writing

When I was researching my topic at first I didn't feel as confident as I thought I would be. I had difficulty finding information to right about. As the time went on I started finding useful information to help me carry on with my essay. I think I found personal success when I typed my last word on my final sheet. It was a relief to just be done with the essay and to stop stressing over it. I felt like I put it off for awhile and then tried to cram it in, so i'm sure that's what led to all the stress. I do think all the pre-writing activity's were useful they, helped me understand the layout of an essay better. I got familiar with transitions and how to better my thesis statements. It made my writing a little easier it and helped me better my writing skills. I think the thing I want to change is not putting my essay off to the last second.  My peer editing experience was good. It gave me some great ideas on how to make my essay better. I learned some useful information from my classmates. The feedback I got for my paper was helpful. It showed me what I needed to work on and all my mistakes. I think the strengths of my paper is my information I gathered up. It took me awhile to get it all but I think it ended up pretty well. I need to focus more on expanding on the topic at hand. Some of my ideas are short and could be expanded.  

Influential

2)  When Krakauer wrote "no one was affected more powerfully by his or her brief contact with the boy than Ronald Franz."  The people that come to my mind when it talks about influencing is my mom and my grandpa. I wouldn't be the person who I am today if it weren't for them. Since my dad left when I was younger, my grandpa kinda took over the father role for me but I still treated him like my grandpa. They are always there for me no matter what, even if it is a sporting event, big moment in my life, or just a normal day problem I know that they will be there to help me. They have always influence me to do what I believe in and to not stop till i have reached whatever i'am going for. My mom influences me in a different way than my grandpa can and my grandpa can influence me in a different way. My mom is usually for everyday life and my grandpa can influence me sports and make me a better athlete. We all have those people that can make a positive impact in our life. 

Nature Surounds

     Nature surrounds us in many ways. We can describe it in many different aspects. Nature can have a full meaning of life and it is all around us. When I experienced nature for myself, I see many different aspects of it; I hear cars moving across the pavement at a steady rate. As the car drove by it gave a single honk, but no wave. I hear a birds faint chirp off in the distance to hard to tell what kind it is. I only heard it for a few minutes then it disappeared  I always wish I was a bird because of their ability to fly naturally. It always seems like a pleasure to be flying and experience everything from above. When I look up in the sky I see nothing but never ending blue. It seems like it could go on forever. The white clouds give it a nice compliment on this bright and beautiful day.

     As I'm laying here my eyes keep on wondering and all around be are bare trees. You can tell its a nice Autumn day. All the leaves are falling off and it leaves nothing for the trees, they are simply naked. The bright orange and yellow leaves cover the grass on the ground. Twigs and sticks lie upon the leaves covering almost every aspect of the ground. I hear rattling on the cement and I look over and leaves are rolling all over the ground making a smooth noise. Its almost too calm outside where I just want to lay down and enjoy the rest of my day and take a nap.

     Nature is all around us and you can see it in any way. You can relate your life to it and just connect with it. So I suggest everyone to go experience it every now and then and just enjoy your time out there.

Character Analysis

1. I view John as one of the protagonist throughout the story. He is brought up in every seen and has played a huge role in this story so far. People view him as someone they look up to cause he is that caring guy and shows it later on in the act. In this point in the story I view him as dynamic character. John has two personalities. He changes characters from act one to act 2. He went from this nice guy who seemed laid back to this aggressive trying to figure out something type of guy. I can also classify John as a round character. He has more than one facet to his personality. Him changing from act one to act two classifies him as that round character. John has a key role in the this act, and it seems like everything is coming down on him and he tires his best to get out of the situation.


