• Feb182012
    Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly. ~Epictetus

    POSTED AT 07:25 PM

    Please read the following articles, and some of the comments that accompany two of the articles:

    http://www.fashion-era.com/rational_dress.htm#Mrs_Bloomer_


    http://www.suffolknewsherald.com/2012/02/08/board-aims-at-cross-dressers/

    http://www.suffolknewsherald.com/2012/02/11/some-thoughts-on-hair-racism/

    http://www.dba-oracle.com/dress_code_tattoos.htm

    And the topic is:

    "We should indeed be a free people. Freed from the petty tyranny which now rules us with a rod of iron, we should become strong and vigorous in body and mind, and independent and courageous in thought and action."
    (Amelia Bloomer, in The Lily, June 1851)

    Is what one wears and how one styles themselves freedom of speech as protected under the 1st Amendment?  Should there be limitations?  What if it is in bad taste?  Should it be different in schools and the workplace than at a mall?

    Here are a few quotes of interest, as well:


    It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.  ~Henry David Thoreau

    Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends.... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.  ~Henry David Thoreau

    "Clothes make the man"  Mark Twain

     "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."     Ralph Waldo Emerson


    "Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance."  Henry Ward Beecher


    Blog, and respond to at least three of your classmates' blogs.








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    Oct182011
    Legitimate Unrest or Protesters We Detest?

    POSTED AT 08:09 PM

    As set out under APUSH Homework, read the two opposing views on the Occupy Wall Street event, and take a position.  Respond to at least two other posters.
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    Oct142011
    Those Crazy Puritans

    POSTED AT 02:10 PM

    The Jerry Springer Show.  Dr. Phil.  Judge Judy. Maury Povich and "who's your daddy."  All the shows where people are called out and their business is put out for all to see. Do we have the Puritans of the 17th Century to thank for these 21st Century  type of shows?  

       Along these lines, author Nathaniel Hawthorne in The Scarlet Letter described punishment in the stocks as: 
     
    " an "instrument of discipline so fashioned as to confine the human head in its tight grasp, and thus hold it up to public gaze. The very ideal of ignominy was embodied and made manifest in this contrivance of wood and iron. There can be no outrage, methinks . . . more flagrant than to forbid the culprit to hide his face for shame."
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    Oct142011
    "Earthquakes are the works of God, and a Token of His Displeasure."

    POSTED AT 02:07 PM

    said Thomas Prince, a Puritan Harvard divinity school graduate.  He found a  moral purpose behind scientific phenomena.  A very famous Puritan preacher stated:

    “Would such a thing be, if God were not infinitely dissatisfied by the Sins of Man?”   Increase Mather

     We  have discussed the Puritan work ethic and its effect on the American psyche.  What about the above expressed belief in God and punishment - is this still part of the American belief system?

    Discuss, and give examples. 

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