Free Write 3-25

Another blog.. Atleast this time it's free write so I can talk about whatever I want. Kendrick Lamar came out with a new album about a week ago and I heard it's pretty good. Too bad I can't hear any songs because people upload "freestyles" on youtube, posing as if they're Kendrick Lamar just so you can hear them rap. I HATE THAT!! If you want people to hear you rap, build your own fan base, don't try to pose as someone else. Especially if you're not as good or better than them! His album is called "To Pimp a Butterfly". The album cover is very political actually. It has a group of black people standing in front of the White House, on top of a judge. I think the judge was symbolizing the system, and the black people standing on top of him was pretty much saying "soon we will over-come". Also I heard that in the album, he talks about a lot of political problems and how the system treats black men and women. I like things like that because the system is really messed up for certain people and it needs to be spoke upon. You live and you learn.

Random Blog

Blogging takes a lot. I often forget about doing a blog when I get home from work and then I have to catch up with the class. I actually kind of like blogs though because it's an easy project grade. I'm good at typing, I can type anything fast. I'm also good at writing too so everything pretty much falls into play when I have to do a blog. Blogs have a huge affect on your grade. Being that they're worth a project grade, they take off about 40% of your grade if you don't do it. Which sucks, but hey, it's rules. How could something so easy be worth so much? If only life was like this lol. I'm thinking of maybe becoming a fire fighter when I get older because the job is kind of easy, sort of like what I hoped life was like. Well not really "easy" but I mean I think only working 3 days a week for a salary pay is pretty good.

Selected Response

"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain." - Bob Marley

I picked this quote because like myself, Bob Marley is a musician. Bob Marley is a very smart man but everybody thinks he was just a junky because he smoked alot of marijuana. Marijuana didn't hurt him. I think he was trying to give America a message through his music, his fan base just wasn't big enough. I agree with this quote because every time I hear music it really uplifts my soul. I can be really sad, if I listen to a hype or uplifting song it will have me jumping around or feeling good in no time. All my pain mysteriously disappears. But after the music, it comes back unfortunately. I don't know what it is about the music but it's like it has something in it that makes me forget about my problems.

Class Related Post

Socratic seminars seem to be ripping me apart this semester. I hate them. I feel as if they're bringing my grades down because of all the work you have to do just to participate. Don't get me wrong the concepts/themes of the stories are good. It's just all of the questions that follow it. Maybe if we just read the passages and then talked about them in the Socratic seminar instead of writing about what we're going to talk about would be better. Most people could read and talk about it without a problem, it's the writing part that they don't like. I need to improve my writing endurance because I know college will be asking for a lot but I don't think I'm ready to start improving it in this class, because i don't think it helps me. What i did like was when we read the passages and then presented the passage that each group was assigned to then take notes. I believe that worked better because it's not like we had to talk about each and every story, We were assigned a story which we taught to our fellow classmates and we learned about their stories when they were presented.

Free write

Freeee writeeeee.. finally. I've been looking forward to a free write because I hate being told what to do. What I want to talk about is MUSIC! Lately I've been thinking that since people are becoming rich/wealthy just from music, then why can't I do it? There's many different things you could do in the music industry. For example you could make instrumentals, write lyrics, produce lyrics for others, produce songs and even do things as little as designing the set of music videos or stage performances. Although all people don't listen to the same music, money still triples because it's so many people in the world. I'm good at a lot of things dealing with music, such as rapping, instrumentals, and performing because I don't really get that nervous in front of large crowds. Hopefully in a year or two when I get a larger fan base, I will become something bigger and have more money. If not, I'll always have a plan B because I'm going to college and I will recieve my degree no matter what happens with the music because any day the music could stop.

Ms Tomlin's Class

Even though I come late for Tomlin's class, I really love it and I think I learn a lot of things. Right now we've recently been learning about laws. We've addressed how a bill becomes a law and every process it has to go through before it's actually published. It's really helpful because you need to know your rights and the laws or else people with higher authority will try to push you around just because you're clueless. Being in her class makes me want to major in law just so I can learn a lot of new things but I know it's going to be a lot of hard work. That's the only problem. I don't like to work too hard but I like to gain a lot of knowledge.. if that makes any sense. Police officers often do unlawful things and searches but since people do not know their rights and what's against the law, they don't know to stop them and call for actions/ report it. I think it's important to know your laws and rights because that's the only way to survive in the USA.

Music

I really like listening to music so this topic should be easy. One song I like, and would like to discuss is Changes by Tupac. Every time I hear that song I feel like he's saying some valuable stuff that people should hear, maybe it'll actually change something one day. In the song he pretty much talks about America. And how America works in his eyes.  I pretty much agree with every thing he said in that song because I also kind of believe that America is corrupt. There was one line in the song he said that I agree with because it makes me remember changes I been through in my life. The line was "I'd love to go back to when we played as kids but things change, and that's the way it is." It makes me remember how many friends I thought I had, that I never seen again, and how many problems I overcame to be the person I am today. His song is based on black on black crime and how African-Americans don't stick together and I agree with it because of my past experience and stories I've heard on the News. I think if black people stuck together we would be unstoppable because it's so many of us. And I hope one day people will have the same mindset as Tupac and I, because then we'll be able to make it way further than a graveyard or jail cell.