December 6th of 1977 a little girl was born. If she were born a boy her name would have been Michael, but instead she was named Michelle. Michelle Nicole Hannans. Datona, Florida was her birthday place and English was the language that she was born into. Her mother's name was Saundra Crawley and her father's was Albert Hannans. She didn't stay in Florida too long; Just long enough for her mother to get tired of dealing with the BS with her dad; Six months to be exact...then off to NYC they went to stay with her grandmother, who helped raised her while Saundra was working. Boy did she(Michelle) love to dance and sing. Still to this day, she would get a natural high just singing in the shower. Still thirty three years before today, She would have never guessed that the world would be such a horrible and mean place to be. Who could ever imagine that a little bit on innocence could experience the traumatic chain of events that she would go through during the course of her life; forgotten innocence, yet we live and we learn.

LYNCH LAW

In this blog I will discuss lynch law and the effects that it had on the Afro-American community by Ida Wells.

Lynching was a form of cruel and unusual punishment which was directly effected by the Afro-American community for either crimes they didn't commit or for small crimes that didn't seem to fit the punishment: such as defending their property. We can see an example of this from Wells when she states "By law the wounding of a white person,as compared with the killing of a white person,was not punishable by death. Nontheless, on March 9th, lynch law prevailed, and between two and three o'clock in the morning the three men, who were not yet convicted by law, were removed from their jail cells, put in a railroad car, carried north of the city and shot to death" (Ida Wells p3). In this passage,Wells explains how three of her best friends were killed. They just so happened to own a store that was in competition with another store that was operated by white men. An altercation had broke out which led to a shoot out between the men. The Afro-American men were just defending their property.

Wells tried to except the fact that lynching was just a punishment for horrible rape crimes, but soon came to the realization that it was an act to maintain power and control by the white man. She states "Lynching was not simply a spontaneous punishment for crimes but an act of terror perpetrated against a race of people in order to maintain power and control. She began to see that these ritualized murders were acts of violence and intimidation designed to retard the progress of African Americans in their efforts to participate more fully in social, political, and economic life" (Ida Wells p3)

HARLEM GIRL LOST

There once was a girl
who wanted to sing
until the world said
she wouldn't 'mount to a thing

There once was a girl
who thought she was pretty
'til her first crush crush
said that was silly

There once was a girl
who was full of trust
until it was destroyed
by a man full of lust

There once was a girl
who thought she was smart
but she couldn't finish
a thing she would start

There once was a girl
who wanted to be free
like a bird in the sky
but death is easy

There once was a girl
who wanted to survive
but it was too hard
staying alive!

Michelle revised

The IPA transcription for Michelle is...The first syllable of Michelle has the onset of voiced, bilabia nasal, with a rhyme of a mid,central vowel, "ma." The next syllable's onset is a voiceless palatal fricatives with the rhythm of a mid front vowel "ch." The last syllable has an onset of voiced alveolar nasal "l" with a mid-central vowel. In order to pronounce Michelle...start by making a nasal "hmmm"...put your lips together and let out an "uh" sound followed quickly by a sh using your dentals (teeth) and then an (l) using your nasal breathing out.

The area of contradiction that I chose in "When I was a Slave" is..."It was really worse on dem dan it was with dem what wan't free. De slaveowners, dey just despise dem "free niggers" and make it just as hard on dem as they can. Dey couldn't get no work from no body..."

This states that basically even though the slaves were Free, they really weren't.The area of contradiction that I chose in "When I was a Slave" is..."It was really worse on dem dan it was with dem what wan't free. De slaveowners, dey just despise dem "free niggers" and make it just as hard on dem as they can. Dey couldn't get no work from no body..."

This states that basically even though the slaves were Free, they really weren't.

NEOLOGISM

the neologism that I chose to post is spanglish. It comes from the languages spanish and english put together in the same conversation. for example: Quandos anos are you would mean how many years are you or how old are you.

teenage bully

kids use the words drama instead of bulling because it makes it less of a big deal and the word drama doesn't seem as bad..  The word drama can be empowering because it makes it to seem as though it's not that big of a deal.