Incident

In this poem I think at te time the author was disilusionted about going to Boston, because it seemed like he was so excited about going to the big city as if he was going to be treated like he was equal. But when he got there a white kid stuck his tounge out at him and called him a nigger. This in a way stuck out in his mind for a long time and is something that he will never foget, because the idea he had about going to the big city was completly wrong.

Mending Wall

In the poem Building wall it displays the element of disillusion because the characters both are seeing something in a way that it really isn't. One of them says that "a good wall makes a good neighbor", but this is not true for the simple fact that they work on this wall at least once a year and that’s the only time they see each other. If the fence was good and they didn’t have to work on it then they would in a way be strangers because they would never see each other. The other neighbor says that he really doesn't care about it because he feels that they would be good neighbors anyway. Once again this is not true because if there was no fence then there would be nothing to bring them together to interact in the spring time.

The Negro Speaks of Rivers

In this poem the author is referring to things that black people did before any white people were around. He speaks that his ancestors bathed in the Euphrates River and that’s were scientist believed the first people began, that the Egyptians who were responsible for the great pyramids were in Africa and were black. All that he is saying is that a lot of the great wonders of the world were seen by black people way before any type of white man. This poem is an element from the Harlem Renaissance because he is expressing the African American culture and how rich it is.

A Dream Differed

This poem is a piece of modernism because it is showing the element of disillusion. The reason I say this is because the author is showing that the American Dream is not what everybody thinks it is. That some people who are doing good think that everybody else is also, but this is not the case because a lot of African Americans had to put their dreams on hold and the longer it stays on hold the more rotten it gets. The author says in one part "Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun"? He also is saying that the longer it sits it starts to loose everything about itself.

Richard Corey

In this poem there is a man named Richard Corey who looks as he has everything going on in his life. When ever people see him he looks all together and as if he doesn't have any worries. Later on one evening he goes home and kills himself. In this poem I think the author is using the element of disillusion, because he makes everyone look at this guy and think something else but really there is a problem in his life. The author makes him look like a person that everybody wants to be even though they only see what he is like in public.

The Jazz age

I am planning to use read about the jazz age because I know alot about the others and some of the others don't seem to be all that fun to read about. The jazz age seem alot more introsting than all that other stuff because I really don't like to look at art all the time, Disillusionment seems to boaring, and Phychoanalysis seems to hard. In the story that Iread I expect ot see a lot more than just people playing Instruments.

Example

In the movie American Gangster Denzel Washington plays a drug king pin named Frank Lucus. He makes is reign in Harlem stronger by employing crooked cops, politicians, and other members of the mafia to do his dirty work and to buy from him. This movie is full of realism because it shows a drug epidemic and the way that un-honest cops help to keep it going. The way that he uses is power is almost ingenious. He imported large quantities of heroin in from Southeast Asia by flying them in on American military planes. He sells a better product than his competition for a price lower forcing them to go in to business with him thus making the drug epidemic worse than it was. He is finally caught and is arrested. He was sentenced to 185 years in prison but got it reduced to 15 on account of him helping to put all the politicians, cops, and judges he employed in jail.

The Battle with Mr.Covey

I think the purpose of Fredrick Douglas writing this story is to show people the way that he himself had to deal with the harsh ways of his slave owner. How slavery was a problem in society and that if nobody did anything about it then these type of slave rebellions would occur all over, and could be worse in some cases. He just had a fight with his owner but some other slaves might take it a step further and kill theirs.

He is on a slave plantation and while he is working he fall because he is so tires. After he falls he crawls to a fence and lies there until his master gets there. When his master gets there he kicks him and beats him over the head with a stick. He then runs away and while he is running he can feel the blood running down his head("the blood was yet oozing from the wound on my head, but the blood so matted my hair as to stop the wound"), and the sticks and rocks as they cut into his feet and cause them to bleed also.("I started my through bogs and berries,barefoot and bareheaded tearing my feet nearly at every step"). After he had gotten a few mlies away still bloody from his wounds he gets to another slave owners house the owner makes him return home in the morning. After he gets home he is whipped again and once again escapes. When he leaves this time he leaves with a man who has a free wife. When he gets there they give him a root and tell him that as long as he keeps the root on his right side then he will no longer receive a blow from his master. After he returns home while he is working his master come in the stable and they begin to fight. While they are fighting Fredrick gets the best of him and the fight ends.

Fredrick Douglas shed a lot of light on some things that people had no idea was going on on plantations. The true way that some slaves handled the way that their masters treated them and the causes of it.

