Unit Four

The most trouble i had with one of the standards is the one labeled ELAALRL2. I didn't really know what theme was and what the standard was asking but i did some research on it and applied what i had learned to help me do my work.

I chose to write about the Jazz Age. I chose the topic because it seems interesting the gangsters, the use of alcohol, and the music. I also can just visualize the moments and the lifestyle of that time.

The Camel's Back by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Story was about a man named Perry Pankhurst who was in love with Betty Medill.
He tries to marry her but she refuses to marry him because she isn't really sure about tying the knot right now. so Perry Storms off through the night just wondering around till he bumps into a strange man that offers him a drink. Perry is like sure what have i got to lose. he wasn't planning on going to any more parties because he did that all the time, but after drinking he changes his mind constantly.
So there is this circus ball that he wants to attend. he was pretty sure the woman he loved was going to be there but it didn't matter. so he goes to this costume shop to get an costume for the party what he wants has all ready been rented to other people. so the employee introduces him to this camel suite. he likes it but can find a partner. The fact that he couldn't find a partner made him very sad and delusional so by now he's having flashbacks of Betty. so he gets in this cab and on the way to the wrong party he offers the cab driver a sum of money to be in the suite with him. The Cab driver refuses heavily because he figured he would lose his job by partying. He soon agrees and now they arrive to the wrong party but a local friend of Mr. Pankhurst. a little commotion gets stirred but soon everyone realizes it's Perry so they start back partying. The friend invites Perry and his companion to the circus ball the party he was meant to go to so Perry agrees to go with Mr. and Mrs. Tate. They arrive at the circus ball and he sees his love flirting with every guy in the party this makes him really mad but he knows he lose his cool because he don't want anyone to notice that's it's him in the camel suite. not because he's embarrassed or anything he just has this master plan to get his love back. so he dances over all cool and slick trying to get her attention and does, they dance and had a little talk. she wants the man in the camel to tell her she's pretty and just amuse her. This makes Perry so mad because the woman he loves is flirting with people she really don't know then she thought he was some one else out of town visiting the Tate's. so the conversation is over and they party, but soon it's time for the awards to be passed one goes to the snake charmer which is Betty Medill and the Camel with is Perry. as for the Ritual they are supposed to get married just by the Circus Ball standards. So this guy named Jumbo just a normal guy but funny is suppose to be the priest. Jumbo asked Perry do he has his marriage license but since this is a fake wedding it can be a piece of paper or anything. so perry digs through his pants and finds a piece of paper but little does he know that it's the actual marriage license that he presented to Betty when he asked her to marry him. Then Jumbo ask for the ring instead of Mr. Perry having one he forces to the cab driver to take his off or he'll kill him the cab driver is so scared that he does it. so he puts the ring on the snake charmers finger and as soon as they are about to kiss Jumbo realizes that its an actual marriage license and addresses it out loud. He read the names on the paper which were Perry and Betty Pankhurst she is astonished and so is the crowd. so there is the silence in the party and she breaks it by asking him to take off the camel head and having 5 minutes of alone time to talk. He agreed. Now their talking in this secluded hallway and she is basically telling him she doesn't want him and why would he stoop so low to marry her. He didn't plan on it though it just happened but he doesn't get the chance to say that because she is constantly running her mouth. so Perry interrupts her by telling her OK i will renounce our wedding even though it was actually fake but the marriage license all so real. The Cab driver finally speaks and say your my wife too you know. she is like who said that. But she thinks the cab driver is blind and deaf because perry told her that. so the cab driver say you didn't just get married to the head of the camel but the whole camel and perry agrees to that so he states that I'm heading west and I'm going to let you be with your husband if you need me i will be headed west kept repeating himself to make her feel bad. He grabs the door knob to leave but she stops him to tell she love him and she wants to go too.

