Willow Ufgood

You are born. Right when you come out of your mom’s tummy the ruler of your kingdom wants you dead. In the movie Willow this happens to Alura Dannin. The mode that this movie fallows is romance. There are many symbols in the movie; also there are many characters that are evil and heroes. First for the main characters Alura Dannin is the little baby girl who was born and is being chased after for a mark on her body. She has to go through many hardships. For example she is chased out of her kingdom, her mother was killed and she is floating down a river. She is also the chosen one like Harry Potter, she has the mark on her which represents Royal ness. She will be come queen when she gets older. The other main character is Willow Ufgood. He is a sorcerer and is a little person. He is a man who is made fun of and pushed around by villagers, sort of how Melinda was from the book Speak. His job is to save this little baby girl to bring peace to the kingdom bay saving Alura which will be the next queen. The mode of this Movie is romance. Yes it may seem that a movie with people killing people and scary creatures attacking villages. Romance starts out with a conflict, the baby is born and the mom is killed. The baby is found by a different type of people and they have no idea what to do with her. Mild conflict continues, the master of the little people wants the baby gone because savage beasts were sent by the queen of the kingdom that wants her dead. So Willow Ufgood has to help get rid of her with out killing her. Evil is weak the evil fails to capture the baby. New life/ beginning, Willow saves the baby and the kingdom is saved from the evil ruler. Now for thee symbols in the story, there are many symbols. The season for the movie was spring everything very green and bright colors, like light blue. The baby’s blanket was light blue. Trees in the movie were mainly evergreens. The trolls represented evil and not very loving. Willow represented good. He help save the soon to be queen and saved the village of is own. Willow may have been a small man but he was a giant inside he could do many things and most important he saved a lot of people and a soon to be queen! A lesson I learned from this story is that no matter how small you are you can do many things!

The Ugly

Picture yourself born late or to early. You turn out different from everyone else. Nobody likes you, even your mom. In the ugly duckling this happens to the Duck (swan). Kids get treated so badly these days it’s not even funny and Hans Christian Anderson . First for Hans Christian Andersen. Born in 1805-1875, he became a Danish author and poet. He wrote many poems, plays, stories and travel essays, but is best known for his fairy tales of which there are over one hundred and fifty, published in numerous collections during his life and many still in print today. His best known writing was The Ugly Duckling. It was based on his life. He was treated on fare, pushed around and mocked upon. When he was a child that was he was thought of a peasant man on the poor list of all the people living in the town. That all changed when he became an author. Hans was a great man but nobody looked at him like that until he became a writer and changed everybody’s mind. Bulling was a problem from Hans time and is still a huge problem. Many kids in our school get bullied every day. The kids that go through this daily are tough in their own kind of when it comes to bullying. Some kids will ignore it and some kids will react with violence. Some bullying even leads to suicide. Luckily the ugly duckling finds who he belongs with and has no problems what so ever. The Ugly Duckling deals with misery, mistreat, and privations. When he was born neither of his family nor the animals that lived with him liked him because he born big and ugly. He was despised for his appearance. This is a good example, that looks its not everything, and that we have to see what is inside before judging someone or something. The poor duckling

