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Civil Rights Movement
The civil rights movement was a basically many people putting their thoughts into action to end segregation. Their goals were to have everyone be treated fairly with equal opportunities in any public place they went. They did not want to be judged by their race, gender, or ethnicity anymore. Organizations were made to help people fight for segregation, and there had been many court cases, boycotts, marches to try resolve problems.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi made an impact on the civil rights movement, he faced discrimination directed at Indians. He was born in Porbandar in 1869, then assassinated in 1948 at a prayer meeting. At 24, Gandhi left his home to Johannesburg to practice law, in which he was thrown out of his very first class for being colored. As he got older, Gandhi started protesting non-violent speeches against discrimination, and fasting to protest the British government’s treatment of India. It took seventeen years, but India became free of British rule of 200 years in 1947. This was a major victory for Gandhi’s principles and non-violence in general.
One civil rights organization is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Their mission is, “to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all people, and to eliminate racial hatred and discrimination.” they helped challenged the Kansas law with Oliver Brown. Brown wanted his daughter to attend the all-white school, which was closer than the segregated school. The “Brown vs. Board of Education” suit reached the supreme court. Brown’s lawyer was Thurgood Marshall, who was the first African American supreme court justice. They won the case, and the court ordered the school to be desegregated.
Rosa Parks, an African American woman was arrested and fingerprinted for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white man. It didn’t take long for people to find out, and she was bailed out by her friends shortly after. Even though people told her it wouldn’t be a good idea, Parks decided to go to court to fight her case. Some people of Montgomery and NAACP put together a letter describing what happened to the woman and sent it out around their community to see if other would help. After noticing it was working, and most buses were empty, Martin Luther King Jr. , an activist, and an important civil rights leader chose to take over the organization and extend the boycott. It had been hard, Dr. King and others were arrested several times, but the Montgomery Improvement Association won the boycott battle.
Later, in 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. marched on Washington D.C. with more than 200,000 Americans. They wanted peaceful civil disobedience, and to end discrimination. They tried getting congress to pass laws to end these things, afterwards police used attack dogs, water hoses, and electric cattle prods to break up protest marches. Mobs broke out and bombed black leader’s houses and churches, many civil rights workers were killed.
Overall, many people were hurt, or killed, but the movement was all for a good cause, the people got what they wanted for the most part. Now, there are still people who discriminate, and who are racist, but its only their personal thoughts, sometimes you just can’t make people think differently. Public places, like schools, work places, parks, basically everywhere you go it is now successfully desegregated.

Nilson

A Storm Of Swords

George R.R. Martin

Irony

     An example of Irony is how when Eddard Stark leaves for Kings Landing to be the new Hand of the King, right hand man, all he wants is for all of this chaos to work out and his family members to live normal lives. This is ironic because he wants everything to be ok but it doesnt happen like the way he plans. There is murder and treason wherever he goes. And at the end of it all a war breaks out and over half of his family ends up dead!

     I feel for this man. It really makes me mad that all this stuff has happened to him and his family also. From the start this series hasn’t been set out to be one of those fairytale endings. Like I said in earlier journals i didn’t like how the author kills off all the good guys and makes it seem like theres no hope for the realm and for peace. So i do feel for Eddard Stark and I wish things went out as well as he planned(it wouldn’t have been a good read though :p)

Nilson

A Storm Of Swords

George R.R. Martin

Bais

     The Author, George R.R. Martin, is pretty baised against the late King Jofferey Baratheon. Nobody in the Seven Kingdoms likes that kid, well pretty much nobody. He is very cruel. He is not only cruel but he is a spoiled brat, its his way or the highway. The author uses alot of “ammo” against This The Late King. Martin shows the reader the other and bad side to the king, ex: Jofferey getting his royal gaurd to beat Sansa Stark, starving his loyal subjects,  etc.

    On the other hand Martin is being bais twords Dany Targeryen. When she comes on the scene she has a bunch of followers and is well liked by all the people. During her parts of the book she usually has somthing to say about how her familys throne was stolen from her. I think Martin is backing her up and is setting her up to take the throne and be a good queen. See even i like her.

