Julius Caesar Archetypes

Julius Caesar is a play written by William Shakespeare that has a lot similarities to movies, tv shows, and books. Everything from tv shows and movies has comparisons to do with William’s play.

These are example of an archetype:

The movie Alice and Wonderland they have an evil monarchy like the evil queen. In Julius Caesar the whole senate in evil and conniving. He was the one who killed Caesar and was trying to play innocent. Brutus was trying his best to get everyone to not look up to Caesar anymore. Cassius was asking why everyone was looking up to someone else and they were just worshiping Caesar.

 

 

Puritans and Predestination

 

A puritan is a member of a group of English Protestants of the 16th and 17th centuries who regarded the actions of the England Church. What did the Puritans do? They are in New England. Puritans believed in Predestination. What is predestination? The predestination is the divine foreordaining of all that will happen; it regards to the salvation of some and not others. They believed that the participation in believing in Jesus would not effect people’s salvation. They believed that unique covenant came from God.

Puritans believed that God expected them to reform an Anglican Church. What were the the Puritans school system like? The Puritans school system involves a nation taking over of another nation by force or by purchasing. Their form of schooling is the colonies. The Puritans convinced the colonial Education for religious reasons to Bible reading and Bible Studying are good roles in their religion.

 

Dorothea Dix: A Hero for the Mentally Ill

Dorothea Dix was an American activist. She was a teacher and reformer. In class, we have studied “The Teacher Who Changed My Life,” by Nicholas Gage. I’ve chosen to research a little information about Dorothea Dix because I had learned about her in history class.

Dorothea Dix changed prison systems. She saw that the law had put mentally ill people in prison with murders and other people that committed crimes. So she convinced states from all over the United States to build institutions for the mentally ill. She was also a author.

She was born in Hampden, Maine in 1802. Her father Joseph was a Methodist preacher who was always away from home. Her mother suffered from difficult bouts of depression.

Several years later, she got a job teaching inmates in an East Cambridge prison. Some inmates suffered from what they had to do. Some inmates were brutally beaten and some were sexually abused. So Dix came up with a way to make the facility better. She could visit every facility she could attend to documenting the conditions at that facility. Then she brought out her findings at the legislature of Massachusetts. She then felt bad for the prisoners and mentally ill people at the facilities on how they were treated and how they were fed.

Later on in her life, she did services a week after the Civil War began. When she arrived in Washington on April 1861, she was sent to Union Army Hospitals and to see the nursing staff that they are requiring. She was the first American to be the superintendent of nursing.

After the war Dorothea Dix became a social reformer. She traveled to Europe and other places in the world. She continued to write and offer guidance the treatment of mentally ill. She gave ideas to the U.S. government to redesign hospitals and build new hospitals.

Gage, the author of “The Teacher Who Changed My Life,” was an immigrant. When he came to the US, he was placed in a special education class because he spoke Greek. This wasn’t fair, just like the mentally ill people who had been placed in prison in the 1800s.

Have you ever read or heard about Dorothea Dix? If not, do you have a person you admire for standing up for others like Dix did? Let me know in a comment below!

The Coldest Temperature in Alabama History

Think about Alabama history. Do you know much about it? Do you know the coldest temperature in Alabama history? I have done some research and learned that the coldest day was on January 30, 1966. It was -27 degrees outside. The location was in Madison County in New Market. I was asking myself were there any cars frozen on that day. I don’t know, but I’m pretty sure there were some frozen and some that weren’t.

Have you ever experienced a very cold day in the South? Do you like cold weather? If you do, what is favorite your favorite part about cold weather? Sometimes I like the cold and sometimes I don’t. However, my favorite part of the cold is when it snows. And I don’t like the cold is because sometimes I have to stay in the house and I’m always active. With that being said, if I stay in the house, I will walk around a lot and do crazy things. Ok you can answer  these questions by commenting under this blog.