Emotional problem/Rational Answer- Journal 9

Solving an emotional problem with a rational approach can be kinda hard for me.  I tend to blow things out of proportion by being very irrational and using dramatic examples and stories.  They are usually a lot bigger than normal, but it gets the point across.  One example of when someone was emotional is when they break up with a boyfriend or girlfriend they have had for a couple months because the other cheated on them.  The person tends to be emotional the scale of it just depends on the gender and person it is.  Both are usually emotional because the person who cheated made a mistake and was stupid.  One way to solve this problem is by talking to both of the people and convincing them that it was all just a mistake and they should consider talking to each other, working things out, saying they were sorry, forgiving each other, and getting back together promising it will never happen again.  If this is not possible you can talk to them convincing them to at least be friends since they have already shared so much of their lives with each other.  If this too is unavoidable then you can result to the casual yet serious, "there is someone else out there for you" phrase.  This usually works and helps the person out a lot just hearing it even though they know it.  Hearing it always gets their courage up and make them feel better.  It would be good to intertwine a seriousness about what happened and how to make sure the person is right for you more before officially dating.  This is the perfect way to a great friend to someone and puts a meaning to being there for someone.  I would do it for my best friends like nathan, caleb, ben, connor, josh, etc. in a heartbeat and I hope they would do the same for me if I ever needed it in return.  I cant even imagine how much it would mean to me.

Journal 10

I feel that we should do the vocabulary on Wednesday because we need to get caught up. I have overheard multiple students including myselfstate to you that they need time to get caught up on miscellaneous English assignments. Some of these being blogs, and others being readings you have asked us to read. Either way the more time we have the better. Originally I wanted the English homework assigned on Monday because I wanted to get ahead and not have any stress and feel good for the end of the week. I also have different responsibilities after school on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. If we do postpone the vocabulary assignment then I can do it tonight and get ahead. When this happens I feel like an accomplished student and ahead. If we do postpone the assignment it gives other people who have limited access to a computer time to find a computer to use. If they have more time to use a computer that means logically more time to do better quality of work and make it neater. This would also give them time so they didn't have to work on it during class, taking away from their time they have to learn from you. Or they might not be able to learn from our in class discussions, making them lose points for not participating, causing their grade to fall. If their grade gets too low they might come ineligible and not be able to play in any sports. Then our sports teams will be let down and we might lose. Based on previous games and performances, our football program needs all of the players possible. With most players in full health we were able to win the previous friday night. Now i have stated everything that I know to help convince you, so it is down to you to choose which way to go. Regardless I plan on doing it tonight, so to me it doesn't matter.

Reflection Blog Over Rationalism and Patrick Henry Speech

At first this reflection blog entry confused me. I didn't completely understand what you were wanting us to write about, but then i was able to put two and two together and figured it out. During the Rationalism time period, many people would talk rationally obviously. This mostly meant be down to earth and posing rational or reasonable questions. They would speak more in a question-like tone to answer questions than to come out with a straight answer. I think that a main reason they did this is because someone realized that if you do that you can trigger the human brain and then the person can answer their own questions. When they are able to do this they feel more accomplished and have a stronger confidence in their own self built up. It also makes them think which is good exercise for the human brain. It helps us feel good all around and not feel lazy. Patrick Henry's speech was a good speech and made sense during the time period simply because he proposed so many questions. Most of these questions were very interesting and brought up some good points and they were all rational and realistic.

Along with stating a lot of different questions, Patrick Henry said something so outrageous and so moving that to this day we still quote him in this speech. The ironic thing about what Patrick Henry said, was that everything else in his speech was rational and reasonable including what I am about to quote, but to most of the government officials what he says about what he wants is crazy talk and out of this world. Patrick Henry says, "Give me liberty or give me death!" This was crazy talk, because most of the people felt free or at least to an extent, but Henry says that he wants complete freedom and liberty in that he wants smaller or none taxes. He also says other things in this speech that are important, but not pertaining to the main point in this reflection blog. I find Patrick Henry's statement a fair statement in the fact that the taxes were fairly high, but not too out of the ball park to threaten your life over it. He was obviously bluffing, and did a great job at it. All in all, it is quite obvious that this played a major role in our everyday lives in America and we should thank Patrick Henry for having the courage to stand up against our government and show that everyone has the freedom of speech and can stick up for what they believe in. Although Patrick Henry's name isn't very common or popular to people, what he said on that day is known by most. Those seven words were what changed America and shaped the country to what it is today. They decided to believe him and were convinced that the people shouldn't have to suffer and try to pay a huge tax, yet they still needed to pay one. This is definitely fair and a great compromise between the two.

