Journal #47 American Lit. Sites

My experience on the American Literature sites has been kind of a mixed result so far. At first it was very confusing, having not known what exactly I had to do for this project, where to get to get that information for this project, and also how we were supposed to present that project in our website. I think at first my other group members of Jenna and Atlee had a way better handle on this project than I did, but now I think that I have caught up to them and I think that I have got a pretty decent handle of what is going on. This project is not exactly hard I would say, but it is a lot of work. Analyzing ten poems is going to be a lot of work for our group to get all completed by when this project is due on March 31. I do like how we have some time in class to work though, because of learning something new we can direct all of our focus onto this project and Emily Dickinson, that being the best possible way to produce the best results on this website. I also have greatly enjoyed working with my group. The other people in my group are really nice, and I think that overall we work together pretty nicely. We all seem to have the same ideas about things, and seem to all be on the same page about this project. I have to do a PowerPoint about Emily Dickinson’s writing style, and I think that I found all the information that I needed to, to cover all the areas of her writing that need to be covered. Also, as a group we are all starting to work on analyzing her poems in class so we can all do it together. Overall, I think that now that I understand all the concepts of this project it has become a lot easier to me.

Journal #46 My Favorite Car

When it comes to dealing with cars, I am not mechanically inclined what so ever, with all of those skills going to my older brother who is a straight beast when it comes to fixing anything that has to do with an automobile, but I do know what kind of cars that I like. For some reason I have always had quite an obsession with the Land Rover Range Rover. It looks so sweet from the outside, with the inside being just as tight. I almost got a 1999 Range for my first car, but there is not a place around here that fixes them and I have heard that they have a lot of small issues that come with them. I have been trying lately to get my dad to get a new Rover for his next car but, I think instead he is leaning toward a Cadillac like that one that he has right now. As well when it comes to SUVs I also really like Escalades. They are so sick, when you are in one you know that you are riding in style. My mom was thinking about getting one and if she does I will have to steal it from her sometimes to drive. When it comes to cars my favorite has got to be a Lambo. I know that I will never ever own one in my life, but hey everyone can dream in their life so you might as well dream big. A new Lambo with a classic yellow paint job would be so beast. A more realistic car that maybe I could own one day, would have to be a BMW 7 Series. They are so nice on the outside, as well as being luxury on the inside. If I ever own anyone one of these cars I would be so lucky and take such good care of it, it would be unbelievable. You can always dream big.

Journal #45 American Literature Sites Project

With this American Literature sites project, I guess it has been okay so far. It was pretty confusing at first about what we were supposed to do, how we were supposed to accomplish doing it, and when this whole big long project was due. Down the road I understand it so much more now and things are starting to finally get put into place. I am in a group with Jenna Sudeth and Atlee Sprague and so far that has been really enjoyable. They both work really hard on the project, stay on task very well, and also I think that we work pretty good as a team all together. It seems to me that we all get along well, with us having the same ideas for the project, as well as each of us contributing equally to getting this project moving along to get it done. I am still a little confused as to what this project is all about and why we are doing it, but it seems as though my group has a pretty good handle as to what is going on so as long as they get it, I am sure that our project will move right along and we will hopefully get done on time. I do not know how we will present all of this information. There are only so many essays that we can write for this thing, so I guess we will have to find some other means as to get this information out on our website so we are completely done with it and hopefully receive a pretty decent grade. I have to make a PowerPoint for our group and I like that. I am usually pretty decent at them so I think that it will turn out nicely with all the information that is needed on it. Overall, this has been an okay project as far as material goes but, I am really glad that we are working in groups.

Journal #44 Imagery and Personification in an Animal

When you talk about animals the first animal that comes to my head is a dog. I do not know why but, they are just the most popular animal to me. My family has one dog and I have no idea what kind it is but, he is white and has a lot of hair. His name is Pinkee, which I also have no idea why we call him this but, things are what they are and his name just so happens to be Pinkee even though he is a little bitty white dog with no traces of pink on him at all. We have some cats too, so it is very interesting to see how he interacts with him since, both my cats and the dog are territorial so they get into a lot of fights. I find it hilarious when they fight each other even though that is probably bad for morals, but for some reason I find a glistening white dog fighting a midnight dark black cat, to be hilarious. Pinkee almost got hit by a car the other day. I saw it happen first hand with him running out of the house, into the neighbor's hard, which just so happens to be separated by a busy road. Right as he crossed my dog was probably about four yards away from being road kill on the side of the road. I do not know what I would have done if he would have died. I would have probably cried myself to sleep over the very tramatic accident and never been able to look myself in the mirror. I love that dog like a brother/sister, because I am not really sure if he is a dude or a chick. I am guessing he probably a dude, but then again who knows. I really hope that he does not father any little puppies if he is a guy, because I really do not want the responsibility of another dog on my hands. Pinkee is enough.

Journal #43 My Favorite 2010 Olympic Moment

The best moment of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics would have to be my boy Apollo Anton Ohno breaking the record for most medals in a career in the winter Olympics. He tied the previous record of six in the 1,500 meter short track final when he took the silver medal after being in fourth through most of the race but, when two teammates tried to pass each other and took each other out, moving Apollo from fourth all the way to second and the silver medal. This was an unbelievable race for everyone who was involved, and I was extremely happy to see that he was able to get his sixth career medal and a silver medal at that. In the 1,000 meter short track final, Apollo was in fifth throughout most of the race but, near the end he really picked it up and passed up two Canadian skaters to take control of the third spot. With that medal he now holds the record for medals won by any athlete of the United States in Winter Olympics history. That is pretty amazing to think about when you think about all the great athletes that have participated in the games for the United States. I really like Apollo because, he is a very hard worker along with the fact that he is very fan friendly and an absolute tank on the ice. I also liked watching other speed skaters such as my other boy Shanni Davis who also happens to be from Illinois. He won gold in the 1,000 meter long track final but, lost in the 1,500 meter long track final. He got second but, it is still considered a disappointment. I really enjoy watching speed skating especially my favorite skaters that I already talked about. I also really liked watching the new event of ski cross. It was a very exciting event to watch with a lot of drama in it. Overall, I really enjoyed the Olympics.

Journal #42 Evaluation of A Narrow Fellow in the Grass

In our English class we are focusing on Emily Dickinson poems. As we read some of these poems that she composed, you start to see many similarities in her poem to the one that you last read. They pretty much all deal with nature in some way or another, and similarly they all have much imagery to them. In this blog I am suppose to evaluate the poem A Narrow Fellow in the Grass. Just like all the other poems by her, it talks about nature and has much imagery in it. In the first stanza, it talks about a narrow fellow in the grass who rides through it. He also says that you may or may not have seen him. These details of it being narrow and riding through the grass tell me that this fellow is probably just an everyday earth worm that Emily Dickinson saw while walking and decided to write a poem about. As I read the next two stanzas of this poem I am starting to realize that I was right about the conclusion I had about this poem when I just read the first stanza about it. They talk about more characteristics of the worm but, they are many characteristics that I would have never thought to write about a worm, and are very creative to say the least. As the person in this story notices more and more about the worm, it becomes evident just how amazed this person is at just a simple earth worm. My conclusion is pretty much proven when the very last line says that this animal has zero bone at all so it pretty much can only be a snake or worm with the description that was given to me. With this poem it is pretty amazing the detail that you can get out of just an everyday normal Earth worm. The person in the story was pretty amazed with it and near the end of the story I was too.