Martin Luther King Jr. 1929-1968
-Pastor in AL
-Civil Rights activists voted king as leader
-"I have a dream" speech in 1963
-Worked for Civil Rights Act
-Congressed passed Civil Rights in 1964
-King received Nobel Peace Prize
-Killed by assassins bullet April 4th 1968 in Memphis, Tenn
Malcolm X 1925-1965
-Was in prison 1946-1952 for burgulary
-Converted to Muslim- "Black Muslim"
-Believed in black separatism
-Took name "X" as lost African name
-Rivarly between X and Nation of Islam because of X's disagreement w Elijah Muhammad
-Started his own organization for all races to Muslims
-Feb 21, 1965 he was shot by his own group as he spoke at a rally in Harlem.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Protect Ourselves Transcript of 1964 Tv Interview with Malcom X
-X believes in talking face to face rather than doing something constructive for the benefit of the people
-X also believes Negros should be allowed to have guns for protection
-X questions if government and FBI respects Negors
-Also believes Negros should form vigilanted committees for protection of lives and community
-X also believes Negros should be allowed to have guns for protection
-X questions if government and FBI respects Negors
-Also believes Negros should form vigilanted committees for protection of lives and community
Stride Toward Freedom Non-Fiction by Martin Luther King Jr.
-life of opressed; they adjusted by being silent
-to accept passively is unjust
-religion reminds everyone of their rights; moral
-can adjust by being viloent
-violence to acheive racial justice is impratical and immoral(emphasises hate rather than love); seeks humiliate oppent rather than win his understanding
-violence ends by defeating itself; creates bitterness
-or to adjust, nonviolent resistance; reconsive truth of two opposites
-W/nonviolence resistance, no individual or group need submit to any wrong, nor resort to violence in order to right and wrong
-not black vs. white but justic vs. injustice
-to accept passively is unjust
-religion reminds everyone of their rights; moral
-can adjust by being viloent
-violence to acheive racial justice is impratical and immoral(emphasises hate rather than love); seeks humiliate oppent rather than win his understanding
-violence ends by defeating itself; creates bitterness
-or to adjust, nonviolent resistance; reconsive truth of two opposites
-W/nonviolence resistance, no individual or group need submit to any wrong, nor resort to violence in order to right and wrong
-not black vs. white but justic vs. injustice
Ballad of Birmingham Poem by Dudley Randall
Ballad-narrative poem that was orginally meant to be sung
The poem was about a mother letting her daughter go to church. She hears her explosing and fids her daughters shoe. Robert Chambliss blew up the Street Baptist Church killing four girls.
The poem was about a mother letting her daughter go to church. She hears her explosing and fids her daughters shoe. Robert Chambliss blew up the Street Baptist Church killing four girls.
Coming of Age in Mississippi autobiography by Anne Moody
-1963 she was with the NAACP
-She was asked to be on a sitin at Woolwroth's.
-2 other people were with her.
-As they sat ther epeople left and news crews came.
-White people came in and chant anti-Negro slurs
-Make nooses and attempt to put them around their necks
-When they started to pray all hell broke loose.
-They were slapped and push to the ground
-Memphis was arrested, but the two girls stayed.
-One man came to sit with them and he was white
-As they were being haresses more Lois Chaffee joined them. Two whites, and two negros all women.
-Food was thrown all them.
0John Salter came, but got a jaw wound
-Geroge Raymond and a student was joined also.
-The police would not escort them out.
-Anne went to get her hair done and the hairdresses let her cut in front of everyone
-That night there was a rally about the whole day. there was appaluded and talked about how this is just a beginning.
-She was asked to be on a sitin at Woolwroth's.
-2 other people were with her.
-As they sat ther epeople left and news crews came.
-White people came in and chant anti-Negro slurs
-Make nooses and attempt to put them around their necks
-When they started to pray all hell broke loose.
-They were slapped and push to the ground
-Memphis was arrested, but the two girls stayed.
-One man came to sit with them and he was white
-As they were being haresses more Lois Chaffee joined them. Two whites, and two negros all women.
-Food was thrown all them.
0John Salter came, but got a jaw wound
-Geroge Raymond and a student was joined also.
-The police would not escort them out.
-Anne went to get her hair done and the hairdresses let her cut in front of everyone
-That night there was a rally about the whole day. there was appaluded and talked about how this is just a beginning.
The Gettysburg Address speech by Abraham Lincoln
-Gettysburg was the turning point for the civil war.
-the confederate army need shoes. they had to go to Gettysburg, Penn to get them.
-They came upon the Union Army
-they fought for three days july 1 to the 3 1863
-union won but many died
-28,000 for donfederate 23,000 for union
-nov 19 1863 lincoln give this speech
repition-recurrance of words, phrases or lines
-the confederate army need shoes. they had to go to Gettysburg, Penn to get them.
-They came upon the Union Army
-they fought for three days july 1 to the 3 1863
-union won but many died
-28,000 for donfederate 23,000 for union
-nov 19 1863 lincoln give this speech
repition-recurrance of words, phrases or lines
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas, an American Slave by Frederick Douglas
Style-not what said, but how it is aid. Style can be describe as formal or conversational, concise or elebroate, objective or subjectie. (figurative language, tone sentence length)
-he talks about his mater Mr. Covey
-He got sold by his master to be mr. covery for one year.
-first six months with him were hell
-one day he gets really sick while working and falls to the gournd
-mr. covey tells him to get up, but he can't
-he thens proceeds to beat him and hims him bleed form the head.
