Reflection

Blogging was an interesting and new assignment. Im not much of a fan of blogging but it helped reflect on class. I liked the blogs that we got to use pictures from the internet and compare them to class. I tried to put effort into blogs but that didnt always happen. like this one, im on a plane and my computer is about to die....sooooooo blog out.

Music

Makin' Whoopee
This song reminds me of all the cheating in the "Great Gatsby." Tom and Myrtle are off together sometimes, while their spouses sit at home. Eventually Daisy does the same thing to Tom with Gatsby. The song is a lot like that in how it says that the husband is gone and the wife is suspicious.

It Had To Be You

This song is a lot like Gatsby's love for Daisy. She always makes him happy and he is always thinking about her, kind of like the song.

Some of These Days
This song reminds me of the lonliness of Gatsby in the book. He doesn't really have many friends and all that many friends and he doesn't really "attend" his parties. Even at the end when the reader thinks he has friends he ends up with alomost no one at his funeral.

Crane

Stephen Crane - "Think as I think," said a man

"Think as I think," said a man, "Or you are abominably wicked; You are a toad." And after I had thought of it, I said, "I will, then, be a toad." I like this poem because I think it says to be your own person. It says he would rather be a toad than think like the man. I think it is important to be your own person and not only think the way others do. We would all be the same and that would be no fun. Being unique is good and that starts with the way we think.

Mark Twain

"If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be – a Christian."

I think this quote refers to all the so called "Christians" in the world. It reminds me of another quote by Brennan Manning. "The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today. Is Christians who acknowledge Jesus with their lips. Then walk out the door and deny him by their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable." I think both do a good job of describing how a lot of Christianity has been lacking and that there are a lot of people who say they are Christian but do not show it by actions. There are still a lot of good people in the world who are truly, but there are also a lot of "fakers".

Sit-ins

http://crmvet.org/info/rockhill.htm

This site has a couple stories of sit-ins that happened. They are much like the movements that King organized and the sit in of Rosa Parks on the Alambama buses, metioned on the site, was organized by king. There was also a group in Charlotte that had a sit in at an airport resturaunt that led to the desegregation of the resturaunt. I found one of the stories interesting, it said that Quakers were leading a training course on non-violent protest that black and white students were attending.

Harlem

From looking at the map of Harlem it looks like the dentist office was in a pretty important area. It looks like it was near the house of James Weldon Johnson. It's interesting all the famous people they would meet in that office. I wonder what it would feel like today if someone important like Washington or Du Bois walked into the building of your own practice. It also looks like the office was near the Zion Church, which is pretty historical since it was the first church for African Americans in New York.

Jim Crow laws

I think this picture depicts the jim crow laws. Maybe not, but at least it looks like it. It shows a crow destroying everything, just like how the jim crow laws tried to destory life as they knew it for the african americans.