The Last Blog

Blogging was not really my thing. I didnt do them on time and Im not even sure that these ones I have posted will count for a grade theyre so late. But the ones I liked the most were the simple ones. Not only because they were the easiest, but because i got the most out of them. Like finding the quote by Mark Twain saying that you dont know something until you try it. That meant a lot to me because I can relate it to my life. Really the ones that we could relate to our lives the most were the ones that i most enjoyed writing.

I read "Once There Came A Man" and I liked it. Most of the poems I read of his I didnt like, mainly because I couldnt understand them. Like the in the desert one, I dont understand that. But the one I read was about God I think. All God asks is that we do simple things for Him but instead the whole world fights. He wants peace, yet we continue to fight. Or this could be about all humans over complicating things. We are assigned a simple task but we make it as difficult as possible. This poem is ambiguous, and I think that Stephen was proving multiple points with this one poem.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

This is one of Mark Twain's quotes that I really like. It is saying that you can have something told and explained to you, but you really wont fully understand it until you try or experience what they are attempting to explain to you. I like this quote because it is inspirational to try things instead of sitting back and watching others. The only way to really know if your going to like something is if you try it. Or, in the case of the quote, not like something.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/19/us/19birmingham.html?_r=2

In this link I found some of the buses that kept blacks and whites segregated. It talks about Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott. We read about this in some of Martin Luther Kings writings. He was the one who organized the whole boycott. It makes you think about just how tough it would be to get through those trying times.They also show some buses that were owned by a black person which was so rare in those times of segregation. Black people didnt hardly own anything during that time period.

William Edward DuBois was a writer, a historian, and a teacher. This is similar to Saddie in Having Our Say. Saddie was a teacher as well and was the first African American woman to teach at her school. Willam Edward DuBois was the first African American to receive a Ph.D. from his school. Bessie's dentist office was at 2305 Seventh Avenue.

having my say

Something that I feel strongly about.. hmm.. well I do believe that too many people in this world are trying to be who they arent. Being yourself is easier said than done to some people. But it makes me mad when people are trying to be someone they admire. I belive that people can try to copy good traits of other people, but too many people in this world are fake and dont show their true self because of the fear that people wont like who they really are.

Im not sure if the picture showed up but this shows a black man chained up in the left half of the picture and in the right half is white men carrying and throwing around all of the black men. To me this shows the ultimate sign of helplessness. There is absolutely nothing the slaves could do about it. The white man could not possibly have been any harsher on the slaves.

In There Was a Child Went Forth the part that really grabbed me was that he let everything that he experienced become a part of him. He learned from all of his life experiences. Just the littlest things became a part of his life and affected him for life. I wish that I had let things do that too me since I was little. Now I only have pictures and occasionally a scent that I remember from when I was younger. Ive never let things become a part of me, and as a result I don't recall much as a child. I guess I don't know if that would have changed anything, but I still wish I had.

One of Emily Dickinson's poems i tried to interpret was I Haven't Told My Garden Yet. I did so unsuccessfully. However, I did try to understand what she was saying, and what I got out of it was that Emily was going to be leaving her garden and she didn't know how to break the news to her garden yet. She maybe viewed her garden as a living being, and thought that it would miss her while she was away. Im obviously not really getting it because that doesn't make sense. But it seems as though she thinks there is a mutual feeling between the garden and her.

I prefer reading the transcendental writers because they  are less conforming with society. Like one of the poets said, he feels that his his jailed body has a more freed mind than those who's bodies aren't imprisoned. They don't give in and do what society wants them to do, or they don't do it if they don't believe in doing it. They have a mind of their own and wont back down. They stick up for what they believe in. As a result, i find their writing much more interesting. They have a more controversial style of writing that is just fun to read.