D Brock's Online Journal

In the UK there are a lot of the people living in poverty some due to the fact of being homeless. We ignore them and push them out of our everyday life . I don’t understand why people in our society do this to the less fortunate people who are just like us in some ways. One thing is for certain, poverty is definitely a problem in the UK.

For example homelessness. In London there were more then 8000 rough sleepers during 2015/16. The number has more than doubled over the last five years, but not all of these rough sleepers were jobless. But you can definitely say that the number of homeless people are growing and it needs to stop.

Another problem in the UK is food poverty, in 2012/13 the trussle trust food bank provided over 350,000 people with in the UK with a food parcel this number has more then doubled over the last year. Another way that you can be poverty that is related to food is that if you have to take free school meals, the reason for having to have a free school meal is that if your parents don’t work or if they don’t have enough money to send you to school with meal. And statistics show that if you have a free school meal you are more likely to fail your GCSE’s.

The people that you are about to meet are invisible, people don’t talk about them that much but they are still here. We ignore them and push them out of our everyday life, i don’t understand why the people in our society do this to the less fortunate people that our just like us in many ways. I can see why some people push certain people out of there life but not everyone is the same i think that everyone should get a chance to prove them self in society, what i mean by prove them self is that they should get a chance to show the people that they can function just as well as any other person living there normal life.

In a bedsit in south London, I sit talking to Michael. Until last year, Michael had a steady job but was made redundant due to staffing costs. I ask him how he is coping with being made redundant and he replied with. ” I’m coping fine because i had quit a bit of money saved up from when i was working but i’m soon going to run

2 things that Cedric struggled with in Ballou high was that

• He had to go through his education being bullied.
• He didn’t fit in with any of the crowds so that ment he didnt have any friends.

The way that some of the struggles that Cedric has in Ballou high compare whith the struggles at MIT is that in both of the school’s  he is struggling.

Comparing words are used to link sentence.

First one uses a race to say that he is behind on work whereas the second quote shows how being a minority means trying even harder than normal.

Suskind uses the metaphor of a race to suggests that Cedric is behind work because in a race you have to try your hardest to catch up with the pack however he uses the metaphor of extra baggage to suggest that just because of his race he had to try harder.

1. the misfit killed the grandmother
2. The misfit had escaped from prison
3. All of the family died

What I think makes a good character is someone whonis interesting and mysterious and brings the story together.

Background story Put in prison and he doesn’t know why.

Unpredictable, interesting personality trait. The writer allows him to be a criminal.

Knowing more about the misfit helps is the relate with him

His actions make him unpredictable

What makes the misfits speech interesting is that he uses manners and if he was a escaped convicted he wouldn’t be speaking with manners.

Flannery O’Conner makes and interesting character out of the misfit by giving him a interesting background we can tell this by when he he explains how he is a fugitive, also another thing that makes his background interesting is that children make him nervous and how his presents were as people. Another thing that makes the misfit a interesting character is that he is unpredictable. We can tell that he is unpredictable by the way he acts because we dont know what he is going to do an example of this is when the grandmother touches him on the shoulder and he jumps back and shoots her, also he starts to draw on the ground with his gun which would be really unsettling for the people around him.

‘get in, get out. don’t linger. Go on’

I think that he ment get into the story get out of the story so it quickly and then keep on reading.

this makes me want to read on because I want to know more about him and why he classes him self as not a bad guy.

We find out that Nilda is the narrators brothers girlfriend.

this tells us that one of the brothers didn’t do something in the past and he didn’t do it because of his brother.

In this essay i will be presenting the difficulties of Cedric’s education in part 1 & part 2. This story is about a boy that goes to a school called Ballou high and in this school he finds it hard to get his work done but he finds the time to get it done in his own time and he gets a chance at MIT, Ron Suskind uses various types of language techniques such as metaphor, similes and personification to help him put across Cedric’s struggles.

One technique Ron Suskind uses is metaphor he uses this when he says, ‘the arduous odyssey of Cedric’.Here, the writer compares Cedric and Odysseus. Just like Odysseus, Cedric has to make his way through school just like how Odysseus made his way back from the Trojan war. Also, Odysseus has to battle monsters on the way back from the Trojan war just like how Cedric has to battle with the other kids and the teachers so that he will get a better education.

another langue technique that Ron Suskind uses is personification. He uses this when he says ‘failure is persuasive here even seductive’ what I think he means by this is that failure in Ballou high is a normal thing and that it is easy to fail. the word persuasive suggests that the students in Ballou high don’t want to fail but the school and the people with in the school and make the students fail. the things that make the students fail in Ballou high is most of the other student and some of the teachers but also the area. The area would effect your education because if you live in a bad area or a dangerous area you might be scared to go outside and if you don’t go outside allot you won’t have a good social life and if you don’t have a good social life you wont be able to do good in school because you wont have any one to talk to and that could effect you school work.

