Thank you everybody that voted for me for JBOW this week! I really appreciate it! Although it's really hard to write every day with a little sister that I have to face, every Monday I have Opera Rehearsal, Thursday is piano lessons and Friday is Voice Lessons but I can just write on Tuesday. So I will try my best to write every day from now on.
Friday 27 February 2015
Stand and Fall
Yesterday in choice hour (I had Strings Open Practice), I was practicing the song I was going to play for the playing test in Orchestra when all of a sudden, Mrs. Gillespie's stand fell down! Everybody was saying, "Nadim" in a very accusing way. When Nadim was starting to return the stand to its staning position, I remembered what Mrs. Roberts always says at the beginning of Math Class when we're taking down the chairs, "See a need, fill a need." So I helped him and told him that I would be writing a blog post about this. And this is that very blog post.
Thursday 5 February 2015
Kroger Arts Contest Essay
Over the course of the USA's history, there have been many black people influencing our lives. I'm only explaining what six of them did, but I can tell you that there are many more than six. These are probably the most famous people that there are. These people are: Booker T. Washington, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Jackie Robinson, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther King Jr. This essay explains how they influenced my life today.
Booker T. Washington was a educational leader for the blacks. He knew how important education is for people and he decided to open a school for the black called Tuskegee Institute in Tuskegee, AL (it is now called Tuskegee University). Booker started his school in an old abandoned church in 1881. Tuskegee Institute grew into Tuskegee University, a college. He valued education so much, he founded (and was the principal for a short time) of a school. He thought it was important for ALL people to have a good education. Not just African-American people, but Whites and Muslims and Jews and Christians and Hispanic people and Asian people. I believe that this is how Booker T. Washington is important to our world today. I want to create a school like him and value my education like him.
Frederick Douglass was a respected author and speaker for the blacks. When he was eight in 1826, he educated himself (with the help of his master's wife)! At the meeting of the Massachusetts Antislavery Society, he told the people what freedom meant to him. This kicked off his career as a speaker because the people at the MAS hired him to give a lecture about being a slave. In 1845, he wrote his autobiography which kicked off his career as an author. Also, he founded an antislavery newspaper called The North Star. His house was a stop on the Underground Railroad, a series of houses that helped African-American slaves reach the northern side of the USA and/or Canada. Writing is definitely a strong suit of mine and I really want to become an author like Frederick Douglass.
Harriet Tubman was the most famous "conductor" of the Underground Railroad which as I said before is a series of houses that helped slaves "Follow the Drinking Gourd", aka the Big Dipper (which has the north star that always point North) to northern USA/Canada. "A lot of people called her Moses because she reminded them of Moses who freed the Jewish slaves in Egypt because she led thousands of people out of slavery in the south. When Tubman was young, she saved another slave from getting whacked by a metal weight. She saved the other slave and fractured her skull by this metal weight. I know Harriet Tubman changed and shaped our world today. She was determined to get slavery abolished (gone forever). Her determination urges me to be able to accomplish things in life.
Jackie Robinson was the very 1st African-American baseball player and the very first African-American to do a lot of things. For example, he was the first African-American vice president of a coffee company. But baseball is the thing he's most known for. Every team in the MLB cannot use the number 42 (Jackie Robinson's number) for any of their players as tribute to him. He thought that there shouldn't be a seperate league of baseball (the negro league) for African-American people. He is basically the African-American Babe Ruth. This is how I believe Jackie Robinson changed our lives today. He helped African-Americans play in Major League Baseball. Determination can accomplish anything. He was determined to break the color barrier. His determination to play baseball urges me to try new sports even though I might not be good at them.
Rosa Parks was an amazing civil rights activist. Everybody knows that she was on a bus when a police officer told her, "Get up. Somebody wants to sit here." Of course she said "no." She was arrested for sitting on a bus JUST because she was African-American. But she kept going and in the end, the Supreme Court declared that segregated buses were unconstitutional. Rosa Parks won the battle of segregated buses!! She was busy even when she was in jail. She was writing her autobiography. This shows that the power of writing can help accomplish anything. She was really brave in fighting for what's right. She got arrested three times! Her determination for fighting for what's right is one thing I can't do...yet.
