Cake Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=hcka_O1tsiQ

Literature Analysis #3

1. Exposition:The story starts off with a story of  a young family of Mexican Natives by the sea shore living in the Brush. One day the couples' son Coyotito is stung by a scorpion and the family rushes their son to the closest clinic. The clinic refuses to admit them into the clinic because they are very un-wealthy. When the family returns to their village, untreated, Kino and Juana decide to search for pearls in the sea in hopes of a large fortune.
Rising Action:To their surprise they find a very large pearl. The size of the pearl would bring the family great wealth and Kino begins to fantasize about the items the pearl could buy. Although he is told to not boast about his new found wealth and to think about his place within the village, Kino continues to dream. With his new advice Kino decides to bury the pearl in the corner of his house for safe keeping. A doctor from the clinic arrives soon after and treats the couple's son and asks for payment when their son is relieved. Kino explains that they don't have any money yet, but soon will with his great finding. Before going to bed Kino moves the pearl to under his bed and in the middle of the night awakens to digging in the corner of his house. Kino fights off the intruder in a long battle and Juana says that they need to get rid of the pearl immediately because of its evil. The next day Kino and Juana start on their way to town to sell it but are mindful of low-ballers in prices and keep on their way to the capital. The night before they make it to the capital Juana steals the pearl and tries to throw it into the ocean, but is stopped by Kino her beats her half to death. In the middle of the commotion more men are intrigued and want the pearl. A new fight emerges and Kino ends up killing a man and leaving the rest injured. At this time Juana packs up her son and they all try to escape to their canoe, then house but all are destroyed.
Climax: The family then again tries to make its way to the capital and on the way realize they are being followed. Kino tries to defer their trial, however when the trackers are close Kino decides to attack them. Right before the attack Coyotito yells and one of the trackers fires his rifle, killing Coyotito.
Falling action/ Resolution: The couple then carry their son to the sea along with the pearl and put both into the ocean.
The author's purpose of the novel is to show greed and how people are influenced by wealth.

2. The theme of the novel is to not let greed consume you because if greed wouldn't have entered into Kino's mind his son wouldn't have died.

3.The authors tone in the novel is cautious and intrigued by the idea of wealth and emotional attachment to inanimate objects like money and wealth. The tone touches on the idea that money can't buy you everything and that the wealth of relationships are more important than selfish nature, however selfish nature overcomes even the most "church" driven people.

-"Kino looked into his pearl, and Juana cast her eyelashes down and arranged her shawl to cover her face so that her excitement could not be seen. And in the incandescence of the pearl the pictures formed of the things Kino’s mind had considered in the past as impossible.”  Page 65

-"For it is said that humans are never satisfied, that you give them one thing and they want something more. And it is said in disparagement, whereas it is one of the greatest talents the species has and one that has made it superior to animals that are satisfied with what they have.” Page 9

-"The roosters had been crowing for some time, and early pigs were already beginning their ceaseless turning of twigs and bits of wood to see whether anything to eat had been overlooked." page 

4.
Symbolism- The pearl stood for evil and greed. "It is worth fifty thousand. You know it. You want to cheat me." Page 50

Imagery- The author talks of the great views of the ocean and the nature that surrounds the family. "The starts still shone and the day had drawn only pale wash of light in the lower sky to the east."

Allusion- To the ideas of religion of the Bible in that of gluttony as a sin of greed which both Juana and Kino have. "But the pearls were accidents, and the finding of one was luck, a little pat on the back by God or the gods or both." page 22

Foreshadowing- The illness that falls onto Coyotito shows his later death experience. "This was an impossibility, and if he could think of owning a rifle whole horizons were burst and he could rush on." Page 7

Personification- "This is what the pearl will do." 57

Simile- "The sack sunk into Kino's shoulders like a gravid spider" page 97

Irony- The pearl was supposed to be a token of luck and relief when it was actually a source of evil in the family's life.

Metaphor- The author used metaphors to depict the characters as what they were similar to. "He was an animal now, for hiding, for attacking, and he lived only to preserve himself and his family." page 83

Indirect Characterization- Kino was shown that he was full of greed in the moment he started beating his wife to give him back the pearl.

Direct Characterization- "This pearl has become my soul. . . If I give it up, I shall lose my soul." page 87

Characterization:
1. Two examples of indirect characterization are the fact that you could tell in the way Juana's eyes hid behind a shaw that she was greedy and rejoiced about the idea of wealth. Another example is with Kino in that he stated "This pearl has become my soul." meaning that Kino was taken over by the greed and the wealth of what this fortune could bring. The author also uses direct characterization with ideas of stating the facts of the family's Mexican culture and their low income status on the very first pages. I feel the author uses the direct characterization to set the stage for the novel and how the events actually took place. The author then uses indirect characterization to reflect on the personalities and the underlying greed in Kino and Juana throughout the novel. The indirect characterization also shows how Juana had a change in mind while Kino didn't walk away from the pearl until his son died at the end of the novel. My lasting impression of the characters is that they where able to overcome the thoughts of wealth for their family, but these characters have to be pushed multiple times in order to listen to what the universe is telling them, which in this case meant to get rid of the greed.
2. The author's syntax and diction do not change for the main characters because this novel is a story of a story. In this I mean that the expressions remain the same because the story is being retold from a different perspective rather than first hand. I feel that the diction and the syntax of the novel are complex in that the higher use of vocabulary helps give the novel the images to the reader in order to follow the novel more closely.
3. The protagonist is round and dynamic in that Kino at first wants to find wealth and live in his dreams with greed, but at the end of the novel he realizes that the pearl isn't worth all of its money and wealth because it just brings pain and evil.
4. After reading the novel I felt that I kind of knew the character Kino, but I didn't fully understand him because the novel was a story of a story or legend. I felt that I mostly read about a character because of this idea of the story within a story.  "If this story is a parable, perhaps everyone takes his own meaning from it and reads his own life into it."

Peom Remix

Poetry Essay

Working together by David Whyte symbolizes that although pieces of life might not make sense together they work. In this as a group we found that like airplanes that are so Heavy but manage to take flight in the air is dismissed in everyday life but hundreds of years ago would have seemed insane to imagine. Similarly today we find that aliens and life outside of Earth is unreal, but maybe we will find something out there. The peom brings together these conflicting ideas of what is actually there to the sense of things, and the author comes to find out that not everything makes sense or has laws, it just happens. In comparison the poem Everything is going to be Alright by Derek Mahon states that with these alternate ways of thinking we can go two directions. A positive and enlightening thinking or a dark thinking of the possibilities of what the new could bring. At the end of the poem the author states that the way of thinking as long as it's positive will be alright. 

 The poems are similar in their ideas but differ greatly in their order. Working hard starts with the world shaping who the author is and then examining how to interpret the world around him to make himself the person he really is. Everything is going to be alright wonders about the world and how it is relavent to who the author is. The pieces both encompass a sense if wonder and doubt about what shall come but in Working hard it remains uncertain where in everything is going to be alright, hence the title, the future looks bright. 

