Janie

Janie is a very strong person. She is able to withstand many hardships and abuse. Most of Janie's struggles come her now late husband Joe. For many years, Joe abused Janie in many ways. He would insult her appearance and make her feel incompetent by telling her that she is not capable of doing anything correctly. Since Janie is very attractive and has beautiful hair, Joe makes her cover herself up. Joe treats her this way because he is becoming very unattractive and sick. As his condition worsens, so does his treatment of Janie. At the conflicts peak, Janie insults Joe when she becomes fed up when Joe starts insulting her for cutting tobacco wrong at their store. When Janie finishes insulting Joe, Joe hits her. After this, the couple becomes very distant until Janie finds out Joe is going to die of kidney failure. She goes to talk to Joe about everything she has felt. After Joe dies, she feels very liberated. I admire how Janie put up with everything that Joe did to her until the end. She only let everything out at the end. Janie is a very brave and strong woman.

Thankful For a Classmate

 During the holidays, especially Thanksgiving, everyone should be thankful for all that they have. Everyone should be thankful for, family, food, friends and classmates. Two classmates I am thankful for are Nathan and Jacob. Other than being interesting, entertaining, intelligent and great people, they are very hard working and helpful. I am very thankful that I am able to work with them in class because they improve me and my work. They help me obtain a deeper meaning of the texts and get more out of the work. Hopefully I have returned the favor to them, as well as made them thankful for having the opportunity to work together.

Hemmingway

After all I've learned about Ernest Hemmingway,  I have had a very interesting impression of him. Hemmingway is a very unique person and shows it in his works. Hemmingway's stories say a lot about his life, like his war time experience, his love life, his relationship with his family, and his personality. He had a very hard life and many of his stories describe his feelings and thoughts. Because of this, we have an amazing way to find out more about Hemmingway. His emotions combined with his incredible writing abilities produced the most amazing works of literature we all enjoy today.

6 Six Word Stories

1. I did not see it coming.
2. Pondering, when it finally hit me.
3. She said the autopsy was inconclusive.
4. I'm tired of the constant paranoia.
5. I see it, in the mirror.
6. When is it going to stop.

John Proctor: Hero or Stooge

John Proctor is a very interesting character in Arthur Miller's The Crucible. I believe that Proctor is both part hero and part stooge. Proctor has some "heroic" moments when he questions the rules and values of the town, such as when he questions Hale about how the accusers are always considered innocent and not questioned. He has put some of these ideas into the mind of Abigail and seems to not have much hesitation when he wants to speak his mind. I consider these his "heroic" moments, but Proctor acts like a stooge in some moments too. He is a stooge to Abigail and to Elizabeth sometimes too. Abigail has him by the neck with their affair and controls him with that, up until he admits to the affair, but then Elizabeth contradicts him and makes him look like a liar when she says the affair never happened.

There Goes The Neighborhood

When the explorers came to the Americas, the natives felt a mix of emotions. They might have felt fear, happiness, excitement, or dread. The natives probably did not know what to think or feel when they saw the explorers arriving. The explorers were so much different from them. The explorers looked different, talked different, they had more advanced technology, and a lot more wealth. Some of the natives would have thought of the explorers as divine beings, others would have seen them as enemies. The natives would have been in awe looking at the explorers, their elegant clothes, their weapons, and ships. the explorers would have looked like aliens from an advanced civilization somewhere else in the universe. Unfortunately, the natives did not know the destruction the explorers would bring. Disease and loss of land became huge problems. In modern times, some natives have integrated into our society and some have stayed in reservations and hold on strongly to their culture from centuries ago.

Me

My name is Juan Camilo Gomez. I was born in Cali, Colombia on May 2nd, 1999. I came to the US when I was about 3 years old and have lived in Chicago ever since. I consider myself to be a fairly simple person. My favorite things to do are to play soccer, hang out with friends and listen to music. Some facts about myself are that my favorite team will always be FC Barcelona, my favorite TV show is The Big Bang Theory, my favorite movie is Goodfellas, my favorite bands are Foster The People and MGMT, and math is my favorite subject.

-JC