Kon-Tiki chapter two cont.

Thor found men three more men who wanted to go on the voyage so now there are six men.  They have to work quickly because there are only three months left until they wanted to set off on the voyage.  Because of this fact, they have to hurry to get everything taken care of.

The American army gave them rations to test and a lot of other equipment all for free. Because of all the rushing from country to country, they ran out of money.  They sent to the man in New York who was sponsoring them for the trip, but he was sick and could not give them money at the time.  That meant they did not have any money to keep going and yet they had to keep going.  Some people who knew about their trip came and gave them money and said they could pay them back when they returned.  Now they could go and make the boat.

To make a boat they had to go to Peru to get the wood that the men who originally crossed would have used.  To make it easier for them in the long run they had to go to the United Nations headquarters to talk to the President of Peru.  For if they were to just come into Peru taking wood, people would become very suspicious and they could probably be thrown into jail.
They spoke to the president and also to the Ambassador of Ecuador and they said that they would help them as much as they could.  

The Irony in Ozymandias

In the poem Ozymandias, Shelly describes a very proud and haughty king.  This king had, in his day made a great name for himself by building many great structures.  He also had a statue built of himself standing near his buildings.  Shelly says that a man once told him a story about seeing the remains of Ozymandias' statue which was two legs with the sneering head broken off and lying on the ground in the desert.  On the ground next to these was a plaque, it read as follows, "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: look on my works ye mighty and despair."  Around the head and legs there was nothing else, no buildings.  Just a sandy desert for as far as the eye could see.

Whatever Happened to Justice?

In the constitution it says, "All men are created equal."  This means that no man should get punished unjustly while another man in the same circumstance wouldn't get punished at all.  It also means that no man is greater then others, and no one should have to bow to someone else.  Sometimes black people get punished unjustly or aren't treated like they should be, and sometimes it's the other way around with white people getting the short end of the stick.  This should not be! 

Kon-Tiki chapter two

Thor had the energy; he just needed supplies, money and about six people.  First he set out to find supplies.  He was part of an exclusive explorers club in New York where he went whenever he was in town.  That day there was someone giving a speech about the new army equipment that had been made.  The other members in his club didn't think they were good because they had tried things like the ones the man had brought before and had nearly died because of it.  The zipper had frozen in place on the tent and the man couldn't get into it and so on. 
 
The man who was advocating the new army equipment said that anyone could have any or all of the supplies if when he was done his trip he would say if it worked or not.  Thor needed supplies like that in case his boat sank or something, and because they would be free made it sound even better.  When most of the men in the club had left Thor asked the man if he could try out the supplies and the man let him.  On his way out, a man from the club asked him what he needed with the supplies.  When Thor told him, he said he wanted to come too.  Thor also knew someone else who wanted to come as well, so they were now up to three men in total. 

The next thing they needed was money.  Thankfully Thor knew someone who had been in the army before who had lots of money.  Thor went to see him.  When he told the man about his trip the man said he would sponsor the trip if Thor would come home and tell the newspaper reporters what he had done and what it was like.  Thor agreed.  So the last thing they needed to do was make the boat and then eventually get more men.

My Translation of Sonnet of 18

Shakespeare's Sonnet 18

Should I compare you to a summer day?
You are more beautiful and more self-controlled.
Harsh winds blow the early May buds,
and summer is too short.
Sometimes the sun is too hot,
and often it is too cloudy;
and every beautiful thing sometimes gets less beautiful,
by chance or the changing ways or nature.
But you will always be beautiful,
nor lose your beauty,
nor will you be forgotten in death,
for by this poem people will remember you.
So long as life remains you will be remembered by this poem.

I Promessi Sposi

Lorenzo had a girlfriend named Lucia.  He got betrothed to her, but a rich nobleman got between them and said they couldn't get married.  They tried to any way but it didn't work and they had to flee their village.
They went to a Nun who said she would help them stay safe until a time would come that they could get married.  She housed Lucia and Lucia's mother who had come with her, but she sent Lorenzo to a Monastery in Milan.  When Lorenzo arrived in Milan he found a riot going on and deciding to see what it was all about, set off for center city.  The present year  was not a good year for the crops and there was a large famine raging about the land.  The common people thought it was all the fault of the bakers and it just so happened that the day when Lorenzo arrived, they decided to attack all the bakeries and get as much flour and bread as they could.  At the days end Lorenzo went to an inn where he got a drink and some dinner.  He wasn't normally a big drinker, but that night he drank more and more until he was very drunk.  The innkeeper said that Lorenzo needed to give his name and where he was from, but Lorenzo didn't want to.  Lorenzo slept in the inn that night and in the morning he got a big surprise.  There were too police men and one other man that Lorenzo had seen the night before.  They said he needed to come with them to court.  They thought he was a ringleader of the riot that had occurred the day before.  On the way to the courthouse he was able to get away and he ran as fast as he could to get away.  That night he came to an inn where he ate and when he was done got on his way again.

The beggining

 Sitting there on the beach he had remembered one night before,

   

Thor sat on the deck of his boat, thinking.  How had this voyage started any way?  Before the voyage Thor and been a horticulturist, but he had decided to switch to South American history.  

   He remembered how ten years before he and his wife were sitting on the beach of a pacific island were he was doing horticultural research.  

  they had heard an old islander saying, "I am the only one left from the people who first came here.  There were men who taught us how to make statues and they were white men with beards."  That night he decided what he wanted to do.  When they returned home he did research about South America and its relation to the Pacific islands and found many books about it.  There were statues on some pacific islands and in South America that looked like they were made by the same people. 
   After years of research he finally decided to make a boat.  He would make one in the style that people going from South America to the Pacific islands would have made and then he would sail from South America to one of the Pacific islands.