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Modernism

The story I read was about a man who waited 2 years to come home after the war was over. He came back home and was expecting to get the best greeting in the world. The Problem was the town had already greeted the soldiers and weren't really worried about him coming back home so he got back home and wanted to tell his story about what happened in the war but no one wanted to hear it because they had already heard stories from the other soldiers that came back home 2 years ago. So after he wasn't able to tell his story he figured that things would be the same at home but things had changed so much that he couldn't tell what was what. All the girls had grown up and were almost full figured even his little sister had grown up. So since had been home from the war he did nothing with him life he just sat at home on his parents porch reading the newspaper, and watched the women walk by.

Disillusionment- He thought when he got home from the war that he would get a greeting from all the people back home but he wasn't because the people had already welcomed the soldiers. Direct Quote: By the time Krebs returned to his home town in Oklahoma the greeting of heroes was over. He came back much too late. The men from the town who had been drafted had all been welcomed elaborately on their return. There had been a great deal of hysteria. Now the reaction had set in.
So He Figured "Well since i came back late then i will get the best kind of greeting there is and i don't have to share mines.
Poems:
Richard Corey- He killed himself because his life wasn't all that it was perked to be.
Disillusionment- People thought that because he was rich that he was happy but money doesn't make a person. Direct Quote:
And he was rich—yes, richer than a king,And admirably schooled in every grace:In fine, we thought that he was everything To make us wish that we were in his place.

Mending Wall-
One man wanted to build a wall because he wanted to keep his apples from falling in the neighbors yard with the pines. But the other neighbor said that it really wasn't necessary to have a wall.
Direct Quote:Good fences make good neighbours
So He is saying that it isn't a bad thing to have a wall but have a good reason to have one.

A Dream Deferred-
In This Poem Langston Hughes was saying that what happened to all the dreams black kids had as a child? They didn't dream about being slaves, or even being traded for food. They had dreams of becoming famous people have a good life. Direct Quote- What happens to a dream deferred?Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?
he is saying is a dream just a dream just something you have to think about what your life COULD be like but instead its the total opposite.

The Negro Speaks Of Rivers-
Langston Hughes was saying in this poem that there is a lot to learn about rivers. He was saying that they believed that our ancestors came from rivers. He was telling us that black people bathed in the rivers that are so popular in history right now and the pyramid out by the Nile river is their because our ancestors built it. Direct Quote-I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset. So now he is saying if it wasn't for our ancestors none of the things that get talked about in history would exist.

Incident-
The poem incident was kind of self explanatory. There was a little black boy riding in the car in Baltimore and was looking out his window and just so happened in the car beside him and he smiled at the man and the man pointed at him and called him a nigger. Direct Quote- And so I smiled, but he poked out His tongue, and called me, "Nigger."
I saw the whole of Baltimore From May until December;Of all the things that happened there That's all that I remember. So he is saying out of all the things that happened in Baltimore the only thing he happens to remember is when someone called him a nigger.

Realism

Story of an Hour-
This story is an good example of Realism because it describes how she felt after she found out that her husband was dead. She wasn't sad she Went up stairs and sat in a chair in front of the window she could hear birds chirping and she could see the clouds forming together and she could smell the rain. So in the way that she was describing what was going on outside you could tell that she had no sympathy for her husband dying. DQ- She could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life. The delicious breath of rain was in the air. In the street below a peddler was crying his wares. The notes of a distant song which some one was singing reached her faintly, and countless sparrows were twittering in the eaves. The reason this is considered as being Realism is because Kate is giving you the most specific details on how Louise is feeling like in my direct quote on how she was enjoying what was going on outside and the fact that her husband had just passed didn't even phase her.



The Social Issue-
The Social Issue was that she wanted to solve was that she wanted women to be treated the same way that men were but if not the same then at least equally. That men shouldn't be able to tell women what they can and can't do and besides have children and clean. DQ- 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. This is realism because Kate Chopin wanted her readers to see what goes on in an average womans life and she wanted them to make a change after they have read what she wrote.

