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.

My 13 Virtues

1. Silence. Say what you want to say, don't say what will hurt someone.
2. Freedom. Do as you please, know when it is time to calm down.
3. Unique. Be yourself at all times, do not think you can be someone you are not.
4. Honesty. Think about saying the truth at all times, but do not exceed to truth.
5. Respect. Respect your elders, also if you can't respect yourself, you must learn.
6. Attitude. It's okay to have your own attitude, also try not to have a bad one.
7. Maturity. Act like you are suppose to act, do not act like your son or sibling.
8. Neatness. Be sure to stay neat, do not over do it.
9. Loving. Make sure you always show your love to certain people, love not those who have hurt you.
10. Timeness. Get to places on time, do not always rush because you might not get there.
11. Humility. Do not humiliate someone, If you do not want humiliation around you.
12. Smart. If you are smart use it and do not take it for granted, if you are dumb try.
13. Sincerity. Use words you mean, don't just use them to make someone happy.

I feel strongly about my virtues because they are things I should work on. There are things in here that I know how to do and keep real but they probably were things that I once had a problem with. I feel good that I have changed in some of these virtues. This also relates to most teens and even some adults, therefore they are the best virtues I could come up with.

Franklin as a Rationalist

As I read The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin I found an example of how Franklin was a rationalist. He was a Rationalist because he was explaining on how he had thought of the 13 virtues, and how no one but him had came up with them. He believe that those were his and that the 13 virtues didn't come from or God, or from a bible, or from someone else, but his own words. The text from the autobiography was, " I proposed to myself, for the sake of clearness, to use rather more names, with fewer ideas annexed to each, than few names with more ideas." This practically says it all. He created the 13 virtues to make more sense in a matter of using fewer examples.

Difference between Rationalists and Puritans

The Rationalist had a better working and thinking mind than the Puritans. I say this because the Puritans had such crazy and different beliefes than the Rationalist. Their differences are that the Rationalist thought that they could change something up by experimenting it and through the taught of science, while the Puritans hated this idea because they felt like no one should distroy or try to chnage God's work and creation. The Rationalist also thought they science would be a much easier way to understand life and to uimprove it themselves, while the Puritans thought a whole other way. The Puritans mostly thought in a way that humans have no rights and that God was all they could count on.