The story involves a lot of things that relate to the Jazz age philosophy. It involved Bootlegger's and Alcohol. "The Towns ends had determined to assure their party of success, so a great quantity of liquor had been surreptitiously brought over from their house and was now flowing freely". The after hours partying at secluded locations "The circus ball was in full swing." I think Fitzgerald was trying to say that America was not a land of opportunity and equal respect. For example the cab driver couldn't earn any respect because he was a black male. He couldn't Show his face no where till he was away from the people in the party.

Richard Corey:
The people in the poem think that the man named Richard Covey is doing good but doesn't realize that even if your rich and famous you still can have problems. The Poem is an example of Disillusionment.
And he was rich—yes, richer than a king,
And admirably schooled in every grace:
In fine, we thought that he was everything
To make us wish that we were in his place.
And went without the meat, and cursed the bread;
And Richard Covey, one calm summer night.
Went home and put a bullet through his head

Mending Wall Robert Frost:
In the poem of Mending Wall. the neighbor of the poet stated that "good fences make good neighbors" but as you continue reading the poem the only time they talked and hung out was when they worked on a fence to repair it from the damage that was done by the hunters and winter season.

What Is a Dream Deferred?
I think the Poem was written during the Harlem Renaissance. It addresses how people in America was saying that America was the place to be but truly it wasn't in this poem Mr. Hughes questioned their belief. it wasn't really a question but you could tell he say ask where is the opportunity when you treat us (black people) like we are nothing but Horse manure to you meaning the white people.
What happens to a dream deferred? What happened to to the land of opportunity is what i think he's saying.

The Negro Speaks of Rivers:
The Story relates to disillusionment, but written during the Harlem Renaissance time period. Langston Hughes was stating that the black people should take credit in what they have accomplish so far in America. When he was saying I he was speaking for people like him which is black people.
I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. We were the first people on the earth. He was also stating that black people worked hard to get to the point where we are now. I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.

Incident:
The Poet is reffering back to when he was a small boy, and remembered this time when he was call a nigger. "And so I smiled, but he poked out
His tongue, and called me, "Nigger"
If the American dream was a land filled with equal oppertunities but obviously it was different back then and really this is what made the Harlem Renaissance start.
Once riding in old Baltimore,
Heart-filled, head-filled with glee,
I saw a Baltimorean
Keep looking straight at me.
This example of Disillusionment is perfect on how the writers of that time attacked the american dream. on how everyone possibly thought that If your in America your going to be okay but with the publishings of Cullen, Hughes, Frost, and other people America and the world soon found out that the American dream wasn't all true.

Unit Three

Original Sin was basically the statement of Adam and eve eating the fruit off the tree when the were told not too. Total depravity really just sums it up because it say that every one is a born sinner because of Adams and eves eagerness.

The transcendentalist thought other wise of it though they didn't really to much believe in Original Sin. They believed that everyone had good inside of them, and that everyone was apart of god. The Transcendentalist also believed that a person's mind could interpret the word of god. A person conscience for example could that be god leading you towards whats right and wrong?

I would say that Hawthorne was a Transcendentalist himself. He thought that his great grand farther was in the wrong for sentencing them to death but he was only doing his job. That still doesn't mean it was right though like the Transcendentalist Theories they didn't believe in Original Sin and I'm pretty sure he didn't either. He supported the Transcendentalist thoughts by writing novels about his grand farther hideous deeds, and the possible wrongs of the puritan beliefs.

Herman Melville Is an Anti-Transcendentalist on the other hand. He witnessed seeing cannibals ( flesh eating human eat other humans) rip apart and cook other people. Obviously everyone can't be a pure and good person. As for Ahab he is another example of why every thing doesn't have a pure soul. he sacrificed all his to mean to fight his temptation of catching a killer whale. I feel him though because the killer whale bit off his leg i'll be mad too but after seeing myself lose my men i would have just gave up. forgive and forget right?


