Sunday, November 7, 2010
My presentation topic is about racial segregation in the USA
As we know, America was known as the country that slavery occured for years. After African American was deliberated from slavery, there was a bit change in the prejudice of Americans especially the ones in Southern states. Colored people especially Blacks was suffering an extreme discrimination that led to the racial segregation in America. Whites always thought that they are superior race and they didn't except the fact that Blacks really had the right to do the same thing with them. Even some Southern states used to have state laws against African Americans. I'm gathering information from some reliable links in the online library and hopefully I can find some more down in the campus library. As this topic connected to my Sociology class that we have learned about Race and Ethnicity chapter, I hope to explain racial segregation from a sociology perspective not in the other ways. One thing that I'm also considering and I think I'm gonna cover it in my presentation that is racial segregation really gone in the U.S nowaday? So hopefully, I can find the right answer for my question through doing researches.
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Ghost stories haunt Pike Place Market
Seattle Times - http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003761417_mymarketghost25m.html
A. Summary:
There were inexplicable things had happened in Pike Place Market such as the sound of footsteps without any people; scent of old-lady perfume filled the office of the market; a woman disappeared into the wall; the strands of beads hanging on a wall hook came crashing to the floor; ... Originally, there was a funeral home found by Edgar Butterworth very close the market. There were many funerals took place. Then the owner moved it to Capitol Hill. The next business took place in the building was an Irish pub of Patrick. There were also unexplained things happened then. Avenue One, the restaurant of Arnie, Cafe Sophie were the next two business took place in the same building. All the owners realized the haunting spirit around their business place. Yaeger, a shaman, said the building sits on an old Suquamish Indian burial ground. There are 19 fully ghosts inside the old mortuary. Patrick came up with an idea of making the restaurant a place for the ghosts to be heard by everyone by telling them the history and the ghostly things that really happened.
B. Personal response:
This article scares me. It seems like the Pike Place Market is crowded but based on the article it's a really haunted place. The part of the reason is that close to it there was a mortuary. But I think the inexplicable things happened because there is something that the ghosts want to tell us. It might be the injustices that they had experienced or something like that. Anyway, I don't think it's a made up story.
C. Vocabulary:
Mortuary (n): A building where corpse are kept before burial or cremation.
E.g: There are a lot of dead bodies kept in that mortuary.
Inexplicable (adj): incapable of being explained.
E.g: This ghostly story is inexplicable.
Shaman (n): one acting as a medium between the visible and spirit worlds.
E.g: The shaman was invited to the house to find out what is going inside it.
There were inexplicable things had happened in Pike Place Market such as the sound of footsteps without any people; scent of old-lady perfume filled the office of the market; a woman disappeared into the wall; the strands of beads hanging on a wall hook came crashing to the floor; ... Originally, there was a funeral home found by Edgar Butterworth very close the market. There were many funerals took place. Then the owner moved it to Capitol Hill. The next business took place in the building was an Irish pub of Patrick. There were also unexplained things happened then. Avenue One, the restaurant of Arnie, Cafe Sophie were the next two business took place in the same building. All the owners realized the haunting spirit around their business place. Yaeger, a shaman, said the building sits on an old Suquamish Indian burial ground. There are 19 fully ghosts inside the old mortuary. Patrick came up with an idea of making the restaurant a place for the ghosts to be heard by everyone by telling them the history and the ghostly things that really happened.
B. Personal response:
This article scares me. It seems like the Pike Place Market is crowded but based on the article it's a really haunted place. The part of the reason is that close to it there was a mortuary. But I think the inexplicable things happened because there is something that the ghosts want to tell us. It might be the injustices that they had experienced or something like that. Anyway, I don't think it's a made up story.
C. Vocabulary:
Mortuary (n): A building where corpse are kept before burial or cremation.
E.g: There are a lot of dead bodies kept in that mortuary.
Inexplicable (adj): incapable of being explained.
E.g: This ghostly story is inexplicable.
Shaman (n): one acting as a medium between the visible and spirit worlds.
E.g: The shaman was invited to the house to find out what is going inside it.
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