Teddy Purnell
12/18/08
Mr.Salsich
Room 2
Regrets
The Bad, The Wicked, and The Ugly
I have many regrets, of which I am deeply ashamed. Many of my regrets are little things, and their being small makes me regret having them, which creates more regrets, and here starts the never-ending list of regrets. There are two regrets, one of them recent, that are the most malicious. Although regrets can be painful, they can also be helpful, teaching you to prevent them from repeating themselves in the future.
One regret I have happened not too long ago, on Sunday, December 14. I got into a fight with my mom. I was grumpy, and being grumpy, I got into a fight with my brother, and when my mom came upstairs, I refused to listen to her, and got my Nintendo® DS Taken away from me. My anger, coursing through my veins, made me more defiant and my mom said something offensive about my dad, making me yell at her and lumber down the stairs. I will try not to get into fights with my brothers anymore. To help
me do this, I will need their help because sometimes I don’t think before I act, and instead I act before I think. Also, they should know by now that they can’t win a fight against me in their wildest dreams; I should know not to give in, but oh well, that’s brothers for you. I hope to prevent something like this from happening in the future, and I will try to make this hope a reality.
Another regret I have has been haunting me for most of my life. Not bonding with my classmates enough is a major regret of mine. In preschool, this was never a problem. As I got older, however, I became more and more secluded. To correct this regret, I will play with my classmates more often, get to know them better, and keep in touch with them after we all depart for our new high schools. Doing this may not make up for past years, but it will help me forgive myself for not doing this before. In my next school, I want to do this from the start. I hope to get very close to my classmates by the end of the year.
In the future, I want to train myself to regret little, or to have little regrets. Although it will be difficult I don’t want to regret anything in future years. I want to abolish my regrets and fears. Regretting less will make my life better in the long run.
SELF ASSESSMENT
I like how I wrote about my regret, then wrote how I would prevent it from happening in the future.
Trying to figure out what words to use was the hardest part of writing this essay for me, because I was thinking of one word, but couldn’t remember what the word was.
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Ty's essay reposted because of internet failiure
Ty LeVarge
Mr. H. Salsich
English 02
December 15 2008
Why Should Past Actions Be Hated?
An Essay on My Regrets
I don’t want to regret things, but it’s hard not to because of their importance. I try to move on from the wrong things I’ve done in my life and forget about them. Regrets help to remind us of the things we have done wrong so that we do not repeat them again. If you regret past actions, then past actions will regret you.
TS I have a regret that took place here at Pine Point School that hangs on me for my last remaining time here. SD That I did not bond with my classmates immediately when I first arrived here in fifth grade. CM If I had, happily and joyfully, walked into the classroom and started meeting people, I would be very well bonded with the friends I have now. CM However, now it is the end of my time here at Pine Point and I’m just now getting to know people well now. SD The best I can do for now is to make the most of the time we all have together. CM I need to talk every moment I have and to laugh every moment I can so that this precious time we have left is not forgotten. CM I want to become known not only to the friends I have in ninth grade but beyond my grade, to become known to all and to be familiar to all. CS I will have to be the best me to do this.
TS I have another regret that means a lot and I still bear with me over these gangling years. SD It is that I have not spent enough time with, my “secondary family”. CM My secondary family is my classmates, whom I have spent countless years talking, laughing, and crying with. CM Everyone accepts me and appreciates who I am and who I’ve become. SD In the few months we have left to be as one, I want to be part of that whole and to share with the other parts of the whole. CM I should laugh every time someone else laughs and party when others party because we may never get a chance to do this again as one. CM I need to be as outgoing and obnoxious as my other friends do so that I’m remembered as one of the class and not someone who was totally adverse than others. CS I have spent five years with the people I know now and I hope I will spend forever with them.
I have had the two regrets as my most important regrets because they have shaped me. Most other regrets are small and meaningless like the time I lost in a game of battleship to my Mom because of one wrong move. These I can think about and forget but the important regrets I can never get rid of and will haunt me for a long time. So during these last months I’m going to be the best me I can be!
