HZT 4U - Philosophy ISP - Question / Topic and Research Plan

Topic/Question

Abortion is defined as the termination of pregnancy by the removal or expulsion from the uterus of a fetus or embryo before it is viable or in other words the intentional termination of a pregnancy after conception.  It allows women to put an end to their pregnancies, but involves killing the undeveloped embryo or fetus.  I believe the concept and surgical procedure of abortion should remain legal because there are many ways abortion can be considered an act of moral good.  Should abortion be illegal?

Research Plan
Reading and Works Cited (MLA)

ARGUMENTS ABOUT ABORTION 

Abortion Arguments (For and Against) - Web Site Document 
Lowen, Linda. "Abortion Arguments." Woman's Issues. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Nov. 2011. <http://womensissues.about.com/od/reproductiverights/a/AbortionArgumen.htm>

Why Women Choose Abortion - Web Site Document
Lowen, Linda. "Why Women Choose Abortion." Woman's Issues. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Nov. 2011. <http://womensissues.about.com/od/reproductiverights/a/AbortionReasons.htm>

Arguments For Abortion - Web Site Document
"Arguments For Abortion." . N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Nov. 2011. <http://www.rsrevision.com/GCSE/christian_perspectives/life/abortion/for.htm>

Arguments Against Abortion - Web Site Document
<http://www.rsrevision.com/GCSE/christian_perspectives/life/abortion/against.htm>


Biblical Arguments Against Abortion - Web Site Document
Anderson, Kerby. "Biblical Arguments Against Abortion." Arguments Against Abortion. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Nov. 2011. <http://www.leaderu.com/orgs/probe/docs/arg-abor.html>

Old Testament Arguments Against Abortion - Web Site Document
Anderson, Kerby. "Old Testament Arguments Against Abortion." Arguments Against Abortion. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Nov. 2011. <http://www.leaderu.com/orgs/probe/docs/arg-abor.html>


Medical Arguments Against Abortion - Web Site Document
Anderson, Kerby. "Medical Arguments Against Abortion." Arguments Against Abortion. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Nov. 2011. <http://www.leaderu.com/orgs/probe/docs/arg-abor.html>

Legal Arguments Against Abortion - Web Site Document
Anderson, Kerby. "Legal Arguments Against Abortion." Arguments Against Abortion. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Nov. 2011. <http://www.leaderu.com/orgs/probe/docs/arg-abor.html>

Philosophical Arguments Against Abortion - Web Site Document
Anderson, Kerby. "Philosophical Arguments Against Abortion." Arguments Against Abortion. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Nov. 2011. <http://www.leaderu.com/orgs/probe/docs/arg-abor.html>

Cost of Abortions - Web Site Document
"Costs of Abortion." Christian Action For Reformation and Revival. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Nov. 2011. <http://www.christianaction.org.za/articles/10rguments.htm>

Abortions Increase - Web Site Document
"Backstreet Abortions Increase." Christian Action For Reformation and Revival. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Nov. 2011. <http://www.christianaction.org.za/articles/10rguments.htm>

Indisputable Medical Evidence - Web Site Document
"Unborn Babies Are Human Beings." Christian Action For Reformation and Revival. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Nov. 2011. <http://www.christianaction.org.za/articles/10rguments.htm>

Abortions are Unsafe - Web Site Document
"Abortions are Unsafe." Christian Action For Reformation and Revival. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Nov. 2011. <http://www.christianaction.org.za/articles/10rguments.htm>

Abortion Increases Risk of Breast Cancer - Web Site Document 
"Increase in Breast Cancer." Christian Action For Reformation and Revival. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Nov. 2011. <http://www.christianaction.org.za/articles/10rguments.htm>


The Overpopulation Argument - Web Site Document 
"Overpopulation Argument ." Christian Action For Reformation and Revival. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Nov. 2011. <http://www.christianaction.org.za/articles/10rguments.htm>


The Bible Declares the Sanctity of Human Life - Web Site Document 
"Bible Declares the Sanctity of Human Life." Christian Action For Reformation and Revival. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Nov. 2011. <http://www.christianaction.org.za/articles/10rguments.htm>

http://archive.theamericanview.com/index.php?id=984

http://www.righttolife.to/key-life-issues/abortion/
http://conservapedia.com/Abortion_facts
http://www.prochoiceactionnetwork-canada.org/articles/fetusperson.shtml
http://www.godandscience.org/abortion/index.html consists of many challenges as well.

