their eyes were watching God

Their eyes were watching God tells a story about a woman by the name of Janie living in a world where she was told what to do. She was raised by her Grandmother who she called Nanny because her parents were not around. By the age of 16 she was forced to marry an older man and had 2 other marriages after that. This book has many literary devices, the three that stood out to my as important to the story was Tone of the character, Setting and theme. These three literary devices can help you understand the story better. The tone of the character, the main character of this story is Janie Crawford she is described as a beautiful, black woman, with long straight hair like of a Caucasian, because she was mixed. The tone of her character was a strong independent women who just wanted someone to treat her equally not just as a women. Another character in this story is Tea cake he is Janie's last husband, Janie finally finds true love in him because he is the only man that treats her with respect and allows her to be herself. Tea Cake is a charming guy with a good personality. Another literary device is setting, takes place in Eatonville, Florida, back when places were still getting discovered. You can tell by the language of the characters that this was in the south, in past tense, probably some where around the early twentieth century. The last literary device is the theme of the story, which is love. Janie's quest for love starts off when her grandma gives her away to marry a man by the name of Logan Killicks she was told that when you were married you were to love them but as her gets older she finds out that this is not the case. It is not till she meets Tea Cake that she she is truly happy with life and she finally finds her true soul mate. This is the most important literary device because this is what the whole story is about and without understanding that you will not understand the book. Even though there were many literary devices these were the most important ones I thought stood out . This is a good book about love,independence and finding the real you I would recommend this book to anyone.

what am i thankful for/things i am doing for my project

I am most thankful for having a home because not everyone is fortunate to have one to live in. We take the small things that we have for granted everyone who does have a house to live in have a lot to be thankful for because there are a lot of people who wish they were in your shoes write now but they cant because of previous problems. So I am thankful for a house to live in. I am also very thankful for all my family and friends because without them life wouldn't be the same.

Some things I plan on doing over the break is to

bring in another draft of my writing

A more detailed story board

Try to schedule interviews

my beach project

What I am discovering about this project is that it is harder than it seems, there is a lot of wor needed to be done. I am planning on doing a video and finding people to interview, it very hard because when you call them they're either not there or they're not answering their phones, which is cutting into my video time. Once I get all my interviews it will be easier for me and I will have a good product. Some surprising things that I found out about this project is how dirty the beach water is. I did not realize how unclean it was until I researched and actually test the bacteria levels in the ocean. I also found out that plastic holders from cans and bottles get into the ocean and when sea turtles swim through them and because of that it affects how their shell is when it is fully developed. I also found out when interviewing random people at diferent places they usually do not want to help. Which was surprising to me because I would want to help some one with their project if they ask. My next steps to make this a better project is to continue editing what footage I do have for my video so I can make it educational with a good meaning and also entertaining so people would want to actually watch it. For my writing I would like to continue to get critiques manily from teaches so I could get a better critique and end up with a better paper. Like the video below I would like to make a ponit not show to much info just enough or else people will get easily bored by it.

our next president

We just recently elected our first African-American president. I for one am happy for the outcome. African -Americans n the past have went through alot and even though it has gotten better they still are. Electing a African -American president just made it alot better. I hope he lives up to his promises because alot of people are counting on him to change our would like he promised because our ecomony is looking pretty bad right and right now we really need a good president to look foward too. I am looking foraward for him to make America a little better than it used to be and if he lives up to his promises he will be a great president. My knowledge on current events and political evens have gotten better because I really was not interested in politics. Even though I am still not that interested in politics I was able to understand what was going on during the voting process because of the decusssions we were having in class. It also help that we had blogs to do because we had to search the internet to find the information needed and since we had to research it, it gave us a better chanch of understand what was going on. As for current events I think current events are more interesting to write about and also alot easier to seach for, I lie currents a little more now and I understanding whats going on what makes it more interesting to talk about.

my ideas for my beach project

Some ideas me and my partner are thinking about is making a awareness t-shirt about marine life, the website I went to had plenty of good ideas me and my partner could use (click on this link to see them) the shirt would state a good purpose about sea turtles so people will be aware of what is happening to them. Three aspects of the product we want is we want it to send a message, something people would actually wear and something that is not too hard to do. Since my project is on a specific species of marine life, and I want to focus on sea turtles in the San Diego bay some of my ideas for the shirt is to have a after affect of a turtle that is affected by plastic and it saying, "help me save me and friends and family." It's going to be a very easy design with a message somewhat like the one above.

