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Juvy D

Santorum camp asking conservatives to pressure Gingrich to drop out - 2 views

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shared by Juvy D on 08 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • conservatives
    • Juvy D
      Juvy D on 08 Mar 12
       
      conservatives=tending to conserve = tending to preserve established institution, opposed to change
  • All I know is after spending nearly $10 million here in Ohio, right now its neck and neck and it's going to be close to a tie, and somebody will win, but not by much. 
    • Juvy D
      Juvy D on 08 Mar 12
       
      there is a close fight between two opposing party. if one wins against the other the result will close to a tie. even if Mitt Romney will spent $10 million in Ohio people still vote who ever they want to vote.
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  • What we found is, Gingrich did a nice job in his home state, but I don't even think he had a second place anywhere else ... It's time for conservatives to say 'Look, we're going to rally behind one candidate, Rick Santorum."
    • Juvy D
      Juvy D on 08 Mar 12
       
      According to Mitt Romney, Gingrich did a nice job in doing his project particularly the home real estate but he doesn't know if people we give Gingrich a chance once to win. he said it's time for the people to think and look for a change in establishing an institution.
  • We're never going to call on anybody to get out, but what we are calling is on Tea Party supporters and conservatives is to rally behind the only candidate that has demonstrated over and over again that he's the one who can compete against Mitt Romney," Brabender said.
chester lowe

NBC Politics - Candidates notch wins as Ohio 'too close to call' - 2 views

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shared by chester lowe on 07 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • NBC News projected Mitt Romney as the winner in Virginia, Vermont and Massachusetts
    • chester lowe
      chester lowe on 07 Mar 12
       
      Mitt Romney Perfromed well among voters. Romney governor of Massachutes won his state and Vermont,Idaho, Virginia, and added Alaska to his tally. 1) Posied= Suspension of activity in condition of balance 2) Eked= To make larger 3) Tally= Total count
Juvy D

Why so many tornadoes are striking the US - Technology & science - Science - OurAmazing... - 2 views

www.msnbc.msn.com/...many-tornadoes-are-striking-us

shared by Juvy D on 04 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • "We've been in a very warm pattern all winter," said meteorologist Mark Rose of the National Weather Service in Birmingham, Ala. "Because it has been so mild, it increases our chances for severe weather."
    • Juvy D
      Juvy D on 04 Mar 12
       
      yes, we had a very warm pattern of winter this year.
  • blistering
    • Juvy D
      Juvy D on 04 Mar 12
       
      blistering= very hot, intense, etc.
  • severe
    • Juvy D
      Juvy D on 04 Mar 12
       
      severe= harsh or strict,as treatment. = serious or grave, as expression
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  • massive
    • Juvy D
      Juvy D on 04 Mar 12
       
      massive = forming or consisting of a large mass; big and solid
  • outbreaks
    • Juvy D
      Juvy D on 04 Mar 12
       
      outbreak= breaking out, sudden occurrence, as of disease or rioting
  • tornado
    • Juvy D
      Juvy D on 05 Mar 12
       
      tornado= a violently whirling column of air seen as a funnel-shaped cloud that usually destroys everything in its narrow path.
ryanhersha

Control AI before it controls us, expert says - Technology & science - Innovation - msn... - 2 views

www.msnbc.msn.com/...hnology_and_science-innovation

AI Artificial Intelligence

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  • doomsday scenarios could be prevented if humans can create a virtual prison to contain artificial intelligence before it grows dangerously self-aware.
    • ryanhersha
      ryanhersha on 01 Mar 12
       
      The dangers of self-aware AI might be contained if artificial intelligence were contained in a kind of "prison."
  • One starting solution might trap the artificial intelligence, or AI, inside a "virtual machine" running inside a computer's typical operating system — an existing process that adds security by limiting the AI's access to its host computer's software and hardware.
    • ryanhersha
      ryanhersha on 01 Mar 12
       
      The AI "prison" would be located within a "virtual machine" separated somehow from the host computer's other workings, the internet, and people.
  • "If such software manages to self-improve to levels significantly beyond human-level intelligence, the type of damage it can do is truly beyond our ability to predict or fully comprehend," Yampolskiy said.
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  • "It can discover new attack pathways, launch sophisticated social-engineering attacks and re-use existing hardware components in unforeseen ways," Yampolskiy said. "Such software is not limited to infecting computers and networks — it can also attack human psyches, bribe, blackmail and brainwash those who come in contact with it."
    • ryanhersha
      ryanhersha on 02 Mar 12
       
