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Being American, most of us don't really know what it's like to be pushed away from home into a different situation. We may move from block to block or city to city but, how many of us has been forced to find life in a new country. This is a process that would make one feel alienatated daily, as if one didn't belong. You would have to change the way you live and the way you saw things to the view of the sheltering country.  Though one might find perks like scenery, or not having to deal with gang violence, it would be a time of hardship that would be hard to overcome. This is what Jurgis went through in Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle".
 
Due to terrible conditions in his homeland of Lithuiania, after he married the love of his life Ona, they decided to exile to the Melting Pot. Ona brought her cousin and her sister along on the trip and plus two children which made six. They settled in the windy city of Chicago, which was home to many immigrants in the early twentieth century. Coming from Lithuiania, America was everything they dreamed of; they would have their own rights with no one breathing down there necks, they could start there own business' and get to work like they knew people had down and the country was beautiful to them. The green grass, warm sun and nice town was very appealing. They had made it to America safely and would now be able to live the famous "American Dream".

They move to a town called Packingtown where reality begins to hit. Jurgis lands a job sweeping the remains of slaughtered cattle through trap doors making two dollars a hour for twelve hours of work. Ona's cousin Teta finds a job too making two dollars a day putting labels on cans so now they have two incomes in the border room they lived in. This was not merely enough for a family of six so when they saw an ad for a four-room house for fifteen hundred (three hundred down payment) they jumped on it. They worked and saved until they could make the down payment and made it happen! They had achieved the American Dream. They had a family with a house and jobs, what more could they ask for?
Trouble. The house didn't look like it did in the ad and there was work needed to be done. There were hidden unfair clauses in the house deed, that the agent was sure to leave out. They had jobs with horrible working conditions/hours, and had to keep up with house payments every month now. Plus bills, repair work, food, and clothing for everybody since a cold Chicago winter was coming. Then behind all of this, they wearn't citizens. So nobody in this capatalist country cared for them. They didn't know laws or so much about rights so people stepped over them sometimes. They got tooken advantage of by boss's and businessmen because everybody is chasing there own dollars to pay what they owe. After months of with this burden on there shoulders daily, they began to feel as if it was just them out there. Working hard hours everyday just to make a little change to put towards the monthly dues. How would they make it pass to the next house payment. With such a long way to go, so much could go wrong in so little time.

And it did. Jurgis and his family had the most heart wrenching experience melting in this pot to where noone noticed them. At the begginning, it was the best thing that had happened to their Lithunian lives. But slowly, society made them feel like they are seen to the country; aliens. By the end of their odyssey, Jurgis had been to jail twice and was by himself with his wife and other family members dead from struggle. Maybe his life would have been different if he wouldn't have left home.