IDEA MAP
Intro:
The important regrets
1st body paragraph:
Not bonding with others at Pine Point
Make the most of time left
2nd body paragraph:
Not spending enough time with my friends
Spend lots of time with them during last months
Conclusion:
be the best me i can be
Mr. H. Salsich
English 02
December 15 2008
Why Should Past Actions Be Hated?
An Essay on My Regrets
I don’t want to regret things, but it’s hard not to because of their importance. I try to move on from the wrong things I’ve done in my life and forget about them. Regrets help to remind us of the things we have done wrong so that we do not repeat them again. If you regret past actions, then past actions will regret you.
TS I have a regret that took place here at Pine Point School that hangs on me for my last remaining time here. SD That I did not bond with my classmates immediately when I first arrived here in fifth grade. CM If I had, happily and joyfully, walked into the classroom and started meeting people, I would be very well bonded with the friends I have now. CM However, now it is the end of my time here at Pine Point and I’m just now getting to know people well now. SD The best I can do for now is to make the most of the time we all have together. CM I need to talk every moment I have and to laugh every moment I can so that this precious time we have left is not forgotten. CM I want to become known not only to the friends I have in ninth grade but beyond my grade, to become known to all and to be familiar to all. CS I will have to be the best me to do this.
TS I have another regret that means a lot and I still bear with me over these gangling years. SD It is that I have not spent enough time with, my “secondary family”. CM My secondary family is my classmates, whom I have spent countless years talking, laughing, and crying with. CM Everyone accepts me and appreciates who I am and who I’ve become. SD In the few months we have left to be as one, I want to be part of that whole and to share with the other parts of the whole. CM I should laugh every time someone else laughs and party when others party because we may never get a chance to do this again as one. CM I need to be as outgoing and obnoxious as my other friends do so that I’m remembered as one of the class and not someone who was totally adverse than others. CS I have spent five years with the people I know now and I hope I will spend forever with them.
I have had the two regrets as my most important regrets because they have shaped me. Most other regrets are small and meaningless like the time I lost in a game of battleship to my Mom because of one wrong move. These I can think about and forget but the important regrets I can never get rid of and will haunt me for a long time. So during these last months I’m going to be the best me I can be!
IDEA MAP
Intro:
The important regrets
1st body paragraph:
Not bonding with others at Pine Point
Make the most of time left
2nd body paragraph:
Not spending enough time with my friends
Spend lots of time with them during last months
Conclusion:
be the best me i can be
Monday, December 15, 2008
Tristan's Essay!
Tristan Yerkes
Mr. Salsich
English 02
15 December 2008
I have had, being a 9th grade student, and will have many temptations. As I have been told countless times, one of the most important steps to avoiding bad decisions, is to find alternative methods of enjoyment, a natural high. I have also been told not to find the natural high, but let the natural high find me. This summer I rediscovered rock climbing. Or rather rock climbing rediscovered me. I say “rediscover” because in years previous, I had visited the local rock gym about once a month. Once I rediscovered rock climbing, I realized it was very important to me in different ways.
Rock climbing makes me happy, and I love doing it. One thing about rock climbing that I truly enjoy is the feeling it gives me. When I am hanging off of a rock face, looking down at the ground and I feel the breeze on my face, I feel like I am on top of the world. Rock climbing is so important to me, I have done my very best to pursue it during my free time. Since rock climbing isn’t that popular of an activity in Stonington, I have gone to great lengths to attain my natural high. I have traveled an hour and a half to go to a rock gym, and pinpointed all gyms in Connecticut and Rhode Island, and visited as many as I could. In addition, I started a rock climbing club at school based around a small bouldering (climbing without a harness) wall. As a busy teenager, I always need something to help me unwind, and with rock climbing, the tension in my life is reduced.
Rock climbing is important to me in so many different ways, on so many different levels. As I mentioned before, Rock climbing is my natural high. Climbing provides an alternative for me. It is much more easy to avoid temptations when I have something else to go to instead. Rock climbing is sometimes my escape as well. I will get so wrapped up in the day, that when I climb, I just seem to let go of everything else temporarily, and hold on to the wall. Many other things give me these feelings, but I think that rock climbing probably is the most prominent of them all, the one that I am the best at, and the one that brings me the most joy.
