So What About You?

You say I am the problem to everything that is going on. That it is me and my personal problems what is stoping us from moving foward with this. But stop and think, could it be you and your atitude whats hurting me? Yes, my problems do affect ME, but they have affected ME for a long time and I have been able to move on and keep going with my life, so why do you have to make ME feel bad about it if maybe it's you the one with a problem. My problems have afected ME but not ever those around ME. Last night you said very hurtful words, you might say as an excuse that youj were intoxicated, but I believe that "drunken words are sobber thoughts" as the refrain goes. I keep my head up high and I will move on, but don't expect me to always be there for you, if when I tried to be a friend to you, I was rejected. You see me as a business, and I see you as a little more then that. You say don't mix business with the personal, and then you say we have nothing personal but just business, make up your mind and let me know what we are. I care about you a lot, and I don't know why. What you do, think and say affects me a lot and I don't know why. I hope everything goes okay, and I hope you find someone else out there but if you do not, don't turn around and expect to see me there. I will see you go as much as that hurts but I just can't keep up with this painful event. I went against my family, believes and values and you didn't apreciate it what's so ever. BUt tha's okay. I will watch you go,and I hope when you realize you are wrong is not too late because if is, I won't be there. I care about you but I also care about myself. Because I love you I am setting you free and if you come back then you belong to me, but if you don't we were never meant to be! <3

Class of 2012

Senior year comes around. After, all that time I have spent thinking on how it would be, on who I would be, what it would be like, and where I would be, it's finally here! Unbelievable how my life has changed from those days when I wished to be a senior at Eagle Rock high. I always thought I would graduate being an eagle, but I have transformed into a storm and even though I did not agree with it at first I know thank God and my mother for making the decision for me. I now thank the destiny for bringing the people in my life who care about me and who have been there when I needed them. I do miss my "LA life" but at the end of the day it is not today what matters most, is all about what we are doing to make tomorrow a better day! We fight to be better then our past and sometimes what we want is not what will stop the cycle from repeating itself. I work hard to make my mother proud and ever though I have to be respoinsible I also want to be a little crazy before my life really gets serious. I want to enjoy the last minutes of childhood even though I am not a child anymore! I hope for a good senior year, fun, happy, exciting, life changing, ad WILD!!! But its not just good things what makes a good year perfect, its the ups and downs, the happiness and sadness, the goodand bad news, it needs to be human and real because it is the last year of experience that we will have to prepare ourself for the real life. In my friends I trust, and I believe we can make this a good year, not a perfect one, but a real one!

Topic 12 Study Guide.

Truman Doctrine
-U.S will help any country in danger of being communist like Iraq, North Korea, Nam
Containment Policy
- United States policy using military, economic and diplomatic strategies to stall the spread of communism. Bay of Pigs Invasion & Similarities with Panama
Bay of Pigs Invasion
-tried to get Castro out of power
-surprise attack, but somehow Castro and his army were waiting
-CIA trained anti-Castro forces in Florida
-U.S defeated in 3 days
Intervention
-In Vietnam we sent troops to help fight; we didn't really want to get our military involved in Korea so we sent financial aid and support to fight communism without getting physical.
Cold War Development
-post WWII, Germany and Berlin split between allies
-Soviets were communist, made us uneasy and caused tension
-Formed NATO to isolate Soviets, they countered with the Warsaw Pact
-Berlin Blockade/Airlift
-Soviets required atomic bomb
War Powers Act
-President cannot use military force without congress approval*
*except for a national emergency like an attack on the U.S (9/11)
-48 hours to notify congress and can only use military for 30 days
-However, congress can extend time
WWII Policy vs. Post WWII Policy
Before WWII, the U.S policy was isolation; we tried to stay our of foreign affairs and focus on building up our economy. After the war our policy began to intervene and get more involved with countries in need of help
Limited War
-using the most limited amount of resources and manpower to fight a war
Examples of Containment in Europe
The Berlin wall which separated West Germany from Communist East Germany. The US wanted to stop the spread of communism to other countries in Europe.
Division of Germany
-East and West Germany
-split between U.S, Britain, France, and Russia, the Allied Powers
-divided Berlin the capital in the same way
-this divide was a major cause of the conflict and tension in the Cold War that ensued
-Berlin Airlift
Douglas MacArthur Dismissal
-fought in WWI, WWII, and Korea
-was a general for the president
-instead of trying to establish a border and make peace between North and South Korea, he launched an invasion of the North and bombed China
-Truman believed that he was after power, and was dismissed
Nuclear Test Ban
-In August 1963, nuclear powers agreed to stop testing nuclear weapons. Many, including the U.S. do not follow this ban, regardless of signing it.
End of Cold War
-the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 marked the end of the Cold War
Domino Theory
-once one country becomes communist, it spreads rapidly like dominoes
Nixon's Detente
-tried to ease tensions between the U.S and the Soviets

I Am...

I am an African-American student
I wonder why white people hate me so much
I hear them yelling at me
I see one hundred army soldiers
I want society to be just like me
I am an African-American student and that is it.

I pretend to be strong and neveer concerned, but
I feel my heart pounding inside of my chest.
I need to feel that I am accepted by them.
I worry that I will never be safe while I am in this place.
I cry only when I am at home, so I always seem to be very strong but still
I am a member of the Little Rock

I understand they might have opposing views about what they call my kind,
I believe that it can all change if they give us a chance
I dream of this all going away and the world being just one
I try to never show my weaknesses
I hope that one day, people will see that we are all of the same kind, not against each other
I am an unaccepted member of the Little Rock Nine

Survey

1 H
2. Yes
3. Yes

1. W
2. Both my parents.
3. My mom.

1.W Aw yeah white power!
2.Both of my parents.
3.Both of my parents.

1. A
2. Y
3. MOM

1) A
2) Y
3) N

1.H
2.BOTH
3.MOM

1) W
2) Both of my parents
3) Both of my parents

1. W 2. Y 3. Y: dad

1) A
2) Both of my parents
3) my dad

I can infer that mom's are the mosrt likely parent to go to college and finish school. In my case it is not like that, my dad finish college but he has no influece in my dad so it is just as if only my mom history would count and she was only able to start college b ut ever finished it. Many parents are like that, they get to start but never finish.

Martin Luther King

In my opinion MLK ways were a lot more effective the Malcom X's ideas of getting his point across. Martin Luther King was a me who believed in peace war, he knew that by not fighting back with violence but with love he would get what he was asking for. Malcom X in the other hand believes in violence if you were being violated, he mind was set on hittikng whoever hit yuou and humiliating whoever humiliagted you. I think the MLK had the better strategy because if someone hits you and you respond with a hug then they will be shocked and won't know what to do, but if you hit them back you will justbe giving them what they were e0ecting from you.

Meritocracy

The ideology of this term i belive is right when it comes to the people who work for money. When it comes to school it is ot always the same situation because not everyone has the same chances. Maybe at some point yeah it is the same oportuneties but not everone can take advantage of them as other students. For example, everyone can go to a private college when they graduate high school as long as they meet the requiremets the school has, which everyone can meet if they can focus on their school work and make it their main priority but not everyone can do that. Many people have to be the parent of the parent, may others worry about money, and other just get the attention from their parents to focus in school. So yes, working hard will give you the American dream, if and only if we really all had the same opportunity and lived under the same circumstaces.