Historian
Apartheid plays a big role in book two The Revelation. Apartheid is "an official policy of racial segregation formerly practiced in the Republic of South Africa, involving political, legal, and economic discrimination against nonwhites, or A policy or practice of separating or segregating groups, or the condition of being separated from others; segregation" (Dictionary). Basically what that means is it is the segragation of two groups; mainly the White people concurring Africa; although Africa out numbers them.
Notes:
-1939 Lutton's General Store
-President Eisenhower spoke of having everything under control; the Kennedy boy said Uncle Ike was all washed up and we need look no farther the Congo.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
-Kilanga, June 90,1960
-The Belgium Army
The Belgium and American Business brought cilization to the Congo! American aid will be the Congo's Salvation.
-In seventy-five years the only road the Belgian ever built are the ones they ise to haul out siamonds and rubber.
- Not one single Congolese doctor and military officer, nothing, for the Beglian's don't allow them to get an education.
Communist
-Elections
-provisional government
-no longer The Republic of Congo
Monday, February 26, 2007
Regina Spektor
Regina Spektor was born in Moscow, Russia (in the former Soviet Union). She was born into a musical family. Her father was a photographer and also an amateur violinist, and her mother was a music professor in a Russian college of music; she now teaches at a public elementary school in Mount Vernon, New York. Regina Spektor studied classical piano since the age of six, practicing on a Petrof piano which was given to her mother by her grandfather. "She was also exposed to the music of rock and roll bands such as The Beatles, Queen, and The Moody Blues by her father, who obtained such recordings in Eastern Europe and traded cassettes with friends in the Soviet Union" (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia). Her family left the Soviet Union in 1989, when she was just nine, during the period of Perestroika when Jewish citizens were permitted to emigrate. Unfortunately, Regina had to leave her piano behind.
Beginnings as a songwriter
"In New York, Spektor gained a firm grounding in classical music from her piano teacher, Sonia Vargas, a professor at the Manhattan School of Music. Spektor studied with Vargas—whom Spektor's father had met through violinist Samuel Marder, Vargas's husband—until she was 17.[7] Although the family had been unable to bring their piano with them from Russia, Spektor found a piano on which to practice in the basement of her synagogue, also utilizing tabletops and other hard surfaces for this purpose.[2]
Although she had always made up songs around the house, Spektor first became interested in songwriting during a visit to Israel with the Nesiya Institute in her teenage years. Attracting attention from the other children on the trip for the songs she made up while hiking, she realized she had an aptitude for songwriting.[4] Following this trip, she was first exposed to the work of Joni Mitchell, Ani DiFranco, and other singer-songwriters, which gave her the idea that she could create her own songs.[4] She began writing her first a cappella songs around age 16, and wrote her first songs for voice and piano when she was nearly 18.[1]
Spektor completed the four-year studio composition program of the Conservatory of Music at Purchase College in Purchase, New York within three years, graduating with honors in 2001. Around this time, she also worked briefly at a butterfly farm in Luck, Wisconsin. She gradually achieved recognition through performances in the anti-folk scene in downtown New York City, most importantly at the East Village's Sidewalk Cafe, but also at the Living Room, Tonic, Fez, the Knitting Factory, and CB's Gallery.[2] During this period, she sold her self-produced CDs 11:11 (2001) and Songs (2002) at such performances" (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia).
She has a very unique style!
Friday, February 16, 2007
Quad Descriptions
Adah Price
But the way I see it through my Adah eyes
it is a flat plank clipped into pieces, rectangles
and trapezoids, by the skinny black-line
shadows of tall palm trunks. Through
Adah eyes, of the world is a-boggle with
color and shapes competing for a half-
brain's attention.
As I sat on a brick wall starring around the crowd of people whom just finished their 1:30 classes, I saw with my Adah eyes the sparkle of sequins across the quad shimmering in the sunlight much like the glistening off the ocean on a sunny day. The voices of people passed me, for a minute breaking the silence of my quiet day, much like a stampede of caribou. The trash around campus reminded me of the Congo and it's unsanitary ways. With my Adah eyes I saw the green tress and bushes swaying in the gentle breeze. They portrayed real live people reacting in motion to the earths call.
