Literature

 Sunday 8, 2023 The gays have been through a lot and have suffered to have the rights that they have today. Back then it was really hard for them to come "out of the closet" and same with pride that they were gay. They didn't have it easy especially since back then people thought that it was a disease. Like there was something wrong in your body or brain and that it could be shut off like turning the television off. They would study them and try to find a "cure" for them. The "cure" was electrifying them and showing them pictures of men and women.  If men would react to men pictures in any "wrong" way they would get electrified. They would do it for so many times that as some point men would just stop being attached to men. Or they would be terrified and wouldn't even look at the picture any more. I believe that it was the same way with women. But back then was not easy at all. If men found out that they liked men (gay) they would get bea...

Sunday Oct 1 2023 Kaeprnick Protest Some things that have been talked about in the reading was that he was standing up for what he thought was right. But before I actually talk about what the reading was about I’m gonna explain a little bit of what was happening. So Kaeprnick was a black african american man who was raised by a white family. He was judged by his skin color even though he was raised by white parents. They judged him for being a great quarterback but the thing was that his skin color didn’t help him because even though he was a great quarterback some people still didn’t like him. He then started to get curious and wanted to know more of his traditions and the way they treat and talk to colored people because he never really knew anything about his traditions. He then started to see and realize that African Americans weren’t treated right and that they abused and were killing African Americans.  He decided to protest by not standing for the USA flag. People said that ...

 "Obama's Speech About Selma" September 24, 2023 Sunday So we recently just read about the speech that Obama gave in 2015. During his speech he was saying how over 600 non violent marchers were attacked by Alabama state troopers as they attempted to march from Selma to Montgomery for voting rights. He wanted everyone that was listening to him to remember the difficult path that African Americans had to go through to just be able to vote. African Americans might have been treated a little better but they still weren’t getting the same rights because the white’s thought that they were superior than the colored. In which they thought that being smarter was one of them. But not all of the whites supported this law that whites should have more rights than colored people. A lot of colored people like John Lewis, Jose Lowery, Hosea Williams, and many more wanted a FAIR America.  In Obama’s speech the way that he wants Americans to change is by working together. This mission or...

Ale’s MLK Blog September 17 , 2023 Martin Luther King Jr has had a big impact in the whole world. Thanks to him we all have equal rights and have fre edom of speech. Thanks to his bravery he gave out that speech in Washington DC and what he was trying to let everyone know was that everyone deserves the same treatment. It doesn’t matter your skin color or ethnicity. What he was trying to say was that it should have never mattered in the first place. He was trying to tell everyone that America, which was a “free” country, really wasn’t a “free” country. He wanted to open everyone's eyes and make them see that not everything was rainbows and unicorns in America. The whites were treating the colored people way worse and were misjudging them for how they looked and dressed. He used repetition as well saying “100 years later” and then telling everyone that even though so much time has passed the colors were still not respected in any way. They were not free, they were still getting discr...

Ale's First Blog  Sunday September 10, 2023 My name is Alejandro Juarez A. My ethnicity is Mexican but I was born in New York and then moved to New Jersey. My friends and family call me Ale for short but some people mispronounce it. Some people say Ale like Ginger Ale, the drink but the A is actually more Spanish I guess I can say. But since most of my friends aren't hispanic they don't really have the accent that hispanics have so they say Oli with an O. But I have gotten used to it so I don't mind. But if they are able to say Ale correctly then it's a plus. Since not a lot of people can say it and if people see that one person who isn't hispanic can say it the right way then they can too. I am currently 18 and I'm a college freshman. I'm also the first gen in my family to be in college so there's a lot of pressure behind my back. I used to play soccer for my high school and if I would've known that NJCU had soccer too I would have tried out, ma...