Hi everyone, Guess what the Third book of the Hunger Games finally has a title and a book cover pic!!! YAY!! Here's a pic of it! May the odds be in your favor, ~Sandy
Hi everyone, Tomorrow I'll start on my ode to my computer, sense my computer has won. Thanks everyone who took my poll!! Wish me luck on writing an ode. =) Well that's all I really have to say so, may the odds be in your favor. ~Sandy
Stephen Leacock - "I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so."
Hi everyone, So my iMentor put up this website with all these poems and I was looking at it so I can get some ideas for my ode. I found this poem and I really enjoyed it so I thought I'd put it on my blog so here it is and may the odds be in your favor, ~Sandy
Let America Be America Again by Langston Hughes
Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be. Let it be the pioneer on the plain Seeking a home where he himself is free.
(America never was America to me.)
Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed-- Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above.
(It never was America to me.)
O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe.
(There's never been equality for me, Nor freedom in this "homeland of the free.")
Say, who are you that mumbles in the dark? And who are you that draws your veil across the stars?
I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart, I am the Negro bearing slavery's scars. I am the red man driven from the land, I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek-- And finding only the same old stupid plan Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak.
I am the young man, full of strength and hope, Tangled in that ancient endless chain Of profit, power, gain, of grab the land! Of grab the gold! Of grab the ways of satisfying need! Of work the men! Of take the pay! Of owning everything for one's own greed!
I am the farmer, bondsman to the soil. I am the worker sold to the machine. I am the Negro, servant to you all. I am the people, humble, hungry, mean-- Hungry yet today despite the dream. Beaten yet today--O, Pioneers! I am the man who never got ahead, The poorest worker bartered through the years.
Yet I'm the one who dreamt our basic dream In the Old World while still a serf of kings, Who dreamt a dream so strong, so brave, so true, That even yet its mighty daring sings In every brick and stone, in every furrow turned That's made America the land it has become. O, I'm the man who sailed those early seas In search of what I meant to be my home-- For I'm the one who left dark Ireland's shore, And Poland's plain, and England's grassy lea, And torn from Black Africa's strand I came To build a "homeland of the free."
The free?
Who said the free? Not me? Surely not me? The millions on relief today? The millions shot down when we strike? The millions who have nothing for our pay? For all the dreams we've dreamed And all the songs we've sung And all the hopes we've held And all the flags we've hung, The millions who have nothing for our pay-- Except the dream that's almost dead today.
O, let America be America again-- The land that never has been yet-- And yet must be--the land where every man is free. The land that's mine--the poor man's, Indian's, Negro's, ME-- Who made America, Whose sweat and blood, whose faith and pain, Whose hand at the foundry, whose plow in the rain, Must bring back our mighty dream again.
Sure, call me any ugly name you choose-- The steel of freedom does not stain. From those who live like leeches on the people's lives, We must take back our land again, America!
O, yes, I say it plain, America never was America to me, And yet I swear this oath-- America will be!
Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death, The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies, We, the people, must redeem The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers. The mountains and the endless plain-- All, all the stretch of these great green states-- And make America again!
-- Entonces Jesús le dijo: De cierto te digo que hoy estaras conmigo en el paraíso -|- Lucas 23:43 -|- ~Sandy~ http://cashsand.blogspot.com/ Stephen Leacock - "I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so."
Hi everyone, So today was the super bowl, and if you know me I was rootin for the Colts. Which sadly lost!! =( Oh well there is always next year....I'm going to go cry now so may the odds be in your favor, ~Sandy
Hi everyone,
So sense this month is black history month my Spanish teacher(from insight) had this extra credit that I did. I learned some new things by doing it about black history. So I"m going to share it. So enjoy learning something new! May the odds be in your favor,
~Sandy
el mes de la historia de los afro-americanos
To earn extra credit for this activity:
-Translate each clue from Spanish to English.
-Give the name of the person/organization that it describes.
-Tell the year that it happened.
You MUST have all 3 parts to get extra credit points for each clue.The number of clues you get correct is the number of extra credit points you will earn up to 20.
1.En Jamaica, esta persona fundó la Universal Negro Imporvement Associationpara establecer una nación negra en África.
In Jamaica, this person founded the Universal Black Imporvement Association to establish a black nation in Africa.
Marcus Garvey founed the Universal Black Imporvement Association in Jamaica on August 1, 1914.
2.El primer campeón negro de boxeo.
The first black boxing champion.
Jack Johnson became the world’s first black boxing champion in 1908.
