Modernism

Topic I choose
I choose the topic of Psychoanalysis. I am choosing this topic because it interests me to know how people analyze other’s minds. Also psychoanalysis proves what causes a person actions or thoughts. This topic has been around for almost 100 years, but it continues to be a topic of interests. In the story, which I’m about to read, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, I believe that it will address Psychoanalysis because of the title. From the title, I can tell that it will be a story of someone who analyzes people’s thoughts and minds, and keeps it a secret.

Psychoanalysis -- The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber
This story was about a man by the name of Walter Mitty. In the story Mr. Mitty is living a normal life, but his daydreaming causes a few disruptions. One day while he is driving with his wife, he imagines himself as a commander. While he is daydreaming he doesn’t notice that he is speeding, until his wife brings it to his attention. After this he drops his wife off at the hair salon, and she suggests that he lets his doctor see him. He drives past the hospital, and he starts to imagine he goes to the hospital, and that he is the attending physician. Back to reality, he now realizes that he was about to hit another car because he was in the wrong lane. This back and forth movement between daydreaming and reality continues for the rest of the story, and ends with one last daydream that drowns out his wife’s pestering.

I really liked this story because it shows how something can get you to daydream, and make you want to be in that place. This really was a confusing story, because it went back and forth, but at the end everything was self explanatory. Walter Mitty’s wife accentuates the mundane aspects of life. Even though this story was confusing I would recommend it to who ever likes to explore and imagine things in a good way.

This story relates to psychoanalysis because Mr. Mitty is always thinking and searching into his mind or analyzing his mind. He gazes off and imagines how something would be if he weren’t just ordinary. The interaction between husband and wife towards the end of the story is particularly representative of the lack of communication between the two characters. Mr. Mitty asks: “Does it ever occur to you that I am sometimes thinking?” She looked at him. "I'm going to take your temperature when I get you home". This means that there are times when he meditates on life and she believes that must have a fever or some other illness to be talking or acting the way he is.

Another textual evidence of how this relates to my topic would be, “You're tensed up again," said Mrs. Mitty. “It's one of your days. I wish you'd let Dr. Renshaw look you over.” This has to do with his daydreaming and gazing off the real world. This is when he has been speeding while thinking of himself as a commander and his wife brings him back to reality. She is saying how it’s one of his days, and she does not mean it by saying a daydreaming day, she means like a bad day or something gin particular. This is typical for his wife to address since she doesn’t know what he is thinking or doing.




Poems and match up with Modernism element
Poem #1-
My opinion on this poem is wow. I feel like this story has a lot of meaning to it and expression. This poem is practically saying that there is this one perfect man in this perfect world. Who does not fear a thing or suffer from anything, and there are these hard working men who still can not live life like him. Modernism element of this poem would be disillusion, because what they don’t realize is that this rich guy doesn’t live a perfect life, because if he would he wouldn’t have killed himself. This is what is said in the poem, “So on we worked, and waited for the light, and went without the meat, and cursed the bread; And Richard Cory, one calm summer night, Went home and put a bullet through his head.” This is exactly what I said.

Poem #2-
This poem is about a wall built in between two neighbors, which makes this neighbors come closer. This is a tricky poem by which the writer is trying g to make us question the other neighbor in the story. The piece of element of this poem would be disillusionment. This is disillusionment because the author makes us look at things the wrong way and asking us why a wall should be built. But the reason why is because this wall is what makes them good neighbors because there is that one time where eventually they have to come together and built this wall. Another way of disillusionment is that the neighbor repeats constantly, “Good fences make good neighbors.” It is that because he is saying this because he has heard it but really has no way of explaining why this appears to be true to him.

Poem #3-
This poem is asking what happens to the dreams that are put on hold, or even thrown away. This explains itself well, and by the fact that it says, “What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?” that is sort of like saying what I had said before, does it just disappear or does it just stay there till the time comes. The modernism element of this poem would be disillusionment because they are disappointed of how they can’t get an answer of what their dream are being done to. This also shows disillusionment because people are thinking that they still live the American dream.

Poem #4-This is saying that he wants to prove that black people have a history too. He is trying to show that they should learn about black history instead of the white one. This is like saying black people built rivers, black people bathed in rivers, and that black people history as been around for long. The Phrase in which explains all this would be, “I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. The element of this poem is Harlem Renaissance because they are trying to prove that they have created something and that people should learned of their own culture just instead of learning the white culture and history.

