"Letter from Birmingham City Jail"

     Martin Luther King has written the "Letter from Birmingham City Jail" on April 16, 1963, when he was arrested in Birmingham Jail. King had been arrested for speaking his thoughts aloud. He believed in civil rights, freedom, and equality. The letter, he had most probably thought of being discovered, was originally handwritten by King himself. Since he had no other paper with him in jail, he had used the margins of the newspaper to write down his thoughts, his response to the newspaper article. The letter was a way for King to vent and express his feelings and emotions toward the writers of the newspaper article.
     In the letter, King had expressed his words with encouragement and emotion. His intention of this letter was to inform, persuade and explain about the situations in Birmingham, including other towns. He had presented the immortality of most towns such as Birmingham. There was vast amount of police brutatlity and segregation that was not acceptable in his and majority of the people's nature. King will always be remembered as a man who had fought for his right without intention of a fight.

News Article #4

     The following information can be found on CNN. It is not news to hear about people hiding drugs such as cocaine. Those who are not caught are probably experts, while others are just not fit for the crime. An eighteen year old woman named Ayesha Niles, has been caught hiding cocaine in cake mix boxes. There had been twenty-four cake mix boxes found inside her luggage. A man named Ed Griffith had found it very unusual for a woman to carry such a large amount of boxes in her luggage. The boxes were discovered during the time she was getting a luggage check at the airport in order to go to London.
     Niles had claimed that she was not aware of the boxes in her luggage, but clearly she was lying. The boxes in total were full of 29.30 pounds of powder cocaine. In London, the total amount of cocaine in her luggage was about $650,000. Niles has been arrested for the trafficking of cocaine and transporting substances that are not allowed.

Speech Project

     The past few weeks we have been doing presentations based on famous speeches. Overall our class did a great job on elaborating these speeches. They all seemed interesting to me, but I will specifically talk about the speech about women's rights. This speech has a slight relation with my human rights speech, which is why I am choosing to talk about it. Gareen and Patil did a great job explaining and giving out their opinions during their presentation.
     Till this day, there are strong feminists who are very serious about defending women's rights. If Hilarie Clinton had not given her speech, and if we did not have a female as brave as her to state her opinions about women's rights, women today would be considered low class while men would be known for being in a higher state. Equality is very important whether it is for sex, race, color, and so on. Nowadays the condition of equal rights is better than it was before.

News Article #3

     The following information can be found on CNN. The information about the event was posted by Beth Karas. A boy who had killed his family at the age of fourteen, has now been released from jail. Cody Posey, had shot his family on a ranch in Mexico owned by a man named Sam Donaldson. Cody had killed his father Paul Posey, his stepmother Tyrone Posey, his stepsister Mairlea Schmid, and had buried their dead bodies all by himself. It was decided that once Cody turns 21, he will be released from juvenile jail. His uncle Carl Clees had said that there is no problem with Cody being released because he has a bright future ahead of him.
     When Cody was first arrested in the eight grade, he had claimed that his killing was due to psychological issues. He had proclaimed that the night before he had killed his family, his father and stepmother had locked him in a room, and had tried to force him to have intercourse with his stepmother. Since he had refused, his father had burned him. Afterwards his father had slapped him while he was doing his chores. Cody had felt bothered and disturbed, causing him to kill his whole family. He had said that everything would be better if that man, referring to his father, was gone for good.

Nobody's Perfect

     As we have read in Benjamin Franklin's autobiography, he had tried to schedule a list of virtues he wanted to complete. His intention was to reach moral perfection. The idea of following these virtues was to help him as a guidance to perfection. Though he was almost achieving all of his goals, he had difficulty multitasking. This can give the reader an idea that it is okay to not be perfect. We all have some kind of flaw that makes us what we call unique.
     My five virtues for this week might be difficult to follow, but with commitment, they can be accomplished. The five virtues are called, mattress appreciation, to astray from procrastination, anti-stress, and open mouth. Mattress appreciation is pretty easy to figure out. More sleep is needed in my schedule. I tend to procrastinate, so I am hoping to astray from doing so this week. Stress is one of the big issues. I am pretty laid-back, I just need to not procrastinate to eliminate this problem. The last virtue would be open mouth. This means I need to not be afraid to speak whats on my mind. Help.

"Straw into Gold"

     "Straw into Gold" is a partial autobiography written by Sandra Cisneros. Her autobiography introduces us to her life. Sandra's intention is to show the success she has reached to whoever chooses to read her autobiography. Sandra, likewise Benjamin Franklin, has traveled many places. Her travels have had a big influence towards her narratives. She is also very influenced by her family. From her dad, she has inherited her emotions and love of wandering. From her mom, she has inherited her love of books, and her intelligence.
     Sandra did not have a lot of money because she was on an education grant. As she states in her autobiography, she was asked to make corn tortillas, but she did not know how to, even though she was a Mexican. She had felt embarrassed for not knowing how, and was overthinking about making it perfect. Even though they did not turn out perfect, she was glad that she had at least made it all by herself. Sandra also compares this to an important exam she had to take. Even though she was stressing about it, thinking it was impossible, in the end, everything turned out alright.