1/. I chose the jazz age, because I'm in to music. i love entertainment that speaks out to you. music reaches out to you in different kinds of ways; singing, rapping, blues, and instrumental.
every living thing has been using music, longer than we know it. humans been using music in many different ways; if you're mad, happy, or sad. Jazz represents modernism in an way because it's apart of black Americans culture. at that time they was using Jazz to show how they feel.
2/. the Jazz age:
by f. Scott Fitzgerald:
I read Myra meets his family. Myra was an "wonderful kid" when she was 17 or younger, that's what people called her. Myra was an intelligent lady who was now seeking for an husband but was to afraid to be involved in an relationship. "When she was sixteen she lived in a big house in Cleveland and attended derby school in Connecticut, and sense she was still there she started going to prep-school dances and college proms," she gad everything she ever wanted, or she could have gotten it.
3/.
a). Richard Corey by Edwin Arlington Robinson was an excellent story Richard was an slim out going, Wise man. he had everything he could ever wanted he was rich but it sounds like he was happy when he was around people but when he is to his self the true comes out that he is a very sad person, he was missing something in his life, son one night he shut his self in the head. "one calm summer night, went home and put a bullet through his head." this is a good example to the modernism because he shot his self, he actually freeing him self.
b). Mending wall by Robert frost was an all right poem. he's mainly talking about his neighbour how he would love to be in an relationship with her. "why do they make good neighbours?" and how he thinks someone on the other side he would like to meet before he build an wall. "something there is that doesn't love a wall, that wants it down."
c). a dream deferred: by Langston Hughes was all right i guess. i didn't really get what he was saying if you just read the poem; but i think he was talking about what happen in dreams. i get it but i was just looking for more out of it; "what happens to a dream deferred?"
d). the Negro speaks of rivers by Langston Hughes was a good poem and i can relate t that; i love the river, listing to it. it just cums you down. you can fall a sleep sitting be side the revers, water falls, and things like that. "my soul has grown deep like the rivers.
e). incident by Countee Cullen:
the incident poem was all right i don't like when that little boy call him a nigger. i would have got shot or something because knowing me i would go right over there and bet him up. "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."
Monday, April 30, 2007
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Realism
1)
a). the story of an hour:
Date Chopin actions was to write a book that represents life, and pick up ware she left off. Date was an forgotten soul to Americans. when her husband died she wasn't all that mad about it she was partly glad that her husband passed away, so she did what she had to do t survive so "when her husband died as a young man, Kate Chopin returned to st. Louis with her six children." she said "free body and soul."
a). the story of an hour:
Date Chopin actions was to write a book that represents life, and pick up ware she left off. Date was an forgotten soul to Americans. when her husband died she wasn't all that mad about it she was partly glad that her husband passed away, so she did what she had to do t survive so "when her husband died as a young man, Kate Chopin returned to st. Louis with her six children." she said "free body and soul."
b). her social issue that she wanted to solve is women rights to do what they need to do, not getting pushed around by her husband, she wanted to solve that being married doesn't mean your husband own you, and that we are not slaves to our them.
2).
a). the battle with Mr. covey was an excellent story. Frederick Douglass was an slave who was hired for an year to work for Mr. covey. his purpose for writing this story is to inform people that their wrong for having slaves work from morning till don. "it was never too hot or too cold; it could never too rain, blow, hail, or snow to hard for us to work in the field."
"work, work, work was scarcely more the order of the day than of the night." and that Mr. covey hit Frederick Douglass, Douglass toke a lot of mess from covey; but covey felt bad for hitting hem and he said in his mind that he wouldn't hit him like that again when they had fought each other.
b). Douglass social issue that he wanted to solve was how bad they treated slaves when their helping them out, and how they can kill them and get away with murder sometimes.
3). my modern example of realism is hospitals how people go to the emergency room for something, and it's never anything good.
