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.

http://www.whitehousehistory.org/04/subs/04_b_1812.html

Symbols mean a lot to us. We create symbols because they are usually of remembrance and importance of an event that happened. When we look at them we should remember when and where that event happened or occurred. People need symbols to remember things; good times, bad times or something that you just want to be able to recall years from now. I think the American Flag would be considered a symbol because it reminds us of the freedom of our country. The stars represent the 50 states that have become of America. If we didn’t have freedom, we wouldn’t have our own independent country and 50 states of our own to go along with it. Everyone idolizes the American Flag to remind us what our country has become and what it used to be, the flag is one of the things we have  a country that reminds us in a symbol in our history and journey of freedom.

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