Obama King Jr.

After reading the to arguments I realized that they both had a lot in common. They where both very well composed. They both had very good arguments about the racism and segregation problems we have in the United States. I believe that's Obama's Speech was done better then Mr. King's. Obama had more points from both side of the argument; where King Jr. just had better view points from the black community, and it seemed to me in some parts of his it was just a little to one sided. They both had there different view points though because of the different time periods. Back when King Jr. was around the racism and segregation was a much bigger deal. So it was a bigger problem and it affected more people.
I also liked how they discussed the racism in there own different ways. Obama tied in his election campaign. Where King was addressing the public about his concern with the racism threat. I believe that the weakest point of Obamas speech was that he was apologising a lot and bringing his campaign into the argument. Where I feel that Kings argument was more one sided on how bad the current state of racism and prejudice was a terrible, but don't get me wrong it was he just didn't take both sides into the argument enough.

Spring Break

Over spring break he just layed around and watched TV for the most part. Except at night he hung out with some of his friends that are still in high school. They attended a few movies as a group, and they went to Eric Merz's house to play Texas Hold em poker and played dice for a while. On Wednesday he went down to the University of Minnesota to visit his girlfriend and they made omelets and watched a movie. Friday night Eric Merz and him went to St. Olaf to visit there friend Eric Sandberg. While at St.Olaf they celebrated the St. Patrick's day festivities, and went to a dance club and had a good time. Saturday night he went back down to school with Angie to hang out with some of his friends that had not gone home for spring break and they all watched a movie together.

A Modest Proposal

After reading this short story I was a little confused. His proposal of poor people having too many kids was quite strange. He wanted to take the poor children and they could be distributed as food for people to buy. He thought this would make a lot of the towns/kingdoms problems go away. If they where to eat the kids he said that people wouldn’t go starving anymore, and people would be able to make money of selling plump children. Also, by his solution he thought that is would free up space in the town and it would provide more jobs for the rich. It would also keep poor beggars of the streets in the town. I personally disagree with his proposal. I think that there would better solutions out there, other than to eat poor children. They could enforce a law on how many kids you are allowed to have, or they could make it illegal to have children before marriage.