Creative Writing

One beautiful morning the sun sat upon his throne gazing over his kingdom. People jogged by going on their early morning runs, owners exercising with their dogs, boats rocking back and forth in the ocean, like rocking a baby, and swimmers freestyling to start off their day with an early morning swim. As I sat on the sandy shore and stare out into the horizon and the never ending ocean line; I felt the early morning breeze brush up against my skin and the sand tingle beneath my feet. The sound of the ocean water crashed against the poles, that held up the wharf, was quite soothing and calming, distant murmuring were going on behind me and dogs rapidly panting after a run; just completed a great start to what was hopefully going to be an awesome day.

At this point of the day the sun was glaring down on the beach with its firey beady eyes, like a dragon breathing fire burning down the land it stands before, sweat was running down my face and my body temperature was rising. Loud music was being played through a speaker the size of a really big gym bag that produced sound that echoed throughout the whole kingdom. It was blasting songs from the 90’s and the 21st century for everyone to enjoy while doing their own thing. Hours had gone by and a lot more people more piling in from all ages all wanting to enjoy their time at the beach; families were bringing in picnics, some bought meat to be cooked on the BBQ; the sound of the meat sizzling on the BBQ and the smell lingered around the beach, like the way perfume lingered around when someone walked in, made a lot of tummies rumble, especially with the group of people I was around we were all starving and just couldn’t wait to dig into the feed that our parents had prepared.

It had been a really long night and by this time the king had hidden behind his throne and the moon and stars came out. Crickets were chirruping and music was still playing but it was fading away as more and more people were leaving. Couples were taking a late night romantic stroll along the shores. The moon and stars were shining bright in the beautiful night sky; there was still a warm breeze lingering around the beach that just gently brushed up against your skin. At this point of the day people were feeling pretty tired but there were still teenages jumping off the wharf and just being really energetic. As I sat there on the brown wooden bench staring out in the night sky, lights from the boats shining bright, and the music playing quieting in the background it was time for me to say goodbye to it all until next time.

Reading Log #2

Title: Same Love

Artist: Ryan Lewis and Macklemore

Text Type: Song

Date Finished: 14/04/17

When you think of the words ‘Same Love’ what comes to mind? Well ‘Same Love’ is a song about love, respect and equality to all. This is a song by Ryan Lewis and Macklemore that hit number 11 on the ‘Billboard Hot 100’ in the United States and was released in February 2012.

It got me thinking about how most people are treated these days for being who they are. Everyone deserves to feel and share love no matter what race gender or sexual orientation you are. Just because your skin colour is different or your sexuality is different; people in this society think it’s ok to treat each other differently. Yes we’re all different but that doesn’t give anyone any right to treat one another poorly; it quotes “ We don’t have acceptance for ‘em” referring to how most people in this world don’t accept some people for being gay, bisexual and all the other different sexualities. Day after day people get judged for being different but no one’s perfect people tend to judge others because it makes them feel good about themselves but it’s mostly because they’ve been treated badly themselves.

An important lesson to learn from this song is no matter who are there are people in this world that will accept you for who you are; it may take longer than you expect but they will come around eventually. In the song it quotes “ Strip away the fear underneath it’s all the same” pretty much saying there’s no need to be afraid to be who you are because in reality we are all the same yet different in our own ways. ‘Love is patient, love is kind’ love isn’t something you rush but something that takes a lot of time and if it’s done right it can be the most amazing thing you’ve ever experienced.

This song explores ideas which are important to society today because this is giving people an sight about everyone being equal. Some people grow up being certain of their sexuality but others not so much and for most people it takes longer to realise who they really are. This song is relevant to my generation because during this time in life changes becomes a big thing; as people start to figure who they really are. Some people I know tend to be judged for being a different sexuality to others; sometimes it’s hard to cope with it as it just makes you feel uncomfortable about it. People tend to hide their sexuality for a very long time because they are scared of the different reactions they might get from people that they love and are just scared in general for people thinking differently about them. In my opinion it’s important to feel comfortable in your own skin and if that means changing sexualities then that’s what needs to happen and yes there will be haters and their rude comments like in the song it quotes “ We call each other faggots behind the keys of a message board” but you need to realise that you’re probably not the only one in this situation and if you come out then it’ll make others comfortable to come out and together you can all show your haters that you love being who are and nothing will change that.

We live in a world where you get judged on the littlest things. It’s important that we give ourselves the treatment we need in order to keep ourselves satisfied with ourselves and i that means opening up to becoming whole different person then let it be. But don’t ever let thoughts of other get the best of you because in the end it’s your life not theirs.

Reading Log #1

Hidden Figures

Title: Hidden Figures

Director: Theodore Melfi

Text Type: Film

Date Finished: 12 March 2017

This film is about three intelligent women who work for NASA ‘Human Computers’. Somewhere around the 19th century the Harvard College Observatory hired a group of to help with studying ways to safely send a human to the moon and get them back or to launch a rocket.

This film gave me an insight to racism and. The film ‘Hidden Figures’ displays black and whites working in their own kind of area with whites working in a well built and flash building while blacks were working in the basement in some rusted old building. For example In the film they classed the black women as ‘human computers’ meaning they were really smart with whatever their specialty was and also during the film the men who worked at NASA were the type to work on all the tough things they thought women couldn’t handle. Even up till now people still think that whites are better than blacks with separating the blacks and whites from working with each other and even when the black women are asked to work within the white area with the other white men in the building and in the film when the workers wanted a coffee break they had a coffee maker for the whites and then when blacks wanted a coffee they only had a budget jug that no else touched and was labeled coloured only. This goes to show that after all the years slavery was around and the divide with whites and blacks people around the world still think it’s ok to have it around and that some people think it’s important to feel important with having to own and boss around people for fun because they want to be noticed.

One other idea that caught my attention was how the men treated the women as if they weren’t fit for the job and being real sexist. In the film this was displayed with women working as what they called ‘human computers’ seeing as the men thought that women weren’t capable of helping out with the technical stuff but later on in the film Katherine Johnson, played by Taraji P. Henson, when she helps calculate how to safely launch the rocket ship into space and was more accurate with her calculations than her fellow work mates missed out on calculating. In my opinion I think that women are capable of doing what men do because in my life I have done plenty things that men couldn’t do and so for Katherine Johnson to take the lead and show her fellow work mates that she is capable to do what she did was a way to let men know that women are capable of doing whatever men can.