unexamined life isn't worth living.

I believe the unexamined life is worth living because somebody always have family and to their family they are important. The unexamined life always has meaning because its never too late to change the persons tendencies and make their life more interesting. If the person chooses to live a life that doesnt involve much of anything then that is their choice its not up to me or anybody else to pick how they should live. My life is filled with ups and downs and i wouldnt have it any other way. the way i live my life has made me the person i am today and i am happy with the choices i have made. If somebody isnt harming anyone and they just enjoy a smiple life then they have the right to live their life.

how i know what i know

What makes us human? our ability to have language or is it the fact that we walk up right? the answer to this question is much more complex then any one thing. As humans we use prior knowledge to dissect situations and make the best decision based on the things we have learned prior. I believe i know what I know because i have learned it, the world has molded me into the person i am today. The idea of prior knowledge doesnt seem to be real because i have always seen how different situations give people different ideas about people and places. 

King Still King?

MLK will always be king in my mind, even though his image continues to fade with every generation the things he did not just for blacks but for civil rights for all will never be forgotten. Every generation gets less of a connection with this extraordinary man because all they can do is watch movies on him or read a book which either of them don't give you the full effect at the time. King will remain a united states hero as long as there is still a united states. It appears that the message Dr. king preached over and over is becoming second nature to us and is apparent by the classroom we are in now. just the fact that we are all here together for a greater cause shows that MLK will always be king weather or not people have a connection with him or not. When somebody is able to make such drastic changes to an entire nation how could he ever not contiue to be king. For those KKK members in the south he was far from a king but to the rest of the same community of the united states he altered our history forever.

I’m a Shoe

Im not entirely sure what the blog is suppose to mean but im guessin im suppose to describe my life if i was a show. If i was a shoe i would be the air jordan 5's, not just any jordan 5's though i would be the grapes. My life would be filled with anticipation because all i would do is sit in someones shoe box or on somebodies shoe rack. I'm a very rare pair of shoes so i would be in high demand and be very consented. the day that i am wore would be a dreadful day i would always have to look around and make sure no other shoes are plotting to jump me because of my freshness. I would also have to be worried about all the various things that are on the ground that could possibly damage me. Its hard out here for a shoe of my caliber so when i go out i have to make sure im not alone so i expect my owner to have some protection for me.

winter poem

As a kid i loved the winter time, i mean what is there not to love about winter theirs snow on the ground the holidays are all stacked up in this time frame its a kids dream. Now that I'm much older i see the downfalls in the winter time. that once pretty, lovely snow on the ground is now the biggest pain in the neck when i have to wake up an hour earlier on a school day just to go shovel that rancid white stuff. When these "holidays" come around you always have to stay home with your family and play stupid board games and watch movies that everybody laughs at but you because the joke is from 1963. Its not all that bad spending time with my family i just have to take it in doses. When Christmas comes you have to buy gifts and what not, but the worst part is when you get somebody exactly what they wanted and your really excited to open your gift from that person and you open it and its a sweater vest with Santa's face on it and its exactly your size. Winter is my least favorite time of the year if you couldnt tell by now but i do like the fact that we have this little thing called winter break and i dont have to deal with anybody named mr McCarthy for 2 whole weeks.

Globalization

Globalization is defined by dictionary.com as: to extend to other or all parts of the globe; make worldwide. this concept is relatively new because of the vast technology advances the world has made in the past 50 years. Globalization do not seem so bad at first glance, it gives everybody a common background and brings the world closer together. for example two thousand years ago to have silk from china was one of the most expensive things in the world and would take years to get it. Now we can take walk down the street and find everything lined with silk or made purely from silk. Globalization has made the world smaller and made these once foreign commodities normal to our everyday life. The other side of Globalization is one of greed. children in china work for hours a day to make a pair of jordans that americans will pay 200 dollars for and they are paid pennys a day. that doesnt add up to me, if a company is making profits at record numbers then the people who actually make the company run should be the highest paid. since companies like nike see the opportunity in 3rd world countries to go over there and set up factories and pay their works pennys a day they jump on it. the reason this continues is because the people in those 3rd world countries have no other ways of making money and if the workers go on strike nike can find an entire new group of works that will take the job.

Sports in my life

Since the tender age of 4 I have loved basketball. my love for basketball has brought about a love and appreciation for almost all sports. Sports have given me a lot of ups and downs since that early start. In 4th grade is when i began to play aau basketball, instantly everybody was better then me and progressing at a faster pace then i was so like the fourth grader i was i wanted to quit. My mother and father wouldn't let me quit and pushed me until i began to see progress in my game. When i started to realize that i was a pretty decent basketball player was around 7th or 8th grade, i still played on my aau team but i also played for my school team and a team in Dolton. i was begging to think i could i possibly play in college because high school coachs would approach me after games and calling my mother and telling her about open gyms and how they wanted me to come practice with them. i got into whintey young and everything seemed perfect until my first quarter report card of freshmen year which included all f's. after my beyond atrocious start at whintey i was infored that if i wanted to play basketball for them i had to bring my grades up. seeing as i didnt really want to work hard for basketball anymore i gave up and that was then end of my basketball career. 

thankful for a classmate

I feel like if i pick one classmate over the other then their will be a riot in the class room, so i am thank for Kene, Sam, Vicky, Tyrone, Xavier, and Domonique. Im thankful for all my classmates but this group i have a stronger connection with because i have known them all from a substantial amount of time and they have aided me in my time of need. I've known kene since sophomore year and i have been over his house countless times and been through many odd situations with him. Sam and Vicky have two of my best friends since the age of 3. we have been going to the same school together for the past 14 years. We have grown apart these last couple years because their schedules are filled with basketball games and tournaments and i chose to take a different path. I meet ty in 8th grade, he joined my aau basketball team which already included Sam and every since then he has been a loyal friend to me and is the best dancer I know. Domonique was one of the first people i meet when i came to whintey young, i was introduced to him in the summer of my freshmen year also through basketball. Xavier "the rock" Joy has been my friend since he arrived at whintey, there isnt a special story of how i met him its just he knew the same people i knew at school so we became good friends.

Direction the class needs

when this blog was assigned the class was in shambles. mr mccarthy wasnt able to deal with our rambunctiousness and at times would appear to be one of the students in class with his constant bickering between him and the students. now the class seems to be on track and we are making an extensive amount of progress from the begging  of the year. Were all able to hold hold knowledgeable conversations because we are given the appropriate information. fellow classmates challenge our reasoning which causes us to sit and think and re evaluate the statements we have made. the only thing we as a class need to work on are our blogs. after the mlk day blogs and we all actually realized how far behind we are im sure everybody will make a valiant effort to finish these things. the movies we have watched have been very eye opening and i hope we continue to watch these documentaries because it has shed new light on me and shown me things i would have never seen on my own. initially i thought this class would be a waste of my time and it would be filled with constant bickering between mr mccarthy and myself but now i feel me and him have come to somewhat of an understanding and are able to tolerate each other much better then i would have imagined.