I MISS THIRD PERIOD

I miss class.
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I don't like being sick.

Cherokee TOT Research

Depending on the family and how willing they were to leave, due to circumstances, research varies on how life was after the removal of Cherokees. The walk was hard, yes, but some looked at it as a fresh start away from bad memories.

Research Number IDK

The major differences between the 13th amendment and the Emancipation Proclamation were as follows:

1. The 13th Amendment freed all slaves, regardless of what state they were in, while the EP only freed those in certain states and of certain circumstances.
2. The EP was only brought out by Lincoln as a political approach for election and as a strategy for the war against the Confederate Army.

'Nuff said.

My source: APUSH

Research Three

Couldn't find anything on the three French Estates.

Research Twooo

A main principle of the traditional American philosophy is expressed in the phrase: fear of Government-over-Man.Americans of the period 1776-1787 firmly believed in the soundness of the accepted maxim that "government is like a fire: a dangerous servant and a fearful master;" that, to be useful, it must be strictly controlled for safety against its getting out of hand and doing great harm. Through the generations, the people have considered that this maxim expresses one of history's most profoundly important lessons for Free Man. This maxim is based upon the knowledge that, in last analysis, government is force and must be feared and controlled accordingly. The great fear in 1787-1788 of the new, central government under the proposed Constitution was evidenced by the fact that the State Ratifying Conventions proposed scores of amendments, designed chiefly to keep under more rigid control what they considered to be this potential monster of power so dangerous to their liberties: the central, or Federal, government.

Research Question C:

"In first century BCE Rome, what was the role, attire, and status of a free born Roman woman?"


In politics today we hear a lot about family values. That is hardly surprising, since family is fundamental to our sense of social well-being. Trends in divorce rates or in numbers of single-parent families are serious causes of concern and also sources of heated political rhetoric(!!!). The well-being of the family is so basic that it is a good not reducible to impact on the economic portion of society, though some people try to say it's bigger than what it honestly is. The Romans had their own evolutionary story about family mores, and it had nothing to do with the invention of affection, which they took to be natural and eternal in the family. However, their story did contain elements of the decline of paternal authority and the stable family. Roman authors--all men--often lamented that in the late Republic wives no longer played the ideal role that they had fulfilled for centuries. According to the Roman writers of the first century BCE and first century CE, divorce became increasingly frequent after 200 BCE, initiated easily by the husband or the wife. In addition, wives had their own property, which they could sell, give away or bequeath as they liked. As a result, women became more liberated and less dependent on their husbands. In fact, by the late Republic a rich wife who could divorce and take her wealth with her had a real threat against her husband and could wield influence over him. The sense of independence also showed up in increasing sexual promiscuity and adultery.

So basically, men thought women were to cook, clean, make babies, and keep the bed warm. End of story. Pht. Bhat. Done. 

Firefox test?

Does this work?
At all?

"Limerick and Angela'sAshes Article"

Test Two in Class on Nov. 14 at 12:27 pm

Does this actually work or am I just looking extremely stupid in the back of the room?

Test Run to See if Blogger Still Works.

"Knavery"

Elizabethan Insults..HeeHeeHeeeee

"Forsooth, thou art a jaded rough-hewn hempseed"
Indeed, you are a boring crappily made nut.

"Ye dankish fly-bitten hugger-mugger"
You wetly unpleasant confused idiot.

"Thou cans't not be but a saucy plume-plucked giglet"
You can not be but a cheeky humbled frolicsome child. 

"Thou art a peevish bat-fowling ruffian"
You are a insignificantly irritated scoundrel who acts as though he is a blinded bird hit upside the neck. 

"Verily, ye be a gleeking hedge-born barnacle"
Certainly, you are a piece of saltwatered clusters who shall spit upon anything that is not born under the same rock

MLK-Comprehension

1. He can't respond to every critic's letter, because then he'd have no time to do constructive work. He decided to answer this letter because it had a "good will" or he believes them to be good men.

2. I think it's because of the holiday season. Didn't MLK talk about Easter?

3. He says the demonstrations are for, basically, reimbursement from a broken promise.

4. For them, in history, it meant "Never."

5. "Just" and "unjust" laws

6. ? -____________-

7. For their broken promises.

"Brer Rabbit" And my Confusion for this assignment.

WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO!?!?!?!

Here is the post on Brer Rabbit...like the board said to do...because it is on the blog...and yeah.

