Thanatopsis Questions

1. Thanatops and Opsis were two greek words put together to form the word thanatopsis. This word means view of death which contributes to the meaning of the poem because even when we die, we view nature as a place needed to be protected.

2. Shroud-An item used to cover up and protect something.
Pall-A cloth spread over a coffin or a dark cloud
Narrow house-Grave
Sepulchre-A grave or burial place
All of these words impact the meaning of the poem because of the poets main purpose of including the thought of death into his poem.

3. This poem talks a lot more about death, however it could also be about life as well due to the times that it talks about all of the nature and the need to protect it.

4. The tone at the beginning of the poem is of grief, however the tone shifts to a more comforting feeling.

5. An elegy is a poem of serious reflection. The conventions of an elegy is when a poem shifts from grief to comfort, and the poem Thanatopsis does this because of the deep descriptions of nature and death throughout the poem.

6. The decription of nature and all of his surroundings are like a painting. He describes images of water and of air which let's the reader feel as if they are there. The landscape is very natural and even though there is death and sadness you still have nature and the streams in nature which represent the beauty.

7. The poem was historical because it was written in the early 19th century. The reason this is a romantic poem is because the poet reflects on his individual feelings, and focuses on the supernatural and is concerned with dying and creates frightful emotions. Thanatopsis is a Calvinist poem because Bryant was in the Calvinist environment and it was part of the poem and in the poem. 

Web-quest Info Daniel A. Greyson F.

Miller

• Miller was employed at an automobile parts warehouse to pay for his college.
• The family moved to a small frame house in Brooklyn, which is said to the model for the Brooklyn home in Death of a Salesman
• Studied at university of Michigan
• Lived in New York City, New York
• In 1944 Miller toured Army camps to collect background material for the screenplay The Story of G. I. Joe (1945) Miller's first novel
• The Death of Salesman was his best work

New England in 1960's

• People that were leaving religion persecution, and saw themselves as a new God loving and centered around him committee 
• They kept their head down and their mouth shut. Supposedly the people of the new world saw themselves creating a New Canaan, supposedly did everything by the book. 
• Watched out for anything that had signs of the devil. So they really didn't think independently like creatively, or crazy stuff like Albert Einstein. Their biggest fear was the devil and things evolving him/it. Then that turned into a annexation and a complete fear that people for coming to the devil that some where hung, and imprison for this superstition.
• Their hierarchies were Cotton Mather, Arthur Miller, and Terry Locke. Mather was a priest and he was one of the strongest supporting people of the judges in 1962. Miller was a play writer and his best was Death of Salesman. Locke was very bright, and was a Senior Lecturer in English Language Education

McCarthyism

• Joseph Raymond "Joe" McCarthy (November 14, 1908- May 2, 1957) was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957
• Campaign against alleged communist in the US government and other institutions carried out under senator Joseph McCarthy
• Harry S Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower were McCarthy's victims
• He found the Senate and the generals and commanders rising up against him, and he collapsed

Web-quest Witch craft, Daniel A. Greyson F.

