Speech

This week in my speech class we had an informative speech due and i actually realized how much work goes into putting a speech together. I used to think that it was just them getting up there with a few ideas on a paper and speaking from their head, but it's completely different we had to make outlines and do a bibliography it was just like writing a paper except for the fact that you don't have to have all the information written out because you will fill in the blanks as you do the speech. I did my informative speech on the misleading reputation of pit bulls. Pit bulls are dogs that are really close to my heart, i have had at least 10 pit bulls all together and they all have lived with cats because I love those to. Making the outline for this speech really got me thinking about the paper that I have to do for my English class all these papers seem to link together and i'm running out of things to say about the stories we have read. I am going to think way out of the box for this paper and hopefully that will work in my favor.

The Lone Ranger

In class read a story called The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. This story was about a Native American man who was very dissatisfied in his life, him and his girlfriend seem to have a love hate relationship, they argue all the time and he often takes walks to try to clear his mind. living in a place were racism was still very much alive he had to be careful where he wondered off to and how long he stayed. This story was good it kind of showed his battle with his self and the people around him. Of course being Native American he was from a reservation and everyone who lived on the reservation was expected to live there forever. When him and his girlfriend broke up he went back to the reservation where he felt even worse than before because him coming back pretty much proved his family right that he couldn't make outside of the reservation. The story kind of brought me to my own life and how i was the first person in my family to go to college, even though i n made it here i still have major anxiety that i wont make it where I want to be, but I have to be strong and do my best like he did in the story so that eventually I can end out on top. 

Yellow Wallpaper

A little while ago my English class and I read a story called The Yellow Wallpaper. That story really pulled me in it is about a women who essentially feels trapped in her own house. Her husband is a physician and he diagnoses her disorder as temporary nervous depression. They decide to take a vacation in this old colonial mansion that she finds to be creepy from the beginning. I liked this story because in some way at some point everyone can relate to how the young women feels. I think she feels lonely and maybe if her husband and the rest of her family would have not allowed her to be alone all the time the outcome of the story would have been a lot different. In  books when the author decides to leave us guessing at the end I tend to make the end of the story very happy and probably the exact opposite of what everyone else is thinking. At the end of this story there wasn't really a lot of happy to work with but i would encourage people to read this story and create there own endings and then comment them on this blog post!!!!  

Pride

Well Saturday September 28 a group of my friends and I went to the Richmond Pride Festival and I had so much fun. We spent hours there walking around and looking at all the cool people and things that pride had to offer. We seen a lot of people dressed up in their full rainbow attire. It was a big deal for my friend because it was his first time as an out gay male, it was amazing to see how comfortable he could be, and how he was completely himself around absolute strangers. The highlight of my night was watching the Drag queen performances, they are so entertaining. My favorite one was someone named Shangela she was on RuPaul's Drag Race seasons two and three and was there till the end. She had an awesome performance and got the whole crowd excited.