My favourite topic was Having My Say, because I got to write about whatever I wanted. That was fun.
My least favourite topic was probably that nature one (I don't think I ever did it) because of the format it was posted. It had a talking owl or something. That's fun too, but it didn't work on some of the computers I tried, and I couldn't easily work on that blog at school because of the audio.
I did put effort into writing my blogs, but... to be honest, the second semester, I stopped doing them weekly. I'm a procrastinator, haha. And it's harder to remember to do an assignment if there isn't a hard copy of it in front of me. But I did write more than the minimum when I actually wrote the blogs.
It was good to reflect on what we learned and to find related topics. I learned about authors like Stephen Crane. That was nice.
I have another blog on Blogger, but I never use it anymore, and that one I started voluntarily. Thus, I doubt that I'll keep using this one, though I guess it's possible that I'll decide to during college, or if I start getting delusional over the summer and start missing homework or something. So if you see me using this blog again, you might want to refer me to a psychiatrist. ;)
I'm just joshing~
Blogging is better than other homework assignments, I guess, so if the alternative for next year's juniors is a research paper every week or something like that... yeah, I guess the juniors should blog. But if it's just some extra points, then they might not want the extra work. Heh.
Oh gosh, let me see if I can remember three stories. Um...
The Yellow Wallpaper was one that I'd already read (I tend to pick random stuff to read out of our Literature book when I'm bored) but it's still one of my favourites.
"Because I could not stop for Death--" is one of my favourite poems (I recently memorized it, yay), so I guess that's up there too.
And... All Quiet On the Western Front was a great book. So that too, I guess.
Goodbye~! :D
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Friday, May 6, 2011
Obscure Civil Rights Activists
[Note: this Blog is sadly late and thus is out of order. ]
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/27/us/politics/27cashin.html?ref=civilrights
John Cashin Jr. was an African-American man who fought for the civil rights movement in running for office. He started a branch of the Democratic party in Alabama, and that party made a lot of headway in the civil rights cause. Some of its candidates were eliminated from the ballot by officials, so the party sued them. This case was taken before the Supreme Court, who ruled in the candidates' favour. Many candidates won.
Cashin's story reminds me of the Delaney sisters'. For one thing, before he was a politician, he was a dentist like Bessie. Also, he earned his degree from a predominately black institution, like the one the Delaneys grew up in. He also lived to old age--82--though he wasn't a hundred years old.
He also campaigned for civil rights nonviolently, like Martin Luther King, Jr.
Although his record wasn't spotless--he took the Delaneys' trick of cashing a parent's social security check after their death, but actually kept doing it for months, so he served some prison time--his political career, even when unsuccessful, gave other African-Americans a good example to go by. That is, he showed that even when the establishment is set against you, your cause can prevail.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/27/us/politics/27cashin.html?ref=civilrights
John Cashin Jr. was an African-American man who fought for the civil rights movement in running for office. He started a branch of the Democratic party in Alabama, and that party made a lot of headway in the civil rights cause. Some of its candidates were eliminated from the ballot by officials, so the party sued them. This case was taken before the Supreme Court, who ruled in the candidates' favour. Many candidates won.
Cashin's story reminds me of the Delaney sisters'. For one thing, before he was a politician, he was a dentist like Bessie. Also, he earned his degree from a predominately black institution, like the one the Delaneys grew up in. He also lived to old age--82--though he wasn't a hundred years old.
He also campaigned for civil rights nonviolently, like Martin Luther King, Jr.
Although his record wasn't spotless--he took the Delaneys' trick of cashing a parent's social security check after their death, but actually kept doing it for months, so he served some prison time--his political career, even when unsuccessful, gave other African-Americans a good example to go by. That is, he showed that even when the establishment is set against you, your cause can prevail.
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