In this blog we have to crate rules that we would enforce if we were head of immigration offices:
1.) You can’t carry foreign disease
2.) You have to be able to get a job
3.) You have to have a purpose for coming to America
4.) Should be able to communicate and learn some English
5.) No criminal records
My relationship of a lifetime is with my brother. Although me and my brother fight, a lot, i don’t know what i would do without him. he is in my life everyday and e everyday i am thankful that i have him. Being 2 years apart is hard because your kind of the same but then at the same time, I’m always the younger one and he’ll always be the older one of the two of us. I know that i only have one brother and no other siblings so for me to take the chance of loosing him would be devastating. I’ll have my brother for my whole life so i have to live with him forever i might as well get along with him for as long as possible. If he ever went out of my life i would be very sad so i am very thankful of him. Me and my brother do a lot together and who i am today is part of who he is because i constantly am learning from him and learning from his mistakes whether it be in school or what and what not to do or what to say to my parents. I tend to copy a lot what he does because he is my number 1 role model. He has a lot of potential to be what he wants to be and i idolize that part of him. My brother changes my life everyday and i don’t know what I’d do without him.
So in class today, we were asked to translate the first verse of the Star Spangled Banner. We had to look up what each phrase and means and make it into modern day words. The song was originally written my Francsis Scott Key and it is to the tune of a song the men used to drink to back when it was made. I’ll put the original son below and then what I came up with for the “modern day” Star Spangled Banner.
Oh, say can you see by the dawn’s early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
Can you see the early morning light
We admire the last sunrise
The flags big stripes and shiny stars, though the hazardous fight
Over the mountains we watched spiritedly flowing
The rockets blowing up, bombs blowing up in the air
The fact that the flag was still there through the fight, it gave us proof
The flag still waves
America is freedom, and is the home of the brave ones
We watched a movie in class today about the War of 1812 and we had to pick someone or something to write this blog about. I chose Dolley Madison as someone to write my blog about. They said in the movie that she was a very respectful first lady, and she brought out the best in her husband, the president at the time, James Madison. During the war of 1812, the British were coming to invade Washington so Dolley heard from her husband to leave the White House. Dolley had said that she didn’t want to leave until the portrait of George Washington was taken down and saved from the British. I think that she was a brave woman for doing this and it took courage to do it. If she hadn’t saved the picture, painted by Gilburt Stuart there would have been no George Washington painting today. She is a heroic woman in our history.