I always win
I have joined the war in the south pacific. Will you forgive more for what I have done? I have made the right decision and I’m overjoyed that I joined.
Friday, March 16, 2012
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Responce to Mother to Son
Keep Going
Authors Note: This is a piece to show how figurative language is used to set the tone and mood in “Mother to Son” Langston Hughes
The author uses a lot of metaphors, by having the mother talk about her life as if it was a crystal stair or a floor of a house when he says some boards torn up and bare places. The figurative language used gives a sense of comparison and it’s used to set the tone of hardship and sadness with a little bit of reassurance when she says she’s okay and for her son to keep going. The way I felt when I read the story was that if, I were the boy I would want to find my mother and help her even though she says to keep going. It makes me feel sorry for the mother.
Authors Note: This is a piece to show how figurative language is used to set the tone and mood in “Mother to Son” Langston Hughes
The author uses a lot of metaphors, by having the mother talk about her life as if it was a crystal stair or a floor of a house when he says some boards torn up and bare places. The figurative language used gives a sense of comparison and it’s used to set the tone of hardship and sadness with a little bit of reassurance when she says she’s okay and for her son to keep going. The way I felt when I read the story was that if, I were the boy I would want to find my mother and help her even though she says to keep going. It makes me feel sorry for the mother.
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Research Essay
Not Really
Authors Note: This is a research essay I created for Social Studies, and then I found I could use it for one of my goals in Language Arts.
A dog gets let outside, he gets a sudden rush of excitement, and he sees bird, rodents, and sticks to chase. The dog takes off happy as can be with no clue about the chain hooked to his collar restricting him to do anything he planned on. This was the same situation for the “free” blacks in the north they were told they were free, but really they were still considered different and restricted form things. It’s like a feeling of relief that only last for a short period of time to be followed by more grief. The free black in the north were not free they still had different laws and weren’t allowed to do all the things a white man could
A free white man could go and vote for his government and could serve as a juryman against criminals, and have a say in government. A “free” black man in most states was not allowed to vote or serve as a juryman; he had no say in how the country was run and how crime was handled. Often times if a black man and a white man were both suspects in a crime the black man was sentenced without much investigation and nobody cared, because there were no blacks serving for the jury.
Economic freedoms were debatable, because technically they were allowed to have a job and own their own house and land to live and thrive. The blacks argued that they couldn’t get a job because a white man would never hire them, and It was hard for them two own a business. Blacks did own land and homes, but they could only afford them in undesirable places and rundown homes, because they couldn’t get a job, and they weren’t allowed to house in the same neighborhood with the whites.
To continue on the segregation, this was the most restricted. Black men weren’t allowed to marry white women by law, and they weren’t allowed to dine or go to a theater with whites, and they had designated areas they were allowed to go. The black hated this because they were considered free, but they had laws that didn’t apply to a white man that was ultimately free and free isn’t at different levels the definition states; not subject to censorship or control by a ruler, government, or other authority, and enjoying civil liberties.
Blacks were considered free by whites, but that was just an excuse to try to get them off their backs for starting slavery. They weren’t free not by definition or in any way besides they didn’t have to be a slave on a plantation.
"Slavery in the Western Hemisphere:Â Free Blacks in the North." Slavery in the Western Hemisphere:Â Free Blacks in the North. Web. 08 Mar. 2012..
"Northern Exclusion of Blacks." Slavery in the North. 2003. Web. 08 Mar. 2012..
"North Carolina Civil War Sesquicentennial." North Carolina Civil War Sesquicentennial. Web. 08 Mar. 2012..
Authors Note: This is a research essay I created for Social Studies, and then I found I could use it for one of my goals in Language Arts.
A dog gets let outside, he gets a sudden rush of excitement, and he sees bird, rodents, and sticks to chase. The dog takes off happy as can be with no clue about the chain hooked to his collar restricting him to do anything he planned on. This was the same situation for the “free” blacks in the north they were told they were free, but really they were still considered different and restricted form things. It’s like a feeling of relief that only last for a short period of time to be followed by more grief. The free black in the north were not free they still had different laws and weren’t allowed to do all the things a white man could
A free white man could go and vote for his government and could serve as a juryman against criminals, and have a say in government. A “free” black man in most states was not allowed to vote or serve as a juryman; he had no say in how the country was run and how crime was handled. Often times if a black man and a white man were both suspects in a crime the black man was sentenced without much investigation and nobody cared, because there were no blacks serving for the jury.