Henry, Patrick. "Speech to the Second Virginia Convention." Comp. Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, Ph.D. and Douglas Fisher, Ph.D. Glencoe Literature. American Literature ed. Columbus: McGraw-Hill Companies, 2009. 97-99. Print.

Boucquey, Thierry, gen. ed. "rationalism." Encyclopedia of World Writers, 14th through 18th Centuries. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2005. Bloom's Literary Reference Online. Facts On File, Inc. Web. 21 September 2011.

Crucible Act IV

During The Crucible: Act IV, most of the time it talked about John Proctor and him admitting to being apart of the witch trials. The book talks about how John thought that God would forgive him more likely if he didn't have material proof with his signature stating that he was apart of them. First things first, I found this interesting and sad that he didn't understand that you don't take anything to heaven with you, meaning that having a sheet of paper with his signature on it, also called PHYSICAL proof, is just the same as saying it. God hears everything and sees everything. Back to what I was saying about John's outlook on life, he felt that admitting to his sins was great and the correct thing to do, but at the same time was afraid that being in association with witch trials meant automatic damnation. He felt that he would not be given the chance to go to heaven. After pondering and weighing out the odds, he decided to choose to admit verbally about the trials, but not in pen on paper. As I said earlier, he felt that if he signed his name he would be rejected into heaven because God takes words more lightly that an official PHYSICAL document. Relating the story of The Crucible and "Sinners in the hands of an angry god" was very easy and quite simple in the fact that they both kinda made sense and played on each other in the overall story or theme of the two. During "Sinners In the Hands of an Angry God," Jonathan Edwards basically says that if you do anything that is against the will of God or what God has rules against, you will be sent to hell. He puts in a complicated way, that if you simply break any of Gods rules or do anything different than what Gods says you will be punished with eternal damnation. I feel that when he said this it wasn't 100% what he believed, and more of an exaggeration to scare the people so that they would follow God's word more easily and freely exercising it. It was almost like what John Proctor did, in going around Gods word, in order to follow Gods word. That might be a little confusing, but if you think about it, it will make sense. They were so worried about following the rules of God and so devoted to Him, they forgot to check their own actions and make sure they were following His rules. Both found out when it was too late that they had screwed up. If they would have read their bibles in more depth, they would have realized that God does forgive, and he will accept their forgiveness and give them a second try/chance at everything, they just have to put in more effort at exercising the truth and not their own twist on things. John Proctor needed to realize that a signature on a sheet of paper is no different than a verbal signature or plea. Admitting to something verbally is of the same importance and value as that of a signature on a piece of paper, in Gods eyes.

Edwards, Jonathan. "From Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." Comp. Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, Ph.D. and Douglas Fisher, Ph.D. Glencoe Literature. American Literature ed. Columbus: McGraw-Hill Companies, 2009. 97-99. Print.

Miller, Arthur. The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts. New York, NY: Penguin, 2003. Print.

Autumn.

I love autumn because of a couple reasons. One is because it means closer to winter and that means closer to Christmas, which is something I hope everyone looks forward to. The second biggest reason I love autumn is because it is football season. ROLL TIDE! But besides my love for football I enjoy autumn for the sweatshirts, jeans, and of coarse the bonfires. I love being able to sit around a fire with friends and roast marshmallows. I love being able to just talk to them about anything going on in my life and them being able to help me, but I love most of all playing with fire. I know that when we were younger our parents would always say DONT PLAY WITH FIRE, but we are big kids now and its always a huge temptation. I've always wanted to make a giant torch, and through the help of Joel Harney I was taught the proper way to do so. The trick is to find a very nice branch or stick that is mildly damp and very sturdy. It needs to be roughly a couple inches in diameter and a yard or more long. You then go to your closet and find a couple pairs of old boxers, a couple pairs of old socks (depending on how big you want your torch to be), and finally go to the kitchen a get a lighter. You wrap the boxers around the end of the stick, put your socks over that to hold it sturdy, and then you have a torch. Thats not the final step and I cannot say what it is because that is disclosed information, but I will say that KIDS DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME. I am an untrained professional trying this dangerous act at home and dont want anyone else getting injured during the process. If you do decide to go around these guidelines and try this at home, do not attempt inside your house. Your parents will get mad and through large, valuable, heavy, sharp objects at you.