      Super-intelligent computers could develop powers we don't presently associate with computers.
  • proverbial
  • cryptography
    • ryanhersha
      ryanhersha on 02 Mar 12
       
      def.: "the practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of third parties"
  • oracle
    • ryanhersha
      ryanhersha on 02 Mar 12
       
      def.: "A priest or priestess acting as a medium through whom advice or prophecy was sought from the gods in classical antiquity."
  • but without the sure knowledge that any of the steps would really work.
    • ryanhersha
      ryanhersha on 02 Mar 12
       
      This radical uncertainty seems to be a defining characteristic of discussions around the consequences of AI developments. Given this, might experimentation with super-intelligence might be inherently irresponsible?
  • That would harness the power of AI as a super-intelligent
    • ryanhersha
      ryanhersha on 02 Mar 12
       
      Oracles hold power.
  • slow down the AI's "thinking"
    • ryanhersha
      ryanhersha on 02 Mar 12
       
      & if we're too slow one time...?
  • mere human-level intelligence could escape from an "AI Box" scenario
    • ryanhersha
      ryanhersha on 02 Mar 12
       
      even humans have broken out of most prisons. the difference with AI might be that the escapee could be super-human
  • "The Catch-22 is that until we have fully developed superintelligent AI we can't fully test our ideas,
    • ryanhersha
      ryanhersha on 02 Mar 12
       
      Do the ideas' untestability render them less visible, less serious in the academy? We have no problem developing new technologies, but controlling them or predicting their impacts is another matter.
    • ryanhersha
      ryanhersha on 02 Mar 12
       
      I have highlighted and sticky-noted this article as an example of how to complete the "Sticky Stories" assignment. You don't have to highlight using special colors, but so you can see an example of each, the blue highlights are for vocabulary, the yellow for main ideas, and the green for my "connections."
  • Never send a human to guard a machine
    • ryanhersha
      ryanhersha on 02 Mar 12
       
      Humans guard machines? My iPhone already tracks my every move.
Juvy D

The Seattle Times: Martin Luther King Jr. - 4 views

seattletimes.nwsource.com/...poverty.html

shared by Juvy D on 24 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • The curse of poverty has no justification in our age
    • chester lowe
      chester lowe on 28 Feb 12
       
      Poverty can really never be gone from today's world .. With the price of food and gas on the rise and employer's only want to pay the minium wage . The american dollar dosen't go as far as i did 3 year's ago .. Education dose help but the price of college has rose also in the last few year's . If it wasn't for the injury i got while in the military . I would be working a dead end job and working ton of overtime to make ends meet .. So poverty will never really be wiped out !!
  • In the treatment of poverty nationally, one fact stands out: There are twice as many white poor as Negro poor in the United States. Therefore I will not dwell on the experiences of poverty that derive from racial discrimination, but will discuss the poverty that affects white and Negro alike.
    • Juvy D
      Juvy D on 28 Feb 12
       
      racial discrimination was one the factor that really affects poverty but mlk his concern most of what affects both, i mean the situation among white and negro alike in the society.
  • Up to recently we have proceeded from a premise that poverty is a consequence of multiple evils: lack of education restricting job opportunities; poor housing which stultified home life and suppressed initiative; fragile family relationships which distorted personality development. The logic of this approach suggested that each of these causes be attacked one by one. Hence a housing program to transform living conditions, improved educational facilities to furnish tools for better job opportunities, and family counseling to create better personal adjustments were designed.
    • Juvy D
      Juvy D on 28 Feb 12
       
      this were examples of the causes of poverty
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  • fragmentary and spasmodic reforms have failed to reach down to the profoundest needs of the poor.
    • Juvy D
      Juvy D on 28 Feb 12
       
      the needs of the poor people were not attained in the society.
  • easures were intended to remove the causes of poverty.
  • n addition to the absence of coordination and sufficiency, the programs of the past all have another common failing -- they are indirect. Each seeks to solve poverty by first solving something else.
    • Juvy D
      Juvy D on 28 Feb 12
       
