Author's note - this poem is about slavery through a slaves mind.
Why oh why
Everyday I work ‘til I hurt
From sunrise to sunset.
In the coldest morning to the hottest noons
I work so hard
Yet still they say to do more
They force my wife and kids to work
Breaking their bones with whips
Leaving scars for all to see
Only because we are different
We are black and they are white
Oh how I wish to run
But run I can not
For the captured are beaten
I could die
But do they care
No, they would just buy another
What can they say
The cotton and tobacco must be picked
To get the money they carve so much
Then make themselves pigs
With the food, they never work for
The food that we worked so hard to get
They give us barely any clothes to wear
Or shelter to live in
Try to steal food
And you will be beaten
There are no friends in their kind
They have no hearts
They have no mercy
They only have misery
In this life they give us no hope
To me it’s not even a life
It’s not worth living for
But why
Why do they beat us
Why do they hate us
What did we do
We do as told
How are we so different
A color does not matter
Why are we taken from our homes
Our family, friends, and lives
When they are not
Why can’t they work
They have good legs and arms
Why is the South so mean
And the North so kind
I hope there will be a time
When change will come
When we will be freed
When we are no different then them
When we are treated as one
When we are helped
The Devil's Bag of Tricks
Temptation is something we all face one way or another. What is temptation you might ask? It is the devil trying to get you to do wrong or not go the way God wants you to. The devil tries to get everyone on his side or to be sinful. He can’t get to me you may say, but it doesn’t matter who you are or what you do the devil’s after you. This temptation has, and will continue to affect the world in the past, present and future.
In the story “The Hundredth Dove” Hugh the fowler faces some of the greatest temptation tricks the devil has. Gold and silver or money as it’s called today cause so many people to fall into the devil’s clutches. The riches he promised will never bring true happiness. The fowler simply said “Neither gold nor silver tempt me, Servo is my motto. I serve my master and my master is the king.” Fame and fortune was the devil’s next try to bring the fowler down to his level. He met only failure when Hugh replied “After the king, I serve the forest. Fame and fortune are no masters here.” It looks like the devil is out of tricks, right? Wrong, he still has his biggest temptation yet, love. It seems like a good deal, I mean Hugh gets a beautiful woman. There’s only one little problem, Lady Columbia is engaged to Hugh’s master the king. For the first time that night the fowler almost gives in to temptation.
“The Hundredth Dove” reminds me of the story from the bible where Jesus is in the desert and the devil tries to get into his mind. In the story Hugh is like Jesus, the devil is Lady Columbia, and God is the King. Just like in the desert Jesus or Hugh knows God is the true king and the right one to follow. If Jesus can fight temptation then we can too. We just have to find the willpower to fight back.
In the story “The Hundredth Dove” Hugh the fowler faces some of the greatest temptation tricks the devil has. Gold and silver or money as it’s called today cause so many people to fall into the devil’s clutches. The riches he promised will never bring true happiness. The fowler simply said “Neither gold nor silver tempt me, Servo is my motto. I serve my master and my master is the king.” Fame and fortune was the devil’s next try to bring the fowler down to his level. He met only failure when Hugh replied “After the king, I serve the forest. Fame and fortune are no masters here.” It looks like the devil is out of tricks, right? Wrong, he still has his biggest temptation yet, love. It seems like a good deal, I mean Hugh gets a beautiful woman. There’s only one little problem, Lady Columbia is engaged to Hugh’s master the king. For the first time that night the fowler almost gives in to temptation.
“The Hundredth Dove” reminds me of the story from the bible where Jesus is in the desert and the devil tries to get into his mind. In the story Hugh is like Jesus, the devil is Lady Columbia, and God is the King. Just like in the desert Jesus or Hugh knows God is the true king and the right one to follow. If Jesus can fight temptation then we can too. We just have to find the willpower to fight back.
