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.