      Mlk saying that one of us were seeking for the solution of poverty but instead of focusing to that problem we rather choose to solve and take care of another concerns.
  • am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective -- the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed measure: the guaranteed income.
    • Juvy D
      Juvy D on 28 Feb 12
       
      he claims that simplest approach is not the most effective, but the solution was to have a guaranteed income as one solution to get rid poverty.
  • We have come a long way in our understanding of human motivation and of the blind operation of our economic system. Now we realize that dislocations in the market operation of our economy and the prevalence of discrimination thrust people into idleness and bind them in constant or frequent unemployment against their will. The poor are less often dismissed from our conscience today by being branded as inferior and incompetent. We also know that no matter how dynamically the economy develops and expands it does not eliminate all poverty.
  • We are likely to find that the problems of housing and education, instead of preceding the elimination of poverty, will themselves be affected if poverty is first abolished. The poor transformed into purchasers will do a great deal on their own to alter housing decay. Negroes, who have a double disability, will have a greater effect on discrimination when they have the additional weapon of cash to use in their struggle.
    • Juvy D
      Juvy D on 28 Feb 12
       
      i think his referring to the wrong approach here of solving poverty problem. providing education and housing wasn't the solution either.
  • Beyond these advantages, a host of positive psychological changes inevitably will result from widespread economic security. The dignity of the individual will flourish when the decisions concerning his life and in his own hands, when he has the assurance that his income is stable and certain, and when he know that he has the means to seek self-improvement. Personal conflicts between husband, wife and children will diminish when the unjust measurement of human worth on a scale of dollars is eliminated.
    • Juvy D
      Juvy D on 28 Feb 12
       
      explanation about the advantages of abolishing poverty
  • Two conditions are indispensable if we are to ensure that the guaranteed income operates as a consistently progressive measure. First, it must be pegged to the median income of society, not the lowest levels of income. To guarantee an income at the floor would simply perpetuate welfare standards and freeze into the society poverty conditions. Second, the guaranteed income must be dynamic; it must automatically increase as the total social income grows. Were it permitted to remain static under growth conditions, the recipients would suffer a relative decline. If periodic reviews disclose that the whole national income has risen, then the guaranteed income would have to be adjusted upward by the same percentage. Without these safeguards a creeping retrogression would occur, nullifying the gains of security and stability.
    • Juvy D
      Juvy D on 28 Feb 12
       
      two types of conditions which were indispensable if the the guaranteed income will operates as consistently progressive measure.
  • This proposal is not a "civil rights" program, in the sense that that term is currently used. The program would benefit all the poor, including the two-thirds of them who are white. I hope that both Negro and white will act in coalition to effect this change, because their combined strength will be necessary to overcome the fierce opposition we must realistically anticipate.
    • Juvy D
      Juvy D on 28 Feb 12
       
      his talking about equality here. he said both white and negro will both benefits with this proposed action measure they come up with to solve the problem of poverty
Juvy D

" Where are we going" MLK - 3 views

MLK, states that in last paragraph time has come to civilize and abolish poverty. the curse of poverty has no justification. we should not wait until people will be blinded were people will ate h...

started by chester lowe on 26 Feb 12 1 follow-up, last by Juvy D on 27 Feb 12
chester lowe

" I've Been To The Mountaintop" - 2 views

I feel that MLK knew his time was at hand by the way, he started his speech. I've seen the promise land . saying that he might not get there with them . I read all the speeches and then watched the...

started by chester lowe on 27 Feb 12 no follow-up yet
Crystal K

Page 2: Martin Luther King's Speech: 'I Have a Dream' - The Full Text - ABC News - 0 views

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  • No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.
    • Crystal K
      Crystal K on 24 Feb 12
       
      everyone feels like this
  • that all men are created equal.
  • brotherhood
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  • they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
    • Crystal K
      Crystal K on 24 Feb 12
       
      There should be no judging anyone for anything.
  • symphony of brotherhood
Crystal K

Page 2: Martin Luther King's Speech: 'I Have a Dream' - The Full Text - ABC News - 0 views

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  • No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.
    • Crystal K
      Crystal K on 24 Feb 12
       
      Everyone feels this
  • that all men are created equal
  • brotherhood
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  • by the content of their character
Crystal K

