LeahDavis

Portfolio #3 COVERPAGE

Life changes in an instant... don't let it stop you. You'll have a hard time putting your feet back on the ground. I still can't feel the floor.

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/LeahDavis/2005/12/girl_of_the_gol.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/LeahDavis/2005/12/du_bois_vs_wash.html

Extra

http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761579679/Santa_Claus.html

I know this isn't politicly but Merry Christmas everyone. I thought this was kind of a good thing to look into. So take a gander.

Du Bois vs. Washington

Washington was a great man who, during a time period when no one was speaking out, wanted equality.
"I said that any individual who learned to do something better than anybody else�learned to do a common thing in an uncommon manner�had solved his problem, regardless of the colour of his skin, and that in proportion as the Negro learned to produce what other people wanted and must have, in the same proportion would he be respected."
He spoke in a room of all white men, and knew excactly what to say so that they wouldn't boo him off the stage, or hang him. It was a scary time, so he spoke in a more gentle manner than Du Bois.
Du Bois wanted change and he wanted it right then and there. But niether he or Washington would ever SEE change.
"To be sure, behind the thought lurks the afterthought,�suppose, after all, the World is right and we are less than men? Suppose this mad impulse within is all wrong, some mock mirage from the untrue?"
Think about that for just a minute. They thought, even if just for a moment, that they didn't deserve the right to live as free men and women. What is it that you and I can do DAILY to make sure no one ever has that thought again?

Girl of the Golden West

Wow, i don't even know where to begin. i guess i should just start ranting.
this girl, who everyone calls GIRL, why? because it is a camp full of men, and she is the only female, so they need to constantly remind her, and themselves of that fact? To put her down constantly because she is just a woman?
She starts out as a strong stubborn woman who will not lay down her "first kiss" for any man in the camp, altough they all want her desperatly. Then some stranger comes around and she falls for him without knowing anything else about him.
Then she finds out that he came to town to steal from her and she still defends him (the forgiving power of love), and then gives up her dream, her bar, and her family to run away with this stranger.
Its amazing what people will give up when they find someone they love. Its romantic. But she gives up herself for a man, which I have learned from experience that its not a good idea.

Blogging Portfolio #2

Coverage:

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/LeahDavis/2005/11/harris_remus_st.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/LeahDavis/2005/10/adventures_of_h_1.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/LeahDavis/2005/10/adventures_of_h.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/LeahDavis/2005/10/emily_dickinson_1.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/LeahDavis/2005/10/emily_dickinson.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/LeahDavis/2005/10/walden_ch_1318.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/LeahDavis/2005/10/walden_ch_24.html

Depth:

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/LeahDavis/2005/11/john_henry.html

Discussion:

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/LeahDavis/2005/10/adventures_of_h.html

XenoBlogging;
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MichelleKoss/2005/10/dickinson_selec.html

Timeliness:
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/LeahDavis/2005/10/emily_dickinson_1.html

As a way to conclude this portfolio, I thought I'd include somethings I've been learning as I've attended this school:

*Teachers always want to teach you more than the content of the course; take that information with you as well
(My quote my Freshman year was: "I learned so much from him... some of it was about music")
*Sometimes, no matter how hard you try; it doesn't matter how hard you try
*Find something to get you through the day, chocolate, God, the idea of your head hitting the pillow.. yadda yadda
*Sometimes life just gets in the way
*Live everyday with a purpose
*Live everyday with the intent to make someone else's life better

Harris, Remus Stories

I found it easier to read these stories if I got into character. Pretending I was telling a bed time story to Shawn (my boyfriends three-year-old).

Anyway...
I thought it was interesting how "Uncle Remus" told the story of how we all became different skin colors.. that we were once all black. Because I had always heard it the other way around, that once, we were all white and that when we seperated to live in different climates, our skins adapted to our surroundings.
What do you all think?

John Henry

In class my question was... why do we still need heros? So first off, I'm posting this in case anyone came up with anything about it after the fact...
next, I wanted to explore the idea of a hero. Here's what I came up with...............

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

here are some articles about heros:

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/search/s_393777.html

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/search/s_392484.html

RANT

So, right.. I need to let off some steam
Things are so stressful, I hear it over and over again that I am not a good enough musician, that I'll never be a good teacher, not good enough, not talented enough, not smart enough... I'm sick of it. Its not right. I know I'm better than the load of bull pucky that they are throwing at me. right..? right
People who slam other people's fingers in van doors suck. I'm in pain. My piano teacher hates me... it sucks.
My roommate decided on Friday to tell me that he can't afford rent anymore. This.. coming from the guy who owes 400 in back rent... can't afford to help with this months rent... and on top of that, he decided that he's leaving... going back home. That means, AARON and I have to leave too, because we obviously can't afford a house on our own. I have to leave MY HOME.... home. arg.

to quote my very wise mother "Leah Marie, take a deep breath, enjoy it, your not dead"

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (end)

I really liked how after the king and the duke put on that show ("I never see two men leak the way they done." "it worked the crowd like you never see anything like it") the mourners began to sing "the Doxology" and Huck comments that "it just warmed you up and made you feel as good as church letting out. Music is a good thing; and after all that soul-butter and hogwash, I never see it freshen up things so, and sound so honest and bully."
HONESTY... music is always honest, it shows the deepest depths of the composer's soul.. and the deepest depths of the performer's soul. REAL music is pure and honest and in my own eyes one of the ways to feel closer to God.(i am a little biased i guess haha)

huck's religion

Clemens, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (to Ch 24) -- American Literature, 1800-1915 (EL 266)

adventures of huckleberry finn

"Then she told me all about the bad place, and I said I wished I was there. She got mad,then, but I didn't mean no harm. All I wanted was to go somewheres; all I wanted was a change, I warn't particular. She said it was wicked to say what I said; said she wouldn't say it for the whole wolrd; she was going to live so as to go to the good place. Well, I couldn't see no advantage in going where she was going, so I made up my mind I wouldn't try for it." Page 72

I realize my quote is in only the first chapter, but I really liked it and wanted to talk about it.
Because the Widow wants Huck to see Heaven like she sees Heaven, Huck doesn't want to have anything to do with it. Do you think huck would enjoy church and religion more if he would explore it like he explores everything else? or do you think religion is too concervative and strucured for him?

Emily Dickinson's poetry

I taste a liquor never brewed...

I thought it interesting that she compared alchohol to nature...because alchohol can have the same effects on a person as nature can.. both can play tricks with your mind, make things seem as if they different than they are, make you happy or sad depending, and at times can be dangerous. what do you think?

Emily Dickinson's poetry

I never saw a moor

I was drawn to the second part of this poem... it made so much sense to me...
"I never spoke with God,
Nor visited in heaven;
Yet certain am I of the spot
As if the chart were given."

with such a faith in God and Heaven... she is so sure it is there even though she's never seen it. I've never written down that idea before, she says it so much more beautifully than I ever could.

Poe Poetry

The first thing I thought when I read epigram to wallstreet was "Wow, I didn't know that Poe was whimsical to crack a joke." But I don't think he meant it so much as a joke as he meant it as a criticique of the way Americans hope to "hit it big"... ?

I had a question to throw out... in Silence... was the troop of Echos supposed to be something? A plague? Death?

The Raven

I thought Poe wrote this poem to show how afraid he was of his dead love coming back to haunt him...

"fantastic terrors never felt before"
"to still the beating of my heart"

Poor guy! Afraid of a little bird.