I always wondered why the Liberian flag looked so similar to the United Stadian flag. In doing research for a political science paper, I found out that Liberia was founded by free slaves from the United States back in the 1800's.
That explains not just the flag, but the NAME of the country as well.
Unfortunately, it seems that the indigenous Africans and the African Americans always felt a little tension in the area. It's kinda sad. Some say that the civil war that took place from 1989 to 2003 was a direct cause of the tensions between the groups.
The decade is almost over! I feel pretty good about what I've accomplished. I feel that I've developed rather well morally, artistically and have even improved my smarts a little bit. The interesting thing is that this decade was very linear, as was the last: schooling was a major part of my breakthroughs.
From this time onward, I'm not sure what paths people normally follow. College will be over in two years so it will not be as paramount to my development as a person as will whatever big endeavor comes AFTER college. I always wondered: what comes after??? I grew up thinking that after college every dream of mine would have become a reality but it is not like that.
I have to plan further ahead than just college.
I've already shared my aspirations with you, reader. These dreams will definitely require some work beyond college, but I wonder what type of person I will become in the process. Technically, my character has been cemented by now- but I feel that there is still space for development.
Movies always show people either in schooling or out in the real world, but I've never read or seen or heard stories about people changing in between that phase. I doubt I'll anticipate anything that happens in the future, along with the benefits/consequences.
I'm so glad I have these blogs. This is such an experiment. I have to send my greetings, greetings from the past for when I check this blog again in the future.
"Hi!"
(I'm going to this this blog is retarded, but it had good intentions.)
"We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."-MLK jr.
For the record, our senior class was around 800 students and the graduation rate was at a new time high. And each student was allowed to bring up to 4 people to the ceremony (not that everybody did....but maybe they did =D ). And lastly, we graduated at the Greek Theater in LA. Just so you know, I aspire to do something like that again at some point in the future.
Having the same view that performers have made me very happy (nervous).
Earlier today, I was showing my suitemate some songs by Notorious BIG. I let him listen to "Me and My Bitch," a song that demonstrates incredible storytelling, but is (obviously) very misogynistic. My friend heavily disliked the song for that. I let him listen to another song called "Dreams," which one would believe to feature the rapper's promising future as a person and such.
Nope.
The song is about R&B singers that he hopes to have sex with. I personally love the song, with epic lines like "Hold your horses/Imma show you who the boss of intercourse is," but this was no way to introduce my friend to the rapper lol.
I thought I'd show him one of the more inspirational songs like "Sky's the Limit," where Biggie mentions that we should "stay far from timid/only make moves when your hearts in it/ and live the phrase Sky's the Limit." It's pretty inspirational on its own, but all he raps about in the song is his rise in the drug business. I find that funny.
I thought I'd listen to Tupac afterwards. Yes, I know that I ranted about this guy a while back (check: http://gylmar.blogspot.com/2009/10/fuck-it.html), but I was referring to his glorification of "Thug Life," not his sentimental side. I knew that people suffered elsewhere, but it hadn't occurred to me that people were suffering in this nation until I listened to him. I wasn't even trying to show my friend awesome music anymore, I just wanted to compare BIG's stuff to his legendary rival because I felt a little uncomfortable listening to it at that moment in time.
And of course, this was my first pic (actually, not obviously since I didn't pick "California Love")
The only reason I don't recall all the lines to this song is because I stopped listening to Tupac for a while, but I recited the lines that I knew.
I was almost brought to TEARS!!! almost lol
"Tell you pregnant and I'm amazed. So many blessings while we're stressing, looking for them better days."
"Every once in a while I reminisce, and wonder how we ever came to this, I miss the better days"
These lines are so sympathetic, and cannot be used out of context, unlike BIG's lines. I guess I preferred 2pac to Biggie this whole time lol.
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit was Walt Disney's first cartoon. He produced this character's material for Universal, but he was unfortunately fired at some point. Walt took the liberty to create another cartoon to replace the devastating loss of his first, since Universal owned the rights to the character.
