Thursday, September 24, 2009

Words of day 2

The detective’s callous remark about the murder scene sent shivers down the children’s backs.

The capricious two-a-days made the players very exhausted.

The girl’s basketball team cajoled their coach to take them to dairy queen after victory in the state tournament.

The boy was censured for putting a tack on the teacher’s chair.

An enzyme is a catalyst to a reaction.

The caustic affect of batter acid is unbearable.

The opponents of the lady panthers capitulated after being in a hole by 30 points.

As we looked up to the celestial above, we wondered if there was more life up there.

The young girl’s catharsis showed after her dog died.

The overprotective mother was constantly carping at her kids to do their chores.

Monday, September 21, 2009

Virginia Convention Questions

1) A) The only way to arrive at truth is to embrace it weather the truth is something they want to hear or not.
B) He speaks out because he realizes that speaking peacefully toward Brittan isn’t working, and he thinks if he addresses the issues that might be hard for them to talk about that it’ll open them up and get them to start talking and taking action on the matter.

2) A) That they don’t want to fight in a war. They’d rather just argue the issue.

B) He distrusts it because he knows to judge from the past not the future.

3) A) That they are a strong country and that there is a just god who will gather friends to help them fight their battles.

B) The alternative would be defeat. It they don’t fight this war, then they will be defeated.

4) A) The colonists want to fight, but the British authorities want to talk and argue about it.

B) If they were a stronger and more authoratative nation they wouldn’t have to be going to war.

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

1) A) The average person thinks that they are keeping themselves alive. Edward says that god is the one who keeps them alive.
B) Compares the fallen rock with the fact that once god decides to let you go and fall into hell there’s nothing you can do to stop it. The chaff of the summer threshing floor is compared to how god’s hand is keeping you alive and you can become a worthless peace of matter any second.

2) A) The sun doesn’t shine willingly, the earth doesn’t increase to satisfy your lusts, that it’s not a stage for your wickedness to be acted upon, and the air doesn’t serve you for breath.
B) The dark clouds represent God’s anger. Darkness is generally related to anger. When someone is mad they’re in a ‘dark’ or ‘unhappy’ place, and dark clouds don’t make anybody happy.

3) A) A person can be taken out of the sinner classification by: passing under a great change of heart, if you were born again and made new creatures, and raised from being dead in sin, to a state of new.
B) The abstract ideal is the insect. By us holding a spider over a fire, it occupies the abstract ideal. It’s frightening because we can realize how powerful we can be over a spider, and that’s how powerful, if not more powerful, god is to us.

4) A) The threat is that we’re hanging by a thin thread and any moment the thread can break and we’ll fall into the bottomless pit that’s full of fire and wrath.
B) This would be affective in arousing fear because people believed strongly in god and knew what he was capable of, so the idea that his hands were the things keeping you alive, and that he could drop you any second, would scare a lot of people.

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Iroquois Questions

1) A) The 5 Nations.
B) To accept Adodarhoh as a new leader and tell the leaders what is expected of them. So that way, since they’re all different tribes, they can understand each other better.

2) A) Dekanawidah is speaking to Adodarhoh, who is chief confederate lord of the Onondaga, on whose land the council fire was lit.
B) I think he refers to them as cousins because they’re all the same; in the sense that they’re all there as leaders of their tribes, but they’re not really related to each other.

3) A) He will provide a wampum to show his pledge, which symbolizes honesty.
B) Qualities a leader should have: His heart should be filled with peace and good; his mind filled with the welfare of the people; he should have tenderness towards the people. Qualities a leader shouldn’t have: He should never have anger, or offensive actions and criticism within him; neither anger nor fury should be lodged in their minds; they shouldn’t have self-interest in the matter.

4) A) They are crowned with deer antlers, and when they open with prayer they thank the great creator and say they are thankful for all of mother earth’s creations.
B) They trust, and are very thankful for nature. For example putting an eagle on top of the tree to warn them about evil coming, and using the tree as shelter.

5) A) Yes I think they have chosen good qualities for a leader, such as: they should have welfare for the people and set self-interests aside, they should have a peaceful mind, and tenderness towards the people.

Thursday, September 3, 2009

Words of the day

The boy was puzzled for hours from the conundrum his teacher gave him.

The deleterious meth lab blew up and killed thousands.

When the Lady panthers played the Yakutat eagles, they enervated their spirits because they beat them so bad.

The hegemony of the U.S. resulted in their victory.

The inchoate basketball game was close, but it resulted in the Skagway panthers demolishing their opponent.

The Juxtaposition of the kids showed that they loved each other.

The legerdemain magician awed his audience with his card trick.

The manifold amounts of color made the art piece stand out from the rest.

We obfuscated the dog by pretending to throw the ball for him.

The boy’s ribald speech about his teacher got him kicked out of class.