Tuesday, August 26, 2014
Monday, August 18, 2014
Reflection on Week #1
1. No, there are no factors that are going to affect my participation and experience in this class this school year. Yes I have full access to a computer at home. Yes I do have a Mobil smart phone I will be using throughout this coarse as well. To be honest I'm not quite sure on what you meant by transportation but yes I have a car, license and I'm at school everyday! Friends and family? I have the best of the best. They are 1000% supportive with my life especially academics! My schedule this year is pretty easy I would have to say! This class is by far the hardest coarse I am taking with AP Stats following up.
2. An awesome best learning experience that I had learned is probably being apart of the Special Olympics club at school. Learning about their disorders and how they have to cope with them while trying to live a normal life is truly inspiring. Every Saturday for a month or so I would help volunteer at the bowling alley with the "special athletes" and they would change my day in a heartbeat. What makes each and everyone of those kids is how happy and enthusiastic they are all the time. This mentally changed my and my insight on life because then I started to realize I shouldn't take my perfect health for granted. They're are people and kids out there that are struggling to live a normal life or even trying their hardest to make ends meet and I sit there and complain that I have to do a little bit of chores to help out my parents. Observing these kids really makes me appreciate so many things not only not taking my life for granted but how the way I treat people all together. Life is such a precious thing and the older you get the more you realize and comprehend that.
3. I am most excited about the amount of technology that is used throughout this class. This "open source learning" is an amazing teaching tool and I'm ecstatic to start engaging in it! What I am most concerned about is the work load you assign in this class because I am an extremely busy person with sports and constantly doing things with my life, but I know that you are just preparing us for college so there shall be no complaining. Adding on top of the college subject I am looking forward to preparing myself to how a college coarse is ran compared to a normal college coarse class in high school. This will make a practical decision in my life because college is what is going to get me started with my future job and what I will make living from.
2. An awesome best learning experience that I had learned is probably being apart of the Special Olympics club at school. Learning about their disorders and how they have to cope with them while trying to live a normal life is truly inspiring. Every Saturday for a month or so I would help volunteer at the bowling alley with the "special athletes" and they would change my day in a heartbeat. What makes each and everyone of those kids is how happy and enthusiastic they are all the time. This mentally changed my and my insight on life because then I started to realize I shouldn't take my perfect health for granted. They're are people and kids out there that are struggling to live a normal life or even trying their hardest to make ends meet and I sit there and complain that I have to do a little bit of chores to help out my parents. Observing these kids really makes me appreciate so many things not only not taking my life for granted but how the way I treat people all together. Life is such a precious thing and the older you get the more you realize and comprehend that.
3. I am most excited about the amount of technology that is used throughout this class. This "open source learning" is an amazing teaching tool and I'm ecstatic to start engaging in it! What I am most concerned about is the work load you assign in this class because I am an extremely busy person with sports and constantly doing things with my life, but I know that you are just preparing us for college so there shall be no complaining. Adding on top of the college subject I am looking forward to preparing myself to how a college coarse is ran compared to a normal college coarse class in high school. This will make a practical decision in my life because college is what is going to get me started with my future job and what I will make living from.
Vocab Advice!
Hey if any of you guys needed that mass vocab definer here's the link to the website so all you have to do is copy the words on Dr. Preston's blog and paste them to the website! :)
www.easydefine.com
www.easydefine.com
Vocabulary #1
adumbrate - verb give to understand; describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of ex: Writers often adumbrate key ideas right away then elaborate on them later.
apotheosis - noun the elevation of a person (as to the status of a god); model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal ex: The pilot who landed the crashing plane in the Hudson River was an apotheosis.
ascetic - adj. practicing great self-denial; pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline;noun someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline ex: He had such an ascetic sense of clothes people often mistook him as an FBI agent.
bauble - noun a mock scepter carried by a court jester; cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing ex: Her shopping sprees always began with the search for some inexpensive bauble.
beguile - verb attract; cause to be enamored; influence by slyness ex: She didn't have enough money, but she was able to beguile the clerk to shortchange him.
burgeon - verb grow and flourish ex: My dad's garden has began to burgeon.
complement - noun something added to complete or make perfect;either of two parts that mutually complete each other; a word or phrase used to complete a grammatical construction; number needed to make up a whole force; a complete number or quantity;one of a series of enzymes in the blood serum that are part of the immune response; verb make complete or perfect; supply what is wanting or form the complement to ex: The pillow complements the bed cover in her room.
