Prison has become modern day slavery.

Lately I've been working on this project for Ms. Hegeman class which is social action of our choice. The social action that I really wanted to do was has prison is modern day slavery. I wanted to do this social action because while I was reading Beloved and Heart of Darkness they were talking about how prisoners were treated badly and were being used for cheap work. Reading these two books made me think about the system we have today and how they are setting up our youth for failure. The video that I made was showing how nothing really change within the criminal system and how in many ways it is still slavery. The video contains images showing how the bunks beds in prison looks similar to slave ships, how the both prisoners and slaves were chains around their ankles, wrist. and neck, and many more. (I don't want to give to much away because I want you guys to see it). Also the video contains statics such as how schools leads minorities to prison, and how the United States have more people in prison than any other country. The video is really inspiring because you really get to see how history really repeats itself. I was very surprised on how similar slavery and prison really is. Its sad to say that we live in a world where the people who are suppose to help and protect us are the main one's breaking African Americans and Latinos down. Our young males  today have been affected by this. They don't really see a care in the world anymore because this whole country is against them. School is becoming another thing to avoid because the school systems teach us how to depend on other people and work for someone else instead of teaching about our real history and motivating us to do better and why we should do better because the world we living is really a whites man. I really want people to sit down and actually see this video because this is an issue that keeps getting worser  by the day. To see the video go to my instagram and click the link in my bio or go to YouTube and type in kamali social action project.

Free write

So this morning started out a little rough. I had attitude because I was tired and I didn't feel like doing work. I tried falling asleep in class but Ms. Hegeman kept waking me up so I caught an attitude with her. I felt bad because Ms. Hegeman is nice to me so I went to apologize to her. Later on in the day things started to go well especially around 6 period because I found out that I got the Carlotii scholarship. I really wanted this scholarship because it comes with a Mac book and money for books..  This scholarship  will be helpful for me because I can use the money for my gap that I have and also go towards the loans that I need to take out. Besides that my day went well afterwards. I just couldn't believe that I really got it because whenever I went to go ask Mr. Lin about it he will always tell me that the man is still deciding because the essays were all good. After I had that I was like damn and started looking for other scholarships. I guess good things comes to those who wait because I was waiting patiently to hear back and things were able to work in my favor.

Other than the scholarship I am counting down the days for prom because it is coming right around the corner. I been waiting for prom since forever and it is finally coming.

Class Related Response

Right now in Ms. Hegeman class we are reading this book called Beloved, which is a little different from the other books we have read. Beloved is a book about slavery and how it had an impact on the life of a mother. Today we had a Socratic seminar and one of the questions that I found interesting was, was Sethe justified for killing Beloved. So basically in the book Sethe was mother who killed her daughter Beloved because she felt like it was the best thing to for her daughter's life. Some people felt as if Sethe was wrong because she didn't have to kill her instead do something else. I think for Sethe that was the only option for her because as a slave she really didn't have family because they were mostly separated. She believed that she would rather have a child died then being raped like she was. Sethe went through this traumatic experience of slavery and she would have felt guilty if she was to  put her daughter through the same experience as her knowing what was coming for her.

Some people felt like Sethe was wrong for killing Beloved a I do too as well. I agree with why she decide to kill her child, but I also feel like she could have did something differently then killing a little child. In the book, you get see how Beloved the daughter holds some kind of grudge against her mom because in one of the chapters she started choking her mom. This shows that Beloved is still holding on to some kind of revenge.