But the way I see it through my Adah eyes
it is a flat plank clipped into pieces, rectangles
and trapezoids, by the skinny black-line
shadows of tall palm trunks. Through
Adah eyes, of the world is a-boggle with
color and shapes competing for a half-
brain's attention.
As I sat on a brick wall starring around the crowd of people whom just finished their 1:30 classes, I saw with my Adah eyes the sparkle of sequins across the quad shimmering in the sunlight much like the glistening off the ocean on a sunny day. The voices of people passed me, for a minute breaking the silence of my quiet day, much like a stampede of caribou. The trash around campus reminded me of the Congo and it's unsanitary ways. With my Adah eyes I saw the green tress and bushes swaying in the gentle breeze. They portrayed real live people reacting in motion to the earths call.
Monday, February 12, 2007
Cycle Paper
Much is expected of those to whom much is given. What have you been given and what, if any, expectations do you think people should have of you? What expectations do you have for yourself?
I have been blessed with the gift of a healthy life. I have also been given the opportunity to attend such a prestigious school. Although my parents don’t expect me to become the next president or a rocket scientist they do expect me to success. Not only because they know I can but because I have been blessed and given the right recourses to.
I have been blessed with good fortune and a good family foundation. I feel it is my right to give to my community what I can offer; such as Kravinsky had done. “Last summer, […] Kravinsky had given almost his entire forty-five-million-dollar real-estate fortune to charity, […]” (Pg 1. column 1 of the Gift). I might not be able to donate the efficient amount of money but I can help in other ways. Another thing Kravinsky offered. “[…] [Kravinsky] had donated a kidney […]” (Pg 1. column 2 of the Gift). I could donate my time and effort, I could share my education with children less fortunate, I could also even just donate my knowledge on life, and so much more. There are many ways to give back or help your community; it’s just a matter of the effort you put into it.
My expectations for myself are to finish these next two years of high school with a minimum of a 3.0 GPA. I also expect myself to attend a good college, so that I can succeed in my life long goal to go into the field of medicine and become a plastic surgeon.
I have been blessed with the gift of a healthy life. I have also been given the opportunity to attend such a prestigious school. Although my parents don’t expect me to become the next president or a rocket scientist they do expect me to success. Not only because they know I can but because I have been blessed and given the right recourses to.
I have been blessed with good fortune and a good family foundation. I feel it is my right to give to my community what I can offer; such as Kravinsky had done. “Last summer, […] Kravinsky had given almost his entire forty-five-million-dollar real-estate fortune to charity, […]” (Pg 1. column 1 of the Gift). I might not be able to donate the efficient amount of money but I can help in other ways. Another thing Kravinsky offered. “[…] [Kravinsky] had donated a kidney […]” (Pg 1. column 2 of the Gift). I could donate my time and effort, I could share my education with children less fortunate, I could also even just donate my knowledge on life, and so much more. There are many ways to give back or help your community; it’s just a matter of the effort you put into it.
My expectations for myself are to finish these next two years of high school with a minimum of a 3.0 GPA. I also expect myself to attend a good college, so that I can succeed in my life long goal to go into the field of medicine and become a plastic surgeon.
Ten significant quotes
Find at least two significant quotes from each chapter on pages 35-68 and respond to those quotes.
The Poisonwood Bible Entry (Roles)
What role do you think each child will play in the story The Poisonwood Bible?
Ruth May Price: Ruth May is the youngest of the four Price sisters; she is also referred to as the baby of the family. She is quite gullible and believes everything she hears from others. In her chapter she talks about a time when her class mate in Sunday school told her something about their new home in the Congo. “In Sunday school Rex Minton said we better not go to the Congo on account of the cannibal natives would boil us in a pot and eat us up. He said, I can talk like a native, listen: Ugga bugga bugga lugga. He said that means, I’ll have me a drumstick off’n that little one with the curly yellow hair. Our Sunday-school teacher Miss Bannie told him to hush up. But I tell you what, she didn’t say one way or the other about them boiling us in a pot and eating us up” (21). This quote shows us, the readers, how naïve and gullible Ruth May really is. Because she is the youngest of the family she still believes and supports everything her Father and Mother say meaning she doesn’t have her own voice yet.
