The restoration

1. Research The Glorious Revolution (sometimes called the Bloodless Revolution) online or in one of the textbooks. Write a paragraph summarizing what happened, and then another that explains why you think the event was so important.



1. the reason way this is so important is because back then when the people wanted to over through the king they had to drag the king out. but in this case the king did not want him or his family to get hurt. so he listen to his people and took him and his family to France.


2. Define "satire". Don't just copy and paste a definition from another source. Read the definition, and then explain it in your own words. Once you have done that, provide a few modern-day examples of satire (television shows, movies, magazines, etc.).

2. satire in my own words means sarcasm, when some one is saying something nice but they really are saying it to be mean. Or they are just being mean.

3. Read "A Modest Proposal", which may be difficult at first, but if you stick with it, the message will become more clear. Once you are finished reading, you should write a short response to what you read (4-5 sentences), and explain how this is a work of satire.

3. what i found very interesting is that he talks about how women aer having so many kids and not being able to provide for the kids that they have. This was written so many years ago and still are having the same problems to day. so many teens are having babies and grown women and still can not provide for them. so when they growing up they might go down the wrong path and they are no good to the rest of the world. its sad to say that teens and women are still killing their babies but now the only thing diff rent is that doctors are acutely doing it know. Instead of it being done in the street.

4. Read either "from the Diary of Samuel Pepys" or "from A Journal of the Plague Year" by Daniel Defoe, both of which can be found in the purple anthology. Once you have finished reading, write a 1-2 paragraph response to what you have read. Please be sure to include some direct evidence from the text to help show what you are responding to.

4. if i had lived at the time this was all going on i would have gone crazy. most of all if i was a mother. i would hate to see my family get sick and start dying on me. i would be so over protected of what they ate and who were they around. most of all i would not let my family or any one i cared about near that side of town that was to believed to be the most infected.



5. What do you think was most important to people living in this time? Write a 1-2 paragraph response to this question in which you use direct evidence from the texts you read to support whatever arguments you make.

5. The most important thing that i think was important to people back then was that the had to learn to be educated too that things around them can run more smoothly. For example it the mother and father were educated and they had kids they would be able to own a home, have enough money for food and most of all make sure that their kids can be well educated. Another important thing was that they had to find out a way for their town to function as of having running water, safe place to grow and sell food, and to have jobs so they can support them self's.

Realism

1. Read "A Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin. You should be able to identify the following in this story: a. details that specifically explain a characters actions, or detailed descriptions of a setting. a social issue that Chopin wants to solve Write a paragraph response to a and b in which you explain how this story includes these aspects of realism. Each paragraph should have some direct evidence from "A Story of an Hour"

A. the way this story has realism is that it goes in to detail about how a women first heard about her husband who had died in a work accident. when the woman first was told that her husband was killed so was really heart broken. she relied on her sister for fiscal support and emotionally. After that she wanted to be alone in her room to rest. Once in her room she rested but she couldn't help to think that now she is a widow she can do what ever she wants with out having to ask for her husbands pemiton. Although she did love him very much she was happy and sad about her situation. D.E. : But she saw beyond that bitter moment a long procession of years to come that would belong to her absolutely.

B. The social problem that i think she wanted to solve was that men had to much power over what their wife's. Also i think she really wanted to fix the power that men had over women in general. D.E. :There would be no one to live for during those coming years; she would live for herself. There would be no powerful will bending hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow-creature.

.2. Read "The Battle with Mr Covey" by Frederick Douglass. Follow the same directions for #1. Go further on this one to explain what you think Douglass' purpose was for writing this. Your response should be three paragraphs.

