tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79025299074493761052024-03-07T21:49:27.072-08:00Juanse´s BlogAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03182021368463205555noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7902529907449376105.post-8254509003171577242019-02-15T16:49:00.000-08:002019-02-15T16:49:06.785-08:00"The Raven"- Citizenship and Commitment"The Raven" is a narrative poem created by Edgar Allan Poe, this poem is mainly aclaimed and noted foe its musicality. "The Raven"shows a Raven´s mysterious visit to the house of a narrator in the mourning of his lost companion, Lenore. In this essay we will be trying to apply the values of citizenship and commitment to this caracteristically super natural, full of folk, mythological, religious and classical references. Citizenship is when the attitude of an individual, and its character, are accepted, and this individual is viewed as a member of society, behaviored in terms of the duties, obligations and functions of citizen. Commitment is the state or quality of being dedicated to a cause or a certain activity or activities. In “The Raven”, I don’t really see the value of citizenship involucrated at all, Edgar Allan Poe’s intention when writing this poem was addresing the idea of a rotten and undying devotion, the narrator, who also happens to be the main character, is struggling with the conflict of the desire to forget or remember the memory of his companion, conflict that drives the narrator finally to madness, after passing by regret, being grief-stricken and a frenzy. I think, by the way, that the narrator has pleasure when focusing on loss, because he classifies the raven’s word “nevermore” as “only a stock and store”, but continues asking questions about the visit’s meaning, kind of knowing the answer, or the answer’s nature, before “listening” to the bird’s answer. I also think that is posible that the raven may be a product of the main character’s imagination, created by the thoughts and pain over the death of Lenore, his companion. Citizenship, retaking my point, is a total outcast in this poem, the main theme of the poem, and intentions of the poem’s writer are not related in any sense to this peice of writing. Passing to the other value that we are trying to adress, commitment is definetely more related to the main idea of the poem and the intentions of the writer, when seeing the thoughts and struggles of the main character, we can sense a feeling of commitment not only to his companion, Lenore, as itself, as a person, but also commitment to the memory of her, the memory that he is struggling to contain or let go. Even the assumed focus on loss that the main character has can be related to the value of commitment. The feelings that the main character is feeling are all, in a way, having to do with commitment to his thoughts, he can not let go of the feelings he once felt, and feels for his beloved Lenore, even after her death, and that is why, in a way, and in a certain point of view, that commitment, devotion, and later the incapacity of letting go he feels are basically responsible for the visit, or as I see it, creation (in the mind of the main character) of the raven, so consequently, it is not irrational to say that commitment, and other possible values included, values that once were healthy and good for a relationship, are the responsible factors of driving our main character insane and mental. That is how I see the value of commitment is related to this poem, obviously seen in a very specific point of view. I don’t personally think that Edgar Allan Poe saw this value as a possible factor to be analyzed or even taken into account when reading this piece, because usually, commitment is not related to grief and rotten devotion, not even related to cause them. This values are pretty far away from being related to the main message this poem wanted to transmit, but seeing the details and using them in a certain way, you can see that the message of this poem can be scaled universally.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03182021368463205555noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7902529907449376105.post-64210771310043269402019-01-30T13:42:00.003-08:002019-01-30T13:42:36.906-08:00"Self Reliance"- Caring and Patience<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px;">We are going to talk about the story “Self-Reliance” and two values called caring and patience. When you are a caring person, means that you appreciate other people and you feel the need to protect them, and give them your love and attention. And when you are a patient person it means that you wait for people or situations or something to change. The value in the story is being self reliant, which means that you don't rely in other people to do what you want to do, and people do not choose for you or what people say or think does not affect you, you only trust your opinion on yourself.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px;"> In my point of view, i do not see these values in the story but not because a person who is self reliant or is trying to learn it is not caring or patient but because i don't think those two values were what the author was trying to teach or reflect about. When you care about a person you give a lot of focus to them and you try to be as patient as you can with them, but if you try to be self reliant you can't focus on yourself. Also if you depend on other peoples love and affection, care for you, if they leave you or disappoint you, you wont have someone to lean on other than yourself and that is why being self reliant is important. When you are very patient on others you tend to end up sacrificing a lot of things to wait on them, which is the opposite aspect of what Ralph Waldo Emerson tries to teach us on his story. The author also talks about ignoring and not paying attention to the people who do not support you or try to change you, or try to decide what you should do with your own life, and being patient with this people will only make the try to control your life more. