Ending to the story

After I got away from the huge pendulum, I noticed that that the room had dead bodies pressed up againt the cold, dreary walls.  I just stood there wating to find what else the spanish had in tale for me.  Just a few seconds later I heard a loud shocking sound, it sounded like a human being.  I started running as fast as I could back to the sound, to try to save this human being from being rat food like I was supposed to be.  But then i thought maybe this could of been another trap of theirs to try to get me back to where I started.  But then all of a sudden a person in a huge black coat and a painted white mask jumped out in frount of me and tackeled me down, as if I were in a boxing ring.  The man took me to a blue room that had a litttle ebony light and a clock.  He was talking in what seemed like a different language.  I tried to understand what he was saying but I just couldnt put anything out.  He started whipping me with his chains and her tied me up to to the stairs, and the last thing i felt was a huge gash on my stomach and that's when I knew that the end has come, a slow dreadful death.

Team Poe

I choose Team Poe because I feel that his short stories are more interesting to read.  I like it how Poe uses dark and mysterious words to create a scary mood while you are reading.  I also like Poe's short story better than Irvings.  I thought that Irving's short story was really boring and I felt that as if it would never end.  But in Poe's story I was wide awake and i couldn't wait to read on, because there one thing that happened another and it didn't keep me hanging.  For an example, when Madeline appeared in the doorway and started to attack her brother Roderick.  I thought this scary story by Edgar Allen Poe was more interesting!

Reflection on the First Snowfall

This poem was a very sad poem.  The poet did a really good job of explaining his feelings without giving the overall subject away.  This poem reflects to my life because my parents lost a child.  My sister, Kelsey was only three years old when she passed away.  In this poem the writer lost his daughter and explained how he felt and the things that he was going through.  My parents are always going to have that emptiness in their heart for my sister, just like the writer has for his lost daughter.  Unfortunatly tragic things happen, and sometimes their for worse and sometimes for the best.  My parents have learned to keep living their lives and showing her glory through me, like in the story the writer said that he kisses his other daughter as if it were to his lost daughter.  This was one of saddest poems I have ever read.

Connection to Nature!

I would connect a flower to my life because it is very colorful and lively. Flowers have very vibrant colors, and my personality. Is very colorful and bubbly. Another way how flowers connect to my life is with dancing. Flowers are different from each other, and dancing is a different kind of sport, and i can express my feelings through my dancing. I also like to dare to be different, and not be like everyone else, i like to be my own person. I also like to wear a lot of colorful clothing, because i don't care what other people think of me. All in all, flowers are very vibrant, different, and lively, just like me!

Charlie Chaplin

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000122/bio
Charlie Caplin was an English comic actor and film director of the silent film era^.  He became one of the best-known film stars in the world before the end of the First Wolrd War. Chaplin used mime, slapstick and other visual comedy routines, and continued well into the era of the talkies, though his films decreased in frequency from the end of the 1920s. Chaplin was one of the most creative and influential personalities of the silent-film era. He was influenced by his predecessor, the French silent movie comedian Max Linder, to whom he dedicated one of his films. His working life in entertainment spanned over 75 years, from the Victorian stage and the Music Hall in the United Kingdom as a child performer, until close to his death at the age of 88. His high-profile public and private life encompassed both adulation and controversy. Chaplin's identification with the left ultimately forced him to resettle in Europe during the McCarty era in the early 1950s.

Reflection on Act 1 of the Crucible

Last week when we started the Crucible, I didn't really understand the story.  But when we started talking about it in class it really helped me understand what the Crucible was about.  Some of the events that frightened me was when Parris was accusing all of the girls in the court room of being a witch and practicing witchcraft.   Another part that frightened me was when Tituba was explaining her experience with the devil and hell, and how she saw Goody dancing with the devil.  And right after that Abigal spoke out all that she has done and how she saw the devil also, and by that time all of the girls started screaming names out who were practicing witchcraft.  During this part I felt scared because I didn't know what was going to happen next and I felt nervous because I didnn't know if the girls were goin to get executed for admitting they were involved in witchcraft.  But overall Act 1 contained a lot of good information and I can't wait for the next Act!

Puritan Plain Style

"The Puritan glut of words is evident in their style

or writing. In choosing quotations for this book

I had to repeatedly omit redundancies from

Passages. The characteristic Puritan style, I

Soon concluded, is to take at least twice as many

Words as necessary to express a thought.

`God hath placed us in the world to do Him some

work. This is God’s working place; He hath

houses of work for us: now our lot here is to

do work, to be in some calling…to work for God’"

This is an example of a puritan religious sermon.  This sermon is telling us that the puritans made God a special part of their daily living.  It is also telling us that the puritans worked for God or they basically performed everything for God.  God was their main purpose of living.  The puritans believed in predestination, and they distinguished between "justification," or the gift of God's grace given to the elect, and "sanctification," the holy behavior that supposedly resulted when an individual had been saved.