The fault in our stars

   The meaning of the line from Julius Caesars play expresses that it is our fault if we 

Thanatopsis

1. "Thana" means death, and "opsis" means sight. The poem is about life and death. Life is the Opsis or the sight when opening up into  a new life. 

2. A "Shroud" is a cloth or an enveloping garment in which a dead person is wrapped for burial, while a "pall" is a cloth spread over a coffin or tomb. A narrow house is long but wide and a sepulcher is a small room or monument. These words impact the poem by "Shroud" and "pall" meaning death.

3. I believe this poem is about death In the beginnig of the poem until you get to the end and feel like you have been comforted by the bright sunshine looking down on you. 

4. The tone In the first part of the poem has a dark evil Image to it. Whenever you get to line 30 the poem turns from dark and evil to a comforting image and giving us a sign of relief. 

5. An elegy is a poem that has serious tone and typically a grief or sorrow toward the dead. The conventions of an elegy is when the poem shifts into a comfortable setting and gives a warm feeling inside. 

6. The elements of the poem that are like a painting is the love and compassion for nature. 

7. This poem is a historical piece because of the words and phrases it uses through out the poem. It shows romance by creating a tone of death and love towards nature and it is a Calvinist poem because the role play of god and how he controls nature. 

15 Definitions

Trey Burton

1) Prodding- To poke or jab with or as if with something pointed.

2) Condemnation- Strong censure, disapprobation or reproof.

3) Pallor- paleness

4) Ameliorate- make better

5) Poppet- Doll 

6) Avidly- Eagerly 

7) Base- Low; mean

8) Deference- Courteous regard or respect.

9) Theology- The study of religion.

10) Quail- Cringe from 

11) Cringe- To shrink, bend, or crouch, especially in fear or servility; cower.

12) Gingerly- cautiously

13) Abomination- something that causes great horror or disgust.

14) Blasphemy- Sinful act or remark. 

15) Ordained- To invest with ministerial or sacerdotal functions.

15 definitions

15 definitions:             Trey Burton

1) Rankle- To continue to cause keen irritation or bitter resentment within the mind.

2) Naive- Having or showing unaffected simplicity of nature or absence of artificiality.

3) marauded- To roam or go around in quest of plunder; make a raid for booty.

4) Heathen- An unconverted individual of a people that do not acknowledge the God of the Bible.

5) Autocracy- Government in which one person has uncontrolled or unlimited authority over others.

6) Ideology- The body of doctrine, myth, belief.

7) Topple- To fall forward, as from having too heavy a top.

8) Paradox- A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.

9) Grievances- A wrong considered as grounds for complaint, or something believed to cause distress.

10) Remiss- Negligent, careless, or slow in performing one's duty, business.

11) Embittered- To make bitter.

12) Accusations- A charge of wrongdoing; imputation of guilt or blame.

13) Junctures- A point of time, especially one made critical or important by a concurrence of circumstances.

14) Clamored- A loud uproar, as from a crowd of people.

15) Intimations- The act of intimating, or making known indirectly.

15 Definitions

Definitions: Trey Burton 

1) Fused- a tube, cord, or the like, filled or saturated with combustible matter, for igniting an explosive.

2) Unmellowed- not soft, sweet, and full-flavored from ripeness, as fruit.

3) Somber- gloomily dark; shadowy; dimly lighted.

4) Ordinances- an authoritative rule or law.

5) lye- a highly concentrated, aqueous solution of potassium hydroxide or sodium hydroxide.

6) Snobbery- snobbish character, conduct, trait, or act.

7) Parishioners- one of the community or inhabitants of a parish.

8) Reverend- pertaining to or characteristic of the clergy.

9) Homage-  respect or reverence paid or rendered.

10) magistrates- a civil officer charged with the administration of the law.

11) insoluble- incapable of being dissolved: insoluble salts.

12) manifestation- a public demonstration, as for political effect.

13) paradox- a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.

14) repression- the act of repressing; state of being repressed.