Human Nature- The Crucible Act 3

During freshman year I had the privilege to have Mr. Tadla as my health teacher and I got to learn a lot about human nature. I got to learn that it is normal for people to go into denial and "survival mode." I call it this because during The Crucible most of the characters that were in court and going to go to jail or be hung were in it. This mostly means they will fend for themselves and try to save their lives by blaming others. Abigail did this multiple times along with John Proctor and Reverend Hale. After denying to the jury that they were apart of the witch trials, they realize that evidence puts them there practicing it or apart of the crime in some way. In order to cover their tracks they push the blame off to the other people explaining they were forced to practice it by the others.

I found this most interesting because I was able to understand the stages through what I learned in health class. The five stages of depression, if i remember right, are Anger, Denial, Acceptance, and then two others that I cannot remember. I enjoyed health because I did learn a lot that I use in life and I realize that from time to time. I am happy that it came useful in life and that it was so soon that it did, even though it was two years ago.

It is human nature to be curious about things too. This was very evident and the whole reason for the witch trials in the first place. If the human mind was so intrigued about new things they would have never had any problems in the first place, but because thats not the case there was. The girls, when they were caught in the woods, were just curious about what witchcraft was and were curious about what went on when they did. They were innocent little girls and never wanted to cause harm, but the others in the community didn't see it that way.

A good example from current times is unfortunately drinking. Many adults try to get away with drinking and driving every day of the week. They go and have fun with their friends and then have to go home. They don't want to harm anyone or get in trouble, but when intoxicated you cannot think clearly and many people learn the hard way. Most people pulled over for DUI are because they are not able to drive normally, drove off of the road, or have cause an accident. The worst part about it is, most of the times it is not just a fender bender, most of the crashes result in fatality of the drunk driver or the innocent person in the other car. Whenever something like this happens it is unfortunate and can really ruin the persons life, along with changing the persons family he or she harmed. If pulled over for DUI, the person is usually charged with multiple years in jail, revoked license, and a hefty fine. It really changes your life and people usually lose their jobs too.

Unfortunatally human nature cannot be changed so we have to adapt and learn to live with it. If everyone was smart about their decisions this world would be a better place and the characters from The Crucible learned this the hard way. I enjoyed reading this book so far and cant wait to finish it and see how the fate of the others turns out.

Miller, Arthur. The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts. New York, NY: Penguin, 2003. Print.

Blaming Bob

If I blamed someone else for something I did I would not only feel guilty for blaming someone else for something I personally did, but I would feel bad for what they had to go through when they got punished. That could be anything from getting a detention at school to getting their keys to their car taken away for a year. The problems or repercussions to blaming somebody else for something is they could turn me in saying it was my fault and start a fight or we might both get punished.

There would be no reason for us both to get punished, or anyone to get punished if we stay honest and trustworthy. This means we cant lie and we must be nice to each other all the time. I know for a fact that I personally wouldn't be able to blame someone else for something I did. This is because my conscience would haunt me until I appologized to that person and resolve the issue telling whoever was in charge that it was my fault, even if that meant I got punished more and had to go sit in the corner. Yes, I am still worried about being sent to the corner in high school, it is a logical punishment for many people and tends to work. Plus my attention span and personality is that of a third grader. But after I resolved the issue a huge burden would be lifted and I would be able to go on in life being friends with that person and explaining I'm sorry and will never do anything like that to them again. This blog was very eye opening to me and I enjoyed writing it. It helped me learn that even though we are all in high school, that doesnt mean that this doesnt apply to us. When were in high school, the usual reason people will get in trouble is for fights, drugs, cheating, and a couple other things, and when the blame is put on someone else that didnt do anything that isnt fair and you should feel horrible for doing that to someone.

True Colors Test Over the Crucible's Characters

During last class we took the True Colors Test and I got blue. I feel that this shouldn't be the correct color for me and so I looked at the rest of the results. As it turns out in a very close second was gold, which I feel suits me more accurately. So if I was asked what color I was I would probable answer blue and gold, because they were such a close finish. If someone asked me what I thought I was I would answer gold.

