Fish

Fish

 

                                                                                                                                        Theresa Bramwell

Amanda: Wampin’

Carry: Nuttin’, mi a go check Devon down a road. You a come? (nothing im going to go visit Devon down the street, do you want to come?)

Amanda: Nah, mi nah wah guh round battymon business. ( no, I don’t want to be around gay people)

Carry:  ( laughs as she shakes her head)

Devon: Baby you can’t do that ( Giggles ), that does not match.

Jerome: Really, girl I look cute ( devious smile as he looks in the mirror ).

Devon: tell me where at! ( laughs ).

Doorbell rings

Devon: (opens door) Hey girl, what’s up! ( gives Carry a hug ).

Carry: ( smiles) Hey sexy, what’s happening? Is Jerome here?

Devon: ( closes door) yea he in the bedroom getting dressed ( hand waves, lots of hand movements), he doesn’t match but he swear he look good so imam leave him be, cause I love  him ( laughs, walks to living room, Carry follows)

Ring Ring

Amanda: Ello? ( Hello)

Dexter: Yea, wah ya a do? ( yeah, what are you doing?)

Amanda: mi deh ome a watch likkle TV and a nyam mi lunch, u? ( I’m home, watching TV, and eating my lunch, you?)

Dexter: o, Where carry deh, eim nah dey ome? ( Oh, where is Carry, She’s not home?)

Amanda: ( Giggles) Nah, eim dey by di battymon down a road. ( No, she’s by they gay boy down the street.)

Dexter: A wah di bloodclot eim a do down a battymon yard? Battymon fin dead! ( what the fuck is she doing by a gay man’s house? Gay men need to die!)

Amanda: ( LAUGHS OUT LOUD, LOL)

Dexter: Laff ya a laff, my girl a ang out wit battymon and ya a laff? Dat dey nah right! Mon nah fi dey wit mon, God mek Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve. Yo, mi nah undastand ow a mon can lay inna bed wit anoda mon, buddy a fi pum pum not batty! Eim nah ear da people dem a talk seh fish business nah right?! Yo, cha mon, mi MOD nah bloodclot now!!!

( you’re laughing, she’s hanging out with a gay man and you’re laughing? That’s not right! Man is not suppose to be with man, God made Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve. Yo, I don’t understand how a man can lay in bed with another man, penis is for Vagina not rectum! She doesn’t hear the people talking about how being gay is not right?! Yo, ( suck of the teeth ), I’m fucking mad now.)

Amanda: Eim nah undastand dat, eim listen to Kartel every ratid day and nah undastand. “Nah mon pon di Gaza nah bore tongue!” ( she doesn’t understand that, she’s listens to Vybez Kartel every fucking day and still doesn’t understand, “ No man in Gaza pierces his tongue”.)

Dexter: mi a go mek arrr undastand! ( I’m going to make her understand!)

Amanda: Wah ya a gah do? ( what are you going to do?)

Dexter: mi a go battymon yard and mek arr undastand.

Jerome: how do I look? ( he walks his runway walk and twirls)

Carry: you look stunning Romi! I Love the boots! ( smiling and in total aww)

Jerome: really girl? Dev doesn’t think I match. ( hand waves)

Devon: ( giggles)

Carry: You look…( the door bell rings )

Devon: I’ll get it, it’s probably that pizza we ordered, or the stripper. ( giggles and runs for the door). ( opens door ) um and you are…?

Dexter: Move ya bloodclot! ( pushes door open wider and Devon out of the way ) ( Move out of my fucking way!)

Carry and Jerome: turns in their direction. Carry is startled when she see its Dexter.

Carry: What are you doing? Ow ya mi dey ya? ( how you knew I was here )

Dexter: dat nah matta, da question is wah ya a do inna battymon yard? ( that doesn’t matter, the question is what are you doing in a gay man’s house)

Jerome: excuse me that language is not to be used in my home. ( hand waves as he stands his graound)

Dexter: ( walks over to Jerome ) wah ya seh battymon!? Mi nah ear wah ya seh. ( what did you say gay man!? I didn’t hear what you said.)

Carry: stop Dexta! Dis nah necessary star. Their cool, they don’t mean no harm. ( stop Dexter! This isn’t necessary.)

