racism speeches

After reading both Barak Obama's speech and Martin Luther King Jr's speech, it is apparent that racism is still rampant and after all the time in between these speeches, that same problems exist and still need to be taken care of.
In Obama's speech he speaks of looking back at the past, not to get angry at all the problems that were there, but use these to address current issues and figure out how to fix them. Some things that he mentioned are that schools in areas that were segregated before are still inadaquite for young children to learn in.
Marting Luther takes the approach that direct non-violent action is more the way to go to fix problems of segregation and racism. He believes that negotiations need to be made but the only way to get to the negotiations is to cause a small amount of chaos that will force them.

Nate's Spring Break

Nate's spring break was very low key and boring. First off, he didn't get to travel anywhere this year which was a complete bummer. Secondly, his dad needed him to work some overnight shifts from Sunday night to Thursday night so he wasn't able to leave the house after 10.
The major point of his spring break was that he got to travel up to the twin cities on Saturday morning to purchase his 2001 mustang that he has been waiting for for almost a month now. Quite a bit of Nate's time was spent working on installing a sound system inside his car and trying to learn how to drive a stick shift vehicle. Watching him try to drive during the first day was very entertaining because he was really jerky with his car and couldn't seem to drive smoothly at all.
Once he got down the driving, he spent a good amount of his time picking up applications and filling them out because he needs a job really badly to pay for his new car.

a modest proposal

I have read A Modest Proposal once before in one of my high school English classes. This story really strikes me as an interesting story because as you are reading it, it goes from explaining a crisis that Ireland is having, to his proposal. The first time you read this story, his proposal is not the sort of thing you are expecting. It has a real shock value to it because the way he explains it makes a lot of sense, just doesn't seem sensible.
In Jonathan Swift's proposal he explains a way that he could help the country get out of its economic hardship. He proposes that children at the age of 1 year be sold off for food and leather goods. Though his proposal is sickening to think about, If it were actually put in place and people went along with it, this proposal would help the economic standing among the poor quite a bit.