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      The meaning of the line "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.' is that we can't blame "The stars" or "destiny"; we must blame ourselves because our decisions are what plans our life's route. Weather it's good or bad, bumpy or smooth it's all based off our decisions. So in blaming the stars we are running away from the reality that we did something wrong. But we can't blame the stars because of something we did for it blame the stars is to blame the kids for their parents doing wrong, it just doesn't work. But as we are "underlings" or "humans" we make mistakes, where as, "the stars" are "Holy" or "higher than us" and they know how not to make mistakes. 

      I think John changed the words in the quote because it changes the meaning of the quote, to what I think is, The main theme. "The Fault in Our Stars" means that "Our Stars" have changes our route with out our approval. The straight and smooth route that we had planed for ourselves has been changed by "Our Stars" to have bumps and detours that are never ending. Hazel did not plan to get cancer but her stars did. So her smooth route with high school then college then a job and a family was sent in a different direction completely. Now its changes to just making it though the day. (Since you know her "lungs suck at being lungs") So the title is "The fault in Our Stars" because it's saying that thou we can't blame the stars fro our mistakes the stars can still ruin our plans by adding their own "mistakes" or "hardships."
       

Web quest answers by: Peyton Smith and Micheal Tenjhay

Witch Hunt: A web Scavenger Hunt

1) As the accused I feel that I wasn't given a true trail. Because my life was on the line I wasn't think completely rational so the thought of throwing someone else under the wagon wasn't to hard to accept. It was scary to have so many questions thrown at me having to answer with out much time to think.

2) The main difference between the historical witch trails and the Crucible is that the Crucible is written mainly form the imagination of Miller and the historical witch trails were based on facts. Miller changed things in the story to keep the reader interested. I believe that the fact that Miller changed the most was that Rebecca Nurse, John Proctor and Martha Corey were not hung on the same day. By making them be hung on the same day it takes away from the story. Some of the minor things that Miller changed was the fact that he changed their ages and Ruth's name was Ann like her mother.

3) I think Caporael's theories are interesting points. The fact that so many people were killed because of a sickness is disturbing and intriguing. To think that so many people believe or fell for the same thing at the same time and that they killed over it is very interesting. It was like a big magic trick that whole towns fell for. Some of the other forces that could have been at work is a fear and an imagination mix. The people were afraid of being accused of witch craft so they accused others and made up these detailed stories just to save face.

4) Some similarities between Miller's description of McCarthyism and the Salem witch trails is the fact that people were being judged or punished for being them because other didn't understand it. McCarthyism targeted Jews, Catholics, homosexuality and many others simply because they were new and different and not known about. The Salem witch trails targeted women that had different lives styles then the other women or 'normal'  women. In both cases the people were scared to get close enough to see that these people were being judged or punished for being different. I believe Miller's article hits on some important points, points that if people could have taken the time to look at before then things would have turned out different.

5) The Salem witch trail and the Red scare are in some what very similar on accusing someone for what they say or do anything that makes another person mad or feel disrespected. Some similarities of these two events are have a trail on something that would be outrageous and having a group of people for what they are or seeing whats going on in that time period as the same state of matter. The difference between these events are they are in different time periods and people are not hanging fro false accusations.   

6) Some similarities between the Holocaust, Human rights Watch and Children of Japanese decent during WWII to the Salem witch trails is how a special group were being judged because they were different and their differences were seen as bad or dangerous. Some similarities between the Holocaust, Human rights Watch and Children of Japanese decent during WWII to the Red Scare are that people were judged for specking their minds and for living their life how they wanted to. They were seen as being wrong. A few differences were that during the Red scare people made up the 'bad' or 'wrong' actions. Where as in the Salem Witch Trails people saw things that other did different then others and made that something 'bad' or 'wrong'.

7) George Santayana's quote "Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it." means if people don't start looking closer at the consequences of the past they will keep happening and sooner or later we will ruin our world. Some ways we keep repeating history is how we still think that throwing money at things and get rid of it or we still judge people based off of differences that they may have. I think we learned a little bit from our past in the since that we don't jump into things in less we're are personally involved, normally.

8)  Some other examples of 'witch hunts' in history was before the Salem witch trails about 350 years before in a New England colony in Hartford, Connecticut. Where a young girl of 8 got sick and was claimed to be possessed. After her death the women who was accused of possessing the young girl was 'possessed' and so began the 'Witch Hunt'. 

9) The most interesting thing we found out was the fact that over half of the Japanese enclosed during WWII were children. i didn't realize that America was so cruel. I mean i know we've done some pretty bad things but the think that we caged that mean children is simply wrong. Those kids had to be scared and damaged by the event.    

'Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God' Answers

1) To persuaded people not to sin
2) Godly people are 'Natural' and the ungodly are unnatural.
3)Abate means to let go.
4) Puts the spotlight on the clauses
5) To show them how he, Jonathan Edwards, see their religion.
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7) By repeating 'not willingly' he is making those words have a stronger meaning.
8) Jonathan uses the water to show the power of God's wrath. By using water he has given God's wrath a strong 'body'. Now you can picture it better because you know the wrath of water,
9) The progression in the subsequent three paragraphs is seen as you read because you see God's wrath intensify.
10) The nature of the appeals in "Sinners the in hands of an Angry God" is that the logic of text is that what Jonathan is saying is true that God's wrath is nothing to mess with. Jonathan is a pastor so his credibility is that he knows what he is talking about. He makes the audience feel fear toward God.
11) Jonathan's tone is fear of God's wrath. In paragraph one he says "...God is dreadfully provoked"" showing that he worry's about sinning.
12) Text that are meant to be heard normally are worded in a more intense manner then ones meant to read.
13) Jonathan's sermon is persuasive because he has described the punishment of people if they sin. Which everyone does so it persuades the people to live better lives.
14) Some of Jonathan's listener are said to have fainted and cried out during his sermon. I think they would do so when he said paragraphs 4-8 because they have such detailed images of the wrath of God.
15)  http://www.businessinsider.com/darvaza-gas-crater-pictures-2013-2          

         (paragraph one) "...over the pit of hell; they have deserved the fiery  pit, and are already sentenced to it, and God is dreadfully provoked..."