The poems are very comparative, but then again relate to the idea, are poems alike? The answer isn't simple, alike nearly means some similarities which they do have, but they weren't created on the same basis which makes them very unlike each other. The same goes for novels, you can't necessarily say all stories are alike because they are about love or the changing of character. Therefore, these poems although similar aren't created from the same form and are very much different in their tones and their derived meaning. 

Intro to Poetry

The significance of title is that working together means that the surroundings and people around us shape us into something, but later we find ourselves from the inspirations. 

The tone of the poem is reflective and reminiscent. 

The mood when I read it is inspiring, connecting and realizing that we work together to shape the world with ideas that are to look differently at ourselves. 

The shift is a heart beat or a seesaw in which it goes in and out. For example it goes from We shape our self to fit this world to and by the world are shaped again.

The theme of the poem is influence and self expression of how things and people are connected and work in harmony even though somethings contradict. 

These questions helped me understand the poem better because they made me think deeper into the true theme of the piece. Also, the analysis of the work helped me understand the multiple meanings through tone and language of working together. 

Hamlet essay

"To be or not to be, that is the question." Spoken by Hamlet in the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare comes into the play right before the midpoint. Hamlet at this point just found out about his fathers death and Hamlet expresses his mixed emotions in his first soliloquy. Hamlet is very unsure about what he wants or needs to do to avenge his father. He is unsteady about his life and the people in it. At this point in the plot Hamlet has to make a decision which sets the tone and evolution of the play. This start to the soliloquy is so important because it distinguishes Hamlet's state of mind and that he is truely human. The character understands what he must do by the end of his statements to avenge his father. As the quote shows his firt debate with what is important to not only his father but his people. The quote shows the audience that Hamlet is relatable in this instance and throughout the soliloquy. 

 The symbol of what the quote nearly means is human and internal struggle which not only makes him relatable but also intelligent to think out what he plans to do. The audience as of what I have gained from the play find this quote to be most important and memorable because it stands for the greter being of a man. In which he finds truth and realization on what others are doing and what must be done in order to re-establish a kingdom of honesty and nobility. 

 The quote is indirect on it's intent with figurative language and emotion. The language of the soliloquy creates an intelligence to Hamlets character and to the plot. As in the Preformitive Utterance depicts the piece establishes the ground for Hamlet to grow and change into the round character he becomes. At the end of the play the quote is again implied with his actions and emotions in these otherwise horrid scenes, but these were explained earlier as a foreshadowing moment of what was to come of Hamlets entire family. 

 It is important to understand the meaning of Hamlet when he is quoted, "To be or not to be..." Because it showes the audience and establishes the characteristics of Hamlet in the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare. As many find with Shakespears works, plans don't unfold for the antagonist as they are planned to and the ends of his stories are absorbed with death. From this experience we see that Hamlet with his questioning of himself was already planned for the dark side. In a sense I mean that Hamlet was bound to unleash his wrath on his family for killing his father and sinning in every direction. In the quote we see this very flowery language that creates an atmosphere of emotion and understanding throughout the rest of the play. 

Immigrants in Our Own Land BY JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA

The poem I mmigrants in Our Own Land by Jimmy Santiago Baca relates to Righetti because we all come from different places and different families. We don't know what goes on behind someone else's door. Do you know what goes on behind mine? However we are tried to keep seperate between ap classes and regular classes, seperating the "good" from the "bad" or whatever they call it but we all have some bad and some good in us. Did we see what happened to Saint Joseph a couple years ago? They claim they are elite beings but they had accusations of unreported rape! There is cold hard proof of "bad" in the middle of good. Or take for example Pioneer Valley and there girls basketball coach. Yes he was "let go" but the good is the girls basketball team went to CIF and were league champions, the good out of the bad. Does society only look at the bad in anything and call them bad? Why not look past the differences and the small group of people in our small community of Righetti and look at all the good Righetti produces? We have students going to college getting into world class programs. There is good in everything, let's look for it. 

Hamlet Essay

My essay wasn't posting and then deleted so this is what I have done so  far.

In progress... Again.

Hamlet is honestly a man of pure intelligence and strength. I say this because hamlet is not a mad man but rather a human. In this case and in history we see only strokes of genius coming from the people who are underestimated or misunderstood. Take for example Walt Disney, he was seen as crazy to dream of a place like Disneyland, however he created not only a magical atmosphere but the Happiest Place on Earth. Although these characters are rather quite different we see that Hamlet was acting in the way he wanted others to perceive him and keep him under the radar before his attack. With the high IQ and double meaning words, Hamlet is obviously not a crazy person. 

Class notes of the utterance

- discussed the topic of how Polonius and hamlet are two different sides of people and Claudius is in the middle.

- was Claudius actually guilty in praying and wouldn't have been saved? 

- could hamlet have killed Claudius then and Claudius not go to heaven, or was this an act of nobility and not killing Claudius when he was down on his knees.

- hamlet didn't want to seem cowardly for doing that to Claudius when Claudius did that to his father by pouring poison in his ear while he was asleep.

-talked about Shakespeare and what kind of person he was, goes into the forms in which he wanted to show to his audiences. 

- what kind of characteristics hamlet has in the story, why Shakespeare tries to change the audiences perspective.

-Shakespeare's characters would not be as complex if he did not use this method.

-talk about the play in parts, an important utterance is how he play is being unfolded.

- he just wants to be happy Claudius and is only praying because of this 

- moral is that acts come back and they keep getting worse and worse.

-you are as good as a chous 

- they foil Polonius and hamlet are people of words they are close foils. 

- see herself for what she really is 

-No guilt from killing Polonius 

-death bring out the true colors of people 

The Performative Utterance in Hamlet

- Hamlet is considered a man who can not make up his mind

- in reality he is a man of dedication to enact his crime, even though he doesn't so it until the very end of the play.

-Austin says that acts are being spoken but not necessarily preformed.

-talks about language and how tones effect the play, or "surrounding reality".

-what hamlets performative acting tells us about the character

-hamlet is a complex character that many people do not understand or relate to. 

-the invention of the human by bloom,says that Shakespeare does a method of self-overhearing in which the characters learn a self knowledge for hearing themselves speak.

-talks about Shakespeare and what kind of person he was, goes into the forms in which he wanted to show to his audiences.

-Shakespeare's characters would not be as complex if he did not use this method.

-talk about the play in parts, an important utterance is the communication between the ghost and hamlet.

-states that hamlet never actually swears to avenge his father. 

- he said evenge which doesn't have the same meaning 

-knowing the author and what the author meant makes the utterances easier to understand and know because they are broken down into each section the 

Act III

Act III 

Scene 1

-Direct characterization, hamlet has a crazy madness Rozencranze 

- much forcing the disposition, hamlet is forcing his actions 

-devotions visage-can act it pretend to be good so people believe it

- Claudius is starting to feel guilty

- Ophelia is being reported to talk to hamlet 

- Rozencranze and Guildensturn are on claudius's side. 

- where is ophillia coming from? 

- easier to be beautiful than to have honesty.

-hamlet is upset at everyone, i am imperfect put I'm better than these people, damns Polonius, calls Ophelia two faced put on make-up. Saying women corrupt men. 

