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My connection to nature is found in the fish tank at the doctor's office. The fish inside are beautiful and exotic, but are not ment to live in Rockford, IL. I connect to this, because I do not like anthing about Rockford. It's cold and boring. I personally like to think I was born in the wrong place due to some crazy, cosmic mix up. It makes for a good story, right?

McCarthy Hearings. Political Climate of the 1950's

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTwDUpbQHJg

This week i have chosen to find a video about the McCarthy hearings and discuss it. I have chosen the Army vs McCarthy case because I believe that it is a defining moment in history for these trials. Within this video, it is a man with the last name Welsh, speaking and McCarthy also speaking. It is a back and forth arguement, but you can tell that McCarthy demands the attention of the room when he speaks. It is a very dominant personality, which is why I find the end to be so shocking.

This was a heated trial, but it was the beginning of the end. This trial is when people stopped listening to McCarthy's controlling arguements. During this trial, I believe people began fighting back and showing McCarthy's true character. At one point, Mr. Welsh said to Senator McCarthy," Senator, you won't need anything in the record when I finish telling you this. Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty, or your recklessness." (http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/welch-mccarthy.html) This is a stunning statement to McCarthy, but welcomed by the court room. This is very much like The Crucible because the recklessness of the Salem witch trial, was ignored. In this story, no one made a statement quite like this one to help the people come to their senses. In the end of the video, Mr. Welsh gets an applause from the court room after telling Senator McCarthy, "and if there is a God in heaven, it will do neither you nor your cause any good. I will not discuss it further. I will not ask, Mr. Cohn, any more witnesses." I secretly cheered in my head when I heard this.

Crucible Reflection

The Crucible to me is a very boring play to read. This text drags on and loses all excitement with the type of english being spoken. Yet, when I get past al the boring and summerize, I begin to like it. The drama is equal to that of a soap opera or any other modern day television show. I believe that when I complete the entire play, that my mind wil change. Untill then, it is just boring.

In act one, I feel like this story is over dramatic and at the end, redundant. It is alot to take in and especially when the plot is already flowing when the story starts. I believe this is what makes it so hard to get into. Yet, the character Abigail, is entertaining. I feel that she is going to be running the town and the whole show by the end of this story. For one teenage, she has alot of influence. So I will be excited to see how things progress with her, her scandal with John, and the witch hunt.

Write like a Puritan week... Dodgeball Sermon

A very small sermon like we read in class...

The game of dodgeball is like the world. There are always two sides, and they are only there to hurl problems at each other. These balls are thse problems people face in the world, because they are relentless and sometimes painful. You are always a target in this game of life, and even when you are out of play, every person wants back into the midst of life. Not only does every person dodge these problems, they throw them too. The people of the puritan church need to understand the havoc they are causing.

God has put us on His earth with to love one another, but we take that and use His forgivness as an excuse. God will be the final referee and judge us all. You will all be out in the end.