Julia

 Hiiiiii! These are my favorite things ever! 


 * Stephanie, Peacocks and Beluga Whales are awesome!!! **

Utopia notes [][] [] [] [] We are as gods, and we might as well get good at it.

-Kevin Kelly, author and techno-utopian

Examples in literature:
 * Anthem- No technology
 * Uglies- Relies on new technology
 * Farenheit 451- relies to much
 * The Veldt- relies too much
 * irobot- technology takes over

My GAW is Ernest Hemingway. I read __The Old Man and The Sea__ and his poem Champs d'Honneur. I will record my notes down here

 I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know? [|Ernest Hemingway]

Notes from 11-13-08 http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1954/hemingway-bio.html

 · Born in Oak Park, Illinois on July 21, 1899 · Started writing when he was 17, in a newspaper office in Kansas city · In WW1 he joined a volunteer ambulance unit in the Italian army. · He was wounded, was decorated by the Italian government and spent a lot of time in hospitals. · When he came back to the US he became a reporter for American and Canadian newspapers.

This is a good time-line of his life http://asms.k12.ar.us/armem/kdavis/timeline.htm


 * His mother dressed and raised him as a girl when he was young. Called him Ernestine
 * His father committed suicide in 1928
 * Had an affair with a nurse named Agnes von Kurowsky while in Italy.
 * In 1960 he was hospitalized at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota for depression. Was released in 1961. he was given electric shock therapy for 2 months
 * On July 2 he committed suicide with his shotgun in Idaho at his home.
 * http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/hemingwa.htm

 http://www.infoplease.com/year/1904.html  15 facts of the era 1. 1901 Queen Victoria dies

2. 1901 President McKinley is shot and Roosevelt is successor  3. 1903 Henry Ford starts Ford Motor Company <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> 4. 1905 The Russian revolution starts on Bloody Sunday in St. Petersburg

5. 1907 Oklahoma become the 46th state 6. 1961 JFK is inaugurated 7. 1908 Earthquake and tsunami kill 70,000-10,000 people in Southern Italy and Sicily 8. Turkish-Italian war in 1911 9. April 15 1912 Titanic sinks 10. WW1 starts in 1914 11. 1917 worldwide influenza epidemic strikes and nearly 20 million people die 12. 1939 WWII starts 13. 1919 race riots start happening in cities around the US 14. 1924 Lenin dies and Stalin becomes dictator 15. 1944 D-Day. Allies invade Normandy

<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);"> · His parents were Grace and Clarence Hemmingway. · He was born July 21 1899 · Full name Ernest Miller Hemingway · He graduated high school in 1917 · Joined Kansas city star in 1917 as a reporter · 1918- became a WW1 ambulance driver on the Italian front · 1920- became reporter for the Toronto Star · 1921- marries Hadley Richardson and moved to Paris · Covered Greco-Turkish war for Toronto star · <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">1923 - Three Stories and Ten Poems published by Robert McAlmon in Paris; birth of son John · 1924- published In Our Time (collection of vignettes) published by three mountains press in Paris <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(0,0,0); font-family: Symbol;">· http://asms.k12.ar.us/armem/kdavis/timeline.htm<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0); font-family: Calibri;"> http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/e/ernest_hemingway.html quotes

=<span style="color: rgb(54,95,145); font-family: Cambria;">Bibliography = __Brainy Quote.__ 2008. 25 November 2008 <http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/e/ernest_hemingway.html>. Davis, Kenneth. __Timeline of Ernest Hemingway's Life.__ 15 November 2008 <http://asms.k12.ar.us/armem/kdavis/timeline.htm>. Foundation, The Nobel. __Ernest Hemingway.__ 2008. 13 November 2008 <http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1954/hemingway-bio.html >. __Infoplease.__ 2008. 9 December 2008 <http://www.infoplease.com/year/1904.html>. Liukkonen, Petri. __Ernest (Miller) Hemingway.__ 2008. 18 November 2008 <http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/hemingwa.htm >.

<span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(0,0,0); line-height: 115%; font-family: Calibri;"> My Short Story:

View From The Top of The World

Up and up, higher and higher it climbs until it finally reaches its peak. Then down it falls and back up and around in it’s never ending circle. The whole world looks different from up here. People all look like ants and buildings like doll houses. I want to reach out and grab one; they look small enough to play with. I start to reach out towards one, then quickly pull my hand back before someone notices. The whole world looks distorted and beautiful from the great height. I can see past the entire city and into the great lake. Its pure blue color and endless size makes it look like an ocean. I turn and look in the other direction. I see the train tracks run past and into the distance. The skyscrapers fade out. The parks speckled throughout the city look like splashes of life in a dead field. The bright green of the grass is beautiful against the grey sidewalks. I can see why birds like to fly so much. From up here I can see everything! The skyscrapers that look so large and scary from the sidewalk look minuscule up here. The lake goes on forever a solid shimmering blue speckled with the white of the sailboats. The grey sidewalks form a maze around the buildings. The people and cars crowding the streets are just small spots barely noticeable. It’s cold up here. It’s not called the windy city for nothing, but I hardly notice the cold. The wind plays with my hair blowing it this way and that. The bar that my fingers are gripping feels like ice, but I hardly notice. All the sounds are muffled. My ears are popping from the height. I can faintly hear the sounds of the cars driving along the crowded streets. Shrieks of joy come from the little girl a few seats behind us. Sounds of people chatting and laughing drift up towards the sky. Overhead I can hear the birds calling to one another in their beautiful language. The air smells different. It is fresher, cleaner. It smells faintly of rain even though the sky is clear of clouds. I could stay up here forever. I could stare at this sight forever. It practically has me hypnotized. I'm under its spell. I can’t look away. I’m addicted to its beauty. My senses are on overdrive, noticing everything. The whole world is spread out before me. I feel invincible. How could I never have noticed the world’s beauty before? Up here it seems as though the world has stopped, all for me. But no, my view is slowly disappearing. The world is speeding up. People and buildings are growing larger. My ride is over. It’s bizarre how all it takes is a different view of the world to change your whole perspective. Looking at the city from up above showed me its true beauty. I feel like I can truly see now. Before it was like a cloud was always covering me, dulling my senses. But now my senses are sharper. I can see, I can hear, I can feel. It’s a marvelous feeling! As I walk away colors look brighter, the air smells fresher, and the wind feels crisper. I feel new and so does the world.