Matthew Fontaine Maury

Born : 1806
Died : 1873

Maurys ancestry can be traced back to 15th century france.
His grandfather (reverend James Maury) was a teacher to 3 future U.S. presidents: Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Munroe.
He was born in Virgina, but then moved to Tennessee when he was five.
He wanted to be in the navy like his older brother John Minor Maury, but when he caught yellow fever and after fighting pirates while an officer in the U.S. Navy, and died from it, his father forbade Matthew to join. He eventually joined anyway though.
When a leg injury left him unable for duty at sea, Maury spent his time studying  navigation, meteorology, winds, and currents. His hard work on and love of plotting the oceans paid off when he became Superintendent of the Naval Observatory and head of the Depot of Charts and Instruments. Here Maury studied thousands of ships' logs and charts. He published the Wind and Current Chart of the North Atlantic, which showed sailors how to use the ocean's currents and winds to their advantage and drastically reduced the length of ocean voyages. Maury's uniform system of recording oceanographic data was adopted by navies and merchant marines around the world and was used to develop charts for all the major trade routes.

Speech Assignment:)

Alright so i just started a new homeschool group, and my first assignment is to write a short paragraph on myself.

so here we go,

Hey I am Hannah Detweiler, I am 15 years old, and I live in new providence, PA. I love dancing, drawing, painting, music and hanging out with my friends. My favorite movies are Moulin rouge, Ferris Buellers day off and Napoleon Dynamite. I have been homeschooled my whole life, along with my older sister and brother. My favorite baseball team is the Phillies, and I dont understand anything about football, but I still like the Steelers.

So there we are, a little insight into myself :)

Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights is a sort of a confusing story. Alot of it is a story being told inside of the story. But i'll get to that in a moment. First of all, the name you must know is Lockwood. He is the one that goes to Wuthering Heights, and is the one that the story inside the story is told to. He rents a manor named Thrushcross Grange, in England. He then meets his landlord, Heathcliff, a rich man who lives in the old manor named Wuthering Heights. In which he also meets a woman named Cathrine and a man named Hareton. They are all very cross, rude and not very sociable. So as soon as Lockwood can, He leaves Wuthering Heights and goes back to Thrushcross Grange. But to do that he had to travel through a terrible snow storm, thus, getting sick. Once back at the Grange, he asks his house keeper, Nelly Dean, if she knows anything about Heathcliff and everyone at the Heights. Turns out, she was their maid when they were younger. So she tells him her story. Heathcliff was taken in by Mr. Earnshaw, owner of Wuthering heights. Mr. Earnshaw had two children, Hindley, and Cathrine [which the aformentioned Cathrine was named after]. But Mr. Earnshaw grew to like Heathcliff better then his own son, which made Hindley act out and was terrible to Heathcliff. Although, Cathrine became best friends with Heathcliff and not too long after he came, they were inseperable. When they grow up, Earnshaw send Hindley away to college, but keeps heathcliff near him....Three years later, Mr. Earnshaw died, and Hindley inherited Wuthering Heights. He came back with a wife named, Frances. As soon as Hindley arrives he tries to get some revenge on Heathcliff for being His fathers favorite. Hindley makes Heathcliff work in the fields. But Heathcliff is still close friends with Cathrine. One night they go to Thrushcross Grange to tease Edgar and Isabella Linton. While there, Cathrine is bitten by their dog, and stays there to heal. By the time she comes home, she has developed feeling for Edgar, hence complicating hers and Heathcliffs relationship. Later, Hindleys wife Frances, dies after giving birth to a boy, which they named Hareton. Hindley become an alcoholic, and leaves Hareton in the care of Nelly. Hindley become worse and worse, and treats Heathcliff absaloutly terribly. Eventually, Cathrine, wanting to boost her social status, becomes engaged to Edar Linton, even though she loves Heathcliff. Heathcliff runs away for three years, and comes back just a little while after Cathrine and Edgar are married. He immediatly wants some revenge on all those who did him wrong, so he lends Hindley money, knowing it would deepen Hindleys debts. After Hindley dies, Heathcliff inherits Wuthering Heights, and marries Isabella Linton to put himself in the line of inheriting Thrushcross Grange. He treats Isabella VERY badly. Cathrine becomes sick, gives birth to a daughter[which they named Cathrine] and died. Heathcliff is desperate for her soul to stay on earth so he begs her to haunt him and not leave him alone. Isabella runs away to london and gives birth to a son, and named him Linton, and keeps him there. Thirteen years pass, all while Nelly takes care of Cathrines daughter. She is just like her mother, but with a better attitude. she grows up without knowedge of Wuthering Heights, until one day she wanders and meets Hareton ands they play. Isabella dies, and Linton comes to live with Heathcliff, and he treats Linton worse then he treated Isabella. Cathrine and Linton eventually become married, in which was Heathcliffs plan, so he could inherit Thrushcross Grange....Edgar dies, Then Linton dies, and Heathcliff gets the Grange and makes Cathrine be a servant. Thats where Nellys story ends when its catches up to present. Lockwood, after hearing that story, quickly leaves Thrushcross Grange. He comes back after a while to visit Nelly. She has new stuff to add. Cathrine falls in love with Hareton, Heathcliff became upsessed with Cathrines ghost, and shortly after a night walking on the moors, died. Hareton and Cathrine get married and inherit Wuthering heights.

My Philosophy

I believe in the creation theory. Only I don’t think it’s a theory, I say it’s a fact. I choose to believe that we don’t come from monkeys.




Why do I believe this? Because the first chapter in the first book of the Bible tells me where I came from…and it’s not from monkeys! We were created by God. Because He loves us.



