Henry David Thoreau “journals

Quote from: June 27th
- “For an impenetrable shield, stand inside yourself”
- The strongest shield is in side yourself. This means when you are felling vulnerable look inside your self to find the answer. It is not an actual shield agent’s physical force. If you are self reliant and confident you can look inside yourself and will always fell comfortable and confident.

Quote form December 2nd
- We do not all stand in front ranks of the battle every moment of our lives; where is a brave man there is the thickest of the fight, there the post of honor.
- This means that it doesn’t matter where you stand in battle, the front line or last you are still putting your life on the line and are brave. When a brave man is in battle it is the hardest and thickest of the fight. This is because a brave man won’t back down and will continue on event if his life is endangered. A man that is not brave may back down and wont fight till the end but a brave man will stick it out not looking at the outcome for his own life.

Due: 9/19 Quotation explanation of Henry David Thoreau

"Where I lived, and what I Lived For"- by Henry David Thoreau

~ "the morning is the most memrable seasion of the day, is the awakening hour"
- i really like this quote because its states something so obvious but in a suddle way that i have never realized before. it breaks the day up into parts and compairs it to the seasions. its says that morning is the most memorable time of the day, it is the awakenign hour, this reminds me of spring time becasue they are both crisp and starts something new. Henry is breaking the day down into a small year.

~ "all intelegents awake in the morning"
- This quote is quite self explanitory but if you look deeper you may see other hidden reasons. every thing wakes up in the morning and so all the minds start working again. the quote about also says alot about the mornings and how it invokes thaught and it is the most memorable time of the day. it think the mornings start the mind agian and also is a very thaught pervoking time of day which is what i think Henry Thoreau is trying to get across.

HW due: 9/14/07

Explanations of quotations form Ralph Waldo Emerson from "Self-Reliance"

~"nor does he know until he has tried."
- in my oppion this quote is saying that you don't know waht you are capable of until you have tryed. Always try things and never be afriad to because you never know what will happen until you try and what it the worst that can happen, you can't do it? and what if you can?

~ "No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; tey only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong what is agenst it.
- im my oppion this quote is saying that it is better to always be true to your self and be your self event if it is good or bad. don't go agenst in what you belive in just to be main stream, it is beter to be self reliant and your self becaus atleast you are being true to yourself and your inner nature.

~ "Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.-- is it so bad then to be misunderstood?"
- if you are always misunderstood then you are always misunderstood and every one will know that is who you are good or bad. atleast it is who you are and you are being true to yourself, dont wory who you are just be yourself because it is always better to be yourself.


Explanations of quotations form Ralph Waldo Emerson from "Nature"

~ but every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the univers whith their admonishing smile"
- every night the stars will come out and you can count on it, they will always be there and ever as beautiful. they are true to themselfs and people like that. it gives people something to religh on.

~"nature never becomes a toy to a wise spirit"
- a smart person will recognise how special and precious nature is and apreciate it for what it really is and will take care of it and not take it for granted.

What do you want to get out of American Lit this year?

When i was in middle school i never was a fan of writeing, but over the last few year i have really come to love it and now it is my favorite subject. I am not so great a grammer and spelling though so it is always a goal of mine to become stronger in those two aspects of my writeing. My strongest writing skills have to do with writing analytical pappers. I always look for new ways to expand my my vocabulary and was thrilled to see the vocab book we got in class today.