This simple activity of vertically ascending rocks has shaped my life, and is one of my favorite activities. I may not do it every day, and I may not be the best in the world, but every second I am climbing, that is how I feel. So when the temptations come my way, I’m ready with my answer. “No, thank you” I’ll say, “ I get high by climbing.”
Mr. Salsich
English 02
15 December 2008
I have had, being a 9th grade student, and will have many temptations. As I have been told countless times, one of the most important steps to avoiding bad decisions, is to find alternative methods of enjoyment, a natural high. I have also been told not to find the natural high, but let the natural high find me. This summer I rediscovered rock climbing. Or rather rock climbing rediscovered me. I say “rediscover” because in years previous, I had visited the local rock gym about once a month. Once I rediscovered rock climbing, I realized it was very important to me in different ways.
Rock climbing makes me happy, and I love doing it. One thing about rock climbing that I truly enjoy is the feeling it gives me. When I am hanging off of a rock face, looking down at the ground and I feel the breeze on my face, I feel like I am on top of the world. Rock climbing is so important to me, I have done my very best to pursue it during my free time. Since rock climbing isn’t that popular of an activity in Stonington, I have gone to great lengths to attain my natural high. I have traveled an hour and a half to go to a rock gym, and pinpointed all gyms in Connecticut and Rhode Island, and visited as many as I could. In addition, I started a rock climbing club at school based around a small bouldering (climbing without a harness) wall. As a busy teenager, I always need something to help me unwind, and with rock climbing, the tension in my life is reduced.
Rock climbing is important to me in so many different ways, on so many different levels. As I mentioned before, Rock climbing is my natural high. Climbing provides an alternative for me. It is much more easy to avoid temptations when I have something else to go to instead. Rock climbing is sometimes my escape as well. I will get so wrapped up in the day, that when I climb, I just seem to let go of everything else temporarily, and hold on to the wall. Many other things give me these feelings, but I think that rock climbing probably is the most prominent of them all, the one that I am the best at, and the one that brings me the most joy.
This simple activity of vertically ascending rocks has shaped my life, and is one of my favorite activities. I may not do it every day, and I may not be the best in the world, but every second I am climbing, that is how I feel. So when the temptations come my way, I’m ready with my answer. “No, thank you” I’ll say, “ I get high by climbing.”
Tristans Graphic Organizer
1st Paragraph
--> Temptations
-->Natural high
-->Recent development
Body paragraph1
-->Feeling
-->Top of the world
-->imagery
-->Determination relation (importance)
-->The lengths I have gone to (club?)
-->Put before things
Body Paragraph 2
-->Natural High
-->Escape
Conclusion
-->Temptations reference
-->What rock climbing means to me
-->Natural high
--> Temptations
-->Natural high
-->Recent development
Body paragraph1
-->Feeling
-->Top of the world
-->imagery
-->Determination relation (importance)
-->The lengths I have gone to (club?)
-->Put before things
Body Paragraph 2
-->Natural High
-->Escape
Conclusion
-->Temptations reference
-->What rock climbing means to me
-->Natural high
Friday, December 12, 2008
Kyle's Essay
Opening Paragraph
· “There’s only us. There’s only this. Forget regrets or life is yours to miss. No other hope. No other way. No day[,] but today!”-Jonathon Larson
· Regrets are meant to be learned from
· Resolutions are made from learning from regrets
· Resolutions are made from learning from regrets, but regrets are made from not following resolutions
1st Body Paragraph
· Regret many things, but don’t think we should dwell on our regrets
· Always regret talking back to my parents
· Can’t change what has already happened
· Can only change what I will do to prevent it from going further
· Don’t like to dwell on regrets
· Just makes me more depressed
· Can’t change them anyway
2nd Body Paragraph
· Would like to work on core value of integrity
· Integrity-firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values
· Means you need to follow what’s right
· Need to follow your own interpretation of what’s right
· Want to be able to live life right by the way I see it
· Want to follow my own morals and values
· Everyone has different morals and values so no one should live life the same as someone else
· Will feel better about myself
· Will feel that I am a better person by following what I believe in
· Will have a sense of self
· Everyone should live life with their own kind of integrity
Closing Paragraph
· “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important that any one thing.”-Abraham Lincoln
· We use what we learned from our regrets to deal with future mistakes
· Resolutions are the courses of action we decide upon should we encounter the same mistake
· I’ve had many regrets throughout life and have learned from them all
· Made it my resolution to live my life with integrity
Kyle Sebastian
Professor H. Salsich
Englich 02
13 December 2008
No one gets out alive anyway;
An essay on why we can't afford to dwell on regrets.
