Death, Swimming, FlyFishing

I found coming into this year I didn’t really know what was going to happen, especially in english 11.  When it started actually most to of the year I didn’t really know what we were doing, we read all these books but it seemed like we were just reading to read. As the year went on I started to grasp what we were doing but still was thinking what is the point of all these blog articles. Then it kind of hit me, when I read books I started to think more then what was just blatantly said in the text, books stated to mean more. One thing I noticed when I was reading by my self was that you couldn’t have a discussion after words that could have made thing come together. Then as the year went on I found that my words in the blog article started to flow easier then they had in the past, so I found that when it came to papers it was a lot easier to write them too. I the long run I found this year more productive then all my other english years put together. I learned more useful skills in your class that will help me through the rest of my life then I could have from another teacher that does packet and an essay on books, and then moves on. Over all I think the group talks have helped me the most and have made me more open to sharing my ideas. It just want to say thank you for a great year and all the others.

We all have times when you don’t want to admit times when you are wrong, whether it be if you don’t want to blame you or if you do you’ll be ashamed. I don’t have any memorable accounts but that could be that I just chose not to, but I’m pretty positive that Danforth and Parris aren’t going to forget their mistakes any time soon. When Abigail their main witness disappears after they killed 12 people when Parris suggests parading the remaining 7 but Danforth said it would put doubt on his authority and judgment. Is it just me but I think there has been doubt all along? So by now I see only murder taking place in Salem. Then when John regrettably confesses to the crime he did not do, they ask him to write it on a peace of paper and sine it. He dose but then they tell him that their going to nail it to the church door, which back then was like a huge bulletin board. So he took it back from Danforth and ripped it into peaces and let them blow away saying.

“How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!”

So he called up the marshal and was shacked to the cart and was brought to the gallows with other convicted people. As they took them away Hale pleads with Elizabeth to convince Proctor to take it back but she only says she cant do that to his pride.  So him with 18 other people are wrongfully executed because of one persons horrible mistake.                  

There has been many times when I’ve been blamed for thing that I haven’t done one of the most memorable times is when I was in band freshmen year.  It was a was a day when Mr. Bray was particularly aggravated, no one in the class was paying attention and were thinking every little thing these two people were saying to each other was the most funny thing ever. One of the kids was a sax player that sat right next to me Danny. By this time I know the whole rehearsal was ruined.   Mr. Bray some how, miraculously got things calmed down, mainly throw check marks and detentions. Then he had to go get something from his office, which just unsettled things one again it was kayos. That day Mr. Rath was somewhere else in town so he couldn’t help with things. When he came back from his office, with the whole time those two have been shouting profanities. So the last word had been slung as soon as he walked in, all of this had been done with there heads behind there stands so it wasn’t as easy to tell where the sound was coming from. For some reason he thought it was me, I have no idea why but he did. Mr. Bray shot me this stern look and grabbed a detention sheet of his podium and put my name on it.  After class I went to his office to ask to get the detention repealed with no success. It was the first time I had ever had detention and when I found out that it was a joke. There was no vague sense of discipline it the class everyone was talking and playing different games. But it wasn’t like that for the ladies in the Crucible because if they were found guilty they would be sentenced to death not detention.                 

There are many times when you find it easier to lie or some how avoided the question then come out and tell the truth. I find it easiest to relate this to when; you go some where but you parents think you went elsewhere. I tolled my parents that I was going over this one person’s house to play x-box, I did go there. He and I got board so we decided to go get a group of friends together to go paint balling.  So we drove around town all the why ill my parents are tiring to get a holed of me on my cell-phone which happened to be off.  Before I left to get the people together I had a thought to get people to call and let them know what I was doing but my parents have different views on what having fun is like my dad wouldn’t mind if I weir to go paint balling with people he doesn’t know but my mom would have to interview each one.

            I find this most relatable to the story to because after words. I get done it is probably after 9pm and I left the house at 10:30am and realized that I probably should have done a check in call. I was on my way home that I turned on my phone and noticed that there was 7 voice mails and know that I was in deep (you know what).  So I started to think up excuses but I couldn’t think of some thing good so I just decided to play dumb. This didn’t work, like the way it didn’t work for the girls in The Crucible, but I was finally force out and there were consequences. Which we will son find out I bet there were for the girls.

He lived through the depression, his dad was a clothing manufacturer. They were not to bad before the depression but afterward they were hurt. Arthur Miller didn’t go to college right out of high school he had to save up some money so he could afford to go. He didn’t start off majoring in English he started majoring in journalism but when his first play was a hit he switched to English.
 
At one point he was married to Marilyn Monroe!!

He died in February of 2005

offered great entertainment mixed with pungent social criticism

Miller was widely acknowledged as the country’s most important playwright

“A lot of my work goes to the center of where we belong — if there is any root to life — because nowadays the family is broken up, and people don’t live in the same place for very long,” Miller said in a 1988 interview.

career as a writer spanned over seven decades, and at the time of his death in 2005, Miller was considered to be one of the greatest dramatists of the twentieth century

Works Cited

The Crucible. RSC, 2006. 

 “American Playwright Arthur Miller Dies At 89.” NPR. 2008. 8 Apr. 2008

     <http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4495305>.

