EXTRA CREDIT!!!

When comparing "Plymouth Plantion" and "A Description of New World" I found that the biggest difference was the ind sets. In "Plymouth Plantation" the people were worshiping the Lord and was headed to the New World for a better life than the one that they were living. In "A Description of New World" the travelers were looking for gold and fish. They wanted money and the riches of the Earthly world, not of the Goldy world, what we call Heaven. Smith did not care about the life after this world, for what he cared about was all the money he could hold in his hand, and he wanted others to have the same mind set as him.

Reflection Paragraph on Process

The beginning steps I found to be very simple and an easy tasks to do. It seems as the farther the steps went the more higher of a level of work it got. I enjoyed the Animoto the most and the point that all of the research was online because everyone could get the same work done, but no two are just alike. If I could do this project again I would read through the whole direction packet because it would gratefully help the way that the research was done.

Reflection Paragraph on Sources

At the beginning of this research it was a rough start trying to find useful sources that would help me with the knowledge that I needed to know, but toward the end I found it easier and easier to look up the information that I needed to know. I enjoyed the Animoto and photo part of this process. It was different, especially for an English research. I found that the Corcoran website to be most useful because it had a different point of view on the whole era. I found all of my websites very trustworthy because all of them where in line with one another.

Reflection Paragraph on Findings

This was a very different way to do a project to the way i am used to. I found it very interesting that the authors during this time period did not really write about the World War I that was going on, even though it would be so easy to pick up a pencil and write about it. I still wonder a little about the whole literature part of this time period. I am very strong with the history information now though. I am more secure on the Modern time period now and the history is like a fresh reminder.

Finding Paragraph #2

Many events going on, people going in every direction, and important news every time one was to turn on the radio, sometimes opening up a book or sitting down to read something was the last think on one's mind. When someone did pick up a book though, would you find that there was something that every author was writing about? "Set into motion by rapid changes in the fabric of American life, it produced literature fraught with tension, struggling with deep universal questions yet never coming up with fully reliable answers. It was during this period of drastic change and drastic art that American literature finally came into its own in academia" (Byrd). Within books and novels, may would think that they could find out what was going on around them at ease, but others had to find out the hard way that the things that was going around them was not an authors favorite subject to write of. live in the life of 1914 through 1939 and pick up a book, any book of your choice. You would be most likely to pick up and read about Gottfried Benn, Bertolt Brecht, Ernst Jünger, maybe even Thomas Mann. (Grimm) Weather you are young or old there was a book or story out there for you to read. Get to know a little more, know about the world, or enlighten the situation that may be going on around you.

Works Cited

Corcoran, . "Designing a New World." Modernism. N.p., n.d. Web. 9 Feb 2012. < http://www.corcoran.org/modernism/index.htm>.

"Literature Timeline." . N.p., n.d. Web. 9 Feb 2012. http://wps.ablongman.com/long_longman_mylitlabdemo_1/24/6276/1606783.cw/index.html.

Rahn, J.. "Modernism." The literary network. Jalic Inc., 2011. Web. 9 Feb 2012. http://www.online-literature.com/periods/modernism.php.

Byrd, Steven. " Modern America, 1914-Present." Literature. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Feb 2012.

            http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/allam/1914-/lit/index.htm.

Grimm , Reinhold. "1914-1939." The UNiversity of Wisconsin Press. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Feb 2012.

Finding Paragraph #1

History is a subject many people may not show favoritism over, including I, and English may be another subject one may not be to fond of, however this can all change if someone is willing to take the time and show one some interesting things that went on during one like twenty five year time period. I am talking about the Early Modern Era. This era came to existence because of exciting, remembered events such as World War I, woman the right to vote, stock market crashed, the depression, and so much more (Literature Timeline). With so much going on one would think it would be a very easy task to just sit down and write about it, or so you would think. Where did authors get the ideas that they wrote about? Who or what influences them to write? Did they even write about what was going on in the world? This questions may run through ones mind as they start to learn about the writing during the Early Modern Era. Surprising writers did not focus on what was going on all around the world. They tried to enlighten the thoughts and feelings of their readers One particular poem writer, Gerard Manley Hopkins, would write poems unlike the others. He made reality turn into a story. He wrote of all that went on but all at the same time if was like a rated G version. (Rahn). The world was turning in to something new, it did not matter if you found this out by looking around you or by cracking open a book.

