Italy- John Whittier

1- Literal
The nations are complaining to each other. They are tearing themselves apart.

He wants weak people toachieve freedom. They have to fight because they are setting themselves up for death.

He turns from the sight along with thousand of other people who don't say anything. Children are the biggest hope for change.

People are scared and run from change. We need to be able to adapt like mother nature does.

God rules everything. He has a plan for us to follow. People are dumb. He knows what is good. Men should listen and follow God.

Change will happen. It will happen for the better.

2-Poetic Devices

Personification- Bones and blood are crying. Shows that it is a time of great turmoil.

Imagery- Sultry skies. It shows the sky is becoming bad and gives the image of a storm coming.

The rhyme scheme is " abaab" This is an uncommon rhyme scheme. I liked it. I have never seen this kind. It is effective because it stresses certian lines that go together and leaves out other lines that aren't importnant.

3- Figurative

The figurative meaning is that war degrades a country. They country is killing itself by being in war. They need to do something about it to get out of the war. They believe God will help them and they need to trust in him.

Rain

It was the first day of Fall, It started
to rain. The leaves were changing colors and
me and my one true, only love parted.
I have no idea what I will have planed
But I know that my God will be with me
I have trust in him and in the earth to
help me get through whatever I need be.
I have hard tasks in life I must go through
At the end, I will be able to hold
my head up high, and go into heaven.
This is one task that will help me to mold
my personality into seven
Different parts to become a better
lover and person to give all i can
I hope that I am to never severe
this glorious and harmonious plan.

Thanatopsis

1- Literal
Nature speaks to the guy. Nature makes him happy when he is sad. He is preparing to die and it is sickening to him. He is getting ready to go forth to nature. Nature is accepting of him. He will not see the sun in a couple of days. He was buried in the ground while people were crying. He came from earth, he is going back to earth. The roots from the oak will overcome his body. He is alone with earth and he likes it.

Everybody is equal because they are all in the same situation. The sun and hills are the same age. It is quiet. Nature is proud of itself, but it is also sad because of the death. Heaven is glad to have a new person to join them. There is more people dead than alive. The dead are in Heaven. A lot of people have been buried. Each dead person controls themselves. Does his friends notice his absence. He is finishing his destiny. The happy people will laugh about their sorrows. Dead people are able to haunt/be phantoms. Some people do not become phantoms, they just go and make a final rest. People follow the phantom and they also will die.

People want to die and are willing to join others in heaven. Heaven is a mysterious thing. People still want to go there and enjoys it.

2- poetic device.

Personification- Saying the planets are sad. He uses this get show that everything has emotion.
- Earth is talking to him. Shows that we can communicate with earth.
Imagery- Uses images to get a point across of how beautiful nature is.

3- Figurative meaning- Everyone will die. We need to be comfortable and one with nature because we will be with it at some point. It is also comforting because everyone will die. Those who acknowledge death know it will come upon them and they fear it. This poem tries to take away the fear of dying because everyone does it.

Nature

Nature is a very beautiful thing. It was put here for us to enjoy and to take care of it. I love nature. It is soo beautiful. It is fun because there is so many different activities to do in nature. A time that I bonded with nature was went I went to summer camp. At summer camp, we did everything outside. My house that I lived in was outside and there was no running water except in the shower room. I had to go to the bathroom in an outhouse. Out houses are nasty!!! They smell and they are so unsanitary. In camp, I had to walk everywhere. It was in the middle of a forest. There was a lot of bugs. They liked to sting me and it hurt. There was also animals that were neat to look at that were a part of nature. One night during the camp, we went camping outside of our houses. I had to hike to the spot where we were staying. When we got there we had to get wood for a fire. This was neat because I got to get off of the path and look around the forest. We also went swimming in a pond. This was a nice time bonding with nature because the water was beautiful and warm. Then, we got dressed and we ate our dinner. We cooked hot dogs on the fire. They were Delicious and it was cool knowing that we started a fire that we made with the sticks that we found ourselves. But, sadly that night, it rained. It was still a nice time bonding with nature and mother nature refueling the earth. It was scary because it did lighting and thunder. I am afraid of storms and I was scared. The counselors started singing songs to get our minds off the storm. IT helped a lot and it turned into a very fun evening. Unfortunately I had to use the restroom. I did the nature thing and went outside, but I did not see the poison ivy that I sat in. My butt was itchy for the next week. It was a great time bonding with nature though not all of the aspects were very fun.

