Tuesday, September 21, 2010

"I dream a world"




"I dream a world" is a really nice poem, just by reading it I get the chills. To me this man is saying that he wishes for a world where all men are created equally, and he wishes that no one should be punished for something you haven’t done, he wishes for a perfect world.


It’s My World


No child is abused
Hurt
Or miss treated in any way
IT’S MY WORLD

No border is blocking my path
IT’S MY WORLD

The world is in peace
No war no death
No crime
IT’S MY WORLD

We share
And care
We love
And live
IT’S MY WORLD

Now, everyone is a stranger
But this is my world
And we are all a family
ITS MY WORLD

Race in America




Controversies, fights, immigrants. That’s all we really hear around the world now. We hear about some dumb guy who is trying to burn the Koran, and then we hear about immigrant people being sent back to where they came from.

Lately I have been hearing a controversy about the building of the Islamic mosque in New York City. There are some Islamic people that want to build a mosque two blocks away from ground zero, which is where the twin towers were, and where many people died. Lisa Miller said, that many politicians are using the grief of the 9/11 families to defend what they have to say. Actor/activist, Stephen Baldwin says that the mosque should not be built, because of “common sense, why do it if it’s going to cause more problems.” “Why continue if people are getting offended.” On the other hand Rabbi Mathew Gewirtz says “the Islam might also get offended because they are in America, and they have the right to build anything, anywhere, that’s why people came here”

Some of the issues that are going on, are that some people or the families of the 9/11 families are getting offended. Some are saying how can they be building that here you killed my husband or son or a family member. Some are also saying that if they build the mosque there it might be the start of a night mare for them, just the thought of seeing them there, the people, the killers, it’s hard. “Have some respect for the families who died there.”

The burning of Koran is something that is important for Rev. Terry Jones, and his congregation. But it doesn’t seem very important to the troops and to the Islamic families. Terry has also been saying that Islam is of the devil. "How much do we back down? How many times do we back down?" Jones told the AP. "Instead of us backing down, maybe it's to time to stand up. Maybe it's time to send a message to radical Islam that we will not tolerate their behavior."

Immigration in this country is beginning to be scary for many families whether they are Mexican, African American, doesn’t matter where they are from. You can always find news about immigration. Sometimes you see the immigration police hitting them and treating them badly, it’s sad.

The controversy of the Islamic mosque, the burning of the Koran, and immigration tie up together and make a huge ball of mess. These three situations happening in this world are very much alike in many ways. One of the reasons is that someone will get hurt, for example if the Islamic people build the mosque there, the families in the 9/11 incident will probably get mad and some will probably want to do something to them. The guy who wants to burn the Koran will most likely get killed, shot, or hurt, there are many people who disagree with the burning of the Koran, and immigrant people always end up getting hurt in some way.

Friday, September 10, 2010

Book Report 2



Monster. A large, fierce, or horrible creature.

When we were little we would go crying to our parents in the middle of the night , and we would ask them to check under our bed and in our closet to take the monsters out. Now days we see and hear about kids who are asking cops to take their parents out of their house, because they are abusive, or they simply just want to kill them. Parents, friends, or just people walking on the street are becoming monsters.

Monster. Cellphones, computers, books, now days everything is becoming a monster, something we don't want in this world.

I listen to stories people tell, they say " we cant walk to the store anymore, because we are afraid we will get shot or robbed.

The more the years pass the more the world becomes a huge MONSTER.

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The book I read was named monster. It was about a young guy that went to jail because he was accused of robing and killing the owner of a drug store, while he was in jail a lady would always call him monster, because of what had done.

Thursday, September 2, 2010

wisdom quote





When life gives you problems
dont run away
face them with courage and strength.


It will be hard
and maybe scary
but a little scary wont hurt.


Our life is like writing a song
it starts slowly
until it flows.

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Book Report

Reading books is like playing a board game, you don't get board unless you don't get how to play, and in reading a book, you can only get board unless you don't understand it.

Eclipse. In the past three weeks I read Eclipse from the twilight series. Its about a girl named Bella, she is in love with two guys, Jacob the ware wolf and Edward the pale blood sucker aka the vampire. Edward is trying to protect Bella from Victoria, the evil vampire that want to kill Bella. There is a part in the book that says “There’s something…strange about the way you two are together… The way he watches you—it’s so…protective. Like he’s about to throw himself in front of a bullet to save you or something.” — Renee Dwyer I thought that part of the book was a little funny in a way, because Edward is dead so anything that hits him or even if hes almost broken he can get fixed in matter of second. when I read that part, that went through my mind.

While reading this book I remembered a friend I had, David. We became so close that he would be like a brother to me, but he would always be so protective of me. He was worse than my dad and he is pretty protective. I always though he was just being nice because we were like brothers. Then came the other guy Alex, he was cute, and tall. I had a huge crush on him for the longest time, and who knew that he liked me too?! Alex and I got to know each other really good, and David would see that he liked me. David and Alex never liked each other, exactly like Jacob and Edward. I can kinda relate to this book just because of those two guys. "Who knew like can be like a book that's out there in the world?" 

democracy

Democracy, religion, and racism, and culture can all get together .There always seems to be religion when it comes to democracy and racism.

Racism. I don’t understand how people can be so racist. Aren’t we supposed to love our neighbor as we love our selves?! To me that law of Arizona they wanted to put, was really racist. I know some people would say, “NO ITS NOT RACIST” but I think it is because, this is supposed to be a free country, and the way they were saying that just because we looked Mexican they had the right to stop us and ask us for papers seemed pretty racist to me. LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOU LOVE YOUR SELF!!

Culture. I think that most people in the world have different religions in their culture, and most of the people fallow their culture, their customs, and beliefs. I think it’s cool that they fallow their culture, because peoples culture is very important, but I also think that do what they believe and not just fallow everyone else.

The law or democracy is also part of this because there are people that say Christians are trying to change people into being one just so the world and laws will changed, which I really don’t think that’s bad, they can at least try. Even if some Christians tell them to go to church, they will still believe the same thing if they are really into their religion.

Religion, and the law I think are a little the same, because the law says to respect others property, respect every ones individual rights. And most Christians also say to respect each other.
The law, religion, racism, and culture are thing around the world and thing that most people believe. Racism is something that I hate and think there shouldn’t. Love your neighbor as you love yourself!! I also think that some of the laws are dumb, but I also like some of the laws because I think that everyone has the right to believe in what ever they want.