Martin Luther King's Speech: 'I Have a Dream' - The Full Text - ABC News - 4 views

abcnews.go.com/...story

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  • But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination.
    • Crystal K
      Crystal K on 24 Feb 12
       
      I like how he states 100 years later the Negros aren't free. Its still like that with discrimination. Although society says everyone is equal we really are not. People still to this day are victims of segregation.
  • Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir
  • brotherhood.
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  • Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
  • guaranteed the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
ryanhersha

I've Been to the Mountaintop -- Encyclopedic Entry - 6 views

mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/...o_the_mountaintop_3_april_1968

MLK Mountaintop

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  • chester lowe on 24 Feb 12
     
    Martin Luther KingJr. I read the speech "I have a dream " Then watched the video and found it truly moving ! I the video of "I been to the Mountaintop " Both were and are motivating !!
Juvy D

Martin Luther King's Speech: 'I Have a Dream' - The Full Text - ABC News - 2 views

abcnews.go.com/...story

shared by Juvy D on 24 Feb 12 - No Cached
    • Juvy D
      Juvy D on 24 Feb 12
       
      insofar = in such a degree or extent
  • But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize an appalling condition.
    • Juvy D
      Juvy D on 24 Feb 12
       
      my idea in this paragraph,is that Martin luther king appealing sympathy for negro. the restraints and chain of discrimination should be stop.
  • We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we have come to cash this check -- a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.
    • Juvy D
      Juvy D on 24 Feb 12
       
      in here his talking about the check of justice meaning opportunities was being deprived with the negro people.
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  • fierce
  • fierce
  • fierc
    • Juvy D
      Juvy D on 24 Feb 12
       
      fierce = savage, violent
  • tranquilizing
    • Juvy D
      Juvy D on 24 Feb 12
       
      to make or become tranquil to calm,serene, placid
  • fatal
  • chester lowe on 24 Feb 12
     
    There is more than one meaning for the word "fatal" 1) important in it's outcome . 2) death 3) very destructive 4)concernen with or determining fate
Juvy D

Martin Luther King's Speech: 'I Have a Dream' - The Full Text - ABC News - 2 views

abcnews.go.com/...story

shared by Juvy D on 23 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • fatal
    • Juvy D
      Juvy D on 23 Feb 12
       
      fatal = relating to fate = bringing ruin or causing failurre
Juvy D

Group items tagged Marge - READ 0880 SP12 | Diigo Groups - 6 views

groups.diigo.com/...Marge

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  • dallying
    • Juvy D
      Juvy D on 09 Feb 12
       
      dally= meaning to waste time or delay
  • The people I love the best jump into work head first
    • Juvy D
      Juvy D on 09 Feb 12
       
      in my opinion i think speaker says that he/she admires people who doesn't dally, waste time in working.
    • Kate C
      Kate C on 10 Feb 12
       
      I agree i think the author admires people who work hard.
    • Amanda F
      Amanda F on 10 Feb 12
       
      I don't think that he wants to be around those people who waste time.
  • sleek
    • Juvy D
      Juvy D on 09 Feb 12
       
      sleek meaning smooth or glossy, as hair, an animal etc. sleek could also be like well fed or well groomed
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  • I love people who harness themselves, an ox to a heavy cart, who pull like water buffalo, with massive patience, who strain in the mud and the muck to move things forward, who do what has to be done, again and again.
    • Juvy D
      Juvy D on 09 Feb 12
       
      I agreed with that speaker i love people who works so hard. with lots of patience . those people who strive harder and don't mind working repeatedly.
  • want to be with people who submerge in the task, who go into the fields to harvest and work in a row and pass the bags along, who are not parlor generals and field deserters but move in a common rhythm when the food must come in or the fire be put out.
    • Juvy D
      Juvy D on 09 Feb 12
       
      In this stanza the speaker tells us what kind of people he/she want to be with. according to the speaker he/she wants to be people who are very much dedicated to their work.people who doesn't leave and intending to return or come back and finishes up their work.
  • The work of the world is common as mud. Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust. But the thing worth doing well done has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident.
    • Juvy D
      Juvy D on 09 Feb 12
       
