sorry for the language everyone to everyone who still reads this and to you Tim...
fear is the last thing we need.
fear of losing
fear of terror
fear of our fellow human beings
its two hours so please be patient.
http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/
Friday, September 14, 2007
Sunday, August 26, 2007
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
It's being almost two weeks since the last day we met for EWRT 1A. I am spending the few remainder days of my summer trying to finish up my summer homework for high school, so it hasn't been exactly exciting. So over the last several days, I realized that how much more alert I am of my surroundings. As I watch movies now, and I look for company ads. As I am watching the news, I notice the information that news stations focus on. As I move around in public areas, and I see a security camera, I think about the meaning behind it. When I see an injustice in society, I don't just pass by, I think about ways I can do something about it. When I am reading, I am taking notes and thinking about meaning underneath the surface. When I am writing I am thinking about the ways to make my writing more concise and organized. I am really glad that I took this course, because it's one of the few courses that I can put the skills I learned from the class to the rest right away. I just hope that I will never ever stop staying alert, because the day that that I do, is the day that I cease to exist.
Saturday, August 18, 2007
but of course: the government is now free to spy on the people, for the people
"Broad new surveillance powers approved by Congress this month could allow the Bush administration to conduct spy operatives that go well beyond wiretapping to include - without court approval - certain types of physical searches on American soil and the collection of Americans' business records, Democratic Congressional officials and other experts said.
Administration officials acknowledge that they had heard such concerns from Democrats in Congress recently, and that there was a continuing debate over the meaning of the legislative language. But they said the Democrats were simply raising theoretical questions based on a harsh interpretation of the legislation"...
...harsh interpretation?!
full article from nytimes.com: "Concern Over Wider Spying Under New Law"
Next step: the Real ID Act, which the Department of Homeland Security insists is an "essential tool to fight the war on terror."
Somehow, I'm not reassured that the Real ID Act will provide us with much protection. If it goes though, we'll need protection from the "protection" the act promises. Those IDs reminds me of black slaves' "freedom papers"...and Jews' IDs and stars of David during WWII...
Administration officials acknowledge that they had heard such concerns from Democrats in Congress recently, and that there was a continuing debate over the meaning of the legislative language. But they said the Democrats were simply raising theoretical questions based on a harsh interpretation of the legislation"...
...harsh interpretation?!
full article from nytimes.com: "Concern Over Wider Spying Under New Law"
Next step: the Real ID Act, which the Department of Homeland Security insists is an "essential tool to fight the war on terror."
Somehow, I'm not reassured that the Real ID Act will provide us with much protection. If it goes though, we'll need protection from the "protection" the act promises. Those IDs reminds me of black slaves' "freedom papers"...and Jews' IDs and stars of David during WWII...
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
er...title.
"Rush Limbaugh claimed Media Matters' 'purpose' is to 'take things out of context'...
In the bit of the Limbaugh's radio show that was in the article, Limbaugh sounds like a politician who hasn't yet gained mastery over euphemistic political language. Or like a conspiracy theorist with delusions of grandeur: "[taking my words out of context] defies explanation other than they don't want me to be reported upon accurately because they are trying to harm my credibility. They cannot beat people like me in the arena of ideas."
But then again he would sound like that, because he has a political agenda, and he can at least back up his conservative claims with bits of evidence and knowledge of whatever issue's at hand...
What about celebrities, though? Like that actor that went down to meet with Hugo Chavez and share anti-war/anti-Bush chats?
And Oprah - I read this quote in Time magazine: "Oprah Winfrey has anointed Barack Obama as her 'choice' in '08. By the sound of more than 20 million clicking TV remotes, she can determine the votes of her fans. Should an entertainer have such a power?"
They probably shouldn't, but apparently they do. I guess I just realized that the thought and reality-controlling forces in society (political, commercial, and all that fun stuff) are all merging (or have already merged) into one big fat blob. That's kinda disturbing.
In the bit of the Limbaugh's radio show that was in the article, Limbaugh sounds like a politician who hasn't yet gained mastery over euphemistic political language. Or like a conspiracy theorist with delusions of grandeur: "[taking my words out of context] defies explanation other than they don't want me to be reported upon accurately because they are trying to harm my credibility. They cannot beat people like me in the arena of ideas."
But then again he would sound like that, because he has a political agenda, and he can at least back up his conservative claims with bits of evidence and knowledge of whatever issue's at hand...
What about celebrities, though? Like that actor that went down to meet with Hugo Chavez and share anti-war/anti-Bush chats?
And Oprah - I read this quote in Time magazine: "Oprah Winfrey has anointed Barack Obama as her 'choice' in '08. By the sound of more than 20 million clicking TV remotes, she can determine the votes of her fans. Should an entertainer have such a power?"
They probably shouldn't, but apparently they do. I guess I just realized that the thought and reality-controlling forces in society (political, commercial, and all that fun stuff) are all merging (or have already merged) into one big fat blob. That's kinda disturbing.
Friday, August 10, 2007
Blogging into the future
I am really enjoying my reading today. Thanks to all of you for your efforts to make my work--effortless.
And thank you Ann and Melissa for the photos. Very cool.
With all of the thinking for yourselves I've been reading here, I had an idea for the future of this blog: Why not use it to contribute observations and arguments about the world that you'd like to share? Who knows, perhaps, we could even make it public eventually and invite others to participate.
Here's one to keep your media-monitoring going: http://mediamatters.org
This site explores media offenses in a very incisive manner. Is there anything here you have something to say about?
And thank you Ann and Melissa for the photos. Very cool.
With all of the thinking for yourselves I've been reading here, I had an idea for the future of this blog: Why not use it to contribute observations and arguments about the world that you'd like to share? Who knows, perhaps, we could even make it public eventually and invite others to participate.
Here's one to keep your media-monitoring going: http://mediamatters.org
This site explores media offenses in a very incisive manner. Is there anything here you have something to say about?
Thursday, August 9, 2007
To Those Who Still Care...
Post # 200!!!!!
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/08/09/domestic_surveillance/
Again, what is our Beloved Motherland becoming?
