second blog The contradiction of Andrew Goodman

In the memoirs from When I was a Slave by Norman R Yetman, the memoir that got my attention for a very interesting contradiction was Andrew Goodman. A man who got lucky and did not have to suffer as much as many other slaves. He stated "I was born in slavery and think them days was better for the niggers than the day we see now"(Yetman 52). He was interview at the age of 97 in Dallas, Texas. Goodman was aloud to play with the masters kids when he was young and also eat with them. His master Marse Bob also made sure that he always had enough food.This is contradicting because many people fought for the better life for a slave but yet he believes they should of left it how it was. This people believed that the best life for a slave was for them to have freedom, and not be owned by what was usually a white family. However, Goodman believed that the days where a slave was owned and had no other option but to do hard labor for free just because of a document that sayed they was property of someone, where the better days. Goodman is basically saying that all the people who risked there life fought for nothing.

say my name

So my name is m3lIna. The m is a nassals what occurs is that you close your lips and breath out your nose and kind of vibrate your mouth. The 3 is a low front. Put together it should sound like a sheep when it says "meeehhhh". However instead of it being extended it is very short and fast so it only sounds like "meh". In order for you to do the "lI" the person has to put there tongue right after there teeth and just let it slide behind your teeth. So far as you say the "m3" your lips should be close and there should be a little vibration and in the "lI" your mouth should be not closed but not fully opened. The n is also a nassal. The person basically places there tongue behind your upper teeth and just let it sit there. The "na" is just basically letting your tongue hang behind your front teeth and then letting it go.

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the freedom of religion

The Muslim mosque that was suppose to be built close to the 9/11. Many people protested and even politics decided to join the conversation.  In this moment many people made very hurtful sings and went in front of the building to prove their point. The language plays a part in this because, language is a way of expressing a person thoughts. the people that where denying their rights to the Muslim people where expressing there believes. after a certain time they started saying that it was not going to be a mosque but a community center. I personally think that a mosque being build does not affect anyone it is a place of religion and just how many people believe in something they should let them have their space.

First blog Equiano

      In August 19 of 1791 a free African American astronomer, mathematician, surveyor, an almanac author, and farmer named Benjamin Banneker hand wrote and send a letter to a very important and intellectual man. During that time this man was the United States secretary of state his named was Thomas Jefferson. The main point of the letter is to ask Jefferson to act upon the African American rights. Stating that instead of it being human right it is a natural right. Banneker uses to his defense to of liberty being a natural right his religious believes. The reason why every human has naturals right to liberty is because " that one universal father hath given being to us all; and that he hath not only made us all of one flesh, ... afforded us all the same sensation"(Banneker 1). Instead of Banneker saying God he says father as a symbolic way to say family; everyone being brothers and sisters. He also says flesh which stands for the same body parts and are made of the same frame. The sensation stand for alike feeling or emotions.
 In The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equino, or Gustavus Vassa, the African  the reader is presented with  Equino a young boy who just happens to be kidnapped and experience the events that occur during a slave trade because of his origin. He was first placed into a family that treated him like a slave however, this family also gave him a certain freedom that not many slaves have had the opportunity to experience. However, because of an accidentally killing a chicken, he had to run away out of fear. Because he was not familiar with his surrounding he was not certain of what to do so he went back to his"home", where they had decided to sell him. The majority of the story takes place at sea. At sea is where he has to experience cruelty and the harshness of people dehumanizing other human beings.
   The fact is that one of humans characteristics is wanting more, is the feeling of having everything the easy way. The reason many African Americans suffered was because even though human beings can tell the difference between right and wrong they still can choose to do wrong . The masters usually white peopele don't care who they are hurting. Slaves owner understand that they were getting money and by having people working for free. They saw slaves as objects that they to owned. A slave was basically money in the form a human being body. Another very qualifying reason is that even though everyone is made the same way and are in some type of way similar to each other, people outcast and segregate themselves based upon differences. The fact that someone is a different color, race, size, age etc. Makes them want to critise certain people because they believe they are better then other people.

My Language is Unique

                                              My Confusing Language

      I can write and read in Spanish and English. At school I mostly speak English but once in a while I would speak Spanish depending on the person I would speak to. At home most of the time I speak Spanish. If I am not speaking in Spanish, I am speaking in a mixture of Spanish and English. At school and home my English changes but my Spanish stays the same. I try my hardest not to curse or use language that would offend anyone in school. At home or going out with my friends I don't care who I offend or how much I curse. Sometimes I curse without even noticing I am cursing.
     I learned Spanish from a young age. Just like any other child I learned from listening to people talk in front of me and I just started copying them. I always though English was harder to learn than Spanish. I don't know if it is harder for me because it is my second language or because in actuality it is hard. I learned English from watching educational television programs. I arrived to the United States  when I was five years old, I started school and had no idea what the teachers were telling me. So I started looking at the hand signals the teachers gave me and put them together with the words they spoke. I also started asking friends for the definition of words. As I got older and my parents moved to Queens and I changed. I started speaking more slang. I learned slang from all of the kids in my school and the way they used it in sentences.
    I don't believe I have a personathis l language. However, how I speak and express my thoughts is different. In high school, I was not most known for being the small girl with a big voice. I do believe that I am creative with language. I have this bad habit of somehting putting my words together or using slang that my friends and I come up with. For example, instead of saying "to tell the truth" I would say "all jokes aside". Also, I will always have a quote that i would say very often or after a comment that I have no response to. For example, last year my quote was "it is what it is". I also have a unique accent that depends on which language I speak the most that day. It would be most likely a mixture of a Spanish accent with a bunch of attitude and a sweat soft voice. I do believe that the language the person speaks has to do with how they get along with the world. The more language a person speaks the better and more educated they seem. Futhermore, the way they communicate change depending on who they speak to. If a girl only speaks Spanish it's going to be hard for her to make friends with someone that is American unless the person speaks Spanish.

melinas thoguht about the cluster

I think the language of human rights classes are divided. for example, we have the class that exemplify what the human rights are. After that we have the class that defines and explains the origin of language. In addition, we have the class that gives us examples of human rights such as Martin Luther king and his against racial segregation movement. I really do like the classes except one but i am not going to name it. the reason why i don't want to name it is because the reason i don't like the class has nothing to do with the way the person teaches or anything there is just something about that person attitude. I like all my class mates and have no problems with them.  I think we are just a mixture of personality. all the classes connect because they evaluate a person right just from a different point of of view or perspective.