15) strikingly- attractive; impressive: a scene of striking beauty.

Web-quest: Salem Witch Trials

1. At first I was a little startled to read about this location. So much darkness and lies that the community of Salem  had. everyone seemed to know what was going on, but didn't want to speak. I, in that case, felt scared of the act of witchcraft. The thought of being involved in the acts and duties of Satan just isn't a normal thing to do. A few weeks before the incident I felt angry and would let that anger out on the merchants. I was low in my mind, so I tried to turn to God, but the thought of God lightly faded away. this is where I made the biggest mistake of my life. I ended up stabbing someone by letting Satan control me.

2. The difference in The Crucible is that the two main characters are Mr. Proctor and Mrs. Proctor. In the witch trials it involves 25 people.

3. Caporael's theory is why the the Salem trials took place. The theory makes a really good argument and makes sense. Before the Salem trials the had incidents going on. people where poisoning each other. this led to horrible hangings and unexplained death. It did something to there minds.

4. The similarities of the McCarthyism and the Salem witch trials are that the public had a  pressured a lot of the people and a unjust accusation. In millers decription the people on the spotlight where pressured hard by the public. during the McCarthyism trial, people would blame others, to take of pressure they had off of themselves. 

5 In the "red scare" people didn't know what was the reason of those unexplained incidents. they would put the blame on people to make it  believable and to actually record them to close a particular file. 

6. during each of the events, their was a great hysteria that rose from problems in the society. In the '' human rights '' article and in the Salem witch trials along with the  holocaust, many people died from being afraid of ''something''; however, in the red scare and the internment of the Japanese camps, people were not killed and stood up for there rights for the citizens. 

 7  George Santayana quote defined if we cannot learn from the mistakes in the Salem witch trial then eventually there will be more cases but in different occasions and forms. learning from history gives us the knowledge to understand the mistakes that happened in the passed. We can look back to study and figure out ways to prevent similar occasions. I thinks its a pretty successful because it gives the readers accurate  knowledge about the bad incidents in the 1600s 

   

8 I think the holocaust is a perfect example because Hitler needed someone to blame about the Germans financial crisis. In this case the Jews were the one to blame.

9. I find it interesting that the cases in the 1600s where and could be corrupted and people really could not do anything about it.   

1) Edward is trying to persuade the audience to act in a more holy manner and less sinful actions.
2) Edwards purpose of natural men is the the typical man back in that time period, that believe in God yet still sins.
3)In the first paragraph Edwards use of "abate" is to define his purpose of saying everybody is born a sinner.
4) This use of repetition is to make a point a stronger way. This repetition is very effective in his oral speech, because he uses a lot of exaggerated imagery.
5) They use appositives to create vivid imagery.
6) The purpose is to create a more emotional impact on the audience, to try to persuade the audiences answer.
7) He uses not willingly in every sentence to exaggerate his point. he uses the semicolons to emphasize each point of the statements.
8) Gods wrath is always ready for a person who sins. In this text the use of imagery is used to help understatement the power of god.
9) In the text Edwards says that God is holding us over a fiery pit and if we sin he will drop us in it. Edwards tells his audience we need to be better followers of God.
10) Edwards uses ethos to pathos. He uses more emotion in his sermons to his audience rather than logos. His visions of god are very different from today and may seem illogical to use but may be logical to them.
11). The tone stays the same throughout the speech. We the people aren't worthy of being on earth and we are basically gods toys to play with. He keeps the tone of us on the verge of death. He claims that we are hanging over a fiery pit and one wrong move will send us to hell this idea of a horrible death also remains throughout the sermon.
12)When Edwards says he wants to be "heard" instead of "read", he means he wants the people that are reading his stories to fully understand them and are able comprehend it.
13. His text is persuasive by giving dark scary details and visions of horror if they don't live by gods ways. This makes the audience fear their life on a constant basis and engulf themselves into the sermon.

14) The people who fainted were so surprised at what he had to say about their faith and what would happen to you if you sinned.