Ishmael blog 5- QQC #3

Quote:"What you should understand is that saying yes to life and accepting the knowledge of good and evil are merely different aspects of a single act,and this is the way the story is told in Genesis."

Question:Does it necessarily make you a taker if you want a big family, isn't it our right?

Comment:I think what Ishmael is saying about the story of Adam and Eve being the beginning of the takers is true. The story basically says that man disobeyed God because they wanted to have ultimate power and make decisions of which man lived and which died and over how many people came into the world.I think that it was ironic how the Eves name meant life which i didn't know.Life was what man was tempted by and what they wanted power over. Like now a days I hear people say that they want a big family all the time but I guess they don't realize that there are kids who can be adopted from third world countries.When they adopt from another country they are saving a kid from possible starvation and helping prevent over population.

Interview

I decided to interview my cousin and ask him if he thought the world needed saving.I was planning to ask my mom or my dad but it was no good use asking them since I already knew what their answer was going to be. My cousin and I don't really talk about these kind of topics so I thought it would be good to interview him to see what his answer would be. At first he didn't want to do it but then I said please like a million times then he finally said yes.

me:Do you think the world needs to be saved?
him:If you mean in the way of pollution and global warming then yes. We have done many things that have hurt our Earth.

me:What are things that we have done that have hurt our Earth?
him:We depend on cars way to much.I mean i understand we need it to get to places like work or school if its faraway but some people drive to like the store when it's only like a block away.

me:What do you think people can do to help the Earth?
him:Well they can ride bikes or walk to the store to wherever people need to go. They can turn off lights in the house when their not being used.You can recycle bottles and receive money for it.You could plant a tree or do a beach clean up.

me:What have you done that helps the environment?
him:Well just recently at school we had a beach clean up and all the class was able to participate. It was fun because after wards we were able to go into the water then we made hot dogs.

me:Sounds like fun.What is something else you have done?
him:Well once I got twenty dollars for collecting bottles and cans.So both the Earth and me got something good out of it.

QQC #2 Ishmael

Quote:The story the leavers have enacted in the world has an entirely different premise,and it would impossible for you to discover it as this point.

Question:Does the gorilla think that the world was made for man?

Comment:I think Ishmael asks really hard questions that make you think twice. I think that the Earth was created for every living thing. But when it comes to us wanting to build new houses at the risk of possibly destroying a living thing I would say yes to building the houses.If I had the choice between saving a dog or a human of course I would choose the human. Then again in order for humans to live the life the way that we do right now it wouldn't be the same without animals. People wouldn't have their pets or we wouldn't be able to eat Carne Asada. The world was meant for all living things its like the circle of life.

The story of Man:Ishmael

The story of how life began is The story of Adam and eve. The story goes that God created Adam in the Garden of Eden. Adam was lonely so he created Eve from one of the ribs of Adam. God told them that they could eat from any of the trees except for the tree of knowledge of good and evil. A snake which was really lusepher convinced Eve to eat a fruit from the tree. Eve felt guilty for eating the fruit. She shared the fruit with Adam. They both knew that what they had done was bad. God punished them and said that they had to leave the Garden of Eden and that life would no longer come easy for them.

Ishmael QQC#1

Priscilla Montes

Question:Is the gorilla actually talking to her or is he talking to her through his eyes?

Quote:With Man Gone,Will There Be Hope For Gorilla?

Comment:The story is very interesting because what I'm wondering is whether the gorilla is really talking to her or is he doing it with his eyes. The quote that i chose is interesting because it can be seen in many different ways. It can mean that if humans become extinct then gorillas won't survive. But it can also be seen as if humans were extinct gorillas would be better off because then they would be able to survive.I also was wondering why the gorilla had the sign up for, but in order to know why he had the sign up we have to know what it really means. The story so far is interesting and I can't wait to find out whats with the gorilla.

Priscilla Montes
Guerrero
Humanities
February 25, 2009
I. Thesis: A weak ruler is the leading cause to a revolution.
II. Louis xvi was never to take on the challenges of ruling over a country that was in a revolution. (Weigel,65)
a. Louis xvi when he became king he inherited a bad economy, social unrest, a debauched court, and problems with nobility and parliament in France. (Weigel,65)
b. The aristocracy was living on borrowed money and labor of the lower class. (65)
The court was in debt and need if money because of its extravagance and two wars. (65)
c. The king grew tired of his country’s problems and was unhappy. (65)
III. Louis xvi ignored the issues that were happening in France.
a. The government remained a disinterested spectator in the conflict.
(Ferrero,10)
b. The estates-general, which had been convinced to transform France, appeared suddenly to have become impotent. (Ferrero,11)
c. The country was in ferment. (Ferrero,10)
IV. When Louis xvi was not prepared to take on the challenges of the revolution.
a. How could Louis xvi be expected to exercise the power necessary to translate theses thirty-six folio volumes into reforms, when he had convoked the estates-general precisely because he felt incapable of balancing the budget of the kingdom? It was an impossible situation. (Ferrero, 11)
b. The three orders never agreed on anything. The days passed and nothing was accomplished. The financial situation grew worse. For more than a month, from May 5 to June 10 it was completely immobilized. (Ferrero, 10 11)
c. This power, which was concentrated ultimately in the hands of five or six persons, did not at all correspond with the vital needs of the country of 25 million inhabitants. (Ferrero, 12)
V. A revolution would never occur if a ruler were strong and knew how to regulate a country.

thesis statement

King Louis xvi was never ready to be king. He had no experience in government, he was young, and was influenced easily by others all this caused France's revolution.

new research question

How does the French revolution relate to America today?

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Quote:"Farewell, dear darling of my soul. My parting blessing on my love. We shall meet again, where the weary are at rest!" (Dickens 339)

Question: What did Charles Darnay mean by saying "where the weary are at rest?"

Comment: In the book A Tale of Two Cities Charles Darnay has just been sentenced to death for what his uncle and father did when he was young, kill a whole family. The ironic thing is that Dr.Manette Darnay's father-in-law is the one who wrote the letter explaining what Darnay's father and uncle had done. Dr.Manette had written the letter years before he was sent to jail. Darnay's father and uncle find the letter and they send him to jail. The quote that I wrote above is what Darnay tells his wife after the trial. It's ironic how Dr.Manette was trying to get Darnay out of jail and he finds out he is the very reason why he is sent back to jail and sentenced to death. It's sad how Darnay has to be punished for what his dad and uncle did. He will be leaving a wife who loves him and a daughter who he will never see grow up.

Annotated Biliography By Priscilla

Popkin, Jeremy D. "FAMILY TIES IN REVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE." The Family on Trial in Revolutionary France (2007): 991-97.
This journal article was very useful because it went on for pages going into the depths of describing what families went through during the French revolution. It describes how many people were wanting changes in family law. It also describes how the assembly made consttutions that changed the way they lived.

A Tale of Two Cities-Charles Dickens

In the book so far the character Ms. Manette and Charles Darnay just got married and her father is suffering because him and his daughter had a close relationship and now she has gotten married. He goes back to acting the way he did before he met his daughter making shoes and not responding when people try to talk to him.
The French revolution began in 1789. The government declared war on Britain and continued for 22 years.
A research question that I have is how did the French revolution influence Britain's politics and culture?