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
dark romantics
1).
a). NATHAN IEL HAWTHORNE’S WAS AGAINTS TRANSCENDENTALISM BECAUSE HE DON’T BELIEVE IN ORIGINAL SIN HE DON’T THINK EVERYONE WAS BORN AN SINNER. HE THINKS IT’T WRONG TO ACCUSE SOMEONE BEING EVIL, AND KILLING THEM FOR IT. HE BASIC LY BELIEVES THAT EVERY BODY HAS THEIR OWN FAULT. EVERYONE IS NOT EQUIVALENT EVERYBODY IS DIFFERENT.
B). Herman Melville to me wouldn’t be considered good or pure. He believe that our intuition is not god way of getting through to us, it’s I’ll own thoughts in our mind telling us what to do. The story mobby dick is an example of how he thought about that story on his own. God didn’t tell him to in fewer gods is evil to. That’s how transcendentalism and this story is going against each other.
c). Edgar Allen Poe’s grew up with know one really their. To e he sounds like he don’t have a care in the world. All he thought about was evil.
2). I would have to go with transcendentalist, because I also think god is speaking through my mind. So I think he is my intuition that’s telling me what to do. but I will also agree with the dark romanticism because I don’t believe in original sin I know it’s real meaning that it is a sin but I don’t think people was all born an sinner. I mean everyone do stupid things from time to time. I’m not going to kill because of it. So I say I will be in between them half and half if I really had to choose.
3). Read the black cat story: by Edgar Allen Poe .
4). The black cat story was very occasional it ‘s different but an amazing story. Poe love’s to talk about his pets he describes them in so many ways. His parents had so many, so it made him fond of animals, he partly spent his whole life around animals. "we had birds, gold-fish, a find dog, rabbits, a small monkey, and a cat." Poe had an cat named Pluto, Pluto was his favorite pet he played with. "Pluto-this was the cat’s name-was my favorite pet and playmate." The dark romantics disagreed with the transcendentalists because of their beliefs of god how they didn’t believed in people telling you what to do if god is reaching out to you, you should know what to do, you shouldn't’t have to listen to them, because he’s telling you. My thoughts is that he is an crazy mad man, that don’t think of nothing other than his self.
5). The raven was the poem he wrote while his second wife was dying in the other room, the poem was mainly talking about tipping on his chamber and he notice that it was December. "ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December, and each separate dying ember wrought it’s ghost upon the floor." The part that stock out to me the most is the part when he say "leave me lone lines unbroken!—quit the bust above me door! Take thy beak from out my heart and take thy form from off my door! Quote the raven, "nevermore."
My thought to me is that he is saying that death is coming t take his wife soul away. This story represents anti-transcendentalism idea because how he believes that death is coming to take away his wife, that something is telling him that.
6). Some parts was when Poe was born his parents died not right away but an little later, he mainly grew up alone living with some one else named john Allen that was an merchant. He had an sister and a brother but he died and his sister went senseless. Poe writs story, and is vary smart.
Monday, April 02, 2007
transcendentalism
1). In the story nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson. That's an excellent story he encourages us to look at nature in a different perspective. he believes in using your imagination on how things appear, he believes that this is how god reaches us through our eyes and nature. "when we speak of nature in this manner, we have a distinct but most poetical sense in the mind." Nature is a gook example of transcendentalism because it's Romanticism, It has nature involve in it. "they also believed that god could communicate to people through nature and a persons intuition.
2). Self-reliance" by Ralph Waldo Emerson:
that was an pretty good story. in this story he mainly talks about the voices of god. he didn't believe in original in because if we all was born a sinner god wouldn't be able to reach us through nature and I'll minds. "Theses are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter in to the world. this is an good example for transcendentalism because they they didn't believe in people telling you want to do, for example like the government they wouldn't believe in it because it'
s someone telling what you need to do. You shouldn't have to go by that if god is reaching out to you.
3). Resistance to civil government" by Henry David Thoreau:
that was also a very good, that was pretty stopped that they sent hem to jail for not paying his taxis that's why i hat the law. he felt like if he didn't want any more slavery coming to America and he didn't pay for it, and he didn't agree what they was spending the money on he felt like he shouldn't have to pay his taxis either. this story is an example of transcendentalism because he also didn't believe in the government and what they're doing with the money. "can there not be a government in which majorities do not virtually decide right and wrong, but conscience?"
