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heyy class,, its blog time ! sorry i havnt been around its been a tough week! i had quite a long weekend,i found out that i am pron to seisures. everyone keeps asking where i was, i was in the hospital. i had a seisure friday ninght at a friends house and a seisure sunday morning i was in the hospital fro sunday to tuesday and they had my mom watch me for 48 hours. it was very much out of the nowhere. im very healthy and have never had anything wrong with me. but im glad to be back and i feel 100% fine. im looking forward to catching up in class and being on the same page as everyone else. see you guys on monday !

human rights !

the story Night John the main characters were slaves that lived down south on a plantation and they grow and picked cotten for there owner of them. The story  told from Sarny who is a lil girl. in the story sarny talks about  life on the plantation how the master won't let them pray or even touch money. she talks about the way they were treated by the owneres including the  mistress Margret and her sister Alaine. in the story a man is brought as another slave to work on the plantation and Sarny makes freinds with this man, the man goes by the name of John and Sarney describes him as a tall man with scares and bruses on his back and his armes.  
the story Mascot is about a civil rights leader malcom x. he had a rough life  and the disciminaton of him and  blacks. because of his color he was what was called a negro and he was discriminated aginst just for the color of his skin somethingthat was un fair and couldnt change. At a young age he started to become more involved with th civil rights movment as it only got worse and he got older he was one of the few african americans to step up  for discrimination of someone skin color.
The movie the great debaters was a movie about some of the strugals that were face during the time of the civil rights movement. the movie told the story of three young blacks teens Henry Lowe, Samantha Booke, and James Farmer Jr. these three teens were on a debating team for  college a all african american/ black college. the eventually were invited to debate aginst the harvard universety debating team and they won . the movie compared to the other two stories Nightjohn and Mascot have somethings in common. All stories are told by an afican american  during the times of  discrimination. in the story mascot  the events are closer together, during the civil rights movment. the stories are both talking about how to stop the discrimination, in mascot he becomes civil rights leader. the movie the great debaters the teens are becoming a undefeted team so that they can be the first to be up against a all white college.