Posts Tagged ‘ap projects’

Frankenstein: Alienation

May 4th, 2012

Frankenstein: Puppet Show

May 3rd, 2012

Pictures from the Hamlet Project

February 27th, 2012

At the beginning, you all hated the Hamlet project, but now that it’s over, you can be happy with what you accomplished.

There were some excellent scenes and some excellent acting. I especially appreciated the people who worked hard, did not give up, and allowed themselves to be vulnerable up on stage without any notes at all. Good job.

Here are some pictures from the event on Friday and from our Oscars ceremony today. Video will come up later. Stay tuned!

Nathaly: Imprisonment

November 4th, 2011

Sarai: Being a slave

November 4th, 2011

Dezmond: Greek Mythology

November 4th, 2011

Carmen: Modern-Day Slavery

November 4th, 2011

Antonio: Fate and destiny in Oedipus Rex

November 4th, 2011

In class, we had a unit on fate and destiny where we explored whether we could avoid destiny or not. For this project, I chose to focus on fate and destiny as it is presented in Oedipus Rex. In the book, there is a prophecy saying that a child will kill his father, lay with his mother, and bring ruin to his town. For my picture, I chose to focus on how it is Oedipus’s destiny to bring calamity upon his city.

In my picture, I use two different types of perspective: atmospheric perspective and point perspective. In atmospheric perspective, you fade out the background in order to create a sense of depth, and in point perspective, you create a focal point, and connect all buildings to it in order to make them seem three dimensional. I use both of these in order to create a realistic setting of the town, that Oedipus rules, for my picture. The town has a castle, and many buildings in it to show that it is a town.

In order to create a connection to fate and destiny, I use a variety of symbols. I make the edges of the picture like a thought bubble in order to make it seem like it was thought of or prophesied. I also make the edges golden to add in the notion of a divine prophecy. In the actual picture, I make the town shrouded by a green mist in order to show the disease and ruin that the city will experience. I mad sure to make the castle above all the miasma because I noticed that none of the people in the castle are plagued by disease. I also depicted Oedipus with blood streaming from his eyes because Tiresias told him that he would blind himself. The tears of blood not only show that Oedipus’s eyes served no use for him, but also

My picture shows that are lives are chosen for us. I shows that divinity decides what will happen and that destiny is inescapable. As an artist, I try my best in order to capture my vision on the paper. I feel that through my own style, and use of image, I have shown that destiny is unavoidable.

Stephanie: Epistolary Short Stories

November 4th, 2011

PART 1: SETHE

To my dear Oedipus,
It seems as if the days of my past have came back to taunt me. My two year old child, Beloved, shakes and destroys all, I am to tire from running. I am not going to run anymore. That ticket cost too much, so much that it hurts me and my family. Oh, oh how I want to be free; free from the misery and shame.
I decide to walk through the field to reach the house. That day was sunny and warm; the scent of dirt and dry hay fills the air. Slowly closing my eye, feeling the winds and sun, I slowly stroll through the fields. When I open my eyes, I there was something different. The air is must lighter than before, the field is more green and fresh. I though it is just my imagination, or is it really. Not just far way, a small water fall runs into a small pond. The scene is marvelous. Looking into the small pond, the water was so clear, I could see the bottom. I could just sit there and never have to worry.
Without any worries, I sit there until the last warmth of the sun fades; now I am in nothing but darkness. The cold winds slowly creeping around me. I just suddenly am noticing where the small water fall runs and the small pond flows, a small flicker of light shines. More and more of these small light glows brighter and brighter for every passing second, as the light grew bright humming starts filling the winds; I press the urge of my curiosity. Slowly I turn away.
Out of the fields, there the sun’s warmth wraps around the earthly grounds, traveling thou that field once again. I came finally came back home, there waiting at the porch steps old Paul D.
Sitting down at the old dinner table, I wonder, wonder if that small waterfall always been there, and the small clear lake, I wonder and puzzle by it. Why did I just notice it there know?

