List of complaints begins with "He..."
1. Why do they repeat it?
I believe part of the reason they repeat it is for emphasis. He is referring to the King of England.
2. Why do they make it personal? So it can relate personally to everyone.
Because they desperately want their freedom which is why they came to America; freedom and rights are a very personal thing and it would be difficult to write this without it being personal.
3. How does the D.I. anticipate its audiences resistance to change?
It shows that if they want freedom they are going to have to embrace change and confront the other obstacles in the way.
4. How does the D.I. use parallelism? How does it impact the effectiveness of the piece?
It ties all the writing styles together; just like everyone talks slightly different everyone writes slightly different. When reading it gets easier as you get use to the writers style but if there a many different styles then it gets difficult; so parallelism keeps it together.
5.What to you is the most convincing example stated in the D.I.? Why?
"He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the state remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within. "
For the people to get freedom they are going to have to have a change of life; this example shows that the King has kept them from change therefore kept them from freedom, which is exactly what he wanted to do. They have been somewhat frozen in time until now.
Monday, November 9, 2009
Friday, November 6, 2009
Multiple Notes.
*Ballad of Birmingham- Dudley Randell
*About the bridge being blown up.
*Stride Toward Freedom- Martin Luther King Jr.
*Oppressed people deal by:
1.acquiescence: resign themselves to doom
*cowardly & not moral
2.physical violence or corroding hatred
*momentary results; eye for an eye leaves everyone blind
3.nonviolent resistance
*meets in the middle of the first two.
*Necessary to Protest Ourselves- Malcolm X
*believes you can't grow without criticism.
*if the law doesn't protect you, protect yourself.
*he respects the law & government, but says the question is does it respect you.
*he sees his acts of protection are human reactions that will gain respect for them.
*About the bridge being blown up.
*Stride Toward Freedom- Martin Luther King Jr.
*Oppressed people deal by:
1.acquiescence: resign themselves to doom
*cowardly & not moral
2.physical violence or corroding hatred
*momentary results; eye for an eye leaves everyone blind
3.nonviolent resistance
*meets in the middle of the first two.
*Necessary to Protest Ourselves- Malcolm X
*believes you can't grow without criticism.
*if the law doesn't protect you, protect yourself.
*he respects the law & government, but says the question is does it respect you.
*he sees his acts of protection are human reactions that will gain respect for them.
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Coming of the Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody
*1963-Natchez College
*Anne Moody found out she couldn't graduate early, but it really didn't matter to her because that meant she could stay on campus and participate in the movement.
*She was close with John Salter and he was in charge of the NAACP activities on campus.
*Anne, Memphis, and Pearlena agreed to be part of a movement that started with picketing at JC Pennys, then the three friends went to Woolworth's lunch counter to sit in on the white counter.
*Once people starting showing up the three friends started getting beaten. High school students came in and pulled them by their hair, slapped them, and pushed them up against the counter.
*Memphis was arrested because a guy started attacking him so then it was just the two girls. Then Joan Trumpaer (a white girl) sat down with them, followed by Lois Chaffee (white teacher), then John Salter, and then more and more people kept sitting down.
*After 3 hours of people pouring ketchup, mustard, salt, sugar, pies, malts, basically anything they could get their hands on all over the people, finally the manager tried to close but no one would leave. The whites wouldn't leave before the blacks did, and the blacks wouldn't leave at all.
*Finally a man from the college came in & saw what was going on, he dragged the students out after the police refused to. The police had been standing outside doing nothing at all the whole time.
*Once Anne got back she went to the hairdresser to get all the stuff out of her hair and even though there were people waiting they let her go first.
*In the end we find out that Anne's mother sent her $10 for bus fare & a letter asking to to please come home and not participate in the sit in, however Anne felt passionately about it and she knew she was he only person in her family who was willing do something like this.
*Anne Moody found out she couldn't graduate early, but it really didn't matter to her because that meant she could stay on campus and participate in the movement.
*She was close with John Salter and he was in charge of the NAACP activities on campus.
*Anne, Memphis, and Pearlena agreed to be part of a movement that started with picketing at JC Pennys, then the three friends went to Woolworth's lunch counter to sit in on the white counter.
*Once people starting showing up the three friends started getting beaten. High school students came in and pulled them by their hair, slapped them, and pushed them up against the counter.
*Memphis was arrested because a guy started attacking him so then it was just the two girls. Then Joan Trumpaer (a white girl) sat down with them, followed by Lois Chaffee (white teacher), then John Salter, and then more and more people kept sitting down.
*After 3 hours of people pouring ketchup, mustard, salt, sugar, pies, malts, basically anything they could get their hands on all over the people, finally the manager tried to close but no one would leave. The whites wouldn't leave before the blacks did, and the blacks wouldn't leave at all.
*Finally a man from the college came in & saw what was going on, he dragged the students out after the police refused to. The police had been standing outside doing nothing at all the whole time.
*Once Anne got back she went to the hairdresser to get all the stuff out of her hair and even though there were people waiting they let her go first.
*In the end we find out that Anne's mother sent her $10 for bus fare & a letter asking to to please come home and not participate in the sit in, however Anne felt passionately about it and she knew she was he only person in her family who was willing do something like this.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Gettysburg Address
3. I think the speech shows that Lincoln was very loyal, honorable, and never forgot what came before him. I consider it loyal because he understand that the Civil War is turning our backs on our own country and countrymen, he considers us all to be one big family and we should be loyal to each other, north and south, because we are all one in a whole. It shows he is honorable because he is honoring what came before him, he starts the speech with talking about something that happened 87 years ago. This shows he honors his past and does not forget what came before him.
