Younger family dream

A Raisin in the Sun Response

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A Raisin in the Sun by Langston Hughes portrays a few days in an African Americans life living in Chicago during the 1950's. They seem to be struggling to get ahead in life but all that changes when, Mama, receives a life insurance check for 10,000 dollars from the death of her husband. Her son, Walter, wants to use the money to invest into a liquor store thinking that would bring them much wealth, while Mama wants to use it on a down payment for a new house. Then Walters wife, Ruth, finds out she is pregnant and that turns everything upside down. Later in the play, Mama does use the money for a down payment on a new house. However, she only spent a small fraction of that money and gave the rest of the money to Walter to save money for his sister for college and save the rest of the money.  However, Walter invests all that money with his friend Willy. Willy skips town with the 6,500 dollars Walter gave him. That leaves the family financially hurt in a racist neighborhood.

Straight Outta Profanity

Straight outta Compton

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In the mid-1980's a group of above average rappers banded together to revolutionize the rap culture in the racist city of Los Angeles. The group formed because of racial frustration and because of how rough their life was in the horrible neighborhood they lived in. I think a common theme in this movie was rebellion. There are multiple examples in the movie where they do rebellious things against the police. 

Journey to freedom

Personal reaction to Selma

Although segregation was made illegal in the south Martin Luther King Jr. and the African American community still faced discrimination. This movie goes into all the challenges MLK and his followers went through to push President Lyndon Johnson into signing the Voting rights act of 1965.

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At first, I thought I wasn’t going to enjoy this movie. I usually prefer movies that are more exciting or comedies. Don’t get me wrong some of the protests are full of action and violence but this movie wouldn’t be my first choice. I thought the movie was going to be boring but that changed quickly. I actually found that all the non-violent protests and everything he did to try and eliminate segregation was fascinating. He didn’t believe in violent protests. For example when they stood in front of the county registration one of older African American men could not sit down so the police forcefully pushed him down. When his son was arguing with the police one of the officers raised his baton to hit him and his mother tackled the cop and that lead to a bunch of officers jumping on her. While this was happening no one in the protest fought back or used any other violence and that lead to arrests. I really enjoyed the story of how everything worked out and how MLK met with the president on occasions.

The Case of the Missing Pointer

The Case of the Missing Pointer

It was a warm morning, the sun had barely risen as we approached the Albertson Learning Center. Here Police Chief Schmeling gave us the case of the missing English Pointer Stevie. We were given a few leads to investigate, the first we had to identify what an English Pointer looked like. To find it when approached the Reference Center on the first floor and asked the polite woman behind the desk to help us find Encyclopedia of the Dog. Here we found a clue the napper left behind, the letter “E”.

We believed these letters would reveal where Stevie was being held captive. An anonymous source approached us with a possible witness. The mystery man told us we needed to speak to a shark. We searched for the shark in the most likely place we could find one, the Museum of Natural Resources. There we found our informant shark who gave us our second major breakthrough, the letter “H”. With how close we were getting we could sense the fear in the napper.

The last hint the shark gave us was to search the current school newspaper for a note left by the napper. From there our team of detectives went off to the periodical section to try and find the latest paper. At first we couldn’t find it but after asking the kind assistant we found the paper we required immediately and also found the letter “C”.

From there we got our next hint, Stevie was looking for some CD’s to listen to just before he was abducted so we set off to investigate the CD section. While investigating the CD section we found the letter “V” and another major clue.

We were informed that a sketch of the napper could be found in the library on the fourth floor. When we arrived there the sketch of the perp revealed we were looking for a cat. We also found The letter “A” and yet another clue.

As we began searching for the perp, an important telegraph came in. The perp was holding a walrus hostage! We needed to rush to the zoology section. We rush up the stairs to the Archives, briskly walked past them until we hit bright green shelves on the left hand side. We were then able to see the zoology section and the hostage! Unfortunately, the perp had escaped but the hostage was unharmed. We took him to safety and began to treat his wounds, as we were finishing up he reached into his pocket and pulled out the letter “R”. As he placed it in our hands, he told us the perp had fled to the 6th floor near government documents. When we reached the correct section, we were directed to find the documents from the Smithsonian Institution.

Once we located the aforementioned documents we also found the letters “S” and “I” these were our final letters needed to know where Stevie was. We then returned to the station to decode the mystery letters the napper left us. We quickly discovered the letters could be combined to form the word “ARCHIVES” so we rushed again back to the sixth floor to rescue Stevie. Once we reached the archives we were relieved to find Stevie alive and well.

Social differences

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Just by reading the title of the story and the first page I thought the story was going to be from a feminist point of view. However after reading the whole story that quickly changed my mind. I really liked how James Fallows descriptively described Mr. and Mrs. Clintons throws. I also enjoyed how the author mentioned the counter argument about the structural differences in males and females and how that is nonexistent. He went into the Olympics and how girls can throw just as fast if not faster than males. In addition, Fallows also went into Tennis and brought up the point that Girls can serve harder and faster than males. Personally I thought the part where the author went into the different ways to learn how to throw was kind of boring. Although that I found that boring I really liked when the author made the reference to the kinetic chain. I thought it was really interesting that they got so descriptive while writing this and overall I believe it made the story much better.

My favorite songs

My Playlist

1.Kanye West-Waves

2.Kanye West-Wolves

3.Kanye West-Dark Fantasy

4.Rae Sremmurd-Black Beetles

   5. Lil Uzi Vert-Erase your social

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These are my top 5 favorite songs. I am very picky when it comes to music so it makes me ecstatic when I find music that I like. I am a huge Kanye West fan, I actually have a Kanye poster that hangs above my desk. The top 3 songs are very important to me because of that. I waited so long for his last album to come out. It is one of the only times I have actually payed for music. I know most people hate Mr. West but my mom actually introduced me to him a few years ago and that’s why his music is so special to me. The other songs were introduced to me by my good friends. I don’t think my playlist reflects who I am. Most rap songs include lyrics about drugs and things like that however I don’t partake in any of that, I just like how the songs sound. People will learn from my music is that I like rap music, when most people see me they would never guess I like music like that. I can't really tell what people will think of me based off of my playlist because I wouldn't be able to do the same.

My playlist means so much to me considering I listen to music everyday as well as these songs everyday. It might sound crazy but these songs are a part of my life especially since I hear them everyday. I’d say it’s part of my daily routine actually! I mostly like listening to rap because I like songs that talk about problems going around in today’s world or any other song that the media is ignoring instead of other artists singing about their past relationships. I like songs that represent what people are thinking and problems about things that are actually going on.

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