By the way here is my final essay
Hanh Nguyen
Tim Maxwell
EWRT1
Each generation has great issues they battle with to keep themselves untainted. They fight because this issue, this problem stops them from living a true life without impositions of outside influence. This generation and many others before it dealt with the oppression of media. Governments create laws, impose taxes, and ultimately define lifestyle of their citizens. However, the media that report them influences much of today’s government. The difference between this generation and those generations proceeding are the technology. As described in George Orwell’s 1984, advancement in technologies allow poisons to spread quickly within the homes of citizens through hybrid televisions and surveillance cameras called telescreens. I believe today’s society government and media are controlled by Commercial Interests. These Interests used the Government and Media to rape its audience with propaganda and rhetoric.
Our president post the tragedy of 9.11 past the Patriot Act. This act allowed the National Security Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to spy domestically. The act gave these branches of the government the ability to tap phone lines, to read emails and to arrest anyone under suspicion of terrorist acts. Just last week the George Bush Jr. tried to bully the House of Representatives in passing a law allowing the eavesdropping of foreigners using American satellites or websites to communicate. I believe today’s society government and media are controlled by Commercial Interests. What is this nation coming to when one cannot do participate in life without constant surveillance?
Today Media influences everything. In 1957, Edwin Ebel, then vice president of Public Relations at the General Foods Corporation conducted a study on how many advertisements are seen or heard in a 16-hour day. 1,538 on average was the number of advertisements seen by a person everyday. In 1957 there was no cable television, no internet, and most importantly no Myspace. Combined with all these new platforms for ads. People are unconsciously being bombarded with reasons by products, services and ideas from someone else. I believe Media, like Consumerism is trying to keep people shrouded in pettiness. In the words of Betty Liang “People are given the everything they need to be satisfied…”. This statement by Betty, I believe to be true. If people are constantly raising there goals and are constantly being satisfied there would be no reason to examine people’s lives. There would be no void in there lives because it would always be filled with something artificial and processed for there satisfaction.
Such events are not just taking place in the United States but around the world. The origin of the term Banana Republic refers to unstable countries in the Latin or South America or African countries. In Honduras, United and Standard Fruit Company’s purchased and subsidized lands for farming their bananas. With these lands, they offered extremely low paying, long hour jobs to the Hondurans. Unfortunately they were forced to work there because of lack of other jobs in the nation. Eventually the abuses and unfair treatment of the Company’s laborers reached the government. By this time the company had so much power it was able to stage a coup in the government and install leaders friendly to their enterprise. The United Fruit Company and the Standard Fruit Company are now known and Chiquita Brand Fruit Company and Dole Fruit Company. Consumerism had seized control of the Honduras Government in the name of growing cheap products, paying little to almost nothing to its employees, and selling at competitive market prices to make astronomical profits. I am not going completely rule out this could happen or has already happened out my beloved country.
Dear classmates, I say what can we do to stop this totalitarianism? What can the individuals do to battle these great injustices impeding on my freedom? Life doesn’t seem so great when I am told what to do, when to do it and how. The level of corruption I believe is in every level of our federal government. I just don’t know what to do anymore when Representatives are stealing money. I don’t know what to think when Senators are accused of sexual misconduct, and the media crucifies them in their reports instead of reporting on policy. What can one do when the President of the United States is a warmonger who used to work for corporations exploiting the indecent wars started by his administration? My friends, the first step we can take in fighting our illegitimate masters is to know of their corruption. From here on I guess everyone has to make it up as they go.
and here is my 4th essay Tim.
Hanh Nguyen
Tim Maxwell
EWRT 1
Tommy Hilfiger, a popular mainstream clothing line created an advertisement for women’s perfume and men’s cologne. This advertisement showed a smiling African American woman in 50’s era diner, wearing madras and hot pants. That is what I saw; Professor Tim Maxwell however saw rape. Not only did his view of this advertisement stunned me but shocked the class. I believed it a gross interpretation of happy, innocent people. But I also understood. I understood where Tim was coming from and his ideas weren’t completely ridiculous. The advertisement showed the woman smiling and looking towards someone or thing behind us; her hands covered her private region and the symbol of Hilfiger covering that. The bottle of cologne was shaped of a phallus, the African American model covering her genitals in a diner era restaurant where segregation was still rampant. Was I turning crazy to make these connections also?
Our first of many difficult essays to come was about freedom. Not just any freedom, but my definition of freedom and how I relate to it. The reason it was so difficult was because I didn’t understand its concept. Again I made the ridiculous assumption of being a US citizen and being endowed with “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”. I wrote about the things I was able to enjoy and the things I was forbidden to do. How is this supposed to be difficult when I can draw my boundaries in the definition? I realized freedom meant nothing. As important as it sounds, many people assume they have the same definition. This abstract thought of freedom was supposed to be defined with concrete evidence. I used slaves as my basis for my thesis. Slaves were bound by masters to do their bidding. So I must be bound by _____ to do its will. It hit me so hard I questioned my sanity. Freedom does not mean do whatever I want; it means not to be a slave of something. My freedom was defined by what I believed I was compelled by. This in itself brought me to the epiphany that I was not a slave of rules. Commercialism, the desire of “stuff”, and emotions are my true masters.
Another defining moment in 1A unmasked by my realization of my slavery is the idea of the media and governments international are powered one of my masters. George Orwell’s, 1984, described an imaginary state where the government controlled all aspects of life. Aside from all the interpretations of the book, I want to talk about its political idea, an all powerful state. In the story, what was consumed and believed by the population was fabricated to keep them in check. Literally, the thoughts and beliefs of the masses were dominated by what was consumed through propaganda. The government would become extremely dangerous and invincible if they could do this. What if this really happened? Tim said it happened in China with its cultural revolution. Tim said for us to think for ourselves on the website (website). Tim gives us assignments to slave over under the guise of being helpful to our writing and futures. Tim said this and Tim said that. Isn’t Tim our government? If Tim controls our class with his iron fist, what has our government done? If in 1984, the government used the media to control the people; can’t the media today control the people? I do not believe the government and media run hand in hand together, but I do believe they are powered by the same vested interests. These interests used to be the “common good”, but now I believe they are motivated by wealth and power.
The last thing mind-blowing away my summer was class itself. I lost weight, learned how to skydive and the horrible 12-step program making me pre-write and post-write actually made me write better. Since we were commanded to think for ourselves, I did just that. Of the many ideas represented by each student in class, I felt like everyone else, compelled to force my opinion on the class. Discussing ideas in class made me feel like I was in a Roman Forum. These battlefields of ideas and rhetoric took form in debates and blog entries. For the first time, I was placed in an environment where everyone was considered a peer; even Tim Himself counted himself as a peer. If I was qualified to share ideas with people ranging from the ages 17 to Tim’s age, would this make me an adult? As I thought about this more and more I realized my opinions mattered. I know its cliché to say so, but it is a cliché for a reason. As a kid, much of my ideas are brushed off as “silly” and childish. To be taken seriously by people has always been a goal and I feel among my peers that I have reached it.