A Murder, A Mystery, & A Marriage
*John Gray-father
*Village of Deer Lick-very small
*Mary Gray- daughter; Hue Gregory- rich man who loves Mary
*Sarah/Sally Gray- mother
*Tom Gray- brother
*Dave Gray- uncle who hates Hue because when Dave tried to steel Hue's fathers land Hue stopped him.
*Hue proposed to Mary & everyone thought it was great because he was rich.
*Dave left all his money to Mary, so John forbid Mary to marry Hue because it would cause problems
*One day John found a stranger named George Wayne in the prarie.
*Later he admits his real name is Count Hubert dee Fountingblow & his father is a Lord.
*The count starts expressing an interest in Mary.
*One day Dave is talking to the Count then Hue joins their conversation and Dave and Hue get in a fight and Dave threatens to write a new will leaving Mary nothing.
*Dave is murdered and everyone thinks Hue did it because there was a scrap of his jacket, blood on his pants, and a bloody knife in his bed.
*On the day Hue is suppose to die one of Count's friends tells everyone that Count really did it, so he is arrested and Hue & Mary are married.
*Finally we find out that Count only wanted Mary for the money, because he isn't really a Count, his real name is Gean Mercier.
*Village of Deer Lick-very small
*Mary Gray- daughter; Hue Gregory- rich man who loves Mary
*Sarah/Sally Gray- mother
*Tom Gray- brother
*Dave Gray- uncle who hates Hue because when Dave tried to steel Hue's fathers land Hue stopped him.
*Hue proposed to Mary & everyone thought it was great because he was rich.
*Dave left all his money to Mary, so John forbid Mary to marry Hue because it would cause problems
*One day John found a stranger named George Wayne in the prarie.
*Later he admits his real name is Count Hubert dee Fountingblow & his father is a Lord.
*The count starts expressing an interest in Mary.
*One day Dave is talking to the Count then Hue joins their conversation and Dave and Hue get in a fight and Dave threatens to write a new will leaving Mary nothing.
*Dave is murdered and everyone thinks Hue did it because there was a scrap of his jacket, blood on his pants, and a bloody knife in his bed.
*On the day Hue is suppose to die one of Count's friends tells everyone that Count really did it, so he is arrested and Hue & Mary are married.
*Finally we find out that Count only wanted Mary for the money, because he isn't really a Count, his real name is Gean Mercier.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
*figurative language- "His comings were like a thief in the night" (pg 565)
*sentence length- "Again, he would sometimes walk up to us, and give us orders as though he was upon the point of starting a long journey, turn his back upon us, and make as though he was going to the house to get ready; and, before he would get halfway thither, he would turn short and crawl into a fence-corner, or behind some tree, and there watch us till the going down of the sun..." (pg 565)
*elaborate- "It was never to hot or cold; it could never rain, blow, hail or snow to hard for us to work in the field" (pg 565)
* emotional- "I was broken in my body, soul, and spirit" (pg 565).
*word choice- "My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingured about my eye died; that dark night of slavery closed in upon me; and behold a man transformed into a brute!" (pg 565)
*sentence length- "Again, he would sometimes walk up to us, and give us orders as though he was upon the point of starting a long journey, turn his back upon us, and make as though he was going to the house to get ready; and, before he would get halfway thither, he would turn short and crawl into a fence-corner, or behind some tree, and there watch us till the going down of the sun..." (pg 565)
*elaborate- "It was never to hot or cold; it could never rain, blow, hail or snow to hard for us to work in the field" (pg 565)
* emotional- "I was broken in my body, soul, and spirit" (pg 565).
*word choice- "My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingured about my eye died; that dark night of slavery closed in upon me; and behold a man transformed into a brute!" (pg 565)
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Research
Do some research on Mark Twain. Be able to answer the following:
*What does his name mean?-Twain literally means "two" The story behind it is that it was the riverboatman's cry: "the mark twain".
*What is his real name?-Samuel Clemens
*Why are his books controversial?- He had very strong views of political topics of his day and that came out in his writing. Also they were often kept out of schools because he frequently used the word "nigger".
*What are some interesting facts about his life?- He claims he fell in love with Olivia at first sight. They were married for 34 years and had 3 daughters and 1 son. He patented 3 inventions in his lifetime.
*What is the meaning of irony? Provide an example.- The outcome of the event is opposite of what you would think. For instance in a class that you normally don't do your homework in the one time you work for an hour on it, the next day you find out it isn't graded, that would be ironic.
*Who is Jules Verne? What did he write? What is his connection to Twain?-He's a french author who helped invent the science-fiction genre. He wrote about travel in space, air, or underwater. Him and Mark Twain are connected by Five Weeks in a Balloon.
*What does his name mean?-Twain literally means "two" The story behind it is that it was the riverboatman's cry: "the mark twain".
*What is his real name?-Samuel Clemens
*Why are his books controversial?- He had very strong views of political topics of his day and that came out in his writing. Also they were often kept out of schools because he frequently used the word "nigger".
*What are some interesting facts about his life?- He claims he fell in love with Olivia at first sight. They were married for 34 years and had 3 daughters and 1 son. He patented 3 inventions in his lifetime.
*What is the meaning of irony? Provide an example.- The outcome of the event is opposite of what you would think. For instance in a class that you normally don't do your homework in the one time you work for an hour on it, the next day you find out it isn't graded, that would be ironic.
*Who is Jules Verne? What did he write? What is his connection to Twain?-He's a french author who helped invent the science-fiction genre. He wrote about travel in space, air, or underwater. Him and Mark Twain are connected by Five Weeks in a Balloon.
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