Sarah's+Suppositions

Disclaimer: The ideas and opinions expressed in this space are not necessarily those shared by general population. Some content may be unsuitable for children. Sorry it's kinda boring...image button went nuts so I can't use it. So, the bolding is iffy. Don't know if you can trust it...it's been doing funky things all night...so don't trust to be on the safe side. The in-text citations are reference in the seconde note at the bottom. The markings might not work for that either...they've been stupid too. Ok, so found another problem...sorry Mrs. Ackerman...but the video of the Stanford Prison Experiment doesn't seem to be playing. I hope it works on your computer. I think it might just be our filter. But at any rate, I can't get it to work, and the filter won't let me access it, so sorry, I'll fix that later. Been having billions of filter/computer/wikispace button problems...so I don't know what to do at this point...I'll fix it later on a different computer...that may mean tomorrow or Sunday or sometime next week. Sorry Ackerman. ENJOY! whatever works. -Sarah C.

I want to** **"arise and shine forth, that [my] light may be a standard for the** **nations" (Doctrine and Covenants 115:5-6)***
 * __Personal Philosophy__
 * I want to be an example for others to follow back to Jesus Christ and our Heavenly Father. I want to be myself no matter who I'm with and endure to the end.**

A wise woman (Mrs. Ackerman) once said to her English class (us): "**It is human nature to obey**." The class did not know if this was true, and debated it thoroughly. They used texts they had read in class to support their ideas and refute others'. This is a collection of some of the main ideas they came up with (With a few of my own)...

Tituba: I don’t compact with no Devil! Parris: You will confess or I will take you out and whip you, Tituba! Putnam: This woman must be hanged! She must be taken and hanged! Tituba: No, no, don’t hang Tituba! I tell him I don’t desire to work for him, sir. Parris: The Devil? Hale: Then you saw him! (//The Crucible//)
 * Agree:**

Mary: Abby!...She sees nothing! Danforth: I say you will hang if you do not open with me! Mary (to Proctor): Don't touch me!...You're the devil's man!...He come at me by night and every day to sign, to sign...my name, he want my name. 'I'll you,' he says, 'if my wife hangs! We must go and overthrow the court,' he says!
 * Abigail: Envy is a deadly sin, Mary.

There was one voice of a young woman, uttering lamentations...and entreating for some favor, which...it would grieve her to obtain; and all the unseen multitude, both saints and sinners, seemed to encourage her onward. "Faith!" shouted Goodman Brown...The cry of grief, rage, and was yet piercing the night, when the unhappy husband held his breath for a response. There was a scream, drowned immediately in a louder murmur of voices, fading into far-off laughter...But something fluttered lightly down through the air and caught on the branch of a tree. The young man seized it, and beheld a pink ribbon. “My Faith [wife] is gone!" cried he, after one stupefied moment. "There is no good on earth; and sin is but a name. Come, devil; for to thee is this world given." And, maddened with despair…did Goodman Brown grasp his [the devil’s] staff and set forth again, at such a rate that he seemed to fly along the forest path rather than to walk or run. ("Young Goodman Brown)

http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?currSection=sermonsspeaker&sermonID=770213541 Listen to 22:00-26:00 You had need to consideryourselves, and awake thoroughly out of sleep. You cannot bear the fierceness and wrath of the infinite God.

"If the governors want my [Dumbledore's] removal, Lucius, I shall of course step aside--" (//Chamber of Secrets//, 263)

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Disagree: Proctor: You have all witnessed it--it is enough. Danforth: You will not sign it? Proctor: You have all witnessed it; what more is needed?...You will not use me! I am no Sarah Good or Tituba, I am John Proctor! You will not use me! Danforth: Then explain to me, Mr. Proctor, why you will not let-- Proctor: Because it is my name! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115988/trailers-screenplay-E21684-310 see 2:17-2:25
 * Danforth: Come, then, sign your testimony...Come, man, sign it.

