Wednesday, May 7, 2014
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
1) - Thantos = Death, Opsis = Seeing
- The poem relates to death a lot with how it describes and mentions tombs and graves and eternal resting places.
2) Shroud- Wrap or dress worn for burial
Pall- A cloth spread over a coffin, hearse, or tomb
Narrow House- Another word for the grave
Sepulcher- A place for burial
- This poem is mostly talking about death, so these words really relate to the poem.
3) The poem is about death, because of the words used it make you think of death. There is also a shift between life to death in the poem lines.
4) The tone in the beginning of the poem is forbidding and changes as it gets to line 30.
5) An elegy is a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead. The poem shifts from grief to comfort.
6) The Painting would probably have dark clouds over a grave yard with a shift going through it, with tall crinkly grass.
7) It represents part of the view of the time period. The theme talks about nature a lot and Romanticism dealt with a lot nature and talking about its beneficial affect. It is saying, from a Calvinist point of view, that after death, you return to nature. It's Describing death and life and saying like death is alright.
- The poem relates to death a lot with how it describes and mentions tombs and graves and eternal resting places.
2) Shroud- Wrap or dress worn for burial
Pall- A cloth spread over a coffin, hearse, or tomb
Narrow House- Another word for the grave
Sepulcher- A place for burial
- This poem is mostly talking about death, so these words really relate to the poem.
3) The poem is about death, because of the words used it make you think of death. There is also a shift between life to death in the poem lines.
4) The tone in the beginning of the poem is forbidding and changes as it gets to line 30.
5) An elegy is a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead. The poem shifts from grief to comfort.
6) The Painting would probably have dark clouds over a grave yard with a shift going through it, with tall crinkly grass.
7) It represents part of the view of the time period. The theme talks about nature a lot and Romanticism dealt with a lot nature and talking about its beneficial affect. It is saying, from a Calvinist point of view, that after death, you return to nature. It's Describing death and life and saying like death is alright.
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Arthur
Miller-
Key events: - 1915 Born on October 17th in New York City
- 1934 Enters University of Michigan to study Journalism
- 1944 Daughter, Jane, is born.
- 1953 The Crucible premier earns the Antoinette Perry Award and Donaldson Award
- 1959 Receives the Gold Medal for Drama from the National Institute of Arts and Letters.
- 1963 Daughter, Rebecca, is born.
- 2003 Awarded the Jerusalem Prize.
- 2005 Dies of heart failur on February 10th.
- 1936 No Villain later title changed to They Too Arise then to The Grass Still Grows
- Honors at Dawn
- The Great Disobedience
- Listen My Children, You're Next
Salem Witch Trails Pt. 1
1. Being accused of being a witch was terrifying. I tried arguing that I wasn't a witch! Why wouldn't they believe me? Finally, after much interrogation, I just gave in. I told them that I was indeed a witch. Anything to stop the screaming and accusations. I was sent to jail for something that wasn't at all true. But I guess they liked my "honesty" because they let me go! It was so terrifying and thankfully God had mercy through those accusers and let me live. Praise God!
2. The fact that in the Crucible Ruth's real name was after her mother, Ann could be a minor difference. A big difference is that Reverend Hale never signed a single death certificate while in theplay , he had signed 17. There are multiple key people in the
real event who were not even mentioned in the play including, John Indian, Rev.
Nicholas Noyes, Sarah Cloyce, and Cotton Mather. Giles Corey was never executed
for refusing to name a witness.
3. I think that it is a very fair assumption that this certain type of poisoning caused the hysteria that seemed to be flowing throughout Salem at this time. The ones who claimed to be bewitched described how they felt and these symptoms matched up perfectly with the symptoms that you commonly see from ergot poisoning.
4. It is very strict as well as ruthless. There is very little forgiveness given for any mistakes that you should make or even just for saying "the wrong thing".
5. Everyone went a little overboard when it came to safety. Safety is a big key word. The Red Scare was the fear of the safety from Communism while the Salem Witch Trials were called to insure the safety of the "mortal" people of Salem.