 

PART 2: OEDIPUS

To my dear friend Sethe
I struggle of find the answer to my question or finding the truth to the known. I am at lost, to what to do. I cannot help of knowing. They ask that I am blind by the truth. But I am not. I only wish for the better of my city. Did you know that I am a king, the king of this city, city name Thebes. But oh, oh, there is a problem, a problem that myself as a kings must do to solve, my city is dying, and the god has told me in order to save my city I must find out the murder of the last king. Yet, my blood boils, when that, that blind prophet says that I am the murder. Can you believe that? Oh, that prophet is a fool, who is blind.
Stepping out of alter, the fresh air around me, slowly but surely calms me. The fountain in the middle of the garden is surrounded flowers. Suddenly the sky darken, loud rumbles trembles across the sky. A few moments later, the sky clears up, the garden which I was originally in change, now the fountain was not in the middle but in the back, the flowers did not surround the fountain, but it surrounds me. A path of green grass lays a path before me. Following the grassy pathway, I came in a three way path. One of sides of path is grassy, bright and open. The other path is made of stones. The stone path is dark and gloomy surrounds my mountains.
On the grassy path way, I saw a small river. From the scorching heat, I head towards the river. Once at the river, the water is cool and refreshing. A breeze blows through, not far from the river, a small pastor of golden dud like flower bloom. Upon one glance, I puck the golden dud from the ground, a strong gust of wind blew up the dirt and dust. Unable to see, I close my eye and use my arm as a shield, with a blink of eye, the winds have died down. Blinking to see better, I found myself back at the garden where the fountain is the middle surround by the golden dud like flowers.

 

PART 3: STEPHANIE

Dear Sethe,
Setting upon a glazing star, I too wonder up into the sky. The twinkling star, with their mysterious light, I ponder in thoughts. My past, at times, slips into my present. But I wonder on a starry night sky about it.
My days consist nothing but from home to school and from school to home. One of my days on my home, the moonlight that lights my way, I stop at glaze into the diamond sparkles in the sky. Amaze by the twinkling lights, I tumble over something. As I slowly turn my head, it is dead body, a dead body. I am shock, lost and frighten out of my wits, as I closely examine the body, there is not blood or injury. Yet, the body does not move, moving closely to the body, a breathe inhale and exhale. The breathing calms my senses, but it seems that this person is sleeping on the side of a road, or is the person really sleeping on the side of the road.
When I look up, I find myself confound by four walls. This person is actually sleeping. It seems to be a boy sleeping quietly. Trying to escape, he wake up and grabs my arm. Slowly turning around, our eyes meet. His eyes where eyes that I have ever seen in my life, they where golden brown, it seems as if he is wearing contact lens. Sudden startle by the sudden grabbing of the arm, I quickly push the boy away and ran out the door. Once out the door, I find myself where I originally started, glazes upon the diamond like stars.

 

PART 4: SETHE

Oh Stephanie,
I do not feel sorrow for myself, but I do not wish to run away. I wish to return to that beautiful scene. The scene of the small waterfall runs into a small clear pond. Oh, oh, I wish to return that that scene. The sound of water running, sound of the flow of water trickling down, the scent of life.
Day after day, I take strolls through the field hoping to return. Day after day, I cannot return that marvelous scenery. After Paul D. ran out that ghost, I feel like something is not right. I start wonder if that marvelous scenery has something to do with the about my past. Oh, Stephanie, I am really am trying to remember, this is why I am in search for that scenery. But why cannot I find it. Why is it? Day and night I search; even Paul D. thinks I have gone crazy.
When sudden Beloved disappear, and Paul D. left me when he found out what happen to my child Beloved, I found myself being calmed by the smoothing winds, the fresh green field. The earth slowly soaks up the warmth of the sun; I quickly reconsider where I am. Rushing to the most marvelous place, when I finally arrive, the beautiful water fall, does not run. The small pond that once flow, no longer flows. The most beautiful scene flourish with life, not is drain, drain and dry. I am happy that I can be in the place where it is once the most beautiful place I have ever been, but drain from life and became dry, here I will sleep, sleep until I can flourish once again. Maybe this is my fate and destiny.

 

PART 5: OEDIPUS

To my dears friend Stephanie,
I sit upon the throne, where I rule can seek the help for my people, but why, must I suffer for the fate that is cast upon me. I should I curse the Gods or should I take pity in myself, for which, I do not understand. Jocasta, the wife and mother of me and my children, has hanged herself. For she cannot bare the truth, I too am ashamed. I once who is blind to the truth, is know the sight of mine is blind.
Here I lay upon the room, the room which bears all the sins, drifting to sleep. The cloud hurrying over the sky, it seems as if the time from day to night and night to day passes quickly here. From the time in the garden, to the pastor of golden dud like flower, I wonder why did I take the grassy field that open and bright. The grassy pathway that lead to the pastor, why did I take that path, why did not I take the one with the stones, maybe the fate that is place before me, shows me that I cannot change it, fate and destiny is set stone.
Lost thoughts, I did not notice I was at the same place where the strong gust of wind blew. I did not notice that I have arrived to the pastor. The golden dud like flower is no longer there, strange, but why? The golden dud looks like a clump of gold. I have lost everything, my family. At the pastor where once the golden dud grew and bloom, where all burn and caracoled, showing it once exist no longer exist.

