K.Smith_Real Talk

Modernism

2006-12-12T08:37:00.000-08:00

I chose to talk about the Jazz Age because this is a very interesting and fun time for all African Americans. To me this was the time where all sorts of cultures began to thrive and blacks got some of the spotlight abd was recognized for what they could do. To me the Jazz Age was like a time where illegal acts of happiness took place after the crash of the stock market. I feel that this age is going to be presented as mainly music, poetry and ballroom dancing in the story I’m going to read. I think the Jazz Age was also a time where I would have loved to be in because of the things taking place back then.

After reading "The Ice Palace" I decided it was a very good story. This story was so good I had to read the second part called "The Jelly Bean". I think that F. Scott Fitzgerald had a good idea when he thought of this story. My thoughts of what the story was going to be about was very different from what it really was. I thought the story was going to be about Jazz music and etc but it really was about something totally different.

The Ice Palace is a mainly about this girl named Sally Carroll Haper. Sally Carroll is a nineteen-year-old girl from the city of Tarleton, Georgia. Sally has lots of friends in the south because that is where she grew up. Sally’s best friend is a boy by the name of Clark Darrow he’s also one of the most popular boys in Tarleton. After he asks Sally to go swimming with him he tells her that he knows about her getting engaged. She is amazed that he knows and she just admits it. Clark is upset he thinks Sally should marry him not some northern Yankee. After that Sally’s fiancée comes into the picture his name is Harry Bellamy. Somehow he talks Sally into coming up north to spend time with him and to meet his family. After a couple of weeks there, Sally meets his family and goes to a couple of ballroom dances. So to make a long story short they visit this ice house where somehow Sally gets lost when the crew had found her she delirious and is yelling she wants to go home. So she gets home and it’s like the story starts over again.

I chose the Jazz Age and now I’m going to tell you a little something about the topic. The Jazz Age was also known as the American High. The Jazz Age was the period between the end of World War 1 and the start of the Great Depression. After the Jazz Age started most people felt that it was a waste of WWI pre-war values. The Jazz Age also had a lot to do with the topic of this paper "Modernism". Most people that were living during this time might say that it was the coolest age ever. The Jazz Age gets its name from jazz music, which saw a huge movement in popularity among many different cultures.

In the story "Jazz Music", ballroom dancing, nice housing and sleighs in the north mostly represent the Jazz Age. Here’s a good example of what I’m talking about: Home was a rambling frame house set on a white lap of snow, and there she met a big, gray-haired man of whom she approved, and a lady who was like an egg, and who kissed her-- these were Harry's parents. After that she was alone with Harry in the library, asking him if she dared smoke. It was a large room with a Madonna over the fireplace and rows upon rows of books in covers of light gold and dark gold and shiny red

.All the chairs had little lace squares where one's head should rest. The couch was just comfortable, the books looked as if they had been read. With her father's huge medical books, and the oil-paintings of her three great-uncles, and the old couch that had been mended up for forty-five years and was still luxurious to dream in. This room struck her as being neither attractive nor particularly otherwise. It was simply a room with a lot of fairly expensive things in it that all looked about fifteen years old. As you can tell from those paragraphs the north was where the Jazz Age really took place. That paragraph explain how one of the rooms in their house looked. Hanging round he found not at all difficult; a crowd of little girls had grown up beautifully, the amazing Sally Carrol foremost among them; and they enjoyed being swum with and danced with and made love to in the flower-filled summery evenings -- and they all liked Clark immensely. This little paragraph gives you a little example of dancing and the way young people hung out in the south.

"Richard Corey"I feel that this poem is saying that Richard was who every body wanted to be. He had lots of riches, good looks, and a good personality, while every body else was poor and had nothing. But one summer night Richard Corey went home and put a bullet through his own head. I believe that Richard always acted like every thing was O.K. when he was around other people but things weren’t what everybody thought. I feel that maybe he was very alone and wanted something to live for. And that since he did not have that he decide to take his own life. I feel that this poem is a good piece of Modernism because it is a good example of Disillusionment. I say this because no one really knew what was going on in Richard’s life they just thought they knew because of the way he presented his self. 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. So as you can tell from this passage they thought his life was going great but really it wasn’t.