4). if i was in this situation. first of all, i wouldn't get married yet i would make sure if it would work out. Meaning seeing if we could be apart for awhile and see how that goes. seeing if i can trust him that get married, or being in gaude into i finish with my college first.
2). Self-reliance" by Ralph Waldo Emerson:
that was an pretty good story. in this story he mainly talks about the voices of god. he didn't believe in original in because if we all was born a sinner god wouldn't be able to reach us through nature and I'll minds. "Theses are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter in to the world. this is an good example for transcendentalism because they they didn't believe in people telling you want to do, for example like the government they wouldn't believe in it because it'
s someone telling what you need to do. You shouldn't have to go by that if god is reaching out to you.
3). Resistance to civil government" by Henry David Thoreau:
that was also a very good, that was pretty stopped that they sent hem to jail for not paying his taxis that's why i hat the law. he felt like if he didn't want any more slavery coming to America and he didn't pay for it, and he didn't agree what they was spending the money on he felt like he shouldn't have to pay his taxis either. this story is an example of transcendentalism because he also didn't believe in the government and what they're doing with the money. "can there not be a government in which majorities do not virtually decide right and wrong, but conscience?"
4). if i was in this situation. first of all, i wouldn't get married yet i would make sure if it would work out. Meaning seeing if we could be apart for awhile and see how that goes. seeing if i can trust him that get married, or being in gaude into i finish with my college first.
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
American Romanticism
1). Rip Van Winkle:
Rip Van Winkle is an great story it tells about the mountains on how they look like they transform every time you see it, the hues and the shapes of the mountains. Realizing that the mountains was once a home to people. The mountain still had little houses on it. The houses was an little shack looking dorm built with small yellow bricks, and surrounded by trees.
In the village on the mountain in one of them houses their once lived little trolls that took over the mountain back when Van Winkle was alive. Rip Van Winkle was an pretty good guy he was there for his village, everyone loved him. dogs Don't even bark at him when he comes around, The kids Love's him. He tells ghost stories and plays with them. Rip Van Winkle was the one who fount out that there was trolls in the mountains, and he also had kids of his own. That was a good story he is truly a good man.
2). There was a equal amount of romanticism like the Rope walk by Henry Wadsworth, just by the way they sound through out the story it's really touching, to me everything that has to do with nature it romantic my opinion any way. Irving the pimp was pretty cool he's someone i would hang with if i was an boy. I would gave lots of fun with him getting all the women and living large. he was an excellent story writer. In the 1820-1840's it was not a good time to live because it was really nasty people didn't care, everything was on the streets, trash, and more. Irving wrote his books because "people needed a little fiction and imagination to get away from their lives".
3). In the Thanatopsis story it was manly saying that he was in love with mother nature to me. That he loves everything about it. how she make things work, and how natural the world is. Like when something dies it's natural you can't prevent that from happening. dieing is apart of life you suppose to be happy when someone die and cry when you're born. Its romantic to me because of how he talks about it, he sounds very thrilled about mother nature, and because it's natural.
4). The Rope walk by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem was an very exciting, and interesting poem. the point of this poem is about a man who imagines things while he worked, everything he had his eyes on he imagines it to be something else. his job was t0 perpair ropes. he imagines ropes as being something else. it's has to do something with romanticism because it has nature involved in it.
5). The painting could be considered romanticism because it has something to do with nature. in the picture below the animals in it just look so relaxing, look like they don't have to get away from anything trying to eat them, like they don't have a care in the world. the picture to me just look so soothing. i wish i was there relaxing in the cool damp air blowing towards me. by looking at this picture don't it look peaceful and quite, and like you can hear nature. the water pushing up beside the rocks. it looks like it would put you to sleep. this picture has a lot of romanticism in it just by looking at it .
Rip Van Winkle is an great story it tells about the mountains on how they look like they transform every time you see it, the hues and the shapes of the mountains. Realizing that the mountains was once a home to people. The mountain still had little houses on it. The houses was an little shack looking dorm built with small yellow bricks, and surrounded by trees.
