25 facts about myself

1. I have to have the T.V volume at any interval of 5
2. I have a sweettooth
3. I am a Philadelphia Eagles fan
4. I have a messy room
5. I like to cook
6. I have a niece that's 21 months and a nephew that's 17 months
7. I have flew on a plane by myself ( unaccompanied minor)
8. I have to older half-brothers over the age of 30
9. I went a cruise to Alaska without my parents
10. I have an autographed Lebron James jersey in my basement
11. I was in the National Junior Honor Society in Middle school
12. I lived in the same house all my life
13. I watched baby sea turtles hatch on the beach when I was in St. Thomas
14. I have had the same ipod for almost 4 years
15. I'm going to Turks and Caicos this summer for vacation
16. I love snakes
17. I love all music except for country
18. I have the cutest dog in the world named Mojo
19. I'm full of useless facts
20. My moms birthday is today May, 21st  which is supposedly judgment day
21. One day we had a green squirrel in out backyard
22. I love to collect hats
23. I had my picture taken with Hiloti Gnata and an autograph
24. I had the opportunity to make cakes with Duff
25. This summer I will playing golf with Todd Heap, Joe Flacco, Dennis Pitta, and Ed Dickson
26. I've never gotten stunk by a bee before

Our trip to the Folger Museum

I did not know what yo expect when we went on our trip to the Folger Museum in Washington D.C, but I do have some things to say. We started off the trip watching a play type performance which started off just fine. I really liked the Asian guy; he was really funny. After awhile it drug-out and I became bored. The middle schooler's were obnoxious and they people on stage were a bit repetitive. Though I did learn a thing or two to help me understand Shakespeare better. Like the clues he has in the words, or read ahead to find out what hes talking about. Talk out loud and find action clues to help describe the words becuase Shakespeare wrote plays not books. After that we went to lunch which was fun. Socializing with friends having a wide variety of food to eat. The ride there and back was not long and I listened to my ipod most of the time.

Julius Caesar and Marcus Brutus

• Julius Caesar was smart and strong military generel and leader.
• Knew what the people wanted to hear and would put himself out there. (one of my favorite sayings is, you got to risk it to get the biscuit)

• Made friends with powerful, rich and upper class people.

• Had good intentions to do good things for Rome and the people.

• Loved the city of Rome so much and he was a perfect fit for the leader of Rome. 
• Wanted more and more power. He got greedy
• Decided to go to the capital becuase he was promised the crown instead of staying home like his wife told him
• Became a little cocky. thought everyone liked him and nothing bad will happen

• Marcus Brutus wanted to help Rome and he did not want a dictator like Julius Caesar ruling it.
• Brutus was very social and had many friends, like Julius Caesar, bot rich and powerful, all of which he had good relationships with. 
• Brutus was not afraid to stand up or speak out for the good of Rome and it's citizens if something was wrong or needed to be done. 
• Brutus was willing to work hard to make his way up to being leader because he wanted to make new changes for the better of Rome.

• Brutus was a nobleman who was respected and was always thinking about others instead of himself, a very heroic trait.
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• Didn't think of the possible outcomes of his plan.
• Valued Rome more than his friendships
•  Devotion to the conspiracy caused him to lose his wife
• Blind to other peoples motives.

Imagery for Their Eyes Were Watching God

1. “She had come back from the sodden and the bloated; the sudden dead, their eyes flung wide open in judgment.” Description of a person who died and did not see it coming and left the world judging people and events. Page 1.

2. " She knew the word was stallion rolling on the blue pasture of ether.  Page 25

3. " They sat on the boarding house porch and saw the sun plunge into same crack in the earth from which the night emerged. page 33

4. “The great rope of black hair swinging to her waist and unraveling in the wind like a plume,”. Page 2

5. “They sat on the boarding house porch and saw the sun plunge into the same crack in the earth from which the night emerged.” This is symbolizing the start of a new day, and Janie has a new start for happiness. Page 33

6. “Mind- pictures brought feelings, and feelings dragged out dramas from the hollows of her heart.” Nanny is trying to raise Janie while remembering the past things from her life, and trying to do better this time. Page 16

7.“She had glossy leave and bursting buds and she wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.” This compares Janie to the blooming pear tree and how it is blooming as she is growing up and becoming a woman. Page 11

8. "Janie saw her life a great tree in leaf with the things suffered things enjoyed, things done and undone.

