The main girl in the movie goes by the name ashley. She is your average pretty face. Many people appeal to this charachter because of her outer beauty. In the movie kale goes over the reason he looks at her. Behind every beautiful woman there lies a time when she doesnt completely get herself. She spends time trying to find out just exactly who she is. Girls are able to relate to this since all girls go through this period in time. Her character had to have been based on reality. She was set to appeal to all teens. Also the whole idea of her moving into a new neighborhood really makes her feel she has to find herself since these are all new people who werent there the whole time. I actually myself can relate to her character a bit since of course I always stared into the mirror and glanced at the figure before me wondering if I were more than just a pretty face.
Monday, October 27, 2008
Sunday, October 12, 2008
!Gettysburg Address!
- 1. Doesn't mention slavery, constitution, civil war, or the battles really.
- 2. The last sentence is a huge run on, but it has a lot of details. The sentence gives the whole meaning to his writting. In a way, the sentence rallys the people to stand unified and fight. The message in this sentence can really wake up a crowd of people.
* During my childhood life, i had him around- that rememberence of the very first time i layed eyes on him-that pain which no child should ever have to cope with-that everlasting sorrow after the last breath has been taking away-that internal bleeding that almost runs short from your body-and that deep sigh that passes, returns, surfaces again, to let you know its time to be strong. *
- 3. The declaration and the Gettysburg Address both was writtin to get the people to unify and come together and fight for the sake of their country. the declaration written more formely gave a purpose to the reason for independence. The Gettysburg Address was more of a wake up call to the people.
- 4. The speech i remember is Dr. King's "I Have A Dream" speech. He was informing the people of what should happen and how they should go about getting it. He wanted freedom and unification of the people and Abe Lincoln mentions those two as well.
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Friday, September 19, 2008
<--Another Tear For This Year-->
Im over whelmed, stressed out and confused
what really is a woman in this position do....
(I wanna just SCREAM!!!)
Another Tear For This Year
(By:Shay aka Daddy's Grl)
Dear Mr.& Mrs Anonymous--->>whomever this should reach..
Another tear for this year
Can someone hear my cry?
Im stepping out into this world,
Not just tryna get by.
Another tear for this year
Just to be simply embraced.
This pain is overwhelming me,
Im just tryna find my place
Another tear for this year
It hasn't been the best.
I continue to keep my head up,
And take it as another of God's test.
Another tear for this year
I learned to really appreciate what i had.
Out came 16 wonderful years.
Yet later i lost my dad..(RIP DAD-->>4eva ur daddy's grl)
Another tear for this year
For a woman gracing your prescence today
So i fall to my knees,Bow my head....and PRAY!!!
Not another tear for me this year--->> Yours truly Shay!
<<----**tear**---->>
I LOVE MY MAMA!!!! without her, I wouldn't make it through this year!
Friday, September 12, 2008
>>Cabeza De Vaca<<
This Picture is pretty much self-explanatory. The point that is being portrayed is not to judge a book by its cover. In the narrative about Cabeza de Vava’s journey, he encountered some Indians whom he lived with for some time. Now without even knowing anything about them, he looked at them as being “less human” than he. In the picture the judge is saying I will not judge a book by its cover seeing that on the cover of the book, it says “Guilty As Sin”. When the Indians were staying with him, he was learning their customs and ways and living day to day with them. Yet the minute he saw the Christians, he thanked the lord since they looked like him he felt they were the better of the two. However in the end, he ended up finding out the Christians had a motive that he didn’t even agree to and he put the Indians in danger. Later he realized he misjudged both groups. He should not have assumed so much from the Christians since they looked more like him because he was wrong in the end. He did however in the end understand the Indians more and gain a lot of respect for them.
*Anne Bradstreet Response and Biography summary*
Virginia common wealth university, 9/12/08, Anne Bradstreet, http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/webtexts/Bradstreet/bradbio.htm
Response
Anne Bradstreet was an exceptional poet. Speaking from a poet’s point of view, she had great syntax and diction throughout her poems. This is an excellent trait to have seeing that poems come from your interpretation of words. In the poem, The Author to Her Book, she used a technique of using syntax to get you to almost visualize what she is saying. First, there is something special just behind the title. She is giving her life story in the poem and the title ties it all together. It’s almost, in a way, saying she is her book. It’s as if she is saying her book is made up of her thoughts, feelings, life’s goals and accomplishments etc. Her unique style of writing goes far beyond just rhyming, she gets really deep in her choice of words and sentence structures. One line says, “thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain”, and that alone leaves room for meaning to be deferred. She almost in a way want her audience to think of what exactly it is she is trying to say with her difference in word choice. This shows her unique use of imagery that helps the audience almost feel her emotion. In the lines, “I washed thy face, but more defects I saw, And rubbing off a spot, still made a flaw”, she was really connecting with the audience. Many girls can relate to this line and just by those words alone. All girls go through that moment of adolescence when they constantly see flaws, yet in these lines it’s as if she is saying she went through the same things. Her choice of words gave even more meaning to the emotion she wanted you to feel. Girls would be able to breathe a sigh of relief for there flaw and just except themselves and stop trying to change. Telling her life story gave way for the audience to picture themselves living her words. It’s as if you can picture yourself being the girl she is recalling in the poem and actually feel for her pain. Another interesting poem of hers was entitled, To My Dear and Loving Husband. This poem was rare since many people in her time did not write this way. Similar to the first poem, she kept with her unique since of syntax and diction that helped give a visual to the audience while reading. She says “ I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold” she almost sets you up to paint the picture of a mine of gold and take in mind that her love is more valuable than all of the gold there. The picture that is painted is so deep and meaningful and you actually can say that she loved her husband dearly. In this poem, she also established logos throughout her entire poem being that the purpose was in the title. Her purpose was to tell of why she loved her husband so much. The line that stuck out the most for me was the first one. She says, “If ever two were one, then surely we”. This is a powerful line. Her word choice paints the picture where you are sitting imagining the situation and as she end with “we”, it gives all the meaning. Instead of her just saying we are one, she said it in a way poets and her audience, of course, would be left amazed. Also the line “Then while we live, in love lets so persevere that when we live no more, we may live ever” shows her wanting eternal love. Instead of just saying I want our love to last forever, again she wants to paint the picture for her audience. She is trying to let her audience know that she wants to reach all time high with love for her husband that when they die, it would be so memorable almost as if they broke a record of some sort. In a way it’s as if she wants her audience to be in awe of her husband. She wants this to to leave a memory behind for people to see just how much love they had for each other. By reading both these poems, I can tell her main focus is on imagery, syntax, and diction since all her poems styles are unique in there own way due to simple things like words.
