Facing West From California's Shores

ACING west from California's shores,

Inquiring, tireless, seeking what is yet unfound,

I, a child, very old, over waves, towards the house of maternity, the land of migrations, look afar,

Look off the shores of my Western sea, the circle almost circled;

For starting westward from Hindustan, from the vales of Kashmere,

From Asia, from the north, from the God, the sage, and the hero,

From the south, from the flowery peninsulas and the spice islands,

Long having wander'd since, round the earth having wander'd,

Now I face home again, very pleas'd and joyous,

(But where is what I started for so long ago? And why is it yet unfound?) 

 

 This poem is about an immigrant who has never been happy with any place she has settled in. She moves from country to country, shore to shore. She's been to some many places she's gone in a circle from all her traveling. In the end she's in California but still looks out to the sea wishing to find the place left unfound. 

Walt Whitman

                     For You O Democracy
Come, I will make the continent indissoluble,
I will make the most splendid race the sun ever shone upon,
I will make divine magnetic lands,

 Who is/was Walt Whitman?
-Walt Whitman was a famous poet.

What type of literature did he write?
- Walt Whitman wrote poetry.

Is he a realist or a romanticists? Why?
- Walt Whitman is a romanticist because he always is describing people as good nature and most people aren't nice and good nature. He also talked a lot about nature, a realist would have kept it to the point and not spent so much time with describing nature.

Some people prefer to live in a small town. Others prefer to live in a big city. Which place would you prefer to live in?

I would prefer to live in a small town because I don't like the closeness of the city. I don't mind the size of the city but I don't like how close together everything is. For example there is no parking space unless you park at the library. There are also too many one way streets, which can get confusing when you can't get to the place you want because it only goes one way. Also the people walking on the sidewalks don't know when to cross the street and they don't care if they take a hundred years to get across the road.

I like small towns because everything spaced out but still close enough to get to. When people cross the road they run across because they don't want to get hit or be in the way. You can have a backyard and own large pets unlike the city where you got to own pets that can live in an apartment. When you go out to eat or visiting a friend house you can park your car. Also there are no one way streets to get yourself confused with.  

Sophomore Year

My sophomore has been a big change from my freshman year. When I was a freshman I didn't have much homework expect for math and you always have homework in math. The rest of my classes are giving me a lot more homework than last year but I've still managed to get it all done on time. I'm really busy this since I'm in both marching band and soccer, I don't have a lot of time to do much. For the most part though my sophomore has been going good.