Throughout this term

My experience throughout this term were mostly good things. I learned a lot more about Native Americans than I thought I would, considering that I thought we were going to be analyzing poems and what not. I liked that the class was a lot more fun rather than just sitting in a chair all class period just listening to a teacher. Working on our essay and such during class and having the teacher there explaining what I could fix in my writing to make it better made this class bareable. I will be taking away what I know now about Native Americans and when the subject comes up in a conversation with other people, I will know what to say about this subject. When I go to Tualip to go to the outlet mall or to the casino, I will be having my English 102 class in my mind. It was fun to learn about the local Native Americans so i can connect some of the activities I do regularly with the Native American subject we went over during our class times. I thought some of the students artistic responses were pretty cool. I am not an artistic person so seeing what other people came up with was exciting for me. But overall, I would love to have another class with Melissa for the same similar experience.

Casino Night

Today is my Mom's birthday and she wants to go to the Tualip casino for some fun gambeling. I told her how the casino is on the reservation and she was shocked. She had the same stereotypes about Native Americans, that they're poor and all they do is smoke and drink all day. I told her how that was a common misconception. And she came up with a question that I wish I had the answer for: "Where does the money go from the casino if it's located on the reservation? Shouldn't it go to the Native American families? Because they make a lot of money at that casino but yet, they're still poor right? So where does the money go?"
Can anyone answer this for us?

Poem

Tomorrow

"We have wept the blood
of countless ages
as each of us raised high
the lance of hate....
Now let us dry our tears
and learn the dance
and chant of the life cycle
tomorrow dances behind the sun
in sacred promise
of things to come for children
not yet born,
for our is the potential of truly
lasting beauty
born of hope and shaped by deed.
Now let us lay the lance of hate
upon this soil"

-Peter blue cloud

Billard, Jules B., ed. The World of the American Indian. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic  Society, 1993. Print.

Earthquake in Japan

I don't know much about it. I know it is a catastrophe and that many people died, I don't know if it was due to the tsunami or the earthquake but either way, it's bad. It made a tsunami go to Hawaii, mostly the Kona side of Big Island, where I am from. I know it's shocking that I don't know much about the event that happened in Japan but I don't have cable and don't read much about the news. I saw some videos online that my sister showed me on the tsunami coming into a town and it is crazy! Cars were being swept away with people in them and it was horrible to watch everything they have go away. It's scary to know that these things are happening in other places around the world because those things could happen here. Where I live. Not having control of what happens in my life kind of scares me so an earthquake like that worries me. But I have it good, thankfully, compared to be others.

Dreamcatcher

I'm thinking of making a dream catcher for my artistic response. That seems appropriate right?

Annotated Bibliography, Outline, and Artistic Response

I thought that having both of these assignments due before the rest of the paper was a big help because it makes sure that we are doing the work and keeps me organized when I write the finishing product of our ten to fifteen page paper due in two weeks. I am doing my essay on Native American whaling, specifically the Makah and Nootka tribes. I am going to compare how they have similar reasons for whaling, what it means to them, and what the general public think about their whaling activities. It is an interesting topic so far that I enjoying researching and stating my general opinion on the subject. Hopefully this essay will cause the reader to have a heightened interested on this opposing topic.
As for an artistic response, I am kind of stuck. I am not the most creative or artistic person in the world so I find this particular assignment a little hard. What's everyone doing their artistic response on?

A Universal Deceleration of Human Responsibilities

http://www.interactioncouncil.org/udhr/declaration/udhr.pdf
"The following draft of human responsibilities seeks to bring freedom and responsibility into balance and to promote a move from the freedom of indifference to the freedom of involvement"
I read this quote and thought, "how are they going to make sure this happens?" In my global studies class I am in this quarter, my professor said that there is still a lot of racism around the world, mostly in the southern countries or states such as Georgia or other states around that area. I thought this particular quote was talking about racism mostly and how there is still inequality in our world today.
"If human beings maximise their freedom by plundering the natural resources of the earth, then future generations will suffer"
Reading this quote, I thought of another point that was made in my GS150 class. The fact is is that the U.S. alone consumes about 25% of the natural resources in the world. This is a shocking number, considering we are probably the smallest country out there. Imagine if another country consumed the other 25% of the natural resources. This really makes you think about how much people take things for granted and we consume so much.
I think these articles are so interesting because it gives you some ethics to live by and I think that is something society needs sometimes.
"Every person has a responsibility to respect life.  No one has the right to injure, to 

torture or to kill another human person.  This does not exclude the right of justified 

self-defense of individuals or  communities" Torture could included racism and that is something that still needs to be abolished around the world.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading these "responsibilities" and it would do the world good if they lived by these articles and human responsibilities.