Sunday, September 28, 2014

Six Word Stories


Six six word stories -
  1. As the smirk crossed her lips.
  2. It was only in his mind.
  3. The slab of beef was rancid.
  4. Don't blame Sarah, she was scared.
  5. Mistaken for another face walking buy.
  6. The crime he can not remember.


Sunday, September 21, 2014

John Proctor

John Proctor is a complicated character. His past has a questionable period, when he presently had intentions of being a good man. Is he a hero, or is he a stooge?  In my opinion hero is the wrong word, hero is used to describe someone who overcomes problems or a hardships. Nor is john a stooge though he may have acted foolishly he did believe in his actions. In my mind John Proctor is a good guy who was stuck in a hard spot. Partly due to the community he lived in as well as his own actions. John Proctor, not hero nor stooge, just a man.

Monday, September 15, 2014

There Goes the Neighborhood

As we know the europeans had the idea that they were going to take the America. It true that there goals may have been different based on there lives in Europe but each group had the idea to come to america and make it there own. Look at it from the side of the native a relatively simple people in comparison, a people who had lived on these lands for generations. There perspective not the world was rather peaceful and respecting of nature, so the appearance of these new people was quite strange to them. Some groups took them in as gods an others welcomed them as men, though in my mind this trust would be hard to keep seeing as the lifestyle of europeans differed so much from there own. To have been a leader of a tribe would bring out an interesting line between choosing peace and protection of lives and way of life. In the end I don't think there was much of an option for the North American tribes. Though natives may have had the ability to stop europeans by killing Columbus and his crew, after Europe knew about this new land there fate was sealed. For they have a little hope to find a middle ground or terms of understanding and even less hope to fight them off. There differences were just to much for a strong alliance, europeans found value in gold and money when natives valued  life and nature, the europeans have also had a sense of entitle meant over natives based on skin color and over all complexity or lack of it. These point truly set the two groups apart from one and other in a way Natives couldn't comprehend.

Sunday, September 7, 2014

Me



Alright guys, I live in a family of four, I got my sister Grace who I  think  is 12 Im not sure, then Mom and Dad one a bar tender downtown and the other a cop. Since Im introducing my family I might as well introduce my Grandma Sue Thomsen, a retired Whitney Young teacher who subs everyone and a while. Then their is me Jake Madigan, I guess I don't really know how to describe myself, I mean I played football and play lacrosse here at whitney, but thats not really me. I love any sport, most arts, but really i guess my thing is just hanging with friends and just being happy, I mean it doesn't always work out but thats the goal. I like to think I'm a pretty relaxed person, I love to just be out places even if I'm doing nothing. Other than that I came from Mcpherson Elementary which really isn't a great school but it taught me some things. Im going to wrap up by saying my life was made by the stuff around me, no doubt am I'm deferent then some of you guys but it wouldn't be fun if we were all the same, that being said I'm excited to meet some new people, I'm excited to have fun.