contumacious - adj. wilfully obstinate; stubbornly disobedient ex: My dog is a very contumacious puppy.
curmudgeon - noun a crusty irascible cantankerous old person full of stubborn ideas ex: His grandfather was a famous and wealthy but a curmudgeon towards his family and employees.
didactic - adj. instructive (especially excessively) ex: The didactic book taught the class about the results of a World War II.
disingenuous - adj. not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness ex: It's disingenuous to search for a sentence with disingenuous.
exculpate - verb pronounce not guilty of criminal charges ex: The man was exculpated from the crime.
faux pas- adj. not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article ex: Wearing shorts at a wedding is not faux pas in Hawaii.
fulminate - noun a salt or ester of fulminic acid; verb cause to explode violently and with loud noise; come on suddenly and intensely; criticize severely ex: Public officials fulminated against the perceived security threat.
fustian - noun a strong cotton and linen fabric with a slight nap;pompous or pretentious talk or writing ex: The shirt was made out of fustian.
hauteur - noun overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors ex: Some artists use such hauteur to describe the works of other artists.
inhibit - verb limit the range or extent of; to put down by force or authority ex: I need to inhibit myself from eating too many cookies.
jeremiad - noun a long and mournful complaint ex: The employee turned in a long jeremiad.
opportunist - adj. taking immediate advantage, often unethically, of any circumstance of possible benefit; noun a person who places expediency above principle ex: Albert Einstein was a huge opportunist.
unconscionable - adj. greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation; lacking a conscience ex: My brother has an unconscionable behavior.
apotheosis - noun the elevation of a person (as to the status of a god); model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal ex: The pilot who landed the crashing plane in the Hudson River was an apotheosis.
ascetic - adj. practicing great self-denial; pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline;noun someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline ex: He had such an ascetic sense of clothes people often mistook him as an FBI agent.
bauble - noun a mock scepter carried by a court jester; cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing ex: Her shopping sprees always began with the search for some inexpensive bauble.
beguile - verb attract; cause to be enamored; influence by slyness ex: She didn't have enough money, but she was able to beguile the clerk to shortchange him.
burgeon - verb grow and flourish ex: My dad's garden has began to burgeon.
complement - noun something added to complete or make perfect;either of two parts that mutually complete each other; a word or phrase used to complete a grammatical construction; number needed to make up a whole force; a complete number or quantity;one of a series of enzymes in the blood serum that are part of the immune response; verb make complete or perfect; supply what is wanting or form the complement to ex: The pillow complements the bed cover in her room.
contumacious - adj. wilfully obstinate; stubbornly disobedient ex: My dog is a very contumacious puppy.
curmudgeon - noun a crusty irascible cantankerous old person full of stubborn ideas ex: His grandfather was a famous and wealthy but a curmudgeon towards his family and employees.
didactic - adj. instructive (especially excessively) ex: The didactic book taught the class about the results of a World War II.
disingenuous - adj. not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness ex: It's disingenuous to search for a sentence with disingenuous.
exculpate - verb pronounce not guilty of criminal charges ex: The man was exculpated from the crime.
faux pas- adj. not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article ex: Wearing shorts at a wedding is not faux pas in Hawaii.
fulminate - noun a salt or ester of fulminic acid; verb cause to explode violently and with loud noise; come on suddenly and intensely; criticize severely ex: Public officials fulminated against the perceived security threat.
fustian - noun a strong cotton and linen fabric with a slight nap;pompous or pretentious talk or writing ex: The shirt was made out of fustian.
hauteur - noun overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors ex: Some artists use such hauteur to describe the works of other artists.
inhibit - verb limit the range or extent of; to put down by force or authority ex: I need to inhibit myself from eating too many cookies.
jeremiad - noun a long and mournful complaint ex: The employee turned in a long jeremiad.
opportunist - adj. taking immediate advantage, often unethically, of any circumstance of possible benefit; noun a person who places expediency above principle ex: Albert Einstein was a huge opportunist.
unconscionable - adj. greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation; lacking a conscience ex: My brother has an unconscionable behavior.
Sunday, August 17, 2014
Summer Homework
Finally figured out how to upload a picture on right! Woooohhooooo! Sorry for the late upload also, I struggled big time lol
Montaigne/Austen Essay
"What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of at most one tiny little part of it at any given instant." This quote by David Foster Wallace wrote in his 2001 story "Good Old Neon". While comparing Montaigne and Austen the use of stream of consciousness is crucial, concluding Montaigne's techniques in fact do support Foster's notion and comparing the two authors they're are many differences but portraying the same process of thought.