I'm sure that there were many civil rights speakers out there like Ghandi and the Friendship Nine. But the most famous civil rights non-violent protester was Martin Luther King Junior. Two presidents had wanted to stop segregation (JFK and LBJ) but everyone else said "no". The congress could override a president's veto! He was arrested many times and still he kept going!! This shows how the power of determination can get you anywhere. Martin Luther King was brave and never gave up. He took risks and I know that someday there will be someone else like him that can end segregation around the world without violence.
As I look through these people's lives, I can see that education and determination can and will accomplish a lot. If you're determined to establish world peace, travel as much as you can and spread peace between Israel and Palastine (1/2 of Israel). If you want everyone to have an opportunity for a job to make money for their families, you value your education. These are important values that inspire me.
Sources include: World Book Student Website.
Booker T. Washington was a educational leader for the blacks. He knew how important education is for people and he decided to open a school for the black called Tuskegee Institute in Tuskegee, AL (it is now called Tuskegee University). Booker started his school in an old abandoned church in 1881. Tuskegee Institute grew into Tuskegee University, a college. He valued education so much, he founded (and was the principal for a short time) of a school. He thought it was important for ALL people to have a good education. Not just African-American people, but Whites and Muslims and Jews and Christians and Hispanic people and Asian people. I believe that this is how Booker T. Washington is important to our world today. I want to create a school like him and value my education like him.
Frederick Douglass was a respected author and speaker for the blacks. When he was eight in 1826, he educated himself (with the help of his master's wife)! At the meeting of the Massachusetts Antislavery Society, he told the people what freedom meant to him. This kicked off his career as a speaker because the people at the MAS hired him to give a lecture about being a slave. In 1845, he wrote his autobiography which kicked off his career as an author. Also, he founded an antislavery newspaper called The North Star. His house was a stop on the Underground Railroad, a series of houses that helped African-American slaves reach the northern side of the USA and/or Canada. Writing is definitely a strong suit of mine and I really want to become an author like Frederick Douglass.
Harriet Tubman was the most famous "conductor" of the Underground Railroad which as I said before is a series of houses that helped slaves "Follow the Drinking Gourd", aka the Big Dipper (which has the north star that always point North) to northern USA/Canada. "A lot of people called her Moses because she reminded them of Moses who freed the Jewish slaves in Egypt because she led thousands of people out of slavery in the south. When Tubman was young, she saved another slave from getting whacked by a metal weight. She saved the other slave and fractured her skull by this metal weight. I know Harriet Tubman changed and shaped our world today. She was determined to get slavery abolished (gone forever). Her determination urges me to be able to accomplish things in life.
Jackie Robinson was the very 1st African-American baseball player and the very first African-American to do a lot of things. For example, he was the first African-American vice president of a coffee company. But baseball is the thing he's most known for. Every team in the MLB cannot use the number 42 (Jackie Robinson's number) for any of their players as tribute to him. He thought that there shouldn't be a seperate league of baseball (the negro league) for African-American people. He is basically the African-American Babe Ruth. This is how I believe Jackie Robinson changed our lives today. He helped African-Americans play in Major League Baseball. Determination can accomplish anything. He was determined to break the color barrier. His determination to play baseball urges me to try new sports even though I might not be good at them.
Rosa Parks was an amazing civil rights activist. Everybody knows that she was on a bus when a police officer told her, "Get up. Somebody wants to sit here." Of course she said "no." She was arrested for sitting on a bus JUST because she was African-American. But she kept going and in the end, the Supreme Court declared that segregated buses were unconstitutional. Rosa Parks won the battle of segregated buses!! She was busy even when she was in jail. She was writing her autobiography. This shows that the power of writing can help accomplish anything. She was really brave in fighting for what's right. She got arrested three times! Her determination for fighting for what's right is one thing I can't do...yet.
I'm sure that there were many civil rights speakers out there like Ghandi and the Friendship Nine. But the most famous civil rights non-violent protester was Martin Luther King Junior. Two presidents had wanted to stop segregation (JFK and LBJ) but everyone else said "no". The congress could override a president's veto! He was arrested many times and still he kept going!! This shows how the power of determination can get you anywhere. Martin Luther King was brave and never gave up. He took risks and I know that someday there will be someone else like him that can end segregation around the world without violence.
As I look through these people's lives, I can see that education and determination can and will accomplish a lot. If you're determined to establish world peace, travel as much as you can and spread peace between Israel and Palastine (1/2 of Israel). If you want everyone to have an opportunity for a job to make money for their families, you value your education. These are important values that inspire me.
Sources include: World Book Student Website.
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