Thanks

What am i thankful for? There is so many things that i could probably not think of all of them. Sometimes we take what we are thankful for for granted, and when reading "The Book of Negroes" it really made me think about how much I should be thankful for the life I live. We are all so lucky to live in world we have today with no slavery, no judgement, and have to go through what Aminata went through. I am thankful for my education, to live such a great life, to be loved, music, I am even thankful to have a clean shower in the morning and a pretty much unlimited amount of food. Most of all I am thankful for my family and to have so many of them on both sides, which is filled with so much love. Yet at times we all may hate each other and may just want to pull one another's hair out but you know at the end of the day we are family. We love each other unconditionally, we are always there when you have a bad day even if you don't want to talk to anybody but we will sit there with you silently. I love that my family and along with my extended family can go on a family vacation to Mexico, stay in a house together and just have a blast. I am thankful that I am able to go on and get a post- secondary education. I am thankful for the little things, like books, music and candy. There is so much more! I am thankful for everything, just to be living in such an exciting time.

Avatar

First off, if anyone has not seen Avatar then i do not know what you are waiting because in no way will you be disappointed with this film it is absolutely astonishing. James cameron makes a film prett much every ten years and that shows how intimate and perfect his work has to be, he settles for nothing less then perfection. James cameron even invented a new lens for this movie, all for the 3D effect which allowed to shoot in all views. Watching the movie in the 3D you are in awe the whole time, I recommend that if you are scared of heights then hold onto your chairs because that is how real this movie is. Avatar is not a movie it is more along the lines of a cinematic adventure. When you are in your seat your in awe the whole time, it is like you have seen colors that you have never seen before and it feels like you are walking right inside the movie as it goes on. The world that the avatar's live in is so magical and euphoric, they worship their land it is what they live for. Seeing Avatar makes you think of movies in a whole new perspective, you dont think such a movie could even have that effect but once you see Avatar you will know what im talking about. It was dizzying in fact, just absorbing all the mythical creatures and plants was so enthrolling. Avatar is the Pandora of movies, you walk out of that theater and you are sad that it is over and you also wish that you were an Avatar.

PASSION

Should you be passionate about your career? Yes without a doubt you should be, if you dont have passion how are you ever going to get yourself out of bed everyday and go to a job which you hate. Passion gets you up everyday it motivates you to do better and if you had a bad day at work your passion stills gets you up the next day to go to work. When you go to university and do how ever many years of school your career requires you go into a job almost right away after school and you most likely stick with that job till you retire. If you think that you will enjoy your job and it is what you want to do but you go into it and its not all what you think it will be, you cant really just go and find another job out there. Almost every job requires a certain amount of school to qualify for it. Also, if you just going for a job that will give you lots of money you still need to go do your job everyday with the passion that you don't have for it but the passion for the money you will get out of it, which is not enough.

Now as for me, i did have it all planned out i was going to go nanny in Europe for a year then come back and go to school for human kinetics at UVIC. But now as the days passed im not going to nanny for a year and im unsure about going into human kinetics. My parents would like me to go into comerce which will give me a lot of options but i dont know if that is what i want to do. So i decided that for next year i am going to move to Vancouver and live with my sister and work. I want to figure out what i want to do before i go to school, not just go to school and figure it out while my parents are spending a but load of money on it. What i decide to will be the career i will love and be passionate about.

How would a broken plate feel?

A broken plate would feel empty and lonely that they have lost their other half. They would feel completely useless because no food would ever sit on the plate again. A broken plate would feel that they had no reason to go on and that you may as well break into a million pieces because would good is a broken plate. If you ate on a broken plate you could be risking your life a piece of broken plate could end up in your food and cut up all your insides, no plate would ever want to put you in such a life risking position. A broken plate would feel that they did not even deserve the title plate anymore just that they deserved the title broken. It would feel that it was a disapointment that it could not live up to your expectations and let you rest your meals on its top side and enjoy it. A broken plate would feel like a piece of garbage. Also, it would feel as if nobody truely cared enough about it to make sure that it did not fall and break. So in that case the plate would be happy it was broken because its metaphorical heart was broken.

7 signs its time to take a bath...

