Reading Notes week 6 Part B: The Declaration of Rights of Man and of the citizen

Reading Notes 

Part B 

2/28/18

week 6

• Only July 14, 1789, leaders of the French Revolution came together to make a declaration of right and on August 26, 1789, the Declaration of the Rights of Men and of the Citizens flooded the streets of France. 
• Similar to the name of our Declaration of Independence, France's rights is in many ways  different. Even though the man to write our declaration helped France with there drafting process. 
• Some of the Declarations that stood at to me was 7 when it says, "but every citizen summoned or seized in virtue of a law ought to render instant obedience; he makes himself guilty by resistance". on pg. 22 
• I believe it is saying that if they call you to court over breaking the law and you ignore the call you will be assumed guilty by not showing up. That is different from our law 
• Also with declaration 9 it says " Every man is presumed innocent until he has been pronounced guilty" 
• This is really different from our law of being innocent until proven guilty but in France it's not the same 
• The people who control the laws or the judges have more power over if a person is guilty or not 
• Olympe De Gouges or other wise known as Marie Gouges was on of the most radical women rights voice you would hear in 1748- 1793
• pg. 23 " She was advance highly progressive ideas, including the abolition of slavery and the rights of orphans and unwed mothers".
• "if women can be executed then surely they should be permitted to make public speeches". In this time women couldn't even speak in public and Gouges was determine to spark a change with her radically although in todays age rational ideas. 
• Sadly Olympe de Gouges was guillotine during the Reign Of Terror because she used "inflammatory words" and she died a "public enemy"
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Reading Notes Week 6: An Age of Revolutions inEurope and the Americas Part A

Reading Notes 

Week 6

Part A 

An age of revelations in Europe and America 

• People born on 1765 and who were able to live a pretty long life would be a witness to two powerful revolutions 
• The revolutions sparked a change in society where everyone had to learn a new vocabulary and add more political vocabulary to their daily lives and job they were soon to join.
• This time sparked an industrial revolution on pg. 4 "The first of the two great upheavals was the industrial revolution, which began in England and radiated outward, as other nations copied English innovations. 
• A piece of the text that stood out to me personally was on both pg. 4 and pg.5 " The great spur for this new global economy was cotton. Grown and harvested by slaves in the colonies". 
• This slave picked cotton was used to make cloth and in this time period these farmers turned "entrepreneurs" because they profited off of slave labor. But the one in charge profits. 
• I appreciate the picture given on pg. 5 of the homeless people in late 19th-century and how they had a different name as squalor. 
• Some workers even starved in the economy poor growth. 
• On pg. 8 and 9 it gives a clear illustration of the Slave Trade across maps and countries from 1560-1850
• This map shows the estimated number of slaves being transported from each of the countries at the time and this is a great addition for a learner such as me being more visual actually having something to look at. 
• Napoleon ruled by dictatorship and reinstated slavery in France and had other laws that made him a small but fierce leader.

Declaration Of Independence

• Written by Thomas Jefferson The Declaration was a replica of principals by the Enlightenment philosophers believed in. 
• In congress on July 4th 1776 the Declaration of Independence was a unanimous declaration by the thirteen states of America. 
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Week 5 Project Submission

Victor Haynes Jr.

2/25/18

Eng 145

Professor Hiltbrand

LOVE AND FREEDOM

Love and freedom are defined in the Webster dictionary as “unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another” and “the absence of necessity, coercion, or constraint in choice or action. Or some one could read “The Royal Slave” by Aphra Behn and understand the importance of freedom. Prince Oroonoko who was tricked of his freedom by an English slave trader understand the importance of freedom. The Prince also lead a rebellion in fight of his freedom knowing that if he was discovered the punishment was death. Although if you wanted to understand the true meaning of love you could read “The Story of Ch’Uh-Hyang” an eighteenth century work of traditional Korea. Ch’Uh-Hyang gives the best example of love and loyalty to her husband. Even after being harshly whipped twenty-five times she still didn't give in to doing anything that would be considered inappropriate for a married women. What do the both of these story have in common? They both have stories that grasp the meaning of love and, freedom accompanied by both main characters gives readers clear insight into both subjects.