Dawn and doom was in the branches."  Page 8 

9. “time makes everything old so the kissing, young darkness became a montropolous old thing while Janie talked.” Time loomed on as Janie told her story to Phoeby. Page 7

10. “The new moon had been up and down three times before she got worried in mind.” Page 22. Three months had passed. 

Their Eyes Were Watching God opinion

In my opinion, Their Eyes Were Watching God was a well written and unique novel. Zora Neale Huston was worded her story very well and incorporated Imagery and Symbolism into hear book that added taste to the book. As there were some rough spots in Janie's life, especially when it came to men, i found it in no way offensive to the African-American race and I have no idea why all the African-Americans took it as such an insult and basically shunned Zora from their community and let her die in poverty. Zora is a great writer who knows how to use words to paint beautiful pictures in the readers minds.

Their Eyes Were Watching God symbolism

Trees/roots- symbolize Janie roots as a person, having both black and white genes in her.
Pear tree- symbolizes womanhood and Jeanie coming of age. It also represents fertility and growth.
Mule- the work that black woman had to do and how they were treated with no equality
Janie's Straight Hair- represents her bi-racial roots that other black woman don't have straight hair and other men pay more attention to Janie. Later Janie's hair represents her freedom as a woman.
Janie's Head rag-symbolizes the control that Joe had over Janie and it hid Janie's best feature. Joe did not like other men touching Janie's hair and flirting with her.
A Dog- symbolizes how to not treat a woman. tea cake tells Janie that woman should not be treated like dogs and deserve respect just like any other human being.
The lamp post- represents light and hope for the new town of Eatonville
Horizon- symbolizes new dreams/ new beginnings; looking out to a better future.
The gate- symbolizes a opening to new opportunities
The General store- its a big accomplishment for Eatonville and it is also the town meeting spot. represents the town moving forward.
Joe and Janie's house- marks their wealth and power as mayor and mayor's wife.
Checkers- marks being of some status. While Janie was still married to Joe, Janie was always asked to get the board and attend to the store, never asked to play. tea cake on the other hand asked Janie to play and she felt like she wasn't of some lower class.
Joe's Guitar- represents his laid back side and the muck would always gather around Janie and tea cake's house to hear him play music.
overalls-  symbolizes the working class, usually farmers or people that don't have that much money to spare on luxury's.
Sea- symbolizes love, and how love always changing live the waves.

Zora Neale Hurston Controversy

Zora Neale Hurston received a lot of criticism after she published her book Their Eyes Were Watching God especially from other black authors such as Richard Wright. Wright thought and claimed that black writers should support black society and try to get political support as well. Wright also claimed that they should show  the characters they right about as a higher class. However, Hurston and other writers of the Harlem Renaissance did not agree with Wright and instead wrote books of black community and individualism. Hurston was also criticized for not addressing racial issues.
I think that Zora Neale Hurston didn't deserve any criticism that she received. She didn't deserve it becuase she wasn't being racist or suggesting that all black men are abusive to their wives or lazy. " Their Eyes Were Watching God" were based on her own personal experiences. Plus back then being a man still had benifits in which you were of higher class and the boss in the relationship. Back then, all men, white or black, hit their wives becuase they could and it showed power and control. This was common and i find it in no way shocking or offensive to point in ant racial direction.


Epstein, Marcus. "Black Libertarian: The Story of Zora Neale Hurston." LewRockwell.com. Web. 17 Apr. 2011. http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/epstein2.html.

Into the Wild Final Assesment

Their Eyes Were Watching God

"you got to jump at de sun."