My favorite.

My favorite meal is macaroni and cheese. It is very delicious. I love it when it is really cheesy. I think that macaroni should be eaten everyday. The only problem is that mac and cheese is not very healthy. The noodles in this delicious treat are not very good for a person. My favorite color is blue. Blue is such a pretty color. It is very good color and it goes with many different things. There is also so many different shades of blue. It also reminds me of a blue sky. When the sky is blue and there is in no clouds, it is my favorite thing to look at. My favorite person is Josh. He is really nice to me. He is also very cute. I like to spend time with him. My favorite sport is volleyball. It is a fun sport to play and I enjoy playing it when the team gets along. My favorite thing to drink it Diet Mt. Dew. It is a very good drink. It goes down the throat easily. Unlike Coke or Pepsi. My favorite past time is to read. Reading is like watching a movie, but a person has the advantage to add in things that they want and it allows a persons mind to use imagination. My favorite book series is Twilight. They are such good novels. I like them because they deal with many different things that happen. They are things that could not happen in real life. I love the fiction in books. I like to believe that things that could never happen, happen. My favorite vampire is Emmet. He is soooo cute. He is also funny. My favorite werewolf is Jacob Black. He is my favorite because he is cute and he allows Bella to be Bella. My favorite time of day is the afternoon. One reason is it is when the sun is the highest. I love the sun. It is also because the food is the best at lunch time because you can eat whatever you want to eat.

Logic and Reason

Well, many people in this huge, weird, crazy world do not use logic and reason. It is a good idea to use logic and reason in a person's life. When a person uses reason and logic, they are thought more highly in society. They are seen as smart and intelligent. People that are smart and intelligent are able to solve problems better. Solving problems is a good skill to have. There is many different types of skills a person needs in their life. There is the need to use logic in a classroom with your studies, a need for reason in a discussion in your daily life when you need to argue out a point. I do not always uses logic and reason. Sometimes I talk without thinking or I think and write things on my homework and in papers that I do not use much logic. It is a bad habit to use. It is because when I do not use logic, I feel stupid. I do not like to feel stupid. I know that I am smart and it degrades myself when do not use logic and reason. I really enjoy school when I do use logic and reason. I do because it makes me feel smart when I realize that I use reason and logic. I like to feel smart. It is a nice feeling when I get a good grade in school. It makes me realize that I will be able to go far in my life if I designate myself enough to my studies and my brain power I will be able to gain reason and logic. My mom has some energy thing that is supported to help my brain be able to take in more knowledge and be able to put the knowledge into my everyday life. I do not really like to do the things and I do not think that they always help me to do my best in school. I also do not use it correctly because I think it is weird and I do not want to do it.

Common Sense Reflection

Tomas Paine seamed like a man who thought he was smart and no one else around him was. One point he stressed was that we should not have a monarchy. He said it was a sin for the Jews to think about one and it is a sin for America to have one. (Paine). I do not understand why he would even talk about it because we are not a monarchy. Though, Washington was offered the position of kind, he turned it down. Maybe this is why Washington did turn it down because of Paine's writ ting. Toman talks about colonies being to big for one group of people to represent. He states that there should be more people to represent it. He also talked about how when the colony increases in the amount of people, then the amount of interest and problems grows (Paine). This is a good point. It is because it is true. When there is more people, there is a need for more people to represent them. Also, the more people the more problems there tends to be because there is a need for more food, jobs, houses, and other vital things to life. Tomas Paine also talks about the fighting with England. He says that he know is ts hard for use to get along with them because we want to be independent, but we also take some of the ideas from their Constitution and they are in ours (Paine). This is true. If we are going to piggy- back ideas from England, then we can not hate them that much if we are willing to follow their rules. He also confronts the problem of debt. It was confusing when he said that we need to be in debt. He did have a good point when he said that national debt connected us together (Paine). I believe there is no reason for debt. Tomas Paine also said that with debt, there comes a Navy (Paine). I come to reason that there would still be an army and navy, even if we were not in debt. Before America was in debt to France, we had the Contineal Army. This is a prime example of an army without a debt. Though the army did put us in debt. Tomas Paine also talked about what would happen if we made an alliance with Britain. He said talked about if they would protect us. He said that the British would probably put a navy in the ports to protect us. He also said that if they do this, common sense will tell us that they will trick us into slavery and then they would probably rule us over again (Paine). This is a very very good point. It is because if we allow the country that we were in such great battles against and a country that wants to rule us back into our lives with open arms for "protection" who not be smart. They would slowly take us over, but this time with our permission because we allowed them to come back into our country.

