matt

The short story we read in class was not as insulting as wasserman said it would be.  Instead of being angry I felt confused, mark twaine made some good points about how our heaven is nothing like what we would think true paradise is although each and every person would agree that heaven is the ideal place.  Also the idea of having a protaganist in the story (satan) who came from the “real Heaven” and proves how what we percive as heaven to be nothing like what it really is. 

i would have to strongly disagree with you olmstead, although i do not like the bush administration, i did some reaserch on this topic and i found that Cheney has not worked for the oil company in over 10 years and John Kerry is ownes the stocks now and making a ton of money, at least Cheney is working for his. So to say that the vice president is getting rich off ruining america would be a false claim.

I went to Cnn.com and found this

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/12/12/racism.poll/index.html

The poll taken here was shocking. It was taken by hispanic americans and african americans and it shows how many stereotypes that whites have towards blacks and hispanics. 

This relates to huck Finn because Huck lives in a time period were no one thinks twice about being racist or discrimination towards blacks. 

To us satire is hilarious Carlos Mencia and Dave Chappelle use satire to make fun of thier own race and other people. Also the movie Borat was another example of satire, in the movie the main character goes to america and asks them questions about america’s traditions.  In a funny way it exposes americas flaws and stereotypes we have towards our minorities. 

today in class we wrote out reactions to the reading on the life of the slaves.  I was horrified at how badly they were treated.  They were made to work hard manual labor in the worst conditions.  They had little food to eat, they didnt sleep in beds.  They were only given corse burlap blankets to sleep on the floor.  They only recived one pair of cloths a year and were whipped if they did not work to the level that the masters wanted them to.  There was one quote in the reading that said “Ive seen him whip a woman until the blood ran for half an hour” i dont understand how one person could treat another this way.