Nilson

A Storm of Swords

George R.R. Martin

Question

Now that Dany Targayen has besieged Astapor, what do you predict will happen next?

I predict that Dany will take Astapor and build up her army even more. She hasn’t lost a battle yet and she as a lot of hardcore soldiers (Unsullied) that dont feel pain and will do whatever they tell you. Like she took the other city she will take this one with a stratagy and will lose very little, in numbers, men. This will only help her cause in trying to take back the throne that is rightley hers.

What do you think is going to happen to are little friend addy when she is older?

When shes older I think she is going to be like her dad and help everyone she can and get a good job. But she won’t know what to do all the time. I think this because she not certain about alot of stuff. She likes just goes with the flow like her dad.

Do you know what I think is going to happen is that she is going to grow up to be a good person. I think that because she doesn’t really get into fights. She nice to everyone that she meets. And I also think that she is going to move in with her father instead staying with her mom. Her mom is a person who don’t like to watch children. Shes always out and she don’t really feed her child she likes leave her and makes her cook all by her self and shes like 12 years old. Her dad is thinking about taking her along with her sisers by the way she has two sister. And a new mom and her name is hannah, that is what I think is going to happen.

A Storm of Swords

George R.R. Martin

Prediction

My prediction is that Bran will find the “three eyed crow.” Right know Bran and company, Meera, Hodor, and Jojen, are at The Wall finally. They just opened the “Black Gate,” this gate can only be opened by a Brother of The Nights Watch. I think bran will find the three eyed crow and the crow will teach him a awsome power to save them from the undead “Others.” Hopefully this will happen because all the good people are dying in my book and its making me mad.

The Time I Had Surgery

By: Lucinda Ivanoff

            “Are you scared?” my sister Henrietta asking. I was a patient in a room with Henrietta at the Alaska Native Medical Center waiting while the doctors were preparing to perform Septorhinoplasty in the surgery room. It is a surgical procedure that is done on the nose and the nasal septum, which is the wall within the nose separating the left and the right sides of the nose. I was a little nervous, but I stayed calm because I knew that everything was going to turn out great.

During 2008’s volleyball season, John Ivanoff, who was about to spike the volleyball, smacked me right on the left side of my nose putting it out of its place.  I was setting the volleyball for Pete to spike it so I was trying to move out of his way. Suddenly John came out of nowhere and tried to spike the volleyball, instead he hit me on the nose. Blood starting flowing out and I was on the floor in pain. That was when my nose started to swell and bruise. I was scared to see how crooked my nose had gone. However, a few months later, I got to see an ENT doctor in Nome; a doctor that specializes in the ears, nose, and throat. Dr. Andrews is his name and he said that he would be able to straighten out, and fix my nose during surgery. We set a date and time for the surgery.

Henrietta and I arrived in Anchorage on August 27, 2009. Henrietta is my older sister who escorted me to Anchorage. We stayed at the Alaska Native Medical Center’s (ANMC) housing. The following day was my appointment with Dr. Andrews. Since Henrietta wasn’t my legal guardian, Dr. Andrews called my dad for permission to do the surgery and he also informed him about what they were going to perform during surgery. Anyways during the appointment, Dr. Andrews told me that he was going to do the best he can to fix my nose. What he told me what he was going to do was kind of scary. They were going to re-break the left side of my nose bone and push it back out to place it in its original position. I was a little frightened because they were going to actually break my nose. But thankfully he made me feel comfortable about going into surgery.

My surgery was set for August 31. Henrietta and I had 3 days of fun ahead of us so in the mean time we did tons of shopping and ate out at really good restaurants. We also went to the State Fair. That was a load of fun. I talked Henrietta into going on the slingshot with me. It’s like an actual slingshot where we were sprung way up into the air while we were being recorded with a video camera that was attached to the ride. Henrietta couldn’t believe I talked her into going with me. We also ate their really good food. What I really liked was their dough fritters. They called them elephant ears because they’re really big, and what topped the icing on the cake was the powder they had that flavored the bread.

