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Dairy Entry #2
Guns, money, gangs, sex, power. Is that what everyone wants out of life? That’s not what i want. I want to get get married become a lawyer, raise a family. My husband and I will be able to take care of our family.
Everyone wants tattoo’s or per icings. I want them too, but not for the same reasons. Why does everyone have the same tattoos? Same cloths? Same hair styles? Most girls have weave, fake nails, fake body. My question is, why can’t you be yourself.
Journal Entry 12/17
I’ve always wanted to be the girl that always a had a hot boyfriend that was everything. I always wanted to feel loved and held tightly. But that never happen. I had plenty of boyfriends, but none really fit my “list”. I always wanted a boyfriend, that was just like the husband of a Tyler Perry movie.
I got the reputation of being a boyfriend stealer at school. Thats not true. If your boyfriend loves you he wouldn’t leave you. Thats not all, I get along better with guys. I don’t really like girls.
March 16,2011
Who am I? That is a question everyone wants to know. I can say I am Danielle, but will that answer their question.
I live in what people call the Mix Suburbs. I live on Penn Campus family section. My father works for Penn part time, while my mother attended Grad and medical school. When people ask where I live i say Univ.. City. I am the only Black person within 3 blocks of my house.
My neighbors think of black people in a different point of view. Some think all blacks are bad, but when we moved in their views changed. Since i’ve been exposed to these types of things , i believe it makes me a stronger person. I feel like i can achieve anything .
December 2, 2010
Personally I do not care about fitting in. Cliques are mainly for people that don’t do their own thing. I have tried to fit in many times, but it never felt right. I tried a group, but it was for rich people. My family is middle class. The clic i wanted to join, wear all types of stuff, when I only wore Gap clothing. My parents were very disappointed in what I decided.
I learned that fitting in is not important. As long as your you. If all you have anything that you really need to do, just be you. Not what people want you to be. Just do your own thing.
The Odyssey Compare/Contrast Essay
Penelope was born to Prince Icarius and Periboea. Periboea had to hide her daughter at birth, because she had given birth to a Girl, instead of a boy which her husband prefer. Once Icarius discover he had a daughter, he threw the baby into sea to drown. In her adult hood she was asked for hand in marriage. Odysseus her husband was to battle in the Trojan war since he was king. The Trojan War took 10 years, plus 10 more years to get home. For the past 20 years Penelope stayed faithful to her absent husband. Not knowing if her husband was dead or alive. Penelope decide to make a deal with the suitors if they allowed her to weave a shroud for her father-in-law, she would consider marriage. Secretly she would unravel her work nightly. Three long years went by and no one notice her secret. Until Penelope servant revealed her secret. After a while, it was time for Penelope to announce who she was going to marry. Penelope decided, who ever can shoot an arrow through a row of 12 ax heads she would marry that one suitor. Penelope’s husband has been out of her life for 20 Years. Could he be dead, missing, or worse taken by the gods. This myth to me, is like any other T.V show. Many people could be going through the same thing, as Penelope went through. What she did, many people would have never done. Rich, nice, caring suitors throwing themselves at you. Who wouldn’t take that?
Why did Penelope wait so long, to try to attempt to remarry a suitor. There were 140 suitors more or less. Why couldn’t she just marry one. Is there something that Penelope felt, did she feel that Odysseus was still alive. What made her pretend to take three years to create a shroud? There are so many question that I want to ask Penelope. Why did she do what she did. She Probably thought she never see Odysseus ever again, only in her dreams she’d think he come back. If thats so, then Penelope dreams came true.
Bibliography
Myth Encyclopedia
http://www.mythencyclopedia.com/Pa-Pr/Penelope.html
Spark Notes
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/odyssey/section1.rhtml
Independent Reading Review
Read My Lips, Teri Brown.
Read My Lips, is not a bestseller or has won any awards. Its is also a great book. It deserves an award. It honestly such a great book. Lastly this book was published by a wonderful publisher, Simon Pulse.