How I have changed is immeasurable. The entire summer has been a blur, but these events I remember distinctly. I took a class taught by a Stanford professor who attended UC Berkeley. Advertisements and the processing of information forced on to me is rape and I should tell somebody. The last thing I remember is I am a man and my opinions matter.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/08/09/domestic_surveillance/
Again, what is our Beloved Motherland becoming?
By the way here is my final essay
Hanh Nguyen
Tim Maxwell
EWRT1
Slave to Society
Each generation has great issues they battle with to keep themselves untainted. They fight because this issue, this problem stops them from living a true life without impositions of outside influence. This generation and many others before it dealt with the oppression of media. Governments create laws, impose taxes, and ultimately define lifestyle of their citizens. However, the media that report them influences much of today’s government. The difference between this generation and those generations proceeding are the technology. As described in George Orwell’s 1984, advancement in technologies allow poisons to spread quickly within the homes of citizens through hybrid televisions and surveillance cameras called telescreens. I believe today’s society government and media are controlled by Commercial Interests. These Interests used the Government and Media to rape its audience with propaganda and rhetoric.
Our president post the tragedy of 9.11 past the Patriot Act. This act allowed the National Security Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to spy domestically. The act gave these branches of the government the ability to tap phone lines, to read emails and to arrest anyone under suspicion of terrorist acts. Just last week the George Bush Jr. tried to bully the House of Representatives in passing a law allowing the eavesdropping of foreigners using American satellites or websites to communicate. I believe today’s society government and media are controlled by Commercial Interests. What is this nation coming to when one cannot do participate in life without constant surveillance?
Today Media influences everything. In 1957, Edwin Ebel, then vice president of Public Relations at the General Foods Corporation conducted a study on how many advertisements are seen or heard in a 16-hour day. 1,538 on average was the number of advertisements seen by a person everyday. In 1957 there was no cable television, no internet, and most importantly no Myspace. Combined with all these new platforms for ads. People are unconsciously being bombarded with reasons by products, services and ideas from someone else. I believe Media, like Consumerism is trying to keep people shrouded in pettiness. In the words of Betty Liang “People are given the everything they need to be satisfied…”. This statement by Betty, I believe to be true. If people are constantly raising there goals and are constantly being satisfied there would be no reason to examine people’s lives. There would be no void in there lives because it would always be filled with something artificial and processed for there satisfaction.
Such events are not just taking place in the United States but around the world. The origin of the term Banana Republic refers to unstable countries in the Latin or South America or African countries. In Honduras, United and Standard Fruit Company’s purchased and subsidized lands for farming their bananas. With these lands, they offered extremely low paying, long hour jobs to the Hondurans. Unfortunately they were forced to work there because of lack of other jobs in the nation. Eventually the abuses and unfair treatment of the Company’s laborers reached the government. By this time the company had so much power it was able to stage a coup in the government and install leaders friendly to their enterprise. The United Fruit Company and the Standard Fruit Company are now known and Chiquita Brand Fruit Company and Dole Fruit Company. Consumerism had seized control of the Honduras Government in the name of growing cheap products, paying little to almost nothing to its employees, and selling at competitive market prices to make astronomical profits. I am not going completely rule out this could happen or has already happened out my beloved country.
Dear classmates, I say what can we do to stop this totalitarianism? What can the individuals do to battle these great injustices impeding on my freedom? Life doesn’t seem so great when I am told what to do, when to do it and how. The level of corruption I believe is in every level of our federal government. I just don’t know what to do anymore when Representatives are stealing money. I don’t know what to think when Senators are accused of sexual misconduct, and the media crucifies them in their reports instead of reporting on policy. What can one do when the President of the United States is a warmonger who used to work for corporations exploiting the indecent wars started by his administration? My friends, the first step we can take in fighting our illegitimate masters is to know of their corruption. From here on I guess everyone has to make it up as they go.
and here is my 4th essay Tim.
Hanh Nguyen
Tim Maxwell
EWRT 1
Now and Laters
My first college English course, 1A, is a prime example of me discovering myself. As ridiculous as it sounds, it’s the truth. From the instant Tim Maxwell explained his views on the Tommy Hilfiger advertisement I knew this class would be an interesting way to spend six long summer weeks. This class is the first to ever question my ideas of personal freedom. It is the first class to put emphasis on the power of language and how I abuse it. The class challenged my assumption that I or anyone else can be independent in thought. It dissected my life; the idea of media control over the population, the idea of my Government having comercial interests, and belief of an unreasonable and demanding society. It is the only class ever to make me rewrite my essay to resubmit it. It’s the first class requiring and encouraging its students to blog after every class or whenever ideas or mood struck. 1A is the first class requiring a personal website be created to exhibit the essays I’ve written. It is the first class requiring a 12-step program on how to write a more perfect essay; some steps of which include admitting that I am a flawed. Writing a reflection essay and how I could improve the essay I just wrote. 1A is not simply an English course; it is a metamorphosis of a high school student in college to a real college student among his peers. This class represented so many firsts in my writing that it could be considered the genesis of my adult mentality, not being a teenager anymore but considering myself a contributor of wisdom and opinion. I am different person.Tommy Hilfiger, a popular mainstream clothing line created an advertisement for women’s perfume and men’s cologne. This advertisement showed a smiling African American woman in 50’s era diner, wearing madras and hot pants. That is what I saw; Professor Tim Maxwell however saw rape. Not only did his view of this advertisement stunned me but shocked the class. I believed it a gross interpretation of happy, innocent people. But I also understood. I understood where Tim was coming from and his ideas weren’t completely ridiculous. The advertisement showed the woman smiling and looking towards someone or thing behind us; her hands covered her private region and the symbol of Hilfiger covering that. The bottle of cologne was shaped of a phallus, the African American model covering her genitals in a diner era restaurant where segregation was still rampant. Was I turning crazy to make these connections also?