TS: “There’s only us. There’s only this. Forget regrets or life is yours to miss. No other hope. No other way. No day[,] but today!”(Jonathon Larson.) SD: Resolutions are made from learning from regrets, but regrets are made from not following resolutions. CM: Whenever you have regrets they aren’t meant for you to fret about, they’re things to learn from. CM: Once you learn from your regrets you make resolutions so that you won’t have to regret the same thing twice.
TS: Everyone has regrets, but I don’t think we should dwell on our regrets. SD: For example I greatly regret arguing with my parents the amount I do. CM: I can’t change what has happened and I regret that, but I don’t dwell on my mistakes. CM: I simply try and avoid them in the future. SD: I don’t like to dwell on my regrets. CM: If I think about my mistakes I simply get more depressed about them and beat myself up about what I could have done differently. CM: But since you can’t change the past, why bother worrying about it right?
TS: One of my major resolutions is to live life with integrity. SD: The dictionary definition of integrity is “Firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values.” CM: This means that you should live life the right way without people having to remind you to do so. CM: You need to live your life according to what you think is right regardless what everyone else may think. SD: I want to live my life the way I want to doing things that I think are right. CM: My definition of integrity, built as a foundation that holds up my morals and values, is to live your life by what you think is right for you and for others. CM: Since everyone has different morals and values no one should be living the same life as someone else, their life should be inimitable. SD: If I follow a lifestyle of integrity than I will also feel better about myself. CM: I’ll feel like I am a better person following what I believe in. CM: I will also have a sense of self, I will feel content and know that I’m not being superficial, I will be me. CS: I think everyone should live life by their own definition of integrity.
TS: “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important that any one thing.” (Abraham Lincoln.) SD: We use what we learned from our regrets to deal with future mistakes. CM: We know that resolutions are the courses of action we decide upon should we encounter the same mistake. CM: I have had many regrets throughout my life and I have learned from them all.
Self Assessment
· “There’s only us. There’s only this. Forget regrets or life is yours to miss. No other hope. No other way. No day[,] but today!”-Jonathon Larson
· Regrets are meant to be learned from
· Resolutions are made from learning from regrets
· Resolutions are made from learning from regrets, but regrets are made from not following resolutions
1st Body Paragraph
· Regret many things, but don’t think we should dwell on our regrets
· Always regret talking back to my parents
· Can’t change what has already happened
· Can only change what I will do to prevent it from going further
· Don’t like to dwell on regrets
· Just makes me more depressed
· Can’t change them anyway
2nd Body Paragraph
· Would like to work on core value of integrity
· Integrity-firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values
· Means you need to follow what’s right
· Need to follow your own interpretation of what’s right
· Want to be able to live life right by the way I see it
· Want to follow my own morals and values
· Everyone has different morals and values so no one should live life the same as someone else
· Will feel better about myself
· Will feel that I am a better person by following what I believe in
· Will have a sense of self
· Everyone should live life with their own kind of integrity
Closing Paragraph
· “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important that any one thing.”-Abraham Lincoln
· We use what we learned from our regrets to deal with future mistakes
· Resolutions are the courses of action we decide upon should we encounter the same mistake
· I’ve had many regrets throughout life and have learned from them all
· Made it my resolution to live my life with integrity
Kyle Sebastian
Professor H. Salsich
Englich 02
13 December 2008
No one gets out alive anyway;
An essay on why we can't afford to dwell on regrets.