Read My Lips, is a book about a teen girl named Serena. Serena just moved out from a small town into a suburbs area. Sarena family wanted to be closer to family, so they moved over 1, 000 miles closer to family. Sarena wanted what every other teen wanted, to fit in well to a new school. There was only one problem, Sarena was deaf. She wasn’t completely deaf, but she could also read lips. She made friends with the wrong crowd. Sarena had been invited to eat lunch with the most popular girls in the school, by a girl name Rachel. There are many girls in the group, Rachel, Sonya, Patrice, Kelly, and Kayla. Sarena can read the lips of other people to figure out what they say. Many people say Sarena has an-eye for Gossip. Sonya realized what Sarena’s talent can do to the clique. That’s when the conflict begins. Many students don’t expect a deaf girl to be in the most popular group. Its take other girls years to get into this “clique”, but only took Sarena a couple weeks. Once people start to find out that Sarena is the roots of all the gossip, drama is born. By the end of the book Sarena feels like the whole school, including her so called “friends” turned against her. My favorite charter was Miller. Miller ends up being Sarena’s Boyfriend. Miller was also called a school rebel. He is the type of guy that will do whatever he can do in his power, but he's also the type of guy that stays out of drama. Teri Brown reaches out to all types of people, mainly teens. In my personal view, I learn from other mistakes. This book was a learning lesson for me. I’m not saying I can read lips. But it teaches teens to not spread everything.
The way Teri Brown wrote the book, I can’t relate to. The story was meant from one teen’s stand point of life. There are many more. I don’t go to a suburban school, or hang with the wrong crowd. I have my own crowd, which is me. I am me. Serena was also her. We do have similaties, such as finding ourselves through many wrong roads.
This book had many strengths. I’m the type of person to learn from other’s mistakes. Serena taught me who is a real friend and who isn’t. Teri Brown showed teens from wrong to right in a creative way. In a way people would be interested. Such as safe sex, true friends, drugs, and also behavior at school. One weakness that I noticed was how the girls treat themselves, and other around them. How they weren’t respectful to themselves.
I would recommend this book to girl groups. Groups that are created for teen girls , just to sit and talk. It could also treat them a lesson like it did to me. M ay other people learn from other mistakes. This book can also help prevent things that happen in movies. Such as the movie Mean Girls. Many things happen in that movie that also happen in other schools. If girls would read this book and not only take it in, but believe it, a lot can be changed.
Memior Vignette
I was never always who I wanted to be. I was scared to show who I really was. Scared someone would judge me, or disrespect me. I thought I had to be like everyone else. Scared to tell people things, like I model or play a lot of sports.
Now I can do or say anything, without fear holding me back. “Now starting this week, there will be High Schools coming from all over Philadelphia. I hope you all are excited to see different High schools.” This is what my Middle school consular said to me. I can promise you I wanted to smack the life back into her. I wasn’t trying to go to a new school and start over. I was just trying to figure out who I was. Finding me. During this whole process of picking the 5 schools. I thought I was going to die. Shadowing was the worst. All the other schools expect for one, were not where I wanted to be. Most of the students didn’t look serious, and they were so “perfect”. SLA. That’s the school where I found myself. I could see myself attending the school. I was floating on a cloud when I shadowed.
Months through the wait of an acceptance letter. I was still so attached to SLA that I had disconnected myself from Penn Alexander, the school I was attending at the time. I wasn’t well liked. I was myself and no one else. People didn’t really understand that. Why be like everyone else. It makes no sense. Everyone was mad to be themselves; your “creator” Created you as yourself not anyone else. That really upset me.
Next came shadowing. I asked, begged, bribed so I wouldn’t have to go. But that didn’t happen. I was nervous. I had butterflies all in my stomach. SHOOT! I WAS SCARED! I went to the office with my mom, feeling like a pre-schooler on their first day of school. “Why did I apply to a school that had shadowing?” I asked my mother. As usual she ignored me, she does that when she thinks I said something stupid. “Danielle Little, you’re here to shadow correct?” Asked some lady from behind a counter. I know she can’t be the Sectary, they don’t wear jeans. Next thing I knew, this girl also named Danielle says I am her “Shadow”. Shadow…So I follow the person around like a shadow, this school gets weirder. The hallways were huge! SO MANY KIDS! SO TALL! Holy Crap, there was a hand coming my way. Next thing that hits me are people calling me shadow. Let me get one thing right into your head. My name is not shadow. My mother didn’t name me shadow. It’s Danielle. Not shadow.
“Danielle how was it,” My mother asked.
“It was a great school. Very nice. Different school, people, and teachers. But I think I will blend in well. “ I replied excitedly. I talked non-stop the whole way home. I felt connected, like I was going back tomorrow. I actually woke up thinking I was going back to SLA. I couldn’t wait. Couldn’t wait till get accepted, to finally fit in, have a new start.