"Mending Wall"The poem "Mending wall" to me is about the separation of two people by a wall. I believe that out of all the poems I had to read this one was the hardest mainly because I could not understand what was going on. This poem is also about the two neighbor’s feelings. What I mean is that one feels that since the wall is up it interferes with their friendship. One neighbor believes that the wall is a sense of privacy, but it does not interfere with the two neighbor’s friendship. This poem is a good example of psychology I believe. In this poem you have to look at the situation from both neighbors point of view. We wear our fingers rough with handling them. Oh, just another kind of out-door game, One on a side. It comes to little more: There where it is we do no need the wall: He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, "Good fences make good neighbours." Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder If I could put a notion in his head: "Why do they make good neighbours? So as you can tell from this paragraph one neighbor liked the wall but the other one felt it wasn’t necessary. But in the end you are in both neighbors own point of view.

"A Dream Deferred"I really understood this poem and since I understood it I liked it a lot. This poem is basically you what you think happens to a dream when it is put off. I feel that this poem really gives a good example of Disillusionment. I say this because of the poem’s title itself "A Dream Deferred". No one really knows what happens to a dream when they are deferred. So the person who wrote this poem no there was no logical basis to this question. Here is an example from the poem. Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-- And then run? So as you can see this is a good example of Modernism.

"The Negro Speaks of Rivers"When reading this poem I really had to read a little bit at a time. The first bit is talking about how he knows the names of ancient rivers older than the world and older than the flow of blood in human veins. Next he’s talking about how his soul has grown deep like the rivers. So I feel that what Langston Hughes is trying to say by this poem is that he has seen a lot of things, things other people may not have seen. So he fills that his soul is as ancient as the rivers. I believe that this poem has a lot to do with having the reader see inside the mind of the characters to see what was going on. I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep. I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it. I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset.

"Incident"I think this was a good poem mainly because it actually rhymed. "Incident" is about this eight-year-old who takes a trip to Baltimore. He was on the trip from May to December but he only remembers one thing. There was a boy around his age that he had never seen before he smiled at the boy but the boy stuck his tongue out and called him a nigger. So I feel that since that’s all he remembered it must have really mad him anger. To me this is a good example of how modernist felt about the American Dream and it not coming real. I saw a Baltimorean Keep looking straight at me. Now I was eight and very small, And he was no whit bigger, And so I smiled, but he poked out His tongue, and called me, "Nigger." What I mean is that one part of the American dream was for everybody to be treated as an equal, but in this situtation I bet the kid didn’t feel equal.

Realism

2006-12-12T08:31:00.000-08:00

The story A story of the Hour is a great example of realism. It was a very depressing and touching story. The story had very descriptive details. The story was basically was feeling how a woman reacted when she thought her husband died. It also gave god ideas of the scenery. The woman in the story sister told her that her husband had died in an accident she was very shocked and sad. It seems like she broke down. After looking over the story it seem like she felt that without her husband she couldn’t live, her life was over. So she sat in her room and went into what seemed like a coma and she looked around. She watched out her window at the trees and she smelt rain in the air. She heard a peddler crying and she heard music in her ears. As she dazed out her window filled with grief she saw the clouds.

As I read the story and looked over the details it seems to me she sitting in a rocking chair in her room laid back with tears rolling down her face and a dead look in her eyes. She is motionless and the only time she moves is when she sobs from crying so many tears.

Chopin gave good detail and let the readers know how bad the woman was effected. In the story it said she used to have a young and calm face but since here husband is dead and she is in shock there is a dull stare in her ryes as she gaze away at the pretty skies. As she sits back in the chair it finally hits her what has happened. That’s when she starts feeling like something has possessed her. I think when she finally realized her husband was really dead is when she broke down. Her heart started to beat fast and she didn’t feel like she was in control. To me it seems like she about to have heart attack. It seems like she is grieving real badly. In the story she keep saying "free" I think that meant she wanted to die, like she had given up since she thought her husband was dead.