The Battle with Mr. Covey-
He gives details about how the blood was making his hair mat up and how he had thorns in his feet from running from Mr. Covey and when he fell in the bushes and how he had blood running down his face and how his shirt was dusty from falling in the woods.DQ- The blood was yet oozing from the wound on my head. For a time I thought I should bleed to death, and think now that I should have done so, but the blood so matted my hair as to stop the wound. The reason that this is considered realism is because Fredrick is giving us details on how he is bleeding so much that his hair is matting up. The reson he is giving us many details is because he wants us to realize or maybe even feel how is feeling after Mr. Covey beat him.

The Social Issue-
Fredrick Douglass wants to stop slavery. He figured that he would let Mr. Covey beat him and then go to his master and let him see how Mr. Covey was treating him so that would give him a good reason to go to Mr. Hughes but Mr. Hughes didn't react the way that he thought he would. Mr. Hughes told him that he belonged to Mr. Covey because he had a lot of money on him and that he didn't believe that Mr.Covey would do something like that. DQ- After receiving this blow my head grew bigger and at this moment I resolved to go to my master. The reason that this is realism because Fredrick Douglass wants people who have never witnessed slavery to wittness what he went through and see how much they would like for someone to do the things to them that Mr. Covey has done to him.

Writing 4

Gossip

Gossip starts in the craziest ways possible. It starts by maybe hanging with the wrong crowd or maybe even by being seen with a boy. Gossip is everywhere but is mainly known to be in schools. It has had a big effect at Classic City High school a school where gossip shouldn’t even be or even be thought about.

Gossip is harmful to the Classic City High School environment. One reason it is harmful to school environment is because it causes people to fight. Fighting is not tolerated at this school. People who fight lose their spot in school, and then they have a choice to either go back to their old school or drop out. So Gossiping causes people to lose a chance to get an education.
Some students get to the point to where they are fed up with gossip and they just decide not to go back to school.
For example, there was this girl who had gotten talked about so much that it had gotten to the point to where she was tired of people talking about her because she wasn’t the fighting type of female. She was the type that just let problems dissolve on their own, but these people kept talking about her and teachers weren’t really that big of help so she got so fed up with it that she just stopped coming to school.
The next reason that it happens to be harmful is because it ruins students’ school concentration. It makes them lose focus on what they are supposed to be doing. Say someone has a big math test coming up and then all of a sudden some people come in their face about some he say she say stuff, and they are all worried about who said what; and when they said it. Then it comes time to take the test and they fail it.
Once i had a big test to take in my literature class. Right before I had gotten into my class someone called my name. I said, "what" and then she said, "I heard that you been talking about me." I was looking at her like she was crazy, and I asked her that big question. "WHO TOLD YOU THAT?" Then she told me not to worry about that, so I told her, "Don’t worry about if I have been talking about you or not," and I left it at that. The reason this is harmful to the school environment is because when students are at school the only thing they need concentrate on is your schoolwork.
When I got in class, I got a tardy because I had been out in the hallway talking about something that had no relation to my schoolwork. While I was taking my test, I wasn’t able to concentrate. I was so worried about who had told her I had been talking about her, because someone went and told a lie on me.
Another way gossip is harmful to the school environment is that it ruins students’ reputations, and their friendships. How might you ask? When people come telling students lies about who someone is dating then that big question comes out: "Who told you that?" That’s when all the lies start floating around. An example of how gossiping ruins friendships is when someone comes back and tells you that your "SUPPOSED TO BE BESTFRIEND" has been talking about you. Then you go and confront your best friend about it, and she gets all upset at you because you would believe what someone who loves to start trouble has to say.
I am here at Classic City because I was involved in too much drama at my old school, and I wasn’t getting any kind of work done because I was so caught up with why people were talking about me and why people were telling lies on me. When I came for my interview at this school, the first thing the principal told me was that we do not tolerate any of that drama and fighting. When he told me that, I was glad. I knew right then that I would get a lot of work done at this school. Even though it’s not tolerated over here, people walk in the door with drama on their minds and are ready to start spreading it like wildfire.
If you take the time to stop and think about it, then you would figure that there is no need for gossip. All it does is ruin your life, especially if you are young, and as you grow up, people look at you as that little trouble maker or just a little gossip queen and that makes a person feel bad. If you don’t want to lose your spot in school, or be seen as that type of person who likes to be in middle of drama tell whoever is trying to start drama to take it some where else because Classic City High is not the place for gossip.

