Most recent public comments by Aislynn Martindale https://nowcomment.com/users/24009 https://nowcomment.com/documents/61764?scroll_to=591519 https://nowcomment.com/documents/61764?scroll_to=591519 This passage expresses that Crowninshield was perceived as a buccaneer and that he was filthy rich, as well as a bit greedy. Tue, 11 Oct 2016 07:14:27 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/61764?scroll_to=591518 https://nowcomment.com/documents/61764?scroll_to=591518 This passage states that Deacon Peabody is a nasty man who has no care for his own sins but rather those of everyone else, bringing me to the conclusion that he is a judgmental man that has few friends or allies. Tue, 11 Oct 2016 07:11:34 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/61764?scroll_to=591517 https://nowcomment.com/documents/61764?scroll_to=591517 Direct characterization is shown when describing the man that had just appeared. Tue, 11 Oct 2016 07:09:13 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/61764?scroll_to=591502 https://nowcomment.com/documents/61764?scroll_to=591502 Direct Characterization: This paragraph expresses direct characterization of both Tom Walker and his wife. Opinion: I believe that Tom Walker and his wife are both awful people that shouldn't be cheating each other. Word Meaning: Meager; lacking in quantity or quality. Tue, 11 Oct 2016 07:04:18 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/61764?scroll_to=591501 https://nowcomment.com/documents/61764?scroll_to=591501 Opinion: I really like the description given for the inlet before it jumps into the tale of the buried treasure. I couldn't help but imagine the scene and how it would look, even when the pirates were added to the story I really appreciated the detail added to the story. Word Meaning: Inlet; a small arm of the sea, a river or a lake. Tue, 11 Oct 2016 06:55:33 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59727?scroll_to=576349 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59727?scroll_to=576349 The US Constitution is much larger than the Iroquois Constitution. The Iroquois Constitution is more reliant on trust from all people for each other. The US Constitution and the Iroquois Constitution are both set to help better the communities they were created for and made it so that certain officials could make laws to better the welfare of everyone. Wed, 08 Aug 2018 18:34:20 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59727?scroll_to=576265 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59727?scroll_to=576265 The tree is a sort of symbol. It is a representative of the newly established peace as well as the gathering of the confederation. Sat, 17 Sep 2016 00:55:53 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59727?scroll_to=576264 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59727?scroll_to=576264 Confederacy - an alliance of people or groups formed for an illicit purpose. Sat, 17 Sep 2016 00:53:23 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59727?scroll_to=576263 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59727?scroll_to=576263 I like the way the sentence explains the direction of the tree's roots. It made me imagine the tree as a sort of compass. Sat, 17 Sep 2016 00:50:12 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59727?scroll_to=576262 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59727?scroll_to=576262 I like the description in this sentence, it creates the image of a huge tree with beautiful, full, green leaves. A globe thistle is a plant that has a round tip on it that looks like a globe, most of which are purple or white. Sat, 17 Sep 2016 00:36:03 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59727?scroll_to=576261 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59727?scroll_to=576261 What are firekeepers? What importance do they play in the story? Sat, 17 Sep 2016 00:28:49 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59725?scroll_to=571190 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59725?scroll_to=571190 I think teamwork was one of the most emphasized values in the story, because it tells a tale of the four different gods coming together to create man and woman. Sat, 10 Sep 2016 06:31:42 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59725?scroll_to=571189 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59725?scroll_to=571189 This passage is about the four gods coming together, working together, and using their own individual resources to create man and woman. Sat, 10 Sep 2016 06:29:36 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59725?scroll_to=571188 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59725?scroll_to=571188 I believe the main value portrayed in this story is the preciousness of life and the work that is put into creating life. Sat, 10 Sep 2016 06:28:31 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59725?scroll_to=571187 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59725?scroll_to=571187 Questions: Why did the people dry themselves with cornmeal? If the people created from corn and wind were the first people, who were the people the story referenced multiple times? Opinions: The story definitely adds an interesting image for how people were created. The story could explain the trend with the colors white and yellow a little better. Word Meanings: Mirage - an image or illusion often related to the heat. buckskin - the hide of a deer, more specifically, the hide of a male deer. Associations/Inferences: The wind represents the breaths that we breathe. Sat, 10 Sep 2016 06:25:50 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59724?scroll_to=571171 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59724?scroll_to=571171 I believe the values expressed in the story that should still be practiced in today's society is obedience to adults. Sat, 10 Sep 2016 02:38:30 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59724?scroll_to=571170 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59724?scroll_to=571170 This passage is about the chief of the sky spirits and how bears had been forced to walk on all fours and lost the ability to speak. The passage also brushes up lightly on the idea of the Native Americans' ancestry. Sat, 10 Sep 2016 02:35:47 