JIM

In the story of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", there is an african character called Jim. From what I've read about him, he isn't very bright, plus he is superstitious.

Scene#1: Jim is a man who is portrayed as a superstitious person as in the book. He acts as if he is able to talk with spirits of either the afterlife, either good or evil.

Scene#2: Jim looks more clever and caring in this one. He was like a slave, who is owned by another person and is obliged to follow orders or else pain or death could be consequences. Jim wants to escape to a free-state to begin a new better life.

Both scenes portrayed Jim very differently. They both had totally different personalities and duties.

Satire in Shrek 2.

1.) Exaggeration: To show something to be larger, smaller, better, or worser than what it actually is. Ex: When donkey keeps saying "No one said I have the right to speak!" (I think)

2.) Incongruity: Not in harmony. Ex: Fairy godmother's scene when she gives Fiona a bunch of many different gifts.

3.) Reversal: The change to an opposite direction of an action. Ex: When Fiona denies her fairy godmother's luxurious gifts.

4.)An imitation of someone or something with humor into it and comic effect. Ex: When the sleeping beauty was in deep sleep and just fell to the floor.

Kindred Project Questions.

1.) My favorite found poem is the one that starts with "The room seemed to blur and darken around me"

2.) My favorite picture was the group of Jasmine Sage. Some great art they put onto their poster.

3.) My favorite quote is "Seconds count when something is trying to kill you." This is actually from my group. This tells a lot from the story because it actually does show events in the story that have situations about life or death. The word "seconds" is important too because time traveling is the reason for the main character going through dangerous situations.

4.) After reading about the characters, I believe thinks could probably get worser from what I read. I think Rufus will be terribly raised by his bad father and turn Rufus exactly like him, which will lead to torture against slaves and perhaps against Dana's ancestors as well.

Slavery and America Today.

How did slavery change America? Slavery changed America by affecting the attitude towards true freedom to African descendants. Even though slavery is no more, there is still some hatred left for some Americans towards Africans descendants.

Satire

Satire: The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices.

An example of satire is Family Guy.

There's Something About Paulie -Season 2. In this send up of the mobster mentality in which Peter is enlisted to see that Big Fat Paulie, a Jersey mobsters relative is taken care of during his visit to Quahog, when he accidently gets Paulie to put a hit out on Lois. Chaos ensues, ending in the Godfather's daughter's wedding and a Tiramisu. Classic family guy humor with some solid asides.

Note to...

Dear ....,

I would like to persuade Resistance to Civil Government to you and for others who are also on my side.

The greatest obstacles to this happening seem to be because of the whites trying to look supreme to all the other races.

I am also worried about the lives at risk for the slaves.

What do you think of slavery?

Thanks for your help.

Sincerely,

Kervin Cano

Thoreau's Walden.

1.) Why did Thoreau move to Walden? He loved to be around nature not civilization so well. He believed that nature and human soul were divine.

2.)What was his life like there? It was peaceful, away from all the technology he believes is blackening the way the people live further in time.

3.)What did he criticize in modern life? There is no need to move on with all the new man made creations when he believes all people need to live happily after is nature only.

4.) Do you agree or disagree with his critique? I am like in between because I also like nature too and hope to live around it, but technology is also important because the more advanced it gets the more benefits. Overall, I like his idea, so I agree I prefer nature to stay than technology we pretty much are well advanced now.

Transcendentalism Song (Gone going by Black Eyed Peas)

"Gone Going"

Johnny wanna be a big star
Get on stage and play the guitar
Make a little money, buy a fancy car
Big old house and an alligator
Just to match with them alligator shoes
He's a rich man so he's no longer singing the blues
He's singing songs about material things
And platinum rings and watches that go bling
But, diamonds don't bling in the dark
He a star now, but he ain't singing from the heart
Sooner or later he's just gonna fall apart
Cause his fans can't relate to his new found art
He ain't doing what he did from the start
And that's putting in some feeling and thought
He decided to live his life shallow
Cash in his love for material

[Chorus]
And its gone... gone... going...
Gone... everything gone... give a damn...
Gone be the birds when they don't want to sing...
Gone people... all awkward with their things... gone.

You see yourself in the mirror
And you feel safe cause it looks familiar
But you afraid to open up your soul
Cause you don't really know, don't really know
Who he is, the person that's deep within
Cause you are content with just being the name-brand man
And you fail to see that its trivial
Insignificant, you addicted to material
I've seen your kind before
You're the type that thinks souls is sold in a store
Packaged up with incense sticks
With them vegetarian meals
To you that's righteous
You're fiction like books
You need to go out to life and look
Cause... what happens when they take your material
You already sold your soul and its...