6. The biggest similarity is of course the precautions taken due to fear of the unknown. The children were kept in internment camps due strictly to the fact that americans were unsure of how involved these American citizens were with Japan.
7. This statement means that if we are unaware or careless about what has happened in history, we are much more likely to allow it to be repeated because we are unaware of the signs of possible uprisings. We learn from history by the studies of what signs give away or advertise uprisings and how they were contained. The Crucible does a good job at explaining the overall view of the events but leaves out a few key details and characters. So I would say that it does a fair to poor job of really helping the reader to understand the full history of the Salem Witch Trials.
8. Just the European witch hunts during the 15th through 17th centuries during the Renaissance usually resolved in trials similar to the Salem Witch Trials, Torture, and even the deaths of those accused.
9. The most interesting thing that I learned from this assignment would be how it felt from the perspective of the accused "witches" and being able to go through more than one scenario.
1. Being accused of being a witch was terrifying. I tried arguing that I wasn't a witch! Why wouldn't they believe me? Finally, after much interrogation, I just gave in. I told them that I was indeed a witch. Anything to stop the screaming and accusations. I was sent to jail for something that wasn't at all true. But I guess they liked my "honesty" because they let me go! It was so terrifying and thankfully God had mercy through those accusers and let me live. Praise God!
2. The fact that in the Crucible Ruth's real name was after her mother, Ann could be a minor difference. A big difference is that Reverend Hale never signed a single death certificate while in the
3. I think that it is a very fair assumption that this certain type of poisoning caused the hysteria that seemed to be flowing throughout Salem at this time. The ones who claimed to be bewitched described how they felt and these symptoms matched up perfectly with the symptoms that you commonly see from ergot poisoning.
4. It is very strict as well as ruthless. There is very little forgiveness given for any mistakes that you should make or even just for saying "the wrong thing".
5. Everyone went a little overboard when it came to safety. Safety is a big key word. The Red Scare was the fear of the safety from Communism while the Salem Witch Trials were called to insure the safety of the "mortal" people of Salem.
6. The biggest similarity is of course the precautions taken due to fear of the unknown. The children were kept in internment camps due strictly to the fact that americans were unsure of how involved these American citizens were with Japan.
7. This statement means that if we are unaware or careless about what has happened in history, we are much more likely to allow it to be repeated because we are unaware of the signs of possible uprisings. We learn from history by the studies of what signs give away or advertise uprisings and how they were contained. The Crucible does a good job at explaining the overall view of the events but leaves out a few key details and characters. So I would say that it does a fair to poor job of really helping the reader to understand the full history of the Salem Witch Trials.
8. Just the European witch hunts during the 15th through 17th centuries during the Renaissance usually resolved in trials similar to the Salem Witch Trials, Torture, and even the deaths of those accused.
9. The most interesting thing that I learned from this assignment would be how it felt from the perspective of the accused "witches" and being able to go through more than one scenario.
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Sinners in The Hands of an Angry God
1. Edwards wants to persuade the audience to be born again and live clean.
2. Those who sin despite their beliefs. He continues about them going to Hell soon and his audience is fundamentalist Christians.
3. To change God's mind.
4. To emphasize his point to the audience.
5. It gives multiple ways to describe the main idea. In paragraph two is another.
6. To emphasize how many criteria there are.
7. To express them as individual statements. He repeats "not willing" to that you don't matter.
8. God's wrath is always at the ready. The imagery helps us to understand the power God possesses.
9. He begins to portray God as a scary angry person.
10. Edwards uses what the audience already knows about God to support his case, ethos by putting the fear of God into the audience, and pathos by using specific words and the way that he worded his statements.
11. Edwards' tone is very serious and almost angry. He talks about how God's wrath is like a bow making us feel fear. I didn't notice a change in the mood. He seemed very serious about his reason for the speech from the very beginning
12. Text that is meant to be heard usually uses smaller and easier to understand words so that the audience isn't lost during your speech. Text that is meant to be read often has larger more difficult words.
13. The text is persuasive by his use of specific reasons based off of the fundamentalist beliefs that make the audience understand where he is coming from.