High School Experience

                As a student, my current enrolment through Goderich District Collegiate Institute has taught me many aspects of understanding future opportunities, occupations, paths and priorities of which generally is experienced by most  My experiences throughout the years I have attended this high school have helped me establish a various amount of life morals and it has guided me my future path.  I feel so without the experiences I’ve encountered throughout my enrolment at GDCI, I would still be wondering what it is I would like to do with my life.  As a student I have determined that high school consists of change and growth, experiencing the good and the bad and each improvement is experienced by everyone whether it has been tied to a positive or negative conclusion.  School has also taught me to grasp the education in front of you because what more can you do than learn in life, it should be a daily experience. 

Philosophy Introduction - Brief Terminology

Philo- love, Sophia- the light (philosophia)
Philosophy- the use of reason and argument to search for truth and knowledge about reality
Detachment- the separation of self interest from intellectual judgement
Gadfly- one who asks uncomfortable questions
Practical Men- those for whom life holds no mysteries
Common Sense- normal social expectation
Rationalism(t)- truth is revealed through question and thought
Empiricism(t)- truth is revealed through our senses
Empirical Value- is obtained using the senses, some information can be empirical
Logic- a process of rational thought in which the conclusions are inescapable if the premises are accepted (conclusion is certain/inevitable)
Informal Logic- analyzing and evaluating arguments and questions that we use consistently everyday
Critical Thinking- an approach to ideas from the standpoint of deliberate consideration (examine and take into consideration more or other reasonable points on the idea before you accept)
Formal Logic- deductions that are or seem self evident (way of determining validity/invalidity of a conclusion/inference)
Knowledge- facts and truth (ideas which can be consistently verified) & is acquired through observation or reasoning
Numerology- the science of forecasting the future with numbers
Reason- is a statement or action that justifies or supports a belief or action
Reasoning- the process of providing reasons in support of an idea or an action
Argument- use of reason to support an idea, point of view, action or disagreement
Conclusion- a general idea or an action and is based on premises or reasons
Premise- the beginning, the first statement in an argument
Inference- process of drawing conclusions from the premise(s)
Antecedent- the first premise
Consequent- following from/second premise
Valid- pertaining to argument an argument is valid if it is present in an accepted, proven form
Deduction/Deductive Reasoning- if premises are accepted, conclusions must also
Induction/Inductive Reasoning- argument producing probable, not certain, results
Inductive Generalization- uses specific examples to draw general conclusions
Statistical Induction- conclusions are usually expressed as a numerical premise
Induction by Conformation- a form of reason which seeks observations as support for a hypothesis
Relevance- determining if information presented have any bearing on matters at hand
Bias- a prejudice or preference for or against a particular point of view (ie. feminist POV)
Reliability- information and a source that's credible and can be trusted

UNIT 1 PHILOSOPHY

Socrates - Master of Disguise and Reasoning  
- early natural philosopher
(469 BCE - 399 BCE)

- uses discourage as a method of reasoning
- was one of the earliest Athenian philosophers and the ideas he suggested and the way the lived lived life as a philosopher remain important to us today
- he was fascinated most by the study of human condition
- engaged in the discussion of how one should live life
- established the importance of inquiry and dialect of reasoning and observation as a process of proof

"I tell you, let no day pass without discussing goodness"

HZT 4M ~ Philosophy

1) Plato's Cave Illustration

  2) THALES                                               

                 

 3) PYTHAGORAS

 4) XENOPHANES

HZT 4M ~ 2011/2012 ~ Mr. Armour

UNIT ONE: ANCIENT GREECE AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF WESTERN EPISTEMOLOGY

Philosophia

                                                        philo - love , sophia - light
What is Philosophy?
            -use of reason and arguement to search for truth and knowledge about reality

PROCESS OF PHILOSOPHIC INQUIRY (major aspects)
           - we must reason and think philosophically
           - we must understand and judge the words and actions of others to develop
             our own opinions
     Determine what's important to us in life and society.
Key Components- form and ask a question
                           - gather information
                           - reason and evaluation of evidence and point of view
                           - form and defend your conclusion

PLATO'S CAVE ALLEGORY

                        - everything we believe is not the truth, it has a relation to truth

     - sometimes we have a tendency to be satisfied to quickly
and easily about nature, entertainment and the universe

ANALOGY OF THE CAVE     - an illustration of the progress of the mind from

darkness (ignorance) to light (understanding truth)

Progress to enlightenment. 

