Sunday, May 18, 2008

Romantic and Victorian Poetry

1. before the romantic period began in 1798 two young men who were living in the southwestern part of england sold some of their poems so that they could be able to get out of England and go to germany. both of the young men had published books of poems that were and are still today considered great poetry and their poems were the beginning of romantic period because both the poets works were among the most important poems in english literature. begining in America in1776 an age of revolution swpt across western europe, causing political, economic, and social forces that produced, during the next century, some of the most radical changes ever experienced in human life. the american evolution lost for england the thirteen colonies in north America, this was a great loss of prestige and of confidence.

2. in the time of the romantic period normal people i think were having it pretty easy i think they were respected but not like the rich were. the rich were on top owned alot of things and had power over alot of things and also authority. normal did what they could to
survive and overcome and thats how the two young men sold their poetry to take a ttrip to germany.

3. in the romantics work they wanted to express their own conception of nature, which might be called pychological. they were intrigued by the fact that nature and the human mind always act upon each other. Romantics were natue poets because they were "mind poets". They were fascinated by by the "how" problems of thought and feeling. the three qualities of romantic poetry are: Love, Emotions, and Analogies.

THE TIGER
by: William Blake (1757-1827)
IGER, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare seize the fire?

And what shoulder and what art
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And, when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand and what dread feet?

What the hammer? What the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? What dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?

When the stars threw down their spears,
And water'd heaven with their tears,
Did He smile His work to see?
Did He who made the lamb make thee?

Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?

this poem describes the features of the tiger and how his frame is a fearful mystery. the poet williams talks about every detail of the tiger using adgetives. william is refering the tiger to the devil because of all the evil descriptive wors that he uses.

the poem "Itraveled among unknown men" by william wordsworth talks about walking in a strange place and not knowing anyone but loving everyone who is there. William talks about a young lady who he likes and loves the way she played at the bowers and loves everyone in the town.

in the poem "Stanzas for music " by Lord George Gordon Byron his poem talks about a female singing, how sweet it is to hear her voice the softness of it that even a baby can sleep through it, the beauty of her looks of how she gleams forth like no other.

Percy Bysshe Shelley has a great poem called "time" she talks about how the ocean has been there for so long and is still there. for many years and it's still there and maybe will not ever go away.

Thursday, May 1, 2008

RESTORATION

1. The glorious revolution was the Revolution of the year 1688 which was sometimes called the bloodless revolution which was the overthrow of king james II of england. this was a period where many people started relying on science and not the religion point of view for things. not heeding and relying on religion led to many battles between the Catholics and the protestants because of the two sides being seperated between religion and science.

2. satire is the use of sarcasm to someone and to put them down as in lowering their self - esteem; making them feel bad especially if your ridiculing them.

3.The story "A modest proposal" is a very interesting one the Author talks about the children on the streets begging because they have no food or clothes. johnathan swift comes up with a proposal for the children between the ages one and six because he thinks children at this age is considered worthless because they are unable to work and do any thing useful to make a living or money. the proposal that he imposes is to sell the children fo rfood so that the adults can eat which he calls juicy meat. johnathan feels that this a great idea and that some American acquaintance has asured him that it is. "I have been assured" says johnathan swift "by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout". this is a work of satire because at the end of the story the Author says he has no intensions of doing this and basically he was putting them down tellng how he feels about them.

4.the story that i chose to read was "from A Journal of the Plague Year" by Daniel Defoe it talked about many of the people in the city getting sick and not realizing it until about two weeks and then their almost dead. the author in the story walks through the town and hears people screaming at the top of their lungs as though someone is killing them because the pain is severe and very intense.

5. the people living in this time had it very hard with sicknesses because their wasn't advanced medicines nor much experienced doctors to handle the sick as in todays society. many people had it hard and it was very hard to cure the fevers and the colds the people in the town had and they only had one doctor and many of of the people in the town wre left to die because of it.

