Beyond the line

Who would I travel with across the would?

Lennie and George traveled the world together side by side. If I could travel the world with someone it would have to be Rakeera. Her relation, traits and things we have in common fits my qualifications.

The relationship that Rakeera and I have is very strong. I can trust her with my life and knowing nothing will never happen to me and the same for her. So you know we are really close. She loves me vice verse, were sisters! Unlike Lennnie and George. In the book Lennie thought they were close. Lennie said "You said I was related to you, George." George said "If I was related to you, Lennie….I would shoot myself." But in the end Lennie still trusted George with his life and George shoot him dead.

Rakeera is a fun person to be around. Whenever i'm around her we have a good time. Alway's expect the unexpected to happen. There's never a minute that goes by that i'm bored with her. Lennie seems like a funny I mean annoying person. I would hate if he came along to travel with me just a little while. In the story he constantly asked "Can I still tend the rabbits, George?....Tell me about the rabbits, George!....Tell me how it’s gonna be, George. Tell me ’bout the rabbits." Lennie would drive me crazy!

Rakeera and I have many things in common. We both love to go out partying. Enjoy shopping for clothes because we always want to look our best. We love to be around each other ofcourse that's what Lennie and George love. But in the beginning George wanted to be alone away from Lennie he stated "Well, we ain't got any," George exploded. "Whatever we ain't ... got, that's what you want. God a'mighty, if I was alone I could live so easy. Jus' keepme shovin' all over the country all the time." Lennie got feed up and stated "If you don' want me I can go off in the hills an' find a cave. I can go away any time." George said "No-look! I was jus' foolin',Lennie. 'Cause I want you to stay with me."

If I had to choose a person to travel wtih that person would be my wonderful sister. It wouldn't feel right I would feel imcomplete if she didn't because we go everywhere togeteher. Rakeera met all of my qualifications from being trustful, caring to be outgoing and fun. There is no other person i would want to travel with. If you were me do you think I choose the right person?

Between the Line

Why do Lennie constantly kill every animal he touches?

I believe every animal Lennie touches were helpless. Defenseless compared to the strong person Lennie is! Do you know the phrase many people say retarded strength, well that's what I think Lennie has. He failed to know his strength and that's how he kills all them animals. They can't fight back so they just have to stay there and suffer. That's the reason why I think Lennie constantly kill every animal he touches.

Do you think Lennie is violent?

During the story Lennie was involved in multiple altercations. Curly provoked the fight but then Lennie broke every bone in Curly's hand with his very own hand. On the other hand Lennie kill Curly's wife by breaking her neck. Last but not least every animal Lennie set his eyes on he killed, for example the puppy and the bird. Even though Lennie didn't start every fight but yes I think Lennie is violent, don't you?


What do the puppy symbolize?

In the book Mice of Men the puppy in there symbolize something new. A new life in other words! Lennie and George started something fresh which is good. They got new a job working on the ranch and made new friends. Everything was going fine and dandy until the the puppy died. Their lifestylle changed it did a whole three sixty! Lennie soon was killed by his own friend. Puppy symbolized good and bad things in a way in Mice of Men.


What is one theme of the story?

One of the themes in the story is that loneliness is a human's worst fear. Crooke experienced the feeling of that! All he ever did was to be left alone reading books. He got the chance to finally be accompanied by Lennie one day. He told him all about how he felt to live his life without anyone to talk to or just be wth. Us people needs some kind of connection with others to function correctly. Crooke even stated, ""A guy needs somebody to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long's he's with you. I tell ya, I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick." Loneliness is one of the main themes in the story, you think?

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why do we have to do nhd every year?

"NHD is okay I guess, it makes me feel smart doing it each year, makes me feel special. I love doing NHD and working with my friends." stated by Shaquetta Brown. NHD most people say for short but it's really National History Day. It's an project that middle and high school students compete against each other. First, start at school wide competition than citywide, states then nationals. And if you win your given a scholarship to what ever college you want to go to. Most schools have the option to do it as an extra circular activity, credit recovery,etc.... On the other hand my school Constitution High has to do it every year. Now the question I have "Do you think we should havve to do it every year?"

