I Admire...

Good times fade away, and bad times never last forever. There is a believe that nothing lasts forever. For better or for worse, the good times come and go, and the bad times never last forever. However there are still many of us that wishes happiness through all aspects of life. Sometimes there are people that bless your life and make curved aisles straight. The ones that are there to put a smile on your face, as well wipe your tears when they cause them are the ones that should have your heart. You become everything you are just having them love you. My brother Adin is my begginning and my end through out everything life has offered, through the good and the bad times. Adin is not my brother by blood, but he is closer to my heart than I am to my own self. Though stubborn and pretend never to listen, the most admiring words said by him was i can do anything i put my mind to if i stop telling myself "I cant". With the good and bad times life restlessly throws, its safe to say that there are many times ahead that I will fall, but i know he will be there to catch me always. I'll always be everything that I am, simply because he loves me.

Their eyes were watching God: Blog entry

“Janie was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her. She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight. So this was a marriage! She had been summoned to behold a revelation. Then Janie felt a pain remorseless sweet that left her limp and languid” (Zora Neale Hurston).

The battle disputing who is stronger and who is suppose to assume a submissive role for countless ages have been battled and for countless ages continues to be fought as no solid answer has been provided. Whoever reins superior and who assumes a bigger role lies completely within every individual mind set and their form of perspectives. However, when you put aside this battle of who is the paramount and who is not, you can come to the conclusion that there are some roles that men are meant to assume based on nature’s course, and then there are some roles women are naturally suppose to assume based on nature’s gift bestowed upon there. No matter the argument, there is no way around this concept. However, the primary focus is ranges with the ideal that women’s course with nature show more evidently and obviously than that of the male. For example, when it comes to child bearing, men have no will to say no but to establish credibility for women that only their natural God given nature of child bearing is in their hands. In Zora’s Neale’s Hurston’s selection, “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, the authors also accompanies this notion by exemplifying one of her main characters Jamie, to accomplish the tone and illustration that there are some roles that just rapture around women more beautifully than they do so for men.

There are some things that when trying to describe, no amount of words than compare. Sometimes, creating a vivid image is the best way to get a message across, and Hurston does so in creating the nature surrounding women, through her use of imagery. Women are must definitely not born nor created. They develop from infancy and as nature takes its course, they decide what it is they want to be before blooming into a woman. Not every female can be considered to be women, but all female’s go through the same process and ability to process as such. “She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom” (Hurston). Developing as a young woman, changes begin to occur within Janie, as she searches for what love truly is. Rather than bluntly coming out and saying it, the author uses the aid of imagery. The scene in which this concept is idealized sets place in an environment where nature naturally has a place. As Janie lies down, she notices a bee, come to rest on a flower. This imagery pronounces an example of love and how Janie herself visualizes it to be. This imagery of the bee and the flower also sets a course of enlightenment and oneness. A life for a bee without flowers proves impossible, just like the flowers also need the bee. Together the two take a course in nature that is expected. This kind of nature love exists between a man and a woman when it comes to marriage and love. When a male and a female decide to join in matrimony, the two then become one, and together paint a perfect picture. As the bee nectar’s the flower, the flower produces a powerful and beautiful scent. Just like when a marriage prevails a accordingly, those who watch it can tell that indeed love exists between the man and the woman. This imagery that the author sets is very powerful as the audience can see; it sets as the cover of Hurston’s novel.

Nature does not heed to the warning neither to the demands of any man. It simply just takes it course and does as it pleases. Though, it is true that men and women have the capability to take on the tasks that the other can do, there are just some roles that men cannot take, nor can women assume for men if it is not permissible by nature. By the end of everything, nature determines who it is does what in existence.