After all the Anchorage fun, the day of August 31 was approaching. I couldn’t eat or drink anything 12 hours before surgery, so I didn’t eat or drink anything after 12 o’clock am. I had gotten a good nights rest and morning came. Henrietta had to update my ANMC’s patient records. That took an hour and next on the list was to check in for an appointment for my vital signs. We got through that and then we had to go to the surgery part of the building. Henrietta checked me in and they told us where to go to meet with the nurses that got me ready for surgery. There I was waiting on the bed to get rolled into the surgery room.

“Are you scared?” Henrietta asking.

“Not really.” I say. I knew that everything was going to go smooth. Soon, they rolled me into the surgery room and Henrietta went into the waiting area.

“All right Lucinda I am going to put this mask over your face (the oxygen mask that puts you to sleep).” one of the nurses saying.

“Okay.” I say.

“Okay” was the last thing I remember saying before I fell into deep sleep.

“Lucinda, dear it’s time to wake up. Everything went really well.” I woke up to the nurses’ voice. Eew, my mouth was like a beach, I needed water. My mouth was nasty from the oxygen tube.

“I need water.” I say.

“We will get you water as soon as we get you to the recovery room.” one of the nurses’ said. I fell back asleep and when I woke up, I was in the recovery room with Henrietta right beside me. The first thing I asked her was, “Can you get me water?” My mouth was still gross and dry. I needed like a whole river of water hydrate my mouth. When I got my water I couldn’t keep it in my stomach. It was feeling nauseous from the pain medicine the nurses’ gave me. I started to vomit and I was super tired. I slept for about 3 more hours after my surgery. Henrietta was finally able to bring me back to our room, although I needed to be rolled in a wheel chair because I didn’t have the strength to walk yet.

            The next couple of days were horrible for me. I slept for most of the day, and when I was awake all I did was vomit. I couldn’t eat and I lost about 6 pounds. I also didn’t sleep comfortably. My positions for sleeping were either on my back or a little to my side because of my sensitive nose bone. After the second day of recovering I was feeling much better. I was able to eat!!

            During the next week I was able to do more things like go out and do more shopping. Henrietta and I went to the state fair again. The splint bandage was still on my nose and people at the state fair were staring and asking question about what happened to my nose. I was getting irritated but they were people I didn’t know so it wasn’t that bad. Words from this girl said, “Look, she had a nose job.” I heard that and laughed. It was super funny. Anyways, exactly a week after my surgery I had an appointment with the Dr. Andrews. That was the day he took the splint off of my nose. It was still a little swollen but he said that it looked great. He told me that I needed to be very careful for at least six weeks because it was still very fragile. Those were the six weeks that I couldn’t do much exercising.

            It has been five months since the surgery on my nose was done. I am happy with the results. It feels and looks better, but there is a bigger bump on the top of my nose. However it isn’t noticeable. Since the doctors actually broke the left side of my nose, it will take up to a year for the bone to fully heal. I am now in basketball and still rolling fine. I haven’t had any problems with my nose…so far.        

If I had to go though what my main character went though then I dont think I would be able go thought what she would go thought. I have to say that becuase they move to much and I cant live in boxes. I don’t like to move that much becuase its like im not really making any progess in life. And I would have to say that I wouldnt really like live in a small place and everytime we move I think I would like not be out that much and that would kill me becaue I love to be out.

Nilson

A Storm of Swords

George R.R. Martin

Foreshadowing

     One particular event in the book that used foreshadowing is when Arya Stark was awoken by the little dwarf lady and the Lighting Lord(Lord Berric) having a discussion. When she wakes up she goes and sees whats happening and this little shriveled up dwarf lady is talking to Lord Berric and his crew. So this dwarf lady sees Arya and starts freaking out and says “Get her away from me!” and “She has the stench of death!” This foreshadows that in the future there will be death close to Arya. Atleast thats what Im predicting.