Oroonoko was a Prince who was hoodwinked into slavery by a man he thought he befriended. He was also a warrior who was intelligent and well spoken. The Prince spoke English and French allowing him to communicate with the author who was narrating his story. Although this was a fictional book the author was a character telling the story for the enslaved Prince. Freedom is prevalent from the beginning in this story from the time period it was written and the rationalization of enslavement of African people necessary. The Prince who was in love with a women named Imoinda who was forced to be one of the Kings wives. This did not stop the Prince because he continued to see Imoinda since he was married to her before the King had taken her. While ironically they both lose their freedom the Prince is tricked into slavery and Imoinda being given that punishment for her unloyalty to the King. “Imoinda is no more; and after that, you may spare me the rest”(Behn,216). Imoinda loses her freedom and this send the Prince into profound sadness and arranges his revenge. Not knowing he would be trapped into slavery, “ they clapping great Irons suddenly on the Prince, when he was leap’d down, in the Hold to view that part of the Vessel; and locking him fast down, secured him”(Behn,220). This part of the story expresses the freedom being lost in both quotes from the imagery they impose on readers. When the section of the Prince being abducted the author Behn refers the Prince being “betrayed to slavery” or in other word the Prince was cheated of his power, he was Prince that was stripped rein over his own people. In ordered to capture the Prince the English captain had to get him drunk which was a real cowardly move and this was just the reality at the time. The setting was based in the sixteenth century just gives off the automatic alarm that freedom was had to come by and even if you were a Royal Prince that didn't matter. Oroonoko embodied freedom by not letting anything stop him from getting what he deserved and fought for his liberty’s till the end.  

Ch’Uh-Hyang  symbolised love for her husband in “The Song of Ch’Un-hyang” by just being loyal and not letting someone else lead her into temptation. Ch’Uh-hyang was in love with Master Yi but when Yi’s father the magistrate resigns and moves he vows to come back. And she vowed to wait for him not knowing her allegiance would be soon tested by the new magistrate makes it to town he orders Ch’Un-hyang to be his mistress. She refuses so the magistrate throws her in jail and orders her to be beaten. In this particular sections Ch’Un-hyang shows her love for her husband to the extreme not only turning the new magistrate down but undergoing such mistreat in her alliance with Master Yi. “Two spouses are faithful, Two husbands can not be, Though my body is beaten, Though I die forever, I’ll never forget master Yi (“The Song of Ch’Un-hyang”,84). This section was amazing because she rymed the cries she yelled for her husband as she took the injustice abuse. She was publicly beaten as she publicly proclaimed her love for Master Yi and in the way they arranged this in the book was quite beautiful. All Ch’Un-Hyang needed was love and the pain from the whips were non existent showing the ultimate love and anyone could understand she would do anything for her lover.  

Each of these stories symbolize both love and freedom even if I look at the Royal Prince he expresses in his story a strong theme of love also with Imoinda. The Prince didn't mind the dangers of slavery when it came to his love and in the end he fought a rebellion for both love and freedom. So as did Ch’Uh-Hyang when she fought for her freedom over the new magistrate by not allowing him to pressure her into unfaithfulness. Both characters are main characters who give off a great message if truly read and understand the fight both characters went through. Together with the imagery and grit both of these stories withhold a true essence of masterpieces especially in storytelling from introduction till climax.

Lastly, I wonder the importance of both stories right now and just to see the way they shape entertainment or even fictional book we read their structure is all over today’s format. Pioneers like Aphra Behn being the first professional writer to the new beginnings of plays mocking the classic “The Song of Ch’Un-Hyang”. This fictional writing was so popular in it’s time that it shot Behn into success allowing her to be recognized as the first. And characters like  Ch’Un-Hyang to play as a classic for its people and backing it up with a true message.  