Persuasive

For children in third world countries, they are often told of the beautiful heaven which was America. I exist as one of those children. The land was described to be equivalent to heaven on earth and at some point a place better than the land overflowing with milk and honey. And yet, for the largest time, I believed in this promise land. What made it all so very exceptional was the vivid description given by the adults of a money tree. It was often said that this tree just shed down the money like leaves fall to the earth during autumn. Best part was that this money tree always produced and never ceased and not once did they ever run out. This so called money tree turned out to be a very a rude awakening when I landed in America myself and discovered that there was no such thing as having everything in life for free. From the food you buy in the store to the air that you breathe, free money is definitely not part of the American language. The American dream has often been expressed to be exhilarating for those who can think about but never truly touch it with their hands. In Lewis Lapham’s selection, the author implies that the American faith is placed in money. His assumption proves accurate for here in the United States, money is the living source of this nation, and it is valued more than any scarce resource. For many, this reasoning is false to them as they believe in something better than money and have wrapped their minds around the concept that it is not their deliverer. However, for those who have experienced and believe in the rough life, speaking a language aside from money loses their attention. With attention gone, then an individual can lose most Americans.

Faith has been expressed as what a person believes, and believes is the strongest attainment of any living thing. The ability to believe in something is what causes life to exist, thus, for those who believe in money as everything, taking it away from them also cuts of their life supply. Faith develops when life is placed into a particular belief, and through the author’s text, readers can realize that money has taken bigger hold on individuals than it use to in the past. “Against the faith in money, other men in other times and places have risen up countervailing faith in family, honor, religion, intellect, and social class.” Fact is that not everyone has fallen to the will of money. There are those who value other things than the taint that accompanies with money. Other men and other times survived their day and time without placing all their hopes and dreams with the aid of money. Their ability to do so prove that it is very possible so succeed in life without following what everyone believes is a living source. Evolving time is what seems to make money more significant than it needs to be. And the fact the spread of money causes so many to believe that it’s a living resource proves that minds are very powerful. In reality, money has no life; it is just as dead and lifeless than any other object in life that has no power. Its humans that bring money to life. It’s the thought that they place on it that causes money to feel like it is everything.

There were times where money had no value or significance. One must remember that in the past, things were bought, sold, used and received without the use of any note. The fact that it has gained so much territory is evident that the faith individuals express, must be placed and put into the right things. Otherwise, it becomes highly valued and the American dream (if it exists) will no longer flow with milk and honey, but rather on false practiced believe.

Triffle's Response

The little things that are expressed or not expressed are sometimes the key vital aspects that shape an individual and who they are. Sometimes, it is the things that are not spoken that reflects and impact the most. Little things can never be disregarded as useless. What proves to be nothing to one individual means everything to another. In Susan Glaspell’s play “Trifles”, the author exemplifies that the little things are what mean the most and leads to determine who a person truly is. The plot of her play illustrates a woman put on trial for supposedly killing her husband. As the characters search for evidence around the house which will to lead to the motive murder, readers are given the impression by the author that sometimes it is the little things that are ignored and neglected that leads to the mysteries and truth about a person’s feelings when it comes to certain actions and events.

