Trials of a true Southern Belle and Southern Gentlemen

Hey guys! Alright this is going to be the last homework post! So I'm going to keep it good and Cool. haha COMMENT AND ENJOY!:D

Southern Belle and Gentlemen

Well, there are rules of etiquette for Southern gentlemen and Belle. For the Southern Belle, they have to be Properly etiquette, Penmanship and they have to learn Ballroom dancing. While, for the Southern gentlemen, they have to be Respectful and Humility. Here are the more examples of what Southern Belle have to be :

-Never wear white shoes before Easter or after Labor Day except is if it is a bride.
-Thank you notes are a necessary component of being gracious and appreciative.
-Never chew gum or smoke on the street.
-Never show anger in public. Smile and act like a lady.
-Act helpless and confused when it's to your advantage; never let them know how clever and capable you really are...
-Charm, Charm, Charm.
-Be elegant and graceful

Alright, in the past, the Southern Belle would be responsible for all the household matters and supervision of the household's slaves once they are married. Respectable Southern women were expected to do their part to hold up the plantation image which included being subservient to the powerful husband.

So how it was related to To kill a mockingbird''?

Atticus was a gentlemen, impartial and very polite to people around him. However, on the other hand, Bob Ewell was ruthless, violent and also discriminates people.


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Montgomery Bus Boycott and Scottsboro trials

Hey guys! William Zhao has just came back from the movie the GREEN HORNET! haha Jay Chou can't speak very smoothly but its still good! Alright, let's get down into some serious business, haha, today I would be blogging about Montgomery Bus Boycott and Scottboro trials.

Montgomery Bus Boycott

What is Montgomery Bus Boycott? The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a political and social Protest campaign that started in 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, USA, intended to oppose the city's policy of racial segregation on its public transit system.

The next morning at a church meeting led by the new MIA head, King, a citywide boycott of public transit was proposed to demand a fixed dividing line for the segregated sections of the buses. Such a line would have meant that if the white section of the bus was oversubscribed, whites would have to stand; blacks would not be forced to remit their seats to whites.

This demand was a compromise for the leaders of the boycott who believed that the city of Montgomery would be more likely to accept it rather than a demand for a full integration of the buses. In this respect, the MIA leadership followed the pattern of earlier boycott campaigns in the Deep South during the 1950s. A prime example was the successful boycott a few years earlier of service stations in Mississippi for refusing to provide restrooms for blacks. The organizer of that campaign,T.R.M Howard of the Regional Council of Negro Leadership, had spoken on the brutal slaying of Emmett Till as King's guest at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church only four days before Parks's arrest. Parks was in the audience and later said that Emmett Till was on her mind when she refused to give up her seat.

The MIA's demand for a fixed dividing line was to be supplemented by a requirement that all bus passengers receive courteous treatment by bus operators, be seated on a first-come, first-served basis, and blacks be employed as bus drivers. The proposal was passed, and the boycott was to commence the following Monday. To publicize the impending boycott it was advertised at black churches throughout Montgomery the following Sunday.

Scottboro Trials

Who were the Scottboro Boys? The Scottsboro Boys were nine black teenager boys accused of rape in Alabama in 1931. The prisoners were brought to court by 118 Alabama guardsmen, armed with machine guns. It was market day in Scottsboro, and farmers were in town to sell produce and buy supplies. A crowd of thousands soon formed.Courthouse access required a permit due to the salacious nature of the testimony expected. As the Supreme Court later described this situation, "…the proceedings…took place in an atmosphere of tense, hostile, and excited public sentiment."

So why were they so significant? Both of these incidents show that how unfair it was towards the blacks during those days. They were somehow ''lower class'' than the whites. These 2 trails fought for the rights of the blacks because the transport was biased towards the whites. These two trials were also related the book because under the same conditions as the book, black men were accused of rape when they actually did not commit the crime.

The Civil War

Hey guys! William Zhao hereee! Man! I got so many posts to blog! Alright, let's get back to work. Today I will be posting about The Civil War.

What is Civil War

So what is Civil war and when and how it happened? Alright, brace for impact! The American Civil War, also known as the War Between the States, was a civil war in the United States of America. Eleven Southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America , also known as "the Confederacy." Led by Jefferson Davis, the Confederacy fought against the United States (the Union), which was supported by all twenty free states (where slavery had been abolished) and by five slave states that became known as the border states. There are 11 southern slave states involved in this war and here are some of the examples : Virginia, Mississippi, Florida and Alabama. Well, it was Abraham Lincoln, the 16th United States President, who proclaimed war against the South.

So why was the civil war fought?

The roots of this tragic conflict go back to the birth of the country. The founding fathers, for all their wisdom, could not solve all the differences between the original thirteen states.