Oh shit! Im about to poop my pants, I was so scared! There were so many kids; TALL, short, black, white, orange and tanned. Saying hello once again. For me, this was my first hello actually attending this school. I saw a girl that looked like me…She looked like me from behind. She had locs, tall, dark skinned. She was very pretty. Later I learned her name after 35 weeks. Her name was Ayo-ola. I remember a girl named Morgan Taylor. Morgan and I grew up together. It was so nice to see her again I felt like I could make it through. I could be myself. Not be ashamed of who I was. Who Danielle Little is. I was especially happy that I have a close friend that also had locs.
One month In this can feel like I’ve been here for 4 years. I made great friends. You can tell that Mr. Lehmann picked certain kids for a reason. Everyone in this school are not like anyone else. There is something that makes them different. No one follows anyone. Everyone is who they are. I feel that everyone knows me for who I really am. They don’t know the fake Danielle, they know the real one. The crazy, hyper, odd, nicest, caring Danielle Little there is.
Along with people knowing who I really am, I met some really great people. New Best Friends, People that understand me. But there is this one person that stood out to me. Lets call him “Blue Eyeshadow”. Blue Eyeshadow is 3 years older than me, but he is different. He is not the type that just wants that one thing. We talk everyday, we find someway.
Through Facebook, Ichat, Texting, or even in person. He is just amazing. Met no one like him Many people are like, Okay? Its just another guy. Well If you could see through my eyes you could also say, I can see her marrying him. Well all know guys aren’t into Married. I'm telling you I started looking at engagement rings, wedding dresses, bridesmaids. I’m a whole flight of steps ahead of the world. You ever read a book, and you wanted to know what happen so you asked your friends that read it. That's love you always want to know how it ends, and you get your friends to help you through it.
Overall, I love high school. Especially since i met “Blue Eyeshadow”. He made it all better. He helped me though a lot of stuff. Everything. One point in time i gave him the silence treatment for about 1 month. Christmas day, I swear was the magical day, where the happiness started. We text for 29 hrs. straight, while I was on a train to Chicago. Sigh, those were the days. I have some of our chats that really mean a lot save in a special folder for you. You got me going crazy. You taught me how to love, how to handle no bullshit, how to be real, you open my eyes to the world.
Two, SLA defined me. I am very happy i applied, got accepted, and chose yo be at SLA. I had a huge hole in my heart, ready to be filled. Now, ever since September 7, 2010 its been filled. I found myself.
Dairy Entry #2
Guns, money, gangs, sex, power. Is that what everyone wants out of life? That’s not what i want. I want to get get married become a lawyer, raise a family. My husband and I will be able to take care of our family.
Everyone wants tattoo’s or per icings. I want them too, but not for the same reasons. Why does everyone have the same tattoos? Same cloths? Same hair styles? Most girls have weave, fake nails, fake body. My question is, why can’t you be yourself.
Journal Entry 12/17
I’ve always wanted to be the girl that always a had a hot boyfriend that was everything. I always wanted to feel loved and held tightly. But that never happen. I had plenty of boyfriends, but none really fit my “list”. I always wanted a boyfriend, that was just like the husband of a Tyler Perry movie.
I got the reputation of being a boyfriend stealer at school. Thats not true. If your boyfriend loves you he wouldn’t leave you. Thats not all, I get along better with guys. I don’t really like girls.
March 16,2011
Who am I? That is a question everyone wants to know. I can say I am Danielle, but will that answer their question.
I live in what people call the Mix Suburbs. I live on Penn Campus family section. My father works for Penn part time, while my mother attended Grad and medical school. When people ask where I live i say Univ.. City. I am the only Black person within 3 blocks of my house.
My neighbors think of black people in a different point of view. Some think all blacks are bad, but when we moved in their views changed. Since i’ve been exposed to these types of things , i believe it makes me a stronger person. I feel like i can achieve anything .
December 2, 2010
Personally I do not care about fitting in. Cliques are mainly for people that don’t do their own thing. I have tried to fit in many times, but it never felt right. I tried a group, but it was for rich people. My family is middle class. The clic i wanted to join, wear all types of stuff, when I only wore Gap clothing. My parents were very disappointed in what I decided.
I learned that fitting in is not important. As long as your you. If all you have anything that you really need to do, just be you. Not what people want you to be. Just do your own thing.
