Job blog 1

1. From these passages we can learn that humanity has always seen money as power.  We can also learn that (even though we might no know it) we used to think that females were a lesser species.

 2. From these passages we can learn that back then God was believed to be all powerful and everything that happens is what God whanted to happen.

3. From these passages we can learn that friendships were taken more seriously then they are now.

4. We can learn that Job seems to take his sons more seriously then his daughters.  We can also learn that Jobs wife loses faith easier than he does.

Blog 6

Truthfully every student at this school shares a story about mindlessly following “the pigs”.  Every student is mindlessly following the education system.  Until we are eighteen every minor is required to go to school.  To “perswade” us even more they made it to where you lose your liscence if you drop out of school before your 18.At least that is what I think.

:warning the folloking statement is fictional: 

A couple years back I had a friend who figured this out.  After that he started working on a way to break this system that keeps us in our place.  He found it, that very same day he was going to stand in front of our class and tell us how to beat it.  Strangely so, he never showed up to school.  They took his name of his cubby and the attendance list.  It was like they were trying to make us forget about him.  Most people did.  That is when i discovered for myself that this system was powerful and dangerous.

:end of fictional part, thank you for humoring me:

None of that was true.  I was just trying to show you what these “pigs” are capable of.  If that had been true than I propbaly wouldn’t be here.  Think of the education system as Napolean and his pigs, and dogs.  The animals are, of course us, the students.  I think that if we had a student the equivalent of stronger boxer and a student the equivalent of wise benjamin.  Then maybe we could take control and make a system for the students(animals) where we are all free and equal.

trial blog

I was a witness for the dead team.  I also rebutled on an open debate.  I enjoyed doing this assighnment.  I liked working with a group consisting of friends and peers.  I was Jurgus Rudkis from Sinclair’s The Jungle.  I liked the open debates and the cross-examinations.  It was also intresting to see what books were being used for the opening statements/open debates.  It was also fun to see what characters were taking the stand.  From a witnesses point of view it looked as if everyone had a good idea of what the had to do.  In short i think everyone would benifit from doing something like this again.

Blog 5

Tom Robison, Mayella Ewell…… They may be more alike than the think. Tom Robison and Mayella Ewell both had their lives put in danger from the same incedent. Also they both were afraid of Mayella Ewell’s father.  They both were completely terrified when Mayella’s dad yelled at them.

Tom Robison and Mayella Ewell are also both very different. For one thing there are the obvious differences. He is black and she is white. He is a man and She is a girl.  He is full grown and she is still a child. There is also the difference in their health. She has both of her arms, were his left arm was caught in a cotton gin.

In conclusion I think that they are more different then alike. The evidence is here, and it proves my point.  Mr. Amico I am sorry that this is so late.  I just don’t remember it.  I will remember it all day but as soon as I get home I forget about school.

Blog 4

             In chapter 15 of To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout saves her dad and Tom Robinson from posibly getting a cap popped in them.   She walks into a scene of angry men and she leaves a scene of embarassed boys.  Some critics complain that the author, Harper Lee, is being too simple to have created this part.  They complain that this is not beliveable. I, personally, think that scout could save Atticus and Tom from the gang.

         I think that she could do this because she is so young and innocent that she doesn’t know what is going on all she knows is that they are in trouble. I think that if she knew the full extent of the problem then she might have hesitated.  i think that the way she was raised to do the right thing sort of helped her spring into action and leave that dude lying on the ground.  Some people might thing that she might not be able to reach that area but i think she could of if she jumped up to kick him in the shin.

     I think that this deepens the character of Scout, as well as the novel’s flow.  It’s well-written and believable.  I think this proves that when a loved one is in danger, the adrinaline rush you get can propel yourself to do anything.  I think that it helped that scout is just a little girl and that any guy with a shread of decency would not kill a girl’s father in front of her or vice versa. In conculsion I beleive that scout could have save Atticus and Tom.

Blog 3

I think mocking birds are the central metaphor of the book because according to Atticus Finch and Miss Maudie mocking birds don’t do anything but make music for us. In the bible it states that if you take an eye for an eye then the whole world would be blind.  I think it is a sin to kill a mocking bird because unlike other birds they don’t destroy crops or damage property, they just sing.  In chapter nine scout and uncle jack have a little incedent, where after her cousin calls atticus a nigger lover and she punches him, uncle Jack detirmines that it is all scout’s fault but when he finds out what really happens he realizes he can’t handle children because he doesn’t see both points of view, he only sees what he is there for, he doesn’t know that you have to get both sides of the story.

blog 1

The novel was made in the 1960″s. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. It is harper lee”s only novel.