Zora Neale Hurston

1. Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960), American writer and folklorist, whose anthropological study of her racial heritage, at a time when black culture was not a popular field of study, influenced the Harlem Renaissance writers of the 1930s
2. Born in Notasulga, Alabama and raised from an early age in Eatonville, Florida, Hurston was educated at Howard University, at Barnard College, and at Columbia University, where she studied under German American anthropologist Franz Boas.
3. Hurston also collected folklore in Jamaica, Haiti, Bermuda, and Honduras. Mules and Men (1935), one of her best-known folklore collections, was based on her field research in the American South. Tell My Horse (1938) described folk customs in Haiti and Jamaica.
4. Hurston is noted for her metaphorical language, her story-telling abilities, and her interest in and celebration of Southern black culture in the United States. Her best-known novel is Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) in which she tracked a Southern black woman's search, over 25 years and 3 marriages, for her true identity and a community in which she can develop that identity.
   5. Hurston's work was not political, but her characters' use of dialect, her manner of portraying black culture, and her conservatism created controversy within the black community.
   6. Throughout her career she addressed issues of race and gender, often relating them to the search for freedom.
   7. In her later years Hurston experienced health problems, and she died impoverished and unrecognized by the literary community.
   8.  Her writings, however, were rediscovered in the 1970s by a new generation of black writers, notably Alice Walker, and many of Hurston's works were republished.
   9.  Hurston's prolific literary output also includes such novels as Jonah's Gourd Vine (1934) and Seraph on the Suwanee (1948); short stories; plays; journal articles; and an autobiography, Dust Tracks on a Road (1942).
   10. In 1995 a two-volume set of her fiction and nonfiction writings was published. Go Gator and Muddy the Water: Writings by Zora Neale Hurston from the Federal Writers’ Project appeared in 1999. Hurston wrote this collection of articles on the folklore of African American Floridians for the Florida Federal Writers’ Project between 1938 and 1939. The 1995 and 1999 collections contain previously unpublished work.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
    
   
    

Harlem Renaissance

1. Harlem Renaissance was an African American cultural movement in the 1920s and early 1930s that was centered in the Harlem, New York City.
2. Also known as the New Negro movement, the New Negro Renaissance, and the Negro Renaissance, the movement emerged toward the end of World War I in 1918, blossomed in the mid- to late 1920s, and then faded in the mid-1930s. 
3. Although it was primarily a literary movement, it was closely related to developments in African American music, theater, art, and politics.
4. From the mid-1920s through the mid-1930s, some 16 black writers published more than 50 volumes of poetry and fiction, while dozens of other African American artists made their mark in painting, music, and theater.
5. three events between 1924 and 1926 launched the Harlem Renaissance. First, on March 21, 1924, Charles S. Johnson of the National Urban League hosted a dinner to recognize the new literary talent in the black community and to introduce the young writers to New York’s white literary establishment.As a result of this dinner, The Survey Graphic, a magazine of social analysis and criticism that was interested in cultural pluralism, produced a Harlem issue in March 1925. Devoted to defining the aesthetic of black literature and art, the Harlem issue featured work by black writers and was edited by black philosopher and literary scholar Alain Leroy Locke.
6. The second event was the publication of Nigger Heaven (1926) by white novelist Carl Van Vechten. The book was a spectacularly popular exposé of Harlem life. Although the book offended some members of the black community, its coverage of both the elite and the baser side of Harlem helped create a “Negro vogue” that drew thousands of sophisticated New Yorkers, black and white, to Harlem’s exotic and exciting nightlife and stimulated a national market for African American literature and music.
   7. Finally, in the autumn of 1926 a group of young black writers produced Fire!!, their own literary magazine. With Fire!! a new generation of young writers and artists, including Langston Hughes, Wallace Thurman, and Zora Neale Hurston, took ownership of the literary Renaissance.
   8. A number of factors contributed to the decline of the Harlem Renaissance in the mid-1930s. The Great Depression of the 1930s increased the economic pressure on all sectors of life.
   9. Organizations such as the NAACP and Urban League, which had promoted the Renaissance in the 1920s, changed their interests to economic and social issues in the 1930s. Many influential black writers and literary promoters, including Hughes, James Weldon Johnson, Charles S. Johnson, and Du Bois, left New York City in the early 1930s.
   10. Finally, a riot in Harlem in 1935—set off in part by the growing economic hardship of the Depression and mounting tension between the black community and the white shop-owners in Harlem who profited from that community—shattered the notion of Harlem as the “Mecca” of the New Negro. In spite of these problems the Renaissance did not disappear overnight. Almost one-third of the books published during the Renaissance appeared after 1929. In the last analysis, the Harlem Renaissance ended when most of those associated with it left Harlem or stopped writing, while new young artists who appeared in the 1930s and 1940s never associated with the movement.
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   The Harlem Renaissance changed forever the dynamics of African American arts and literature in the United States. The writers that followed in the 1930s and 1940s found that publishers and the public were more open to African American literature than they had been at the beginning of the century. Furthermore, the existence of the body of African American literature from the Renaissance inspired writers such as Ralph Ellison and Richard Wright to pursue literary careers in the late 1930s and the 1940s. The outpouring of African American literature of the 1980s and 1990s by such writers as Alice Walker and Toni Morrison also had its roots in the writing of the Harlem Renaissance. The influence of the Harlem Renaissance was not confined to the United States. Writers McKay, Hughes, and Cullen, actor and musician Paul Robeson, dancer Josephine Baker, and others traveled to Europe and attained a popularity abroad that rivaled or surpassed what they achieved in the United States. South African writer Peter Abrahams cited his youthful discovery of the Harlem Renaissance anthology, The New Negro (1925), as the event that turned him toward a career as a writer. For thousands of blacks around the world, the Harlem Renaissance was proof that the white race did not hold a monopoly on literature and culture.