Another idea would to make a awareness video quite like this one about sea turtle and how we could help stop it. I like this video because it scared me so bad and it made me want to help and that's what I want my viewers to do I want my viewers to be so scared that they want to help. three aspects I want is it to be nice simple video explaining what happens and the shirts me and my partner will be making, and it send a good message.

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when women got the right to vote

Well recently we have just watch the most historical presidential debates in history. We just elected the first African-American man. Without the votes of blacks,youth and of course women we probably would not have had such a unanimous vote. As we all should know not every group of people were allowed to vote,each group got their right to vote in different times. Women all across the globe were not fully allowed to vote until the 19th amendment, but it took some countries and states longer to catch on to women's rights, according to this website i found called women's suffrage: when did women vote these places all got rights in different years. Here are a list of years where places got there right to vote

California women got the right to vote in 1911

Washington State women got the right to vote in 1910

New York women got the right to vote in 1917

Michigan women got the right to vote in 1918.
Tennessee becomes the 36th state to accept the 19th Amendment in 1920 and which made their vote part of the Constitution.

New Jersey gives the right to vote for women owning more than $250 in 1776. Later the state reconsidered and women were no longer allowed to vote.

Brazil women was allowed to vote in 1934

Dominican Rep. of Congo gave women the right to vote in 1963.

Australian women gained some voting rights in 1901 and 1902

New Zealand was the first country to grant equal voting rights to women in 1893.

China women were given the right to vote in 1949.

and Spain gave women the right to vote in 1931.

Even though it took that long us women have came a long way. We almost had a women president or vice-president. In a article called U.S. women in politics score gains despite White House losses it said that in the nations popular vote, women gave Obama a dominant verge, with a 56 percent to 43 percent while men were about even. So i think women are really taking advantage of their rights that they didn't have before which is good.

How are sea turtles affected by cigar buds

The topic I am doing is How does cigar buds effect the sea turtles in San Diego bay? Me and Amanda are working together to create a calender and awareness video about what happens to sea turtles when the plastic enters the ocean. We are planning on going Mission beach and The Birch Aquarium and interviewing different people and hear their opinions about it, while taking pictures of sea turtles and sea turtles that have been affected by the plastic debris in the ocean.
Some resources needed are camera gear to interview and take pictures, a recorder to do voice overs for certain people. Computers to put all our info together. We basically need people from the birch aquarium to interview and different people on the beach?

Birch aquarium
some questions we are thinking of asking
Why does plastic effect the way their shell looks?
How many eggs does a turtle lay in one session?
how many different species of turtles are there?/How many are endangered?
How many species of turtles die because of plastic debris every year?
How long does it take for the turtle to get fully affected by plastic debris?

San Diego
What do you do when your done with your plastic debris?
Why do plastic debris end up in the

A how trash pollutes the ocean

In are humanities and biology class we are learning about how clean are beaches are and how we can help it. One of my questions i am curious about is "How is trash on the beach effecting the ocean?" One website I looked at it gave some statistics about how much plastic bottles and other items are found in the ocean it said "the average American uses between 300 and 700 plastic bags every year." When people do not throw away their trash ends up on the beaches and into the ocean causing sea animal to mistakenly see them as food and eating it. Another website that talks about trash and pollution is pollution of the ocean by plastic and trash this website explains that fishing nets that get lost in ocean end up killing marine animals a process called "ghost fishing" and items that were for for fishing become traps for other animal.

Another question I am exploring is How dogs effect the beach. An article I was reading called Dog waste poses threat to water. Well it looks it does play a big role about how the oceans beaches are effected. Since most dog owners don't pick up their dogs mess it gets washed up into the ocean causing the oceans to be contaminated. Washed up fertilizer is also to blame for contaminated oceans and beaches.

This is just a few things i will be talking about, I will update some stuff in the upcoming weeks so feel free to come by and check it out.