Assigment #11.. The Concrete Rose

What I think about this poem that Tupac wrote is, nothing. I mean to be honest I really don't think he had a point in this at all. He is or should I say was a great rapper so that was obviously just a very good line in a song. There of course probably is a meaning in it but then again I guess we will never know.

I think he was talking about his own dreams. You have to fight for something that is real and worth it, and that is exactly what he did. You can't give up on what you want to happen because you are the only person who can make it happen. I have a feeling that no one believed in him and his dreams except for him and looked what happened. He made it. There is this theory that if you don't have feet then you can't walk but the concrete rose he is speaking of did. You have to find your own path on only listen to your heart. You can't expect no one else to do the work for you or to get you where you want to be. You have to do it yourself. Depend on nothing and no one except you.

Have you ever heard people tell you "When you fall ,you need to back up"? Well that is exactly what he trying to say because you are always going to fall, when trying to reach where you want to be, and there is no guarantee that someone will be there to catch you. You can't stay down and give up. You have to try and try until it hurts and get back up. Even if you get a few bumps and bruises, even a couple scratches on the way. It's all part of the game! Tupac was one of the best artist the world had ever seen and his life ended so quickly but in the time he was here, he made it. He didn't give up or stop fighting for what he believed in. I didn't know him personally of course but i knew of him very well. He made a difference. His name is still mentioned to this day, that's a true long living hero.

" Funny it seems, but by keeping it;s dreams, it learned to breathe fresh air." One of the lines in that poem. He is pretty serious about this whole dream thing. You can't sop dreaming. Even if your dreams aren't good enough for anyone else. If they are good enough for you then they are perfect. Dreaming is ok. Now, what you do with those dreams is where you will go in life. I am not saying it will be easy because nothing comes easy but it's amazing how far hard work will take you. I may not be an expert about all this but I dream. Sometimes small. Sometimes big. We all do. Life is too short to not care. And he knows that no one believed in what he could do. He states that in this poem, but he did it anyway. '' Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else ever cared." It only matters if you care. The rest will just come along.

As I stated in my first paragraph, no matter how much we read this poem we will never truly understand what he meant by those words. What we are doing is speaking our words, sharing our voices. In the end no one Else's opinion matters. Just like ours wont make difference in this story but it's okay because we spoke and now it's only a matter of who will here us.

Assignment #13.. Halloween Haiku

Halloween Night is a night where every body's fears come alive.

Now make sure not to scream because it's All Hallows Eve and all is near.

So please don't cry, don't have a fit, the evil isn't real unless you think about it!!!!

Assignment #10.. Bullying

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Assigment #8 "The Necklace"

To me the moral of this story is that honesty is the best policy. You have to be honest with yourself and with the people around you becuase if you base your life off lies then you will never get anywhere. If she would of just told the truth in the first place then she would of never had to live the rest of her life so miserably. Lying just does not gwet you anywhere and she realized that when the truth slapped her in the face ten long years later.

She spent her life trying to work off a misatke she made a long time ago but only if she would have been honest, she could been so happy and never had forgotten abnout that most amazing night she had before she lost that prized jewel. sometimes you think that a little fib wont hurt anyone or do any serious damage. However, she told a little fib and tried to fix it with another little fib and thought she could go along with it and her friend would never know but she is the one that got back fired by her own lie.

It seemed as though she lived a very long and miserable life. The reason for that is because she lived the rest of her life as a lie and that just ruined it. There is just that guilt that builds up with time and that is exactly what happened with her. Living a life like that just is not worth it because if you think about it, one lie is not worth a lifetime of misery. I do get it though because I don't think I would be able to look at someone in the face and tell them I destroyed their private property but I don't think I would drag it on to that extent. 10 years is not right.


Honesty is the best policy and I don't know how much I have heard that but reading this story it is true. All could have been well if she would have been honest and said the truth out loud. Then she would have known that she spent the last decade of her life working off a mistake she never really made. Things can always be better when the truth comes out and slaps you in the face. It's a reality check for some people as it was for her.

Assigment #7 Self-Value

I think that this quote is very much true. The reason for this is because how can you expect for other people to love you if you can not even love yourself. Jealousy is all in your head. You just make yourself believe that other people will be loved more than you because you have not fully excepted the love within yourself. Many people say jealousy is a disease. I have never really believed that myself because to me, jealousy is loves mean older cousin.You can make it go away if you wanted it to.

You always wonder why you can never seem to make a relationship work. The jealousy is why. The person you may have thought didn't love you enough or love you at all probably did. You just probably thought it was a mistake and that it wasn't somehow right for that person to love you because you have never really loved yourself in a way that other people should. That is what this person is saying in this quote.

Another point the author of this has made is that "Jealousy is simply and clearly the fear that you do not have value." I seem to agree with this because if you are scared of jealousy then it is all a fear. The fear that you don't have value as stated above. Have you ever heard the saying "Treat others the way you want to be treated"? Well now think of that saying the other way around. "Treat yourself the way you want others to treat you". That makes sense right? You cannot expect others to feel something for you that you can't seem to feel for yourself.

Jealousy is a killer I'll tell you that. Everyone has a bit of jealousy inside of them. Whether we like to admit it or not. But you should never let that take you over. I think sometimes you need to just focus on finding yourself and learning to trust your own being. Envy is one of the 7 deadly sins and jealousy falls right under that category which makes it even less right. Thinking that others are better than you and they will always have something you want isn't right because it isn't always true. If that is all you think then you will never fully except yourself for who you are.

Jealous people will never get anywhere in life, they will find themselves just having the same problem over and over again. You need to learn to love yourself before you can expect someone else to love you. You have to stop looking for things to be jealous of in other people and except yourself within. Jennifer James made a good point in this quotation and I'm sure anyone who reads and reflects on it will realize who they are and do something about it.