A CIVIL RIGHTS QUOTE

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. ~Abraham Lincoln


This quote is saying that when Mr Lincoln sees people arguing for slavery he sees them differently and would like to see the person who is arguing for slavery to see how it feels being a black person and have people say that to him. I think people today still have a problem with different races. It is not right to pick on people about their race because they have a harder life. It's not right also because new people come into the world and they don't deserve to be picked on about their race.

A single slice reveals them

An apple on the table
hides it's seeds
so neatly
under seamless skin

But we talk and talk and talk
to let somebody
in.

By Naomi Shihal nye

I think this relates to the book A Long Way Gone. He is angry on the outside and lonely in the inside beacuse he isn't a solider anymore and because he has no family. The soldiers put him in a home for soldier boys to get them help because he is a boy not a soldier. They need to keep talking to him so he will get better and not be so lonely.They keep talking to him so he will listen and go back to being a boy because he is scarred really deep with the people that he had killed.

The 2 consciousness

The two consciousness of him are that he is a solider and also still a boy. He one ways he is different now are because he doesn't not remember anything from his child hood because he is fighting in the war and he is addicted to drugs so bad now and he is killing people and fighting in this war. In the begging he didn't want to fight of anything he was running away scared and trying to look for his family and brother. So he just figured that fighting is a better way for him to realive his pain that he has been though. he is sick of running away from his fears. he was not mature when he was given his gun when he was around 12 or 13 years old and started doing drugs. These are the two consciousness of the life of a long way gone.

Pome

Great full to be alive

Rebel fighter

Enemy to others

Education is not good

Numb to drugs

Sneaky to the enemy

National

Africa is where this is happending

Knife on this side

Everyone is fighting

Movie review

What i had learned form the movie we watch was that african americans have a really hard life to do because most dont have jobs and money and any place to live and any food to eat. It is just like the book we are reading because the pep are running away from at war and have no where to go or live. I feel really bad for them because they have a really hard life and when they frist come to america they have no idea what to do because there its nothing like where they use to live but they can get jobs and live so much easy then they were and there culter is so much differnt from ours. They think its much better and we are really nice and kind people to them its really more easy for them to live here and they can come and go to collage and get a even better paying job so they can have a family and support them.

Text Connecion Blog

High we exalt thee realm of the free great is the love we have for thee and marching,smoking and sniffing the cocaine and brown brown that was in abundance at Bauya. The only thing they are addicted to is cocaine and brown brown as in gun powder.I am addicted to video games like in the book people are addicted to cocanine. I am addicted because i have something to do when my friends come over or when im really bored when i dont want to go outside and just want to chill and have some fun. Beause im all about having fun with my friends and we are competive players and i hate lose but the its just a game and its all about fun for us all.

Keeping Thing Whole

INAA field I am the abesce

I am the abesicen

of the field

This is

always the case

whenever I am

I am what is missing

When I walk

part of the air

and always

the air moves

in to phill the spaces

where my body been

We all have reasons

for moving

I move

to keep things whole.

I think this poem goes with the book A long way gone bec he is living on his own right now bec his got sperated by his familly and is trying to find them and have a better good life u just wants to end this war and live a good life.