Andrew Slettebak

English III

04/14/14

Ms. Fordahl

Utopian Promise

            This last week in class we learned about utopian. In the 17th and early 18th centuries the Puritans, and later the Quakers, came over from Europe to avoid prosecution, and they were coming to the “New World” to create Utopia. It was to be built to fulfill God's promise on earth. The “New World” then is now referred to as the United States.

            In the story “The General History of Virginia “John Smith left England because he wanted to become a soldier. John Smith talks about his encounters with the Native Americans and how he and his clan survived the harsh winters of the Northeast coast of North American. The Virginia colony wanted major profits from their trip into the New World. The colony decided that they wanted Smith to help with the Jamestown colony.

            In William Bradford's "Of Plymouth Plantation" provides insight into the life of the Puritans in Plymouth. The Puritans were heading to Cape Cod and they did arrive there. Little did they know that the natives had been there way before any of them. The settlers thanked God for delivering them through the dangerous journey and this brutal winter.

            In “Sinner in the Hands of an Angry God” by Jonathan Edwards talks about a sermon that Jonathan Edwards gave to a small congregation Northampton, Massachusetts. In the story it explains how they believed God could just decide when they were going to hell and there was nothing you could really do.

            With these three stories they lead up to witch trial because eventually all the Puritans became annoyed about what they’re doing how they’re doing, and thinking God was behind every bad thing. This creates a background for the Salem Witch trials because in the previous books we have read it talks about the god and other things to do with that.

Exploring Borderlands

Andrew Slettebak
Ms. Fordahl
English 11
25 February 2014

Exploring Borderlands

           In this unit, we talked about How to Tame A Wild Tongue, and exploring borderlands. We had some vocab and some small stories. We talked about many cultural like the Mexican and Americans. In the story how to tame a wild tongue we talked about the Chicano and Chicana.
           In the video we seen how the contact zones and the borderlands. Think of one and other like the Aztecs and the Mexican. What are borderlands are the region of land by a national border. then it talked about contact zone. What are contact zone an area around a borderland.
           In the story  of How to Tame a Wild Tongue it talk about Chicano and Chicana are men and
that lived in the United States and was descents of Mexican Americans. Also talk a lot of different language and their language they speak and why they speak it. Universities wanted them to lose their accents and speak English more the they're original language.
          Today most people speak a lot of different language like you can have some who speak Spanish, German, English, and French. We have lot of different cultural up her by the Canadian and the down by the Mexican border.
         In this chapter we talk about a lot of thing it was vary hard to understand I was kind of confused.

Why the drinking age should be lowered.

                Some facts

·         1 in 3 8^th graders have tried alcohol

·         1 in 5 teens excessively drink alcohol

·         If teen under 21 drink before the legal age know how to control it by the time they are 21

·         25% of the youth ages 12-20 drink alcohol

4 reasons why it should be lowered

·         Have the drinking age at 21 encourage young adults to use fake IDs to purchase alcohol. It would be better if we had fewer fake IDs and more respect for the law

·         You don’t know how much you can handle until you try it out. Tolerance doesn’t come with age, it comes with responsibility

·         These young adult tend to rebel when not allowed to do something they want drinking is all about

·         There are over 200 countries in the world that do not have a drinking age. Countries such as Italy and china have fewer alcohol related problems

 

Why it should stay at 21

 

·         US teenagers also show equal or lower rates of intoxication/binge drinking than do adolescents from most European countries, and most European countries report higher rates of intoxication and binge drinking for youth under 13.

·         Binge drinking peaks among 21- to 25-year-olds at 45.9%, while the binge drinking rates of those aged 12-13, 14-15, 16-17, and 18-20 are 1.5%, 7.8%, 19.4%, and 35.7% respectively.

 

I think the drinking age should be lowered so we don’t have the problems of miners and so we can drink in collage