Poem #5-
This last poem has touched me, because of what it is saying. This has to do with a little black boy while in Baltimore, and he was called a “nigger,” because of his color. This would most definitely fall under Harlem Renaissance because he wasn’t living the American dream; he was being called names because of the way he looked. This had a big affect in him that after all the time he was there the only thing that he remembered was the day when he was discriminated by his color. Another opinion of mine was that he also never forgot about that one day, because he knew he was to stay that color the rest of his life.

Realism

A Story of an Hour-
In “A Story of an Hour,” the protagonist is described as “young, with a fair, calm face, whose lines bespoke repression and even a certain strength.” This suggests that she possess the desire to be free, but she cannot. The author continues his description by saying, “…but now there was a dull stare in her eyes, whose gaze was fixed away off yonder on one of those patches of blue sky. It was not a glance of reflection, but rather indicated a suspension of intelligent thought.” This explains how she is staring into the sky, just contemplating her freedom now that her husband is dead.

The social issue that Chopin is trying to solve is the lack of freedom of speech; women in the Victorian era were not allowed to express themselves. She also explains how women in marriages had to compromise everything for the man, in spite of their own desires. Louise questions herself by saying, “And yet she had loved him--sometimes. Often she had not. What did it matter?” The protagonist in this story is so repressed that the concept of love mystifies her.


"The Battle with Mr. Covey"
In this story the characters is known as a slave, but it has more detailed to it and in what kind of slaves he was. Like for example in the text the author wrote, “I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, and the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died; the dark night of slavery closed in upon me; and behold a man transformed into a brute!” In my words and anybodies word, this mean that he was pretty much dead inside and had no reason to be happy what so ever. He also said how he felt when he saw this man beat him and tortured him like he would and could, just because he was a slave. Textual evidence to what I just said or somewhat similar was, “At times I would rise up, a flash of energetic freedom would dart through my soul, accompanied with a faint gleam of hope that flickered for a moment, and then vanished. I sank down again, mourning over my wretched condition. I was sometimes prompted to take my life and that of Covey, but was prevented by a combination of hope and fear....” This may also means something of how he wants to be free and how he sometimes visualizes his freedom, but at the end the dreams and hope vanish away only to come to reality which is the fact the he is a owned slave and will live with fear and somewhat hope for his remaining time.

There is one social issue that this writer wants to solve, and that would have to be slavery. In this story he is talking much about a African American slave who is being treated like an animal by his owner. He is talking of how this slave gets whipped and bowled off for no reason. At the end of this story he tries to show and prove that a slave will not always take every bad thing that they go through. They are also human and have to right to stand up for them. This story is told by an African American writer therefore, they might know what it really is to go through this torture.
I feel that Douglass’s purpose for writing this was to show and explain with every detailed how he struggled to be safe and how he was tired of being treated bad, like he was no human. He wants to prove that a white man isn’t the only people or race with rights. He feels like everything and everyone should be equal since everyone has to ability to fight and defend themselves whether they are black or white. I fell that he brought this for a certain reason and that was to stop slavery and show the horrible feeling and tortures slaves get, and get people to realize. This may had been along time ago, but then again it might have open peoples mind and their views of slavery.

A song by Tupac "Changes"

What is modern realism today? Well lots of things are. For example a have chose a piece of writing from one of my favorite rappers. Even though he may be up in heaven, when he was once here the only thing he would rap about was realism and how real life was for an African American person, and I may not be African American, but all of us can relate to some of the things he raps about. The song I have chosen is “changes.” This song talks about how hard people try to imagine a nice perfect life, when it really isn’t like that, and no matter how hard they try to change that, no changes are being made. There is this one specific line in the lyrics that makes me feel like he was tired of living the ugly, imperfect life. This was what he said, "Is life worth living? Should I blast myself?" Here is another phrase, “I see no changes. All I see is racist faces.” Where he is trying to throw out how things are almost too same like the old days, and how just because he is black things don’t change for them and people see them as bad people. One last Phrase and its most definitely self explanatory, “And as long as I stay black, I gotta stay strapped & I never get to lay back.” And if you don’t know what it means figure it out.