- madness can imply being angry or crazy. 

-Polonius and Claudius over heard the Ophelia and hamlet conversation.

- Claudius wants to remove the threat and take him to England 

- Polonius never going to disagree with Claudius, let Gertrude be alone with hamlet, he will be with them, but not in the sight of hamlet but will listen. If a threat then send him away or In jail. Polonius wants to be right. 

-Claudius treats Polonius as a respected person.

Scene 2

- wants them to act naturally, hamlet is the director

- second part don't underplay, have integrity make it seem real, 

- how he wants the play to come off, isn't a mad man because this is logically designed, 

- Shakespeare is talking about the play as a total. 

- hamlet says don't improvise. 

- he is telling Horatio what he is going to do, and to watch claudius's reaction. 

- players act out the play, hamlets talking to ophilia is acting strange.

- when the players act out the part of the poison in the ear, king Claudius flees the room, showing his guilt. 

Scene 3 

-Claudius thinks hamlet is behind it all and now thinks he is dangerous. 

-Claudius expresses his guilt. 

-starts to pray, hamlet sneaks in and wants to kill him but refuses to let him go to heaven.

-Polonius goes to listen in on hamlet and the queens conversation. 

Scene 4

-Polonius and Gertrude talk about hamlets behavior and Polonius says that she has to be sturdy. 

-hamlet is very angry tells her what he is planning on making her suffer. 

- Polonius yells from where he is hiding and hamlet stabs the curtain thinking it was Claudius.

-sees that it is Polonius calls him a fool, continues to tell at his mother. 

-the ghost suddenly appears.

-hamlet tries to tell his mother to see his father and change herself.

- she promises to keep the secret and he leaves 

Friday in class

We weren't able to connect onto the computer for our presentations due to some difficulty. Due to the difficulty we couldn't take notes on each other's hamlet interpretations after the journal. 

Hamlet Interpretation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0ATO1N5KmUU#t=0

We did a video in silence with added features of music because emotions can tell you more about an event than actual words can. The music is addedd to enhance understanding about what is happening in the event such as sadness or anger.

Hamlet Soliloquy

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1WuGR3EAeAw

Act 1 continued

In Hamlets first soliloquy he expresses extreme dislike for his uncle and mother and sadness for his father. The text shows us a mixture of emotions that unfold before us in a straighter tone, but the films show different takes on how the word were said. Although we don't know exactly the tone of Hamlets words; we do know that any which way he said them, his meaning came through his close connections to the subject. I feel that it gave direct insight into the character and how he deals with his problems. Including the first aside to the audience, I gathered that he is one of intelligence in which he knew  not to speak in front of company in the manner he wanted to. 

- in purgatory ghost 

-Wife distanced herself from husband, Claudius seduced Gertrude 

-he was poisoned 

-hamlet got idea for revenge from father 

-I have sworn it 

- it's not should I should I not, it's that he is resolved 

-ubiquitous, can't tell anyone 

-there are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. 

- the time is out of joint; O cursed spite that ever I was born to set it right.

Act 2

Act 2 Scene 1

-Wants him to watch over his kid

- Theme is "I swear" don't say that you know larities just you know what he does

- Polonius and Reynaldo talking, you throw out the bait then see if they tell you what's going on

-lord Polonius "by indirections find directions out"

-Ophelia, hamlet seemed to be in the dark and lost, she didn't understand what happened, there not for her 

-Hamlet could be planting a seed,

Or grieving his fathers death 

Act 2 scene 2

- Claudius is doing the same thing as lord Polonius 

- "your visitation shall receive such thanks.." Euphemism 

- Voltimand asking permission, to go through Denmark, nephew take leadership

- "brevity is the soul if wit"-lord polonius 

-gurtride was right, Polonius is wrong 

- fishmonger- acting like his is crazy, an insult that hamlet says to Polonius 

- hamlet; insulting him 

- lord Polonius " though this be madness yet there is method in it"

- Polonius is acting like everything hamlet is saying has a double meaning 

- hamlet was faking to Polonius 

- "...for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."-hamlet

- "what a piece of work is a man!" -hamlet  become cliche and is the theme of the play, such awful acts made by people 

-hamlet read his friends in that he knows they were sent by the king to watch him 

-players haven't lost their part but they aren't taken seriously anymore 

- "the plays the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience if the king" - hamlet 

-starts to beat himself up, make his body do what he wants it to do, can't speak out loud to others, nobody to love him, talk is cheep action is worth something, when whores speak they aren't seen as truthful 

-" I'll have these players Play something like the murder of my father before mine uncle" -Hamlet 

- Claudius wants everyone against hamlet 

Literary Fiction and Empathy

Reading fiction can help you understand other by anticipating effects of evens on characters and putting all the emotions into perspective with everyday life in our own reality. It can help relate to the internal struggles and thoughts of yourself by comparing what you would or wouldn't do in a real life situation. As literary fiction is false it does have a truth behind it which contributes to the maternal thought process about ourselves. This is most likely why the case study showed an increase of performance on tests because you have already started your thought process. 

Literature Analysis #2

1.) In the beginning of the story it starts off in a jail house where the verdict is being read of a young black man named Jefferson for the murder of a white man during a robbery. In the small town the event is a huge scene to the public. Jefferson with a white defendant lawyer is called a hog without a brain to commit such a well thought out plot. However, Jefferson is found guilty and sentenced to death by electric chair. The narrator of the novel, Grant Wiggins,goes back and forth from present to past in the description of what occurred at the scene, in which Jefferson was honestly a bystander blamed for the murder. Later in the story Grant is asked by his aunt and Miss Emma to teach Jefferson how to be a man and go to the chair knowing he is a man. After asking permission from the master of the plantation and the Sheriff, Grant is forced to visit Jefferson by his aunt. Grant has many moments where he wants to quit and run away from the plantation but stays because his love Vivian a white woman is staying. He says this but he never really wants to go because of his connections to all of his family. At the beginning of the visits Jefferson would not participate and said he was a hog and acted like one. As the visits progressed Jefferson became more open to letting Grant in along with his Nannan (godmother) and the Reverend. After months of visiting the date was set for the execution and Jefferson was executed as a man. 

2.)The theme of the novel is to live life as what we are and not what others say we are. Perspectives can be broken. 

3.) The authors tone is understanding and respectful to that of his people in which he stands up for. 