Slaves to white house

Just forty years prior to Obama's victory speech, civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. was felled by an assassin's bullet, and the United States (particularly in the South) was embroiled in a highly divisive battle over segregation. A century before that, the nation was ravaged by civil war -- a conflict that claimed the lives of over 600,000 Americans and maimed in body or spirit tens of thousands more. Slavery and race relations were at the heart of that conflict. And less than a century before that, our Founding Fathers (meeting in Philadelphia) hammered out a compromise that reduced black citizen status to 3/5ths of a person for purposes of taxation and representation and protected the dreadful slave trade for 20 more years. While most of the men at the Constitutional Convention were no fans of slavery, the compromise was necessary, they felt, to achieve a new form of government and keep the United States the United States. While I am no fan of those who routinely bash America for all its faults, let's agree that the legacy of slavery and segregation are stains on America's honor. To lift ourselves from that past is indeed worthy of celebration. What about the Founders? Like Martin Luther King, Barack Obama generally speaks approvingly of the Founding Fathers. While he acknowledges the sins of our nation's past, he does not - at least in public rherotic - lay the blame for those sins at the Founders' doorstep. For this, I am grateful. I personally do not participate with those who denigrate our Founders. Yes, there were some Founders (though not many) who engaged in personally abhorrent practices in relation to slavery and some (even fewer) who publicly championed it. For the most part, the Founders recognized the inconsistency between slavery and the American cause. A majority understood that a nation which condoned slavery was not truly dedicated to the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. George Mason said that slavery made "petty tyrants of us all" and James Madison criticized slavery for being based on the "mere distinction of color." Jefferson's original draft of the Declaration of Independence (modified to appease the Deep South) condemned the slave trade (and blamed it on King George III). Quasi-abolitionist Ben Franklin wrote approvingly of "a disposition to abolish slavery [which] prevails in North America." Many acted on their anti-slavery convictions by starting or joining abolitionist societies, including Constitution signer Robert Livingston, who wrote: “I would most ardently wish to become a member of it [the abolitionist society in New York] and... I can safely promise them that neither my tongue, nor my pen, nor purse shall be wanting to promote the abolition of what to me appears so inconsistent with humanity and Christianity... May the great and the equal Father of the human race, who has expressly declared His abhorrence of oppression, and that He is no respecter of persons, succeed a design so laudably calculated to undo the heavy burdens, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke.” Even some who owned slaves spoke out against it, including Thomas Jefferson, who wrote famously: "Indeed, I tremble for my country, when I reflect that God is just, and His justice cannot sleep forever." What would Jefferson say today? Looking Ahead The American Creation blog is about (well) the American Creation. And, so, I'm keeping my posting here focused on the issues of race and America's founding. I hope no one will object, as I believe yesterday's historic election is worthy of some acknowledgment on this blog. That said, if you'll permit me a quick personal aside (one unrelated to American Creation)....I want to make clear to my readers that there are issues in which I strongly (yes, passionately) disagree with Barack Obama. It remains to be seen how Obama will govern or proceed on those issues. However, I want to also make clear that he is my incoming President, and will (from this day forward) be in my prayers. And, for this historic election, he deserves our congratulations and all our prayers. I also want to close with a controversial speculation. While we can't know (for sure) how our Founders would feel about yesterday, I believe that - if they have been able or had been able to observe the history of the US (and how it's played out over the last 220 plus years), they would be PLEASED that the color barrier has been breached with the highest office of the land. Some will probably disagree with that statement, believing that the Founders were hopelessly racist or anachronistic. I think this is (once again) very superficial and shallow. The Founders were men (and women) within their time, but they were also men who could and did think and look ahead. Given the benefit of observing America through its history and struggles, I think most would have come to the conclusion that slavery and segregation were wrong -- and that racial equality was a worthy goal for our people. In this respect, they too would have shed a few tears of joy at last night's historic election. http://americancreation.blogspot.com/2008/11/from-slavery-to-white-house.html By: Brian Tubb

The life for women in the 1800s

You’re sitting in a room alone and your sister walks in. She has some bad news. Your husband has just died! As soon as you hear the news you run into a room that has a comfortable chair. You throw yourself into it and your mind begins to wonder. Mrs. Mallard is Doing the same thing in “The story of an Hour”. Kate Chopin is an author for short stories. And realties close to the main character Kate Chopin has much in common with the main character, Louise Mallard. Kate and Louise were both living in a time in which women were not given any kind of rights. Women were still expected to submit to their husbands in every way. They were also expected to be seen and not heard. At this time, “marriage was considered a sacred institution. Divorce was quite rare…and if one was to occur, men were automatically given legal control of all property and children.” “Kate grew up in a female dominated environment” Many things she did in her life went against the social norms of the time. She wrote many controversial stories. The times of the 1800s were hard for women. They could not work, they had to stay home and watch the children. They also could not leave the house without the husbands permission. Also if their marriage was bad and the man was too controlling many women didn’t do anything about it. A reason for that is because they would lose everything they had bought. They wouldn’t be able to see the children or come back to the house or use any of the cars. Life was hard for women during 1800s. Mrs. Mallard is the main character of the Short story “the Story of an Hour”. In the story, Kate Chopin refers to her by her married name. She has "heart trouble." She locks herself up in her room when she is told that her husband is dead. She feels sad, mad and happy to finally be free from her husband’s hold. She is glad because now she can look for a new man with lots of money and that is not as controlling as her old one. The times back in the 1800s were hard for the women but they still made it to this day. Now the laws have changed and ladies can divorce. Even though it’s legal I still think it happens way too much and we should make it a law that it’s not aloud. Do you think it should be stopped and make people marry someone they love for life?