-he runs away goig to his old master
-he tells him of what covey is doing, but doesn't believe him
-while walking back the next day he meets this guy that takes him to go see his gf
-she tell shim to keep a root on his right side and it will protect him
-he goes sat morning and when he gets there covey sees him and runs after him
-he gets away and hides in the corn for the day
-the next day as he is doing horse chores covey comes up ready to whip him
=he doesn't let him and starts to fight him.
-he calls to Hughes, but fred drops kicks him and bill doesn't help either
-they go at if for two hours. finally covey gives up
-he was a slave for four more years but he was never beaten again.
-he talks about his mater Mr. Covey
-He got sold by his master to be mr. covery for one year.
-first six months with him were hell
-one day he gets really sick while working and falls to the gournd
-mr. covey tells him to get up, but he can't
-he thens proceeds to beat him and hims him bleed form the head.
-he runs away goig to his old master
-he tells him of what covey is doing, but doesn't believe him
-while walking back the next day he meets this guy that takes him to go see his gf
-she tell shim to keep a root on his right side and it will protect him
-he goes sat morning and when he gets there covey sees him and runs after him
-he gets away and hides in the corn for the day
-the next day as he is doing horse chores covey comes up ready to whip him
=he doesn't let him and starts to fight him.
-he calls to Hughes, but fred drops kicks him and bill doesn't help either
-they go at if for two hours. finally covey gives up
-he was a slave for four more years but he was never beaten again.
A Murder, Mystery and a Marriage by Mark Twain
Chapter one-
-John Grey; farmer 55
-Derrick, Missouri
-600-700 people. Small town
-Rev John Hurly
-As much as Grey works he can't get head; bitter
-Mary Grey; daughter and Hugh Greory are in love
-Hugh is well off
-Tom Grey; brother
-Dave hates Hugh becasue of Hugh stooping Dave from taking Hugh's dad's farm.
Chapter two-
-Rev comes over and tells them that Dave left everyting to Mary
-John tells Mary that she can't marry Hugh and storms off
-John walks out and finds this man laying in the snow. The guy talks different language.
-John takes him back where he is sick with a fever.
Chapter three-
Mr. George Wayne; stranger; very rich; and a frenchman
-His father is a lord and he's a count
-He left because he got in a fight with his dad. He wasn't going to marry anybody that he wasn't in for love. So he has to stay away for two years. He is real name is Count Hubert dee Fountingblow
Chapter four-
-The count goes and talks to Dave. Dave gets called out and he starts to snoop around.
-Hugh and Marry talk and she starts to cry.
-She relizes that she loves Count
Chapter five-
Hugh and Dave get into a fight
-Dave threatens him
Chapter six-
Count was at Greys house when they find out Dave has died. Hugh is in custody.
-The knife was in his bed, blood on his pants, fighiting in public, fathers debt , piece of clothing missing.
-Count and Mary get married. Doesn't get married to Hugh. They get marries on the 29th of June; same day as the hanging of Hugh.
Chapter seven-
-Mary loves Hugh
-People are upset about Hugh's hanging
-The keep waiting for his innocent to be proclaimed, but it never happens and the wedding goes on
-Poice inter and find out that hugh isn't guilty. Mary runs into Hugh's arms
-They take away the Count away. He had an acomplice
-John tells them to get married. Counts friend who had helped him spilled the beans because he felt guilty.
Chapter eight-
-Jean Mercier is the real count
-Self taught
-Met a man named Verned. Who would tweak counts stores from his trvaels and make them magnificent
-Verne was a fraud-used him for stories, verne paid him.
-Verne fourced count to have muderous thoughts. He wanted both to get hurt. One story verne and count are in a ballon and count pushes him out. count floats to johns pasture and ends up there
-he tells the story about the whole mary thing
-talks about how Verne will die in hell
-John Grey; farmer 55
-Derrick, Missouri
-600-700 people. Small town
-Rev John Hurly
-As much as Grey works he can't get head; bitter
-Mary Grey; daughter and Hugh Greory are in love
-Hugh is well off
-Tom Grey; brother
-Dave hates Hugh becasue of Hugh stooping Dave from taking Hugh's dad's farm.
Chapter two-
-Rev comes over and tells them that Dave left everyting to Mary
-John tells Mary that she can't marry Hugh and storms off
-John walks out and finds this man laying in the snow. The guy talks different language.
-John takes him back where he is sick with a fever.
Chapter three-
Mr. George Wayne; stranger; very rich; and a frenchman
-His father is a lord and he's a count
-He left because he got in a fight with his dad. He wasn't going to marry anybody that he wasn't in for love. So he has to stay away for two years. He is real name is Count Hubert dee Fountingblow
Chapter four-
-The count goes and talks to Dave. Dave gets called out and he starts to snoop around.
-Hugh and Marry talk and she starts to cry.
-She relizes that she loves Count
Chapter five-
Hugh and Dave get into a fight
-Dave threatens him
Chapter six-
Count was at Greys house when they find out Dave has died. Hugh is in custody.
-The knife was in his bed, blood on his pants, fighiting in public, fathers debt , piece of clothing missing.
-Count and Mary get married. Doesn't get married to Hugh. They get marries on the 29th of June; same day as the hanging of Hugh.
Chapter seven-
-Mary loves Hugh
-People are upset about Hugh's hanging
-The keep waiting for his innocent to be proclaimed, but it never happens and the wedding goes on
-Poice inter and find out that hugh isn't guilty. Mary runs into Hugh's arms
-They take away the Count away. He had an acomplice
-John tells them to get married. Counts friend who had helped him spilled the beans because he felt guilty.
