Essential Questions on Chapter 27

Antonio Huete

5th period: McCarthy

June 1, 2012

Essential Questions on Chapter 27

1. Why were entrepreneurs, industrialists, and bankers such significant and controversial figures in American politics and business in the late 19^th century?

They were so controversial because they made the United States thrive, but at the same time sold stock for five time what they where really worth.

2. Why did the growth of industry contribute to the development of a conservation movement?

The growth of America’s industry required large amounts of land and natural supplies to build such buildings. Resources such as trees and fertile soil were becoming scarce and needed to be stopped from being used up, so organizations were developed so that land could not be destroyed by federal and private needs.

3.What strategies did the labor movement use to try to improve working conditions? Who were the leaders of the labor movement?

To try to improve working conditions Mother Jones and many organizations and committees led strikes and passed laws that banned the hiring of children. Fortunately 43 states out of 50 agreed with these terms and applied the laws.

Graduation Essay

Antonio Huete

May 31, 2012

2° Sullivan

Graduation Speech Essay

These past three years have been filled with positive and negative experiences, but that’s life. 

What these past three years have taught me is that there may be negatives in life, but it all balances out later in life.

Within the first couple of months of sixth grade some students began bullying me because of my quiet personality me somewhat of a gullible person I was. Some called me names and tried to embarrass me in class, but in the end were unsuccessful. In my mind still lives a world of imagination and innovation that was almost destroyed by peers. Unfortunately, my ideas were not always appreciated or accepted in school. Luckily, overlooking events such as these was my approach.

Despite these negative draw backs, I reached out to a person who seemed to be very quiet and shy like me. Sammy was in my core class, so I walked up to him to discuss an assignment. He talked quietly and spoke very little. We talked sometimes during lunch that year.

Although I do not talk to Sammy as much as I use to, I still consider him a very dependable friend. When I look back on that day I realize that if I had not had the courage to walk up to him and “break the ice”, I would still be the same quiet person. To me this experience was very significant to my life because it helped me realize I wasn’t the only person who was the “quiet kind”.

These interactions such as the one with Sammy taught me to look at life in a positive way that influences me to this day. This comes to show that one single person can influence you but you must step up and “be the change you want to see in the world” (Gandhi) Also that we must always look at the bright side of life and not dwell on negative experiences. 

My advice for all is that life will have its peaks and valleys, but we are the individuals that influence our own lives significantly. We are free to live our lives the way we desire and create a great future for ourselves. As I saw once in a movie: “Around here, however, we don’t look backwards for very long. We KEEP MOVING FORWARD, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we’re curious…and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” -Walt Disney

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Meter
My definition of a meter is a series of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem that make up a line in a poem. The meter gives the poem rhyme in the way it is to be pronounced. Meter in a poem is usually represented by several dashes and curves above the words to respresent stressed and unstressed syllables.

Example:

The significance of meter is to understand why certain words are selected to be in a poem because they correspond with a pattern depicted from the poem itself.

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Rhyme

My definition of rhyme is two words in two separate lines that have prefixes or suffixes that sound alike.

Example:

Roses are red

Violets are blue

I love poetry

You should too!

The significance of rhyme is to create a fun and interesting sound for the poem.

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Rhythm
My definition of rhythm is a certain tone in a poem that shows a pattern. It can be shown be syllables in each line or the order in which events take place.

Example:
Roses are red
violets are blue

After the first two lines it is easy to predict that the next line will rhyme with the first line.

The significance of rhythm is to help the reader predict the next couple of lines in the poem.

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Onomatopoeia
My definition of an onomatopoeia is a word that is spelled oddly because it creates a sound.

For example: In a cartoon or comic book they use many onomatopoeias like "SMACK" or "BANG".

The significance of an onomatopoeia is to represent a sound to help the reader understand the storyline and auditory imagery.

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Personification
My definition of personification is a phrase that gives an inanimate object human like features.

