Anna

I find that the Odyssey has much revelance to today. While I was reading the Odyssey I tended to think to myself, “what idiots these people must be to fall for such temptation.” But than I find myself realizing that people today can fall for things that are even more obvious than Circe, the Lotus, The Sirens’ song, and the Cattle of the sun were.Today people fall for temptation so easily, that a spell doesn’t even need to be cast upon them for them to fall into traps that will not better themselves. People allow themselves to give into temptation, even at many times when they know it is wrong. I found the temptation in this book was the most relatable part to todays economy.

wasserman your blog page hasnt been working so i haven’t been able to see teh blog assignment…so will you write it in a commentt to this post?

“The figures show that between October 1996 and January 2000, the number of illegal immigrants grew from about 5.8 million to about 7 million, an increase of more than 300,000 annuallyThe figures show that between October 1996 and January 2000, the number of illegal immigrants grew from about 5.8 million to about 7 million, an increase of more than 300,000 annually.” http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/01/31/illegal.immigration/http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/01/31/illegal.immigration/

While discussing this issue in the classroom I seemed to hear many say that our economy is dependent upon illegal immigrants because they do the low class jobs. I think this directly shows why the amount of immigrants in The United States is increasing annually. More and more people believe that they are better for our economy and allowing them to come into our country, illegally, and without a fight.

Mr. “English Teacher” ( I know I can’t write your name)
I just got home and went to empty my bag becuase ALL MY MIDTERMS ARE OVER and I realized I did not bring you my essay. I’m right now trying to figure out how to email it to you but for some reason I can’t figure out how to get to your email after i get to your name in teh directory. But if you comment me abck soon enough adn tell me your email adress, i won’t approve the message so no one else can see it, ill send it to you tonight. If not I’m going to email it to a friend who has an exam tomorrow and they will bring it to you first thing, or i’ll have my mom run me by the school. I’m so soorry and I SWEAR ITS DONE. i would post it on here but its kinda long.

“Do we Americans live in one nation or two? The answer depends on whom you ask. Many white people say we are one nation. But many African Americans say we are really two nations–one white, the other black; one rich, the other poor; one free, the other still bound by prejudice and discrimination.”
(http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EPF/is_n18_v96/ai_19143242)

This raises a large issue in our country. That some see us as one nation, while others choose to divide us. Those who chose to divide our nation are the ones that chose to be racist, and make racial slurs towards others. If each person was able to look past one anothers ethnic backrounds, than it wouldn’t depend who you asked if our nation was divided, everyone would be able to say our nation was not divided. But like the division in our country between white and black, we also face division of things such as each state. Each state has different perspectives on race, and which state you come from in the U.S. has a lot to do with personality; as well as each state has a reputation of rich or poor. If someone was to state that they lived in CT it would automatically be assumed that person was rich. We are divided on many levels, yet we are also one in many ways. But we need to be one nation in all ways, so we therefor need to stop dividing ourselves from one another.

Can you put up the instructions of what we should write in our final racism blog?

“New Remote Control Can Be Operated By Remote” (from The Onion)
When I read this article, I wasn’t really sure what to think about it. At first, I didn’t realize that it wasn’t real and I totally believed that our society would make such a thing. I know that it probably seems ridiculous to for me think that this could have been real, but if you think about it there are things in our world today very similar to this. Like portable phones. They were invented so people don’t have to get up when the phone rings. Or even the redial button. This was invented so you don’t have to dial the same number twice. This article is a perfect example of satire. Although its fake, the author is using an object to make us laugh about the issue of our nations laziness.

Its hard for me to imagine the feeling of saying goodbye to my mother; and I can’t even think about the feeling each little boy or girl felt when they knew they were being taken away from their family, to a place that was most likely worst than the last.

“I ran off from her as quickly as I could after her parting words, for I did not want her to see me crying.”

I think that the worst part is that Louis Hughes felt the need to be strong, and that it was a bad thing to cry and let your feelings out. Reading this really allowed me to understand how slavery affected little boys Than after saying goodbye to his mother, Louis was sent to be auctioned off, today what would be a furniture auctions. At this auction there were differences in the amount that each slave was worth, some being a significant amount more valuable than another. In my opinion, putting a price on a human being is probably the most inappropriate part of slavery. Did people in the world honestly believe that this was humane? Although Louis Hughes felt that the McGee’s were not horrible people, for they gave him a Christmas present and he got to taste the egg nog, they still owned a slave.
The narrative really opened up my feelings towards slavery. Not only is slavery something that I’m taught in a classroom as something that occurred in history that was bad, but I feel for each slave that had to go through this. And its hard for me to think that one person could do such a thing to another. The only thing that goes through my head while reading this, is how often we are told in school that our differences are meant to bring us together and not divide us. While slavery allowed the world to think that one should be punished because of their differences, that the African-Americans hadn’t even chosen. I know I can’t blame each person for what they did, because at that point it was seen as something that was not wrong in the community. But at the same time, Huck Finn shows us that people did realize it was wrong, but no one took a stand for what they thought. If more people had done what Huck did than maybe a little boy like Louis Hughes would not have had to undergo such a horrible life.
After reading I realize that even one life saved from slavery makes all the difference. Yes, I guarantee many people after reading Huck Finn will say to themselves, what difference did it make that he tried helping one slave. But it made all the difference, each person that went against the law and helped a slave could have shown others that it was the better thing to do, as well as changing that one persrons life entirely.I feel that slavery could have been brought to a hault. If people stopped purchasing slaves it would have brought the slave market down, which would have brought the slave trade to end, or atleast hurt it financialy. If many things such as this had been done, slavery could have been ended by itself, without a war.

I expect to understand slavery in a different way than I do today. In class we are taught slavery, but we don’t truly know what the slaves must have felt like. I know that slaves were treated badly, but I don’t understand the extent to the word badly, when using it in describing slavery. I understand that slavery was wrong, and it shouldn’t have occurred .Through these narratives I think that I will be able to see the differences in certain slave owners, and how some owners are possibly crueler to their salves that others. I think that these narratives will be very interesting to read, and will show me more.

how do we find the slave narrative project on the blogs?