The poem Sympathy by Paul Lawrence Du...

 

The poem Sympathy by Paul Lawrence Dunbar is about him being trapped in society. He is comparing himself to the caged bird by saying he knows how the cage bird feels. In the first stanza, the bird is noticing all these happy and joyful sights and that everything is good. Suddenly in the second stanza, the bird is feeling trapped and feels that he needs to get out so he tries to break down the barriers that are restricting him. The mood is swung in a jolting fashion into misery and despair. He figures out he can’t escape so he resolves the situation by praying to the heavens for better days.

 

            There were many literary devises in this poem. One stood out for me though, “… a prayer that he sends from his hearts deep core, but a plea, that upwards to Heaven he fling.” This literary devise is a form of personification. Personification is when an animal is given human characteristics. Usually praying is a human quality but the bird is praying so it is personification. Many key words filled this poem. Caged is very important because it sets a curtain concept/ universal theme in the poem because of the eerie and broad imagination that goes with that word. Without this word, the poem would have a completely different direction to it. The poem might have had a happy mood to it.

 

            This poem was connecting all over the place! There was connection between the first two lines of the second stanza and the fifth line of the second stanza. “ Caged bird beats his wing; till its blood is red on the cruel bars…” and “ a pain still throbs in the old, old scars…” These two quotes connect because the bird would beat it’s wings against the bars until it started to bleed and the other quote (that was later in the poem), states that he is suffering from the old scars.....

 

           

I am the 27th Frank in my family. I a...

 

 

I am the 27^th Frank in my family. I am the 14th Frank born into the Manibusan family, and we are all descendants of the Camudo tribe the Tropical Island of Guam.  There are a total of 25 Franks in my family as of today. Every male in my father’s side of the family is named Frank. We are all named after my great grandpa. His name is Francisco Manibusan. The story about why my name is Frank isn’t very long. On the other hand the list of Franks is very long. The list of Franks will continue to grow, and no one knows how big it will actually get.

 

            The story all began when my grandmother and grandfather had three miss carriages. The doctor told my grand parents that they would never have any children. But much to everyone’s surprise he was wrong. He was wrong not once but eight times. It all started when my grandma gave birth to a baby boy. Because my grandparents, thought they would never have any other children, they decided to call their one and only baby boy, Frank Manibusan. My uncle’s middle name is John, and we actually call him “Frank John”. The following year another miracle happened, and my father was born.  They didn’t want him to feel left out, so they named him Frank Joseph and called him by his middle name Joe. (Joe is my father). A whole ten months later, my uncle was born and they named him Frank Jesse, of course he is Jesse. It was only a little over a year later that Frank Jary was born. And as you’ve already guessed, he is called Jerry. Over the course of nine years, my grandma gave birth to eight children!  Six were boys ALL FRANKS and two were girls. And the girls where named, Carmen and Antonia ( yes, hell of close to my name). When my grandparents were done having children, there was a total of six Franks. However, were many more Franks to come, not necessarily from them.

IS THIS WORKING?!?!?!

I am the 27th Frank in my family. I am the 14th Frank born into the Manibusan family, and we are all descendants of the Camudo tribe the Tropical Isla

Funny College Leters

berecruited.com is this place that helps you get noticed by colleges in the country. i do not know if it is actually legit but it pretty cool. so far i have goten a few different letters fom some actual big name colleges. they dont say all that much but it is cool because my name is getting out farther than just the state. that is my goal because that will be the best chance of my getting a scholar ship to a good school that could help me big time in life. it seems like this was a good idea to join this website. i got letters from some really good schools. the letters say stuff like how i can get into the perfect school.

just this sunday i got one of the letters from baylor and a few other schools. but of course the one that my eye the most was baylor. this letter gave me names of some websites where i can take a few placement tests tht when i was done it would match me with a college that is suited the best for a person like me. some off it just sounded like bull shit so i find it hella funny. i also got letters from denver. this letter said alomost the same thing but it had some of the different facts and things that made it different. like the denver letter told me about its courses and what the things that you can take and do to secure a spot at some colleges. it also lists the facts and things that you can take as a major. its actually pretty cool.

my favorite letter was the one from TCU. it is hella cool because it looks the coolest. haha. it is purple!! i hella want to go to TCU or the formal name is Texas Christain University. it is cool! i would so go to TCU if i could i would definately go to this school because i hell of like this school. i wish!!