2. the way this story has realism is that it goes in to great detail about how a slave would be treated by his boss. when the slave was working out side one day he grew incredibly ill. when his boss notice that he had stoped working he came out and went straight to him and found out what was wrong with him. I was thinking that he was going to give the slave some water or something to help him get back to work but man was i wrong. what the boss ended up doing was beating him up by kicking him repeatedly and telling him to get up. When the boss saw that he was not able to get back to work he gave the slave a blow to the head. D.E. : He gave me another kick , and again told me to rise. D.E. #2 Covey took up the hickory slat with which Hughes had been striking off the half-bushel measure, and with it he gave me a HEAVY blow upon the head, making a large wound and the blood ran freely. reading this made me think about how people didn't care back then for another human bean and it makes me soooo mad that this happened back then.

b. The social issue that Chopin was trying to get resolved was slavery and human rights. why i say slavery is obvious . it made me even more mad that when the slave escaped and had went to his master and told him that if he stayed with Chopin he was going to die. and his master didn't even care. All he said is that he knew Chopin and he knew that he was a good man and would not kill him because it would cost him a whole years worth of wages. I think he wanted to get human rights solved as well. I mean who now and days would let these things happen to some one.

3. Provide a modern example of realism (Boyz in tha Hood, and Menace II Society, for that matter are off-limits). This can be music, a movie, a television show, a book, or whatever you may choose. You need to explain how it is realism, and provide an example from your choice (a lyric, description of a scene, quote, etc.)

3. the modern example i think of realism is how the economy is bad. my example is that the government is giving car dealerships money. it is called cash for clunkers! i think this was a really good idea for the economy to kind of fix it self. For one the dealers get money then people with cars that take up a whole lot of gas to run get switched out for cars than have a better gas mileage. in the long run bad cars get taken off the road, we got a car that works, and the earth has a little bit of the load taken off of its self( the air).

Dark Romanticism

1. Which side of the divide do you fall? Are you closer to being a Transcendentalist or a Dark Romantic? Explain your answer with a short paragraph.

1. I think I am a lot closer to the Transcendentalist beliefs. Why i think i relate to this the most because as soon as i read their beliefs it was exactly how i felt. I really like the fact that they believe that god talks to every one and that we were all born pure and not sinners. But most of all i like the fact that they understand how powerful your mind really is unlike other people who (the church) did not want people to learn how to read.

3. Write a 2-3 paragraph response to the story you read. You should explain what you thought of the story as well as how well it illustrates how the Dark Romantics disagreed with the Transcendantalists. You need to provide at least a line or two of direct textual evidence from the story you chose to prove your claim.

3. My thought on the story i just read was that it was nothing like i was expecting it to be. i had to read the story twice before i fully understood it. this author was such a bad person. i didn't understand how he went from a loving home to a happy marriage and then he just went crazy. i like how he loved animals and his wife. but then as he got older he started to drink heavily and then come home and abuse his wife and his pets. it seemed that he did not know how to control his emotions or his demons that he let it get the best im. he cut his cats eye out then he kills the cat. so weeks go by and he feels bad for mistreating his pets so he gets a new cat. so the same deal he likes the cat then it drives him crazy to the point he kills hi wife. i just hate the fact that he blames this all on the cat!! So the transendantalist belive that all people are good and that god talks to everyone thoughts and by that way the humans will know how to behave. However the dark romantics show "the black cat" as an example that not all people all good and some are just plain out evil. "The fury of a demon instantly possessed me.""I took from my waistcoat-pocket a pen-knife, opened it, grasped the poor beast by the throat, and deliberately cut one of its eyes from the socket "

5. Once of Poe's most famous works was "The Raven", a poem he wrote while his second wife was literally dying in the next room. Read the poem (more than once), and then write a response (at least two paragraphs) that includes a few lines that stuck out to you. Add another paragraph or two that should explain how this poem represents an anti-Transcendental idea. As always, responses with direct evidence are always better than those that do not.

5. the raven has always been a very interesting poem to me. I remembered the first time i heard it was on the Sampson's. i liked how they made it a dark cartoon but still funny. when i read the raven i thought of a man who is extremely sad that he is losing his wife. what gave me this idea is when he wrote "For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore". Also i think he didn't know what to do with him self (" I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow"). so with him not knowing what to do with himself he got so lonely that he thought a bird was staring at him and enjoying his sorrow that he was in. he thought the bird was smiling at him and that it just did not want to leave him and his dying wife alone.

