Bitter or Not: Make the Right Choice!-A Response to “Hillary Supporters are not Bitter, they are Concerned”

Thirdly, this race is not about race. It’s not about black or white, male or female, Democrat or Republican, it is about America; the place in which we all live. This is why so many people who never voted before came out in masses, not only to support Senator Obama, but Senator Clinton as well. This fact does not mean that you neglect history when it is being made, to do so is ignorance. Senator Obama made history that not only African Americans should be proud of, but all Americans, regardless of race. WE should all be proud because it shows just how far America has come, and while we still have work to do, it shows that we are turning the curve. Senator Clinton has made an historic run…

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Reflection 3: Why I Make Music

 
I make music to communicate.  I make music to bridge gaps. I make music in order to release feelings.  I make music because music listens. I make music because it never disrespects me.  I make music to influence.  I make music to praise God.  I make music to pray.  I make music to worship.  I [...]

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Weblog 5: Race to the Classroom

After reading “Understand?” by Will Okun (an English teacher in a Chicago school with many students from low-income and minority homes), I began to think about my own experience as a student and how race has played a part in learning in my life.  After years of encountering many different teachers with diverse backgrounds, I [...]

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Reflection 2-Why do I really write? What is my motive?

There are four different motives for writing, according to the essay “Why I Write” by George Orwell.  After reading this essay I decided to take a look at my motives for writing.  The identification of my writing motive didn’t take very long, in fact, it almost happened instantly while reading Orwell’s essay.  Sheer egoism, Aesthetic enthusiasm, Historical impulse, [...]

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Blog 4: Fish-in-a-Box

“Students can’t write clean English sentences because they are not being taught what sentences are.” At least, according to Stanley Fish, dean emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago they can’t. In Fish’s column in the New York Times, he clearly communicates his belief that in writing, “Content is a lure and a delusion, [...]

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Weblog 3: Dumbed Down

“Our society and our literature and our culture are being dumbed down.” At least that is what 77 year old former Yale University Professor Harold Bloom believes. In what one might call a passionate, expressive and opinionated column in the Los Angeles Times, Professor Bloom explains his firm position when it comes to [...]

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Reflection 1: Why I Write

I write simply because I like to speak.  I like to speak because I feel that I have something to say. I believe that when one writes he or she is literally communicating their emotions and feelings through whatever tools they are using to print.  Whether it is metaphorically, directly, poetically or a combination of [...]

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Weblog 2: Dirt Roads and Dirty Sneakers…I’m Home

I would like to take this time to brief talk about my hometown, John’s Island, South Carolina. It is a place filled with African American history and customs. I can recall growing up on John’s Island as a boy playing in the dirt roads after school for fun, and fighting with the dirt roads before [...]

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Weblog 1: Welcome to MyPlace!!!

In the eyes of the beholder, the name of something has major significance.  For example, whenever one hears a name that (for whatever reason) is more commonly used as a female name, it is immediately assumed that the person the name belongs to is a Female.  Even if in fact the person was a male, [...]

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