i am soooooo done with football. i do not want to play any more. every practice makes it worse and worse to the point, now, i dont even enjoy the games any more. the whole varsity thing is cool and all but now its just draining me. between home work and football i barely get any time to do anything. i know i said last week that i was having fun but now it is a whole new story. i truely can not wait till its over. since i have to practice i am trying my best to have fun so i am going to make the best of it. of course i am going to play next year but this year is done for me. i am physicaly and mentally exausted as of now...



this week i did not take all that many snaps but when i did i had a lot of fun doing it.i think it when i dont play i dont like practice. i am starting to hell of miss junior varsity. i had so much more fun in the lower level than i am now. the only thing better about playing on varsity are better people. i liked how on junior varsity i was actualy needed compared to now because they would not even care if left. that has it's perks but mainly it is bad. like i kind of want to put forth a lot of effort so i can do something FOR the team. but as of now i can not really say that i have done anything for them or to help them. and this causes me not to feel like part of the team. i know people are satisfied with this but i just hate this feeling. i am almost worth less to them. like just a body. i feel like the guys who should not even be out there. not fun :(

Varsity.

i got pulled up to varsity dude. i am siked about this good event. i am happy cause this stuff is hell of crazy. i love being up on the varsity football team instead junior varsity. it has a lot of perks and some down falls in my experiences. but suprisingly it is actually has been mostly good shit thats been going down. it is very suprising that this week has been full of great things.

Good stuff. i have a lot of good varsity events that i can talk about. i like how it is hell of fun and of course extremely serious when it needs to be. also i have grown to respect a lot the upper classmen on the team A WHOLE LOT more. like for example qias and emilio. when the thing went down on tuesday with mr reynoylds and this jerk that came to the feild. when it went down quis and emilio did the best thing that could have been done to help my man reynolds. i was too scared to act upon the thing that was happening but they just confronted the scary event like it did not matter. i love them. i wish i could have been like them. also another good thing was that it is my last and only possiblchance that i could be able to play with him. this year was hella cool because me and jerms have become hella close and he is like my idol now. i love that fool. im glad i get to spend hella time with him learning what i can do to be as raw as him.

the bad stuff. jerms... i hate getting smacked by jerms yu. dont gt me wrong, i love playing with him and i want to be just like him when i am a senior, but jeez! that shit hurts like nothing else. i do not get mad because he is just trying to get me tougher for the future years with out him. to an extent i appriciate it. lol. crazy huh.

Sutherland!!!! my blog isnt working!!! thats why its late. i went to post like twenty minutes ago cause i just got home and every time ive gone to blog it fucked up.

FOOT. ball

Alameda JV vs. Pinole JV

At the pinole game i did hell of good! i was just feeling it that Friday night. that night i threw for a little over 125 yards in 9 completed passes and i had three touch downs. i also ran for 1 touchdown and about one hundred yards in 15 carries. Over the length of the game i had a total of 225 all purpose yards.

Big Sam Rouser. Sam even though just coming off of his back injury, only one week back, led the whole team in tackles. he had four unassisted tackles and 3 assisted. the closest one to him was marlisemo.


Marlas Wilson Foster. He was an animal! he had 3 sacks. and two tackles behind the line of scrimmage.

Tomas! Tomas Martinez Granata is the best kicker ever. he was three for three and was about to win us the game but Zac dropped the field goal snap. usually i am in for Field goal but i was compromised on the fact that my leg could not move. Tomas did not only give us three points but he saved two touch downs by tackling the kick returner and the punt returner when he was the last line of defense.
Nate Ruttan. My man Nate Ruttan is a monster! he had like three tackles and a game changing interception in the first quarter. with out Nate we would not have been in the spot we were in in the fourth quarter.

Zac Alfers, arguably my favorite wide receiver had a pretty good game but sadly not his best. he had five grabs for a total of thirty four yards with two touchdown catches in his pocket.

Frank Mai. who is my tight end and a key factor for us. he had fifty yards in 3 catches. Jack Kelly with only one reception caught a 40 yard throw down Field from me and maintained balance to keep his feet in bounds.

I shoulda been out there...

Friday. i was so juiced for my game, all day!! we all tthought it was a sure win but it never can be that easy. when i got to school everyone was getting hyped about the game because it was like we were playing for the play offs. i just had a feeling something wasn't right about the up and coming game. i don't know but i think i was nervous. maybe even scared. i was not the only one who felt this way either. Zac and frank (like my two best friends on the team felt like something wrong was going to happen.just like we expected, something very bad did go wrong. it was my leg.

it first happened near the end of the first quarter. i was running a quarter back keeper to the left side of my line and i broke for like fifteen yards but when i was tackled a kid chopped me in the thigh which gave me like a really deep bruise. it was like a cheep shot but it was not called. the bruise would end up being the biggest problem in the game, for our team. because it was going to pretty much determine the outcome. whether it be a win or a lose.

in this case it was a lose because through out the game i was chopped more and more but i just played threw it because my team needed me on both sides. the last time i was chopped, in the last few minutes of the fourth quarter. it had a devastating outcome. i had to come out because i was not able to even walk, let alone run on my own strength. i was still fighting to get back out there on the field so i could just fight threw the pain but they held me down. they gave me medicine that knocked me out about an hour later and i slept deep into he next day. when my team needed me the most, i wasn't there... no matter what i accomplished that night, i should havebeen out there.