Quote, paraphrase, and citation #5

Quote: "In Modernist literature, it was the poets who took fullest advantage of the new spirit of the times, and stretched the possibilities of their craft to lengths not previously imagined. In general, there was a disdain for most of the literary production of the last century. The exceptions to this disdain were the French Symbolist poets like Charles Beaudelaire, and the work of Irishman Gerard Manley Hopkins. The French Symbolists were admired for the sophistication of their imagery. In comparison to much of what was produced in England and America, the French were ahead of their time. They were similarly unafraid to delve into subject matter that had usually been taboo for such a refined art form. Hopkins, for his part, brought a fresh way to look at rhythm and word usage. He more or less invented his own poetic rhythms, just as he coined his own words for things which had, for him, no suitable descriptor. Hopkins had no formal training in poetry, and he never published in his lifetime. This model – the self-taught artist-hermit who has no desire for public adulation – would become synonymous with the poet in the modern age. This stereotype continues unrivaled to this day, despite the fact that the most accomplished poets of the Modern period were far from recluses. Even though alienation was a nearly universal experience for Modernist poets, it was impossible to escape some level of engagement with the world at large. Even if this engagement was mediated through the poetry, the relationship that poets had with their world was very real, and very much revealing of the state of things in the early twentieth century."


Paraphrase: Poets ruled the world of writing during the twentieth century. The most known, even though he was not intending to be out in the public, poet was Gerard Manley Hopkins. Wrote wrote of things that were in one with the world. Yes, he wrote about things that was going on around him, but he also tried to make the situation enlightened.


Citation: http://www.online-literature.com/periods/modernism.php

Quote, parapraph, and citation #4

Quote: "As literary periods go, Modernism displays a relatively strong sense of cohesion and similarity across genres and locales. Furthermore, writers who adopted the Modern point of view often did so quite deliberately and self-consciously. Indeed, a central preoccupation of Modernism is with the inner self and consciousness. In contrast to the Romantic world view, the Modernist cares rather little for Nature, Being, or the overarching structures of history. Instead of progress and growth, the Modernist intelligentsia sees decay and a growing alienation of the individual. The machinery of modern society is perceived as impersonal, capitalist, and antagonistic to the artistic impulse. War most certainly had a great deal of influence on such ways of approaching the world. Two World Wars in the span of a generation effectively shell-shocked all of Western civilization."


Paraphrase: For the world a war was going on. For love lives people were well aware of this. On the other hand the people that had a pen in their hand ready to right a story of novel was in a whole new world. Writers did not focus on what was going on around them but what was going on in their minds that had a better perspective than what was going on in the war.

