I will be discussing why odysseus always is so cashes when he is meeting strangers. For example when he meets his father again in the field. Why does he not just tell him right away? In some cases he questions the person he meets to learn about them but in this case he knows that it is his father but does not go up to him and wrap his arms around him. He decides to have a conversation with him. I think he might be doing this because he wants to ease his father back into it. If he tells him at once it may overwhelm him.

How did being a slave owner affect a person? Provide examples from the book.

How did being a slave owner affect a person? Provide examples from the book.

In the book there are many different ways people act towards slaves. Some of enjoy seeing their slaves in pain. Others don't punish the slaves excessively and are fair. And some slave owners are kind. Owning slaves can make a person power who is kind to a slave make them mean and cold. An example of this is in chapter 6. When Frederick new mistress was kind to him at first but as time went on she became “tiger-like”. The reason for this is that the power she had made it so she thought she could do anything to him.

Connor Phelps

Dr. Quillin

ELA

18 Tuesday, October

What was the reason for the harsh punishment of slaves for minor offenses?

I think one of the reasons for the harsh punishment was that the slave owners wanted to keep the slaves living in fear. I think the reason they wanted the slaves to be fearful was to control them. If the punishment for minor offenses was being whipped until they bleed, then the punishment for major offenses must have been extremely harsh.

An example of controlling the slaves with fear was putting tar on the fences of the garden. If any slave was found with tar on his or her body, then it was deemed sufficient evidence that the slave had been in the garden. The punishment for this was severe whipping. The book says the slaves became fearful of the tar and stayed out of the garden. This is an example of controlling them with fear.

Another example is when Mr. Gore shot Demby because Demby wouldn't get out of the creek after Mr. Gore counted to three. Mr. Gore’s reason for doing this was because Demby was setting a bad example for  the other slaves. He shot him to control the other slaves with fear.

Poem response

I chose the poems Shall l Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day? And When I consider everything that grows. The two poems are written by the Shakespeare. They are similar and different. What is similar is that they both are about love and how Shakespeare is trying to immortalize his love in writing. But what is different about them is Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day about how the person he is talking about is so wonderful and is so beautiful that even if they are on the brink of of death they will still look beautiful because they are immortalized in writing. And When I consider everything that grows the poem is talking about how his love is growing to get old so he will keep some of her youth.

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimmed;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st,
Nor shall death brag thou wand’rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to Time thou grow’st.
     So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
     So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

When I consider everything that grows



When I consider everything that grows
Holds in perfection but a little moment,
That this huge stage presenteth nought but shows
Whereon the stars in secret influence comment;
When I perceive that men as plants increase,
Cheered and check'd even by the selfsame sky,
Vaunt in their youthful sap, at height decrease,
And wear their brave state out of memory;
Then the conceit of this inconstant stay
Sets you most rich in youth before my sight,
Where wasteful Time debateth with Decay
To change your day of youth to sullied night;
And all in war with Time for love of you,
As he takes from you, I engraft you new.

We real cool

We Real Cool

I like this poem because it is not like any other pome. I think we real cool is about kids skipping school. “We real cool” I think that it means I'm skipping school and that makes me cool. “We left school” they left school. “Lurk late” they stay at places late into the night. “We strike straight” they stay out late a lot. “We sing sin” the curse a lot. “We thin gin” they drink alcohol. “We jazz June” they listen to jazz. “We die soon” live fast die soon.

In the first room I look around and I see an infiniti room. Blowup tentacles as far as the eye can see. They change colors from blue, pink, green, yellow, blue, and purple. Each tentacles are covered with black spots. In the second room I go in and it is completely dark. Then lights start to glow. They look like candles hanging from strings. I look around and see an infinite amount of the candle lights.

Connor Phelps
Dr. Lee
IHSS
15 September, 2016
On tuesday I went to an exhibit called out of the amazon. It was about amazon tribes. We were told to pick an object to study. I chose the Shuar shrunken head.
The Shuar are a tribe in the Amazon. They are a very cautious trybe. They do not live in a village. They live far apart from each other, in single-family dwellings that are placed on top of a hill for tactical advantage in case of a rade. The homes have to walls surrounding the house to stop projectiles. They build escape tunnel leading from inside the house. Both genders are separated and have different entrances and sleep in different rooms.
The Shrunken Heads    
The Shuar are most famous for their shrunken heads. The reason that the Shuar shrunken heads is that they believe that if they don't the spirit of the person they killed will come back and have revenge. To prevent this the Shuar sew the mouth and the eyes shut to trap the souls in the head. They also believe that when they wear the shrunken heads it gives them more power, but they are only can have two each.  How they are made is first the heads is removed. Then they remove a piece of skin from the chest and a piece of skin from the back. Then they cut up from the nape of the up to the back of the head and the skull is removed. Next the eyes and lips are sewn shut. Then the skin is put in a cooking gar and boiled for 90 minutes. After the skin is boiled the slit at the back of the head is sewed up. Next  a hot stone is put in the head through the neck. This shrunks it even more. After that hot sand is placed in the head and shrinks the head even more. After that any excess hair is burnt off.
Relating to the cannibals tour
One thing that was talked about in the cannibal tours was the how the people who wrote the information about the people they were studying. It was that the people the exhibit is about do not have a say what goes to the exhibit. When I was walking through the exhibit I was looking to see if they were talking about the natives or the natives were talking about themselves. In my opinion they did have a say in what goes in on the exhibit. Especially in one section where a video was playing. It was about some of the native rituals. The thing that I liked was that they interviewed some natives in the video. Also all of the items they had in the exhibit had no more cultural value because the tribes believed once an object was used it had no more powers so it is not hard to get the items.

What is poetry

What is poetry/a poem and how can you tell the difference between poetry and prose? I think poetry is a assortment of words that convey deep emotional feeling that can be interpreted in different ways. There are so many possibilities that it is hard to exactly say what poetry is. Poetry could be a long, short, funny, sad, brilliant and grate. But the format that is hard to define. Is there a difference between poetry and prose? Can something be poetic but still not be a pome? I think that something can be poetic that is not a pome. I think that there is a difference between a poetry and a prose. But in my opinion it is what you make it.