Viruses
Have you ever had a cold or flu? Don’t worry, you’re not the only one. Everyone in the world has mostly likely had one at least once in their life. No matter where you are in the world viruses are there. A virus is a small infectious agent that can replicate only inside the cells of other organisms. (Freudenrich) Viruses can't live on their own. They require a host cell. Once in the host cell the virus takes over. Then continues to releases its protein in order to create new viruses. The cell is no longer a cell, it is a virus. Therefore the virus lets all the new little viruses out in order to attack more cells.
One of the most common viruses to take over is varicella-zoster virus also known as chicken pox. (Dowshen) This virus is spread person to person by direct contact, or through the air by coughing or sneezing. It is common for kids under 12 years old to get chicken pox. The child should stay home while they have this virus, because chicken pox is highly contagious. It causes flu like symptoms, such as fever, cough, headache, and loss of appetite. Chicken pox differs from other viruses by the appearance of a rash with little, itchy, red blisters that start in the lower body, and spread all over. Chicken pox can be prevented by giving the child a vaccine when they are 12 to 15 months old. This virus will go away without treated, although in serious cases death can occur. The most common complication of chicken pox is a bacterial infection of the skin or brain, bones, joints, lungs, and blood. Usually humans will become immune to the virus after having it once. (Coalition)
To a doctor the common cold is called viral upper respiratory tract infection. The common cold can be caused by a variety of viruses. These viruses are spread by direct contact, or inhaling the airborne virus after a sneeze or cough. The common cold effects both children and adults. New cold viruses are always developing, so the human body is not immune to them. To date there is no vaccine to prevent colds. Common symptoms include coughing, sore throat, runny nose, and sneezing. The symptoms of the virus can be treated, but you may have to talk to your doctor before using medications. (Greene) (Doerr)
In both these cases the virus can be both helpful and harmful. Helpful because they help to build our immunity. The symptoms can be annoying, but are usually controlled with home remedies and medications. However a person can get very seriously ill from the chicken pox or common cold. In rare cases, a person can die. (Viruses)
Continuing to learn and understand viruses is important work. Yes they cause the common cold, but they also cause life threatening conditions such as HIV (human immunodeficiency virus), and cancer. Both of these conditions can lead to death. As we learn more, we can work to stop and prevent the spread of viruses. (Virus)
Bibliography
Freudenrich, Craig. "How Viruses Work." health.howstuffworks.com. 21 March 2011.
"Virus." livescience.com. 22 March 2011.
One of the most common viruses to take over is varicella-zoster virus also known as chicken pox. (Dowshen) This virus is spread person to person by direct contact, or through the air by coughing or sneezing. It is common for kids under 12 years old to get chicken pox. The child should stay home while they have this virus, because chicken pox is highly contagious. It causes flu like symptoms, such as fever, cough, headache, and loss of appetite. Chicken pox differs from other viruses by the appearance of a rash with little, itchy, red blisters that start in the lower body, and spread all over. Chicken pox can be prevented by giving the child a vaccine when they are 12 to 15 months old. This virus will go away without treated, although in serious cases death can occur. The most common complication of chicken pox is a bacterial infection of the skin or brain, bones, joints, lungs, and blood. Usually humans will become immune to the virus after having it once. (Coalition)
To a doctor the common cold is called viral upper respiratory tract infection. The common cold can be caused by a variety of viruses. These viruses are spread by direct contact, or inhaling the airborne virus after a sneeze or cough. The common cold effects both children and adults. New cold viruses are always developing, so the human body is not immune to them. To date there is no vaccine to prevent colds. Common symptoms include coughing, sore throat, runny nose, and sneezing. The symptoms of the virus can be treated, but you may have to talk to your doctor before using medications. (Greene) (Doerr)
In both these cases the virus can be both helpful and harmful. Helpful because they help to build our immunity. The symptoms can be annoying, but are usually controlled with home remedies and medications. However a person can get very seriously ill from the chicken pox or common cold. In rare cases, a person can die. (Viruses)
Continuing to learn and understand viruses is important work. Yes they cause the common cold, but they also cause life threatening conditions such as HIV (human immunodeficiency virus), and cancer. Both of these conditions can lead to death. As we learn more, we can work to stop and prevent the spread of viruses. (Virus)
Bibliography
Freudenrich, Craig. "How Viruses Work." health.howstuffworks.com. 21 March 2011
"Virus." livescience.com. 22 March 2011
Secrets
Do you have something or know something you don’t want anyone ever knowing or seeing? Or, has one of your friends or family told you something that they trust you not to tell anyone else? Those things are called secrets. They are a secret for a reason; they’re not to be talked about to anyone or shown to anyone. If you let that secret out, it can hurt you, your friends, and the ones you love.
