Comment About Topics

My group was formed by Alejandra, Karen and Rosario, so I have to comment about their blogs, in the Halloween topic, Alejandra and Karen decided to look for the history of that tradition but Rosario instead chose an original way to talk about that topic, I believe that Rosario wanted to make it in her own way.

Alejandra used a scary picture to represent the main idea of the topic, and Karen chose to take it easy by not looking for pictures (As I do), I believe that they three made a terrific (outstanding) homework by getting into a further knowledge of the topic.

Crime Topic

In order to accomplish the Nº2 homework, I have chosen a song to comment about it, “Bad Boys” is that song.  Since I was very young, I remember to hear this song in the radio, and T.V. but I never thought that it has an important message, and it is that bad people generally comes from an ordinary family and they as every human being have beloved persons, but they take that way because of bad decisions.

To me, the most meaningful part of the song is:  “why did you have to act so mean, don’t you know you’re human being, born of a mother with the love of a father”.  This phrase explains that most of the people that have committed a crime were race with love, as any of us.

I chose this song because it is very familiar to me, and I have heard it a lot of times.

It can be found here:

http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/i/inner_circle/bad_boys.html

Jack o'lantern

I found and article about the history of the Jack o'lantern, it explains that this tradition began long time ago from an Irish myth about a man nicknamed “Stingy Jack”, who tricked the devil several times, “Stingy Jack” even tricked  the devil by making him promise that when “Stingy Jack” die, the devil couldn’t claim his soul.  Eventually “Stingy Jack” died but God didn’t allow him get into heaven, and he couldn’t get into hell because the devil had promised it. So the devil sent Jack off into the dark night with a kind of candle, that he put into a carved turnip. Now the pumpkin is used to remember jack of the lantern or simply Jack o'lantern.

It’s interesting to think about such a smart person that can trick the devil so easily, also is interesting to learn about the origin of that tradition, and read that few Americans really know why or when the jack o'lantern tradition began.

The history can be found here: http://www.history.com/topics/jack-olantern-history