Mark Antony and Tim Comparison C:

In Ellison’s Invisible Man, our beloved Tim gives a funeral speech for his ‘brother’, Tod Clifton, with no preparation or outline. He uses repetition to draw out his points that, one, he barely knew Tod, and two, he could only tell them two things; “His name was Tod Clifton, and he was shot.” This is what draws his crowd in…this use of repetition for what he doesn’t know to say, makes him seem like he’s experienced and planned out. The crowd eats this speech up like a moist piece of cake, and this is why most would compare his speech to the one Mark Antony gave for his great friend, Caesar’s, funeral. Mark also used repetition, but not about Caesar.

            Antony used repetition to voice his opinion, it seems. To voice that Brutus may or may not have been as honorable as he or others claimed him to be. To voice that killing your best friend, regardless of any petty reason, is wrong and forever will be wrong. To be taken down by someone close in heart is traitorous and despicable. The crowd soon turned away from the rights of Brutus, and back to how Caesar was amazing and good-hearted. Antony’s repetition more than likely caused some sort of doubt and hesitance in the people towards Brutus, and caused more love and respect for Caesar. Again, like Tim, Antony had no prepared speech, this was done with true emotion and care for a friend who had died for his cause, regardless of what it was.

            Both Tim and Antony were remarkable speakers; able to draw in a huge crowd with only words spoken with their voices, sometimes each speech was planned carefully, while most of the time, it was true emotion seeping through the cracks, and filling each hole with hope and adoration. 

Jefferson's Writing Workshop (:

              We, as one, should act together, stand together, laugh and cry together, yet, in this family we act as though we are built from different materials from other galaxies. We stand apart. Attack one another to the point we ride on the line of plain hatred and mental torture. We pick sides, or become traitorous bastards, maliciously endangering what everyone else knows for the sake of ourselves.

              This is my stand. To disentangle myself from this horrid battle of wit, tongue, and physical superiority. Though, I can't change my blood, or who I'm related to, but I do know that sometimes blood shouldn't bond people as one group, to claim the same adjectives in description.

               With this, I further remove myself from all siblings, and now believe myself to be an only child in the Britt household. Forever alone, and never concerned with the immature, vicious, and street-determined idiots I had to call my "family". Now, in all these years, I've come to grips that blood will never be as thick as water,  family is not Fam{ily}, or we'll forever be intertwined with love instead of hatred and jealousy.

-I'm so depressing sometimes. D:

"Jefferson Responses"

P&A

1. The whole purpose of Jefferson's argument was to point out the wrongs of the king and to express the opinion of those who wanted a new type of government. I don't think Jefferson could've done anymore to prove the truth of this argument. I think it was so well written.

2. By reasonably explaining how and to what extent the king did wrong, Jefferson presented his ideas and opinion in a classy manner.

3. To all those who agreed, to stand up with him, but for those who didn't agree, to persuade them that his way was right. The colonists, of course, because they were getting the short end of the stick.

4. Very effectively, in my opinion.

5. To show that he's not only trying to side with the Colonists, but to the homeland as well.

6. The very last sentence...I have no idea why he did. I'm Sierra Britt, not Thomas Jefferson.



S&S

1. I don't remember what page that was on, sooooo I have no idea?

2. He uses He, For, and other similar words to connect the wrong doings as individual statements.

3. He wants to do it word for word, that way there won't be any confusion? Like previously said, I'm not Jefferson. ):

4. I think he did a great job, because he's combining everything and concluding that the colonies aren't happy.

"Journal Entry"

To whom it may concern,

This article was very convincing, to an extent. The editors and writers need more details and evidence from that time to this time. Otherwise, this was extremely well written.
Please continue the amazing work.

Sierra Britt.
CEO of Coca-Cola Inds.

Page 583 Patterns "Reading Images"

1. The headline gives a bold clue about the topic. Just from reading "Modern Science" and "Modern Politics", my interest grew from one percent to about forty. The ad does support the points, but I think it should have more elaboration .

2. The picture relates very well. I mean, it's about death row, and what would be better than a man facing his death? Not. A. Thing.

3. I believe it leans a whole lot more towards Pathos perspective. It brings in some sympathy because it talked about INNOCENT victims that died.

4. Do I really have to? O: Okayyyy, well, first it's the fact of Ronald Williamson getting released and proven innocent of the rape and murder of Debra Carter. Then the 23 other innocent victims getting put to death.