Summary
Anne Bradstreet was born Anne Dudley in 1612. On her journey to the new world with her father, she then met Simon Bradstreet, childhood sweetheart, and got married. He was 25 and she was 16 at the time. She was a very smart woman, which was rare during this time. She was tutored at a young age. Even when she had gotten older, she never stopped reading about history, science and literature. She also was a poet growing up. She wrote several pieces about her family and life. Her husband and father both was governors of Massachusetts yet she still was suppose to keep her place in society. Seeing that she had to keep her place in society, she was known due to her poetry. She moved many times during her stay in the new world, often near the frontier. The only way to recall her childhood in Boston was due to her writings of it. She also was a loving person. In her poems, she always wrote of her love for her husband, mother, father, and those whom were special to her. She also was a puritan who did love her religion yet did do things she was not suppose to. However she stayed true to what was right and wrong.
Response
Anne Bradstreet was an exceptional poet. Speaking from a poet’s point of view, she had great syntax and diction throughout her poems. This is an excellent trait to have seeing that poems come from your interpretation of words. In the poem, The Author to Her Book, she used a technique of using syntax to get you to almost visualize what she is saying. First, there is something special just behind the title. She is giving her life story in the poem and the title ties it all together. It’s almost, in a way, saying she is her book. It’s as if she is saying her book is made up of her thoughts, feelings, life’s goals and accomplishments etc. Her unique style of writing goes far beyond just rhyming, she gets really deep in her choice of words and sentence structures. One line says, “thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain”, and that alone leaves room for meaning to be deferred. She almost in a way want her audience to think of what exactly it is she is trying to say with her difference in word choice. This shows her unique use of imagery that helps the audience almost feel her emotion. In the lines, “I washed thy face, but more defects I saw, And rubbing off a spot, still made a flaw”, she was really connecting with the audience. Many girls can relate to this line and just by those words alone. All girls go through that moment of adolescence when they constantly see flaws, yet in these lines it’s as if she is saying she went through the same things. Her choice of words gave even more meaning to the emotion she wanted you to feel. Girls would be able to breathe a sigh of relief for there flaw and just except themselves and stop trying to change. Telling her life story gave way for the audience to picture themselves living her words. It’s as if you can picture yourself being the girl she is recalling in the poem and actually feel for her pain. Another interesting poem of hers was entitled, To My Dear and Loving Husband. This poem was rare since many people in her time did not write this way. Similar to the first poem, she kept with her unique since of syntax and diction that helped give a visual to the audience while reading. She says “ I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold” she almost sets you up to paint the picture of a mine of gold and take in mind that her love is more valuable than all of the gold there. The picture that is painted is so deep and meaningful and you actually can say that she loved her husband dearly. In this poem, she also established logos throughout her entire poem being that the purpose was in the title. Her purpose was to tell of why she loved her husband so much. The line that stuck out the most for me was the first one. She says, “If ever two were one, then surely we”. This is a powerful line. Her word choice paints the picture where you are sitting imagining the situation and as she end with “we”, it gives all the meaning. Instead of her just saying we are one, she said it in a way poets and her audience, of course, would be left amazed. Also the line “Then while we live, in love lets so persevere that when we live no more, we may live ever” shows her wanting eternal love. Instead of just saying I want our love to last forever, again she wants to paint the picture for her audience. She is trying to let her audience know that she wants to reach all time high with love for her husband that when they die, it would be so memorable almost as if they broke a record of some sort. In a way it’s as if she wants her audience to be in awe of her husband. She wants this to to leave a memory behind for people to see just how much love they had for each other. By reading both these poems, I can tell her main focus is on imagery, syntax, and diction since all her poems styles are unique in there own way due to simple things like words.
Summary
Anne Bradstreet was born Anne Dudley in 1612. On her journey to the new world with her father, she then met Simon Bradstreet, childhood sweetheart, and got married. He was 25 and she was 16 at the time. She was a very smart woman, which was rare during this time. She was tutored at a young age. Even when she had gotten older, she never stopped reading about history, science and literature. She also was a poet growing up. She wrote several pieces about her family and life. Her husband and father both was governors of Massachusetts yet she still was suppose to keep her place in society. Seeing that she had to keep her place in society, she was known due to her poetry. She moved many times during her stay in the new world, often near the frontier. The only way to recall her childhood in Boston was due to her writings of it. She also was a loving person. In her poems, she always wrote of her love for her husband, mother, father, and those whom were special to her. She also was a puritan who did love her religion yet did do things she was not suppose to. However she stayed true to what was right and wrong.
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