Daniel S. Avis

Greyson Frye

1. When I was accused to be a witchcraft-er in the story it was shocking, depressing, and that it would be hard to get dropped. It was shocking because I didn't expect it to be me, because I am a good man of God. It was depressing because I new what was coming to me, because I've seen whats happen to other accused people, and know whats coming. I also knew that it would be hard to convince everyone that I wasn't guilty, and that the women that accused me was a liar, and what everyone "thought they saw" wasn't the case.
2. He was biased, he changed Abigail's age, and he took some characters out of the story. The most freedom he took was him being biased, because he read the historical witch trails and tried to make them play worthy, and had to make it entertaining. The one I consider the most minor was Abigial's age because it only has a little importance cause witchcraft effect almost all ages. Infants died in prison with their parents because they were accused for witchcraft-ery. 
3. There could be a chance because there was a chemical in LSD called ergot and it got into the grain, and it just look like different color grain so it wasn't really recognizable. Sometimes people were paid in grain or food for their services. So I believe that if someone got paid in the bad grain, and feed it to there family, then the whole family could get ill and hallucinate, and think they were seeing their neighbors doing witch stuff.
4. They were similar because the accused innocent people, and convinced them. But they didn't have a lot or any evidence to accuse or convinced them
5. They are the same because during both of the times communities and villages were undergoing a lot of stress and which made they people act out against people who didn't follow the normal ways of society. The two time are different because of the things people are being accused of and the punishment that were give for these crimes. Also at the end of both periods many accused people that were still alive were set free and pardon(sometimes). 
6. They similarities of the two is that they both were being accused. Between they're actions or beliefs they wre always being accused
7. For the people who don't take the time to learn the histor will not know the consequences of happened the first time. We keep stereotyping people over and over. We learn from past errors to keep from doing it in the future. It was successful because it really gave the reader a mental image if how life was back in the witch trials days. 
8. Early Egypt, if you wee caught with witchesy you were taking to the river to be drowned. 
9. We were surprised by how easily the towns people where convinced that people were witchcrafters. Also how people changed their minds about their neighbors so easily, even though the evidence pointed to the convicted being innocent, and also how they thought their neighbors doing witchy stuff, like the stories they told to convict someone.

Sinners in the hands of an Angry God Questions

Daniel S. Avis

Greyson Frye

1. Edwards believes that his congregation has lots of sinners. He gives theirs speech to scare them into changing their ways. 
2. He is talking about the common man. The common man is not rich or poor, but in between.
3. Abate in this example means to convince or please
4. Show what there is to come
5. he uses the clause to elaborate on the misery in the world
6. when the God lets you drop to your doom there is nothing left for you, there is no hope or anything left. The repetition elaborates and emphasize on it.
7. He is repeating "not willingly" because God does it all. God makes the sun shine, and the earth yield. Without God nothing would get done, and we should be fearful and willing to do anything without sinning.
8. He says the simile and compares Gods wrath to it and talks about it. The imagery he uses is to put the Fear of God into the people that are listening. The fear that god will bring death to them.
9. The things he is talking about and describing is towards the people who are continuing to sin,  And will show the outcome of whether they drop or they hang.
10. Edward is the ethos, he is very religious and strict.  He is preaching the logos and trying to scare them into doing the right thing.  The fear of the audience is pathos.  
11. His tone is steady, calm, and strict.  It does not change through the speech according to the information giving before the story.
12. He was wanting people to know that God can punish anyone at anytime and he wanted people to actually learn from what they read and if they didn't praise God then they were going to hell.
13. He tell them if they don't praise God they're going to hell and it works because it scares them into praising God.
14. While Edward gave the speech, his audience started feared God causing them to faint and cry.
15. God is in control of everything and its up to you if your going to hell or not
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The Navajo Origin Legend Questions/Iroquois questions

Navajo

1. The imagines I saw when I was reading this where colorful, detailed, and untruthful. Like I saw the colors and the details the story describe, but it seems a little far fetched.

2A. The ceremony stages where: laying buckskin to the west and the east on top of one of another, then to ears of corn(yellow and white) and put them between the skins with a feather of the same color of the colors under the corns. (Not necessarily in that order)
2B. The ceremony tells me that the Navajo pare land people. Like they respect the land and also uses its resources. Also they believe in gods.
3A. The wind represents life. It is the way we live, though speaking or breathing.
3B. The people of Navajo believe the wind is life, so in the ceremony it comes last because in the steps you have to prepare before you can put the finishing touches on it. So it is the last to go in and when they die first the leave.

Iroquois

1. No, because I wouldn't be suitable for this whole. I feel i would try to do my best for others, but ended up thinking about myself in the hard times.

2A. They plant a Great Peace Tree.

2B. The roots of the Great Peace Tree represent the directions, and saying that it will always guide you.

3A. The lords greet one another and pretty much say thank you for everything they have.