      As i understand with lines. speaker telling us that the work of the world is quietly different because people weren't true to themselves, people will do things just to make them successful in life. like, take advantage with the situation, so the speaker or author saying by using the mud. mud is dirty, botched means poor work. its like people sometimes worked in a wrong way. meaning they don't work religiously.
Trisha V

To Be Of Use by Marge Piercy | The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor - 15 views

writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php

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  • Listen
    • Kate C
      Kate C on 09 Feb 12
       
      verb- Give one's attention to a sound noun- An act of listening to something
  • common rhythm
    • Crystal K
      Crystal K on 09 Feb 12
       
      work hard and smoothly
  • Greek amphoras
    • Crystal K
      Crystal K on 09 Feb 12
       
      A vase with 2 handles. It was used to transport the wine and oil the poem was talking about. I also found it is spelled 2 different ways (amphoras and amphorae.)
    • Amanda F
      Amanda F on 10 Feb 12
       
      Vases could hold anything. Besides wine and oil the vase could hold it also held corn. I don't understand why they would put corn in a vase and put it in a museum. In the poem it states "...Hopi vases that held corn, are put in museums...".
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  • dallying
    • Dan K
      Dan K on 09 Feb 12
       
      verb (used without object) 1. to waste time; loiter; delay. 2. to act playfully, especially in an amorous or flirtatious way. 3. to play mockingly; trifle: to dally with danger.
  • I want to be with people who submerge
    • Dan K
      Dan K on 09 Feb 12
       
      She wants to be with people of her own kind.
    • Trisha V
      Trisha V on 10 Feb 12
       
      she wants to be near hard working people
  • Botched
    • John K
      John K on 10 Feb 12
       
      verb: Carry out (a task) badly or carelessly
    • John K
      John K on 10 Feb 12
       
      she likes people who are hard workers. people who are not lazy
  • when the food must come in or the fire be put out.
    • Trisha V
      Trisha V on 10 Feb 12
       
      enerhy to learn and live
  • They seem to become natives of that element
  • ryanhersha on 08 Feb 12
     
    Poem: "To be of use" by Marge Piercy from Circles on the Water. © Alfred A. Knopf. Reprinted with permission To be of use The people I love the best jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows and swim off with sure strokes almost out of sight. They seem to become natives of that element, the black sleek heads of seals bouncing like half-submerged balls. I love people who harness themselves, an ox to a heavy cart, who pull like water buffalo, with massive patience, who strain in the mud and the muck to move things forward, who do what has to be done, again and again. I want to be with people who submerge in the task, who go into the fields to harvest and work in a row and pass the bags along, who are not parlor generals and field deserters but move in a common rhythm when the food must come in or the fire be put out. The work of the world is common as mud. Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust. But the thing worth doing well done has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident. Greek amphoras for wine or oil, Hopi vases that held corn, are put in museums but you know they were made to be used. The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.
Amanda F

abc - 3 views

I think this poem has something to do with the army. The reason why I say this is because in the poem it says "...work in a row and pass the bags along who are not parlor genereal and field deserte...

started by Jolie L on 10 Feb 12 1 follow-up, last by Amanda F on 10 Feb 12
Kate C

Best content in READ 0880 SP12 | Diigo - Groups - 1 views

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shared by Kate C on 09 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • dallying
    • Juvy D
      Juvy D on 09 Feb 12
       
      dally = is to waste time or delay
  • I want to be with people who submerge
    • Kate C
      Kate C on 09 Feb 12
       
      i think by submerge the author means to get lost in the work they are doing.
Juvy D

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/25128787/READ0880/Spring%202012/Digging.htm - 15 views

dl.dropbox.com/...Digging.htm

shared by Juvy D on 08 Feb 12 - Cached
    • ryanhersha
      ryanhersha on 08 Feb 12
       
      squat: adjective: 8. (of a person, animal, the body, etc.) short and thickset. 9. low and thick or broad: The building had a squat shape. --Dictionary.com
  • spade sinks into gravelly ground
    • ryanhersha
      ryanhersha on 08 Feb 12
       
      "Spade Sinks into GRavelly GRound"- the S sounds might resemble the sound of a spade sinking... and does the "gr" sound almost gravelly? In general I hear a lot of sounds repeating themselves from word to word and line to line. This poem uses sound playfully, overtly.
    • ryanhersha
      ryanhersha on 08 Feb 12
       
