anthropomorphism

The water is my home

the water is where I stay

but the water is not always safe

I will not always stay

the water has evil creatures

creatures that haunt you, hunt you, want you, dead.

I am only a lost dolphin, in a sea full of sharks, trying to find my way.

The world is my home

the world is where I stay

but the world is not always safe

I will not always stay

the world has evil creatures

creatures that haunt you, hunt you, want you, dead.

I am only a lost girl, in a world full of hate, trying to find my way.

Zeal to survive

Zeal (will) to survive.
The way you accept death or what you would do in order to live. how much would you fight or sacrifice in order to survive


In Titanic the people's zeal to survive was very different. Some launched to their death in the cold sea and others risked others life's for their own.. while the others accepted it and decided to die together with their loved one.. death was just something they knew would come and they decided that it was time. Some know that if the captain would have listened to the warning signs that all their lives could have been saved. while others believe that it was their time or that everything happens for a reason.


In the book "The Call of the Wild" buck's zeal to survive was very strong, every test he was put through he went through it with a strong attitude and he strived to be the best. Buck was not originally in the "wild" he did live in a very comfortable home where he was almost like a "king" but he got sold and ended up in the wild where his king actions turned into survival acts. Are all of bucks owners to blame for how he changed or is it the wilderness?


Maybe no one is to blame for how people turn out, or how one's life is ended. Maybe that is the was its supposed to be that way, its "meant to be." however you want to look at it us as people we have an effect on ourselves how we look at life and how we approach things.

To Create Life

No, I would not create life like Frankenstein because creating life would have a lot of pressure being put on you. To create something and make that life right and not hard for them. You would have to be pretty lonely to want to create a life.

  The first reason is because if you mess up by making that life extra hard for them, that all on you. You could mess up and make that creation really mean and end up hurting other people you know. In my opinion i think that Frankenstein had a hard childhood and it made him want to create something.

  The second reason is that I just would not want to create a life not knowing what to do with it after i was done, do I become his/her friend. Its just weird to me to make a creation like that. I would never do anything like that.

2012 Theme Word

Successful. A Successful Present.  A Successful Future.

 I chose the word successful, because I want to be successful in everything I do. Every time I go to do something I want to have that thought of success, because if you think about being successful rather than giving up you will get far in life, and I want to go far in life. For me I want to go far in life to prove to everyone that I am better than they expected. I think everyone should have that mental thought to get farther than everyone expects them to, to prove not only to them but yourself that you can do anything you set your mind to. To be successful in everything I do is very important to me, it is a sense of accomplishment.

Success can have a lot of benefits like; Happiness and less stress. Success can bring these because if you have success you are more than likely doing what you want which makes you happy and less stress because you probably will not be worried about as much as if you had a job or life that you did not have in mind. In my opinion I think everyone should have a certain goal in mind to push where they are wanting to go. To work harder, and achieve the life they want, not to just get by cause its the easiest thing to do.


"It is not where you came from that matters, it is where you are going."

My Antonia

How would My Ántonia be different if it were told from Ántonia's perspective?
If the story was told from Antonia's perspective, i do not think that very much would change. The outcomes and hardships would be different because they would be more in the point of Antonia and not of Jim. However the overall theme would be the same. Both Jim and Antonia would still have to overcome all the hardships in their childhood.


How effective is Cather, a woman, at narrating a story from the point of view of a man? Does Jim sound like a man writing, or does the narrative sound like a woman pretending to be a man?
I think that Willa Cather does an excellent job at narrating My Antonia. Jim sounds like a man writing, even though he sounds calm, and very certain of his thoughts, he sounds very carefree.


Why do you think Jim changed the title from Antonia to My Antonia?

I think he changed it to show how important Antonia was/is in his life, that she was the main reason he became the person he ended up being.

The Effects of Setting

 

Author Willa Cather embedded literary devices, such as metaphors, similes, and personification, within her writing.