The human brain is constantly creating, imagining, thinking and even forgetting thousands maybe even millions of ideas daily. These ideas could be outrageous or even practical but due to the amount of ideas we barely scratch the surface of our their potential. Montaigne's essays were based on the concept of stream of consciousness which is allowing your thoughts to captivate a page without completely over analyzing it. Michel attacks both serious and non serious subjects with both openness, honesty and reality. Throughout his essays he holds nothing back and allows his ideas to jumble with the pages. There is no set form of writing with Montaigne and that's how he differs from Austen.
Jane Austen writes in a much more delicate matter other than Montaigne. She remains loyal to her style and themes in order to portray her story in a realistic light. Emotions are very significant in Jane's writing because they have a certain human truth to them to allow readers to connect on emotional and mental levels. Austen's writing involves natural thinking and emotions in Pride and Prejudice.
The major difference between these two authors that pertain to their style of writing is the difference in the time period. Montaigne's essays were published about 200 years prior to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice in 1813. Despite the difference in the long time period, both authors were able to stay true to their writing style with no critiques. Montaigne's essays display with an enticing style of thought along with Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice that gives the audience a new sense of reality. So concluding these authors have a different approach to the way they write, are from two different time periods, the message of honesty, reality, and the natural process of thought is crystal clear.
The human brain is constantly creating, imagining, thinking and even forgetting thousands maybe even millions of ideas daily. These ideas could be outrageous or even practical but due to the amount of ideas we barely scratch the surface of our their potential. Montaigne's essays were based on the concept of stream of consciousness which is allowing your thoughts to captivate a page without completely over analyzing it. Michel attacks both serious and non serious subjects with both openness, honesty and reality. Throughout his essays he holds nothing back and allows his ideas to jumble with the pages. There is no set form of writing with Montaigne and that's how he differs from Austen.
Jane Austen writes in a much more delicate matter other than Montaigne. She remains loyal to her style and themes in order to portray her story in a realistic light. Emotions are very significant in Jane's writing because they have a certain human truth to them to allow readers to connect on emotional and mental levels. Austen's writing involves natural thinking and emotions in Pride and Prejudice.
The major difference between these two authors that pertain to their style of writing is the difference in the time period. Montaigne's essays were published about 200 years prior to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice in 1813. Despite the difference in the long time period, both authors were able to stay true to their writing style with no critiques. Montaigne's essays display with an enticing style of thought along with Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice that gives the audience a new sense of reality. So concluding these authors have a different approach to the way they write, are from two different time periods, the message of honesty, reality, and the natural process of thought is crystal clear.
Wednesday, August 13, 2014
Poetry #1
1. The commercial borrows The Laughing Heart by Charles Bukowski without leaving credit.
2. The use of this poem by a corporation is ironic because this poem portrays a sense of a life lesson, embracing life and living it to the fullest instead of talking and trying to sell a piece of clothing which was jeans in this case. The poem itself has an extreme message brought out to the readers reading and fully understanding it, so when the whole message is put into play advertising jeans it gets a little too complex. The choice of words he uses is ironic in a sense where he's talking about being in a dark place looking for light when in reality it's just a pair of jeans, there really can't be any life lessons including "dank submissions" with a piece of clothing.
3. Yes, this commercial represents Charles Bukowski because the whole commercial visually shows social interactions including different people with different cultures and that ties in with Charles because he is influenced by the social, cultural, and economic ambience of his home city of Los Angeles. In other poems he has written he tends to talk about sexual and violent situations, so when the commercial portrayed a kissing teenage couple and people revolting it's represented Charles very well.
4. Describing my process in which I found my answers to one and three I used the internet and visual observations. I googled the first couple lines of the commercial and Charles name popped up. I read a little about him and glanced over other poems he has written to connect the type of style to the poem used in the commercial.
2. The use of this poem by a corporation is ironic because this poem portrays a sense of a life lesson, embracing life and living it to the fullest instead of talking and trying to sell a piece of clothing which was jeans in this case. The poem itself has an extreme message brought out to the readers reading and fully understanding it, so when the whole message is put into play advertising jeans it gets a little too complex. The choice of words he uses is ironic in a sense where he's talking about being in a dark place looking for light when in reality it's just a pair of jeans, there really can't be any life lessons including "dank submissions" with a piece of clothing.