Dark Romanticism

Nathaniel Hawthorne- I have read a part of his life and what he felt about his grandfather the minister and judge. I have read this and Nathaniel felt that the Transcendental philosophy was totally wrong. He felt this because just like the transcendentalism believed that everyone was absolutely pure and a part of God, and in his eyes that was wrong. This was a wrong believe to him because he seen his grandfather killing people just because people would say they were evil. He felt that god wasn’t telling his grandfather to do so. So how was his grandfather a part of god, when he was doing these horrible things, especially being a minister?

Herman Melville- Ahab sacrificed all the men on board with him, while he was the leading one. Was he pure of mind and a part of God? No, he was not. He was selfish and did not care whether the men with him would pay for his mistake. He thought more of himself then the other men. He was not a part of god and most definitely a good man. So this is why they disagreed with the transcendentalism philosophy. Now a man who witnessed people eating human flesh wouldn’t agree that everyone was good and pure. He wouldn’t agree with that transcendental philosophy because a man eating another human must be sick in the head or not a good person at all. If you kill someone else just to eat them, God wouldn’t agree that is right.

Edgar Allen Poe’s- Wow, not this guy had a rough life. Do you really think now that everyone is a part of God, and that everyone always does the right things? All of the transcendental philosophy was nothing but plain wrong to Poe. To him everyone’s thoughts weren’t the voice of god, because if they were he wouldn’t have turned out to be what he was. He felt bad that everyone he loved dies, and how he turned out to be a alcoholic and a serious druggy. If God was in everyone’s thought, why would he gone that far. When he wrote his poems and stories he was talking about characters who were evil and ended up having the evil take over. Transcendental philosophy said that everyone was good and pure, so why did he think like that? He thought like this because he had been through so many rough things that he ended up seeing that things weren’t perfect and pretty, he believe everything had a bad or evil side to it.

I am closer to being a Dark Romantic. I feel this way because just like these three men, I have experienced a lot in my life. Not necessarily me, but have had friends who been through rough stuff and have seen things that weren’t quite right. If everyone was pure and good and always did the right things, then the world would be so much better and safer. The Transcendentalist were much different people who thought that God made their every move and that God was the one who would tell them what was right. You see things don’t work that way. I would sure be amazed of things were really like that. This world has so many evil, nasty, cruel people that we all know about. God didn’t want this to be how things were, but people themselves turned out like this by themselves with their own mind and thoughts. So that’s why I fall under the Dark Romanticism.

The Black Cat-
I have read this story and Poe is telling this story and also saying how he totally disagrees with the Transcendentalism. I feel this story is a good example of why they disagree with the Transcendentalism beliefs. I really liked his story because it really shows and explains what can really happen to some one and how their intuition is not always a good thought. This shows also how alcohol, drugs, even a mad mood can get you acting like. A demon can always get into your thoughts and control what you do; even you don’t want to do it. The dark Romantic philosophy explains and feels that bad things can happen and that bad things and spirits exist. Not only God but demons too, just like in this story.
This story talks about how the transcendentalism philosophy is wrong. This story is about a man who gets possessed and at one point no longer knows himself, and acts in an evil and demolishes way, towards a cat. He had been drinking one night and once he gets home he feels something taking over his whole body and murders the cat in a cruel way. One example of what he said was, “The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body.” This was an evidence of what I have explained. He says that God didn’t get into his intuition and make him do that. What he is trying to get out of this story is that the transcendentalism philosophy was wrong by saying everyone does good things and God is the one who leads them to the right things. This is what can really happen and even if it is so un real it can most definitely happen.

The Raven is a very complicated and at the same time meaningful poem. This a poem that Poe wrote while his wife was dying and he feels like he is going insane. He talks about a raven in the story and the way I see it he is describing the raven of being a symbol of fear and death. He keeps hearing knocks and things at the door, but no one or anything is ever there. He feels he is going crazy and just imagining things. Until at last the raven shows up through the window and in it goes.
The line that got to me the most was, “Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before." This got to me because it is like saying he had then got more scared and wondering who that thing on the door was, he most likely feels like it the demon or something of that source of matter. He is completely confused knowing his wife is dying and then there are these noises where he can’t figure out where it is coming from. The next phrase that got to me was, “And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, "Lenore?” This I whispered and an echo murmured back the word, "Lenore!"—this is saying like know he is getting me worried because he is saying Lenore and whispers from no where reply back in a much louder voice. He is going crazy, and he knows or feels something was out there.

