"The Restoration"

1. Research The Glorious Revolution (sometimes called the Bloodless Revolution) online or in one of the textbooks. Write a paragraph summarizing what happened, and then another that explains why you think the event was so important. The bloodless revolution is linked to The dairy of Pepys story (Ithink) . In the bloodless revolution it said that the Roman Catholics set fire to London destroying everything and causing disasters. Then after the fire Jame's Queen had a son and then pressure was bought upon the royal family. The pressure was so great that they went to France and then the Glorious Revolution was accomplished.



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2. Define "satire". Don't just copy and paste a definition from another source. Read the definition, and then explain it in your own words. Once you have done that, provide a few modern-day examples of satire (television shows, movies, magazines, etc.).


When I read the book definition of satire I developed my own interpertation of the word. To me it means imitating a real life situation by making fun. It is also making some kind of point when you think about it. Some examples of satire is the cartoon t.v show Family Guy. Their trying to say that men in their middle ages just like to have fun by drinking acting stupid and dumb. Some men are actually like that but personally I think the majority of them are not. The Simpson is like that also. The way they treat their grandad is similar to the way we treat younger people treat the elders. but not actually throwing them out the car and things of that nature. We don't really have any interest in them especially if their not one of our family members.




3. Read "A Modest Proposal", which may be difficult at first, but if you stick with it, the message will become more clear. Once you are finished reading, you should write a short response to what you read (4-5 sentences), and explain how this is a work of satire.

"A Modest Proposal was really hard trying to understand and it did not become clear to me in the end. In the beginning I understood that they are talking about beggars and homeless people mainly women. It is true that most women have more babies than they can provide for without baby fathers. As the mother struggles and turn to handouts all the time and try to do as much for ther children as she possibly can the children usually grows up to be theives and things of that nature anyway.

4. Read either "from the Diary of Samuel Pepys" or "from A Journal of the Plague Year" by Daniel Defoe, both of which can be found in the purple anthology. Once you have finished reading, write a 1-2 paragraph response to what you have read. Please be sure to include some direct evidence from the text to help show what you are responding to.

I really like the story "From the Diary of Samuel Pepys". The man named Pepys is quite an interesting man. He was a really secrective man. He kept a diary that he was so protective over that he wrote it in three different languages. "He doubly safegaurded the most intimate details of his life by recording them in a private foreign language that appears to mix together Latin, French, and Spanish words." I thought that was the most creative thing anybody could ever do. Pepy's seems to be a nice man but he do not like liars. "Where I was angry with my wife for her things lying about."

In the story this big fire occured which burned down a lot of houses. It got bigger and bigger and and starting spreading wider and wider. Everybody tried to grab as much as their belongings as they could."Extraordinary good goods carried in carts and on backs." I don't know what "pulling houses down" meant but obviously it was something to help and save them, but eventually the fire got so out of hand that they couldn't do that anymore. "I have been pulling down houses. But the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it."

5. What do you think was most important to people living in this time? Write a 1-2 paragraph response to this question in which you use direct evidence from the texts you read to support whatever arguments you make. Clearly their belongings was the most important to them. Their houses was also very important to people living in this time. Those was the two things they struggled so hard to keep from the fire."And did by moonshine carry much of my goods into the garden, and Mr. Hater and I did remove my money an diron-chest into my cellar-as thinking that the safest place. That was what everybody was going after.

Reading Log #2 (Let's Get It On)