In her selection, “Trifles”, the author sets in the places, events, elements, and props, based on the mood of the scenes being acted out. Each characters behavior and movements attributes to the message the author is attempting to portray. In her story line, as the men go upstairs to search for evidence, the author changes tone where readers get a glimpse of the women’s thoughts about the occurrence of events. “Starts to speak, glances up, where footsteps are head on the room above in a low voice” (Glaspell). As Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters, wait for their husbands, they begin to talk among themselves about the unfortunate event that has taken place. Though the women are down stairs, the author’s use of stage directions gives a glimpse into the role of women and place of women during the time period this selection was set for. The men are upstairs about their business, and though downstairs, the women still have to whisper. The way the author sets this scene ultimately places women in an inferior role. Their intelligence and input is not valued which exemplifies why the men are able to be upstairs. Readers must also take close not of this scene because the men brought the women along with them. During the course of investigation, it seems rather irrelevant to bring the women to the crime scene and just leave them downstairs. Readers must take not why the author chose to include them in this scene. It is not directly voiced, but women really are under dominant rules which are the men. Also, the fact that these women are whispering proves highly that the intelligence of a woman is considered an insult compared to thus of a man’s. Mrs. Hale, and Mrs. Peters are both use low voice, and the author stages them in the lower part of the house. This scenario should say something to readers about the roles of women and what is expected of them. “She puts her hand on the dish towel which lies on the table, stands looking at the table, one half of which is clean, the other half messy, makes a move to finish work, then turns and looks at loaf of bread outside the breadbox. Drops towel. In that voice of coming back to familiar things” (Glaspell). Glaspell’s use of actions and visual elements play a key role in understanding this scene very well. One significant aspect of this scene is the stage which is a kitchen. With ideals and perspective of some individuals that a kitchen is the place for women and that is the exact place that we find our characters Mrs. Hale, and Mrs. Peters. Also, as these women are in the kitchen, their actions become easily noticeable for readers. Mrs. Hale begins to clean the kitchen, put things in place and tidy it up a bit though it is not her house. It is so intensely placed in these women where their place is that even when they don’t have to, they are still playing the part that was instilled in them. A dirty kitchen suggests that a woman is not assuming her domestic duties, and that definitely make for a good woman. Another illustration, the author makes evident is Mrs. Hale’s sudden drop of the towel when she heard the voices of the men upstairs. Throughout this selection, whenever the men make a movement, there is a different tone and behavior within the women. Nothing paints the perfect picture that indeed, these women have to know and assume their place based on the authors use of visual elements and actions.

The Great Gatsby Response

Society’s labels often in time confuse an individual’s judgment. Conflict arises between what an individual truly wants and desires for themselves, compared to what society expects from them and pronounces on them o be right and fitting. There are those who this mentality eventually shapes their moral values and believes, and those who work against it to achieve their own independence. Society can only impose its believes, customs, and traditions, however, it relies on an individual if they want to accept and embrace it as a part of their daily living.
“I hope she'll be a fool—that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.” (Fitzgerald). Though not serving as a central theme in his selection, the author makes an indirect notion to the views and ideals that woman are subjected to and subject to themselves. It also serves as a demonstration of Daisy’s viewpoint and her character. Based on past and generations of deeply rooted culture, is though as if, females understand their roles before they are even born. Daisy though intelligent if she chooses to be, already places herself in an inferior role before even trying to rise above it. She lounges lazily around the house and views her life to be nothing but boring. This exemplifies the world of women, as when you take a good look into their lives they are rendered as useless. Daisy refers to her hope of her daughter being a beautiful fool. She gives the notion that should a woman be considered beautiful, then it is all she needs to survive in the world of true womanhood. Beauty is the first key to recognition, and daisy made that clear in her statement. Whether a fool or not, her daughter’s beauty will be able to grant her into the same position her mother has. Whether or not Daisy truly believes that she wants her daughter to be a beautiful fool, the fact remains that when she does enter in the matrimony of marriage, her daughter’s intelligence will be looked down on as inferior thus compared to the male dominant figure that she will marry. Daisy lounging on the couch doing zilch shows her submissive to her husband. If her husband requires otherwise, then will her action and gestures shift. Older women such as Daisy does not value women intelligence, as it was not the way societies environment thought her to grow and understand female roles and concepts. Her attitude perhaps gives a glimpse to ways to resurrect her husband’s happiness. This conniving mentality of Daisy, will surely and indeed affect her daughter in the future. Necessity to break free from the cult of true womanhood, and its ideals about being pious, domestic, and submissive, was one of the key factors that led to the bloom and evolution of the 1920’s, especially when woman decided not to be just any woman, but a new woman, who could think for themselves and express their own independence. “That's my Middle West . . . the street lamps and sleigh bells in the frosty dark. . . . I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all—Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadoptable to Eastern life.” (Fitzgerald). Survival of the fittest is not strongly rooted in the author’s words, however, the power of wealth and possession paints an the perfect illustration. In his selection the author describes society to entail two groups, which are presented from the West and the East. The east perhaps signifies clues of change that will be occurring within future generation, as it exemplifies, a more fast-pace life style where more values are being lost, and wealth becomes the God of the people as they believe that the more wealth a person has, the more happiness will be claimed as their territory. The West however, seem to already claim this wealth with their aristocratic live styles and desires, and view themselves with the highest values and attitude of others that rank below in society. It even causes them to belittle among each other, as every individual strives in their own selfish way to gain more than their neighbor. However, readers come to the understanding that the author or rather protagonist of the story is much more interested in studying and analyzing the ways of those belonging to the west. This attitude of his proves as no surprise, after all, who wouldn’t want to be on the side that flourishes with everything an entity can dream and wish for.

