2 pge letter

Chelsey Wilkins

Dear Joe,

Life is prospering out here. I enjoy this time we call the Common Era. New inventions are sweeping our time and it’s great. How are you??? I surely hope your town is booming over West as well as mines is. I’ve missed you, haven’t heard from you but hope to see you this summer. My hair has grown long and is currently jet black. On the bright side I still have yet to have any younglings running around, simply waiting and working to settle down eventually.

Society is admirable. People are happier on account of there are more jobs available making it easier to get some money to have a good time. No longer do us folks who make a hard days work, use horses we drive fancy automobiles. Movies, media, and music make my day worth while after a long day of work at the factory. You haven’t experienced joy until you’ve came up here to hear some of the blues and jazz artists. Scott Joplin and Louis Armstrong are amazing jazz artists; you should come enjoy their music with me sometime. I even took soon interest into rock n roll. Elvis Presley is smoking hot.

Mass production is used to create cars much faster and cheaper which is making the economy boom. Not only are boats used to transport goods and cargo but now we have cruise ships that go up and down major rivers such as the Mississippi River. You can even hear jazz music while taking that trip, but you have to have a bunch of saved money to afford that. I was almost tempted to go on the Titanic with one of my guy friends but I couldn’t miss work at the factory…oooooo lets be thankful I didn’t go. I even went to Brooklyn with my best friend after saving and hard working. The trip was plenty of fun and it was worth it. I traveled across the Brooklyn Bridge it truthfully is beautiful. It’s a work of art; if you get a chance go visit it you won’t regret it. These new improvements are working toward my advantage. Riding horses wasn’t my cup of tea of course, but now I was able to afford a nice ford car.

I have to say I’m really enjoying myself and the freedom I can have as a hard working woman. Birth control has become popularized and I feel better knowing that I can protect myself. Personal computers are fun. My father just bought me one, its work to operate but fun. I enjoy the luxuries in life. I mean I know not everyone’s father is rich like mine but I still work for things of my own. I keep my radio when I exercise; it makes it much brisker and easier. I also have a television in my front room thanks to my father… I have shelves full of collections of 8-tracks and cassettes.

I really hope you still plan to take that trip out here this summer. Like you have to love this life style. I couldn’t be happier. My father would probably love to pay for your transportation down here so you have to come visit. Hope life’s treating you well… miss you, love you…see you this summer.

5 summaries

Chelsey Wilkins
Five Article Summaries
AP English III
01/21/10

1. (2010). Airlines warned about manual handling training; Expert urges airlines to look at training methods after cutting one leading UK airline's lost time incidents by 68.75%. M2PressWIRE, Retrieved from Newspaper Source database.
a. This article talked about an expert engineer who proved that his methods of training airline employees. Proof of effectiveness comes from the UK airlines that after his rigorous training program decreased manual workforce incidents by 68.75% for twelve months. I believe the engineering comes in effect, with the pristine condition and how it is designed to help avoid natural, mechanical qualities of a human body. Overall, the article was very informative and showed me an aspect of mechanical engineering I was unaware of.
2. Janovich, A. (2009, December 17). Engineering students have designs on the future. Yakima Herald-Republic (WA), Retrieved from Newspaper Source database.
a. This article could be described as informative. A student Adriana Janovich of the Toppenish High School described classes, work, and projects that prepare her for her future career in engineering. She is enrolled in a class called introduction to engineering design of the pathway of engineering curriculum, Project Lead the Way. Now I’ve already completed this class and a couple after it, which made it easy for me to relate to Adriana’s appreciation to the needed practice. Project Lead the Way allows high school students to get exposure to future careers in the broad field of engineering.
3. (2010). BSD Medical Names Todd Turnlund as Vice President of Engineering. M2PressWIRE, Retrieved from Newspaper Source database.
a. This newspaper article wasn’t very long but it gave me an aspect of goals to set for myself and objectives that I should be prepared for in the future. It talks about a well-accomplished man, Todd Turnlund being appointed the vice president of engineering. This would be a huge honor because he’s not only president over mechanical engineering field but of all engineering fields. His achievements included a mechanical engineering degree for University of California at Santa Barbara, an MBA from Santa Clara University, his acceptance of twelve patents…etc His achievements really inspire me to further my journey to become a mechanical engineer and not to give up.