The book Let's Get It On is a very excellent book. The main characters are Kenya Taylor, Maurice, and Lauren Michaels. Kenya and Maurice has been a couple all through and high school and now there in college together. Maurice is the only man she ever has layed ryes on. She shared her first for everything with him. He feels the same about her. Maurice is a very fine popular man due to his football skills. In college all the girls liked him and literaly threw themselves at him every chance they got. Kenya wasnt worried about it because she knew they had a bond so strong that no other female could break...or so she thought. One day Kenya stopped by his room for something and caught her boyfriend Maurice in the bed with Lauren Michaels. Seeing that changed her life drastically. Kenya wasnt the ghetto type girl to go and jump on people. She tryed to keep her composure but she knew when she seen Lauren by herself and pushed her down the hill that she had to switch schools before she got herself in some deep trouble. Maurice had found Kenya and talked to her but what he said only the made the situation worse. He said he was sorry how she found out about them but he was glad she did because she had to know sooner or later. He also admitted to her that he wanted to be with Lauren and that they should go their separate ways but still remain friends. Kenya ended up moving back home to Atlanta to go to another school. Kenya also was pregnant but didn't know at the time. She had a feeling that she was because she missed her period but was to scared to go and find out. She ended having a miscarriage and never told anyone. Her life was going downhill because of what Maurice did. She dated again but broke up with them after a short period of time because they wasn't Maurice or anything like him. She buried herself in work twenty four seven to get her mind off of Maurice so much. Nine years has passed and she still isnt over the heartbreak that experienced in college. Maurice wanted to take his relationship with Lauren a little farther. He started catching feelings for her. He felt bad about the way Kenya found out about them and he he was also thinking about her after nine years has passed. Maurice has now it to the NFL. Lauren love being a famouse football player girlfriend. She was loving all the money, jewelry, and going to the most expensive restaurants and clubs. Everything her and Maurice did together she wanted it to be in either the papers or on t.v. Maurice wanted to propose to her in the privacy of their own home but she wanted him to do it at the end of his big game so it can be on t.v. He started to wonder about her and why was she really with him. Lauren ad this best friend Mya that she was always with but Maurice didnt think anything of it. Lauren was enjoying being engaged to Maurice. Maurice was having second thoughts about marrying her but went through with it anyway. The day of the wedding he found out something. Mya convinced Lauren that deep down iside she didnt want to get married it was just the money that made her want to do it. All along Mya and Lauren had a relationship that Maurice didnt know about. Lauren left Maurice at the altar for Mya because she thought about what Mya said and knew that it was true. She really wanted Mya. Maurice didnt know what to do. He knew he was used and all he could think about was hat Kenya would have never used him for his money and fame and mos def wouldnt leave him at the altar for another woman. He wanted Kenya not because he didnt have Lauren and now he was alone but because he knew he made a mistake by leaving her for another woman. He felt Kenya was the one for him even after nine years of not seeing her. His honeymoon to the bahamas was already paid for and they couldnt reimburst him his money so he decided that him and his brother would go on the vacation. Kenya career as a lawyer was hard work but she was good at what she do. They told her to relocate to Charlotte North Carolina. That is where she moved from nine years due to the bad break up. But they offered her a vacation to think it over. Just so happen the vacation was the bahamas. SO she accepted it. Yes you guessed right...they ended up there together. Kenya was mad as when she felt that hurt all over again when she seen his face. She smacked him. The whole time they was there he was trying to when her heart back and convince her that fate brought both of them to the bahamas together. It wasnt easy getting to Kenya to hold a conversation with him. He seen how she has changed. She has lost weight with perfect shape and everything. He felt that they had to work it. She knew she couldnt fight it. She still felt the same way for him even after all these years, but she couldnt put what she seen in his dorm room nine years ago to the back of her mind. She constantly wandered if she gave him a second chance would he hurt her again. They spent the whole vacation together trying to make things work. They didn't rush into it but he finally worked his way to her heart. No matter how hard she tryed not to give in she couldnt fight what she felt. She agreed to relocate to her new firm in North Carolina. Lauren seen them together and began to get jealous. She missed all the money she had easy access to. Mya didnt have what Maurice had and she was missing it. She began to see more of Maurice and Kenya. She tryed everything to break them up. She made a sex video to make it look like Maurice cheated again with her. But she made the video by putting Maurice face on somebody else body. She got so jealous that she shot Kenya and slomost cause her to die. Maurice made sure she was put away for that. But to make a long story short they got back together and got married and Lauren was never heard of again.

Reading Log (Soul Mates Dissipate)

In Soul Mates Dissispate the main characters are Jada, Wellington, and Melanie. Jada and Wellington is a couple in the book. They have plans of getting married. They are really in love up until homewrecker Melanie shows up in the picture. Melanie been in the picture but she is jealous of Jada so she tries everything in her power to destroy their relationship. Wellington mother does not like Jada. She has no reason as to why she dont like her but she just dont. Melanie and Wellington mother is really close and Melanie is the one that she wants her son to marry. At first Melanie really saw Wellington as a friend(brother) up until Jada came in the picture. Cynthia (wellington mother) is the kind of mother who is trying to make her son out to be who she wants him to be rather than who he wants to be. He is a fully grown man and his mother is trying to control everything he do and who he marries. Cynthia is the one that put Melanie up to destroying Wellington and Jada relationship. Sadly to say Melanie did exactly what Cynthia said and succeeded at it. First she seduced Jada and Wellington into doing a threesome. Jada felt so bad afterwords but what was done was done. Wellington had been cheated on Jada with Melanie but Jada thinking that that was the first time. Melanie had slowly moved her way to the top and not not only she doing what Cynthia put her to but she is really catching feelings. She puts little negative thoughts in Wellington head about Jada and it works. Wellington and Jada was engaged and now he called it off and broke up with her. Melanie convinced him that she has changed and she was not with him for him. He fell for Melanie and his mothers tricks and lost his "real" soul mate. But before all that Melanie had been taking fertility drugs because she was trying so hard to get pregnant by Wellington. She succeed yet again. Melanie was so happy she thought her life was set now. Wellington brought Jada the bad news and she was like we just had a threesome last night so it couldnt possibly be yours. Then they really had to tell Jada that that wasnt the first time it had been times before that they slept together. Jada ended up leaving and trying to "renew her lease on life". And she did good by getting herself back together and on tack. Meanwhile everything catching up to Wellington, Melanie, and Cynthia. After Melanie and Wellington married everything started falling apart as soon as the second day they was married. Melanie was in a bad wreck and was in critical conditiona and lost the"triplets" that she was pregnant with. Wellington could not believe that she was actually pregnant with triplets. In the emergancy room was when all the secrects came out about Melanie and Cynthia game. Wellington was so hurt because he knew Jada was his real soulmate and not he had to get her back. Thinking it was that easy she moved to another state and told he messed up and that she forgive him and was still his soulmate!!!!!