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Critical essay

the historical significance of this novel is a brilliant one explaining the war and how it affected the character "Henry" in the story. i do think that this book is worthy to study in a literatue class room because it talkes so much about real life experiences of the war and how it effects you especially when dealing with injury because of the war. many critics comments that i have read concerning " A farewell to arms" have been very positive because of the fact that the Author didnt specifically write the book about his life but based upon it. in the Authors life it was in most cases depressing mostly because of the fact that the country was going through the great depression and that is what kind of led to the reason of killing himself.
The book would be a very great book for a literature class becuse of the fact that it has to do with two couples not really into a relationship at first but finally gets serious as they escape Itally together and heads to switzerland not wanting any officials to capture him and send him back to the front. the novel offers powerful descriptions of life during world war I and immediately following world war I.
because of the fact that hemingways novel "A farewell to arms won many numerous awards for his style of writing and the details that allows you to picture just what the Author is saying in the story. the Authors allows the reader to think when reading this novel becuse when henry and catherine get ready to have sex she dosent say what exactly what it is they're about to do the author uses the phrse "lets go to bed " and you kinda get the objective from their instead of using big bold terms when henry and catherine make love to one another.
the critics that i have read concerning their response of this book have said nothing negative which i thinks accounts for the author not really telling his own life story but parts of his life to base the stort upon. the Author ha dput alot of time and effort into making this novel an enjoyable one relating love and war togetherto make a grand novel for anyone and all literature classes to read.

Biography on Ernest Hemingway

Early in 1918 Ernest Hemingway joined the italian red cross and served as an ambulance driver in Italy during world world war I, in which the Italians allied with the british, french, and americans against germany and Austria- hungary. while serving in the war hemingway had two life changing experiences take place that would later inspire and cause him the write a novel "A farewell to arms" that would soon become a somewhat Autobiography of his life but not in full detail.

The first life changing experience that occured in Hemingways life occured on july 8, 1918 when a trench motor shell struck while he was crouched down trying to dodge bullets and bombs while recovering from his wounds of getting blasted met at a women at teh ed cross hospital whom he fell in love with. many people have doubt that that his relationship with her informed them of the relationship between lieutenant henry and catherine barkley in a "farewell to arms". hemingway and his wife Agnes von Kurowsky didnt have a very good relationship because of the fact that he wasn't faithful to his one spouse.

Hemingway lived a private and whoreish life. in september 1921, he married his first of four wives whom he had as he traveled from place to place seeing he world and partying, drinking and meeting new women and people.

Hemingway spent several years as a reporter during which time he developed a clear, concise, and emotionally evocative writing style that generations of authors would soon take after hemingways death. hemingway made valuable connections with American expatriate writers that has helped him develope a reputation of writing ome of the best novels of all time.

Novel Response #3

"A Farewell To Arms" is a very intrigueing story that has to be read with understanding of what point the Author is trying to get across. in book three of the story henry and catherine have went back to switzerland to escape the italians that are trying to make him go back to the front and fight which he does not want to do because of the dander and the chance of getting killed. hery and catherine's love for each other grows into something more serios than what it has been since they first met. when catherine and henry first met she didnt want the relationship to get serious because she was stil grieving at the loss of her fiance whom she loved very dearly.

Catherine was a very sensitive girl that expresses her feelings to henry in some occasions when their about to make love to each other. catherine says that she feels like a whore becuase their not married and are into a relationship. I think while growing up catherine was taught by her parents that you should get married before you have sex, or abstinence is the best policy because of the way she felt.

many of the Authors details ans descriptions that he uses are symbols of meaning in the story. while reading book three in the novel "A farewell to Arms" rain serves as a symbol of the inevitable disintegration of happiness in life. catherine, Ms. barkley says that the rain has a tendency of ruining things for lovers at the ending of the story while it's raining Catherine gives birth to a still born baby , this is very sad for henry because he really wanted a child. after Catherine takes her last breath the author describes henry as as he gets up and walk home in the rain. The Author has it raining while this tragedyis taking place because the rain that is falling is a symbol of his style of writing and making it as trategic as he can.

in the ending of the story it gets very sad just like the Authors life did when he was living. at the end of the story catherine gets very sick because of her pregnancy. whhile giving labour henry is excited but gets the news that catherine gave birth to a still born child and not long after that catherine dies. I think it's very sad how al of this has happened to a couple that really loved each other and was excited that they were truly about to start a family but then all of a sudden henry is left to himself just like at the beginning of the story when he was single and didn't have a companion like Catherine.

Monday, April 21, 2008

Novel Response # 2

I am midway through the book "A Farewell to Arms" and it has gotten very interesting. when i first started reading the novel i really couldn't understand what was really going on because the author's writings are in a way that are different from other styles of writngs that many Authors have. Henry the main character in the story and Catherine dont speak proper i think the author writes the way catherine speaks because many females speak that way because of lack of knowldge or education or maybe it's just the way hemingway is trying to portray her in a sense of a making her sound very beautiful

In the passage a good example of the way catherine speaks is when she 's taking care of henry after being injured in the blast while on the front. she says to henry"you smart" instaed of you're or you are smart. her talking with grammatical errors lets me know that catherine is speaking in the story because the Author does not let the reader know who's speaking but you acn get an idea of who is by the way the Author distinguishes the characters words from each other to let you know who is speaking in the story.

