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Wednesday, September 24, 2008

desiree's baby

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Monday, September 22, 2008

Custom House First question

The author’s primary purpose for the custom house introduction is to establish pathos between himself, his hometown of Salem, and the custom house. The author does this by giving vivid descriptions of the scenery, the people, and the atmosphere of Salem and the custom house to allow the reader a chance to visualize what the he and the natives had lived through and seen when growing up in his hometown while connecting himself emotionally with his observations.
Throughout the first few pages of the custom house introduction, the author, Nathaniel Hawthorne, brings imagery of the infamous Puritan town of Salem through the details of scenery to create the feeling of an emotional attachment between himself and his native city. Sentence wording of the before and after effect of Salem give off the impression that the author has left his hometown before, but has come back to relish in the memories to have a feeling of what his childhood and early adult hood was like before the death of his hometown. An example would be when Nathaniel Hawthorne compared and contrasted Salem from when it was a bustling metropolis to when it was-the present day Salem of Nathaniel’s era- a “ghost town” of dusty and old houses that held no present-day life, besides the miscellaneous pieces left by travelers. With this specific imagery, the author establishes an emotional connection between himself and Salem by conveying to the reader that the present day of Salem isn’t the town he was born and raised in when he was a child because of the lack of evident life due to the expansion of the financial gain the occupants of old Salem had benefited from by moving to other towns and states for better profit in their market. This displays the effect of change for Nathaniel and how he handles the drastic change from seeing his native city dwindle from a populated area to a desolated forgotten town; thus giving the impression to the reader that the author has a sympathetic- if not highly emotional- spot for old Salem because it was his place of nurture; seeing that kind of change having an emotional effect because it was where he and his family originated from. Nathaniel Hawthorne also shows that the effects of Salem’s change brings back his memories of the custom house he used to work in- the, supposedly, busiest house in Salem where everything was seen and done. This is established by the constant description and feelings of the occupants and current day condition of the home he worked in. The author never fails to describe the residents he worked with while giving the reader a mental visual of what they might have looked like; leaving room to explain his connections to the workers, their daily actions, past-times, and emotions he has towards them to tie them altogether with the emotional attachment he has with the custom house; their part in whatever duties in making the custom house as he knows it a significant piece to why he remembers it so. The regular description of the home it once was- it having granite steps, regular cleaning, and lively looking atmosphere- gives the reader a chance to mentally visualize the custom house before Nathaniel had come back to reminisce on its behalf. This symbolic remembrance tells the reader that Hawthorne became emotionally attached to the custom house because of his time he spent there and the sight of seeing it as a modern day ruin being almost, if not completely, tragic because of what it used to be years before. It is as if Nathaniel Hawthorne came to Salem just to ponder on the custom house while gazing upon the ruins of the best years of his life. He made his thoughts clear about the people he met and how they played a dramatic role in his life while displaying how those same people tied into the making of the custom house that ensured him great years of long-lasting happiness and enjoyment.
The change the author admits to making is that, he did not want the story to be a mess of facts that had no opinion or creativity embedded within. Nathaniel Hawthorne wanted the scarlet letter to be a fictional story based of a real factual event that took place in anceint Salem during his time. The author also wanted to entertain his reader by not boring them with the facts and evidence of the true event in an effot to keep their attention and interest. The diary- written documents found- is the written happenings of a woman that is based off his character ,Hester Pryne , and Nathaniel Hawthorne took that event and added his own details and personality to the piece to make it seem interesting and not seem like a rewritten text of facts.
This change impacts the story in a good yet bad way due to the flowering of true events that happened for the sake of entertainment. While the author keeps the main facts and details the same as an effort to keep his story true and factual, he adds his own details and “flavor” in order to attract more readers to keep their interest and following. This alters the “true” events that happened during the time of the crisis while it gives more praise to Hawthorne’s book as a compelling piece about adultery and sin. This impact may offend some- since Hawthorne is living in the time period his story takes place in- if not all who had lived through or experienced such a tragedy while it may entertain others as something no less than a taboo desire. Topics Hawthorne addresses are “sin” in his modern day era and by him addressing such conflicting topics, it brings controversy while also giving his book glory and interest.

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

crossword

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Vocaubulary story

Hey, have you ever heard of the SWV Scandal? You haven’t? You know I created it right. Yes, yours truly created that little scandal all because Ms.Foreman was too stubborn to give me the proper the grade I deserved for the most awesome essay I ever written in my life. So, to set her straight, I set out to deliberately abase her reputation. Please, it wasn’t that hard. The woman is a harlot. Seriously, everyone knows it. Here, so you won’t get confused, let me start from the beginning-where it ALL went down.