If you are someone that has never taken the True Colors Test, then you are probably very confused and wondering what all of the colors mean. If you are Green, you are someone who feels/knows that they are always right and are more of the thinkers and the analyst. You want to find a solution to all of the problems and have to fix them or the idea that an unnoticeable problem went wrong and never fixed. If you are a Gold person, you are the leader of the group. You love to lead people and dictate what they should do next. Along with that, when doing projects in class for school, you always volunteer to be the leader, plan what should and has to be done in what amount of time to get done before the due date. You always are paranoid about this and have to make sure that everything is done correctly and by its due date. You probably tend to do most of the work because you know you are right and must finish it. This is why I feel a Gold/Green person would be perfect for a project. Those are like the dynamic duo of project workers. While taking my test, I don't know why I didn't get orange. Orange people are the artistic ones of the group and tend to want to motivate people to make the right decisions and lead them in the correct path. Along with this they try to council the people about other problems. They are very random and hyper and usually have some form of ADHD. Blue people are the romantic ones and want to help people with relationship problems. They are very comforting and emotional in everything and want to help the other people. This is why I found it weird that I was classified as a Blue. I am a little emotional, but honestly I could care less about their relationships.

John Proctor was very easy to classify in this book, because his color stood out so well to me. John was definitely a Green because he always knew he was right, and when he was wrong he was always paranoid about it. An example of this was after his affair with Abigail (Miller 22). Once the witch trials started, John was paranoid about her telling and their secret getting out, but he knew he must fix the problem about the witch trials and affairs, fully aware that he might have to take a hit to his social status. He would have never wanted this, but he became so overwhelmed with something wrong going on, he felt that he must tell someone the truth about the whole thing. The entire story about John Proctors life made the color test analyzing so obvious and simple.

Kalil, Carolyn. "Carolyn Kalil's Personality Quiz." Follow Your True Colors. Web. 11 Sept. 2011.

Miller, Arthur. The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts. New York, NY: Penguin, 2003. Print.

Getting My Phone Taken

First off, I think it is stupid when my mom takes my phone away from me, because then I have no contact with my friends. When she takes facebook too, I get really mad. At least I don't get in trouble a lot so I don't lose any privileges very often or even for a long time. When I do get in trouble 80% of the time it is because of my grades being fairly poor (below a b) simply because my mom knows that I want to succeed in school and since im still learning she helps me out. I usually dont make too big of a deal about it because when I do she extends the amount of time and I know that i will get the privilege back within a few days. That is why I have never been grounded for more than like three days. I tend to be a good kid and judge most situations on whats funny, whats too far, and whats going to get me in trouble. Notice how i said can judge, I can judge the situation, but I dont always make the right decision to stop and continue until its too far. A good example of when this happens is when me and my young brother are wresling. I tend to win because im a hundred pounds heavier and three years older, so i will usually take it too far until he gets hurt. I dont try to be mean, I just forget that I need to stop its not fun for him. This is actually why I got my phone taken away recenly. I was arguing with my brother and my mom took our phones. I figure a small punishment is fair and neccessary for a strong bulk man like me. The reason being simply because I awesome. I want to formally apologize to my brother for going Hulk Holgan on you all the time and I will try to be more careful in the future and become the worlds best brother.

The Crucible: Act 1

During The Crucible: Act 1, there were multiple things that didn't make sense to me or were very boring. Unfortunately this happens to me a lot and I need to work on this. Along with there being some boring parts in the book, there were some very interesting ones too. As the story starts out Betty was ill or not feeling well and was laying in bed. Then Mr. Paris is curious and looks into her illness and has some doctors look at her. The more and more they searched, the more and more it looked like it had to do with witchcraft. Normally, now-n-days, people wouldn't really care, but back then it was a huge deal. The Puritans were very strict about everything and had many rules to follow by. A couple of these about witchcraft were significant to the book. The whole goal of the Puritans was to "purify" the church, and it was very difficult with the practice of witchcraft going around. Since most of the people in Salem were strict Puritans, they did not tolerate this. If they were to find out about Betty being involved in witchcraft, the social status of her and her closes relatives would drop drastically and they could quite possibly be kicked out of the community. In order for this to not happen, Mr. Paris worked very hard for only a select few to know the truth and what happened. I think this is very important, because he not only risked his reputation, but the reputation of the entire household in order to save Betty's. This just proves that she must have been something special to him. Once Abigail did fess up to practicing witchcraft with Betty in the woods, Mr. Paris was disappointed, but not furious. This made me think that the story was trying to tell us, that he understood what it was like being a young adult curious about everything comes your way. He must have understood that they were just curious and not trying to be bad or cause any harm. I think that he too tried it once and was able to relate to them. Since the communities that the Puritans would live in were made up of not very many people, everyone would know their neighbor as a family member, and everyone knew everyone. This is why Mr. Paris was so paranoid at first about the whole witchcraft thing. He was afraid word would get around about their family and what Betty did. Luckily the people that knew kept their mouths shut. Another bad thing that came from knowing everyone so closely, was they could get on your nerves very easily and you might want to be mean to them back. An easy was to doing this was passing the blame of something like practicing witchcraft for instance off to them. This is exactly what Abigail did to Tituba in The Crucible: Act 1. In the end, I enjoyed the beginning of the book mostly because it isn't something you read every day. Plus it has a good meaning when you think about it too. I would be interested to learn more about witchcraft, not for me to practice, but for me to have more knowledge about.

