"The Fault in Our Stars" quote analysis
In the quote "the fault in our stars" comes from Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar. Caesar is saying that it isn't fate the dooms men, but instead of their own failings. Which is pretty much saying that no one should blame others for their failings, but to blame themselves. John Green's version of the quote is that it's not our fault; sometimes bad things can't be avoided and there is no one to blame. But both are alike because they're both pretty much saying that people live and make their own decisions despite the fault in their stars, even though they know fate awaits them.
Wednesday, May 7, 2014
Monday, April 7, 2014
Answers April 7,2014
1) - Thantos = Death, Opsis = Seeing
- The poem relates to death a lot with how it describes and mentions tombs and graves and eternal resting places.
2) Shroud- Wrap or dress worn for burial
Pall- A cloth spread over a coffin, hearse, or tomb
Narrow House- Another word for the grave
Sepulcher- A place for burial
- This poem is mostly talking about death, so these words really relate to the poem.
3) This is a poem about death. It talks about how death is, kind of like "the experience" . This poem is a little creepy. It talks about being in a coffin and going to the grave to eternally rest.
4) At first the poem talks about gayness and happiness, and then at line 10, the poem takes a turn to the opposite. It turns morbid and gloomy.
5) An elegy is a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead. The poem shifts from grief to comfort.
6) The painting would probably have the sun out, but there would be a funeral occurring. There would be people crying and a coffin in a grave with everyone standing around it.
7) It represents part of the view of the time period. The theme talks about nature a lot and Romanticism dealt with a lot nature and talking about its beneficial affect. It is saying, from a Calvinist point of view, that after death, you return to nature.
Monday, February 17, 2014
Salem Witch Trials Webquest: Part 1
1. I feel that you have to get more proof from the accused that just listen to some girls that have already lied before. There could have been another person doing all these things, but if they think you're a witch, they kind of set you up in order to put you in jail and be hung. Not everyone is a witch, but if you do the slightest thing to make them think you are, they'll trial you and automatically think you're a witch. I don't think it's right that they just put people in jail that they THINK is a witch. All they need is more proof.
2. I think that the Crucible was a little exaggerated to make is sound more interesting. There was more girls afflicted in the Crucible, and the more girls there were, the more proof it gave. But in the real one, there were only a few girls.
3. I think the rye may have been the cause of some, but not all. Maybe there really were witches doing things to some of those girls. But when those girls ate the rye, they thought it was a witch and played it off as if they were being tortured by a witch.
4. They both have to deal with controlling people.
5. The Red Scare has more to do with communists and controlling people. The Salem Witch Trials deals with witch encounters and putting innocent people in jail because they're scared.
6. The Salem Witch Trials wasn't focused on racism like the others. It just focused on getting innocent people put in jail because since they didn't know who was a witch, they thought everyone was.
7. He is saying that if you don't have the knowledge learned from history, you'll never understand why is happened and you will probably go through the same thing and never know the background or the cause.
8. No
9. I learned that people go trialed as a witch as if they were one because everyone, at that time, was scared that everyone was a witch because one person had an encounter with it and now a bunch of girls were saying that they were having the same torturous encounter with a witch as well.
1. I feel that you have to get more proof from the accused that just listen to some girls that have already lied before. There could have been another person doing all these things, but if they think you're a witch, they kind of set you up in order to put you in jail and be hung. Not everyone is a witch, but if you do the slightest thing to make them think you are, they'll trial you and automatically think you're a witch. I don't think it's right that they just put people in jail that they THINK is a witch. All they need is more proof.
2. I think that the Crucible was a little exaggerated to make is sound more interesting. There was more girls afflicted in the Crucible, and the more girls there were, the more proof it gave. But in the real one, there were only a few girls.
3. I think the rye may have been the cause of some, but not all. Maybe there really were witches doing things to some of those girls. But when those girls ate the rye, they thought it was a witch and played it off as if they were being tortured by a witch.
4. They both have to deal with controlling people.
5. The Red Scare has more to do with communists and controlling people. The Salem Witch Trials deals with witch encounters and putting innocent people in jail because they're scared.
6. The Salem Witch Trials wasn't focused on racism like the others. It just focused on getting innocent people put in jail because since they didn't know who was a witch, they thought everyone was.
7. He is saying that if you don't have the knowledge learned from history, you'll never understand why is happened and you will probably go through the same thing and never know the background or the cause.