"The Storm"

The storm sets the mood and some of the dialogue before the shaking storm led to some foreshadowing. For example, Bibinot not knowing when his wife had help led me to believe that he's a sorry husband. Then Calixta doing the deed, ON THE COUCH, with a married man just sealed the deal.

Actually, I would take it both ways, because it can be taken literally, because everyone was happy after the storm, and ironically because now they all have secrets which will create a whole different type of "storm" if they were to be found out.

That she's a bit of a hussy and not married for love or affection?

"GoodNight and GoodLuck" Soapstone

Didn't know we had to do one for this movie. ):

S- wasn't one really. Just a narrator as a third party.
O- McCarthy trials..or why we watched it ? That would be for the crucible.
A-Everyone who watched the movie. Duuuhhh. ):
P- To give insight on how Murrow worked..what he wanted to play out.. stuff like that.
S-Edward. Murrow and CBS on McCarthy.
Tone - Informative, and a bit dry.

SOAPSTone

Speaker was Mary Webster.
Occasion was her being hanged for a "crime" she committed. "Witchcraft"
Audience was whoever read or watched her hang .
Purpose was to give an insight on how the thoughts of a hung person were .
Subject was her fight with the devil and how she interprets the lord now.

Tone was Morbid. I don't care what anyone else thinks, but that poem was FREAKING WEIRD MAN! Slightly hateful, and gross.

"GoodNight and GoodLuck"

1. Use of black and white; their clothes; types of cigarettes and cigars.
2. They're at a conference thingy..like a press conference. They appear to seem close, yet upperclass. Attentive, close, and jokesters.
3. The music plays when there is no more dialogue or the scene switches.
4. He is a serious person.
5. Each and every person has a voice, and that voice can be used to make or break history?
6. Fearful and apprehensive. McCarthy played a huge role by calling folks out to be communists for NO reason.
7. Stinky, rude, fastpaced, and close-knit.
8. They kissed and had hushed-hidden whispers in a room, but they don't want anyone to know that they're actually married.
9. They said "or McCarthy" or something along those lines.
10. Milo was an Army Lieutenant or Sergeant...and was told to disown his father and sister due to their "communism ways" or else he would be considered a communist sympathizer, and be punished as well.
11. The laughter and the saying "It's not a neutral piece". They think it's only an attack on McCarthy.
12. See it now was a political piece, while Person to Person was basically a boring account of day to day life.
13. It's not ethical. Too cutthroat.
14. They dislike it. Their nervousness and lack of attention in the beginning, but once it's a hit, they are happy and proud.
15.  I have no clue who Don Hollenbeck is.
16. The chaos, lack of organization, and chain smoking.
17. Due to the cutthroat and merit of the piece, Paley just wonders if all the ducks are sitting still when McCarthy shoots.
18. To show actual accounts and to show their actual opinions.
19. Black and white to show the era; cigarette smoke, cigars, and dialogue are used to set a crutch for the type of day it was as well.
20. I don't think we even got to the end of the movie. ):

The Crucible and My Opinon of It?

Miller had something ingenious going on upstairs, that's for sure.
To create something based on an opinion and to intertwine it with actual history, with a few twists in age and slight details, is completely remarkable. His characters, drawn with intricate depths and connections, capture the reader but doesn't boast his opinion in a way that turns them away. No, instead it draws them in, further and further into his plot of the Salem witch trails, wanting for more.
From Abigail Williams' easy to be caught in lies, to John Proctors regret of his sin, Miller has everyone on their toes, trying to piece each part of the story to the next piece. When Parris catches the girls in the woods with Tituba, he should've punished them all. Beat them, and told reiterated that it was against the religion rather than believe the niece who loved to frolic with older, married men.

Easily conformed and just as easily loved, these characters play out a deeper plot that borderline explains McCarthy and his communist theories. Those who are innocent are the first to be punished/accused but will have enough will power not to bend to please those who accuse them. Yet, they die out.

"Are you now or Were you ever?"

He attempted to make the Crucible reallife and palpable by relating it to some event that really did happen and was extremely similar to the time of his career.

His opinion is that the left wing is where he'd rather study and invest his time attempting to figure out, because it holds more of his curiosity and interest. Robeson was a "rocket that lit up the sky" , most likely, because he was talking about a big no no topic. (Racism) Which no one dared to risk talking about before, yet Robeson did so with no hesitation or falters.

