Seconds With a Sailer

Although I only speak one language, I do speak multiple forms of English. I am part of many communities; like many others, I often change the way I speak depending on the occasion and who I am talking to. One form of English I use would be my “formal” way of speaking. This is a style that I typically use in more conventional occasions like talking to teachers or writing an essay.  When speaking this formal English, my tone is respectful. I use words that are thoughtful and portray what I am thinking in a more eloquent manner to come across as well-educated and worth listening to. While I am writing with this English, I remove any slang or incorrect grammar, instead using advanced diction and complex sentence structures to create a refined and professional tone. The second English I often use can be shown when I am volunteering with my friends to help with a Middle School program at my church. This style is much more casual than my formal English but uses confident and ...

I love America. I mean, we have it all here. I love how we have made leaps and bounds in modern technology in the past decades. I love how you can meet people from many cultures and different walks of life. I love how our students are so school focused they believe they’re as good as their grade point. I love how we use the media to subtly tell women that their worth is based on their physical features, and then scratch our heads at the sudden decrease of women’s interest in STEM. I love how we pollute our environment and destroy our natural resources without a second thought, because surely the earth can adapt to accommodate our needs. I love how we complain about Starbucks not spelling our names correctly on the seven-dollar cups, and how we throw away half of our super-sized meals while children in our country go hungry. I love how many American women are up in arms because they don’t get equal pay as men, but then aren’t interested in helping the women around the world who are vie...

The Sailors’s Sentinel Missing Boy Appears to have been Brutally Murdered, Father is Nowhere to be Found A gust of tension has recently blown into the town of St. Petersburg Missouri as Huckleberry Finn, who had been abducted by his abusive father earlier this year, is suspected to have been killed and dragged from the log cabin where he and his father were living in. Authorities are now searching for the main suspect, the father, who has disappeared after these events. When searching the cabin again for clues, the authorities have found an interesting paper written by Huck Finn himself, prompting them to wonder if Huck was really killed after all. Main suspect, Huck's father, "Pap" “When in the course of human events” (Declaration of Independence), it becomes necess’ry for a person to get rid of the political and domestic bonds that have joined him with another group of people, and to regain all the powers and rights that Ms. Watson’s God has entitled me t...

The Sailor's Sentinel BREAKING NEWS: GIRL INVOLVED WITH SALEM DEATHS SPOTTED IN BARBADOS Abigail Williams, a 16 year old girl, who has recently run away from her home in Salem, Massachusetts and is responsible for the whirlwind of hysteria in Salem has allegedly been spotted in Barbados. After dozens of people had been put to death by Williams and her posse’s accusations of witchcraft, Deputy Governor Danforth and Reverend Hale have dived deeper into the murky backgrounds of the accusers. The appalling information they found was most likely the cause of the recent squalls happening in Salem. Several weeks prior, Williams and several of her friends had been helping “purge” Salem of witches. If a person was accused of practicing witchcraft, they were brought before the group in court. If Abigail and her minions were to scream and howl up a storm (apparently this equated to being under the spell of the accused) the court would immediately brand them a witch and ship them off to...

A Puritan’s life was centered around their relationship with God. They did everything with God in mind, hoping to receive salvation in return for devotedly following his will. This desire for Puritan’s to have God lead them through life and recreate them in accordance to His will is reflected in Edward Taylor’s poem, “Huswifery”, where the speaker prays to God to “Make me, O Lord, Thy spinning wheel complete” (Taylor 1) with the speaker comparing himself to an unfinished spinning wheel that needs God to do the finishing touches and mold him into the person He wants the speaker to be. This journey of depending on God to know what’s best for you and trusting him to lead your through the ups and downs of life can also be compared to sailing. However, instead of using a spinning wheel as a metaphor for a person, I would use a sailboat, with God as the captain. In an ideal situation where a Puritan has complete devotion to God, the captain puts coordinates into the boat and the vess...

If you ask the typical American elementary student, or even the average adult, "who sailed the ocean blue in 1492," they will probably say the name 'Christopher Columbus' right away. If you further question them, they may even go on to explain how Columbus discovered America, became BFFs with the Indians who willingly let him bring his European friends over to live in the New World and afterward everyone held hands and sang kumbaya. Not so. Many of these misconceptions surrounding Columbus and Native Americans are still widely believed by many people in the U.S. The common belief that Columbus 'found' America is false since Native Americans had already been living there. In fact, Columbus did not land in America but in the Caribbean islands. Since he thought he found the East Indies, Columbus incorrectly referred to the indigenous people as 'Indians'. Furthermore, he and his men enslaved the natives living in the area that is now Haiti and the Domini...