Ligeia

Ligeia by Edgar Allan Poe was definitely an acid trip of a story. It opens up with him, the narrator, mumbling on in a romanticism voice about his long lost love Ligeia. This character as we know from relying on our not so reliable narrator, is a real person. As we read further in the story we being to learn about our narrator letting himself dwell into "Opium dreams." " In my excitement of my opium dreams (for I was habitually fettered in the shackles of the drug) I would call upon her name, during the silence of the night..." (Ligeia 9) This inadvertently enables the reader to draw the simple conclusion that the narrator was an opium addict at one point or another. This idea can then build upon itself in the mind of the reader. They will then begin to question the narrator and they will question the whole perspective of the story. Some may believe Ligiea is a beautiful dazzling women in an opium dream. Some people may believe that she was real. My opinion lies on the fine line in between. I think that she was a real person at one point with real feelings and emotions for the narrator. I also believe that they had a falling out and she disappeared from his life. " And then I peered into the eyes of Ligeia..." (Ligeia 2) This is evidence that things were getting a little weird. The narrator explains in great detail about Ligeia's eyes and how they are paranormal. This leads to to believe that Ligeia sort of evolved into a paranormal character during his opium dream, when really she left his life a long time ago. Ligeia was someone in his life. Not a major character, just someone. Then in an opium dream she evolves into a dynamic character. My verdict is that she was at one time an influence on the narrator but then disappeared and he thought she was still alive but really she was gone.

Transcendentalism

    The enlightenment of literature and other important items during the nineteenth century would be an excellent term to define the Transcendentalism movement in America. It flourished in new ideas such as those expressed in the Renisannse. Religion, literature and culture were some of the key things that changed during this time period. The key players of this movement were going against the belief's and teachings of the Unitarian church and just in general the way of life during the day and the culture that surrounded it.

    The key players who started the ball rolling in this movement were many. The most well-known was Mr. Ralph Waldo Emerson himself. When his essay Nature was published in 1836 it inadvertly started the snow ball effect that would soon evolve into the Transcendentalism movement. This essay started a whole knew branch of literature persay. Idea after idea thought after thought and finally the Transcendentalism movement was solid, it was offical. Myriads of writters expressed their beliefs and thoughts through literature and writting.

    These people were expressing belief's against the Unitarian church. They believed that a person's spirtual state supposedly transcended their phyiscal state on earth. That is where the term "Transcendentalism" came from. This was the polar opposite of what the Unitarian church taught by Harvard Divinity school. In my opinion they were supporters against church doctrine and organized religion. They were more of the people who believed that religion was a one on one experince with God.

    This movement shaped American history in many ways. Famous essays and memorable pieces of writting were composed during this time period. It shed light on new ideas that had not been discovered or thought about yet. They changed the ideas of entire bodies of people around America. This snowballed into something that became huge...

The Chronicles of Spanish: 2

No crap, there I was swimming through Soul Land at Hell's Half Mile. The consistency of the Endoplasmic Reticulum in Soul Land was hard to swim through. My soul was not yet adapted to Soul Land. If only I could finish my homework and conjure a portal from the Nether and have my homework teleported to Spanish class then I could maybe have a chance to return to my physical body to help come up with an immunity for THE BURNINATOR'S death glares.

A brilliant idea came to me in a dream while in soul land. The idea was to conjure up my Spanish homework from the Nether and complete it. Half credit is not so bad. You can always make it up by conjuguemos. I explored soul land. I slayed a plethora of succubi with a myriad of weapons. The succubi held the potions of mana that I needed so I could conjure up my homework assignment.

Once i retrieved my potions of mana I killed an extra 82 succubi just for sport. Slaying one was epically satisfying because she bestowed the name of Autosy upon herself. She was a level 80 elite succubi. In the end I slayed her by taking up my raygunblaster version 2832.1.1a. and obliterating her. ( Note: The raygunblaster version 2832.1.1b is substantially better.) I then took her soul. I needed it to conjure my portal.

I sat down on the pinnacle of Hell's Half Mile and conjured a desk. I conjugated all of "Un accidente y Un problem de Robo" (Note: Imperfect is dumb) I then took out the soul of Autosy. I kept it in a bottle of Gatorade. ( Note: The flavor was Gatorade rain: strawberry kiwi to be exact. It was delicious.) I then created the portal and stuck the soul of Autosy in the middle. A raging storm formed. I then folded up my homework and made it into a paper airplane. I then aimed it into the portal and threw it. (Note: It took about 27 tries before it was a perfect throw.) The portal consumed the piece of homework. I then knew that I had to wait until it was graded before I would be transported back to Earth.

