Diveregent

In "Diveregent" by Veronica Roth, Tris is faced with lots of hard challenges.

One is that she is changing factions which means that she will have to change all of her beliefs. When she changes from abnegation to dauntless, she has major trouble but her mom makes that change. She is divergent so she knows when she is being tested. She has help from her mom because her mom is secretly divergent and know what it feels like.

Another difficult challenge is that in her second part of initiation is the emotional loss. She knows that she is being tested yet it simulates that she is loosing someone in a very traumatic way. Her and 4 stick together throughout the whole book but he is divergent as well.

The last challenge is that she is tested with a fear landscape, she knows that she is being tested yet it is so horrible that she is so scared. She overcomes 7 fears and she is happy about it, she becomes dauntless fair and square. But in the end Erudite want to take over dauntless and it breaks out in all war.

Snowden

I just read the article about, Edward Snowden. I had heard about what the NSA had been doing with the information that they had been getting from our daily activities, email, our regular searches, facebook and more. Luckily Edward Snowden revealed all that to the public. Some call him hero, but some call him a criminal.

In my opinion I really think that he is a hero, he revealed to the public that the NSA has been monitoring all the things that we do at this very moment. By you looking at this the NSA is watching you look at this. I feel as if Snowden really wanted to expose the real NSA. The people who think that he is a criminal is saying that people want no privacy. I think that Snowden did the right thing, he showed the public that we have no privacy behind our locked doors.

Overall I think that people can see that he is a hero, he wanted to show that people have no privacy ever, our computers are our worst nightmare.

Poem

America, "She thinks into my throat with her tigers tooth, stealing my breath of life." A great way to describe the pain of immigration into America. "America" a great poem by Claude McKay. This is a poem that describes the hardships and the great things about America. One theme in the poem is that it is hard for immigrants to make it in America.

“Sinks into my neck with her tigers tooth stealing my breath of life”.  

I think that the author is trying to show that it is so hard for him to make it in America. He is also saying that he can’t take it any more. I think that the author is describing immigration in this line itself.

I think that the author definitely wants to show you the good sides and the bad sides. For example when he says, “I loved this cultured hell that tests my youth.” I think that he is trying to say that even though it is hard he likes the hardships of the whole thing. I think that the author is trying to express that even though some people will have it tough. It can all work out eventually.

I think that the author has very mixed feelings about America. This is shown in many ways, the good sides and the bad sides. But it is like he wants you to be sad for him but then be happy. I think that he like America even though in the poem it had given the speaker troubles, good times and had treated him badly.

I think that one theme in the poem is that it is hard for immigrants to make it in America. I think that overall I showed what the author was trying to say that there is good and bad sides to America overall.

Poem

I stare
At the empty
Space

It rains
Its Dark

The sun stares at me
I look back at it with sadness

But behind these
Bars
I cry

Tally marks on my wall
3,4,5...
298

love
Hate

But I hate Jail
My crime affects me
But now no one else

Monday Muses

In the song "Paranoid Android", he says "What's there". He is definitely paranoid. He wants all the "voices in his head to stop the noise hes trying to get some rest". this shows how paranoid he is.

Another example is,"Standing on a bridge, ray down on me from my grave to heaven god loves all his children". This shows how he wants to die. I think that he wants to die because he is so paranoid.

Overall the song is about paranoia and that everyone has a daily routine. So he becomes a paranoid android.

American Born Chinese

In “American Born Chinese” Jin-Wang is an American born  Chinese, in just the opening page he is stereotyped as coming all the way from China, he is from San Francisco. This is just one of the ways that Jin gets stereotyped.

One way is that in class a kid raised his hand, the teacher picks on him and he says, “My momma told me that Chinese people eat dogs”. This made Jin put his head in shame, at that moment he hated being a minority. In the next strip the teacher says “No Tommy i’m sure Jin doesn’t do that, actually i’m sure Jins family probably stopped that sort of thing when they moved to America. Jin is ashamed of his nationality.

The second thing is that, when it comes to lunch time, Jin eats dumplings, some kids had never seen that. One kid came up to him and said, “what are those”? Jin says,”Dumplings” and the kid says,”Oh ok don’t eat my dog”. Jin hates his life and can’t stand being a minority.

Overall there is so much stereotyping in the world and I think that this book shows it overall.

Upfront

In the article "Whats The Deal With Iran" I think that they talk about the two different types of people in Iran. The people who like america, but also the people who hate it.

The people of Iran actually like half the things that Americans have made. They show that Iranians like the freedom that Americans represent and that they really like our products and ethics. The Iranians that are very racist toward to the Americans refuse to not use any of the American ethic toward life. They think that Americans are planning a nuclear bombing. This is just another stereotyping.

In conclusion there are a lot of stereotyping toward american but a lot of people who don't agree with that, stereotyping, it is bad.