Inside Melinda's Eyes

Speak There are a lot of people in this world who are not really who you think they are. They might be a totally different person inside than what we see on the outside. Melinda Sordino is like this in Speak. After getting raped at an end of the summer party, Melinda excludes herself from everybody. She doesn’t want to talk to anybody. She just wants to be by herself. Melinda is a very different person on the inside than what everybody else sees of her on the outside. After Melinda called the police at the end of the summer party no one likes her anymore. For Melinda her torment started at a pep rally. Someone heard her name, and knew that she was the girl who called the police. She said, “My brother got arrested at that party. He got fired because of the arrest. I can’t believe you did that!” (pg. 28) Melinda replied in her head, “You don’t understand my head, a voice answers. Too bad she can’t hear it.” (pg. 28) From that point on everybody at the pep rally was giving her dirty looks, the girl behind her jammed her knees in her back, and another girl yanked her hair. No one liked her once they found out who she was and what she did. Melinda wants to tell everyone the real reason why she called the police. She wants them to understand from her point of view, but she can’t tell anyone. She doesn’t think that anybody will understand. Melinda almost never talks. She never talks to her parents or to her teachers. The only person she talks to is Heather, but even then she does not say much. Her parents and teachers think that she is not talking to rebel or because she thinks it is funny. Her principal noticed her weird behavior so he made an appointment with her parents and the high school guidance counselor. At the meeting they began talking about how Melinda never talks. Melinda’s mother said, “Why won’t you say anything? For the love of God open your mouth! This is childish, Melinda. Say something. You are only hurting yourself by refusing to cooperate. I don’t know why she’s doing this to us.” (pg. 114). (Inside Melinda’s head) “Would you listen?” “Would you believe me? Fat chance!” (pg. 114). Their solution to the problem was to make a contract for Melinda and her parents to sign. Every time she would misbehave, skip class, be late, etc., she would be lightly punished. What the principal and her parents do not see is that Melinda actually does want to talk. She just doesn’t think she can, because she doesn’t think they will understand. In Melinda’s head, “It’s getting harder to talk. Every time I try to talk to my parents or a teacher, I sputter or freeze. What is wrong with me it’s like I have some type of spastic laryngitis.” (pg. 50) Nobody knows what Melinda is really like inside. They don’t see things from her point of view. They just think that she is trying to be difficult and trying to rebel. No one sees what she is really like inside. Nothing that anybody sees about Melinda is truly her. Her room, just like her physical and mental appearance, does not show who she truly is. Melinda hides everything. She hides her feelings because she can’t bring herself to tell anybody what happened. She hides her personality by never talking; no one knows who she really is. When she looks at her room it does not remind her of herself at all. Her room is who she used to be. “My room belongs to an alien. It’s a postcard of who I was in fifth grade” (pg. 15). Melinda hides herself in an abandon janitors closet that she found. Her closet is actually a reflection of who she is now, but no one else ever goes in her closet. Melinda goes there to get away from everything. If she doesn’t want to go home, or doesn’t want to go to class she will hide in a janitors closet. “It feels safer in my little hideaway.” (pg. 130) Melinda hides every detail about herself from the outside world. She doesn’t let anybody, even her only true friend, know who she really is. Throughout the whole book Melinda hides herself, her feelings, and her story. She won’t tell anybody anything until Andy attacks her and it is forced out of her. After this everybody understands why she really did everything. They all understand why she wouldn’t talk. They understand why she locked her feelings and everything else deep inside of herself. She is finally done hiding and can actually enjoy her life.

Art Is A Way To Express Your Self

Lemon/Red Crown The artist of the Lemon/Red Crown is Harvey K. Littleton. Harvey is an American and was born in 1922 in Spruce Pine, North Carolina he is still living there now. He is 77 years old and is retired. He has made many pieces of art. Glass is not the only thing Harvey has done. He has many panting such as Cancelled, Fallbrook, Light shadow and many more. The paintings are selling for hundreds of dollars. The piece Lemon/Red Crown was done in 1989. It’s glass in the form of a crown with red and yellow glass that has been blown. I think that it’s pretty cool because it’s hard to blow glass.

Monday, January 18, 2010

Goals

I hopoe to score above average on my next few eassays.
I hope have At least a Bt in L.A
Write a well discriptive essay with a good GRADE
DON'T FAIL THIS CLASS!
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  1. AlexJanuary 27, 2010 at 9:29 AM

    These are very good writing goals, if you follow them you will get a 100.

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