When it comes to secrets my mom always says, “Big or small, you keep them all.” The reason to why this phrase is true because even if the secrets seems small to you it may be big to the person who trusted you to keep that secret. They could also be testing to see if they can trust you. In Shiver By Maggie Stiefvater, Sam trusts Grace with his biggest secret: he’s a werewolf. If Grace was to tell someone and they believed her, Sam would be taken in for testing. He would probably never be seen again. While Grace is battling to protect Sam, other wolfs start causing problems.
Secrets can also bring people closer together. After a while Sam and Grace started to date because of Grace knowing Sam’s secrets. They became very close: “I touched my lips to hers again, and this time, it was a very different sort of kiss. It was six years’ worth of kissing, her lips coming to life under mine, tasting of orange and of desire.” That quote shows how much Sam loves Grace with his mind, body, and soul. But he must be careful because as secrets can bring people together they can tear them apart forever.
With Sam’s life hanging on his secrets, Grace knows to keep them to herself even if it means lying to her friends and family. Unknown to Sam or Grace there are other secrets that are about to pop... secrets that could destroy friendships permanently.
When it comes to secrets my mom always says, “Big or small, you keep them all.” The reason to why this phrase is true because even if the secrets seems small to you it may be big to the person who trusted you to keep that secret. They could also be testing to see if they can trust you. In Shiver By Maggie Stiefvater, Sam trusts Grace with his biggest secret: he’s a werewolf. If Grace was to tell someone and they believed her, Sam would be taken in for testing. He would probably never be seen again. While Grace is battling to protect Sam, other wolfs start causing problems.
Secrets can also bring people closer together. After a while Sam and Grace started to date because of Grace knowing Sam’s secrets. They became very close: “I touched my lips to hers again, and this time, it was a very different sort of kiss. It was six years’ worth of kissing, her lips coming to life under mine, tasting of orange and of desire.” That quote shows how much Sam loves Grace with his mind, body, and soul. But he must be careful because as secrets can bring people together they can tear them apart forever.
With Sam’s life hanging on his secrets, Grace knows to keep them to herself even if it means lying to her friends and family. Unknown to Sam or Grace there are other secrets that are about to pop... secrets that could destroy friendships permanently.
DNA Fingerprinting
Your DNA is what makes you, you. It tells your cell what they are and what they are to do. DNA or deoxyribonucleic acid is the most important part of you because it says who you are.
DNA is found in the cells of all organisms. DNA is made of subunits called nucleotides. Nucleotides are made of a sugar, a phosphate, and a base. The four bases are call adenine, thymine, guanine, and cytosine. The amount of adenine equals the same amount of thymine. This also goes the same for cytosine and guanine. (how dna works)
Each organism is unique, that being said, this means that each organism’s DNA is unique. But all DNA works the same way. So DNA fingerprinting is a way for scientists to say whether or not you were at the scene of the crime. How, by looking at your DNA through your fingerprints. Again each organism has unique patterns that are its DNA.(DNA) (Create a fingerprint, 2000)
You get your DNA from your parents. You get 46 or 23 pairs of chromosomes. You get one pair from your mother and half from your father. Your DNA can also identify family relations or heredity diseases.
