Thursday, September 27, 2012

Pre-Will Questions

A) I have never read Hamlet so granted I don't know much.
B) I know Shakespeare to be an older English writer who is said to be a great author with great ideas who was well know for us of words and having multiple meanings.
C) I think some students involuntarily frown because studying Shakespeare is a bit of a pain because of the amount of analysis we are forced to go through. When others don't involuntarily frown, but directly frown because they disgust his writing and don't like his ideas.
D) To make this study unforgettable I think we should make this more student friendly and more open to free discussion.

Monday, September 24, 2012

Vocabulary: Fall List #7 Sentences

In "One Fly Over The Coockoos Nest" the main character was different from the supporting characters, and one of the main differences is he didn't have as severe of an aberration as the rest of the people surrounding him.

When requesting to get told ur grade, it is the worst thing to have ur teacher say I'll think about it, displaying an Ad hoc way of ending the conversation.

Sometimes something can be so much of a bane situation, that it causes so much misery, you die.

One of the worst punishments when u are a child is when u mess up, and ur parents are lecturing you about what u did, and they use bathos to make ur punishment, there express of disappointment they have in you.

One of the hardest things about working in groups is when u get a cantankerous team mate, and they are worth close to nothing for the project at hand.

A lot of riddles have a casuistry type way of asking the question.

These vocabulary sentences seem tideous and pointless, but
de facto is is that they help you out.

Sometimes the topic in English class make me want to lash out in depredation.

I have never seen more empathy shown, than a rosary reading.

If someone is drinking at a party it kinda works as a harbinger of how they might act later on in the Night.

Apparently we have the right to hedonism.

When covered in break dust chrome rims are obvious to lackluster.

When working with someone who is malcontent with ur ideas, it is near impossible to agree honestly.

Silence is very mellifluous.

Pander is a word that I'm not Sure I can use in a sentence without being somewhat disrespectful to the female gender.

Some people don't like accepting peccadillo as an act of kindness because it makes them feel helpless.

Thee day I went to CIF for track will now and forever will be a piece de resistance day for me.

Sometimes the hardest thing about being a convict is getting remanded.

Every type of medical sickness that may be severe has syndromes.

Sunday, September 23, 2012

Literary Analysis "Great Expectation"