The Anti-Transcendentalist or Dark romantics were people who believed in original sin, which means that everyone is a sinner because of what Adam and Eve did. They also thought that it was the cause of the evil inside of everyone. Dark Romantics believed that there was evil inside of everyone. The Transcendentalist on the hand thought other hand; didn’t believe in original sin. They believed that god could talk to people through other peoples mind, and everyone was generally good.

I think I would fall under being a dark romanticist. Judging by myself I know for a fact that a lot of people are evil so everyone can’t be good. A person can have goodness in them though. But I don’t think Adam and Eve are the cause of it though. If’s that’s the case then how would you explain this: A man is on the brink of losing his mind because taxes are still rising, lost his job and can’t support his family what you think is going to happen? He will either do something about it or ask for help, and when you can’t get help you are forced to do some things on your own which includes robbing.

The black cat:
There was always something bothering him about the death of Pluto and the burning of his house. That he thought he could replace his losses so he tried to replace the cat. Every thing was good until he started having these feelings and thoughts turn up. So he decided to kill the cat and ended up killing his wife with no remorse. ‘I aimed a blow at the animal which, of course, would have proved instantly fatal had it descended as I wished. But this blow was arrested by the hand of my wife. Goaded, by the interference, into a rage more than demoniacal, I withdrew my arm from her grasp and buried the axe in her brain. She fell dead upon the spot, without a groan’. Perfect example of why people aren’t 100% good. 'The corpse, already greatly decayed and clotted with gore, stood erect before the eyes of the spectators. Upon its head, with red extended mouth and solitary eye of fire, sat the hideous beast whose craft had seduced me into murder, and whose informing voice had consigned me to the hangman. I had walled the monster up within the tomb'. In theis short little statement he was stating that he is nnow free of all the thoughts and dreams of the cat. He still had a little sense though because he still knew no matter what he killed his wife and that bothered him just a tad. "The monster, in terror, had fled the premises forever! I should behold it no more! My happiness was supreme! The guilt of my dark deed disturbed me but little. Some few inquiries had been made, but these had been readily answered".

The Raven
Deep into that darkness pearing, I wondered. This really stuck out to me because i could only wonder whether he was talking about dying or not."Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!" I shrieked, upstarting--"Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore!Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul has spoken!Leave my loneliness unbroken!--quit the bust above my door! Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!"
This whole Paragraph I think he was telling the bird to release him of all the pain he was feeling from Lenore's death. How her death made him miserable. but the bird was telling him to just move on, and try to let it go.
It goes against the Transcendentalist theory because of how in the story the man is slowly killing himself his self and his wife. How can a man go through with that? this basically is screaming that all people are not pure don't get wrong though some people are saints but not all. His conscience on the other hand was telling him to bad thing which were controlled by the raven you can say or his imagination. "But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token,And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, "Lenore?"This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, "Lenore!"

In the story of The Raven Edgar Allen Poe used alot of symbolism as for darkness was an example of probably fright or the objection of being scared. "Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before;
The Black bird is like possibly a sign of the grim reaper or something i think it represented death. ""Wretch," I cried, "thy God hath lent thee, by these angels he hath sent thee Prophet! said I, "thing of evil!--prophet still, if bird or devil! And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreamingAnd the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadows on the floor;And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floorShall be lifted--nevermore!. This supports my idea because the raven did come for his life and to set him free as well because he turned insane.