For example: In the movie Cars the characters are able to talk, obviously in real life cars cannot move the grill of their front to form words.

The significance of personification is to create realistic characteristics for real life inanimate objects.

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Imagery
My definition of imagery is a phrase or multiple words that the poet uses to help the feeling of the speaker materialize in the reader's mind. there are actually seven different types of imagery. There is #1visual(sight), #2tactile(touch), #3auditory(hearing), #4olfactory(smell), #5gustatory(taste), #6organic(internal sensation), #7kenesthetic(tension or movement).

Example:
#1: The room was dark and iery.
#2: The surface of the table was cold and hard.
#3: She could hear the footsteps of the mysterious person.
#4: She could smell the scent of burning wood.
#5: She could taste the bitterness of the rag.
#6: She could feel the hot knife on her chest , burning.
#7: She could feel the tightness of the straps holding her down.

The significance of imagery is to imerse the reader in the story and influence the reader's mind. Most classic and modern horror books or novels use a great amount of imagery, especially tactile and organic imagery.

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Simile
My definition of a simile is a phrase that uses "like" or "as" to relate two subjects. It could describe the subjects actions or body features.

Example of actions: He was so lazy, he got nothing done all day.
Example of body features: Her face was as red as a tomato.

Significance: The significance of a simile is to provide a better understanding of the setting or event for the reader.

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Interpretation
My definition of interpretation is the idea the reader compiles using details mentioned in the poem.

For example in the poem O' Captain My Captain by Walt Whitman, the reader can interpret that the poem is about the victory on the north in the American Civil War and the death/ assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done;The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won;The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring:

But O heart! heart! heart!

O the bleeding drops of red,

Where on the deck my Captain lies,

Fallen cold and dead.

O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;
Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills;For you bouquets and ribboned wreaths—for you the shores a-crowding;For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;

Here Captain! dear father!

This arm beneath your head;

It is some dream that on the deck,

You've fallen cold and dead.

My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still;My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will;The ship is anchored safe and sound, its voyage closed and done;From fearful trip, the victor ship, comes in with object won;

Exult, O shores, and ring, O bells!

But I, with mournful tread,

Walk the deck my Captain lies,

Fallen cold and dead.

The significance of interpretation in a poem is to help the reader create a better understanding of the poem.

At plain view this photo looks like and elderly couple staring at each other, that's your interpretation. It's actually, a person under a tent with a basket on the left and a person with a sombrero playing the guitar on the right.

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Repitition
My definition of repetition is an idea that is repeated to help the reader to remember the main idea greatly.

For example in Rudyard Kipling's poem "IF" he conituously redreates the idea (using different words each time) that if you believe in your self to prove someone wrong, you can be sucessful.

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream---and not make dreams your master;
If you can think---and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same:.
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build'em up with worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
And never breathe a word about your loss:
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings---nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much:
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And---which is more---you'll be a Man, my son!

Rudyard Kipling

 

The significance of repetition is very powerful because it WILL help the reader remember the idea because of the unforgetable words used in this greatly known poem and in other poems.

 

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Tone
My definition of a tone in a poem is based on the speaker point of view or perspective. It can be negative or positive.

For example:
They came with the large rails
as they take our land
we all do not hail
we do not fight, but take a stand

The significance of a tone in a poem is to provide the reader a better view of what the speaker's view is on the event. In this case it is from the point of view of the Native Americans as the Americans take their land to build the Transcontinental Railroad (left) that would later be connected at Promontory Summit, Utah with the golden spike (right).

 

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Extended Metaphor
My definition of an extended metaphor is a phrase in a poem that compares multiple ideas without using the linking words "like" or "as".

An example of this is:
"They put every thing on the line to get what they want"
Of course there was no actual line in which they put something on it.

The significance of an extended metaphor is to help the reader to understand what the poet means by comparing two ideas to create a better understanding of the poem.