Dark Romanticism

Herman Melville- No he was not pure because he wasn't using his own mind. He was possessed by the evilness and they told him to kill the whale and the men aboard his ship and he did as he was told.

Edgar Allen Poe- Poe would be against it also because he also goes with what his mid tells him and not what he tells himself. The evilness was telling him to hang that cat and take its eye out so he did it and was crying while doing it. And if he had of been going with his one instinct then he wouldn't have done it anyway.

I could see myself as a trascendentalist because if i thought about killing someone or even harmign someone i would ask myself why do i want to do this? Do i have a good reason for this? and many other questions like that.

The book i chose to read was Black Cat and the way i think that this book proves to be part of Dark Romanticism is because in this book the man felt that he was possessed by evilness. But at first he was just an ordinary man who loved animals, he got married to a woman that loved animals as much as he did. Then all of a sudden he had became an alcoholic and had started neglecting his animals, all except one his cat Pluto. But one day he came home drunk and picked the cat up by his neck and the cat bit him the reason he picked the cat up like that was because he felt that the cat was neglecting him. So his evilness told him to take the cat eye out because it had bit him. But while he was taking the cat eye out he was crying, it was like he had feelings but his mind had been taken over by some evil spirits so he had no idea what he was doing. Then he hung the cat just because the evil spirits had told him to and while he was hanging the cat he was crying. But after he hung the cat his house had burned down so he went back to see what damages were done to his house and as he walked around he saw that the wall where his headboard of his bed was was still up and then he saw shadow of the cat the he had hung. So he had told hisself that he would stop drinking but it didn't last long because he ended up at a bar where he ad saw another cat that looke just like the one he had killed. So it followed him home and when they got to his house the cat fell in love with his wife but once he became sober he started to realize that he didn't really like that cat and that it had a white spot on its chest. So he tried to his best so saty away from yhe cat but it continued to follow him where ever he went so it had got to the point where he want to punch the cat but he didn't. So one day he was cleaning up their cellar and he had got an wxe and was about to kill the cat but his wife stopped him and he killed her by hitting her in the head with the axe. So after he killed her her he put her in the wall of the cellar so that nobody could tell that she was even dead. And then the police came and searched his house and he started telling on hisself and they took the wall down and found that he had put the cat in the wall also with his wife.

The way this realtes to Dark Romanticism:
Evilness is one of the main characteritics of mankind.

Raven-
I think in this poem Poe was trying his best to be a trascendatlist because he was asking the bird all types of questions about his wife dying and why he kept coming to his window. But i think deep down inside that he wanted to kill the bird because it wouldn't tell him what he wanted to know. The part that stuck out to me was that the bird wouldn't leave when he asked him to

Direct Quote:
"But the Raven sitting lonely on the placid budt spoke only that one word as if his soul in that one word he did outpour nothing farther then he uttered not a feather then he fluttered till i scarcely more than muttered other friends have flown befire on the morrow he will leave me as my hopes have flown before."
Then the bird said nevermore.

Weekly Reading

The book that i just got finished reading is Every Thug Needs A Lady. It was the third part to my other book but all the girls had grown up and were about to get married and have children. But the book this time was more focused on Roz who is also called Tasha and Angel. The part about Roz was that she started messing with one of ex boyfriends employees named Trae, while Nakiyah her ex was in prison. So they started messing around and he started buying her things and he bought her a New Beamer and he was buying her jewelery and keeping her nails and hair done. But he would leave from time to time because he was still selling drugs and he was trying to get out of the game because he really wanted to be with Tasha. But what really made him want to get out was the simple fact that he had gotten Tasha Pregnant and by the time he was on his last run of selling drugs Tasha lost her baby because she was already stressed out because he was never home but also because he started telling her about where all his money was stashed at and where she could go if her never came back and that made her start thinking that he was either going to get killed or that he was going to jail. So he left then with Angel the same thing started happening because she was dating Kaylin who was best friends with Trae so Angel also got worried that Kay wasn't coming back because he had left her a note in her apartment telling her that same thing that Trae told Tasha. But what had happened was that they both went to prison and they got out and Angel and Kaylin got married but after her wedding her ex boyfriend Najee came looking for her. And now i have to read the other book to find out what happened so stay tuned.!!!!!!;p