   
   

   See also African American History; African Americans; African American Music; African American Dance; Jazz; and Blues.

   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
    Langston Hughs (1902-1967), American writer, known for using the rhythms of jazz and of everyday black speech in his poetry. Hughes was one of the first writers to portray the urban black experience realistically. His poems typically express the tribulations and sometimes the joys of ghetto life in plain, spirited language resembling the colloquial speech of American blacks. Hughes wrote more than 50 books. His works include the poetry volumes The Dream Keeper (1932), Shakespeare in Harlem (1942), and Fields of Wonder (1947) and many more. The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes was published in 1994.Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   Jelly Roll Morton, professional name of Ferdinand Joseph Lamothe (1890?-1941), American pianist, and a seminal jazz figure. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, he moved around the country for many years, performing his unique blend of blues, ragtime, Creole, and Spanish music. In 1923 he began making records and from 1926 to 1930 he toured with his own group, the Red Hot Peppers. His career declined in the 1930s. Morton’s important contributions to jazz have often been overshadowed by his exaggerated statements and colorful lifestyle. A pioneer in organizing players into a loose orchestra, he produced a number of popular classics, such as “King Porter Stomp” (1923), “Jelly Roll Blues” (1924), and “Black Bottom Stomp” (1926).
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   Paul Laurence Dunbar
    The son of former slaves, Paul Laurence Dunbar was one of the first black American writers to receive national recognition. In 1896 he published Lyrics of a Lowly Life, a collection of poems written in the black dialect.
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Characterization Chart