Miller, Arthur. The Crucible. New York, NY: Penguin, 1996. Print.

The Toll of Traveling

When I travel, I get very excited. I usually tell all my friends and plan what all I want to do weeks before the actual trip. Unfortunately I haven't gone on many big trips or long trips during my life, except for when I went to Jamaica for a mission trip. We, meaning me, my cousin, and my mom went with my dentist down to Jamaica last January. We stayed at a bible camp there up in the mountains and had a spectacular view. We got to spend our afternoons enjoying the scenery and hanging out. During the mornings we got to go out and teach little kids in schools how to brush their teeth and put Fluoride on them. The hardest part about going to Jamaica is not the traveling and the flights, because those are short, but having to get the shots before the trip so we would be safe and healthy during the trip. We also had to drink special water that was purified and clean. This is because the water down in Jamaica does not have Iodine and other chemicals in it to clean it like we have in America, so we don't get sick we drank out of a faucet in the kitchen. Jamaica was a great time and a life changing experience. I learned a lot about kids and how to help God. It was life changing seeing the different economy and what life was like in impoverishment areas in Jamaica. It was really hard seeing the different people walking around spending their days making little money and trying to survive daily. The dentist went and would work on peoples teeth, pulling them if they were rotten and giving out pain killers. If i didn't go to the school, I would go and help organize the people, watch him work, or clean the utensils since there is a special way that has to be done. All in all, I loved doing ministry work in Jamaica and would go back in a heartbeat.

Of Plymouth Plantation-William Bradford

During the discovery of the new world, many people came for many different reasons. Some came for the adventure and for the excitement, while others came to get away from Puritanism. Back in England, many people were being confronted by Puritans to conform to their way and go to the Catholic church. That is why many people called "Pilgrims" came to the new world, they came to start over and search for a new religion. They wanted the freedom to choose for themselves and not be forced to go to the Catholic church.

I am fortunate to have been born in this "new world" just later on when it had been more settled. Once they had enough of a community created, they set a couple rules including: not harming the Native Americans, treating each other fair, helping each other in a time of war, and more. This was the start for a free country. Benefits of having their own freedom, the Pilgrims were able to practice their own religions, do whatever they wanted, and not have to pay any taxes (at least for a while). If I were able to go back to that time, I would have claimed lots of land and tended to it and keeping it until later on in the settling of America. The reason being, I could have sold the land to the government and made lots of money considering I got it for free. All of the things I have said have sounded great and not too bad, but reality was many of the Pilgrims didn't have it easy. They had many encounters with different hardships throughout. While on the boats/ships, many of the settlers to the new world had to deal with sea sickness and starvation (Bradford 15). There were only a select few that didn't get sea sickness and one of these was a man who took advantage of his healthiness and antagonized the others. He would say that he wished to throw their bodies overboard one day and that he would be pleasured to not have them (Bradford 15). As it turns out Karma came back to hurt him, as he became terminally ill soon after all of this and died within a month. The people then got to throw his body over as it was the first to go.

Throughout the story I learned about the different hardships the Pilgrims went through and I learned how much people don't realize about the colonization of the new world. Many people think it was a just a breeze and that being a Pilgrim was great because you didn't have to conform to the practices of the Catholic Church, but really it wasn't that way at all. Many people died during this time and I respect them as soldiers as the essentially died for our country. I feel that we should treat them with respect and we do in a way when we celebrate Thanksgiving. It was first celebrated by the Pilgrims, thanking God for their safe travels and essentially everything, but I think that we should also include thanking the Pilgrims on this day.

Bradford, William. "from of Plymouth Plantation". Glencoe Literature. New York: Glencoe McGraw-Hill, 2009.