Week 5 Analysis: Close Reading

Close Reading 

Week 5

Matsuo Basho 

  The part of the poems I want to focus my close reading the beginning paragraph of pg.617 "From the Narrow Road to the Deep North", this first poem in my opinion mark the genius of Basho's travel to the Northwest. This was a section where he pondered deeply on his journey and in words making sense of this five month journey by sea. I am intrigued by the use of the word "wanderlust" in the reading just putting the exclamation on the future voyage. Also Basho uses the vocabulary that of wanderlust to explain what he meant in the sentence before where he stated ,"Many, too, are the ancients who perished on the road", explains why he choose to cruise the sea instead of continuing  to depart on road. Then Basho began to paint a picture for us in the poem by explaining the length of the journey. "Floating away their lives on boats", or in other words a metaphor to mark the beginnings of a long journey. Although all of this evidence might make me think that this section was written at the beginning of the journey in the informational section of the text it say's these writings were an idealized version of the travel and not a diary. So this start of the story might not have been from the beginning but a start of writing at any point of the joinery describing when they first sailed off on this travel. Anyway, I might be thinking to hard so the reality that this is from the begging of this challenge ahead of Basho and he began this writing when it actually started to be finish by the end. Basho used this section to begin his story telling through poems to mark the start of a journey that him and his companion Sora was about to embark on and used imagery to grab his readers early. In other words, the author used the introduction to show of his skillful poetry skills which gave readers the interest of continuing the story. 

Reading Notes W5: Part B Cao Xueqin ,

Reading Notes 

Week 5

Part B 

• Can created one of the most best and worst of traditional China into one story. "The Story of Stone" 
• Powerful story and began to move people's hearts and minds. Through a story that took a deep dive into sex, lust, and differences between both sex. 
• Can was raised by a Han Chinese family which ruled the ethic group numbers in China. And his family helped in a prominent and lucrative jobs working as Imperial  Textile Commission 
• With the fame of the Cao family there are not many details on the life of Cao Xueqin but it is know that his family's mansions and property's were swiped by a new emperor over optical reasons. 
• From 1740 to 1750 Cao was working on "The Story of Stone" living in the suburbs of Beijing where he was forced to move after losing everything. Also he was living just above the means of survival selling painting to make ends meet while working on his story. on pg.518
• It was claimed that Cao story was of real life so since there was even less information on his life the story he wrote gave clear inside, especially of what happened to his family's wealth.
• It is tradition for Chinese novels to be very long. And since Cao's followed that tradition made it hard to summarize or even pull out the important parts. 
• On pg. 519 it points out a similarities of the settings in the story and to where Cao lived in real life
• On pg. 521 it gives good insight on to the themes the story uses to become great and allows readers to stay intrigued. 
• It is very interesting that the story had a genealogy to give information further into the beginnings of the characters and makes it even feel more of a true story with the added genealogy. 
• At the bottom go pg. 527 it says "The accumulation of good and bad deeds that determines a soul's future lives". showing the relationship between Buddhism and the way the characters lived in the story. 
• Beautiful poems on pg. 617 and through out the reading 

Reading Notes W5: Part A Feng Menglong+Ihara Saikaku

Reading Notes

Week5

Part A

• Feng Menglong was know as one of the most versatile writers in the early modern age of China .He was an ardent scholar but also enjoyed small dramas of everyday life. He was a reason that vernacular stories turned into true stories through his higher educated thinking and knowledge of common people. 
• Feng Menglong was born to a wealthy family in 1547 that lived in Suzhou which was the center of culture during the Ming Dynasty.
• Feng was a collector jokes and folksong because he was always passionately reading popular literature that common people had in their culture. Giving him material to be able to include both scholarly and common aspects into his work. 
• New urban culture during the Ming Dynasty started to produce genres with the topics like sex, money, crimes, and court cases. 
• Feng did much reading and editing others writings and then adding his own creations of his own that read like popular stories. Out of 120 stories in his collection 37 he wrote completely by himself. on pg. 498
• Vernacular writing attracted Feng from its freedom of speech and expression in ways he could not do when writing in classical language. He created a hallmark in new vernacular writing also with his love of being an oral storytelling. 
• On pg. 498 in the last paragraph also gives a summary of the story we will be reading for the majority of the reading telling us the two main characters and how the plot line of Feng's story telling will play out. 
• In starting to read the story I can see immediately the story telling Feng is building up to by giving the lay out of the setting and background of characters to have readers further understand the story he was telling. 
• Also I see the versatility showing that he structured the preface of the story easy to read and having readers understand what is going on. Then switching to a more scholarly vocabulary but still everyday talk when his story began with his characters Lui Yuchun and Mei. 

Project Action Plan Week 4

Victor Haynes Jr.