Majority of the students i've interviewed thought we shouldn't have to do NHD each year. After they heard the question they answered with a annoyed voice. Thinking it's a waste of time. Some people put their heart and soul in it like staying after school and getting out of class. At the end of the day you won't even get that far. NHD is a big part of our grade. It's manitory! Even though you have other class to attend and do work for you have to put most of your attention to your project. A few people out of the bunch thought we should do it every year. Students said they don't have a problem with with NHD because it really helps them learn more about history. Plus this is a history based on high school.

In conclusion, to resolve this problem freshmen and seniors should have to do it. But for the tenth and eleventh graders they should have an option if they want to do it or not for an extra circurlum activityor whatever. http://www.kshs.org/teachers/historyday/graphics/nhd_logo.jpg

Being forced to read a poem...

Have some one ever forced you to read a poem? Don’t you hate reading them because they confuse you and don’t get to the point? But you got lucky and had the chose to choose one? You probably would look for something short and sweet! Well that’s what I did! Amiri Baraka was right on time with her poem SOS. That’s one of the reasons why I love this poem it’s short the other reasons include the facts that SOS repeats constantly through the whole poem saying the same phrases over and over again and connects to historical contents to people like Malcon X, Marin Luther King JR. and Barak Obama.

I love this poem because it’s short. That’s what really caught my attention when I came across this poem. SOS contains a total of 43 words. Amiri didn’t use big words. For example, “whenever” it doesn’t have many letters. Only seven lines long complete the whole poem.

Further more this poem repeats phrases. But with it’s own style and rhythm. It still flowed! Constantly saying “black people,” from the first to the last line, it left a powerful message that African American leaders used.

Finally this poem relates to historical content. “Calling all black people…come on in,” it stated. Martin Luther King Jr. did things in that nature gathering together women, men and children not only blacks but whites also through the civil rights movement to get equity. Influencing them to fight with their hearts. On the other hand Malcon X fought for the rights of black people also, but by any means necessary. Oh and how could I forget Barak Obama. He encouraged all black to get registered if already wasn’t and vote for him ofcourse! Obama won the presidency election and became the first African American president of the United States.

The next time you look for a poem to read make sure you look for the length of it, see how many lines, words and or even see if it’s repetitive. If so, look for the repeating phases. See how many times it repeats. Skim through the poem and see if it relates to historical content. If so it’s good! If you ever come across a poem that does have none of thoughs qualities beware don’t read it!!

NHD Project Reflected 2009

This year I participated in the National History Day project. The theme was legacy and action. I choose to do my project on Bessie Smith. When I was working on a class assignment I came across her and I became interested cause she was a singer and I was working with people that loved to sing and wanted to learn more about her so I gather all my group members and we decided to do are project on her. Bessie Smith was African American blues singer that lived through the time of sexism, racism and segregation transcended all these obstacles to pursue a successful singing career.

The difficulties we had as a group were writing the script. It got changed numerous times but it turned out good. We had so many ideas and we had to put it all in one. The difficulties I had was finding a custom.

We all decided to do a play. We all took part in researching and writing the script.
We started off bad not knowing when we were going to get the time to get together and work on the play but we got it together. And yes we made it to cities but we have a lot of work to do. Like revising the script, fixing my custom (adding pieces) and working on our propos.

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"Bessie Smith fron NPR." nrp.org. 21 Nov 2008 .

Bessie Smith influenced alot of people for example from Mahalia Jackson to Mary J. Blige. She gave the music its raw, regal poignancy and marketability. Her feverish growls and testifying delivery has informed nearly every facet of African-American music. Incorporating a full arsenal of talent singing, dancing, and slapstick comedy Bessie was a consummate entertainer.