3B. That they are serious people about their peace, and want a truthful person for this role over others.

4A. He uses trees for peace, eagle for protection, and shells for commitment.

4B. That nature is peace to them and it should be left that way and not destroyed by man and that it is protected by the animals, and they use nature items to represent they commitments and other things. So it tells me that they respect nature and use it for all it's worth without destroying it.

5A. That they have to abide by their oath and be worthy of the tastes, be all about the people, and whats best for nature.

5B. Not very will, because leaders now a days are mostly about themselves and how much money they can make. They are not for the people like they speak about. Leaders now a days are all bark no bite.

6. Yes, but in this modern day and time it couldn't happen, because of all the corruption, and selfishness. People might say they would do it, but in the end they are always about themselves. Anyone can say "yeah I'll do this, I agree," but they won't do anything about it. 

Yellow Wallpaper Symbolism

Daniel S. Avis

Yellow Wallpaper is a short story about a woman who goes crazy. This woman is supposed to be a modern woman in the 19^th century. Her husband and her move to the country and she becomes isolated in this new house of hers. Though out the story she is constantly thinking and writing down her thoughts in a journal, which she isn't supposed to be writing-in in the first place. In her writing, there are several symbols used to show the struggle against male dominate society. Like the yellow wallpaper, and the two windows the narrator occasionally looks out of.

            The yellow wallpaper in this short story is a symbol of her mysterious illness she has. Her husband, whose name is John, and moves her out into the country, apparently because of her illness, saying the fresh air would be good for her illness. She gets put into a nursery, in the top part of the new house, with yellow wallpaper. She describes the yellow wallpaper as “The color is hideous enough, and unreliable enough, and infuriating enough, but the pattern is torturing.” The narrator is saying the equality for women to man is “hideous,” and the words “unreliable,” “unreliable,” “infuriating,” and “torturing” are descriptions of the feelings of women in the 19^th century society. The narrator in restricted by her brother and husband to not do any work at all. This is a deeper meaning than just plain physical work; this is implying that she can’t do any intellectual or independent interactions with public. Because her husband doesn’t want her to talk to another men, and women about women’s equality. Later the narrator says “Personally, I believe that congenial work, with excitement and change, would do me good,” she is stating her opinion that if women worked and where consider equals, that women would be better for it. So, now she is getting more outspoken about the symbolism in her writing.

            In this short story the narrator talks about looking out two windows and imaging things. This represents the possibilities that women can do without restriction from man. The narrator says “lovely view of the bay,” the day represents the uncharted places that women haven’t seen or done because of man. The narrator also says “John has cautioned me not to give way to fancy in the least,” this is an obvious of the male coming over the female and telling her what to do and giving her restrictions. So the windows in a representation of the woman’s mind charging and becoming independent from man, no longer restricted by man’s rules.

            In the short story Yellow Wallpaper there are a lot of symbols of women thinking independently, and women trying to escape from under nether man. The wallpaper was her so called “illness,” which was her brother and husband saying, you are stepping out of place, and we are going to confine you to a room so it doesn't spread. The two windows where her imagination going wild and discovering the possibility that women could accomplish. There are more subtle symbol of the narrator outspoken mind, but the purpose behind this story is that women is trapped behind man, and this women is speaking out in her writing. 

Daniel Avis Introduction

My name is Daniel S. Avis and I am a very active student because I hate sitting still plus it is kinda hard for me. I play 4 sports, them being Soccer, Football, Wrestling, and Tenis. Out side of school I am still active because if beach volleyball,ultimate frisbee, and running. I do all these activities with friends except for running. I don't like to workout, hurts my back and shoulder to much. Besides sports, and friends I don't like school that much. My best subjects are math and science, and my worst subjects are reading and writing. I am a Christian, I go to Trinity Baptist Church in Newton. I am fairly easy to get along with, except for sometimes during wrestling season because of the weight losing, not a happy person during that time. But if you respect me then I'll respect you. I am a big believer in "I'll treat you, the way you treat me."