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sister carrie narrator 2 May 17, 2009

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The narrator in this passage introduces Carrie in a way where he makes her seems foolish. He starts the paragraph by saying that she has, “fallen a prey to those doubts and misgivings which are ever the result of a lack of decision,” which suggests that the narrator has suspected Carrie of being that typical female. But then he mentions how she starts to think rationally so obliviously  the narrator dose think Carrie is capable of logical thought. The narrator ends the paragraph by stating how women sometime imagine themselves to be in love when they are not, the narrator thinks women are fickle when it comes to love and other emotions. However he does not portray this as such a bad think. The narrator like Carrie and admires her but he does not agree with what she does all the time.

the yellow wallpaper May 17, 2009

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In the Yellow Wallpaper the author depicts the struggles women face in a society full of men. And when her husband faints its perfect because he just can not handle what is happening to her. And mostly its the women who faint and swoon in stories. So the author is kinda of justified by placing the man in the weak situation. So this scene repesents both victory and defeat for the narrriotar because now she has defeated her husband through her mind yet her world is still a man’s world and she must work with that. Therefore she doesn’t have complete victory.

young goodman brown May 16, 2009

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In young good man brown there is that unrelenting theme of being in a committed relationship and of growing up. From this story we can see that even in the early years of American young men were still finding it difficult to grow up. Young Goodman Brown is a newlywed who leaves his wife on an errand. He is in that stage between being a  young man with no carries and a man with responsibilities. When Young Goodman Brown enters the woods which stands for the wild and untamed nature. He meets someone in the forest and they take a journey together and in the end he finds out the truth about the “sinners” and “saints” in the town. But Young Goodman Brown was not able to take the truth in and he went insane. Hawthorne was trying to say that in order to grow people must accept to truth.about how there are a mixture of people and you can not judge a person by there reputation or appearance.

hmmm… to be loyal or not to be May 6, 2009

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In this play the thing that makes loyalty tragic is the fact that many people are betrayed while relying on the loyalty of other people. The several relationships which end in betrayal  are the wife’s, Beatrice, and the husband’s, Eddie relationship, the niece, Catherine’s and the uncle,Eddie relationship, the protector, Eddie and the illegals, Marco and Rodolpho.  All these relationships counted on each other and their loyalty towards each other. However in the end all these ties were tested and failed which makes loyalty the tragedy in this play.

Loyalty is important to a blue collar- ethnic community because they are the underdog. They are the minority trying to make something of their lives in America. So therefore if they can not trust each other, the community will not prosper. Miller illustrates this when Eddie tells the Immigration Bureau about Marco and Rodolpho and they get arrested and in the end only Marco gets deported. The community finds out who called them which causes Eddie to lose his reputation. Miller is trying to make a point that in communities there are ties that should not be broken.

However in the 1950′s Miller was in the middle of a political war that included every walk of life. This political war created the McCarthy trials. The government was trying to root out the “communists” in American. They would hold these elaborate trials and placed many famous people on the stand with the threat of being blacklisted if they were found guilty. Being blacklisted in American meant no job, no friends, and no where to go.

Eddie’s nature and his denial makes loyalty a difficult value for him. In the beginning of the play he seems like a good guy, taking two illegal immigrants into his home. But then when they move in and Catherine shows an interest towards the youngest one, Rodolpho, Eddie’s true feelings start to show. Yet he does not recognises his jealousy and instead convinces himself that he is just being the protective uncle. His loyalty towards his wife and everyone else diminishes as the story goes on.

My loyalty has been tested before but not in the same way Eddie’s loyalty was. My sister and I have this deal in which we do not tell our (divorced) parents what we both get into. Well one day I got into this heated fight with her and her boyfriend. Well mostly her boyfriend and she stood there defending him, when just a few hours ago as I drooped her off at school she told me that she was mad at him. So during the weekend I spilled some of her habits to my dad. I broke that bond we had. And I still feel bad about it.

to feel April 30, 2009

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I think that the word feel is used differently in the beginning of the story compared to the end by the man. He tells the woman not to “feel” that way about an abortion that she is about to have. He uses the word feeling in a negative context. It seems like when the man says not to feel that way, he is convincing her to not have one of those panic “attacks” that women seem to have. But then after the abortion is done the first thing he asks is if she is fine. Its like as long as the woman does not panic and do what he wants, then he will start to care about her feelings.

the galleries April 27, 2009

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In the early 1900s its was a new century and most things in life where changing. And it was only natural that our art changed as well. In the Armory galleries there are many paintings and sculptures that represent the modernist movement. The thing that makes this gallery different and modern is that in each piece of art the artist makes the viewer think about what is being displayed. In the galleries there are paintings and sculptures that are different from the more contemporary art that was popular a few years back.