Symbolism of The Yellow Wallpaper

The story of The Yellow Wallpaper main symbol is the wallpaper. The narrator is caged in her new baby’s nursery because her husband believes she is sick. The nursery is covered in Yellow Wallpaper that’s torn in places. She tries to get out of the room and walk around the house but her husband puts her back in her room immediately. She lays in her room and stares at the wallpaper and sees a woman trying to get out. The wallpaper symbolizes her inner cage or saneness. She has the outer cage, the room. The inner cage is more of a cage in her mind. She can’t escape it because it’s surrounding her. She tries to help the woman in the wallpaper get out. The woman in the wallpaper symbolizes her. She starts the tear the wallpaper off, starts to feel free. In removing more of it she starts to act how her husband thinks she should. The more she removed the more she started to think on her own.


The wallpaper was like an extension of what her husband believed, that she was crazy. When she starts to remove it she starts to get away from him.In getting away from him she is starting to feel free. In feeling free she is feeling up for anything.She stays up to finish remove the wallpaper. and when she finally does finish the woman in the wallpaper gets out. Her husband then comes in and realizes what she has done. Then he passes out and falls in the doorway. Now the narrator has become like the woman in the wallpaper forever trapped in her own cage.


I feel as though the wallpaper was the cause of her ‘craziness’. She was trapped by her husband in her new baby’s nursery, which had the yellow wallpaper. She tried to get away from it by leaving but her husband didn’t let her. She then noticed the woman who was trapped in the wallpaper. She lets the woman out and then she is trapped in her own mind, the worse cage there is.

At the beginning the wallpaper is already torn, which represents her state of mind at the start of the story. At first her mind is half and half, sane and insane. Then as the story goes on the wallpaper gets torn more. Showing that she’s going to one side more the other. Her husband believes she is getting closer to the insane side. Where as she thinks she more on the sane side. The more wallpaper she removes the more she leaves one side and goes to the other. By the end when all the wallpaper is removed she’s completely on one side. Her husband would say the insane side. She might say the same. She ends up staying in the cage that she was trying to escape. Even though the whole time she was trying so hard to get out she ended up feeling safer inside her ‘cage’. I think she felt safe in her cage the whole time but it took her the whole story to realize it.

     Howdy My name is Peyton. (Elizabeth Roze is kinda like a nickname) I am a very open person. I'll answer pretty much anything. :P I live with my mummy and grandparents and our dogs. We have two Polly a Chinese hairless Crested (No she's not sick she was born hairless) and then my baby Moonshine a mutt and Miniature Jack Russel Terrier mix (I named her Moonshine because i got her from my sister's dog and my sister said it had be an Indian name so her full name is Moonshine Dynasty Black or Lady Moonshine of the Black Dynasty :P)
     I have three sisters, all half. The oldest are Heather and Kiesha, 29, from my dads side. (The only people from my dad's side i know) They each have one child. My nieces Maya and Tori. Then is Brittinee, 21, fro m my mom's side. She has a little boy named Elijah, my nephew. Then there's me 17, NO BABY! Every time someone goes through my phone they think i have a baby i don't get it.
      I am going to college for a Journalism major and a Photography minor. I'm looking at a few colleges right now. I love writing and taking pictures of anything. I've always wrote stories, poems and songs. Also I love taking picture and getting that right angle and light its just magical. I don't like getting my picture taking but i love holding a camera in my hands and seeing the joy of others because its the picture they wanted.
     In '09 i had open heart surgery. I was 12. I was born with a heart murmur the doctors told my mum that I would grow out of it but i didn't. There was a membrane in my aortic valve. They removed it and i'm good now. I went to Levine hospital in Charlotte. I only stayed in the hospital for like 3 or 4 days. They had the best milkshakes. I could have eaten them all day. I got out the day Michael Jackson died. (I apologize in advance for this next sentence) I didn't really know who he was tell that day. *shrugs* i like some of his songs. I was fully recovered after about a year. But i was restricted on everything for like 2 years. I still have like a few restrictions like i can't lift things to heavy, i have to be careful on the pressure i put on my chest and make sure i don't get to heated. :P But really the one restriction that just killed me was that i couldn't swim. I love water so when they told me that, after the surgery, i told them to undo the surgery that i'd take my chances.
     I love to cook. No matter what it is. Doesn't matter if i like it or hate it i will cook it. I cook a lot at home and for church and school. My favorite thing to make is a cake/cookies/brownies. The mixing and the flour its just so much fun. I normally do my best cooking when i'm tired. I'll start added things together and bomb delicious.
     I live off music. I listen to everything from Gospel to scream-o. I love country the most thou. I sing and dance. If i didn't have music i would die. If i had to pick a song to be my theme song it would be No Daddy by Teairra Mari.
    Well thats just a little bit about me. Ask me anything if there's something else you wanna know