Research Paper

My research paper was about the effects of music piracy on the music industry. There was a lot of interesting information on this topic and I learned a lot. One thing that really surprised me was the effect Napster had on starting the whole music piracy business off. Without Napster I do not think the problem of music piracy would be as big as it is today. Another thing that i found interesting is the different reaction from bands about illegal music downloading. Bands, like Metallica, were completely against it when there were some other bands, such as Ween, who supported it completely.

Snowbound

Out of all the Romantic poems that we read during that unit my favorite poem was Snowbound. Snowbound was a happy poem about the first snowfall of the year. This poem used great descriptions in it to make me feel was if i was actually there. The story made me feel good inside after it was done and the excitement all the kids showed throughout it made me really appreciate all the little things in my life. The poem had a good source of allusion when they said the tunnel they made was life Aladins chamber and the alliteration in the story was well used.

Nature

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Pit and the Pendulum

The walls are close in faster and faster but I do not know what to do. I look to my left and I look to my right and I see a saw hanging on the wall. As I grab the saw I think to myself, " Oh dear I was hoping it would not have to come to this!" I think of my options, in the split seconds a have left, and remember the accident I had when I was a child. I remember getting my leg crushed by a car in my youth and a majority of my leg was replaced with a metal rod. Without anymore thinking I start sawing through the top of my leg to try and receive the metal rod. The pain is endless only building up until finally the leg is off. I grab it and put it in between the wall, only right before they would have crushed me. As the walls finally stop moving I pass out, or so I think... I wake up from my unconsciousness to only realize I am in my bed realizing it was just a dream.

Crucible: Not to Different From Today

I find it very interesting how the Crucible really is not to different from today. Abigail started the whole controversity by telling the one lie when if she would have told the truth right away none of the trials would have happened. All of the first followed Abigail's lead which is almost like a dictator now of days. Abigail could do anything and the girls would follow. Even sometimes the girls would catch on with what Abigail was doing with out anyone having to tell them to. Along with the witchcraft Abigail was another source of problem with the adultery with Proctor. Even now a days adultery has killed realtionships. Somethings never change in the world.
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HUAC

HUAC stands for House Commitee on Un-American Activities. One of their main goals was to destroy Communism in every way they could. They would try and ruin any careers of people who with accused of being Communists. In 1952 and 1952 they made a list of people who were supposed Communists. This was called the Blacklist, all 212 people on this list actually lost their job because of it. The people on this list were not able to find jobs for several years because their reputation had been ruined. None of them could regain any jobs until their reputation had been cleared in public.
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Fire and Brimstone

Fear now each and everyone of you, because Satan's hold  is getting tighter and tighter on your bodies. Your life is simiply slipping away second my second until you are buring in the deep depths of hell. Your bodies will be like little twigs being cracked and burned until nothing is left. God does not fear throwing you into the pit of hell. If you get a grasp on your life there is a small oppurtunity to save yourselves. For God is waiting at the gates of heaven to welcome, but do not wait for your time is short.
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Squanto's Impact on the Pilgrims

It had been a rough winter when the Pilgrims came over to the New World. They took a rough beating by almost half of their colony died before spring even came. The Pilgrims never had to much interaction with the Indians at first, but one day an Indian named Samoset came and he spoke English. A couple days after he came back with his fellow Indian Squanto came with him. Squanto taught the Pilgrims many "tricks of the trade" such as building warmer houses and plating corn. Squanto ended up staying with the Pilgrims for eighteen months until he went back to his tribe.
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Life After Jamestown , John Smith

After Smith got captured by the Natives and was released again the Natives led him back to Jamestown. When he arrived at Jamestown the colony went down hill since he had left. Smith argued with a lot of the people there and he eventually left in exploration of the Chesapeake Bay area. There was a bad government in a local establishment and Smith was eventually elected president for that area. When he was president wanted agriculture to be the main source of food.The establishment was growing and flourishing under Smith's leadership, however Smith had to leave to London to get medical treatment after a burn. He never came back to Virginia. He latter came back to the New World and founded an area he called "New England." However, he was not allowed to ever go back to the New World and spent the rest of his life writing memoirs.
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Native Americans Gathering Food

Throughout the continent of North America there were many different styles of survival used by each Native American tribe to stay alive. For example, the Inuit tribe up in the Alaskan area were mainly fishers and the Blackfoot and Sioux tribes would be considered "big game" hunters. I find it fascinating how every tribe was so different and great at adapting depending on the environment and the seasons. One very interesting style of hunting I saw was that the Natives would actually gather a large group of animals and scare them off a cliff to kill them. The fact that Natives were amazing at setting traps is just incredible to me because trapping is something that requires great skill and time to perfect. Our culture now has has really fallen away from providing naturally for ourselves and I think that could be a downfall to our society if anything detrimental happened where we actually did have to provide for ourselves. Maybe there is something to learn from our past...

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