 

PART 6: STEPHANIE

My friend Oedipus,
You seek for the truth to find the answer to the riddles. Is it wise to always know the truth even if it would hurt you? I can tell you this; I to want to know the truth, the boundary of find the truth must be drawn.
After realizing that I am stand in my own world, I quickly hurry home. Without my knowledge, the place I was in is place I met my fate or my doom. At the foot set of my door, quickly searching my keys, I feel that the moment I open my door to my house, I will cease to exist. Slowly opening the door, taking one step, that one step I can no longer return to my family. Stepping to the room that left, due my fright, that boy with the golden brown sits there smiling. I knew that I am forever bounder to the boy with golden brown eyes.

Leo: A Place Where Three Roads Meet

November 4th, 2011

This is Leo’s U2 Project. It was supposed to be a script of a random blind former king somehow greeting a random black former slave in a random cafeteria and somehow talking about fate and destiny. Because it is too random, I wrote a script with different setting.

A Place Where Three Roads Meet

Character: Oedipus, Sethe, the guy in red clothes(Red Guy) and the guy in white  clothes (White Guy)
(In a room full of emptiness, two body lying on the floor. They are Sethe and Oedipus. Silence has replaced the movement of time and frozen on their innocent and peaceful sleeping face. However, the storm sneaks close like the future that will always come; the peace that is shattered by a hurry of foot steps has walk into both Sethe and Oedipus’ ear. Time starts ticking, the gears begin to move. Both of them try to open their eyes and awake from blindness. As the door open, the story might begin).

The door opens and a person with dark and rotten red clothes enter the room.
Red Guy:
Wake up, Wake up! You are not here to sleep.
Oedipus and Sethe:
Um~~~

Oedipus and Sethe look around.

Sethe:
Where am I? Who are you? What is this place?
Red Guy:
Greeting Ms. Sethe and Mr. Oedipus. I am one of the room manager. You may call me the Red Guy as I will always wear red clothes. There is a lot of things I would like to tell you, but my peer the white guy is not here, therefore I prefer meeting later. Do you agree? I will take that as a Yes. So see you later.

The Red Guy leaves the room.

Sethe:
I don’t understand. What is going on here? Anyway, I think that guy mentioned your name. It is Mr.Oedii something.
Oedipus:
Oedipus, the king of all Thebes,
Son of the Corinth King,
the hero who solved the riddle of Sphinx.
Sethe:
What are you talking about? The king of what?
Oedipus:
The king of Thebes, the greatest of the nation
Any man from new born to old aged should recognize me.
The whole world knows my fame.
Sethe:
Ok let’s stop playing this game. It is getting annoying. I don’t care who are you, let’s figure out how to leave here.
Oedipus:
You dark skin female ignorant! How dare you
Splitting this profane words to the king! I
Demand for your immediate apologize
Or the thousands of Greek Gods will descend upon you!

The Red Guy enters the room without knocking the door, The White guy follows him.

Red Guy:
Hello there. This is my peer, his name is the White Guy. Now assemble in front of me and listen carefully. You are dead. And you are suppose to be put into the heaven or the hell base on your actions while you are still alive. But somehow you have lost some of your essential memories. It is unfair to sentence you anything, if you don’t know your past. So both of you is put in this room for three days to come up with a decision between remembering or forgetting. Of course, we already know your past and sentenced you to heaven or hell. Therefore it is only a matter between knowing or not knowing the reason. You have three days to consider about it. If you wants to know the truth about your past, you should come to me. If you don’t want to, you should go to this guy. Understand? I will take that as a Yes. Take your time and see you.

White Guy and Red Guy leave the room.