TS: “There’s only us. There’s only this. Forget regrets or life is yours to miss. No other hope. No other way. No day[,] but today!”(Jonathon Larson.) SD: Resolutions are made from learning from regrets, but regrets are made from not following resolutions. CM: Whenever you have regrets they aren’t meant for you to fret about, they’re things to learn from. CM: Once you learn from your regrets you make resolutions so that you won’t have to regret the same thing twice.
TS: Everyone has regrets, but I don’t think we should dwell on our regrets. SD: For example I greatly regret arguing with my parents the amount I do. CM: I can’t change what has happened and I regret that, but I don’t dwell on my mistakes. CM: I simply try and avoid them in the future. SD: I don’t like to dwell on my regrets. CM: If I think about my mistakes I simply get more depressed about them and beat myself up about what I could have done differently. CM: But since you can’t change the past, why bother worrying about it right?
TS: One of my major resolutions is to live life with integrity. SD: The dictionary definition of integrity is “Firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values.” CM: This means that you should live life the right way without people having to remind you to do so. CM: You need to live your life according to what you think is right regardless what everyone else may think. SD: I want to live my life the way I want to doing things that I think are right. CM: My definition of integrity, built as a foundation that holds up my morals and values, is to live your life by what you think is right for you and for others. CM: Since everyone has different morals and values no one should be living the same life as someone else, their life should be inimitable. SD: If I follow a lifestyle of integrity than I will also feel better about myself. CM: I’ll feel like I am a better person following what I believe in. CM: I will also have a sense of self, I will feel content and know that I’m not being superficial, I will be me. CS: I think everyone should live life by their own definition of integrity.
TS: “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important that any one thing.” (Abraham Lincoln.) SD: We use what we learned from our regrets to deal with future mistakes. CM: We know that resolutions are the courses of action we decide upon should we encounter the same mistake. CM: I have had many regrets throughout my life and I have learned from them all.
Self Assessment
1.) What I like best about my essay is that I think that I was very honest with my feelings about being a better person.
2.) I think that the hardest part about this assignment was putting in a S-V split participle phrase that hopefully helped the writing.
Key
Purple=chiasmus
green=fast words
red=S-V split participle phrase
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Tristan's In-Class Essay!
Tristan Yerkes
Mr. Salsich
English 2
4 December, 2008
“The Chain Gang:
An Essay on a Quote From “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens
“If you were to die now, what would you regret about your life?” Brad Pitt says this as he and Edward Norton are speeding down the highway towards an oncoming tractor trailer in the movie “Fight Club” All the men in the back seat have an answer “Paint a self-portrait.” “Build a house.” The man in the front seat can’t decide. The truck gets dangerously close. Everyone has regrets about their life, and even if we aren’t faced with impending dooms enforced by Brad Pitt, we will all eventually recognize these regrets, and try to come to terms with them and live our lives. In “A Christmas Carol”, Marley doesn’t recognize how much he has missed in life when he, like all of us should live our lives.
