On taking a stand

To take a stand means to fight for what one believes in. Some organizations that take a stand for what they believe in are political parties. This group fights politically for the bills and laws that their party wants through things like speeches everyday. The democratic party re recently fought for a healthcare bill last year and are still trying to get universal healthcare.
Tom Robinson took a stand for his life when he tried the escape the cultches of the police when he attempted to scale the fence but
was shot before he could get out. The only other alternative Tom has is to stay in custody of the police and wait through meaningless trials. I say meaningless because the was no chance if him being found innocent. Tom would have been killed either way.

Intro talk for TKMB

4)All citizens are treated equally under our justice system. No matter who they are, black, white, Asian, Hispanic, male or female, there are a standard set of laws that apply to everyone. Even senators can be, and are subject to the same laws a black man is in the court. There have been senators arrested for DUIs like anyone else would. Celebrities have also been arrested for DUIs and drug use.

1) Girls don't need to act like girls, they have the right to do whatever they want. My sister is not your typical girl. She is a very active girl who would have gone skydiving had it not been for bad weather. In many movies, girls are portrayed as people who don't like anything dirty or active like sports that most boys are expected to like. Girls can act how they want.

Moth Radio Response

1- I liked the story because of the speaker. He made the story come alive with personality by the way he portrayed the characters. The kid was given the annoyed voice and was attacking the officers with accusations of being racist. I thought that they were being racist because the kid was simply sitting on the Black man's bicycle and even confirmed the man's story when they asked the two of them.

2- The officers speak to the two of them very differently. One spoke to Noah in a very kind and trusting tone and the other spoke very harshly towards Cleveland telling him to be quiet and not to look at Noah.

3-Both Noah and Cleveland speak politely towards and they also say the same thing about why they were there

5- The officers believe Cleveland when they call the White mother and ask why they were there.

6- The officers assume that Cleveland is doing bad even though there is no evidence that he is and much evidence that he was not much like TKMB.

Incidents #4

While reading incidents of a slave girl I noticed that as soon as Jacobs started her journey to the north, her tone became much more joyful. After all those years living on the plantation, hiding in the roof and now she was going to freedom, off the plantation " never to see it again" (Jacobs 160). I also was much more interested in the book because instead of her getting continuasly abused on the plantation by Dr. Flint, she is actually going somewhere. She had hope which also gave me hope that the book would have a good ending giving me an incentive to read it.
Another thing I noticed was that there were many people in the north that were kind and helpful unlike almost everyone else in the south. For example, the captain of the ship that helped her get to the north undetected, did everything he could to help her on her way. He not only provided adaquet arrangements for them but also found a man he could trust and said " I will speak to him about the New York trains and tell him you wish to go directly on" (164). There was also the priest that since Jacobs missed her train that she could stay with him and his wife for the night until the next one arrived. I noticed that there is a very clear difference of tone in the north vs. the south. I think that with some luck and precaution, Jacobs could live happily ever after in the north.

Incidents #3

        When Jacobs goes to work on the plantation, it is easier to see how much she loves her children. When she visited them in the middle of the night, she describes the scene in such an emotional tone unlike the rest of the book. Generally, Jacobs wouldn't describe how comforting the house was but in this case she did. Jacobs took it a step further to describe "the tears[that] fell as I leaned over them" ( Jacobs 89). In all, the scene allows me to truly understand the love she has for her children. Later she writes that her children "give her the courage to beat back the dark waves that rolled over me in a seemingly endless night of storms" (Jacobs 92). Jacobs also goes to her mother and father's graves. She dedicates most of a page to tell of how much she missed them and how they as well gave her strength even from beyond the grave. This section really spoke to me unlike any other part of the hardships endured during slavery that weren't just whippings and beatings but the separation of families and death of family members. In the south, slavery was, I think ,just as mentally painful as well as physically painful.

Incidents #2

    When we first got the book Incidents in the life of a Slave Girl, Ms. Edwards said there wouldn't be much emotion in the book because it was meant to inform rather than tell a story. Well, after reading chapter 9, I can disagree with this. All of chapter 9 is the stories of different slaves and how they were punished or even killed. The beginning of the chapter describes how a man was suspended off the ground. Then "A fire was kindled over him from which was suspended a piece of fat pork. As this cooked, the scalding drops of fat continually fell on the bare flesh"(46). Another example is a man who insulted his master and was then tied to tree in the middle of winter with only a shirt for three hours which killed him. Also, if a slave resisted punishment like whipping  the master would let his dogs eat them.
    She also says that slavery is a curse to whites as well as blacks. It makes the sons violent, the wives wretched, contaminates the daughters and makes the fathers cruel. Jacobs wrote "I do not say there are no humane slaveholders...but they are...few and far between"(50). After that is about a white girl who married a freeman and was emancipated by her mother right before the wedding.Her emancipating her daughter made one more example supporting how slavery has poisoned her.

Incidents #1

    Incidents in the life of a Slave Girl isn't the most interesting book in the world. In the beginning of the book she describes how nice her mistress was and how she would "gather berries or flowers to decorate her room"(5).  She then goes on to how she was transferred to be the property of Dr. Flint. She shows how mean he was through his actions. He would yell at slaves for things that were not their fault, like when the mistress and master called William at the same time and he decided to go to his mistress, Dr. Flint yelled at him for not going to him. Jacobs also wrote "when we entered our new home we encountered cold looks, cold words, and cold treatment"(7). Later she writes about what happens between her and Dr. Flint, "the guilty practices under that  roof"(27). What is interesting about this is the lack of emotion. I would expect her to rant on and on about what happened since she had no one else to talk to it about. Instead she justs says "the guilty practices under that roof"(27).  That kind of language makes this book seem like an informative series of events rather than a heart breaking story, which is what she was aiming for. It makes it believable, which is why it is an good book so far.