Sethe:
What do you think?
Oedipus:
Only coward does not dare to face their past.
Truth only lies in the wisdom’s hand. A
Beloved king like me, will not fear for the
Weight of truth and always seek for it.
Sethe:
Why? As the Red Guy said: “the decision has been made. ” Our fate has been decided. If I am sentenced to hell, I must have done something that I should never remember.
Oedipus:
Fragile heart and feeble mind of human,
Your name is woman.
Escaping those not solve anything. The mystery lies in the past
Will merely haunting you for the rest of your life.
Sethe:
But no matter I know the reason or not, my life has already been chosen. I don’t want to go to heaven nor hell, but I end up standing in this room. And waiting for some random people to tell me whether I should go to heaven or hell. I does not have a choice.
Oedipus:
Choice has already lies in front of you.
Choose between to know or not to know
Will leads us to various directions.
Speaking of no choice is merely an excuse from the weak.
Sethe:
Yes this is a choice, but it is not a choice for fate and destiny. No matter which choice I have made, It will not and can not change my destiny. Just like choosing cake from the store, it is a choice, but it does not mean destiny does not exist above all of the choices.
Oedipus:
Cake? What is a cake?
Sethe:
This is not my main point.
Oedipus:
Speaking like a slave, who comfort herself by blaming on fate
Who does not have the courage to rebel against their master,
Who has already being prisoned
Both mentally and physically.
Sethe:
I’m sick of you, leave or I will leave.
Oedipus:
You who does not have the courage to face
The truth will doom by your cowardliness,
Pretending not to see the truth,
Not to seek for the truth is
Being blind with your good eyes.
I will speak no more,
But woman you pay for your ignorant.

Oedipus leave the room and the white guy comes in.

Sethe:
I have make my decision. I decide not to remember the past and move on to the future.
White Guy:
You have to understand escaping from past is a active decision; it is not to give up, but to choose not to remember. I suggest you consider about it more carefully, it is not wise to do something unless you really want to do it.
Sethe:
I have make my decision.
White Guy:
I hear your word. Please come this way, I believe it is the right decision

White Guy and Sethe leave, then Oedipus and the Red Guy enter.

Red Guy:
I knew you will make this decision. You are the wisest man in the world, you have make a wise decision.
Oedipus:
Enough, I don’t need any fawning words.
Let’s begin our work.

The Red Guy use his hand to cover Oedipus eyes.

Red Guy:
Oedipus, poor Oedipus,
Please turn your head and look at your past,
Gather the crisis of flash back.
Then Shall you remember
The true appearance of your self.
(All of a sudden, the memories strikes Oedipus’ head from Red guy’s hand. The memory of Apollo’s prophecy, Tiresias testimony, Jocasta’s suicide and face of his people while they see him being exiled from Thebes. Blood begins to flood from Oedipus’ eyes. It printed a picture of brutal on Red Guy’s hand).
Oedipus:
Please, dismiss my head,
I cannot endurance it anymore
it is too
painful.
(Oedipus tries to struggle and move his head away from Red guy’s hand, but that hand is choking his head makes him has no place to escape).
Red Guy:
No more struggle, no more escape’
This is your fate, merely accept it.
Oedipus:
No it is too painful,
It digs too deep in my memory
I can never forget it anymore.
(Scenes from Oedipus’ memory keep repeating it self in his head. Finally Red Guy release Oedipus’ head, and he faint on the floor).
Red Guy: Welcome back, to the eternal inferno, Oedipus.

Ellie: Slavery in the Present

November 4th, 2011

Brenda: Do LHS students believe in destiny?

November 4th, 2011

For my project, I surveyed more than 70 high schoolers about their views on fate and destiny. My prediction was that the Freshmen would be the group that has the most believers in fate and destiny. In actuality, it was the opposite.

          

As seen in the figures, the seniors had 94% believers in fate and destiny. The second grade with most believers was the Freshmen, with 81%. Third and fourth were Juniors and Sophomores with 74% and 73%, respectively. It seems like there is a decline in the underclassmen while the upperclassmen percentages grow.

Why would there be an increase of fate in the upperclassmen? It may be because of the engagement one feels during the later years of high school, due to past errors. Since the upperclassmen have been in high school longer they are likely to do more errors that affect them in the future, hence the belief that they can no longer change that, which is destiny.

On the other hand, fate and destiny can be good as well. It may also be that the Upperclassmen are more confident in achieving their goals in life, and they believe that they are destined to reach them. The underclassmen may not even know what their goals in life are. They can also feel less confident as they are new to the school and just beginning to discover themselves.

Why do some people believe in fate and others don’t?

I asked two questions related to this prompt in my survey: “Do you believe in fate and destiny? Do you believe in a higher power?” My prediction for this was that people who believed in fate and destiny would be more likely to believe some sort of a higher power such as God. I base this prediction because if one believed in fate and destiny, there would probably be a type of higher power controlling it. Out of everyone who answered yes to believing in a fate and destiny, only 17 said they did not believe in a higher power. The vast majority said they did believe in a higher power, which was 40 people. It turns out that my prediction was right; there is a higher chance that people who believe in fate and destiny also believe in a higher power.