Our first of many difficult essays to come was about freedom. Not just any freedom, but my definition of freedom and how I relate to it. The reason it was so difficult was because I didn’t understand its concept. Again I made the ridiculous assumption of being a US citizen and being endowed with “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”. I wrote about the things I was able to enjoy and the things I was forbidden to do. How is this supposed to be difficult when I can draw my boundaries in the definition? I realized freedom meant nothing. As important as it sounds, many people assume they have the same definition. This abstract thought of freedom was supposed to be defined with concrete evidence. I used slaves as my basis for my thesis. Slaves were bound by masters to do their bidding. So I must be bound by _____ to do its will. It hit me so hard I questioned my sanity. Freedom does not mean do whatever I want; it means not to be a slave of something. My freedom was defined by what I believed I was compelled by. This in itself brought me to the epiphany that I was not a slave of rules. Commercialism, the desire of “stuff”, and emotions are my true masters.
Another defining moment in 1A unmasked by my realization of my slavery is the idea of the media and governments international are powered one of my masters. George Orwell’s, 1984, described an imaginary state where the government controlled all aspects of life. Aside from all the interpretations of the book, I want to talk about its political idea, an all powerful state. In the story, what was consumed and believed by the population was fabricated to keep them in check. Literally, the thoughts and beliefs of the masses were dominated by what was consumed through propaganda. The government would become extremely dangerous and invincible if they could do this. What if this really happened? Tim said it happened in China with its cultural revolution. Tim said for us to think for ourselves on the website (website). Tim gives us assignments to slave over under the guise of being helpful to our writing and futures. Tim said this and Tim said that. Isn’t Tim our government? If Tim controls our class with his iron fist, what has our government done? If in 1984, the government used the media to control the people; can’t the media today control the people? I do not believe the government and media run hand in hand together, but I do believe they are powered by the same vested interests. These interests used to be the “common good”, but now I believe they are motivated by wealth and power.
The last thing mind-blowing away my summer was class itself. I lost weight, learned how to skydive and the horrible 12-step program making me pre-write and post-write actually made me write better. Since we were commanded to think for ourselves, I did just that. Of the many ideas represented by each student in class, I felt like everyone else, compelled to force my opinion on the class. Discussing ideas in class made me feel like I was in a Roman Forum. These battlefields of ideas and rhetoric took form in debates and blog entries. For the first time, I was placed in an environment where everyone was considered a peer; even Tim Himself counted himself as a peer. If I was qualified to share ideas with people ranging from the ages 17 to Tim’s age, would this make me an adult? As I thought about this more and more I realized my opinions mattered. I know its cliché to say so, but it is a cliché for a reason. As a kid, much of my ideas are brushed off as “silly” and childish. To be taken seriously by people has always been a goal and I feel among my peers that I have reached it.
How I have changed is immeasurable. The entire summer has been a blur, but these events I remember distinctly. I took a class taught by a Stanford professor who attended UC Berkeley. Advertisements and the processing of information forced on to me is rape and I should tell somebody. The last thing I remember is I am a man and my opinions matter.
E-Portfolio
Here is my E-portfolio
http://mkings2505.googlepages.com/e-portfolio
Im sure you will agree with me that it is great.
http://mkings2505.googlepages.com/e-portfolio
Im sure you will agree with me that it is great.
Final Essay: Today's Civil Rights Movement-- fixed
Modern Day Civil Rights Movement
History reports that our country has always targeted a minority group to make them unequal than everyone else. When the first Europeans settled in the east coast they targeted Indian Americans because they considered themselves better and because they did not want any competition. After that, it was the Africans turn; they were treated as less than human being, forced to serve as slaves. Then they followed with the Asians because of war with Asian countries at the time. You would think that as human beings we learn from the past and make progress in our ideas of how humans we treat each other. But no, we have the same problem today. The issue I am addressing in Immigration Laws, our larders are proposing bill to legalize illegal, and this would benefit many people of different ethnicities. However, since Hispanics are the majority, they are the main target today. Therefore, we must as a society learn from our mistakes and change our ideals of superiority to have a country with actually more freedom and justice for all.
People especially Hispanics immigrate to this country in search of a better financial opportunity because the one offered in their country is not good. Their main reason for making this huge decision is so that their kids more freedom to decide what they want to do with their lives. also of course so that they themselves can have more freedom. Is there anything wrong with that?
We live in a country that promotes freedom as being its number one priority. In grade school we are somewhat forced to recite the “Pledge of Allegiance” because we are trained to just recite it as robots would. The “Pledge of Allegiance” states that we are “one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” This phrase shows our country as a hero because it is fair and just for everyone and it provides freedom. But these are just words made up by people who to fool everyone into believing a false image of our country.
Our country does not at all provide liberty and justice for all. We are divided into two groups, Democrats and Republicans. Democrats protect more the rights of middle and lower class, and that Republicans usually protect the rights of the wealthy. Thus, always leaving us with a president that is leaned more to one side than the other.
Our current president is George W. republican that I consider corrupt because he only passes and rejects bills to benefit the wealthy. As a result, he has not been supportive of a bill to aid millions of people who are mostly of middle or lower class by legalizing them in the country. Since the beginning of his term, immigration has been one of the escalating issues that are part of our society. His negative attitude toward the issue has stirred up a lot of commotion in support and against aid to legalized illegal immigrants.
Many people who are in support of a reform law have responded to this issue as Martin Luther King, Jr. responded to the civil rights movement, “I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a country where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” (271). They ask themselves why they are being persecuted for trying to make a better for themselves and their family on the basis of their skin color and their origin. I agree with them that it is not fair that they have to give up their hopes and dreams because others consider their skin color and origin is wrong.
I along with millions of other demonstrators have marched down the streets like Martin Luther King, Jr. in hopes of influencing for a change. They do not deserved to be treated as less than they are, therefore we are doing something about it by demonstrating in the streets but with out any bloodshed and with respect to the country to show. All we do is demonstrate in the streets and shout what we think is right but in a respectful manner, because we also carry around the American flag to show that we value and appreciate this country how. Therefore why is it so hard for the country to give them something that is just.
The results of these actions have not been favorable to the Hispanic community. Government not in full agreement yet to pass a reform law and authorities have become very hostile to mainly the Hispanics in this country. The ICE police have been going around to Hispanic family homes and to deport them. However, the ICE police are nothing but nice, they go in the house and torture my people by beating, shoving them, and yelling at them. They treat Hispanics as criminals, when really all they are guilty of is trying to make a better life for themselves.