Midway through chapter 11 henry has gotten injured from a blast that has killed two friends of his and almost killed himhe goes to the hospital to get treatment for his leg that was paralyzed in the blast. at the Hospital catherine is his nurse and takes care of him. Henry and Catherine finnally get more into love with each other because of the fact that they're seeing alot of each other.

Thursday, April 17, 2008

NOVEL PROJECT RESPONSE # 1

While reading “A farewell to arms “ I am very pleased with what I have read so far I have just read chapters one thru eight and am very surprised at how the author put this piece of literature together he describes italy and switzwerland as if he's there in the setting. The Author describes every bit of detail the weather, the land and the environment that he's visioning and writing about.
So far in the story the narrator, lieutenant Henry describes the small Italian village in which he lives. In the first eight chapters of the book, it is at the start of winter and a cholera epidemic has killed the army of about seven thousand soldiers; which began in the summer of world war I. the main character
Henry moves to Gorizia until he thinks that the fighting has calmed down a little bit. When Henry returns he speaks with his roommate Rinaldi. Rinaldi tells him about a girl that he has met at an hospital who was a nurse named Catherine Barkley. In these these first chapters that I’ve read the author has such an interesting way of writing and adding war and love together by relating it to how it really is in real life.
In chapters four and five Henry tries to get acquainted with the nurse ms. Barkley by going to visit her at the hospital. when henry tell Catherine that he loves her she tells him not to say that because she dosent really want to love anyone because she once loved her fiance and all of a sudden he died

Thursday, April 10, 2008

Mentor log #1

March 24, 2008

2:30 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.



On Monday march the 24th I met with my mentor Sam who is a art student at the university of Georgia . While meeting with him we went over my senior project research project together to make sure that it was mistake free and didn’t have any errors. I made a lot of changes to my rough draft to make it into my final paper. Am has really helped me in finding information to better help me understand what art really is what I need to really know about the topic I’m studying in the form of cubism and optical art. My mentor sam explained to me what exactly how the shades of light and dark colors form to make an image of 3-d in the form of optical art. I really enjoyed my time with my mentor learning more about my topic and what I want to do as a product for my senior project.
While figuring out what I wanted to do for my product, my mentor had me drawing object that we could possibly draw and make into my product. I don’t know exactly what I want to do just yet for my product but my mentor is helping me to decide and hopefully I will get something started

Monday, January 14, 2008

The legend of Beowolf

1. The author of Beowulf wrote a great story about a king who was having trouble killing a ravenous beast that no one, mighty or great or of great strength could subdue him because of his mighty strength. Many men tried to fight this beast, even those who many claimed were the strongest in all the earth. grendal was this big, great giant who was eating and terrorizing the people and no one had any success winning the battle to kill him.
The author of "beowulf" made the character beowulf seem like such a hero in the story, beowulf is a character who is said to have been "the stongest of men alive in that day." when beowulf hears about what is going on in the town where grendal is in the hall fighting and killing the solidiers. beowulf gathers his army to take along with him because for some reason he knew that it would be a tough journey ahead of him but beowulf was very confident in his ability to defeat grendal the giant. beowulf inherited his strength from his ancestors that were before him; they were also very strong.

2. The Anglo-saxons did alot of fighting and feauding. The centerpiece of the Anglo-saxon culture was their warrior tradition, warriors who were heros and fought for a good cause to save sombody or something. Beowulf was considered a warrior because the slew the giant, Grendal. "Grendal, the foe of god who had long troubled the spirits of men with his crimes, found that his body could not stand against the hand grip of that warrior beowulf.
Another thing that was apart of the Anglo-saxons culture is loyalty to the king. " The giver of treasure, Hrothgar, gray haired and brave in battle." Hrothgar was very strong as well he was ruler over the danes. the danes were very loyal to their king they wrote poetry and played music for him.
The Anglo-saxons were christians but many of the things that they did didnt symbolize christianity. many of the Anglo-saxons started praying to the devil when things got hard and trying times approached them. when grendal attacked the hall for twelve long years the danes didn't know what to do in the story it says that "Hrothgar was broken;council after council proposedwhat to do against the attacks.They even went to heathen temples,worshipped idols, and calledto the Devil for help.The Danes forgot God."
3. the hero that Beowulf compares to of to days culture is hercules. the reason why i say hercules is because hercules was a brave warrior and he went just like beowulf did to defeats an evil beast. hercules was considered a powerful and strong warrior just like beowulf. beowulf went to to fight grendal with confidence, not knowing if he'll lose or win but was confident that he'll win because of the many battles he's fightin before. "The wise men among my people advised that I seek youbecause they know my strength--they saw me come from battlesstained in the blood of my enemies, when I destroyed a family of giants, when I endured pain all night, killing water monsters, grinding them to bits, to avenge for the Geats".
4. I felt very sadened about Beowulfs death because Beowulf was a good warrior the strongest in that time battleing many giants and sea creatures. Beowulf died a hero fighting to save the people of "beowulf". When Beowulf killed grendals mom i think that was a significant event in the danes culture; battleing and defeating gevil beasts