Economic freedoms were debatable, because technically they were allowed to have a job and own their own house and land to live and thrive. The blacks argued that they couldn’t get a job because a white man would never hire them, and It was hard for them two own a business. Blacks did own land and homes, but they could only afford them in undesirable places and rundown homes, because they couldn’t get a job, and they weren’t allowed to house in the same neighborhood with the whites.
To continue on the segregation, this was the most restricted. Black men weren’t allowed to marry white women by law, and they weren’t allowed to dine or go to a theater with whites, and they had designated areas they were allowed to go. The black hated this because they were considered free, but they had laws that didn’t apply to a white man that was ultimately free and free isn’t at different levels the definition states; not subject to censorship or control by a ruler, government, or other authority, and enjoying civil liberties.
Blacks were considered free by whites, but that was just an excuse to try to get them off their backs for starting slavery. They weren’t free not by definition or in any way besides they didn’t have to be a slave on a plantation.
"Slavery in the Western Hemisphere:Â Free Blacks in the North." Slavery in the Western Hemisphere:Â Free Blacks in the North. Web. 08 Mar. 2012.
"Northern Exclusion of Blacks." Slavery in the North. 2003. Web. 08 Mar. 2012.
"North Carolina Civil War Sesquicentennial." North Carolina Civil War Sesquicentennial. Web. 08 Mar. 2012.
Friday, March 9, 2012
Why Me
Authors Note: This piece is on the development of dynamic character Ty Lewis a thirteen year old boy much like the rest of with some very different experiences.
Ty Lewis who went from a boy with dead parents who slept in the laundry room of his uncles old rickety house, and bathed outside with crick water in a rusty tub because he wasn’t allowed to use his uncles bathroom. To a boy living with his brother who plays for the New York Jets living in a mansion without a care in the world until the mob comes back out to kill this time.
The first book Football Hero starts when Ty lives with his uncle who mistreats him and makes him bath outside in a rusty tub, and use a 100 year old outhouse as a bathroom. At first Ty is shy and he is a loner at school whose only friends are books. His uncle wants information on the Jets so that he can bet on games with the mob. Ty is told that he can play football if he gets injury information from his brother “Tiger”.
When Ty starts to get the information, and tries out for the football team, he starts to feel confident. He aces the tryouts and that gives him even more confidence and he starts to fit in at school. That is a pretty big leap from where he was, and he has a whole lot more ahead of him to learn.
The FBI finds the gambling and that Tiger was leaking information Ty and his brother are accused of the crime. Tiger admits he was telling his brother things, but Ty thought it was for his uncle’s fantasy football league. This changed Ty because then he became a target from the mob because he helped the FBI, and his Uncle and his family were put into the witness protection program. Ty was friends with his cousin who had to go with his Uncle without any contact with people she formally knew.
Ty now went from shy outcast who was mentally abused by his Uncle to a #1 target of the mob. That’s a huge change and affects Ty’s life because a mad mob member turns on Tiger and Ty had to jump and shove him down stairs so that Tiger didn’t get beaten with a crow-bar. After that the first book ended with a big cliffhanger.
The second novel Deep Zone is about Ty’s life with his brother and he has become the star football player for his school and gains tons of friends and is going to try out for a seven on seven team lead by a former giants quarterback coach. During the football season his Uncle comes back for a trial, and the mob gets stirred back up and sends killers after Ty. Tiger gets injured in a play-off game really bad and gets and infection and is moved into an ICU, and an undercover FBI agent is sent to protect Ty. During that time TY forms a bond with the officer, and the officer starts to change Ty’s life even more. The agent gives him advice to work through a cut on his hand to try-out. The coach notices Ty’s toughness and grants him a spot on the team.
