Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Monday, May 25, 2009
An author will often write about mood. Mood plays a big part in short stories especially in these short stories "A Sound of Thunder" by Ray Bradbury, "A Piece of String" by Guy De Maupassant, and "First Confession" by Frank O'Connor. All these short stories deal with hatred. Even though they all deal with the same mood they are at different levels.
Travis and Eckels are the main characters in "A Sound of Thunder". In the short story you can tell that Travis is wary of Eckels. Eckels is a rich, scared little man who on this occasion ruins the future. Travis is a very paranoid man that doesn't like Eckels from the start. In this short story Eckels and a friend go on a hunting trip that takes him back into the past. Travis tells them the rules. The number one rule is not to step off the path. As they reach their destination Eckels realizes that this trip is too much for him. He gets scared because he didn't know that the dinosaur was going to be that big. Travis tell him that he can go back to the Time Machine. As Eckels turns to run to the Time Machine, the dinosaur sees the movement and charges. Eckels runs and without thinking he runs off the path. When they find him they realize that he stepped off the path. On the way back they hope that nothings changed. They were wrong. They have a different President, a new alphabet, and dinosaurs are still around. All because when he stepped off the path he killed a butterfly.
In the short story "A Piece of String" the main characters are Maitre Hauchecome and Monsieur Malandain. Maitre Hauchecome is an older man who suffers from rheumatism and is a good hater. Monsieur Malandain is an older man who has a harness shop and is also a good hater. In this short story Maitre Hauchecome is walking along a street in Goderville, when he comes across a piece of string. He thinks that he might as well pick it up, it could be useful. As he does he notices that his enemy, Monsieur Malandain, was staring at him. Maitre Hauchecome being ashamed to be in such a position that he made it look like he was looking for something he lost. He then put the piece of string in his pocket. He thought that everything was okay, but everything wasn't. As he was eating a crier told everyone that a pocket book was stolen. Maitre Hauchecome was taken to the Mayor's office because Monsieur Malandain told the mayor that he had seen him pick up the pocket book. This resulted in the whole town thinking that Maitre Hauchecome stole this pocket book when all he did was pick up a piece of string. In the end he ended up dying because gossip consumed him.
Jackie is the main character in the short story "First Confession". Jackie is a little boy that lives in the year 1900's. This is Jackie's first confession. He goes with his older sister, Nora. Nora, being the way she is, was trying to make Jackie afraid of going. So as he walked up to the confessional, being as scared as he was without the help of his sister, went in. Then the trouble starts. After he fell in the confessional and fought with his sister, the priest had a one on one with Jackie at that time he told about the hate he had for his grandmother. After Jakie's first confession he thought it went well. He bragged about how the priest liked him and gave him candy to his sister all the way home.
The differences between the stories is that they each have a different level of hatred. In "A Sound of Thunder" the level of hatred is a one on a scale of one - three, one being the most hatred. It is so high because Eckels changed the future and didn't listen. Travis has so much hatred for Eckels that in the end when the future was changed because of Eckels, Travis kills him. "Stay out of this!" Travis shook his hand away. "This son of a bitch nearly killed us. But it isn't that so much. Hell, no. It's his shoes! Look at them! He ran off the Path. My God, that ruins us! Christ knows how much we'll forfeit! Tens of thousands of dollars of insurance! We guarantee no one leaves the Path. He left it. Oh, the damn fool! I'll have to report to the government. They might revoke our license to travel. God knows what he's done to Time, to History!"(198) In "A Piece of String" hatred plays into this short story because you already know that the two main characters hate each other but by Monsieur Malandain to assume that Maitre Hauchecome took the pocket book brings the hatred to a two. "He took the bit of thin cord from the ground and began to roll it carefully when he noticed Monsieur Malandain, the harness-maker, on the threshold of his door, looking at him. They had heretofore had business together on the subject of a halter, and they were on bad terms, being both good haters."(154) In "First Confession" the hatred is a three because it is a childish hate between Jakie and his grandmother. "And what's a-trouble to you, Jackie" "Father," I said, feeling I might as well get it over while I had him in good humour, "I had it all arranged to kill my grandmother." He seemed a bit shaken by that, all right, because he said nothing for quite a while. "My goodness," he said at last, "that's be a shocking thing to do. What put that into your head?" "Father," I said. feeling very sorry for myself, "she's an awful women."(169)
The similarities between the three short stories are that hatred plays into them well. They all have some sort of hatred and it fits the story well. Some other similarities are that the short stories all have more than one character that is dealing with hatred, instead of character verses self or character verses nature. All of them are character verses character when dealing with hatred.