3.En 1930 es el primer coronel negro del ejercicio EEUU.En 1940 es el primer general negro.
In 1930 he was the first black colonel in the U.S. exercise. In 1940 he was the first black general.
Benjamin O. Davis Sr. became the first black general in 1940.
4.Gana cuatro metales de oro en los juegos olímpicos en la competencia de atletismo.
Won four gold metals in the Olymipics competition in athletics.
At the 1936 Berlin Olympic cames, Jesse Owens won four gold metals.
5.La revista fundado para los americanos negros.Es como Life.
The magazine founed for black Americans. Life is like.
6.El primer jugador de béisbol profesional.Su equipo es Brooklyn Dodgers.
The first professional baseball player.His team is Brooklyn Dodgers.
On April 11, 1947, Jackie Robison played his first professional baseball game.
7.El juicio que declaró que la segregación racial es contra la enmienda catorce.
The trail which declared that racial segregation is again the Fourteenth Amendment.
Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896), is a landmark United States Supreme Court decision in the jurisprudence of the United States, upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation even in public accommodations (particularly railroads), under the doctrine of "separate but equal".
8.La primera jugadora de tenis que ganó dos títulos; los dobles de Wimbledon, dobles y solos de Francia, y solo de Italia.
The first tennis player who won two titles, the Wimbledon doubles, double and single in France and Italy only.
Althea Gibson became the first black person to play in and win Wimbledon.
9.El estableció el Southern Christian Leadership Conference para trabajar para equalidad para los afro americanos.
He established the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to work for Equal for African Americans.
Dr. Marin Luther King Jr. established SCLC on January 10, 1957.
10.Una compañía fundada en Detroit por Berry Gordy.Toca la música popular de los negros, se llama “Motown Sound”.
A company founed by Berry Gordy in Detroit. Touch the Negro folk music, called “Motown Sound”.
Motown began in Detroit in the 1960s, when Berry Gordy, Jr. founded Motown Record Corporation.
11.El primer jugador de básquetbol tener más de cuatro mil puntos en una estación.
The first baskeball palyer to have more than four thousand poins in a season.
Wilton Norman Chamberlain in his 1961–62 season he became the first player to score more than 4,000 points in a National Basketball Association (NBA) season, with 4,029, averaging 50.4 points per game.
12.El escribió el “Letter from Birmingham Jail”.
He wrote the “Letter from Birmingham Jail”.
Martin Luther King, Jr.wrote the “Letter from Birmingham Jail” on April 16, 1963.
13.Este grupo estuvo fundado en Oakland, California para proteger la gente contra la brutalidad de la policía.
This group was founded in Oakland, California to protect people against police brutality.
14. El primer entrenador negro de un equipo profesional. (Boston Celtics)
The first black coach of a professional team. (Boston Celtics)
Russell served a three-season (1966–69) stint as player-coach for the Celtics, becoming the first African American NBA coach.
15.El tenía setecientos quince jonrónes.Rompió el record de Babe Ruth.
He had seven hundred fiften runs. He broke the record of Babe Ruth.
Hank Aaron beat Babe Ruth’s record in 1973.
16.El ganó el título en Wimbledon, el primer hombre negro ganar.
He won the Wimbledon title, the first black man to win.
Arthur Ashe has become the first black man to win the Wimbledon singles' championship in 1975.
17.El se hizo el líder del Nation of Islam.
He became the leader of the Nation of Islam.
Since 1978, Louis Farrakhan has been the leader of a reconstituted Nation of Islam.
18.Este programa de Alex Haley es uno de los más populares en la televisión americana.
This program of Alex Haley is one of the most poplular on American telecision.
Roots is the program of Alex Haley in 1977.
19.El tenía el álbum se llama Thriller que todavía es uno de los más populares.
He had the album is called Thriller is still one of the most popular.
Michael Jackson album Thriller was released on November 30,1982.
20.El introdució un programa de televisión.Fue cómico y no tenía esteriotipas raciales.
The TV show introduced. It was funny and had no racial stereotypes.
The Cosby Show in 1984.
21.El fue el primer hombre negro estar presidente de los Joint Chief of Staff.
He was the first black man to be chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff.
Colin Luther Powell was the first, and so far the only, African American to serve on the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
22.El organizó el “Million Man March” de los hombres afro americanos en Washington DC.
He organized the “Million Man March” of African Americans menn in Washington DC.
Under the leadership of Nation of Islam head Louis Farrakhan organized the “Million Man March” on October 16, 1995.