Bibliography
Create a fingerprint. (2000, November). Retrieved March 27, 2011, from http://www.pbs.org: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sheppard/analyze.html
dna. (n.d.). Retrieved March 27, 2011, from http://dnafingerprinting19.tripod.com/id1.html : http://dnafingerprinting19.tripod.com/id1.html
how dna works. (n.d.). Retrieved march 27, 2011, from http://www.dna.gov: http://www.dna.gov/basics/analysishistory/
DNA is found in the cells of all organisms. DNA is made of subunits called nucleotides. Nucleotides are made of a sugar, a phosphate, and a base. The four bases are call adenine, thymine, guanine, and cytosine. The amount of adenine equals the same amount of thymine. This also goes the same for cytosine and guanine. (how dna works)
Each organism is unique, that being said, this means that each organism’s DNA is unique. But all DNA works the same way. So DNA fingerprinting is a way for scientists to say whether or not you were at the scene of the crime. How, by looking at your DNA through your fingerprints. Again each organism has unique patterns that are its DNA.(DNA) (Create a fingerprint, 2000)
You get your DNA from your parents. You get 46 or 23 pairs of chromosomes. You get one pair from your mother and half from your father. Your DNA can also identify family relations or heredity diseases.
Bibliography
Create a fingerprint. (2000, November). Retrieved March 27, 2011, from http://www.pbs.org: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sheppard/analyze.html
dna. (n.d.). Retrieved March 27, 2011, from http://dnafingerprinting19.tripod.com/id1.html : http://dnafingerprinting19.tripod.com/id1.html
how dna works. (n.d.). Retrieved march 27, 2011, from http://www.dna.gov: http://www.dna.gov/basics/analysishistory/
Unfairly Taken Away
My name is Galilahi Pascal. I am thirteen years, and I live in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. I am the great, great granddaughter of Marcia Pascal. My heritage is Cherokee, a Native American tribe. I always thought the US government was fair and treated people equally even if they are of different heritage. But I was wrong.
Today in social studies we learned about the Native American Removal, and the Trail of Tears. In order to expand their cotton field’s the settlers of the U.S. pressured the government the move the Natives out of the south. Andrew Jackson agreed with the settlers and in 1814 ordered his troops to fight the Creek nation. He won 22 million acres of Georgia and Alabama, but still the settlers wanted more land. After years of fighting the tribes agreed to treaties the government had offered them. This gave the government control of the lands in Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina, Mississippi, and Kentucky. Small amounts of the Indians moved into the lands the government gave them to live in, but later the courts said the country still had the right to take their lands for the discovery.
I can’t believe how unfair the government was to my people. We were here first, this was our home, our safe place. Where all our history is, but no. We, the government, believe that we have the right to take away your homes. What did my ancestors ever do to deserve that kind of treatment? All the while the Indian nations tried to work with the government peacefully. They didn’t attack the settlers and they didn’t burn down town. But the “land hungry” settlers did. They also murdered some Cherokee when they were on the trail of tears.
Oh the trail of tears, the name does fit the occasion. When Andrew Jackson became president in 1829, a year after he made the “Indian Removal Act” in 1830. The name fits because it was the act that took away the home lands of the Natives. The Choctaw nation was the first to be moved out of their homes in 1831. The Seminole were then moved in 1832, the Creeks in 1884, Chickasaw in 1837, and finally my people in 1838. Some Natives were able to stay in the home lands after the removal, but not many. About 183,746,000 Native Americans were removed in the end.
The stories of all five Indian nation are unforgettable. The Choctaw left to be free rather than living under a government that treats them unfairly. But then get lost because of a bad guide. The Seminole fought to keep their lands to save themselves for death but failed. The Creeks moved because they were tried of the fighting both physically and vocally with the government. The Chickasaw’s story is probably the best, they got paid to leave and then merged with the Creeks to get nationhood.
