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I thought of another question after everyone presented theirs and I thought I'd share it. Can you truly succeed without failing? I thought about this question for the rest of the period and figured I should write it down. :)

Is school today about passing or actually learning? Why do people that question the government suddenly disappear or die?  Is there such thing as a perfect person? I had a list of about 12 questions classmates asked that really caught my attention but these 3 really had me thinking. I hope to know more about these topics and look more into each one. 

Naturalism is writing about forces greater than humans. Nature is so much bigger than people that people are never going to matter. Any force bigger than the protagonist is unchangeable. Naturalism died out in the early forties. It was replaced by realism. Realism tried to capture what the readers were feeling and going through. Modernism became a thing after WWI. Everyday would be better than the last and everything would upgrade. Liminal refers to a state of being. It's what you are when you are no longer what you used to be but not yet what you're gonna be.

Syllogism : the simplest form of logical argument. Every single argument has the same parts. Truth is that which we could factually verify in the world. Faith has no place in logic. Do my premises support my conclusion? Is the reasoning valid?  Good syllogism will be true and valid.

I clicked the link that said "how we humanize each other". For some reason it was the link that interested me the most. The article quotes Hannah Arendt saying that humans don't determine whether something is humane or not. " But only when it becomes the object of discourse". She also said "We humanize what is going on in the world and in ourselves only by speaking of it". I think that means that the only way it would be considered as something humanized is if it's talked about. According to Arendt it also shows us how to be human. We create the world.

Martin Luther King Jr. didn't want anyone to be held down. He wanted everyone to expand their understanding. He referenced The Winter Of Our Discontent because he wanted his references to mean something to his audience. He uses logic by pointing out that in all these documents it says that we should treat each other differently, but the way that people of color were being treated was in no way near what it should be.

Direct Characterization: the way a character within a story is described or revealed. Indirect Characterization: when the character's personality is shown through speech Allusion: an expression designed to bring something to mind without mentioning it. Connotation: the implied/suggested meaning of a word. Denotation: the literal or primary meaning of a word. Alliteration: when two words that are next to each other or close to each other begin with the same letter. Ethos: personal credibility (traits that give us the idea that they can be trusted) Pathos: enthusiasm that connects us (feelings) Logos: persuasion (the core of any believable speech)(logic)

American Literature is written words that use imagination as a form of expression that's produced in the US. You can contribute your own ideas and imagination to the literature itself. That's what gives it meaning.