The products of their labors, the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, failed to totally define the relationship between the Federal Government and the States. The slavery question received no more than a partial and temporary solution.

These issues of states' rights festered and the rhetoric inside the Congress grew more heated. Finally, words were no longer enough for some and the nation began to split apart.

The secession of 11 Southern States and the unbending position of President Lincoln toward preserving the Union led to the first shot fired on Fort Sumter in 1861. The Rubicon had been crossed.The civil war was fought between 1861-1865. Source : http://ehistory.osu.edu/uscw/index.cfm

It abolished slavery as a legal institution in the United States. The one irreconcilable difference between the North and the South during a time when our country was expanding was the introduction of slavery into new territories. In fact, the main prelude to the bloodbath to come was in "Bleeding Kansas" during the late 1850's as people actively killed one another over the question of slavery. It took two additional amendments to the U.S. Constitution and an additional hundred years of civil rights struggle to completely erase the stain of slavery, but the Civil War and Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation began the process.

So how was this book related to the civil war? Atticus, a white wrote for Tom Johnson, a black despite their races. Atticus besides of not discriminate Tom and even helped him.

Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War

Jim Crow's Law

Hey guys!:D Back in action yet again in a day's time! So, today I'm going to post about Jim Crow's Law. To be honest, Jim Crow's Law sounds weird to me when I first read it. So I'm going to spread what I have learn! Comment and ENJOY!:D

Jim Crow' Law

What or who is Jim Crow?The name Jim Crow is often used to describe the segregation laws, rules, and customs which arose after the Reconstruction ended in 1877 and continued until the mid - 1960s. Well, Jim Crow's laws were state and local laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and 1965. They mandated de jure racial segregation in all public facilities, with a supposedly "separate but equal" status for black Americans. In reality, this led to treatment and accommodations that were usually inferior to those provided for white Americans, systematizing a number of economic, educational and social disadvantages.

Despite the impact of how “Jim Crow” shaped state laws and customs, African Americans made a variety of choices in response to segregation and other forms of discrimination. Led by key leaders such as Ida B Wells, Booker T. Washington, D.E.B. Dubois, and Benjamin Singleton, African Americans responded to the oppression by whites in very different ways, but always with justice in sight. At the same time white southerners continued to ensure segregation and preserve white dominance, refusing to believe equality to exist for a race that at one time, existed strictly for their own profit.

So in relationship with the book, Tom Robinson was accused by a white for raping, he lost the case although it was clear he was wrongly accused.

Harper Lee

Hey guys! I'm back!:D Well, all these posts are related to the book, titled : "To Kill A Mockingbird".
The author is well respected and her name is Harper Lee! And, I am going to report her in my this blog post! Comment and ENJOY!:D

Harper Lee

Who is she? Why and how did she became famous? Well, I'm going to answer all those doubts in this blog post. Harper Lee, well she is an American Author, best known for her first and only book, :"To Kill A Mockingbird". The book deals with the issues of racism that were observed by the author as a child in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama. Nelle Harper Lee was born in Monroeville, Alabama, the youngest of four children of Amasa Coleman Lee and Frances Cunningham Finch Lee.As a child, Lee was a tomboy and a precocious reader, and was best friends with her schoolmate and neighbor, the young Truman Capote. She pursued a Law degree at the University of Alabama from 1945 to 1949, including a year abroad at Oxford University. After graduation, she worked for an airline in New York,but she soon decided she wanted to be a full time writer. She gave up her position with the airline and moved into a cold-water apartment with makeshift furniture. It took her 2 years to revisit and rewrite the novel once she had completed the draft.

Through this novel she had published, she had won quite a number of awards such as the Presidential Medal of Freedom of United States and also the 1961 Pulitzer Prize. Not only that, To kill a mockingbird was also made into a film. To Kill a Mockingbird was significant to Harper Lee was because she wrote truthfully what she saw and what she knew. The book was greatly written about Slavery and discrimination towards the Blacks in America during her days.

So why is the book, " To kill a Mockingbird'' ? It is because it was the first and only auto-biographical.

Civil Rights Movement

Hey guys! Unfortunately , I have to report many stories in just one day time. This post wil be about Civil Rights Movement. So please comment and ENJOY!:D

Civil Rights Movement
What is Civil rights movement and when did it happen? Well, I'm going to answer all the doubts in this post. The Civil rights movement actually was a worldwide political movement for the equality before the law between 1950 and 1930. The process was long and tenuous in many countries, and most of the movements did not fully achieve their goals although, the efforts did lead to improvements in the legal rights of previously oppressed group peoples.