4. (2010, January 17). BRIEF: Inside Alaska business. Anchorage Daily News (AK), Retrieved from Newspaper Source database
a. This article was simply about a prospering engineering company, Coffman’s engineering Inc. The company received a federal grant with Alaska so they could to detect and test geothermal resource at Pike Ridge’s site for utility scale electric generation and heating supplies. The company offers many other services also. Including civil, structural, commercial/industrial mechanical, process piping, pipeline integrity management, electrical, controls, and corrosion control engineering as well as lighting design, project management, and commissioning. This article just simply showed me that engineering is a very broad field and I could have aspects of different fields in one occupation.
5. Tran, T. (2010, January 14). Technically speaking. Grand Forks Herald (ND), Retrieved from Newspaper Source database
a. This last article is not another success story but information about a student in engineering school and some of their initial projects.Iaan Pays was the individual who wrote about his college experience but he also mentioned how he was just laid back as they did some projects that he had completed or was introduced to in high school. Just that information makes me grateful to be open to any aspects of engineering making learning further in this field much easier. The article was kind of inspiration t those of us already interested in mechanical engineering because it reassures us that the work we are doing isn’t put to waste.

souls of black folk

Chelsey Wilkins
The Souls of Black Folk

1. The Souls of Black Folks tells the life of African Americans in the early twentieth century. Chapter 1 started the book heading straight to the core of the novel. It tells of the social and political mishaps that occurred during the pre through post civil war. Du Bois brings the critical question… “How does it feel to be a problem,” by telling the story of how he came to believe he is different from those he went to school with. “In the schoolhouse, the boys and girls bought gorgeous visiting cards-ten cents a package- and exchange them…the exchange was merry till one girl took a glance at mine and refused my card.” Du Bois used this credible story to show how being a “problem” can affect a person socially and emotionally. The effect of being a child discriminated against showed the severity of the term a “problem”... Du Bois notes that this is the first time he notices that he is different from others, a veil between them socially and never again would he try to blend in with society.
Another interpretation of a “problem” could be not African Americans as a whole but the burden they put on the government politically. Du Bois mentioned many government actions to assist African Americans beginning with Lincoln’s emancipation proclamation. Problem in the form of a noun, Bu Bois describes as something unavoidable. Falling under political efforts to assist the African American problems would be the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifthteenth amendments. As well as the freedman’s bureau and other federal bureaus set up to help the African American “problems.”
To conclude, Du Bios is crazy. The only difference I comprehend between the differences of the word problem would be one defined as the actual African American and the second definition would be all African Americans including their emotional, political, and social problems in a whole. Whichever way you understand him, he used personal feelings that allowed him the advantage of strong diction to help create the difference between being a problem as an African American and the African American problem as a whole.



2. The moment Du Bois came to know his white classmates see him as different and beneath them, set the base of the novel. I think a personal aspect or example is better than a story of someone else because credibility is important and it helped capture the essence of the life changing moment. Only Du Bois could describe his emotions as he felt left out or should I say masked by a “vast veil.” Du Bois uses this personal experience to capture pathos.
Pathos is affiliated in his rigorous goals to achieve over and above the whites. Including beating his classmates at examination-time, or even beating them at a foot race showed to me that obviously Du Bois felt the need to compete with his white classmate’s maybe to prove that he was of equal talent or altitude as white classmates. Unfortunately, Du Bois was proven insufficient. Although he could take a test as fast as white classmates could or maybe he was faster than they were, it did not matter because African Americans were still the minority race. Du Bois writing this excerpt in first person helps the audience become more in tuned with his emotions.
To conclude, Du Bios felt unfulfilled about being a minority race. Using personal experiences only furthered the effect of pathos throughout the novel. His intentions to prove to be of equal intelligence with white classmates was far past insuffient because African Americans no matter what abilities they occupied would still face racism.