Chapter eight-
-Jean Mercier is the real count
-Self taught
-Met a man named Verned. Who would tweak counts stores from his trvaels and make them magnificent
-Verne was a fraud-used him for stories, verne paid him.
-Verne fourced count to have muderous thoughts. He wanted both to get hurt. One story verne and count are in a ballon and count pushes him out. count floats to johns pasture and ends up there
-he tells the story about the whole mary thing
-talks about how Verne will die in hell
Monday, November 9, 2009
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence has four main parts:
* a preamble, or foreword, that announces the reason for the document
* a declaration of people's natural rights and relationship to government
* a long list of complaints against George III, the British king
* a conclusion that formally states America's independence
Helpful definitions:
unalienable: that may not be taken away
despotism: absolute power or control; tyranny
transient: passing away with time
usurpations: acts of wrongfully taking over a right or power that belongs to someone else
conjured: appealed to
consanguinity: blood relationship
acquiesce in the necessity which denounces: recognize that we must demand
parallelism: the use of similar grammatical forms to express ideas of equal importance
insurrections: an act or instance of rising in revolt, rebellion, or resistance against civil authority or an established government
The list of complaints begins with "He..."
1. Why do they repeat it?
To make it important. To have people think and realize that it's important
2. Why do they make it personal?
To single one man out. Because of him and the problems they made this document
3. How does the D.I. anticipate its audiences resistance to change?
They wrote it so parts of it would stand out. Like the "he". All those problems that King of Great Britain made so that people would see how bad he was.
4. How does the D.I. use parallelism? How does it impact the effectiveness of the piece?
parallelism: when a writer uses similar grammatical forms or sentence patterns to express ideas of equal importance.
5.What to you is the most convincing example stated in the D.I.? Why? 0.
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
That after all that has been gone through they finally took a stand and deciede to not put up with it anymore.
* a preamble, or foreword, that announces the reason for the document
* a declaration of people's natural rights and relationship to government
* a long list of complaints against George III, the British king
* a conclusion that formally states America's independence
Helpful definitions:
unalienable: that may not be taken away
despotism: absolute power or control; tyranny
transient: passing away with time
usurpations: acts of wrongfully taking over a right or power that belongs to someone else
conjured: appealed to
consanguinity: blood relationship
acquiesce in the necessity which denounces: recognize that we must demand
parallelism: the use of similar grammatical forms to express ideas of equal importance
insurrections: an act or instance of rising in revolt, rebellion, or resistance against civil authority or an established government
The list of complaints begins with "He..."
1. Why do they repeat it?
To make it important. To have people think and realize that it's important
2. Why do they make it personal?
To single one man out. Because of him and the problems they made this document
3. How does the D.I. anticipate its audiences resistance to change?
They wrote it so parts of it would stand out. Like the "he". All those problems that King of Great Britain made so that people would see how bad he was.
4. How does the D.I. use parallelism? How does it impact the effectiveness of the piece?
parallelism: when a writer uses similar grammatical forms or sentence patterns to express ideas of equal importance.
5.What to you is the most convincing example stated in the D.I.? Why? 0.
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
That after all that has been gone through they finally took a stand and deciede to not put up with it anymore.
Monday, November 2, 2009
The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
-Unity of Effect
single overall feeling
-Exploring the strange and fantastic, conveying psychological terror through carefully chosen details and events.
-Mood
feeling or atmosphere by their words two each
-Setting-Imagery and figurative language
-Chosen words and pharases
-observes and participates
-A man rides the House of Usher on a horse.
-He goes there because he used to be friends with Roderick Usher.
-Usher is very sick. Mental and physical.
-Rod was always quiet, and didn't say much
-House features gothic archecticture
-Future scares Rod
-Rod's sister Madeline passed away, she was all he had
-She had disease. She would go into coma like stages and just be dead
-Rod and the man morned over her death by poening her coffin and rod said goodbye to her
-Soon after that, Rod becomes sick.
-The man watches as Rod goes crazy, thinking his sister has awakened from the tomb.
-Rod and the man saw Madeline's ghost in the hall.
-Blood on her white robe, she fell in to Rob so they become one and killed him.
-He burys his sister alive to end the curse.
-The family tree is just one branch. Incest
-He can hear her scratching and comping up the stairs etc.
-He has very strong senses that hurt him. Voice, smell etc.
-The house dies with them to end the curse.
single overall feeling
-Exploring the strange and fantastic, conveying psychological terror through carefully chosen details and events.
-Mood
feeling or atmosphere by their words two each
-Setting-Imagery and figurative language
-Chosen words and pharases
-observes and participates
-A man rides the House of Usher on a horse.
-He goes there because he used to be friends with Roderick Usher.
-Usher is very sick. Mental and physical.
-Rod was always quiet, and didn't say much
-House features gothic archecticture
-Future scares Rod
-Rod's sister Madeline passed away, she was all he had
-She had disease. She would go into coma like stages and just be dead
-Rod and the man morned over her death by poening her coffin and rod said goodbye to her
-Soon after that, Rod becomes sick.
-The man watches as Rod goes crazy, thinking his sister has awakened from the tomb.
-Rod and the man saw Madeline's ghost in the hall.
-Blood on her white robe, she fell in to Rob so they become one and killed him.
-He burys his sister alive to end the curse.
-The family tree is just one branch. Incest
-He can hear her scratching and comping up the stairs etc.
-He has very strong senses that hurt him. Voice, smell etc.
-The house dies with them to end the curse.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Single Man by Charles Dickens
Spector- Ghost
It's about a single man on the railroad who gets a sign from a spector when soeons is about to die. The last time he gets hit is by a train He keeps seeing a lady falls from the train.