Thursday, November 29, 2007

Modernism

1. The topic that i choose that I'm interested in studying is Dissillusionment because Dissillusionment defines freeing oneself, getting away from an illusion. i hope to read a story about smomeone who is trying to get out of a situation or an illusion. ideas in one's head that has no meaning or cause and defines nothings.



3.The story that i read was "Solidiers home" in the story the man has just came home from the Army fighting war. the mans mother and father tries to get him to be interactive and outgoing and not let the illusions of the war get to him. The Army taught Krebs that it was alright to pose as though you wanted one. but Krebs thought differently "You did not need a girl unless you thought about them"thought krebs.



Krebs came from the Army and was ready to settle down many of the guys in his town were looking for a girl because so many of them were single because they didn't have a large selection of young men to choose from seeing that they were fighting the war. Krebs felt depressed alot his mother had a tough time trying to get Krebs to hang out and be more social and to try to date one of the french girls.

The story that i read "Soldiers home" corresponds with dissillusionment because Dissillusionment is trying to get yourself away from a situation it's sometimes mental idea's that that have no meaning that you're trying to escape. The soldiers home talks about a a man named Krebs are trying to get way from Dissillusionment "He thinks you have lost your ambition, that you haven't got a definite aim in life" is how everyone thought Krebs viewed life.

The poem "Richard corey" is about a man who is rich and who people admirers because of the dress, his talk and his apperence altogether. deap down inside Richard corey was not as happy as people viewed him. the poem is dissillusionment because Richard corey was not as happy as every viewed him.

Mending wall is two neighbors who have a dissagreement about why or why shouldn't a fence go up to seperate the two neighhbors. one of the neighbors think that "fences make good neighbors" becuse it keeps the peace and them more seperated. this poem is an example of Dissillusionment because it involves a neighbor who is trying to free himself from tyhe other by building a fence.

In the poem "Dream deferred" its asking what happens to a dream that has been lost or damaged. this poem is probably speaking about the time in slavery when many slaves had dreams but couldn't fullfil those dreams because of the persacution they going thru.

in the poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" he speaks of his Ancestors of how it was them that built the pyramids, and bathed in the Euphrates river. in the poem he says "I heard the singing of the mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down to NewOrleans" he was talking about his people during Slavery and what they as slaves have built with there hands and thought with there minds.

in the poem "incident" the Author says when he was in Baltimore and was very happy at the time someone called him a Nigger he was very hurt by this emotionally because of the name calling that he endured. this is an good example of dissillusionment which in the poem the little boy tries to avoid things that have no such meaning and thats no use to get him down.