Does believing one way (or the other) matter for the future?

I asked students, “If you work hard enough, will you be guaranteed to achieve your goals?” Out of everyone who believed in fate and destiny, 44 out of 57 people said they did believe that if they worked hard enough they would be guaranteed to acheive their goals. This might mean they are defying their own destiny. It could also mean that as long as they want something and try to acheive it destiny will change in order to complete those goals.

Chavonni: Destiny

November 4th, 2011

In this illustration I talked about how our lives are already sought out for us. In Siddhartha, the next book we’re reading, he didn’t want to be a Brahmin, and in Oedipus  he wasn’t meant to be the king of Thebes. Both of their true destinies were already set in stone.

I haven’t finished Siddhartha, but I know that in both Oedipus and Siddhartha, they tried to change their destiny. Oedipus’s true destiny showed in the end. In my drawing the stone path is supposed to represent the destiny that God created for us. The blue path is supposed to represent the life we want to live. The two paths that intercept is supposed represent how the life we choose and our true destiny come together eventually.

Mercedes: Destiny

November 4th, 2011

I designed a timeline of pictures that shows some events that took place in Oedipus. These pictures are significant because they show how destiny has affected his life and how he had no control over what happened; everything was mapped out for him.

The first picture is a baby. I chose to use a baby because when he was born his parents wanted him dead and they tried to kill him. They had seen the future and what it held for baby Oedipus and their family, they did not like it. They had thought that killing Oedipus would prevent those things but they were wrong. Oedipus never died and continued to live his life not knowing about his biological parents.

The second picture I decided to use was a crown because Oedipus became king. I believe that by Oedipus becoming king it revealed his past and answered so many unanswered questions. The next event I thought was important was when Oedipus got married to his real mother. This is important because them getting married played a role in how Oedipus finds out what he did to his father.

The next picture I used is a a man and a knife, it is supposed to represent the murder of Oedipus’s father. Oedipus killed his biological father but did not know, he had finally found out and was in disbelief. I find it weird how his parents tried to escape destiny but could not, what they were scared of happened anyways. For the last picture I decided to show how Oedipus was exiled. Oedipus was exiled by destiny. I feel that the overall reason that these events took place they way they did was because Oedipus was destined to kill his father and have a life that was not fit for a king.

Beloved

Beloved was a challenging book and hard to really understand. It was also difficult to find pictures that related to events in Beloved. I did find three pictures and a couple of words that describe feelings that were showed throughout the book. I have two pictures that have to deal with motherly love. Motherly love was a big part in Beloved. Sethe killed beloved and she did it in order to save her from the terrible life of slavery. Sethe wanted to forget her past but it came back to haunt her. She was forced to remember what she did, but she finally had enough and was no longer scared to face her past. The picture of the lady in the chair shows resembles how Sethe was feeling, she wanted to give up and she was tired. She kept fighting though and made it through the hard times. It was Sethe’s destiny to do what she did and become stronger from her past.

The Question Mark

The question mark is supposed to symbolize how destiny keeps us wondering because we do not know what to expect. Like the characters in the two books we do not know what is going to happen to us and what events will take place. We do not know if what we do will matter in life. We are left with many questions but little answers.

Monae: Sacrificed Destinies

November 4th, 2011

I chose the title for this piece because in both stories both characters Sethe and Oedipus were born into the controlled life . Eventually they sacrificed someone and from that point on it scared their destiny as well as their sanity. In this piece I wanted to express the meaning of how two lives share a common destiny of sacrifice.

This piece was inspired by the famous tale of Oedipus Rex and the book Beloved. Although both stories are told in different times and both characters have different backgrounds, they still share the same meaning of sacrificed destinies. Oedipus is king and people of Thebes are suffering with diseases. In order for this to stop, he had to find the killer of the former king. As Oedipus searches for truth, the prophet tells Oedipus that he is the one who killed the former king. The prophet was a blind man and Oedipus called him a blind man and called him a lier. The Prophet then tells Oedipus that he is the one who is blind and cannot see the truth of his past.

Similar to Oedipus, Sethe in Beloved is not blind to her past but sacrifices her daughter so that she won’t have to return to slavery. Sethe was a good mother who truely cared about protecting her kids. Sethe was a hard working slave who went through many things and with that she experienced reproductive resistance by killed her daughter Beloved. As her life goes on, she is haunted by her daughter. In the book, Beloved is reincarnated into a woman and as she is in Sethe’s life, Sethe then goes through difficult times. Beloved’s well being sucks the life from Sethe and eventually disappears.

