The Ropewalker.

In this poem he is showing a lot of romanticism. The whole poem is based on imagery. How a worker uses his mind to imagine that he is some where rather than where he really is. He makes statements of how "two fair ladies would use the rope that he was making to swing on a swing together and laugh, how a woman could be using this rope that he is making to haul in water in from well, and how a person would also use this rope to tight rope over a large building". This is all romantic because he is doing a common job by only making rope, but he is using his imagination to think that he is doing something huge. This is another thing that romantics is all about, making it seem as if a ordinary person can achieve greatness

Thanatopsis

This poem is an example of romanticism because it makes you use your imagination. By saying things like how you can go out and interact with nature as if it was a real person. How when everybody dies they all become dirt and rocks in the ground. No matter what your status in life was its going to happen to you.

Up From Slavery.(Independent reading)

This book tells the story of the life of Booker T. Washington. He describes the life of a slave and how it is as if you have no owner ship of anything. Not even your own children. He speaks of how he was born in a log cabin about 14 by 6 feet. He, his brother, his sister, and his mother all shared this cabin with other slaves. It had a dirt floor, a thatched roof, and no bed. He also talks about how his mother would have to make their cloths out of old cotton and how many of them really didn’t have shoes. Not much attention was given to the slave family, and none of them really had any family history. They could not count so they had no real age all they could do was guess their age. All day and into most of the early part of night he worked. None f his life was devoted to play time or free time. Families had to eat what ever they could find and often it was scraps of what ever the master's family didn’t eat. Slaves were not allowed to get married so they held private wedding in their cabins where somebody would say a few words and they would jump a broom.

How I Found The Strong. (Independent Reading)

In this book it tells a story of a family that has a father and an older son fighting in the American Civil War. It deals with the every day life of a boy named Shanks an slave named Buck Shanks' mother , grand mother, and his grand father. In the first two chapters they talk about how the war has started and how the father and the oldest son are going off to war, and how Shanks and the rest of the family are going to have to take care of the house. It then goes on to the every day life after they have left. Shanks and the rest of the family keep up the house and try to make the best of the life with out the father and his older brother. Through out the first couple of chapters everything is going pretty good until the North starts to beat up on the South. They have to use an old school house for a hospital. During this time Shanks' grandfather leaves, his grandmother dies, and his mother has a baby.

Response to Picture

This picture is an example of romanticism because it looks like a fairy place. I mean I don't think its any place on the planet that looks anything like this picture. I mean you have the animals, mountains, and the little lake and it look like the perfect place to be.

In The Legend of Sleepy Hollow there were many ways that the story emphasized the theme of Romanticism. When you read it the author tells a story of a headless horseman ridding through the night at great speed. This allows you to use your imagination over the use of your brain. Now it is a known fact that nothing without a brain can function, but with this you get a chance to imagine something like this happening. It is in many ways that you can read this story and go into something of an imaginary land and not always have to in a way use your brain.

Another way it shows it is the mentioning of a feeling of sleepiness coming over you as soon as you enter the town. Again it allows you to imagine these types of things and in some ways imagine that you are there and have that feeling come over you. Once again we know that the atmosphere can not make our body produce sleep hormones that make us tired, but the ability to be able to think of a place that could do this is extremely entertaining

Writing 3

. One of the biggest ways of cheating in the field of professional sports is to use steroids, a type of medicine that makes the body produce more muscles and less fat. Now even though steroids are just now making a big deal out of them because of the problems they have caused, that does not mean they are just now being developed. In the sports world like Track and Field, Baseball, and Football have also had athletes caught using steroids, and is one of the most talked about issue in the word today.

Now the history of steroids can be traced all the way back to ancient Greece. The Olympic athletics would be on meat diets and use plants and animal testicles as performance enhancers. Artificial performance enhancers did not come about until in the 1830’s when a group of swimmers in Amsterdam were charged with using drugs to speed up their times that. Humans have been natural competitors with each other since the beginning of time, and why not; because everybody wants to be the best. The use of steroids is one of the most talked about issues in the world of sports today.

In the 1950 Olympic weight lifting competition people would notice how huge the Soviets were, and would notice them taking pills and shots as they trained. The Soviets dominated the competition and the United States team and trainers came home wondering how they could compete with them. No matter how much they lifted, or how hard they trained, they could not match the strength of the soviets. This proved a huge problem for them, and it continued on through the decades. It wasn’t until the 1980s that people started looking at the use and effects that steroids had. It was a way to make more muscles and less fat and helped people perform better. Not only for athletes to be able to perform better, but it was also created to serve as a health provider. When scientists were looking for a way to help people with bone growth, appetite, and even puberty they went back to using antibiotic steroids. This was helping children who had problems devolving from one stage of their life to another.

One of the biggest sports affected by the use of steroids is the sport of Track and Field. In 1988 sprinter Ben Johnson was investigated on for the use of steroids after he ran the 100 meter dash in 9.95 seconds. This was so because of his previous four losses coming into the meet. He was founded guilty in 1989 after admitting that he used steroids, and had been since 1981. He was banned from the sport of track and field. Recently, world class sprinter Marion Jones denied the use of steroids but eventually came forth and confessed that she “had been dishonest” and was also banned from the sport of track and field. She was required to return all her medals and awards she had won previous to the incident. Also she was arrested on perjury and fraud charges stemming form the incident.
Also in recent years the use of steroids has been well talked about in the sport of Baseball. People like Mark McGuire, Sammy Sosa, Barry Bonds, and Roger Clemens. All have been brought up before congress, but it wasn’t until recently that Barry Bonds was found guilty that no one had been found guilty of the use of steroids. While there are many people making accusations against them only Barry Bonds has ever tested positive. Roger Clemens is still undergoing questions from congress and so is Barry Bonds on account of him being the Major League Base Ball’s all time home run leader.

People in the National Football League have also tested positive for them. Shawn Merriman of the San Diego Chargers tested positive in 2006, and was suspended for 2 games. Although he did return and make the Pro Bowl that year he is under a severe drug watch testing program from the league. Several years earlier Lawrence Taylor had also tested positive, but because the league had weak policies against the use of steroids, he didn’t get into to much trouble. This in some ways confuses me. Because a player can have an off the field problem and get suspended for an entire season , but if he is caught cheating he only gets two games and still makes the pro-bowl selection. They have their policies mixed up in my mind.

While the use of steroids is illegal, they are very easy to get a hold of. The Internet and through some doctors for an extremely large amount of money will supply you with what ever you need.. Anyone who uses steroids to do anything besides what they were designed for, are what I call cheaters of life. They use a drug that helps them beat out all the other people who work hard and do it the right way. They are misleading people into thinking that they are doing it the right way when they’re really not. While they may help the athlete’s body look good on the outside it destroys you on the inside. Things such as liver tumors and high blood pressure are just a few of the many possible health hazards that can be caused by the use of steroids. There have been many cases of men beating their wives in fits of rage because it causes them user to have aggression problems and mood swings. Just in the past year a professional wrestler killed himself, his wife, and their young child out of an angry steroid rage. The side effects of steroids can be good but they can also be extremely dangerous.

Now I ask where do we go from here. In the world of professional sports it is true that you have to be a great athlete to make the big bucks, but at what cost. Some people are willing to put their body through extreme pain of the after effect just to have the immediate results. Kids who idolize their favorite athlete to think that if he did it and was successful then if I take it them I will be. The sports of Baseball, Football, and Track and Field have been under continuous attacks from the media because of a few people who wanted to ‘CHEAT” their way into greatness. The heads of all these major organizations should do something fast before the entire sports world as we know comes to a crashing end.