Writing One

How Hip Hop Can Effect You


Hip-Hop is influential and intellectual in many kinds of ways. Hip-Hop lyrics and Hip-Hop play a major role in today’s society. And a big factor in young adults and adults lives today. It is believed that Hip-Hop originated in New York City, from Harlem all the way to Brooklyn. Then Hip-Hop got introduced to the, South in which it became known as rap. Nobody really knows how Hip-Hop got started. Some people say hip hop has a negative effect on kids today. While adults young or old say that hip hop has a positive affect on them, it is true that hip does influence people in a positive or negative way. But some people say its just Hip-Hop music itself that affects people in the community.
Now hip hop is one of the fastest growing businesses in the world, and music is just a gift that God gave to us. Many rappers may be talking about using drugs and sexually exploiting women, but then again they can make a song for kids and people are surprised they could do that. They think that because they may have used some negative things in their songs but don’t hold it against them. Jay Z It’s A Hard Knock Life song focused on drugs in America especially the projects, peoples addiction to it, and kids life at home with no dad or abusing farther etc. People are saying Hip-Hop is a bad thing well that is why we have different forms of Hip-Hop. If you are comfortable with your child listening to Hip-Hop then that is good. Hip hop could inspire a movement in any kind of way it just depend on what aspects you look at it from.
Uncut rap: make have a lot of negative energy for a lot kids today but that’s why some people like it because it gets an adrenaline going, something like a Red Bull. Hip-Hop/R&B and Blues, that’s for the people who like singing and the soothing beat while listen to a little rap. Blues usually calms down people or make them dance doesn’t it? For Example a classic blues joint by Slim Harpo’s I’m A King Bee in his lyrics he is basic stating call him when you need some loving when your man is gone or when ever. And also he can guarantee good satisfaction too.Well I'm a king bee, buzzing around your hiveI'm young and able to buzz all night longWell when you hear me buzzin' baby, some stinging is going on.Well I'm a king bee, can buzz all night longWell I can buzz better baby, when your man is gone.
And If you compare it to an uncut rap song I guarantee it would be the same central meaning and have the same effect of what their saying. Devin Da dudes verse in I’m so hornyI see Ur pussy lips smilin and grinnin like they want sumthin up in em'I wanted to ask you for sum but didn't want to affend ya.I thought I could run a good race girl u can do miles.Lay on ya side raise up ya legLet me see that beautiful smile.
R&B is its own genre of music but can still have forms of Hip-Hop in it as well.
As for the I’m A King Bee and I’m So Horny song, an R&B song can have the same meaning too. It probably wouldn’t be that explicit as Hip-Hop/Rap, but a person could understand the point of what the artist is saying. Under by: Pleasure P
Callin' my river to let her knowI'ma be on my wayMissin' how the river flow evenThough it's only been a couple of days

I'ma hold my breath until you feel it in you chest
When I go under, under
I ain't coming up until you scream you've had enough
When I go under, under.
Some People might say okay he and the girl are just swimming. That’s not the case here remember what Devin and Slims verses said same train of thought.



Different types of music affect people in different types of ways. As an example if you wanted some music to get you hyped up for a big game, it would either be rock or rap. Late night session with the one you love, it would be R&B right? Blues could be played to make you laugh or dance.
The main objective in my story was to inform you that Hip-Hop can be positive or negative it all depends on how you’re listening to it

Unit two con. The Transcendentalist

Nature: By Ralph Waldo Emerson.The story of Nature it seem to me. That they were comparing nature and the world to humans preferably man and how he work. It also seemed like they felt work is the only way to keep everyday life going easy.Self Reliance: By Ralph Waldo Emerson.The story Self-Reliance is talking about how much work and the thought of trusting no one was taking so seriously. The way boys were raised to be men. Working to them is a way to show their strength and manhood. ‘‘A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best’’. A perfect example of how much work meant to them.


My blog on Transcendentalism is applied to my standard because I described and found evidence in all the readings, and evaluated my responses to them. Like the video of the old man in the woods, His theme was survival and how to survive. The Nature story their theme was survival two now that i think about it because you have to work to get ahead in life i mean that my definition of what they were saying.



The Video Really proved what the Transcendentalists were trying to say. He used his mind and hands to survive in the wilderness. It always at peace and never really had any problems. He didn't even need a government or anything to help him. He made it all on his own. He built his own house hunted for his own food he was straight for the rest of his life.