Dexter: (turns to carry) STOP?! Wah ya a talk seh? ( walks over to Carry in a scary way ) Mi nah undastand ow you can tan ya and allow fish business to tek ova. Fi you poopa know you dey ya? ( What are you saying? I don’t understand how you can stand here and allow gay life to just carry on. Does your father know you’re here?)

Carry: ( faces the ground ) silence

Dexter: ( laughs) eim would murder ya boxside in ya if eim did know ya dey in ya! ( turns to Devon and then to Jerome) she’s a Jamaican at art. Eim nah gree wit dem dey sinting uno a deal wid. Eim cant tell fi arr poopa battymon fi arr friends, she dead! Uno need fi dead! Dat dey nastiness need fi stop cuz it nah right! ( grabs carry and walks towards the door ) If uno come wid dat infront a mi again a two coppa inna ya boxside you a get. ( He would murder/kill your ass if he knew you was here! She’s Jamaican at heart. She dosent agree with the things y’all are doing. She cant tell her fatherngay men are her friends, she would die! Y’all need to die ( gay men) The gay business need to stop because its not right. If I see this gay business again I will shoot two shots in your ass.)

                                                            The End

Group: My Trip to The Land of Ghandi

In This long i will discuss by my fellow peers who have read the chapter, My trip to the land of ghandi, pg 23-30 in the book," A Testament of Hope", edited by James M. Washington. In the group discussion the told me that in that specific shapter he was talking about how he always wanted to go to India because he believed in Ghandi's non-violent method. They also explained that Ghandi was struggling to gain freedom from the british colonist and Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was fighting for freedon and equality within his own nation. They were fighting for two different things but used the same non-violent method and succeeded to their goal.

In the Chapter, The power of Non-violence pg 12-15 i learned that Dr. King used non-violence to gain respect from whites during the civil movements. He said that in order to have non-violence we must educate people how to be like that themselves. He used religion to open the eyes to many so they can see that violence only brings more bitterness and nothing good comes out of it. HIs objective was not to humiliate or defeat those that are doing wrong but to win their friendship and understanding.

Where am I?

When it comes to the project draft itselft i am in the beginning stages because im trying ti make my characters come to live.

When it comes to my bio i am done, i kept it very short and simple just the basic information that the readers and my fellow peers need to know.

i was not aware of the critial refelction so i have not even started on that but i will be done in time for the presentation

FI MI BIO

Theresa Bramwell was born on Sunday, August 16 in The Bronx, New York. She is the offspring of parents from the West Indies, Mother,K. Ramdial from Guyana and father, P. Bramwell from Jamaica. As a child she moved alot, the first two years of her life she lived in The Bronx then moved back and forth between Queens and Brooklyn. Theresa, for the most part grew up in Brooklyn, New York and attended John Dewey High School. She currently attends LaGuardia Community College as a liberal arts major. Her views on human rights are that we are equal  and as a human your rights should be protected as it was stated in the Universial Declaration of Human Rights.

main IdeaTweets

In the text A Red Record by Ida B. Wells she used numerous main ideas to explain the horrors that happened in the south during the years of 1892-1900. Some main ideas were chivalry, constitutional equality, and race riot.
Chivalry was explained on pg80 defining the way the old way of respect for the white men during the time of slavery.
Constitutional Equality on pg 77 was explaininh that were are all equal in the eyes of the document.

What Can I Do?

I would like to write eitha a play-write or a short story for the class book.

For the play-write:

my play would be about a muslim female teenager that is attending high sskool during the time of semptember 11, 2001. she is going thru two different problems at once, problems within her culture and at skool with the american kids.

For the story:

my story will be about two homosexual bestfriends, male and female that are goin thru dha same problems but in different stages. like ppl are treatn the female different than the male but wen they join together to earn their right to marry they feel the rath of the world.

Teenagers and the word Drama

The reason why teens use the word "drama" is to use it as a protective mechanism for themsleves instead of using the word bulling to get them into trouble.

The word "drama" is empowering because when teens use it they get the kind of attention that they want, its a form of entertainment, sometimes turn serious.

The word "dyke" is a very hurtful word that is being use by many without knowing the damage and hurt it can bring to people. The proper term for the masculine lesbian is AG or Butch and the word "dyke" is the hurtful way to identify them.

STOP THE HURTFUL CYCLE!!!