My P.O.V
- after you enter the light and discover the real world, you find yourself still searching for an escape

THALES OF MILETUS
- first natural scientist and analytical philosopher in Western intellectual history- first philosopher of Ancient Greece (founder of Western philosophy)
- was a major centre of development for both science and philosophy in Ancient Greece
- probably born around 620 BC
- claimed that the fundamental nature and element of the world is water (no life could exist without the presence of H20)
- according to his metaphysics, water was the first principle of life and the material world
- professed that flat earth floated on water
- his metaphysical speculations have been clearly mistaken
- correctly predicted that there would be a solar eclipse in 585 BC during a battle between the Medes and the     Lydians
- made a fortune investing in oil-presses before a heavy olive crop
- claimed that god is in all things ( Pantheism) believed mind of the world is god

PYTHAGORAS OF SAMOS- born around the mid-sixth century BC
- believed the ultimate nature of reality is number, numbers had mystical value
- his religious teaching consisted in the claim that music has a special power over the soul therefore his belief came bias to conformity
- believed that certain numbers were responsible of real forces and could be used to manipulate objects and forces (manipulate stone into a bridge)
numerology- the science of forecasting the future with numbers

XENOPHANES OF COLOPHON
- If horses could draw, they would draw their gods like horses.- critized the Homerian concept of anthropomorphic gods (creating anthropomorphic gods was misleading and childish)
- Like Thales, Xenophanes speculated about the underlying principles of natural phenomena
- proposed the possibility of the central element being mud meaning matter is generated from mud
- there is no way for certain that things are as we think they are (there are limits to how certain we can be)
- though we can't prove ultimately what is true, we can prove what is false
- to prove you need proof

Summary of Chapter Notes ( 1-5 ) - Frankenstein

            We begin by reading four letters written by Robert Walton to his sister, Margaret Saville.  The letters that Walton writes to his sister are about the journey of the ship he is captain of and he reassures her that he is doing fine and that he really longed to have a friend.  It’s important that he writes letters to his sister just so she knows his status.  While heading upon the North Pole, he finds a stranger named Victor nearly frozen on the ice and he tells Walton about his family.  Walton feels he now has a friend and is so excited he writes to his sister about him.

CHAPTER 1 - Victor Frankenstein, we learn was the stranger, begins his narration and starts with his family background, birth, early childhood and then described how his childhood companion, Elizabeth Lavenza, entered his family.  Back then, marriage wasn't always done for love, it could have been for helping someone out who has a bad life and job.  Victor's parents were in that situation and had raised Victor by spoiling him.  His parent's had a passion to help people and so they would go to cottages of the poor and help in some way.  When Victor was about five years of age, his parents brought back home to Geneva, a beautiful little girl name Elizabeth who was fostered by an Italian family to help her have a better life.  Elizabeth then, was treated as a member of the family.

CHAPTER 2 - Victor becomes increasingly fascinated by the mysteries of the natural world and in natural philosophy.  He then reads about the works of three alchemists.

CHAPTER 3 - When Victor was seventeen, his mother caught scarlet fever from Elizabeth, and died.  Weeks later, he left his family in Geneva to attend the university at Ingolstadt.  Victor sets up a meeting with a professor of natural philosophy named M. Krempe, who complies to Victor that all the time he has spent studying the alchemists has been wasted.  Also, He then attends a lecture in chemistry by a professor named Waldman and felt convinced to pursue his studies in the sciences.

CHAPTER 4 - Victor ignores his social life and family back in Geneva and begins to study anatomy, death and decay.  Victor is very fascinated by the creation of life and feels he wants to renew it.  Working away in private as summers past, he decides to begin the construction and creation of an animate creature while he grows pale, lonely, obsessed, and neglects what's important, himself and his family.


