1970 CHEVELLE

1970 CHEVELLE
1970 CHEVELLE

Monday, June 6, 2011

My PWA Essay

                                    KINDRED


      Did you know that during slavery a lot of people didn’t have equal rights like other people in the U.S. except the whites that were legal to be in the U.S. In the book Kindred there are a lot of people who don’t have an equal right except Dana until Rufus bought her and she was his slave and to obey the others of Rufus. The people who didn’t have equal right were Alice, Dana, Nigel, Sarah and other people who were owned by Rufus’s father. so Octavia’s butler’s main point is that slavery was really unfair because not just they were slaves but they did noted any respect of Rufus father if Rufus’s father owned them.
      To prove that slavery was unfair an example was when Rufus was a slave owner and he did bad choices during his slave ownership. Rufus was a horrible slave owner because he would hit them to make them work faster, he would kill them, and also he would rape them. Nigel doesn’t know whether Rufus mailed the letter. He says people laughed at Rufus for paying so much for Alice, who was half-dead. Although Nigel wants to try to run away again, he feels grudging gratitude to Rufus, who saved him from being sold south. Dana worries that Rufus will rape Alice again, but he says that would be like hurting a baby. Alice begins to gain awareness of her surroundings and ask questions about her past. This is oppressive because this is not fair for slaves they already being oppressed in many different ways.



          In the time of slavery Dana was one example who was oppressed by a slave owner. One way she was oppressed was in the fields she would slow down because she would get tired eventually and the masters or masters would strip her naked and whip her as a punishment. (Page   174) , When Dana awakes, she is bleeding and riding along on the back of Rufus’s horse. He stops, wipes her face, and unties her after she promises not to struggle. He puts her in front of him on the horse. He tells her to lean on him before she falls off, and she does. As they approach the house, Rufus tells her she will be whipped. So they had to work faster to do what they had to do. So Octavia’s message here that when you don’t something that they expect you doing like working faster or doing the work right they punish you in many ways they would whip you or hit you hard and would internal bleeds.

   

     I think slavery is bad because is oppressive and brutal.
So John Brown in an example of how slavery was a change. John Brown believed that slavery was wrong, so he attacked the white people and helped slaves escape but then he got caught helping slaves escape and was hugged for helping the slaves for their freedom. And my reason why i thought slavery was bad because it was brutal and oppressive to black slaves. I disagree with this assertion because it’s not fair that even doe they work for them they still get punished and get whipped.



In conclusion I think that slavery was unfair because back then masters and slave owners were brutal. Also they didn’t give any mercy to anybody. And they did not care how bad they treated the slaves. This should now be clear because I showed  you example’s with fact’s and quote’s that showed you that it was clear enough to explain how the situation was back in the days with slavery and all the oppression that has happen all these years.

Saturday, June 4, 2011

my silly scraper bike poem!

roses are red.
violets are blue.
if it rides on 2 wheels,
then it's a scraper bike silly !
it's not a shoe !

my 2nd bike poem

You are so beautiful
graceful, slim and sleek
you make me feel so good
riding fast on your wonderfully smooth seat
I feel like I'm flying
in the clouds
Just you and me
no other thing compares
nothing matters
just you and me
I love those days when you and I can spend hours together
forgetting our worries
One day we will move to an island with no snow, sleet or ice
and live out our days together
and make beautiful little baby road bikes

my bike poem

Look at me go
I'm riding a bicycle
It's so much more fun
Than that small little tricycle
I go up the driveway
And then I turn back
It isn't so hard
I think I've got the knack
The feel of the wind
On my face a quite like
Nothing compares to it
-Rinding my bike

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

MY POEM

I am arguing with an idiot online.
He says anybody can write a poem.
I say some people are afraid to speak.
I say some people are ashamed to speak.
If they said the pronoun "I" 
they would find themselves floating
in the black Atlantic
and a woman would swim by, completely 
dry, in a rose chiffon shirt, 
until the ashamed person says her name
and the woman becomes wet and drowns
and her face turns to flayed ragged pulp,
white in the black water.
He says that he'd still write
even if someone cut off both his hands.
As if it were the hands that make a poem,
I say. I say what if someone cut out
whatever brain or gut or loin or heart
that lets you say hey, over here, listen, 
I have something to tell you all,
I'm different.
As an example I mention my mother
who loved that I write poems
and am such a wonderful genius.
And then I delete the comment
because my mother wanted no part of this or any
argument, because "Who am I 
to say whatever?"
Once on a grade school form
I entered her job as house cleaning.
She saw the form and was embarrassed and mad.
"You should have put receptionist."
But she didn't change it.
The last word she ever said was No.
And now here she is in my poem,
so proud of her idiot son, 
who presumes to speak for a woman
who wants to tell him to shut up, but can't.

Monday, March 14, 2011

save our schools

My name is Lexandro and im a student at urban promise academy in  Oakland,ca.
My school is a great school because the people like teachers and principals care about your education.
We have programs like hw club,soccer,basket ball and more other fun programs.
Teachers care about our  education because they the best for us.Urban Promise Academy