Weekly Reading

The Book that I was reading was called Thugs and The Women Who Love Them By Wahida Clark. The book is about a teenage girl who gets involved with the wrong man. She is only 14 years old and she dealing drugs she was about to get raped by the crew that she was selling for because they had found out that instead of her selling it she was using it for her personal use. But before they could rape her a childhood friend stopped them so then her and her friend started going together. So one day she was walking to her friends' house for a party and she got stopped by the neighborhood drug dealer he was very popular from other drug dealers and women of all ages young and old. So she was walking and he stopped her in her tracks she was scared to talk to him at first because she didn't want her boyfriend to get upset. But she talked to him anyway so instead of her going to the party she ended up going to his house and having sex with him and once she had had sex with him that's when she OFFICALLY became his. She had just stopped talking to her boyfriend without any kind of notice. So the drug dealer started buying her clothes and one day she went looking for him because he was supposed to take her out and he never did come so she ended up running into her boyfriend who had been calling her friends trying to see where she was and they wouldn't tell him. So he pulled her to the side but she also remembered what the drug dealer had told her. He told her that she needed to let him go because he was her man now.

Transcendentalism

Transcendentalist- They were people who fondly believed in god they had no other intention of thinking about what others had to say they didn't like the government because they felt that the government would lead you in the wrong direction. They figured as long as they had god for help that everything would be okay.



Nature- When i read nature he was talking about how he changed. He turned into god by just going into the woods. When he went into the woods he had transcended into as child amazed by everything in the woods. Its also kind of like he was saying that to some people that the wood would just be the ordinary wood but to him them meant something. He saw things that no one else probably would have seen kind of like him using his imagination while he was in the woods. He had better chance to connect with himself because he just disappears he has no distractions.

Direct Evidence- Most people do not see the sun the same way some people have a very superficial way of seeing.



Self Reliance- In Self Reliance he was saying that you should be your own person that you should envy yourself because you are just as good as the next person so why envy others when you can just be yourself. think in your own perspective. For an example i chose Michael Jackson because he acts the way he wants to nobody tells him how he needs to dress or how he should act in public that is his own doing and someone who thinks on their own without anyone telling them is called an Non-Conformist and that is exactly what Michael is he doesn't care what other people are going to say about him when he comes out in public because their thoughts don't matter as long as he is happy how he is then everything is okay.

Direct Evidence- To be great you must break away from society itself.

Civil Government- Well its not that they are saying that they actually hate the government but they feel that they but in at the wrong time. Like saying that the government shouldn't get involved in war type things because it makes matters worse for the country. They want a better government a government who knows when to get involved and when not to. A government who knows when to say the right thing and when to just keep their mouths shut.
Direct Evidence- We ask not for a elimination of the government but a better one.

Scenario-
"Scenario 1"
I think that Susan and David are rushing into getting married and Susan should go ahead and go of to college and still be able to plan her wedding with David. But she should put her educations first.

A transecdentalist would go with whatever their mind tells them to go with becuase the believe more of what their soul has to say than taking anyone elses advice.
"Self-trust is the first secret to success. "
~~Ralph Waldo Emerson~~

Ropewalk

In the Poem Ropewalk he is talking to us to keep his mind off pf making rope. He is telling us about how the rope will be used once he has finished making it. Like for example Then an old man in a tower,Ringing loud the noontide hour, While the rope coils round and roundLike a serpent at his feet,And again, in swift retreat, Nearly lifts him from the ground. He is telling us that their is an oldman ringing a bell somewhere and that the bell is so heavy that it's pulling him of the ground everytime the rope goes up.



What i thought was romantic about your picture was the whole scene because that isn't your ordinary sunrise. We don't see that every morning when we get up but we coudl imagine what the sunrise will look like.

I picked this picture because i am trying to imagine this whole scene and what it means. I mean when you first take a look at this picture you look at the big white things and wonder what they are and then you start trying to visualize what those people are doing out their. And that's why i picked this picture to be romantic

Thanatopsis

In the poem Thanatopsis William Cullen Bryant was saying that you don't always have to fell down about something. No matter what goes wrong in your life think positive about it say for example you and your boyfriend broke up that doesn't mean that you walk around looking sad all the time cheer and find you a happy place because maybe it just wasn't meant to be for you all to be together. And when you get ill don't get sad and start thinking about death but think about getting better think about all the happy things that your are going to do when you get better.

