• Blog – Why does Eustace want to ride his horse across the country? What is one significant thing that happens to him on the trip?
Eustace has been traveling all around the world with some other person for a hiking companion, so I think he wanted to instead try and get closer to nature by traveling with a horse, but he also wanted to take his younger brother Judson along so they could bond and become closer, unfortunately that didn’t happen Judson did go but they seem to have discovered more division than likeness. A lot of events accourd on this trip, Eustace bought quite a few more horses and a mule, we also see Eustace becoming more like his father and rather hypocritical, he seems to be all about leaving the rush of modern life at the beginning but then he himself can’t slow down for even a second, he has to set all these records, he just doesn’t seem to want to slow down and enjoy life.
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Monday, October 29, 2007
Eustace and his social problems
“Only two short years after founding Turtle Island, Eustace was starting to burn out.”
Eustace begins to become stressed Blog – How does the increased pressure of running Turtle Island effect Eustace? How is by all the work it takes to run Turtle Island. He still goes to schools and speaks about nature, which takes up a lot of his time, he still has tons of paper work and phone calls to make, and work that needs to be done around Turtle Island. It’s almost as though he doesn’t have time for himself or nature anymore, he just works and works as though he was stuck in the corporate world rather than in nature. He also is having trouble relating to the people around him. He gets frustrated when they fall short of his expectations (and his expectations are quite high), when they don’t seem to work hard enough or if to him they appear to be fooling around. He is also having trouble with his girlfriends, he can’t seem to keep one and this is really frustrating him because he feels by now he should have a successful family, but each of his relationships seem to fall apart over pretty much the same thing.
Eustace begins to become stressed Blog – How does the increased pressure of running Turtle Island effect Eustace? How is by all the work it takes to run Turtle Island. He still goes to schools and speaks about nature, which takes up a lot of his time, he still has tons of paper work and phone calls to make, and work that needs to be done around Turtle Island. It’s almost as though he doesn’t have time for himself or nature anymore, he just works and works as though he was stuck in the corporate world rather than in nature. He also is having trouble relating to the people around him. He gets frustrated when they fall short of his expectations (and his expectations are quite high), when they don’t seem to work hard enough or if to him they appear to be fooling around. He is also having trouble with his girlfriends, he can’t seem to keep one and this is really frustrating him because he feels by now he should have a successful family, but each of his relationships seem to fall apart over pretty much the same thing.
The begining of Turtle Island
Blog – What does actually starting Turtle Island do to Eustace? What does it allow him to do?
When Eustace first starts Turtle Island, he was thrilled to have the space but soon found that he was working himself to death. He needed money to pay back his father and to make the park work, so now he’s running all over the USA talking to schools and organizations. He is also filing paper work and making phone calls in his spare time, and when he gets a break he devotes his time to constructing Turtle Island. However, after he gets past this long and rocky start, he is able to open his park, and teach children and adults in a much more effective way than just speaking to them in a school auditorium or gymnasium. I think that now that he has Turtle Island and can more successfully get his message across to people, he’s feeling a much deeper sense of accomplishment and can therefore feel better about himself and have less stress over changing the world.
When Eustace first starts Turtle Island, he was thrilled to have the space but soon found that he was working himself to death. He needed money to pay back his father and to make the park work, so now he’s running all over the USA talking to schools and organizations. He is also filing paper work and making phone calls in his spare time, and when he gets a break he devotes his time to constructing Turtle Island. However, after he gets past this long and rocky start, he is able to open his park, and teach children and adults in a much more effective way than just speaking to them in a school auditorium or gymnasium. I think that now that he has Turtle Island and can more successfully get his message across to people, he’s feeling a much deeper sense of accomplishment and can therefore feel better about himself and have less stress over changing the world.
Friday, October 12, 2007
All Natural
Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child. The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. His intercourse with heaven and earth, becomes part of his daily food. In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows. Nature says, -- he is my creature, and maugre all his impertinent griefs, he shall be glad with me. Not the sun or the summer alone, but every hour and season yields its tribute of delight;
I think that this segment of the essay is talking about how as children we appriciate nature and we still contain that inocence so that we can understand it and be one with nature. However as we get older scociety changes us. It takes away that inocence and connection with nature and turns us into cold spiteful beings searching hopelessly for a purpose that we long ago had torn away from us.
to be continued
I think that this segment of the essay is talking about how as children we appriciate nature and we still contain that inocence so that we can understand it and be one with nature. However as we get older scociety changes us. It takes away that inocence and connection with nature and turns us into cold spiteful beings searching hopelessly for a purpose that we long ago had torn away from us.
to be continued
Thursday, October 4, 2007
advocacy groups #2
the earlier blog is my first idea however it may change I know some animal welfare groups in Indiana, so I might do my paper on one of those groups
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Advocacy groups
Blog – What are your preliminary paper ideas? What groups do you feel should be aided or empowered?
I'm still trying to find a group here in Indiana, but I would like to do my paper on a group supporting pro-life. I feel that this is a group that here in america is not being taken seriously. Here in america we have all sorts of freedoms, including since 1973, the rite to destroy human life.
I find the US to be extremely hypocritical, for example its illegal to go out into the streets and shoot someone or stab someone, but it is perfectly legal for someone to put a scisors through the back of a baby's head in what is known as partial birth abortion.
I find this to be a disgusting violation of the constitution and not just partial birth abortion but all kinds of abortion. Think about how many people arn't with us now because someone decided they didnt' want them. Think about it, what if my parents or your parents decided they didn't love us enough or they just didn't want us, we might not be here.
This is the sad reality of abortion, it destroys life, familys and friendships.
any way yeah so thats my idea.
I'm still trying to find a group here in Indiana, but I would like to do my paper on a group supporting pro-life. I feel that this is a group that here in america is not being taken seriously. Here in america we have all sorts of freedoms, including since 1973, the rite to destroy human life.