This has to do with Dark Romanticism because he is going trough a stage where everything is not perfect. Not only is his wife dying, but then again he sees this raven which in his mind means demolish and fear. He is seeing and feeling the saintly evil around him and he is thinking that someone is out there when in reality it is just his thought and mind. It also relates to Dark Romanticism because he feels something is out calling for him and it is not God, he feels is something bad, so he becomes scared and fearful.

More about Edgar Allen Poe was that his father abandoned their family in 1810, and his mother died a year later from consumption. Poe was then taken into the home of John Allan, a successful Scottish merchant in ichmond, Virginia, who dealt in a variety of goods including tobacco, cloth, wheat, tombstones, and slaves. The Allan’s served as a foster family but never formally adopted Poe, though they gave him the name "Edgar Allan Poe".
Later then he joined the military although using the name "Edgar A. Perry", he claimed he was 22 years old even though he was 18. He first served at Fort Independence in Boston Harbor for five dollars a month. That same year, he released his first book, a 40-page collection of poetry, Tamerlane and Other Poems, attributed with the byline "by a Bostonian". Only 50 copies were printed, and the book received virtually no attention.
I would say that some of this influenced his writings because he has had a rough life and has been fearful of many things because of things he had seen and experienced. The death of his mother, the abandon of his father, the adoption, the death of all his wives, and his career of becoming a good writer. This is all enough to become such a dedicated writer like he was.

Transcendentalism

I felt that "Nature" was a boring story, but did throw out some examples of Transcendentalism.
Even though the story was boring I felt that tese people really believed that God could communicate through them. This story talks about how men should feel. This story is trying to tell us that we see things through nature. He explains how nature works and what it does to us. Talks about how the stars awaken and how few adults can see nature. So meaning that only true people beliving in nature can see it right.
I felt like the part were it talks about how something transparent can be seen through a heavenly body. QUOTE..."The atmosphere was made transparent wit the desing, to give man, in the hevanly bodies, the perpetual presence of the subkime." That would have a relation to it because, those people believed that god could communicate through a person intuition, and that means he could communicate through them. And it can also stand another thing. The fact that only real men can communicate and see nature can cause nature to go right through them. So nature can tell them things and or they can sense it knowing it came from nature. "Most persons do not see the sun, at least they have a very superficial seeing."




The next story "Self Reliance" was short and explainable. It was an essay published a while ago. Pretty much it takls about his definition of self-reliance. What is self-reliance to you? To me it is personal independence. Well in this story it is sensibility and individualism, almost as my definition. Well it talks that whenever a man comes he sees everyhting different, how envy turns into ignorrance and how imitation into suicide. Sensible right. It talks about how God wants things done right and by independent men.
I thought that the part where it talks about how "God will not have his work made manifest by cowards," really explain how God didn't want his work to be done through them. He wanted good people to. And how it says "A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best." Again Self-reliance because he has done it alone and with passion, and is acceptable work in God's eyes. More likely to say perfect and if they would they get rewarded which would be having God communicate throught their bodies. Also to be great is to be misunderstood.



Last the story of "Resistance To Civil Government" it is a story being told. I read a part where it talks about how this man who was arrested because he refused to, he refused to pay tax and refuse a offer given to him that was the Conford police would pay his taxes, and was still being punished for. He had refused because he was opposed to the government's support of slavery. He spend his night in jail and later then his aunt more likely payed his tax. It makes me feel like that was harsh and cruel just because he wouldn't support the slavey. That was plain stupid and he felt like he was betrayed.
I feel this had to do with Transcendentalism because Transcendentalism didn't believe that everybody was born sinner, and the person that had arrested him punished him for not believeing in slavery. That made me feel like he was trying to explain how he felt about it and how he wasn't wrong for feeling that way. I quote I got from the text would be, "It is excellent, we must all allow; yet this government never of itself futhered any enterprise, but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way." Tracedentalism did not believe that institutions like the governemnet or organized religion were effective.

Scenario #1-
This couple have been making plans for their wedding and they are very much exicted, The husband will get a full time management job after his schooling and continue to be happy. So there is one problem the future wife wants to go to a far away school, and she gets accepted and still makes wedding plans. What I would do in this situation is talk to my fiance and ask him what he thinks about me leaving to a far away school. If he would be okay wiht it I would leave as soon as we got married and most likely take him with me. If he would not agree I would leave the plans behind because me schooling would come first as in my perspective. This would have a trancedentalism point of view because I would be doing what I felt was the right thing and what God would want for me. For example Trancedentalism felt that God spoke through people's mind and hard work, and after my hard work of school and getting accepted into the school I wanted to go of course I would be going to the voice of God.