Response

In this story they show a lot of realism thoughts. Everyday a marriage couple has a problem and some are bigger than others and they might cause one of the two might feel as if they are living for the other person. This is an issue that causes people to get divorces or have a miserable life. In the story the lady feels that she was living for her husband and was relieved that her husband had died. They show that marriage is not for everybody.

The woman receives the news and at first is unhappy but that effect doesn't last long because she gets that feeling of freedom from all the stress that everyday married couples go through everyday. She no longer has to deal with trying to do everything to please her husband, but she can live her life and do as she pleases. This feeling is soon crushed when her husband walks in and she see's that he isn't dead and dies form shock.

The Story of an Hour part.B

I think that the social issue that he is trying to address is that not every marrued couple is happly married. That in some marriages one person not be happy, because they think that they have somebody living their life for them."There would be no one to live for during those coming years; she would live for herself".

"A Story of an Hour"

In this story a woman receives news that her husband was killed while at work. When she receives this news she cries at first then she retires to her room and sits in a large arm chair. While she is in there a feeling of relief comes over her. She says that she is relieved that her husband has died because she can live her life as she wants with out anybody trying to bend her decision. When she leaves the room her sister is at the door waiting for her in concern for her health because she knows that she has a heart conditions. While they're heading up the stairs her husband walks into the house and as she looks at him she has a heart attack and dies instantly.

McFadden

The 2008 National Football League draft is slowly approaching, and, in some people’s minds, Arkansas running back Darren McFadden is the safest number one overall pick. The Miami Dolphins own that pick, but the team has two good running backs in Ronnie Brown and Ricky Williams. Who’s to say that either of them will have a break out year though? Ricky is coming off a season where he tore a chest muscle in his first game back after serving a one and a half year suspension. Ronnie Brown tore his ACL and was lost after the sixth game of the season. It’s not an easy thing trying to recover from a torn ACL for the simple fact that there is a tremendous amount rehabilitation that goes into the process. Because of these facts and McFadden’s college career, I believe that he is the safest pick in the NFL draft.

In McFadden’s freshman year he showed that he is one of the best backs to ever play the game. He rushed for 1,113 yards and scored eleven touchdowns. He also averaged 6.8 yards per carry, which is almost enough for a first down every time he touches the ball. For a back to be able to do this in the South Eastern Conference is almost unheard of, and he was doing it as a true freshman. That year he also caught 14 passes for 52 yards. That might not sound like a lot but add that number on to his yards per rush, and you have an automatic first down whenever the ball is in McFadden’s hands.

Now, let’s move onto his sophomore season. The previous year he was named to the 2005 All-S.E.C. team and was named freshman of the year. Teams knew about the powerful runner that was carrying Arkansas on his back and were trying to find ways to stop him. Unfortunately, it didn’t work out that well. He added 534 more yards to his previous season yards and finished with 1,647 yards, but certain teams found a way to reduce his yards per carry down to 5.8. Oh, I’m sorry I forgot that we were talking about Darren McFadden a guy who does it all. His yards per carry may have gone down, but his receptions and yards per catch went through the roof. While he caught three less passes than he did the year before, he added 97 yards in the yards per catch category and scored 14 touchdowns all together.

In his last year in college, McFadden had what was considered one of his best years. After a sensational sophomore season, a Heisman trophy candidate, and being on the NCAA’s All-American first team offense, he was back to run through defenses again. While Arkansas struggled throughout the season, McFadden’s best game came against the soon to be National Champions, the LSU Tigers. McFadden did it all; he rushed 32 times for 206 yards and went three for six on passing with 32 yards and a touchdown. On the last play of the game, he was lined up a quarterback. He ran a play action fake to Felix Jones and hit Payton Hills for a touchdown. The defense came up with a big stop, and the Razorbacks won the game. McFadden ended his career with 4,590 yards, 41 touchdowns, 365 receiving yards, and 2 touchdowns. He finished as the number two career rusher in the SEC behind Herschel Walker and number 7 in rushing touchdowns.

It is true that Ricky Williams won the Heisman while at Texas and that Ronnie Brown went undefeated at Auburn, but how many times have you watched them become a triple threat on a team? Give credit where it is due! Darren McFadden is a home run player, hands down. There is no way that a general manager should over look this guy; he’s the type of athlete who falls into the category of being a game breaker and deserves to be the number one overall pick.