TS: In “A Christmas Carol” Marley wears a chain that is supposed to show his incomplete life, we all wear some sort of chain, and we need to break that chain by living our lives. SD: Marley’s chain is “made of cash-boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds, and heavy purses” signifying that he has bound himself by the limits of his business, everyone today has this chain in some form. CM: These chains can be broken by letting go, by hitting bottom, by acknowledging that at some point you don’t own your possessions, your possessions can own you. SD: Incompletion is a simple word used to signify that we haven’t done something until it is finished, until it is complete; Marly’s life had much incompletion, yes he had survived, but he hadn’t lived. CM: Some simple incompletion can build chains, but the importance of the incompletion in relation to the building in the life-binding chain has nothing to do with one’s peers, but with how they feel about the incompletion. CM: If I were to stop this essay here, and walk away to go do something else I would not have a heavier chain because Mr. Salsich would give me an F, but because I would deserve an F, if Charles Babbage had quit figuring out the Vigenere Cipher, he wouldn’t be incomplete because of other’s opinions, but because ha had wasted forty years doing it. SD: In “A Christmas Carol” Marley was obsessed with his worldly goods, and with sitting in his office, festering within the wall of worthless money he had built, bound by that chain of business that proved nothing except for that he hadn’t lived. CM: We all need to let go of our possessions, to know that they were unimportant to the business of mankind. CM: Scrooge had to come to terms with this to achieve both freedom from material, but also a charitable demeanor. SD: Some, like Scrooge and Marley, would think the practice of letting go pointless, but the fact remains that in retrospect, material possessions are the things that don’t matter. CM: The relationships that we share with our fellow human beings should be valued before anything else, and the first step towards this is putting people before things. CM: If people in general start living through their possessions, mankind would be nothing but a bunch of vegetables obsessed with how much money they have. CS: Scrooge and Marley were both surrounded by materials, incomplete events, and the chain that we all wear, but that can be easily avoided if one just lives their life.
Living one’s life endears all of the thinking of Christmas, and rather than focusing on how people enjoy other’s company, Scrooge chooses to focus on how one loses money on Christmas. If I were faced with an oncoming Truck, who knows what I would say, but after writing this, I am going to think long and hard about it. Marley faced Scrooge with a tractor trailer, and now Scrooge must give him an answer. By the end of this story, I hope that Scrooge will “Walk abroad his fellowmen, and travel far and wide.”
Mr. Salsich
English 2
4 December, 2008
“The Chain Gang:
An Essay on a Quote From “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens
“If you were to die now, what would you regret about your life?” Brad Pitt says this as he and Edward Norton are speeding down the highway towards an oncoming tractor trailer in the movie “Fight Club” All the men in the back seat have an answer “Paint a self-portrait.” “Build a house.” The man in the front seat can’t decide. The truck gets dangerously close. Everyone has regrets about their life, and even if we aren’t faced with impending dooms enforced by Brad Pitt, we will all eventually recognize these regrets, and try to come to terms with them and live our lives. In “A Christmas Carol”, Marley doesn’t recognize how much he has missed in life when he, like all of us should live our lives.
TS: In “A Christmas Carol” Marley wears a chain that is supposed to show his incomplete life, we all wear some sort of chain, and we need to break that chain by living our lives. SD: Marley’s chain is “made of cash-boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds, and heavy purses” signifying that he has bound himself by the limits of his business, everyone today has this chain in some form. CM: These chains can be broken by letting go, by hitting bottom, by acknowledging that at some point you don’t own your possessions, your possessions can own you. SD: Incompletion is a simple word used to signify that we haven’t done something until it is finished, until it is complete; Marly’s life had much incompletion, yes he had survived, but he hadn’t lived. CM: Some simple incompletion can build chains, but the importance of the incompletion in relation to the building in the life-binding chain has nothing to do with one’s peers, but with how they feel about the incompletion. CM: If I were to stop this essay here, and walk away to go do something else I would not have a heavier chain because Mr. Salsich would give me an F, but because I would deserve an F, if Charles Babbage had quit figuring out the Vigenere Cipher, he wouldn’t be incomplete because of other’s opinions, but because ha had wasted forty years doing it. SD: In “A Christmas Carol” Marley was obsessed with his worldly goods, and with sitting in his office, festering within the wall of worthless money he had built, bound by that chain of business that proved nothing except for that he hadn’t lived. CM: We all need to let go of our possessions, to know that they were unimportant to the business of mankind. CM: Scrooge had to come to terms with this to achieve both freedom from material, but also a charitable demeanor. SD: Some, like Scrooge and Marley, would think the practice of letting go pointless, but the fact remains that in retrospect, material possessions are the things that don’t matter. CM: The relationships that we share with our fellow human beings should be valued before anything else, and the first step towards this is putting people before things. CM: If people in general start living through their possessions, mankind would be nothing but a bunch of vegetables obsessed with how much money they have. CS: Scrooge and Marley were both surrounded by materials, incomplete events, and the chain that we all wear, but that can be easily avoided if one just lives their life.
