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Lawrence Herkimer would be proud 💁

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Mask

A mask is coming that covers up your true identity. A person can have several masks for several situations. But in the end the mask is you.

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Epiphany

A time I remember having an epiphany was like 9th grade year. My life was in a slum and I wasn't comfortable with myself. I was seeming to not live myself. But during that year, with the help of my best friends and God, I realized that no one is going to love you like yourself. I started to love myself and became a better me.

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How I feel everyday.

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"Once I found the strength to be myself, I had no need to act myself."

This quote speaks to me. To finally become yourself you have to have confidence and pride. You mentally know who you are and you don't have to pretend to be something you're not. I've been through this in my life. I learned to actually BE me. I pretended for most of my life to be someone else. It took serious changes and emotional circumstances for me to come to the realization that I wasn't myself. Obstacles in life can show you the difference from acting vs. being.

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Secondary Source 4

Well… I’m going to try and stay positive with the quote. It hit me because it’s him saying it, but this reinforces the fact that accepting death will help “seize the moment” (stay positive). 

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I was raised to be my own person as well. But that is something that weighs a colored person's mind after going to through things like slavery and discrimination. I know for a period of time I really cared and payed attention to the opinions of white people. I set my life kind of around it for a while. I soon realized my opinion is all I need to worry about. I feel that all people have phases like that though, not just coloreds.

"It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity."- The Souls of Black Folk 

To me this quote is interesting. I was raised to be my own person, no matter what someone thinks of me. I find it odd that they couldn’t see themselves any other way but the way white people thought of them. But then again they were raised being told that they were worthless. 

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His eyes draw me in. How they bulge. His facial expression is so blank. I could only imagine what he's thinking.

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As tragedies like Boston and Newtown mount, scientists and criminologists are trying harder than ever to understand the minds behind the crimes

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The Mind.

While reading my book I couldn't help but to think if Stephen Grant was mentally-ill. I know that's a big discussion right now with the world right now claiming that people to do crimes are mentally-ill. But things he did are very strange and just don't seem normal. Well killing isn't normal but there is just something about his that I can't understand. He had enough drive to kill his wife, disassemble her body, and hide the parts. Then afterward hiding out in the Michigan cold in resulting in hypothermia. I feel like that should be taken into consideration. If that is true he still get receive his punishment for his crime but maybe just a lighter punishment. I don't know. I can't understand. This is all just so mind blogging to me. The mind of killer is something far to complex to understand I feel. If you can kill you can do anything in my eyes. There's no fear in you. How are you able to live with that? How can you go through with that?

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Convicted killer Stephen Grant lost his final appeal in state court, leaving intact his 50 - 80-year prison sentence for the 2007 murder and mutilation of his wife, Tara.

I just don't believe how someone can get married met someone, grow a relationship, get married, have children and kill them. It completely blows my mind. But you never know what goes on in someones head and with them. Luckily justice was brought to Tara Lynn Grant.

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I actually went ahead in my reading and found out that the author and main character of the book I’m reading has a you tube channel! He’s got tons of videos introducing himself and talking more about his transition and all the hardships he’s faced with coming out. I thought this would be a great secondary source to add to my list. I’m so excited to learn more about his story.

That's so cool. This well help you learn more about who the main character is.

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Stephen Grant explains in detail how he murders his wife and the affair he led through their marriage.

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Marked.

It sucks that girls are classified as marked. It frustrates me. I wanna learn to become unmarked but, as I learned today, there is no possible way. The class decision made me realized how much women are categorized. It's terrible. I feel like everyone is different therefore we're unmarked. But I guess that's not the case.

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Violence in sports...good or bad?

What is violence? Violence is the behavior involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something. I don't think violence is entertaining in sports. When I seeing fighting in sports I actually get upset. Sports are suppose to be competitive but in a good fun sort of way. Violence isn't needed nor accepted.