Sydney's Views

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SfPyg-mGhU                   The song City of New Orleans  is considered folklore is because it has been song by many artist and the song continues to this day being song by many new artist as well. The song is about a guy travelling from Chicago to the city of New Orleans on a train. In the song he describes all the senre he passes. This song became popular becasue many peopel liked the orginal artist Steve Goodman. Once he died many people started to do their own version of these song making it live on.                    I love the song and I have heard it many of times. I am obssesed with New Orleans and my family goes about five times a year, so I have basically grown up there. The song was good to me because I understood a lot of the little details he was saying and also because all the areas mentioned I am familiar with. I would prefer a more mode...

Journal 2: Each generation is different than the one before it but sometimes that difference is not in the new generation being smarter. Generations before us tell us we are smarter because we are learning from the older generations mistakes, but the younger generation has to be willing to learn and listen. This being told to younger generations they immediately believe their smarter and do not have to listen or learn how to be smarter they just naturally are. This is why I think the younger generation might be the same intelligence or less smart then the generation before them. Learning is not just given to someone you have to be willing to listen to the mistakes made in the past and fix your decisions so you do not make the same. This quote can only be true if the younger generation is willing to learn from the mistakes of the older generation and if that is not achieved then the younger generation is no more intelligent then the one before it. This goes the r...

1.       A book that has left a lasting impression on me is A Secret Life of Bees.  I read this book in my sophomore year of high school and fell in love with it due to the book relating to my life at the time. The book is about a girl whose mother died when she was very young and the girl had to live with her very racist father. The person who actually raised the little girl was her black nanny who was the father's worker. The girl runs away from home with her nanny and ends up at the house of three other black women who support themselves and are not workers for whites. These three ladies are sisters and run a bee farm. The little girl keeps asking the question "why is racism even a thing?." Her father finds her and the girl stands up for herself and refuses to leave and the father lets her stay. Thus the little girl teaches her father to not see color.  2.     I am a very southern preppy girl who loves everything pink and Lily Pulitzer. I am ...