Poe

1) He was summoned by the owner of the house, Roderick Usher, because he is the hosts only true friend. Roderick also claims in the letter that he is falling ill to a disease of the mind.
2) She became more sick and later died.
3) He fears that scientists will want to examine her body because of how strange her disease was.
4) No. His vocabulary is so varied and descriptive that he can emulate emotions. Without his language it lacks voice which creates the emotion of his writing.
6) He makes the house out to be something un-breachable like a prison yet mysterious. The many dark corners of where Roderick is sitting also gives him dark characteristics.
    The host has some problems of his own. He seems to be overall very sensitive about his surroundings and senses. Makes you wonder if something weird is going on with the house itself.
    The eery coincidence that Rodrick's malady dies the night that the narrator arrives does not come off as a coincidence at all. It just adds to the creepy mood.
    He describes the weather specifically the wind which has no influence from humans. The actions of the wind is gusty, violent, and very unpredictable. This gives us an uneasiness because these are strange events.
7) Yes. By only approaching the story with a single emotion there aren't many dynamic opportunities and you can't really vary the emotions portrayed by the characters unless you are going to change the emotion as a whole.
8) I disagree. Edgar Allan Poe is the king of short horror stories and has proven this with his many dark tales. He's so good in fact that we are almost forced to read Poe at least once in our lives. I say that we are forced to because there are very few authors who specialize in horror and keep the gore to minimum while still implementing the same terror.

19th women 1-5

1) He thought the sexes should be equal.
2) That she has a masculine mind that doesn't match the personalities of a woman.
3) She believes that these traits are just as prevalent in men as they are in women. This is pretty much the whole point that Miranda is trying to make. She is a female with a self reliant mind set for the time but she really thinks that people should be viewed as individuals.
4) Fuller is stating that women these days have this thought stuck in their head that they need to find a guardian in order to be successful. Also she says that women don't use their inner feelings to seek what they want to pursue, instead they are persuaded into believing something.
5) She might of found that she could explain what she believed in to a greater extent with the help of fictional Miranda. I've personally found that the most influential literature I've read is usually a debate. The conflict between both sides with two ideas that tend to have an equal amount of reason really makes me ponder who will come out on top and correct.

PG 397 1-4,7

1) Your personal beliefs and the relationship between the law and citizens
2) Non violently protest it and by not taking part
3) You can be a grunt and be similar to a horse or dog. You could be like a senator or politician and serve with only your head. You could also be a martyr or hero which Thurough supported strongly.
4) Since the government is more thurough it is harder to get away with things like neglecting to pay the government their lump some of money.
7) I'd call him a traitor but he has a non violent way of betraying his country. He neglected to pay taxes while the Mexican American war was in full spirit which is why I'd call him a traitor because that would be considered unpatriotic in his time period. Nowadays it's possible that the majority may rule in favor of Thurough and therefore make him more patriotic.

THeme

Find yourself and whatever makes your life a liveable will come along with yourself.

Mind your own business.

Sense of Hope.

Emerson Theme 2

The theme of Emerson's essay "Nature" is the idea that man and nature share a special relationship in which both plant and man reflect emotions off of each other. Emerson sets up this statement by making the forest a place for all people to go, almost comparing it to a church. He says that forests are like the farms of god and that in the woods we return to not only faith but reason. Emerson feels so apart of nature when he's in the woods that he feels he becomes transparent and apart of his surroundings like a floating eye.

Emerson theme

Emerson wrote self reliance to assure people that they should believe in themselves and hold their personal beliefs high. He lectures that if you confide in what you do and resist influence from anything and everything then you will find confidence in what you are trying to achieve.

LONGFELLOW WADSWORTH HENRy

The structure of quatrain poems are very organized in general and easy to understand/recite. Since the rhyme scheme is ABAB, the flow and emphasis on the end word in the stanzas makes the poem sound almost lyrical. Also, each stanza has it's own meaning which is nice because the poem is able to define the separate ideas for an ideal way of living through each individual stanza.

2) To accomplish something and be constantly working on something.
3) Lives of great men influence, inspire, or lay a path for people to follow.  
4) I can assume that the poem was written with an inspirational spirit to help motivation and the poem it self is written with many positive outlooks towards doing something/anything constructively towards your own benefit.
5) I interpret these two lines as follows: "On Earth's surface, which is covered and filled with many hardships and tasks that will show you no mercy, in this temporary state that we all have come to know and define as life"

            1. When the shipment arrives we will collect the money.
We will collect the money. Adverb

            2. The club, which welcomes visitors, meets on Tuesdays. 

The club, which welcomes visitors. Adverb

            3. Diving is a skill that requires concentration. Driving is a skill. Adjective

            4. Experts predicted that the election would be close. The election would be close. Noun

            5. Do you know where the Greek restaurant is? Where the Greek restaurant is. Adjective.

            6. Is that the flute that you carved? The flute that you carved. Adverb.

            7. Terry didn’t hear what the score was. Terry didn’t hear what the score was. Adjective.

            8. The trees that David planted are elms. The trees that David planted. Adjective.

            9. Homework was collected before class started. Homework was collected. Adverb.

           10. Peg phoned the store when her order was not delivered. Peg phoned the store. Adjective