Bernice Bobs Her Head Response

The willingness for curiosity and change is not all so encouraged with warm hands. Ignorance in a sense can be a sin, and understanding that a bridge needs to be made from the past to the present, shapes a better future for all to come. In Bernice Bobs her Hair by F. Scott Fitzgerald, reader step into a stream of bewilderment that change can be possible even in a time period where culture is heavily and deeply rooted. Readers are introduced to the protagonist of the story who takes them in this humanity of bewilderment, and it is safe to say that this cause of bewilderment does not feel strange nor it is negative. The protagonist opens a new way for beings, especially women, to view themselves in a more potential manner rather than the bondage of culture and traditions expected by them from society.

Those who manage to step over the boundary line and make a leap by jumping over the border are the ones that above everything in the end deserve recognition and have made a significant monument at the end of their existence. It is true based on the author’s text that Majorie “made” Bernice become the new woman that she now was. However, the fact is that the change was not with Majorie, but rather with Bernice. Bernice primary lifestyle exists with the ideals and culture of cult of true womanhood. Having known what this role entails and what it means for a woman to belong in this society, Bernice willingly sat still as the barber took the scissors to her hair. Her willingness is what demonstrates that she was the stronger woman who made a change by going over that border and boundary line of what society labels is expected of women during this time period. Leaping from the ideal of pious, domestic, and submissive, to a metamorphosis of a new woman is a landmark that will not be remembered as Majorie’s achievement and transformation, but rather Bernice’s. “I’ve bobbed it Aunt Josephine.” At some point before Bernice bobbed her hair, she knew it was not going to be easily accepted by her family none the less society. Readers must take not that when the protagonist when to cut her hair, she went to a male barber to bob her hair. Bernice could have guessed the thoughts of the barber and those in the shop for society are bound to ridicule and question actions that they do not understand. For a woman of this time, hair is the symbolism of their beauty and honor. It is what attracts males to them. Their hair in a sense is also their identity for recognition. Bernice’s valor to cut her hair, can be said was more so of a gamble to see whether or not society was brave enough to accept change, or rather feel threaten by those who believe there is a need for change. The protagonist’s bobbed hair also serves as a gamble to test whether other women are willing to make a change in the way they view themselves and allow their souls a chance to be free and make decisions without hindrance.

Martin Luther King Analysis

II. Rhetorical Structure: Figures of Speech

1. alliteration: use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verseallusion: An instance of indirect referencemetaphor: a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblancesimile: A figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared, often in a phrase introduced by like or as

2. “Five score years ago” is an allusion to Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. Lincoln signed the emancipation proclamation freeing negroes from the hands of their slave owner, yet 100 years later the African American community is not truly free and still suffer from injustice.

3. Life, liberty and pursuit for happiness allude to the declaration of independence. Jews and Gentiles allude to the bible.

4. Alliteration- Sweltering shadow, Sweltering summer

5. Metaphor- “Let us not satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

6. Simile- “Until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.

7a. Metaphor with the enhancement of imagery

7b. It gives a divine opportunity to bring the audience and the speaker to a level of understanding of racism. It also serves a purpose in reaching the subconscious mind and brings to life the abstractness of segregation an discrimination.