It's about a single man on the railroad who gets a sign from a spector when soeons is about to die. The last time he gets hit is by a train He keeps seeing a lady falls from the train.
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
-Propecy-What's goin to happen
-Raven is a prophecy. It has been associated with mystery, evil, omens and death.
*End rhyme-smiliar or identical sounds at the end of lines Ex:last word rhyming
*Internal Rhyme- rhymes within a line Ex: words within, tapping, napping
*Rhyme scheme- basic pattern of the end rhymes Ex: abc last words and if they rhme
*Stansa- a group of words: like a paragraph
-One December he is just about to fall asleep when he hears a knock on the door.
-It was the ghost of Maiden Lenore
-Keeps repeating over and over because he is scared
-He tells the person to be sorry for he was napping. But when he opens the door no one is there.
-He is scared because no one is there and all he whispers in Lenore over and over!
-He shuts the door, but then there comes another knock. he believes it is only the wind
-He opens the shutter and it is a Raven
-He is asking the Raven why he is coming if he is bringing the death.
-All the Raven says "Nevermore".
-The man pulls a chair up to the window and looks up at the bird. he wonders why this.
-The man asks God to give him relief from his memories of Lenore. he drinks in hopes of these thoughts leaving him.
-All the Raven says is "Nevermore"
-The man accuses the Raven of being a prophet, of the devil and evil. Either sent by the Devil or someone else, he asks if he will ever be relieved.
-Raven "Nevermore"
-He tells the Raven to leave
-Raven "Nevermore"
The Raven is a deamon, the lamp casts the Raven's shadow on the floor as the Raven takes the man's soul and kills the man.
-Raven is a prophecy. It has been associated with mystery, evil, omens and death.
*End rhyme-smiliar or identical sounds at the end of lines Ex:last word rhyming
*Internal Rhyme- rhymes within a line Ex: words within, tapping, napping
*Rhyme scheme- basic pattern of the end rhymes Ex: abc last words and if they rhme
*Stansa- a group of words: like a paragraph
-One December he is just about to fall asleep when he hears a knock on the door.
-It was the ghost of Maiden Lenore
-Keeps repeating over and over because he is scared
-He tells the person to be sorry for he was napping. But when he opens the door no one is there.
-He is scared because no one is there and all he whispers in Lenore over and over!
-He shuts the door, but then there comes another knock. he believes it is only the wind
-He opens the shutter and it is a Raven
-He is asking the Raven why he is coming if he is bringing the death.
-All the Raven says "Nevermore".
-The man pulls a chair up to the window and looks up at the bird. he wonders why this.
-The man asks God to give him relief from his memories of Lenore. he drinks in hopes of these thoughts leaving him.
-All the Raven says is "Nevermore"
-The man accuses the Raven of being a prophet, of the devil and evil. Either sent by the Devil or someone else, he asks if he will ever be relieved.
-Raven "Nevermore"
-He tells the Raven to leave
-Raven "Nevermore"
The Raven is a deamon, the lamp casts the Raven's shadow on the floor as the Raven takes the man's soul and kills the man.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
The Masque of the Red Death Short story by Edgar Allan Poe
*The most scary part is the suspense
*When you know there is something behind the door and you see it, you are relieved, but scared at the same time
*Also being scary is the unknown and the music. Mute a movie and you won't think it is that scary.
*You anticipate what's coming
*The thing that scares people is the leading up to the scary action, not the actual "scary" thing itself
*Allegory- work with two layers of meaning. Persons, objects, and events stand for abstract ideas or qualities
*Prince
-Possible meaning: even a prince dies eventually
-Possible lesson: no matter how high you sit, it won't save you
*The Abbey
-Possible meaning: sort of a safe place
-Possible lesson: walls can't protect you from everything
*Series of 7 rooms
-Possible meaning: all rooms had life, but the last one. Black
-Possible lesson: many seasons of life
*Clock
-Possible meaning: life is a ticking clock
-Possible lesson: all our days are numbered
*Stranger
-Possible meaning: he brings death
-Possible lesson: no one can escape death; no matter what you do
-Talks about the disease
-Prince Prospero is happy and wise
-Castellated abbey-building to resembel a monstary
-He built it making everything new. He brought ballet-dancers, musicians. All safe from "Red death"
-He had a party for his a thousand friends
Improvisating- poets who recite verses that they make up as they go along
-Rooms all different in color; Seven rooms
1. blue
2. purple
3. green
4. orange
5. while
6. violet
7. black velvet (window panes color red)
-No light in any room
-Huge clock in the black room. When it rang out everyone stop and was silent
-The party would be happy and alive then when the clock rang everybody would be sad and just look around and laugh nervously.
-The duke didn't like the fine things. People thought he was mad
-Masquerades had bizarre appearances
-No one was to go in Room 7
-At midnight everyone stops and is quiet and still. When everyone is standing still someone walks in
-Prince is in the blue room when he orders the man to take off his mask
-Figure was tall and had clothing from the grave. Look as he was sprinkled blood. Like the "Red Death"
-The Prince goes up to him and the figure stabs him with a dagger.
-The skull masked man was Red Death. He killed everyone who was at the party. The clock stopped working also.
*LESSON
- No one can cheat death. No matter what you do. Death comes in any way. It doesn't matter how it comes in. You will die so before you die you need to live life.
*When you know there is something behind the door and you see it, you are relieved, but scared at the same time
*Also being scary is the unknown and the music. Mute a movie and you won't think it is that scary.