CHAPTER 5 - On a stormy night of November, after months of labor, Victor completes his creation but when it slowly come to life, its awful appearance horrifies him.  His heart fills with horror and disgust and even creates problems for him to sleep.  One sleep, he was disturbed by a wild dream about him and Elizabeth kissing, and suddenly she turns into his mother's corpse.  He wakes up to the monster looming over his bed with a smile and rushed out of the house and refuses to return to the apartment for nights.  Victor comes across and old school friend named Henry Clerval and brings him back to the apartment.  When they go there, there was no sign of his creation.  Victor became ill with a nervous fever that lasted months and when he recovered, Henry gave him a letter from Elizabeth that she sent during his sickness.

Checked by: Kathleen Dixon   

Frankenstein's Creation

THE CREATION 

         In chapter five, Frankenstein finally accomplishes his goal of giving life to an inanimate object.  He worked very hard for almost two years to accomplish this goal and was completely obsessed with his project.  Mary Shelley described Frankenstein's creature as an 8-foot-tall, hideously ugly creation, with translucent yellowish skin so taut over the body that it barely covered his insides.  Although this creation had no name he was portrayed as a monster and appeared to have glossy and glowing eyes, short black hair, black lips and pearly white teeth as he has a heavy breath.  He's also described to have a square-shaped head and bolts to serve as electrical connectors or electrodes on his neck.  The monster goes through a period of abandonment and seeks revenge upon his creator and along the way is driven by despair and loneliness to acts of cruelty and murder against innocent people.  As depicted by Shelley, the creature is an intelligent, sensitive and emotional creature whose only aim is to share his life with another creation like himself.

Checked by: Kathleen Dixon 

Soliloquy Analysis

Act 5 Scene 5 

Tomorrow, And Tomorrow, And Tomorrow
Spoken by Macbeth


Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
                     
                In act 5, scene 5, Macbeth is responding to when he was informed of his wife's death by suicide and feels he has lost hope, his view of life is now meaningless and no longer has a will to live.   Macbeth expresses his loneliness and regret in this final soliloquy.

Checked by: Chaz Gutmanis 

Soliloquy Analysis

Lady Macbeth's Soliloquy

Act 1 Scene 5: 

The Raven Himself Is Hoarse

The raven himself is hoarse
That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan
Under my battlements. Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,
And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full
Of direst cruelty! make thick my blood;
Stop up the access and passage to remorse,
That no compunctious visitings of nature
Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between
The effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts,
And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers,
Wherever in your sightless substances
You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night,
And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell,
That my keen knife see not the wound it makes,
Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark,
To cry 'Hold, hold!'


               By Lady Macbeth saying these words, it could mean she is trying to challenge manhood to try and make Macbeth prove to her that he is a man and will make him want to commit the murder.  She sees her feminine sex as an obstacle to being courageous and evil enough to do what must be done.  This could also mean she is calling upon evil spirits or dark powers, asking for strength and to remove her soft feminine qualities so she can act in a brutal way with Macbeth for the throne.

Checked by: Chaz Gutmanis 

PLACES I'D LOVE TO VISIT BEFORE I DIE

     I have always found the looks of Egypt so fascinating and I hope one day I get the opportunity to go there.

A mummy in a tomb on the Mountain of the Dead.

Beautiful landscape of Egypt.

           Australia is the second place to check off my list.  I also hope I get the chance to go there more than once.

Baby Koala 

World's famous Australian Harbor.


I would also love to visit Madagascar.

Lemur.

Checked By: Tim Dixon 

                                                               
                                     
                                           

Chapters 1 & 2, Frankenstein

In the novel "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley, Victor Frankenstein read about the following works of three very intelligent men...

Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa

             Philosophy means 'love of wisdom' and is the study of problems and questions about nature, existence, soucres of knowledge, values, concepts of truth, reason, mind, language and more.  Philosophers like to distinguish right from wrong and reason why.  People may recognize Cornelius Agrippa (1486-1535) as a philosopher who also had a concern with discovering the Philosopher's Stone.  He learned eight languages and studied alchemy and philosophy.  Alchemy is the study of chemistry and philosophy, concerning methods of discovering ways to turn copper and other metals into gold and to solve ways to prevent humans from aging.  Some alchemists would do tests on metal, liquors, production of gunpowder, ink, dyes, paints, cosmetics, ceramics, glass and ways to heal diseases.