7c. Despite all the battle fought, and all the lives lot for this pursuit of freedom for African Americans, justice still remains in the shadow of their existence. 100 years later and the fight for equal rights is being fought as though for the first time.

8. Let freedom ring, With this faith

9. It brings to life the vision of his dream. The level to how passionate and repeated it is through his text also signifies his desire of pursuit that indeed this dream will come true.

10. Illustrations of a future dream and believe painted through Dr. King’s speech enhances his believe of a better and brighter day. Of all his creative images of a new day, description of demonstrating little black boys and black girls walking hand in hand stands out as the most righteous. 100 years before, that was the dream of the Negroes who thought were free from the bondage of captivity. 100 years after, the negroes still find themselves in the same predicament. Knowing this should be a discouragement, however, King still preaches this notion of a new beginning for future generation. Though children of different race didn’t walk in hand in the past, and are not in the present, he still prophesies for the future.

III. Understanding the Dream

1. Nothing is impossible for those who are willing to behold. Life doesn’t offer all its pleasant ideals and opportunities in a handful and allows all inhabitants to take part in. However, it gives to all those who are willing to make the step and strive to take the blessing and fruitfulness in that handful of opportunities and ideas. Though all created under the same sun and moon, judgment lays in the eyes of the beholder, and from these beholders result those they consider outcasts. However, the outcast can always rise and take the lead in anything they put their minds to. In the battle of race, discrimination, and suffering injustice, dreaming a brighter day is the remedy for all those in captivity. Dwelling in the past and hatred resurrects pain, but willingness of a change makes everything anew.

2. Police brutality, and beatings, as well as persecution

3. The American dream exemplifies what many have come to believe accompanies happiness. It’s evaded with so much glory that it lacks to speak of its downfalls. Though many escape to pursue this dream however, it fails to mention that with this dream comes pain accompanying and tears.

4. In every corner of the U.S lies states that are also victims of injustice. By naming all these states, it gives readers a brighter sense to see the vast population and people suffering from discrimination.

5. A cry for help is eventually heard when it reaches the ears of the people. King’s speech was a vast cry for his people, thus anyone in the crowd would have been easily affected. The fact that it was a cry for the audience, makes it all so attentive to the ears of the listeners.

IV. Relating to the dream

1. A hindrance and enslavement that keeps the mind in an embodiment that it cannot raise from captivity.

2a. Hatred doesn’t fail to infect every part of the body. Once it touches the mind, it fails no other mental state of its victim. King said in his speech that his people should not drink from the cup of hatred. His words serve as evidence from the action of the ku Klux clan. Whether their actions were wrong or just, it was dominated by hatred, thus ruling their hearts and causing them to do the things that they did.

2b. Hatred mixed with more hatred blooms an endless filled of destruction. It devastates. Responding with violence meant the loss of lives and the loss of lives meant that by the time the African American community had reached their aim of freedom, there will be none of them alive to enjoy it.

3. Ignorance is a sin, and one thing future generation lack to demonstrate is their sense of ignorance. Future generations are aware of what persecution and destruction brings upon the land and its people. They are quite aware of the nature of allowing oneself to fall in the hands of hatred and deceit. Thus, groups such as the “skin heads” have no power.

4. King’s dream has bloomed to what is viewed beautiful in the eyes of the African American community. There is a saying in the bible that even in the grave Jesus was still God as he was able to resurrect on the third day as he said he would. Even in the grave, King’s dream continues to live in the life of future generations. You don’t have to see works of action, its even noticeable in the eye of those who share the same believe as King. The death of an individual is no necessary the death of his dream. As long as that dream is instilled in those who will move on and believe with the same fire and believe as the original dreamer, Nothing is ever lost, but will continually be gained.