What makes it romantic-
Their sharpness, ere he is aware. When thoughts Of the last bitter hour come like a blight Over thy spirit, and sad images Of the stern agony, and shroud, and pall, And breathless darkness, and the narrow house, Make thee to shudder, and grow sick at heart

Lizzie Borden

Amber Gaines
Writing 2
Mr. Siegmund
Lit 11

Lizzie Borden

Lizzie Borden was born July 19, 1860 in Fall River Massachusetts. She was charged with the murders of her father and stepmother. Her biological mother died in 1862 from complications from her birth of her sister Emma. But her father who could have cared less was all about money he was worth about $500,000 himself because he was a wealthy businessman. Three years after his wife’s death he married a woman by the name of Abby Durfee Gray who Lizzie didn’t seem to be fond of. Lizzie was a very popular person she was known to be active in all kinds of charity and civic duty. Without any signs from her father, she and her sister Emma were withdrawn from his inheritance, and that’s when everything started to go downhill. Lizzie and her father argued more than ever, but no one knew that all that would change in just a matter of time.
Then all of a sudden some of Andrew’s and Abby’s belongings came up missing, her father’s money had been stolen and Abby’s jewelry had been stolen also. Even though Andrew and Abby really didn’t have to think on who stole their items Andrew and Abby still found it important to do a police investigations.So after all of that had happened her sister Emma decided to take a trip just to get away from everything that had been going on in the house because Lizzie, her Father and Abby argued almost every day? On a Thursday morning of August everything was about to change, and no one knew how.
At 11:15am Thursday the Borden’s maid Bridget heard Lizzie screaming that her father had been killed. When Bridget returned within seconds with the doctor he was pronounced dead. Lizzie then told Bridget that she felt that her stepmother had also been killed so they searched the house and to their surprise she was found dead upstairs. The family doctor (Dr. Bowen) sent a telegram to Emma who was still vacationing and was in no rush to get home to check on her family. Once the bodies were removed from the house, Bridget and Lizzie were both questioned about the murders.
Lizzie told authorities that she had been outside in the barn with the tools.
Witnesses that saw her after the murders say she had no blood on her. Her uncle john had just returned from lunch and had become the first suspect in the murder. And because Lizzie had made herself seem so innocent they figured she would be the last person to kill her parents. Lizzie was soon arrested after the investigations and tried for both murders in 1893 but she was acquitted due to lack of evidence.
Lizzie wasn’t worried anymore about the murder trial after she had been acquitted. She then inherited half of her father’s estate and bought her and Emma a Mansion in one Fall Rivers highest priced neighborhood but Emma and Lizzie hadn’t been getting along after the murder so she decided that she would move away from Lizzie. Lizzie died in 1972 of pneumonia her sister Emma read about her death but didn’t think about going to her funeral. Emma died ten days later from an anonymous fall.
The questions still remains why did Lizzie Borden kill her parents? Why did her sister decide just all of a sudden go on a vacation and not even think to attend the funeral services for her father and stepmother? Did Emma know about the murders and just didn’t say anything? And how did she REALLY DIE?
I got some of my information from http://www.wikipedia.com/ and http://www.lizzie-borden.com/, http://www.karisable.com/

American Romanticism- Rip Van Winkle

Rip Van winkle was a very popular man. He was known as the town's most friendliest person. He was so popular that when he walked down the street all the kids would come and play with him, dogs wouldn't bark at him and the town wives even gossiped with him. But Rip was a little to popular he was so popular that he forgot about his own family.

He was a married man who was never took care of his family problems. because he was more worried about the village people more than his own family. So then all of a sudden rip went into the woods to play his favorite sport squirrel shooting. I feel that no man could be that famous in a small village all and never take care of his family. It seems to me like he was so big on making the town happy that he really didn't care that he had a family at all!!