I saw on Univision news a case where the ICE police had gone to a house in search of Hispanics to deport. They were a group of men who were drinking and having a good time at their house. When they saw the ICE police storm into their house as if in search of a criminal they were confused because they did not know what was going on. The ICE police began to arrest them but they resisted because they did not know what was going on. There was a single man who would not comply so the ICE police beat him until he was unconscious. Then they just threw him in the van and took him to Mexico without proving any medical assistance. Luckily, he was rushed to the hospital in Mexico and his life was saved. But the results of the beating left him unable to walk and with many bruises and fracture in his body. The sad part of the whole story is that he is an American Citizen, and this frightens me because that means this can also happen to me.
We are all human beings. There are many sources like the “Pledge of Allegiance” and the “Declaration of Independence” that give this country an image of providing freedom, justice, and equality for all. But with events like the civil rights movements and the issued of a reform law today that image is shattered. The people who experience this live in fear and panic because they fear that they will come and get them. They are deprived of their freedom that this country proudly promotes. Therefore, we must shatter the idea of superiority and see each other as equals to have the life of “liberty and justice for all.” that this country promotes.
Works Cited
King Jt., M.L. (1963). 75 Readings across the curriculum, I Have A Dream (pp. 268-272). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
Final essay
Mexican did not 1
Jesus Figueroa
Ewrt 1a
08/9/07
Mexicans did not cross the borders, the borders crossed them
In the Mexican American War, the United States gangster their way and stole a lot of Mexican land.Today a lot of
Mexican is crossing the borders every day in search of a better life. However, getting here is no easy tasks you have walk miles
and miles of desert. You do not have a lot of food or water an as you get closer you energy is slowly escaping your body.
When your in the desert you have to endure the hottest and the coldest temperatures wild animals that are waiting for a
weakness, When you finally get here, they find them selves looking straight at a shotgun from a group of racist people called the
minutemen.
The minutemen are a bunch of civilians that go around the borders with shotguns beating and shooting illegal immigrants.
I think this is sick, I do not think they have any right beating innocent people, it’s not their fault that their country is doing bad. I
think the only people that have the right to stop and question these people are the border patrol. One thing we need to
remember is that these people do not want to be here these people come because the have to. How would you feel if you
could not feed your family. What would you do. Many people say that immigrants come and take our jobs. I don’t agree with
this because I no for a fact that many people would not do the jobs immigrants do I. Immigrants have the toughest jobs and the
one that get paid the least. They do jobs from cleaning septic tanks, janitors yard workers, etc. yet I don’t collect unemployment or
get health care, Or child support.
I remember watching this movie called the Invisible Mexicans Of deer canyon. This movie is about this filmmaker named
John Carlos Frey he went into this canyon right under the the suburbs of San Diego. These people lived in cardboard boxes
because they didn't want to spend money on housing so the could send all there money to there families in Mexico. Yet they
have to constantly move because of the people the people from the mansions because the cardboard boxes affect the houses
view. I dint think people already living in such bad conditions deserve to get an even harder time. like what Martin Luther King
states in Letter from Birmingham Jail. "Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever” (King 376). So that's why you
started to see Marches of people who are tiered of there Mexican brothers being abused and persecuted in a land that was
once there's. I think there's other solutions to this problem that having immigrant raids. I think they could have worker programs
for immigrant workers to come and temporary work and make money so they can go home. That would help both the Mexican
and American economy.
Works cited
King, Martin Luther. "Letter from Birmingham Jail." 75 Readings Across The Curriculum.
Ed. Chris Anson. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2008. 376.
Jesus Figueroa
Ewrt 1a
08/9/07
Mexicans did not cross the borders, the borders crossed them
In the Mexican American War, the United States gangster their way and stole a lot of Mexican land.Today a lot of
Mexican is crossing the borders every day in search of a better life. However, getting here is no easy tasks you have walk miles
and miles of desert. You do not have a lot of food or water an as you get closer you energy is slowly escaping your body.
When your in the desert you have to endure the hottest and the coldest temperatures wild animals that are waiting for a
weakness, When you finally get here, they find them selves looking straight at a shotgun from a group of racist people called the
minutemen.
The minutemen are a bunch of civilians that go around the borders with shotguns beating and shooting illegal immigrants.
I think this is sick, I do not think they have any right beating innocent people, it’s not their fault that their country is doing bad. I
think the only people that have the right to stop and question these people are the border patrol. One thing we need to
remember is that these people do not want to be here these people come because the have to. How would you feel if you
could not feed your family. What would you do. Many people say that immigrants come and take our jobs. I don’t agree with
this because I no for a fact that many people would not do the jobs immigrants do I. Immigrants have the toughest jobs and the
one that get paid the least. They do jobs from cleaning septic tanks, janitors yard workers, etc. yet I don’t collect unemployment or
get health care, Or child support.
I remember watching this movie called the Invisible Mexicans Of deer canyon. This movie is about this filmmaker named
John Carlos Frey he went into this canyon right under the the suburbs of San Diego. These people lived in cardboard boxes
because they didn't want to spend money on housing so the could send all there money to there families in Mexico. Yet they
have to constantly move because of the people the people from the mansions because the cardboard boxes affect the houses
view. I dint think people already living in such bad conditions deserve to get an even harder time. like what Martin Luther King
states in Letter from Birmingham Jail. "Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever” (King 376). So that's why you
started to see Marches of people who are tiered of there Mexican brothers being abused and persecuted in a land that was
once there's. I think there's other solutions to this problem that having immigrant raids. I think they could have worker programs
for immigrant workers to come and temporary work and make money so they can go home. That would help both the Mexican
and American economy.
Works cited
King, Martin Luther. "Letter from Birmingham Jail." 75 Readings Across The Curriculum.
Ed. Chris Anson. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2008. 376.
Linda Bravo
08/09/2007
One of the biggest injustice is how people criticize Mexicans. Saying that they have the highest percentage of people in jails and, are always getting in problems with the police. Why dose the media always get the bad side of things and not the good side. We are not really as bad as people make us look. I just think it's sad how people jugged us because of how we look and talk. Being Mexican also comes with restrictions because we are not able to do things other people have the right to do.
