Rasha Dialectical Journal

You really wrote your post well! I did the exact same topic and how it was negative. The quote that you used, “If a woman should crush a man's testicle during a quarrel, they shall cut off one of her fingers. And even if the physician should bandage it, but the second testicle then becomes infected along with it, or she should crush the testicle during the quarrel- they shall gouge out both her ..." (Page 47). That quote was the quote that I was going to use in my post, but I decided not to. The way you explained how women were treated by men in your post was a great idea by using the in-depth quotes. To be completely honest, there was nothing positive about women and how their civilization was positive. The men treated women as

This paragraph could mean that you cannot fully judge someone. The church is judging all the people that are being accused just because Abagail and the girls said so. They are not fully listening to the facts or the people. The church doesn’t see how the girls are doing this out of jealousy and vengeance. This could be dangerous because innocent people lives could be at risk, because no one if listening to the true facts, they are just listening to lies.

“The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.” – Oswald Chambers

December 14, 1924 was a bright, beautiful winter morning, the sky a vibrant blue without a cloud roaming around. The previous night, a heavy snowfall had powdered and blanketed the ground. Children all around town were enjoying playing, skipping, and laughing in the city of Paris, France.

“But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.” “In fact,” said Mustapha Mond, “you’re claiming the right to be unhappy.” “All right then,” said the Savage defiantly, “I’m claiming the right to be unhappy,” This significant quote from Brave New World had moved innumerable readers’ heart, so do I. Exaggeration? No. It’s the satire to the false meaning of the universal happiness, and it’s this quote which made me had rethink what do I really want and the way of living I want to choose. Because the deep influence and rumination brought by the book, I would like to say

1) “They carried the soldier’s greatest fear, which was the fear of blushing. Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to. It was what had brought them to the war in the first place, nothing positive, no dreams of glory or honor, just to avoid the blush of dishonor. They died so as not to die of embarrassment” (O’Brien 20).

1. I would put myself in the place of the man on the horse he looks like he could be the leader, so the leader.

4. She went into the store and she didn’t find anything she wanted to buy.

What stood out to me in these chapters, when I read the first page which reads, “Abena, my mother was raped by…?” (Page 1). Her body was taken advantage of against her will and at the tender age of about 16. Even Abena’s friend Jennifer was taken advantage of as she was forced to marry a man that she didn’t want to. It seemed as though men were an evil that plagued the lives of women and young girls. Second example is, when talking to the spirits of Abena and Mama Yaya, they often said to her, “Why can’t women do without men?”(Page 15). Every time Tituba was with another man they slept with her. Even though it was voluntary and never against her will, it seemed like the respect level for women and their bodies was very low. The night that Tituba

Arnetta seems like she would be the strongest because throughout the story she tries to take a sort of command within the group. She seems like the strongest by the way she acts, but in all reality she is acting weak. She uses threats, insults, and demands as a way of seeming strong. In page 282 paragraph 3 Arnetta would say to a boy as an insult,

Madelyn Ravy Mrs. Schmidt Pre-AP English 10, Period 3 9 February 2015 Reading Log #3 Part 1 Stephenie Meyer, The Host, page 448 “He wrapped both arms around me, as if we were embracing rather than locked in a killing struggle. Then he grabbed my waist from both sides and heaved with all his strength against my hold. His hair started to come out in my hands, but he just grunted and pulled harder. I could hear the streaming water rushing close by, right below me, it seemed. The steam billowed up in a thick cloud, and for a minute, I couldn’t see anything but Kyle’s face, twisted with rage into something beast-

(Sybil walks into the living room and sees a bouquet of flowers and a card. She is by herself.)

41. “Our dilemma is that we see happiness only in the future” 42. “Harmony and happiness are powerful weapons against the war” 43. “Happiness is the feeling of being alive” 44. “Every new day is achance to discover a happier you” 45.

swarming around cages filled with monsters, humans and other intelligent races such as elves, dwarves, demons, angels and such, were nobles wearing gaudy clothing.

In this passage, Liesel goes down to the basement to do some exercise with Max after the conversation with her Mama. With the help from Max, Liesel was able to complete many push-ups that night. However, Liesel continue to exercise "even when Max [advises] her that she'd already done too many"(Zusak 265). With that being said, I think the author is trying to use exercise as a symbol to reveal that Liesel is going through some frustration now, and she is over exercising herself so she can escape the reality for a