8. No
9. I learned that people go trialed as a witch as if they were one because everyone, at that time, was scared that everyone was a witch because one person had an encounter with it and now a bunch of girls were saying that they were having the same torturous encounter with a witch as well.
"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
1. - Edwards' speech was to persuade sinners to turn themselves over to the hands of God and if they didn't they would burn in Hell for eternity. Even if you sin once, God will not forgive you and no longer love you.
-He convinced people to always do right in the eyes of God or they would be miserable and never be forgiven by God.
2. - When he says "natural men", he means people that sin, but still believe and fear God. He says it in paragraph 12.
- His audience is mostly people who have no sinned and who have the fear of God in them, but there may also be some "natural men" in his audience. They still go to church, but have sinned and are now convinced that they are going to Hell.
3. - "Abate" means "to calm down". I say that because they are in the same sentence. When is says "to appease or abate...", they obviously mean the same thing when "or" is between them.
4. - To show that he knows about what he is talking about and that he can keep going on and on about it. And also what its affect is on you.
5. - To bring more persuasive depth
- "...or in the least lighten in this hand; there shall be no moderation of mercy, nor will God then at all stay his rough wind; he will have no regard to your welfare..."
6. - To make people think he can just keep adding on by putting "and" in front of it.
7. -Because they all relate to the one before it.
- To show no mercy or willingness
8. -By demonstrating God's willingness to determine if you go to Heaven or Hell.
- It really captures a detailed picture in your head by the descriptiveness.
- To bring more depth
9. -Yes
- He was trying to make what he is saying as descriptive as possible to make it more persuading.
10. -I think he focuses more on pathos (the emotions of the audience) because of how he tries to get them to listen and believe everything he says so they can live they way God wants them to.
11. -Persuasive and serious.
-I think the tone stays the same all throughout the sermon
12. -If you hear how the person is saying it, rather than reading it, it just seems different and more persuasive if you listen to it other than read it.
13. -By making it descriptive and very "life-like" to make people believe it even more.
-Yes
14. -Whenever he would say that if you sinned just once, that God would not forgive you and you would automatically go to Hell. Probably a lot of people in the congregation have sinned, but still want to go to Heaven.
- He was trying to make what he is saying as descriptive as possible to make it more persuading.
10. -I think he focuses more on pathos (the emotions of the audience) because of how he tries to get them to listen and believe everything he says so they can live they way God wants them to.
11. -Persuasive and serious.
-I think the tone stays the same all throughout the sermon
12. -If you hear how the person is saying it, rather than reading it, it just seems different and more persuasive if you listen to it other than read it.
13. -By making it descriptive and very "life-like" to make people believe it even more.
-Yes
14. -Whenever he would say that if you sinned just once, that God would not forgive you and you would automatically go to Hell. Probably a lot of people in the congregation have sinned, but still want to go to Heaven.
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
My name is Khairah Alaine Phillips. I was born at Frye Medical Center in Hickory, North Carolina. I have lived in North Carolina my entire life. Hopefully one day I'll see what the USA has more to offer than just NC. I am currently attending Newton-Conover High School. I am a junior and I cannot wait to be a senior. I thing being a junior is the worst place to be because by the time you're a junior, you are already tired of high school and have to suffer the next upcoming year. But it isn't too bad. I have two sisters; an older and a younger sister. I am stuck in the middle, which is an awkward place to be. Having to be a younger and an older sister. Both of my sisters go to Newton-Conover High School along with me. I plan to go to college. I prefer Lenoir-Rhyne University, Gardner Webb, or North Carolina Central University. I plan to major in music and get my Bachelor's degree in music. I want to perform and maybe be a music teacher when I get my degree. I am currently teaching myself to play the piano. Newton-Conover offers a class especially for learning piano and it is really helping me learn much quicker, considering I don't have a Baby Grand Piano at my house. I am really glad I have a class that offers this because this has never been available for me and I am really grateful I have an awesome teacher. Mrs. Fowler is my teacher and she has prepared me very well. When I first entered her class, I couldn't even name any notes if you showed me a grand staff. But now I can play the piano and read music. Site reading is hard, but it's one skill that I really need if I want to get anywhere in playing any instrument.
I hope to have fun in english class. I really don't like english; it is literally my worst subject out of any subject. But at least this time I have a teacher that is actually going to teach me something unlike my past english teachers.
I hope to have fun in english class. I really don't like english; it is literally my worst subject out of any subject. But at least this time I have a teacher that is actually going to teach me something unlike my past english teachers.
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