mbworks of literature in history. It's advanced style of writing has created much controversy over time since we cannot go and ask Shakespeare himself what he meant. All we can do is analyze the story and get a general idea of why things happened in the novel. In the natural world, things happen because they just happen. There is no influence on a natural diaster, murder, or car crash. It just happens. In the Macbeth world, the supernatural plays a huge role on the events occuring story. The supernatural is the exact reason why everything in the story happened the way it happened. From the very first scene of the play, we are introduced to the supernatural force that molds this whole story together; The 3 Witches. The 3 witches might possibly have one of the smallest roles in the production, yet it is the most vital. You don't see the witches too much, but everytime that you see them, they have a phrocey that is important with the story later on. They open the first scene with a poem starting with inquiry of when they will meet again. "First Witch: Where the place?. Second Witch: Upon the heath. Third Witch: There to meet with Macbeth." (7) This is only the first thing that they say yet it already influences the direction of storyline. One scene later, sure enough Macbeth runs into the witches with his right hand Banquo. Unaware these are supernatural witches Macbeth starts "Macbeth: Speak if you can. What are you? First Witch: All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Glamis! Second Witch: All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor! Third Witch: All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter!" (17) Macbeth had been shocked. Macbeth's original title was Thane of Glamis. How was he to get the other two? This changed Macbeth's life and the way he saw it. The first meeting between The Witches and Macbeth was epic. Though it startled and shot fear into Macbeth, it alter'd the natural life and thought process within itself. "Macbeth: Stay, you imperfect speakers. Tell me more. By Sinel's death I know I am Thane of Glamis. But how of Cawdor? The Thane of Cawdor lives a prosperous gentleman, and to be king stands not with the prospect of belief, no more than to be Cawdor. Say from whence you owe this strange intelligence or why upon this blasted heath you stop our way with such prophetic greeting. Speak, I charge you. (Witches Vanish)." (21) And there Macbeth's mind had been corrupted! He wanted to know so dearly how this prohecy could be true. Quickly enough,the story shifts to meeting with a gentlemen (Ross) who gives news that the previous Thane of Cawdor needs to be executed because of treasonous behavior, and Macbeth will replace him. This then made him a believer of the witches prophecy and he felt it was a good thing. It changed the motives of a man who reported the tales of the prophecy to his partner later on. She like him also liked the looks of things, and wanted to make to make it happen. And with time came the chance. Duncan, king of Scotland, cousin of Thane of Cawdor, was coming over to enjoy dinner for night to discuss with his Glamis his new position of rank. "Lady Macbeth: And when goes hence? Macbeth: Tomorrow, as he purposes. Lady Macbeth: O, never Shall sun that morrow see! (35)" They were aware of the full potiential of the Witches words, and decided to take advantage. With Duncan dead, Macbeth was king. Just as it had been prophecized. But now that the deed was done, it was not just done and over. People began to think how this could have happened so fast and who could the suspects be. Paranoia began to run high with the Macbeth's due to guilt of course, and it led to unhelpful acts including deaths of many people including his right hand Banquo. And though the prophecy had come true, the supernatural did not take its hand off what was going on. Macbeth was confused and scared with all the heat around him, and eventually got to talk with the supernatural again. It gave him the assurance that he thought he needed to deal with any thing coming up trying to stop him. "Second Appartition: Be bloody, bold and resolute. Laugh to scorn the power of man, for none of woman born Shall harm Macbeth (125)." With this said, Macbeth could figure that he would be fine. Anything to cross his path would have to be women born. There were three apparition's during his talk with the witches, and the first one warned him to beware of Macduff. Well that thought was whiped away with the news of the second apparition. There would be nothing to fear if it had be born of a women. But as the infamous Marilyn Monroe once said, "everything happens for a reason." Macbeth found out Macduff had been "untimely ripped" from his mother's womb before battle which fit the exception to the second apparition. This led to him losing the final battle, being beheaded in the process. The supernatural played a huge role in Shakespeare's epic "Macbeth". From the very begginning to the very end, the things that the witches said had an huge impact on what happened next in the story. Without the supernatural influence of the witches prophecy, all characters deceased in the play would have lived; including Macbeth.

Macbeth is one of the most famous works of literature in history. It's advanced style of writing has  created much controversy over time since we cannot go and ask Shakespeare himself what he meant. All we can do is analyze the story and get a general idea of why things happened in the novel. In the natural world, things happen because they just happen. There is no influence on a natural diaster, murder, or car crash. It just happens. In the Macbeth world, the supernatural plays a huge role on the events occuring story. The supernatural is the exact reason why everything in the story happened the way it happened.

From the very first scene of the play, we are introduced to the supernatural force that molds this whole story together; The 3 Witches. The 3 witches might possibly have one of the smallest roles in the production, yet it is the most vital. You don't see the witches too much, but everytime that you see them, they have a phrocey that is important  with the story later on. They open the first scene with a poem starting with inquiry of when they will meet again. "First Witch: Where the place?. Second Witch: Upon the heath. Third Witch: There to meet with Macbeth." (7) This is only the first thing that they say yet it already influences the direction of storyline. One scene later, sure enough Macbeth runs into the witches with his right hand Banquo. Unaware these are supernatural witches Macbeth starts "Macbeth: Speak if you can. What are you? First Witch: All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Glamis! Second Witch: All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor! Third Witch: All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter!" (17) Macbeth had been shocked. Macbeth's original title was Thane of Glamis. How was he to get the other two? This changed Macbeth's life and the way he saw it.