My people's story, I believe, is the most heart breaking story because 4,000 Cherokee died on the trail of tear. But before that they were put into camps where some died because of the poor treatment they got. Mean while their homes and town were burned to the ground. Their things and farms were sold to settlers in the lottery. One soldier wrote that four Cherokee were forced into shooting their chief and his children. While the soldier wanted to help he could not. As they march on the trail of tears they had no shoes, and were given blankets that had a disease on them that killed more of my people. They were starving and yet they were forced to pay to get across a river. But some never got across because they were killed by locals while resting. Many others died while waiting to cross.
Why, why, why?????? Why did the settlers force my ancestors to leave?? Just think about what they had to go through to get to their promised land. So many never made it there because of those terrible people who time after time hurt them. If you think that I am over doing it then put yourself in their place.........See it is horrible. So many families taken for one another. Its just to wrong to think about thing that happen that we don’t even know about. I hope you now have a better thought about the Native Americans and what they what through.
Today in social studies we learned about the Native American Removal, and the Trail of Tears. In order to expand their cotton field’s the settlers of the U.S. pressured the government the move the Natives out of the south. Andrew Jackson agreed with the settlers and in 1814 ordered his troops to fight the Creek nation. He won 22 million acres of Georgia and Alabama, but still the settlers wanted more land. After years of fighting the tribes agreed to treaties the government had offered them. This gave the government control of the lands in Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina, Mississippi, and Kentucky. Small amounts of the Indians moved into the lands the government gave them to live in, but later the courts said the country still had the right to take their lands for the discovery.
I can’t believe how unfair the government was to my people. We were here first, this was our home, our safe place. Where all our history is, but no. We, the government, believe that we have the right to take away your homes. What did my ancestors ever do to deserve that kind of treatment? All the while the Indian nations tried to work with the government peacefully. They didn’t attack the settlers and they didn’t burn down town. But the “land hungry” settlers did. They also murdered some Cherokee when they were on the trail of tears.
Oh the trail of tears, the name does fit the occasion. When Andrew Jackson became president in 1829, a year after he made the “Indian Removal Act” in 1830. The name fits because it was the act that took away the home lands of the Natives. The Choctaw nation was the first to be moved out of their homes in 1831. The Seminole were then moved in 1832, the Creeks in 1884, Chickasaw in 1837, and finally my people in 1838. Some Natives were able to stay in the home lands after the removal, but not many. About 183,746,000 Native Americans were removed in the end.
The stories of all five Indian nation are unforgettable. The Choctaw left to be free rather than living under a government that treats them unfairly. But then get lost because of a bad guide. The Seminole fought to keep their lands to save themselves for death but failed. The Creeks moved because they were tried of the fighting both physically and vocally with the government. The Chickasaw’s story is probably the best, they got paid to leave and then merged with the Creeks to get nationhood.
My people's story, I believe, is the most heart breaking story because 4,000 Cherokee died on the trail of tear. But before that they were put into camps where some died because of the poor treatment they got. Mean while their homes and town were burned to the ground. Their things and farms were sold to settlers in the lottery. One soldier wrote that four Cherokee were forced into shooting their chief and his children. While the soldier wanted to help he could not. As they march on the trail of tears they had no shoes, and were given blankets that had a disease on them that killed more of my people. They were starving and yet they were forced to pay to get across a river. But some never got across because they were killed by locals while resting. Many others died while waiting to cross.
Why, why, why?????? Why did the settlers force my ancestors to leave?? Just think about what they had to go through to get to their promised land. So many never made it there because of those terrible people who time after time hurt them. If you think that I am over doing it then put yourself in their place.........See it is horrible. So many families taken for one another. Its just to wrong to think about thing that happen that we don’t even know about. I hope you now have a better thought about the Native Americans and what they what through.
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