Video-
This video of course has to do with Transcedentalism. It is about a man who decides to become a nature man and interiact with nature and the wilderness. He plans to stay out there for thirty-five years, he will build his own cabin to survive and to sleep in. This Is a good example because Transcedentalism believe nature was always calming and not a threat to nobody. How there are river and trees and nothing to worry about. This was also believed because they say that god would communicate more with and through you while surrunded by nature. He built a canoe to go aroud to wilderness and to get home. He will sure have God's touch and communications out in the wilderness and nature.

Writing Three

My Goals after I GraduateI am a student attending Classic City High. I am preparing to graduate so that I can go to college. I would like to go to UCLA in California. Even though I have a son, I know that my dreams of becoming a probation officer are possible. A probation officer is a person who helps out young teens, and adults to change their views of life, from bad to good and that also investigate, report, and supervise the behavior of each delinquent. They stand in court to hear and study delinquent’s punishments. Some probation officers can be hard on their teens or adults. A person who is on probation must report to their P.O. (probation officer) at least once every 2 weeks, they must get home on their curfew, and must remain out of trouble for the time they are on probation.My dream of becoming a probation officer is so clear to me. I don’t have any doubts on whether I can make it. I know I am a person that has the personality, and that personality is most likely to care more about others than myself. I love helping people change and make people feel better. I have had experience with a probation officer, because I have had two. I was in juvenile hall about 2 ½ years ago, for something I was honestly innocent of. While my time in the juvenile hall, I then noticed how I wanted to become a probation officer. The way they ran things in the units, just made me get into the whole criminal justice scene. They are just so brave; brave enough to work with some teens that are murderers. They might fear, but do not show it in their faces and attitudes.In order to become a probation officer you need to attend college n a 4 year criminal justice studies. You will need to go to training and then go to meetings in order to really get to become successful in what you want to do. Also some counseling teaching classes could help, since P.O. do a lot of counseling as well. After following through with all this, I can then be the one person and role model I have dreamed of. Also probation officer are not allowed to have a real good connection with some of the students, because some of the juveniles tend to hurt someone when they are that close.Hopefully I can graduate on time and go to college and follow up with becoming a probation officer. Besides that, my other goals after I graduate are, being a good mother and showing my kid that life is a good place if you set your mind to living right. The biggest goal I have in mind is making my son proud of me and having him makes me think about how I don’t want him to do some of the things I did. Giving up is not for every situation, but only a few situations are worth giving up.Creating my family is another thing in mind. I feel strongly about happy families always bonding and making the best out of everything. I wish to be successful and proud of my family. I want to show everybody out there that thinks I can’t make it because I had a baby at an early age, that I can so make it with a baby by me. Things in life are not hard if you learn to work with the difficulties, but they are hard when you let people bring you down. I am not going to let people bring me down, and I will live my life to the fullest.Other than that, I have accomplished some of the goals I had before. One of the major ones was coming back to school and getting my credits down to get my diploma. I really thank my self for choosing to do the right thing. I hated school, but now that I have my son going to school with me at the day care I really enjoy getting up everyday to get to my school which is Classic City High. This school had helped me a lot, and I know if I remain in this school my dream will one day come true. Thanks.

American Romanticism

Task 1-
My feelings towards the story Rip Van Winkle, where like WOW! I was really surprise when I read this story, not only surprised but shocked as well. Ok we all know this is a story that is not true, right? Well even though it is not true it is something you can imagine and put your mind into that place. The fact that he drinks liquor and falls asleep and awakens in 20 years is sort of weird right. Then again that is the way the story is put, to entertain, to make you think ahead and in what is going to happen next.
If I were to fall asleep for that long I don’t know what I would do as I woke up. First I for sure know that I wouldn’t realize that I had been asleep for that long. I would go and look for my family, friends, and belongings. Rip was also looking forward into reuniting with his family well actually wife, and old friends. But what he came cross was the death of his wife and his old peers gone or lost as well. I felt like this story shows how no matter how long you are gone things could happen in many different ways, and not only that but people sometimes don’t notice you are gone at all.
Evidence- Poor Rip was at last reduced almost to despair; and his only alternative, to escape from the labor of the farm and clamor of his wife, was to take gun in hand and stroll away into the woods. Here he would sometimes seat himself at the foot of a tree, and share the contents of his wallet with Wolf, with whom he sympathized as a fellow-sufferer in persecution.

