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 * Parties Everyday**


 * If I were in charge of the world**


 * I’d make it the law to drink root beer,**
 * Fire politicians I don’t like,**
 * And remove Taylor Swift and Hannah Montana from main stream.**
 * If I were in charge of the world**
 * There’d be parties everyday,**
 * Cruises even more.**
 * Basketball players would be two feet tall.**
 * If I were in charge of the world**
 * You wouldn’t play hooky,**
 * You wouldn’t eat cheap food,**
 * You would eat the best food in town,**
 * No one would commit suicide or murder.**


 * If I were in charge of the world.**

**I am a proud Filipino**
 * I am a proud Filipino and a smart kid.**
 * I wonder if light can act as a wall.**
 * I hear things that people don’t.**
 * I see things that people don’t notice most of the time.**
 * I want so much stuff I can’t count.**
 * I am a proud Filipino and a smart kid.**
 * I pretend to be an expert swordsman when I’m not all //that// good.**
 * I feel awkward when I don’t do something right.**
 * I touch the keyboard with great precision.**
 * I worry about dying.**
 * I cry when someone ticks me off.**
 * I understand that people need to die at one point in their lives.**
 * I say things that I think are true.**
 * I dream the weirdest nonsense.**
 * I try to perfect things, and sometime I do a good job.**
 * I hope that one day I will be an engineer.**
 * I am a proud Filipino and a smart kid.**

**Sean Pe**

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Sean Pe Mrs. Indemaio Social Studies 6 May, 2010 Preacher of the People

“Through the thorns, there is a rose. In darkest night, there is always a light.”- Anonymous. In the Great Depression, families were running into thorns. But the families who made it the WPA camp found the way to the rose. Three themes nay be seen in the __Grapes of Wrath__: The American Dream lives forever, Oppression and hope, and finally Biblical Parallels. A major theme in the novel is the search for the American Dream. The American Dream is to have an education, get a good job, and do better than your mother and father. Families like the Joad family could not get decent jobs, lived in unfair labor camps, but the American Dream would never be destroyed. The Joads lost their farm when the bank took it because they would not pay for it. So they went west, down Route 66, to California in pursuit of the American Dream. In the first try, they hit the Sheriff when he was in pursuit of a striker. So they had to leave. The second time, Tom Joad decided to take a walk, and he ran into Casey the Preacher. Casey was killed, Tome, hit an officer, and was hit on the face. They had to leave before they found him. But when they arrived at the WPA camp, things were different. But this difference was good. The WPA camp Pe2 was at least half of the American Dream. They had dances, a fair camp, and decent jobs. It wasn’t the complete dream, but it was at least some of it. They would not obtain a chance at the American Dream until the reached California and began their new life. Oppression and hope is everywhere. It is balances. When the family received the flyer showing that jobs were needed, this was a sign of hope. One of the family members was pregnant. This baby would be a sign of hope. When they first arrived at the WPA camp, they were skeptical. But when Tom entered to sign up, the camp became shining with hope. When the Casey was unmercifully killed and not given a chance to speak, this was dark and covered with oppression. Finally, when grandpa and grandma died, this was probably saddest of all their hardships. Yet, they managed to find hope in family and a better life. Towards the end of the movie, Steinbeck’s biblical parallels became very clear. Tom wanted to preach about what was going on, why this is happening, and become the voice of the people. He became the preacher, the minister, the priest. Whatever he was, he was the preacher of the people. Casey was the preacher of the church due to all this job loss. Tome was a preacher of the people that would never, ever, be fired or laid off. The title “__The Grapes of Wrath”__ is a reference to the Bible, in the //Book of Revelations//: And the angle thrust his sickle into the earth, gathered the vine of the earth, and threw it into the great winepress of the wrath of God. Or were in the //Battle Hymn of the Republic// it appears in the first verse: Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: __He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;__ He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword: His truth is marching on. Pe3 The term the __“The Grapes of Wrath”__ is simple to explain. The grapes of wrath represent anger, and the longer it stays the stronger and more potent it gets. Just like wine.

One can see strongly that Tom Joad was not a bad man like most people posed him as; instead, he was the preacher of the people. One can also see the American Dream so close, but what one gets close enough, it sometimes slips away. Nevertheless, people still follow it until they realize it’s worthless or get it. That’s exactly what the Joad family did, and they hoped to find more than one rose in the batch of flowers, instead of more thorns.

I think the most important things that I learned is:

Highest Suicide rate Stocks caused the crash What is a stock. The bad people who knew what might happen, but kept saying that the stock market was doing well.