The Odyssey Compare/Contrast Essay
Penelope was born to Prince Icarius and Periboea. Periboea had to hide her daughter at birth, because she had given birth to a Girl, instead of a boy which her husband prefer. Once Icarius discover he had a daughter, he threw the baby into sea to drown. In her adult hood she was asked for hand in marriage. Odysseus her husband was to battle in the Trojan war since he was king. The Trojan War took 10 years, plus 10 more years to get home. For the past 20 years Penelope stayed faithful to her absent husband. Not knowing if her husband was dead or alive. Penelope decide to make a deal with the suitors if they allowed her to weave a shroud for her father-in-law, she would consider marriage. Secretly she would unravel her work nightly. Three long years went by and no one notice her secret. Until Penelope servant revealed her secret. After a while, it was time for Penelope to announce who she was going to marry. Penelope decided, who ever can shoot an arrow through a row of 12 ax heads she would marry that one suitor. Penelope’s husband has been out of her life for 20 Years. Could he be dead, missing, or worse taken by the gods. This myth to me, is like any other T.V show. Many people could be going through the same thing, as Penelope went through. What she did, many people would have never done. Rich, nice, caring suitors throwing themselves at you. Who wouldn’t take that?
Why did Penelope wait so long, to try to attempt to remarry a suitor. There were 140 suitors more or less. Why couldn’t she just marry one. Is there something that Penelope felt, did she feel that Odysseus was still alive. What made her pretend to take three years to create a shroud? There are so many question that I want to ask Penelope. Why did she do what she did. She Probably thought she never see Odysseus ever again, only in her dreams she’d think he come back. If thats so, then Penelope dreams came true.
Bibliography
Myth Encyclopedia
http://www.mythencyclopedia.com/Pa-Pr/Penelope.html
Spark Notes
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/odyssey/section1.rhtml
Independent Reading Review
Read My Lips, Teri Brown.
Read My Lips, is not a bestseller or has won any awards. Its is also a great book. It deserves an award. It honestly such a great book. Lastly this book was published by a wonderful publisher, Simon Pulse.
Read My Lips, is a book about a teen girl named Serena. Serena just moved out from a small town into a suburbs area. Sarena family wanted to be closer to family, so they moved over 1, 000 miles closer to family. Sarena wanted what every other teen wanted, to fit in well to a new school. There was only one problem, Sarena was deaf. She wasn’t completely deaf, but she could also read lips. She made friends with the wrong crowd. Sarena had been invited to eat lunch with the most popular girls in the school, by a girl name Rachel. There are many girls in the group, Rachel, Sonya, Patrice, Kelly, and Kayla. Sarena can read the lips of other people to figure out what they say. Many people say Sarena has an-eye for Gossip. Sonya realized what Sarena’s talent can do to the clique. That’s when the conflict begins. Many students don’t expect a deaf girl to be in the most popular group. Its take other girls years to get into this “clique”, but only took Sarena a couple weeks. Once people start to find out that Sarena is the roots of all the gossip, drama is born. By the end of the book Sarena feels like the whole school, including her so called “friends” turned against her. My favorite charter was Miller. Miller ends up being Sarena’s Boyfriend. Miller was also called a school rebel. He is the type of guy that will do whatever he can do in his power, but he's also the type of guy that stays out of drama. Teri Brown reaches out to all types of people, mainly teens. In my personal view, I learn from other mistakes. This book was a learning lesson for me. I’m not saying I can read lips. But it teaches teens to not spread everything.
The way Teri Brown wrote the book, I can’t relate to. The story was meant from one teen’s stand point of life. There are many more. I don’t go to a suburban school, or hang with the wrong crowd. I have my own crowd, which is me. I am me. Serena was also her. We do have similaties, such as finding ourselves through many wrong roads.
This book had many strengths. I’m the type of person to learn from other’s mistakes. Serena taught me who is a real friend and who isn’t. Teri Brown showed teens from wrong to right in a creative way. In a way people would be interested. Such as safe sex, true friends, drugs, and also behavior at school. One weakness that I noticed was how the girls treat themselves, and other around them. How they weren’t respectful to themselves.
I would recommend this book to girl groups. Groups that are created for teen girls , just to sit and talk. It could also treat them a lesson like it did to me. M ay other people learn from other mistakes. This book can also help prevent things that happen in movies. Such as the movie Mean Girls. Many things happen in that movie that also happen in other schools. If girls would read this book and not only take it in, but believe it, a lot can be changed.
Memior Vignette
I was never always who I wanted to be. I was scared to show who I really was. Scared someone would judge me, or disrespect me. I thought I had to be like everyone else. Scared to tell people things, like I model or play a lot of sports.
