Is the glass really half full?

I definately prefer the transcendentalism writing over the anti-trans. It is a lot more fun to read about stories that are uplifting and happy rather than stories that are always looking at the bad side of things. I try to look at the glass is half full rather than half empty and look at life in a positive way rather than trying to find something wrong with eveything. Some of the writers we learned about are that way, they always need something to be wrong, if everything is going right, they must look for something that is wrong. Me and my friend Amy Wieting always try to find the good in the situation and not the bad side of the story. If you go through life looking at it in a bad prespective than it will be bad, if you look at it in a good way it will be good.

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"