When she walked downstairs and sees her husband standing there and he not dead I think that was to much for her, that’s why she had the heart attack. I think if they would have hide him and broke the news to her that he was alive and it was a mistake, then none of this probably wouldn’t have took place. This story is a great example of realism because it gives great details on what’s happening. When your reading you actually feel like your there. A great example of realism in the story is when she is sitting in front of the window and describing everything she see. To me that’s realism because the way the author was describing it was so real you could picture it, just like a photo.

From reading the story to me a social issue she wants to solve is truth. I say that because she writes to represent the real things that are happening in life. She doesn’t want to hide anything she wants everything to be seen. She speaks the truth on what could happen to a woman when she finds out her husband is dead. I like that because that way you know everything she writing is real and it’s the truth. From her being truthful you could tell what the character in the story really felt and what she saw and heard around her.

The story the battle with Mr. Convey was a very crazy story. If I was that man I would of done the same thing. It’s hard being a man and having another man telling you what to do, so I see why he would nut up. I felt really sorry for Freddrick Douglas after reading it. But, I now have more respect for what the slaves went through back then. From the details in the story he lived a terrible life while being Convey slave. He worked hard every day no matter what. He did feel like a man. Being a slave had seemed to make him depressed. He wasn’t the same man he used to be before he became a slave. He was never happy there was never a smile on his face. He lived in a bad environment everything around him made him feel like a lesser man. He had free time but he never enjoy it because he knew he was going to be doing the same thing over again. He always felt so weary from working hard all week. A good example of realism in this story is when he says "You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man". I choose this because this quote is real. Slavery really changed him and made him more a man than he was before. At least that what it seem like. When he stood up to his master that’s when I really knew slavery had changed him. I think he had just got fed up with it. No slave would’ve probably did that back then but he did.

The social issue he trying to change is being a man in slavery. I choose that because in the story it seems like he is trying to give people the real picture of what happened during slavery to man and all the things he went through during that period. If he would have never told this story we would never know what happened. He just like the other author Chopin he wanted people to see the real picture of what he went through, he didn’t leave noting out he put every detail in there. His story is another good example of realism because not only do he give great detail he makes you feel what he felt. You can picture him and his slave owner fighting. I could see him walking to see his master as he sweats in pain. I think that slavery really changed him and made him a stronger and better man. I’m just glad I didn’t live then because a black man like me would’ve had it hard.

I think the purpose of writing this is to let people know what was happening during that time. He wanted people to know what happened to him when he was a slave. When you read this story you get a better insight and see the real pain and torture slaves went through during that time period. He was real honest and descriptive and after I read it I had a different outlook on slavery.

A good example of realism to me is the movie "Pain in Full" The story is set in the mid 1980s.It’s about a Harlem kid name ace who worked in a dry cleaning so he could stay out of the streets and out of trouble. But when he start seeing his friends getting that fast money, especially his best friend Mitch. He decide it’s time or him to get paid to. Him and his homeboys were loud, dangerous, and had a lot of power and respect in their project. They felt like they was the kings of Harlem. When Ace's decides to enter the drug trade. Everything start getting messed up. People start getting killed and folks start snitching. After Ace almost die after getting shot over some stupid stuff. He decide to get out of the game and change his life. To me this movie is a great example of realism because it’s something that people put they blinders on for. Don’t nobody want to believe this is happening in these streets but it is. People want to look away like everything all good. But what they don’t realize is young black men like me are dying everyday from trying to make a living on these streets. This is realism to me because it’s real and it’s what I see everyday. The whole world needs to learn a little more about realism and stop trying to sugar coat everything. Because if we keep putting our blinders nothing is going to change, everybody will just sit back and smile like nothing is happening

Dark Roamanticism

2006-12-12T08:28:00.000-08:00

Nathaniel Hawthorne would be against transcendentalist philosophy because Transcendentalist did not believe in institutions like government. Hawthorne would also disagree with the idea that everyone is apart of God because God would not sentence people to death after being accused of being evil. He would probably be against it because Transcendentalist believed everyone was pure but it seems that he not.

Herman Melville did not believe in the philosophy because he didn’t agree with that everyone is good and pure. Also trans. believed in intuition and he didn’t. Another reason is because he had witnessed people eating human flesh. So it looks like Herman wouldn’t agree with the transcendentalist.

