Why Obama?

For a long time now, I have only heard and read about people who like Barack Obama and who are happy to have him as their president. In the documentary we saw in class, we got to hear and see the opinions of those who are against him. Many of said that they are not ready to have a black president yet, especially those who live in the south. Not so many years ago there were a lot of discrimination taking place against African Americans, and many of those who were discriminating do not feel ready to have an African American as their president. I will say that most of the black people in US are really happy that Obama won the election, because it is an important step into the future. They can finally say that race discrimination in the US is over. But what about all those white people who cried with anger when he won? The Republicans believe that Obama is going to drag USA into the dirt and that he is going to bring down the country. They say that they are scared to death about what is going to happen. They are scared of loosing more people to the war in Iraq and in more terrorist attacks.

I don’t think the Europeans know how important the country is for the Americans. They really love their country and are so much more committed to issue that came up during the campaign. I have never seen a European who was so engaged in issues involving hos or her country. In this documentary it seems like so many people are against Obama, but still, he won the election. This means that even more people like him, and thinks that he is going to be a great President for the country that means so much to them. The majority has spoken.

The vally of Elah

Before Christmas we saw a movie in English class called “The vally of Elah”. It was about a father that got a massage that his son was missing after a night out with some of his friends in the military. No one knew what had happened to him, but he was found besides a road. There he had been stabbed with a knife many times and put on fire. His father refused to give up trying to find out what happened to his son. He drove to this place and started to talk to his son’s friends and investigating on his own. At the end he finally found out what had happened and who had killed him.

This was a really strong and emotional film. It is about the relationship between a father and his son. And his strong intentions to not live without knowing what had happened. It is always hard to see things like this, because of the emotions that come out when someone looses a person that is close to them. I think it was a really good film, but sadly we did not get to see the end. I strongly recommend it.

Senior project.

In this semester, I have to work on writing better texts. I should use more time on the assignments we are given. Also be more aware in class, on what we are supposed to do with the things we are writing. If I should post it in the blog, or deliver it to the teacher or just have it in my onenote. I have to make sure that I have done everything in class that we are supposed to do.

In my senior project I think that I want to write about the black Americans. From when they lived in America alone and how they were treated under the colonization. The discrimination that lasted for many years and how America at the end, finally saw black people as equals. I think maybe that I want to watch a movie too, so that I can give examples and talk about the movie in the project too.

I hope that the project will be exiting to write about, and that I will learn a lot that I didn't know before.