      There is a strong rhythm in this stanza as I read it aloud. It's not what I would call smooth, but it's powerful and pronounced.
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  • I look down
    • ryanhersha
      ryanhersha on 08 Feb 12
       
      So literally he's in an upper floor, writing, looking down on his father, who's outside digging in the ground. But as I read this poem again, I wonder if he's looking down on his father in another sense, feeling superior in some way???
    • ryanhersha
      ryanhersha on 08 Feb 12
       
      I find this hard to believe. Later in the poem he praises his father and grandfather for their skills and hard work.
    • Trisha V
      Trisha V on 08 Feb 12
       
      He could be just watching in wonder or just watching his father because boys always look up at their dad's wanting to be like them so they watch their dad's so they can copy him.
  • straining rump among the flowerbeds
    • ryanhersha
      ryanhersha on 08 Feb 12
       
      Ha! This is a ridiculous image. And not very complementary, at first blush. His father's rump? Among the flowerbeds? What a sight!
    • Trisha V
      Trisha V on 08 Feb 12
       
      very true. it would no be a sight id want to see if i feel like looking at the flowers.
    • Aleisha R
      Aleisha R on 08 Feb 12
       
      hahahahaha
  • snug as a gun
  • squat pen rests
  • Under my window
    • ryanhersha
      ryanhersha on 08 Feb 12
       
      hmm..uNDer my wiNDow... similar sounds!
  • I've no spade to follow men like them.
    • Ally P
      Ally P on 08 Feb 12
       
      I found this to be very interesting because he wishes he can follow in his fathers and grandfathers foot steps
    • Crystal K
      Crystal K on 08 Feb 12
       
      I think he is saying he doesn't want to be a digger like his father and grandfather.
    • Kim P
      Kim P on 08 Feb 12
       
      He has no true skill in digging, he is not a man of muscle strenth but a man of mind strenth
  • coarse boot nestled on the lug
    • Jolie L
      Jolie L on 08 Feb 12
       
      what's a lug?
  • turf
    • Jolie L
      Jolie L on 08 Feb 12
       
      turf?
    • Amanda F
      Amanda F on 08 Feb 12
       
      Turf is a funny word.
    • Juvy D
      Juvy D on 08 Feb 12
       
      turf is a surface layer of earth containing a dense growth of grass and its matted roots; sods turf- is an artificially substitute for such as grassy layer, as on a playing field.
  • rump
    • Juvy D
      Juvy D on 08 Feb 12
       
      rump.... the hind part of the animal. the back and thights... the buttocks
  • Just like his old man.
    • Trisha V
      Trisha V on 08 Feb 12
       
      So father like son. the son follows in his fathers foot steps.
    • Juvy D
      Juvy D on 08 Feb 12
       
      yes, but the speaker doesn't want to follow it because he thinks he can't do it. so he rather choose to dig by using his pen.
  • My grandfather could cut more turf in a dayThan any other man on Toner's bog.
    • Ally P
      Ally P on 08 Feb 12
       
      I found this as his grandfather was a very hard worker and has done this for many years
  • I'll dig with it.
    • Kate C
      Kate C on 08 Feb 12
       
      He is digging in his own way through words instead of with potatoes.
    • Crystal K
      Crystal K on 08 Feb 12
       
      I like the way you word it.
    • Amanda F
      Amanda F on 08 Feb 12
       
      I think he is talking about pride when he says "I'll dig with it".
    • Kim P
      Kim P on 08 Feb 12
       
      Just because the family tradition is potato farming, his passion and true skill is writting, so he is going to make his own tradition and write
  • Stooping
    • Juvy D
      Juvy D on 08 Feb 12
       
      to bend the body forward
  • fell to right away
    • Crystal K
      Crystal K on 08 Feb 12
       
      detication
    • Kim P
      Kim P on 08 Feb 12
       
      the grandfather was so deticated to his work he barley took a drink a glass a milk, then continued back to work
    • Juvy D
      Juvy D on 08 Feb 12
       
      i think the speaker means that he brought some milk to his grandfather so his can be able to quench his thirst and then his grandpacontinue to dig right after that to have a good turf. meaning that by drinking milk it gives him more strength to continue digging the soil
  • living roots awaken in my head
    • Crystal K
      Crystal K on 08 Feb 12
       
      his father and gradfather grew up digging and feels even though they did he doesn't want that life
    • Kim P
      Kim P on 08 Feb 12
       
      living roots are what a family is ment to be. Like farmers, past on from generation to generations, its in their blood.
    • Juvy D
      Juvy D on 08 Feb 12
       
      yes, i agree... its like his next to the generationbut he don;t have the well, urge, the courage to follow them. his points of view different from what he have grown up with.
  • I'll dig with it
  • Through living roots awaken in my head.
    • Dan K
      Dan K on 08 Feb 12
       