Slaying succubi is the greatest sport ever invented. (Note: Swimming is actually because the sport of slaying succubi does not exist) I was in the middle of slaying one when the sun in Soul Land turned into a black hole. It sucked me in. It would a matter of minutes in this void before I would return to Earth... (Note: This is much like trying to activate a cell phone)

(To be continued)

http://theadventuresofjdm.blogspot.com/

The Chronicles of Spanish: 1

Spanish class... I am enrolled technically in Spanish III. (Note this is not Spanish I.) But really this class has a secret name of TROGDOR BURNINATING THE PEASANTS! THE BURNINATOR has taken vital pieces of my soul and sold them to the devil for Saron's eye which can give fatal death glares from Hell. However, I am slowly recovering. JD and I are searching across the world in search for an immunity for her death glares. We had homework due yesterday, I forgot to complete this task in which Spurlock the burninator bestowed upon me. I knew what was coming for me. I hid my soul in a horcruxs. (These are things from Harry Potter) I chose to use a simply pixy stick as my horcrux. She then stood up and stared me straight in the eye. She looked past my physically body here on earth. She searched everything looking for my soul. She could not find it. She simply just disposed of my body by burninating it. Perhaps Kara and the rest of my Spanish class attended my funeral. My soul was still alive. My horcrux was not yet destroyed. JD being my faithful son is now searching the entire world and all of its possessions to find it...

(To be continued)

http://theadventuresofjdm.blogspot.com/ <---- JD continues the epic story... :)

Peace and Love

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18th Century

    While searching the extensive internet I stumbled upon some rather interesting information. I went to this one website and found a timeline of writters during that time period. As I very well expected to find free white male after free white male I saw a few women here and there. Someone actually took the time to reconize them. I was shocked. The way society treated women back in that day was harsh. I am suprised that they recieved some recongition. The same for blacks and people of other orgin then anglo-saxon. There was actually some content from these other author's who were scroned at just for being alive at the time.

    Most famous works during the 18th century come from the American Revolution. Suprising? I think not. That was the highlight of the 18th centruy. It is like watching a long boring movie just for the epic climax. It was the climax of the time so one could expect that some of the most famous pieces of writting came from then.

    Another thing that I found very suprising was the fact that little articles in papers were given credit. During the 18th century people fed off of reading little articles and pamphlets. In present day people are not remembered because they worte some news paper article. During the 18th century however, Common Sense and other pieces of work were major turning points in history and changed the land that we call home.

 

http://pip.shsu.edu/~eng_wpf/amlitchron_18th.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_literature

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/19939/American-literature/42250/The-18th-century

http://www.en.utexas.edu/amlit/periods.htm

Technology in the classroom

    Technology in the classroom. This has been a heated subject with the rise of technology in everyday life. It has both a myriad of positives and in my opinion one big negative.

     Organization, time saving, communication are just a few of the positives of technology in the class room. Using a plethora of on line programs such as google calendar people are able to organize themselves while on line. This can drastically help a student in an advanced class. Once they have learned to organize their life to fit their schedule they can then just get the work that needs to be done finished. This will ultimately increase efficiency for that student alone. Efficiency leads to better work done faster. That means more time is saved and this results in net total of hours upon hours being saved; this term is known as time saving.

    Communication; this term has changed drastically different then what it does now. It used to be people talking to each other face to face. In our constantly growing reliance on technology we have begun to use technology as a way of communication. Texting, phone calls, instant messenger, email and other things that are technology based ways that our society has made into forms of communication. It's the way of the future and times are changing.

    The big elephant in the room that I have with technology is the ever growing reliance on it. We as an entire world are becoming more and more dependent on this thing that used to be a delicacy among the world. We take it for granted most of the time. When internet is down for a period of five minutes or so people will get very upset. It is not the end of the world but it is treated as if it is. Dead zones in the empty abyss of Wyoming are treated like holes to Hell. They ruin peoples lives when really they should not.

    In a perfect world, we should be able to find a happy medium with technology in the classroom. When we have then we have hit the bulls-eye and we have won the grand prize. An ever building reliance on it is the one fear I have of technology in the classroom.