4.) 1. Repetition- "Gentlemen of the jury, this man planned a robbery? Oh pardon me, pardon me, I surely did not mean to insult your intelligence by saying 'man' would you please forgive me for commuting such an error? Gentlemen of the jury..." Pg. 8

2. Persuasion through logical Fallacies- "Please look. I want all twelve of you honorable men to turn your heads and look back to that mama, grandmother godmother-everything." Pg. 8 

3. Euphemism- "I didn't ask for none of your uppity, mister." Pg 100

4. Imagery- " I stated beyond the garden toward the budding pecan trees in Farrell Jarreau's backyard. The sky was so low the trees seemed nearly to touch it." Pg 213

5. Metaphor- "The one behind the desk didn't look decent at all. His eyes were the color of cement."

 Pg 70

6. Simile- "The courthouse, like most public buildings in town, was made of red brick. Built around the turn of the century, it looked like a small castle you might see in the country side somewhere in Europe." Pg 68

7. Foreshadowing- "But when it came to a discussion with a teacher, though he had known that teacher since his birth, then suddenly things were not so simple." Pg 101

8. Allusion- "None, none till He rose." Pg 215

9. Persuasion - "All of us on this earth. A piece of drifting wood until we each one of us visually decide to become something else. I am still that piece do drifting wood, and those out there are no better." Pg 193

10. Symbolism- "I probably would not have noticed it at all had a butterfly, a yellow butterfly with dark specks like ink dots on it's wings not lit there." Pg 251

Characterization 

1.) Two examples of direct characterization are " He was the strongest man in that crowded room, Grant Wiggins." Pg 253 "You're smart," Guirdy said. "Maybe you're just a little too smart for your own good." Pg 49

Two examples of indirect characterization are "I went up to the desk and turned to face them. I was crying." Pg 256 "I though it would be rude to go inside and leave her in the road with no one to talk to." Pg 96

The author uses both effects because he wants to show the character fully.

2.) The authors syntax when he describes the characters of the novel remain the same when he talks about himself because everything is coming from the narrator and what is in his mind. "Do you believe I'm your friend Jefferson?" Pg 185 

3.) The character is dynamic because he changes his mind about what life is really about through the experience with Jefferson. He goes from wanting to leave to being committed to stay with his people. He is a very round character because he has a lot of different values in which he expresses through out the novel. "I was crying." Pg 256 it's very interesting because as the last words of the novel you can tell he went from a touch hard edged man to soft and caring just as much on the outside as the inside. 

4.) I personally thought I met a character because I was almost inside of his head, in that I knew what was going on with how Grant felt. I could tell that he was a. Hat acted of truth and care. I found this through his acts. Including fighting with the man in the diner, going and seeing Jefferson (brought him a radio and a notepad), and his determination to stop the whites in their myths about the black race. " I want you to chop away at the myth by standing. I want you yes you to call them liars." Pg 192

Hamlet act 1 scene 3

Hamlets love for Ophelia.

Feeling of love 

He has to choose to love her or not. 

He will try to win affection, sexual intensions, a diplomat you should fear from her brothers thought

Don't tell me if you don't do the same thing 

- Ophelia and Laeretes talk before Laretes leaves for school again

Hamlet Act 1 Scene 2

Hamlet Act 1 scene 1

Hamlet communities

3) 1. Blue Apple Theatre http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/funding/funded-projects/case-studies/young-actors-learning-disabilities-perform-hamlet-over-3000-people/

    2. PBS kids http://www.pbs.org/wnet/shakespeare-uncovered/education/talking-to-myself-hamlets-soliloquies-lesson-plan/talking-to-myself-hamlets-soliloquies-lesson-activities/

3. Blogspot Brit  http://critbritlit.blogspot.com/2006/10/things-we-learn-from-hamlet.html?m=1

Vocabulary #6

abase - verb cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of

-She abased his self esteem.
abdicate - verb give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations

- Sarah abdicated her position of queen.
abomination - noun an action that is vicious or vile; an action that arouses disgust or abhorrence; a person who is loathsome or disgusting; hate coupled with disgust

- That is an abomination to mankind.
brusque - adj. marked by rude or peremptory shortness

-My coach has a brusque attitude towards the team. 
saboteur - noun someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks; a member of a clandestine subversive organization who tries to help a potential invader

-She was a saboteur throught the whole situation. 
debauchery - noun a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity

- The reunion was a debauchery.
proliferate - verb cause to grow or increase rapidly; grow rapidly

-The story proliferated in sales very quickly. 
anachronism - noun an artifact that belongs to another time; a person who seems to be displaced in time; who belongs to another age;something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred

-The Monalisa is an anachronism. 
nomenclature - noun a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline

- Scientific words were created as a nomenclature for easy communication. 
expurgate - verb edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate

- You should expurgated this sentence from your essay. 
bellicose - adj. having or showing a ready disposition to fight

- The dog always had a bellicose look on it's face.
gauche - adj. lacking social polish

- She has gauche manners. 
rapacious - adj. excessively greedy and grasping; devouring or craving food in great quantities; living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
paradox - noun (logic) a statement that contradicts itself

- Her essay is very paradox.
conundrum - noun a difficult problem

-This has caused me a huge conundrum.
anomaly - noun (astronomy) position of a planet as defined by its angular distance from its perihelion (as observed from the sun); a person who is unusual; deviation from the normal or common order or form or rule

- I love the anomaly of life.
ephemeral - adj. lasting a very short time; nounanything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form

-Their life was ephemeral. 
rancorous - adj. showing deep-seated resentment

-She is rancorous in her attitude with him. 
churlish - adj. having a bad disposition; surly;rude and boorish

-She was churlish all the time to her cousins. 
precipitous - adj. characterized by precipices;extremely steep; done with very great haste and without due deliberations

-The groceries were done precipitously well. 

Unphotographable

I did not take a picture because the lights around me seemed to be like the stars in the night. I couldn't pick up my phone to capture because I didn't want to lose the thrill of the movement that was happening. I'll never forget the song and the movement of little lights shining bright in the night. I seemed at peace with everything in my life at this time, I can't explain the mixture of joy and truth in the night that we can stand together no matter where we come from.

http://youtu.be/oajuSNChUOo

Everything Is a remix

 -direct by saying he is a gambler

- indirect talks about the actions how he never changes 

-How to depict life in it's morals. We can read in between the lines make the reader infer more about what you are writing.

http://youtu.be/hsg5VQT63sU

-Can improve by using connotations of words to give messages that are more concise. 

-if you apply the same situation to a kings son or higher status  the characters problems would be set aside, overlooked. Just like celebrities today.

-Chaucer frowned down upon his choices, that the character made, 

- more serious. Wasn't sympathy was more blunt.

- cook was kind of crap, uses other people for gambling problem

- syntax show cook in bad light 

-ironic because he went to riches to rage 

http://youtu.be/SzGqmuwodPo

I wish I could include a video of my own sorts in with I could write an informal essay that's embedded In film. I feel like actions give the words life and this would be a fun activity to do wih friends instead of just writing an essay alone. I could use the elements of the coons story and poke fun at them like Chaucer meant to do. Which would therefore be using the techniques first hand for better understanding and development in my qwriting. 

Canterbury outline

- we chose the cook because we thought it was ironic because he went to riches to rage 

Describe main character

He would gamble, kept doing it and he was fired because he was influencing other people. 

-he was stealing the money, very reckless. 

-wife was a prostitute, front was a store owner 

 - was leach in that he was living off of his master and now he is living off of his 

3. Chaucer frowned down upon his choices, that the character made, 

- more serious. Wasn't sympathy was more blunt.

- cook was kind of crap, uses other people for gambling problem

- syntax show cook in bad light 

4. Man verses himself in that Perkins verses his morals in that 

5. The story telling genre is moral tale what is right and wrong because he was a bad soul.

6. It talks about all the different social statuses, the irony the cook is supposed to be an apprentice and a respectful man, but he is out gambling and has a prostitute as a man. 

