People do not realize some of the responsibilities that they have, one of the big ones is life. The zeal to survive is often a major factor.
Take the titanic for example. Peoples will to survive was different, yet it was their responsibility. The captain had complete control over the situation, he ignored the multiple warnings he was given. He had total responsibility for the numerous lives he had on board but yet that did not effect his decision on to head back or slow down. Once the ship hit the iceberg, people had their life as their own responsibility whether to jump and face the frigid water or to stay on and hope for the best. The families who lost a loved one were very lugudriosly.
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Frankenstein
If I was given the power to create life such as Frankenstein did I would choose not to. I think that a human being should not be able to create a new life.
God is the creator of everything, man should not be able to create life such as Frankenstein did. It is God's prerogative duty to determine ones life.That is against what god has already done and what he has planned out for the future. If someone did have the power it should be used to help the world, not to destroy it and its people.
Man should not be able to create life, let alone use it as an ferine experiment.
God is the creator of everything, man should not be able to create life such as Frankenstein did. It is God's prerogative duty to determine ones life.That is against what god has already done and what he has planned out for the future. If someone did have the power it should be used to help the world, not to destroy it and its people.
Man should not be able to create life, let alone use it as an ferine experiment.
Monday, January 23, 2012
Thoughts Prior to Frankenstein
Frankenstein has always been the story you hear about on Halloween, but it is also a classic. The man made monster was made to be immortal, when people hear of this story they have a fear of a green monster coming to eat them.
Being 19 now means going to college and getting when the effects of the real world finally hits you. The author to Frankenstein was only 19 when she wrote this story, not a typical story that a 19 year old girl would write about. This contains a lot of evil and immortality which shows the creativeness of Mary Shelley.
Being 19 now means going to college and getting when the effects of the real world finally hits you. The author to Frankenstein was only 19 when she wrote this story, not a typical story that a 19 year old girl would write about. This contains a lot of evil and immortality which shows the creativeness of Mary Shelley.
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
2012 Theme Word
I chose the word successful because it is a word that I can apply to my everyday life. In my first two years of high school baseball we have won one conference title, some people may say that it was a successful two years but not us. this year we have the chance to not only win a conference title but a state title as well. That is what we call success.
I also want apply it in my life in an educational way. I have always been an A and B student but this year I want to try and make straight A's and raise my GPA, with the hopes of receiving an academic scholarship.
I would also like to be successful money wise. I would like to earn more money this year and learn how to manage it better. Some people may believe that this is superfluous, but starting to save now would help me when I am in college and moving on to start a successful life.
I also want apply it in my life in an educational way. I have always been an A and B student but this year I want to try and make straight A's and raise my GPA, with the hopes of receiving an academic scholarship.
I would also like to be successful money wise. I would like to earn more money this year and learn how to manage it better. Some people may believe that this is superfluous, but starting to save now would help me when I am in college and moving on to start a successful life.
Monday, December 19, 2011
My Antonia
In Willa Cather's novel "My Antonia" she talks about how she views the pioneer time. She says that they lived the simple life only needing necessities. During that time needed alot of land for farming, know how to communicate with other farmers, money and needed people to help work your farms to grow enough food to survive.
My Antonia is told in the perspective of another main character. Jim, but if the story was told in Antonia's perspective the whole story would change and be told in a different way. Jim came from a whole different background. He was obdurate, richer, born and raised in America and had plenty of land. Antonia on the other hand was poor, struggled to grow enough food to survive and was a immigrant to America.
Willa Cather being a woman was trying to tell this novel in a mans point of view, showing the situation that Jim is in. If the author would have been a man, this story would have been completely different. Jim would have acted like a totally different person. With the author being a woman it sounds like a woman trying to sound like a man, she tells all of Jim's feelings and about how much he cares for Antonia. She does not sound like a man at all.
Jim changes the title in my opinion because he understands Antonia, he knows what she has gone through and what she has lived through. Though they may have never became a couple he still cares for her and they were really close.
This novel shows the way that pioneers struggled during that time period. It also showed all of the hardships immigrants faced as they came to America. I believe that a sequel in Antonia's point of view would be a very good sequel to this book.
My Antonia is told in the perspective of another main character. Jim, but if the story was told in Antonia's perspective the whole story would change and be told in a different way. Jim came from a whole different background. He was obdurate, richer, born and raised in America and had plenty of land. Antonia on the other hand was poor, struggled to grow enough food to survive and was a immigrant to America.
Willa Cather being a woman was trying to tell this novel in a mans point of view, showing the situation that Jim is in. If the author would have been a man, this story would have been completely different. Jim would have acted like a totally different person. With the author being a woman it sounds like a woman trying to sound like a man, she tells all of Jim's feelings and about how much he cares for Antonia. She does not sound like a man at all.
Jim changes the title in my opinion because he understands Antonia, he knows what she has gone through and what she has lived through. Though they may have never became a couple he still cares for her and they were really close.
This novel shows the way that pioneers struggled during that time period. It also showed all of the hardships immigrants faced as they came to America. I believe that a sequel in Antonia's point of view would be a very good sequel to this book.
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Author Willa Cather embedded literary devices, such as metaphors, similes, and personification, within her writing.