Here are some examples of the significant incidents that took place during the civil rights movement :

1) The threat to march on Washington D.C. During WWII, President Truman creating his 10-point civil rights program, the 14th amendment being passed, the revoking of the separate but equal doctrine in 1954.

2)During 1964, May 4 , Over the spring and summer, student volunteers begin taking bus trips through the South to test out new laws that prohibit segregation in interstate travel facilities, which includes bus and railway stations. Several of the groups of "freedom riders," as they are called, are attacked by angry mobs along the way. The program, sponsored The Congress of Racial Equality. (CORE) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), involves more than 1,000 volunteers, black and white.

Well, which American President supported the civil rights movement. The outcome of this Civil Rights movement is that many African American were treated as important as the whites. Slavery is now illegal and discrimination Blacks are also against the law. Both Civil Rights Movement and To kill a mockingbird are about fighting rights for the African American.

Slavery

Hey guys! I'm back in action! Doing my LA assignment in class right now and we are supposed to blog on slavery. So please do comment and ENJOY!(:

Slavery

Well, many people have doubts about slavery so basically, I'm going to report it. What is slavery? It is a system where humans are treated as property and they are forced to work. So when and how did slavery begin in the southern state? Well , actually slavery had been around since the 1400s. But before it started there is always this question in mind, :" how did it start?" It started when the Portuguese captain Antao Goncalves and Nuno Tristao capture 12 African(modern Mauritania) Cabo Branco and took them to Portugal as slaves. Most slaves were brought from countries such as south Asia, Africa, Europe, America etc. Surprisingly, the Portuguese were actually traditionally who bought and owned the slaves. Unfortunately, there are even rules that slaves have to abide. For example, : they have to address the owners Master or Mistress. Their owners maybe not be right, but they will definitely never be wrong. Slaves owns nothing, you have nothing and many more. To relate the the book, " To Kill A Mockingbird",
people often discriminate the blacks and bias towards the white. This study of slavery really helped me to understand the novel better.

Questions to be answered for the comic strips

- Why did you choose the different pictures or background(s)?

The different backgrounds I have used indicates that life is not only long, yet there are so many types of paths to take. Yet all paths have obstacles. The backgrounds also show that achieving our goals is not as easy as we think.

- How do they contribute to the elements (plot, setting, characterization) of your narrative?

The backgrounds contributed the the characters as it shows how the characters overcome the obstacles in that kind of situation. The characters shows that we have to be strong and and have confidence in ourselves and thus we are able to overcome them!

- How did you make use of the different elements to contribute to the theme you have chosen?

I showed the readers that life does not only have to a long and boring road in comic strip 1. While in comic strip 2, although its short but they are many types of path and obstacles blocking your road to your goal. The elements are very useful because it clearly showed the point that I am expressing.

Second comic

Well, I did one more comic strip so hope you enjoy! kind of the same! It's fun doing it yet learning it at the same time. Not to forget to COMMENT! THANKS!:D

Description : Sometimes in life, there are situations which will force you to "jump" over not just one obstacles, but two of them! To be able to jump over one of them is not an easy task, imagine jumping over two of them!

Home e-learning

Hey guys! Today, its my first 2011 home e-learning. Well, I got a tournament on later so wish me luck. But, let's come to the point. I am told to do comic strips to express a message. Hope you like it and PLEASE COMMENT! Thanks!:D

Description : Basically, its about life. Life is like this long and tough journey. Your is so far at the end of the road. Although it seemed tough enough already because of the long and humid journey. But life has never been fair! There would be obstacles blocking, sometimes so big that you don't even know what to do! However, STAY STRONG AND BELIEVE IN YOURSELF! YOU CAN DO IT!:D

Shel Silverstein Blog question

Well, hey guys!!! I am back! Today, I'm writing a post which should had been posted like one week earlier. I shall begin writing.

Question : Which of the above poems can you identify with the most? Write down your thoughts on your blog.


My answer : Well, I identify the poem "Messy Room" by Shel Silverstein. Why do I choose this poem? It is because the point that the poem is trying show is indeed very true. Sometimes in life, we, human beings, tend to blame others first so fast that even we ourselves didn't realize it. When we get angry, we usually don't think before we speak. Harmful words can just come out like nobody's business. Some people are so thick-skinned that they won't admit lost until they die or maybe not. Through this poem, we have to learn that before we speak, we think first. And we HAVE to exercise what we say! Although it seems difficult but in order to maintain good relationships with people around us, we have to preserve through this obstacle. So next time, when you were about to blame or criticize someone, think about are you better than him. Think about it! Would you rather just spend a few seconds to think than spoiling your relationships with the people around you? It's your choice. Start thinking now!

How I will treat people from other races.