Edgar Allen Poe wouldn’t cope with the transcendentalist in many different ways. One way is because the trans. believed that the body was good and pure. But Allen believed in drinking and opium. His stories were about evil and not Godly like. So u can see that he wouldn’t agree with their philosophy.

To be totally honest with you I think that I have little of both in me, But mainly Transcendentalist beliefs. I think that God puts people on the earth for good not for evil. I also believed that the gov’t should be the ones who makes the decisions about what is right or wrong. Not the people because it I no telling what the world be like.

The poem The Raven is a good poem I didn’t really understand it at first but when I did I found it very interesting and sad. The story is about a man who wife dies and he feels sad and he finds out that the sadness will never leave. In the story there was a black raven at his door, which represents sadness that never went away. One of the lines that stuck out to me the most is "NeverMore" because at first I didn’t know what it meant. But after I read it I liked the word because it symbolized that sadness will never leave his heart no matter what he does.

The poem was very intense and really crazy at first I thought it was stupid but know I just think it was sad because he lost his wife and now he is has to live with it for the rest of his life.The poem represents Transcendental idea in a different way because transcendentalist wouldn’t have believed or thought that a human being would think such terrible thoughts. They thought that all humans thought pure and that they were so innocent. But the Dark Romantics are showing how that some people do really think crazy stuff. And even if someone is pure they should be able to think unpure when they are going through something such as a family member death.

Transcendentalist wouldn’t be insane like the Dark Romantics. Because they seem to be godlier like people than The Dark Romantics because they kill people and
think crazy thoughts. I think they both are alike but the Dark Romantics just wants to show people that everyone has a bad side.

I found out that Edgar Allen Poe he was born January 19, 1809 in Boston and that his mother died in Richmond on December 8, 1811. He was only three years old when she died. I think that if his mother wouldn’t have died while he was at a little age. His whole career would have been different.

Wrtting 4

2006-11-14T13:03:00.000-08:00

I predict the Atlanta Falcons will go all the way this year. With their defense they are untouchable; add their offense, and they are unstoppable. The Falcons have made a big turnaround from some of their previous seasons. They picked up a couple of defensive players and they have changed the team for the better. Another person who plays a big role on the team is Coach Jim Mora. Mora does a great job of coaching because he let’s the players do what they need to do to win a game.

Michael Vick is the leader of the team because he’s the quarterback, and he calls the plays and makes the decisions that need to be made. Michael Vick went to the University of Virginia were he was the starting quarterback while he was there. Now he has made it to the NFL and has been a starter for the Atlanta Flacons for the five years of his NFL career. Vick plays a big role on the team, and to me he’s the best quarterback who’s played the game. Vick is why teams has to change their game plan when the playing against him. Last season Vick threw for 2,412 yards and rushed for and amazing 597 yards. When Vick is on the field any thing can happen.

Alge Crumpler is another weapon on the offensive side of the football. He leads the team in receptions, yards, and touchdowns, which has made him one of the most elite tight ends in the league. In this past season Alge had 877 receiving yards and 5 touchdowns. Alge knows how to get by the pass the coverage’s of the defensive backs who play him. Another thing about him is that he’s a great pass and run blocker. By Crumpler being such a good run and pass blocker he makes it easy for the quarterback to make good decisions and the running back can make his move in the backfield and get positive yards.

John Abraham is another key player on the Falcons football team. Abraham has it all, he’s fast, strong, and he’s a great pass rusher. Being a great pass rusher makes it easier for his other teammates to make a play on the ball. It all starts on the line of scrimmage. Being able to put pressure on the quarterback and to make him get rid of the ball before he’s ready can cause a problem for the opposing team. Last season John Abraham had 58 tackles, 10.5 sacks, and 6 forced fumbles.

Standing and playing the left side of the field is DeAngelo Hall. When the Falcons drafted him they knew what kind of player he was. Coming out of college he was projected to become a starter in the NFL. Since then he has become one of the best corners in the league. The last past two seasons he has went to the Pro Bowl. Last season D.Hall had 6 interceptions and 58 tackles. There is no other cornerback that has had that type of year, only being in the NFL for two years.

