Katyra Johnson

Ms. Melville

English

12/18/08

                                                                Poetry Analysis Essay

             Even though Waterfalls by TLC is a R&B song, it has more than a lyrical meaning. The song does have some poetic devices. TLC was a popular R&B group during 90's. their popular catchy songs and beats had millions of listeners. Waterfalls is a good song because it includes clear images, good sound, and it can change your perspective.

             First TLC attracts there listeners with things that make the song sound good. They use rhyme. "A lonely mother gazing out of the window staring at a son that she just can't touch. If at anytime he's in a jam she'll be by his side, but he doesn't realize he hurts her so much." The boy is in a lot of drug and gang related activities. The mother tries to warn him about that, but ignores her warning and ends up dead. They use several other examples of rhyme. "You say because my life is ten shades of grey, I prey all ten fade away, Seldom praise him for sunny days. This meant that your life will have its ups and downs but all you can do is hope for better days. also when you do have good days you don't appreciate them until they are gone. That's how they made the song sound good.

             TLC imagery to make people more attracted to it. A example is "Another body laying cold in the gutter." That gave me the image that violence is a big issue so that it's not hard to be a victim so be careful of the decisions. Another example is " He goes and takes a glimpse in the mirror and doesn't recognize his own face. His health is fading and he doesn't know why, three letters took him to his final resting place. That quote was telling you about a guy who had a partner who he usually uses a condom with, but since he thinks he can trust her he decides not to use one. What he didn't know that his partner has multiple partners and she has HIV. Those times they decided not to use a condom he ends up catching the disease. His partner didn't even tell him that she had and in the end they both died from it because he was unaware and she was untreated. That gives the image of him slowing dying. 

             The song can also change perspectives. The chorus is the most effective on changed perspectives. It says "Don't go chasing waterfalls please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to."

Lynnae Edwards

Kidsknowit.com

It has games and you can get free tutoring online

It can teach you about the body

It runs very slow

Age inappropriate 

www.bestedsites.com

It has games and its more entertaining then educational

It teaches you about your presidents

Laborah

www.homeschool.com

It has online quizes it also helps you with math english and social studies and it has a lot of stuff going on 

Its is not all free

Ilike.com

You can only play them 25 times and it doesn't have all the songs by every artist

You don't have to sign up tho.

Ashley

myfoxphilly.com

You can get articles and what is going on like weather and traffic 

You can't always find what you are looking for

Pogo.com

It is a game website you have a week for free games and you can but them so they can be unlimited

It is in several different languages

Marina

Phillyhistory.org

Its interesting it has a lot news letter 

It is a local website

www.archives.gov

It has a lot of events and you can explore and interact with certain things

There is online exhibits it shows you documents 

Sierra

www.sparknotes.com

It gives you explainations if you didnt understand what you read

You can find different books and they let you know what the book was about if didn't read

You can get in trouble if you get caught and it doesn't have all of the books

Biography.com

Its good for researching a project like for NHD

The biographies are very short

Nick

Easybib.com

It helps you with NHD and annotations and there is no negatives

unitedstreaming.com

You can make your own account and get videos off of it

Eric 9

AHRQ.gov

It tells you bout diseases and help you with your healthcare 

It doesn't tell you what hospitals to go to if you have these diseases.

Khadijah Taylor

www.kidsites.com

Helps you with history and its a little bit kiddish

Oklahoma.gov

Homework help and ask librarian for help step by step

Its boring and nobody would think about it

Stephanie

Merriamwebster.com

 It has a dictionary it helps with english and spanish 

Its a little hard to navigate and it has word of the day

Aplusmath.com

It can help you with math problems and its more educational then entertaining it has homework helper and it has games 

Its a little childish

Hadea

Historynexus.net

You can have your own access to it you can have your own password the bad thing about it is that when you go to research something a lot of stuff don't come up and it is not a good search engine

encyclopedia.com

It help you find a lot of stuff helps you with NHD searches they be having feature topics

Nick M

Americaslibrary.gov

Its has a lot of links and is a little childish 

afroamhistory.about.com

its about african american history so this will help with your NHD 

Joseph Flem

Footnote.com

Bad thing is that you have to spell correctly

A good thing is that when you search something it gives you primary sources and it gives you original documents

last.fm

Its is good music searches it gives you the artist and the songs and certain genres of music