McFadden

The 2008 National Football League draft is slowly approaching, and, in some people’s minds, Arkansas running back Darren McFadden is the safest number one overall pick. The Miami Dolphins own that pick, but the team has two good running backs in Ronnie Brown and Ricky Williams. Who’s to say that either of them will have a break out year though? Ricky is coming off a season where he tore a chest muscle in his first game back after serving a one and a half year suspension. Ronnie Brown tore his ACL and was lost after the sixth game of the season. It’s not an easy thing trying to recover from a torn ACL for the simple fact that there is a tremendous amount rehabilitation that goes into the process. Because of these facts and McFadden’s college career, I believe that he is the safest pick in the NFL draft.

In McFadden’s freshman year he showed that he is one of the best backs to ever play the game. He rushed for 1,113 yards and scored eleven touchdowns. He also averaged 6.8 yards per carry, which is almost enough for a first down every time he touches the ball. For a back to be able to do this in the South Eastern Conference is almost unheard of, and he was doing it as a true freshman. That year he also caught 14 passes for 52 yards. That might not sound like a lot but add that number on to his yards per rush, and you have an automatic first down whenever the ball is in McFadden’s hands.

Now, let’s move onto his sophomore season. The previous year he was named to the 2005 All-S.E.C. team and was named freshman of the year. Teams knew about the powerful runner that was carrying Arkansas on his back and were trying to find ways to stop him. Unfortunately, it didn’t work out that well. He added 534 more yards to his previous season yards and finished with 1,647 yards, but certain teams found a way to reduce his yards per carry down to 5.8. Oh, I’m sorry I forgot that we were talking about Darren McFadden a guy who does it all. His yards per carry may have gone down, but his receptions and yards per catch went through the roof. While he caught three less passes than he did the year before, he added 97 yards in the yards per catch category and scored 14 touchdowns all together.

In his last year in college, McFadden had what was considered one of his best years. After a sensational sophomore season, a Heisman trophy candidate, and being on the NCAA’s All-American first team offense, he was back to run through defenses again. While Arkansas struggled throughout the season, McFadden’s best game came against the soon to be National Champions, the LSU Tigers. McFadden did it all; he rushed 32 times for 206 yards and went three for six on passing with 32 yards and a touchdown. On the last play of the game, he was lined up a quarterback. He ran a play action fake to Felix Jones and hit Payton Hills for a touchdown. The defense came up with a big stop, and the Razorbacks won the game. McFadden ended his career with 4,590 yards, 41 touchdowns, 365 receiving yards, and 2 touchdowns. He finished as the number two career rusher in the SEC behind Herschel Walker and number 7 in rushing touchdowns.

It is true that Ricky Williams won the Heisman while at Texas and that Ronnie Brown went undefeated at Auburn, but how many times have you watched them become a triple threat on a team? Give credit where it is due! Darren McFadden is a home run player, hands down. There is no way that a general manager should over look this guy; he’s the type of athlete who falls into the category of being a game breaker and deserves to be the number one overall pick.

Thr Raven

This poem was about a man who is depressed about the death of his wife, and is up late at night trying to forget her by reading old stories. While sitting there half asleep he hears what he thinks is a knocking at his front door. He goes and finds nothing but the sound has not stopped. He then goes to his window and as he opens it a raven flies in. This stands out to me because a raven represents evil in a way, and at the time it is representing the depression that he is feeling after his wife has died. At this point it is clearly obvious that this is going against everything that the transcendentalist thought, because they did not believe that anyone would be depressed over death because that was god's work. He then has a conversation with the raven and asks is the raven ever going to go away and the raven answers never more. It is then that he realizes that he is going to be depressed about her death for the rest of his life. The transcendentalist would never speak about anything like this because they believed that everybody was to be happy all the time and accept what goes on around them.

The transcendentalist believed that all things were good and that when something happened that you should always look at it as something good. Dark romantics said no all things don't always have a good side because some things can cause you to be sad or hurt after it. They thought that everybody had some sort of evil in them because that was just human nature, because of the environment that they were in caused them to be. In the raven it shows a man sad and depressed over the death of his wife and a crown that represents the sadness and sorrow he will feel for as long as he lives.

Self Reliance

In this story of self reliance the author speaks about saying what you feel. He says that if you say something to "speak with words as hard of iron cannon balls." What he is saying is mean what you say. Speak up if you believe something then let it be known because that’s what you feel. He then goes on to say that God will not operate through an un-pure person that you have to be pure in your sprit and in your mind. Go against what society is saying or doing, because if you don't then you are going against what you feel and in a way going against what god has in store for you and your life. Then he states that it is good to be misunderstood, because Jesus, Newton, Socrates, and Luther were all misunderstood because they went against what society was saying or doing. But to be misunderstood is to be great in his mind.

