Blog Responses

Blog 1. I liked Isaiah's blog because all of his blog posts were neatly
in oder and for each blog post he had a title that explained what the
blog was nearly or is about. I think on all of his blog posts he spended
a lot of time and effort to make them really perfect, so it has a actually
lasting effect on you.
Blog 2. On one of Mohammad's post he was doing his research topics
he had a video that was made by some organization that felt the same
way that he did on that topic. It helped in bringing some information and
life to his blog post. He also had many links so the reader could do some
researching on their own.
Blog 3. On Mahir's blog he had a reading challenge done and that tells
me that he really likes to read and write. Theres also proof to this
by his other blogs since he seemingly had fun while he types them up.

Poem

Used "Shake me down" as source by Cage the Elephant

Who Knows

  People laying on the ground
  Sea, Constantly plagued by memories
  Not a lot of love
  Broken sound,Broken dreams
  Lonely times indeed
  People wanna know the future
  I keep my eyes on the way
  People stopped in the past
  with eyes cast around the corner,
  fixed upon Memories
  I'll never turn back
 
 
 

Narrative poem

Lone wanderer 

has treaded paths no men tread before

walked from battlefield to battle field

fights for his only belief

Friends that are temporialy

never lingering somewhere too long

his life is like a clock

he is always on moving

even at the end of his life

Memoriable poem

I remember the time

when I was little 

the time where school was something I did not know of

where my grandma ussually took me out to the

parks

I used to sit there and listen to the birds

but its in the past now 

looking into the past and hoping it to come are for idiots

we all need to look forward into the future and present 

Poem response to Photograph

   I tried to focus on my objective

but in the end I focused on what really mattered to me

My life

and as I struggle through this beach water 

everything seemed out of focus 

The photographer next to me taking a photo 

The dying men up front catching all of the bullets up front

My enemies and their guns ahead 

All that was clear to me was to stay alive

nothing more

Poetry interpretaion

   My painting that I've chosen is a Japanese painting.
Observations
I see water, clear as if you were looking through air and gazing at the school of
fishes on the bottom. The small river on top looks like its reflecting the sky though.
The colors in the picture go from bottom having the lightest color to the top having
the darkest colors. The trees curve at angles that are normal for the tree. This image
is a bird's eye view of the scene. The scene is almost painted out as a 2d style picture
since the angles don't change at all where the picture should be.
Inferences
I guess this image tells me how amazing the water looks in our world. It shows
peace,natural flow and a clear path in life. I also think that the birds,people,and fishes
are there because the river shows a great amount of life and supports life with
water.
Interpretation
My interpretations of this image is that it is just problably a painting the artist wanted
to do because he/she felt like painting. This image feels so calm so maybe pictures
like this are made out of artist that have no pressure on painting a good painting.

First Draft of Author's note

 
   America, Most describe it as the land of the free, where whatever
religion you had it didn't matter. Did this apply to everyone? no, African
Americans who were first brought to America in colonial times were slaves
striped their freedom and religions they had since they had to convert to
Christianity or they were considered people that are to look down upon.
If America was the "land of the free" why have the Africans and other
races at the time were forced into being an American. The mistreating of
African Americans stretched far from the early days of America till now and
probably even into the future. The problem is that it is a belief that someone
can judge a person by their color,religion, and race and say that all people of
the same race,color, or religion is this type of person. This belief is stamped
so hard into some people's mind that racism will never fade away or solved.
This issue although could be stopped over time. This book is dedicated to
giving young children so that they know that racism is wrong since when a
child is young their minds are easily acceptable to change unlike older people
who can not change that easily. This book can be a first step to solve racism
so that in the future people, like the African Americans who were
discriminated all over history could finally feel like they were free from
the bonds of discrimination which gave them so much disadvantages.


Cited Sources
"Racism Timeline." Leading issues time lines.21 jun 2010:n.p. Sirs
Researcher. web 09DEC2010
Stoff Michael , Pedro Castillo, James west Davidson. The American Nation.
United States of America, Prentice Hall, 2002