3. Yes, this commercial represents Charles Bukowski because the whole commercial visually shows social interactions including different people with different cultures and that ties in with Charles because he is influenced by the social, cultural, and economic ambience of his home city of Los Angeles. In other poems he has written he tends to talk about sexual and violent situations, so when the commercial portrayed a kissing teenage couple and people revolting it's represented Charles very well.
4. Describing my process in which I found my answers to one and three I used the internet and visual observations. I googled the first couple lines of the commercial and Charles name popped up. I read a little about him and glanced over other poems he has written to connect the type of style to the poem used in the commercial.
Tuesday, August 12, 2014
Essay#1
In the novel The Poison Wood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver the main character, Adah Price, has experiences with exile from her hometown. Adah is a fourteen year old girl that had been born cripple and nearly mute at birth. When her and her family are forced to relocate to the Congo, she couldn't believe it nor process it through her head. Before she even arrived to her new home she had already thought to herself that she was not going to be in favor of the new culture she was about to be forced into. With the experience of exile, the character illuminates the book as a successful learning tool to her agonizing life.
Adah was one of the daughters of an overzealous Baptist minister named Nathan Price. The mother, Orleanna passively accepts the turn of events when her husband decides to go deep into the heart of the Congo where he was on a mission to save the unenlightened souls of Africa. Adah had an older sister, Rachael, who was the oldest and the most beautiful of them all. Ruth May is the five year old adventurer that just brings happiness to the family while on the other hand Adah's twin sister Leah keeps to her self, but when her father's religious faith is involved, she's very enthusiastic. Through the hardships and difficult experiences she faces in Africa, finally her mother and her sisters make an escape from the father to leave Africa. A factor leading up to this departure was the death of her sister, Ruth May. Her death took a huge toll and part of Adah later on in her life. Another situation that took a toll on her was finally starting to enjoy Africa, her lifestyle and falling in love with the subtle language of Lingala so when she was dragged out of something she was finally starting to open up to that was hard on her.
When her, her mother and her sisters finally decided to depart secretly, scurrying fast away from their father, that mentally took a toll on her once again departing from what was again a hometown detachment. All of these hardships she constantly faces does nothing but make her stronger in the long run leading to her future. When she reaches Georgia, Adah pursues a career, goes to medical school and becomes a successful epidemiologist, taking on science as her religion. With this interest in the medical field, she is able to find a way to see the world in a different angle and overcome her handicap. She grows to love and admire the viruses she studies and goes on to study them in college.
Overall analyzing Adah's life, it can be concluded as one that was extremely difficult both mentally and physically, but in the end all of the hardships she faced brought her up to the person she is today. So concluding, detaching Adah from her hometown shows how this one character illuminates into the whole novel.
Adah was one of the daughters of an overzealous Baptist minister named Nathan Price. The mother, Orleanna passively accepts the turn of events when her husband decides to go deep into the heart of the Congo where he was on a mission to save the unenlightened souls of Africa. Adah had an older sister, Rachael, who was the oldest and the most beautiful of them all. Ruth May is the five year old adventurer that just brings happiness to the family while on the other hand Adah's twin sister Leah keeps to her self, but when her father's religious faith is involved, she's very enthusiastic. Through the hardships and difficult experiences she faces in Africa, finally her mother and her sisters make an escape from the father to leave Africa. A factor leading up to this departure was the death of her sister, Ruth May. Her death took a huge toll and part of Adah later on in her life. Another situation that took a toll on her was finally starting to enjoy Africa, her lifestyle and falling in love with the subtle language of Lingala so when she was dragged out of something she was finally starting to open up to that was hard on her.
When her, her mother and her sisters finally decided to depart secretly, scurrying fast away from their father, that mentally took a toll on her once again departing from what was again a hometown detachment. All of these hardships she constantly faces does nothing but make her stronger in the long run leading to her future. When she reaches Georgia, Adah pursues a career, goes to medical school and becomes a successful epidemiologist, taking on science as her religion. With this interest in the medical field, she is able to find a way to see the world in a different angle and overcome her handicap. She grows to love and admire the viruses she studies and goes on to study them in college.
Overall analyzing Adah's life, it can be concluded as one that was extremely difficult both mentally and physically, but in the end all of the hardships she faced brought her up to the person she is today. So concluding, detaching Adah from her hometown shows how this one character illuminates into the whole novel.
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