In the village on the mountain in one of them houses their once lived little trolls that took over the mountain back when Van Winkle was alive. Rip Van Winkle was an pretty good guy he was there for his village, everyone loved him. dogs Don't even bark at him when he comes around, The kids Love's him. He tells ghost stories and plays with them. Rip Van Winkle was the one who fount out that there was trolls in the mountains, and he also had kids of his own. That was a good story he is truly a good man.
2). There was a equal amount of romanticism like the Rope walk by Henry Wadsworth, just by the way they sound through out the story it's really touching, to me everything that has to do with nature it romantic my opinion any way. Irving the pimp was pretty cool he's someone i would hang with if i was an boy. I would gave lots of fun with him getting all the women and living large. he was an excellent story writer. In the 1820-1840's it was not a good time to live because it was really nasty people didn't care, everything was on the streets, trash, and more. Irving wrote his books because "people needed a little fiction and imagination to get away from their lives".
3). In the Thanatopsis story it was manly saying that he was in love with mother nature to me. That he loves everything about it. how she make things work, and how natural the world is. Like when something dies it's natural you can't prevent that from happening. dieing is apart of life you suppose to be happy when someone die and cry when you're born. Its romantic to me because of how he talks about it, he sounds very thrilled about mother nature, and because it's natural.
4). The Rope walk by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem was an very exciting, and interesting poem. the point of this poem is about a man who imagines things while he worked, everything he had his eyes on he imagines it to be something else. his job was t0 perpair ropes. he imagines ropes as being something else. it's has to do something with romanticism because it has nature involved in it.
5). The painting could be considered romanticism because it has something to do with nature. in the picture below the animals in it just look so relaxing, look like they don't have to get away from anything trying to eat them, like they don't have a care in the world. the picture to me just look so soothing. i wish i was there relaxing in the cool damp air blowing towards me. by looking at this picture don't it look peaceful and quite, and like you can hear nature. the water pushing up beside the rocks. it looks like it would put you to sleep. this picture has a lot of romanticism in it just by looking at it .
Thursday, February 22, 2007
journal 4
Im reading the the Gun, its a pertty good book. Tyray raputation was known as bulling people around. Into one day he actually saw his match but didn't know it, Tyray looked at him like an easy target to manipulate, because he was an scrawny, weak kid. He started bulling him, and taking his money everyday. until he got tired of it and actually stood up to him in the front of everybody. Tyray got suspendent for 3 days when he came back everybody looked at him differently.
journal 3
my reading topic was about the Gun by Paul Langan i didn't get far but so far its about this boy Tyray. He Realized that girls was addicted to him because he was so strong looking and bad and the girls was attracted to him because of that. But him knowing that he can easily intimidate the smaller kids because he was so muck bigger than them, he started pushing them around, and telling them what to do, and making them give him money. He became the school bully and everyone grew afriad of him.
Wednesday, February 07, 2007
the rationalists
Jasmine viola Barnes
2/7/07
Lit 11.
The Rationalists:
1). The difference between Rationalists, and the Puritans is that the Rationalists believe in god but do not rely on him and that god is not responsible for everything like the puritans do.
The puritans believe a little bit more they think that if you don’t believe in him you should be a lower class than the others and get treated differently than the middle, and the high class. Puritans will also prosecute you if you do something wrong.
The things that’s going on today that reminds me a lot about the puritans is christens, people who go to church a lot throughout the whole week and week end are considered christens to me. The thing to day that reminds me of Rationalist is how we don’t rely on god to do everything, it’s not his responsibility, he died for us and that was good enough.
2). Number 2 was to read the Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin.
3). Franklin was a good example to the rationalist because he didn’t rely on god for everything he was responsible for his own problems not god. Franklin believes that you can do anything if you put your mind to it. Franklin did wait around doing nothing, waiting for god to help him, because if he did he wouldn’t got anything accomplish. Franklin wrote autobiography books, that’s why the Rationalists believe in science, because they think that it could be recognized more.
