Materialism

How would you feel if your parent or parents were alcoholics and chose drinking over you? They go out partying every night or they bring it to your house were you are trying to do work. then, when you finally get sleep(if at all) you wake up late and realise that they left the mess for you to clean up. this is how Claude lives in the book Buried by Robin Merrow MacCready.

Her mother is a hard core alcoholic and has always chosen alcohol over her daughter. Can you imagine that? there was a time when Claude was in second grade and got a temperature of 110 and when the school called her mom she showed up eventually and the nurse said something about hygiene and she went off and took Claude home. Later that night Claude's mom was crying saying she cant do this... she cant be a mother and she doesn't want this. Guess who had to play parent? yes, Claude did. That must suck for a girl in the second grade.

Really, it must suck for anyone to have a parent choose anything over there child. Especially if its something like alcohol or drugs.

The Kite Runner...in America

Since when is it ok for someone else to decide my fait? Well, along with the 2008 election the people of the United States voted and did decide some of my fait. It didn’t matter what I wanted or how I felt but what they wanted and they felt. It sucks having to wake up in a place where you know your not wanted or excepted. Just like in the book The Kite Runner I can relate to the feelings and thoughts of all who went through that, though it may not bee just like it, I feel the pain of having everything ripped away from you!
In The Kite Runner they are not given “freedom” in today’s society in America me, along with believe it or not thousands of others like me don’t get our “freedom” either. It sucks, it hurts, and it can cause suicide. That empty feeling that you get where you feel as though you have to watch your back and everything you do is wrong and people deal with it in intense ways such as rape, beating, cursing, yelling unneeded things, spiting, shooting, the list goes on, but either way its wrong!
No matter were you go, who you are, what you do, there will always be people that treat you different and everywhere you go, there is always someone telling you your wrong. So everything will always have something in common with the place you left and everywhere else.

Obama all the way!

This is the first year I am able to vote and already I can’t wait to see what he will do. Clearly you can see I am more than for Obama, but as he said, “Its time for a change”. Yes it is! I see him fit to make this country do a three hundred and sixty degree flip. Obama’s what we need and he is open for what should be and what is right, not just what the what protestants want. Let me elaborate as to what I mean.

First off, I like that he is open to the fact of same sex union and your opposed to the same sex Constitutional Ban. However I do believe that marriage should be a choice, I think that when this change of union happens you’ll see that we’re just like you and your significant other, well almost.

The second is the minimum wage increase. Seeing as how I am barely making it on my own with the minimum job pay, if it increases it will help me and the other person I am supporting. Not to mention the fact that gas is increasing so we need to money to back it up. If I am not mistaken the teenage or young adults are the ones that drive most so we suffer more for the gas and so just a little more money in our pockets wouldn’t hurt.

Then for the last the open mind and heart that Obama has. That alone can and will go a long way. More than most think. I am here to quote him along with millions of other voters in saying “its time for a change”!

Caddie Woodlawn's Internal Conflict

In Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink there are many conflicts. The main one to me is the always standing “appropriate sex role behavior” for a young lady such as herself. This conflict has always and will always be around but now it’s in a Childs book and shows the hard time for girls who are tom-boys. So I feel the need to talk about the internal conflict of how Caddie feels about her tom-boy like self.Caddie Woodlawn, a young, eleven year old American girl from west in the 1860s is a wild fun loving tom-boy. She runs a muck with her brothers, hangs with the Indians, picks barriers, plows fields, and just be who she wants to be. Yet many want her to be a lady, which she does not. The one who truly wants her to be a lady is society and culture of the time and her mother Harriet. However, because she is allowed to get away with all this sovereignty is because her father, John, thinks it will better her health and ability to grow strong if she runs wild. Caddie realizes that she is dissimilar from other young ladies and women. In spite of that she is still happy with the way she lives and who she is and has no aspiration to change who she is. That’s what makes her a true American girl, and even better Pioneer.

My Pioneer

A pioneer, someone who never quits! That’s what they define it as in class. To me however it’s the one who’s always there. Therefore, for me the pioneer of my life is the only person who has ever been there for me in my life and before her, my life was depression and anger and analyst after analyst.She has helped me through a lot and now I know ill have her forever. My pioneer is non other than my now significant other, Sarah Gould.

When we met about three years ago, I had no clue what was going to happen. All I can remember is that my papa Jed took me on a trip to Louisiana to try and help me relax and calm down from all the grisly things going on in my life, and while he went to see his son he took me to the mall and that’s when I met my pioneer. We both sat down on the bench and just started talking and had no one else to hang out with and we kept in touch and she helped me through a lot. She was my best friend in the world and then I found out she was gay, which was amazing to me, since I was as well. Then when we did date, I moved here so that she could help me get away from my surroundings. From then on she has helped me get my life in order, pass school, stop drugs, help with my anger and depression, and make me a happier person. To top it off she will do anything to help me or her family. As she always says to me, you have to give respect to get respect. That’s what I live by. So, my pioneer is my best friend, Significant other, Sarah Gould.