Early American Literature

Literature is the collecting writings of a group of people. In the beginning most people told story’s by word of mouth. The Colonial literature was written by the government or church, they would threaten people by showing them what the wrongs were, and to make sure people didn’t do them.

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GATSBY TEST CHAPTER 1-4

Chapter 1 Q: What was the reason Nick went to go visit Tom and Daisy at East Egg? Q: Why was Daisy’s expression so negative when she found out she had a girl? Chapter 2 Q: Why did Tom like to visit Wilson at his garage so much? Q: Why is Tom so violent and why is Mrs. Wilson still in love with him? Chapter 3 Q: Why so peope go to Gatsby’s house for parties without getting invited? Q: Why is it that Jorden likes Nick so much? Chapter 4 Q: Why did Mr.Wolfshein say “old Metrople” was a place “filled with faces dead and gone”? Q: What does Jorden tell Nick about what Gatsby wants him to do, and why doesn’t Gatsby tell Nick directly?

BRAVE NEW WORLD NOTES

The story starts of by the author wanting us to imagine an image To get us thinking One rest of the building are bigger Tone in the beginning s harsh People are together but they are so concentrated in themselves Thinkers aren’t the important things, little things are what makes ideas more important A.F? “Alphas and Betas remained until definitely bottled; while the Gammas, Deltas and Epsilons were brought out again, after only thirty-six hours, to undergo Bokanovsky's Process.“ the characters being created by different types of people The people from society don’t see the humans being created as people Embryos are like photograph films, can only stand red light The system labeled a T for males, circle for females, those who were destined to become freemartins had a question mark There was as many as thirty percent of the female embroiled to develope normally The others got a dose of male sex-hormone Babies as s...

IGNITE TALK

What causes sleep paralysis? I used the internet as my resource to help me understand my big question. What I learned from researching my questions was one of the main causes that cause sleep paralysis which is rapid eye movements, this causes a person to dream vivid dreams while their muscles are turned off. If the person wakes up before the dream is over their body's is still numb and unable to move. This connects to the story Brave New World because people take soma to numb their pain. I will do more research to find out whether this is the only cause of sleep paralysis, or are there more reasons on why people can get sleeping paralysis.

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