"The Road" - To be continued

In class, we could chose between two books; The Road by Cormac McCarthy or The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger. I chose The Road and have read about 50 pages now and to be honest, I didn’t really understand much. From what I understood, the book is about a man and his son who has no place to stay, and is always on the run from “the others”.

I know the book has been made in to a movie, so I went on YouTube to check out the trailer:

After having watched the trailer, I understand a lot more of what I have read. I think that it will be more exciting the more I read, so I will just have to keep on reading. A lot of people tell me that it is a good book and that is why I chose to read this one. I really want to see the movie, because the trailer looks exciting, but I will resist my temptations and finish the book before I see the movie. After all, I have learned that it is best to read the book before you see the movie, and not the other way around because I always get disappointed when I do that.

"Obama Rama Drama"

Last Tuesday in class, we watched a documentary on YouTube were we saw the reactions and views of the Republicans before the election in 2008. The people that were interviewed hated Barack Obama so much that they said he was a terrorist working with Osama Bin Laden and the Al-Qaida network, and called him names like “NoBama”, “Barack Hussein Obama” and singing songs like “O-O-Bama, he’ll tax to the max so you’ll feel real pain! No-Nobama, so vote with your brain, chose McCain”.

The source of the hatred for Barack Obama lies a lot in his believes and adolescence I think. They feel that Obama has been living in cities all of his life and does not know how it is for those who live in the country. They believe in God, not homosexuals or abortions. They also feel that they are the hardworking people who keep America running and that Obama can’t relate with them like McCain can. The Republicans are not ready for a black president.

Obama are also being connected with Hitler by the Republicans. Obama is a great public speaker and so was Hitler, and by that they think that there will be another WW2. Personally, I think what their saying and their behavior is ridiculous. The Republicans said that if Obama was elected President of the United States, America would be ruined and they would be scared for their lives and for their country. On Election Day they all cried when McCain lost just like if the world was going to end, but it seems to me like America is still going strong and Barack Obama is doing a decent job.

Here you can see the clip from YouTube!

Senior Project

For my Senior Project I have chosen to write about terrorism. I am going to include The 9/11 terrorist attack and the aftermath, but I'm going to focus mainly on why the terrorists act like they do, why they act in the name of God and how it is for those muslims that aren't terrorists but still get judged. We connect terrorism with Islam, but that is kind of ironic since Islam teaches to not harm other people.

We are also supposed to choose a book to read in class, and I have chosen "The Road".

The government says: Democracy is the right to dissent.

They mean that dissent gave birth to the United States and that freedom of speech is a critical mechanism of democracy and therefore guaranteed in the First Amendment to the Constitution.

Dissent is a theme of American history. It is written in the constitution that people can go out and assemble and protest . It's the mechanism for change in America. If there's something you don't agree with, you can be apart of a group and implement that change. Almost every group has an organization and protests, and this gives us and the government an awareness that there is a problem. People have the ability to speak their own mind and voice out the contempt that they have for the government. You shame the authorities into redressing something that they see is wrong. Jefferson wrote; all men are created equal, so after the constitution was written it was clear to a lot of people that not everybody was having these rights. The constitution is like a contract between the government and the people, and if people aren't being covered by that they're demanding the right to be covered. If you can't fight for those rights, then you're under a controlled society, and that is not what democracy is.

There were dissenters  like Susan b. Anthony who voted and got arrested because she was a women, and she said in a speech; is it a crime for US citizens to vote? And today we think: how can that have been considered a crime?

The positives of a democracy is that it's actually controlled by the people. Government changed America when people spoke up against the government. The phrase; all men are created equally means something different now then when Jefferson wrote it. There are always people who feel that they are not being treated fairly, and sometimes they are quite right!