My reflection of taking AP Lang. and Comp.

AP this year was a hassle for me, I was pushed til the point that I thought I couldn't be pushed anymore. In High School, AP and Honors English are far from being similar. AP was eccentric to me, something foreighn to me, something bizzare to me. In the very beginning, I was lost and I didn't have any clue how to interpret the information given to me; I was incredously confused and I thought that if I was given anything else from my teacher I was sure to combust into millions of pieces, however I learned how to annotate and the articles became easier. I was stressed and AP made me amok at home. I was a disastrous mess and I stayed awake the entire night writing essays to the point I wanted to pull my hair out just as a crazed woman would. When I first entered AP, I didn't know what diction and syntax was, I didn't know that there were various of rhetorical devices,I didn't know what I was getting myself into. I learned how to write three types of essays: Rhetorical Analysis, Argument, and Synthesis. At first, I thought it was impossible to learn how to write all three and learn how to interpret passages to the multple choice test all in nine months, but I was wrong and I actually learned how to do each even if i'm not to perfection yet. In class, we had one activity that I thought was malicious for our teacher to give to us, which was the imitations! I absolutely hated the imitations; Imitations were great to read but when you have to hand rewrite them three times than you'll grow tired of imitations. Satire, I absolutely adored the text we read of sarcasm. I want a wife by Julie Grady was a blessing to encounter because I loved it to the point I read it to my family a billion times and they grew weary from it. AP this year was bitter-sweet but It was so worth it; I won't feign like AP wasn't difficult because it was, AP is rigor that pushes High School students above and beyond. I'm glad i've taken this course. Thanks for taking the time to teach me Mrs.Day, Kenya :)

WWII

11. The late 1940s saw an improvement in the rights and respect accorded black Americans, thanks largely to the important role they played in World War II.  What were the principles for which the Allies fought in World War II?  Why did that war specifically cause white Americans to rethink their own values and racial policies?

The assertion above is an image of white and black men in WWII.


The principles for which the Allies fought in WWII were freedom of speech, worship, want, and fear.  The war specifically cause white Americans to rethink their own values and racial policies because in order to survive through the war, they had to work as a team so the color of your skin, the texture of your hair, the color of your eye didn't matter anymore.  They had two goals which were to stay alive and win the war.  They came to a realization that the amount of meleanin in your skin didn't matter, we're all capable of the same thing, we all want the same thing, we all need the same thing! They came to an agreement that there's no "I" in "Team", which provoked them to work as one but not segregated as they once was before.

How to stick it to the poor: A Congressionl strategy

Samantha Paige Rosen,narrator of this current event,states,"Congress will basically start kicking poor people out of their homes early next year. The idea is, if you can't pay for your home without government assistance, you don't deserve to live in one." I refute to this ridiculous strategy because it's fooloish! If someone require government assistant than maybe they can't meet to the terms of paying the entire payment, in which they have look at the government for help. Why strip them away from a descent home and by perchance they'll end up on the streets homeless? Do you want people begging you for change or posted on every corner? Are we that sick of Americans to put families in the streets because they need assisstant? We help every other country in need, so why turn our backs on citizens who are actually apart of America? We should love thy neighbor! I think we should think about the children, and not the greed of having money. The unfortunante families barely put a dent in America's debt...Wars do! I also know that removing families from their homes will be a very ardous task trying to accomplish. Congress knows better, America knows better, and the Citizens knows better. "Take the food out of their mouths. Literally." The cuts to Food Stamps were implemented on November 1. Yet, Congress won't let the program rest there — House Republicans are pushing to take $39 billion from SNAP over the next decade. If their plan succeeds, the Congressional Budget Office estimates that 3.8 million low-income individuals would lose their benefits in 2014 with 2.8 million more getting kicked off the program each year. SNAP is one of the three most effective anti-poverty programs the government has, keeping four million people out of poverty last year alone. So the initial and further cuts make a lot of sense — if you despise the poor," implied by the Yahoo Article. We sound like beligerent animals who doesn't have any sense! A wise man knows that people with heart lives a long life! Why would we do these horrible things to our citizens? Why would we take their homes and any other government aid from them? Oh, Wow they're not really human beings just poor people depending on the wealth so they can be lazy and do nothing at all! They breed children and makes America pay for shelter and food because they like the privledge of having a free ride through life! Come on America, I doubt every poor person has a mind set as of ignorance! If anything we should help them because apparently they need assisstance. They Shouldn't be dwelled upon. Be the bigger person AMERICA!!!!

Should children start pre-k before going straight into kindergarten?

Statistics show that a majority of kids attend at least one year of preschool: According to the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER), more than two-thirds of 4-year-olds and more than 40 percent of 3-year-olds were enrolled in a preschool in 2005. "Children who attend high-quality preschool enter kindergarten with better pre-reading skills, richer vocabularies, and stronger basic math skills than those who do not," says NIEER director W. Steven Barnett, PhD.

Justice for Adrian Peterson's 2-year-old son

The 2-year-old son of NFL star Adrian Peterson died Friday in a South Dakota hospital after he was allegedly beaten by a man dating the boy's mother. Thoroughly, Patterson was later interviewed by police and charged with aggravated assault on an infant. I honesttly, do not believe that justice is being served! He killed a child before he even got the chance to experience life, a child whom couldn't hurt a fly, a child with small intentions to hurting one's feeling. Did he deserve to die? What can a helpless child possibly do to a twenty-seven old man. It was said that this encounter happened once before, but the child survived. We seen so we should conquer! The man is a monster, He should be sentenced life for his cruel deeds. He took a life, therfore, he should be sentenced life in prison without any further will do. If this cause happened to any other child, the killer would have been sentenced life. Patterson is no different than the stories i've already heard, he desrves to go to jail for the murder of Tyrese Robert Ruffin. A bond doesn't justify the crime he convicted. We want justice and justice we shall have!

Obama Care vs. Health Care

What do you prefer? Obama Care or Health Care? Why? On YouTube a broadcasters acknowledge this question. Half of the citizens chose Obama Care, but the other half were Caucasian who chose Health Care. Now don't get me wrong, I love other races considering myself an African American, but do you think the government shutdown was maybe caused because of racism? Furthermore, throughout the video on YouTube, the news reporter informed the the viewers that Obama Care and Health Care are both the same. Everyone that he viewed felt embarrassed. They thought they made a complete fool of them selves. They were rather comfortable with descriptive opinions as to why they thought Obama Care was useless, not knowing that both terms are the same. Everyone is obligated to their opinions but the people who was asked the questions obviously doesn't knows what's really going on, but going by what they've heard most likely! Do you think the shutdown was worthless and a waste of time; Can the government explain to us citizens why they are against Obama Care or is there no reason?

Education

Why is education so important? Education broadens your mind and thoughts to a higher level. I love learning new things because the more the merrier! "The purpose of education, finally, is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions, to say to himself this is black or this is white, to decide for himself whether there is a God in heaven or not," stated from Mr. James Baldwin. In the essay "A talk to Teachers", Mr.Baldwin stated that a man is a social animal that cannot exist without society. At first, I was confused as to what he was trying to say until I was able to comprehend what he meant. From Mr.Baldwin statement, my assumption was education or knowledge determines our future and with that being said a person must share their knowledge because no man is promised to live forever. It's better to educate others of the unknown rather then hindering them from reality and the truth.