*You anticipate what's coming
*The thing that scares people is the leading up to the scary action, not the actual "scary" thing itself
*Allegory- work with two layers of meaning. Persons, objects, and events stand for abstract ideas or qualities
*Prince
-Possible meaning: even a prince dies eventually
-Possible lesson: no matter how high you sit, it won't save you
*The Abbey
-Possible meaning: sort of a safe place
-Possible lesson: walls can't protect you from everything
*Series of 7 rooms
-Possible meaning: all rooms had life, but the last one. Black
-Possible lesson: many seasons of life
*Clock
-Possible meaning: life is a ticking clock
-Possible lesson: all our days are numbered
*Stranger
-Possible meaning: he brings death
-Possible lesson: no one can escape death; no matter what you do
-Talks about the disease
-Prince Prospero is happy and wise
-Castellated abbey-building to resembel a monstary
-He built it making everything new. He brought ballet-dancers, musicians. All safe from "Red death"
-He had a party for his a thousand friends
Improvisating- poets who recite verses that they make up as they go along
-Rooms all different in color; Seven rooms
1. blue
2. purple
3. green
4. orange
5. while
6. violet
7. black velvet (window panes color red)
-No light in any room
-Huge clock in the black room. When it rang out everyone stop and was silent
-The party would be happy and alive then when the clock rang everybody would be sad and just look around and laugh nervously.
-The duke didn't like the fine things. People thought he was mad
-Masquerades had bizarre appearances
-No one was to go in Room 7
-At midnight everyone stops and is quiet and still. When everyone is standing still someone walks in
-Prince is in the blue room when he orders the man to take off his mask
-Figure was tall and had clothing from the grave. Look as he was sprinkled blood. Like the "Red Death"
-The Prince goes up to him and the figure stabs him with a dagger.
-The skull masked man was Red Death. He killed everyone who was at the party. The clock stopped working also.
*LESSON
- No one can cheat death. No matter what you do. Death comes in any way. It doesn't matter how it comes in. You will die so before you die you need to live life.
The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irving
-Set in Boston, Mass
-A tree had lots of money being buried by a pirate. Some people say that the devil hid the money. But Kidd never return to the sport because he was hanged for being a pirate.
-Tom and his wife were so miserable together that they would cheat each other.
-Their house was pitiful; Iron bars, trees look like a haunted house.
-Fought a lot too
-Tom took a shortcut home through the swamp when he stopped at a old Indian village. When he was sitting he found an old tomahawk.
-This guy comes from behind and is angry with him. He's Indian, but he is covered in soot to make him look black.
The black guy goes by various names. Wild huntsman, black miner etc.
-Talks to Quakers and Anabaptists
-They had a long talk and they soon become friends. Black guy told him about the money.
-He comes home and finds out Absalom Crowninshield is dead.
-Tom and the guy make a deal about the money. He isn't suppose to tell anyone about it.
-Tom goes home and decides to tell his wife about the money. She wants him to do it, but since she wants him to do it he won't because he doesn't want to make her happy.
-The wife decides to talk to the guy. She goes, but comes back empty handed. She goes back again with everything she owned and never returned.
-He comes home and doesn't think anything of it. But after while of her not being there, he gets scared.
-Many stores came up. She got stuck in the swamp, eloped with a guy and moved. Others said a tall black man came out of the swamp with an ax and a bag full of stuff.
-One of the stories said that Tom went to go look for her, when he was about to give up when he looked up and saw her apron and a vulture. When he got to the tree the vulture flew away, but Tom got the apron only to find a heart and a liver.
-tom thought the black man hepled him because of his wife dying. He wanted to pay him back.
-They get together and talk but the money. The black man wants to give it to the slave ship, but he refuses.
-Black man tells him he has to open a broker's shop in Boston.
-He opens his shop and everyone goes to him thus making him rich and taking everyone's money.
-He started to become a bragger and going to church and becoming a LOUD Christian.
-As he got older he became more crazy. One incident is when he cemented his horse to the ground because it was believed that the earth was going to turn over and when it did he would be able to ride away.
-One day when he was old and finishing a deal there was a knock on the door. The black man was there. He tries to get away, but he didn't have any of his bibles with him. the black man whisks him away and the people never saw him again.
-The black man was like the devil. The deal was that he could have the money, but when he has to sell his soul to the devil. And that's what the black man came to get him for. His time was up.
-A tree had lots of money being buried by a pirate. Some people say that the devil hid the money. But Kidd never return to the sport because he was hanged for being a pirate.
-Tom and his wife were so miserable together that they would cheat each other.
-Their house was pitiful; Iron bars, trees look like a haunted house.
-Fought a lot too
-Tom took a shortcut home through the swamp when he stopped at a old Indian village. When he was sitting he found an old tomahawk.
-This guy comes from behind and is angry with him. He's Indian, but he is covered in soot to make him look black.
The black guy goes by various names. Wild huntsman, black miner etc.
-Talks to Quakers and Anabaptists
-They had a long talk and they soon become friends. Black guy told him about the money.
-He comes home and finds out Absalom Crowninshield is dead.
-Tom and the guy make a deal about the money. He isn't suppose to tell anyone about it.
-Tom goes home and decides to tell his wife about the money. She wants him to do it, but since she wants him to do it he won't because he doesn't want to make her happy.
-The wife decides to talk to the guy. She goes, but comes back empty handed. She goes back again with everything she owned and never returned.
-He comes home and doesn't think anything of it. But after while of her not being there, he gets scared.
-Many stores came up. She got stuck in the swamp, eloped with a guy and moved. Others said a tall black man came out of the swamp with an ax and a bag full of stuff.