Monday, November 19, 2007

Why i think George Bush should be impeached



When President George W. Bush first began to run for president against senator Al Gore in the year of 2000 I thought he was going to be very good President probably another Bill Clinton. I was very wrong to think such a thing seeing now that his presidency hasn’t been good at all. He has done many things that has left the American people wanting a new President by impeaching Bush and I am one of them that supports the impeachment of president George W. Bush.
America was hit with a terrorist attack on September 11, 2001 a very devastating event that Americans will always remember. After the attack president George Bush suspected that Osama Bin Laden and the Taliban coalition attacked us so he sent our troops to Afghanistan to hunt for him. After no luck finding him, President Bush soon began to focus his attention on Iraq, telling the American people there was no democracy and that the Iraqi people were mistreated. President Bush also accused Iraq of having weapons of mass destruction, allowing the U.S Defense intelligence agency to file a report that Iraq had been actively acquiring chemical weapons capacities. During the invasion on Iraq we caught Saddam Hussein but did not find weapons of mass destruction; soon the President announced that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. I began to think he had lied to the American people just to send our troops to fight.
During America’s war with Iraq there were many reports from the military that said those who were sent to fight in the war were not given proper equipment and hardly got any training. Troops were reporting that they needed more and newer equipment to continue fighting in the war over in Iraq. One report I read also said that troops were not going through the full training that they are supposed to go through to even be ready for battle. The military was shortening the training so that they could hurry up and get troops over to Iraq and fight. The president soon made a speech that the man and women in the armed forces would soon get the proper gear and training that they’ll need to fight this war in Iraq. I think from the start that our troops should been given the proper materials to win the war in Iraq; risking their lives to fight for our freedom and country they should have been given everything necessary to win the war from the start.
President Bush should also be impeached because he tapped the lines of phones, emails, and other communication devices without getting permission from congress. When Americans heard this they were furious and upset that they were being spied upon without their permission or even being notified about such tapping. The American people felt that that the president violated their privacy rights tapping in on conversations and E-mails. The American people wanted President Bush impeached because, according to Russ Feingold a senator from Wisconsin, “the President violated the law, ignored the Constitution and the other two branches of government, and disregarded the rights and freedoms upon which our country was founded”. The president violated the trust of the American people and has broken the law and should be punished to the fullest extent of the law.
The president should be impeached for many reasons but most of all for not being the leader Americans thought he would be and hiding the truth from the American people. The president has led us to war and has yet to bring us out as the number of American deaths in Iraq are climbing daily and there seems to be no end to what the president has put the American people through

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Realism

1. A. In the "A story of an hour" the woman in the story Mrs. mallard finds out that her husband has died she feels so free "free body and soul free" she wispered. she felt so free that she wouldn't have any one live live for but for herself. Mrs. mallard describes the inner feeling, the joy she feels when she hears this somewhat disturbing news; she is over welmed and also faces the fact that she'll be alone from now on

1. B. One of the social issues that Choplin wants to solve is that the female has to basically listen to everything that the husband says and that you have to be submisive to each other. Mrs. Mallard was very happy when she heard that her husband had died because she would no longer feel as though she was in bondage but free now that she didnt have to be commited to anyone.

2. A. "The Battle with Mr. covey" is a story about a man who wants to live free and no longer in bondage or slavery. Frederick douglass was working in the wheat fields and because of the harsh conditions that the slaves worked in, no matter the condition. douglass fell very weak from working to hard and being in the heat to long. This story uses realism in many ways by describing the many things that the slave endured by his slave master.



I broke down, my strength failed me; I was seized with a violent aching of the head, attended with extreme dizziness; I trembled in every limb. it's telling and describing how he felt being tormented by slavery by working over his limits and a little too much that his body counldn't take the condition the .

In the story "the battle with Mr. Covey" i think that the Author was trying to let the reader visualize how bad slavery was and the horrrible conditions that the slaves had to deal with. the author shows realism in the story by telling in depth of the way the slave in the story was treated.

3. An example of modernism is a movie that i watched called Juice. Juice is about teens in New York that are living a street and gangsta life. The teens in the Movie live in the projects and live a very hard life growing up from poor backgrounds. the author uses realism in the story by showing what kind of live the guys in newyork had to live and the violence that goes on in the teens life is a everyday thing. In the movie the teens rob a store and it goes wrong andthey plan to kill all those that had been witnesses of the robbery. what happened in the movie goes on in the real world at times especially in New York, where the movie was played.

Monday, November 12, 2007

I LOVE THE DIRTY BIRDS!!

I've learned my lesson, y'all. After watching the Atlanta Falcons dominate my Carolina Panthers on Sunday, I am finally ready to admit they are the better team. When I looked up at the scoreboard and saw that 20-13 staring at me, I had no choice it was time to face the truth.

Man, I wish Alge Crumpler played for the Panthers!

Maybe if they didn't wear girly powder blue, the Panthers may even intimidate the other team a little instead of letting the officials decide the game like the one in Atlanta earlier this season.

I think the real lesson here is that I should listen to Mr. Siegmund when it comes to football matters since he told me all along the Panthers were pretenders. I am going to go ahead and say it -- you heard it here, folks -- The Falcons are going to take out the Buccaneers this week on their way to a NFC South Championship. GO DIRTY BIRDS!!!

Maybe Mr. Siegmund will let me keep this hat since I'm tired of looking like a member of The Backstreet Boys wearing that baby blue one. . .