Paine, By Thomas. "Thomas Paine's Common Sense - Text Version." Archiving Early America: Primary Source Material from 18th Century America. Web. 15 Oct. 2010. .

Benjamin Franklin and the American Dream

Benjamin Franklin was a very intelligent man. He is very informative about his writings and his surroundings. Benjamin Franklin had an idea about the American Dream.J.A. Leo Lemay really liked Franklin. I could tell this because he talked about Franklin with a voice that is very jealous. He said that Franklin was one of the greatest writers of letters and novel. He also gives the opinion that Franklin is the best writer in the world, and that his works should be shared throughout the different cultures (Franklin). I think this is good because Lemay is writing about something that he enjoys and someone who inspires him. It does not seem all that right though because Lemay is going to side with Franklin, but he does present the facts correctly.
Franklin came from a poor and unfortunate family. He changed this with his writing skills and his brain. Being from a poor family, he was very frugal with his money and he did not want to spend it. Franklin emphasize the "rags to riches." He states this as a minor theme in the American Dream (Franklin). This is good because there is more to the American Dream than just becoming rich. To go along with his "rags to riches" theory, Franklin also talks about impotence to importance, dependence tp independence, and helplessness to power. These theories were stronger than "rags to riches"( Franklin). I think they were more important to Franklin because he was a very independent man and he wants others to know what he knows on how to try to live a well thought out life.
Benjamin Franklin's third theme of the American Dream was his theme to become an individual. It is a philosophy that individuals can change the world themselves and they have the power to do it on their own. According to Lema, "The American Dream is a dream of possibility- not just of wealth or of prestige or of power but of the manifold possibilities that human existence can hold for the incredible variety of people of the most assorted talents and deives." (Franklin). This is a very good theme. It shows that people in America who are looking for the American Dream can find it within themselves. With this, Franklin believed that the world can be effected by individuals and the changes that they want to make to the world. It gives people goals to be the best person they can be, it allows people to believe they can accomplish things they set their minds to, and the American Dream also helps people to have the common sense to get things done the correct way (Franklin).
Franklin also talks about the ability of a person to make their own decisions and have their own free will (Franklin). I believe in this theme because people will be as great as they want to be. They also have the choice to become whatever they wish to be in their lives. Benjamin Franklin was a smart man who inspired many people to be who they want to be.


"Franklin's Autobiography and the American Dream." Facts On File Online Databases. Web. 13 Oct. 2010. .

Declaration of Pie.

Pie, according to dictionary.com, Pie is a baked food having a filling of fruit, meat, pudding, etc., prepared in a pastry-lined pan or dish and often topped with a pastry crust. Pie is delicious. There is many types of Pie. There is apple pie, peach pie, cherry pie, banana pie, orange pie, Oreo pie, pecan pie, pumpkin, blueberry pie. rhubarb pie, french silk pie, ice cream pie, mint pie, strawberry pie, mince pie, chicken pot pie, mud pie, cow pie, Shepard's pie and there is also to many pies to list. All pies are delicious. They are also fattening. The bad thing about pie is that it is used only for special occasions. Pies are usually brought out on special occasions and they are not enjoyed daily. I declare that pies should be mad daily. Pies are so delicious that there shall be pie in all the food groups. Pie is healthy for people. There is fruit in it. Fruit is very good for a people to eat, thus this makes pie very healthy for people to eat. There is also the fact that there is bread. The bread goes into the category of grain. It is very good for people to eat. There is also the fact that there is many different types of pie. This allows people to have more opportunity to eat different types of Pie. I Declare that every year there is a national pie day. During these events, there will be a pie cook off and there will be a fundraiser to be able to cook More pies. Pie will be a national trademark. Our country will become the country that is made for pie. We will praise pie and we will always have pie in our houses to eat. People of all ages will eat pie. At every dinner, there will be pie. All students must take ten years of pie classes. They must be able to name every pie imaginable and they must be able to cook 20 different pies. We will become a Pie nation. (I wish I liked pie.)