Millions of Mexicans that live in the United States classify themselves as immigrants or Mexican Americans. Some Mexicans were already living in the Southern and Western regions of the North America. This was way before the United States existed. Many more Mexicans came to the country during the 20th century, and Mexican and still they keep coming back
One of many situations that is out there is the one were they do not want to give illegal people the right to get their license and getting the green card. Those are two of the things an immigrant wants. I’m not only talking about Mexican there is also Africans, Vietnamese, and any other race. I personally believe that the U.S doesn’t want to give illegal people a license so that when they are pulled over they get more money out of them for driving with out a license. Just imagine all the money they get from illegal immigrants who are driving with out a license. If we were given the freedom that any American has their wouldn’t be so many problems or discrimination.
Works Cited:
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/immig/mexican.html
08/09/2007
One of the biggest injustice is how people criticize Mexicans. Saying that they have the highest percentage of people in jails and, are always getting in problems with the police. Why dose the media always get the bad side of things and not the good side. We are not really as bad as people make us look. I just think it's sad how people jugged us because of how we look and talk. Being Mexican also comes with restrictions because we are not able to do things other people have the right to do.
Millions of Mexicans that live in the United States classify themselves as immigrants or Mexican Americans. Some Mexicans were already living in the Southern and Western regions of the North America. This was way before the United States existed. Many more Mexicans came to the country during the 20th century, and Mexican and still they keep coming back
One of many situations that is out there is the one were they do not want to give illegal people the right to get their license and getting the green card. Those are two of the things an immigrant wants. I’m not only talking about Mexican there is also Africans, Vietnamese, and any other race. I personally believe that the U.S doesn’t want to give illegal people a license so that when they are pulled over they get more money out of them for driving with out a license. Just imagine all the money they get from illegal immigrants who are driving with out a license. If we were given the freedom that any American has their wouldn’t be so many problems or discrimination.
Works Cited:
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/immig/mexican.html
Final Essay: Today's Civil Rights Movement
Modern Day Civil Rights Movement
History reports that our country has always targeted a minority group to make them unequal than everyone else. When the first Europeans settled in the east coast they targeted Indian Americans because they considered themselves better and because they did not want any competition. After that, it was the Africans turn; they were treated as less than human being, forced to serve as slaves. Then they followed with the Asians because of war with Asian countries at the time. You would think that as human beings we learn from the past and make progress in our ideas of how humans we treat each other. But no, we have the same problem today. The issue I am addressing in Immigration Laws, our larders are proposing bill to legalize illegal, and this would benefit many people of different ethnicities. However, since Hispanics are the majority, they are the main target today. Therefore, we must as a society learn from our mistakes and change our ideals of superiority to have a country with actually more freedom and justice for all.
People especially Hispanics immigrate to this country in search of a better financial opportunity because the one offered in their country is not good. Their main reason for making this huge decision is so that their kids more freedom to decide what they want to do with their lives. also of course so that they themselves can have more freedom. Is there anything wrong with that?
We live in a country that promotes freedom as being its number one priority. In grade school we are somewhat forced to recite the “Pledge of Allegiance” because we are trained to just recite it as robots would. The “Pledge of Allegiance” states that we are “one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” This phrase shows our country as a hero because it is fair and just for everyone and it provides freedom. But these are just words made up by people who to fool everyone into believing a false image of our country.
Our country does not at all provide liberty and justice for all. We are divided into two groups, Democrats and Republicans. Democrats protect more the rights of middle and lower class, and that Republicans usually protect the rights of the wealthy. Thus, always leaving us with a president that is leaned more to one side than the other.
Our current president is George W. republican that I consider corrupt because he only passes and rejects bills to benefit the wealthy. As a result, he has not been supportive of a bill to aid millions of people who are mostly of middle or lower class by legalizing them in the country. Since the beginning of his term, immigration has been one of the escalating issues that are part of our society. His negative attitude toward the issue has stirred up a lot of commotion in support and against aid to legalized illegal immigrants.
Many people who are in support of a reform law have responded to this issue as Martin Luther King, Jr. responded to the civil rights movement, “I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a country where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” (271). They ask themselves why they are being persecuted for trying to make a better for themselves and their family on the basis of their skin color and their origin. I agree with them that it is not fair that they have to give up their hopes and dreams because others consider their skin color and origin is wrong.
I along with millions of other demonstrators have marched down the streets like Martin Luther King, Jr. in hopes of influencing for a change. They do not deserved to be treated as less than they are, therefore we are doing something about it by demonstrating in the streets but with out any bloodshed and with respect to the country to show. All we do is demonstrate in the streets and shout what we think is right but in a respectful manner, because we also carry around the American flag to show that we value and appreciate this country how. Therefore why is it so hard for the country to give them something that is just.
The results of these actions have not been favorable to the Hispanic community. Government not in full agreement yet to pass a reform law and authorities have become very hostile to mainly the Hispanics in this country. The ICE police have been going around to Hispanic family homes and to deport them. However, the ICE police are nothing but nice, they go in the house and torture my people by beating, shoving them, and yelling at them. They treat Hispanics as criminals, when really all they are guilty of is trying to make a better life for themselves.
I saw on Univision news a case where the ICE police had gone to a house in search of Hispanics to deport. They were a group of men who were drinking and having a good time at their house. When they saw the ICE police storm into their house as if in search of a criminal they were confused because they did not know what was going on. The ICE police began to arrest them but they resisted because they did not know what was going on. There was a single man who would not comply so the ICE police beat him until he was unconscious. Then they just threw him in the van and took him to Mexico without proving any medical assistance. Luckily, he was rushed to the hospital in Mexico and his life was saved. But the results of the beating left him unable to walk and with many bruises and fracture in his body. The sad part of the whole story is that he is an American Citizen, and this frightens me because that means this can also happen to me.
We are all human beings. There are many sources like the “Pledge of Allegiance” and the “Declaration of Independence” that give this country an image of providing freedom, justice, and equality for all. But with events like the civil rights movements and the issued of a reform law today that image is shattered. The people who experience this live in fear and panic because they fear that they will come and get them. They are deprived of their freedom that this country proudly promotes. Therefore, we must shatter the idea of superiority and see each other as equals to have the life of “liberty and justice for all.” that this country promotes.
History reports that our country has always targeted a minority group to make them unequal than everyone else. When the first Europeans settled in the east coast they targeted Indian Americans because they considered themselves better and because they did not want any competition. After that, it was the Africans turn; they were treated as less than human being, forced to serve as slaves. Then they followed with the Asians because of war with Asian countries at the time. You would think that as human beings we learn from the past and make progress in our ideas of how humans we treat each other. But no, we have the same problem today. The issue I am addressing in Immigration Laws, our larders are proposing bill to legalize illegal, and this would benefit many people of different ethnicities. However, since Hispanics are the majority, they are the main target today. Therefore, we must as a society learn from our mistakes and change our ideals of superiority to have a country with actually more freedom and justice for all.
