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 17, 2008
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
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
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.
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.
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. . .
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. . .
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