7. You could make the story better by finishing the story where the cook falls into a deeper hole. Further humiliating the character

8. if you apply the same situation to a kings son or higher status  the characters problems would be set aside, overlooked. Just like celebrities today.

9.the authors irony makes the message that the cook doesn't care in that he lacks morals, physically couldn't gain morals because he was licentious. 

- the message is irony in that is that they are supposed to be going on 

- shows the sides of human nature. 

10. The techniques would be how effective irony is in which I can use it. How to depict life in it's morals. We can read in between the lines make the reader infer more about what you are writing. Can improve by using connotations of words to give messages that are more concise. 

Outline 

- direct by saying he is a gambler

- indirect talks about the actions how he never changes 

-How to depict life in it's morals. We can read in between the lines make the reader infer more about what you are writing.

-Can improve by using connotations of words to give messages that are more concise. 

-if you apply the same situation to a kings son or higher status  the characters problems would be set aside, overlooked. Just like celebrities today.

-Chaucer frowned down upon his choices, that the character made, 

- more serious. Wasn't sympathy was more blunt.

- cook was kind of crap, uses other people for gambling problem

- syntax show cook in bad light 

-ironic because he went to riches to rage 

Green Eggs and Hamlet

a) What I know about Hamlet was that it was written by William Shakespeare, was a tragedy, and "To be or not to be."
b)What I know about Shakespeare was that he was a tragic play writer and poet, who lived in England most of his life. He wrote plays such as Romeo and Juliet, and Macbeth along with his very known play Hamlet. I also know that he was married to Anne Hathaway during his life and had a few children.
c) Many students frown when they hear Shakespeare because many students, including myself, don't appreciate his story plots including Romeo and Juliet in which honestly isn't a very romantic story in which the children meet for a couple hours then kill themselves. Sorry, but not very romantic if I do say so myself. The story honestly lacks intelligence because in order to "fall in love" with someone you need to spend more than a couple hours with them before you kill yourself.
d) What we could possibly do to make the learning of this subject more appealing is to act out some of the scenes in the play because real live action is a lot more entertaining than words on a page. Bringing the words to life!

The Point of Canterbury Tales Is...

The Canterbury Tales written by Geoffery Chaucer is an outlook on society from one persons perspective in which shows the viewpoints of what is thought of an individual. In this the author used metaphor and satire to poke fun at the characters he has experienced showing that all of the characters from the tales are similar to actual people within society in how they are perceived.

Vocabulary list 5

shenanigans-silly or high spirited behavior; secret or dishonest behavior or maneuvering.

-Can you stop with your shenanigans in class please?
ricochet - noun a glancing rebound; verb spring back; spring away from an impact

-The ball ricocheted off the wall and hit the ground.
schism - noun division of a group into opposing factions; the formal separation of a church into two churches or the withdrawal of one group over doctrinal differences

-The problem created a schism within the group. 
eschew - verb avoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear of

-It would be smart to eschew from the subject.
plethora - noun extreme excess

- There is a plethora of food for dinner.
ebullient - adj. joyously unrestrained

-The runner is ebulliently fast during her race.
garrulous - adj. full of trivial conversation

-The speaker is garrulous in her ways of speech.
harangue - noun a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion; verb deliver a harangue to; address forcefully

-The teacher harangued his students for their behavior. 
interdependence - noun a reciprocal relation between interdependent entities (objects or individuals or groups)

-There is interdependence within the community. 
capricious - adj. determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason; changeable

-She has a capricious attitude about making decisions. 
loquacious - adj. full of trivial conversation

- He has loquacious intelligence.
ephemeral - adj. lasting a very short time; nounanything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form

- A glowing moth is ephemeral in that it only lives a week because it doesn't have a mouth to eat from. 
inchoate - adj. only partly in existence; imperfectly formed

-The book is inchoately finished. 
juxtapose - verb place side by side

-the desk and the chair are juxtaposed. 

perspicacious - adj. acutely insightful and wise;mentally acute or penetratingly discerning

-Sarah has perspicious intelligence. 
codswallop - noun nonsensical talk or writing

-Sleep deprived I wrote a codswallop and it was awful.

mungo-noun cloth made from recycled woven or felted fabric

-The mungo was a beautiful piece of patchwork. 
sesquipedelian-adj.(of a word) polysyllabic; long; characterized by long words; long-winded

-The essay contained sesquipedelian vocabulary throught it. 
wonky - adj. inclined to shake as from weakness or defect; turned or twisted toward one side

-The wonky dog was very scared when he saw himself I'm the mirror.
diphthong-noun a sound formed by the combination of two vowels in a single syllable, in which the sound begins as one vowel and moves toward another; a compound vowel character; a ligature

- She was a diphthong in her diction. 

Character study (III)

The university of my dreams in Los Angeles California is U.C.L.A and entered into the medical program. My journey to this point would take dedication, hard work and joy. In the year leading up to this moment it has been hard to let go of everything that has been in my way to find what is really out there for me. The applications and the scholarships were hard to make into a sceduale with everything I have going on in my life. However I made it, receiving a letter from the school I toured a year ago with my family. It's important that I appreciate the time that I have sacrificed and relize that college is the time to explore new things and I can't wait to get started with the internship I just recieved. 

In U.C.L.A. I have flourished at my interning position at the hospital there. Every day has been different with new patients coming in all the time with completely new reasons for their appearances at the hospital. I work in the research department and today I just know something exciting is going to emerge. I walked into the building to find that I got there before my mentor. "She must be running late." I thought. As I walked through the hospital I spotted a girl who looked perfectly fine, but strapped to her bed. "What's the matter with the patient in room 365?" I asked. "We don't know all her scans are normal, but she keeps screaming in paincoughing up blood and forming stange rashes that occur every few hours. A new one with another disease of no knowledge or research. This will be an interesting case. My mentor finally arrived and we started our work day by entering room 365. We gathered information from parents who had no idea what was happening to their baby girl of 13. I could feel the dense air inside the room that made me feel nervous and sorry for the family. As the girl laid there, I could see she wasn't as "perfectly normal" as I had seen earlier on in the day. Her eyes were sunken in, her skin was quite pale and her back was blistering with a redish purple color of the intensity of the worst burn mark you have ever seen. I thought this girl needs help now! In our protective gear we collected samples of the rash, saliva and all other bodily fluids. Through weeks of cultures and tests we still were stumped by the infection going on inside this child. A couple of days latter, an alarm went off reffering to the staff that there was a problem in room 365. I rushed into the room to find the mother screaming. The infection had spread.

In weeks of isolation of the mother and daughter the girl seemed to be progressively getting, worse. I went home one night and saw on television the medical advancements of an Asian flower called the preslia. The chemicals that are diffused from the flower are highly toxic and cause huge side effects. However, the flower sparked an idea in me to do an experimental trial with the flower. Next day of work I brought up ge idea but everyone shot the brilliance down. Although I explained that the family had nothing else to lose but they remained against preslia. I just knew I couldn't give up. As break came up quickly I planned a trip to Asia without anyone knowing about my intensions. I didn't know exactly where to find the flower but n the airplane I ran into Hannah Hurd who said the new medical flower was enclosed in a facility near the hymalyan mountains. "This was going to be difficult" I thought. 