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There I was, in the school hallway during my lunch period with my ‘F’ paper in hand that was slowly abating my high ‘A’ grade. It was the BEST essay I ever written in my life! “The harmful effects of dating thugs and associating with side-walk hookers.” It was well-written and full of enthusiasm that any person would fall to love. Hey, she said it could be a topic of our choice so, what better thing to write about than something you can relate to in real life. Anyway, in my opinion, it was the best paper I had ever produced. I never knew I could sit down and write about something so fun and interesting for six hours.
Now, when she passed back out papers earlier that day, I figured she would give me praise and love for such a piece of work that I would end up getting a gold star on the bulletin board. NO! Instead, she gives me an ‘F’ and writes these comments above in RED INK! IN BOLD LETTERS! Here is what it said:

“Ms. Williams, your essay is so abstruse; I could barely understand your concept. I suggest you search deeper inside yourself to find a more suitable topic that actually answers my prompt. This is no ‘Hood girl’ course. Please keep all future essays readable and APPROPRIATE.”

Can you believe that? What nonsense! My essay was totally appropriate and fart from being a hood girl story-quote on quote. I hope that lady falls down the abyss of mid-life crisis. She sure needs to take a Midol or something to keep her off my Bunsen burner. Sheesh, whoever gave that lady her job as a creative writing teacher should be questioned on their acuity.
Now, back to the story. So, after shoving my SECOND ‘F’ paper from that mean old dragon in my endless back-pack of cosmetics and notebooks, I quickly slammed my locker door shut and slinked to the library for some early studying for my next period class- which happens to be Social Science and the teacher is a crazed lunatic. Since I have some amount of affinity for that man and his pitiful, divorced, bisexual life, I actually try to do well in his class so he can have something to go back and tell his dog.
Greeted by the elderly librarian who knew me by name with that alacrity I have become accustomed to, I carefully signed my name on the sign- in sheet and took my place down stairs near the math -book section for some studying of the dreaded inequality, the math procedure I have so much antipathy for, I wish its creator would get shot and killed where they stand.
Once downstairs, I was bombarded with the sight of the two lamest clubs in the school, the Alchemist club- who try to turn ordinary objects into precious metals- and the cheap shoppers club- the club that studies the art of shopping for alloy rather than authentic gold. Since they are the lamest clubs ever created in all of man-kind, I try my best to steer clear of coming into contact with them because of my reputation. My best-friends said that sudden contact would ruin me, so I take their opinions and ideas into consideration at all times. Everything they say is something I always end up agreeing with anyway, so I am always amenable to what they have to say.
Taking my place near the towering bookshelves complete with dozens of volumes of numerical lettered manuscripts, I carefully remove a dusty hardcover book on inequalities from the confinements of a book on fractions and a book on decimals with ease. I want to append the book back on the shelf and forget I ever picked it up, but this evil manual has the techniques I need to pass this class and get my credit for graduation. I never knew completing four years of math just for a simple acceptance to the college of choice could be an arduous task.
Now, before I could even get my butt in the seat and read the migraine causing hardcover, I heard an erotic noise and saw a few books ascend from atop of the bookshelf and fall onto the carpeted floor with a loud ‘THUD’. Out of curiosity, I quickly got up from my chair to check out what was going on behind shielding bookcases. To my surprise, I saw Ms.Williams- that evil woman who gives me bad grades because of my ‘HOOD girl’ stories- and Mr. Johnson- the fully devoted Christian living fifty-year old who completely lives the ascetic lifestyle most my friends can’t comprehend- making out and groping each other like their lives depended on it. My mouth just fell in awe as I tried to comprehend and take in everything. Here is the hypocrite herself, who has the audacity to judge me and my essays by calling them ‘GHETTO’, doing the exact same thing I write about with the man who gives an augury from out the bible every morning before class. Talk about making an auspicious debut to you-tube.
Trying not to be seen, I slowly took out my Iphone and set it to record video. With every passing second, I captured the imagery that would soon make me famous amongst the internet community. Now, my austere existence will soon be traded in for a life full of recognition and fame.
After about seven minutes of watching the two people I never thought would ever hook up make-out and grope, I switched my phone off and hurried to the computer to upload the video on my internet account for distribution. It took about ten minutes for the video to fully become transferred from my phone, so while I waited, I applied my cherry-flavored lip- balm to my chapped lips while watching some guy attempt to ask some girl out by trying to charm her with his benevolence and benign attitude. His actions betokened his gentle heart, but it was a lame effort to win some girl over without money.
About a minute later, the bell rang signaling next period, and I quickly dipped out of the library so I wouldn’t be seen breaking the computer-lab rules of uploading. In just seconds, I made it to my math class as being the first one there. It won me extra-credit points, but the only thing I was looking foreword to was the responses I would get on my video. To my surprise, when I got home that evening from school, I had already received 1,000plus hits with about fifty comments ranging from the

“OH SNAPS!”

