Janie

Janie was raised by her grandmother after both of her parents left. Her grandmother raised her on values that wealth and position is more important than love. Janie and her grandmother live in a coach house while Janie is growing up, she is surrounded by white people and thinks of herself as white until she sees a picture of herself and discovers that she has dark skin. Her grandmother, whom she calls "Nanny", was born into slavery and was raped by the plantation owner. When she had the baby, Leafy, the wife of the master noticed that it had light skin, light hair and gray eyes and knew that the woman had been with her husband. In fear that the wife would have her beaten, Nanny ran away with Leafy and when trying to let Leafy have a better life, Leafy is raped by her teacher. These unfortunate events are why Nanny wants Janie to have a good life and husband so badly, she wants to break the chain but Janie fails to realize her grandmother's intentions. Janie's first husband, Logan, is a wealthy man with respect and treats her very well in the beginning of the marriage but when he starts demanding her to work and sees somebody better, she leaves. She never loved him. She runs off with a man she calls Jody, to Eatonville, Florida where he becomes mayor of the small town and does a lot more to make it more of a town. He was a terrible husband to her, he gave her no type of freedom and demanded her to keep her hair tied up. Later in the marriage, he became abusive and Janie realized that she was mostly his wife for the image it gave him. After they had been married for about twenty years, Jody is dying from kidney failure and while Janie is trying to talk to him, he dies. Happy on the inside, Jody has to fake a sorrowful face but six months later, she is putting herself back out there. Phoeby tells her that the townspeople will talk about her and Janie says she doesn't care. Janie is working in the store while almost everyone in the town is at a baseball game when a man named Vergible Woods walks in, they flirt and play checkers. He's half her age but Janie is starting to like him because she feels as though he actually respects her. This is the first man that she is not rushing into things with and probably will actually love. One day he asks her how she feels about him and she tells him that she just likes him as a very good friend but Vergible, a.k.a. Tea Cake wants more. Logan was Janie's first look at what loving a man is really like but it was so rushed that they never had a real relationship. Janie knows that she is still very beautiful and she is a confident woman.

Thankful for a Classmate

Someone I am thankful for in this classroom is Camryn. Even though her text back game is extremely weak and it takes her two weeks to reply (if I want a reply to my "Merry Christmas" message on the 25th, I should probably text her today). Camryn never fails to give me a laugh; she's a hilarious girl! I'm thankful to her for helping me out of bad moods that the morning can bring.
Also, shoutout to Adam and Quincy. Even though I read, (I promise I actually read every time we were told to) they were always there to help me more thoroughly understand the book with all the questions they answered in class. For that I'm grateful because that's extremely helpful to me.

A principle we should keep

A principle we should keep no matter the situation or circumstances is that the safety of women and children comes before a man's. In today's society, there are certain guidelines that a man has to follow to be a gentleman. Some examples are that if a man and woman are walking down the sidewalk, the man should be on the outside, men are supposed to hold the door for women, open the door of the car and many other actions. Also, a man should always be the strong one and be the protector of his family. If the world were to come to an end, a lot of the gentleman guidelines would be lost like opening the car door. However, a couple that should always be there are that the man should put his safety last and the man should be the protector of his family.

Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway was a very interesting man who lived and extremely interesting life. Born in Cicero(now called Oak Park), Illinois, July 21, 1899. He was the second child of six to his parents, Clarence and Grace Hemingway. Ernest's mother liked to dress him up as a girl and call him Ernestine, some would like to believe that this is why he acted like such a manly man later on. Some of Ernest's first works of writing were when he worked for the school newspaper in high school. He became such an accomplished author that he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Ernest wrote 10 novels, 10 short story collection and 5 non fiction works. He had a total of 4 wives and only one of them ended things with him instead of the other way around. He cheated on just about all of them and one of lost all of his writing and the carbons at the train station one day. He took a very strong interest in bullfighting when visiting Spain and a lot of his writings, specifically the ones starring Nick Adams, were based on things that happened in his real life. He was in 2 plane crashes but survived and ended up taking his own life by gunshot on July 2, 1961 in Ketchum, Idaho.

six- six word stories

The wind blew towards the South.

The girl was shot and killed.

My son fell off his bike.

Attention: No smoking at gas station.

My mom is in the hospital.

She's not going to make it.

John Proctor...Hero or Stooge?

Some would say hero...some would say stooge, but me, I would say he's a little bit of both. At times, I was convinced that John was never going to tell the court the truth, that he would keep putting it off. He obviously did care about his wife, Elizabeth, but would that be enough? To put his life and Abagail's at risk? When Elizabeth first asked him to go and tell the truth, he was extremely hesitant, saying that he would think on it. My reasoning for saying stooge is because he waited until the last minute and was obviously under pressure. He tells it all out at once and tells it all, this making him seem a hero. He does seem to try to blame it all on Abagail though when what they did was not forced. Proctor would have seemed more of a hero if he told the truth from the beginning, but he didn't.

There Goes The Neighborhood

Ayanna Fourte
9/14/14
Period 1
Blog Entry #2

Imagine this: You are sitting in your house, it's calm and everybody is going about themselves when all of a sudden you hear somebody outside. They have a device that is projecting their voice so that everybody within 5 blocks can hear. They say "ATTENTION EVERYONE. WE ARE NOT HERE TO HARM YOU BUT WE ARE HERE TO TRADE MATERIALS...AND MAYBE TAKE A FEW OF YOU BACK TO WHERE WE ARE FROM". What would you do? The native people had strong values, they believed in welcoming all and treating people nicely. Columbus would believe that they were not intelligent but I would disagree. I believe that they were just slightly naive to these foreign things that the settlers were showing them. If I asked what Blanquette de Veau was, most Americans would not know that it's a French veal dish because it's foreign and most of us don't see it everyday. Conflicts that can occur when two or more groups of people come together that have a different race, culture, religion etc is superiority and racism. We aren't seeing it as much because now it's more so on the down low because it's no longer seen as how you're supposed to feel. Today people promote seeing everyone as equals but there are still plenty of people in this world that think they are superior to others and that's where things can clash. Columbus definitely thought he was superior. He had the mindset that the native people weren't smart, he could trick them, he could spread his religion through them because they obviously had no religion and that he could just come in and get their gold.

Me

Ayanna Fourte
9/4/14
English II
"Me"

My name is Ayanna Fourte and I am a freshman. I really like bowling but my absolute favorite activity is shopping! I enjoy spending time with my friends and our favorite thing to do is see a movie then go shopping. I don't have a lot of favorites, it's hard for me to choose one favorite for some things. For example, I don't have a favorite color, I have colors I like a lot which are pink, black, and gold. It's weird though because I barely ever wear pink and after seeing me for a few weeks you will see that I actually wear gray the most out of any color. I also don't have a favorite food, but again, I have foods that I really like. My mom gets mad at me a lot because for some reason I'll just stop liking a food that I used to like and I am very picky and don't like her cooking a lot of the time. Random fact: I LOVE weird socks. On the weekends I like to sleep as much as I can and just lay in bed and watch TV. The shows I like the most are Awkward, Faking It, Dance Moms, and Bring It. Even though I don't get to do it much, I enjoy creative writing and painting.