Tuesday, February 27, 2007

my fictional character

My character, Octavio Edmonson O'duny, goes by the name BRAH. If you ask him what his name is, he will simply say " you can call me BRAH, man," in his Carribean accent. He was born in the island of Barbados and took a ship to the country illegally. He lives the life of a hobo even though he has a lot of money in the bank, which he uses mainly for eating and drinking. He likes to travel through cities doing the craziest things, climbing walls and running through alleys, while his dreadlocks shake all around. His father was born in Senegal and his mother was born in the Philippines. They met about 42 years ago in Barbados, and, without reason, left BRAH on his own when he was 4 years old. Over the last thirty six years he has grown into an independent man who can make the most out of what is given to him. He chooses to live a life of solitude, and no one can really understand him, thinking that he is crazy. He also likes to, every now and then, sit down on benches and sidewalks and tell the most random stories to anyone who wants to listen.

Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Cultural Revolution

-Bourgeois is a characteristic of the middle class that usually refers to highlighting the materialistic values or conventional attitudes of a given society.

-Mao Zedong was a Chinese Marxist statesman. He was the chairman of the Communist party of the Chinese People's Republic for a decade (1949-1959). He was co founder of the Chinese communist party in 1921. He eventually defeated the occupying Japanese and rival Kuomintang nationalist forces to create the People's Republic of China in 1949.

-Gang of four was a group of four associates including Mao Zedong's wife. They were involved in the implementing of the cultural revolution. They competed for power upon Mao's death in 1976, but were arrested and imprisoned.

-A counter-revolutionary is any person who opposes a revolution, particularly those who act after the beginning of a revolution, in order to partially or fully reverse or overturn it.

Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Repolished entry

I think feminism, almost as important as racism, is a really important topic in our world; however, today we can see sexicism both ways, now that women have essentially every single right that men do. There is women's suffrage, women have the right to drink alcohol, women have the right to work, the right to, in the United States, roam freely down the streets, to a free education, they have many rights. When I was in elementary school, every single teacher I had from kindergarten to 5th grade was a female. They all seemed to favor girls over boys, which was something I did not understand at the sime. Perhaps, looking back, they were trying to make boys tougher. I have no idea, I really do not know.