The Action Packed Ending of My Antonia... Not to be Continued... ever...

               Willa Cather offers her perspective on how pioneers lived during pioneer time in her novel, My Antonia. She illustrates a time that today's world has since forgotten. A time where life was much more difficult.
               Her novel displays a world through the eyes of a young man, Jim Burden. Although being told by Jim, this book may have been completely different if told through the eyes of Antonia. Through Antonia's perspective, we would be able to share her internal feeling, her thought process and many other internal conflicts. Antonia may have been inspired to learn law or any other type of education. Through her eyes, we may have come to know a completely different Jim Burden, (Mrs. Shimerda, Lena etc.).
               If I did not know that the book was wrote by a woman, I would not be able to tell if Jim sounded feminine or not. Some readers may have assumed that that was how men spoke or thought back in the time of pioneers. If you were to read any literature of Shakespeare, you would notice that his way of writing and speaking is completely different than today's literature. I believe that Cather successfully imitated the mind of a young man of the 1800s.
               The speculations of why Jim may have changed the title of My Antonia from simply Antonia may vary from person to person. Jim may have saw the title of My Antonia as a proper title due to the fact that Jim develops an interest in Antonia midway into the novel. From adding the 'My' into the title, he may be inadvertantly sharing his feelings for Antonia with the reader. He may have just thought the title of Antonia was not long enough or catchy enough and decided to add the 'My'.
                Although many of my fellow classmates may see this book as a simple novel about adolescents in the old days, many others see a deeper meaning within the texts. Willa Cather was able to formulate a narrative with that brought many questions to the reader's mind. This book goes deeper than the words on the page, allowing readers of all ages to speculate many aspects of the story and develop their own personal observations and assumptions.

The Effects of Setting

"As I looked about me I felt that the grass was the country, as the water is the sea. The red of the grass made all the great prairie the colour of wine-stains, or of certain seaweeds when they are first washed up. And there was so much motion in it; the whole country seemed, somehow, to be running."
            In My Anotnia, the setting helps show the place in time where this story took place. In this time, characters may act differently than what many would preceive as normal. The setting of My Antonia is a prarie-like landscape where the inhabitants of the land must grown acustomed to the life of a farmer. The Shimerdas are a farming family and commonly find themselves struggling to maintain a steady supply of vegetation and materials. Without the technology of today, the Shimerdas have grown strong family ties amongst each other. The Shimerdas are not alone. Their neighbors also fued with them and causes turmoil and stress upon the daily lives of the Shimerdas. Antonia develops and strong work ethic and determination. She becomes very mature and learns the responsibilities of growing up on the prarie.
             My bed room brings a sense of peace and tranquility to the clouds of my mind. It allows a safe barrier to be established between me and the chaotic outside world. A shelter where I may lay upon my troubled head and simply sleep away a day's stress. A place where I may rest and rejuvenate my long lost energy. Time in and out, I greet my bedroom with anxiousness. My bedroom becomes my sanctuary like that of a cathedral, where I know that I'm safe in the arms of the lord.

Argument

I believe that the death penalty is constitutional. The Supreme Court has maintained that the death penalty is not execessivly "cruel and unusual" in on itself. The highest court in the land states that the death penalty is constitutional. If it's the application is deemed "unusual" that the one on the death row will be resentenced properly, most likely life without parole. The U.S. legislature drew a more narrowly construed statutes that would satisfy the Court's misgivings. The Supreme Court has cited the 5th Amendment, which the Court strongly implies that the Framers did not intend to prevent the use of capital punishment. The 5th guarantees that nobody shall be deprived their rights of life, liberty or property, without due process law.The clear implication is that depriving someone of his or her life is permissible under the Constitution. In the many trials, cases, and rulings, capital punishment is not a form of "cruel and unusual" punishment under the 8th Amendment. Some claim that the death penalty takes away one's rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness and that the death penalty should be deemed unconstitutional by such. Nevertheless, I say that the perpatrator commited of murder, he took away the victims rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. In this case, such a punishment should be permissible and constitutional. "If men were angles, no government would be needed." - James Madison. As men are far from angles, government must intervene and bring justice to those who commit such atrocities against mankind. The death penalty is and will remain constitutional.

"ThisNation.com--Is the Death Penalty Constitutional?" ThisNation.com-American Government & Politics Online. 30 Nov. 2011. Web. 30 Nov. 2011. <http://www.thisnation.com/question/018.html>.

Is Henry Fleming a Hero?

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Book Review

              My book is The Stand by Stephen King. It stars out at a military base with a young man trying to evacuate his family from a potential calamity. The man and his family escape from the base and were headed towards a local town where they stopped at a gas station. The man unknowingly contracted a extremely versitile and deadly virus. An officer comes to a call of a overturned car at a gas station posted a couple miles on the outskirts of San Diego. The officer arrives to find a woman and her child dead, with green foam at their mouths. He investigates the gas station to find the young man dying of superflu. The officer returns to the station and orders an investigation. The officer unknowing sealed the fate of billions of people. The flu spread from man to man, woman to woman, child to child sparing but only a select few. Throughout the countries, chaos and turmiol erupted. Establishments crumbled, dictatorships sprung. America has fallen. Now the prince of darkness has unleashed his son upon the Earth to decieve the remaining inhabitants. He gathers his followers with false testimony and lies of hope and order. He is known to all as the dark man, and he has set forth to crush the few souls who stand in the name of God. This is Revelation.

Henry/Forrest

            They both ran and they both fought for their country (or union). Although, their purpose of running was not quite the same. Henry was fleeing from his fear of death, from his fear of battle. Forrest was ordered to run to live and fight another day. Forrest ran for the good of his country. Henry fled with his tail between his legs, though in his mind, he was running out of self-preservation and was actually helping his cause. Henry was not the heroe in this case. Henry ran without regard for his fellow men, and watched as they tripped and fell right beside him. Forrest risked everything to save his friend and his comrades. Forrest was a heroe, Henry fell short of that title.

Wounded Warriors Project

              This wonderful project reaches out to the injured vets across the country who struggle waking up each day knowing that life will never be the same. Heroes who risked everything to protect the flag. They lost their arms, legs and their peace of mind. Men and women who paid the price of freedom, those who saved innocents from the terrors of war. Those heroes should not go on without proper gratitude and respect. The Wounded Warriors Project ensures that these brave souls see the proper care and love that any american heroe rightly deserves.

9/12

            September 12, 2001, American families around the country awoke to see the sun rise. Their homes still stood. Their hearts still beating. They awoke to see that everything was going to be alright. Their children still laughed and played. This assured many worried families that this was not the end. Just merely the beginning of the rebuilding period. Terrorism could not reach them in their safe homes. They realized that the sun was going to rise and set, just like every day that preceeded the 11th and every day before that. America was still standing.

Henry/Forrest

In intense situations, a person's instinct to run varies based on a person's character, which is created and causes their flight or fight reflex, because of one's sense of self-preservation.

Wounded Warriors Project

           This project is expresses the bravery of those poor souls who gave their

9/11

          September 11th, a day that will go down in infamy as the single greatest loss of American civilian life. Four American passenger jets were hijacked and crashed into the twin towers in New York, the Pentagon in D.C. and a field in Pennsylvania. The attacks claimed the lifes of nearly 3000 innocents. Although considered the worst tragedy in American history, it was also a day where families across the U.S. united together. A day where America declared that her will cannot be broken, that she will only stand back up, stronger than ever. Americans risked their lives to save to victims of this crisis. America proved to Al Queda that we will never surrender. Ten years later, America is in the process of finishing the 9/11 memorial tower that will stand in place of the previous too. America did not fall, yet simply rose.