Chapter and page #	Description/quote from novel	What impression you get about Chris with this character trait or description?
Chapter 1, page 4	“Five feet seven or eight with a wiry build, he claimed to be 24 years old and said he was from South Dakota.  He explained that he wanted a ride as far as the edge of Denali National Park, where he intended to walk deep into the bush and ‘live off the land for a few month.’”	Chris is not physically fit for walking into such a dangerous environment.  He seems a little crazy.
Chapter 2	Chris’s remains weighed only 67 pounds when he was found Pg. 14	He dies of starvation because he was unprepared.
Chapter 3	“McCandless was smallish with the hard, stringy physique of an itinerant laborer. There was something arresting about the youngsters eyes. Pg. 16	Chris wasn’t the biggest guy but him seemed to have striking charisma
Chapter 4	“He was a nice kid. Said his name was Alex. And he was big-time hungry. Hungry, hungry, hungry. But real happy. Said he’d been surviving on edible plants he identified from the book. Pg. 30	Chris was all about pride and the feeling of accomplishing a goal. Having nothing and making something of it.
Chapter 5	“Nice guy, yeah, a pretty nice guy,” Charlie reports. “Didn’t like to be around to many people, though. Temperamental. He meant good, but I think he had a lot of complexes. Pg. 42	Chris moving around and gets itchy feet after being in a place for a long time. He could always handle being by himself and is journey was about solitude.
Chapter 6	“The boy had said his name was Alex-he’d declined to give a surname-and that he came from West Virginia. He was polite, friendly, and well-groomed. Pg.51	Chris Doesn’t want anyone to know where he is from in case they try to figure out information about him and call his parents.
Chapter 7	“He was kind of shy at first,” says Borah. “He acted like it was hard for him to be around people. I just figured that was because he’d spent so much time by himself. Pg. 63	Chris was awkward around people he just met and again, doesn’t like to be around people to begin with.
Chapter 10	When Sam was looking at pictures of Chris. “He has long, and he had beard. Chris almost always had short hair and was clean shaven. And the face in the picture was extremely gaunt. Pg. 101-102	Chris wasn’t able to bath or shave up in Alaska so he ended up looking like a homeless individual.
Chapter 11	“Christopher Johnson McCandless came into the world with unusual gifts and a will not easily deflected from its trajectory.” In the third grade Chris was put into the gifted and talented classes. “He wasn’t antisocial-he always- had friends, and everybody liked him-but he could go off and entertain himself for hours. He didn’t seem to need toys or friends. He could be alone without being lonely.” Pg. 107	Chris just didn’t think friends were important. He had them but he didn’t need them. While most people seem to revolve around friends and desire contact and relationships. Chris could be detached and be perfectly content. Maybe that’s why in Chris’ mind he seemed perfectly sane because he could handle being alone.
Chapter 12	“Chris was good at almost everything he ever tried,” Walt reflects, “Which made him supremely confident. If you attempted to talk to him out of something, he wouldn’t argue. He’s just nod politely and then do exactly what he wanted.” Pg. 119	Because Chris was good at a lot of things and didn’t think the odds didn’t apply to him so to him he wasn’t taking any risks in the wild. His confidence convinced himself he would make it.
Chapter 13	“Like Chris, Carine is energetic and self-assured, a high achiever; quick to state an opinion.” Pg. 129	All these traits that were listed would be extremely influential to thinking he would be fine in Alaska even though he had no past experience.
Chapter 16	“Alex didn’t come out and say too much at first,” stuckey reports. “And by the end he kind of let his guard down. He was a dandy kid. Real courteous, and he didn’t cuss or use a lot of that there slang. You could tell he came from a nice family. Mostly he talked about his sister. He didn’t get along with his folks too good, I guess. Told me his dad was a genius, a NASA rocket scientist. Pg. 159	Chris obviously came from a good family but whether he knew it or not, he picked up a lot from his parents. The right way to act and present yourself.     -In my opinion Chris McCandless was no where close to being a insane nut-job. He had  huge impact on people that he just met for the first time. He came off as an intelligent person which in fact he was. The way he grew up and his incredible thinking out-of-the-box was very influential. Who is t say Chris was a kook who had no feelings for other people especially his parents. He had a good reason to resent his parents but maybe he couldn't worked things out. Being alone was enjoyable for Chris. He didn't think the odds applied for him and he was good at almost everything he did. That was a supreme confidence builder. He didn't let people tell him what to do becuase that's that living your own life. He did what he wanted and had control of his life. Chris McCandless was just a human being that knew what he wanted

Half way through

         Chapter 2.

  11. Because it refers to the wild and dark woods, the harsh winds and cold. Ominous death and nothingness

                12. So the reader knows what Chris is getting into and start making inferences

                13.  Starvation was the considered cause of McCandless' death. He only Weighed 67 pounds. Pg. 14

          Chapter 3.