The first meeting between The Witches and Macbeth was epic. Though it startled and shot fear into Macbeth, it alter'd the natural life and thought process within itself. "Macbeth: Stay, you imperfect speakers. Tell me more. By Sinel's death I know I am Thane of Glamis. But how of Cawdor? The Thane of Cawdor lives a prosperous gentleman, and to be king stands not with the prospect of belief, no more than to be Cawdor. Say from whence you owe this strange intelligence or why upon this blasted heath you stop our way with such prophetic greeting. Speak, I charge you. (Witches Vanish)." (21) And there Macbeth's mind had been corrupted! He wanted to know so dearly how this prohecy could be true. Quickly enough,the story shifts to meeting with a gentlemen (Ross) who gives news that the previous Thane of Cawdor needs to be executed because of treasonous behavior, and Macbeth will replace him. This then made him a believer of the witches prophecy and he felt it was a good thing. It changed the motives of a man who reported the tales of the prophecy to his partner later on. She like him also liked the looks of things, and wanted to make to make it happen. And with time came the chance. Duncan, king of Scotland, cousin of Thane of Cawdor, was coming over to enjoy dinner for night to discuss with his Glamis his new position of rank. "Lady Macbeth: And when goes hence? Macbeth: Tomorrow, as he purposes. Lady Macbeth: O, never Shall sun that morrow see! (35)" They were aware of the full potiential of the Witches words, and decided to take advantage.

With Duncan dead, Macbeth was king. Just as it had been prophecized. But now that the deed was done, it was not just done and over. People began to think how this could have happened so fast and who could the suspects be. Paranoia began to run high with the Macbeth's due to guilt of course, and it led to unhelpful acts including deaths of many people including his right hand Banquo. And though the prophecy had come true, the supernatural did not take its hand off what was going on. Macbeth was confused and scared with all the heat around him, and eventually got to talk with the supernatural again. It gave him the assurance that he thought he needed to deal with any thing coming up trying to stop him.
"Second Appartition: Be bloody, bold and resolute. Laugh to scorn the power of man, for none of woman born Shall harm Macbeth (125)." With this said, Macbeth could figure that he would be fine. Anything to cross his path would have to be women born. There were three apparition's during his talk with the witches, and the first one warned him to beware of Macduff. Well that thought was whiped away with the news of the second apparition. There would be nothing to fear if it had be born of a women. But as the infamous Marilyn Monroe once said, "everything happens for a reason." Macbeth found out Macduff had been "untimely ripped" from his mother's womb before battle which fit the exception to the second apparition. This led to him losing the final battle, being beheaded in the process.

The supernatural played a huge role in Shakespeare's epic "Macbeth". From the very begginning to the very end, the things that the witches said had an huge impact on what happened next in the story. Without the supernatural influence of the witches prophecy, all characters deceased in the play would have lived; including Macbeth.

On January 3rd of the 94th year in the 19th century, an intelligent young boy later named Niquis Garland was born. He was a decendant of lawyers and doctors from his mother's side of the tree. There isn't too much educational background on ...my father's side, but my dad is pretty smart even though he never finished college. I also have an older brother who was a diligent student throughout most of the early part of my childhood. These are things I think contributed to me having a good start in my educational career.

My dad started reading to me before I was two and by the time I was around two and a half I was able to read. He had a big stack of Seama Street books that he used to read to me every night before I went to sleep. I always will remember that my favorite of all of these was a volume called "The Case of the Missing Rubber Ducky". I used to want him to read that one to me all the time. He read it to me so many times that he eventually made me start to read it by myself without him in the room. I don't really remember too much about the books because it was at such a very young age, but I do remember that Ernie was the main character of my favorite and most of the books. Also of course the famous Big Bird and the Cookie Monster in other volumes. I was enrolled in Mount Calvery Christian school and skipped to kindergarden at three, graduating when I was four. I was good with reading and writing for my young age.

During elementury nobody read to me anymore except my teachers at school. I began to become more independant with my education. I didn't need my parents help to read to me or help me with homework. We read in our textbooks in class and sometimes I would have books from the school library. My favorite books to read were the "Magic Tree House" books by Mary Pope Osborne. They were fiction of course, but they were so very interesting to my young mind. I used to follow Jack and Annie on their exciting adventures through different regions and era's of Earth. As I look back on it now, I realize that those books taught me geography and history that I could add to my common knowledge to make me smarter. Those were child books though. When I got into the fourth grade, I read my first "big kid book" called "Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry" by Mildred D. Taylor and loved it. It is still to this day one of the most interesting book I ever read. In the 5th grade I read the sequeal "Let The Circle Be Unbroken" which wasn't a slack off from the original.

Reading those books set the foundation from that point on that there was no more reading books like Magic Tree House which contained around 100 pages with child friendly sized words. In middle school I picked up the love for the Harry Potter series that I got from my brother. Even though I was very late ( he was on the 4th book before I got interested) I was hooked. This was time I loved to read the most. Nobody told me to do it or pushed me to go get some reading time in. I just did it because I was so fascinated and anxious to know what was going to happen next. Due to this, I sped through all of the books so quickly that I was awaiting the 6th book's release as my brother was for a good period of time. This was the last part of my life where I was heavyly endulged in reading books. When I got to high school, it kind of fell off a tad bit. I didn't read so much on my own as I used too. I didn't see to many books that just caught my eye/interest and this is what kind of turned me off to books. I wasn't so much turned off, but there was a lost of interest.

