Literature

 "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...