Kindred Project Questions.

1.) My favorite found poem is the one that starts with "The room seemed to blur and darken around me"

2.) My favorite picture was the group of Jasmine Sage. Some great art they put onto their poster.

3.) My favorite quote is "Seconds count when something is trying to kill you." This is actually from my group. This tells a lot from the story because it actually does show events in the story that have situations about life or death. The word "seconds" is important too because time traveling is the reason for the main character going through dangerous situations.

4.) After reading about the characters, I believe thinks could probably get worser from what I read. I think Rufus will be terribly raised by his bad father and turn Rufus exactly like him, which will lead to torture against slaves and perhaps against Dana's ancestors as well.

Slavery and America Today.

How did slavery change America? Slavery changed America by affecting the attitude towards true freedom to African descendants. Even though slavery is no more, there is still some hatred left for some Americans towards Africans descendants.

Satire

Satire: The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices.

An example of satire is Family Guy.

There's Something About Paulie -Season 2. In this send up of the mobster mentality in which Peter is enlisted to see that Big Fat Paulie, a Jersey mobsters relative is taken care of during his visit to Quahog, when he accidently gets Paulie to put a hit out on Lois. Chaos ensues, ending in the Godfather's daughter's wedding and a Tiramisu. Classic family guy humor with some solid asides.

Note to...

Dear ....,

I would like to persuade Resistance to Civil Government to you and for others who are also on my side.

The greatest obstacles to this happening seem to be because of the whites trying to look supreme to all the other races.

I am also worried about the lives at risk for the slaves.

What do you think of slavery?

Thanks for your help.

Sincerely,

Kervin Cano

Thoreau's Walden.

1.) Why did Thoreau move to Walden? He loved to be around nature not civilization so well. He believed that nature and human soul were divine.

2.)What was his life like there? It was peaceful, away from all the technology he believes is blackening the way the people live further in time.

3.)What did he criticize in modern life? There is no need to move on with all the new man made creations when he believes all people need to live happily after is nature only.

4.) Do you agree or disagree with his critique? I am like in between because I also like nature too and hope to live around it, but technology is also important because the more advanced it gets the more benefits. Overall, I like his idea, so I agree I prefer nature to stay than technology we pretty much are well advanced now.

Transcendentalism Song (Gone going by Black Eyed Peas)

"Gone Going"

Johnny wanna be a big star
Get on stage and play the guitar
Make a little money, buy a fancy car
Big old house and an alligator
Just to match with them alligator shoes
He's a rich man so he's no longer singing the blues
He's singing songs about material things
And platinum rings and watches that go bling
But, diamonds don't bling in the dark
He a star now, but he ain't singing from the heart
Sooner or later he's just gonna fall apart
Cause his fans can't relate to his new found art
He ain't doing what he did from the start
And that's putting in some feeling and thought
He decided to live his life shallow
Cash in his love for material

[Chorus]
And its gone... gone... going...
Gone... everything gone... give a damn...
Gone be the birds when they don't want to sing...
Gone people... all awkward with their things... gone.

You see yourself in the mirror
And you feel safe cause it looks familiar
But you afraid to open up your soul
Cause you don't really know, don't really know
Who he is, the person that's deep within
Cause you are content with just being the name-brand man
And you fail to see that its trivial
Insignificant, you addicted to material
I've seen your kind before
You're the type that thinks souls is sold in a store
Packaged up with incense sticks
With them vegetarian meals
To you that's righteous
You're fiction like books
You need to go out to life and look
Cause... what happens when they take your material
You already sold your soul and its...

[Chorus]

You say that time is money and money is time
So you got mind in your money and your money on your mind
But what about... that crime that you did to get paid
And what about... that bid, you can't take it to your brain
What about those shoes you'll wear today
They'll do no good on the bridges you burnt along the way

All that money that you got gonna be gone
That gear that you rock gonna be gone
The house up on the hill gonna be gone
The gold purse on your grill gonna be gone
The ice on your wrist gonna be gone
That nice little Miss gonna be gone
That whip that you roll gonna be gone
And what's worst is your soul's already gone

[Chorus]

Link to hear song: http://www.playlist.com/searchbeta/tracks#gone%20going/all/1