And just as long as he was okay with the town people that everything was okay. But once he so called had been sleep for 20 years and went the same people that made him feel big headed were either dead or didn't recognize him. And once he returned to that village he was wishing that he could just go back home to his family but their were gone and his own dog didn't recognize him. But once the old lady that used to stay next door to him realized who he was she started talking to him asking him what happened and why was he gone for so long."Sure enough! it is Rip Van Winkle--it is himself! Welcome home again, old neighbor--Why, where have you been these twenty long years?"

The part i found romantic was about how he slept for twenty years. How does someone sleep that long? You can't i just can't make myself believe that just because he drunk some liquor that it put him to sleep that long. but maybe it was the liquor that put him to sleep i mean he didnt know the men he was playing cards with so it may have been the liquor that did it.

EXAMPLES:Where have you been these twenty long years?

And the picture showing him waking up from his twenty year long sleep.

Rationalist

Part 1- The difference between Rationalist and Puritans is that Rationalist didnt think the worse for everyone and that god want responsible for everything bad that happend. rationalist believed that human society was run by natural law meaning they had a mind of their own. So if they felt that they had made the right choice then they would stick with it. So as i read it seems like its saying like before they have a mind of their own and they fell that no one should just go to hell for what adam and eve had done. The puritans on the other hand felt that god was holding them over the fiery pit of hell just laughing at them and he wanted to drop them over in their.

Part 3-What Makes Benjamin Franklin a Good Rationalist
What makes him a good rationalist is that Ben had a mind of on his own. He NEVER let anyone tell him what to do. If he thought that he was doing the wrong thing then he would correct himself we wouldn't let anyone bring him down. He was different from others what others thought about him didn't matter to him. Its kind of like Ben was a independent person he would try his best at something and if he couldn't get it then that's when he would ask for help.That is why Ben Franklin is a good rationalist.
EXAMPLE:
I proceeded on my journey on foot, having fifty miles to Burlington, where I was told I should find boats that would carry me the rest of the way to Philadelphia.

13 Virtues
Honesty- To be honest, to tell the truth
Considerate- To be understanding to others needs.
Sympathy- To have feelings for others who are down.
Independent- To be able to do for yourself.
Trustworthy-To be able to be trusted by others.
Joyful- To be glad, or to bring joy.
Pride- To have pride in yourself to think the best of yourself.
Manners- Respecting others but mostly your elders
Respect- The same as manners but with respect you have to give it to recieve it.
Friendly- Making new friends
Courteous- Being polite
Violence- Something that will never solve anything.

part 5- Declaration of Independence
1)I think this is a rationalist thought because it was saying that every man should be treated the same. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.
2)I Think this is a rationalist thought also because it was saying that through all the troubles that we have been through we all stood together and helped out one another even when their wasnt anyone else who aould have been their for us like. He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies without the consent of our legislature.
3)??

FERGIE

By: Amber Gaines
Mr. Siegmund
Lit/Comp 11
FERGIE
Fergie born, as Stacy Ferguson, is a native born Californian and is known for being in the group Black- Eyed Peas she was the replacement for another female singer. But once they heard how angelic her voice was they knew they were ready to hit the studio up. And they blew up the charts with their first hit "Where is the love" featuring Justin Timberlake, and next came their other hit song "Shut-Up" and then came their song that was played at ALL NBA GAMES "Lets get it started" Which was originally called Lets get retarded. But after they were finished with their number one NBA song they came out with the summers hottest hit "My Humps" and that’s when Fergie thought she would try out her solo career.

"How Come Every time I come around my London London Bridge wanna go down"? But the real question is who was this goddess voice singing this song? FERGIE! Who shocked everyone with her first single LONDON BRIDGE? Then came her next hit FERGALICIOUS with former band member Will.I.Am. And after that Fergie came out with her #1 song "GLAMOROUS" and now making it’s was to the top of the chart is her next single "BIG GIRLS DON’T CRY".

Fergie’s music sounds different it’s not your ordinary music you hear when you get into your car or when you’re putting on your favorite C.D. Others have your ordinary bass and a beat then they’re singing. With Fergie it was another thing she actually made music because with Fergie you get a little bit more piano or drum before you actually hear the song. Fergie also separates herself from most other female r and b singers. Fergie takes her music seriously some r and b singer just sing for the money that’s why they make one song and they are done with the whole singing career. But not Fergie, she made one song being a solo artist just to see how it was going to take an effect on her life and once she saw that the fans loved her music she continued on with it. She may sing about her personal life in maybe one or two of her songs but she is most likely to be singing about REALITY, things that are actually going on something that you wouldn’t get from most other r and b singers.