Thursday, October 25, 2007

Dark Romanticism

1. The three authors would not believe in transcendental philosopy because transcendentalists believed that everyone was pure and good. The authors had many bad things to happen to them in their life and they've also have seen many horrible things happen to other people and that would make them thinkthat no one is pure and up to no good. for example Nanthaniel Hawthorne's great grandfather was a judge in the salem witchcraft trials and was the cause many cruel deaths and that makes Nanthaniel think that there was evil in the world. That idea affected his anti romanticism.

Herman Melville witnessed cannanbalism when he saw this he thought it was a bad thing because of the evil he saw.







2. I think i am most like an dark romantic because the dark romantists believed that not everyone was good and that people did some terrible things and had evil in them. Not everyone was considered good to the romantics the mind could snap at any time a causing you to do something out of the ordinary. I dont believe that everyone is good and pure like the transcendentalists believe.





3. The story "The black cat" was a really great story that told about a man who is married and him and his wife loves animals. The Narrator is quick tempered and get frustrated at his cat at some point of time when he just dosen't feel like being bothered. because the narrator has such a bad temper he ends up killing his first cat and his wife.


The Dark romantics would disagree with the transcendentalists because the transcendentalists believed that everyones intuition was pure and that god spoke to everyone causing them to do his will. that is not so with the dark romantists: they believed that god didin't speak to you through you and not everyone was good and pure and the mind could snap at anytime to do evil. in the story the narrator's intuition told him to do evil as in to kill his cat and wife.





5. Poe's wife was dying an it was dark and late very freightening for poe Edgar Allen poe because it was very late at night and heard someone outside his chamber door "sir said i, or maiden truly your forgiveness i implore; but the fact is i was napping and so gently you came rapping, and so gently you came rapping and so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door." it was nothing but a raven that that was not going to leave any time soon, the raven represents death because of the fact that his wife has died.





The transcendentalists believed that everything was good and pure and everything that was done was done through the speaking of god and that no one did any evil. The narrator in the story calls the raven a "thing of evil" and the Transcendentalists believed that there was no evil. "And my soul from out the shadow that lies floating on the floor shall be lifted -nevermore!" the Anti transcendentalists believed that your soal could be damned forever which is what the dark romantists believed. The transcencdentalists believed that you turned to the over soul no matter what.



6. After edgar allen poe's mother died and his father disowned him he was adopted. when he was 18 years old he enlisted into the armed forces under name "edgar a. perry" and claimed he was 22 years old when he was only 18 years old he first served at fort independence in boston harbor that same year he released his first book, a 40-page collection of poetry called "by a Bostonian"

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

"Thank you" communities in school

I am very thankful for Communities in Schools for making it possible for me to continue with my education. Since I’ve been at Classic City High School in Athens, Georgia, my life has not been the same as it used to be; Classic City has made a difference in my life by getting me back on track with the programs they have. I was thinking about dropping out of high school because I was trying to balance out school and work. Since becoming a student at Classic City High School, I have become a model student since being around positive people with positive attitudes and a faculty that has helped guide me so that I may succeed.
I think it’s a great school that communities in school has put together for students who are struggling in regular school, who may be about to drop out, or who just need guidance through high school so that they may be successful after completing high school.
Communities in Schools is a different type of school compared to traditional public schools, and that has helped me a whole lot. When I was attending a traditional school in Charlotte, North Carolina, the class sizes ranged from 20 to 25 students per classroom, and that was really hard for me because the teacher wasn’t able to come over and help me every time I needed help. There were so many other students in the classroom that were asking questions and who needed help that the teacher wasn’t always able to come to answer every question that I needed to ask. At Classic City High School the classes are smaller; therefore, the teachers are able to work with the students one- on- one, and the students can get the information that they need to be successful in the lessons that they are taking.
Classic City High School is a self-paced school; I go at the pace that I am able to perform my assignments. If I am not ready to move on with a lesson because I’m having a difficult time understanding it, I can take my time and get help from my teacher before taking the test. While I was attending a traditional high school the whole class moved at the same pace, whether i work at a fast pace or I worked slow, when its time to take the test I had to take it whether I knew the material or not. Taking the test at the end of the week and not really understanding the material was not good for me because some of the lessons that were taught took me a while to understand.
While being at Classic City High School, Communities in schools has helped me decide what I want to do when I graduate from high school by preparing me for college and the work field by allowing us to do Service learning projects. Service learning allows us to perform work in the environment that may help us in the future and also decide what we want to be when we grow up. Since I’ve been doing service learning projects I learned a lot and also made up my mind what field of study I want to go into after high school.
I am very grateful to Communities in school for what they’ve done to help me accomplish my goals and allowing me to be able to continue with my education.

Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Transcendentalism

1. The passage "nature" was talking about transcending. seeing things in a different way than they really are. The passage "From Nature" is talking about how god speakes through everyone and he dosen't say the same thing to different people, he speaks through your instincts. Going into society you are not able to let your mind wonder and go free as you would alone, by yourself while your in a quiet place.



The story "Nature" mainly speaks the beauty of nature and the many things you have to see in nature through superficial eyes. "few adult persons can see nature. most persons dont see the sun. at least they have very superficial seeing". Transcendentalism relates to this story because in the story they speak about god speaking to them through nature and through their in instincts.



2. The story "Self realiance" talks about trusting yourself and also believing in yourself as the people before has accomplished great things like benjamen franklin and others. "god will not have his work manifest by cowards" is saying that if your not willing or scared to do what god wants you to do he won't ask of you to do his work.


"A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best". when a man has put forth a good effort in whatever he's trying to accomplish he's very happy because of the hard work he's accomplished. The transcendentalist believed that god speaks to them through their hard work an thats what self reliance was reall about.


3. Cival Disobedience mainly speaks about American government and how most of the laws are unjust. Thoreau believed thet moral sense was very important; being able to use your instincts and your own natural ability to do things. Thoreau believed that too much respect for the law could lead people to do many unjust things by not being able to do what they feel they should do. they believed that they should do what god wanted them to do and not what everything the government wanted


4. Each of the pieces of writings are a good example of transcendentalism because they talk about seeing things more than what they really are in "Nature" they talk about how god speaks to everyone but he dosen't say the same thing; he speaks something different to everyone. In the second passage speacks about

scenario writing 2. If i was chris i would practice law; get a job in a law firm and go to school at the same so that if he's going to school to get his teaching certificate he can have money to also help his wife and als pay for his own schooling. That would allow him to make money in a field that he dont like for a short time but going to school to take up something that he might be doing for a long time. in the scenario chris wants to pursue an education in teaching the transcendentalists believed that you should listen to your instincts and do what god tells you.

Thursday, September 27, 2007

Born and Raised in Charlotte







I was born and raised in Charlotte North Carolina, a place where I call home, and a place where I’d rather be than any other place. Being from Charlotte is a good thing. When I tell people I’m from Charlotte, they say, "Wow" as in that’s a great place to live. Charlotte has many attractions and plenty of things for everyone to enjoy. People say that Charlotte is the gateway to the south -- it all starts in Charlotte. Charlotte is the biggest city in North Carolina, and the 20th largest in the world.


Charlotte was founded in 1755. By Thomas Polk. The uncle of United States president, James k. Polk. One day Thomas was traveling with his family, he stopped and built a house at the intersection between the Yadkin and Catawba rivers. Charlotte had a road called the Great Wagon Road; settlers of Scots-Irish and of German descent came from Pennsylvania into the Carolina foothills. Within the first decades in which Thomas Polk settled, the area grew to become the community of "Charlotte Town". Charlotte was named in honor of Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg, wife of King George III of the United Kingdom.



Charlotte was a site of encampment for both the American troops and the British troops during the Revolutionary war. Sometimes the British troops would get into skirmishes with the Charlotteans and therefore the village earned the nickname "Hornets Nest". Today the landmarks still endures, such as my elementary school being named Hornets Nest Elementary, they’ve also had a basketball team called the Charlotte Hornets, a high school being named Independence high school, and a street called Freedom drive.



Charlotte is located in North America ’s humid subtropical climate zone. Charlotte has mild winters and hot, humid summers. In the winter around January the mornings lows average be around 0c [32 f] and afternoon highs average around 11c [51 f]. Where Charlotte is located it is in direct path of subtropical moisture from the gulf as it heads up the eastern seaboard. Charlotte receives [very little rain and] about 43.52in annually. There are many Ice storms in the winter. In 1989 Charlotte took a big hit from hurricane Hugo. The storm passed through Charlotte with wind gusts over 100 miles per hour, Hurricane Hugo caused massive property damage and knocked out power to 98 percent of the population. Many residents were without power for several weeks and the cleanup took several weeks to complete. Over 80,000 trees were destroyed in Charlotte. The storm knocked out 1.2 million Duke Power customers.



