Vet Interview

1) Did you feel pressure and stress while under the trees of the Vietnamese jungle under possible vigilance of hidden Viet Cong forces?
Walking through the jungle was always stressful. Around every corner you never knew what to expect. It felt like maneuvering through a mine field. Your next step could be your last,
2)Did you have plenty of supplies?
Supplies? Please. We had so much stuff in our backs we could barely keep up with ourselves.
3) How was the food?
All we had to eat where a few MRI's. Nothing out of the ordinary for infantry squads.
3) Do you have any photographs?
Actually Bill, our squads photographer, took a bunch. Some from fallen comrades to the landscape.
4) Did you keep a diary?
Nah, i didn't. But i'll tell you. The memories alone are enough?
5)Where you drafted or did you enlist?
I actually enlisted out of economic need and desire to help my family out of those hard times.

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Media---Then, and Now.

The Media today like in many cases, makes todays news seem more of confidential then it should be. They consistently hide events, and happenings in the middle east as to not damage our image of them. The less we know of what's really going on; the less likely we are to go against it. The media is in sorts controlled, and filtered by our governments obsolete grasp. They post anything the gov't does not approve, and they could well enough wind up in a federal prison, or any other detention center. Bribes now a days work like charms. Making all of the middle east seem hostile but not unlock the reality behind it for example; Easily changes our mentality to one of which we'll easily side with 'their truth'. Unlike media back in the day, things aren't freely published. Freedom of the press is obviously a constitutional right. But what's pressed can completely withdraw the standards in which the constitution protects it. Rendering it useless information not willing to be accepted. Back in vietnam and sooner. The gov't wanted to show just how hoarse the war was. Just how bad America needed to witness it to believe what was going on. Censors where no obstruction back then. The images where very much real, and gory to the very bones of them.Vietnam was totally covered. Down to the last grenade detonation. These low standards allowed us to really know what was going on, instead of leaving our nations exploitations, and duties in foreign countries under a veil of shadows

Lyrics

"I've been walking through your streets
Where all your moneys are earned
Where all your buildings crying
And clueless neckties working
Revolving fake-lawn houses
Housing all your fears
Desensitized by TV
Overbearing advertising
God of consumerism
And all your crooked pictures looking good
Mirrorism, filtering information for the public eye
Designed for profiteering
Your neighbor, what a guy.

BOOM!
BOOM!
BOOM!
BOOM!

Every time you drop the bomb, you kill the god your child has born-

BOOM!
BOOM!
BOOM!
BOOM!

Modern globalization
Coupled with condemnations
Unnecessary death
Matador corporations
Puppeting your frustrations with a blinded flag
Manufacturing consent is the name of the game
The bottom line is money
Nobody gives a ****
Four thousand hungry children leave us per hour from starvation
While billions are spent on bombs
Creating death showers

BOOM!
BOOM!
BOOM!
BOOM!

Every time you drop the bomb, you kill the god your child has born-

BOOM!
BOOM!
BOOM!
BOOM!

Boom-Boom-Boom-Boom-Boom-Boom-Boom!

Why must we kill our own kind?

BOOM!
BOOM!
BOOM!
BOOM!

Every time you drop the bomb, you kill the god your child has born.

BOOM!
BOOM!
BOOM!
BOOM!

Boom-Boom-Boom-Boom-Boom-Boom-Boom-Boom!

Every time you drop the bomb.
[BOOM!]"  

This song could broadly be considered an "anti war" message. It is about how corrupt governments or any governments or countries would rather kill in acts of greed then give and preserve life. It also explains how selfless these nations can be. "Every time you drop the bomb, You kill the god your child has born." I think this means that   "everytime we drop the bomb, every time we kill our god." We drop our values, our freedom, our children, families, our own kind. We drop bombs on nations for land, domination, resources and most of all, money the very root of all evil. 

Survey

W: 17HS 16 College

AA: 7 HS 6 College

H: 14 HS 12 College

A: 3 HS 2 College

From what I've concluded, from the kids that i have asked most of their parents have graduated high school and after words went to college. Given there were some kids with parents that were put in economic situations like pregnancy which prevented them from going to college. Sometimes it is hard to prosper in ones goal when obstacles are put in the way. 

I Am

I am human
I wonder why people hate me so much
I hear all the racist remarks
I see the anger on their faces
I want them to understand that I am just like them
I am human

I pretend to not let their remarks  affect me
I feel hurt, hate, pain and abuse
I need to be respected from those who hate me
I worry every day that I will get hurt at school
I cry myself to sleep
I am human

I understand I look different on the outside
I believe people can change their view of us
I dream of the day when  we will be viewed as equals
I try to stay positive
I hop a change can be made
I am human

MLK vs Malcom X

These men although fought under the same banner, used very different means of achieving their goals.  They are both idols of their time. Although when you speak of civil rights, the main name to come up is none other than Dr. King’s.  Dr. Kings approach at it was far more successful, and far less questionable. Instead of taking the full on offensive at it like X, he petitioned more towards the side of taking the political aspect of things and used no violence, but words to shape the meaning behind his intention. This made more, and more African American citizens follow behind him, and support his cause. It allowed people to see how what they considered “unlawful” for blacks to have equal rights was actually unconstitutional, and against the very Law of the Land of which they so “loyally” abide to. Meanwhile, Malcom X’s intentions are far more... violent, per say. The mentality that they should shun away from being equal as whites as far as possible by any means is quite disputably idiotic if you ask me. Violence, and crimes to differentiate yourself from your country thinking it’ll give you what your looking for is only going to bring about a far bigger problem for the African American society. So in sum, I believe that the more passive, but yet striking way of Dr. King is stupendously more beneficial to the wants, goals, and needs of the Civil Rights movement.