Eng205

2/18/18

Project Action Plan

• My project will use the fictional story of Prince Oroonoko The Royal Slave by Aphra Behn the first professional woman writer.
• First I will introduce the background of the story then my topic I will focus on is: Love and freedom as two subjects to focus on. Then I will choose two selections and discuss how that subject is discussed in those selections. Using literary devices to help frame my discussion.
• I will use this as a thesis and use my subject of love to show how the prince was captured in the first place because of the love that he had for Imoinda. He saved his beloved from his corrupt grandfather but in doing this lead him to be tricked into slavery by a selfish english slave trader along with his love.
• Then also introducing the subject of freedom to my writing by showing nobody in that time who was African was too good or too powerful to not be affected by slavery. Also freedom is the bigger subject so it also will help me argue that the prince who was a slave now still was not stripped of his leadership because he end up leading a revolt with his fellow slaves. He wanted to destroy the coopereration the slave owners had at the time over his people.
• Accompanied by me looking at the literary devices the narrator Behn brings up from her chilling story. Also showing that her freedom was limited even though she wasn't a slave she only could narrate his story to help anything else could have gotten her into much more trouble.

My biggest text I will be using to help prove my points are: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphra_Behn to explain the background in my introduction and also  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oroonoko to help give a clearer explanation of The Prince’s story and use things from the pages in our readings to help back up my thesis. Also using another text from the book of a few poems that will connect to the subjects of freedom mostly and love if I can find one.

Week 4 Analysis: Close Reading

Analysis 

Week4

Close Reading 

On pg. 424 there began a story "From The Journey to the West", and it was very intriguing given that most of the characters were animals. Also the stone monkey who was the main character came to life in a very unique way. Or in other words a very confusing way because he was basically born from a stone egg but the way the stone egg was even created had me mind boggled. I understand that this is fictional and this story has a way deeper meaning. In my opinion I believe that this story is history just told in a more creative way with animal characters and the confusing ways of how things come to life in the story has an actual meaning given the context of the history. I notice that the author uses imagery the most given the highest  detailed information on the smallest of information and uses this to probably turn this story which may be history into a fun story anyone no matter the age would understand. Looking deeper into the reading helps me realize that this is not just any story but history told from the early modern Chinese vernacular. Also the animals are not just used as characters but metaphorically used to describe an actual figure in history. For example the stone monkey could actually be a person in history who was brought to this earth in a special way as an infant but later saved his people by doing a heroic act just as the stone monkey did in this piece of text. The most interesting thing about this text has to be the fact that history is hidden in a fiction story and given the time period where the public was looking for more everyday vernacular instead of scholarly literature. Given this fact to input the supply where the public's demand was located instead of telling straight history the scholarly way instead put it into a fictional story with different characters to appeal to everyone no matter their class or education level. 

Reading Notes W4: Early Modern Chinese Vernacular Literature, Part B

Reading Notes 

Week 4 

Part B 

• pg. 415 explains how this section of the book on the Chinese Vernacular Literature would not be included in conversation with these other writing in the early twentieth-century. This is because writings like poems, prose, and tales were consider more important but now these pieces are works of art.
• This literature felt with themes such as sex, violence, corruption, social satire, and slapstick humor. This type of literature was set apart at the time from the rest because it was a time of intellectual literature. But this writing used the living vernacular of everyday speech. 
• In China this literature caught fire throughout all classes and since it was even more relatable it became very profitable as well. 
• Vernacular literature took the place of classical writings and became triumph over time by flooding the public with plays, verse romances, and prose fiction. 
• The beginnings of this writing began during the Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368) on pg. 416
• Only during the Ming Dynasty was China introduced to the genre of drama and was not like the Greeks who had a classical tradition of drama. 
• Tang Xianzu (1550-1616) was one of the more famous drama play writers with his play Peony Pavilion that dived into the more romantic side. 
• The  Romance of Three Kingdoms was the struggle of three kingdoms that was one of the most famous romances thats was able to survive. And on pg. 417 it shows a picture. 
• on pg. 424 is the beginning of the story of The Journey to the West and it begins with a large amount of descriptive writing that gives you a sense of the setting. Also the imagery it gives when explaining how the money was born is amazing. 
• The monkey who was born from the egg was born being able to walk, climb, and with all his limbs. He made friends with other animals like the tiger, lizard, wold, and many more animals. 
• On pg. 425 also had stanzas of what looked like poems in between the story which is unique and the structure shows the openers in structure of writing. 