Charlotte has become a major U.S. financial center. Charlotte has the second largest and fourth largest financial institutions, both Bank of America and Wachovia. Charlotte has the largest skyscraper between the states of Philadelphia and Atlanta. Their tallest building stands 871 feet tall and was completed in 1992 The tall buildings is what makes Charlotte’s skyline look great and makes Charlotte a very attractive place to live.



Charlotte is also a sports town with many sports attractions for any sports fan. They have baseball, basketball, football, arena football, and hockey. The sports attractions is what makes Charlotte a great city; because of the atmosphere, the people in Charlotte are nicer than the people in other big cities because on a statistic shows the 10 cities where the people are most rude with Florida being number one and Charlotte not being named. One of Charlotte’s most famous attraction is their Amusement park; Carowinds; it is a fun place to go it has over one thousand rides, many say that Carowinds is better than Atlanta’s Six flags.



I like the city that I was born and raised in, knowing the history of your city and how it was founded makes a difference because you know how your city started out, its background and the very important people who founded it.

Thursday, September 20, 2007

Rip van wrinkle

1. Rip van wrinkle was a man who everyone in the town knew. he helped the people in the town by running errrands and doing odd jobs for them. Rip van wrinkle slept for twenty years many cartoons portraying the real Rip van wrinkle have said that rip van wrinkle slept for thirty to forty years.




After rip van wrinkle slept for twenty years he went back to the town where he once lived everyone stared at him as if he was some street bum because they've never seen anyone dress the way he was dressed; rags, long beard, and probably smelled bad. the towns people had never seen anyone like him and therefore he didn't look familiar to them. Rip van wrinkle wondered why no one recognized him and why he didnt recognize any of them the reason was because every one had either died after rip van wrinkle left or had gotten very old.









2. The story of Rip van wrinkle was romantic because it says that rip van wrinkle slept for twenty years and woke up and went to the village where he once lived



the way the describes the scene at the top of the mountains when rip van wrinkle was hunting. the little men and the way they dressed






3. The poem Thanatopsis is talking about nature and the beauty of it; how it speaks to you with its beautiness. when the person in the poem is happy nature looks very beautiful and it says so many things with its beauty. When the person in the poem id sad nature dosen't say the same thing as it does when your happy. Ramanticism shows up in the poem when it talkes about haw nature speaks to you.






4. In the poem someone is describing many things that he or she is seeing while a spiders spinning it's web. The images that standout are when the character describes things that he see and gives descriptive details about them. A good example of ramantcism is when "human spiders spin and spin".


5. This painting could be considered romanticism because you probably won't see anything like that in the real world. it's very beautiful and it's something that you would only imagine seeing.


The reason i chose this picture is because the man in the picture is suppose to be the "god of fog" and thats a good Example of Romanticism.

Wednesday, September 5, 2007

Rationalists project

1. The puritans believed strongly in god. they believed he was the creator of all and that he was the reason we had most of the things that we do. they believed that when most bad things happen god allows them to happen for a reason.the puritans believed that god created the world and man did everything else to build the earth.





3. benjamen franklin made a chart of the days of the week and the goals he wanted to accomplish to becoming a perfect man. "I made a book in which i allotted a page for each of the virtues". He wanted to become perfect by doing a chart in helping him do that. The puritans wpould pray to go to help them become perfect instead of doing it through science.





4. Role model- be a good example to kids kids younger than me.

Kind hearted- be nice and kind towards others

Thankful- appreciate the things that i already have.

Grateful- be grateful for the good things that has happened in my life.

Honesty- be true to myself and to others.

Respect- respect others as well as myself

Open minded- willing to recieve information and learn more.

Cleanliness- keep my body clean as well as my room

Obedient- do what im told to do by my parents and elders

Thoughtful- always thinking of others besides of myself

Neat- always being presentable and clean

prideful- dont let anyone get me down and tell me i cant do a certain thing.

self-motivated- always motivate and lift myself up through bad times

i think i could reach moral perfection this way by doing the things i have set for myself to do to be perfect. i believe if i try i can accomplish all of my goals and overcome every obstacle that set before me.





5. the Rationalist thought that if the present king who was called by god didnt do a good job they could get rid of him and find their own governor "it is their duty to throw off such government, and to provide new gaurds for their future society.
the rationalists wanted to get rid of the king because he wouldnt let anyone be else be elected "He has for a long time after such dissolutions to cause others to be elected.
the rationalists believed that the powers of the state was different the laws of the nation "powers of the earth the seperate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of natures god entile them.

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done with puritans project