14. Wayne westerberg is a man in his mid thirties that runs a grain mill and

Gave chris a ride on day and chris eventually worked for him in carthage Pg. 16

15. Rubber tramps are adventurers with cars and leather tramps are people without cars, they just walk.Pg. 17
16. The author is saying Chris left his family in D.C and found a new better family with Westerberg and other employees.
17. westerberg got arrested for illegally making a "black box" that allows yuo to get free cable. So he was out of a job Pg. 19
18. " before departing, he gave westerberg a treasured 1942 edition of  Tolstoy's War and Peace on the title page he inscribed, " transferred to Wayne Westerberg from Alexander". Pg. 19
19. Chris's had 1 younger sister and 6 had siblings from his dads first marriage. His parents tried to but him his respect like a new car or law school money no matter how many times Chris refused. Pg. 20-21

20. He becomes akward when he moves into a populated city, and he gets itchy feet staying in the same place too long. Pg. 22
21. He changed his name and started a new life for himself. Pg. 22-23

Chapter 4 and 5

22. Chris  was a one man wolf pack and he wanted to find an answer he has been looking for and he thinks going to the undisturbed desert will help him.
23. Shes a rubber tramp she sees Chris picking berries and lets him stay with her and her boyfriend for a week and they became friends and stay in touch
24. He bought a conoe on impulse and rode it down the Colorado river to the Gulf of California.

25. He speakes in 3rd person and dates the entries.________________

26. " It is the experiences, the memories, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found."

27. Chris was living in somewhat of a cheap way but good for knowing what his starting point was. He was a griller at McDonalds and was living in a trailer house with an old guy named Charlie.

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29. " He was smart. He'd figured out how to paddle a canoe down to Mexico, how to hop freight trains, how to score a bed at inner-city missions. He figured all of that out on his own, and I felt sure he'd figure out Alaska, too."

30. " Although Burres was concerned about McCandlees, she assumed he'd come through in one piece. " I thought he'd be fine in the end."

 Chapter 6 and 7

31.  Alex was hitching back to bajada when Ron came to give him a ride to Oh-My-god Hot Springs.

32. It is a pig farm

33. While ron was in the military, he wife and only son were killed by a drunk driver

34. Ron felt the emptiness go away when he met McCandless. Ron asked Chris to be his adopted Grandson.

35. Alex started working with Ron and making leather belts, and they kind of bonded over that.

36. "McCandless was thrileed to be on his way north, and he was relieved as well-relieved that he had again evaded the impending threat of human intimacy, of friendship, and all the messy emotional baggage that comes with it."

37. To move around, don’t stay in one place. God made so many beautiful places everywhere. Explore a little

38. On december 26th when Ron picked up two other boys one told him he read in a paper than Alex had died in the tundra.

39. Waynes machine broke again and hes has been working a lot with little help.

40. The author thought that McCandless and his father were both high strung men and they had some issue  McCandless couldn’t let go off. The author did mention how McCandless and his sister were very close and all the guys stared at her because she is beautiful.
Chapter 8 and 9

41. The story compares to what Chris is doing and gives and gives a little backround. Gene also got rid of all his possessions

42. Because waterman went into the wild because he lost all his work. Chris went into the wild to find another life because he didn’t like his family.  Krakauer adds this story to say that people do things they wouldn’t normally do with a normal life. " Like Rosellini and Waterman, McCandless was a seeker and had an impractical fascination with the harsh side a nature." Pg. 85

43. " Like waterman and McCunn, he displayed a staggering paucity of common sense." Pg. 85

44. Everett Ruess had somewhat of a family that moved a lot before finally settling down in southern California. After high school, he went to college for one semester and then dropped out. He moved out into the wild going to various areas of nature like the Davis Gulch. He wrote several letters to his friends and family describing how beautiful life was when it was lived in nature instead of the average life that most people decide to live. He was very adventurous and there are many theories of how he died.

45. They were similar because they both had the same thought of that there is something more than just everyday life. There is a whole world to be discovered and explored.

 

Famous Quotes in the novel

" Dark spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway. the trees had been stripped by a recent wind of their white covering of frost, and they seemed to lean towards each other, black and ominous, in the fading light." Jack London, White Fang Pg. 9
this relates to Chris becuase Chris did walk into the wild of Alaska in the frozen tundra with bare trees.

