last blog of the year!!

this is, as you already know, the last blog of the year. Honestly i have to say i am really excited to be done with these. I didn't hate them but they weren't the best assignments. i often did mine very last minute on Sunday night because i always forgot to do them. i am going to be honest and say i didn't really learn that much doing these blogs. That is probably because i did them so last minute and hurried. I do think the incoming juniors should have a blogging experience. If anything they will at least learn how to blog.

mark twain quote

"A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read. "
Mark Twain

Read more: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/mark_twain.html#ixzz1IhWwGxiP

I liked this quote because it is simple, but has a good meaning. What i got out of it is that if you have the ability to better yourself don't take it for gran tit. If you have the ability to better yourself you should use it or you are just as good as someone who doesn't have that ability. use it or you loose it.

birmingham bombing

http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/m_r/randall/birmingham.htm

this link leads you to a semi-popular story about the Birmingham bombing. we talked a little about this in class but this link fills you in on the whole story. it can be related back to HOS, because it happened right in the same town that the Delaney sisters lived in. this was a major event in the fight against prejudice and a very important event in history.

walk through harlem

     The sisters in having our say would have lived on 7th street. lots of very popular churches and people supporting the colored movement were located around them. lots of people in Harlem were writers, and in support of the anti-prejudice movement. the second link got deeper into the detail of the lives of the anti-prejudice people and showed what they did to make a difference in Harlem.

expression art

this peice of art shows the living conditions on a boat that slave would have ridden on to America through the middle passage trade route. the boats were very unsanitary, and cramped. Slaves often died from sickness's they caught on these boats. i think this peice of art shows this very well.

having my say

i am a little late on this blog but as i have said before "better late then never!". So i am having my say on all of the complaints about weather on facebook. I HATE it when i log onto facebook and see everyone's hate about snow or the cold. We are all experiencing it. i don't need your negative status to remind me about what the weather man announces everyday.

Late is better then never. Childhood poem

This Emily Dickinson I beleive is very easily relatable to. I beleive this because I have never met a kid or person who has never been through a "phase" in there life. I think this is really what I think this poem is about. Just children going through phases in their life. That is why I can relate to this poem. When I was a kid I was a power ranger. I dressed up as a power ranger and would run around the house doin ninja moves. I am no longer a power ranger. This is because I am no longer surrounded by childish things like that. That is what I think this poem is about and how I can relate to it.

Emily Dickinson

Flowers -- Well -- if anybody
Can the ecstasy define --
Half a transport -- half a trouble --
With which flowers humble men:
Anybody find the fountain
From which floods so contra flow --
I will give him all the Daisies
Which upon the hillside blow.

Too much pathos in their faces
For a simple breast like mine --
Butterflies from St. Domingo
Cruising round the purple line --
Have a system of aesthetics --
Far superior to mine.

this is the poem i found that is about flowers. it is written in Emily's usual odd style, but

does use a rhyming scheme this time. In this poem i think Emily is talking about death. I think 

this because all the things she describes would fit in at a funeral. 

transcendental and antitranscendental

  in class we have been discussing transcendental and anti transcendental writings. When talking about these writings i prefer to read anti transcendental writings. I think i like this because transcendental is so extremely clear and detail oriented that it gives you know room for your imagination to change the story, or imagine parts of what your reading. That is one thing that i like to do when i read so that is why i prefer anti transcendental writings.