To the
“WOW!! HOT STUFF THERE!”

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And there you have it. The hood girl that was once making a name for herself in a new school with new people had turned into an instant celebrity in a matter of hours. Of course some of my blighted friends had to separate from me because of what I was infamous for now, but I didn’t care. I am still as buoyant as ever with even more friends and groupies. Ms. Williams and Mr. Johnson ended up getting fired for inappropriate behavior and my creative writing grade suddenly shot up from a ‘D’ to an ‘A’. Even the news and media coverage had come to our school to information of the front page head-line that had swept the nation.

“Romantically involved teachers become intimate in library!”

The principal said it was a disgrace to the school. The superintendant said it tarnished their good name. The board of education said it was the diarrhea of the education system. The last one was a gut buckler.

So now I am famous and known for the greatest scandal in history of Robert Morris High School. You want to know something else? I saw Mr. Woodsfield and Ms. Finke go in the office closet for an hour or two. What they don’t know is that there is hidden camera behind the brook Ms.Firke was laid on. Can someone say 1,000,000plus hits?

Sunday, September 14, 2008

Response to Poem

To My Dear and Loving Husband is one of the many well-respected poems by Anne Bradstreet that was published in her first and only publication throughout her life-time, “The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, By a Gentlewoman of Those Parts”. Through figurative language, syntax, and imagery, Anne Bradstreet effectively conveys the message the title of the poem simply states: she loves and respects her husband.
Use of words and phrases help shape the way the poem flows and moves through figurative language and syntax. Every word written has its own special connotation besides its dictionary meaning throughout the short piece. Words such as “live”, “prize”, “repay”, and “quench” hold special meaning through out the poem while adding on to the elegant style. The word live holds meaning through the connotation of living life with Anne’s husband as well as through the after-life, their love is and always eternal and that their love continues on even after one of them dies. Prize states how Anne feels about her husbands love compared to the worth of gold. This similarity proves that Anne feels her husbands love is valuable and worth the equivalent of anything in precious value. Repay is a play on words in a sense due to its dictionary meaning and the meaning in the poem. Anne shows how her husband has paid her with his love through out her life and states that she cannot give back the amount he has given to her. Although the meaning in the poem is similar to the one in the dictionary, it is symbolic through the act of giving back something that is inanimate. And lastly, Quench shows the irony in which the words pan out. The line, “My love is such that rivers cannot quench” (Line 8) shows that irony of Anne being thirsty but not for any water. Instead, she craves for the rush of her husbands love that no amount of water can equal to in order to satisfy her thirst. Anne’s own use of the symbolic words and their meanings come together to create metaphors that create descriptive images that portray Anne’s feelings entirely. Her choice of words bind together to form descriptive sentences that allow the reader to read with ease while composing a mental picture of what Anne is comparing. Her imagery is the effect of her choice in syntax and helps the reader visualize the poem in its entirety. The figurative language helps compare one thing to another- in this case, Anne’s husbands love to an object- in order to help the reader understand the depth and meaning of each line. An example would be the comparison of Anne’s husbands love to the worth of gold (line 5). Anne simply states that her husbands love amounts more than mines full of gold. The instant image the reader gets when reading is mines full of the precious metal while thinking of the love two people share when they are truly committed to one another. Another example would be the comparison of her husbands love to preservation. Anne uses her husband and his affections to portray how she wants them to love each other until the moment they die in order for their love to live on forever. Te visual the reader gets instantaneously is two people in love and some sort of contraption used for preservation. The imagery helps the reader understand the metaphor better if not understood the first time while giving them an outlet to look through in order to understand the poems meaning through out. The images play as the looking glass the reader uses to understand the connotation and figurative language.