Up From Slavery: An autobiography

Chelsey Wilkins
Up From Slavery: An autobiography
AP English III
01-12-10

Booker T. Washington has become world-wide known as a dominant figure in the African American community. As a well noted educator, being articulate worked as a benefit when Booker spoke. Booker T. Washington spoke out in the position of blacks in the Atlanta Exposition. Well populated by this speech, Booker is now a dominant figure.

Initially, the obvious use of ethos was displayed. Booker told of his speech toward African American roles in the southern society. The speech appealed relevant because it was written in first person. This event has actually occurred in his life and he wrote about it, which captures the essence of social realism because the chapter was a snap shot of what was happening at this time.

Booker T.W used numerous cases of figurative language in his autobiography. “The opportunity to earn a dollar in a factory just now is worth infinitely more than the opportunity to spend a dollar in an opera house.” This quote is a type of metaphor Booker uses shows that for an African American to make a dollar are greater than spending one in an opera. Basically Booker’s point is that it is too hard for blacks to be looked at with social equality creating difficulty to acquire income. I also noticed similes were used to further distinguish Booker’s objectives. For example, “he seemed to be as careful to shake hands with some old colored “auntie” clad partially in rags, and to take as much pleasure in doing so, as if he were greeting some millionaire.” Booker T.W used this quote to express an example; of his gratitude toward Grover Cleveland. The simile showed me some of the characteristics of Cleveland and his respect toward the minority race. Another example would be, “he was as peaceful and patient in doing this as if he were putting his signature to some great state document.” This quote also expressed Grover Cleveland as being dignified, respectful, patient, most of all an admirable man.

To conclude, Booker T.W could be described as the leading black dominant figure. He spoke well-respected, articulately, was well respected, and had ideal goals for his race. Booker’s autobiography was actually a reasonable source and appealed to pathos and ethos mainly.

chapter 7

Chelsey Wilkins
Chapter 2pg.Lit.
01-11-10

W.E.B Du Bios wrote The Souls of Black Folk with a blatant goal to accomplish. The story was meant to give readers a glimpse of what life was like for African Americans during the civil war era. Du Bious gave reliable examples and credibility. Evaluating chapter seven, Du Bois’s obvious appeal to pathos was detected.

Chapter seven told a lot about the thriving population of African Americans in Georgia. Du Bios told the events that affected the African Americans socially and emotionally. Detailed diction was used in describing the unlovely villages in the unpopular state. The over-crowded population of blacks was not a sense of freedom because the book talked about how they were treated socially. Georgia was one of those states that took the law into their own hands and decided to continue allowing the flow of slave trade. Of course leaders had to rise to carry weaker slaves through the fate of slavery, and some overcame it by continuing their journey to the land of Creek Indians. When the land of the Creek Indians was referred to, it was described as luxurious, rich rolling, and well tilled, as Georgia was described as bare, monotonous, straggling unlovely villages. The distinct comparison between the two areas was to me meant to express the different emotions slaves felt while being in Georgia but thriving for the land of the Creek Indians. His comparison also hinted to me why this book is during the era of social realism, because just the African Americans feelings in two different areas were flashbacks of what life was like those very moments.

Figurative language was used throughout chapter seven. The source of imagery really helps put the reader in the shoes of African Americans during this era, which basically captures the essence of social realism. “The sun is setting, but we can see the great cotton country as we enter it, _the soil now dark and fertile, now thin and gray, with fruit-trees and dilapidated buildings…” This quote is a prime example of strong imagery pulling the reader in, to the point that I could even envision the sun setting beautifully darkening the soil and fruits. Another example would be, “For a radius of a hundred miles about Albany, stretched a great fertile land, luxuriant with forests of pine, oak, ash, hickory, and popular; hot with the sun and damp with the rich black swamp-land…” Once again the vision of a beautiful forest with big luxurious prospering varieties of trees growing. Du Bios’s dedication too this book shows brightly through his vivid imagery.

