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.

"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.

Hush, hush

The book I have currently finished reading is The New York Times Bestseller, hush,hush by Becca Fitzpatrick. This book is amazing, definitely a lot of fun to read. It kept me in the zone. My opinion, this book is a page turning, jaw dropping thriller.It kept me breathless at the end of every chapter. I couldn't put the book down, even now to write this report it was hard to stop reading. Ha ha. The story it tells, has all my favorite elements in one. A general heart filled love story, it's suspenseful, mysterious, full of drama, has a little bit of evil and can be scary.

When I read the back of this book it felt like I was reading a script to a movie I was about to star in because it felt so real to me. Nora Grey, an average sophomore in high school who didn't have falling in love with a handsome stranger in her lifelong plan. No matter how much her best friend vee pushes her to be. Her best friend reminds me of mine, Kristie. Which is why I feel I can relate to this story so much. But back to the story, I'm getting to the good part. All of a sudden came Patch, who totally is hot and not even modest about anything. Odd part is he's been there all along, Nora just never noticed. Weird right? How can you not see that.. However, with his easy eyes that seem to see inside her, he draws her to him against her better judgment.



After a series of terrifying encounters, Nora thinks, well actually knows that it has to do with Patch entering her life and now she doesn't know who to trust. At the beginning of the book I thought to myself oh If I ever met a Patch I wouldn't give it a second thought, but after reading more into Patch's character I realized to be with him, would be more dangerous than you'd think. Patch seems to know more about her than even she does. She doesn't know if she should listen to her heart and run in his arms or trust her gut feeling and run and hide. You know the more you are around a person, the more you get to know who they really are. I would be curious about it all. The more she tries to find some answers, the more impossible events happen.



Nora is right in the middle of an ancient battle between the immortal and those who have fallen, when it comes to choosing sides, the wrong choice will cost Nora her life. Dun dun..! This book most definitely made me think about life. I even had dreams and nightmares about it because that's how real it felt for me. I would really recommend this book to anyone who like this type of genre. You will really enjoy this book. I say that anything that can give me goosebumps, is worth looking into.

Haiku

Today will be the day everything will get better for everyone.

Everyday the sun comes up to show you there is no more darkness.

Each passing night, the moon comes out and you know tomorrow will be brand new.

Show And Tell

The object I would bring for show and tell would be, these rings that are my grandmothers. Well technically they are also mine. My grandma has these two rings that she has worn since I could remember. They are so beautiful they have an old feeling about them, and they come with a past. She has these amazing stories that she always tells about where they came from, how she got them, who gave them to her, etc. If you saw them then you would know what I mean. They are a certain type of turquoise jewelry, big rings, definitely noticeable.

She has this will that she wrote ahead of time for when her time comes, and she told me that when she passes away that they are mine. They will be given down to me because she sees how I am always admiring them. So they will belong to me. Everybody knows that your grandparents always have the best stories to tell because they've been around longer than most and they have really experienced it all. My grandma isn't much for jewelry, so seeing how she never takes those rings off, that shows you that they must be that much important. You always have that one item that means the world to you that you cant help but keep close to your heart, and one day that will be mine.

The main reason that they're so important to me is because my grandmother was recently diagnosed with lung cancer and we are not sure how much longer we have with her, so having the thing closest to her heart right now makes it less harder to lose her. Unfortunately not enough. You always need something to remember a dear person by, and those rings she wears on her bare hands will do it for me. She is the person that pretty much started our family. She is the one that holds our family together. Those rings may be old and worth a lot one day, but my grandma is worth more than anything I can do with the rings.

Show and tell is a time to bring and talk about something that is worth bragging about and something to be proud of sharing with the world, something that belongs to my grandmother is definitely worth anything I can share about it. She is the dearest person to my heart and I hope those rings that are close to her heart, will fill the deep hole inside when she does go to a better place. When her rings are on me, her memory will be deep within me.