Paracelsus - Philippus Aureolus {Theophrastus Bombastus Von Hohenheim}         
                 Paracelsus (1493-1541), who was known as Theophrastus when he was a boy, was a German physician and alchemist who established the role of chemistry in medicine.  A physician is a medical doctor or a medical practitioner and they provide health care such as diagnosis, treatment for diseases, sickness, injuries etc.  Usually physicians will focus on certain categories such as anatomy, physiology and being able to understand the science of medicine.  Paracelsus worked on the use of chemicals and minerals in medicine.  He is also credited for discovering treatment such as syphilis, gout, leprosy, and ulcers with mercury.  A conversion believed to be possible by the alchemists of the time and Paracelsus may have wondered about turning lead into gold.

     Saint Albertus Magnus     
                     Albertus (1193/1206-1280) was a German Dominican who studied science, religion, alchemy, chemistry, astrology (the study of planets, the sun and moon, human charateristics and activities), magic, and the devil.  He's one of the alchemists that may have succeded in discovering the Philosopher's Stone.  The Philosopher's Stone is a type of chemical substance that is said to be capable of turning base metals, especially lead into gold and it's also believed that it can help humans live longer.  Albertus was the inventor of the pistol and the cannon.

Checked by: Chaz Gutmanis

Poerty Analysis - Krista & Cassie

Poet- Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) 


Stillborn 


These poems do not live: it's a sad diagnosis. 
They grew their toes and fingers well enough, 
Their little foreheads bulged with concentration. 
If they missed out on walking about like people 
It wasn't for any lack of mother-love. 

O I cannot explain what happened to them! 
They are proper in shape and number and every part. 
They sit so nicely in the pickling fluid! 
They smile and smile and smile at me. 
And still the lungs won't fill and the heart won't start. 

They are not pigs, they are not even fish, 
Though they have a piggy and a fishy air - 
It would be better if they were alive, and that's what they were. 
But they are dead, and their mother near dead with distraction, 
And they stupidly stare and do not speak of her.


Stillborn or stillbirth means the birth of a baby who is born without any signs of life at or after 20 weeks through out pregnancy.  The baby may have died during pregnancy, labor or birth.  Knowing what the title means, will immediately give you a better interpretation for when you read the poem.
We can imagine after going through a tragic loss like this you would feel shocked, angry, angry at yourself, empty as a person, alone, depressed, or all your hopes, dreams and future are gone. 
-Sylvia had a miscarriage in her life time, now we see the connection between her life and the poem.  It seems like she had all those related feelings.  
-Plath grew up during the Great Depression and WW2.  That gives her another 'problem' to daze about.  
-diagnosis- determining by examination of a cause or a problem/situation.  
-she is possible finding out bad news about her pregnancy
-The first line could mean 'this isn't a good poem, it's bad news,'  by understanding this we can sense how the writer may have felt when she started to write the poem.  
- In the rest of the stanza it seems that she had twin fetuses that were well on their way of forming but never had a chance to see life and that she loved them. 
-The next stanza could mean she doesn't know what happened to them or she doesn't want to be reminded and write about it.  The fetuses were growing and sitting inside her so well until something must have gone wrong.  There are many possible reasons for a stillbirth to occur out of the blue.  
- 'They are not pigs, they are not even fish, Though they have a piggy and a fishy air' -This is hard to interpret, it could mean ' they don't breathe in oxygen like pigs do, nor breathe in a liquid like fish because they are dead and alive only in her heart.  They were once alive and she wished they still were.  
- It seems she's distracted too much by them not being alive, that she's dying deep inside. 
-The last line could mean nobody in the hospital knows what to say about the situation, so they just look sympathetic.  Some people may hate sympathy but some people may think of it in a good way.  In this situation, I would hate to see the sympathy, I would want to leave and be alone.  

We knew from the beginning of the title, this would be a sad poem.

