King vs. Obama

Right off the bat I feel Kings strong points were his personal experiences.  How he talks about his little girl wanting to go to the theme park and him having to explain to her that its whites only. No matter how he puts it he knows there is hate building inside her towards whites.  Also I feel him writing this letter in response to a statement made and from jail is a strong point.  It certainly captured my attention.  What I see as a week point is how long the letter got, eventually I started to loose interest and had to take a break.  The strong points Obama had were also his personal experiences his family back ground and how he can relate. I liked that he also talked about his family and heritage and how race effects him directly.  I did not think there were any real weak points except for the face that it was so long. 

Of coarse there are still racial issues.  Race will always be somewhat of an issue.  Some of the things that king talked about are still prevalent in today’s society.  Most of the issues he spoke of are more sever of serious or sever like lynching, and the whole sign issue not being able to enter certain buildings or bathrooms.  Today we still have sit ins, walks and protests, not so much the violent issues.

They are both amazing statements and arguments but to me I feel Obama’s is more effective because I understand it more and it is also more related to me today.  Kings was great but again it’s the issues that were talked about and Obama is easier to relate to. 

I think they both approached the racial issues in somewhat similar ways like involving their families and personal stories.  I feel King took the more spiritual root where Obama kind of took the moral approach. 

Spring Break

On spring break Cassi went on a road trip to Texas. She was joined by her best friend Brittany. Leaving on Monday they had a long drive ahead of them. Driving to Texas takes approximately fifteen hours. But their destination was Galveston which is at the bottom of Texas. Just driving through the state of Texas took the girls about five hours.
The celebration began the second they got to the hotel. The five days and four nights consisted of the beautiful beach, amazing food and the crazy night life. The most exciting part of her vacation happened on the last day there. Brittany and Cassi decided to go sky diving. It just so happened to be the most beautiful and perfect day of their entire stay in Texas. Going up in the tiny plain with all the crazy sky divers she says was such a rush. She can only describe it as the best sixty seconds of her life. Overall Cassi had her first and most amazing road trip and spring break.

A Modest Proposal

A Modest Proposal was not so modest. I think this paper was completely absurd and I have a hard time even believing that this was even a real commentary. Everything he said was so morally wrong. I don’t even know what to say about this paper besides, is this joke? No way would this proposal ever work. I’m relieved to read that this was satire but also find it weird that he could get away with writing something like this back then.

On the other hand his writing was very impressive. It was hard for me to understand some of the big words that he left undefined and some of the slang was also confusing.