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px;">Of course this are not all the cases because self reliant people can also be caring and patient, but if you try to follow the author’s teaching you will probably not learn much about this values. I don’t think the author included this two values in the story like he did with others, like nonconformity and trust which are two of the most important topics talked about in this essay, because they are not important for the development of self reliance. In conclusion to this essay, we have to learn about not letting self reliance stop you from being kind or patient to others, because that is the whole point of self reliance in this essay, not letting others dictate your life and living by your own rules. Because people like Socrates and Jesus or more of the people at the end of the essay lived self reliance a certain way, or depended on kindness and patience or were known by that, or weren’t know for them, means you have to have them or not.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03182021368463205555noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7902529907449376105.post-38167685480456238812018-12-16T14:47:00.002-08:002018-12-16T14:47:44.689-08:00Fairness and Justice in ¨A Psalm of Life¨ and ¨The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls¨Being just means that you give people what they deserve. When you are being fair it means that you are handling a situation free from bias or injustice, with an even hand, not necessarily giving or applying something to someone. You cannot sense the presence of justice at first when superficially reading "A Psalm of Life", for this is not exactly the message that Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, its author, wants to give and share for people to reflect on. The main message of the poem is to live actively and do not lament our past or take the future as granted; but our two values, fairness and justice, are not present in the "future as granted" part, but in the part of "lamenting our past", in the third stanza you can sense that the author thinks that life will not always be unfair or injust all the time, or easy and favoritable in all the situations we encounter in our lifes, presenting our two values almost directly to us, even though mostly careful readers only will actually see these two values slightly implied in the poem, they both are definetely in there, faintly present in the main message of our first poem.<br />
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For "The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls", I can see these two values being vaguely present too, the main message for our second poem is that nature will always prevail and continue its cycle, while us humans are always going to be frail, and we depend on nature to continue to live on. We can in part infer from all of the stanzas, that not matter what happens, nature´s cycle will keep on, and this is not unfair, for life does not judge us, it just keeps on going, and with life, and thus, life will be at the end just with us for what we hace done, as people in the course of history have seen, but neither of these two values are explicitlely referred to in the poem, and they can only be applied if you look specifically for them when reading or analyzing more deeply the poem.<br />
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In conclusion, these two poems do not adress directly our two values, fairness and justice, but they can be applied in both of the main ideas of the poems if searched specifically. I don´t think Henry Wadsworth Longfellow intended to include neither of this values in the message of this two poems of his, but they take part in creating the idea that he wanted to create and share. I think you can sense that fairness and justice are a little bit more clearly applied in the messageAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03182021368463205555noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7902529907449376105.post-38864112900746024572018-11-29T15:50:00.001-08:002018-11-29T16:11:12.717-08:00Trustworthiness and Thankfulness- In "The Devil and Tom Walker"<div>
Two values that you can sense are not applied in the morality of the two main characters of "The Devil and Tom Walker", Tom Walker and the Devil, are trustworthiness and thankfulness. Tom Walker, who is in misery and is living with his wife, despices his life-style and does not appreciate what he has and has worked for. Tom Walker does not even love his wife, not trusting her and conflicting with her all the time; he was not even prone to let his wife into his confidence about his secret, about-to-be-made pact with the Devil at first, although he ultimately said it to her, for he was unseasy with it; and she acted avaricely, later getting killed by the Devil beacause of it. The other main character, the Devil himself, logically lacks trustworthiness; he always searches deals to only benefit himself at the end, tricking people, like Tom, into falling into his pacts and being later enslaved by him in hell for eternity. </div>
