Peter the lost boy of Sudan

At the beginning peter was very excited about him moving to America he thought that America would be heaven not knowing about the difficulties he would face once he gets there. Peter had friends in the refugee camp in Kenya but he left them behind when he moved to America to start a new life. After long hours of flying they were finally in Houston(America) they were all excited and curious about what their new life was going to be like , they were taken to their new house were they were going to life in , they were told that the company was only going to pay the rent for 1 month so that they could get a job and later pay by them self . some of the refugees started working in factories or supermarkets while others were still looking for something to do , the refugees that did work had to pay the rent of the place they were living in . Peter didn't find any opportunities in Houston so he decided to move to Kansas to see what opportunities he would find there . Peter decides to finish high school . The first problem Peter faced was time , he had to manage school time and working time because he needed the money to send to his friends back home and for him . The other problem was that he had to deal with stereotypes, like when he was working and he was told to work outside because he was African and he is used to the heat , this were the kind of stereotypes Peter had to deal with and other problem Peter had to deal with was fitting in a community that is not really used to people like him. In Sudan is very common that men would grab their hands and thing like that and there is normal but in America if you do that you would be called "strange" Peter and his friends stopped grabbing hands and things like that so they could fit in . The culture in Sudan is very different to the one in US and people like Peter have to deal with changes like this only to fit in into the community.

Peter

Julius caesar

My passage is about Cassius trying to convince Brutus to join his conspiracy agains caesar . Cassius tells Brutus stories about caesar that made him look weak and not worthy of the position. This passage is important because it shows that cassius hates caesar and he wants to start a conspiracy.

Act one , scene 2
pag32 lines 89-129

I know that virtue to be in you, Brutus,
As well as I do know your outward favour.
Well, honour is the subject of my story.
I cannot tell what you and other men
Think of this life; but, for my single self,
I had as lief not be as live to be
In awe of such a thing as I myself.
I was born free as Caesar; so were you:
We both have fed as well, and we can both
Endure the winter's cold as well as he:
For once, upon a raw and gusty day,
The troubled Tiber chafing with her shores,
Caesar said to me 'Darest thou, Cassius, now
Leap in with me into this angry flood,
And swim to yonder point?' Upon the word,
Accoutred as I was, I plunged in
And bade him follow; so indeed he did.
The torrent roar'd, and we did buffet it
With lusty sinews, throwing it aside
And stemming it with hearts of controversy;
But ere we could arrive the point proposed,
Caesar cried 'Help me, Cassius, or I sink!'
I, as Aeneas, our great ancestor,
Did from the flames of Troy upon his shoulder
The old Anchises bear, so from the waves of Tiber
Did I the tired Caesar. And this man
Is now become a god, and Cassius is
A wretched creature and must bend his body,
If Caesar carelessly but nod on him.
He had a fever when he was in Spain,
And when the fit was on him, I did mark
How he did shake: 'tis true, this god did shake;
His coward lips did from their colour fly,
And that same eye whose bend doth awe the world
Did lose his lustre: I did hear him groan:
Ay, and that tongue of his that bade the Romans
Mark him and write his speeches in their books,
Alas, it cried 'Give me some drink, Titinius,'
As a sick girl. Ye gods, it doth amaze me
A man of such a feeble temper should
So get the start of the majestic world
And bear the palm alone.

who would I be in the school of athens?

In this drawing I would be Plato.Plato is one of the most important Greek philosophers. He founded the Academy in Athens, an institution devoted to research and instruction in philosophy and the sciences. His works on philosophy, politics and mathematics were very influencial and laid the foundations for Euclid's systematic approach to mathematics. choose this person because is a very spiritual person also because he helped civilization push foward with great discoveries

how can art be a mirror of society?

Painting can be a mirror of society in many ways. In the middle ages we could see that the church had the power therefore the paintings where all religious this showed how people was being controlled by religion. By the Time of the renaissance the church began to lose power and people became more humanist , paintings where about studies this shows how people in the time of the renaissance was more interested in studies . Drawings capture a certain place or moment and that place is like a photo that would tell what was happening in that moment.

Leonardo Da Vinci

I think Da Vinci was a true renaissance man . A renaissance man was a person that is really good is a lot of areas like art,science etc. The renaissance was the rebirth of Europe, reborn of knowledge , art, ideas architecture . Da Vinci did all of this things he had new ideas , he had knowledge, he was a great artist and he was also an architect. In the trip I saw all of this things such as art and new inventions that I was very impress with because they were very advanced for that time and I learned that Da Vinci was a true genius probably the smartest man in the time of the renaissance.

Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man [woman] whom you may have seen, and ask yourself, if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him [her]. Will he [she] gain anything by it? Will it restore him [her] to a control over his [her] own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj [freedom] for the hungry and spiritually starving millions?
Then you will find your doubts and your self melt away."

- One of the last notes left behind by Gandhi in 1948, expressing his deepest social thought.

In January 1948, before three pistol shots put an end to his life, Gandhi had been on the political stage for more than fifty years. He had inspired two generations of India, patriots, shaken an empire and sparked off a revolution which was to change the face of Africa and Asia. To millions of his own people, he was the Mahatma- the great soul- whose sacred glimpse was a reward in itself. By the end of 1947 he had lived down much of the suspicion, ridicule and opposition which he had to face, when he first raised the banner of revolt against racial exclusiveness and imperial domination. His ideas, once dismissed as quaint and utopian ,had begun to strike answering chords in some of the finest minds in the world. "Generations to come, it may be", Einstein had said of Gandhi in July 1944, "will scarcely believe that such  one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon earth."

peace is one of the qualities that every man in this world should have and should fight for because peace is what will make this world a better place.