5. the way this represents anti-Transcendental it that if god really spoke to each and every person that he would have helped him in his time of need and help him from going crazy. also he wouldn't see the raven as a sing of evil but as a sign that his sweet Leanor is being guided by a beautifull bird to heaven also he wouldn't be as sad as he is.

1.Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson
I believe that Ralph was trying to explain to people that they are no longer in their old countries. So why should they hold on to the past. Also that they are around new surroundings and that they should enjoy it and make new things of it. Ralph explained that nature was smart. What I mean by this is that nature made all of the things around it. For example " The flowers , the animals, the mountains , reflect the wisdom of his best hour". Also that man needed to learn from nature and see how thing work together in harmony. Most of all that man is just like nature and what I mean by that is that if you want to be happy you have to make yourself happy. Just like nature one day it could be gloomy and cold but the next day it is warm and the sun shinning bright as ever.
2. Self -Reliance
I think Ralph was a very good writer. Because I liked how he expressed his main idea in different ways. The part were I finally understood it was when he used the little boy. The boy would just speak his mind and say whatever he wanted he was him self. When I first stared to read this essay I was kind of lost I had no idea I was under standing what he was trying to say. But as I read on Ralph wants you to have your own thoughts and ideas. He doesn’t want you to agree what with society. Stand up for what you believe in and don’t second guest your self.

Transcendentalism
1. What is original sin?
Original sin is that all people are born sinners.
2. How did the puritans feel about original sin?
The puritans believed that because Adam and Eve have fallen in to sin that every person was born a sinner.
3. How did the Rationalist differ from the Puritans?
The Rationalist believed that every one was born sin free and it was up to people to stay that way if they wanted.
4. What is Romanticism?
Romanticism is what people used in early America to get away from the harsh reality of life so they would make up fiction stories.

Lit 11
American Romanticism
Faviola Perez



1.What about the story did you find particularly Romantic? You may want to reread the section on Romanticism again to refresh your memory. Give at least two examples with direct evidence for each.
1. One part of the story I think is romantic is that Rip was a poor man and he did not want to face the fact that he had to work hard in order to give his family a good life. Instead he would complain on how his farm was the worst land in the country and he cant grow anything on it and that his fence would always fall apart. So what Rip did to make him self feel better he would ignore his own family needs and help his neighbors. Rip would do chores for the women in his town that their own husbands would not do, also instead of finding a way on how to make his crops grow he would go fishing with his dog during the day.
Example:
" He would never refuse to assist a neighbor even in the roughest
toil, and was a foremost man at all country frolics for husking Indian corn,
or building stone-fences; the women of the village, too, used to employ him to run their errands, and to do such little odd jobs as their less obliging
husbands would not do for them. In a word, Rip was ready to attend to
anybody’s business but his own; but as to doing family duty, and keeping
his farm in order, he found it impossible.
In fact, he declared it was of no use to work on his farm; it was the
most pestilent little piece of ground in the whole country; every thing
about it went wrong, and would go wrong, in spite of him. His fences were
continually falling to pieces; his cow would either go astray, or get among
the cabbages; weeds were sure to grow quicker in his fields than anywhere
else; the rain always made a point of setting in just as he had some outdoor
work to do; so that though his patrimonial estate had dwindled away
under his management, acre by acre, until there was little more left than a
mere patch of Indian corn and potatoes, yet it was the worst-conditioned
farm in the neighborhood.".
1. Another part of the story that I think is romantic is that I think Rip was delusional because he was a very happy person. How can some one be so happy and careless about his own family and himself and just be so darn happy?
1. Example 2:
" Rip Van Winkle, however, was one of those happy mortals, of foolish,
well-oiled dispositions, who take the world easy, eat white bread or brown,
whichever can be got with least thought or trouble, and would rather starve
on a penny than work for a pound. If left to himself, he would have
whistled life away in perfect contentment".
2. Read "Thanatopsis" Then write a summary of what you think this poem is saying. What is Romantic about this poem?
2. When I first read the poem I had no idea what it was talking about. Then I read it again and it made a bit more sense to me but I thought it was kind of creepy because all it talks about is death. But when it was broken down section by section it all came together. The poem was written to comfort people who were scared of dieing. But the writer does a really good job making you feel a whole lot better about death. I like the way that you have to image that it is mother nature talking to you. I really like the part that says what if you die and no one notices that you gone? The part after that says not to worry because we are all going to die one day and all of the marital things are not going with us we will all be equal. But the part I like most is the end when he writes think of it as if you are going to bed and you are going to have the best rest you have ever had and when you wake up you will be with all your loved ones who had died before you. So you will never be alone when you die.