Citation: http://www.online-literature.com/periods/modernism.php

Graph/ chart/ map and citation

Literature Timeline
1914-1939

1915 W. Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage (England)
1914-1918 World War I
1916 Suffrage granted to women in Canada (except Quebec, 1940)
1916 Carl Sandburg's Chicago Poems (U.S.)
1917 U.S. enters WWI
1917 Russian Revolution (Nicholas II overthrown; Bolsheviks seize power)
1918 Suffrage granted to British women
1918 Wilfred Owen's "Dulce Et Decorum Est" (England)
1919 Treaty of Versailles ends World War I
1919 Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio (U.S.)
1919 Ezra Pound's Quia Pauper Amavi (U.S.)
1920 Nineteenth Amendment gives American women the right to vote
1919-1920 U.S. Attorney General Mitchell Palmer's raids against suspected communists; first "Red Scare"
1920 Eugene O'Neill's The Emperor Jones (U.S.)
1921 Margaret Sanger founds the American Birth Control League
1921 Marianne Moore's Poems (U.S.)
1921 John Dos Passos' Three Soldiers(U.S.)
1922 Fascist Benito Mussolini takes power in Italy
1922 U.S.S.R. formed under Marxist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin
1922 T.S. Eliot's "The Wasteland" (U.S.)
1922 James Joyce's Ulysses (Ireland)
1922-1930 India's nationalist Mahatma Gandhi imprisoned for six years for leading civil disobedience against British rule
1923 George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan (England)
1923 Jean Toomer's Cane (U.S.)
1923 William Carlos Williams' Spring and All (U.S.)
1925 F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (U.S.)
1925 Franz Kafka's The Trial (Austria)
1926 Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises (U.S.)
1926 Langston Hughes' The Weary Blues (U.S.)
1927 Joseph Stalin assumes full power in Russia
1927 Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse (England)
1928 Nella Larsen's Quicksand (U.S.)
1928 William Butler Yeats' "The Tower "(Ireland)
1928 Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front (Germany)
1929 Stock market crash in U.S.
1929 William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury (U.S.)
1929 Countee Cullen's Black Christ and Other Poems (U.S.)
1929 Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel (U.S.)
1929-1939 Worldwide economic depression
1930 Rise of Fascist Nazi party in Germany under Adolph Hitler
1930 Noel Coward's Private Lives(England)
1931 Indian Nationalist movement revived by Gandhi-led Salt March
1933 Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany
1933 Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (U.S.)
1933-1937 New Deal in U.S. under President Franklin Roosevelt establishes far-reaching social and economic reforms to combat Great Depression
1934 Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust (England)
1935 Nuremberg laws deprive German Jews of citizenship
1936 Djuna Barnes' Nightwood (U.S.)
1936-1939 Height of Stalin's purges in U.S.S.R.; millions perish
1936-1938 Spanish Civil War; right-wing Nationalist General Franco takes power
1937 Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God (U.S.)
1938 Graham Greene's Brighton Rock (England)
1939 Germany and Soviet Union invade Poland; Soviet Union invades Finland
1939-1945 World War II
1939 John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath (U.S.)

Events go on all over the world but only certain ones you may hear about, even if the event you don't hear about is affecting your life more than you know it. This timeline helps to get out all of the main events for every year that is needed.

URL: http://wps.ablongman.com/long_longman_mylitlabdemo_1/24/6276/1606783.cw/index.html

Quote, paraphrase, citation #3

Quote: "During the interwar years of 1914 to 1939, many architects, designers, and artists passionately committed themselves to the ideas which we now call Modernism. Reacting to the unprecedented violence and destruction of World War I, they searched for ways to create a better world through art and design."


Paraphrase: During the wars artist, writers, and designers liked to put what was going on into their works. All at the same time they tried to make what was going on better and more relaxing to the people to ease the tension of the world that was really going on around them.


Citation: http://www.corcoran.org/modernism/index.htm

Photo, caption, and citation #3

Children were to read their books, do their chores, do their homework with the mother approval. Now coming into this new era, you would still see all of this going on, but you were very likely to walk into a house and see a family gathered around the newly used radio to listen to their afternoon shows.


URL: http://www.google.com/imgres?hl=en&biw=1366&bih=499&gbv=2&tbm=isch&tbnid=RteTM-rFAU8_bM:&imgrefurl=http://blogs.ischool.berkeley.edu/i103su10/&docid=i9kOkrZUefZL6M&imgurl=http://moodyradiopaulbutler.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/radio-show-1.jpg&w=400&h=323&ei=u0stT4esKMnEtgeNlq3vDw&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=436&sig=107903927196998797859&page=3&tbnh=153&tbnw=176&start=33&ndsp=19&ved=1t:429,r:6,s:33&tx=59&ty=84

Quote, paraphrase, and citation #2

Quote: "This was a nervous and frenetic time that fell between the grim bookends of two World Wars. Technologically, it was not an especially innovative period. The electric light bulb, the automobile, the airplane, the skyscraper, the radio, and the telephone all predate World War I. It was, however, a time of development and dispersal rather than invention, giving rise to widespread use of modern technologies."


Paraphrase: The world was changing, new technology was coming to usage, and the the world was become more like the way we now know it.