Spirit Week

Homecoming is a very fun time. It is also a very memorable time for all high schoolers. It is fun to participate. When the school participates, it is so much fun. We have a lot of fun activities planned out. On Monday, we wore our jerseys to school. The junior class did not participate very well. We got last out of all the grades. It is disappointing when i find out that our grade it not doing the fun stuff that is planned out for us. We did win 80's day. That made me very happy. It was a lot of fun to dress up like we were from the 80's it was a lot of fun because everyone was dressed up and it felt like we were really part of the 80's. We also had class color day today. We had the color blue. It was really cool when Dylan Robinson put blue face paint all over his face and arms. It was a nice touch and it makes me happy and proud to see people taking a part in their school. Today in our last hour class, we are going around to decorate the gym and the football field. If everyone participates correctly, they gym and football field will look amazing and I will be so happy with all the school spirit. All the people need to take part in the decorating because there is a lot of work that needs to be done and we all need to work together to get it done in the amount of time that we have. Our football fans also need to get into the game. We have a theme at the game. Tonight it is camo. I am not a fan of the camo. I think that we should do school spirit to the game because it would be a lot better. People also know that red and blue to a game is a necessity and that people should part take. People also do not own camo and that could be an issue.

Having Friends and Partners

Having friends help a lot in life. It helps people and myself to understand the circle of life. I need friends for many reasons. I need friends to help me get through hard problems. It is nice to have a friend to go shopping with when you need to look for an eighties outfit for spirit week at your school for high school. Having friends, especially smart friends has a lot of benefits. A big benefit is that when you are low on ideas or you do not understand the topic that you need to present or research, a person can pick a friend who knows what is going on and they can help you figure out what you need to do. It also helps when you have an artistic Friend who knows how to draw pictures that look attractive. It makes the project go faster because they can draw the pictures and they look pretty compared to a picture that I could draw that would look like crap because I am not a good artist and I would rush it and the picture would look bad. It is also nice to have a partner that helps out. It is a good arrangement when a partner does their part of the project or assignment. It is because instead of me having to do all the work while the other person gets credit, we are both responsible for the grade and they care equally as much. A draw back of using a partner is you need to worry about scheduling. It becomes an issue especially when the kids do not know how to drive and their parents have to drive them all over the place to find the materials and to do the project. It is also a bad thing when a person has a partner who does not do all the work. Usually a project that is assigned to two people because it is to big for one person to do. It sucks when a person is in my group and they think I will do all the work for them, I will not.

Ethics/Value

Values are very important to how a person views themselves. Values helps a person to become who they are and they can establish themselves. Values are things that people value and focus their lives around. Values are basically a set of rules that a person sets for themselves that they follow. Values are usually easy to follow because a person sets them for them selves. For example, a persons value is to be nice and to help others. This is a good value because it is helping out a person and the person who is giving out the niceness. Values are all different types of things. A person could set all their values based on the Bible. This would mean that they follow what the Bible says. They will also follow the 10 Commandments as closely as possible. Following the values in the Bible would be a very good thing. It would help build a Utopian society, even thought the Bible was not aiming for one. If people would follow the rules, society would run a lot smother. A value I have is to help others. I like this value, though I do not always follow it because when I do something good for another person and they are grateful towards me, it feels very nice and it is rewarding. I like to spend my time doing rewarding things. Ethics are very important. I have been learning about ethics in Psychology. We are studying on the ethics of some experiments. An example they gave us was the Milligram experiment. It was an unethical experiment because they did not tell the people what they were being tested on. They were told the experiment was about memory, but in reality it was seeing if people would act like the Nazis in the Holocaust. Ethics are very important to society to be sure the public act accordingly. We have to be sure we are treating people with respect and they must know what is happening to them.