1) In “great Expectations” there is a main character named Pip. He grew up with his parents who had passed on and was
raised by his sister who was a blacksmith. As Pip grows up he has great expectations for what he is to fulfill in his family. He is to grow up and take over the blacksmith position of his sister’s husband. He meets this girl named
Estella and grows to love her. When started to apprentice the blacksmith, shortly after his sister passed away, it had been six years till he was adopted by a very rich man. Once he was adopted Miss Havishum had intended to have him marry Estella, when he took Estella back to France with him a different man showed up that was all over Estella. After pip grew jealous he drifted away from Estella, but never stops loving her. Miss Havishum sets up Estella to marry the new guy she met while in France. Pip comes back before they were to be wed to tell Estella he loved her, he loved her since the day she made him cry in the garden. Miss Havishum is apologetic for setting up Estella with the new gentleman, after Estella leaves the room he answers Miss Havishums question of what she did to him by saying she destroyed his life. On Pips way out of the building Miss Havishum catches fire and burns to death. About a year later Pipreturns to a single Estella who had been mentally, and physically trapped in the house in which she grew up in, and the house her mother burnt to death. Estella had grown insane and believed her mother to still be there with her. In
response to Estella’s insane mind set Pip “lets in the light” and shakes Estella out of her insanity. They leave the house together, and in love.
2)The theme of the novel seems to be self-improvement. As Pip grows older he grows into a, blacksmith, then a wealthy teenager, into a man who is unsure of what he wants, to a wealthy man with a future, and the love of his life in his arms.
3)The authors tone is a new chance.Throughout the story there is tragedy, then a chance to turn it around. His sister
dies, he becomes a blacksmith apprentice. He gets adopted by a rich man. Estella is mean to him, calls him names and makes him cry, she allows him to kiss her. Estella’s mother dies, he comes back to be with her and shake her out
of her insanity. The author uses conflict: Pip and
Estella in the beginning when they first met. Miss Havishem setting Estella up with the gentlemen from France, and Pip telling Miss Havishum what she did to his life. Pip and his own wants, he has a number of times in which he walks
away from what he wants the most, Estella. This literary element showed me the idea of the theme with Its ups and downs and the obstacles Pip overcame. The author used a keen sense of characterization that helped develop each tone and minor tone. In the beginning of the story Pip meets this escaped convict who is very aggressive with Pip, his explanation of the convict developed the tone of distress and helplessness that not only accounted for this part of the book, but rolled over to help explain his type of life at home
with his sister. The way he explained Estella’s beauty to Pip showed his motivation and want for her which slightly foreshadowed the ending. In doing so it made me able to slightly guess the change in events and predict the theme.
The jealousy that overcame Pip when Estella met the new guy in France set a tone of revenge and anger, showing Pips love for Estella, but he soon overcame his jealous revengeful thoughts and improved his ways of life linking back to
the theme. Another element is the point of view that the author told the story from. He chose to tell the story in the point of view of a dynamic character rather
than a static one. There were several times throughout the story where there would be a change in thought of Pip. His idea on what he wanted to do would change. From when he first meets Estella he falls in love with her, but he decides to leave her, to never return when he starts to apprentice the
blacksmith. Later on in the story as he grows and begins to change he decides to go back for Estella, and take her to France with him. Showing the change in his belief in the way
to handle his new feelings changed for the better. At the ball Pip was dancing with Estella and decided to question her about the new gentlemen she met, he sort of took a high school approach to the situation, again later on in the story you see him go from being upset about the guy, to going to Estella’s and telling her straight out he loves her, even though he got his heart broken by finding out they were to be wed. He then had a new change in ideas; he got his heart broken and took to it with anger, and blew up in Miss Havishums face. Once again later on in the story he goes back to Estella, with momentum this time, he is going to ask for her hand, and win her back. His perspective changed which helped conclude the story. The author used a very unlikely antagonist, Pips own desires. As a child he desired to have his mom and dad back, the opening scene is him sitting by his parent’s grave and putting flowers next the head stones. There he runs into the convict that causes him go out late and give him food, on top of that he gets home late and his sister whips him for being late. Once he was adopted he was moving to France and wanted his step brother, the blacksmith, to go with him, but he couldn’t.
Pips desire drew him away from the blacksmith and conflicted with his relationship with his step brother, the only source of family he had left.This example I have
used a lot but it was such a turning point in the story that it contains all my points, when he yelled at Miss Havishum for setting up Estella with the gentlemen from France his desire to have Estella overcame his desire to be respectful for
a women who has been there most of his life. This desire lead up to Miss Havishums death and now, thanks to his desire to want Estella, he left his final words to Miss Havishum being angry and disrespectful.
1) Direct characterization was show when he described the fear of the boy when he first ran into the convict in the beginning of the story. Some indirect characterization was show when he described how Pip was by showing his actions, taking the convict food, visiting his dead parents, show care and compassion for another human being. Direct characterization was also shown when Pip directly tells Miss. Havishum how she mad him feel by putting Estella and the man from France.  More indirect characterization was displayed in Estella and Pips effection.  It was kept indirect till about the end of the story when Pip straight says, Estella, I love you. The author uses these types of characterization to bring a certain tone, if he said it directly,  he was mainly looking for a certain tone or feeling, right away. If he used indirect characterization he was generally trying to begin a tone or feeling that will later grow more and more obvious to set up a single big scene.
2) When he would use characterization he did not change his syntax, he made the display of each characterization roll with the story patter; However he would usually change the tone or mood to help press the characterization feeling he was trying to create.
3) The main character is definitely dynamic, as I stated previously the theme is change and self improvement. In order to have self improvement one must change. Pip was a dynamic and round character because he changes multiple times and you can see his change from a little boy, to a man.
4) I felt like I met a character because through out the story Pip grew, I got to watch him grow as a visual scene in your head.