Reading Notes W4: Voltaire, Part A

Reading Notes 

Week4

Voltaire 

• pg. 352 On the first page of this reading it dives right into the life Francois-Marie Arouet better know as Voltaire and just how much of a pioneer he was for rebellious literature. He wrote whatever he wanted no matter the amount of trouble he could get into and then did whatever it took to get his message read by the public 
• Voltaire would direct his written to exercise his freedom of speech before it was even a given right. He would do things like mock corrupt priest and self indulged kings. Basically calling out those in power not and fearing the repercussions. 
• His use of imagery to make his words turn into pictures in the minds of his readers helped him be thrusted into the spotlight. 
• Also being thrown into jail didn't even stop his grind to express his freedom of speech and he would use messenger to get his work out. 
• Voltaire lived to the old age of 83. Even though he lived in a time where his type of writing could have gotten him killed by people in higher power he managed to lived pass regular age limits. 
• Voltaire was a trouble child and he continued this into his adult hood getting into trouble with authorities. 
• Born in Pairs on 1694 to a middle class family. He was sent to a boarding school at the young age of 10 where he grew a love for literature even though his father wanted him to pursue law. But he began to write plays and poetry. 
• Voltaire at a young age made a bunch of powerful friends but his constant use of sarcasm also earned him his share of enemies. 
• Voltaire was sent to jail for the first time after attacking the head of state and was sentence for almost up to a year. He wrote his first play Oedipus which was very successful and earned him a good amount of wealth and began to establish a literature reputation. 
• Voltaire went into to exile in England after a confrontation with a noble man where he met fellow writers Johnathan With and Alexander Pope. He enjoyed England for its freedom of censorship and no punishment for writers. 
• After spending time in England  Voltaire strengthened his urge to oppose authority 

Topic Research Week 3

Topic Research 

Week 3

Amphora Behn

Oroonoko or, the Royal Slave

• I appreciate that this story is written giving awareness to what actually was going on at that time. Innocent black men being taken from their homes by greedy white men. 
• I don't appreciate that she is a white women talking from this perspective because she is making a book about what is really going on at her time but doing nothing about it. 
• Also she is white so how does she know so much about a african prince to even do a book on the Prince's experience in slavery. 
• She might have know about the business side of this trade because her people where the one doing the horrific act but how could she possible even fictional write what a actual slave was going through. I just feel its a little inconsiderate but in her time probably was just seen as a great book to read for fun even though the acts explained in the book were real life things. 
• This link has a paragraph from wiki proving the point I just finished above: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphra_Behn
• And the link also gives a picture of the first edition of her book of Prince Oroonoko 
• Also this link gives you way more in site on the book and how she was the first professional female writer : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oroonoko
• This is a very interesting topic because even though her story was inconsiderate it did put black people in a positive light despite the time period she wrote it in. The Prince was a leader and she wrote that he lead a revolt with his own people against slave owners showing the royalty he had in his blood to have people follow him even if it would end in death 

Feedback strategies with Vic

Feedback Strategies for the youth

Week3

The Difference between Praise and Feedback

By: Mindshift

In this article I read it opened my eyes to a bunch of new ideas and ways to think. Although at the moment I don't have any children this article I can use with my younger family and for my future children. I see in ways myself in this article from the child perspective but instead my mother did more of telling me that even though I did well in school I always could do better. I wish I was like these children where everything they do no matter how bad or good they get the praising response from their parent. Instead my feedback was more of the kind this article is saying children actually need. In the article they are challenging parents to show children more attention and to actually give them useful feed back like, "You made a great touchdown today. How long did it take you to get that route down in order to lose your defender." And not feedback like, "Great touchdown you're the best wide reciever on the team". The difference between those two sentences of feedback is the first sentence is actually praising the effort or strategy your child put into his route running. While the second one is less of a process they can actually grow from but a comment that makes them think I have no room for improvement and there's not a lot I can do to get better if my Dad or Mom already said I am the best. I understand the difference and will be sure to apply this to my everyday life and in the future with my children and in my education. This type of feedback will help me allow others to grow and actually show them I care with true feedback. 