All three short stories are unique in their own way, but they are also different. Travis hates Eckels for changing the future. Maitre Hauchecome is hated by Monsieur Malandain because they are enemies. Jackie hates his grandmother beacuse she is weird and mean. They each have a different levels of hatred. The hatred in each story makes the stories more interesting to the reader.
Travis and Eckels are the main characters in "A Sound of Thunder". In the short story you can tell that Travis is wary of Eckels. Eckels is a rich, scared little man who on this occasion ruins the future. Travis is a very paranoid man that doesn't like Eckels from the start. In this short story Eckels and a friend go on a hunting trip that takes him back into the past. Travis tells them the rules. The number one rule is not to step off the path. As they reach their destination Eckels realizes that this trip is too much for him. He gets scared because he didn't know that the dinosaur was going to be that big. Travis tell him that he can go back to the Time Machine. As Eckels turns to run to the Time Machine, the dinosaur sees the movement and charges. Eckels runs and without thinking he runs off the path. When they find him they realize that he stepped off the path. On the way back they hope that nothings changed. They were wrong. They have a different President, a new alphabet, and dinosaurs are still around. All because when he stepped off the path he killed a butterfly.
In the short story "A Piece of String" the main characters are Maitre Hauchecome and Monsieur Malandain. Maitre Hauchecome is an older man who suffers from rheumatism and is a good hater. Monsieur Malandain is an older man who has a harness shop and is also a good hater. In this short story Maitre Hauchecome is walking along a street in Goderville, when he comes across a piece of string. He thinks that he might as well pick it up, it could be useful. As he does he notices that his enemy, Monsieur Malandain, was staring at him. Maitre Hauchecome being ashamed to be in such a position that he made it look like he was looking for something he lost. He then put the piece of string in his pocket. He thought that everything was okay, but everything wasn't. As he was eating a crier told everyone that a pocket book was stolen. Maitre Hauchecome was taken to the Mayor's office because Monsieur Malandain told the mayor that he had seen him pick up the pocket book. This resulted in the whole town thinking that Maitre Hauchecome stole this pocket book when all he did was pick up a piece of string. In the end he ended up dying because gossip consumed him.
Jackie is the main character in the short story "First Confession". Jackie is a little boy that lives in the year 1900's. This is Jackie's first confession. He goes with his older sister, Nora. Nora, being the way she is, was trying to make Jackie afraid of going. So as he walked up to the confessional, being as scared as he was without the help of his sister, went in. Then the trouble starts. After he fell in the confessional and fought with his sister, the priest had a one on one with Jackie at that time he told about the hate he had for his grandmother. After Jakie's first confession he thought it went well. He bragged about how the priest liked him and gave him candy to his sister all the way home.
The differences between the stories is that they each have a different level of hatred. In "A Sound of Thunder" the level of hatred is a one on a scale of one - three, one being the most hatred. It is so high because Eckels changed the future and didn't listen. Travis has so much hatred for Eckels that in the end when the future was changed because of Eckels, Travis kills him. "Stay out of this!" Travis shook his hand away. "This son of a bitch nearly killed us. But it isn't that so much. Hell, no. It's his shoes! Look at them! He ran off the Path. My God, that ruins us! Christ knows how much we'll forfeit! Tens of thousands of dollars of insurance! We guarantee no one leaves the Path. He left it. Oh, the damn fool! I'll have to report to the government. They might revoke our license to travel. God knows what he's done to Time, to History!"(198) In "A Piece of String" hatred plays into this short story because you already know that the two main characters hate each other but by Monsieur Malandain to assume that Maitre Hauchecome took the pocket book brings the hatred to a two. "He took the bit of thin cord from the ground and began to roll it carefully when he noticed Monsieur Malandain, the harness-maker, on the threshold of his door, looking at him. They had heretofore had business together on the subject of a halter, and they were on bad terms, being both good haters."(154) In "First Confession" the hatred is a three because it is a childish hate between Jakie and his grandmother. "And what's a-trouble to you, Jackie" "Father," I said, feeling I might as well get it over while I had him in good humour, "I had it all arranged to kill my grandmother." He seemed a bit shaken by that, all right, because he said nothing for quite a while. "My goodness," he said at last, "that's be a shocking thing to do. What put that into your head?" "Father," I said. feeling very sorry for myself, "she's an awful women."(169)
The similarities between the three short stories are that hatred plays into them well. They all have some sort of hatred and it fits the story well. Some other similarities are that the short stories all have more than one character that is dealing with hatred, instead of character verses self or character verses nature. All of them are character verses character when dealing with hatred.
All three short stories are unique in their own way, but they are also different. Travis hates Eckels for changing the future. Maitre Hauchecome is hated by Monsieur Malandain because they are enemies. Jackie hates his grandmother beacuse she is weird and mean. They each have a different levels of hatred. The hatred in each story makes the stories more interesting to the reader.