I find the US to be extremely hypocritical, for example its illegal to go out into the streets and shoot someone or stab someone, but it is perfectly legal for someone to put a scisors through the back of a baby's head in what is known as partial birth abortion.
I find this to be a disgusting violation of the constitution and not just partial birth abortion but all kinds of abortion. Think about how many people arn't with us now because someone decided they didnt' want them. Think about it, what if my parents or your parents decided they didn't love us enough or they just didn't want us, we might not be here.
This is the sad reality of abortion, it destroys life, familys and friendships.
any way yeah so thats my idea.
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
The Fourth of July
What does Fredrick Douglas think of the 4th of July?
Fredrick Douglas was asked to speak to the people on the 4th of July, he makes the comment in his speech that it is a mockery. He goes on to talk about how to the slaves the 4th of July is a scam, it's false and hollow. He talks about how the white people celebrate their liberty and freedom, while the slaves must suffer and work. How there work becomes almost unbarable, because they must endure the happiness of those who are free as they celebrate their hypocritical and false holiday. Throughout his speech he says that he is not there to argue against slavery though the majority of his speech was talking about how unreasonable it is to even think that slavery could be just. He goes on to say that in this hour the US, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival.
Kind of a slap in the face to all the americans out there that day celebrating the apparent greatness of their country, but I feel that it was a neccassary wake up call to those out there who are that messed up in the head that they can't see the obviouse barbarity and hypocrisy in slavery.
Fredrick Douglas was asked to speak to the people on the 4th of July, he makes the comment in his speech that it is a mockery. He goes on to talk about how to the slaves the 4th of July is a scam, it's false and hollow. He talks about how the white people celebrate their liberty and freedom, while the slaves must suffer and work. How there work becomes almost unbarable, because they must endure the happiness of those who are free as they celebrate their hypocritical and false holiday. Throughout his speech he says that he is not there to argue against slavery though the majority of his speech was talking about how unreasonable it is to even think that slavery could be just. He goes on to say that in this hour the US, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival.
Kind of a slap in the face to all the americans out there that day celebrating the apparent greatness of their country, but I feel that it was a neccassary wake up call to those out there who are that messed up in the head that they can't see the obviouse barbarity and hypocrisy in slavery.
Monday, October 1, 2007
Linda's relationship to william
William is Linda's brother. They are both very close to each other. William like Linda was one of Dr. Flints slaves. He watched over Linda's children after she went into hiding and during the time that they were in prison. William and Linda's children were sold to Mr. Sands, (the father of the Children), who had promised to free them. Mr. Sands however did not free them and while they were up in the norhtern states William ran away. Linda has a strong trust in her brother William, she sent Benny to stay whith him in California and throughout her life they confided in one another.
end of story
Blog – How does Linda finally attain her freedom? Why does she have mixed emotions about this at the end of the book?
Mr. and Mrs. Dodge (daughter of Dr. Flint and Linda’s owner) are in some financial trouble, and they wish to find Linda, because to them she is nothing more than a valuable piece of property. They come to New York searching for her and they go to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bruce were Linda was employed, however after hearing that her mistress was in town Linda fled to California with Ellen where she was going to meet up with William and Benjamin. Mrs. Bruce offered Mr. Dodge $300 for Linda and the children. Mr. Dodge said that this price was to low, but after being informed that Linda had friends who would be transporting her to Europe, he decided that $300 was better than nothing. Thus Mrs. Bruce bought Linda her freedom. Linda was grateful to Mrs. Bruce for this act of kindness but at the same time she felt that it seemed wrong to have to pay someone for something that wasn’t rightfully theirs to begin with.
Mr. and Mrs. Dodge (daughter of Dr. Flint and Linda’s owner) are in some financial trouble, and they wish to find Linda, because to them she is nothing more than a valuable piece of property. They come to New York searching for her and they go to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bruce were Linda was employed, however after hearing that her mistress was in town Linda fled to California with Ellen where she was going to meet up with William and Benjamin. Mrs. Bruce offered Mr. Dodge $300 for Linda and the children. Mr. Dodge said that this price was to low, but after being informed that Linda had friends who would be transporting her to Europe, he decided that $300 was better than nothing. Thus Mrs. Bruce bought Linda her freedom. Linda was grateful to Mrs. Bruce for this act of kindness but at the same time she felt that it seemed wrong to have to pay someone for something that wasn’t rightfully theirs to begin with.
America, England the North and the South
As we’ve seen throughout this book and the history of the United states, the Southern states were the slave states and the northern states were the supposed free states. Linda herself upon arriving in the Northern states expresses her joy of finally being on free soil, but later she comments upon how she no longer calls it free soil and the many predjudices that the African Americans suffer from in the North. We also see that when she goes to England, people there are not predjudice against others based upon the color of their skin.
Its interesting how two countries from the same origin separated only by the atlantic can be so different, and how the Northern and the Southern states really aren’t all that different though many Americans believed them to be. Both the North and the South were full of people ignorant to the feelings of others, just because they were slightly different, but looking at England and other parts of Europe that wasn’t the case. Once slavery was decided to be inhumane it was quickly delt with and made illeagal. Whereas the US just kept pushing the subject under the rug not wanting to cause a problem within the country.
Its interesting how two countries from the same origin separated only by the atlantic can be so different, and how the Northern and the Southern states really aren’t all that different though many Americans believed them to be. Both the North and the South were full of people ignorant to the feelings of others, just because they were slightly different, but looking at England and other parts of Europe that wasn’t the case. Once slavery was decided to be inhumane it was quickly delt with and made illeagal. Whereas the US just kept pushing the subject under the rug not wanting to cause a problem within the country.
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