Another even I chose to attend was the movie Secret life of bees, Directed and written by Gina Prince-by the wood. Also this movie was a novel before a movie written by Sue Monk Kidd. This is a beautiful movie of how black woman have always taken a motherly roll to all race and age of children. The story and major conflict of the movie was that lily the little white girl lives unhappily with her father who also claims that when lily was a child killed her mother, which devastates her just thinking about it. The next problem for the little girl is that her mid ends up going to jail for confronting three racists, and lily decides to break her out of jail and leave there town. This is when they end up the Boatwright sister’s house which is a black family. Basically the rest of the movie is about the trials and tribulations of lily the maid and the black family. This includes the many good times and the terrible terrible bad things that happen. Then highlight of the movie to me was when Zach is arrested and the sisters begin to mourn, and then lily confesses about her past. Towards the middle to end of movie lily confronts her father and convinces him she should stay in Tiburon. Over all this was a great movie about the irrationality of racism, the power of a female community, and the importance of storytelling. Also the title of the movie at first was kind of not a good title to me at first until I realized at the end of the movie when my date informed me it was foreshadowing.

I went to a Kappa Alpha Psi Probate as one of my cultural events. A probate is basically an event where a couple of guys who have been online (which means learning info and learning discipline for weeks) are exposed and everyone finds out who the new members of the organization are. This particular probate as I stated before are for the new Kappa of kappa alpha psi incorp. This event is set to start at 9:11p.m. and last for an hour. It starts at 9:11 because they were founded April 11, 1911. The reason for me attending this event is a couple of my homeboy’s were online. The highlight point of the ceremony is when I saw who the other guys were that online. I also learned a couple of things about Kappa like their colors and that they were founded April 11, 1911. Also they are a non-hazing fraternity. This event was held in the lower lever z-6 and was extremely packed. There were six new members to join the kappa alpha psi during this program. During the program the guys came out masked and are unmasked one by one and then they each say a minor 15 sec speech. Then they spit a little info and start to shimmy and dance and the program was over.

For another one of my cultural events I went to the Currahee Military Museum in the Library. It was the center for public history of university of west Georgia who brought this exhibit. It was here to teach more about World War II and The Cold War. The real Currahee Military is in downtown Toccoa which is a part of Georgia. I learned that the name “Currahee” is from a Cherokee Indian meaning “stand alone” and is the mountain where camp toccoa, WWII training facility was located. I learned allot of facts such as there were 17,000 soldiers who trained at camp toccoa during WWII, which is the birthplace of the band of brothers, saving private ryan, and the dirty dozen. The museum or exhibit that was in the library just was a few pictures captured of small town Americans in World War II. In the real exhibit there are stables that housed these soldiers. The stables were built in England in 1922. They only had a couple of pictures I got a few, but they just had basic info on the pictures nothing in depth. This place was re-assembled in Toccoa and dedicated October 7, 2005, to the men and women who have served on foreign soil in all wars in defense of the United States.