Abortion or not abortion, that is the question.
In 2003, worldwide, there was 42 million abortion. On the national level, more than 44,000,000 babies have died to abortion since 1973. North Carolina makes up 2.2 to 2.3 percent of that. On average 71 abortions per day were performed on North Carolina residents in 2002. The highest abortion rate (which is the number of induced abortions per 1,000 women of reproductive age) in 2002 occurred to women ages 20-24. The abortion fraction (which is the number of induced abortions per 1,000 reported pregnancies) was highest among women ages 15-19.
Worldwide there are arguments on if abortions should be legal or not. Abortion should not be legalized because it is the same as murdering a person. Some people believe that it is just a baby its not born or developed yet. The truth is that most of the people who get abortions are a couple weeks along in the pregnancy, which means that that baby that they are getting taken out of them is at least 12 weeks old or more.
There are side effects of abortion. Some of them are abdominal pain and cramping, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and spotting and bleeding. More serious side effects are heavy or persistent bleeding, infection or sepsis, damage to the cervix, scarring of the uterine lining, perforation of the uterus, damage to other organs, and even death.
There are many different ways to have an abortion. Some ways are spontaneous abortion which is a miscarriage, induced abortion which is a regular abortion, medical which is pharmaceutical drugs, surgical which is when they surgically remove the baby, and abortifacient(its a pill).
What the world is trying to say is that abortion are wrong. We understand when rapped people and sexually abused people need abortions but, it is different when you are killing a baby for your own selfish reasons.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Review of a Persuasive Essay
For Love or Money is the name of the article that I chose to do a review on. I found it on teenink.com. The author of this article is Anna H., Buckeye. The main paragraph makes it very clear what the main idea of the essay is. The thesis is that to many people are having vitro fertilization, not having the money to support the family that they create, and getting the government to pay for everything. The main paragraph caught my attention because I really agree with this person and I have thought about the main idea as well. There are 7 paragraphs in this essay. All the paragraphs have something to do with the main idea. The writer uses information and other sources to back up her idea. "The Gosselins, parents of a set of twins and sextuplets, became stars of TLC’s hit show “Jon & Kate Plus 8.”" The writer did not use other sides of the argument. The writer has convinced me of her idea. She could of used one more example. The counter argument that I would use is what if these families really liked of having big families there is nothing wrong with that. I think that the last paragraph was really effective because it ends thing nicely and it ties in with the intro. I didn't find any grammar or spelling mistakes in the essay. I really liked this article because it puts that problem out there for other people to read and get informed.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
300
300 was a decent movie. Some things that I didn’t like about the movie was the fact that the blood was really fake. Some things that I knew was historically inaccurate was that only 300 Spartans stood against the Persians when there was really 1000 others that stood and fought by the Spartans in what we call The Last Stand. Some things that I wondered was did the Persians really use Rhinos and Elephants in battle and if they used bombs.
In the documentary “The Last Stand of the 300”, it talked about how the Spartan government agreed to only send 300 of their best soldiers to help Athens. In the movie it says that the government was totally against it.
In the documentary it also talks about how the Persian’s arrows “will block out the sun” and the Spartan General says “Then we will fight in the shade”. I believe this because the Persians had so many archers that the arrows really did “block out the sun”.
King Xerxes in the movie tried to get King Leonidas to join his side. By doing this King Leonidas would not suffer from lost men and he and his kingdom will be saved. King Leonidas wouldn’t accept. In the documentary it doesn’t mention anything connected to this.
My overall opinion of the movie 300 was that it was a decent movie. The documentary was boring and I found that it re-told all the things that I already knew about the event. I think that I will watch historical movies with a more critical eye because I realized that most of those movies add their own things to it to make it better. I think that this is wrong because you should not tell a historical event the way you wanted it to be so that you get more ratings.
In the documentary “The Last Stand of the 300”, it talked about how the Spartan government agreed to only send 300 of their best soldiers to help Athens. In the movie it says that the government was totally against it.
In the documentary it also talks about how the Persian’s arrows “will block out the sun” and the Spartan General says “Then we will fight in the shade”. I believe this because the Persians had so many archers that the arrows really did “block out the sun”.
King Xerxes in the movie tried to get King Leonidas to join his side. By doing this King Leonidas would not suffer from lost men and he and his kingdom will be saved. King Leonidas wouldn’t accept. In the documentary it doesn’t mention anything connected to this.
My overall opinion of the movie 300 was that it was a decent movie. The documentary was boring and I found that it re-told all the things that I already knew about the event. I think that I will watch historical movies with a more critical eye because I realized that most of those movies add their own things to it to make it better. I think that this is wrong because you should not tell a historical event the way you wanted it to be so that you get more ratings.
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