Henry Bibb (1862)

It is now the year 1862 and I have been somewhat successful. I have lectured on slaver with the great Frederick Douglas and William W. Brown and I'm now a well known African American activist. I have had challenges in the past escaping freedom, trying to rescue my family from slavery and now I hear that Abraham Lincoln is going to free the slaves. I almost couldn't believe it was possible. I was shocked to hear that someone is actually trying to free the slaves. After all of the beatings and hard work we were put threw, someone actually wants to give us freedom! All I could do is think about my family being free. I pray and pray that they will soon be free. I tried several rescue attempts and have yet succeeded. My only hope now is to wait for the document to be confirmed and then reunite with my family!

Henry Bibb (1833)

My name is Henry Bibb and I was born on March 10 1815. As I watch my family get traded back and forth i wish i could do something to stop the transition. I wish my wife wasn't forced to prostitution. I want to escape, I want my family to escape, I want everyone to be free. I sit here and pray that my plan works and hopefully later on ill be able to come back to my family. This has to be shut down. I can't stand anymore blood and sweat fom innocent people or tears from my fellow citizens.....

What is a relationship?

A relationship is defined as " the state of being related or interrelated". This is a definition from merriam webster, but there can be more meaninigs of a relationship. A relaionship can mean a comparison between nouns and objects, there can be a passionable relationship where two people have the desire to be with each other, or there can be a sexual relationship where two adults can have sexual intercorse. My point in this is that there are different types of relationships but if I would have to define relationship by itself I would define it as the definiyion above and also by adding a comparison between something or someone.


“The state of being related or interrelated”(Merriam Webster, 2009)

Who was your most influential teacher?

My most fluential is all my teachers from k-9 grade. I dont have a favorite teacher because all teachers that teach me always have pushed and woorked hard with me. one thing that teahers tell me is that i have the capability to be a 4.0 student, inever achieved this GPA but plan to. all my teachers expected hard work and focus in there class and with this said I do not have i most fluential teaher. I give all of my following teahers credit, but if the question asked what grade would have the most influential teachers i would have to say ninth!

Do you feel you have grown since the beginning of the year? What are some of the things that caused this to happen? What caused it to not happen?

I think that I have grown and also have not grown. The reason why I think I have grown is because in the beginning of the year a presentation of learning was very challenging to do with being new to the prep community and even the presentation itself, but now a presentation of learning is nothing but a little assignment I have to complete. I also think I have grown because I’m learning more about my peers and the way PEC prep is ran. I think I haven’t grown because I still do the same little disruptions and behavioral issues that should have been got rid of in the beginning of the year, which is being worked with.

Do you believe that the media portrays young black students in a positive light?

I think that the media does not portray young black students in a positive light. I think this because research show that most young black men and woman are not achieving there expectations for life. I also think that the media is just not saying the information they tell the world to make young black adults look bad, it is the black community bringing it on themselves. If we show that we can achieve our goal just like everybody else we wouldn’t have so much negative feed back about our race. The young black students are so thought of as a failure because they choose to decide to underachieve.

"Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You In The Morning"

I think that if the killing is unfinished business then they would mean that the son and mother would die also. I think when the poems says that, "The healing of all our wounds is forgiveness that permits a promise of our return at the end", that this means the victims healing and spirits being sent above is forgiveness but it is a promise that the killer will receive his treat at the end of the whole situation. The unfinished business in my personal thoughts in this poem was the killers getting there punishment for what they did or the killing of the whole family. I have more thought that it is the killers getting there treatment because the person or people that participated in the killing are not going to walk away free.