Once the plane landed I went straight to the facility where the toxic flower was being held to talk to staff members. The members were reluctant to let me have any so I slipped three flowers into my bag without anyone knowing and rushed out of the building, without causing a commotion. I stayed in Asia for multiple days figuring out the system of the cure and I found with the samples I brought it killed the infectious diease. I called my mentor to let her know but stopped when I realized I stole the flowers... I had to give it to her without anyone knowing and I did just that. 

Character Study (I)

The university of my dreams in Los Angeles California is U.C.L.A and entered into the medical program. My journey to this point would take dedication, hard work and joy. In the year leading up to this moment it has been hard to let go of everything that has been in my way to find what is really out there for me. The applications and the scholarships were hard to make into a sceduale with everything I have going on in my life. However I made it, receiving a letter from the school I toured a year ago with my family. It's important that I appreciate the time that I have sacrificed and relize that college is the time to explore new things and I can't wait to get started with the internship I just recieved. 

Canterbury Tales (II) what a character

Tale of A Canterbury Tale

The cooks tale 

- The cook was told by the host to create a funny story of sorts and the cook went over the edge of what was acceptable within society. The tale starts with the life of an apprentice, says he had a dark complexion probably a slave. Work for his master as a cook, but was easily distracted by having fun, do the master fired him because the mass yet wanted to set a precidence on how to work in his household. Story ends abruptly after cook talks about the wife in how she participates in prostitution. 

My Dashboard

I think the Net vibes dashboard will come handy to me in the future because it is easy to use and I can manipulate it to function how I want. I can make each spot on my page something that interests me or something that I need to get a handle on such as college websites. Lastly it will help regulate my procrastination time, with fewer distractions.

Phonar notes

Canterbury Tales (I)

Bede

-written records were scarce in this time, most people were illiterate. 

-promontories- peaks of high land sticking out of water 

- island is abundant in food and resources from the land and sea.

-made up of numerous cities and castles

-summer days and winter nights long 

- all united under the Latin Language, common medium in scriptures 

-Britons were first there to modern day Britain, next Picts found nation of the Scots, 

-scots told them there was another place with land, 

- dal means division 

-Ireland lacks poison, reptiles, 

- it has plenty of resources of fish, greenery, and overall wildlife 

-Scots later migrated to Britain also

-firth- narrow arm of the sea

The Canterbury Tales 

-Canterbury was a major destination for pilgrims 

-rhyme 

-knight of honor rode to area of Alexandria 

-brought son with him, similar to his father in his grace and honor

-more complex than father; sing dance, poetry 

-has a yeoman to ride with him held a arrow in his hands, well armed

-a nun present, Madam Eglanyne, well mannered 

-monk, three priests another nun 

-monk looks like monk 

-Hubert a friar, gave to the poor, narrator seems not to like he gives to beggars and lepers but finds him a respectable man 

-merchant good at bargining, actually in debt 

- oxford cleric- full of philosophy, didn't make money barrowed from friends to learn more.

-a sergeant of the law knows of law

-wealthy man, very busy and knowledgable in his work. 

-Haberdasher, a dyer, a carpenter, a weaver, and a carpet-maker

-all work together 

-cook, great cook, ulcer on his knee, 

-skipper; came from Dartmouth, very good at his job, enemy ships would sink and he would sent prisoners overboard, knows the seas

-doctor; talked of medicine, kept money he earned

-a woman from bath city, partly deaf, had 5 husbands, been to Jerusalem 3 times, over exaggerated 

-parson; very poor, into Christ's Gospel, would preach it all the time , didn't like giving away part of his money but to poor parishioners, seems holy, great priest, would stay to protect pregnant women, etc. 

-Plowman was a good worker 

-tabard- loose jacket 

-Miller, metaphor for a large man, strong, stole grain, sounds Scottish, 

- Manciple, could bargin, legal knowledge, wealthy, emotional, 

-Reeve; old and choleric, thin, balding, simile used to describe legs, good at bargining, however I don't think so if he is so lean. Has house name of Scot 

-Summoner; nasty infection on face called carbuncles, very homeless sounding, alcoholic, not in favor of the law, seems sad about a woman. 

-Pardoner; long blonde hair, a little cap, had a holy relic on it, no pardoner of equal grace, took a lot of money, 

-Prevarication- evasion of truth. 

-gobbet- a piece 

-repeating story as narrator remembers it, said it is near the truth but it could never be exact, because we don't remember like that. 

-Host; served dinner, wise, merry hearted, joker, very well spoken,

- told everyone to play a part and tell two stories, whoever has the best story wins a dinner in the tavern 

-next morning person who draws shortest a stick goes first in telling their story.

The characte that I most want to read about is the Friar because he seems very shady and I want to learn more.

Masterpiece 1

Why are we the way we are? Why do certain people obtain disorders later in life? Is this problem in society getting worse over time? Or are we just more aware what is going on within the human body? 

Declaration of Learning Independence

My Declairation of Learning Independance is to work as efficiently and effectively as possible on everything I am assigned. The goal is to accomplish everything I can in the time allotted with only a few hiccups. 

Vocabulary #4

obsequious - adj. attentive in an ingratiating or servile manner; attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery

-She always has an obsequious manner when she talk to her teachers.
beatitude - noun one of the eight sayings of Jesus at the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount; in Latin each saying begins with `beatus' (blessed); a state of supreme happiness

-Sierra is in beatitude when she plays music. 
bete noire - noun a detested person

-Levi was acting as a bête noire during the play.
bode - verb indicate by signs

-They boded every emotion in their play. 
dank - adj. unpleasantly cool and humid

- The dank cave was hard to walk through. 
ecumenical - adj. of worldwide scope or applicability; concerned with promoting unity among churches or religions

-The ecumenical crowed walked to prove their point about their religion. 
fervid - adj. extremely hot; characterized by intense emotion

- David coughed goss and fervid mucus  while he was ill. 
fetid - adj. offensively malodorous

-The homeless man was fetid looking. 
gargantuan - adj. of great mass; huge and bulky

-The sun is a gargantuan ball of gas! 
heyday - noun the period of greatest prosperity or productivity

- I have entered the heyday of the century. 
incubus - noun a male demon believed to lie on sleeping persons and to have sexual intercourse with sleeping women; someone who depresses or worries others; a situation resembling a terrifying dream

- He is an incubus being. 
infrastructure - noun the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area; the basic structure or features of a system or organization

-The building's infrastructure is very strong. 
inveigle - verb influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering

-He was very inveigled to Sarah on Friday.
kudos - noun an expression of approval and commendation

-I have got to give you kudos for everything you have done for me. 
lagniappe - noun a small gift (especially one given by a merchant to a customer who makes a purchase)

-He brought me a lagniappe for my birthday. 
prolix - adj. tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at great length

-Her writing has a prolix feel to it. 
protege - noun a person who receives support and protection from an influential patron who furthers the protege's career

-The security acts as her protege.
prototype - noun a standard or typical example

-The airplane was a small prototype. 
sycophant - noun a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage

- She is such a sycophant. 
tautology - noun useless repetition; (logic) a statement that is necessarily true

-Obviously what he said was tautology. 
truckle - noun a low bed to be slid under a higher bed; verb yield to out of weakness; try to gain favor by cringing or flattering

- She truckled through the forest until she found shelter for her aching body. 