Citation: http://www.corcoran.org/modernism/index.htm

Photo, caption, citation #2

During the Modern time Era World War I was in action. I believe that the war could have had a strong effect on what went on back at home including the writings of authors. This image does not show the action of war but it shows the ones that could have very possibly could have been written about.
URL: http://vanburendistrict.blogspot.com/2011/04/upcoming-event-life-of-wwi-soldier.html

Quote, paraphrase, and citation #1

Quote- "The author H.G. Wells, writing in 1933, knew that he was witnessing a time of unprecedented transformation. People were living in a new era, and given the extraordinary powers science had delivered, Wells saw that humanity might either perfect the world or use its new capabilities to bring about total annihilation."


Paraphrase- "A writer with the name H.G. Wells knew that technology was to bring easier lives or world destruction to people's lives."


Citation http://www.corcoran.org/modernism/index.htm

Photo, Caption, and Caption #1

The picture above was taken during the depression, it seems as though they have a plain and empty road ahead of them because everything around them is crashing, but if they only knew that great circumstances that were coming before them.

Preliminary links and Descriptions

http://wps.ablongman.com/long_longman_mylitlabdemo_1/24/6276/1606783.cw/index.html
This would be a just useful site for both a history lesson and a nice resource for literature, from the dates to the big events that happened all over the world, this timeline has all I need.

http://www.corcoran.org/modernism/index.htm
This site is based on the literature and the art of the Modern Era but takes it on a little bit of a diffrent angle which may be very useful in my research.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CCkQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgohs1.tvusd.k12.ca.us%2FTeacherWebs%2FEnglish%2Fksharp%2FEnglish%252011%2FThe%2520Moderns%2520%25201914-1939.ppt&ei=nakhT6XGHsHZtgeVr5CiCw&usg=AFQjCNEL68xV9ubY2cHRRfTayxlvOb9r2Q&sig2=EY6xaJynmUfvEYgCqMrgMw
This online power point would be a great source as quick notes. It would teach me greatly about the history that has many points of view that would help greatly for my research.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CCkQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgohs1.tvusd.k12.ca.us%2FTeacherWebs%2FEnglish%2Fksharp%2FEnglish%252011%2FThe%2520Moderns%2520%25201914-1939.ppt&ei=nakhT6XGHsHZtgeVr5CiCw&usg=AFQjCNEL68xV9ubY2cHRRfTayxlvOb9r2Q&sig2=EY6xaJynmUfvEYgCqMrgMw
This very detailed site would help out on any knowledge that one may need to know about modern literature. I find some of this information very useful.

Animoto based on search questions

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What I want to know About my Topic

There are so much unknown knowledge to everyone out there on suck a broad subject. In this project I want to not focus of the "Modern Literature" but the ones that made Modern Literature possible. There is so many great stories are out there and so much of a variety, but it seems as if no one takes the time to give them the full credit that they deserve. The main thing I want to be informed of is what made up the modern literature years. I would also want to know how there lives might have came into their novels, who was the best know author during this time, did the stories that were put out affect the ones that read them, what was that one thing that one may have found in every book they picked up, and who were the main one you might have seen not being able to put done the books. This is all the knowledge I wish to receive during this great adventure through literature.


- What is the bias of modern literature? 
- Who are some well known authors?
- What inspired authors to write their novels?
- What commonalities exists in modern novels? 
-  Who would you find reading?

What I already know about my topic

I do not have a lot of knowledge pertaining to the period of modern literature. Just the word modern makes it simply obvious that the time period was very recent. I am aware that in seventh grade we read the book "The Call of the Wild" by Jack London. Like I stated, I am not very educated in the area of modern literature but it shall be very interesting to learn a lot.

The story behind my topic choice

I may not be the best History student but I am not the worse. In seventh grade the social studies teacher once told me that was to be a knowledge joust between us two. I was confused to the oncoming event. I then came to school the next day spotting two horses, armor,and an ambulance. Before I knew it the whole school, staff and students, were sitting in stands, some were screaming my name while the remaining were belching out the name of my teacher. We had a medieval history trivia of years 1914-1939, I lost with my mercy from my teacher. From then on I have always knew i needed to catch up on my history knowledge but never had the time. I think is would be both a challenge and a honor to learn of such a recent time period in literature history.