"The Crucible, which is more than a political metaphor or moral tale, developed for more than a year. Over this year, The Crucible became the awesome evidence of power of human imagination inflamed, suggestive poetry, and the tragedy of heroic resistance to a society pressed to ruin."

I think what he means is the vital point of individuality?

Journal for Mural

The difference of the mural and the picture of the mural are that the creator of the mural had deep sympathy and some patriotism by painting the mural, but the photographer just caught two little girls skipping in front of the mural . I, obviously, find the mural more moving because it's beautiful for one, and  two, it's obvious in its meaning.

Girls In Front of 9/11 Mural - Reading Images

The mural includes an American Flag, stars, two children and some words.

I have no idea what the photographer wishes to create because I'm not the photographer. I mean, they could try to say that this day will never be forgotten for it will always be on this building, or they could attempt to say it's not as important to the youth of the younger generation because they have no clue about it. I wouldn't know. It's not me as the photographer.

Like I said previously, I wouldn't know, but since I'm in a pessimistic mood, I'm going to say objective, because those little girls aren't even looking in wonder or anything. They're just skipping along, not caring enough to stop and look .

Writing Workshop for SAE. (:

I'm not sure if we're supposed to do one or all three....soooo I'm going to do one and ask in class tomorrow. (:





As a child, I was expected to be healthy, fun, and try my best. As a teenager, I am expected to do my best, give my best,be polite, and do what is expected of me all the time, with no exceptions. Sometimes, though, that's a bit too hard to accomplish.
Once or twice, I may or may not have fallen into the evil pits of peer pressure. I'm not even going to claim that "It wasn't my fault" either, because it was. Everyone was doing it so, why shouldn't I? I mean, it wouldn't have hurt someones feeling that bad, would it?
Yeah, it did. I felt insanely awful for it, but by the time the words were out of my mouth, it was a bit too late. My bullet hit her elephant. And BANG. Immediate death. Granted, I never used an actual bullet, and the girl really wasn't an elephant...it was a CONNECTION...see?
Just like Orwell was doing something to please who surrounded him, I was doing something to please my peers and make them accept me I guess.
I don't think she ever forgave me either..but that's okay. I killed her elephant. Orwell killed his elephant.
So, I guessss we're gonna be like Dimmesdale and draw 'F's on our chests, for FOLLOWERS.




COOOONNNNECTTIOOOOOOONNNNNSSS.

Journal Entry ((: - "Shooting an Elephant"

Of course I think Orwell is a coward! Who doesn't!?
What happened to using your OWN mind and being an individual? It wasn't like the native people of Burma liked the Europeans anyways, so why should it matter if he shot an elephant? IT DIDN'T, that's why! He shot the elephant to appease those who were not of any importance to him.
I don't think he's racist, but everyone has their prejudices.

"Shooting an Elephant"

He's hated by a large group of people in Burma because he's European. His mixed feelings are probably caused by the fact that some Burmese he likes, but others he doesn't.

The local officials want something done about the elephant because it's killing people and causing distress. They want Orwell to shoot it because he's the only one with the rifle.

He kills the elephant because that's what the Burmese expect of him. He hesitates at first because he thinks it's wrong to kill something that's not harming others unless it's being agitated.

He's glad the coolie was killed because it justified, and made him shooting the elephant legal.


"Real nature of Imperialism"... Meaning doing what others want you to do, regardless of doing what you feel is right in your heart. Like a coward..like a coward.

Inform, for sure. I mean, why would he want us to follow what people want us to do? That's just stupid. I don't think he expected a drastic reaction but one that made us shake our head and say how stupid that was.

The thesis waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaas....I can't find it. )):




Were we supposed to do Style and Structure too? D:

My Opinion on the Scarlet Letter

OH HOLY BROWN COW!!


In the beginning, I completely did not understand how to read and interpret this type of writing, since I never had an opportunity to read anything like it before. After chapter two though, it was a wrap. I was through, I was so caught up in who was the father that I completely neglected the fact of any questions or notes until chapter sixteen. (:

I didn't have a favorite character, or scene for that matter, but it did tug on my heart strings in certain points. From Hester and her first trip to the scaffold to the point where Pearl kisses her father, the Minister Dimmesdale, before he dies made me go "awh" like the little girl I am. I thoroughly enjoyed the plot and how one person could torture someone without even causing physical harm...it amazed me how the people of them would let anyone/anything influence them. Hester's strength; Pearl's intelligence and individuality; Chillingsworth's morally-acceptable torture; Dimmesdale's death to hide his sins....Made Hawthorne absolutely fantastic. Granted, I probably would never make my children read this at sixteen, or answer questions on it, but I would suggest that they read it, because not only is it an amazing plot line (and well written), it would enhance their thought comprehension and expand their book knowledge. If that makes any sense.


