Thanksgiving!

I am heading to Chicago for Thanksgiving tomorrow to see my family! Im not exactly excited, I am driving there not flying so I have about a 9 hour drive. Not only that but I have a large family and it gets kinda boring at times considering I am the oldest girl and then its my sister who is a junior in high school. I guess the only part I am really excited about is seeing my older brother who goes to Creighton in Omaha. Although he lives pretty close to vermillion I have only seen him once for about a day sense school has started. Sense all my family is in town it makes it hard to get to spend time with my friends, and that kinda stinks. Oh well, after this week we only have about three weeks left of school and then we are off for christmas. :) This semester has went by so fast!!!

The outline

The outline helped a lot and I think made my paper easier to write. The only thing I didn't like about it was that we had two days to do that and also the first draft of the paper. I feel like I had to rush to get the outline done and start the paper because I was so busy and didn't have much time. Although over all it helped keep my paper more organized.

New Thesis

Ursula K. Le Guin's " The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" those who walked away feel uncomfortable with the situation in front of them and walk away.

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas.

Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" the town people who walk away do not agree whit what is happening but yet are not strong enough to stand up for what they believe in, so they walk away without saying a word.

Reading Critically

I've never exactly read anything this way, so it was a bit difficult at first. I started to get  a bit better as I went on. I found myself highlighting a lot of key ideas through the stories and then writing in the margins what each paragraph is about so it is easy to go back and find what I am looking for. I also found it a bit easier to find symbols in the stories. This is something that is going to take work and practice but will be extremely helpful in the future and for other english classes. From now on I am not going to rush through my readings, it makes more sense to get it done the right way the first time. :)

Symbolism

The White Hero
   The color white- This represents purity and also innocence.
   The Tree- This symbolizes the extremes measure that the girl went to in order to find the bird, and then           realized the importance of the life of the bird over the reward for finding it and revealing this to the hunter.
   The Hunter- This man represents today society and what people will do in order to have something that they cant have or that many people do not have.
   The cow- This represents the milk for the grandmother and young girl.

The Yellow Wallpaper
   The wallpaper- This shows how the women is stuck and cant seem to find a way out of the life she is in.
   The baby- The reason the women is depressed and acts in this way.
   The journal- The women writes in order to express herself, another way she is trying to get away from the reality of her life.
   The Husband- The way he treats his wife is the way women were treated during that time period, they were not treated with much respect or dignity.

Women in the 1900's

18.8 percent of women were working during this time period. They were treated poorly, had poor working conditions, and un fair wages. These women started up groups to fight the un fairness in the work field. Some of the occupations of this time are sales clerk, nurses, teachers and typists. Other women may find jobs in factories and mills. This also is when the start of women having jobs that traditionally only men would hold, such as law and medicine.

"Decade by Decade: 1900s -Women of the Century- DiscoverySchool.com."Discovery Education          Classroom Resources. Web. 1 Nov.2010. http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schooladventures/womenofthecentury/decadebydecade/1900s.html.