GalleryA there is only a collection of sculptures where some are more modern than others. The sculpture of Mahonri Young’s, Mother and Son, is fairly obvious at what the statue represents but it is still beatuiful by the way Young captured the detail and the tenderness. However the most extreme piece of the collection would have to be Andrew Dasburg’s Lucifer and Abastenia St. Eberle’s White Slave. Dasburg’s Lucifer is a scupltur that looks like a person’s face that has been pieced together. And then there is Eberle’s White Slave which puts out the question of prostitution into society. Both of these sculptures represent what modernism will become. They both make your brain think about what the artist is trying to explain.

In gallery G there are mostly paintings and drawings from Germany, Ireland, and England. These paintings were diverse and my favorite was Improvisation No. 27 (Garden of Love) by Wassily Kandinsky. This painting is colorful and very abstract. There were no lines or real images, just shapes and many colors. This is what modernism is all about. The people who look at this painting have to decide for themselves what it stands for.

As you pass through the different galleries from different places, you get a better idea of what modernism is. All the sculptures, paintings, drawings, and ect. are different and there is hardly a connecting theme that connects them, besides the fact that they are piece of modern art. These pieces that different artists created where meant to change society’s idea of art. And they accomplished just that because this type of art is still being used.

Poem by Emily Dickinson March 9, 2009

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258

THERE’S a certain slant of light,

On winter afternoons,

That oppresses, like the weight

Of cathedral tunes.

Heavenly hurt it gives us; 5

We can find no scar,

But internal difference

Where the meanings are.

None may teach it anything,

’T is the seal, despair,— 10

An imperial affliction

Sent us of the air.

When it comes, the landscape listens,

Shadows hold their breath;

When it goes, ’t is like the distance 15

On the look of death.

Whitman and the tide February 25, 2009

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In the beginning of the poem the differences with the tide vs. I and the crowd vs. I is a problem for Whitman because is sees the tide and the people but he is not apart of it. I watches the tide flow by him as the ferry continues to cross however he is not part of that water. Same goes for the crowd, Whitman is only a bystander. He watches as, “crowds of men and women attired in the usual costumes! how curious you are to me!”(line 3). Whit this statement you see how Whitman is curious about the people around him but he is not involved with them. This can pose a problem when you are trying to relate to others. Then at the end of the poem Whitman changes the I to the plural we and this changes the tone. Whitman goes on to make a point that he is part of you and you are part of him.

song of myself February 16, 2009

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In Whitman’s poem “Song of Myself,”he captures you and takes you on this intimate journey. What really grabbed me was in the fourth line, “I loafe and invite my soul…,” I interpreted this phase to mean that Whitman is relaxing and calling out to his soul and creating with it. This is something not easily done, even in his time, because of life and its busyness. I decided that this picture of a naked woman reclining on a couch was the perfect image for this line because she seems so at ease and free. Yet she has her right arm supporting her head, meaning she is half way in the world still. And since the line appears at the beginning of the poem I thought the picture would also reflect the reader who is about to enter into the image Whitman has created.

american scholar February 11, 2009

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I believe that when Emerson wrote that,“Colleges and books only copy the language which the field and
the work-yard made” (8), he was trying to explain how people can only obtain real knowledge by going out into the field and learning from experiences and reflection. It is very important to understand that colleges and books are only copies of the language of field and the work yard because then people will learn to not  take them so literal. Some people tend to take the knowledge from previous books and recite them over and over again to other people. This theory fits perfectly into what Emerson is arguing when he writes about creative writing and the relationship between creation and imitation because if people just repeat what was given to them before and not expand with their imagination then there is no creativity.