Evaluation.

My favorite blog this year was the one on the Great Gatsby about music of the 1920s. If I could just do a music blog and have people read it, I totally would. But I'm pretty sure I'm gonna be shutting this blog down, it's kind of a pain in the butt. I think I put some thought into my blogs, the ones that interested me anyway. As easy of points as these blogs are, I never really thought it was a good idea for a class grade. If you continue to do it, that's cool too :)
My top 3 stories were:
1. All Quiet on the Western Front
2. Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town
3. The Crucible

Farwell Blogger!
 Love Always,
Emma.

Middle Passage Artwork.

http://www.juneteenth.com/mp3a.htm

This artwork says a lot about the slave trade. On the site it talks about how Newton, the slave trader, became born again and saw the error of his ways. I think Sadie and Bessie would've liked Newton, for turning his life around of course.

A Walk Through Harlem

It was pretty cool getting to see exactly what Bessie and Sadie would've seen back in their time. Getting to learn about all the buildings they would've seen and been through was exciting. There were so many spots that were just everything you would ever need, doctors, lawyers, you name it.

20s playlist.

1. Down Hearted Blues- Bessie Smith. Because it's like how Gatsby feels about Daisy, he's down because he has to admire her from afar, and with another man none the less.
2. Breezin' Along With the Breeze- Johnny Marvin. Because it reminds me of the character Tom. He's cheating on his wife and even shows Nick where he has his affair. He's just breezing along like he wont get caught.
3. Look For the Silver Lining- Marrion Harris. Because it's basically all Nick is doing. Realizing that this place is so wrong but he's sticking around anyway, hoping for the best.
4. Toot, Toot, Tootsie, Goodbye- Al Johnson. Because it's like when Myrtle was killed. Though very sad for her husband and Tom, how can Daisy not just be a bit relieved?
5. Ain't We Got Fun?- Van. Because although everyone is cheating or pining for a person they seemingly can't have, they put on a front. They party and smile and just have a good time anyway.

Stephen Crane.

In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
And ate of it.
I said: "Is it good, friend?"
"It is bitter - bitter," he answered;
"But I like it
Because it is bitter,
And because it is my heart."

I like this poem because at the end you're kind of like woah, that was a lot to say for such a little poem. This man knows his heart is bitter, but he knows that's just the way he is.

How 'Bout Some Mark Twain.

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read. -Mark Twain

People are dumb. Some people are given all the advantages in the world, given everything on a silver platter and still do nothing with their lives. It's just like the old saying that one child walks ten miles to school while another has just dropped out. God has given you many gifts, and some people just flat out refuse to use them while others would kill to be in their shoes.

Civil Right Movement Story.

http://www.crmvet.org/info/marryone.htm

This story really connects with all the stories we have read. About the struggle that people have with the changing of the tide when it came to segregation of the races. Asking someone "would you marry one" was just a joke. But the fact of the matter was this, times were changing and it scared those it effected.

Reflection.

http://bajan.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/slavery.gif

Slavery was obviously a big part of the Delany sisters life, even if they were never slaves themselves. Their ancestors had defied the law to be together and have children, even if they were not of the same race. This picture shows the hard times slaves went through so they could survive. They had it hard so their children and their children's children could have a better life than they had.

I'm probably the wrong person to tell to rant about something.

How about some government stupidity? The United States has no money, let's be honest. And everything is being cut back with it's funding. Planned parenthood lost it's funding, but do you know what got to keep it's funding? Nascar. Yeah, the world's most idiotic sport kept it's funding while planned parenthood lost it. Seriously? People continue to say that maybe they cut it because abortion is on it's way to being illegal again. Well sparky, only 3% of planned parenthood is used for abortions. Other times it's used for pre-natal care and in vitro fertilization. So say I wanted a child, God help us all. However I realized that I am unable to bear children, or maybe my partner is. The government says that's just too darn bad now isn't it? The world has too many snot nosed little ankle biters as it is right? I'm just gonna go shoot myself in the foot. Okay thanks bye.

Being a Kid.

I relate with this Whitman poem because as a kid, I was curious. And the child in this poem seems curious in how everything he sees first thing in the morning becomes a part of him.

antitranscendentalists.

I personally love the anti transcendentalists because they look at the real things in life. And if you always look at the hardcore things in life, then when a happy thing comes about, you're even happier than you would be if it was just another happy occasion.

Emily Dickinson Poem.

A BIRD came down the walk:
He did not know I saw;
He bit an angle-worm in halves
And ate the fellow, raw.
And then he drank a dew	5
From a convenient grass,
And then hopped sidewise to the wall
To let a beetle pass.
He glanced with rapid eyes
That hurried all abroad,—	10
They looked like frightened beads, I thought
He stirred his velvet head
Like one in danger; cautious,
I offered him a crumb,
And he unrolled his feathers	15
And rowed him softer home
Than oars divide the ocean,
Too silver for a seam,
Or butterflies, off banks of noon,
Leap, plashless, as they swim

I think that Emily Dickinson is hinting at sinners. She is saying as humans we do things wrong and get kind of crazy hoping no one notices. And even though we sin, some people treat us just the same.