14. I believe that it would be the parts where he portrays God as scary which a lot of the audience isn't used to. It may have been because he had convinced the audience that they were all inevitably doomed to Hell.
1. Edwards wants to persuade the audience to be born again and live clean.
2. Those who sin despite their beliefs. He continues about them going to Hell soon and his audience is fundamentalist Christians.
3. To change God's mind.
4. To emphasize his point to the audience.
5. It gives multiple ways to describe the main idea. In paragraph two is another.
6. To emphasize how many criteria there are.
7. To express them as individual statements. He repeats "not willing" to that you don't matter.
8. God's wrath is always at the ready. The imagery helps us to understand the power God possesses.
9. He begins to portray God as a scary angry person.
10. Edwards uses what the audience already knows about God to support his case, ethos by putting the fear of God into the audience, and pathos by using specific words and the way that he worded his statements.
11. Edwards' tone is very serious and almost angry. He talks about how God's wrath is like a bow making us feel fear. I didn't notice a change in the mood. He seemed very serious about his reason for the speech from the very beginning
12. Text that is meant to be heard usually uses smaller and easier to understand words so that the audience isn't lost during your speech. Text that is meant to be read often has larger more difficult words.
13. The text is persuasive by his use of specific reasons based off of the fundamentalist beliefs that make the audience understand where he is coming from.
14. I believe that it would be the parts where he portrays God as scary which a lot of the audience isn't used to. It may have been because he had convinced the audience that they were all inevitably doomed to Hell.
Sunday, February 2, 2014
The color yellow is often associated with sickness or weakness, and the writer’s
mysterious illness is a symbol of man’s oppression of the female sex. The two
windows from which the writer often peers out of, observing the world but apart
from it, is representative of the possibilities of women if seen as equals by
the opposite sex. The story “The Yellow Wallpaper,” written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, was
interesting with deep symbolic undertones. The story starts out with John and
his wife moving to a colonial estate for the summer. Meanwhile, the woman finds
the mansion to be “a haunted house” and still she thought it had something
queer about it. This estate and her environment have much to do with this
woman’s fate. The woman just had a baby, so most of her depression could come
from this big event in her life but the baby is only mentioned a few times near
the beginning of the story. After she settles in the new house, the yellow
wallpaper starts to bother her, which is a key turning point in this woman’s
life. “The Yellow Wallpaper” is symbolic for the main character’s sanity and her
entrapment, physically and mentally. As the story progresses, so does the main character. The main character that
speaks in first person, believes that she is sick. John, her husband, as well as
her brother are both physicians. They two believe she is sick. John on the other
hand treats his wife with an almost demeaning attitude, calling her little
girl, and little goose. He treats her as a child at times, plus doesn’t really
listen.
The yellow wallpaper acts like a mental entrapment for the main character. At the end of the story, the main character rips down the yellow wallpaper to release the woman behind the paper. This was symbolic because even though she saw a woman, this woman was her. When the narrator was angry she put that onto the wallpaper, so that is why she ripped the wallpaper down. She was trapped behind the pattern and she couldn’t move from it. This is the point where her sickness has gotten to the worst extent. This woman is full on crazy now. The wallpaper led her to create her own madness. The main character says in the story, There are things in the wallpaper that nobody knows about but me, or ever will. Not even John knew what was really going on because he was always working and never took his wife’s thoughts too seriously. The yellow wallpaper also acts as physical entrapment to the main character. The wallpaper blocks her into that small room. She feels like she cannot get better in that room. In a sense she can’t get better in that room because of the things preventing her from resting. Her eyes are constantly on the yellow wallpaper. Forcing her to scrutinize the detailed pattern. Her mind also feels she cannot step away from the wallpaper.The underlying symbol of the yellow wallpaper is the main character’s sanity. As the wallpaper changes so does the character’s attitude towards herself. When the character changes or progresses so does the main character. The yellow wallpaper itself is the most obvious symbol in this story. The wallpaper represents the main charcater's mind set during this time. It further symbolizes the way women were perceived during the 19th century. The wallpaper cannot be categorized into any particular type. It contains patterns, angles, and curves that all contradict one another, and it can be seen the same could be said for the wife's emotions during this time. The nursery is a symbol of the way women of this time were seen as being on the same level as children. The barred windows are symbols of the confinement of women during this time with respect to the perception of what a woman's role was. The narrator's tearing down the wallpaper in an attempt to find the woman in the wallpaper represents her struggle to retain or regain her sanity. The wallpaper has been part of her confinement and by her tearing it down, she is freeing herself from that confinement. Another symbol is the narrator's writings in her notebook and the notebook itself. Both represent the narrator's attempt to have normalcy and sanity during this horrible ordeal of being locked in her room. Despite being told by her husband that he wants to limit the amount of time she uses to write, she continues to write more behind his back and this is her tie to her own sanity and sense of reality whatever her reality is at this time.
