Amber James
P-2
Welcome to modernism 2 pg lit response
To my future daughter,
Hey mommy’s little angel. I’m writing this to u because time is never guaranteed and if you ever need to remember anything about mommy here it is. You know I was bilked out of my education but I’ve forced myself. Baby don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t do or be anything that you want because nothings impossible. Thanks to Thomas Edison making the light bulb I have more time on my hands I don’t have to do my reading and everything while it’s daytime. All I have to do is just turn on my fancy little electric lamp and read and learn whenever I feel.
Me carrying you around in my stomach all day long is really not easy. Luckily Henry Waterman in 1850 made the first electric elevator. So now I don’t have to worry about climbing all of those stairs anymore and it also takes less time getting to my destination because I’m not taking any breaks and huffing and puffing.
I can’t wait til' you get here. We’re going to have so much fun. They have movies that we can go see now. We can do so much more with our time now. Sitting in the house will not be an option for us. I want to give you the world and I want you to experience all of these new inventions and fancy gadgets they just keep coming up with. Hey who knows maybe you’ll make one yourself. You can be mommy’s little Einstein.
I want you to see all of the beautiful new buildings they’re making now. They are absolutely gorgeous. They’re enormous and the tallest things I’ve ever seen. The name even describes how big they are, they’re called skyscrapers and without those elevators baby it would be nonsense trying to get around those great big buildings. But thanks to Henry Waterman me and you will be just fine.
So now you see all of the new changes that are going on around me. Just imagine how life would be when you become my age and have your own children. Life has become so much easier for me and I just hope it keeps going that way. I can’t wait to see you and experience these life changing moments with you.
Love,
Mommy
Monday, February 8, 2010
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
souls of black folk essay
Amber James
Period 2
Souls of Black Folk essay questions
Question #2
I believe it proved insufficient when he got older and wasn’t really protected by the child image anymore. He started to see more of the world and was more focused on the reality instead of imagination as if he was still a child. It became insufficient when he began to see more of the racism and distinction between blacks and whites day by day. Now he actually knew what was going on with no doubt about it.
I believe he mentioned this personal experience with racism here because that’s when it all started for him. It was when he first realized what racism really was and he had actually seen it at a young age and he now understood what was really going on in the world and that all people weren’t on the same level. He also saw that even though he can be physically or mentally “better” than them nothing would change socially. He now has seen that there was a difference between whites and blacks.
The personal experiences that he uses add to his arguments because it gives the reader something to relate to. If the reader doesn’t relate then it gives them something to sympathize about. They would prove persuasive for readers with huge hearts and that are caring. It would probably be that way because now their emotions are tied into the story. The author uses pathos in a unique way.
Question #4
He did this because these songs actually expressed the emotions that these people were feeling. The songs actually told their stories. This was the only music that they had. For it to be the only music that they had people must think that their lives were miserable. So now this goes back to sympathy and the author acting on the reader’s emotions.
Since the book was all about the souls of black folk he intercuts it with these songs because they actually represent what was in the souls of these black folk. Instead of hearing the stories that he tells u can see the pain that these other people go through. It also expresses how hurt they were in as much as 10 lines.
These songs were a part of their culture. They even sometimes helped them get through the day. This also brings a unique feeling to the book. It kind of gives a connection to the people that are reading the book to the blacks because now the people can see what they went through in their own words.
Period 2
Souls of Black Folk essay questions
Question #2
I believe it proved insufficient when he got older and wasn’t really protected by the child image anymore. He started to see more of the world and was more focused on the reality instead of imagination as if he was still a child. It became insufficient when he began to see more of the racism and distinction between blacks and whites day by day. Now he actually knew what was going on with no doubt about it.
I believe he mentioned this personal experience with racism here because that’s when it all started for him. It was when he first realized what racism really was and he had actually seen it at a young age and he now understood what was really going on in the world and that all people weren’t on the same level. He also saw that even though he can be physically or mentally “better” than them nothing would change socially. He now has seen that there was a difference between whites and blacks.