While on the team one night a mob killer tried to break into Ty’s house, now Ty has even more to worry about. Ty feel the problem is fixed when he goes down to Miami to play in the championship game for his seven on seven team, and meets a girl who he seems to like. Now Ty has a girl, a mob, and a game to worry about. This changes Ty in the biggest way because he meets new friends and he goes on to win the game and he feels on-top of the world and he feels amazing, when about a year ago he was thinking he was nothing and his Uncle, would start beating him.
Ty went through huge changes in both books, but mainly the second book. Because that’s when things rise to murder attempts, (I would tell more about the murder attempt, but it would ruin the book) and Ty knows it so he has changed so much from a “nobody” to a star football player escaping death.
Ty Lewis who went from a boy with dead parents who slept in the laundry room of his uncles old rickety house, and bathed outside with crick water in a rusty tub because he wasn’t allowed to use his uncles bathroom. To a boy living with his brother who plays for the New York Jets living in a mansion without a care in the world until the mob comes back out to kill this time.
The first book Football Hero starts when Ty lives with his uncle who mistreats him and makes him bath outside in a rusty tub, and use a 100 year old outhouse as a bathroom. At first Ty is shy and he is a loner at school whose only friends are books. His uncle wants information on the Jets so that he can bet on games with the mob. Ty is told that he can play football if he gets injury information from his brother “Tiger”.
When Ty starts to get the information, and tries out for the football team, he starts to feel confident. He aces the tryouts and that gives him even more confidence and he starts to fit in at school. That is a pretty big leap from where he was, and he has a whole lot more ahead of him to learn.
The FBI finds the gambling and that Tiger was leaking information Ty and his brother are accused of the crime. Tiger admits he was telling his brother things, but Ty thought it was for his uncle’s fantasy football league. This changed Ty because then he became a target from the mob because he helped the FBI, and his Uncle and his family were put into the witness protection program. Ty was friends with his cousin who had to go with his Uncle without any contact with people she formally knew.
Ty now went from shy outcast who was mentally abused by his Uncle to a #1 target of the mob. That’s a huge change and affects Ty’s life because a mad mob member turns on Tiger and Ty had to jump and shove him down stairs so that Tiger didn’t get beaten with a crow-bar. After that the first book ended with a big cliffhanger.
The second novel Deep Zone is about Ty’s life with his brother and he has become the star football player for his school and gains tons of friends and is going to try out for a seven on seven team lead by a former giants quarterback coach. During the football season his Uncle comes back for a trial, and the mob gets stirred back up and sends killers after Ty. Tiger gets injured in a play-off game really bad and gets and infection and is moved into an ICU, and an undercover FBI agent is sent to protect Ty. During that time TY forms a bond with the officer, and the officer starts to change Ty’s life even more. The agent gives him advice to work through a cut on his hand to try-out. The coach notices Ty’s toughness and grants him a spot on the team.
While on the team one night a mob killer tried to break into Ty’s house, now Ty has even more to worry about. Ty feel the problem is fixed when he goes down to Miami to play in the championship game for his seven on seven team, and meets a girl who he seems to like. Now Ty has a girl, a mob, and a game to worry about. This changes Ty in the biggest way because he meets new friends and he goes on to win the game and he feels on-top of the world and he feels amazing, when about a year ago he was thinking he was nothing and his Uncle, would start beating him.
Ty went through huge changes in both books, but mainly the second book. Because that’s when things rise to murder attempts, (I would tell more about the murder attempt, but it would ruin the book) and Ty knows it so he has changed so much from a “nobody” to a star football player escaping death.
Monday, March 5, 2012
Character Description
I’ll do it myself
Authors Note: This piece is a character description piece using figurative language to describe better.
Adam from the book heroes don't run is a very independent character. He is a tall boy with eyes as blue as the pure water of the Caribbean, brown hair, and a muscular frame as sturdy as a rock. When he enters the war he is only seventeen, yet appears much older. Besides age he is a lot like the character from where the red fern grows not physically, but mentally, and is motivated by a lot of the same things.
The character from where the red fern grows wants dogs, but his parents won’t do it so he takes things into his own hands with the assistance of his grandfather. Billy wants dogs which isn’t the same as war, but he deals with it the same, he goes to his grandfather and does things on his own. They both have wills of fire that never give up and never stop. Adam wants different things, but the two books are very similar.
Authors Note: This piece is a character description piece using figurative language to describe better.
