Thursday, October 21, 2010

My Essay Topic Stuff

My topic is going to be about the one about how dehumanizing the slave master and the slave to themselves and this is a good topic because it will show you the harmful effects about slavery toward each other and how slavery can kill everyones ego not just the slaves themselves but everyone around them. My main argument is going to be about how the slave masters and the slaves are dehumanizing themselves and why that is going to be a really bad thing for everyone down the road from now. I will also include how dehumanizing slaves and slave masters might be actully a good thing for this particular argument. Also how the slave masters actully end up dehumanizing the slaves and themselves all at once and how horrible this can be. I could prove this by using The Narrative of Freddy D as a resource for pretty much all of my info for now and then i will use some old resources from back then like uncle toms cabin and the liberator and good ol' wikipedia. So that is my plan

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

My reaction to the ending!

This chapter was my favorite because Freddy D was free like a free man haha and was getting paid like a free man also and everyone started to treat him like he was a actual person and not just as a piece of property. So that chapter was my favorite because it shows that he is a real human. What i hated was that when he worked he only got 6 cents compared to the other man who got 6 dollars and that is really horrible i think he should be paid more! But to wrap this up it was awesome!


Questions
1. Why was he paid 6 cents and not 6 dollars?
2.

Comments
1. This chapter was the best because he was free.
2. It was sad that he was only paid so little.

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Chapter 10 Stuff


I thought that chapter 10 was really long. That made me lose where i was almost all the time, but anyways apart from that this chapter was pretty awesome like about how mr covey whipped one minute and for a week straight he did not whip at all i mean whats up with that? So i have no idea what this chapter was about because i got lost almost half the time because it made no sense to me and so all i did was just read it again. This chapter was epic because of how like i said before how mr covey dosent whip people sometimes because hes not consistent. Also i like how they refer to other parts from the panphlet haha which i thought was pretty cool



Questions

1.
Why did Mr. Covey stop whipping one day or weeks at a time for no reason.

2.
What was the certificate about for "Mr. Waggles"



Comments

1.
I really dont like this chapter because it was really long for me anyways

2.
This chapter was cool

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Mr. Lit Man (Fredrick Dougleas)

I think the chapters were really weird and stuff

Slavery Stuff (American History)

My reaction to all this is anger an frustration because of all those people who died for something they couldnt help and because everyone needs to be treated to same without discrimenation. If i could i would go back in time and help those people. I would jump off the ship because either way you look at it, your going to die anyways or maybe i could get washed up on a shore and live on coconuts and bananas. If i was on board with my baby i would try to keep it for as long as possible and i would possibly give it to someone else who can keep it well. I really think this is a really bad event in history and its a really good thing it dosent go on in todays time.

Monday, October 4, 2010

Dont Read This Its Done (Chapter 1 Fredrick Douglas)

The purpose of the two letters of the introduction was i have no idea because i didn't pay to much attention to the introduction so i cant really answer that question. My reaction to chapter 1 was that it was sad and stuff because he never really got to see his mom at all in his life and that must be really hard for someone at the young of an age and i think this panphlet is pretty confusing, hard to read, awesome because its about the slavery trade which was a horrible point the the united states history. I think this will be a cool thing to read but hopefully its not as hard as poe's works and you should not read this while your really sleepy and drowzy because you WILL fall asleep.