A different quote that Ron Suskind uses but this time in the second part of the play is. ‘But where I start from is so far behind where some other kids are, I have to run twice the distance to catch up’. The language technique that Cedric uses is metaphor. This quote shows us how Cedric has to catch up with the other student who have come from richer and more fortunate families by ‘ running twice the distance’. we can see this from when Cedric says ‘ i have to run twice the distance’. Here, Suskind uses the terms related to a race – ‘distance’, ‘catch up’ – because he is racing against the other students at MIT to get a better education and to secure his spot in MIT.

Another quote that Ron Suskind uses is ‘ Being a minority and a high achiever means you have to carry extra baggage about who you are, and where you belong. That puts them at risk’. The language technique the Ron Suskin uses in this quote is Metaphor. In this quote the writer describes how being a minority means you have to be at least better then the white American to be respected in MIT. The part were Cedric says ‘carrying extra baggage is a way of saying that because he is from a poor community and the fact that he is black and in MIT most of the student that attend MIT are white And the fact that Cedric is black that is the metaphorical extra baggage. And the fact that Ron Suskind describes Cedric’s journey through high school and out of his bad area, from his bad area all the way to MIT. If you have extra baggage it is going to be harder for you to make it to you destination that being MIT for Cedric. Also if Cedric is held back by his extra baggage he is going to find it harder to get a better education the all of the white kids that attend MIT.

what i am trying to do is test how long it takes for  paper helicopters to hit the ground when it is droped from a certen hight and then how long it takes with paper clips attached to the the equipment

equipement

• Ruler we are using a ruler to mesure how high we are going to drop the paper helicopter
• Clamp we are using a clamp to hold the thre ruler in place

Repetition can be used for effect.

The blacker the berry the sweeter the juice. The darker you are the better you are.         Perhaps he is saying people stand out.         The repetition is used to empthisize the key point If being black is positive.

This song critisizes the reel by talking about how It is good to be black.

The reel is a concept created by academic, MK Asante. He uses it to explain why hip-hop has changed lyrically. In the beginning, hip-hop talked about what happened in New York Brooklyn in 1970 when hip-hop started. At the start of hip-hop all of the emcee’s were rapping about social issues. Social issues in music where mostly black people talking about how there was police brutality and other stuff like that. It became popular and then all of the big labels started to buy them and after the big labels started buying them the sound of the music had changed to suit the audience: the surburban white kids. The surburban white kids were the main audience because they didn’t know what it was like to be a black person, what police brutality was and what it was like living on the streets. However, according to Flores (1998), white suburbia enjoyed listening to these topics in order to have a feel of what it was like. Because of this, the record labels changed the way the music sounded to suit the audience.

One of the emcees we have been studying is Mick jenkings the point he is trying to put across with the song martyrs is that life for black people is hard and we know this because in the song he says that he is hanging on for dear life and that means that he is struggling to live because it is harder to live as a black person in mordern day america. And the word hanging in hanging on for dear life relates to lynching that hapend in the slavery times which was making black slaves jump from a tree while they where attached to a gallows which resulted in them dying.

Another emcee we have studied is Kendrick Lamar and the song that we listened to was The blacker the berry the sweeter the juice and in this song he is talking about Trayvon martin he  was a young man who got killed by a police officer and the point that he didn’t do any thing to deserve being killed was put across and they put his death down to police brutality. After that Kendrick Lamar decided to make a song about police brutality.  One of the verses in the song says “the blacker the berry the sweeter the juice” this means that the blacker or darker you are the better your life is going to be but the only reason he said this is because at this time their was a lot of bad stuff happening to black people on the streets of America and he said this to help them get through those  tough times.

Another emcee we have look at is Akala and in his song he talks about how chlidren want to become a rapper and get lots of money, girls and guns.

Running high from police/ throw the nine in the sewer.

Fuck 911 pic don’t come.

Dad did time cos he said drug for me.

First the good years screech then you hear that drum.

Had Janari on the streets till the sun came up.