"Then God bless you!" said Faith..."and may you find all well when you come back" "Poor little Faith!" thought [Goodman Brown]..."What a wretch I am to leave her on such an errand!" ("Young Goodman Brown")

"You [Dumbledore] will now be escorted back to the Ministry, where you will be formally charged and then sent to Azkaban to await trial!" "Ah," said Dumbledore gently, "yes. Yes, I thought we might hit this little snag." "Snag?" said Fudge..."I see no snag, Dumbledore!" "Well," said Dumbledore..."I'm afraid I do...you seem to be laboring under the delusion that I am going to...'Come quietly'. I am afraid I am not going to come quietly at all, Cornelius. I have absolutely no intention of being sent to Azkaban." (//Order of the Phoenix//, 619-620)

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, begun at a distinguished period and pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. (//Declaration of Independence)//

I [Thoreau] left the woods for as good a reason as went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one. It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves...how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity! I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I did not wish to go below now. (Walden)

Mr. Gore once undertook to whip one of Colonel Lloyd's slaves, by the name of Demby. He had given Demby but few stripes, when, to get rid of the scourging, he ran and plunged himself into the creek...Mr. Gore told him that he would give him three calls, and that, if he did not come out at the third call, he would shoot him. The first call was given...no response...second and third calls were given with the same result. Mr. Gore then, without consultation or deliberation with any one, raised his musket and in an instant poor Demby was no more. (Frederick Douglass 29)

Then Collective 0-0009 rose and pointed at our [Equality 7-2521's] box. "This thing," they said, "must be destroyed." Then we leapt to the table. We seized our box...we swung our fist through the windowpane, and we leapt out in a ringing rain of glass. We fell, but we never let the box fall from our hands. Then we ran. (sic) (Anthem 75)

If we were to look at all these examples and make a decision as to whether the general population was really obedient, the majority of our examples are in disagreement with that statement. However, there are cases when people are obedient, but I would say, and I think you would agree, that it is really human nature to be disobedient and argue no matter what. I believe that it is human nature to disobey. Ever since we are little, we fight with our siblings, doing the opposite of what they want just to be annoying. As we grow older, we fight our parents, even when we know they are right. As teens, this attitude is especially present. I believe that humans obey only when they feel it is in their best interest. In each of the agree situations, the person who flip-flopped was being threatened. Therefore, we can assume that humans are only obedient when they are threatened.**

Personal Philosophy Connection: 1. John Proctor from //The Crucible// 2. Dumbledore from //Harry Potter// 3. America's founding father's 4. Thoreau from //Walden// 5. Equality 7-2521 from //Anthem// Each of these people had a personal philosophy that they stuck to no matter what. They also were examples and that's what I want to be: an example.**
 * In the examples above, a few people have been great examples of my philosophy and I want to follow them. They are:

Notes
 * If you are not LDS, you might not understand this reference. It is one of the books of scripture we believe in along with the Bible.
 * These are informal in-text citations to let outside readers know what story each quote is from without having to scroll up and down over and over.**


 * Works Cited**


 * A/P Dialectical Journal and other notes and thoughts made by me.
 * All word pictures were taken by me. Thanks to HyperSnap 6.
 * Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave. Austin: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1845.
 * Edwards, Jonathan. "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." Connecticut, 1741.
 * Hawthorn, Nathaniel. “Young Goodman Brown.” //Mosses from an Old Manse.// Ed. Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Wiley and Putnam. 1846.
 * Jefferson, Thomas. "The Declaration of Independence". //The Autobiography.// Rpt. in //Elements of Literature: Fifth Course.// Ed. Kathleen Daniel, Richard Sime, Ian C. Lague, John Haffner Layden, Ron Ottaviano, Kathryn Rogers, Robert Hoyt, Christopher LeCluyse, Katie Vignery, Victoria Moreland, Marie Hoffman Price, Christy McBride, Michael Neibergall, Karen Kolar. Austin: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 2000.
 * Miller, Arthur. //The Crucible//. New York: Penguin Plays, 1981.
 * Rand, Ayn. //Anthem.// New York: New American Library, 1995.
 * Rowling, J.K. //Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.// New York: Scholastic, the Lantern Design, 1999.
 * Rowling, J.K. //Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.// New York: Scholastic, the Lantern Logo, 2003.
 * Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. Sermonaudio.com. 7 October 2007. .
 * Thoreau, Henry David. Ticknor and Fields: Boston, 1845.
 * Trailer for Crucible. //IDMb Video.// 7 December 2007. <[|http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115988/trailers-screenplay-E21684-310>.]
 * You Tube, LLC. //Stanford Prison Experiment//. 7 October 2007. .
 * Zimbardo, Philip G. //The Stanford Prison Experiment: A Simulation Study of the Psychology of Imprisonment//. 7 October 2007. <[|http://www.prisonexp.org/>.]