It you didn’t have science in this world we wouldn’t have made it this far we wouldn’t know anything about this world not even god if they didn’t have science. In science you do research to study the world and what was in it before us and beneath it. “A Rationalist would believe that anything could be understood through science.”
4).
1. Honesty- be real with people but not to out of hand.
2. respect- people need to admire me more.
3. responsibility- doing what I need to do first.
4. organized- having my important papers in the right place.
5. plans- knowing what I’m going to do after school.
6. arbitrate- get to know me better.
7. confident- people looks up to me, keep it that way.
8. determined- mean business, don’t play around.
9. straggling- life could have been easier.
10. crowded- need to get away and be on my own for an chance.
11. trouble- keep my distance and do the right thing.
12. money- need some.
13. food- don’t get to over weight, stay healthy.
I feel that I should be a bit more organized to know what is where. I know what I’m going to do in the future, my plans are to become a medical assistance first then work my way up. When finishes with that go into the army, I’m determining to go. A lot of people look up to me now that they know that I’m going to do something with my life, now my niece wants to go to high tech Institute and be something. It’s my responsibility to do so, to show a good example for my nieces. Yes, I know I can reach my foolish potential to meet these needs.
5). * In the declaration of independence my three examples of what rationalist thought was that working in you own past to succeed is the was to go in life not looking up for god to do it.
* The rationalist thought that everything on the earth came from us, man made objects, which it wasn’t left by god.
* That they believed that all people are created equally. “That Knowledge is the path to go”.
2/7/07
Lit 11.
The Rationalists:
1). The difference between Rationalists, and the Puritans is that the Rationalists believe in god but do not rely on him and that god is not responsible for everything like the puritans do.
The puritans believe a little bit more they think that if you don’t believe in him you should be a lower class than the others and get treated differently than the middle, and the high class. Puritans will also prosecute you if you do something wrong.
The things that’s going on today that reminds me a lot about the puritans is christens, people who go to church a lot throughout the whole week and week end are considered christens to me. The thing to day that reminds me of Rationalist is how we don’t rely on god to do everything, it’s not his responsibility, he died for us and that was good enough.
2). Number 2 was to read the Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin.
3). Franklin was a good example to the rationalist because he didn’t rely on god for everything he was responsible for his own problems not god. Franklin believes that you can do anything if you put your mind to it. Franklin did wait around doing nothing, waiting for god to help him, because if he did he wouldn’t got anything accomplish. Franklin wrote autobiography books, that’s why the Rationalists believe in science, because they think that it could be recognized more.
It you didn’t have science in this world we wouldn’t have made it this far we wouldn’t know anything about this world not even god if they didn’t have science. In science you do research to study the world and what was in it before us and beneath it. “A Rationalist would believe that anything could be understood through science.”
4).
1. Honesty- be real with people but not to out of hand.
2. respect- people need to admire me more.
3. responsibility- doing what I need to do first.
4. organized- having my important papers in the right place.
5. plans- knowing what I’m going to do after school.
6. arbitrate- get to know me better.
7. confident- people looks up to me, keep it that way.
8. determined- mean business, don’t play around.
9. straggling- life could have been easier.
10. crowded- need to get away and be on my own for an chance.
11. trouble- keep my distance and do the right thing.
12. money- need some.
13. food- don’t get to over weight, stay healthy.
I feel that I should be a bit more organized to know what is where. I know what I’m going to do in the future, my plans are to become a medical assistance first then work my way up. When finishes with that go into the army, I’m determining to go. A lot of people look up to me now that they know that I’m going to do something with my life, now my niece wants to go to high tech Institute and be something. It’s my responsibility to do so, to show a good example for my nieces. Yes, I know I can reach my foolish potential to meet these needs.
5). * In the declaration of independence my three examples of what rationalist thought was that working in you own past to succeed is the was to go in life not looking up for god to do it.
* The rationalist thought that everything on the earth came from us, man made objects, which it wasn’t left by god.
* That they believed that all people are created equally. “That Knowledge is the path to go”.
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