Dear Diary,
Ever since we left home we have been squeezed onto this boat with many other travelers. The trip is long and hard and I almost regret it. Only telling myself that a trip by wagon would be longer and that the trip will be worth it in the end gets me through the tougher days. There are days where we stop at a town when we reach a lock in the canal. We can get off and sometimes spend the night there. Even just getting off of the canal helps me to feel better about this trip. I always hope to see someone who I know from back home in one of the towns. I know that it is unlikely though because nearly everyone I knew who made the trip stopped and bought land along the canal. Land was being sold for low prices in the areas alongside the canal, so many people stopped their journey and settled down along the way. Even in such a crowded ship, I'm still so very lonely. Only the promise of a good future and a new life out west keeps me going these days. I hope the journey ends soon, both because of my excitement for my new life, and because it will end this dull trip.
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Friday, March 29, 2013
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Ebooks are the devil
Here's the book. Just take it, I don't want it. Writing in character when my narrator is a racist jerk makes me feel like a terrible person. The ebook website makes me hate everything. It took forever to load and did obnoxious things. It rearranged all of my text boxes on me a few times. I found page on where 17 was supposed to be. It it terrible and I hate it. I could go on and on, but I won't because I have a hunch that Mr/ Boyle is actually its creator since it sounds like him:
note: Mr. Boyle, if you read this, just know that I'm not emailing it to you until the morning because i'm tired and angry and my computer is dying and I just want to go to sleep.
No, but really, that site was nearly the death of me and I hate it.
now take the book and never let it see the light of day again once it has been graded. the worst part about ebooks is that you cant burn them. I'd like to burn this book. take it and leave me alone.
note: Mr. Boyle, if you read this, just know that I'm not emailing it to you until the morning because i'm tired and angry and my computer is dying and I just want to go to sleep.
Monday, March 25, 2013
day 1 post
yesterday in class we talked about the civil rights acts of 1964
Today in class we talked about the Black Panther Party. We read their demands and thought about whether or not they were reasonable. Most of them were not. Some even sounded rather communist. One thing that they wanted was free healthcare for blacks and oppressed people. I think that this is unreasonable because if even wealthy and middle class blacks get free healthcare (as opposed to just poor people who actually need it) then wealthy and middle class people of other races should get free healthcare as well. Mr. Boyle tried to argue this by saying that the black panthers feel that they have been treated unfairly and whites haven't faced hardships so it is reasonable (Or at least I think he was trying to say it was reasonable. He didn't get to finish because class ended, but from what he was saying that's what it seemed like). Yes, that makes it understandable that the Black Panther Party would make these demands, but it doesn't make it reasonable to give all black people in the united states free healthcare regardless of wealth and lifestyle if other races don't get the same thing. Yeah, yeah, I know that blacks have been oppressed in the past and weren't given everything whites were. If they weren't treated fairly then, why should whites be treated fairly now, right? Wrong. If we're going to move past discrimination we need to stop keeping score. Saying "They treated us unfairly then, so now it's our turn to treat them unfairly" doesn't get us anywhere.
Today in class we talked about the Black Panther Party. We read their demands and thought about whether or not they were reasonable. Most of them were not. Some even sounded rather communist. One thing that they wanted was free healthcare for blacks and oppressed people. I think that this is unreasonable because if even wealthy and middle class blacks get free healthcare (as opposed to just poor people who actually need it) then wealthy and middle class people of other races should get free healthcare as well. Mr. Boyle tried to argue this by saying that the black panthers feel that they have been treated unfairly and whites haven't faced hardships so it is reasonable (Or at least I think he was trying to say it was reasonable. He didn't get to finish because class ended, but from what he was saying that's what it seemed like). Yes, that makes it understandable that the Black Panther Party would make these demands, but it doesn't make it reasonable to give all black people in the united states free healthcare regardless of wealth and lifestyle if other races don't get the same thing. Yeah, yeah, I know that blacks have been oppressed in the past and weren't given everything whites were. If they weren't treated fairly then, why should whites be treated fairly now, right? Wrong. If we're going to move past discrimination we need to stop keeping score. Saying "They treated us unfairly then, so now it's our turn to treat them unfairly" doesn't get us anywhere.
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Day 5 Post
Yesterday we did not have class because it was a snow day.
Today in class, we listened to a speech by Malcolm X and a speech by Martin Luther King Jr. We then talked about which one was more realistic and/or ideal. We also talked briefly about whether or not our country has reached the point that Martin Luther King spoke about ("... a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.") and whether or not the country is better than it was when he made that speech. I think that we have not yet reached that point, but we have certainly come a long way from where we were back then. As much as we want to say that we treat everyone fairly regardless of race, we can't. We still have a ways to go. Are we where we should be? No. Have we made progress? Certainly.
Monday, March 18, 2013
Day 3 Post
Yesterday in class, we were split into groups. Each group had a different document and we were to answer questions about these documents. My group had a document where Malcolm X talked in an interview about his plans for the future of blacks. His ideas are pretty terrible and racist. At one point he wished that Allah would kill whites for him. He also preaches black supremacy even though he was all offended by white supremacy. He also thinks that violence is necessary and justified because white people had been violent towards blacks in the past. He was an interesting guy to say the least.
Today in class we split into different groups to give other people the information we gathered from the documents we read. Well, we only did that for part of class. The rest of class was spent talking about an upcoming project and being talked to by Mr. Boyle about various things like learning skills, life, etc. He has some good ideas, that man.
Today in class we split into different groups to give other people the information we gathered from the documents we read. Well, we only did that for part of class. The rest of class was spent talking about an upcoming project and being talked to by Mr. Boyle about various things like learning skills, life, etc. He has some good ideas, that man.
Desktop Documentary: James Meredith
Citations:
Info:
"Address by Meredith Climaxes Turbulent Mississippi March." The Telegraph [Nashua]
27 June 1966: 7. News.google.com. Google. Web.
<http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2209&dat=19660627&id=XawrAAAAIBAJ&sjid=S_0FAAAAIBAJ&pg=6926,6215071>.
"James Meredith." MWP: (1933). N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Mar. 2013.
"Luther King Takes up Meredith's March." The Glasgow Herald 08 June 1966: 9. News.google.com. Google. Web. <http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=yX9AAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zKMMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1470,1275409&dq=martin+luther+king+meredith+march&hl=en>.
"On This Day in History: James Meredith Barred from Ole Miss." UPI. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Mar. 2013.
"Tag Archive for 'James Meredith'" Publishing the Long Civil Rights Movement RSS. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Mar. 2013.
"U.S. Marshals Service, History, The U.S. Marshals and the Integration of the University of Mississippi: ." U.S. Marshals Service, History, The U.S. Marshals and the Integration of the University of Mississippi: . N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Mar. 2013.
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