In this piece there is an eye that represents the perspectives of both stories. The brown side of the eye represents Sethe and the blue and gray side represents Oedipus. Oedipus’s part of the eye was colored with blue and gray to represent blindness that he goes through to discover his destiny. The creature below with the lines underneath represents the Sphinx that Oedipus slayed to save the city. The crown with the lightning bolt by it represents Oedipus not being a good king to his people. The heart with Thebes represents his love for his people and how he hurts them. The pyramid represents were he came from and under it is Oedipus in rags. The top of the image represents his believes in Greek Mythology and how the Gods determine the destiny of others. On the other side of the Greek God, there is a image of the Christian Cross that represents Sethe’s religious values. The angel hovering by the girl represents Beloved sucking the life out of Sethe. The rope underneath Sethe’s brown eye represents the fact that she was a former slave and has experienced traumatic visuals while being raised on a plantation. The tree with blood on it is the tree on Sethes’s back from being brutally beaten. The overall image represents the steps we take in life and how our every move is being watched and controlled by one person. As our life is being controlled we tend to make big sacrifices that inflict with the outcome of our destinies.

Greek Gods

November 4th, 2011

Esteffany: Modern-Day Slavery

November 4th, 2011

David: Under the Hands of the Government

November 4th, 2011

This is my Unit two project, which I am proud of! :)

I believe that the government has control over the peoples’ destiny and fate. Initially the people had it, but by their decisions and actions taken by the people, the government made policies and rules. Under what we live now: we are restricted to do many things that we would want to do but most people are not that age or there is a law or policy that holds us back.For my family experience I believe that we have our destiny and fate done by the government. My family are immigrants to this country, by coming here and getting documents to be “legal” here, we are choosing to live under the rule of this government. We are accepting to accept the terms and conditions, for example from iTunes. When I was in Guatemala we lived by what happens on that time. Like we lived by reactions, and here we have planed to do many things in life. For example, go to college. In Guate, we just lived under what my dad gave us. Here is completely different.The school to pipeline is something that has been developed by the students themselves. The students by doing what they decide to do and be rebellious kids, they get into major problems. Handing over the power to the government and the criminal justice system. Like the story in my Econ/Gov’t class. A girl named Alexa Gonzales, wrote on a desk and got in trouble for doing that because it was a “zero-tolerance” rule, where it is unacceptable no matter what. She got arrested for doing so. This is an example that when you do something “bad” or something that isn’t suppose to be done at all. The criminal justice system will be in charge given them the power over what happens to you.

In the Federalist Number 51, James Madison states that “In a single republic, all the power surrender by the people is submitted to the administration of a single government…” this indicates it is by choice of each American to put their fate and destiny into the governments hands. When this country was founded, the purpose for the Americans to “surrender” their power was to better secure it as the Declaration of independence suggests that any government that is unable to secure that power and the rights of the people, should be removed and recreated to better protect Americans interest. I believe that, this was a long time ago around 200~ something years and the government has changed over time and so has the people, but that is still in the conscious mind of every person. It will still always as people don’t know whether they accept to follow the rules or not, it is just a way of life that it’s being continued through out the following generations.

I know there is not a religion part to this but this is my opinion about it, many may disagree, I understand that many people have different beliefs and views on life. But here it is: Jordan Maxwell said, “The more you begin to investigate, what we think we understand where we came from, what we think we are doing, the more you begin to see we’ve been lied to, we’ve been lied to by every institution, what makes you think for one minute that the religion institution is the only one that had never been touched, the religion institutions of this world are at the bottom of the dirt the religion institution In this world are put there by the same people who gave you your government, your corrupted education, who set up your international banking cartel.” Ever since the first lie that America has said has brought more ideas to other institutions, to lie to become better. The theory of the attacks on 9/11 made me come up to this decision because there has been a lot of conspiracies: saying it was the American government that had it planed; it was Al- Qaeda, etc. It is just hard to know who is correct or not correct.

Overall I believe that the government has our destiny and fate already destined. And we, the people, as American citizens, we don’t think about this stuff.

Nathan: “My life has never been chosen for me.”

November 3rd, 2011

This is my speech about fate and destiny. Listen!

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Wendy: Slavery yesterday and today

November 3rd, 2011