Week3 Analysis : Ch'Un-Hyang

Literary Analysis 

Week3

"The Song of Ch'Un-Hyang" was one of the more interesting readings I had this week and it was a part of a performance script. Although one part that absolutely caught my eye while doing my readings. When Ch'Un-Hyand was beaten and with each stroke that she was given she weeped loudly short poems. This style of writing first made me notice this specific part of text and it just stands out from the rest of the structure of writing. The author gave every stroke she was given their own column, also this helped me understand how important this part was. It was a cruel act that was commanded to happen from the governor since Ch'Un-Hyang didn't let him have his way with her. Even though she was already a married women but he didn't care and order her to be beat. In this part of the story the theme of the strength of Ch'Un-Hyang and how she was able to withstand the strokes she was given because off the thought of bring faithful to her husband. For example on pg. 84 " Two spouses are faithful, Two husbands there cannot be: Through my body i die forever, I'll never forget master Yi". This quote shows how committed Ch'Un-Hyang so being beaten unlawfully was horrible but she was strong in remembering her husband. Also this shows how much love Ch'Un-Hyang  had for her husband and not even letting a man in power make her unfaithful. This performance brings back thoughts of a time like this in reality to where women had few rights. Ch'Un-Hyang did nothing wrong but say no to the governor in a polite way and still she was beaten and publicly humiliated. After a total of twenty-five strokes given to her she was left covered with blood and bathing in her own tears. On the other hand I respect Ch'Un-Hyang for the unfailing loyalty she had to her husband and by taking those strokes basically for him. She didn't let anyone come in the way of her marriage and that is true love. 

Reading Notes W3: The Song of Ch'Un-Hyang , Part B

Reading Notes 

Week#3 

• pg. 74- This particular song of Ch'Un-Hyang is the most famous traditional work of Korea. A narrative that is widely performed, and an interesting story of romantic love, heroism, and fidelity. 
• pg.74- This song traced it's roots to shaman songs, folktales, and folksongs. P'ansori drama is the main component of the performances and they are so similar to Ancient Greek epic poetry in performing styles. 
• "P'ansori has always been a communal act." To Korea this performance was part of their culture so they faithfully had performances and didn't change the setting like more Western influenced places. 
• pg. 75The song of Ch'Un-Hyang came from the eighteen century. And the first know piece of long poetry in Chinese style dates back to 1754. 
• This type of story has also been told in many genres not only used with the p'ansori.
• I can relate to the part of the performance where their was dialogue and then the actor just bust out into song. On pg. 80 this happens it isn't my favorite part but if the song is really good I enjoy it. 
• On pg. 84-85 this type of writing style is unique how the author structured it beautifully. It was like a group of poverty monologues put into two pages as the character pour his heart out in this part of the performance. 
• Also on pg. 87-88 the text gives another long section for the character Ch'Un-Hyang and her metaphors and imagery in his poems are something I take note of and aspire to be like. 

Reading Notes W3: Tartuffe , Part A

Tartuffe 

Reading Notes

Week3

Tartuffe

• On pg. 144 - the story starts and it gives us some incite and information at the bottom about the play so we could understand what was going on. For example the meaning of the french verb meaning to cheat or deceive. 
• Also on the same pg.- it in forms readers that the character Madame Pernelle who was a mother in law usually was played by a male which I'm guessing for a comedic element. 
• From reading the first few pages - I see that the characters have a lot to say each time they talk I could imagine it was difficult remembering lines in this age of time. Also I can see the character "Madame Pernelle" is very blunt or frank as she would say every time she opens her mouth. She is also very rude to her extended family through marriage. 
• I enjoy the references to the bible like on pg. 148 - where the older mean lady is talking and she talks about the tower of babel and uses it to describe the people of the town gossiping. 
• The French Scenes - On pg. 148 they also introduce us to the term and how declares when there is a new scene in the play. 
• On pg. 151- it talks about Bloodletting and how for centuries that people used this for standard medical treatment. And it could be done by using leeches or other means. 
• This whole reading is like a big drama having me see the same genres today, in the past where still a go to for entertainment 
• I also see many references to God and the bible just showing where society was at in this time of this play. And showing the language they used in everyday speech and conversation. 
• The laws in this play was very strict and not giving those who committed crimes a way out. 

Feedback Thoughts

Feedback Thoughts 

Week2

Feedback is essential to be great in anything in life. Feedback is a great part of life though and many shy away from it but it indeed is what has kept life on earth going. Without feedback people can just become slackers and nothing would change everything just the same forever. Although with feedback in our lives we get to see the wrongs we did and the next time around ace the test with flying colors. Mostly because the feedback you received help you in your final attempt and also because you prepared for the test. Honestly feedback is what makes us great too and dominate because the feedback we as humans has received over the years has birth many things we need to sustain existence. 

