Pensamientos ilógicos

Cuando el odio altera la razón, cuando la lógica no es nada más que una manera de racionalizar para justificar lo injusto, entonces la lógica se ha distorsionado engañando la esencia del ser. Todo cambia, Todo se transforma. La manera de ver el mundo toma otra dimensión.
De repente nos encontramos tolerando la opresión, con leyes injustas que permiten la clasificación de clases en la humanidad. El odio no nos permite ver que la necesidad de la gente no desaparece. Que la única diferencia entre los inmigrantes de hoy con los de ayer, es solamente el tiempo. Entre las olas de inmigrantes, que son la esencia de este país, siempre han existido algunos que quebrantan las leyes, sin excepción en el tiempo en que este fenómeno de emigración haya sucedido.
Tampoco importa el origen de los inmigrantes, siempre hay entre ellos algunos que no se quieren sujetar a las leyes del país. Este fenómeno social no pertenece a alguna etnicidad en particular. Sino, a la naturaleza humana. Es solo cuando la razón esta contaminada con el odio que se generaliza, o se acusa a un grupo étnico de ser toda la fuente de algún problema que esté afectando a la sociedad.
Si la inmigración en si es un acto criminal, entonces esté país esta lleno de criminales porque todos somos el producto de la emigración, excluyendo los nativos Americanos.
Por razones egoístas y absurdas, se han adoptado leyes que criminalizan al ser humano por haber descubierto esté lugar, uno de los últimos lugares en el mundo, donde por los últimos tres siglos, los emigrantes habían podido respirar aire de libertad y soñar con un mejor futuro.
Hoy, esté aire de libertad se ha convertido en odio, y persecución. Esté odio y persecución han parido leyes. Leyes que criminalizan a seres humanos por el simple hecho de ser como son y por haberse atrevido a soñar.

Liberty-Double Standard?

Liberty – a Double Standard?
An Analysis of the Founding Fathers and Slavery

In order to establish ‘Liberty’ at any cost, the founding fathers utilized slavery to form the fledgling nation that would embody this dream, labeled the land of liberty and the home of the brave - America. As inhabitants of America we can choose to believe that America was and continues to be a land of just laws and equality for all. In so doing, we must ignore or rationalize the whole period of history of slavery as a necessary evil, a means to justify the end. We can even justify this action as following some natural law, for indeed it has been a part of the collective history of mankind. In reality, slavery is a brutal system. Some believe without slavery America, as a country would not have been possible. Today, we write off the actions of the past, attributing them to people who didn’t understand what they were doing was wrong. Although saddened by the past, many people have accepted the notion that in order for us to live free today, a certain group of human beings had to be exploited. These unfortunate people were not allowed to possess the very thing our forefathers were fighting for. Today, we glorify and marginalize these people who suffered unbelievable hardship, seeing them now as simple casualties in the war for true freedom.

As the founding fathers mustered support throughout the British colonies, not yet the U.S.A., to rise up against the tyranny of the British yoke, their rhetoric focused on the natural, God-given rights of liberty and equality of men. As the forefathers fervently spoke out on ‘natural rights’ passions were roused as the idea jarred the sensibilities of the common man to awake to action. At the same time, the colonists and those rousing them to action were keeping thousand of African men, women and children as slaves to further their own economic gains. The British were quick to notice this paradox on the part of the founding fathers. The question then becomes why didn’t the colonies notice this paradox, and if they did, why didn’t they change their present course of action?

Un Llanto al Mundo

UN LLANTO AL MUNDO

Para poder pensar que todo esta bien es necesario encontrar el equilibrio de todas las cosas.
Y el equilibrio de todas las cosas se encuentra en un solo lugar; en lo que hay en común.
En la angustia de la desesperación, en la soledad de la tristeza, en toda la angustia del miedo,
hay un llanto que se le hace al mundo. Un llanto de almas entristecidas que gritan y piden auxilio; entre ellas me encuentro yo. Este llanto nace de la angustia y nace de una manera violenta.

Foreign Policy

"Foreign Policy Afcionado" the magazine

This is a helpful website which I end up using often for any grammar issue.
Hopefully someone else can find something helpful in it as well.

Respond to essay “America the Beautiful: What We’re Fighting for” by Dinesh D’souza

This was a great essay to wrap up the semester!

I really like the way the author compares the Islamic culture and the American culture. The Islamic fundamentalist wants to govern their people by means of violence and oppression in the name of Allah; whereas, the American culture, gives the people the freedom to choose their own destiny. In the American culture, the government and religion are kept separate to avoid abuse of power; while, the Islam wants to be the government and the religion as well. Even though the American culture is new compared to the Islam, it has evolved a lot faster for the benefit of the people. I try not to judge a culture, which I do not really understand, but a feeling of indignation overruns me when I read or see how women are treated in some of those Islamic countries. Women have no rights and are like properties of their husbands.

I really like the way the author defines freedom as the liberty to do good or evil. However, by this definition, freedom implies the liberty of doing good or bad things, so does this mean that there are bad people in our culture? Well, the answer is yes, but the good news is that even bad people are protected in our culture; everyone has rights in America. America is not perfect; however, it is the best the world has to offer. It is the job of our generation to make America a better place for generations to come. We cannot let our founding fathers down nor our sons and daughters. The future seems bleak for the American culture to coexist with the Islamic culture but, we have to be optimistic and hope for the best and at the same time be ready to defend our America from its enemies.

Modes

For my research paper, I will be writing about the U.S. foreign policies toward Latin-America and the political changes going on in many Latin-American countries as of result of those policies. The modes which I intend to use for writing this research paper are exemplification mode and descriptive mode. Exemplification mode requires the writer to use examples to back up his claims. And I intend to use some Latin-American countries where some U.S. policies are having negative effects as examples. The other mode which I might use is description mode. This mode gives the writer the freedom to try to appeal to the reader's senses, including Pathos, Logos and Ethos.