Leah Price: Leah Price is the other twin, the healthy one, in the Price family. She seems to be quite observant of many things; she notices and infers things about her sister and others by just their actions and words. In a way she is critical and derisive towards others, mostly her own sisters. “In the beginning my sisters bustled indoors, playing the role of mother’s helper with more enthusiasm than they’d ever shown fir housework in all their born days. For one reason only: they were scared to set foot outside the house. Ruth May had the bizarre idea that our neighbors desired to eat her. Rachel, who sighted imaginary snakes at the least provocation, said,” Jeeze oh man,” rolled her eyes, and announced her plan to pass the next twelve months in bed” (35). Leah is Daddy’s little girl therefore she is glad to have gone on this journey to the Congo. She is also has the most positive attitude towards there new living style. She also supports and does everything Daddy says the right way. She plays the role of Daddy’s support system.
Adah Price: Adah Price is the quiet one with the disability of the twins in the Price family. People have said that she is quiet and choose not to talk much because of her disability. Although, Adah Price has a disability she is the most descriptive, observant, and keen out of the four sisters. She describes even the plainest things as elaborated as possible. I inferred this after she said, “But the way I see it through my Adah eyes it is a flat plank clipped into pieces, rectangles and trapezoids, by the skinny black-line shadows of tall palm trunks. Through Adah eyes, oh the world is a-boggle with colors and shapes competing for a half-brain’s attention” (30). Another example of this would be when she describes how her and her twin, Leah, grew different. “My twin sister, Leah, and I are identical in theory, just as in theory we are all made in God’s image. Leah and Adah began our life as images mirror perfect. We have the same eyes dark and chestnut hair. But I am a lame gallimaufry and she remains perfect. Oh, I can easily imagine the fetal mishap: we were inside the womb together dum-de-dum when Leah suddenly turned and declared, Adah you are just to slow. I am taking all the nourishment here and going on ahead. She grew strong as I grew weak. (Yes! Jesus loves me!) And so it came to pass, in the Eden of our mother’s womb, I was cannibalized by my sister” (34). She also loves and accepts each of her family members for their good characteristics and as well as their bad ones too; this includes accepting herself for who she is with her disability and all. She is the most honest and non bias; she seems to just tell it like it is. Adah, even with her disability, tells the clearest and most descriptive story line of their voyage through the Congo.
Rachel Price: Rachel Price is almost sixteen years old and is the oldest of the four Price sisters. She is at that stage in her life of adolescents and is in a way “to cool” to be seen with out of date family or parents. I inferred this after she had said, “Mother took hold of her hand and also mine—something I would not have tolerated in the slightest back home in Bethlehem” (22). I also inferred that she was a lot more concerned with her material items and looks then their twelve-month mission in the Congo; after she had said, “Day one in the Congo, and here my brand-new tulip-tailored linen suit in Poison Green with square mother-of-pearl buttons was fixing to give up the goat” (23). The modern day materialistic arose in her throughout their trip. I inferred that she is very depended on modern living and when put in the situation of their twelve-month mission she complains and refers a lot to the things they should have brought. An example of when this was shown when she always talked about what they should have brought. “Another thing we should have brought: Listerine” (23). Rachel is by far the most materialistic of the four as well as the biggest complainer. She will never forgive her father for pushing her outside of her comfort zone and removing her from her content life in Georgia. Instead of trying to make the best of the voyage to the Congo all she seems to be doing is complaining. This inference was made when she said, “A roar of voices and weird birds lombarded my ears and filled my head to the brink. I am sensitive to noise of any kind—that and the bright sunlight both give me tension headaches, but the sun at least by then had gone down” (24).
Ruth May Price: Ruth May is the youngest of the four Price sisters; she is also referred to as the baby of the family. She is quite gullible and believes everything she hears from others. In her chapter she talks about a time when her class mate in Sunday school told her something about their new home in the Congo. “In Sunday school Rex Minton said we better not go to the Congo on account of the cannibal natives would boil us in a pot and eat us up. He said, I can talk like a native, listen: Ugga bugga bugga lugga. He said that means, I’ll have me a drumstick off’n that little one with the curly yellow hair. Our Sunday-school teacher Miss Bannie told him to hush up. But I tell you what, she didn’t say one way or the other about them boiling us in a pot and eating us up” (21). This quote shows us, the readers, how naïve and gullible Ruth May really is. Because she is the youngest of the family she still believes and supports everything her Father and Mother say meaning she doesn’t have her own voice yet.
