Tom Sawyer Chapters 7-9

Tom Sawyer hated mondays. It meant a whole week of school. He decided that he would come up with a reason that he couldn't attend school. He knew that he had a loose tooth and thought that maybe if he had his aunt pull it and get to say home but he knew that this would hurt much more then faking a broken toe. So early in the morning he fell out of his bed and groaned louder and louder until his aunt came upstairs. He told her that he thought that his toe was broken or badly infected. But his aunt didn't buy into his faking. She told him he wasn't getting out of school and he was going to get his tooth pulled. 

After Tom had his tooth pulled, he walked to school and everyone was amazed by the gap in his mouth. He seemed to be the center of attention and he liked it. He also talked to a kid who had a dead cat and he was telling him how the dead cat could cure warts. He also had four other stories how you could cure warts. They were all superstitious and untrue. It just shows how much of an imagination Tom and his friends have. He also started drawing a picture for the new girl in school eventually writes that he loves her and she smacked her and telling him that he was bad. But Thomas knew that she was satisfied. 

Thomas Jefferson, Pages 15-21,

Thomas Jefferson was born april 13, 1743 in Virginia.  When he was born George Washington was already eleven years old and Benjamin franklin was thirty-seven. Thomas loved his father very much. He was the hardest worker and strongest man he had ever seen. Thats why it was such i shock for him when he unexpectedly died. Thomas was then the man of the house and had to provide for his family. 

When Thomas turned sixteen he was excepted into the College of William and Mary in Virginia's capital city of Williamsburg. When he joined he was ranked as an advanced student. Jefferson first dug into Latin and Greek so he could read classical works in the original languages. He loved learning so much that at parties he could pull away from his dearest friends and return to his studies. Amazingly, Thomas graduated from college at the age of nineteen.

History - Introduction TMOA p. 6-12

The Founders Held a Long-Range View of the Future

The founders believed that their commonwealth of freedom would eventually encompass the

entire North American continent. Also as far as population went they predicted that there would 

be about 50 million people. John adams also said that one day America would have around 200 

and 300 million. Today we have an amazing number of around 242,530,000 Americans.

The Founders Sense of Mission

As John Jay pointed out, the American people had been literally thrust into an amazing

accumulation of fortunate circumstances which obligated them to determine whether or not a 

body of approximately three million human beings could organize themselves into a free nation.

America Becomes the Hope of the World

America was known for it's freedom and a hope for a good life. So many Europeans who 

didn't have good jobs or just wanted to have a free life moved to the America.

Responsibility of the People Under the American System

It was a basic principle of the American experiment that it was to be a government of the

people, by the people, and for the people.

Gospel Principles

In Genesis 2:2-3 is said that God blessed the seventh day and made it holy. God also worked six days and rested on the seventh. Because God worked six days, we need to work hard during the week and stay productive. But on Sunday, we need to rest and forget all "unimportant" work that can wait until monday. 

Tom Sawyer Chapters 4-6

Tom Sawyer and his Aunt Polly were doing scripture study and memorizing verses. Tom was to choose five verses of his choice. He never looked for the scriptures he liked but instead he looked for the shortest and easiest to memorize. Even after he read all five for thirty minutes, he couldn't remember what they said. He was constantly distracted and always had his mind in a different place. His Aunt Polly was a sunday school teacher at his church. Whenever someone would recite a scripture they would receive a blue ribbon, after they had 10 blue ribbons they could trade then in for one red ribbon, after having 10 red ribbons you could trade them for one yellow ribbon. Once you had 10 yellow ribbons, you would win the prize of a bible (worth 40 cents). Aunt polly had already won two bibles this way. And Tom Sawyer over time would trade some of his things until he had enough ribbons for a bible. Everyone was amazed to see that he had enough ribbons to receive the bible because Tom never payed attention in class.

We learn that Tom hates Willie Mufferson because he is always clean and is always wearing nice cloths. All of the girls loved him. Every sunday he stands in front of the whole church and reads poetry. He also always has a handkerchief in his back pocket which tom thought was very snobby and a spoiled.

History - Introduction to The Making of America - p. 1-6

- The Three Things All Mankind Is Seeking

Fist of all, mankind longs for freedom, both personally and nationally. Second, mankind longs for prosperity, again both personally and nationally. Third, Mankind longs for peace. To achieve these, the Constitution of the United States was written.

- The Founders' Freedom Formula

The Founding Fathers wanted to make a country where there was only peace and where the people could live in happiness and not have to constantly be at war with other countries. o the founders sat down and invented one. Basically, the wanted to create a place of peace and with civilized people who didn't want to constantly fight for power.

-The Founders' View of Human Nature

Clinton Rossiter wrote, there is "no happiness without liberty, no liberty without self-government, no self government without constitutionalism, no constitutionalism without morality - and none of these great good without stability and order".

  -The Miracle of America

After several thousands years, the American charter of liberty turned out to be the first successful attempt to build a whole civilization on the principle of freedom. Americans, became the first free people ever. 

-The Culture Soil in Which America Freedom Grew

John Jay, the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court said that the American people should all speak the same language, professing the same religion, very similar in their manners and customs, and should fight side by side throughout all long bloody wars.

Tom Sawyer Chapters 1-3

Tom Sawyer, a young boy that lives with his Aunt Polly in the country near the river. The story starts with his Aunt Polly yelling for him. Eventually, she hears him leave the closet and tries to run past her unnoticed. But she grabbed his shirt just before he passed her. Seeing jam on his hands and mouth she became angry at him and started yelling. This tells us that she has a easy temper and is constantly annoyed. After she grabbed Tom, he found a way to distract her to look the other way. Once this happened he ran from the house and jumped the fence. This tells us that Tom doesn't think of anything besides hanging out with friends and fishing. Later, Tom decides not to go to school, but instead he ditches and fools around with his friends. Aunt Polly knows that Tom was going to do this because he usually did on fridays. Later that night during supper, Aunt polly asked him questions that were full of guile. And eventually she knows for a fact that he didn't attend school. But she forgives him and said that he was a single cat. But she still made him work all saturday morning even though he always was with his friends.