1. I speak fluent German and have been to Germany 16 times
2. I love dogs, I have a rottweiler mix puppy, her name is Lucy
3. I've been to 9 Countries in Europe (Germnay, France, Denmark, Sweden, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, England, and Turkey)
4. I work at Rentschler Library and Showcase Cinemas Cincinnati Mall.
5. It's true, I'm slightly addicted to facebook.
Aww! your puppy is so cute!!
ReplyDeleteAnd don't worry, I'm slightly addicted to facebook as well. :)
Lucy is gorgeous! I like her name, too.
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ReplyDeleteI noticed that you took an interest (or perhaps exception to) Turner’s inclusion of Indian Territory when describing the free land consumed by America’s expansion. As the entire class continues to view the images of Indians portrayed as “savages” or beasts, I thinks it gives us all a feeling of uneasiness. This week, we’re reading about the impact our expansion had on the Hispanic people and culture. Continued healing is needed there as well.
I asked Dr Kulbaga to spare us from a third playing of Woody Guthrie’s “This Land is Our Land” on Saturday morning. It was said very tongue in cheek, and after Dr Kulbaga told me that it was actually a political, not patriotic statement Guthrie was making, I did a quick background check on Woody. Guthrie was born in Oklahoma, but as so many did after that State’s oil boom ended (leaving so many destitute and hopeless), he traveled to California. On route, he made money playing music and painting. But when he arrived in California, he and the other Okies as they were called were met with hostility from Californians that evidently, didn’t want to share the sandbox. Guthrie ended up moving to New York where he found some financial success with his music recordings, but eventually became disillusioned with the industry’s censorship. Poor Woody! He couldn’t pursue liberty & happiness in the country that most of us believe to be a Bastian of freedom.
Fast forward to today, and we still find that the Mexican & American border is still a hot political topic, as Mexicans try to get to the land of opportunity – a land that belonged to them not so long ago. I guess we were fairly warned that first Sunday of class that we would be looking at our nation’s history of westward expansion from some different perspectives. I didn’t realize on that day that “different” would be so damn uncomfortable.