Empowering Daughters of God

 In 2004, my first year of college, the University required freshmen to take a series of lecture classes.  You had to pick 4 lectures to attend.  The titles of these lectures were vast in their variety.  Many of these talks were to increase your thinking (groom your thoughts), and add diversity to your worldview (brainwash you).  Why do I say groom your thoughts and brainwash you? First of all I'm not against hearing differing opinions and viewpoints.  Many of these lectures were just that, differing opinions and viewpoints.  Some of these lectures did not use accurate information and did not tell the whole story.  Some had the intention to make you think a certain way, one way. I decided to go to a lecture on the Founding Fathers of this great nation.  I ended up walking out early because all I heard was how awful they were.  This was the first time I saw/heard these arguments.  This "side" of the story eventually became the 1619 project.  The lecturer painted a very spe

]= "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, …” -A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens Charles Dickens used the back drop of a pre-French Revolution to tell an epic tale of love, sacrifice, and redemption.  As with all of Dickens' writings, he is teaching profound morals that center around a person's ability to change and society's ability to be resurrected (made new and whole again).  This is a story about how society falls into chaos, becomes institutionalized, and human life is so cheap that killing comes with ease and without emotion.  This story is about how things are not always what they appear to be.......someone who we see as bad, may actually be good and someone we perceive as good may not be so good.   In this story Dickens focuses on the value of human life, as one character sacrifices his life for another.  Dickens always does

  "A father is a thing that is forced to endure childbirth, without an anesthetic. A father is a thing that growls when it feels good–and laughs loud when it’s scared half to death. A father never feels entirely worthy of worship in his child’s eyes. He never is quite the hero his daughter thinks, never quite the man his son believes him to be. This worries him, sometimes, so he works too hard to try and smooth the rough places in the road for those of his own who will follow him. A father is a thing that gets very angry when school grades aren’t as good as he thinks they should be. He scolds his son although he knows it’s the teacher’s fault. Fathers grow old faster than other people. And while mothers can cry where it shows, fathers stand there and beam outside–and die inside. Fathers have very stout hearts, so they have to be broken sometimes or no one would know what is inside. Fathers give daughters away to other men who aren’t nearly good enough so they can have grandchildre