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Vocabulary: Fall List #5 Definitions and sentences

acumen (noun)- keen insight.
adjudicate (verb)- to settle or determine.
anachronism (noun)- something or someone that is not in its correct historical time.
apocryphal (adj)- of doubtful authorship or authenticity. disparity (noun)- inequality
dissimulate (verb)- to disguise or conceal under a false appearance.
empirical (adj)- derived from or guided by experience or experiment
flamboyant (adj)- strikingly bold or brilliant;
showy fulsome (adj)- offensive to good taste, especially as being excessive;overdone or gross
immolate (verb)- to sacrifice
imperceptible (adj)- very slight, gradual, or subtle.
lackey (noun)- a servile follower
liaison (noun)- a person who initiates and maintains such a contact or connection.
monolithic (adj)- consisting of one piece; solid or unbroken huge
mot juste (noun)- the exact, appropriate word
nihilism (noun)- total rejection of established laws and institutions.
patrician (noun)- a person of noble or high rank; aristocrat. propitiate (verb)- to make favorably inclined; appease; conciliate.
sic (verb)-to incite to attack, shows original mistake in quote  was in the original saying.
sublimate(adj)-to make nobler or purer

1) Before coming into a socratic seminar, make Sure u have acumen on the discussion topic.

2) Businesses don't like to adjudicate for the lower price.

3) Post modernism has many different characters that are anachronisms in comparison to there setting.

4) When you write in a different way on a certain assignment then the way you would usually write it, it usually causes apocryphal.

5) There will always be disparity of wealth within this society.

6)  In military,  it is comments to use dissimulate to create a chance of surprise attack.

7) In science,  most of the the time,  once you start to take a test on a certain subject, you know it well through a lab you performed and have now gained empirical knowledge.

8) Taking my first steps into Dr. Preston's class sophomore year, his class had a unique approach to me that appeared flamboyant.

9) During a Socratic seminar it is always more interesting when you have people who are showy fulsome about the topic at hand.

10) When you are in a discussion, you are immolateing your way of thinking for a possible new one if the other person had valid points that convince you in a new and dissonant way.

11) In some class discussions it shows when someone as a bit less than an imperceptible  knowledge on the topic.

12) A long time ago, we use to have the ability of slavery. Sadly if you were at all appearing to be a lackey, you could be punished if to disrespectful in ur owners view.

13) In a discussion in class it is nice to have Dr. Preston as the initial liaison.

14) When u have a writers block, it usually feels like ur brain and Thinking as hit a monolithic wall that requires you to walk through a maze to get past.

15) It is such a wonderful feeling when you are giving a speech and you are trying to figure out that one word that just fits your idea of what you are trying to explain, and off in the distance you hear someone else shout the mot juste.

16) Sometimes the happiest or most content people have personalities that are sinical and sometimes nihilistic, although they seem so gloom, they are just black and white about everything.

17) Is it possible to have a personal person you see as a patrician. To yourself because of the role they play in your life?

18) Often times when you make a mistake, people will use sympathy to make there excuse look more propitiate to believe.

19) When reading articles about current events that have quotes, you often see a lot of sics to show that a typo was not their own doing.

20) Am I correct in assuming some religions believe that baptism makes a person a bit more sublimate?

Monday, September 10, 2012

Heros Journey

My hero's journey began in a little village on the tiny Island Of Teresa Resau Philippines. Growing up with nothing to his name really, he had ten total siblings,  all who in some way worked difficult jobs for about a quarter pay a day. He lived in a little house, like the ones you would expect a poorer family to have like u would see on tv.  He would pick food, and use the basics of everything to just get by. At age 19 he was finally able to come the United States in 1969 not knowing a lick of english. He in turn took night classes at Hancock College to learn English. He started working in the fields harvesting cabbage. After some time of taking part in that he picked up a few custodian jobs, also being a cook at an old restaurant called the Sandbar which No longer exists. Lucky he eventually got a job as a custodian at Luckys grocery store now known as Albertsons. He grew through the ranks and eventually became the highest paid employee there under manage off of minimal education. Then, recently he faced his biggest villain yet on September 7, 2012. Losing someing very near and dear to him, he had already lost his parents and now all he has is his children and I plan to help the hero fight his hardest villain, because now the hero, needs a Savior....