Well, I was given an assignment to write about how I would treat people from other races. To me, people in different races to me just like me meeting with the people of same race of me. Although there is a difference in our cultures and languages, it does not mean that that they are ''lower class'' than me. So what if their skin colours are darker or lighter than me, so what? They are still humans with 5 senses, blood and there are so many things that we share in common. Well, to have friends that are different race from me, it actually benefits me. I can get to know more about their culture, the way they dress and their delicacies. So, next time when I grow up, when I meet people from their countries, I can easily make friends with them and communicate and interact with them. I would like to strongly warn those people who criticize or discriminate people from different races to stop what they are doing. Not only its disrespectful, and its like telling the world to stop respecting himself/herself. Its wrong and disrespectful. Respecting yourself by respecting others from different races.

Shel Silverstein Poems

The Little Boy

1) What is the underlying message that is being conveyed in this poem?
The little boy in the poem is very lonely, he wants the attention of the adults. During the conversation with the old man, the old man realized that he had not been paying attention the little boy as he just agreed with what the little boy said.

2) Has Shel Silverstein used any particular poetic technique that brings out this message more clearly?
Shel Silverstein has used dialogue as the poetic technique that brings out the message of the poem more clearly.


Messy Room

1)Can you say that poem is humorous. If so how?
Yes, this poem is humorous. The writer is criticized how dirty the room, how disgusting the room is and the owner of the room should be ashamed. However, it turns out that that the room actually belongs to the writer and thus he is actually criticizing himself when he did not even realized it.

2)What aspect of the human character has been highlighted in this poem?
Humans tends to be too quick to blame others when its actually you are at fault and we do not realized it.


Cloony The Clown

1) Explain the irony in this poem.
Cloony is a clown yet all the tricks he did were not funny at all. They were boring. However, one day, when he told his audience about his Pain, Rain, Cold and the Darkness of his soul, everyone laughed until they shook the trees. The story spread like fire and everybody began laughing at Cloony ''Joke'' when actually it was not what Cloony meant. He was funny just by accident.

2)Does Shel Silverstein manage to convey some harsh realities in this poem?
Yes, Shel Silverstein managed to convey the message. The harsh realities of life is that sometimes in life, our sad story could be seen as a joke to others.

3)What poetic devices has the poet used to effectively convey his message?
Poetic devices such as dialogue, rhyming patterns (a,b,a,b) and metaphors are used by the poet to effectively convey his message.

Discrimination ( TKAM)

To kill a Mockingbird

Bias Stereotyping Prejudice Discrimination




Discrimination

1. Based on ancestry
2. Based on race
3. Based on gender
4. Based on education
5. Based on sex
6. Reversed Discrimination
7. Based on sexual orientation
8. Based on employment
9. Based on age
10. Based on intelligence
11. Based on perception
12. Based on medical problem
13. Based on mutability
14. Based on marital
15. Based on background
16. Based on economic status
17. Based on political affiliation
18. Based on brand
19. Based on genes
20. Based on appearance




Internal Discrimination

Gender Discrimination : Misconception that males are more athletics than females.
Racial Discrimination : Activities of the Ku Klux Klan
Intelligence Discrimination : Elitist schools looking down on neighborhood schools
Appearance Discrimination : Fat people are classified as ugly in society
Disability Discrimination : Their needs are neglected by the society
Nationality Discrimination : Intense hate between Russians and Americans during the Cold War

External Discrimination

Sexual Orientation Discrimination : Homosexuals are ostracized by society
Religious Discrimination : The Crusades against Muslim lands
Job Discrimination : Junk Collectors are looked down and despised by the society
Political Discrimination : Supporters of political parties are targeted with violence
Wealth Discrimination : The Nazi Party targeted the rich and successful Jewish people.

Back to Secondary life!

Hey guys! Well, I'm sec 2 this year so its going to be very a well, you can say hard or tough year. Bottom line, not to get into 3q. Okay, I'm not really a hardcore Korean bands fan as compared to last year, but I still listen to their to their songs. Hmm, now I'm a fan of the drama, '' How I met your mother". Basically, its a REAL comedy drama about this architect Mosby tells a story of how he met his wife to his children. Together with his other friends, Robin, Lily, Marshall and the funniest character Barney, they are called the actors and actresses of " How I met your mother".

Talk about going back to my ordinary secondary school life in Hwa Chong, well, first or all, I need to prepare for my badminton tournament. We have a new badge of secondary 1s, they play well. Secondly, its the Independent Studies the whole school is talking about. Well, 2 of my seniors went to 3q just because of failing IS. I started to feel the heat of the sec 2 life. Wish me luck! This blog is also a key to my IS marks. So please do help out by commenting my post. Thank you! :D