3/31/08 Do now:

One of the quote that I best like is "Never judge a person until you step in their shoes and experience what they going through." This quote was taken from the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. This quote has inspired me because most people in today world like to judge people without even knowing them, or what they might be going through, but you can never say what you don't know about someone. That's why no one should judge a person until you step in their situation.

I want to be where you are by Jose feliciano

Can it be I stayed away too long
and did I leave your mind when I was gone?
It's not my thing trying to get back.
Darlin' let me tell you where I'm at.

I wanna be where you are... Oh Oh
I wanna be where you are.....Oh Oh Oh Oh
I wanna be where you are .... Oh Oh, darlin'
I wanna be where you are...Oh Oh Oh Oh

You don't have to worry cause I'm coming
back to where I always should have stayed.
now I've learned the meaning to your story, Mama,
and there's enough love for me to stay.

I wanna be where you are...... Oh Oh, yes darlin'
I wanna be where you are...Oh Oh Oh Oh
I wanna be where you are.....Oh Oh, yes mama
I wanna be where you are .......Oh Oh Oh Oh

Please don't close the door to our future.
There's so many things we haven't tried.
I will love you better than i used to
and give you all the love, yes, I have inside, yeah.
ooh ooh Baby

(doo doo..... doo dooo)

I wanna be where you are .....Oh Oh yes darlin'
I wanna be where you are.... Oh Oh Oh Oh, yeah, yay, yeah
I wanna be, I wanna be, listen darlin'
I wanna be where you are
so I can hold you baby, hold you darlin', don't you know....

Yo quiero estar contigo, oyeme, para vacilar,
para tenerte y decirte cuanto te quiero yeah
Yo quiero estar contigo, contigo y nada mas para vacilar oyeme,
yeah, yeah, yeah , yeah, yeah, yeah

I wanna be, I wanna be, I wanna be,
i wanna be with you some night, some night,
some night when I can hold you darlin'
yay yeah hey yeah hey hey hey
Oh yeah, darlin' yay yay yay yay yay
Let's get down baby, get down,
cause I wanna be where you are, where you are,
It doesn't matter how near or how far.
I wanna be where you are, I wanna be where you are darlin'

Chief Joseph's Speech

"The earth is the mother of all people and all people should have equal rights upon it"
I think the quote means that earth is not owned by one specific person or just one race of people, but it's owned by everyone whose living on it, equally and everyone have the right to live on it without paying for a part or trying to buy someone else's land. It's also saying that a man should not sell whatever he did not owned.

How is the art of rhetoric evident in Chief Joseph’s speech?

Who is he addressing in this speech?
Chief Joseph is addressing the government and the congress in order to bring peace to his people and their land.

Who is he indicting and why?
He is indicting the US government because they are the ones who have send soliders to fight for their property. He is also indicting the white settlers because they are trying to bribed the people by giving them things they don't have, and in return to sign the treaty for their lands.

Identify any heroic characteristics?
The heroic characteristics that chief Joseph did was promising his father that he won't give up his land that he bury his ancestors. And by keeping this promise and fulfilling it. He had to be strong for his people by not letting them get fooled by the white settlers and sign the treaty to give away their lands.
Why is this speech Protest Literature?
The speech is Protest Literature because of the white coming to the natives trying to make them a sign a treaty and take over their land, but they had to be strong not let someone else come to their land and take away what they have.

Vocabulary from "Legal Alien"

• Bi- Lingual : using or able to use two languages especially with equal fluency
• Bi-Cultural : relating to, or including two distinct cultures
• Exotic: strikingly, excitingly, or mysteriously different or unusualy , introduced from another country: not native to the place where found.
• Inferior: of low or lower degree or rank.
• Alien: belonging to relating to another person, place or thing.
• Token: an outward sign or expression,
• Bi-Lateral: having two sides, affecting reciprocally two nations or parties.

Vocabulary from "Ambush"

• Peril (noun)- exposure to the risk of being injured, destroyed or lost.
• Gape ( verb) - to stare with open mouth, as in wonder.
• Ammunition (noun) - the material fired, scattered, droped, or detonated from any weapon, as bombs or rockets and especially shot, shrapnel, bullets, or shells firedby guns.
• Repellent ( noun) - something that repels,as a substance that keeps away insects.
• Platoon (noun) - a military unit consisting of two or more squads or sections and a headquarters.
• My Khe ( noun) - a place in Vietnam.

Vocabulary - from "Dulce et Decorum est"

• Trudge (verb) -To walk; esp. laboriously or wearily: to trudge up a long flight of steps.
• Fatigue (noun) - weariness from bodily or mrntal exertion; a cuase of weariness slow ordeal; exertion: the fatigue of driving for many hours.
• Floundering (verb) - To make clumsy attempts to move or regain one's balance.
• Ecstasy ( noun) - an overpowering emotion or exaltation; a state of sudden, intense feeling.
• Writhing ( verb) - to twist the body about, or squirm , as in pain, violent effort, etc.
• Cud ( noun) - the portion of food that a ruminant returns from the first stomach to the mouth to chew a second time.
• Vile ( adj) - repulsive or disgusting, as to the senses of feeling.
• Zest ( noun) - hearty enjoyment.
• Ardent ( adj) - having, expressive of, or characterized by intense feeling; passionate; fervent.

Vocabulary Words

Manifest Destiny
The Manifest Destiny was the belief that the United States was destined to expand from the Atlantic seaboard to the Pacific Ocean: it has also been used to advocate for or justify other territorial acquistions.

Cultural Imperialism
Cultural Imperialism is the practice of promoting, separating or artificially injecting the culture or language of one nation into another. It is usually the case the the former is the larger , economically or militarily powerful nation taking the over the latter which is the smaller nation.

Genocide
the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.

I am what I am

I am what I am
I am from South American.
I am known as West Indies, decesentant from India
I am from Guyana, the land of many water.
I am a daughter, grand daughter, aunt, friend, best friend and a student.
I came from a country with mixed culture and different religions, a land of many memories.
I know where I am from, because I have been told by the great ones.
I am someone special, someone with many dreams for a brighter future.
I am New York and Brooklyn.
This might not be the place where i want to be, but i have no more choice.
My dreams are to be somewhere else and be someone, but I have been told that I'm already someone, someone with respect, love, courage, hope and a wonderful heart.

I am an immigrant.
I came to North America for better opporunities, for a better future.
I am many things.
I am what I want to be.
I believe in myself and I believe I can do anything I set my mind to do.
I am a smart, funny and decent person. I am a brown-skinned Guyanese girl with big brown eyes.
I am tall and skinny and love who I am.
I am many things.
I am what I am.