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When Tom grew old, he began to feel anxious about the next life he was going to obtain, and understood that he should not have trusted the Devil at the beginning, and he was right. Now, a direct example of how the value of being thankful is not present in any of the character´s set of values in the story is in Tom Walker´s wife. Even though Tom worked really hard to maintain her and their house, she always abused Tom both verbally and fisically, and Tom does not even trust her at all, despise being his wife.</div>
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I think that these two values, trustworthiness and trustfulness are not presented at any time in the story itself, but you can definetely sense the lack of them as the story advances because of how the characters act in their evolution throughout the events of it. For example, Tom, towards the end of the story, becomes someone that cannot be trusted either, stealing folk´s money out of his own parsimony, becoming kind of like the Devil, when at first, he was at least hard-working and an honest worker. You can easily sense that the evolution of the character´s morality does not have trustworthiness or thankfulness in it. </div>
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In conclusion, I think it can be considered true that this two values are not exactly present in any of the characters as a whole, but being the lack of them so easily percieved, you can definetely say that this story is, actually, adressing both of this values.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03182021368463205555noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7902529907449376105.post-6936575171622962602018-09-18T19:11:00.002-07:002018-09-18T19:11:47.170-07:00Thriller StoryIn a remote shack, in the outskirts of a country that will not be mentioned, a wealthy family, who´s name won´t be revealed, went to a family trip by the time of winter, they had bought a whole mountain for themselves. They were a feall big family, so they went with a lot of luggage, not knowing what the other one had.<br />
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They all settled in the shack in the center of the mountain, the boy´s aunt, who was the half-sister of the boy´s mother, decided that she would sleer in the room at the end of the isle, she was a single, lonely widow that was married to a rich old man that had passed away because of a cancer, she loved to read thriller-themed books. The boy never payed attention to her, so he decided not to say that he wanted that room too, so he took the room next to his aunt´s.<br />
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Everyone settled in their respective rooms, the boy wanted to have tghe room all for himself, even though his little cousin wanted to share room with him, as expected, his parents granted him that wish.<br />
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They arrived at the shack in the night-time, so everyone, after dinner was over, went to sleep. The boy´s aunt was the only one in the whole shack with the lights on, the boy was bothered by that. In his impotence for sleeping, he asked his weird aunt for a bookto read, she had a whole bag full of books, each one of them had a dark cover, with a specific hour written on it. The boy decided to pick the one that had "3 07" written on it. Before exiting the room, his aunt stared at him with a gloomy look, and saying nothing, the boy went to his room.<br />
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The boy wasn´t sure if he wanted to read, he was already scared by the cover of his aunt´s book, it had a certain inquity to it. It was 9 57 in the night when the boy decided to read the mysterious book, the first page was in blank, so was the second, the third, the fourth, the fifth, and so on, it was incredibly weird. The boy looked through all of the pages, not skipping one, but every page was completely emptied of words. By the page 287, the book´s pages started to have dirt on it, with random scratches and rips, and finally, in the page 307, the words "Don´t sleep tonight" were written in a stronglypressed pencil. The boy started to shudder, he went to his aunt´s room to return the book and ask for some explanations, but the lights of his aunt´s room were already off. The boy decided to try and listen through the door to know if his aunt was there, but he only heard whispers that he couldn´t understand.<br />
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He left his aunt´s book in the floor, and went to his room, he could not think of nothing but the woeds "Don´t sleep tonight" in the book, strangely enough, when the thought of the strange whispers came to his mind, he found himself drousy, and fell asleep. Suddenly, it was 3 07 in the morning, he awoke to a sudden and strong neck grab, as he felt the long and curved nails of that monster piercing, with a long and faint smile, through his stomach, he couldn´t shout...<br />
