Book Report

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain was written about a boy who is very mischievious and it tells about all of his adventures and how much trouble he gets himself into. This book seems very real and all of the things Tom does could be something that people would do today. Mark Twain took everyday occurences and put them into this book.

Mark Twain was born in 1835 in Florida and raised in Florida. His father died so his brothers and him were left to making the money for the family. Then the civil war broke out so Mark moved to the desert life in Nevada. He started out his writing career by write articles for publications about the life of mining. Then Twain married Olivia Langdon. The couple had kids but three of them died before they even got into their twenties. His family and him then moved to Conneticut, and this is the home that he started to write his novels. A few of his many books were The Gilded Age, Tram Abroad, and Innocents Abroad. Twain ended up dying in 1910 in Conneticut.

I really liked this book because the suspense of what Tom was going to do next kept me reading. It was very descriptive and the things that Tom did I couldn't even believe. The adventures that Tom did were very realistic. They were to far feched or fantasy. I could see a few of the things that he did happening in Redfield. I think that everyone should at sometime sit down and read this book. Once you start you can't put it down.

http://www.online-literature.com/twain/
This is a site about Mark Twains life.

http://www.twainquotes.com/ClaymationReview.html
This is a site that gives a review about the book.

Psychology Tests

For those people that are in Psychology, we have a test today and it absolutaly sucks. The tests are long and take the whole hour and just drains your mind. Good thing that it is the last hour of the day. It takes alot of work just to get ready for one of the tests. Type the words, find the essays, copy notes or outlines, all of this just for one test.

The Crucible

What was Miller's point in writing The Crucible?

http://www.amazon.com/review/product/0140481389/ref=cm_cr_pr_redirect/105-5872511-8134806
This website talks about why Arthur Miller wrote the Crucible. It told about how he put his writing career on the line when he wrote this.

Mccarthyism, the Red Scare, and The Crucible

How are Mccarthyism, the Red Scare, and The Crucible related?

I couldn't find to many websites that talked about all three of them together so i just found three sites, one about each of them, that were very descriptive and told alot about each. None of them are long and are very easy to read.



Red Scare

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/SaccoV/redscare.html

Somewhat of a longer website, but really in depth. Talks alot about the Red Scare though and about how the United States was afraid of the communist Russia.



Mccarthyism

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/McCarthyism/Legacy_McCarthyism.html

This website realy defines Mccarthyism well and tells alot about the history of it. It also tells alot of the underlying details about the problems during this time period. It is only one of the links off of the Mccarthyism home page so there is much more about it if you go to the home page at the botom.



Crucible

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/SAL_CRU.HTM

This website talks more about the play, or movie than about the book but it also talks alot about Arthur Miller and the reason he wrote the play.

Other Witch Hunts

Document other times in American history when 'witch hunts' were conducted and discuss the outcomes of the Salem witch hunt and the other witch hunts you find. What do they all have in common?

http://www.slaveryinamerica.org/whats_new.htm
This one is about slavery also. It isn't quite as lenghty as the other one, but it is very interesting. It was easy to read and it had alot of other links on it to click on that told in much more descriptive and broke slavery down much more.

Blog Assignment

What was Miller's point in writing The Crucible<

http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Lab/4191/MILLER/millers.html
This website tells of how The Crucible was a metaphor to Meccarthyism. It was about the the Salem Witch hunts but the underlying reason was the Cold War and Meccarthyism.


How are Mccarthyism, the Red Scare, and The Crucible related?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crucible
This site talks about how The Crucible, The Red Scare, and Meccarthyism is interrelated.

Document other times in American history when 'witch hunts' were conducted and discuss the outcomes of the Salem witch hunt and the other witch hunts you find. What do they all have in common?

http://www.innercity.org/holt/slavechron.html
This site tells about slavery and how it is like the Salem Witch hunts and how the people were wrongly judged.

First Blog

Yeah well i finally figured out how to run this thing. Im really bored sitting in study hall when i usually play games but decided to actually do something today. School right now is pretty much kicking my a**. Feels like im a senior with sernior itis. Dont want to do anything and be lazy. Expecially since football is over even though i wish we were still playing cuz we could have betten Roncolli the second time and had a chance to go to the dome. So now i pretty much am just going to be lazy until basketball starts.