New Ending!

The ending to the Pit and The Pendulum was too fast and ended the story too abrubtly. This is my ending to add a little spice. As the firey walls were closing in, there were only two ways to go; down the pit to who knows what or be squished in the firey walls. Right at the last moment I decide to jump down the pit to my destiny. It is not a far jump and i land in a shallow water up to my shins. Once I remain my balance and look around there is little light except for a sun beam coming from somewhere. I look around and I see that there are many other guys that had the same idea as me. But they havent survived, and died one way or another. I am now looking at my death.

Nature.

Nature effects everyone on a day to day basis. When winter begins people get a lot more gloomy and slow moving. During the summer people are more alive and often have more spirit in them. If we lived in a world with no sun and no warmth then we would live in a depressed world. Nature effects us and it can also change our emotions on a day to day basis.

Team Poe

Edgar Allen Poe was a wonderful writer and i enjoy his things a lot more. He is uses a lot of language that gives a totally different effect than what the effect would be if he used normal day to day language. I love how he relates everything to something that happened in his life and that gives a different aspect to his poetry and his stories. If he was to just write about things that he didnt actually expirence than I think that his stories wouldnt be as passionate and meaningful. Poe left an impact on everyday life and literature.

Poem Reflection

I really enjoyed the poem 'A Psalm of Life' that we read this week. I think that poem really gave a lot of meaning and told us the correct way we should see life. We cant just walk through life half-heartedly we need to have some purpose in what we do. To try to live everyday that we live to the fullest with absolutely no regrets. The things we do could leave an impact on the people in the future so we cant just expect other people to leave the impact and not us. If everyone lived each day to its fullest we would have everything going a lot easier.

Week 4: Puritan Plain Style

The puritans were told to live in the world but not become worldly. They believed that they had to follow all the laws to the exact order they were suppossed to, but they saw themselves as very open minded people. They could drink but not get drunk, dance but no sexual dancing. Its as if the world just teased them with some stuff but not all the good stuff that took it to the next level. They did this because at this time they were trying to purify the church and the town. They wanted to make everything perfect and nothing would get in their way of that happening.

Blog 3

A lot of people played a huge role in the colonies staying over here and surviving in America. Chief Massasoit may not be in all the literature books or stories about the colonists but he certainitly played a huge role in America because he helped the colonists survive here. He forged critical personal and political relationships with some of the colonist leaders which led to peace treaties being signed. Because of that the colonists had someone to help them therefore leading them away from their starvation. Massasoit truely helped them and helped them stay in America. A quote he said about the colonists : "whilst i live i will never forget this kindness they have showed me"

crucible act 1!!

I found out that the Crucible play is very crazy and entertaining. The first act is pretty much about a prechers daughter that ends up being witched in the woods with a few other girls. Her father already doesnt have the best reputation in the town so he is hesitant and does not want a single soul to know about what happened to his daughter. Everyone who was involved with what happened in the woods is now being threatened by Abigail that if they tell anyone what truely happened she is going to give a great deal of pain to them. The whole first act is based upon histeria that is happening with Betty's family and friends. When the girls start getting asked who did it they automatically blame the servant girl who participated in that. Of course they would blame Tituba she doesnt have anything to live for according to them. I think that everyone mostly that was introduced in the play so far is very two-faced and wants to blame all their wrong actions on someone else. They dont know how to take responsibilty for the things they do becuase they are deathly afraid of what will happen to them. The histeria at the end of the play was crazy. A bunch of girls blaming someone who they dont like even though she had nothing to do with what happened....It will be very interesting to see if that girl ends up getting punished because of the accusations people put upon her.

week 2: journeys

.... this week we have been reading journals that the english people wrote on their journeys to north america which they called the "new world" and also they had information about while they were exploring the new world trying to find gold and other new goods they could sell and trade. The relationships between the native americans and the english was pretty much all the same in the journals we have read so far. In the beginning when they first arrived the Native Americans thought that the English were invading their land and since the English didnt know how to really survive and find resources the Native Americans took advantage of that and attacked the English. The English tried to build a wall around their homes and the Native Americans just surrounded that area waiting for the right oppurtunity to attack. Then the English had no way of surviving so they decided to make an agreement with the Native Americans for the good the English had and then in return the Native Americans helped them with their food needs and other things. Their relationship evolved into a friendship once they had the terms set. Thats it for this week.....until next :)

First blog!!! Woot woot!

OK so we have been learning about the Native Americans all week. I find it actually somewhat interesting, maybe because im part Native American, who knows it just interest me. The stories we have been reading have been really hard to take notes on, but the myths in them are fun to read. We watched a movie on the story of Devil's Tower made me wonder do they have stories like that for every natural thing in the United States or is it just that particular story because thats where they were at that time? So i decided to do a little research to figure all this out....http://www.angelfire.com/ia2/stories3/coyote.html...
ok so that story is really long but super good. It shows that the Native Americans did have all different kinds of stories and legends for the things that we just assume God made. In this story they decribe how one of the waterfalls was made on the Great River. You would never think of something like that in such a descriptive way as they did. It makes me look at the things I see on a day to day basis in a totally different way now and I think was this here when God created the world or did the Native Americans have their way in this?