Conflict Resolution Story

Conflict resolution story Austin Witthun

Author’s notes: this is a short story that is for conflict resolution that is taking place at the end of the Giver.

When Jonas rose from the accumulated snow that was piled around him, he was startled for two reasons. The first because, the sled that he had rode down the hill on had cracked in more than two pieces, and the second was that he had his arms wrapped tightly around Gabriel, who besides being cold, was sleeping and unharmed. He didn’t have to walk far before he found a house on the edge of a small village. He was a little frightened because the house, and the rest of the village for that matter, didn’t look anything like his community but, at this point he was more concerned about Gabriel getting hypothermia. He knocked on the door and waited for an answer. It wasn’t long until a man opened the door. Then something happened. The man said something but, in a different language. Jonas stood there wondering what the man had said when the man stepped back in an effort to communicate that they wanted him to come inside, so Jonas did. He set Gabriel down on the floor against the wall as the man continued to speak this strange language. After a while of just standing there, he noticed that Gabriel seemed like he was not warming up so he gave him yet another memory of sunshine which seemed to help. When Jonas did that the man stopped talking and stared in awe slowly realizing what had just happened. This gave Jonas an idea. Remembering what the Giver had once said: ”You do understand, don’t you, that this is my life? The memories?” and he walked up to the man and transferred a memory of the Giver to the man. The man stood there and slowly turned to Jonas. He put his hands on Jonas’ shoulders and transferred a memory that surprised Jonas. It was of the Giver himself. Jonas and the man looked at each other and nodded. Then Jonas proceeded to give the man memories of the trip away from the community. Using this form of communication, he had the man get help from the rest of the community for assistance with Gabriel and with housing for Jonas and Gabriel. Jonas was assigned several jobs in this community. Then all he had to do was wait for the Giver.

How Free were Free Blacks In the North

How free were the Free Blacks in the North?

By Austin Witthun

How free were free blacks in the north? Many people believe that they were always treated equally to the white people. That they were give equal opportunities for jobs and freedoms similar to jobs. According to the information in the DBQ pages, this may not have been the case. In this essay I will answer to the best of my ability the question; how free were free blacks in the north?

One thing that was not equal between the whites and blacks is voting and jury duty. Only 5 states (Doc A.) let Blacks vote in their courts and the rest did not although some states had certain restrictions, only 5 were a definite yes. Only one state let the blacks on jury duty and, that wasn’t even until 1860 in Massachusetts (Doc A.).

As it is stated in the previous paragraph, some states had free blacks and some didn’t. The chart on document A shows that the amount of states that have less freedoms than blacks are more than double. It’s even more that that if you are looking at the male jury duty section.

Most blacks were not allowed in most courts, as said previously, and they were also not allowed in almost all of the same places like work places and stores as white people. Segregation is the word for this and this point is made clear in document B when it says “… but we shall not associate with him.” meaning that they (the white people) didn’t want anything to do with the black people. It also begins to list numerous things that the blacks were not allowed to do. For example, dining, going to the theater, representing in legislature, going to church and marrying their daughters was always to be segregated. As it says in document C, the author says things like: “No one will employ me; white boys won’t work with me…” saying that the segregation makes it hard for them to get a job.

With all of these points in mind, I conclude that the so called free blacks in the northern states weren’t as free as everyone (including myself before I researched the things that I did) thought they were. The main points of this argument being the Free states vs. non Free states, the voting/jury duty abilities of blacks in the northern states and, my biggest point being segregation, prove my conclusion that they weren’t that free.

Sites:

DBQ resources:

Leon litwack, north of slavery, university of Chicago, 1961

Charles MacKay, life and liberty of America: or sketches of a tour in the United States and Canada, London, 1859

Found in Charles Andrews, the History of the New York free-schools, mahlon day, new York, 1830

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_United_States

Response to “Big Yellow Taxi” and “Field Below”

In both “Big Yellow Taxi” and in “Field Below” the author’s purpose seems to be the same. I think that it is to say that they are lonely and miss the nature that they once knew. Or it might be to say how they miss a person or a friend. The mood and tone are very similar. The tone is like sad and the mood is depressing or lonely. In “Big Yellow Taxi” the tone/mood of the song is way different than the poem because the song is happier and more uplifting I guess you could say. However in “Field Below” I think that they are almost the same because the song is slow and is kind of sad because of that. This means that even though the words can be a different tone the music can change that. This is very interesting and makes me wonder if that happens in other songs too.

Parody of "This is Just to Say" relating to Stormbreaker

Parody

this is a parody of the poem this is just to say that relates to stormbreaker

I have destroyed

The computer

That you have made

And which

You were going to use

To destroy the world

Forgive me

I had to do it

To save the world.

This relates to the novel “Stormbreaker” by Anthony Horowitz because the the voice of the poem is Alex Rider who is the main character of Stormbreaker. The audience is the Harod Sayle who is the bad guy in the story. The mood is humerous or sarcastic and the tone is like earnest or something.

Mother To Son Response

Mother to Son Response

This is a short response to: “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes.

Some different figurative languages in “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes are metaphors like where it keeps saying crystal stair comparing to life meaning that because he was saying that life wasn’t a crystal stair it, was difficult. The parts where it says "splinters, boards torn up and no carpet" are also metaphors also saying that life is difficult. Also the parts where it says "light and dark" describing how sometimes there was no help from others. The mood of the poem toward the reader is sad but motivating. The tone is to motivate the reader by saying how they are still climbing the “stairs” of life.

Character Description

Adam Pelko

This is a 2 paragraph character description piece about the main character in the book Heroes Don’t Run.

In the story, Heroes Don’t Run by Harry Mazer, the main characters name is Adam Pelko although in the book he is mainly called Pelko because, he is a Marine. I would describe him as brave because he signs up to fight in WWII. In this war, the main enemy is the Japanese. A fighting strategy of the Japanese in WWII is the Kamikaze fighter which is a suicide bomber that flies there airplane into targets like naval ships for example, and Adam is up against these fighters that are willing to die for their country, perhaps more than Adam. Stubborn like a mule is another phrase that would describe him because in the beginning, he needs his grandfather to sign the papers for him to join the Marines because he is only 17 and you need to be 18 to sign for yourself. He keeps bugging his grandfather until he does and keeps working with him until he takes him to Syracuse to get the papers. He is young in comparison to some of the Marines like the instructors but, the marines that he hangs out with are his age or are 18.

In Heroes Don’t Run, Adam is a marine that goes to Japan to fight in WWII. He lands on Okinawa. With the rest of his platoon. In this alien world, Adam fights with the friends that he made at boot camp against the Japs. He joins the Marines against his mothers will to continue a tradition from his grandfather and his father. His grandfather lost half his arm in the First World War I think it was and his dad died in the bombing of Pearl Harbor. When he gets home from Japan he is congratulated and thanked by the people he walks by on the street and other people.