Hostage Situation

One day while walking my dog, Kristen Doley kidnapped me and locked me in her basement. I was there for three or more days with only one meal a day. She would force me to drink the sewage water for hydration. She then took me to a bank that we robbed and stole over thirty six trillion eight hundred and thirty three billion one million one hundred and twenty two thousand six hundred and forty two dollars and seventy six cents. We then ran from the cops and hopped into our private jet and flew to Atlantis. While there we enjoyed life and bought lots of puppies. Why she liked puppies so much I do not know, but whenever they got two years old she took them out to the slaughter house and killed them for dinner. I could not stand this and kept thinking whenever I get out of here I am turning in this horrible person.

One day I met a kid named Daniel "The Dominator" Rayes and we decided to plan and escape route. We found the parts to make a gun and decided to use it. The special thing about this gun is that it shoots water and is awesome. I learned from The Wizard of Oz that witches melt when in contact with water and so we realized our plan just might work. We then chewed out of our handcuff's and wiggled out of the chains. When we got upstairs we caught her by surprise and squirted her with the water gun. She began to scream and steam and finally melted. We didn't want to harm her so we gathered the liquid in a jar and gave it to a science lab. They were able to reconstruct her and she went to jail.

Being a hostage for over a month me and Daniel became very good friends. We even started our own business called Awesome. The hostage situation was life changing, but not in a bad way. Most people are stressed and scared when they are hostages and it is bad, but we actually had a lot of time to bond. This just proves that being a hostage doesn't always have to be a bad thing and if it is good can come from the bad.

Reflection Blog Over Bradstreet and Rowlandson's Work

Mary Rowlandson was very strong in her faith, and never let sin shake the ground she stood on. She went through many hardships during her travels as a slave and was able to cope through them with prayer. The biggest of these being the death of her baby boy. He was only sixish years old and should have had a long healthy life ahead, but the Indians came and ended his life too soon. He didn't die immediately though, he hung on for nine days of pain and starvation. As I quote,"Thus nine days I sat upon my knees, with my babe in my lap, till my flesh was raw again. My child, being even ready to depart this sorrowful world, they bid me carry it out to another wigwam; (I suppose because they would not be troubled with such spectacles;) whither I went with a very heavy heart, and down I sat with the picture of death in my lap. About two hours in the night, my sweet babe, like a lamb, departed this life, on Feb. 18, 1675..." (Rowlandson 83). As you can see he was a fighter, yet the battle was too great for him to conquer. Mary spent most of her younger years though going through hardships like this one, and living on as little as a spoon full of nuts a day. She must have been one of the strongest ladies of her time. Hearing her story made me feel as if my life was a joke and whenever something bad happens to me it is a huge deal to me, but in reality its not that huge of a situation.

In the poem "Upon the Burning of Our House", Anne Bradstreet talks about the fire within her own home. She talks about how nothing was salvaged and nothing remained (Bradstreet 91). If you have ever heard the phrase, "They have nothing, but the clothes on their back," this is exactly what happened to Anne. The fire happened so quickly she didn't have time to save anything. I can relate in a way to this, since my old house burned down around nine years ago. It was a very hard time and we were only able to salvage a few things. I was able to relate to how it felt to her in the story which made it that more realistic for me, and feel like reality.

The two stories have a couple things in common. The first being they were both females, but that isn't of importance. Second, Mary and Anne, both had nothing of their own possession. They basically spent every day in hopes to find food and water, and make enough money to survive. Mary being a slave meant she was give some food on the occasion to keep her alive, but it wasn't a proper and full serving. And when Mary got sold to a new owner the rules and routine would change. She would do a couple side jobs and make a little extra when she could. Anne struggled through, but knew that this wasn't the end of the world. She was able to stay positive through it all. The point being, both of the women had a tragic event take place in their lives, and both of them learned how to make do with what they had and to trust God with it all. They were both very strong Christians, which I feel was the reason they were able to make it through. Most people would have given up, but these ladies put their faith in God and trusted him with the control over their lives. It is just another example of how great God is and the miracles he is able to perform in peoples lives.

 Glencoe Literature. New York: Glencoe McGraw-Hill, 2009.
Bradstreet, Anne. "Upon the Burning House." Comp. Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, Ph.D. and Douglas Fisher, Ph.D. Glencoe Literature. American Literature ed. Columbus: McGraw-Hill Companies, 2009. 91. Print.

Rowlandson, Mary. "A Narrative of Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson." Glencoe Literature. New York: Glencoe McGraw-Hill, 2009.