Literature Analysis #1

1. At the beginning of the novel the narrator explains that he is invisible and lives underground, recounting on what had led him to become invisible. As the narrator isn't obviously invisible he feels he has to be after the events that occured in his life. In the exposition, the author lives in basement a building where he lives off of the light that is taken from a power company, therfore he doesnt have to pay for anything. Once the narrator gets into the beginning of his story he disscusses how he was a high school student who worked very hard on his writing and recieved an honor of reading his speech to a group of white men. However when he arrives the white men first put him in a boxing ring, blindfolded to fight among other black boys. After the brutal fighting the boys are set on an electric carpet, trying to grab money, while the white men laugh. Then the narrator is given his chance to read and given a scholarship to a black college. The narrator once at college, (maintains no name the entire book) he is told to drive a college founder, Mr. Norton, around through the black society. Unexperienced, the narrator drives through town where they run into Jim Trueblood, a man who inpregnated his daughter, and Mr. Norton sits to talk to him about the subject of his daughter. After the long encounter, Mr. Norton feels ill and asks for a drink. The narrator drives to the Golden Day   (a brothel) where the owner doesn't let anyone take a drink out of the bar, so the narrator has to bring the white man into the building, which causes a scene. As chaos emerges a man who claimes to be a doctor helps the narrator and Mr. Norton, but taughts their knowlegde and idealogies on race in the world. This conversation upsets Mr. Norton and the narrator becomes very anctious. When they arrive back at the school the college founder is late for a conference and the head administration expell the narrator. 
2. The theme of the novel is racial injustice because the narrator feels that he must conceal himself inorder to fit into society.

- "A slave born, but marked from the beginning by a high intelligence and princely personality; born in the lowest part if this barren, war-scarred land, yet somehow shedding light upon it where'er he passed through." Page 119
- It didn't occur to me to interfere, or question.. They had a plan." Page 546 

- "My mind was blank, as though I had just begun to live. When the next face appeared I saw the eyes behind the think glasses blinking as though noticing me for the first time. Page 233

1. Imagery- "It almost took my breath away and I leaned over and switched on the fan, hearing it's sudden white." Page 46
2. Forshadowing- "And I stopped the blade, slicing the air as I pushed him away letting him fall back to the street." Page 4 
3. Allusions- "No, I'm not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe.."page 3
4. Similie- " he stood before us relaxed, his white collar gleaming like a band between his black face and his dark garmets, dividing his head from his body; his short arms were crossed before his barrel, like a black little Buddah's." Page 118 
5. Syntax- "I looked at her. She was blushing, her cheeks, even her freckled bosom, were bright red." Page 518
6. Collouiquilism - " Lawd have mercey!" Page 65 
7. Irony- "What is a traitor, Brother?" Page 467
8. Diction- ".. Who with his singing of the old familiar melodies soothed the doubts and fears is the multitude.." Page 129
9. Euphimism- "Is that a log cabin" page 46
10. Flashback- " Me on one side and the ole lady on the other and the gal in the middle." Page 54 

Characterization
1.Two examples of direct characterization were at the beginning of the novel with Mr. Buchanan and the superintendent on how they presented their expressions and attitudes on school and black eduacation directly. Page 56,34 examples of indirect characterization come from the expressions of the author and of True blood becauae the narrator is  perceived as a man of indecisive character that wants to blend in but faced with the fact he can't because of his ethnicity. True blood is degraded and discrased for enpregnating his own daughter. Page  54. The author uses both approaches because it helps the characters develop in through their own personalities in the book rather than just stating who they are. This technique is helpful in that it's gives a background to deceitful manners as described in the novel. 

2. No the syntax and diction do not change when the author is talking about the main character because the entire story is coming from the narrator and his point of view so the attitude is that of the author towards every character. The author uses complex and simple sentence structure to enhance the development if the novel and the theme. The author also uses difficult diction and very simple diction depending on the sefistication and intelligence level of the character talking. 
3. The character is dynamic in that he changes his perspective on life in that he doesn' t feel as willing to open himself up to others as he was a tthe beginning of the novel. The character however isn't always easy to figure out and I perosonally had a hard time knowing the character, for this reason I feel the character is rather flat, however he is round in that he is hard to describle easily so he fals into a harder catagory of grey.
4. After reading the book I didn't really feel like  knew the entire character, however, I did feel like I knew what he went through. I couldn't really make a close connection to the character because I didnt even know his name which I find hard to grasp; like the book is almost six hundred pages and we still had to make it a mystery. I understand it is for the benefit of the novel in that the protagonist remains a mystery, but you lose connection with the character by doing this.

Vocabulary 3

accolade - noun a tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction

-The Righetti mascot is an accolade for school spirit. 
acerbity - noun a sharp sour taste; a sharp bitterness; a rough and bitter manner

-The lemon has an acerbity to it's flavor.
attrition - noun the act of rubbing together; wearing something down by friction; a wearing down to weaken or destroy; sorrow for sin arising from fear of damnation; the wearing down of rock particles by friction due to water or wind or ice; erosion by friction

-The tires on the car caused attrition. 
bromide - noun any of the salts of hydrobromic acid; formerly used as a sedative but now generally replaced by safer drugs; a trite or obvious remark

-The scientist used to use bromide for the experiment but now he uses table salt. 
chauvinist - noun an extreme bellicose nationalist; a person with a prejudiced belief in the superiority of his or her own kind

-Many whites believe they are chauvinists in that they believe they are a superior race. 
chronic - adj. being long-lasting and recurrent or characterized by long suffering

- Silvia has chronic arthritis pain in her hands. 
expound - verb add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing; state

-Can you expound on the subject? 
factionalism- relating to a group a belonging

-The girls had a sense of factionalism in the group. 
immaculate - adj. completely neat and clean;free from stain or blemish; without fault or error

-The shirt was immaculate in every way. 
imprecation - noun the act of calling down a curse that invokes evil (and usually serves as an insult); a slanderous accusation

-An implication helped the girl heal. 
ineluctable - adj. impossible to avoid or evade:"inescapable conclusion"

-The issue was ineluctable to deny. 
mercurial - adj. relating to or containing or caused by mercury; relating to or having characteristics (eloquence, shrewdness, swiftness, thievishness) attributed to the god Mercury; relating to or under the (astrological) influence of the planet Mercury; liable to sudden unpredictable change

-Courtney has a mercurial attitude in that she always changes her mind.
palliate - verb provide physical relief, as from pain; lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of

-The cream palliated the pain caused by the wound. 
protocol - noun code of correct conduct; forms of ceremony and etiquette observed by diplomats and heads of state; (computer science) rules determining the format and transmission of data

-The protocol for creating a club is to first find an advisor. 
resplendent - adj. having great beauty and splendor

- The doctor had a resplendent aura within his office. 
stigmatize - verb mark with a stigma or stigmata; to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful

-The crowed stigmatized the accused. 
sub - noun a submersible warship usually armed with torpedoes; a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States; verb be a substitute

-The sub was awful today in class.
rosa - noun large genus of erect or climbing prickly shrubs including roses

- Rosa grows all around the valley. 
vainglory - noun outspoken conceit

-You are vainglory. 
vestige - noun an indication that something has been present

-There were marks everywhere on the floor, it's such vestige.
volition - noun the act of making a choice; the capability of conscious choice and decision and intention

-I am in the process of volition in choosing which scholarships to apply for. 