Explanation to visual

The picture shows the symbolic favoritism the author of Cabeza de Vaca shows for the main character, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca through out the passage. The author shows this favoritism through pathos and uses of ethos to portray how they favor the Spanish hero through his trials and tribulations of a voyage he set sail on with Navarez.
Through pathos,(1) the author attempts to sway their reader to feel the same way for the cruel treatment for Vaca on his imprisonment through word choice and tone. Words such as “cruel” and “illegal” pop out from the text to stand out as the side of which the author stands on with the treatment of Vaca. The author states that the treatment of Vaca’s imprisonment was cruel while adding the side-note that it was also illegal. The words convey the tone the author is using by showing that the author is slightly discontented with the way their hero is being done. (2)The downgrade of the antagonist character, Navarez, also comes to show that the current leader of Cabeza and the rest of the crew was incompetent of running and conducting a voyage and Cabeza is a much better candidate considering his background. Words to imbrute Navarez's character like “impetuous”, “self-centered”, and “poor leader” show the way the author feels for the current character and uses this word choice and sassy tone to sway the reader to feel sympathy for Vaca when being ordered by a man such as him. (3)Also he\she attempts to move their reader’s opinion through the portrayal of Vaca as nothing less than worthy. The author adds in pieces of information indicating that Vaca advises the leader of the voyage on certain decisions-even though the man didn’t listen to him- that eventually make a major impact on the outcome of the journey while adding the image of Vaca being a hero when saving himself and three other survivors to make the reader feel that Cabeza is of noble standing and good hearted- a person the reader can relate to and come to respect on personal standards.
Through ethos, the author implies that Cabeza is a man of good character, and worthy status when mentioning his past relatives. All names taken into consideration are either heroes of war, people in prestige power, or leaders of ancient clans and tribes that were greatly respected to draw attention to the fact that Vaca comes from a line of extrodinary people that witheld great power. This draws the conclusion that Cabeza is a man of noble standing and of good character, worthy of owning any position of power that may be offered to him just based on his lineage. In addition, the author tells the reader that Vaca was a war veteran and wanted to keep his respected family heritage alive through the acts of going off to war and other dangerous voyages. This mention of Vaca’s intentions point to the fact that the author feels that Cabeza is a man of good will and character and deserves to be favored by all for his good standing, motivation and impressive background.

Visual for Vaca


Anne Bradstreet

Anne Bradstreet was born in Northampton, England in 1612. She was the daughter of a leader of volunteer soldiers in the English Reformation and Elizabeth settlement and a kind noble woman with a profound education.
She was married to 25 year old Simeon Bradstreet, an assistant to the Massachusetts Bay Company and son of a Puritan minister, at age 16- he also was kept in the care of the Dudley’s since his father’s death. Two year later, Anne and her family moved to America on the Arabella, one of the first ships to bring Puritans to America- a difficult journey that had Anne and her relatives endure sickness, harsh climate, and inadaptable living conditions.
Upon coming to America, her father, his close friend, and her husband set up Boston’s first settlement government where her father and his friend were the Governors while her husband became Chief Administrator. Their struggle for daily life was perilous and never-ending, but Anne turned to her religious faith and imagination to guide her through her long journey to adapting to daily life in the new land.
Anne had encountered smallpox earlier on in her life and the deathly illness came back as paralysis took over her joints. This devastating tragedy falling upon her life, surprisingly, hadn’t engulfed the flame and desire for her to live; and despite poor health, Anne grew to bear eight children with her husband and grew to love them dearly.
Simon's political duties required him to do much traveling to various colonies on diplomatic errands, so Anne would spend her time reading from her father's collection of books, and educating her children. Reading helped Anne learn more about religion, science, history, the arts, and medicine while it served as an outlet to keep her occupied from her lonely days and a chance to adapt to life outside of England.
Anne grew especially fond of poetry and bean to write herself- secretly, however, for it was forbidden for women to enjoy intellectual delight and express their opinions. She wrote mainly for her family and close circle of friends and did not intend publication. Her brother-in-law, John Woodbridge, secretly copied Anne’s works and published them without permission- who even admitted to it in the preface of her first collection, ”The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, By a Gentlewoman of Those Parts", published in 1650. Most if not all her poetry was based on her daily life and experiences, the people and places around her serving as her median for poetry writing. Her book did well in England and was the last bit of poetry published in her lifetime.
Anne fell ill of tuberculosis in contraction with her other sicknesses and after contracting it, lost her daughter, Dorothy, to the same disease. She died of her illness in 1672 in Andover Massachusetts at age 60. http://www.annebradstreet.com/

Monday, September 8, 2008

More Detail

I am a weird child who wants detail. SUE ME!