All these statements from him are exact points of being a transcendentalist, because they believe in going with your own intuition because that was god speaking to you. That if you believed something then go with it and not to worry about society.

Nature

In this story the author is speaking of how he goes into solitude not physically but mentally and experiences nature. He experiences the trees, the mountains, and the river. He feels that he becomes transparent in a way that he is like an eye ball or the wind. He is not there but still there, and that all things from the universe are circulating through his body. In a way he transcends into another world than the one that he is in. The transcendentalist believed in these types of things, because they thought that they could leave their body and become one with god. That’s what he thought he was doing as he stood in nature and experienced all of these things

The Black Cat

In this book written by Edgar Allen Poe there are so many pieces of the belief of Dark Romanticism. In the story he starts off as an average person with a wife a few farm animals and a cat. This cat has been his trusted and beloved animal for as long as he can remember. All that changed on one night that he came home drunk off alcohol. He goes to pick up the black and being frightened the cat bites him He then goes and takes a knife and cuts the cat’s eye out. The cat recovers but is afraid of him. He can no longer live with the regret of what he did to the cat and goes and hangs it. Shortly after this his house burns down and the smoke stains the walls and leaves an image of a gat with a rope around its neck. He and his wife go on with their lives and he then takes in another black cat just like his except it has a white patch on its breast in the shape of a gallows. While he is the one who took the cat in the cat is closer to his wife than to him. He is enraged with this and tries to kill the cat, but in the process his wife stops him and he ends up killing her. He then welds her corps in a wall and then goes on to try and kill the cat also. He doesn't but ends up also welding the cat in the wall. After his wife’s death the police come and try to investigate the house. They find nothing but he becomes too arrogant and starts to brags on how well his house is built, and how safe it is. In the process of this the cat starts to make loud noses and he is fond out.

This story shows parts of Dark Romanticism because the Transcendentalist believe that what ever you do as first response is always good because it comes straight from god. This is proven to be wrong, because his first response was to kill his wife and two cats.

My opinion

I fall on the side of dark romanticism. I to believe that all people have a bit of evil in them some where, but I don't believe that the original sins of Adam and Eve have anything to do with it though. I also believe that what the transcendentalist said about God speaking through peoples mind and spirit. So I really go back and forth on this topic because they both have good points that I believe in.

Dark Romanticism vs Transcendentalism

The dark romanticist werer extremly diffrent from the trancesndentalist in the way that they believed in original sin. They thought that everybody eas born with the sins from Adam and Eve and that all people had a bit of evil in them some where. This went against everything that the transcendentalit believed about people.

Guy in the movie

In the movie the man has a lot of transcendentalism ways. He spends 35 years alone in the wilderness with nobody but himself and his surroundings. Going by only what he feels and not by what anyone thinks he has a peaceful life and experiences many things. He lives in a cabin that he built himself, fishes in the lake, and gets water from it also and that’s how he makes a living. The belief of transcendentalism is all through this documentary because the man is living off feelings and not situations or wants. "They believed that if a person was truly in touch with their surroundings, they could transcend these physical and man-made things to connect with God". He lived 35 years of his life doing just that in that cabin and that’s what makes him a transcendentalist.

Scenario 2

If I was Chris I would go back to school and become a high school teacher. If you have to wake up every morning and be like I hate my job then you will end up either quitting or having a miserable life. This is an example of transcendentalist because it goes on the way a person feels, and in their beliefs could be the voice of God speaking to them through their soul. Chris' wife should accept the fact that her husband has had a change of heart and should stick by his side (innless she's just a gold digger and is just with him because she knows he's going to be making a lot of money). Gut feelings and your own intuition is the main idea of transcendentalist and is what I believe is the feeing that Chris is feeling.

Thoreau

To me Thoreau is a Transcendentalist because he believes that persons own feeling is more powerful than the government. This belief was one of the biggest if not the biggest belief of a transcendentalist. He states several times that if a person thinks that something is wrong then they should speak up and let it be known. He often refers to the issue of slavery and the Mexican war as a huge issue in the country at the time. "Many people think that slavery and the Mexican war is wrong, but say or do none thing they just wait for someone else to say something." This quote is a great example because t shows the feelings of a person over what the government says is right or wrong. Once again he is stating that person’s feelings are more important than what the government thinks. He believes that God speaks through a person’s soul and the feeling that they are experiencing is actually the voice of God and should not be ignore.