8^th blog of this project 11-15-14

The question that i want to answer is: What would you do if you were in the same situation as Luther Standing Bear? And I encourage everyone who is reading this to respond to the same question. I think that I would have been somewhat silent; I have been pushed into situation that were similar to this and have seen myself respond in the way of just being silent. What is happening is that you have been taken away from your family that you lived with through your entire life, and all of a sudden you get taken away from them. During your transportation to your boarding school, people were laughing at you, grown up people laughing at you being a little kid. I think these are the times were you really find out which people are born leaders; they will take it upon themselves to protect the rest of the group.  Another question that I think is important to answer is if you would be rebellious or just defeated. I think personally that I would still talk the language that I was born and raised with. I have the same point of view in that I think that culture dies of if it is not used. It would be all the things that you grew up as seeing as something you could always relate to that all of a sudden just get stolen from you. You do not have a father figure that you can ask advice from; you do not have your mother that you can ask if you need some help. All get taken from you and you are given new clothes. A new name and basically a completely new “American” identity.

7^th blog of this project 10-26-14

This past week in one of Mr. Hoffman’s classes he told us that Abraham Lincoln was also known as “The Rail-Splitter after he told us this he also told us that, that was because that was his profession before becoming a president. Which to me was totally new, I did not know this. I Denmark we once had a really good president whose job before becoming a president was being a cigar roller. This is just a couple of stories about how everything is possible. This to me is why a democracy is the only way to lead a country. Just having the opportunity to come from nothing to something that big. This reminds me that even though you might not be doing well in school or have problems at home, there will always be more chances. Tomorrow I have to re-take the American studies test because I got a 12 (Very bad grade); even though I got a bad grade Mr. Hoffman is letting me re-take it. I will probably not do any better, but to me just having Mr. Hoffman give me the opportunity to re-take it just makes me feel good, because that is what it is all about. Just keep on trying.

Which is what my point of this blog is, just to tell people that even though they make mistakes they can always rise again. You learn from your mistakes, so to all the people who are just dedicating their entire life to getting good grades, I just want to say: Live life!