Annotating that chick

(1.) […] In almost every audience I address, there is someone who will suggest that racism is a thing of the past. There is always someone who hasn’t noticed the stereotypical images of people of color in the media, who hasn’t observed the housing discrimination in their community, who hasn’t read the newspaper articles about racial bias in lending practices[1] among well-known banks, who isn’t aware of the racial tracking[2] pattern at the local school, who hasn’t seen the reports of rising incidents of racially motivated hate crimes in America—in short, someone who hasn’t been paying attention to issues of race. But if you are paying attention, the legacy of racism is not hard to see, and we are all affected by it.
(2.) The impact of racism begins early. Even in our preschool years, we are exposed to misinformation[3] about people different from ourselves. Many of us grew up in neighborhoods where we had limited opportunities to interact with people different from our own families. When I ask my students, “How many of you grew up in neighborhoods where most of the people were from the same racial group as your own?” almost every hand goes up. There is still a great deal of social segregation in our communities. Consequently, most of the early information we receive about “others”—people racially, religiously, or economically different from ourselves—does not come as the result of firsthand experience. The secondhand information we do receive has often been distorted, shaped by cultural stereotypes, and left incomplete.


In my annotations, i mainly underlined and then go back over it a few times so i could highlight. i use red, blue, and yellow. if its necisary and i need more colors i go over with two colors to make a new one. for things brought up about: her opinions i would hilghlight in yellow; things i did not nessisarly agree with, i would highlight in blue; things that she has come accross in her work, i would underline in red/ pink. And for all the other color combinations that i needed i would just combine as i was going.

Encinal

Picture day!! We just had our game Thursday and we were hella juiced that our season was starting to come together as we have formed into a winning streak. Picture day, which is NEVER fun cause the photographers tend to be hella angry, was actually a lot fun. Anything that went wrong over the course of the day, was just completely over shadowed by the up coming weeks game. Encinal...

Just like the typical Manibusan, i started off the day late. I was exactly seven-teen minutes. The coaches would normally have been mad but like i said earlier, the game that was coming up this week against Encinal was over shadowing anything that happened because that is the only thing that any of the people on my team could and wanted to think about this whole week.

One community split into two..
Earlier in this season, one of my coaches told us that these games that we would play against Encinal could very well be the greatest and most intense games that most of us will ever play in. On top of all this, i have hell of family tha have gone there. Like almost Fifty. I even have three that are there right now.

The island bowl! I am so juiced. one of my coaches told us that these games that we would play against Encinal could very well be the greatest and most intense games that most of us will ever play in. Nothing can, and will ever, compare to this game. While i write this, there is only like four more days till the big game where we are going to shoot down some jets spirits. The junior varsity game will be at four fifteen and the varsity game will be at seven thirty. Both games will be at Encinal. THE NAIL HOUSE.
*Who ever reads this should hella come cause we need all the support we can get over on there field. It will benefit us a lot.

BLAh

I really like this idea of blogging. At first i thought that it wouldn't be fun and that it would be an inconvenience but if you do it for the right reasons it could actually be really awesome.

For me, this is going to work in my liking because i can blog and keep a "log' of how my football games go and my stats and opinions about it the way it went. this blog could be a really cool way to inform my sister about each one of my games and what i was able to accomplish week by week. i actually have not seen her for close to a year because she is in the air force living in Portugal. she has her own family all the way in Portugal so she cant come home and see us. i know she is doing it for our country, but it is hard to go through high school because she has always been there for me and has always been a big supporter in my sports. this blog is almost entirely for football on Friday nights under the lights. When I'm an adult, i want to be able to go back and look at all these documents and reminisce about the early years of my life. i can also show these to my kids if they do not believe me when i tell them that i was a pretty good athlete. my dad showed me his old pictures and writings that were about his life when i brought this assignment to his attention. i never believed that my dad was not just an athlete but that he was really good at what he did. i am very supprised that he was really good at baseball. he was a monster!