The world is to awesome to be made just by chance, or randomly. Somebody had to set things in motion. Earth didn’t just happen to explode into a big ball of rock and lava. Water didn’t just happen to appear on the said rock and lava.



**If the big bang theory is real, then okay, but where did the gases come from that made the big bang? If evolution is real, then okay! But where did the small germ things come from, that turned into other things that turned into a monkey that turned into us???**

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( How could all of that just happen?? )

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**I do not believe in the big bang theory. Or evolution.**

Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre is a story about a young girl who was an orphan and lived with her Uncles family. her uncle died, leaving her with her mean aunt and her children. Her aunt never liked her, and lets her children (John, Eliza and Georgiana) are allowed to be completely terrible to Jane without consequences. The trouble starts when, John was being really mean and Jane retaliates. She gets in trouble but he does not. through a series of events Jane is sent to a school for girls. There she makes a friend named Helen. She makes the school interesting, And comforts Jane whenever she is feeling down. Mr. brocklehurst (the main guy at the school) is rich but yet he makes the students stay in cold damp rooms. Soon sickness comes to the school, and even though Jane doesn't get sick, Helen does. She dies in Jane's arms:(. after, a few nice, wealthy people donate money to help make a better school building. Jane completes her school years there and even teaches for a while. She then later becomes a governess of thornfield to teach a young french girl. She then meets a nice man named Mr. Rochester. they spend lots of time together. Then she receives word, from her aunt, that her cousin John committed suicide, and she had a heart attack and asks for Jane. Her aunt doesn't want to make nice, but she gives her a letter from her uncle that her aunt withheld from her, stating that her was gonna leave Jane all his money upon his death. She then returns to thorn field, and tells Mr. rochester that she loves him, and in return he proposes to her. After a month of courting, she has an incident where this girl comes in and rips her wedding veil in half. During their wedding, a man and his lawyer say Mr rochester cannot marry jane because He is already married. He admits it, and tells jane that his wife is a madwoman, and he keeps her in an attic. He wants to move to france but she refuses since they cannot be husband and wife. she then leaves thornfield. She leaves her money behind by accident. she then lives as a poor person barely surviving until she meets the River's. they are two sisters and a brother. Jane becomes friends with the sisters, but the brother(whos name is St. John) is quiet and reserved. They eventually are able to speak easily, and he asks her to help at his place. She accepts. He learns who she really is and that she is rich, and reveals that her uncle is also his uncle. She is so very happy to have a family. she was going to go to india with him, but has to see Mr. rochester first. she finds his house burned down. she asks what happened and someone tells her that Rochesters crazy wife burned the house down and jumped from the roof, killing herself. Rochester saves the servants, but looses and hand and his eyesight. They are reunited, and get married and have a son.

Vacation

Over the last two weeks, My parents and I had our vacation. We pretty much went everywhere. We went to Valley forge.[[there happens to be a million deer there]] We went to the Franklin Museum in Philly. We went to D.C. and went to a couple of the museums there and saw the Washington monument and the Lincoln monument. We also spent 3 days at my Grandmothers house. But sadly it did lack Me staying up late and sleeping in....Isn't that what vacations are for? No school related stuff, sleeping in, staying up late. HA! Not for me. I'm pretty sure the latest I slept in to was 9 o clock..maybe 9:30. Hmm...I wanted to have more music on My MP3 player before we went...oh well...lol at the moment all I have on my MP3 player music wise is a Paramore CD and Jonas brothers CD...kinda sad isn't it? But how is this related to our vacation? Ah well my parents like to talk or whatever, so they don't listen to music in the car so I have to listen to the same thing over and over on my MP3 player....hmm not much different to the radio I guess....FM 97 plays the same like ten songs all the time...OH and that's another thing! Do other places outside of the Lancaster area not have radio stations???? I never seem to be able to get music any where else on the radio...well there was the one time Me and My sister were coming home from Indiana and We got country music....the rest was all fuzzy...haha that's the first time We heard honky tonkbadonkadonk...but anyway...yea I like music....I'm actually listening to a play list of mine at this very moment.....its music from WJTL...I figure that's school appropriate? Oh well....My Moms gonna read this and be like "your not supposed to listen to anything but classical"...but isn't Christan music good too??...well I guess Skillet isn't to Good to help concentration...But yeaaa i totally got off subject....We had a totally rad vacation...lol oops the 80's called they want their word back :P

--hannahjoy--

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lol figure that one out!

Tempting

A little something that i did for school:)


How did the appeal of the world mentioned in 1st John 2:16 relate to the appeal of the forbidden fruit?

The way they are related is The appeal of the fruit and the appeal of the world wasn't made by God. The temptations and appeal to UN-Godly things are presented by Satan. Satan is always around the corner waiting to tempt us to do things that would disappoint God. He want to screw us up and get us to turn away from Jesus. His whole life is trying to mess with us and the world.

And how is all this connected to Jesus' temptation in Luke chapter 4?

The story in Luke is the one about Jesus in the desert fasting when along comes Satan and he tries to mess up Jesus. But Jesus wasnt having it and He told Satan to back off.

The way its all connected is Satan tries to mess EVERYONE up. He even had the nerve to try and mess with Jesus! He doesnt know the meaning of limits and will do ANYTHING to mess you up.

So just stay with Jesus and tell Him when Satan tries to mess with you and Jesus will take care of him. He doesnt want you to stumble just because Satan is a jerk who doesnt know when to give up.

So whenever you have bad thoughts or do something you arent exactly proud of, pray to God and He will take care of it...and in the end He will take care of that Looser Satan.