Self Reliance: By Ralph Waldo Emerson.The story Self-Reliance is talking about how much work and the thought of trusting no one was taking so seriously. The way boys were raised to be men. Working to them is a way to show their strength and manhood. ‘‘A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best’’. A perfect example of how much work meant to them.
Resistance To Civil Government: By Henry David Thoreau.Think he was not only talking about poverty, and how people act every day. ‘It is not man’s duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no longer, not to give it practically his support’. Basically the paragraph is stating to me that it isn’t a man’s every will and desire to focus on one thing mainly work. He may have other things to take care of but he will always stay on track to his goals.

Unit Two: American Romanticism

In the story rip van winkle I thought the story was romantic because of how he slept for 20 years and he thought it was only one night. The reason I think that this is romantic because it does not have a logical reason, American Romanticist believed that you did not have to have a logical reason for everything, that is why I think that Rip Van Winkle is a romantic story. Also he describes nature in a very descriptive way and he goes to the woods to get out of the reality of his life. The author Washington Ervin displays beauty in his work through this line:"When the weather is fair and settled, they are clothed in blue and purple, and print their bold outlines on the clear evening sky". I can visualize as i read his writing.




The Poem was talking about nature and death, which makes it Romantic. It also focused on imagination by mother nature can talk to someone who is afraid of dying.It seems to me that the poem is saying don't be afraid to die. Death is nothing to be afraid of.It expresses nature and it has a tone and sets a mood of calmness. Romanticist really didn't have much to see but buildings and lights to see so they could imagine their own world and that's what


All the above standards I have learned and have gained a full understanding of them. Standard one i learned how to look for clues and gain knowledge out of literature and compare to other types of literature.
Standard two I accomplished the goal of classifying theme in literature by reading and doing critical thinking of the stories that I had read. And then support my ideas from whatever i thought about it. Rip Van Winkle for an example; A man going to sleep days but only thought it was hours, or talking Trees. The standard helped me better understand different themes in literature.
Standard three helps me reflect back on history and compare it to my life or present time and other time periods. Like in the 1500's they rode horses, and now we ride mustangs. Alot of music today reflect bak to older periods of time.


Thanatopsis means death seeing too by the way:
The poem refers back to the main themes of romanticism because it reflects to nature and focuses on imagination.
Where he says " She has a voice of galdness, and a smile." we all know nature can't so its focusing on imagination. and "Thou shalt lie down with patiachs of the infant world- with kings, the powerful earth- the wise, the good, fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past,"
He was saying no matter who you are nobodys different when they die you are all going to die the same way

ELAALRL2

I the standard addresses my knowledge of theme in American Literature. and wants me to know about it more. Therefore when i learn i can shoo proof for what i just learned.

Unit One Con.

I think that Benjamin Franklin was a great example of a rationalist because of his eagerness to find out things with science. The chart he Made About himself really help him better understand his virtues. He studied himself and used his self as the experiment as well. He wanted to know if he could change some of the negative things he did in his life so he used science and that is basically what the Rationalist do. "I wished to live without committing any fault at any time; I would conquer all that either natural inclination, custom, or company might lead me into wrong."

The big Difference between the Puritans and the Rationalist.
The Rationalist were more open minded people then the puritans. The puritans only believed that god would tell them everything, but the rationalist used science as a way to figuring out things. lets say that a mans cow died by a natural disease , the puritans would of probably said god saved the cow by letting it die. The Rationalist on the other hand would of studied and examined the cow to find out what was wrong.

1.staying out trouble: that is really killing me.
2. avoiding police: i have a knack for constant stops.
3. make smarter decisions: stop doing things that are stupid.
4. paying attention in school: so i can graduate.
5. finding a job: so can support m own.
6. Nonsmoker: stop smoking hopefully
7. be courteous to others.
8. Respect of my peers.
9. Recycling: have a better place to live.
10. Read More: increase my vocabulary
11.stay healthy: don't want to get sick.
12. be punctual: got to be on time.
13.dress appropriately: don't want to send the wrong message.

These are my thirteen virtures i would like to improve, and i think i can reach my full potential because i do the opposite of the things on this list and if i started doing the things that are listed i know it would make me a better person.

