Current Events May 2, 2015 Jamie Foxx Criticized for his version national anthem

                                   Jamie Foxx Criticized for His Version National Anthem
                                                               Fox news.com




                              Jamie Foxx judged by social media responses after his performance.

  Important facts and ideas from article

• Jamie Foxx is a famous American actor, singer, comedian, writer, and producer.
• He sang the national anthem before the world welterweight championship bout between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas
•  A lot people were criticizing for his version national anthem that he can't sing
• "Jamie Foxx. What a talented singer and actor, what a tremendously terrible version of the American national anthem! #PacquiaoMayweather"
• "Jamie Foxx killed the national anthem. And by killed it I mean it was like road kill. #PacWins"
• "Original thought: Wow, I didn't know Jamie Foxx could sing. Final thought: I was right, Jamie Foxx can't sing. #MayPac"

                                                  Jamie Foxx sings the national anthem


ANALYSIS:

In my opinion, I think Jamie Foxx could have sang it better.  I've seen his performance during the world welterweight championship bout between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao. I also personally think that it was terrible.  Even though, he have tried.  A lot of people did not like the way he sang the national anthem as you can tell. One of my friends went to a concert.  She paid like $150 for that concert ticket.  She told me it was such a waste because the singer can't even sing. She was really disappointed.  Just like during Jamie Foxx's performance, there's a lot of people were disappointing based on social media responses and in this image.

Frederick Douglass and the Seneca Falls speech

    There is a lot of similarities between the abolitionist movement and the antebellum women's right movement.  They both were are fighting for freedom.  In Frederick's Douglass' speech, July 5, 1852 and The Seneca Falls Declaration of sentiments and Resolutions, 1848,  both talked about they deprived the money they earned.  Also, they discussed how slaves and women education  and their "natural" rights got denied. They mention the challenging and  the struggle their audiences that had with freedom. 


        

Frederick's Douglass

     Elizabeth Cody Stanton and Lucertia Mott

Frederick Douglass

                                                    

                                                       Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass was a slave who became well known as a leader of human rights after his speech on July 5, 1852. 

On July 5, 1852, he wrote he gave a speech that talked about how African American celebrating freedom. 

                                          

                                          
                                                         Frederick Douglass



Quotes 

• " The fact is, ladies and gentlemen, the distance between this platform and the slave plantation, from which I escaped, is considerable- and the difficulties to be overcome in getting from the latter to the former, are by no means slight."

         Frederick Douglass talks about the he encountered the difficulties and challenging to get from the platform to the slave plantation. 

• "The freedom gained is yours; and you, therefore, may properly celebrate anniversary."

          What he is trying to say in this quote is that the celebration of July 4th is only for American people.  The purpose of celebrating July 4th is to represent the independence as a nation, but this is not. 

• " What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim."

  He means to slaves the 4th of July isn't to celebration of their independent, instead it just reminds what they have been through when they were slaves. 

• "The fugitive Slave Law makes MERCY TO THEM, A CRIMR; and bribes the judge who tries them."

       

          Douglass says that the justice system of U.S is controlled by money. 

• "I, therefore, leave of began, with hope."

    In the end of his speech, Frederick Douglass hopes that America will began to fix their system. 

Current Events Harvard Rejection Letter

                                                                      
           Author of Fake Harvard Rejection Letter Gets Rejected From Harvard for Real - (Boston.com)


                                A high school senior, Molly Mcgaan got denied by Harvard.

•  Molly Mcgaan a high school senior from Chicago
•  She did not get accepted from Harvard
• She used the word such as "$awwg moneyyyy", started and essay with the word " listen here u a little slanks", and ended with "Mcgaan *drop mic*"

   People nowadays don't take education seriously. As we know that the University of Harvard is really hard to get into.  They have know their own ability, SAT, GPA ect.... Before they apply to Harvard. According to this article, I personally think this person just takes it as a joke.  One of my senior friends had applied to Harvard. He's pretty smart though he has high GPA but he doesn't get involve in sports or any activities. That is why unfortunately he did not get accepted. Don't get upset if a Harvard does not accept your application because this university is very hard to get into.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

                                    HARRIET BENCHER STOWE IN THE CIVIL WAR 




          Harriet Bencher Stowe was the woman who wrote famous anti-slavery classic book " Uncle Tom's Cabin. In the book, Tom is an African American guy and he was a slave. Tom died by his cruel master. The book also purported to expose the harsh realities of slavery. Then, at the end of 19 century, Abraham Lincoln met with Harriet Bencher Stowe and said how she wrote the book have caused the war. The story seemed authenticated view that slavery somehow caused the war.




   
                                             

   

Harriet Bencher Stowe

                           

Transcendentalism

                                                                  Transcendentalism








           Transcendentalism is a religious and philosophical movement that developed in the America  
            in 1800s.


                        


            Ralph Waldo Emerson

               “Always do what you are afraid to do"- Ralph Waldo Emerson
              It means that  You have to be brave and experience new things, things that you might not be able to do it.






                    "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
                    It means its always better to be yourself. You and your uniqueness is what the world looking for.
               
                                                  Transcendentalism


                           

        Henry David Thoreau


          "Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth."-   Henry David Thoreau
          It means all we want is the state of being true.


   
         "We do not enjoy poetry unless we know it to be poetry."- Henry David Thoreau
          It means you don't know the meaning of it and that's why you're clueless.



                                             

Ralph Waldo Emerson

     




                                               

Henry David Thoreau

                                               




                                  


                             

Trail of Tears

                                                                      Trail of  Tears 

          In the 1827, the Cherokee organized a national government modeled upon that of the United States. The cherokee are a native American tribe that lived in around the territories in Mid-west. They had to adopted white culture and also, they had taken up white farming methods. President Jackson gives Native Americans land in part of the Louisiana Purchase in exchange for the land taken from them in the East. This was known as Indian Removal Act, Congress passed it in the year of 1830. Then, in 1838, the United States army forced more than 15,000 Cherokees  to march westward for about a thousand miles to Oklahoma. They died of cold and disease and it was such a terrified events known as the Trail of Tears.

Black Hawk  is the next spring warrior that led a group of 1,000 indians headed back to their fertile valley in a spadeful effort to reclaim their land. Most of the Indians were chased down  and killed when Black Hawk's band intreated into Wisconsin Territory called the Black Hawk War.  In 1835, is when the Second Seminole War began. In Florida white settlers wanted Seminoles to leave their land, however most refused and that was the reason why the war began. A few hundred Seminoles still managed to stay in Florida and most of them hidden in the thickly forecast awamps of the Everglades. 

     

                                  

Trial of Tears

                                    

Black Hawk Wars