Anyone can see all of these impact players that the Atlanta Falcons have. You see why the Falcons going to win the super bowl this year. The defense always get it done when they are being motivated by the high powered offense. When they have all of there key players healthy no one can stop them from winning.

Transcendentalism

2006-10-31T12:29:00.000-08:00

Nature by Ralph Emerson was very confusing t me. From what I read I think it was basically talking bout the love of nature. It talked about his feelings toward nature. He thinks that people don’t realize we have the privilege of being in the presents of Nature. If we lost nature people would then, realize how important it is. For instance the stars most people don’t pay them any attention but if they were to disappear than they would. Nature is basically talking about how you should appreciate nature. That everything around us is nature even the very ground we walk on or the land we live on it’s all nature and what would we be without it.Nature also talks about how only few adults can see nature. The reason for that is because after people start to age they begin to not appreciate things as they did when they were younger or a child. Adults have more things to worry bout than kids do. So they don’t really have time to notice the stars or a flower. Children who have a big imagination would pay more attention to the least important things.

Self-Reliance to me was about a man becoming a man. The writing talks about how another man can hate on or envy someone else. Which is stupid because all us man are capable of doing the same thing. When the writing said that "no kernel or nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till". That line is true because when I work hard good things come to me such as shoes or that new phone I want. But when I sit around on my butt I get nothing. The writing really motivated me and made me evaluate myself. Self- reliance is basically saying the best quality for all men to have is Self- reliance because no man should have to depend on no one else but their self. And when ever you’re misunderstood that’s good because the greatest men in history were misunderstood.

Resistance To Civil Government talks about how some governments is fit to be in charge, but there are others that are not. Thoreau’s states that " a majority normally rules over minority because they are the strongest. He feels that there should be a government in which majorities don’t decide right and wrong and I think he is right. Everyone should have say on how his or her government is run. That’s why I am glad I have the right to vote so I can have an opinion on what happens to my government. I don’t think it was right that he got locked up because I feel a person shouldn’t have to pay taxes if they don’t have say on their government. When people realize that no individual is higher than another one. Then the government can maybe improve.

Nature is a good example of Transcendentalists because it proves the belief that god could communicate through nature and a persons intuition. Which means that they thought god spoke to them through nature and what they felt in their heart. So in Nature when he says, "In presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows. That’s a good example cause he is stating that no matter what’s going on or happening in the presence of nature and good in speaking there still is a reason to feel delighted. And I think that is very true sometimes because when it rain I feel miserable but when it’s hot outside I feel good and I be wanting to go out and have a good time.

Self- Reliance is a good example of Transcendentalists because it shows an example of the belief god spoke to people through hard work. When he says,"No kernel or nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till". That’s a real good example because when a man work hard he feels like after all his hard work he will get something back in return but only if he works hard and give it time. I do believe in that because it seems like every time I work hard and focus I always get something back. It might take awhile to get it but as long as it comes and I get what I want then I have no problem.

Henry Thoreau "Resistance To Civil Government" is another good example of Transcendentalists. Because it shows the belief that institutions like government or organized religion were not effective. A good example of the belief is when he was arrested for not paying his tax for six years. That’s a good example to me because Transcendentalists believed that they shouldn’t have to pay tax because in their heart they thought if they paid tax it would be going to stuff that they didn’t approve of such as slavery or war. I feel the same way I wouldn’t want to pay my taxes for something I didn’t believe in.I’m going to do the story about the boy name Chris who was a college senior that had been accepted to the best law school in the country. But He changed his mind and realized that he would rather be a high school teacher than be a lawyer. Chris would have to go back to school to get his teaching certificate.

If I were in the same position as Chris I would do what I wanted to do.Why would you do something that you weren’t interested in that would be stupid? I wouldn’t be worried bout nobody else happiness but my own. I were in his position I would become a teacher. Transcendentalists would be happy with my decision because they believed every person should go with what they feel in their heart. Like on the blog where it says. "They also believed that God could communicate to people through nature and a persons intuition". And I think that’s correct because I always go with my intuition and when I do it mostly be right and when it do I think that it be from god.Another good example is when Henry was locked away for not paying his taxes. The reason he didn’t was because in his heart he felt that he didn’t have to so he went with what he felt inside.I like the Transcendentalists ways of thinking the way they think makes a lot of since, more than the others we studied, especially the puritans who thought everyone was born evil.