1. People move away from you as you walk by just the like the water did for moses

2. Your hair is so greasy you could ring the grease out of your hair and make fries in it

3. Your dog does not greet you as you enter the house anymore

4. There are mysterious baskets of soaps and perfumes left on your door step

5. During a basketball game all the people on the apposing team shotties not to be your defender

6. Your carrying a fly swatter around in your bag because there seems to be swarm of them where ever you go

7. Your parents don't like to eat dinner with you at the table anymore

Journal #1: The Book of Negroes

This is the quote i choose, "The abolitionists may well call me their equal, but their lips do not yet say my name and their ears do not yet hear my story. Not the way i want to tell it. But i have long loved the written word, and come to see in it the power of the sleeping lion. This is my name. This is who i am. This is how i got here. In the absence of an audience, I will write down my story so that it waits like the restful beast with the lungs breathing and heart beating."pg 101. I chose the quote because i think this is one of themes of this book it has a deep meaning to it. Aminata is a smart, strong willed girl and she is one of the most fortunate of Africans to come across the sea to America. She was taught how to read, learn math, and her skills of a mid-wife gave her an advantage to survive the slavery of the Africans. This quote says that the English, the "white" men are selfish. They do not see who Aminata truly is, they do not hear her story like they should, and they look down on her. Aminata is just another reason that they could use to stop the war. What is truly terrible is that people still think that way to this very day, when people think of Africa the first think that comes to their mind is savages, loin clothes, Africans sleeping with the lions, and their homes are huts. When Aminata goes to the library with Mr. Lindo he shows her a map of Africa there are sketches of elephants, lions, bare-breasted women, and a monkey on a mans shoulder. They have never been to their land and their way of living is better then ours. They do not go to war with one another and kill each other, they are equal they live in a circle so they can all socialize together and be a huge family. Aminitas knowledge helps her escape the horrors of whats going on in the world around her and finds herself in a safer world. Her knowledge of reading, writing, great diction, and two African languages gives herself a freedom from where ever she finds. Knowledge is freedom, with it you can accomplish so many things.

"The book of Negroes" relates to the Holocaust. The Africans homes, land were invaded and they were taken from it to be slaves in America. In the Holocaust the Jewish were taken from their homes by the Germans and put into camps to be tortured and to be slaves. Both the African and the Jewish were given a symbol of some sort of branding to represent who they were. They were both treated as if they were aliens to the world and wished to inflict some sort of danger upon us. Everybody in the world went along with this being the right thing to do because it was what people were doing nobody objected or took a stand against it they just stood by it. The dangers of indifference and unresponsiveness will conclude in this. No human should be treated with such cruelty because of there nationality, color of skin, or back round. They are still human and have the same rights as anyone else in the world. People who do such things because of there race, those people are not human and do not deserve rights.

The Lottery and The Perils of Indifference

1. "The Perils of Indifference"....The Danger of Crime and Punishment.. The Consequences of abstraction and the seduction of evil

2. In the story The Lottery the ending was very ironic. How the story is explained until the point where Mrs. Hutchinson is stoned to death by her friends her own kids and husband is perfectly normal just like any other day where the sun is shining and the kids are playing. "The Lottery" is an ironic title for the story when you read or hear the word lottery you think of happiness, luck and money. You do not think of death by the townspeople which is so disturbing that those people in the story show no sort of emotion to events taking place, they do not try to stop or object whats going to happen to their mother, wife, and friend. You can connect these events to the story to many events that have happened in history such as the holocaust where the townspeople do not show emotion as they are killing off one of there own just like the Nazis in the holocaust and Mrs Hutchinson who is so helpless and being betrayed on so many different levels just like the Jewish. You can connect it the Rwanda genocide where the Tutsis are killing off the Hutu's when they are both so much like, also you can connect it to books that have been written about the event and a movie called "Hotel Rwanda". Also you can relate it to events that are happening today not in such a tragic way but there are bullies in school that are beating on younger kids who are just like them and judges that give criminals a death sentence without showing a hint of emotion when the declare their fate. The Lottery also relates to the book i read called The Hunger Games. The Hunger games is in more of a futuristic world with alot of violance. Every year there is the hunger games where two people from each district, there is twelve in total and one boy and girl is chosen from each. There names are written on papers in big spheres which entails death or victory. Which relates to the box from The Lottery.

3. Elie Wiesel was a victim in the holocaust who wrote a detailed book about his life and surviving in the holocaust called "Night" and has wrote over forty books about wartime atrocities against the Jewish people. His speech "The Perils of Indifference" is very powerful and emotional. It relates the to the story "The Lottery" in many ways. Elie's speech he is talking about real events in the world and "The Lottery" is using symbolism to relate to such events. "The Lottery was written in 1945 which is right during the World War two and the holocaust. Mrs Hutchinson is the Jewish people, the Hutu's, the Jewish people on the boat who came to the shores of America and were sent right back to where they cam from, Mrs Hutchinson is the Japanese who we turned against because we thought they were spies and we put them in internment camps and destroyed their shops and sold their homes. Mrs Hutchinson is everyone who is helpless and cannot defend herself because in the end they could not avoid death. The townspeople in "The lottery are the Nazis, they are the people who did not act against the holocaust who just pretended everything was okay, who were indifferent, the Tutsis, and they are the U.S.A who turned away the boat of hundreds of Jewish people that they could have saved. Mr Summers who was in charge of the black box which decided every body's fate was Hitler, the one in charge of it all. Mr Summers was and is everyone with a title that could have done something to stop or make a difference but simply chose not to because they were too scared.