People especially Hispanics immigrate to this country in search of a better financial opportunity because the one offered in their country is not good. Their main reason for making this huge decision is so that their kids more freedom to decide what they want to do with their lives. also of course so that they themselves can have more freedom. Is there anything wrong with that?
We live in a country that promotes freedom as being its number one priority. In grade school we are somewhat forced to recite the “Pledge of Allegiance” because we are trained to just recite it as robots would. The “Pledge of Allegiance” states that we are “one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” This phrase shows our country as a hero because it is fair and just for everyone and it provides freedom. But these are just words made up by people who to fool everyone into believing a false image of our country.
Our country does not at all provide liberty and justice for all. We are divided into two groups, Democrats and Republicans. Democrats protect more the rights of middle and lower class, and that Republicans usually protect the rights of the wealthy. Thus, always leaving us with a president that is leaned more to one side than the other.
Our current president is George W. republican that I consider corrupt because he only passes and rejects bills to benefit the wealthy. As a result, he has not been supportive of a bill to aid millions of people who are mostly of middle or lower class by legalizing them in the country. Since the beginning of his term, immigration has been one of the escalating issues that are part of our society. His negative attitude toward the issue has stirred up a lot of commotion in support and against aid to legalized illegal immigrants.
Many people who are in support of a reform law have responded to this issue as Martin Luther King, Jr. responded to the civil rights movement, “I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a country where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” (271). They ask themselves why they are being persecuted for trying to make a better for themselves and their family on the basis of their skin color and their origin. I agree with them that it is not fair that they have to give up their hopes and dreams because others consider their skin color and origin is wrong.
I along with millions of other demonstrators have marched down the streets like Martin Luther King, Jr. in hopes of influencing for a change. They do not deserved to be treated as less than they are, therefore we are doing something about it by demonstrating in the streets but with out any bloodshed and with respect to the country to show. All we do is demonstrate in the streets and shout what we think is right but in a respectful manner, because we also carry around the American flag to show that we value and appreciate this country how. Therefore why is it so hard for the country to give them something that is just.
The results of these actions have not been favorable to the Hispanic community. Government not in full agreement yet to pass a reform law and authorities have become very hostile to mainly the Hispanics in this country. The ICE police have been going around to Hispanic family homes and to deport them. However, the ICE police are nothing but nice, they go in the house and torture my people by beating, shoving them, and yelling at them. They treat Hispanics as criminals, when really all they are guilty of is trying to make a better life for themselves.
I saw on Univision news a case where the ICE police had gone to a house in search of Hispanics to deport. They were a group of men who were drinking and having a good time at their house. When they saw the ICE police storm into their house as if in search of a criminal they were confused because they did not know what was going on. The ICE police began to arrest them but they resisted because they did not know what was going on. There was a single man who would not comply so the ICE police beat him until he was unconscious. Then they just threw him in the van and took him to Mexico without proving any medical assistance. Luckily, he was rushed to the hospital in Mexico and his life was saved. But the results of the beating left him unable to walk and with many bruises and fracture in his body. The sad part of the whole story is that he is an American Citizen, and this frightens me because that means this can also happen to me.
We are all human beings. There are many sources like the “Pledge of Allegiance” and the “Declaration of Independence” that give this country an image of providing freedom, justice, and equality for all. But with events like the civil rights movements and the issued of a reform law today that image is shattered. The people who experience this live in fear and panic because they fear that they will come and get them. They are deprived of their freedom that this country proudly promotes. Therefore, we must shatter the idea of superiority and see each other as equals to have the life of “liberty and justice for all.” that this country promotes.
Works Cited
King Jt., M.L. (1963). 75 Readings across the curriculum, I Have A Dream (pp. 268-272). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
Final Essay. (Don't Ask Questions.)
This Essay Was Written Poorly (But By Whom?)
Every day in our country, there are people who are given citations for traffic violations that have harmed no one. There are people convicted of “crimes” in which the “victims” attest they weren’t even harmed. There are people convicted of victimless crimes. At the same time, major government officials are robbing the rest of us in the world blind and covering up for it with other policies which hardly help us, or even blatantly lying about the actions they have taken in an effort to convince us that they were in our interest. Finally, on a daily basis, millions of people across our country accept these lies, and we become more and more an ignorant, self-centered, gullible, laughing stock of the world. On the rare occasion that the majority of us see through the lies, responsibility is shifted elsewhere. We say, “oh, well it’s someone else’s fault whom I’ve never heard of,” or the blame is shifted off of the person speaking and we accept that some mysterious government supercomputer which no one can control made the decision.
A couple weeks ago, I was going 60 in a 40 on a street where the other 3 cars traveling my direction must have been going 55. It was about 11 a.m. on a weekday, and there were no pedestrians. A police officer pulls out of a side street and proceeds to pull me over and give me a ticket. He tells me, “I know no one’s around, but slow down, alright?” Whatever happened to no harm, no foul? I didn’t hit anyone. In the mean time, our president George W. Bush wages a war on people, who, um, uh… control oil fields that he wants? He’s using our military to steal from and kill others so he and his buddies can make money.
After September 11th, 2001, our military closed two of three escape routes from southeastern Afghanistan where Osama Bin Laden was believed to be. He likely escaped out the third. Who’s to know what really happened when media coverage is limited due to political interests?
In March this year, U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez stated, “Mistakes were made,” in an effort remove himself from the position of responsible party for the firing of eight U.S. Attorneys late last year. “Mistakes.” What kind of mistake is that? Whoever (certainly not Gonzalez) made these “mistakes” just accidentally hit the delete key in the U.S. Attorneys database? In a press conference on July 10th, George W. Bush looked to shift responsibility for our direction in Iraq saying, “I believe Congress ought to wait for General Petraeus to come back and give his assessment of the strategy that he's putting in place before they make any decisions. That's what the American people expect.” Bush also looks to show that he supports the American people in their desire to know what is really going on as well as attempting to change what most of us want to know, “what is the strategy in Iraq, “ from say, what we may have been thinking before, “why are we in Iraq.” In this way he keeps us concerned with lesser issues and also from questioning the war. In his essay, “Politics and the English Language, George Orwell says, “Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to wind.” (Orwell, 86) George Bush is saying, “We have a strategy, and it’s going to work, but if it doesn’t, then don’t blame me. We have a strategy, because this is something important to us that needs to be done.” Meanwhile, the question, “why?” has been further crammed in the back of our minds.