Writting 3

2006-10-12T14:00:00.000-07:00

What I Want To Be
A Physical Therapist

I decided that I wanted to pursue a career in Sports Medicine because I like to help injured people. I wanted to be able to help people recover from injuries without having to work in an office. Having a job were you are traveling, not just staying in one place, is what kind of job I want. I believe it would make the job more exciting for me.

I would want to be a Physical Therapist because when you are a physical therapist you get to test the measure of a patient’s strength, range of motion, balance and coordination, posture, muscle performance, respiration, and motor function. All this means is that you just test them and see what the can do. You would also determine a patient’s ability to be independent and reintegrate into the community or workplace after injury or illness. You would restore, maintain and promote overall fitness and health. You encourage people to do the best of their ability physically.

Physical Therapist has all types of places they can work. They let you work in hospitals, in offices with other physical therapists, in home health care services, and in nursing care facilities. Physical therapists also teach in academic institutions and conduct research. Physical Therapists are located everywhere all over the world.

The salaries for a physical therapists working in Georgia, range from $46,570 to $71,200. I think that me becoming physical therapists is a good choice for me because I like to help people. Really I want to work in sports medicine because I love football. So hopefully this is were ill be one day.

One of the man reason why I made my mind up to be a physical therapists is when my grandmother had to have surgery on her knee and she had to come stay with us until she could do for herself. While she was staying with us it was in the summertime so I was the only one home with her in the daytime. While she was there at first she couldn’t move around a lot and she always sore because she didn’t want to move a lot. So one day I said I’ve got to go something, and I did. So I made her get out the bed and try to walk with my help around the house everyday. And we also used this thing that the doctor gave her to exercise her leg three times a week so that my grandmother would be able to walk without anybody and anything. That’s what inspired me to want to become a physical therapist.

American Romanticism

2006-10-12T12:48:00.000-07:00

The story that I read was "Rip Van Winkle". I thought the story overall was good. When I first started reading the story I thought it was going to be stupid. I thought that Rip was a good man. Because at the beginning of the story Van Winkle would go around the neighborhood and help people with all the things that they needed help with around the house and yard, but wouldn’t do it at his own house. When Rip went wondering off from the village I didn’t think that he would be sleep for 20 years. I could never imagine anything like that ever happing to me.
I think that Rip thought he was crazy when he went back to town and every thing was different. I know if was in the same boat that Rip was in I probably would have went crazy. If felt sad when he found out that is wife had passed away. But on the good side of things he did find his daughter which she had her own son. And she let him come a stay with them.Rip was an examlpe of romanticism because people thought he was stupid, but he was able to rise to a level of hero. So overall I think it was a good romantic book.

The first direct evidence: One taste provoked another; and he reiterated his visits to the flagon so often that at length his senses were overpowered, his eyes swam in his head, his head gradually declined, and he fell into a deep sleep. This is an example because everybody knows that a person couldn’t go to sleep for 20 years. The second direct evidence: He found the house gone to decay--the roof fallen in, the windows shattered, and the doors off the hinges. This is another example of when somebody falls a sleep and when they wake up everything around them is different.

In this poem "Thanatopsis" they were saying that when you die that it is not always a bad thing. Also the poem was saying that sometimes that you could die, without any body knowing.Their mirth and their employments, and shall come, And make their bed with thee. All he was saying is that eventually all of the living will and the dead will re-night. I think that the example of romanticism is when they were talking about when you die and you are underground that you are combine with nature.

In this poem "The Ropewalk" it is about a man works in a factor that makes ropes. Human spiders spin and spin,Backward down their threads so thin Dropping, All he was saying is that the people in the factory are like spiders spinning rope. The things that stood out to me were when he was talking about the making ropes, and describing the buildings. It is a good example of romanticism because you use your imagination to see things.

I choose this picture of romanticism because I think that it shows a lot of the outside surroundings like nature. And it also is a very imaginative picture of what the romantic thought was romanticism. And it also makes things seem that they lived without any problems.

