LIB100 Response

1. I honeslty wouldn't know why authors would claim that people would rather use the word "drama" than "bullying". But I can see from a point of view that drama is more empowering. Drama is more empowering than the use of the "bullying" because "bullying" is negatively toning the way it is describing the action of a person. Drama in a different result is excessively used as an everyday term that shows how immature a group of people are in a direct moment or from past events. It is unfortunate to know that cyber bullying has become a direct effect to the suicidals that happen from it.

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Language as a Weapon

       The law can go into great lenghts of either assuring a person their rights or denying them. Language is a tool that can be used to best describe what is natural or what is accustomed in different point of views. Cultures for instance are to be abided by but is opinionated that most of those accustoms are wrong as they violate the natural rights of humans. Robert Amsterdam gives great examples of those rights being mistreated with a few articles including several activists and their arrests.

When upon reading more of one of the activists, i found this one to be the most interesting becuase of the amount of datainment and cencorship china has acted upon and is accounted for of multiple violations of human rights: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Xiaobo

His movement had inspired many, but China's government has shown complete dictatorship over its country with surveilance and confinement.

Human Rights Article

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/sean_bell/index.html

The example i have posted up is of the case of Shawn Bell shooting. The trial had consisted of violating his rights, considering the right of "you are innocent until proven guilty" had not been taken into effect and had been shot immediately by the police force. Instead of arrest for suspicious acts, he had been numerously shot on the related suspicion of drug dealing but instead was celebrating with his freinds the day before his wedding.

Selecting Passages for Evidence and Analysis

          What I found interesting in one of the passages of When I was a Slave, as told by Mary Anderson, was the amount of emotional dialogue that had been used to describe a different side of how the slaves on that plantation in particular were being treated. Her point of view on the secure over-watch by the owners had not been negatively toned out but instead very kindly cautioned as the owners had their own way of dealing with things without condoning violence or any harsh punishment to be arbitrarily given out as others would. Mary Anderson's point of view had been under the perspective to be raised with manner and kindlyness as their owners , the Marster & Missus, had a completely different system of making things work on the plantation.Mary Anderson ,at the age of 86, had been interviewed and made it clear that Reading and Writing were not allowed ,but instead the care of health and social manners had been a primary to the slaves at the time. Ms. Anderson , as directly said had greatly mentioned "They knew no better, of course, and seemed to love Marster and Missus as much as they did their own mother and father" on page 2. Interpreting Ms. Anderson's words, as pointed out, had given me a very strange reaction as this was not something I would normally hear or read about. It significantly enough had given me the idea that other plantation owner's have different systems similar to this one but unfortunatley not for the most part, as the majority would not succumb to that kind of comfort care. It is deeply moving to hear it coming from a former slave that they did not go through harsh treatment and the owners actually cared for their health and well being. For slaves to feel that amount of comfort on a plantation as to familiarize yourself and compare an owner to a mother or father is just truly astonishing

Bannaker and Equiano Assignment #1

       In Benjamin Banneker's letter to former US president Thomas Jefferson, he argues that humans are equal because a "Father" has "afforded us all the same sensations and endowed us all with the same faculties. Yet we see in Equanio's text various encounters with African and European slave-traders that suggest human beings are not, somehow, equal after all. This can be greatly expressed and defined through Equiano's literary point of view in his writings of "The Interesting Life" and the many said statements Banneker had claimed in his letter to Jefferson.
Benjamin's main claims in his letter were to , in point , show that the cause American's had been fighting for were for their independence and freedom from  British rule, only to get to his point that all men were created equal. The contradiction , Banneker had so greatly accused of Thomas Jefferson was not in any way under disrespect but to show the disregard of the phrase "all men were created equal". The "Father" as he titles had from the beginning used his own flesh and blood to create the very essence of life. No cultural difference of color is to be marked as different if we all carry the same senses and feelings. Equiano's experience on the slave ship was a brutal misfortune to be under. The feeling of loss, fear and utmost curiosity as to where life would take him next is greatly felt as he clearly explains the horrors through the context of his slave ship. Food was scarce and the cruelty through punishment for attempts of suicide, trying to survive or disobeying the slave-owners is of the most harsh descriptions he greatly portrays during his travel. It is through wording and true experience from these 2 astonishing writers, that the ability to have multiple views on important aspects of slavery that it could make it possible to end it.

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The classes I have are, at a pace, teaching me to see things from different perspectives and help me think and deeply look into the one thing we use everyday (our language). It has opened up my eyes as to where its origin, and code came from since the days of first human communication. I found the Yo-He-Ho theory to be interesting because I would never come across the idea that our origin of communication may have come from the sounds we made with our, never knew these words until class today lol, larynx and pharynx. I'm glad I'm slowly learning how to blog, as annoying as it is, i guess its easier if the class is to connect.