This Is America

This is America
    Where you can be "Judged by the color of your skin, but not by the content of your character."
This is America
    Where it is a decision to be made whether you want to fight peacefully or fight violently.
This is America
    Where little boys with pigment in their skin have to be taught silly but necessary things like, "Put your hands on the dash, don't talk back, don't ask why, don't resist, yes sir's and no sir's, don't reach for anything, drop your location as soon as you see the lights, if they tell you to do something do it. Matter fact just don't drive."
This is America
    Where an officer can have 12 police brutality complaints against him, kill a man, and only be charged with manslaughter
This is America
    Where we fight for equity over equality
This is America
    Where the very people that work for us and that we pay to work, we are paying to kill us.
This is America
    Where we have to be afraid to send our kids with the pigment in their skin out into the world
This is America
    Where we are just simply afraid for their lives. Not just our little boys, our little girls too.
This is America
    Where I have to be afraid of what I say, what I do, and most of all, I have to be afraid of the color of my skin because they are.
This is America
    Where we're damned if we do and damned if we don't
This. Is. America

What's in my Big Question For Me

Asking questions helps the world gain a better understanding. My big question benefits me because it will help me gain a better understanding of myself. I listen to music at any time I can. Music helps me with anxiety, depression, loneliness, happiness, and any other emotion that could arise. My big question will help me better understand and educate someone else who has this question. It will help me understand why my brain reacts the way it does to music.

My Big Question

At the beginning of the school year my big question was what is the true definition of beauty and why does society/influencers feel they can change this definition to benefit themselves. But as the semester went on I felt like I wanted to do something more interesting to me. Then I chose to ask the question Is ignorance really bliss? But none of these speak to me. I don't truly care about "beauty", I do care about ignorance our world has, but the one thing that is always on my mind day and night is music. So I've decided on a final question that I believe will show a small glimpse of what my mind is like. My NEW and FINAL (hopefully) big question is Does music affect someone's personality and everyday moods?

I'm Ignited

Today in my English class we discussed these questions that are really big to us. We also discussed why? My top 3 favorites were;

• Why are stickers sticky?
• Is life real or just a hallucination?       
• Can a multiverse be open as a frequency or energy? Does this make time travel or guardian angels real?
• I'm very intrigued by this one. 
• But I do believe that guardian angels are real whether they relate to multiverses and time travel, that I don't know

HOPEPUNK

HOPEFUNK- is not about submission or acceptance, but about standing up and fighting for what's right and for what you believe in.
      Authors believe that this literary genre matters because it gives everyday people like you and me hope. In an age and day where people are afraid to say this and that because someone might get offended or hurt by what they say. Or where we can't speak up or speak out because then we will be looked down upon, this genre says the things that will make changes.

Speech 1: "I Have a Dream"

In my AP English class, we will be learning public speaking skills and in doing so we will watch a couple of famous speakers doing their famous speeches. I will be uploading my notes on these speeches. The 1st speech we are listening to is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's famous "I Have a Dream speech.

   Ethos- elements of messenger that create credibility
         - can sometimes not be verbal
               - can be a way of speaking
         - can be closely knitted w/ pathos
   Pathos- appeals to the emotions of audience
   Logos- appeals to logic

Withering injustice- Poetic
      Withering- intended to make someone feel mortified or humiliated
       Injustice- lack of fairness or justice; an unjust act or occurrence
Fallacy- error
Ethos

• mass gathering of many diverse people
• allusion to Emancipation Proclamation
• uses advanced words

Pathos

• relates to black people
• very poetic speech
• appeals to hurt and pain of black people

Logos

• "100 years later"
• "insufficient funds"
• people always understand money

More you understand the more you are prepared

Use of metaphors creates understanding

allusions- Steinbeck- Shakesphere