Same = boring

America is a place where people come for the American dream. For freedom. Freedom allows every individual to be able to believe in anything they choose to believe. It allows people to pick their own religion, dress, and be themselves. Alaa El-Saal was scared when she started middle school because she thought her peers were going to make fun of her for wearing the hijab. Alaa did the right thing she decided to wear it any way. Every one should do what they believe in without being afraid of being different. Diversity takes a big role in school and work. If the people around each other were not diverse everything will be the same. Same=boring. America unlike many other places in the world allows you to do many things that you believe in. People should take advantage of that by showing the world why they are different from the rest. Being different is always a good thing. It even interest others to learn about you, and your religion. Always remember America's beauty is in it's diversity. So stand up for who and what you are. It's okay to be different.

Be Yourself

 After reading being content with yourself, I realized that a skin color does not have to make you do things you don't want to, or be some one who you do not desire to be. A skin color is just the out side. People might get surprise if you're black and act chinese, white, or Mexican etc. However you have the choice of how you want to act. What kind of music you want to hear, how you want to dress, and what kind of people you want to be with. Although a skin color can represent your race and nationality. It does not mean you have to represent a unsophisticated trait. You might not act a certain way because you are better than what others want you to be. It is just that you have hope for yourslef and are into other things. What actions you take in life is what really represents who you are not a skin color. Looks are nothing personality is evrything. Being content with yourself is the most important thing. If you are happy with what you do, look, and act that is all that matters. Being content with yourslef is more than enough to realize that what you are doing is good. If you feel good about yourself what every one else has to say about you does not matter at all.

Blonde Moment

                                       When I look at this picture and quote I think how this women is having a blonde moment. Having a blonde moment means you are acting dumb. It is using stereotype because it used a blonde women saying the word “Omg.” You might be laughing at the picture, but in reality there is other cases where we also do the same. For example when someone says, “I have to exercise a lot to be fit.” It is obvious that when you want to become something you have to work very hard for it. Even though you don’t see it we all have those blonde moments. What this picture is trying to say is stop having those blonde moments and get into the real world. You have to put all your effort into things you want. Don’t think about it and complain. Instead just do what you have to do and don’t ask the obvious. Reading a lot is never a lot if you are doing it to succeed. Don’t complain about things that you have to do because then you are going to be having that blonde moment and people are going to laugh at you.

The stranger

"Stanza" by sherman Alexie

The stranger

 

                                             
She’d left corporate law to teach a prison writing workshop. Her parents and friends thought she was a liberal fool. Her husband was afraid she’d be assaulted.

There are guards everywhere, she explained, and my students have earned the right to be there.

On august Wednesday, as she was reading a poem to her nine students, the riot began. She was trapped. She’d signed the waiver. She would not be rescued.

She tried not to scream as her students carried her into a supply closet. God, she thought, help me. But her students, laughing, bundled her into a large cardboard box, loosely it shut, and lifted her onto a high shelf.

Don’t move until the guards come looking, one voice said to her.

                                 When I first read the stanza that Sherman Alexie wrote I thought that she was going to get rapped since she was surrounded by prisoners. However after I finished reading I changed my mind. Many people think that prisoners are dangerous and horrible people. However that’s not always the case. Prisoners can be the most loyal people. When I was in high school I had a teacher who taught at a jail. She always said that the prisoners that she was teaching will have her back no matter what. She knew that if someone was messing with her she can call them and they will have some one defending her in a heart beat. Prisoners appreciate when people do nice stuff for them because they know that there is a bigg amount of other people that just criticize them and judge them just for the fact that they are in jail. The reason why the guys in jail were trying to protect her was because they had loyalty for her and appreciate how she was teaching them poetry, they know they won’t be having teachers in there with them all the time because they know not every one will like to teach at a jail. My best friends brother, who’s been in jail before and is a gang member, once told us that he will seriously take a bullet for anyone who helped him out when he most needed them and made a big impact in his life. The people that you expect the least from sometimes can be the most helpful and appreciated people and you can see this in the reading how the prisoners helped out their teacher. They hid her so she won’t be seen. She could’ve possibly been hurt but she wasn’t because of her students in jail.

Famouse Failures

                               In class Mr. Aronson showed my peers and I a you tube video about famous failures. It showed the most popular people, and how they once failed. When I first saw this video I thought it was impossible that someone like Dr. Seuss once failed because his first book was rejected by 27 publishers; especially since he is some one that I looked up to since I was younger. This video made me realized that in order to succeed in life you need to fail at least once. We all have struggles in life but that is never an excused to not achieve your goals in life. All you need is motivation; just keep swimming and swimming and you’ll make it where you want to go. By giving up on your first try is like giving up your dream but not only that but giving up on yourself. It does not matter how many times you keep trying. What matters the most is when you accomplish your goal and you show the world what you are really all about. Even the smartest people have been rejected and done mistakes. You look up to them for a reason. They had obviously done mistakes in life. However they tried and work very hard to get up there where they are at. It does not matter where you come from or where you are standing. Look at Emenim he was a high school drop out was involved in drugs, but he got out of that and made his dream come true. Sometimes things get in the way, and you might think it’s impossible to fight for your dream, but think about it what’s life without mistakes? It’s nothing. It’s nothing because in order to have fun in life you need to try new things, and that takes practice. It’s not only about dreaming; it is about making your dreams come true.