"As I looked about me I felt that the grass was the country, as the water is the sea. The red of the grass made all the great prairie the colour of wine-stains, or of certain seaweeds when they are first washed up. And there was so much motion in it; the whole country seemed, somehow, to be running."
"The grave, with its tall red grass that was never mowed, was like a little island."
"Winter comes down savagely over a little town on the prairie. The wind that sweeps in from the open country strips away all the leafy screens that hide one yard from another in summer, and the houses seem to draw closer together. The roofs, that looked so far away across the green treetops, now stare you in the face, and they are so much uglier than when their angles were softened by vines and shrubs.
Chunk #1: Comment the effect of the setting on the characters within the novel.
The setting in the novel plays major roles on the characters. It affected Antonia by making her learn to work and manage a farm, if she did not learn to do so she and her family would not survive. The setting effected Jim because living in the society that he lived in it helped him know his social class or standards since he was a lawyer.
Chunk #2: discuss the effect a setting on you, including imagery (lots of adjectives) and a simile or a metaphor as you describe the land.
The baseball field is peaceful to me, especially on game day when the lights are shining bright and the fans are screaming. Standing on the mound, my arm as a whip as it slings the ball to the plate. Hearing the words "strike three" come from the umpire is one of the greatest feelings, as if I struck out Babe Ruth. The baseball field truely my oasis, where I go to get away from the stress from school or parents.
"As I looked about me I felt that the grass was the country, as the water is the sea. The red of the grass made all the great prairie the colour of wine-stains, or of certain seaweeds when they are first washed up. And there was so much motion in it; the whole country seemed, somehow, to be running."
"The grave, with its tall red grass that was never mowed, was like a little island."
"Winter comes down savagely over a little town on the prairie. The wind that sweeps in from the open country strips away all the leafy screens that hide one yard from another in summer, and the houses seem to draw closer together. The roofs, that looked so far away across the green treetops, now stare you in the face, and they are so much uglier than when their angles were softened by vines and shrubs.
Chunk #1: Comment the effect of the setting on the characters within the novel.
The setting in the novel plays major roles on the characters. It affected Antonia by making her learn to work and manage a farm, if she did not learn to do so she and her family would not survive. The setting effected Jim because living in the society that he lived in it helped him know his social class or standards since he was a lawyer.
Chunk #2: discuss the effect a setting on you, including imagery (lots of adjectives) and a simile or a metaphor as you describe the land.
The baseball field is peaceful to me, especially on game day when the lights are shining bright and the fans are screaming. Standing on the mound, my arm as a whip as it slings the ball to the plate. Hearing the words "strike three" come from the umpire is one of the greatest feelings, as if I struck out Babe Ruth. The baseball field truely my oasis, where I go to get away from the stress from school or parents.
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Gun Control Pros and Cons
Assertion / Claim
- People should have the right to own guns.
Evidence / Concrete Detail
- "A well regulated militia, being necessary to secure a free state, right of people to bare arms shall not be fringed."
- The control of fire arms by people may one day help us secure a free nation.
- The second amendment protects peoples individual right to keep and bare arms.
- If we did not have guns there would be no way to protect your family from criminals. You would lose your feeling of security in your own home.
- If the right to own guns was taken away, only law enforcement would be the only ones allowed to have guns. Criminals would find a way to own them via black market. Drugs are illegal and we yet have stopped them from selling them.
- When the criminals break in you will have no way to defend yourself, which would take away your feeling of security, a cop can only get there so fast.
- Opposing Claims
- Some think that owning guns would be a good thing, I believe that we should take guns away so that law enforcement should own them. This would help keep criminals from owning guns which would make the world a better place.
- I think that guns do kill people, if we got guns out of the hands of citizens this would decrease the number of people killed due to firearms.
- My Rebuttal
- How ever, I believe that it is necessary to secure a free state. if only law enforcement had them criminals would get them off the black market. This would risk the lives of many more citizens who are unable to protect themselves.
- My Paragraph
- People should have the right to own guns.A well regulated militia, being necessary to secure a free state, right of people to bare arms shall not be fringed." The control of fire arms by people may one day help us secure a free nation.The second amendment protects peoples individual right to keep and bare arms. If we did not have guns there would be no way to protect your family from criminals. You would lose your feeling of security in your own home.If the right to own guns was taken away, only law enforcement would be the only ones allowed to have guns. Criminals would find a way to own them via black market. Drugs are illegal and we yet have stopped them from selling them.If people were not so tractable by drugs then guns would not cause as many deaths as they have today. When the criminals break in you will have no way to defend yourself, which would take away your feeling of security, a cop can only get there so fast. Some think that owning guns would be a good thing, We should take guns away so that law enforcement should own them. This would help keep criminals from owning guns which would make the world a better place. Guns do kill people, if we got guns out of the hands of citizens this would decrease the number of people killed due to firearms.How ever, I believe that it is necessary to secure a free state. if only law enforcement had them criminals would get them off the black market. This would risk the lives of many more citizens who are unable to protect themselves.
- My Thinking
- I think I am a inductive thinker. I think that because I thought of all of the consequences then thought of the theory that only law enforcement and criminals would own guns.
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