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__Chatham Light__

Chatham Light is located in Cape Cod, Massachusetts and is home to one of the most recognizable light houses on Cape Cod. President Thomas Jefferson appointed Samuel Nye on october 7th, 1808 to be a light house keeper for two main lighthouses, one being Chatham Light. Chatham Lights’ beacon can be seen by ships on their way to Boston. The light house has not stayed the same due to erosion problems meaning they have had to rebuild the light house numerous amounts of times, but the current one was built in 1877. Chatham lights beacon can be seen every night when you drive down to the beach. It’s always going and its large light keeps a midnight walk on the beach safe and visible. Not only is the lighthouse a historical feature to the beach, but the beach right across the street itself is amazing. A lot of people, including myself use the beach as their temporary get away. Chatham light is the perfect beach for that. Its miles of beaches stretch along the coast of Cape Cod. There is a very long parking lot, the cars are parked along the back of the beach.The sea grass is scattered along the edges of the beach farthest from the gray green ocean. The grainy tan sand tickles between your toes. Seagulls soaring through the gray sky on a cloudy day. Seals poking their heads through the blanket of waves with tips of white foam. Bright orange lobster trap buoys floating along with the black shiny angel hair pasta looking sea weed. Rocks boarder the beaches protecting the main land from winter storms to come. You sit and close your eyes on a sunny day and feel the warmth of the sun warm your chilled body from the fall wind. You smell the salty air, that some people find horrible, but find that they might miss it when their away from home for a while. The waves stretch as far as they can onto shore, and hear them crash onto the earths grainy surface. Listen to the gulls chirp and cry as they pray on the fish below their outstretched wings. As you walk down the beach you feel the cold damp sand squish between your toes. You stand at the edge of the green ocean and feel the ice cold salty water hit your feet; Leaving bits of sea weed behind on your skin. As you make your way back up the beach, the dry sand sticks to your feet leaving you with sand shoes. You walk up the wooden steps that once led you to bliss. You find yourself relaxed with the calmness of the beach. The people that were on the beach are much different from the people that are usually found on the beach in the summer. These people are locals, walking their dogs, walking with their spouse, or taking the kids down to the beach to run around. They aren’t their just to say that they went to the beach on Cape Cod. They are there for the same reason that I go their. To squeeze in that one peaceful hour of the day, that they can just relax and listen to the waves. When I went to Chatham Light I saw a man walking his pug back up the beach. He was very friendly wearing a bright orange vest and a tan hat. He was old and happy to see everyone that stopped to pet his dog. After he had walked passed me on the wooden steps, a father with his two kids were on their way down. The kids were dressed in the stereotypical cape cod wear. The girl in a pink polo dress with matching pink tights and boots. She had a blue jacket on to keep her warm from the wind. The brother had on kakis and a navy blue sweater and little kid loafers. Almost resembling his son, the father had on kakis and a light blue sweeter, and his hair combed to the side. I thought they were the perfect family to show up at my site because they really fit the Cape Cod stereotype.The stereotype that people usually give Cape Codders is the polo kaki wearing beach goer. Usually its pretty true, especially for people from chatham. I don’t know where the stereotype came from it’s just how it is. I then moved on to a man and a woman who I’m assuming came to Chatham light to talk about anything that was on their mind. The woman had on jeans and a polo sweater and the man had kakis and a red polo underneath a tan jacket. They were again fitting the Cape Cod polo wearing stereotype. People that are usually not from the cape are very recognizable. I can usually tell if some one is a foreigner working at the cape for the summer by their shoes. I know its silly but usually I’m right on, They usually wear small puma shoes and are always riding their bikes to work or walking. The bike riding is usually a dead give away. When you see a family on bikes then you know they are tourists going to famous rail trail. You can also tell a tourist by when they wear a Cape Cod sweatshirt or t-shirt. Once you see that, then you know they don’t live here. Even though the waves are crashing, birds are chirping, and families are talking and laughing; Its quiet. Stress just washes away with the waves out to the depths of the ocean. For some people a beach is just a beach, but to me its my vacation from the craziness of the world. Chatham Light is a third place to me it’s my home away from home. Even though Glenn Reynolds’ essay explains a third place differently than a beach, I will say that Chatham Light should be considered a third place. It’s a place that you can go to, to get away from your normal day activities. This definitely in my opinion fits in a third place category. My place isn’t in a city, and its sort of in a suburb. It’s a place that families, or couples go to and bring lunch or coffee to sit and talk in the fall. In the summer its a place for many tourist to enjoy a day at the beach on Cape Cod. Chatham Light is a place that you can go to where everything can slow down from the fast pace day that we all tend to have. It’s a place that you can just park your car, and walk down to the stretch of beach and walk for miles. It’s very close to the famous main street in Chatham, but far away enough that cars aren’t constantly driving by.