Krista & Cassie

Checked By: Chaz Gutmanis 

"The Boat" by Alistair MacLeod Assignment - KristaM and CassieS

1.   Lobb plot graph and key events of the story handed in separately.


2. a)      The narrator loves and favours his father, but he doesn't idealize him or his way of life.  The father is described to be disorderly, unkept, distant from his family and others, and sometimes turns out to have a temper with his wife.  Throughout the story the father seemed to be torn between the sea, books, and education.   He lived a life doing a job he disliked and never had the chance or oppurtunity to get a better education, make a better person of himself.  The narrator loved the sea and felt he should carry out the family business but at the end of the story, when his father dies, he decides to take his fathers advise and continue to strive for a better education.  In the future he finds himself, reading books, smoking cigarettes, and not completely happy with his job of being a university professor, similar to what his father was like.  The central character is the father, a fisherman who has never really liked the dangerous fishing lifestyle and who clearly would've preferred to get an education.   The central conflict is his mother doesn't share the same feeling about education and escaping from the fishing world that the father does.  She clearly doesn't want her family meeting the outside world, (not a life of the sea) and the narrator wants to study, but realizes that he loves the sea as well. 

3. a)      At first, the boat symbolizes how the father is imprisoned by his line of work because he never had the chance to get out and get a better education, do what he actually wanted to do in life, and to escape from the boat, he reads books.  The symbolism of the boat is transformed to symbolize a whole new meaning at the end of the story, a deeper meaning.  The father lived more of a life that his wife wanted rather than what he wanted.  The boat symbolizes you should always do what you want to do, what will make you happy and smile.  Don't do something you don't want to do because somebody else wants you to do it.  Always love yourself before you can love somebody else.  You don't want to live a life where you feel like your imprisoned, miserable.  

3.    In the beginning of The Boat the narrator is portrayed as a sea lover and it is very important to his life style. All this changes in the story when the narrator learns there is more to life then just the sea. He learns this from his father in the way that he used books to escape from the reality of his life. The father makes several comment in the story that indicate that he should pursue his education to ensure he doesn’t make the same mistakes. The end of the story leaves the narrator in a depression state. The mother lives alone and it sais she sends love towards the sea but bitterness upon her family. The father ends up dead beaten and destroyed by the very thing that controlled his life. The narrator grew up to be a professor and followed his education like his dad wanted but it doesn’t seem like he is happy or like it was even what he wanted. He grows up to be a mirror image of his father when the lesson he should have been teaching was to follow your dreams.

4.   POWERFUL SENSES OF THE STORY

SIGHT-eyes

On page 270, the author made one really descriptive paragraph.  The narrator was describing a photo and by how descriptive it was, it gives us a powerful sense of sight.  After the father and tourists got together at their rented cabins, the father received a photo oh himself that day.  On the back of the picture it said, “To Our Ernest Hemingway,” who is an old writer.  That gives us a sense of what the father may have looked like.  If you read deeper into the paragraph, it describes what the photo looked like, so basically describing the father and the setting of where that picture was taken.  The narrator’s father looked ‘massive’, as he was sitting in a lawn chair with bulky fisherman clothes that were way to big.  He was shadowed by a beach umbrella that was protecting his sunburned face.  The father had cracked lips, flecks of blood on his teeth, wore brass bracelets on his wrists and a large leather belt, a shirt that would show his white chest hair, big blue eyes and white hair down to his shoulders.  Also, on page 274, the narrator does a great job describing more of his father, for us to get another powerful sense of sight.  His father has a reddish complection so he never tans, irritated skin from the salt water, cracked lips that bleed when he smiles, and oozing salt-water boils.
FEEL-hands
          On page 276, there's a very descriptive paragraph where it gives the reader a sense of how could it would feel there.  Reading it, put shivers down our spines.  It describes how the grey relentless waves of the Atlantic are very high and it's so cold it seems like they wouldn't have been able to see the surface of the water, due to the squalls of snow and storms.  From this you also get a sense of hearing.  Reading the words "howling winds",  gives the reader a sense of how it may sound.
SMELL-nose
            On page 262, we get a sense of how the father's boat or maybe even the whole setting of the story may smell.  It smelled of salt and fish and always had the same smell due to them living in Nova Scotia and near the sea.