Kayla McCoy

CNN.com

Gives you help on your NHD primary sources and secondary sources

The layout is unfocus

ushistory.org

The website is to cluttered

You can find other sites with in this site

Janiece

pbskids.org

It has fun ways to learn

Only little kids can use the website

History.com

You can use the site for history classes

The website is very boring and dull

Naajeeah

Scholastic.com

Easy to find books and authors, colorful

To many pop-ups 

IPL.org

online library good for research ask for help with the online librarian you can look at magazines and newspapers

Dont have much color boring and has a basic web layout

Brian Rose

6abc.com

It has national news and you can see the weather you can see what's going on in the world

PPD.com

You can see the news and what's going on with the police headquarters

Some of the info isn't very clear

Asia Sims

Dictionary.com

Its is a good reference for getting antonyms an synonyms

Extra stuff comes up if you spell something incorrectly

Funbrain.com

You have math games and english games

The website is very age inappropriate

Napoleon

The animals excepted napoleon's lies for a number of reasons. One reason they think that the leader is always right. Boxer says that napoleon is always right. Also one of Napoleon's friends Squealer was a very persuasive pig. That help trick the animals into doing whatever. The horses were not that bright. They had a hard time trying to think things out foe themselves. They believed things easily. All in all the animals believed the pigs for a number of reasons.

Best Friends For Never

Author: Lisi Harrison
Pg 41-60
Massie and claie had to go shopping together and Massie absolutely hates that. She feels as though that Claire is very tacky and poor, Right now Massie is trying to suck it up in front of her mom to make it look like they are friends.
Reflection: I think that Massie shouldn't be so mean to Claire because she never know when she's going to need her.

Annotation 2

Bayard Rustin was a close advisor to Martin Luther King. He was a organizer of the civil rights movement. He was one of 12 children. Rustin dedicated his life to nonviolence. Also he joined the Fellowship of Reconciliation. He organized compaigns to help people become more nonviolent. Even though he was arrested, King still wanted him to be his advisor beacuse of his intelligence. Roy Wilkins which was also involved in the movement, made Bayard seem like a bad person to be with King because of his criminal background. All in all he guided a organization that would bring over 200,000 participants to the nations capital.

One main issue withe both of the candidates

One issues is health care. Obama feels that health care is very important. Also he feels as if everyone should have a decent healthcare plan thats affordable. Obama says no on should be denied a healthcare plan. Peolple would have a healthcare tax that would go directly to the cost of the plan. McCain also thinks that health care is imporatnt; he thinks that we should have different healthcare plans according to your yearly income. Even the tax for healthcare would go right to the insurance companies so we wouldn't be getting helped anyway.

What is service learning.....

Service learning is basically like volunteering for nonprofitable organizations. In the process of you volunreering for something you also learn the process in which things are done.

Annotation 1

http://rustin.org/?page_id=2

Bayard Rustin was a activist, he was remebered as the organizer of the 1963 "March on Washington", one of the most nonvoilent protests. He used some of Ghandi's techniques to help the protests run smoothly. Also he helped Martin Luther King become a symbol of nonviolence. Even though he achieved alot he still got threatened, beaten, arrested, and silenced. Although people were homophobic he still was open to the gay rights. But his focuses was economic and civil rights. Him being so versitile with his believes contributed majorly to the end of segregation. He was with martin Luther King to help assist the boycott in 1956. he encouraged boycotters to have a nonviolent approach.

My topic selection

I selected the a man named Bayard Rustin that had a part in the civil rights movement.

Katyra Johnson
Ms. Melville
Zaroff values liberty more. Here is 2 things that shows that he values liberty more. One thing is that he was used to living by his own rules. he lives on his own private island. Which means he has his own rules. Also he created his own society. Another reason why he values liberty more is when he hunted he didnt have any boundaries. He went from hunting animals to hunting people. Also he went to extreme measures to get his prey. he bought people and got them to come to the island. Zaroff is evil and selfish.

In ten years I will be.....

In ten years I cans see myself working in a hosipital as a accomplished nurse. Also having a house of my own and also a car. Maybe thinking about children because I still will be young.