Inaugaration Reflection

Tuesday, Jaunuary 20 2009, the new President of the United States of America, and the first black President, was sworn into office, moved into the White House, and began ruling our country. People are already saying that Barack Obama will be the best president ever, and he hasn't even been in office for more than 24 hours. I stayed home to watch the Inaugaration, because I really wanted to be able to tell my kids, and my grand kids about this very important part of history. Even though I technically wasn't there, i still wanted to be a part of it. So i stayed home and started watching chanel 4, msnbc at about 10 am. There was so much music, cheering, so many things to see. As soon as the announcments started, I honestly felt like it was my duty as an American to watch this. so I watched it from 10 to about 3. The speeches, the actual swearing in. I didn't get bored for one second. it was all history. I think that this whole ceremony has alot to say about how to live a good and meaningful life. The way the Obama is so calm and collected. Whether he's giving his speech, or just sitting and listening to music. Also the rags to riches story. How he came from segregation, single mother childhood, being poor, and now he has the most important job in all of America.

Folk Culture Holiday Analysis

Mothers Day. Almost everybody celebrates it at one time in their life, because almost everybody has a mother. The messages that Mother's day send to America is that you should value your mother, for at least one day a year. It's when people do for their mother, what their mother has done for them most of their lives. You take them out for dinner, dress nicely, basically be super nice to them all day. Anyone who breaks that code has no respect for their mother, unless their mother was a complete ass hole to them growing up. One contradictory message within the holiday is that you only do this 1 day a year, when your mother did it for you your whole childhood. I think there should be a mothers week at least.

Winter Break Assignment

During this past winter break I did a lot of things, but none of them terribly important or meaningful. A few people from my extended family came in to visit: my two aunts, my uncle, and my cousin. My Aunt is the type who loves to spoil you and do anything for you when she comes in because she thinks it makes up for her not being there all the time so that was pretty fun having her wait on me hand and foot. Not to mention the fact that she is really fun to hang out with. One day after she left my cousin came into town, so i had no time to sleep. Now my cousin is the exact opposite. He thinks he's G because he's the only kid in his town who actually does anything bad, so when ever he comes through we do what he wants. It's fun though because he always puts us through some sort of adventure.

Corporate messages like to show that family is meaningful but nothing really meaningful happened while they were in.

On New Years, my two friends David and Val, my cousin, and I went to see the ball drop in times square and follow the New Years trend if you know what i mean. So that was a pretty fun night. As we were watching the ball drop we all sub-consciously were holding on to each other, as if going into the New Year together. I thought that was really cool. That was probably the most meaningful thing i did all Winter Break.

My dad would like for me to add that another meaningful thing that happened was that we wanted to stay out later that we were already out (1 A.M) and my parents wanted us to come home. He thinks thats a sign of me growing independent.