      He finally realizes that he wants to be just like his father andgrandfather.
  • By God, the old man could handle a spade, Just like his old man.
    • Kate C
      Kate C on 08 Feb 12
       
      His father takes after his father and it seems to be a passion for them both.
  • But I've no spade to follow men like them.
    • Trisha V
      Trisha V on 08 Feb 12
       
      it sounds like the son has no intention in following in his father's and grandfather's foot steps.....
  • He straightened upTo drink it, then fell to right awayNicking and slicing neatly, heaving sodsOver his shoulder, digging down and downFor the good turf. Digging.
    • Ally P
      Ally P on 08 Feb 12
       
      his grandfather only took short breaks then was back to work
  • levered
    • Juvy D
      Juvy D on 08 Feb 12
       
      levered just like forcing your knees muscles to be strong.
  • old man could handle a spade,Just like his old man.
    • Crystal K
      Crystal K on 08 Feb 12
       
      the father is as good as the grandfather
  • He rooted out tall tops, buried the bright edge deepTo scatter new potatoes that we pickedLoving their cool hardness in our hands.
    • Ally P
      Ally P on 08 Feb 12
       
      they loved picking potatoes that were freshly grown and seeing there hard work come to life
  • spade,
    • Juvy D
      Juvy D on 08 Feb 12
       
      spade is colored black.. its compared to his father and grandfathers pain and struggles.
    • Trisha V
      Trisha V on 08 Feb 12
       
      Interesting...
  • Bends low, comes up twenty years away
    • Dan K
      Dan K on 08 Feb 12
       
      He goes out and plants potatoes and he realizes in twenty years he will be doing what his grandfather has always done.
  • snug as a gun
    • Kim P
      Kim P on 08 Feb 12
       
      You hold a gun so tight, because they are so powerful, so he relates his pen of being very powerful
  • My grandfather could cut more turf in a day
  • But I've no spade to follow men like them .
    • Juvy D
      Juvy D on 08 Feb 12
       
      hmm, it seems like the speaker don't have the courage and well to follow the footsteps of his grandpa and dad. but i don't think his against with what they been doing.
  • He straightened up To drink it, then fell to right away
    • Seth S
      Seth S on 08 Feb 12
       
      The person is saying that his grandfather does not take long breaks he gets a drink and then goesa back to work.
  • My father, digging.
    • Jolie L
      Jolie L on 08 Feb 12
       
      what is he digging for?
    • Kate C
      Kate C on 08 Feb 12
       
      potatoes?
  • I'll dig with it
    • John K
      John K on 08 Feb 12
       
      He is going to do hard work like his father with his pen.
  • comes up twenty years away
    • Jolie L
      Jolie L on 08 Feb 12
       
      what comes up twenty years away?
  • My father, digging
    • Juvy D
      Juvy D on 08 Feb 12
       
      the speakers talking about his dad digging or tilling the gravely soil
  • The cold smell of potato mold,
    • Aleisha R
      Aleisha R on 08 Feb 12
       
      The smell of potatoe mold... gross
  • But I've no spade to follow men like them.
    • Jolie L
      Jolie L on 08 Feb 12
       
      does he think that he wont amount to what his father and grandfathers did
  • I've no spade to follow men like them
    • John K
      John K on 08 Feb 12
       
      Maybe this means that he is not phsically capible to do the same work that his father and grandfather did.
  • Toner's bog
    • Dan K
      Dan K on 08 Feb 12
       
      Is this the place of where they live?
  • I'll dig with it
    • Juvy D
      Juvy D on 08 Feb 12
       
      his digging in different way... i think the speaker means by writing his digging too...looking back his past
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