" It is associated in our minds with escape from history and oppression and law and irksome obligations, with absolute freedom, and the road was always led west.
Wallace Stegner, The American west as Living Space Pg. 15
this relates to chris because he wanted to escape his life and his mindset of forgetting everything. the laws and the rules; being held down by everyone else.

" There was some books... One was Pilgrim's Progress, about a man that left his family, it didn't say why. i read considerable in it now and then. Then statements was intersesting, but tough.
Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Pg. 61
 this relates to Chris becuase he left on his adventure without saying a word to his family.

"Life is a blank canvas" Danny Kaye
i think Chris would get this becuase he made his life the way he wanted. He painted his life. He is his own artist.

The place I want to go in the US

If i could pick any place to go in the whole United States, it would have to be Fairbanks, Alaska in the winter. During winter in Fairbanks, Alaska you get to witness one of the greatest events to naturally happen in the whole planet. The Aurora Borealis only happens in Alaska during the winter at night. It is something worth to see. Knowing that 
no one put it there and it just appears on its own naturally is amazing and beautiful. I have wanted to go there ever sense my mom told me about it. She has not seen it either but because she want to see it so bad, she made me interested too. That would be the place i would want to go in the United States.

John Krakauer

John Krakauer was born in 1970 and is a neurologist, neuroscientist and academic. He is a codirector of the Motor Performance Laboratory at the Neurological Institute of Columbia University, and specializes in motor learning and stroke. He received his bachelor degree at Trinity College of Cambridge University, but his advanced education and extended work have been in the United States, primarily associated with Columbia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_krakauer

Into the Wild

Into the Wild is a 1996 non-fiction book written by Jon Krakauer. The book depicts the two-year wilderness trek of Christopher McCandless from 1990 through 1992.The book begins with the discovery of McCandless's body inside an abandoned bus in Alaska and retraces his travels during the two years after
college graduation.

My Dream (thats i would like to have)

My dream would be me and i am kinda of like the boy in the movie Like Mike. I would be really short compared to everyone else but i can jump like Lebron James and dunk like Dwight Howard. At the age of 14 playing in the NBA along with the greatest players in the world like Kobe Bryant and Dwayne Wade. I am playing on the Miami Heat with "King" James, Dwayne Wade, and Chris Bosh. Our team has the best record and were in the Championship game against Kobe Bryant and the reigning champs, the  LA Lakers. The game has been back and forth and its down to 30 seconds in the 4th quarter and we are down by 2. I'm up top wearing down the clock for a last second 3 pointer to win the game just like Michael Jordan. 3...2...1... buzzer. Swish. We win the game and become the champs. That would be my dream

New Semester

Its the second semester of my freshman year at John Carroll. A lot had changed. I made a lot of good friends, gotten used to the way things run around here, and the whole high school experience. In English class we are getting to the end of A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare. one of of Shakespeare's best romantic comedies. When we finish that were going to start a story called Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer. looking forward to the rest of the year as a freshman,

Character Sketch essay

Brad Paszkiewicz

Mrs. Zurkowski

English 9/Yellow

14 January 2011

Character Sketch Essay

            This book is about one of the best NFL wide receivers in history, #80 Jerry Rice. In the story Go Long by Jerry Rice with Brian Curtis, Jerry was one of those people that’s grows up not as most people would hope, but always is ready to take on a challenge and wants to prove himself. Jerry is very competitive and always wanted to work harder than the next person. One day in his sophomore year of high school at, B.L Moor, he made a decision that would change his life more than he would have thought.

Jerry rice was the sixth of eight kids and grew up poor in a little town called Crawford, Mississippi. Jerry had to share a bedroom with three of his brothers. His dad was a bricklayer and knew the value of money. He worked hard and made his kids work hard too. If any kids were out of line there was no hesitation with the belt. Jerry liked to run a lot, close to seven miles every day. For no reason in particular Jerry started to lift weights and work out to get bigger. For a reason he couldn’t say. Maybe because he wanted to attract girls, or liked the way bigger guys would look. But either way it came in handy. Since he came a poor family, he improvised, lifting tire rims.