Personal Finance

In Ms. Tomlin class we are talking  about personal finance and what would we do if we won $10 million dollars. Personally I already know that I would go crazy and try to buy the things that I like or always wanted. I know some people would say " oh I'm still going to be the same person" and I don't think that is really true because I really believe the money could change. We read this article about a woman who won the lottery in Canada and it was $10 million dollars. She went crazy with the money she was paying people bails, rents, going on exotic trips, buying a lot of cars, and going on shopping sprees. She didn't even notice how crazy she was spending her money til she found herself riding the bus again and sleeping in an apartment that she didn't even own. If I ever won $10 million dollars i would go crazy too, but not to the point where I would go broke again. I will first buy the things that I need like a house for me and my sisters, a car for me and my mom. Put money in the bank and pay for my college education because I am still going to go to college. I will stretch my money because it's easy to spend money rather than saving it. I will make sure that I build up from that money. I kind of bad for that women cause I know she like damn. she is probably regretting all the bails and rent she paid for people and I bet those people don't even talk to her no more. She don't even have her cars no more not even one so now she has to ride the bus. This type of thing makes me want to save money because if I'm going to have a lot of money and then throw it all away on material things then wants the point of having money in the first place. 

Rnadom Blog

Okay so things are starting to wire down and all I can think about is what am I going to do with myself.  I am glad that I'm graduating high school soon, but at the same time I feel like nothing is happening. This seniorities is really hitting me and I'm starting to get lazy especially with the college process. Some of ya may know that I really want to go to New Paltz and I haven't heard form them back yet and I'm starting to lose hope. Is like I'm trying not to think about it too much and kind of go with the flow but it just on my mind a lot. I am trying my hardest to stay positive but Im nervous. Also i just received my finiacial aid package to Cazenovia and it was the worst package. I mean this think that im going to pay 10.000 dollars out my pocket they bugging out. That school is not even all that to be paying that much money. I just hope that whatever school i  go to they give a good ass finicail aid package because i'm trying to pay as little as possible. Besides all the thinking and over stressing I am still excited about prom and graduation. I just can't wait to be done even tho the work never stops because right when i'm finished with school I have to back to school but its going to be way different.  

Anyways I guess thats all I have to talk about right now and I see ya later

So in Mr. Washington class we are watching  a movie called Higher Learning, and it deals with a lot of different things such as racism, security on campus, and rape on a college campus. The movie is really interesting because the main character Malik starts to realize that the world is ruled by white people and that the system is designed to keep black people down. One scene that was really sad was one one of the freshmen girl I forgot her name her name got raped. She was at some party with her friends and she was drinking, so there was this boy and they want to some room and started kissing and whatever. Then they were about to have sex and the girl was telling the boy to go get a condom and the boy didn't  want to. So the boy got on top of her and started riding her and she was screaming and crying for him to get off but he kept going. Another part that was interesting was when a group of white girls were walking to a party and they were talking about their roommates and one of the girls said that her roommate was Mexican and she probably got into the school through a scholarship. The movies shows the reality that happens on a college campus. There will be racism it might not always be directly in your face but it does happen in college. Also day rape is another issue in college because some colleges don't really handle the situation good and leave most girls feeling like they did something wrong. All in all the movie is good and everyone should watch it.

Pride and Prejudice

In Ms. Hegeman class we are reading a book called Pride & Prejudice, and it is surrounded by several themes such as family, wealth, inheritance, love and marriage. One thing that stood out to me about this book or the time period of the book was that if a wealthy man had all daughters and no son when he dies his wealth or money does not get passed down to his girls, rather it will go to his nephew if he has any or any boy/male figure in his family. In the book marrying a rich man was a must for some females . Mrs. Bennet wanted her daughter Elizabeth to marry Mr. Collins who was rich and was going to have her fathers house when he dies. Elizabeth refused to marry him and her mother was not happy at all. She got so upset that she decided not to talk to Elizabeth and called her ungrateful. This to me is just crazy because as a mom she shouldn't teach her daughter that money comes before love in a marriage. The fact that she doesn't want to speak to her daughter shows that wealth is too important. I respect Elizabeth decision for rejected the marriage because whats the point of marrying someone if ya barely know each let alone love each other. I understand that Mrs. Bennet want the best for her daughters and want them to be well taken care of, but that is just stupid to turn on your daughter just because she doesn't want to marry. So far the book is good tho, you get to see the different perspectives on marriage, and you also see which characters value marriage and which one just want to marry based on money and wealth.