Norman Rockwell: Rights​

"Freedom of speech" "Freedom of Worship" Norman Rockwell

Alex LaBelle Eng 101, Sec 8 10/14/09 Norman Rockewell: Rights Norman Rockwell painted many paintings regarding rights that people should fight for. The two that I choose are “Freedom of Speech” and “Freedom of Worship”. Both these paintings are paintings that represent many issues that we face today. Freedom of speech when it comes to letting people say what they what, about who ever they want as long as they don’t cause physical danger to those being talk against. Freedom of worship is important because a lot of people get discriminated against because of their religion. Norman Rockwell not only painted paintings that represent religion and freedom of speech, but he also painted many silly things that represent the families in the United States. Thats what makes him so effective as an artist because he paints real life actions or situations as opposed to the picture perfect family, even though he takes his work very seriously he ads a twist into most of this paintings and makes them comical or to just make you smile because thats exactly what its like when you go to the doctors like in his painting “Doctors Office” or thats exactly what it was like when I was so angry at my kid in his painting “Spanking”. These are all every day serious things, that he paints and makes them funny. Even though he painted many funny paintings, the two that I choose are more on the serious side, and Norman Rockwell really captures the feelings of the people in the paintings. Norman Rockwell has been interested in art ever sense he was a little kid. He started out drawing, and quickly made the decision to become an artist. When he was a freshman in High School he attended the Chase school on Saturdays to study art. Soon he began to attend Chase more and more, and finally halfway through his sophomore year, he dropped out and went full time to art school. Norman Rockwell was very serious when it came to his work. When we went the the National Academy School he was named “the Deacon” by the other students, because he was so serious when it came to his art. While at school Rockwell was recognized by a publisher from “Boys Life” magazine, and after drawing for the magazine for some time he eventually because the art director for the magazine. Rockwell did lots of work on other magazines, and joined the United States Navy on top of it all. Rockwell was assigned the to the camp newspaper, and while doing so he still worked on other magazines, especially one called the “Post”. Finally, the war ended and Rockwell started to do advertising for products like Jello, Willys, cars, and orange crush. During these times Rockwell had really made a name for himself, and he became more and more famous. After a speech that President Franklin Roosevelt gave about the four essential human freedoms Norman Rockwell painted them. Two of them I choose as the two works that I wanted to highlight, not only because I think they are both the most important but because they relate to my life as well. In the painting “Freedom of speech” The main focal point is the man in the brown jacket. He is standing in front of a dark back ground and he’s taller than all of the people around him, making him the first thing you see when you look at the painting. After looking him you start to look at the faces around him, and you see that the faces aren’t angry but more surprised or happy that the man is standing up for what he believes in. This painting would be considered “pathos” because it plays on your emotions, it makes people want to tell the government how they feel, and not just government but maybe groups or even countries of people who should be allowed to say what they want about how someone is doing something that they feel is wrong. It also uses “ethos” because even though it doesn’t have any words besides “Freedom of Speech” it still uses convincing aspects like how the man is standing, his strength, and that he knows his facts about what he’s standing up for. The audience that his painting might affect is an audience that isn’t afraid to say something, usually ages between 16 and older. Those ages are usually when people start too really understand their own opinions and can have facts to back them up. “Freedom of Speech” is an important painting to me because I work with Best Buddies, and I have watched and been with people that have intellectual disabilities. People that have intellectual disabilities are not treated with respect and they rarely have a voice in anything they do. “Freedom of Speech” should not only represent people in the united states that don’t have disabilities but everyone, including people that have intellectual disabilities. In the painting “Freedom of Worship” you see people praying and they are made to look bright. The first thing that I see when I look at the painting is an older woman with grey hair and her hands in a praying position. Then I move onto the man above her and then over to the woman with rosary beads. In all the painting has seven different people representing different religions. “The woman that holds the rosary beads is representing catholics, the man wearing a jewish yarmulke is representing the jewish religion”1 etc. All of the people in the painting represent something different that people follow. Then the words on the top of the painting read “Each according to the dictates of his own conscience” that means that you should be able to worship any God that you please and no one can tell you otherwise. This painting definitely plays on “Pathos” because it plays on your emotions in a very big way especially with there being different religions in the painting. If the painting only had one religion being represented, it wouldn’t have as much of an impact. Most people can look at that painting and relate somehow. Not everyone of course but most people that practice a lot of a well known religion such as Catholicism, Judaism and so forth. “Freedom of Religion” has a lot to do with my life because growing up I was quite religious, and it was hard going to school because I was always known as the girl that doesn’t do anything. I never got invited to parties and such, even though I was really close with the people that went. All because I was religious and did the right thing. People should be free to believe what they want, and shouldn’t fear being ridiculed by their peers or anyone for that matter. These paintings have made a huge impact on the people of the United states //because// they represent the people of the United States. Norman Rockwell finds a great way to show who we are in his paintings and he represents us very well in them. A lot of his paintings were used in political ads because of how good and well executed they were. Both of these paintings represent the people in the United States and should be looked at as examples of how we should act. We shouldn’t ridicule people for what they believe in, and people should have a say in what our government does, and everyone should be allowed to voice their opinion. Freedom of speech is very important thing to have in a country because it means that the government is limited and I believe that that is how our country should be run. Freedom of Religion is good to have in a country because people can believe in whatever they want with out being scared of getting hurt by a group that opposes what they believe in. In all of Norman Rockwell's paintings he puts so much time and effort into them. He takes his work very seriously, some people say too seriously. It shows in his work because of how beautiful they all are and how effective his paintings are.

__Work Cited__ [|__www.Workersforjesus.com/freedom__]  www.notablebiographies.com/Pu-Ro/Rockwell-Norman.html
 * 1) Griffin, Stan Freedom Of Worship “...Men Value it Most of All...”
 * 1) Author N/A, Norman rockwell