Living one’s life endears all of the thinking of Christmas, and rather than focusing on how people enjoy other’s company, Scrooge chooses to focus on how one loses money on Christmas. If I were faced with an oncoming Truck, who knows what I would say, but after writing this, I am going to think long and hard about it. Marley faced Scrooge with a tractor trailer, and now Scrooge must give him an answer. By the end of this story, I hope that Scrooge will “Walk abroad his fellowmen, and travel far and wide.”
Ty's CHristmas Carol essay
Ty LeVarge
English 02
Mr. Salsich
December 04 2008
The path of a greedy spirit
An essay on a quote
From A Christmas Carol
By Ty LeVarge
Someone greedy walks the path of punishment as punishment walks the path of the greedy. Marley was forced to wander the earth following his fellowmen for eternity as punishment for his selfishness in life. He also made a chain of what he “Forged in life” and wore it on his free will to remind himself of the greed he had in his life. Marley was as greedy as Scrooge and for that he deserved the punishment he received.
TS Marley lived wealthy but paid the price as a spirit and was made to follow his fellowmen for eternity. SD Marley made a chain of his life and on it was all of what he had made in life and used it to keep as a reminder of his past life. CM His chain was of greed and money and that was all he had in life and cared for nothing else. CM He made the chain to remind him of his greed, his wealth, his selfishness, and his self attitude. SD He was also made to walk the earth forever and to follow his fellowmen because of his past actions. CM He was to walk with shame as shame walks him. CM He paid a hansom price for his past greed and it weighs him heavily for now he must wander for the rest of eternity. CS Marley could have saved himself from his suffering but kept being greedy and paid a dreadful price for it.
Markley was to wander as a spirit forever for not going out and sharing with the world. A simple action such as giving some money for a charity would make a difference in the lives of others. If Scrooge turns his attitude and greed around, he may be saved from the hardships that Marley endured. Marley needed to go and help others to be saved from his now eternal suffering that he must do for the rest of eternity.
English 02
Mr. Salsich
December 04 2008
The path of a greedy spirit
An essay on a quote
From A Christmas Carol
By Ty LeVarge
Someone greedy walks the path of punishment as punishment walks the path of the greedy. Marley was forced to wander the earth following his fellowmen for eternity as punishment for his selfishness in life. He also made a chain of what he “Forged in life” and wore it on his free will to remind himself of the greed he had in his life. Marley was as greedy as Scrooge and for that he deserved the punishment he received.
TS Marley lived wealthy but paid the price as a spirit and was made to follow his fellowmen for eternity. SD Marley made a chain of his life and on it was all of what he had made in life and used it to keep as a reminder of his past life. CM His chain was of greed and money and that was all he had in life and cared for nothing else. CM He made the chain to remind him of his greed, his wealth, his selfishness, and his self attitude. SD He was also made to walk the earth forever and to follow his fellowmen because of his past actions. CM He was to walk with shame as shame walks him. CM He paid a hansom price for his past greed and it weighs him heavily for now he must wander for the rest of eternity. CS Marley could have saved himself from his suffering but kept being greedy and paid a dreadful price for it.
Markley was to wander as a spirit forever for not going out and sharing with the world. A simple action such as giving some money for a charity would make a difference in the lives of others. If Scrooge turns his attitude and greed around, he may be saved from the hardships that Marley endured. Marley needed to go and help others to be saved from his now eternal suffering that he must do for the rest of eternity.
A Cristmas Carol
12/4/08
Teddy Purnell
Mr.Salsich
Room 2
Sticky Situations
Scrooge’s Warning in “A Christmas Carol”
(OP)(TS)There are many ways to interpret the quote on page twenty-three in “A Christmas Carol”, by Charles Dickens. (CM)I think the ghost is trying to make Scrooge see what is awaiting him at the end of his life if he continues to live as he does now. (CM)Scrooge must see what is awaiting him, and what he must do to avoid it. (CS)If he doesn’t, he will suffer for eternity.