To conclude, chapter seven was more about the African Americans and how they handled themselves socially during the post civil war times. Pathos and figurative language were used in abundance. This chapter really showed me why this book would be characterized under social realism.

souls of black folk

Chelsey Wilkins
2 pg. Lit. Chapt. 3-4
01/7/10

W.E.B Du Bios’, “The Souls Of Black Folk” was a book dedicated to the life of African Americans. Chapters three and four focused on the times during and post civil war. Main ideas ranged from their role in society to the United States roles in their lives.

Slaves were major attribants during the civil war era. In the South they were used to produce and create supplies for those men who served in the army. Blacks were more than slaves because they were reliable in society and numerous in the war. The book talked about how after Lincoln approved his Emancipation Proclamation, slaves began to poor in the North as a stream would. For the North, the extra supply of soldiers would bring an advantage as well as a problem. Slaves played a huge role during this era from producing for soldiers to fighting for their own freedom as well.

Yet as the slaves started to flow in, they became problems. The North had to not only worry about the war but to find places of shelter and food for slaves of the rebels. The government took that responsibility and created one of the most known, The Freedman’s Bureau, which came to the aid of those freedmen. Followed by others such as the Freedman’s Aid society etc. I believe the slaves played a major role in bringing the North together, kind of a type of test to test their strength in dealing with tragedies.

As the chapter went on, it focused more on how the government dealt with the flow of slaves. Du Bios pointed out his opinion that if you are a soldier or a worker behind them...we are all humans and no ones opinion is above the others. Du Bios’s point of view toward slaves in society seemed rational. His writing looked down on any white man, not so much of thanked them but showed how blacks affected the white men in the north, and the measures that were taken to help them.

Too conclude, Du Bios wrote a book about the well-being of blacks. Chapters three and four referrers back to the time when blacks played and important role in society. The civil war era was a very important time for slaves in the rebel states. I believe the slavery issue shaped the civil war.

Daisy Miller

Chelsey Wilkins
Daisy Milliard: Two pg. lit.
12/6/09
AP English III


Henry James was a key figure of nineteenth century realism. As an American writer, James wrote about experiences between Americans and Europeans in Europe. One of his most valuable short novels was Daisy Miller. Written in the realist era, the novel speaks in first person, telling the tale of an appealing American girl and Winterbourne’s experience with her.

The rhetorical device, imagery, was used throughout the novel. James used imagery to draw the audience into the setting in Europe. “But after all he had no enemies; he was an extremely amiable fellow and universally liked.” This quote, found early in the novel, was one of the first senses of imagery the audience perceived because it gave an idea about what type of person Winterbourne is and what qualities he holds. “A pale complexion and sharp little features. He was dressed in knickerbockers, with red stockings, which displayed his poor little spindle shanks,” was yet another example of imagery. The quote not only uses imagery to give a mental image of what the small boy wore but also of the face expression on his face. Imagery set the mood of the realist novel.

Undeniable pathos was appealed to. Winterbourne was obviously high strung over daisy. A sense of passion and courtesy came as he fixed himself for her arrival. “The young lady inspected her flounces and smoothed her ribbons again; and Winterbourne presently risked an observation upon the beauty of the view.” The quote not only establishes the tension between Winterbourne and Daisy but also tells of his feelings towards her and how he admires her beauty. As well as, Daisy’s, desire to stay as neat and as beautiful as possible while in Winterbourne’s prescience. The development of the burning passion and suspense keeps the audience attracted.

James wrote Daisy Miller in first person. The act of writing in first person only made the story more reliable, appealing to ethos. James used very vivid diction and imagery that more than drew his audience in but made the story seem as if it was one of his own personal experiences, which is the whole point of a realist writer.

To conclude, James wrote Daisy Miller. Writing in the realist era, James wrote in the first person to appeal to his audience. Throughout the novel. James appealed to pathos, ethos, and imagery. Daisy Miller is a short story not only about the experience of an American man in Europe but also his growing passion with a blunt unsophisticated flirty young girl. I personally liked the story and feel that the imagery gave me a further understanding of the novel.