Rationalist

2006-09-18T14:06:00.000-07:00

The rationalist wanted to achieve order and explanation of the natural through science. They also sought to become more educated in Mathematics, Astronomy, Botany, and Biology. Collecting fossils and plants, and peering into microscopes and telescopes became much more popular than studying the scripture. The Puritans believed that everything was up to God. That he controlled everything in life. And the rationalist believed that human society was run by natural law. They also rationalists believed they could take a scientific approach to self-improvement. Also the Puritans believed humans had no business deconstructing God’s work. I think that people voting is a good illustration of what rationalist thought. And I think that when it is a bad storm going on and people say that is God doing his work, that is an illustration of what the Puritans thought.

Franklin was a good example of a rationalist because he thought that he could thirteen virtues in his life by making a chart. His virtues were temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquillity, chastity, and humility. He thought that he could overcome the laws of nature.

I think that my thirteen virtues would be stay focus, be organize, graduate, get my work done in the class room, be on time, more understanding, save money, get a good job, less fast food, stay fit. I think that I could meet moral perfection this way because you will need these things to succeed in life.

In the Declaration of Independence a rationalist thought that god left it up to the people to figure out how the world works and the natural laws. They also had two types of gov’t that were used. They were the legislature and the representative who ruled on the majority.

Writing 2

2006-09-13T12:54:00.000-07:00

Writing 2

My favorite holiday of the year is Christmas. I say this because I get to see my family, eat many different kinds of food, and receive gifts. I think these are the most important days in a person’s life. I couldn’t wait for this day to come when I was a little kid. The night before Christmas day I would not be able to go to sleep because I couldn’t wait to open my presents. The first thing that I would do in the morning is go wake up my parents so I could see what I got.

The morning is here and now it time to wake everybody up and see what we have under the tree. Now that my family is awake, they would let me see what I had first. I could remember seeing this big box wrapped in red wrapping paper and the Christmas tree so bright with all of the red and green lights. . And I had already known what it was. I could remember tearing the paper off of the box and seeing the words "Super Nintendo". It was gray and the buttons on it were red and black. The controllers were the same color. After that I left everybody else who was still opening up their presents and went in my room and took it out of the box and started to hook the game up to my T.V.

But when I started to do that my parents had called me back in the living to see what my little brother had got. I could remember him smiling at the gold looking wrapping paper. And when he opened the present it was a remote control truck. It was black with and had purple colored stripes going down the side. It also had some monster truck tires with chrome wheels. And after I seen what he had got it was time to go in my room and play the Super Nintendo.
When I first turned it on it was like nothing I’d seen before. I had seen the words Super Nintendo circled in red come up on the screen, and then the game Super Mario came on and I started to play it. On the first board I remember Mario had on a red jump suit, red hat, and a green shirt. After I had got finish with the first board my mom told me to put my new clothes on.

My mom told me to put my clothes on because we were getting ready to go down my grandmother’s house in Rayle, GA to eat Christmas dinner. On our way down there I was looking out of the window and I had seen some house that still had their Christmas lights lit up around their houses. When we finally got down there I got out of the car and I could feel the cool breeze of the winter air. When I was walking in my grandmother’s house could smell all of the food that she had cooked. On the table I could see some fried chicken, pumpkin pie, and some red velvet cake. But she had more food than that in the oven. I had seen my cousin that I haven’t seen in a long time. After I had spoke to everybody I had sat down and watch a little football that was on t.v. Later on after everyone got settled in it was time for us to have Christmas dinner.

My family would always let the kids, and women go first. So when I got a chance to get my plate it was so much food that I didn’t know what to choose from. I finally got some macaroni and cheese, chicken, hash, collard green, corn bread, and some fat back meat. The chicken was so tender and good. And the rest was just as good. After I got finished eating it was time for desert. I had got some of my favorite pie. Which was pumpkin pie. When I bit into it I could taste the brown sugar in the pie and could feel the crust dissolve in my mouth. After all that I was done for the day. At last it was time to so my good-byes and go back home.

Puritans

2006-08-31T13:46:00.000-07:00

Puritans
The puritans were a group of protestant people, who wanted to Purify the Church of England. When Henry VIII, who was king from 1808 to 1547 was inseparable from the country’s government. To the Puritans religion comes first. They did not believe that the clergy of government should act as an intermediary between the individual and god.