The personal experiences that he uses add to his arguments because it gives the reader something to relate to. If the reader doesn’t relate then it gives them something to sympathize about. They would prove persuasive for readers with huge hearts and that are caring. It would probably be that way because now their emotions are tied into the story. The author uses pathos in a unique way.
Question #4
He did this because these songs actually expressed the emotions that these people were feeling. The songs actually told their stories. This was the only music that they had. For it to be the only music that they had people must think that their lives were miserable. So now this goes back to sympathy and the author acting on the reader’s emotions.
Since the book was all about the souls of black folk he intercuts it with these songs because they actually represent what was in the souls of these black folk. Instead of hearing the stories that he tells u can see the pain that these other people go through. It also expresses how hurt they were in as much as 10 lines.
These songs were a part of their culture. They even sometimes helped them get through the day. This also brings a unique feeling to the book. It kind of gives a connection to the people that are reading the book to the blacks because now the people can see what they went through in their own words.
Monday, January 11, 2010
the souls of black folk
Amber James
Period 2
Chapter of 7 SOULS OF BLACK FOLK
In the beginning of Chapter 7 they were talking about how not only did the whites treat blacks wrong they also did the same to the Indians. They took things and land from people who already had it and was already there. The whites effectively abused their power. So they took land and other things that Indians owned from them and they took the lives and hope from blacks.
Chapter 7 is basically describing changes that have occurred in the black belt since the civil war. The black belt was actually a region of the southeastern United States. In this chapter they talked about the population and it seemed to be that there were more blacks than whites in this region and at one point of time the whites were dominant over the blacks. It seemed as if everyone was suffering economic wise. Many of the recent plantation owners who stayed were poor and suffering also. So now since they didn’t have slaves to work on their plantations anymore times got harder and now they tried to get any and everyone to work for very little amounts of money and also places to stay were very high in rent. Even little white girls were hoeing the crops.
A lot changed in the south during this time. Blacks weren’t exactly treated like equal “citizens” but life was much better than before. They actually enjoyed some of their days and some of them were wealthier than the whites that looked down on them. The book talks about how only straggling bits belong to the family, and the rest to Jews and Negroes. They were talking about a certain plantation owner who hated blacks and even claimed to kill plenty of them and its really ironic how the people that he hated the most ended up with more of his property than his own family. This chapter is very believable and realistic to me. I really believed that things like this have actually happened. Even now blacks aren’t fully excepted by some whites so its very believable that they were hardly excepted back then .
Period 2
Chapter of 7 SOULS OF BLACK FOLK
In the beginning of Chapter 7 they were talking about how not only did the whites treat blacks wrong they also did the same to the Indians. They took things and land from people who already had it and was already there. The whites effectively abused their power. So they took land and other things that Indians owned from them and they took the lives and hope from blacks.
Chapter 7 is basically describing changes that have occurred in the black belt since the civil war. The black belt was actually a region of the southeastern United States. In this chapter they talked about the population and it seemed to be that there were more blacks than whites in this region and at one point of time the whites were dominant over the blacks. It seemed as if everyone was suffering economic wise. Many of the recent plantation owners who stayed were poor and suffering also. So now since they didn’t have slaves to work on their plantations anymore times got harder and now they tried to get any and everyone to work for very little amounts of money and also places to stay were very high in rent. Even little white girls were hoeing the crops.
A lot changed in the south during this time. Blacks weren’t exactly treated like equal “citizens” but life was much better than before. They actually enjoyed some of their days and some of them were wealthier than the whites that looked down on them. The book talks about how only straggling bits belong to the family, and the rest to Jews and Negroes. They were talking about a certain plantation owner who hated blacks and even claimed to kill plenty of them and its really ironic how the people that he hated the most ended up with more of his property than his own family. This chapter is very believable and realistic to me. I really believed that things like this have actually happened. Even now blacks aren’t fully excepted by some whites so its very believable that they were hardly excepted back then .
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