Task 2-
What I feel was romanticism about this story was that he was gone for twenty years, without him knowing himself. It was that particular part of the story because he was imagining that once he left all his worries would fade away, as well as all his problems. When he thought of getting away from his wife since she didn’t love him, to go out to the pretty mountains, he was imagining how it was going to be so much better. Just himself and happy, that is not how things turned out to be, he ended up meeting two unknown people and drinking their liquor. What happened, he fell asleep never to wake up again until 20 years. Another prove of romanticism is how when he woke up, he felt like ok now I’m going back to my village and meet once again with my people, once again he is imagining how it would be like since he was all alone up in the mountains. When he gets there once again he faces reality and howl life does have things that hurt more than a simple fight or a simple boring life.

Task 3- Thanatopsis Poem
As I read this poem I automatically realized everything romantic about it. This poem is about how the one American imagined everything pretty and calm. This guy talks about talking to Mother Nature, and how Mother Nature’s talks back to him. It also talks about how at one point all will die, and that once you die you will all be equal no matter what you are. Once you die, you will turn into earth and wait for the rest to join you. Two examples of romanticism are-
1. Mother Nature- this is a good example because Mother Nature does not exist and in the poem the author makes her seem so real, and also he talks about how everything around her is so nice and clean unlike where he lives.
2. Everyone being equal at death- another good example because this is saying all human will be equal at one point. Even though some of us would like it to be that way, it won’t be like that. I say this because if you are a king or queen you will never be like the poor or the normal. If you are a normal ordinary person you will never be like to prince and princess. So why did they assume they would be equal at death, because Mother Nature assured them. This is romanticism because like I said nobody is always equal.
Textual evidence- Yet a few days, and thee The all-beholding sun shall see no more In all his course; nor yet in the cold ground, Where thy pale form was laid, with many tears, Nor in the embrace of ocean shall exist Thy image.

Task 4- The Ropewalk
This poem is a good example of romanticism because this author is imagining everything he can do with what he does at his job, which is making rope. The point of this story is to explain and show that when you are bored and have no where else to go or nothing else to do, you can always imagine yourself somewhere else at that time. Images that stood out to me where mountains, swings, oceans, and sunny pretty days. They stood out to me because this is what he was thinking about. He was thinking about what the ropes he was making will someday be useful for. Then again he was always thinking of what those same ropes can be used for, but used for bad stuff. He was being creative by thinking and this is what romanticism was all about, IMAGINATION!
Textual Evidence- Two fair maidens in a swing,Like white doves upon the wing. Then an old man in a tower,Ringing loud the noontide hour, While the rope coils round and roundLike a serpent at his feet,And again, in swift retreat, Nearly lifts him from the ground.

Task 5-
The painting to me seems like a good example of romanticism because of the way it looks. This painting contains mountains, sunlight, trees, and a pretty lake. Now we all know that back in those times 1820, people lives in trashy places dirty and with no sanitation what so ever. So to them imagining this place of a good lagoon with trees surrounding and sunlight flashing through their was a ideal place for them. Also with what I see, I spotted some sort of animal by the lake, and this could somewhat be used for food. Sounds great right, but this as not the place they were in physically. This was the place they were in mentally.

This is a good example of romanticism because this is such a pretty paradise and everyone including me would like to be in this place taking a nice vacation and having a calm day and life. This is a perfect picture because it has a beautiful shining sun, a moon, some mountains, and a nice ocean.

3 Rational Thoughts

Rationalist Thought #1- "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal." This Is a rational thought because Puritans believed that God had chosen the ones he wanted to be better than others, and Rationalist knew that was not true because all men were created equally.
Rationalist Thought #2- "It is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security." This was also another rational thought because they say that if one or more didn't like the government, they can all throw one of and set a new one. The Puritans thought that if a government was establish if were to stay like that because it was already set.
Rationalist Thought #3- "Certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." Another one becasue they felt like they were happy and who they were because of themselves and not God or anyone else.