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Metaphor
My definition of a metaphor is a term used to relate or compare two events or objects.

For example someone could say "She shot for the Moon and missed by a mile", they could be talking about someone who was attempting something, but ended in complete and utter failure. Obviously there was no cannon or spacecraft involved.
Another example is someone could say " She's on the road for failure." Obviously the person did not drive on any road whatsoever.

The significance of a metaphor is to make the poem easier for the reader to understand. If there were no metaphors, most poems would be quite confusing and no one would bother reading them because of the lack of understanding.

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Speaker
My definition of a speaker in a poem is NOT the person reading the poem, but the character depicted in the poem. In most poems the speaker's name isn't even mentioned.

Example: In this poem, the speaker is just defined as just "the girl holding the V sign"
 ricky was "L" but home with the flu
Lizzie our "O" had some homework to do
Mitchell, "E" prob'ly got lost on the way
So I'm all of love that could make it today

The significance of the speaker is to provide or create a direct line between the message the poet is trying to imply and you.


not the speaker                                          speaker

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SYMBOL
My definition of symbolism in a poem is the main idea or topic the poet or writer is trying to pass on to the reader through the poem. The poet or writer tends to use obects or subjects (people) to symbolize a meaning weather or not that meaning is at all a person, place, or objects.

Example:
The healthy tree
Swayed in the wind
And lived many years with the glass half full
But, eventually it came to its death
Now, in the afterlife, its on a marble gravestone
Now, it symbolizes the life of the person below it
The tree lived such a blissful life
As did the person－
The symbol represents the life of a fulfilled, peaceful life
Significance: Symbolism is important to poems because it helps the poet or writer pass an idea across to the reader in the form of these examples. Like the poem above the dying tree represtents the ending life of a person, which is also why the poem says it is now on a marble gravestone.

take this picture for example, a person could say:
this rose blooms large as it shares hands
with me and you together it bands

for us and the(THEE)
for it came from a tree

my love for you for how it grew
will never end without us being two


The symbol being the rose and how it bloomed symbolizes how the charaters love for his partner grew more and more into what it is today. It also symbolizes that the male's love for his partner will never end.

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COUPLET
my definition of a couplet is a poem that each stanza consists of only TWO lines. Both lines of a couplet are extremely important because the first line of the couplet will not make sense if the second line of the couplet is missing. (It is the same with the second line also) Most couplets complete each other with a ryhme, but not all the time.

Like the poem below a couplet poem can also be only two lines making it it even more significant.

Silly Sally
When Silly Sally irons her clothes, they come out looking awful.
She did not read the label and her iron was meant to waffle.
(by Denise Rodgers)

The significance of a couplet is to use short length lines to build up the topic of the poem. In a way, couplets are like the building blocks of specific poems. (hense the name "couplet poems") Without couplet poems (and the ocassional stanza to finish off the poem) a poem would not make sense to the reader. Couplets have proven to be a very important key part in poems today.


"Couplet" Line one (left) and Line two (right) come together to form one true meaning.

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STANZA
My definition of a stanza is a poem's version of a paragraph. A stanza usually cosists of five to fifteen lines followed by a space between the last line of the stanza and the first line of the following stanza.

An example of a stanza can be found alomst everywhere. Like the one below:
WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS (SHEL SILVERSTEIN)

There is a place where the sidewalk ends
and before the street begins,
and there the grass grows soft and white,
and there the sun burns crimson bright,
and there the moon-bird rests from his flight
to cool in the peppermint wind.

Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black
and the dark street winds and bends.
Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow
we shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow
and watch where the chalk-white arrows go
to the place where the sidewalk ends.

Yes we'll walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
and we'll go where the chalk-white arrows go,
for the children, they mark, and the children, they know,
the place where the sidewalk ends.

With out stanzas like the two in the poem above, everything in a poem(any poem) would not make sense. It would be one large never-ending paragraph. How dreadful and confusing that would make poems!