-One of the stories said that Tom went to go look for her, when he was about to give up when he looked up and saw her apron and a vulture. When he got to the tree the vulture flew away, but Tom got the apron only to find a heart and a liver.
-tom thought the black man hepled him because of his wife dying. He wanted to pay him back.
-They get together and talk but the money. The black man wants to give it to the slave ship, but he refuses.
-Black man tells him he has to open a broker's shop in Boston.
-He opens his shop and everyone goes to him thus making him rich and taking everyone's money.
-He started to become a bragger and going to church and becoming a LOUD Christian.
-As he got older he became more crazy. One incident is when he cemented his horse to the ground because it was believed that the earth was going to turn over and when it did he would be able to ride away.
-One day when he was old and finishing a deal there was a knock on the door. The black man was there. He tries to get away, but he didn't have any of his bibles with him. the black man whisks him away and the people never saw him again.
-The black man was like the devil. The deal was that he could have the money, but when he has to sell his soul to the devil. And that's what the black man came to get him for. His time was up.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Notes on Gothic Literature
*Gothic Literature
-is characterized by grotesque characters, bizarre situations, and violent events.
-orginated in Europe
-United States during the 19th Century
-Edgar Allan Poe and Hawthrone (Stephen King Now)
-Age of Reason, Fear of Gods, and Puritans
*Romanticism
-romanticism writers saw: Basic elements of human nature
.limitation of reason
.celebrated the individual spirit (Puritans believed in a whole)
.emotions
.imagination
.splendors of natures than the fear of God
.fasination of supernatural
-Washington Irving: one of the promnant writers in the USA
-romantic preoccupation with atmosphere, sentiment and optimism
*Transcendentalists
-transcendent forms of truth exist beyond reason and experience
-"Every individual is capable of discovering this higher truth on his or her own through intuition" Ralph Waldo Emerson
*Dark Side of Individualism
-gothic architecture
.gothic catherderals
.high stained glass windows
.gargoyes: mascot of gothic
-Imaginative distortion of reality
-Imagination led to the threshold of the unknown
-Shadowy region where the fantastic (dark, great) the demonic (demon) and the insane region
-Gothic tradition can be called the Dark Side of Individualism
-Romantics looked at the individual saw hope
-Gothic looked they saw potential evil
*Poe
-Many of his stories were in medieval castles, decaying ancient estates provied weird and terrifying events for the settings
-Male narrotors are insane
-Female characters are beautiful and dead (or dying)
-Plots are extreme situations-Not just murder
.live burials
.physical and mental torture
.retribution from beyond the grave (coming from the dead)
-Only when put in extremem natures show your true colors which was the dark side.
-Romantics would show the good side
*Hawthorne
-Exmained the human hear under various conditions:
.fear
.greet
.vanity
.mistrust
.betrayal
-is characterized by grotesque characters, bizarre situations, and violent events.
-orginated in Europe
-United States during the 19th Century
-Edgar Allan Poe and Hawthrone (Stephen King Now)
-Age of Reason, Fear of Gods, and Puritans
*Romanticism
-romanticism writers saw: Basic elements of human nature
.limitation of reason
.celebrated the individual spirit (Puritans believed in a whole)
.emotions
.imagination
.splendors of natures than the fear of God
.fasination of supernatural
-Washington Irving: one of the promnant writers in the USA
-romantic preoccupation with atmosphere, sentiment and optimism
*Transcendentalists
-transcendent forms of truth exist beyond reason and experience
-"Every individual is capable of discovering this higher truth on his or her own through intuition" Ralph Waldo Emerson
*Dark Side of Individualism
-gothic architecture
.gothic catherderals
.high stained glass windows
.gargoyes: mascot of gothic
-Imaginative distortion of reality
-Imagination led to the threshold of the unknown
-Shadowy region where the fantastic (dark, great) the demonic (demon) and the insane region
-Gothic tradition can be called the Dark Side of Individualism
-Romantics looked at the individual saw hope
-Gothic looked they saw potential evil
*Poe
-Many of his stories were in medieval castles, decaying ancient estates provied weird and terrifying events for the settings
-Male narrotors are insane
-Female characters are beautiful and dead (or dying)
-Plots are extreme situations-Not just murder
.live burials
.physical and mental torture
.retribution from beyond the grave (coming from the dead)
-Only when put in extremem natures show your true colors which was the dark side.
-Romantics would show the good side
*Hawthorne
-Exmained the human hear under various conditions:
.fear
.greet
.vanity
.mistrust
.betrayal
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Gothic Literature
Gothic Literature is a genre of literature that combines elements of both horror and romance. Prominent features of Gothic fiction include terror (both psychological and physical), mystery, the supernatural, ghosts, haunted houses and Gothic architecture, castles, darkness, death, decay, doubles, madness, secrets, and hereditary curses.Gothic_fiction English author, Horace Walpole, was believed to be the founder of Gothic Literature with his novel The Castle of Otranto in 1764.Ann Radcliffe's The Italian; or, The Confessional of the Black Penitents (1797), Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818) and Charles Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) are cited as the defining parameters of the genre.