ELAALRL5

I did learn some pretty cool new words today in class. I learned about Limited Atonement, Total Depravity, Unconditional Election, and Perseverance of the "saints"

Limited Atonement- stated that god died only for a chosen set of people preferably the saints.

Total Depravity- Every one Was a sinner Because of what happened with Adam and Eve.

Perseverance of the saints- Anyone chosen by god to represent him. If you you went against god
then you would feel his wrath but that was impossible between the puritan nation.

Unconditional Election- stated that God Would only save those he chose to save.

Deism- A religious movement thathad a body of ideas that did not revolve around church.

Sinners of an angry god- A sermon wrote by Johnathan Edwards.

Unit one

I am the breeze that kisses your cheek.
I am the sun that warms your face.

When you look at the purple evening sky, it is me.
When you see a majestic mountain, it is me.

When the birds sweetly sing, it is my voice.
When the water gently laps against the shore, it is my heartbeat.

I am the green grass against your feet.
I am the refreshing shade of summer.

In the stars, you see my eyes.
In the blue sky, you see my body.

Feel the air that surrounds you, I am there.
Feel the love in your heart, I am there.

I think the poem was a great piece of literature to pick, and I would try to persuade other people to read it.
In the poem He or she is basically stating that I'm all around you "Feel the air that surrounds you, I am there". And it seems to me that he/she is also stating that i want you to love me. "Feel the love in your heart, I am there"


Work Period:
There is a big difference between the two cultures The puritans only believed that every one was a sinner because of Adam and Eve. The Indians on the other hand thought other wise they were real big on god they worshiped him and preyed him as well but the thing is they had more than one god their god was possibly the sun and and moon. "I am the purple evening sky you look up at". basically I think they were comparing thier selves to the sun when its setting. The puritans didn't really believe in god but to them their god was human. but you should worship him because he didn't die for everyone. They also say God only select a few to go to heaven. "What ever prayers he make till he belive in christ god is under no matter under obligation to keep him a moment from eternal destruction" Sir Edwards sermon states that god will only save those in christ but only a few. The Indians just worshipped their god by dancing and songs not saying the puritans didn't dance and sing but they just did it. Therefore if you did have these two different cultures in the same place it would be a disaster.

ELAALRL3

I think the standard means that whatever i read, listen too, etc. then i should have an relation or comparison with it. Most likely between the present and past.

Georgia Performance Standards

I think the standard means that every student that takes this course should be able to understand each and every one of those topics that are printed in the standard. if they didn't know then they would learn about the topics discussed in the standard.
Mastering this standard will help me better understand how to read different text in literature.
It would also help me better write poems and stories by me learning the literary devices.

Realism

A story of an hour:


The Realist were people who told things straight up.
There stood, facing the open window, a comfortable, roomy armchair. Into this she sank, pressed down by a physical exhaustion that haunted her body and seemed to reach into her soul.
She could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all quiver with the new spring life. The delicious breath of rain was in the air. In the street below a peddler was crying his wares. The notes of a distant song which some one was singing reached her faintly, and countless sparrows were twittering in the eaves. The story took place in a bedroom while a lady is weeping not only because she afraid to die but the news of her husbands death. She understood a whole lot more since here daughter told her one was happening. realism is sort of the same thing because they thought if people were told up front about the sittuation they would understand a whole lot more.

"She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance. She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister's arms". Shes crying which indicates that she is sad or probably in pain from the heart disease she has.



Free! Body and soul free!" she kept whispering.
Josephine was kneeling before the closed door with her lips to the keyhole, imploring for admission. "Louise, open the door! I beg, open the door--you will make yourself ill. What are you doing Louise? For heaven's sake open the door."
"Go away. I am not making myself ill." No; she was drinking in a very elixir of life through that open window"

I think the social issue is don't drink because you might end up dying from too much, especially because of the death of a loved one.



