Thursday, September 18, 2008

POEM

1-You are the object of my desire
2-you make me smile when the day is gloomy
3-your love and care is all i require

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

college essay

As a child I was really afraid of doctors. I hated going to one when ever I got sick or had a doctors appointment. I remember this time I had to go to the doctors for blood test. I didn't want to go so I hid under my bed unfortunately my mom found me. The doctors office was busy that day and I saw many little kids going in and coming out crying from the office. After watching them I started crying as well. The check up went painlessly as possible until it was time for my blood test. I was so scared that I just ran out of the office. My mom with the help of a nurse dragged me back into the office. At that point I just wanted to run and go home. The nurse held me tightly while the doctor got the needle ready. I was too scared to look so I closed my eyes. After it was over the doctor gave me a sticker and a lollipop.

Thinking about this makes me realize that doctors arent as bad as i thought they were. They help feel better when you are sick and make sure that you stay healthy. This encouraged me to become a doctor well a pediatrician to be exact. I want to make doctors appointement for little kids as painless as possible. I want to keep kids healtly and happy.

Monday, June 2, 2008

Sat vocabulary poem!!

Man Up

His face is augmented by the shadows that surround him
His haphazard is like a cool breeze on the skin
He walks as if emoting for all to see
But is recluse
He vindicates his role as a virtuoso
He smiles but is in total oblivion to those who are engraved by him
He doesn't dilatory
He is spontaneous
But not too haphazard
When looking into his eyes you feel like you are in an asylum
You are cajoled by how he infiltrates your thoughts
He doesn't dictate or give adulations
He doesn't say the reciprocal of what he feels
Nor does he repudiate what is thrown at him
He is not arid when he extenuates his thoughts
His statements aren't hackneyed or skeptical
He mitigates the truth to make a replica to the harsh facts of life
He speaks of disparity with deplore
His thoughts and ideas are perpetual towards volatile
All he entreats is jubilation
For fidelity to venerate
Those who wish to change the perquisite ways of the world
Man up

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Objective: Getting Acquainted and Going back to basics. Classwork: Introduction to Course, Classroom policy, Attendance, Contact/Index Cards (name, address, parent(s)/guardian, phone, email). This will be done electronically. Homework:

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Charles Alexandra Eastman

Speech by Charles Eastman and me

"The true Indian sets no price upon either his property or his labor. His generosity is limited only by his strength and ability. He regards it as an honor to be selected for difficult or dangerous service and would think it shameful to ask for any reward, saying rather: "Let the person I serve express his thanks according to his own bringing up and his sense of honor. Each soul must meet the morning sun, the new sweet earth, and the Great Silence alone!. What is Silence? It is the Great Mystery! The Holy Silence is His voice!

Whenever, in the course of the daily hunt, the hunter comes upon a scene that is strikingly beautiful or sublime -- a black thundercloud with the rainbow's arch above the mountain, a white waterfall in the heart of a green gorge, a vast prairie tinged with the blood-red of the sunset -- he pauses for an instant in an attitude of worship and prayer.

He sees no need for setting apart one day in seven as a holy day, because to him everyday is gods day. Children must early learn the the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving"


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-Charles Eastman was born in February 19, 1858 on reservation near Redwood and died in January 8, 1939.
-He is a Native American author, physician and activist.
-He was raised by his grandmother until the father he thought was dead came back and encouraged him to go to college and do something with his life.


Charles Eastman's Accomplishment

-Eastman was the recipient of the first Indian Achievement Award.
-He was the first Native American physician to serve on the Pine Ridge Reservation.
-He wrote about 11 books about the Native Americana and their histories. The first book he wrote is called "Indian Boyhood" which was published in 1902. It told the story of his own first years and upbringing and was an immediate success with the public.
-He worked as field secretary for the International Committee of the YMCA, and spent the three years traveling throughout the US and Canada visiting many Indian tribes to start new YMCAs in those areas.


Contribution to society:

-His used his training as a physician, to help people in the Pine Ridge Reservation.
-He worked in BIA project to re-name the Sioux, giving them legal names in order to protect their interests.
-He also began a lifelong association with the Boy Scouts of America, and from 1914 to 1925 he and Elaine operated a girls' camp near Munsonville.
-Charles Eastman's most important contribution to American letters is as a writer of autobiography and as a preserver of Sioux Indian legends, myths, and history.


List of books written by Charles Eastman

Red Hunters and the Animal People (1904),
Old Indian Days (1906),
Wigwam Evenings (1909),
Smoky Day’s Wigwam Evenings: Indian Stories Retold (1910),
The Soul of the Indian (1911),
Indian Child Life (1913),
Indian Scout Talks (1914),
The Indian Today: The Past and Future of the First American (1915),
From the Deep Woods to Civilization (1916), and
Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains (1918).

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Sources:
http://www.indians.org/welker/ohiyesa.htm
http://www.worldwisdom.com/Public/Authors/Detail.asp?AuthorID=6&WhatType=1
http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/eastman.htm



Monday, March 31, 2008

analyze and identify rhetoric and persuasive language.

Do Now: Can you recall a quote, speech, parable or lesson that inspired you, changed your perspective on life, or made you stop and think? Identity it and explain reasons why.

"The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it."
-Plutarch
This quote made me stop and think that life can be really short, short as a moment, so we should live our life and do something good with it instead of misusing it and do bad things to people. I like this quote because it direct and if you really think about it. Its true.


The Gettysburg Address

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate - we cannot consecrate - we cannot hallow - this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us - that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Abraham Lincoln - November 19, 1863

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

chief joseph's speech

Interpret the following quotes:
“The Earth is the mother of all people and all people should have equal rights upon it."
-Chief Joseph
This quote is saying that the earth is the mother of all people because earth is like the mother giving us shelter and providing us with food and everyone should have equal right to it. everyone should share earth and treat everyone with equality

Answer on your Blogs:
How is the art of rhetoric evident in Chief Joseph’s speech?
He is being very persuasive to the council member about not selling the land which they live on and how he dosent want to start a war. he just wants the indians and the white people to get along with each other and live peacefully. also because he is repeating himself on by saying he dosent want war or bloodshed.

Who is he addressing in this speech?
Mostly he is addressing the white people. he is trying to convince them that he dosent want to fight with them he just want to live peacefully in his homeland.

Who is he indicting and why?

Identify any heroic characteristics?

Why is this speech Protest Literature?
This is a protest literature because he is protesting against the