"As I looked about me I felt that the grass was the country, as the water is the sea. The red of the grass made all the great prairie the colour of wine-stains, or of certain seaweeds when they are first washed up. And there was so much motion in it; the whole country seemed, somehow, to be running."

"The grave, with its tall red grass that was never mowed, was like a little island."

"Winter comes down savagely over a little town on the prairie. The wind that sweeps in from the open country strips away all the leafy screens that hide one yard from another in summer, and the houses seem to draw closer together. The roofs, that looked so far away across the green treetops, now stare you in the face, and they are so much uglier than when their angles were softened by vines and shrubs.


Chunk #1: 
The setting makes it difficult for the characters to survive, they have to work harder and struggle more Than they should. Also their relationships with each other makes it very difficult they are growing more apart and they have to do their own things now. Antonia is growing up she is going to parties and out with her friends, and Jim is still the same as he always was.
Chunk #2:

The setting that effects me is Winter, I have a very weak immune system, like a baby I get sick very easily. Usually during the winter I miss a lot of school because of being sick. This effects me because I get behind in school work and it is very hard to get caught up.

"Argument: Child Abuse"

Assertion Claim

• Child abuse could physically and mentally harm your child.

Evidence/Concrete detail

• Child abuse is not any way to punish a child or try to teach them a lesson, it will only make your child afraid of you, and inundated with everything.
• Commentary 1: In many cases children get hit, or brutally abused from something as little as breaking an item. Some parents leave their kids with babysitters and the babysitters will harm the children or punish them in ways the parents would not like for them to be punished.
• Commentary 2: Most runaways, adolescent prostitutes and teenage delinquent's report having been victims of a form of child abuse, and there has been reporters that violent criminals suffered abuse, either physical and/or sexual abuse.

Evidence/concrete Detail 2

• Child abuse can mentally and physically harm the child in many different ways that can leave them scarred for many years or the rest of their life.
• Children who suffer from child abuse often times see themselves as the way their abuser did if the abuser were to tell them "you are ugly and you will not amount to anything" the abused child would most likely believe that for a very long time.
• any form of abuse is destructive to a child's self-confidence and self-esteem. That can affect a child's emotional development, resulting in a sense of and inadequacy.

Opposing Claim

• What some might say is abuse others might say is just a punishment and is the only way to get their child to listen. They may say that everybody has different ways to punish their child, and that a few bruises wont hurt them.

My Rebuttal

•   I say it is not "punishment" if you are physically harming the child which will affect them their whole life, punishment is not hitting the child 10 to 20 times or kicking them or neglecting them, that is not punishment. Bruises may heal, but the mental damage will not. That will be with them for a very long time.

My Paragraph:

     Child abuse is not any way to punish a child or try to teach them a lesson, it will only make your child afraid of you, and frightened of everything.  In many cases children get hit, or brutally abused from something as little as breaking an item. Some parents leave their kids with babysitters and the babysitters will harm the children or punish them in ways the parents would not like for them to be punished. Most runaways, adolescent prostitutes and teenage delinquent's report having been victims of a form of child abuse, and there has been reported that violent criminals suffered abuse, either physical and/or sexual abuse Child abuse can mentally and physically harm the child in many different ways that can leave them scarred for many years or the rest of their life.Children who suffer from child abuse often times see themselves as the way their abuser did if the abuser were to tell them "you're ugly and you will not amount to anything" the abused child would most likely believe that for a very long time. Any form of abuse is destructive to a child's self-confidence and self-esteem. That can affect a child's emotional development, resulting in a sense of and inadequacy. What some might say is abuse others might say is just a punishment and is the only way to get their child to listen. They may say that everybody has different ways to punish their child, and that a few bruises wont hurt them. I say is not "punishment" if you are physically harming the child which will affect them their whole life, punishment is not hitting the child 10 to 20 times or kicking them or neglecting them, that is not punishment.Bruises may heal, but the mental damage will not, that will be with them for a very long time.

My Thinking: This paragraph is mostly deductive thinking because of the website i got this information from.

Source:
http://www.nccafv.org/child.htm