The yellow wallpaper acts like a mental entrapment for the main character. At the end of the story, the main character rips down the yellow wallpaper to release the woman behind the paper. This was symbolic because even though she saw a woman, this woman was her. When the narrator was angry she put that onto the wallpaper, so that is why she ripped the wallpaper down. She was trapped behind the pattern and she couldn’t move from it. This is the point where her sickness has gotten to the worst extent. This woman is full on crazy now. The wallpaper led her to create her own madness. The main character says in the story, There are things in the wallpaper that nobody knows about but me, or ever will. Not even John knew what was really going on because he was always working and never took his wife’s thoughts too seriously. The yellow wallpaper also acts as physical entrapment to the main character. The wallpaper blocks her into that small room. She feels like she cannot get better in that room. In a sense she can’t get better in that room because of the things preventing her from resting. Her eyes are constantly on the yellow wallpaper. Forcing her to scrutinize the detailed pattern. Her mind also feels she cannot step away from the wallpaper.The underlying symbol of the yellow wallpaper is the main character’s sanity. As the wallpaper changes so does the character’s attitude towards herself. When the character changes or progresses so does the main character. The yellow wallpaper itself is the most obvious symbol in this story. The wallpaper represents the main charcater's mind set during this time. It further symbolizes the way women were perceived during the 19th century. The wallpaper cannot be categorized into any particular type. It contains patterns, angles, and curves that all contradict one another, and it can be seen the same could be said for the wife's emotions during this time. The nursery is a symbol of the way women of this time were seen as being on the same level as children. The barred windows are symbols of the confinement of women during this time with respect to the perception of what a woman's role was. The narrator's tearing down the wallpaper in an attempt to find the woman in the wallpaper represents her struggle to retain or regain her sanity. The wallpaper has been part of her confinement and by her tearing it down, she is freeing herself from that confinement. Another symbol is the narrator's writings in her notebook and the notebook itself. Both represent the narrator's attempt to have normalcy and sanity during this horrible ordeal of being locked in her room. Despite being told by her husband that he wants to limit the amount of time she uses to write, she continues to write more behind his back and this is her tie to her own sanity and sense of reality whatever her reality is at this time.
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
English 3 Honors Introduction.
My name is Darrell Izard. I was born in Hickory NC, I moved to Newton my sophmore year. I'm looking forward to being in honors english 3 this semester even though I believe it will be a challenge, but Mr. Stewart didn't sign that paper for nothing so I can handle it. I've been told im too serious but I say that i'm just mature and I don't like to play around alot. I believe theres a time yeah maybe to play around or what ever but theres also a time where you have to be serious and stay focus. Being successful in life is very imporatnt to me so that is what I strive for everyday is to be successful! I love people, and encouraging, and helping them out at times you never know how that brightens a persons day. What are my favorite things to do? Well I like to cook and when I say cook I mean your boy can cook haha I'm probably the best cook in the school anything you name it I can do it. I would have to say that most of all though music is my life i'm a singer and song writer, I started my own young adult community choir last year called Chosen For Christ. I often say God and Music is my life because thats mainly what I do church and work on music, so hopefully I will be on the radio one day for my music who knows. I defenitly want to go off to college after graduation next year 2015 can't wait seems like time is flying! I have big goals and plans for my life and success is the key!!
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