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59724?scroll_to=571169 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59724?scroll_to=571169 One of the main values expressed in this story is the value of obeying your elders and parents. Sat, 10 Sep 2016 02:34:02 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59724?scroll_to=571168 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59724?scroll_to=571168 The grizzlies are very valued in Native American cultures as well as the belief that the bodies should just be burned and a rock to be left at the spot the person died instead of a proper burial. Sat, 10 Sep 2016 02:26:05 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59724?scroll_to=571167 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59724?scroll_to=571167 Stern- in the text, stern means strictly or aggressively. Sat, 10 Sep 2016 02:20:31 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59724?scroll_to=571165 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59724?scroll_to=571165 Brittle- Brittle has many different meanings, there's the brittle which in food terms is a crunchy snack often associated with sweets, for example a peanut brittle, but in this case it means fragile or easy to break. Sat, 10 Sep 2016 02:01:54 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59724?scroll_to=571162 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59724?scroll_to=571162 In my honest opinion, the imagery is magnificent and really creates a picture in my head. Sat, 10 Sep 2016 01:46:51 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59724?scroll_to=567613 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59724?scroll_to=567613 Why did the Wind Spirit start the storm? The Sky Spirit should have gone to talk with the Wind Spirit, rather than send his youngest daughter to speak to the spirit. Though, I understand that it might bring around some pity points, but he potentially put her life in danger when he would have gone and spoken to the other spirit himself. Wed, 07 Sep 2016 05:40:12 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59724?scroll_to=567611 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59724?scroll_to=567611 If the Chief of the sky spirits made the snow go to Earth, because he was unhappy with the snow and cold in the sky, why did he move to Mount Shasta where it was also cold and snowy? Wed, 07 Sep 2016 05:31:43 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59723?scroll_to=567601 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59723?scroll_to=567601 The values that I found to stand out most in this story was the balance between right and wrong as well as how they worked together to keep the world from going wrong. For example, the right handed brother creating the herbivores and the left handed brother creating the carnivores. At the moment of the animals' creations, the brothers believed that they were just trying to out do each other, when in reality they were creating the perfect world in which the animals would live in unison. The herbivores kept the world from producing too many plants while the carnivores kept the herbivores from eating too many of the plants. Wed, 07 Sep 2016 04:18:59 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59723?scroll_to=567600 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59723?scroll_to=567600 This passage was about the relations between good and evil, right and wrong, the balance between the different animals of life, and how every person has their good and bad sides. The story showed how the world was said to be created and how all the creatures came to life, but the most important thing that it showed was the balance between everything in life. Wed, 07 Sep 2016 04:14:05 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59723?scroll_to=567599 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59723?scroll_to=567599 The values displayed in this story were the differences between right and wrong and the balance in the world between the herbivores and the carnivores. Wed, 07 Sep 2016 04:11:01 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59723?scroll_to=567598 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59723?scroll_to=567598 Quarrelling; Verbal fighting, or a disagreement. Wed, 07 Sep 2016 04:09:32 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59723?scroll_to=567597 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59723?scroll_to=567597 When the passage explains that the birds flew wingtip to wingtip to catch the woman, I imagined a bed of birds catching the woman softly. Wed, 07 Sep 2016 04:05:38 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59723?scroll_to=567596 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59723?scroll_to=567596 Why did the man not tell the other sky people of the hole and what he saw? Wed, 07 Sep 2016 04:02:49 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59723?scroll_to=567595 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59723?scroll_to=567595 Void; a vast emptiness. Wed, 07 Sep 2016 03:53:07 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59723?scroll_to=567594 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59723?scroll_to=567594 The imagery provided in this paragraph of the text left me seeing vivid images of a beautiful tree standing in the center of the Sky World. Is this tree the tree of life? In some civilizations the tree of life stands at the center of the universe or the center of life, which is where the passage says the sacred tree is found. Wed, 07 Sep 2016 03:49:25 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/57213?scroll_to=563933 https://nowcomment.com/documents/57213?scroll_to=563933 Paraphrasing is reading about something and rewriting the basic idea of it in your own words. Quoting is taking the words directly from the page, but adding the proper marks and indicating that it is another person's words. Sat, 03 Sep 2016 04:53:04 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/57213?scroll_to=563932 https://nowcomment.com/documents/57213?scroll_to=563932 Copy and paste plagiarism. Is the easiest and most common form of plagiarism, where somebody just looks for a source and copies it onto their own documents without proper citation. Sat, 03 Sep 2016 04:49:08 -0400