http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1994/07/01/

This comic strip of Calvin and Hobbes shows transcendentalism because Calvin is being proud of

something most people find gross which would be his tooth.

No mater what other people reactions have been he still thinks it's cool.

Annotated Bibliography

Were going to be doing our project on the food industry primarly focusing on McDonalds.

American Literary Periods

The difference between the colonial period and the romanticism period much of the colonial period was based off of religion. Much of the transcendentalism characteristics were True equality of spiritually, self-reliance and intuition and characteristic of it would be the Gothic version of it. Much of how people acted in those times were how people reacted from the books in the colonial period God was the main purpose, romanticism people questioned moral ideas, and finally in Transcendentalism much of it was sticking up to what you believed in.

Wordle: Common Elements

http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/2578493/Government

Alot of the words are words like government,men,man,state. Which shows that they were very critical and involved about speak about how government is run.

Teen Suicide

Teen Suicide is the 3rd leading cause of death for teenagers between the age of 15 and 18. In L.A. the rate for teen suicides is 300-400 which equals out to be about 1 teenager per day.

I think the reason teens commit suicide is because of the stress that they feel from others around them or from the stress they put on themselves that puts a toll on them and then ultimately leads them to their final decision. Another reason teens might commit suicide is because of the feeling of not being accepted by anyone and the lack of acceptance leads them to suicide as well.

Crucible Presentation

My favorite group presentation was Mailei's group I liked how instead of just doing the usual, then went above and beyond to give examples by making videos which was nice.