Now I can do or say anything, without fear holding me back. “Now starting this week, there will be High Schools coming from all over Philadelphia. I hope you all are excited to see different High schools.” This is what my Middle school consular said to me. I can promise you I wanted to smack the life back into her. I wasn’t trying to go to a new school and start over. I was just trying to figure out who I was. Finding me. During this whole process of picking the 5 schools. I thought I was going to die. Shadowing was the worst. All the other schools expect for one, were not where I wanted to be. Most of the students didn’t look serious, and they were so “perfect”. SLA. That’s the school where I found myself. I could see myself attending the school. I was floating on a cloud when I shadowed.
Months through the wait of an acceptance letter. I was still so attached to SLA that I had disconnected myself from Penn Alexander, the school I was attending at the time. I wasn’t well liked. I was myself and no one else. People didn’t really understand that. Why be like everyone else. It makes no sense. Everyone was mad to be themselves; your “creator” Created you as yourself not anyone else. That really upset me.
Next came shadowing. I asked, begged, bribed so I wouldn’t have to go. But that didn’t happen. I was nervous. I had butterflies all in my stomach. SHOOT! I WAS SCARED! I went to the office with my mom, feeling like a pre-schooler on their first day of school. “Why did I apply to a school that had shadowing?” I asked my mother. As usual she ignored me, she does that when she thinks I said something stupid. “Danielle Little, you’re here to shadow correct?” Asked some lady from behind a counter. I know she can’t be the Sectary, they don’t wear jeans. Next thing I knew, this girl also named Danielle says I am her “Shadow”. Shadow…So I follow the person around like a shadow, this school gets weirder. The hallways were huge! SO MANY KIDS! SO TALL! Holy Crap, there was a hand coming my way. Next thing that hits me are people calling me shadow. Let me get one thing right into your head. My name is not shadow. My mother didn’t name me shadow. It’s Danielle. Not shadow.
“Danielle how was it,” My mother asked.
“It was a great school. Very nice. Different school, people, and teachers. But I think I will blend in well. “ I replied excitedly. I talked non-stop the whole way home. I felt connected, like I was going back tomorrow. I actually woke up thinking I was going back to SLA. I couldn’t wait. Couldn’t wait till get accepted, to finally fit in, have a new start.
Oh shit! Im about to poop my pants, I was so scared! There were so many kids; TALL, short, black, white, orange and tanned. Saying hello once again. For me, this was my first hello actually attending this school. I saw a girl that looked like me…She looked like me from behind. She had locs, tall, dark skinned. She was very pretty. Later I learned her name after 35 weeks. Her name was Ayo-ola. I remember a girl named Morgan Taylor. Morgan and I grew up together. It was so nice to see her again I felt like I could make it through. I could be myself. Not be ashamed of who I was. Who Danielle Little is. I was especially happy that I have a close friend that also had locs.
One month In this can feel like I’ve been here for 4 years. I made great friends. You can tell that Mr. Lehmann picked certain kids for a reason. Everyone in this school are not like anyone else. There is something that makes them different. No one follows anyone. Everyone is who they are. I feel that everyone knows me for who I really am. They don’t know the fake Danielle, they know the real one. The crazy, hyper, odd, nicest, caring Danielle Little there is.
Along with people knowing who I really am, I met some really great people. New Best Friends, People that understand me. But there is this one person that stood out to me. Lets call him “Blue Eyeshadow”. Blue Eyeshadow is 3 years older than me, but he is different. He is not the type that just wants that one thing. We talk everyday, we find someway.
Through Facebook, Ichat, Texting, or even in person. He is just amazing. Met no one like him Many people are like, Okay? Its just another guy. Well If you could see through my eyes you could also say, I can see her marrying him. Well all know guys aren’t into Married. I'm telling you I started looking at engagement rings, wedding dresses, bridesmaids. I’m a whole flight of steps ahead of the world. You ever read a book, and you wanted to know what happen so you asked your friends that read it. That's love you always want to know how it ends, and you get your friends to help you through it.
Overall, I love high school. Especially since i met “Blue Eyeshadow”. He made it all better. He helped me though a lot of stuff. Everything. One point in time i gave him the silence treatment for about 1 month. Christmas day, I swear was the magical day, where the happiness started. We text for 29 hrs. straight, while I was on a train to Chicago. Sigh, those were the days. I have some of our chats that really mean a lot save in a special folder for you. You got me going crazy. You taught me how to love, how to handle no bullshit, how to be real, you open my eyes to the world.
Two, SLA defined me. I am very happy i applied, got accepted, and chose yo be at SLA. I had a huge hole in my heart, ready to be filled. Now, ever since September 7, 2010 its been filled. I found myself.
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