2. John Proctors personal qualities consist of him being an aggressive man, but he has that caring side as well. Throughout act one John was a calm and nice guy but when it got to act two things started to change for John. At the beginning, Johns wife Elizabeth kept bringing up Johns incident with Abby. I believe this started his aggressive side, because he was trying to put it in the past but she kept bring it up and he got frustrated  with her. All the arguing and lying make their relationship a bit shaky. As the trials continued, more and more people started to get accused of witchcraft. One name that came up was Elizabeth Proctor. John was furious and appalled that his wife's name came up. He did everything in his power to keep Elizabeth safe. When Mr. Cheever arrived to pick up Elizabeth, Johns aggressive side started to kick in again. He was screaming and fighting them off. He couldn't do much more than that. He said he would rather die than have Elizabeth rot in jail. This shows Elizabeth that he actually cares about her and would do anything and everything for her. John still has that caring side after what all has happened in the first two acts. All the things leading up to the incident where Elizabeth got taken away motivate Johns qualities.


3. The type of external conflict that John faces is man v.s. society. This is when the character is facing societal norms. There is this big epidemic going on about witchcraft and anybody could get accused at anytime. Your friend of 10 years could turn you in if they have any suspicion against you. This is complicating Johns life because his wife was accused by Abigail Williams. At any moment someone could be taken away from you. He cant really do too much about this either because once you get accused your either going to jail or getting hanged. He puts a fight at the end of act two to try and get Elizabeth to stay. The type of internal conflict that he faces is man v.s. himself. He is in sort of a predicament, his wife has been taken and he needs to find away to help her and fend for his children. Along with this he lies to his wife about going to Salem and going to see Abigail. I believe he will find away to fend for his children, but helping Elizabeth is a different story.

Sinners Post

     As the minister of the Puritin for life church, the outrageous sermons by Mr. Edwards are incredibly ridiculous. No one can tell the people that they will be going to hell. There views on religion are completley out of this world. I took a piece from his sermon and this is what he is saying to his members " The wrath of god burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to recieve them; the flames do now rage and glow. The glittering sword is whet, and held over them, and the pit hath opened its mouth under them. When has a pastor ever had the right to say this to his people? His Church needs to rethink their religous views.

     All the comments the Mr. Edwards says could be very hurtful to the people at my church. People don't want to hear that they are going into a pit of flames. His choice of vocabulary is darkening for most of the people. At my church, we praise god and make people feel comfortable to be here. I don't want them to be scared to come to my church. A church is supposed to make you feel good, not tell you that you are going to hell once you die. My personal opinion about Mr. Edwards and his church is that they need to re-think their whole personal view on religion.

     People need to be told what is good for them and that they will be going to heaven once they die. I preach this at my church when necessary. Its the right thing to do when you are a minister of a church. Hell should not be preached while in a church, as saying that god burns against them. Mr. Edwards needs a reality check when preaching to his people. Its never a good thing to tell people that the pits are open and awaiting you. This affects my people in many ways as it affects Johns people. It makes people feel as all hope is lost for them and they will be ending their lives in the warm pits of hell.

   

How I feel about writing

When it comes to writing it takes me a decent amount of time to get started. I am not the best writer, and I am hoping that will change this year. I try to get a head start on anything to do with an essay or let alone an in class writing assignment. I don't work too well under pressure just because I get nervous and begin to panic.When we are assigned a writing assignment, I'm not confident right off the bat, but once I get into my groove I become confident at times. I feel like if I put more effort into it I could have so much more confidence in my writing. My strengths in writing come with my ideas. It takes me awhile to brainstorm but I always end up with the perfect idea in my head. My weakness is definitely punctuation, I have always struggled with this in the past, but I see myself improving on this at times. Hopefully I will get new ideas to help me on this. I have a few doubts about my writing like my punctuation, writing enough, and just thinking my best wont be good enough. I want to improve on all aspects of writing so it will help me towards the future.

The units I am most excited for are the book units. I feel I can comprehend books pretty well and memorize important things to them. I know in the past when we read Julius Caesar and Of Mice And Men, I did very well on the tests and assignments for those books. I am not looking forward to the poetry unit and the major essay parts. Last year, I didn't do so well in my poetry out loud contest. I get nervous in front of the class and draw blanks. It would be nice if we didn't have to do it, but I already know the answer to that.