Tom Feelings

This picture doesn't really have a whole lot to do with the Delany sisters but out of all of his pictures it was my favorite. This picture symbolizes black people kind of rising against white people especially when they were slaves. To me it's more of a symbol because throughout Having Our Say it was all about African Americans sticking together no matter what was going on and trying to face the world that whites lived in and trying to live in it themselves. 

Sports

I feel really strongly about girls sports verse guys sports. I feel like girls don't get enough credit on a local or national level when it comes to sports. My biggesst issue is within the school. Our girls teams usually are a lot better than our boys teams and the funding isn't anywhere near equal. It's frustrating because I'm a successful athlete and I work just as hard as a lot of the guys do but the rewards and recognition aren't anywhere near the same.

There Was a Child Went Forth

In the first stanza I really relate to "And the first object he look'd upon, that object he became" This is my favorite part of the whole poem because growing up, kids have such a vivid imagination and when they find something that intrigues them they transform into that by mimicing the object. I also like when he talks about the parents becoming part of him, because when I was little I would spend a lot of time around the house with my mom or at work with my dad and I would try to be just like them and do everything they do, and in a way that's carried over into growing up.

Emily Dickinson

I haven't told my garden yet --
Lest that should conquer me.
I haven't quite the strength now
To break it to the Bee --

I will not name it in the street
For shops would stare at me --
That one so shy -- so ignorant
Should have the face to die.

The hillsides must not know it --
Where I have rambled so --
Nor tell the loving forests
The day that I shall go --

Nor lisp it at the table --
Nor heedless by the way
Hint that within the Riddle
One will walk today --

This poem's meaning is kind of confusing to me but I got the impression that she was talking about death and dying young, it seems like she was really sick when she was writing this saying she didn't have the heart to break it to the bee. I also think she is talking a little bit about religion and about how she's almost excited to see whats next.

transcendental

I would rather be a transcendentalist because in my opinion antitransendentalists are a lot more negative. I find the positive upbeat stuff easier to read therefore I like the stuff we've been reading recently with all of the transcendentalists because they focus a lot more on the good of people and of nature instead of the evil.