May 9th 2011

Today was the last day in the class. We took our final at seven tonight. We watched DodgeBall, and had to explain the American Dream that the movie was portraying and of course we had to tie in race,class, and gender. It was a easy writing assignment, we had to only write a page. I thought the assignment was easy as a whole because I love that movie so much. I felt the hardest part was tying in the race. I did not think that the movie dealt with the race factor a whole a lot. It was more we are perfect and you are not, everyone should kill their selves to look like us. They also down play the power of females in this movie too. I hit on that in my paper.Thank you this was a wonderful class!

May 2, 2011

Today we did not have class, instead we went to listen to Rebecca Skloot, the author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. She is a lot more famous then I thought she was. Her book is going to be made into a movie produced by Oprah. Is was interesting listening to her stories that had been produced by hanging out with the family. It was really interesting to find out how long it took her to be accepted by some of the members. It is crazy to think that she still today has not gained all of the famlies trust. She was a very easy person to listen to speak. Her story was good. I thought that she was going to be boring and I dreaded going, but it was well worth it.

April 25

In class today we got out early. This was a first due to our teacher never lets us out early lol. We have one week until our paper is due. We have to type a twelve hundred word paper on the book, The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks. We have to pick out one of the major themes whether it be race,class, or gender. We have to have two outside sources. This should not be a hard assignment. I find myself angry when i think of the things that happened during this time period of the so called "separate but equal." It was anything but that. She had to be admitted to the colored ward at the only hospital in Baltimore to accept African Americans. Only two weeks left of school its grind time.