5.   Mother Character Sketch

The first mention of the mother is the story the boat is about her strong beliefs in order and cleanliness. This is shown when the narrator talks about how spotless she kept the house. It is also shown later in the story when the narrator describes how messy his father’s room was and how his mother refused to sleep there for she despised disorder in rooms and lives. The narrator also tells about how his mother loved the sea. You get the sense that the mother is very ignorant about any other lifestyle. This is shown when her daughters marry men who know nothing about the lifestyle at all and therefore she saw them as lazy, effeminate, dishonest and the unknown. From her making this conclusion I get the sense she is very traditional and unopen minded to any other tradition. You again know this when the narrator explains his mothers dislike for books and how see thinks they are a colossal waist of time and there is important work that should be done. In the end of the story when the father dyes and her daughters have all left to live their own lives as well as her son she is left with bitterness. In the story the boat the narrators mother is portrayed as selfish, controlling, stubborn, ignorant and very traditional. She also seems to have a great fear of change.

checked by: Mom

I AM RICH - "Rich For One Day" Blog Assignment

                   I think that Aline in the short story "Rich For One Day" consideres herself rich, not with money, more as in happiness, feels great as a person, without money.  You can almost say sometimes the two words "rich" and "happiness" will have the same meaning or feeling behind it.
                  I myself am similar to Aline because I'm not rich, but I'm happy and when I feel happy,  I feel rich as a person.  One thing that I love that makes me feel happy is having a people who care and who will always be there for me, for they are really understanding.  The thought that I'm also really understable with them makes me happy because I'm not only receiving help, guidance, advise, whatever, I am also giving it to people I love and who love me back.  My job also makes me very happy.  Many people don't have one, and often struggle to even meet the basic/survival needs of life.  I am thankful for having a job right now that I don't hate.  If I really think about it, right now at this point of my life I have no problems.  I have a place to sleep, food to eat, water to drink, warmth, and people who love me.  I don't have to pay any expenses yet, my cell phone, that's it, and what I have for me going right now, is keeping me pretty happy I must say. 
                   You hear the phrase "money doesn't bring happiness" all the time, as you may see it everywhere too, and it's so true.  You just have to feel it, and to do that, you think to yourself, "what can be worse?"  There's always something worse out there in the world so just have faith.  One thing I learned from Aline's character is always decide to wake up and get up, you never know how your day might end.

checked by: Chaz Gutmanis

3 Ques.~ "The Lottery Ticket" - Dig Deep

1. Q: What's the main setting of this short story?  Is there more than one?
2. Q: What's ironic about the end of this short story?
3. Q: What's the hidden meaning/message behind this short story?
    A: A couple thinks they may have won the lottery and so they fantasize about how they would spend the winnings, getting more greedy each thought.  A theme Chekhov may have tried to demonstrate is you can't depend on something that's not there.  Don't expect anything if you didn't work for it or earn it in some kind of way, like winning a lottery.  There is such thing as luck to some, but you still have to roll the dice and get what you get, maybe not always be what you want and so you deal with what you have, even if you have to strive for happiness.  Anton presented us a life lesson: money does not buy happiness.

checked by: Chaz Gutmanis

What I Would Do With $100 Billion Dollars

                   Mr. Lobb, you should give that $100 billion dollars to me, Krista McLeod because I would make it last a lifetime, for myself and anybody who's dearly close to me such as family, best friends or even perhaps a lover.  I feel I would want to donate a reasonable amount of money to an animal shelter or of some other sort, one that I would support well.  I would also save a good portion of the money because you should always be prepared for the future, you can predict, but you'll never know for sure.  I would love to travel and that's something I'd definately spend money on, if i had it.  Of course I would need  someone who I love to come along and in my opinion, it would be a waste of time if I travelled the world alone.  No being selfish with the money, I'd do that by assisting anybody close to me of who I choose with any difficult expenses or a place to stay.  I love, the people I love, and I would do anything for them.  I'm not going to make a list of things I would buy with the money, but I would for sure try and fulfill most of my wants, needs, and dreams.  I keep in mind, that money doesn't always fulfill your wants and dreams, just usually what you need and what entertains you.  You can't forget about 'the love inside you.'  Of course I would need a lover to help me enjoy and spend some of that money.  The most important thing I can say, is never let money get to the best of you. That is why Mr. Lobb, i deserve that $100 billion dollars. 

checked by: Chaz Gutmanis

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