The first major event that changed Jerry’s life was when jerry and his friend played hooky, they were right by the door until the principal, Mr. Wickes, caught them. “We snuck out of class to make our way off camps. Suddenly, the school principal, Mr. Ezell Wickes, spotted us. He and I made eye contact before we bolted” (Rice 12).  It was noted that since it was a small high school so Mr. Wickes could figure out it was jerry by his face and clothes. “But Mr. Wickes witnessed how fast I had sprinted away from him, and realized my speed could be put to good use to keep me out of trouble. So he forced me to meet with Charles Davis the head football coach at B.L Moor.”(12) Jerry trained hard and long. “The only way I knew how to do anything was to outwork, outperform, and outplay everyone else”. This integrity carried him all through high school into college at Mississippi Valley State College. Most people probably never heard of this college and might ask why didn’t Jerry go to a major college like Tennessee if he could play that well? That’s because MVS had a coach that liked calling passing plays which meant more spotlight on jerry. Jerry was usually shy and wasn’t always hanging out with friends and at a party, but he gained some friends, some that played basketball and like a good friend he wanted to support them and come to as many games as possible.

This leads to the second event that changed Jerry’s life. One day at one of the basketball games he noticed a girl there. Her name was Jackie Mitchell and was part of a senior high school group touring the school. “Jackie was hot! Great hair, perfect skin, and a killer body” (27). He finally got her number and hey began to see each other more and more. Jerry would drive to Greenville a couple times a week to see Jackie. Jackie’s mother, Gloria, was none too happy to hear that her 18 year old daughter dating a senior in college and refused to let Jackie take him even though Jackie told Gloria Jerry was only 20 when he was 22. Jerry eventually won her over and things were going good from there on out.

Then a big change for jerry was being drafted by the San Francisco 49ers in the 1895 NFL draft. Getting this far leads back to Jerry having huge integrity to outdo everyone and be the best. Came from a poor family, worked hard and made something of himself. Being drafted by the NFL would change anyone’s life for sure. Become famous, make lots of money, do everything you wish you could. Wouldn’t that be just the perfect life? For Jerry, at first it was but being so far from home he missed Jackie. He convinced her to move to San Francisco with him. Then she became pregnant with their first child Jaqui after her mother. And things went the same as normal then Jackie had another child they named Jerry Jr. and they was all well and good until their third child

When Jackie was giving birth to their second beautiful baby girl Jada, Jackie had a series of problems. First her blood wouldn’t clot, and then her kidneys failed, and then had to have intestine surgery. Jackie was in a coma like state for months in the hospital, friends, family, teammates, coaches, all came to give support. When Jackie finally awoke she had no memory and it would be another 2 and half years before she was completely recovered. Jerry missed some training in the process but was able to get back into it.

Then a last thing that changed for jerry was when he finally retired from the NFL after 20 years and winning 3 super bowls. He later joined a television show called Pros vs. Joes didn’t like that so much so he later joined Dancing with the Stars which introduced him to the media world and opened a lot of other doors for him. According to the story this changed him hugely. “Competing on Dancing with the Stars was the perfect choice for me. It provided me with a new challenge that took my mind away from the only thing I had ever known. I couldn’t think about football and mope on Sundays because I focused on DWS. It made my transition from football player to media personality seamless. The show opened up so many doors for me in the next stage of my life” (143). “Twenty years ago I was way too shy to even think about a job on television but now, it’s what I want to do”. (144)

The point of this story that was tried to be made by Jerry was always go for opportunities because you will never know the impact they will have. You never want to live life with regret and what you should have done but never had the guts to do. Take risks on things that mean a lot to you. Risk things that mean a lot to you but you will gain so much more. Being competitive and doing what you love going the extra mile will make the difference between the good and the great. Train hard and make yourself stand out by being better than everyone else. Lastly, have faith. “But I am a man of faith and to me, there us a distinction between faith and religion. Faith is believing in a higher power, whatever form it may take, and using that belief to help guide you through life” (92)” that one second of that one minute can make every difference in the world all going back to childhood. So live life to the fullest. In the book Go Long by Jerry Rice with Brian Curtis, it’s about a child that grew up in a bad situation and worked hard, proved himself, made something of himself, pursued his passion and dreams went the extra mile and did it.