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The boy, all covered in sweat, woke up to that horrid nightmare, he saw the book opened at his feet, now with the words "Now you´ll sleep" written in the last page, then, abruptly, the room´s door was being heavily pushed and kkicked, Caelum could hear scratches being made, he looked at the clock in his left. It was 3 06.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03182021368463205555noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7902529907449376105.post-52419428402458647512018-09-03T15:33:00.000-07:002018-09-03T15:33:44.084-07:00Where I liveColombia is one of the 20 countries that Latin America has, located in the north-occidental part of South America and in the equator, is actually one of the most well known countries in Latin America. It shares borders with Panama, Venezuela, Brazil, Ecuador and Peru. the Colombian territory contains in its floors the amazon rainforest, tropical grasslands, and the Carribean and Pacific coasts. It is one of the world´s megadiverse countries ecologically, and it is the most densely biodiverse country of these. Colombia is one of the most promising emerging markets in Latin America, obtaining macroeconomic stability, gaining a stable and arousing market. Colombia is very extreme floor-wise, it contains from snowy, unactive volcanoes and the big mountains of the Andes, and the tropical beaches that run the north and west of the country where the coasts are located, to deserts in the north like La Guajira, and vast greenlands. It has become one of the most turistic countries of Latin America in the past years, attracting over 3.2 million tourists in 2017. the people are really diverse, too, they mostly decend from Indians, African people, and European settlers, not to count the turkish families that came here later, making the music, dance, art, and gastronomy very unique.<br />
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The city in which I live is Barranquilla, it is not that big, but definetely not small, i´d say it is a pretty good and nice city to live in, it is not too stressful, or too boring. Barranquilla is the capital of the Atlantico department, that is located in the northern part of the country, that means it is located in the coastlines, so it has beaches, that are kinda dirty, but it is really not bad, and they make great places to hang out with friends and family. One very peculiar thing about living in Barranquilla is that everybody knows everybody, just like in a town, maybe because families are somehow related to one another. Barranquila is placed near the Magdalena River, this river thus becoming a serving port <span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">for water transportation inside Colombia. The most important cultural event of Barranquilla, and of Colombia is the Carnival of Barranquilla, it starts four days before the holy month arrives, and all activities are ceased because of the intense festivities, people who don´t like these days usually go to cities like Santa Marta to escape from all the rumbling. Barranquilla is definetely going to grow in the next years, even though it has a kind of chaotic infrastructure, I think it is going to remodelate completely its administration, and facade.</span></span><br />
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I live in the Riomar neighbourhood, in front of the Electrificadora park, it is a really quiet neighbourhood and nothing really happens, I used to have a few freinds around, but they all moved, so now it is quiet for real, the only thing that ever happens to do noise is the sound of people walking and playing football in the park, and it is barely heard, I really don´t have complaints about it. I can move freely around my neighbourhood, because it is not dangerous at all, and everything around it I already know, I can take out my dog for a walk in the park or around my block, depends on how lazy I am at the moment, I can go get stupid stuff in the little market that i have near my house. My house really stands out in the neighbourhood, reflecting how boring it is, it is a 5 story house right in the middle of my block, that happens to be the center of my neighbourhood. Sometimes little birthday parties are made in the park, they do not make much noise, but it really stands out when it happens, given the silence that usually dominates the place. Basically my neighbourhood is a really nice, boring place to live in, but when you think about it, you really have everything you need right next to you.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03182021368463205555noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7902529907449376105.post-73732542143616183102018-08-26T12:05:00.004-07:002018-08-26T12:05:49.450-07:00Juanse´s little biography<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My name is Juan Sebastian Macias Cure, I was born september 29-2002. I live in the city of Barranquilla, Colombia, and I am currently 15 years old. I am almost finishing high school at Lyndon B. Johnson school, I am in 11th grade, more specifically. I entered at LbJ when I was just 5 years old, in kinder garden, and I have been here since. I met my closest friends in my school, they are, besides my blood family, the people I trust the most.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />I am part of a really big and close family, but my closest relatives are the ones that live with me. My dad´s name is Ramses Macias, he is a chemical engineer, and works all day long, my mom is a stetic doctor, and owns a clinical spa, she works a lot too, and travels a lot like my dad, they are both really great and lovely parents. My brother´s name is Mateo, he studies at LBJ, too. He is really tall and loves to play sports, my sister Shadia is just 9 years old, she loves making things such as slime and all that. Finally my grandma Dalis, she is really religious and loves to cook even though we have a domestic employee in the house.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />A fair bit of my family lives here in Barranquilla. After graduating, I hope to study a few years of medicine here, to be some extra years here in Barranquilla with my friends and family. </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03182021368463205555noreply@blogger.com1