Thankful for a Classmate

Happy Thanksgiving Day! It's that time of the year again when people are giving thanks to one another. Hope you all had a great day. My day was good with the only exception of my little brother yelling the whole day.

Okay. Now on to the blog of the week, which was to write a blog of praise and thanks to one classmate in our class. I know it is hard to be only allowed to pick one person in the class. There are many people that we would like to give thanks to even though they're not in Mr. McCarthy's 7th period American Lit class. There might even be old elementary schoolmates that you would want to give thanks to in this blog that doesn't attend Whitney Young.

Well the person I would like to mention and give thanks to in this blog is Yi Dong Mei. He sits next to me everyday during American Lit and he's always helping me with homework in American Lit and Algebra with Trig BC. I don't know how I'll be able to pass those classes without his help. He always explain or tries to explain things to me when I ask him something I don't know. He's a really helpful person, he's the most helpful person I've met at Whitney Young ever since our Freshman year. Even then he was also helping me, mostly in Biology.

Thanks Yi!!!

   

                                        

I'm a Plow.

I'm a plow..hmmm..what kind am I and what do I do these are the questions.

I'm a plow because I help to make my parent's work faster and easier. Unlike my little my little brother who runs around all day making weird noises and yelling every time my parents ask him to do work. Yea, that's what my little brother do, don't ask me why. I help them often at their restaurant during the weekends and Mondays. But I don't always want to be there especially when I got a lot of homework. I think I'll be a red plow because the color red is part of the Chinese traditional culture. The color red is consider to be a symbol of integrity. Ancient Chinese believe that the color red can keep away ghosts and drive away misfortunes. Red lanterns, red  candles, and other red decorations are common in formal occasions. People also write on red paper and then paste it on their doors to express their best wishes on every New Years Eve. Another reason I'll be red is because both my parents favorite color is red. They only people to push me around are my parents and anyone else that I allow. 


What kind of plow would you be? Leave a comment below.

                                                         

A Direction the Class Needs

One of the things I think the class needs to do is a little more vocabulary book, since we're behind on  the vocab book according to the sheet you gave us during the first day of school. Also you said that you were going to use them more because you're require to use them. I think we can learn a lot of new words to use in our writings. I think you need to be more specific on what the blogs are about and to tell us more ahead of time when they're due.. Like for example this one you just told us there's a blog due when the bell rang and some people are probably already out the door and didn't here that there's a blog due. Then they'll come back on the day it's due saying that you never said anything about a blog. I think you should also be more specific on what the blogs each week is about, because for this one you just said there's a blog due about a direction the class needs and know I'm just typing just stuff. But I guess you aren't specific because you want us to be creative in our writing.
                                                  

Modern Slavery

Even through the slave trade was banned from Africa in the 1880's, force labor is still being practiced in West and Central Africa today. There's still according to Anti-Slavery International (the world's oldest human rights organization) that there are over 20 million people in bondage. Modern day slaves differ from bonded laborers (people who owe debts to their masters. Example, back then there were indentured servants, who have to work for someone in the New World because that person payed for their trip to the New World. They usually serve for about six years then they're allow to leave.) because  modern day slaves are held in physical bondage (shackled, held at gunpoint, etc.)
The Arabs actually consider it a traditional right to enslave Southern Sudan, and to own chattel slaves (slaves own as personal property). They sell the slaves for as little as $15 per person. In my opinion, this is a shocking and cruel custom that should have been gone long ago.
In India, children are held as "carpet slaves". They were captured from their village and forced to weave on looms for food. The food only consists of a few bread balls,onions, and salt. They are forced to work ten to fourteen hours a day.
There are people in Pakistan who are shackled to leg irons and then force to harvest canes.
In the Dominican Republic, they need lots of people to harvest canes. Some people voluntarily work in the fields, but if there's not enough people, they send out their army to capture people and force them to work at gunpoint and they'll be beaten if they try to escape.
I'm not that surprise that there are still modern slaves because it's human's nature to be greedy and some people would do anything to be more wealthy. What I'm surprise about is that there are still so many people in different places being held as slaves.