It's Not Fiction

Slavery has always been a historical fact that has impacted me, and makes me think about how crazy humanity can be. I look at slavery as if it was fiction but what is sad about it is that it was real. After reading the first two chapters of the "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas an American Slave" I remembered how sick slavery made me feel due to its inhumane acts.

Something that I cant stand is torture, it makes me feel sick, and when I was reading the part of how Douglas's first master, Captain Anthony whipped his aunt "till she was literally covered in blood... the louder she screamed, the harder he whipped", (p21)  I felt as if my blood was boiling with anger. How could this have been possible? How was a person able to do such a mad act? That's when I remembered the time when I was around 10 years old, entering my grandmother's room and she was watching "La Esclava Isaura". The moment I walked in, I saw the master of Isaura whipping her so hard that she screamed louder and louder and her back, as Douglas said was covered with blood. I hated watching this scene but there was something that made me continue watching, it was something so out of the ordinary, so cruel and horrifying that it got me hooked. And from that moment on, although slavery is one of the things I hate most about the history of man kind it interests me because I cant understand how human kind was able to do this.  But what interests me the most is to know the slaves perspective during this time, so I am very lucky that with this narrative I will be able to learn more about it!

Half a Life

Its Colombia Not Columbia

After reading Wickman's article "This is a blog post. It is not a blog", I realized how these common mistakes make us sound as Wickman said "stupid". I am sure that I too have been one of the ignorant ones that have confused "blog post" and "blog", but unfortunatelly many of us make this same error because we are all equally ignorant due to the lack of curiosity that we have. We think that we know everything but we don't... and that's when these mistakes happen. It is very akward and embarrassing when one makes a dumb error like this one because it proves that we just dont take the time to be 100% sure of what we say.

These kind of mistakes remind me of when people miss spell "Colombia" for "Columbia". When I notice that people make this error I feel irritated just like Wickman, because this mistake could be disappeared  easily if people took the time to make sure that the knowledge that they have is correct. Although these two mistakes are very different they share that they are common mistakes that with Wickmans type of articles people will stop committing them and correct them.