This is about to change though. I am going to get back into books because it gives you free feeling. If your fully endulged in reading, it takes you away from everything that is going on in this world, and takes you to a different world where your characters are. You follow these character on there daily adventures like a tour and it feels like you blackout. Your mind is only on the events occuring in the book which is a thing only an artist has the power too do.

There are many great works of literture that have been sold across this country. I haven't read any where close to all of them, but I read quite a few that has affected me mentally in a way that I didn't know was possible from writing. From all the many great books that I read, one that i was most intrigued by was a book called "Native Son" by Richard Wright. It actually started as just an over the summer reading assignment for my upcoming English class of the 11th grade (My old school). But as I began to read the book, from the very begginning I no longer saw it as an assignment. It was that interesting .

The novel is about a young black male growing up in the rough, segregated town of Chicago. It takes place in the 1930's, so this was a time where there hadn't been any effort to improve/change the way of society. The main character's name is Thomas Bigger of the Bigger family of four. It is a single-parent home headed by a mother who has a younger son and daughter. This novel is so interesting to me because it is about a 19 year old man trying to find himself in a time of lost hope for most. The author writes in a style that truely reflects who Bigger is and how he thinks. Sometimes I felt as if I was lost in Bigger's thoughts while reading. Bigger has a gang of four that he used to endulge in crime around the town with, but his mother who knew this found him a job to be a chauffer for the rich white Dalton family of three.

Thomas refused at first but then was of course convinced by his mother because she wanted him to bring in some money to help the struggling family.Mr. Dalton, the head of the family who gave him the job welcomed him in, and wanted to make Bigger feel as comfortable as possible. Which was a close to an impossible task seeing that Bigger was black and he was white in the 30's.
Mr. Dalton gave him his first job to drive his daughter to night school and Bigger hoped on the task. This changed Bigger's life forever. She had him make a detour to go see some friends and by the end of the night he ended up killing her on accident, which lead to a life of lying and on the hide.

Witchcraft! Is real or is it fake? Well back in the times of Arthur Miller's Novel "The Crucible", they thought it did and it drove a town nuts. But this is how any society will react to knowledge of engaging in evil acts. The witchcraft theory led to mass histeria around the town which led to the Salem Witch Trials. Reverand Perris's daughter had been caught up in a situation saying she performed witchcraft on a townswomen. A big crowd came to question Perris and his daughter. The witchcraft theory around town is in relation with The Illuminati now-a-days. The same way society went into Mass Histeria (a condition in which a large group of people exhibit the same state of violent mental agitation), The Illuminati has had a similar effect to society in present day. Being Reverand of the town, which heads the church, you had to have a clean record. People had already been on Perris' case due to prior problems which would have people on edge for anything iffy on his name. "Parris, studies here, then nods, half convinced:Abigail, I have fought here three long years to bend these stiff-necked people to me, and now, just now when some good respect is rising for me in the parish, you compromise my very character. I have given you a home, child. I have put cloths upon your back—now give me an upright answer. Your name in the town— it is entirely white, is it not?" (103). Her wrong doings led to the town breathing down his and her neck. This wasn't the first time her name was brought up in dark so the mass histeria was begginning to build and quickly. With something so wrong in the town people's eyes, they wearn't to willing to be open to the fact that it might not be something dealing with witch craft. In modern day, something that may be as equal to witchcraft back then is the Illuminati claims. This situation is of similar people being involved in witchcraft scandels during this time. A lot of people of power and fame in our society today has been accused of being apart of this devil worshipping "secret society". People in the industry including Jay Z, Beyonce, Jamie Foxx, P.Diddy, Lil Wayne, 2 Pac, Dr. Dre and many many more have been pointed out to have been involved. This secret society has been said to have sold their souls to the devil for fame and money. They illegely have secret handshakes, meetings and gay relations. This, like Witchcraft left/leaves people who are aware in mass histeria. People do not know who to trust or work with in the industry. Its left fans in the balance of not being sure if they could trust their favorite entertainers. Witchcraft and the Illuminati are both ideas/concepts that caused some sort of mass histeria in society. The different in effects is the time period. Back in the day, towns had more reign to be able to punish people if they wanted to. And people believed more in unrealistic things easier then people of today. The idea of witchcraft would not be so credible to many people of todays age. But just like witchcraft back then, if there evidence to prove that there may be hope for the evil, it gains credibility. People of the town believe that they had some evidence of the witchcraft which is what caused the mass histeria because you cannot knock evidence. A person of power (Perris, Abigail) is involved with evil. This is the same with the illuminati. There have been videos and pictures of evidence of illuminati existance and people of power being involved. Pictures of special handshakes, hugs, conversations and more. Also certain events/ and inconviences were put on the illumaniti being in existance. Just as how once witchcraft was being brought out people could blame anything bad on the super natural. In conclusion the mass hysteria that occurred in the Salem Witch Trials applies towards the existance of the Illumaniti in present day. Knowledge of evil drove people in society nuts and wanting to punish people involved in both instances. Both left the society in paranoia of knowing who and who not to trust and if the person in power is genuine.

