"I dream a world."

"I dream a world." This poem, what it means to me is that he has his own beliefs. He don't believe as others do. Langston Hughes says that it doesn't matter what you skin color or what your religion may be. You are human and that is how the world should be. He sees what this world has become and he is full on against it.

He wants to start the peace. The picture I have above shows what Hughes is writing about. If only it would happen now. He is man that is saying what every man should be saying. To me it does not matter what color lays upon your skin because we are all the same. We are all to blame for our mistakes. No one is perfect. This lifetime isn't perfect. And the world we live in sure as hell is not close to perfect. And most of us could possibly try to fix it just by ignoring what race we are or what church we attend. He's dreaming of a world that doesn't exist but is desperately trying to be made.

You wake up every morning and wonder what will come next. We are doing better than we have done anytime before us. Back then whites and blacks weren't even allowed to be in the same room together to knowing we don't have to be apart. Though it hasn't fully transformed from that last world yet. There are very few people who still look at my skin and suddenly think that everything is come handed to me. That my life is so perfect. Little do they know, that will never be true for everyone.

The Sun comes up every morning but it still makes me wonder, will the sun go down at the end of it all. He is begging and pleading for peace in this world. Only you wouldn't know that unless you read between the lines. We all want what he wants, we just don't have the guts to write about it and share it with the world. When will it all stop? When will people stop caring about what we look like?

I wonder sometimes how far this will go on. Will they push it to the point where their will be a hardcore war, blacks against whites? Then again aren't we already fighting that war? Haven't we been since the beginning of time? What side are you on? That's what Langston Hughes is trying to spell out for us.

Cultural Underpinnings of Literature

Religion has definitely taken over the world these days. That's all it's about. Who you pretty much are in life has to do with what religion you are apart of. If you think about it most of the wars we have had are about religion, about who you are, what you are for. I never really took all of this seriously because it never really mattered to me. However, now I realized how important it is. It really went from the color of your skin to what church or no church you are going to.

We really have been talked to about this a lot. I never fully understood why we were taught this because to me it never really made sense to me. What you believe really shapes who you are and what you do. It really shows how you are treated. For example, after the 9/11 attacks that happened, now the whole Islamic culture is hated. Though, it wasn't all their faults, people seem to blame them all. Why? Because they are Muslim and they are to blame. The religion they are and who they will become, will never be the same after what happened. That's the point of this. Apparently the religion we are, shows who we will soon become.

Religion has definitely shaped the political world around us for a very, very long time. For instance now. Barrack Obama is black. He is Muslim. To the world he is the black, Muslim, president of the United States. That's all people see. He is either liked or not. Same thing with Governor, Bill Richardson. When he was in the running for president, few people were opposed to it because he was Hispanic. We will never know if that is the real reason to why he eventually dropped out of the race. In November, every few years or even every year, if you turn to any news channel, all you will see is a bunch of white old guys standing on stage making their speeches. And this is exactly why people "feel right about the white," because they feel safe if suddenly their president has white colored skin. That is how it has been since the beginning of time. Not that they weren't good presidents it's just that it was time for a change. Obama is that change. People, not all people, but people wont ever except that.

Back then teachers and students were never allowed to discuss race or discuss religion because it was not appropriate classroom discussion. However, now it's like no big deal because that is all this world has become, or has been since the beginning of it. We need to be aware of what is happening around the world and that is why we talk about it. All of that is going on around us is important and it will shape are world even further. 100 years from now people will be disscussing, and reading in textbooks about us and everything we went through. Right now to us, it's the present. And in the future to everyone else it will be History.

Race In America

The topic that I will be talking about in this essay is about Race (the reality in human differences). So much is going on in the world right now. Not anything good but stuff definitley worth talking about because everyone, incuding myself, should know what is going on in the world. All you have to do now days is turn to any news channel and there it is, all the craziness happening around us. It's suprising on how bad things have gotten.

The first topic of my discussion is about the whole contreversy with the mosque wanting to be built in New York City. This is ridiculous. I don''t even understand how someone could even let them think about building it just blocks away from where the 9/11 attack was. I mean okay I get it, not all Muslims are bad. It wasn't there fault but come on it doesn't matter because there communioty is responible for the attack and they need to be respectful to the victims of this. This makes me really angry because of all places to build a mosque, they have to build it there. It's awful. However, they have the right to. No one can stop them from doing it. All i know is that I would keep fighting for what is right, because what they are doing, is not right at all.

The second most talked about story happening would be the burning of the Korans in Florida on saturday September 11. Which of course would be 9/11. People are just going crazy over this. You know we just got out of a war and now because of this one man, were going to go back in one. I will be honest, I am really nervous and scared to see the outcome of this event. This is just wrong. It shouldn't be happening. At all. He wants to make a point and prove something to the world but there are many other ways you can say what you want without this. Just about every news channel is showing and talking about this bacuse everyone should be aware of their surroundings. "A world you don't know about yet, is a world you need to live in" well thats how I would say it.