The author of the “Christopher Columbus” article persuades the reader to look at the subject from their point of view through the focal lens they have used to guide the passage. With added details and clarification on vague ideas with descriptive nouns and adjectives, vivid imagery, appeals to pathos, and diction, the reader can sense the view-point the author may carry- even if it is not always as obvious as others.
The author uses vivid imagery to give the reader a mental image of what and/or whom they are reading in order to better understand the context behind the image. Some of the lines even create mental pictures that allow the reader’s own opinions to form. ,Columbus soon found himself under arrest, sent in chains to Spain in 1500 to answer yet more charges. (Paragraph 1 line 18-19) This description gives the reader of the passage a mental picture of the way Columbus was treated when the Spaniards broke away against his authority, it may even spark curiosity to find out more on why and how Columbus was being treated so harshly. The author, however, plays a biased role in the biography of the famous sailor by telling more of what bad had happened than good. The West Indies , as his discoveries were called, remained disordered and bloody. (Paragraph 2 line 31-32) This uses of imagery gives the reader a focal lens to look through to view the end result of the four voyages Columbus had done. It almost, if not already had, persuaded their opinion about Columbus’ journey to America to be a bad thing for the future of this country.
Next, the author uses appeals to pathos in order to appeal to the reader’s emotions for that “heart-wrenching” effect on the passage. Letters to Ferdinand and Isabella were sent from the first voyage and the last voyage in order to contrast each other. The first letter contained to the details of the unexplored land while emphasizing that Columbus is seen as a royal to the natives in order to give the effect that these people are subservient. The last letter, however, conveyed a different message that showed Columbus’ loss of power amongst his fellow Spaniards while portraying the current condition of the once thriving land of America. The author adds these letters in the passage to give the reader a chance

to view the outcome of the expedition while, almost, having a chance to feel sorry for the way the famous navigator had been treated. He lost his authority over his crew from a rebellion, had his honor and dignity stripped bare like he were a slave, and disordered the peace and harmony the Americas once possessed before he had inhabited the land.

Explanation to the relation of my picture

My friggin blogger thing won't allow me to post my caption containing my information about the picture and how it relates to myessay (which was late because I have no internet >.<) so I am creating a new post.

The immigrant picture displays how America is being hypocritical when claiming they want all illegal aliens out of the country when, in fact, all persons in America are foregin to this country in some form of fashion. When Columbus "discovered" America, he seized the land from the native inhabitants, Native Americans, and claimed it as his. There, he was treated like royalty during the first and second voyage, but on the thiird and fourth, his name became disgraced with the harsh treatment his rebellious crew members had put him through (They resented his authority and felt he should no longer be in charge of commanding the ship and crew members.)
Native America went from a thriving land of growing crops, land, animals, and people to a bloody and disorderly land taken by forced seizure of Spainards. War and death soon followed afterward as a result to Columbus' discovery and it was all for financial gain that would soon lead to fued between nation over a piece of land that wasn't thier's to begin with.
My essay was a argumentative piece claiming that if Columbus hadn't discovered America, his honor would have stayed in tact, spanish sailors never would have lost their lives over a war between Native Americans and Spain, World fued over the American land never would have divided allies, and Native Americans would have stayed on their turf as the rightful owners of the American land. There is so much argument about illegal aliens in America and how America should only be for Americans. Americans themselves are immigrans and the Narive Americans are the original inhabitants of this land we reside on. Columbus' discovery not only tarnished his reputation but the future reputation of the American people as well. Our blind iggnorance to how we acquired this land demeans our intelligence to the point where our protests and bills aiming to be passed as laws preventing the importation of immigrants makes us seems like inarticulate hypocrites.
Columbus' discovery of America, although it had some cons out of a numer of pros, came at a price he had to pay with cruel treatment and temporary enslavement amongst crew memebers, But Native Americans lost their land, their respect, their dignity, and their entire culture as everything they once knew and lived on became stripped from them by once person who claimed he discovered the Indies for profitable gain. If Columbus hadn't discovered America, all warfare, iggnorant rivalry, meaningless conflict over land, and ethnic tension could have been avoided. America was stolen from the Natives and all inhabitants of America that are not decendents of those natives are aliens in themselves.

Picture anylasis


Friday, September 5, 2008

Similie Sentence

Here is my Similie sentence! It rocks my socks oh so totally

"The pine tree danced in the wind like a perfumed spritz"