Beowulf ond Godsylla (translation)

Meanehwæl, baccat meaddehæle, monstær lurccen; Fulle few too many drincce, hie luccen for fyht. Ðen Hreorfneorhtðhwr, son of Hrwærowþheororthwl, Æsccen æwful jeork to steop outsyd. Þhud! Bashe! Crasch! Beoom! Ðe bigge gye Eallum his bon brak, byt his nose offe; Wicced Godsylla wæld on his asse. Monstær moppe fleor wyþ eallum men in hælle. Beowulf in bacceroome fonecall bamaccen wæs; Hearen sond of ruccus sæd, "Hwæt ðe helle?" Graben sheold strang ond swich-blæd scharp Stond feorth to fyht ðe grimlic foe. "Me," Godsylla sæd, "mac ðe minsemete." Heoro cwyc geten heold wiþ fæmed half-nelson Ond flyng him lic frisbe bac to fen Beowulf belly up to meaddehæle bar, Sæd, "Ne foe beaten mie færsom cung-fu." Eorderen cocca-cohla yce-coeld, ðe reol þyng.

TRANSLATED:

Meanwhile, back at the mead-hall, the monster lurked Full (of) few too many drinks, he was looking for a fight Then (name), son of (name) asked the awful jerk to step outside Thud, Bash, Crash, boom, the big guy All of his bones broke, bit his nose off; Wicked Godzilla wailed on his a ss Moster mopped the floor with all the men in the hall Beowulf in the backroom making a phone call Hearing sounds of ruckus said, "What the hell?" Grabbed his strong shield and sharp switch blade Stood forth to fight the grimlic foe "Me," Godzilla said, "Make the mince-meat" Hero ? quickly got (getting) held with the famed half-nelson And flying him like a frisbee back and forth Beowulf belly up to the mead-hall's bar, said, "No foe has beaten my fearsome kung-fu." He ordered coca-cola, ice cold, the real thing

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Vocabulary: Fall List #4 sentences.

Being an apostate is discouraged in the church.

Most outgoing people are not known to be effusive.

In the movie production "Saw" most of the victims in the movie are put in a seemingly impasse situation.

I can't wait for the end of my senior year because I know by the end of graduation I will feel euphoria.

When I visit my mom at the hospital that usually puts me in a state of lugubrious.

To me beowolf seemed to display a sense of bravado.

Objective thinking is more of a display of facts something that is provable by a certain formula or  something obvious to the eye while subject thinking is usually influenced by consensus.

when trying to remember or memorize a certain poem assigned to us in class it is often helpful to use dichotomy in order to make the mission easier.

Energy drinks, although give you energy, also seem to constrict the learning process or the ability to retain information.

Some of the finest carving artwork from wood can be seen in the style of Gothic.

In order to figure out the answers to some of life's
"big questions" it requires a very punctilio process.

Some birth defects are known to metamorphosize the 2 twins or the baby's body.

A lot of tall tales are fables are told by people who are raconteur.

When people are sick medication can be very sine qua non.

France has been said to be 1 of the most quixotic places  in the world.

Righetti and Saint Joseph high school has been known to be a very prologue vendetta.

White blood cells are supposed to protect the body from any kind of Non sequitur.

A shrine is one way to show a person, thing, or idea much mystiquea.

When trying to explain your reason to an idea about something, make sure that your reasons and your information do not appear quagmire.

Some people will not ask big questions such as what is reality, or why am I here because they are afraid that discovering or researching that part of their mind or thinking can propose parlous ideas.

Literary Analysis Book

I chose "Great Expectations"
And I chose it simply because I own it.