Leah Price: Leah Price is the other twin, the healthy one, in the Price family. She seems to be quite observant of many things; she notices and infers things about her sister and others by just their actions and words. In a way she is critical and derisive towards others, mostly her own sisters. “In the beginning my sisters bustled indoors, playing the role of mother’s helper with more enthusiasm than they’d ever shown fir housework in all their born days. For one reason only: they were scared to set foot outside the house. Ruth May had the bizarre idea that our neighbors desired to eat her. Rachel, who sighted imaginary snakes at the least provocation, said,” Jeeze oh man,” rolled her eyes, and announced her plan to pass the next twelve months in bed” (35). Leah is Daddy’s little girl therefore she is glad to have gone on this journey to the Congo. She is also has the most positive attitude towards there new living style. She also supports and does everything Daddy says the right way. She plays the role of Daddy’s support system.
Adah Price: Adah Price is the quiet one with the disability of the twins in the Price family. People have said that she is quiet and choose not to talk much because of her disability. Although, Adah Price has a disability she is the most descriptive, observant, and keen out of the four sisters. She describes even the plainest things as elaborated as possible. I inferred this after she said, “But the way I see it through my Adah eyes it is a flat plank clipped into pieces, rectangles and trapezoids, by the skinny black-line shadows of tall palm trunks. Through Adah eyes, oh the world is a-boggle with colors and shapes competing for a half-brain’s attention” (30). Another example of this would be when she describes how her and her twin, Leah, grew different. “My twin sister, Leah, and I are identical in theory, just as in theory we are all made in God’s image. Leah and Adah began our life as images mirror perfect. We have the same eyes dark and chestnut hair. But I am a lame gallimaufry and she remains perfect. Oh, I can easily imagine the fetal mishap: we were inside the womb together dum-de-dum when Leah suddenly turned and declared, Adah you are just to slow. I am taking all the nourishment here and going on ahead. She grew strong as I grew weak. (Yes! Jesus loves me!) And so it came to pass, in the Eden of our mother’s womb, I was cannibalized by my sister” (34). She also loves and accepts each of her family members for their good characteristics and as well as their bad ones too; this includes accepting herself for who she is with her disability and all. She is the most honest and non bias; she seems to just tell it like it is. Adah, even with her disability, tells the clearest and most descriptive story line of their voyage through the Congo.
Rachel Price: Rachel Price is almost sixteen years old and is the oldest of the four Price sisters. She is at that stage in her life of adolescents and is in a way “to cool” to be seen with out of date family or parents. I inferred this after she had said, “Mother took hold of her hand and also mine—something I would not have tolerated in the slightest back home in Bethlehem” (22). I also inferred that she was a lot more concerned with her material items and looks then their twelve-month mission in the Congo; after she had said, “Day one in the Congo, and here my brand-new tulip-tailored linen suit in Poison Green with square mother-of-pearl buttons was fixing to give up the goat” (23). The modern day materialistic arose in her throughout their trip. I inferred that she is very depended on modern living and when put in the situation of their twelve-month mission she complains and refers a lot to the things they should have brought. An example of when this was shown when she always talked about what they should have brought. “Another thing we should have brought: Listerine” (23). Rachel is by far the most materialistic of the four as well as the biggest complainer. She will never forgive her father for pushing her outside of her comfort zone and removing her from her content life in Georgia. Instead of trying to make the best of the voyage to the Congo all she seems to be doing is complaining. This inference was made when she said, “A roar of voices and weird birds lombarded my ears and filled my head to the brink. I am sensitive to noise of any kind—that and the bright sunlight both give me tension headaches, but the sun at least by then had gone down” (24).
Response to Genesis quote.
And God said onto them,
Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish earth,
and subdue it: and have dominion
over the fish of the sea, every the fowl of the air,
and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
Genesis 1:28
This quote teaches us about the meaning of life. It shows us, the readers, a way of living life to its full potential. After reading this quote many times I, personally, feel that it’s indirectly showing us how life is beautiful and how we need to add to this earth. We need to put forth our share. Basically, it’s saying that we need to have power for what we contribute to this earth. Although many people find religion missionaries cause conflict; I feel it’s good to believe in something. I believe in religion, God, and the right way. After reading this quote I think that the chapters in Book One will describe the way to live life and how we contribute our own personal part in the world. I think it might describe the way the characters live and their troubles.
Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish earth,
and subdue it: and have dominion
over the fish of the sea, every the fowl of the air,
and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
Genesis 1:28
This quote teaches us about the meaning of life. It shows us, the readers, a way of living life to its full potential. After reading this quote many times I, personally, feel that it’s indirectly showing us how life is beautiful and how we need to add to this earth. We need to put forth our share. Basically, it’s saying that we need to have power for what we contribute to this earth. Although many people find religion missionaries cause conflict; I feel it’s good to believe in something. I believe in religion, God, and the right way. After reading this quote I think that the chapters in Book One will describe the way to live life and how we contribute our own personal part in the world. I think it might describe the way the characters live and their troubles.
Monday, February 5, 2007
Quintessence Piece
I chose my diary because I feel it is the only thing I have been truly honest to. Sad, I know, but true. There are just some things that I feel shouldn’t be said. Most of the time these things are harmless; yet, other times they would be better unrevealed. This diary knows my life’s deepest darkest truths. Within it it holds writings about everything from the clothes I wore that day to my deepest untold secrets.
Interview with Senor Bigglesworth
1. What was your initial reaction to Singers Solutions to World Poverty when he said that $200.00 will solve the problems?
“I think he doesn’t have the ground to be saying something like that. I also believe he’s assuming that everyone has that kind of money to be donating and that this solution/amount will actually work.”
2. Is sacrificing for others the ultimate good? Christ has sacrificed his own life. Should we too sacrifice ours so that others may live?
“Sacrificing for others is not necessarily always the ultimate good because it’s also important to consider yourself and not always or only think of others.”
3. If a homeless child in rags stood in front of you and asked for help most likely you would help them. So why is suffering that is personal harder to allow than suffering we see on TV or that we read about in the newspaper?
“Suffering that is personal is harder to allow than suffering that we see on TV or that we read about in the newspaper because you personal feel the quilt and you can help the child right then and there. Once you are approached by the child you are part of the situation meaning that you are obligated to help him. When it is on TV or in the newspaper we feel bad and want to help but don’t always get around to actually doing so.”
4. Should sacrifice always be treated like a math problem? Should a person sacrifice their own life only if more than one person will live because of this sacrifice? These are both things that Kravinsky had done and thought about.
“No, I don’t think math should be treated like a math problem because math is math and sacrifice is sacrifice. I mean sacrificing your own life for the sake of others is just dumb; I believe every person was put on this earth for a reason no matter what the reason is.”
5. How would you define being needy or a needy person?
"I think you’re needy when you’re in a position that if you don’t seek the help of others than you’ll lose your life.”
“I think he doesn’t have the ground to be saying something like that. I also believe he’s assuming that everyone has that kind of money to be donating and that this solution/amount will actually work.”
2. Is sacrificing for others the ultimate good? Christ has sacrificed his own life. Should we too sacrifice ours so that others may live?
“Sacrificing for others is not necessarily always the ultimate good because it’s also important to consider yourself and not always or only think of others.”
3. If a homeless child in rags stood in front of you and asked for help most likely you would help them. So why is suffering that is personal harder to allow than suffering we see on TV or that we read about in the newspaper?
“Suffering that is personal is harder to allow than suffering that we see on TV or that we read about in the newspaper because you personal feel the quilt and you can help the child right then and there. Once you are approached by the child you are part of the situation meaning that you are obligated to help him. When it is on TV or in the newspaper we feel bad and want to help but don’t always get around to actually doing so.”
4. Should sacrifice always be treated like a math problem? Should a person sacrifice their own life only if more than one person will live because of this sacrifice? These are both things that Kravinsky had done and thought about.
“No, I don’t think math should be treated like a math problem because math is math and sacrifice is sacrifice. I mean sacrificing your own life for the sake of others is just dumb; I believe every person was put on this earth for a reason no matter what the reason is.”
5. How would you define being needy or a needy person?
"I think you’re needy when you’re in a position that if you don’t seek the help of others than you’ll lose your life.”
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