Beowulf Essay

As an epic poem Beowulf has created a cultural idle in which the main character Beowulf is looked up upon for his great characteristics of honor, loyalty, and stability. The epic is broken down perfectly into the heroes call to adventure and the act of answering the call. Although some have never read this poem it is apparent that we have seen this style before in the formation of other novels, short stories, and comics. How is this poem so similar when the epic was told so far in the past? In fact it turns out that each story written in based on a story or poem that was told before it. To create a clearer picture take Superman for example, the two pieces embrace the same ideals in which Superman hears of crime and becomes involved in each short comic that is created and Beowulf is called to action to kill the monster Grendle. Superman like Beowulf is seen as a figure of God in which nobody can lessen the value of. Both embody strength and fate which are large components to epics in which fate and outside influences bring them face to face with their opponent. Therefore the idea is shown that Beowulf, being one of the oldest heroic journey's, has set the stage for all heroic stories to be told and written after him.
The cultural reflection of its time is consistent with oral tradition in which qualities and events were over exagerated within the mono-myth. The literary techniques of the time were forms of persuasion to lure the audiences in with enticing vocabulary and tone in which was translated verbally for extreme effects of entertainment. The language of Old English was more metaphorical than to the point like most of modern day text is written like Superman in which has the book even emphisize the noises of the fights. For example in the very beginning of the peom the author talks about the death of Shield Sheafson and his death to sea as very descriptive. The Old English vocabulary dates the poem in which shows the time period and the events of the story to be more of a personal journey rather than a structured outcome. The author of Beowulf although unknown has a masterpiece at hand in which shows what was wanted by this society and what was disliked in their cultural beliefs. The comparison between the modern day super hero and the classic hero are shown in the evolution of language in which learning contains more detective work in the past stories than today in which themes are typically told to you through sequence of events.

Including the ideas of cultures today and in the past we typically don't see cultures accept feminist heroes as often, sure there are a few female heroes, but are they popular? The answer is no, not really. When you think of heroes you think of strength, integrity, and male figures. Why not women? If the poem of Beowulf was told through a feminist perspective we would not be reading this text in our advanced placement English class today because the story wouldn't have lasted. I say this because the cultures who produce stories only tell the stories the public want to hear. In other words, the culture in which produced Beowulf would have shunned the idea of female triumph. The culture would reject this due to the fact any woman during this time period could not be seen as stronger than the men, it was a patriarchal society.

Beowulf as an epic has all aspects of this type of poem in which contains a call to action and the response. The literary techniques of the poem are similar to all stories that follow like superman who has the same qualities that Beowulf embodies. The feminist profile of Beowulf would be incomprehensible to that of the culture that created it due to society creating only what it's culture accepts. Therefore showing the relationship between modern day literature and classic forms in which all modern forms originated. 

Master Piece in Progress

What I'm thinking for my Master Piece is to incorporate my club Project Humanity, my passion for helping people, and my dreams of becoming a doctor into one great accomplishment. I'm not quite sure how to accomplish this goal quite yet, but I'm in the process of discovering what I can do to improve the world. I am thinking of creating a volunteer system in which I could formulate a system for these very goals. However, I just haven't found the right concoction for the process of my Master Piece.

Will study for food.

The scholarship I found was the Santa Barbra County Scholarahip, the foundation awards thousands of scholarships yearly. Last year they awarded 2,601 scholarships to totaling over $8.1 million dollars to students for financial aid. I can apply for this scholarship this year providing the information needed to be a competitive applicant in this scholarship. 

Vocab #2

accoutrement- additional items of dress of equipment, or other items carried or worn by a person, used for a particular activety.

-The doctors were prepared with all their accoutrements for the surgery. 

apogee - noun apoapsis in Earth orbit; the point in its orbit where a satellite is at the greatest distance from the Earth; a final climactic stage

-The book was near it apogee when i was interrupted by a phone call.
apropos - adj. of an appropriate or pertinent nature; adv. by the way; at an opportune time
-The movie star got a leading role in perfect apropos in his career.
bicker - noun a quarrel about petty points; verb argue over petty things
-Joey and I bicker all of the time about random subjects.
coalesce - verb fuse or cause to grow together; mix together different elements
-The idea of being on a team over a season is to coalesce together to form a strong unit.
contretemps - noun an awkward clash
-As I was walking down the hall i created a contretemps movement between two other students.
convolution - noun the action of coiling or twisting or winding together; a convex fold or elevation in the surface of the brain; the shape of something rotating rapidly
-The convolution of the object is quite clear through the microscope.
cull - noun the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality; verb remove something that has been rejected; look for and gather
-I'm an over girls basketball players being seen as cull to the boys basketball team.
disparate - adj. including markedly dissimilar elements;fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind
-The dogs were disparate in their features.
dogmatic - adj. characterized by assertion of unproved or unprovable principles; relating to or involving dogma; of or pertaining to or characteristic of a doctrine or code of beliefs accepted as authoritative
-Theories are dogmatic in that they aren't necessarily proved.
licentious - adj. lacking moral discipline; especially sexually unrestrained
-The children were licentious in their early years of schooling.
mete - noun a line that indicates a boundary
- I think they are crossing the mete in their comments in class.
noxious - adj. injurious to physical or mental health
-The work load is noxious to our whole class.
polemic - adj. of or involving dispute or controversy; noun a controversy (especially over a belief or dogma); a writer who argues in opposition to others (especially in theology)
- People who run for offices are polemic in that they feed off of controversy.
populous - adj. densely populated
- China is populous.
probity - noun complete and confirmed integrity; having strong moral principles
-Brooke has earned probity through her hard work and dedication
.repartee - noun adroitness and cleverness in reply
- When the judges asked him questions his repartee was on point.
supervene - verb take place as an additional or unexpected development
-Nobody thought the teacher would supervene but she did surprisingly.
truncate - adj. terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off; verb make shorter as if by cutting off; approximate by ignoring all terms beyond a chosen one; replace a corner by a plane
-The student thought that truncating the word would help him go through the question faster, bu tit actually made him get the question wrong.
unimpeachable - adj. beyond doubt or reproach; completely acceptable; not open to exception or reproach; free of guilt; not subject to blame
-The coach was unimpeachable in blame because he was very discreet