While our minds are clouded with lie upon lie and political actions taken by non-existent politicians, the gap between rich and poor increases, as does the gap between aware and unaware. Because citizens of the United States receive petty traffic tickets and criminal records for the use of marijuana, they are convinced that our government always promotes doing the right thing and does the right thing. If not, what are laws for? It’s a rhetorical question. Laws are in place for a good reason, right? Or are they in place to distract us from the real issues? Are we going to continue to assume there’s a good reason for everything, or will we learn to dig deeper and question authority? “Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.” (Orwell, 73) We need to become aware of our environment if we wish to change it. Then we must act.
Bibliography
Orwell, George. Politics and the English Language. Taken from, “75 Readings across the Curriculum”. McGraw-Hill, 2006.
Orwell, George. 1984. Penguin Group, 2003.
***Here's My Pre-Writing.
Randy Herskorn
EWRT1A
8/9/07
Final Exam
Every day in this country, there are people given traffic citations for violations that have hurt no one. There are people who are convicted of “crimes” in which the “victims” haven’t been harmed in anyway and will even attest to this. There are people who are convicted of victimless crimes. All the while government officials are robbing the rest of us in the world blind and covering up for it with other policies, which hardly benefit us at all, even hurt us. If they can’t do that, they try to shift blame away from themselves, and even go so far as to blame someone else, i.e. George Bush in a July 10 Press conference this year, “And I believe Congress ought to wait for General Petraeus to come back and give his assessment of the strategy that he's putting in place before they make any decisions. That's what the American people expect.” It’s not George W. Bush’s strategy, now that the vast majority of the American people he speaks of appear to just expect our troops to come home and the unjust, losing war effort in Iraq to be abandoned.
Now, I've got a Macroeconomics final to attend to. :(
Every day in our country, there are people who are given citations for traffic violations that have harmed no one. There are people convicted of “crimes” in which the “victims” attest they weren’t even harmed. There are people convicted of victimless crimes. At the same time, major government officials are robbing the rest of us in the world blind and covering up for it with other policies which hardly help us, or even blatantly lying about the actions they have taken in an effort to convince us that they were in our interest. Finally, on a daily basis, millions of people across our country accept these lies, and we become more and more an ignorant, self-centered, gullible, laughing stock of the world. On the rare occasion that the majority of us see through the lies, responsibility is shifted elsewhere. We say, “oh, well it’s someone else’s fault whom I’ve never heard of,” or the blame is shifted off of the person speaking and we accept that some mysterious government supercomputer which no one can control made the decision.
A couple weeks ago, I was going 60 in a 40 on a street where the other 3 cars traveling my direction must have been going 55. It was about 11 a.m. on a weekday, and there were no pedestrians. A police officer pulls out of a side street and proceeds to pull me over and give me a ticket. He tells me, “I know no one’s around, but slow down, alright?” Whatever happened to no harm, no foul? I didn’t hit anyone. In the mean time, our president George W. Bush wages a war on people, who, um, uh… control oil fields that he wants? He’s using our military to steal from and kill others so he and his buddies can make money.
After September 11th, 2001, our military closed two of three escape routes from southeastern Afghanistan where Osama Bin Laden was believed to be. He likely escaped out the third. Who’s to know what really happened when media coverage is limited due to political interests?
In March this year, U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez stated, “Mistakes were made,” in an effort remove himself from the position of responsible party for the firing of eight U.S. Attorneys late last year. “Mistakes.” What kind of mistake is that? Whoever (certainly not Gonzalez) made these “mistakes” just accidentally hit the delete key in the U.S. Attorneys database? In a press conference on July 10th, George W. Bush looked to shift responsibility for our direction in Iraq saying, “I believe Congress ought to wait for General Petraeus to come back and give his assessment of the strategy that he's putting in place before they make any decisions. That's what the American people expect.” Bush also looks to show that he supports the American people in their desire to know what is really going on as well as attempting to change what most of us want to know, “what is the strategy in Iraq, “ from say, what we may have been thinking before, “why are we in Iraq.” In this way he keeps us concerned with lesser issues and also from questioning the war. In his essay, “Politics and the English Language, George Orwell says, “Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to wind.” (Orwell, 86) George Bush is saying, “We have a strategy, and it’s going to work, but if it doesn’t, then don’t blame me. We have a strategy, because this is something important to us that needs to be done.” Meanwhile, the question, “why?” has been further crammed in the back of our minds.
While our minds are clouded with lie upon lie and political actions taken by non-existent politicians, the gap between rich and poor increases, as does the gap between aware and unaware. Because citizens of the United States receive petty traffic tickets and criminal records for the use of marijuana, they are convinced that our government always promotes doing the right thing and does the right thing. If not, what are laws for? It’s a rhetorical question. Laws are in place for a good reason, right? Or are they in place to distract us from the real issues? Are we going to continue to assume there’s a good reason for everything, or will we learn to dig deeper and question authority? “Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.” (Orwell, 73) We need to become aware of our environment if we wish to change it. Then we must act.
Bibliography
Orwell, George. Politics and the English Language. Taken from, “75 Readings across the Curriculum”. McGraw-Hill, 2006.
Orwell, George. 1984. Penguin Group, 2003.
***Here's My Pre-Writing.
Randy Herskorn
EWRT1A
8/9/07
Final Exam
Every day in this country, there are people given traffic citations for violations that have hurt no one. There are people who are convicted of “crimes” in which the “victims” haven’t been harmed in anyway and will even attest to this. There are people who are convicted of victimless crimes. All the while government officials are robbing the rest of us in the world blind and covering up for it with other policies, which hardly benefit us at all, even hurt us. If they can’t do that, they try to shift blame away from themselves, and even go so far as to blame someone else, i.e. George Bush in a July 10 Press conference this year, “And I believe Congress ought to wait for General Petraeus to come back and give his assessment of the strategy that he's putting in place before they make any decisions. That's what the American people expect.” It’s not George W. Bush’s strategy, now that the vast majority of the American people he speaks of appear to just expect our troops to come home and the unjust, losing war effort in Iraq to be abandoned.
Now, I've got a Macroeconomics final to attend to. :(
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