Fergie’s clothing style ranges differently from others she is just normal life female who likes to relax when she’s not working hard she likes to dress in the normal jeans and t- shirt. When she knows she is about to be seen in front of millions of her fans she goes to her favorite designers from Dolce and Gabana to Emilo Pucci and Fendi. She always says that when she’s not working, she likes to just be comfortable in her regular jeans and t- shirt even though her jeans may be designer because her favorite ones are True Religion and Seven Jeans. She still feels that she doesn’t have to be in designer clothes every day even though she doesn’t mind hiding her face behind her Dolce and Gabana shades.

When you hear Fergie’s voice sometime it makes you wonder. Why doesn’t most singers’ sound like this? The answer is because Fergie vocalizes to keep her voice in tack. She likes to go in to the studio, and harmonize just a little bit; sometimes she may even use them in some of her songs. Fergie isn’t you typical high note type of singer. When you hear fergie sing you can tell that she is no Mariah Carey. Fergie likes to keep her music mellow she likes for her music to be soothing like "BIG GIRLS DON’T CRY" something that you could listen to while just sitting in your room. Even though she may have her upbeat music.

I think that Fergie has led a wonderful life from being in a group to making it out on her own with her solo career. She is showing everybody that when bands break apart or maybe even separate that they can make it on their own have a backbone something to fallback on. And if a solo career isn’t working for them then maybe they could take up other things. I don’t think that Fergie is going to just do the solo thing I think that we should look forward to maybe even seeing her on the big screen. We may never know!!!

Depravity

The reason the puritans believe the way they do is because what happened back in the past between Adam and eve and that because god didn't punish them that they should go to hell. Everyone makes mistakes and Adam and eve made one but if i wasn't for the mistake that they made they wouldn't be here criticizing and talk down about god the way that they do. They said that he didn't die for all but if he didn't die for all then how are they here? They also thought that all Church's should be organized and that all humans depended on one person GOD.


Writing Response:
I think that the puritans(Pilgrims) should change their ways because it seems to me like they don't appreciate what god has done for them. As i read the passage and listen to the video it seemed to me that they were saying that everyone was a sinner and if they weren't chosen by god that they should rot in hell. And they think that "EVERYONE IS OUT OF CHRIST". But they were also happy because they made it to America safely.

On November the 11ht the arrived in cape cod looking for a place of habitation and somewhere where they could find fresh water and fresh food.On November the 15Th they decided to take a journey through the ambush and while they were on their journey they saw a couple of strange men they had no idea who they were or where they were from and them being Indians (PILGRIMS)they thought that those were some people coming to put them back on the ship or maybe had heard that they had arrived and they planned to kill them. But the men followed them because they wanted to know who they were and to see if they could find out a little bit of information from them because they had seen them lying in the ambush. So they thought once they made it to America that they would use their own liberty although bone of them had power to demand.

On March 16TH a bold Indian has came to them and spoke English which they understood very well after he had spoken to them them had became very well acquainted he told them his name was Samoset but he gave them another name of a man who could speak English a lot better than him because he was from England. After they learned to speak English they went got back all their tools that were stolen away from them and they made a way for the coming of their great Sachem, called Massasoit.

I think that once they got to America that they felt they were free but they also felt as if their was someone trying to come after them just like the men who were trying to figure out who they were. The Indians thought that they were trying to kill them or make them go back across the ocean. But all in all i think it did them some good to come to America.

Natural men are held in the hand of god over they fiery pit of hell and they have deserved the pit and are sentenced to it. This is an example of Perseverance of the "saints".

God's hand have held you up he is the reason that you woke up thism orning after you clsede your eyes last night, he is the reason that you have not entered to firey pit of hell. This is an example of Unconditional Election.

About Amber

Well first off my name is Amber Gaines i am 17 yrs old. I have 2 brothers Trellas and Terry who are 13 and 5 i live with my mother Angela. I am currently attending Classic City High School this is my first year here but more about me is that i am a sweet and loving person i happen to be VERY FRIENDLY!!! I like hanging out with friends but mainly my boyfriend!