Beowulf

1. Write a 4-5 paragraph response to Beowulf. What did you think of the story? What parts stuck out to you the most. You may also want to include some of your thoughts on the Anglo-Saxon culture.
At first i thought reading this would be boring, but by the 2 episode i grew to like it and wanted to keep reading. I thought the words would be as difficult as shakespeare but it is actually less difficult. Some of the words i have never heard but most of the words you can put together and make out what their saying. I really liked the main character Beowulf because of his courageousness. He stood up to all the monsters in the book. He knew something had to be done about Grendal eating everybody everynight so he did what he had to do. He is a true contender.


The event that stuck out the most is the end. In the end of the book he fought his last battle before he died. The last battle was with the dragon. He succeed in all his other battles but he took a lost to the dragon but he went out like a real hero. That is why it stood out to me because of the way he died. Beowulf had a lot soldiers that was suppose to be with him but they all got scared and ran to save their own lives. But he did not give up he kept going and fought all by himself. Wiglaf was the only one that did not betray him. And for that before he passed he handed down all his treasure, jewels, and gold to him. He was old and I think because of that was the only reason he had lost the battle. He stood up when everybody else was scared to, and everybody respected him for that.


I like that he was created by the gods and he look like a regular man but has more power than the average man. It was a male dominant culture. There wasnt to many female warriors, there was only men that fought. In the story Beuwolf they had a warrior tradition. The warriors was really highly respected. They throwed parties for Beuwolf because they thought a lot about him. Being a warrior means a lot. They had to fight a lot of battles against demons and dragons.




2. Think about what you know about the Anglo-Saxon's culture. How well does Beowulf illustrate what the Anglo-Saxons believed? Give at least three separate examples, and back them up with direct evidence from the poem.

1) Being a warrior in Anglo-Saxon's culture is very important to them. They give them the up most respect. They showed Beuwolf how much they appreciated him when he died by burying him in a special way. "With sorrow, The Geats then cremate the corpse of their greatest king. They place his ashes, along with all of the dragon's treasure, in a huge burial mound by the sea, where it can be seen by voyagers."

2) In the anlo-saxon culture being a warrior is important to the warrior himself. He takes pride in protecting his society. When he succeeds in a battle he feels like he protected his society from whom ever he was battling with. "Beuwolf carries the head of Grendel to King Hrothgar and then returns gift-laden to the land of the geats, where he succeeds to the throne." "For Beowulf, the price of this last victory will be great."

3) Constantly getting attacked by monsters from swamps and different places is also apart of their culture. They always have to be on the lookout for some foreign creature that is out to harm them. "He slipped through the door and there in the silence snatched up thirty men, smashed them unknowing in their beds and ran out with their bodies, the blood dripping behind him, back to his lair, delighted with his night slaughter."

3) How does this story compare to the hero stories from our culture? Provide at least one example of how Beowulf is similar, and one of how he is different. You should provide some evidence from the text to support what you claim.

The Heros that you read about in our culture is very similar to Beuwolf. Everybody looks up to him and he known for being strong and taking out the bad people. Just like the heroes we read about. The typical heroe is really friendly and nice to their own society and does their best to protect them. "I already knew that all my purpose was this: to win the good will of our people or die in battle"
4. What do you think of the way Beowulf dies? Write a 2-3 paragraph response on how you feel about the ending of the story. If you don't know where you are going with this, you should talk to me about it. It is especially important to support your opinions with some evidence from Beowulf.

I personally think this has the best ending of any heroic stories I have ever read. He died in the best way ever (I know that sounds weird). It was a tragic ending but at the same time it was a happy ending. It wasn't the happy ending that first pops up in your head but it still was a happy ending. To me the way he died leaves a big repsonsibility for the next hero, because the society is going to exspect him to do things like Beuwolf or better.

When it was time to fight the dragon Beowolf team left him by hisslef to fight by himself. The only person that was there with him Wiglaf. Together they killed the dragon. Wiglaf didn't want to see Wiglaf die miserably and alone, and it ended up that he didnt. Beowolf died in a peaceful way. He died knowing that he and Wiglaf sucessfully beat the hardest battle that he ever fought. In the end he gave Wiglaf some treasure that meant a lot to him. He felt like he had done his duty of protecting his people. "For this, this gold, these jewels, I thank Our Father in Heaven, Ruler of the Earth-For all of this, That his grace has given me, allowed me to bring to my people while breath still came to my lips"