Responses and Answers to Race Questions

QUESTIONS: 1. What kind of impact might they have on the communities in which they took place? 
2. What impact might they have on whites?
3. On African Americans?

Newt Gingrich and the Art of Racial Politics:

1. I think that in this case, the Community means the entire US, and people of color. This had a very big impact on the community in which it took place because he was racially profiling the Black community, by saying that they don't have a good work ethic and need to want and beg for better jobs. This upset a lot of people and Gingrich explained himself saying that he was talking about ALL Americans not just Blacks.

2. This particular argument may not have any effect on white people if other people don't generalize a race just as Gingrich had done. If nobody assumes that this is anybodies way of thinking except for Newt Gingrich then nobody will have to worry.

3. The impact on African Americans and Blacks is very apparent because it is directly calling out an entire race. Gingrich said that "black Americans should demand jobs, not food stamps" and even though in his next statement that "poor kids are lacking a strong work ethic" doesn't mention a certain race he can't escape the fact that he did say "black Americans" and therefore generalizing that the whole race is on food stamps or not demanding a good enough job. This offended a lot of people although he did try and explain himself.

Kentucky Church Bans Interracial Couples:

1. The community in which this church is, is effected because if there are any other interracial couples, they now know that they can't get married at that specific church. Even if no other people in interracial couples have a desire to get married there, it can also stir up feelings of people not involved because they may feel a prejudice put on to them or their race- or they could just be really upset that their town and/or their place of worship still holds on to some racist thoughts.

2. The effect on white people in this situation is a more apparent one because it directly involves a white girl who can't marry a black man. This restricts the race from doing what they please, freely. 

3. Same with African Americans but they could bring up the fact of racism and old prejudices that prevented this exact thing in the past. 

  

It Can Never Forget What They Did Here

It can never forget what they did here.
"They" as in the soldiers, the doctors, the nurses, and the leaders that helped us make it through.
"It" as in all of the people throughout the United States of America.
"Here" as in now.
"Here" as in everywhere.
"Here" as in this desk, in this school, on this land.
It can never forget what they did here.

Jimmy Neutron? No, just Jim.

Belief, Action, and Feeling Words. (7-9)
1) Naive
2) Stable
3) Friendly
4) Nice
5) Superstitious
6) Bold
7) Careful
8) Dreamer
9) Hard Working

Physical Appearance. (3-5)
1) Big
2) Athletic
3) Black
4) Muscular

IMAGE TIME...

 I think this picture exhibits the words:

   Friendly

   Careful/Caring

   Nice

Jim cares a lot about Huck and I think this picture exhibits that very well.

This picture shows the supertitious side of Jim (especially if you read the caption) that we see a lot throughtout the reading of the book. Although I do think his appearence is a little off. He looks scared though, and worried.   

This is not how I have pictured Jim in the slightest. Here he looks lazy, and not going to lie, a little creepy. I don't think Jim is like this at all. This actually quite contradicts the words I wrote above. (with the exception of  some of the physical appearance)  

LAST QUESTION:

I think way that Twain explains Jim in the text can be interpreted in different ways. But, the way that I have chosen to view it is, as a character, not so much as a caricature.  Although he may come off a tiny bit naive at times, that doesn't mean that he doesn't know what he's doing or saying. He likes to see the silver lining in things. Jim cares a lot for Huck and it shows. He just wants to be accepted and be a friend. To us, he doesn't seem like just a runaway slave anymore, he seems like Huck's friend, his partner in crime. When Huck decided to give him up as a runaway slave, it was hard for him to go through with it because at that point, he had gotten to know Jim and was fond of him. Jim is a little bit naive, but mostly just a friendly, nice, caring, and all around great guy.  

Raplh Waldo Emerson

"I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me.  I would write on the lintels of the door-post, "Whim."  I hope it is somewhat better than whim at last, but we cannot spend the day in explanation"

Response to Question #1 of EL&IC

While reading this section of the book, you can't help but be both a little sympathetic and critical of Oskar.
Sympathetic because of everything he's been through at only 9 years old, and that he doesn't want his mom to move on so fast, he wants her to miss his dad as much as he does, Oskar wants to see his mom sad just like him. Like when Oskars mom came into his room at night to say goodnight, and he asks her how much she cries, and asks her to promise to never fall in love again. These are uncomfterble questions/promises to ask of a parent but, he's also been holding them in for quite awhile and he saw opportunity and he took it. It also doesn't help that since he's found the key in his dads closet he hasn't had any kind of lead to anything. Yes, he's meeting all sorts of interesting people but to hear "no" from everybody he's asked about the key can't be an easy thing. He counts his lies and he counts his disappointments, and counting them, can't make them any easier to get over. To no exactly how many times you've lied not only to your mother but also to complete strangers, or to know how many times you've been disappointed by people you don't even know, can be quite troubling.
But, it's also easy to be critical of Oskar. He may not be able to see it, but his mother is trying to help him. She wants Oskar to b happy, to move on with his life, yet still keep his father in his memory. Like when she asked him if he wanted to go through the New York Times and look for mistakes, of course Oskar said no because that was something he did with his dad and it wouldn't be the same with his mother. Although Oskar doesn't want to move on because he thinks moving on is forgetting when in reality moving on is remembering but not letting those memories become the only thing you see. Also, when he says "if I could have chosen, I would have chosen you" to his mom it's hard to think of a reason why somebody would say those words aloud to their parent, even though he reverted it right after he said it, you still can't help but think 'why would you say that to someone, even if you mean it, to their face?' atleast I did. I'm sure eventually he'll see what his mother is doing for him, and since he's only 9, his actions are easily forgivable.