The Reservation

Native American reservations in the United States are spaces allocated to native tribes that are considered a separate area from the rest of the country. Due to this separation and lack of support many of these reservations lead to poverty and destruction of native culture. In my life not many things are similar to native reservations, but i believe that the Black Belt in southern Chicago is the closest thing i know to an Indian reservation. The people in power during the time period of its creation forced one ethnicity of people to live there similar to the movement of native Americans, and then they were left to lose money through unfair business done by white people. They were shoved into one area to prevent them from taking up the land of those in power and then restricted beyond belief. The only major difference between the two is that one is a sovereign nation while the other is just a part of a larger city.

Native Sons

Bigger is a murder, rapist, fugitive, and thief. Yet some people still read about him and think that he is really a good person who was just put in the wrong situations. I see Bigger as he is at base value. He is a criminal and no matter how he got there he still committed crimes. Thus i see don't see Bigger in some heavenly light as a nice person in the wrong place. Bigger is not a nice person in fact he is quite the opposite. He doesn't make good choices, he doesn't help those he should, and he messes up the only true chance he had. Maybe if Bigger had tried a little bit harder, or actually have been in the wrong place at the right time i could believe that he is really a good person.
Though i don't like Bigger i do believe his punishment was wrong. In my opinion the death penalty should never be used, even if Bigger killed two people. The death penalty takes us back to a time when we couldn't function as a society, and required brute force to resolve our problems. Also it is not the choice of others whether or not someone should lose all the years they would naturally live. I don't believe Bigger is a good person he is just a bad person in bad situations.

A Principle to Keep

A Principle to Keep

I believe that a principle we as humans should always keep is to never inflict more harm than is necessary. Essentially i believe that you should never hurt someone or something more than you absolutely need to. For example if someone if wounded and you are being chased by rabid dogs then instead of leaving them for the dogs to rip apart you should kill them quickly yourself. If you kill them instantly they will have less total pain than if you left them, which means that you can obtain a sense of pity for others as opposed to being cruel. If you limit pain like this it would mean that torture would be abolished, but that war would not, for torture is unnecessary while there is no easy way to eliminate an enemy without using war. Now you may ask what if the pain is for a good cause like torturing an enemy to gain information to save live, and to that i respond with this. In World War II there was a German Interrogation officer named Hanns Scharff he was one of the most effective interrogators of all time, and he never used physical means to gain information. Thus proving you can achieve the same goals and success by limiting pain to the most minimal level.

Janie

Janie is a woman in the book Their Eyes Were Watching God. She was married to a man named Logan, but due to Logan's want for her to work she decided to run away with a man named Joe. Joe got her to run a way with him, by promising her a happy life with him. He told her that he had money saved from working earlier in his life. Then after many visits he gave her an ultimatum to either run away with him or stay with Logan. She decided to run away with him, for Janie believed that true love was not to be found with Logan but with Joe. After many years of living with Joe Janie had become an established woman. Her life was not as happy as it seemed though. Joe had her working in his shop, and he constantly attacked her with verbal onslaughts until one day Janie counterattacked. She fought back while many of Joe's friends where present, and there fore shattered his social standing due to his inability to control his wife. After this incident Joe became very ill and continued his life until the day that Janie decided to talk to him about how he constantly abused her verbally. Though Janie was unable to do what she wanted for while she talked Joe managed to shoo her off, and died immediately after. After Joe's death Janie was finally free, and decided to find true love with a man who came to her one day, and whose name was Vergible Woods.
To be continued... 

Thankful

Odin Slade Byrd
Thanksgiving Assignment
11/24/14
Thankful for Josh

I am thankful for Joshua Huang. He is relatively short, very smart, a hard worker, and plays league of legends. I am thankful for the last three things in that list. I don't particularly feel thankful for his short height, but his work ethic, intelligence, and game choices are much to my liking. Josh works hard on group project and on solo ones too, and he is always willing to help you out if you don't understand something. I am thankful for his intelligence, for it makes his opinion, and all of his believes have a higher value to me, and allows for him to be very potent in needed information. The last characteristic of Josh i am thankful for is his game choices. Josh chooses to play one game, and that game is League of Legends. Now this may seem low, but i love League of Legends and having an intelligent hard working person who also likes League of Legends as your classmate is just a great thing. Thank you Josh, for being you, and being good at being you.

Hemingway

The Early Life of Ernest Hemingway
By Odin Slade Byrd

     Ernest Hemingway was an american author who lived from 1899 to 1961. When Ernest was a young child his family life was quite odd. His mother controlled the house and even bullied her husband. Also she forced Ernest to wear clothes and make up that made him look like a girl. This behavior was forced upon earnest until he was about 7, and possibly caused him the need for super masculinity. After Ernest's childhood years were over he volunteered to join the red cross, for he was unable to fight in World War 1 due to eyesight problems. During the war Ernest was wounded and spent many months recuperating in a hospital in Italy where he met Agnes von Kurowsky. After the war Ernest returned to America and left Agnes. The war inspired Ernest to write about life during the war, and in the field hospital.
     In America Ernest worked for the Toronto star, and also moved to Chicago. In Chicago Ernest met Hadley Richardson. They fell in love and were later married. After their marriage the two set off for Paris. In Paris Ernest meets the finest writers and artists of that time including Gertrude Stein and Ezra Pound. Hemingway's first book is published in 1923, and it is called "Three Stories and Ten Poems". Also Hemingway's first son John is born on the 10th of October 1923. Hemingway also meets F. Scott Fitzgerald in Paris, and they become friends. In 1926 Hemingway publishes "The Sun Also Rises", and it receives amazing reviews. Then on April 4th 1927 Hemingway divorces Hadley, marries Pauline Pfeiffer, and the two of them move to Key West.

And this is where I believe the early life of Ernest Hemingway ends.

6 Six Word Sentences

Brazilian paper factory profits double suddenly.

Few flowers after sudden chemical outbreak.

Healthy man drops dead in hospital.

Jailbreak at Alcatraz no casualties occurred.

Shirt for sale, few blood stains.

Fire occurs in rural concrete building.