Adam from the book heroes don't run is a very independent character. He is a tall boy with eyes as blue as the pure water of the Caribbean, brown hair, and a muscular frame as sturdy as a rock. When he enters the war he is only seventeen, yet appears much older. Besides age he is a lot like the character from where the red fern grows not physically, but mentally, and is motivated by a lot of the same things.
The character from where the red fern grows wants dogs, but his parents won’t do it so he takes things into his own hands with the assistance of his grandfather. Billy wants dogs which isn’t the same as war, but he deals with it the same, he goes to his grandfather and does things on his own. They both have wills of fire that never give up and never stop. Adam wants different things, but the two books are very similar.
Thursday, February 23, 2012
A.J Wiesman 2/22/12
“Through the Storm”
Authors Note: The theme survival is universal it can mean multiple things in a book this piece is to explain how the theme survival in the book “Touching Spirit Bear” by Ben Mikaelsen is portrayed in different ways throughout the novel.
When someone says survival what do you think of? The theme survival in book generally means physically surviving in the outdoors and is a very universal theme in books like “The Hatchet” or “Touching Spirit Bear”. Ben Mikaelsen adds some different elements to the theme as well as physically surviving.
Right away the book jumps into the physical aspect of surviving. This is shown after Cole beat the heck out of the other kid and has to go and survive on the island with a bear that will really put him in his place. Cole thinks that he can make the bear be scared of him, but the bear has other plans and Cole has to cope to survive.
Contradicting physically surviving Cole needs to battle himself and survive mentally. Not far into the book Cole starts to go a little crazy and tries to swim off the island. You would have to be a little crazy to try and swim off of an island especially in Alaska. This shows that he starts to have to battle himself to survive because if he were to go any crazier he could end up killing himself.
The elder puts it in a perspective of physically and mentally surviving when he says to Cole "Animals feel the same way. Don't forget that. You aren't the only creature here. You're part of a much bigger circle. Learn you place or you'll have a rough time." This quote shows the theme survival first physically by summing up that the bear will kill him if he doesn’t respect it. Mentally the elder is telling Cole that he needs to think for a while and fins his place before something even worse happens.
Survival is definitely the most obvious theme is Touching Spirit Bear. The author was very clever in how it was portrayed physically and mentally to really set in the theme. Survival is shown in many ways throughout the novel.
A.J Wiesman 2/22/12
Dude you need to Think
Authors note: This creative essay is to show cause and effect in the point of view of a different character from a different story
Dear Cole, this is Ty Lewis writing to you about the effects you are casing on yourself because of the action you take without thinking. When you beat the crap out of that kid you weren’t thinking and you know it. If you were thinking of the effects that would have on your life you might have just walked away and let it go. In a way though your punishment affected you life in a good way.
The major cause was that you were dumb enough to beat the kid to a pulp so badly you permanently crippled him. The effect from that was you had to go to the island for a long time to fend for food and water. This made you go mad and you tried to swim off the island just to be carried back in by the current.
This all could have all been avoiding if you thought about the stuff you do and the possible effect I think you would be a lot better of a person and people would think a lot better of you. You seem like you don’t care at all, but you have to admit that you would wish people would stop calling you criminal or a bum. The island changed you so in the end you got lucky that the effect affected you in a good way.
Dude you need to Think
Authors note: This creative essay is to show cause and effect in the point of view of a different character from a different story
Dear Cole, this is Ty Lewis writing to you about the effects you are casing on yourself because of the action you take without thinking. When you beat the crap out of that kid you weren’t thinking and you know it. If you were thinking of the effects that would have on your life you might have just walked away and let it go. In a way though your punishment affected you life in a good way.
The major cause was that you were dumb enough to beat the kid to a pulp so badly you permanently crippled him. The effect from that was you had to go to the island for a long time to fend for food and water. This made you go mad and you tried to swim off the island just to be carried back in by the current.
This all could have all been avoiding if you thought about the stuff you do and the possible effect I think you would be a lot better of a person and people would think a lot better of you. You seem like you don’t care at all, but you have to admit that you would wish people would stop calling you criminal or a bum. The island changed you so in the end you got lucky that the effect affected you in a good way.
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