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.

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.

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

Analyzing 50 cent

Curtis Jackson, also known as 50cent is a Rapper and actor in the entertainment field. He is fairly new to the hip-hop world but is known very well by many. He has been rapping for five years now, and has won various awards and has also topped the music charts. When his first CD was released, it was rated number one on the billboard music charts. It was the number one CD for a long time and it also great for having the best singles. He’s a well-known gangster rapper known for his gangster attitude and background.

Curtis Jackson was born in south Jamaica Queens on July 6, 1975, and as he was growing up he was not always a good child. He was always in trouble and doing something that he was not supposed to be doing. When he was a teenager he was exposed to drugs and alcohol, therefore he did those things. Curtis would get sent to boot camp or detention hall for drugs or for doing something wrong in school or in the neighborhood, but after he served his time in boot camp he would always do something to go right back there. In 50cents raps he sometimes talk about living a gangster life of drugs and violence the same way he grew up. "I got X, Meth and slabs of cocaine" "gotta shotgun like Elmer Fudd" those are some examples of his gangster lyrics.

50cent’s music is different from most artists in his lyrics he talks about his past and the tragedy of it. Most of his lyrics have feeling and the beats that he uses will have you moving. 50cent has a mixed type of music its not all gangster, he has many love songs that has been rated number one on the music charts. In his lyrics he mainly talks about money, clothes, cars, girls, and love. "I love your smile, I don’t wanna see you cry." He also includes in his music about the put down that he’s had to deal with while growing up and that now he’s on top he’s now looking down on them, as I’m making more money than anyone would have ever thought. 50cent also has a group that he raps with called g-unit it stands for Guerilla unit, they act somewhat like a gang stating in there lyrics that you cant beat them because there g-g-g-g-g-unit.

The way 50cent dresses is not common among rappers he wears a bullet proof vest, he use to wear it for protection but now he has made it into a fashionable piece of clothing. They have made tank top t-shirts in the design of a bulletproof vest but its not of the same weight and many people wear it to dress somewhat like 50cent. 50cent also have his own shoe line called G-unit that he has signed through Reebok. They are tennis shoes that can be worn with any kind of clothing whether its street clothes or dress clothes.

50cent have also acted in movies about his life. The name of the movie that he has played in was called "Get rich or Die Trying" he played the role of himself, acting out his childhood and the life that he lived. The movie he played in was basically telling about his life before he became famous, the tragedy of him getting shot nine times because of drugs and his money, drugs and his life as a gangster. The movie drew plenty of controversy from critics and movie goers because after they would see the movie somebody would go outside the movie theater and fight and on one occasion a man shot another after watching "Get Rich or Die Trying."

Many people look up to 50cent because he’s been through trials in his life and now he’s selling CD’s and has some good music and especially after getting shot nine times he has a story behind his music and that’s what people like about him. They like that even though he’s had a rough life as a child and adult he’s able to express himself and tell his story through his music. He ‘s also able to tell his story through movies as well.

Puritans project

1. Religion was the most important thing in the Puritans' society. Their spiritual beliefs were very strong. Their beliefs were showed in their community laws, customs and how they acted. Each church congregation was responsible to God as an individual. They had a very harsh interpretation of scriptures; they believed in constantly working together to do good in this life to be chosen for the next eternal life.


The Puritans believed that when they are born, God has already chosen who would be in heaven or who would go to hell. Each Puritan had no idea which group they were in.They believed that those who were wealthy were in good standings with God. The Puritans believed that the devil was behind every evil deed. They had to keep constant watch in order to stay away from the devil's clutches.

2. Some of the puritans' belief i agree with and some of them i dont. For example in " Sinners in the Hands of an angry God," Johnathan Edwards says, " God is the least bound by any promise to hold [ Sinners] them up one mement." i do not agree with this because i think that god is a merciful and forgiving God. I dont think that because you make one mistake in life that you are automatically going to hell, and that "The devil is waiting for them"

The puritans believed that they were born sinners because of adam and eve. they believed that because adam and eve ate from the tree that they weren't suppose to that's how sin came into the world and that everyone is born a sinner. The puritans stole the indians tools away from them thats when they made a treaty with the indians. The treaty was mainly about a promise that both sides had to keep so that the puritans and indians could get along.

The puritans believed differently than most people do today. they believed that they were only a moment away from going to hell and that they should bo glad that they didn't die and go to hell last night. "You hang by a slender thread with the flames of divine wrath flashing about it... ready every moment to singe it." I dont agree with this because not every one is going to hell. God is a forgiving god and he shows lots of mercy.

I think the way the puritans lived was a fairly good one because of their religion they were set apart from the rest of the world. They were set apart from the world by not doing the the things that sinners do. The children were taught to read the bible daily to purufy themselves and their parents also made them practice perfect social living.

The puritans were also very smart people they studied, read daily, and cited poetry. tthe parents made sure that there children studied and went to school the parents also taught the children themselves. athe puritans had great knowledge that they were the first to write books for children. The puritans is a people whom i would say did for themselves and for there famililies as well as there community.

3. total depravity = "everyone was born a sinner because adam and eve disobeyed god"
unconditonal election= "God had already chosen who would be in heaven or hell, and each believer had no way of knowing which group they were in".