The Battle With Mr. Covey:

"If at any one time of my life more than another, I was made to drink the bitterest dregs of slavery, that time was during the first six months of my stay with Mr. [Edward] Covey. We were worked in all weathers. It was never too hot or too cold; it could never rain, blow, hail, or snow too hard for us to work in the field". Ii think the story takes places on a plantation, with other workers and an overseer's.

Fredrick Douglas was a strong individual that realized to stand up to Mr. Covey all he wanted was to catch a little break because the weather got to him.



Belly:
The story of belly is a great example of realism.
It portrays how hard it is for an African American or middle class citizens to make money without resorting to violence or the selling of drugs. If realism focuses on the central point of an social or economical topic then this move is tied in as being realistic.

Dark Romanticism

The Anti-Transcendentalist or Dark romantics were people who believed in original sin, which means that everyone is a sinner because of what Adam and Eve did. They also thought that it was the cause of the evil inside of everyone. Dark Romantics believed that there was evil inside of everyone. The Transcendentalist on the hand thought other hand; didn’t believe in original sin. They believed that god could talk to people through other peoples mind, and everyone was generally good.

I think that every animal or mammal isn’t all ways good. There is always going to be something wrong with a person. Or they have done something bad they don’t have to be a bad person in general just anything.

That little voice could possibly be god. I don’t know I think it’s your inner conscience which is controlled by god I guess.

I think I would fall under being a dark romanticist. Judging by myself I know for a fact that a lot of people are evil so everyone can’t be good. A person can have goodness in them though. But I don’t think Adam and Eve are the cause of it though. If’s that’s the case then how would you explain this: A man is on the brink of losing his mind because taxes are still rising, lost his job and can’t support his family what you think is going to happen? He will either do something about it or ask for help, and when you can’t get help you are forced to do some things on your own which includes robbing.

There was always something bothering him about the death of Pluto and the burning of his house. That he thought he could replace his losses so he tried to replace the cat. Every thing was good until he started having these feelings and thoughts turn up. So he decided to kill the cat and ended up killing his wife with no remorse. ‘I aimed a blow at the animal which, of course, would have proved instantly fatal had it descended as I wished. But this blow was arrested by the hand of my wife. Goaded, by the interference, into a rage more than demoniacal, I withdrew my arm from her grasp and buried the axe in her brain. She fell dead upon the spot, without a groan’. Perfect example of why people aren’t 100% good. 'The corpse, already greatly decayed and clotted with gore, stood erect before the eyes of the spectators. Upon its head, with red extended mouth and solitary eye of fire, sat the hideous beast whose craft had seduced me into murder, and whose informing voice had consigned me to the hangman. I had walled the monster up within the tomb'.

Deep into that darkness pearing, I wondered. This really stuck out to me because i could only wonder whether he was talking about dying or not.
"Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!" I shrieked, upstarting--"Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore!Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul has spoken!Leave my loneliness unbroken!--quit the bust above my door!Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!"

This whole Paragrah I think he was telling the bird to release him of all the pain he was feeling from lenores death. How her death made him miserable. but the bird was telling him to just move on, and try to let it go.

Transcendentalism

Nature: By Ralph Waldo Emerson.

The story of Nature it seem to me. That they were comparing nature and the world to humans preferably man and how he work. It also seemed like they felt work is the only way to keep everyday life going easy.

Self Reliance: By Ralph Waldo Emerson.

The story Self-Reliance is talking about how much work and the thought of trusting no one was taking so seriously. The way boys were raised to be men. Working to them is a way to show their strength and manhood. ‘‘A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best’’. A perfect example of how much work meant to them.

Resistance To Civil Government: By Henry David Thoreau.

Think he was not only talking about poverty, and how people act every day. ‘It is not man’s duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no longer, not to give it practically his support’. Basically the paragraph is stating to me that it isn’t a man’s every will and desire to focus on one thing mainly work. He may have other things to take care of but he will always stay on track to his goals.