(BP)(TS)Scrooge is visited by a ghost, and the ghost says many confusing thing s that must be read multiple times to fully understand its meaning. (SD)‘"It is required of every man," the Ghost returned, "that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellowmen, and travel far and wide; and if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death.” (CM)This quote means that if Scrooge doesn’t abide by this rule, he will be condemned to do so in his afterlife. (CM)Scrooge must come
to realize this, for his time is running out. (SD)"I wear the chain I forged in life," replied the Ghost. "I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it." (CM)The ghost means that the chain represents all the things he did in his life. (CM)(chiasmus)The chain is his life, and his life is the chain. (CS)This is my interpretation of what Dickens means on page twenty-three, in “A Christmas Carol”.
Kyle's Essay (A Christmas Carol)
Kyle Sebastian
Professor H. Salsich
English 02
3 December 2008
“What Comes Around Goes Around”;
An In-Class Essay on a quote from “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens
TS-What if after death you could not find piece and had to pay for your sins here on earth? SD-Every action that you perform always has a consequence, no matter how small, it always has a consequence. CM-For example Adolf Hitler performed a despicable hate crime and he paid for it with his life. CM-You can sin and have your way in this life, but if you sin it will have its way with you in the next.
TS-Marley is trying to warn Ebenezor that the deeds he performs in this life will affect his next. SD-Bad deeds lead to a bad afterlife. CM-Marley spent all his time worrying about money and work and now he is forced to do the things he didn’t do in his life for all eternity. CM-Its a lot like bills, if you don’t pay for them now you’ll have to pay for them later. SD-If Scrooge keeps living his life like Marley did he will have the same thing happen to him. CM-He too will be bound by chains made of the petty things he valued in life and will be bound against his will to pay for his sins. CM-If he was just simply kind, if he was just generous, if he was just a little more sociable then maybe he could live a life that he didn’t even know he wanted. CS-Marley is trying to tell him that he can live a happy life and be able to live happily in the next if he just changes his ways.
TS-The things that you here will decide what things you do there, in the after life. SD-If you have a homework assignment and you decide not to do it then you will only have to do it later. CM-Why not just do it in the first place and even help yourself, homework, after all, was made to help us. CS-Why live a life that makes other people unhappy when you could live a life that makes yourself and others happy.
Purple-Chiasmis
Blue-Purposeful Repetition
Professor H. Salsich
English 02
3 December 2008
“What Comes Around Goes Around”;
An In-Class Essay on a quote from “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens
TS-What if after death you could not find piece and had to pay for your sins here on earth? SD-Every action that you perform always has a consequence, no matter how small, it always has a consequence. CM-For example Adolf Hitler performed a despicable hate crime and he paid for it with his life. CM-You can sin and have your way in this life, but if you sin it will have its way with you in the next.
TS-Marley is trying to warn Ebenezor that the deeds he performs in this life will affect his next. SD-Bad deeds lead to a bad afterlife. CM-Marley spent all his time worrying about money and work and now he is forced to do the things he didn’t do in his life for all eternity. CM-Its a lot like bills, if you don’t pay for them now you’ll have to pay for them later. SD-If Scrooge keeps living his life like Marley did he will have the same thing happen to him. CM-He too will be bound by chains made of the petty things he valued in life and will be bound against his will to pay for his sins. CM-If he was just simply kind, if he was just generous, if he was just a little more sociable then maybe he could live a life that he didn’t even know he wanted. CS-Marley is trying to tell him that he can live a happy life and be able to live happily in the next if he just changes his ways.
TS-The things that you here will decide what things you do there, in the after life. SD-If you have a homework assignment and you decide not to do it then you will only have to do it later. CM-Why not just do it in the first place and even help yourself, homework, after all, was made to help us. CS-Why live a life that makes other people unhappy when you could live a life that makes yourself and others happy.
Purple-Chiasmis
Blue-Purposeful Repetition
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