I thought that it was Winter Dreams a pretty sad book.  Dexter the main character was obsessed with this girl Judy Jones. She’s one of thoughts girls how is rich, beautiful and can get anything and knows it. It all started one summer when he was a caddy for Mr. Mortimer Jones. One day he happened to be the unfortunate one to be the first person there that morning, Judy how is at least 3 years younger and her maid were the first two too show up that morning. Dexter was already getting sick of his job and she just throw him over the edge. He was assigned to her, the first thing she said to him was BOY, the caddy-master said aren’t you going to pickup her clubs. But he was so startled and offended by this young girls word that all he said was ”I don’t think I’ll go out today” then he thought and said ”I think I’ll quit” and walked home.

 All through out his life he will date a lot of woman but always comes back to Judy Jones. He had dated her a few times the last time he had become engaged to her but at the last minute she left him. Then over a year later meet, fell in love and was engaged to Irene Scheerer, but though out this whole time he kept thinking of Judy Jones. One fall night came along not to long before he was to be married when he finely realized that he wasn’t to get Judy and made him sad. Then one night he and Irene were at a dance but she went to home early. After she left and he said good bye, Judy Jones’s voice came up behind his and said “Hello, Darling” and that’s all she had to say to get him under her control again.  He walked her home on the way she started to cry and devoted her undying to him, they got to her house and stopped crying and asked him to come in. He called of the wedding and was off with his dream girl again.  But it didn’t last so he went on with his life but still dreamed of beautiful Jody Jones. His dream would be broken one day when he found out that his fun dream girl got married became a house wife.

Then he started to cry but it was for his own pathetic self, for his wasted youth and time focused on this one woman Judy Jones his Winter Dream.                

There is no easy way to clime this mountain,  they described the mental toughness you need to have. You have to tell yourself  that the pain you go through is fun, that’s the only way to tackle each steep. You have to realise that your on a mountain that climed 8 lives in one day. You also have respect for it but also have to convince yourself that your tougher then it and it cant beat you. By this picture from crevasse in the Khumbu Icefiled, Napal, by reading this artical you can see that its not the same mountain twice.

When you climb this mountain you don’t have to go through just the physical pain but if you fail the financial pain. Here’s just the rough easement.

• 1 lead Guide- $25,000
• 2 Assistant Guides- $10,000 to 15,000 each
• 7 Climbing Sherpas- $5,000 each
• 3-4 Cooks- $3,500 each
• 1 Liaison Officer- $3,000
• Doctor- $4,000
• Transportation and Lodging- $42,000+
• Permits in Napal- $72,475+
• Insurance- $100 per Napalese staff member
• Satellite Phone Permit- $2,300
• Sat Phone Rate- roughly $2.50 per minute
• Supplies- $47,700+
• Ritual Expenses- $300
• Helicopter Evacuation- $5,000
• Emergency Contingency- $1,000
• Climbing Gear- $8,000 to 15,000+
• FOR A TOTAL OF: 1/4 million +

After seeing the movie I’ve decided to let the other people climb the mountain and I’ll look at the pictures they tack. I found this picture and thought it looked fun.   

I found Walden hard to keep focused on because of the way it was written. He talked too much about him self and drowned on and on about unimportant things that had no relevance to anything. Many of the sentences struck me though.

“… To front only the essential facts of life…”

I think that life would be much simpler and more enjoyable if we all could do just that. Which is why I think, he went out here and did what he did to confront nature but yet still be in touch with the world.

“… Let your affairs be as two or three and not a hundred or a thousand…”

I think he’s saying that you should keep your problems and concerns to a minimum and not let them control you life and enjoy the simple pleasures.

“…There is more day to dawn…”

I think it tells you that you should brake from the norm and wake before dawn because there is only a certain amount of sun in the day and you should us every bit.

I don’t reject Thoreau but don’t agree with what he did. He did what he thought he had to do to make him self a complete person, I don’t criticizes him for that. He may deserve the reputation he has but not to the extent of what he has, the still of writing was good back then but know most people wouldn’t sit down with his book and read, the quotes mean more today then the text.

It’s a vivid description of the experience and the environment of
Cappadocia, Turkey, it described ass another worldly place and the layout of the cave and how the people lived. The lunar of Cappadocia is home to a bizarre filed of anthill-like cones that resembles some lunar landscape, rock-hewn churches and underground cities where Christians once hid to avoid persecution. You can see having breakfast on the tranquil terrace where, every morning, freshly baked focaccia was served with bowls of cherries, apricots, yogurt, cheeses, tomatoes, cured ham and muesli. 

Blogs are good way for people to express them selves and share information with others. I enjoy reading others blogs but I’m not the best blog righter. I enjoy using computers but computers don’t like as well. My uses for computers are school work and the internet. I understand how some parents are worried about there kid’s safety on the internet. Say they are spending hours on the internet in chat rooms with people they don’t know, but if they on the internet looking on the internet for school or for there own interests. I don’t know if the internet I dangers if your being smart. The only thing you really have to worry about is getting a virus on our computer.  I’m used to using a blog from last year but I still need to work on my creative writing skills.  I like writing but there are many other things I’d like to do to tell the truth.