[Chorus]

You say that time is money and money is time
So you got mind in your money and your money on your mind
But what about... that crime that you did to get paid
And what about... that bid, you can't take it to your brain
What about those shoes you'll wear today
They'll do no good on the bridges you burnt along the way

All that money that you got gonna be gone
That gear that you rock gonna be gone
The house up on the hill gonna be gone
The gold purse on your grill gonna be gone
The ice on your wrist gonna be gone
That nice little Miss gonna be gone
That whip that you roll gonna be gone
And what's worst is your soul's already gone

[Chorus]

Link to hear song: http://www.playlist.com/searchbeta/tracks#gone%20going/all/1

Calvin and Hobbes Transcendentalism

Here is a link for examples of strips with transcendentalism: http://progressiveboink.com/archive/calvinhobbes.htm

My topic for the Year Long Civil Disobedience Project.

I got bad news.....I DON'T HAVE A GROUP!!!! D:

American Literary Periods.

The Colonial Period's style of writing is Sermons written in plain style rather than ornate. It has personal narratives which are written freely in their own words. The Romantic Period's differs from the Colonial Period's by slave narratives, poetry, and short stories. Some Characteristics for Transcendentalism are two different ways: Transcendental(Self-reliance and individualism) and Gothic(Sin, pain, evil). The historical context affected these literary periods by changing their ways to live by their mood and emotions.

The Glass Menagerie Pre-Show Discussion Answers (It was all Kervin Cano!))

1.) If I had to write a play based on my family the format I would use is comedy because I most of the time just do things just for the laughs. I would only use a few members of the family if I did do a play. Yes, I would be proud to share my story with my family itself.

2.) What I think the symbolism for the title is obsession. The glass menagerie is so important to Laura because to start this out she loved her glass menagerie, since it is made of glass it is too vulnerable for being fragile so it takes splendid care for them to be okay. I think she chose to collect all the little animals because collecting stuff feels like an accomplishment. They were made of glass because it gives divine beauty. The glass has great quality, and that relates to Laura by her desire for having greatness.

3.) From what I know, there was conflict between Germany and the United States back in urban America in the 1930s. That affected people's lives by being drafted to armies to both countries and be forced to choose sides between Germany and the U.S. . This could have affected the lives of the Wingfields by ruining their goals to triumph their dreams of whatever they desired. (Draft or death maybe). I think the times play after a last bad meeting between Amanda and Tom.

4.)I think the future of television in the 1930s was far off less than 20 years after. I don't think Jim was so well forward-thinking. If I was to "get in on the floor" of an industry, it would be a book writer. I think the impact would take only a few years.

Civil Disobedience Subject.

I'm not in a group yet but what I'm interested for my civil disobedience project is to talk about how some parents' mess up their kids' childhoods and cause them to have a failure future, in my opinion.

Here are three ideas of why this subject should be at its end:

1.) It causes depression to the child.

2.) It creates a bad personality to the child.

3.) It could possibly cause death at young age.

Here is a link to this subject:

http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/2578494/Wordle_Blog

Rebels Wordle

http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/2578494/Wordle_Blog

My teenage suicide website choice.

http://www.cfw.tufts.edu/?/category/health/1/topic/teen-suicide/156/

Teenagers commit suicide because of their current problems they cannot fix and seem impossible to escape. This causes them huge stress, loss of hope, and worst of all, deeply lowers their desire to live on. I've been through many hard times and stress myself, but I know there's always a way out. Although, for those teenagers who took their lives for their problems must've probably been in a serious situation I've never experienced. I know this part your about to read is off the subject but suicides often leave the spirits of the dead walking in our world, unable to rest in peace perhaps for eternity. That is the worst thing that could happen after death. The link above will give you helpful information in to how the teenage suicide can be stopped before it's too late.

Victory goes to evil.

The tale is a fail

when the end is quail,

innocent souls falling

is the devil's ending.

Beginnings aren't happy

forever when evil strikes

down the sympathy

with twisted lies.

Spirits and demons named

for the chaotic nonsense

of tragedies reigned

in the plot of madness.

The evil was a girl,

a girl of beauty,

perhaps the devil's girl

due to evil insanity.

She played as a child

of the Lord,

she was looking mild.

She danced in the woods,

laughter at prayer,

no longer thought of goods,

caught and then danger.

She created the group

meant to follow her

meant to help her,

and not to turn on her

or else it's your body

in hell's angry fiery.

There are the public enemy,

calling her witch,

a whore,

a liar,

and murder.

With no evidence to prove guilt,

there shall be no winning,

only seen as the real guilt

and go down loosing.

The nation wants the good as dead,

they want them brutally hanged,

they want them forever disappeared,

from the world of the damned.

She has met her goal

to get her victims to flow,

up the blue sky,

to move on out of her eye.

She became victorious,

now she must flee

to escape the ferocious

as the truth is free.

She is just a girl,

a beautiful girl,

but the real her,

is a soul of twisted anger,

Her name is

Abigail Williams.