http://enwikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_fiction
http://www.zittaw.com/canon.htm
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/152/844.jpg
http://considertheevidence.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/.pond/otranto.jpg.w180h235.jpg
The romance was a tale or ballad of chivalric adventure whose emphasis on individual heroism and on the exotic and the mysterious was in clear contrast to the elegant formality and artificiality of prevailing Classical forms of literature, such as the French Neoclassical tragedy or the English heroic couplet in poetry. Romanticism first orginated in the 18th century in Western Europe. It's the next generation after Gothic times. Romanticism in English literature began in the 1790s with the publication of the Lyrical Ballads of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The first phase of the Romantic movement in Germany was marked by innovations in both content and literary style and by a preoccupation with the mystical, the subconscious, and the supernatural. In the United States, romantic gothic literature made an early appearance with Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820). Romanticism isn't just literature. Various forms were found it. Music and painting were a few.
http://75.24.205.227/guenther-history/westernciv2/Romanticism%20and%20Nature.jpg
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/508675/Romanticism
Trancendentalists are what they were rebelling against, what they saw as the current situation and therefore as what they were trying to be different from.Another way to look at the Transcendentalists is to see them as a generation of people struggling to define spirituality and religion (our words, not necessarily theirs) in a way that took into account the new understandings their age made.Transcendentalism was a group of new ideas in literature, religion, culture, and philosophy that emerged in New England in the early to middle 19th century. In the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson, "We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds...A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men."Transcendentalism was a group of new ideas in literature, religion, culture, and philosophy that emerged in New England in the early to middle 19th century. Emerson and other like-minded intellectuals founded the Transcendental Club, which served as a center for the movement. Its first official meeting was held on September 19, 1836.Emerson published his first essay, Nature. Other people who were to believed trancendentalists are Emily Dickison, men like Theodore Parker- and Thomas Wentworth Higginson- who identified themselves as Transcendentalists, also worked for freedom of the slaves and for women's freedom.
http://www.transcendentalists.com/what.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendentalism
http://transcendentalismblog.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834c9da8169e201127936cd6428a4-pi
Thursday, September 24, 2009
The Crucible
The elements of plot in drama are:
expostion
rising actiong
climax
falling action
resolution
Foil is a minor character who helps better understand of the main character
Speech devices:
monologue- long speech spoken by a single character to himself/herself or to the audience
solioquy- monologus in which a character speaks to be unware of the audience (Scrubs guy)
aside-short speech or comment that is by a character to the audience, but is beyond the hearing of other characters who are present (Zach from Save By The Bell)
Spectral evidence- the testimony of a church member who clamied to have seen a person's spirtit performing witchraft-was enough to sentence the accused to death
Crucible means: a sever test or trial
Act One:
The Crucible is set in Salem, Massachusetts, 1692. The town is ruled by God's way. Rules for everyone and everything. Abigail and all her friends are caught dancing around a fire with Tituba. Reverend Parris cathes them and Betty, his daughter, falls down scared. She gets into a like coma and won't come out of it. Everyone in the town is talking about witchcraft which scares Parris because he doesn't want to get blamed for it. He calls for Reverend Hale to come and look at Betty. All the girls have a meeting about it and Abigail tells all of them that they will blame Tituba about the whole thing. Reverened Hale comes and talks to the girls and everyone else about the whole ordeal. Abigail confesses it was Tituba who was doing the witchcraft. They go to her and she doesn't admit to it until Parris beats her. Then she blames Goody Osborn and Goody Sara. When the girls see that they then they all confess to witchery and yell at random names. John Proctor and Abigail have a talk about the whole thing. They had an affair until Elizabeth found out and fired her.
Act Two
John comes over and Elizabeth questions about his whereabouts. She also talks to him about the affair with Abigail which he gets upset and gets mad at her. Mary Warren comes and John gets mad because he forbid her to go town and watch the court. She gives a doll that has a pin in the stomach to Elizabeth. John begins to whip Mary when she yells that she saved Elizabeth's life today. Abigial accused her of witchery, but Mary tells them that Elizabeth was no such woman. Mr. Hale comes along and talks to them about the whole problem. He doesn't want to believe that Elizabeth is a witch. When Hale is about to leave John comes to him and tells him that the whole witch thing is a lie. Abigail lied to everyone to protect herself. When they are speaking Giles comes along and tells them that his wife was taking by the court. While they are talking Cheever comes along and searches the house because of the warrant that was made against them. He finds the popped that Mary gave Elizabeth. Earlier that day Abigail got hurt by a needle that was stuck in her stomach. Like on the doll. Abigail told the people that it was Elizabeth. Proctor freaks and rips up the warrant. Elizabeth is arrested and leaves the house. Proctor gets upset and tells Mary that she will go against the court the next day and tell what is really going on. She stares to bawl and says she cannot do it.
Act Three
The court is talking to all the women that are charged with witchcraft. When Proctor comes about and tries to stall the court. They tell him that his wife is pregnant, but doesn't believe them. Danforth tells him that if she is really pregnant she can live for a year until she gives birth and then she must die. Francis gives a paper to Danforth showing him ninety one names that believe that these women aren't really witches. Proctor confesses to an affair with Abigail.
