagai points it out about her.

The play shows assimilation as a weakness because of how she replies to Asagai pointing it out about her and how popular it is in America.

If I think about it...if anyone thinks about it they can find assimilation going on around them. It could be a new kids coming from a different school trying to fit in with the band, or some freshman that are kind of scared by the thought of high school that run around looking for the thing that they love to do. Either way people assimilate to feel more at peace with their surroundings because they feel out of place themselves. They find something they like and they do it because those are the types of people that get along with and understand them.

I don't assimilate anymore. When I was younger and wasn't so sure on what I was doing, (Freshman year), I had joined football. Sports were my thing, but I was sort of wishy washy back then so I would just do what everyone else would and at the time that was it. Then I came across soccer and after I had been there for awhile and assimilated there I found myself and that is who I am now...and plan on staying as well.

Eric Liu's view on assimilation is that he had hit the ground running, or already had the baton in his hand by the time he was born. He had believed that it was about race that he was trying to assimilate to. He had a list of things that people do and if you matched up you were considered white. Well he said he was perfect with the list. That's when he realized that he had lost something from his past. By the time he finished talking about his experiences he found out who he was and used a quote from someone that says what he believes as well. The quote was "America is white no longer, and it will never be white again."

My Family? Or My Desires?

"My family has to learn to give into my desires because their of main priority and they should realize that."
Is what I would say if my family didn't play probably the biggest role in my life! We have all been through a lot together and any of us giving into our own desires and nothing else would be ridiculous.
With my parents being separated at a young age and me being the oldest at the time, it's like I felt I had to step up and get things done! I know my mom appreciated it and she still tells me about it. I know my siblings and I got closer whenever we had a problem we would go tell each other and help solve it...well at least the best we could, and we still do too!
I'm not saying that I don't go do my own thing because I probably do it the most out of my whole family. I play all my sports and hang out with friends and go dancing at quinces, but I might help out the most too. Well I'd like to think so...I drive all my siblings around, take care of my baby sisters whenever they need it and a bunch of other things.
We all get after each other every now and then, but that's what brings us closer....kind of?

American Dream

The American Dream is for people to get rich fast, usually not concerned with what they need to do to get there. I think that people don't really care how they do it or who they could hurt on the way to get there, but as long as they do then they'd do whatever it takes. It's not that all people are cruel and mean, but it's just that people are as spontaneous as they come and you don't know what is waiting for you just around the corner....to top it off, money is the root of all evil.    
What the American Dream is to me is that I would be doing something that I love for the rest of my life. I wouldn't want to be working in some boring old cubical hoping to be spotted by my boss, or work at a dead end job like a fast food joint. No none of those would be able to do it for me. What I would want to do is work on old muscle cars. I would like to do it as a full time job and then on my spare time I would just do it as a hobby.....but getting some money in between all of that wouldn't be a bad thing? If you're picking up what I'm laying down?

English III DC

Good stuff!!!! I'm pretty happy I got my paper done this morning at like 5 in the morning!
One more blog to go...
So this introduction one has to be that 4 fingers long...I think I'm going to use Damien's fingers, it would be a lot easier.
Well I started out this year hearing a whole bunch of baby mama drama stuff about Perry's DC being all insanely hard and stuff, but now that I've been in it for a little while...I think they were just blowing smoke up my butt. I just had to learn to get my stuff done as soon as I get it, which has been working out pretty well for me so far. Lets just see if I'll be able to keep it up when sports start.
The main problem that I have now is shuffling my work and homework....I just remembered I still have to study for the test tomorrow. Well at least I"m getting my own money, I'm also learning...I don't know what it's called right at this moment, but it's good! I'll get back to it when I remember.
Okay well that's four, I'm done!!!