Blog #7

One thing that was on my mind today and bothering me were the drivers who are in a massive hurry.  The traffic in Rockford is already bad enough.  Then you have the people driving half a foot away from the person in front of them because they are trying to get somewhere.  Then they go around you and cut you off.  They get stuck at the same light as you do 90% of the time.  Congratulations you got to wait at a stoplight five seconds sooner than I did. I really just do not understand it.  I am actually usually driving 5 miles and hour over the speed limit, and I still have people who do this.  Like come on, you are going 60 in a 35. You have to be kidding me.  Not to be sexist but it is typically a teenage girl and whether it is a girl or a guy, they are usually on a phone.  So one, you're following too close, and two you are texting.  So when I need to stop really quick, have fun buying me a new bumper.  You aren't Michael Shumacher, so stop trying to drive like him.

The Delany sisters had a rough time with oppression and segregation.  Luckily they were more sheltered and didn't experience it as bad as some other African Americans did.  I chose this picture because Bessie Delany had a close run in with the KKK.  She said she was almost killed by the clan. She was walking home and was confronted by them.  She gave rude excuse and was almost captured by them.  Luckily she escaped.  This picture shows how scary the KKK was and how dangerous it was for the Delany sisters during this time. 

Blog #5

I enjoyed reading this peom.  When I connect to it though I do not really think about nature.  I think more about how the things we watched on TV is what we "became."  After watching TV shows such as power rangers and things like that, we played that at school.  I think it is funny how what you see you really do become.  We watched a lot of things and then we made our own games about them.  On the flip side of this, if you are alwasy watching death, you will most likely become less affected by it.  That is why a lot of serial killers have a traumatic childhood and see someone they love die (I am a big fan of criminal minds). The things that we see in life define who we are. 

Blog #4

The Bee

Like trains of cars on tracks of plush
I hear the level bee:
A jar across the flowers goes,
Their velvet masonry

Withstands until the sweet assault
Their chivalry consumes,
While he, victorious, tilts away
To vanquish other blooms.

His feet are shod with gauze,
His helmet is of gold;
His breast, a single onyx
With chrysoprase, inlaid.

His labor is a chant,
His idleness a tune;
Oh, for a bee's experience
Of clovers and of noon!

This poem is personifying a bee.  Emily Dickinson makes it seem like the bee is a person.  The insects do so much work throughout their lives and we do not really realize it.  They are constantly working and amking new things that we use in our lives but may not consider where it came from. I think she is trying to convey what work the small animals do.  It makes us realize that there is life other than ours.  Also a message she may be trying to get accross is that life goes on seperate from ours.  The bee goes about its daily work as we go through ours.  As seen in other poems, when we die, nature goes on.

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Blog #3

Today was not a very swell day.  A lot of things that I relly didn't want to happen definitely did.   But for lunch I had a delicious cupcake.  Also, today was the egg drop in physics.  I was luckily chosen to be my group's egg dropper.  It was very nerve racking after seeing other classmates eggs hit the ground and shatter.  Luckily though I dropped our egg and it hit exactly where it needed to. Tomorrow we will be attempting our 4th drop from a height of almost 2 meters.  I hope we beat the previous record.  

Blog #2

In fact, I have felt a connection to nature.  Two years ago, my family and I went on a trip to Colorado.  It was a really cool experience.  The main point that I connected to nature was while I was biking down Pike's Peak.  We saw a brochure to be able to actually bike down Pike's Peak.  My family and I enjoy the outdoors and were definitely up for a fun trip to go on.  I decided not to go whitewater rafting since I hate water.  We drove up to the top of the mountain and unloaded all of the bikes. We then proceeded to start biking down it.  There were so many parts of it where you could just fall off and die.  That is why I felt my connection.  I was so high up, and in a really cool environment, that I didn't really care.  I felt like it didn't matter, and that I was actually connected to nature.     

Blog #1 of 2nd Semester

Both of these authors are very good and I enjoy reading their stories.  However, I think I like Edgar Allen Poe better, because he uses less description.  Sometimes, description just gets too overwhelming.  I found myself skipping pages just to get to the moral of the story.  I really did not care about the depth that Hawthorne went into.  I would've rather had him get straight to the point.  Edgar Allen Poe's stories are also more interesting.  They are a lot more suspenseful, and even scarier.  In my opinion, Poe is a much better author.