6 Word Memoir

Hitchhiker.
Unencumbered.
Tramp.
Without
Normal
Drama.

In Class today we read more of Into The Wild, so we did 6 Word Memoir on Chris McCandless.

Reclusive Emily E. Dickinson

Today in class we read Into the Wild, and we talked about recluses. The New Oxford American Dictionary a recluse is "a person who lives a solitary life and tends to avoid other people." The class was given three different people that are from the literary world and I picked Emily Elizabeth Dickinson. Emily was born on December 10, 1830 and she died on May 15, 1886. Some people that inspired Emily are William Shakespeare, Henry W. Longfellow, Jane Erye and many others. Emily was renown for her poetry, some of her works are "A Stopped Clock" "Good Night" "My Nosegays" and many many more. You can read some of her work here. Emily withdrew from society by not leaving her fathers house very often, she only took about five trips out of town, she refused any visitors to come and see her, Emily did have lovers but they were few and she never married.
Emily and Chris McCandless are similar to me because they both did not want to deal with the people of the city, Emily did not want to leave her fathers house but Chris did, he wanted to leave as soon as he could and just go, Chris did not want anything to do with his family and the only people Emily did want to talk to is her family.
In Emily's life the Texans defend the Alamo, the Gold Rush, slavery was abolished, the plague and many more things.
A quote from Emily "Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality."

Grizzly Man

Today we were to told to pick one of six people that did something different in this world, something odd as you might say. I watched a YouTube video on "Grizzly Man." This man went into the wild to protect bears. Not many people would leave their life to spend 13 years in Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska. I personally think that we could learn a lot from this man. His real name is Timothy Treadwell. At times Timothy would eat near the bears and sometimes touch them. I wish that I could know why he did this, what inspired him to go out into the wild and leave his old life behind. He ate just like the bears did. I think that this can show the world that we do not need all the "junk" we have today. We don't need junk food or fast food. Also, I think that he did this to show us that there is not anyone who will protect animals in the wild. We need more protection for wild animals.

My path is different too. I am going to college at a community college about 200 miles away from where I am now. I have a son, I am going to get a job and pursue my life as a student and mom. I am going to save to money so that I can own my OWN home, with my own rules and nobody except me to tell me how to raise my child because I am living under THEIR house. I am getting a job hopefully somewhere that pays well. I am going to college and maybe even transferring later in my college life. I think that from my life I want people to learn that being a teen mom is not easy and fun, it is hard. I want moms to stay in school and be all that they can be. There are limits to what a teen mom can do, but most of those limits come from themselves!

Rolling Stones cmparision 2

This is my Venn Diagram for the Rolling Stones Comparison to The Taming of the Shrew.

Rolling Stones cmparision

In the book The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare there is a female named Kathrine and a man named Petruchio. At the begining of the book we see that the Taming of the Shrew is a play within a play, I thought that it was interesting. So once The Taming of the Shrew starts you see that Kathrine is very blunt and she says what she wants when she wants(I love her character!!). Although, her younger sister Bianca does what she is told when she is told and is what a lady of that time should be. There are many men in love with Bianca and none with Kathrine. Two men who are in love with Bianca say that they will find a man to marry Kathrine because the girls father says that Kathrine must be married before Bianca can be married. So they find a man, who’s name is Petruchio. He said he would marry her because he wants her dowery, and he can tam her. So when he shows up to their wedding he is dressed as a poor fithy slob. He takes Kathrine back to his home and does not give her anything that she Needs nor wants. He does not let her sleep, eat, go out or even drink; he teases her with clothing by showing it to her and not letting her have it.
What I am supposed to write about is the similarities from this book and the song “Under My Thumb” by Rolling Stones. In the song it mentions how “the girl who once had me down” ”the girl who once pushed me around.” The difference is that Kathrine never got the chance to put Petruchio down or make him mad nor sad. Then in the song it gets to saying “It’s down to me” “The difference in the clothes she wears” “change has come” this part is like the book Petruchio knew before he even met Kathrine that she had to be “tamed” and he was more than prepared to do so. In the song when it says “She’s the sweetest, hmmm, pet in the world” it reminds me of how much Petruchio has “tamed” Kathrine to do what she is told and how afraid Kathrine is of Petruchio. In the song it talks about how he can still look but she can’t in the book Kathrine does not look at other men but neither does Petrchio.

March Book

In the month of March we read After by Amy Efaw. This book was one of the most powerful and amazing books that I have EVER read. I was unable to go to the meeting this month, unfortunately I had other stuff that had to be done.
At the begging of the book Deven (main character) was at home like any other teenage girl who skipped school. Her mother comes home from her night ship job.... Then..... Anyway, I do not want to go into full detail in case who ever may be reading this would like to read the book. In any case Deven had a baby in her bathroom the night before the book starts, she put it into a dumpster, cops come to her apartment for a routine check to ask questions then they find out she had a child, she goes to juvenile hall, goes to court, and then the book ends......
I personally think that there MUST be another book. The way that this book ended just wanted to make me throw the book across the room!!!!! You HAVE to read it to figure out what I mean. It truly is an amazing book. Also, I am very excited because I want to read another book, and the movie.

My Change for Debt

Ms.D has found a National Debt Clock and we are supposed to think of some things that we can do to help. There are so many ideas that I have of what I can do and already do.
I do not usually throw away any glass, I save light bulbs, containers and all my other glass products. There are a few places around that you can give them any glass and they will recycle it, a good place to go that most towns have is their local dump. Anything that is burnable I burn, I have a wood stove and it makes sense to me to burn it instead of it going into a land fill. My family hunts and fishes but doesn't catch a lot, so there is not to eat. Also, there are many stores around that I support buy buying their food and supplies. Many different stores have things that I need, so instead of going to Wal-Mart. When my clothes are too small I bring them to second hand stores, when my clothing rips I use it to fix a different piece of clothing. I also, like to make my own hats when I can by crocheting hats then I go and buy pea shoes from other people.