Act Four
Everything is different in Salem. Sarah Good and Tituba go home to Barboadoes. Abigail runs off and steals Parris money. The court gives Proctor a choice. He can confess to being a witch and right it down. But he must also tell the names of other people. OR he can die. He starts to right down the confession, but he finds out that they will post it on the door. If he does end up living his name will be put to shamed for the rest of life. He figures this out and gets pissed and rips up the paper. He ends up dying.
expostion
rising actiong
climax
falling action
resolution
Foil is a minor character who helps better understand of the main character
Speech devices:
monologue- long speech spoken by a single character to himself/herself or to the audience
solioquy- monologus in which a character speaks to be unware of the audience (Scrubs guy)
aside-short speech or comment that is by a character to the audience, but is beyond the hearing of other characters who are present (Zach from Save By The Bell)
Spectral evidence- the testimony of a church member who clamied to have seen a person's spirtit performing witchraft-was enough to sentence the accused to death
Crucible means: a sever test or trial
Act One:
The Crucible is set in Salem, Massachusetts, 1692. The town is ruled by God's way. Rules for everyone and everything. Abigail and all her friends are caught dancing around a fire with Tituba. Reverend Parris cathes them and Betty, his daughter, falls down scared. She gets into a like coma and won't come out of it. Everyone in the town is talking about witchcraft which scares Parris because he doesn't want to get blamed for it. He calls for Reverend Hale to come and look at Betty. All the girls have a meeting about it and Abigail tells all of them that they will blame Tituba about the whole thing. Reverened Hale comes and talks to the girls and everyone else about the whole ordeal. Abigail confesses it was Tituba who was doing the witchcraft. They go to her and she doesn't admit to it until Parris beats her. Then she blames Goody Osborn and Goody Sara. When the girls see that they then they all confess to witchery and yell at random names. John Proctor and Abigail have a talk about the whole thing. They had an affair until Elizabeth found out and fired her.
Act Two
John comes over and Elizabeth questions about his whereabouts. She also talks to him about the affair with Abigail which he gets upset and gets mad at her. Mary Warren comes and John gets mad because he forbid her to go town and watch the court. She gives a doll that has a pin in the stomach to Elizabeth. John begins to whip Mary when she yells that she saved Elizabeth's life today. Abigial accused her of witchery, but Mary tells them that Elizabeth was no such woman. Mr. Hale comes along and talks to them about the whole problem. He doesn't want to believe that Elizabeth is a witch. When Hale is about to leave John comes to him and tells him that the whole witch thing is a lie. Abigail lied to everyone to protect herself. When they are speaking Giles comes along and tells them that his wife was taking by the court. While they are talking Cheever comes along and searches the house because of the warrant that was made against them. He finds the popped that Mary gave Elizabeth. Earlier that day Abigail got hurt by a needle that was stuck in her stomach. Like on the doll. Abigail told the people that it was Elizabeth. Proctor freaks and rips up the warrant. Elizabeth is arrested and leaves the house. Proctor gets upset and tells Mary that she will go against the court the next day and tell what is really going on. She stares to bawl and says she cannot do it.
Act Three
The court is talking to all the women that are charged with witchcraft. When Proctor comes about and tries to stall the court. They tell him that his wife is pregnant, but doesn't believe them. Danforth tells him that if she is really pregnant she can live for a year until she gives birth and then she must die. Francis gives a paper to Danforth showing him ninety one names that believe that these women aren't really witches. Proctor confesses to an affair with Abigail.
Act Four
Everything is different in Salem. Sarah Good and Tituba go home to Barboadoes. Abigail runs off and steals Parris money. The court gives Proctor a choice. He can confess to being a witch and right it down. But he must also tell the names of other people. OR he can die. He starts to right down the confession, but he finds out that they will post it on the door. If he does end up living his name will be put to shamed for the rest of life. He figures this out and gets pissed and rips up the paper. He ends up dying.
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Puritans and Salem Witch Trials
The Puritans led their own religious ways from the Church of England. They thought that the Church of England was more about politcal struggles and not about God and his way. They tried to "purfiy" their own lives and God's way. Hence the name Puritans.
The video on the left talks about the general overview of the history of Puritans. It says that Puritans are the ancestors to over eight million Americans.
Another video on the left talks about the general history of the Salem Witch Trials. It talks about who was in it, how it happend, why it happen, and the differents between the Red Scare in the 1950's.
The Salem Witch Trials were because the Puritans thought that something was wrong with the Betty Paris and Abigal Williams because the doctor couldn't find anything wrong with them physicaly. So obvisouly something must be wrong mentally. One of the women named Sarah Osborne was charged with witchery ties because she didn't go to church enough. And not going to church regualary it was known as a Puritan Sin.
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Native Americans
Native Americans have gone through a lot over the years. We have beaten, killed and many other cruel ways to banish them from our country. When in fact we were in their country. They have been through a lot and they still love this country and respect it in every way. From what I've learned from the stories that we have read is that Native Americans take pride in what they do. They are very spiritually and rely on help from different gods. Even though we have tried to convert them to our religion they have stayed true to their roots.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lurvePLcrxs
http://stufffromthelab.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/mayflower-ii.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_baloCb-nM&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Pen8GoXPq0
http://www.gutenberg-e.org/gordon/details/images/Lac-du-Flambeau-School.jpg
http://www.hgtv.com/videos/first-thanksgiving/2523.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lurvePLcrxs
http://stufffromthelab.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/mayflower-ii.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_baloCb-nM&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Pen8GoXPq0
http://www.gutenberg-e.org/gordon/details/images/Lac-du-Flambeau-School.jpg
http://www.hgtv.com/videos/first-thanksgiving/2523.html
Monday, August 24, 2009
Pueblo Indians
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A priest talking to the Indians. Catholicsm tried to convert them during the 1700's and 1800's.
*http://www.nps.gov/peco/historyculture/index.htm
The video on the left side is about the Pueblo Indians. It's a cool video about them dancing and that even still today they still do things from their ancerstoring roots.
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*Leslie Marmon Silko is one of the authors who has kept her roots and stayed true to the her Native American Culture. She has wrote numerous books, essays, and poetry. She was just a girl listening to her father's and great grandfather's stories and wanted to let other people know how her heritage started and what it is today.
*http://www.wvu.edu/~nas/pics/sliko.jpg
Friday, August 21, 2009
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