I wouldn't have changed the book. At all. I liked it. I just don't enjoy the questions that were assigned with it. D:

"Finishing School" Journal Entry ((:

Of course I've taken classes that I've considered would never help me for my adult life...and like the common teenager, I'm absolutely wrong. I may be different by admitting that I know I'll need this in my life, but at this moment, I'm going to be one of many that moans and complains that "Why am I learning this crap?I ain't bout to be no English major!" <----Intended language for a laugh. But anyways. I've taken so many classes that I would never dream about taking, just to please my folks, and it's not even in the career path I want to take. While I'm growing, I'll groan and whine, but in the back of my head, I know I'm going to thank myself later.

Maya Angelou "Finish School"

Soooo, who wants to guess which girl forgot the Patterns book?

Ms. Angelou is required to do errands and cooking for Mrs. Cullinan.

She feels sorry for Mrs. Cullinan because she heard that her boss couldn't have any children, but that all changed when the lady called Maya out of her name.

Her friend is to call Maya by "Mary" because her real name is "too long"...this greatly affects Maya because it is not her name, and it's disrespectful to be called out of your name for any reason.

Her brother Bailey asks her to describe what is in the cupboard and what each dish was to Mrs. Cullinan. Even though it was a "You're a n evil witch, so I'm going to break your dish and your heart" type of plan, I found it was wrong because that was her DEAD mothers dishes....Just saying.

Maya learns that her name wasn't Mary, and that she'll forever be who she is, regardless of what people call her .

"Self Reliance" R.W. Emerson

America of today has aspects that relate to this work of Emerson's by our lack of fear to be misunderstood. We are not afraid to speak out mind, whether with harsh words or words of kindness. Today, to be misunderstood is 'popular' and a common fad that everyone claims to be.


To Emerson, society is a "joint-stock company", a place in which the members agree for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater.  Society's main purpose is to conform people and to take away their self-reliance. I believe Emerson thought that people shouldn't give to pins in a haystack about what people thought about them; that it was okay to be yourself and not follow what everyone else was doing.

All the great philosophers at the end of his piece were all connected by the fact that they were all misunderstood. Emersons point was to look at how successful each philosopher was in their belief and how many people believe in them now.

Emerson's view on consistency is that it is foolish and only in those of weak minds. To be consistent with the fads and trends isn't what living is about nor is it what your society should pressure you into . No, I don't think he would approve of any circumstances where consistency would be a decent thing.

Since Emerson was heavy into transcendentalism, I would believe his views on the Great Divine would be that society should not believe in His reliance, but in themselves and that He made them the way He intended to. Each persons reason for living is to make their mark in the future, regardless of how it is to be.


"To be great is to be misunderstood...." is the motto I would go by, because every genius is a little (or alot.) but no one is normal. Each and every person has certain quirks that makes them unique.

"Civil Disobedience " H.D. Thoreau

The type of government that demands your respect would have to be an inexpedient one, because it wouldn't be a resource, it would be one that would be easily corrupted and misguided.

Thoreau accepts the motto "That government is best which governs least". He would have it implemented rapidly and more systematically than the government of his time .

The best type of government in Thoreau's eyes would have to be "That government is best which governs not at all" and that will only happen when "men" are prepared for it .

He is asking the readers to speak against such a government and to reform it themselves. To make that change. His argument is amazing, fantastic even, not because of the topic but to how passionate he was and how well written it was.

I would use the fact that he isn't in the modern society and that he doesn't even follow all the governments rules as a counter, but because I would've supported this, I would have, probably, written arguments by his side? I don't know.

My Response to Page Ninety-Fiiiiive. ((:

As The Vulture makes his way to his second step of his evil scheme, we find our hero, Spiderman, trapped in a water tank, slowly rising to the brim. With his ejector empty, and his air running out, Spiderman doubts himself and all possible means for escape. Breath after breath, flap after flap...will these two encounter one another again in the most epic battle of wit and brawn? Or will our hero never escape from his close demise?