It's good to be back!
Also, let's see if anyone gets the reference to a certain Charles Dickens book I'm reading.
Hello faithful reader who may or may not have checked The Blog,
If you're wondering why I haven't posted, there's two reasons:
1) My english teacher does not allow us to post things extraneous to english on our blogs, but I swear to ... well, whoever that if he does a pause this long again, I'm posting no matter what.
2) My busy social life (that's sarcasm, BTW). It's actually that I've had a ----load of homework and projects to do, and I also got a bunch of new games.
Anyways, on to the important, english-y stuff.
This week's blog is called "On the Reservation", which relates to this book we're reading called Montana 1948, and it's about a boy who finds out his uncle (who's a doctor) has been abusing his Native American patients. Given that this blog is about reservations, let's start by talking about what a terrible idea they are. I wonder what idiot woke up in his bed one morning and thought "Oh, let's relocate hundreds of thousands of people from their lush, fertile, productive lands and stick them in the most barren, crappiest parts of the desert, and see what happens". I mean COME ON now, could you be any more boneheaded? In any case, they're crappy plots of deserted land that people can barely grow crops on. Then, they're forced to go out and get terrible jobs so they can earn a meagre living!! Not only that, they never paid them restitution for the total value of their land, so they essentially stole their land. Do people really think that them being tax-exempt is fair repayment?
Think about it.
--Noah
P.S. The word of the week is:
| adoxography | |
noun | |
| fine writing in praise of trivial or base subjects; "Elizabethan schoolboys were taught adoxography, the art of eruditely praising worthless things"; "adoxography is particularly useful to lawyers" |