4. Read “The Rope walk” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow here. What is the point of this poem? What images stand out to you? How is “The Rope walk” a good example of Romanticism?

What i think the point of this poem is how he thinks of his daily life. it starts at work and every day he does the same routines going round and round like a wheel. but at the end of the day he still maneges to some day lite in his life. And i kind of think think he likes a girl who gives off a gentle look but shes too busy too notice that he is their. so at the end of the day he goes to bed to wake up and do this routines all over again.

5. Look at this painting. How could a piece of visual art like this be considered Romanticism? When you are through responding, upload an image to your post that you consider a good example of Romanticism, and then explain why you chose it.

i think this can be considered romanticism because it shows that life has obstacles in it that are going to be hard to tackle bit in the end you have to look at the big picture and see that it wasn't that bad and you should be happy that you over came all of hard obstacles.

The Rationalists
1. Briefly describe the difference between the Puritans and the Rationalists. Please be careful not to repeat the same words you have read in this entry. Then give an example of something going on today that would be a good illustration of Puritan thought, and one that would be a good example of Rationalist thought.

1. The rationalists are a group of people that lived in the time called age of reason in the 1700s. They believed that god made the world and every thing living on it, but that it was up to the humans to find out a way to live and survive in it. This was a big slap tin the face to the puritans because the believed that you were not to question god in any type of way. That you were only to go to church and every thing you did needed to be for god or he would let you fall in to hell and their was no way to make god happy. One example of something going on today that would be some what like the puritans and the rationalists would be evolution. The rationalist example part would be that every ting on the earth evolved from different species. An example would be that humans evolved from monkeys. The puritans example would be that god made everything the way it looks right now and we should not question god in any type of way.

2. Give one example from The Autobiography of how Franklin is a good example of a rationalist. Make sure you explain why, and provide an example straight from the text.

2. One example of how Franklin was a good rationalist was that he wanted to improve his life. So instead of saying that he wanted god to help him he took it in to his own hands and made a chart of his thirteen virtues and for each day of the week and marked each virtues as he went. Then at the end of the week he went back and looked at his chart that had all of his data and analyzed it. Franklin used logic and science to improve his life and not god.

4. If you were to make a list of thirteen virtues to improve upon in your life, what would they be? List them the way Franklin did. Do you think you could reach moral perfection in this way? Explain how you feel. This should be a paragraph or two.


*Work on school work; the more school work I do the faster I can graduate.

*Pay bills; I need to get my self out of debt (car payments)

*Get more organized with my time; need to organize my time so I can do more school work.

*Stop spending money on things I don’t need; Stop buying clothes and fast food.

*Learn how to be more tolerant; I really need to learn to stay calm when I get mad and not let small things get to me.

*Spend more time with my family; I only have one family and years goes by really fast.

* Be a better friend : i tend to kind to push them away at times.

* Be more involved in school activitys : it will look good when im apllying to college.

* bring my gpa up. the higher the better

* my health : if i dont get that together it is gooing to be bad later down the road.

* put more effort in around the house. it will get some of a load off to my in laws

* do more activitys with my dog : he may be a dog but he needs lots of love.

* do more things for myself: i find myself always thinking of others but i need to make myself happy too.

I dont think i can reach all these in moral profection. I can get to it as close as possibole. All of my goals are reasonable. Its just that i need to put more effort in to all 13 of my goals. What i plan to do is take one goal at a time and work at it until it comes to close as possible.