The Video Really proved what the Transcendentalists were trying to say. He used his mind and hands to survive in the wilderness. It always at peace and never really had any problems. He didn’t need a government or anything to help him. He made it all on his own.

American Romanticism

Task one:
I read the story.

Task Two:
In the story rip van winkle I thought the story was romantic because of how he slept for 20 years and he thought it was only one night. The reason I think that this is romantic because it does not have a logical reason, American Romanticist believed that you did not have to have a logical reason for everything, that is why I think that Rip Van Winkle is a romantic story. Also he describes nature in a very descriptive way and he goes to the woods to get out of the reality of his life. The author Washington Erving displays beauty in his work through this line:
"When the weather is fair and settled, they are clothed in blue
and purple, and print their bold outlines on the clear evening sky". I can visualize as i read his writing.

Task Three:

The Poem was talking about nature and death, which makes it Romantic. It also focused on imagination by mother nature can talk to someone who is afraid of dying.
It seems to me that the poem is saying don't be afraid to die. Death is nothing to be afraid of.

Task Four:
I think the peom written by Henry Longfellow describes how peolpe in every day society have to live and work. In the fourth Stanza Longfellow uses imagery to describe two women: Fair maidens, white dove, gentle hands, and twisted strand which were referring to the swing.

Task Five:
It expresses nature and it has a tone and sets a mood of calmness. Romanticist really didn't have much to see but buildings and lights to see so they could imagine their own world and that's what I think of the painting.
This painting is romantic because of the nature surrounding it and how it makes you feel. like as if god was looking down upon you.

The Rationlist

Task One:

The Rationalist were more open minded people then the puritans. The puritans only believed that god would tell them everything, but the rationalist used science as a way to figuring out things. lets say that a mans cow died by a natural disease , the puritans would of probably said god saved the cow by letting it die. The Rationalist on the other hand would of studied and examined the cow to find out what was wrong.

Task Two:

Read The Autobiography

Task Three:

I think that Benjamin Franklin was a great example of a rationalist because of his eagerness to find out things with science. The chart idea really proved that you are in control of your life and what you make of it.

Task Four:

1.staying out trouble: that is really killing me.

2. avoiding police: i have a knack for constant stops.

3. make smarter decisions: stop doing things that are stupid.

4. paying attention in school: so i can graduate.

5. finding a job: so can support m own.

6. Nonsmoker: stop smoking hopefully

7. be courteous to others.

8. Respect of my peers.

9. Recycling: have a better place to live.

10. Read More: increase my vocabulary

11.stay healthy: don't want to get sick.

12. be punctual: got to be on time.

13.dress appropriately: don't want to send the wrong message.

The Puritans

Task One :


Basically from what I heard and read, everyone is a sinner according to the puritans. Only the saints are saved and everyone else is going to hell. You could go to a school to be a saint including Harvard which was one of the first saint’s schools. The only reason everyone is a sinner is because Adam and eve and everyone is from Adam eve so god is mad and showing his wrath.

Task Two:

It seemed to me that the people lived in fear and were afraid to speak for themselves. They also thought that it was no other way to get in good with god. unless you were a saint. John Edwards was a saint that wrote the hands of an angry god, which basically stated that god was going to send everyone to hell. he would unleash his wrath upon the people that sinned, but according to him everyone was a sinner. I think that Jesus did die for everyone, but the Puritans didn't. I disagree to everything he was saying about god. My reasons for that are because if god really thought everyone was a sinner he could of all just washed or burned us away. I believe That God is good and forgiving because if he wasn't why would there be a Heaven. To Me Johnathon Edwards was a stubborn fool that had his own meaning about the word of god but he really should have just kept them to his self.

Task Three:
Unconditional Election: 'If God Should Withdraw his hand it would be to keep you from falling, and if god should let you go you would sink because of your wickedness"

Perseverance of the "saints: "God hand has held you up and there is nothing more to be given why you have not gone to hell since u have sat here in the face of god with your wickedness and him drop you into hell."