What is it to be American

What does it mean to be American? Over history in this country we have struggled to find this identity. In the founding years of what made this country to be who it is today, when immigrants were coming from all over (by force or will), ambiguity ran high in distinguishing who got to title them-selves as Americans. People from different countries felt sometimes that they live in America so they should be able to be receiving the label. But this is definitely not the case. There are many cases in which you can be called an American.

First off, an American is a person born in America. To have any chance of being American you have to be born here, but it gets tricky. Canada and South America are included in what we call North America. So for short, they could call themselves Americans if they want. This is usually not the case though. The United States and its citizens are usually known as the Americans around the globe. This is probably because of our popularity (good or bad) and power that we have globally.

This is around America, but in America its gets tricky also. Because of the diversity that fills the melting pot itself, we are not all considered just American even if you were born here. We are grouped into different categories and groups. People are Latin-Americans, African-Americans, and Asian-Americans and so on and so forth. But that’s just being political in the big picture. Really people are just classified as their prefix. People see others as just Black, Asian, White, or Latino. We are not just all seen as plain Americans. That’s not the way society or this country works because of the history of it. We were separated in the past, and will remain for ages.

The government and people of power have the citizens of this country trained to think a certain way. And it is considered the right way with no discrepancy. The labels that groups receive are justifiable. I don’t have a problem with it because it makes sense. But what if one was to think outside the box or people were brought up to think different. Why isn’t anybody who is born here (and their parents) just considered an American? It’s just the way things are. Around the world your American, but in your own home your ethnic.

Song of The Sky Loom

Oh our Mother the Earth, oh our Father the sky,
Your children are we, and with tired backs
We bring you the gifts that you love.
Then weave for us a garment of brightness;
May the warp be the white light of morning,
May the weft be the red light of evening,
May the border be the standing rainbow.
Thus weave for us a garment of brightness
That we may walk fittinggly where birds sing,
That we may walk fittingly where grass us green,
Oh our Mother the Earth oh our Father the Sky!



I like this poem by Tewa because it is about the nature around us. The author gives power to things that have power in our lives unknowingly. Calling Earth and Sky mother and father because we depend on these things to live in peace. If any of these things mentened like morning, evening, and rain began to falter, we would have problems. Big problems

This poem is loaded with figuerative language. From metaphors to personification. The personification comes in where Tewa says the Earth is our mother, and the sky is our father and we are its children. The author gives human like qualities to something not human. The tone of the poem is very calm and nomadic. The author just make connections/comparisions of things the Earth provides with things that she knows (sewing and knitting).
My favorite area of the poem starts at line three. I start to make connections of things that we could do to make the Earth's Health good enough to continue to take care of us. If we cut down on bad things like fossil fuel usage, global warming would not be a problem and the Earth could continue to bring us fair weather without outragous changes that we have witnessed lately. If we didnt spill things like oil and such in the sea, we would have healthier fish to catch and eat so we could feed our families. The weather would not be on constant rise and dicrease which causes sea levels to rise and glaciers to melt. Which happens to have a domino effect. It effect animals which effects mammals(which includes us). If we continued to bring gifts to the Earth and not destroy its habitats and tree's, our Earth's health would be at a better level. Who knows now how crazy it will get in my lifetime. It's crazy and it's not fair because it's not even my (generation's) fault. But we are the ones who are going to have to deal with it. Hopefully our Mother and Father will hold strong and take care of us.