Topic Brainstorm or vicstorm

My Topics 

Week 2 

1. The first topic I would consider doing my weekly project on would be Mary Wollstonecraft and how her class as a women in the end of the 17th century. Mary started a new argument of the rights for women by exposing the mistreatment of women in society and explaining it as men trying to keep control over there women. She was of course aware, knowing that just because she was a women she would have to stand behind her words in her essay. Mary was attacked socially by people disagreeing with her and giving her no credit all her life. Also by outcasting her for having a child out of wedlock and everyone judging her. I am excited about this argument because this story is really interesting form many ways. 

2. My next topic would be on philosopher David Hume and his interesting views. This part of the readings made me think of what this story is teaching me of history is that everything has a lot of opinion. Mr. Hume in his opinions explained that his views were only based on fact and he didn't believe in anything that couldn't be an observable fact. Then he turns around later in his view to say how disgusting and harsh slavery was but goes and sticks his foot in his mouth. I am excited by this topic because this topic made me think of all the things I can talk about in these readings.

3. In the third topic I can go next door in the readings and talk about Benjamin Franklin. Talking about Mr. Franklin shows a real connection between my life at this moment. In life everyone needs money and it is a way of life. But I feel that people of my generation and culture would do anything for a stack of Benjamin Franklin dollars, not knowing that he was a large slave owner. Showing large connect between me and Mr. Franklin. I am interested to talk about this to show how truly ironic it is that we still honor former people who accepted slavery and how he isn't even a president so why is he on our money.

4. In my last topic I could write about would be James Beattie and how his urges to challenge David Hume became truly amazing. This reflects that the time it was written is was all about debate and challenging one another. This also shows how slavery was just a topic of argument to Mr. Beattie and he felt it was wrong the things that David Hume said but it doesn't say he did anything to help fight slavery. This is exciting because it shows how important debate was and nobody thrust themselves in to actual action.

W2 Analysis of Mary Wollstonecraft

Literary Analysis
Mary Wollstonecraft
Week#2

Out of all of the reading we were assigned this second week of school and first week of actually diving in to the books. There was one piece of text that stood out, that even had me bring the topic up in conversation outside of school. This particular text was when we were introduced to Mary Wollstonecraft. For one her last name is intriguing just from all of the word that put together one name. Which reminded me that she was born in a totally different time period and helped me adjust my mind to the late 1700's. Reading what she did showed me what strength she had to speak up for the rights of her own sex,while doing it in such of a compelling way. I appreciated how she first did The Vindication of the Rights Men speaking to all men no matter the race in 1791, and then turning around to do The Vindication of the Rights of Woman. In doing this she fist challenged men with writing about their own rights and how they can be changed for the better. In her era this was unheard of a women contributing to the Enlightenment age. Mary made her ideas even more breaking news by, one year later speak up for the rights of women. This essay in 1792 was seen as radicalism for the ideas she introduced to explain how women are treated similar to slaves. And she had a huge point in her time women received no education and unequal rights trapped them into the same position as a slave. With their husbands as there masters and nothing they could do to further themselves individually.
It is even more profound to know that in her whole lifetime she was mocked for her views and her having a child out of wedlock was more focused on then her founding of feminism. Mary Wollstonecraft was such a fearless innovator and it's ashamed that she wasn't recognized till century's later in 1960. Mary was before her time and comments in her writing like "This is only keeping them in rank and file, it is true. Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be end to blind obedience; but, as blind obedience is ever sought for by power, tyrants and sensualists are in the right when they endeavor to keep women in the dark, because the former only want slaves, and the latter a plaything"(pg.136). In this quote Mary was exposing how men in her day would keep women uneducated and obedient to them because they rather a slave then a person who might at times challenge them. Mary seen education as power to women and she understood that men believed if women had education they would no longer be their obedient wives and family members. She seen a future much brighter for women and she didn't have a problem expressing how she felt. In the text Mary's tone and characterization of herself is extremely intriguing. Reading this made you see Ms. Wollstonecraft as a unmovable force because she was mocked yet continued to stand by her writings and the tone in her comparisons of marriage to slavery, showed you she meant business. Although her community drowned out her views by making a scandal of her life she was still immovable and her essay's lived on past her time to be appreciated.