In the Puritans beliefs they believed that they were born into sin. They thought this because of Adam and Eve. The Puritans thought that if they didn’t do exactly what God said to do they would all go to hell. They also thought that Jesus Christ had been sent to earth to save particular people Known as the "elect". They didn’t know if a person was saved or dammed. So they tried to live exemplary lives. Puritan belief in a spiritual compact between God and humanity paved the way for American Constitutional democracy. Puritans emphasized education so that people could read and understand the Bible and follow religious debates. They had diaries and histories were important forms of Puritan literature. Their beliefs were so strong that it effected the affected all of there people.

In the "Sinners in the hands of an angry god" it states that "God has laid himself under no obligation, by any promise to keep any natural man out of hell one moment". I think he was saying no one is promised to live forever but when they do die they will enter a "Another world".
In the "Plymouth Plantation" William Bradford was the leader of the English puritan separatist, which now is called "pilgrims". William wrote journals while he took the journey on the Mayflower. Also while he was on the ship he believed that god would guide them.
When the Puritans meet Squanto he was "their interpreter and was a special instrument sent of God for their good beyond their expectation. He directed them how to set their corn, where to take fish, and to procure other commodities, and was also their pilot to bring them to unknown places for their profit, and never left them till he died." They would have called this Perseverance of the "Saints".

"God has laid himself under no obligation, by any promise to keep any natural man out of hell one moment". I think that this is a good example of plain text because he is telling you exactly what you need to know. And he is not trying to sugar coat it for anybody.
I think that the Puritans wrote in this style because they wanted to get straight to the point. For the Puritans to do this I think it was good. I say that because I don’t think that people would want somebody to talk about something that is not true. So overall it was good writing.

2006-08-24T13:57:00.000-07:00

I think the Atlanta Falcons are the best team in the NFL coming into this new football season. They have added some key players to their defense to make them unstoppable this year, because their defense was not that good last year. The offense had allowed the most sacks in the NFL last season, but this season they have to many weapons, on the offensive, and defensive side of the ball.

Michael Vick is the leader of this Atlanta Falcons football team, because the quarterback has to make all of the decisions on the football field. Vick is why teams have to change their game plan when the playing against him. He is one of the best quarterbacks in the game. Last season Vick threw for 2,412yards, and rushed for an amazing 597yards. He was second in leading rushing on the team. When Vick is on the field any thing can happen. This is important because if you can have a quarterback that is capable of doing these types of things no one would be able to defeat you.

Also this year the Falcons decided to beef up their defense a little bit. They added a couple of veteran guys like John Abraham who had 67 tackles, 10.5 sacks, and also tied a career-high and ranked tied for third in the NFL with six forced fumbles. And Lawyer Milloy who finished last season off with one interception, 106 total tackles and one sack. These are going to be some of the key players on this defense.

Alge Crumpler is the one of the best tight ends in the league. He is always making big plays. Because of the Falcons lack of experience from their wide receivers somebody has to step up play and be a key player in this high powered offense. So Crumpler said, "He is the man for the job". He isn’t only a catcher he’s one of the best pass and run blockers in the league. When he is on the field, teams have to double-team him to contain him. In this past season Alge had 877 receiving yards and 5 touchdowns. That’s why he is the top tight end.

DeAngelo Hall is one of the best corners in the NFL. When the Falcons drafted him they knew what kind of player he was. Coming out of college, he was projected to become a starter in the NFL. Since then he has become one of the best corners in the league. In the last past two seasons he has went to the Pro Bowl. Last season D.Hall had 6 ints and 58 tckl. Know other cornerback has had that type of year, Only being in the NFL for two years.

Now that you can see all of these impacts that players on the Atlanta Falcons football team have, You see why they are gonna win the super bowl this year. When they have all of there key players healthy no one can stop them from winning. That’s whey everybody on the team is going to stay healthy and try to win a Super Bowl.

kaneelvis

2006-08-07T13:50:00.000-07:00

Welcome

2006-08-07T12:50:00.000-07:00

Wuz-up my name is Kaneelvis Smith