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Tuesday, June 5, 2012

English Final

Chad Foster
Mariah Cooks
AJ Franklin
Max Kulhman
Issac De La Cruz

Thursday, May 31, 2012

My Conversation

I was able to talk to a few of my colleges such as Max Kulhman, Hunter Walker, and Patrick Sims and after discussing with each of them they all suggested that we include a video on our presentation about what we did in the junior class. This to me is a great idea because it will give our audience the best perspective of our work!

Friday, May 25, 2012

Response to Post

1. Digital literacy is the ability to not only use but comprehend the tools that you are using. Understanding and connecting with them.
2) I would say I'm fairly digitally literate, but there are always aspects I can improve on throughout my life.
3) I believe that adults should trust us to create our own educational path. We are in that point of our lives where we should makes decisions on our own and do whatever we want to do as a career. Parents can help guide us to that path but should trust us to create our own.
A) Digital Literacy is the ability to understand and use information in multiple formats from a wide range of sources when it is presented via computers.
B) I would say that I am digitally literate because I am able to use computers to get my information and take the important parts from the huge variety we are presented on the internet. When in need of something specific, I am confident that I will be able to find my information on the computer.
C) Adults should trust us to create our own educational paths, because if we are able to that, we will create a path that is interesting for us. If there are some guidelines that students must follow, they will stay in those guidelines but do whatever they actually want to do. They will be motivated to actually want to learn and will be more likely to stay on top of their work. Times are different from when they were growing up and innovation is a key to what keeps our society moving on. This would be innovation by letting students use technology in a way too help themselves learn.
4) My vision of the digital future is that technology will take over the way students learn. I think that homework will be done online, then eventually classwork will be done online and technology will continue to take over the classroom. My place in this vision, is that I was apart of the first class that did a majority of their homework online. With the blogs, we have done something that no class has really done before and this should be revolutionary for classes to come. I'm glad that I could be apart of it.

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Finish Product

My group and I plan to have our group project finished tomorrow. Tomorrow we plan to present all of our hard work to the junior class tomorrow. We will have a power point to present and we asked the documentary crew to film us tomorrow.

Teaching in Progress!!

1) My group and I have pretty much finished our planning. We have already talked to Mrs. Nylander and set up our class take over, for this Thursday and Friday. So the only thing we have to do is put our imagination to work!
2) In the next two weeks we just need to teach the Junior class about the entire senior year.
3) Our work will greatly influence the junior class. Our work will better help them prepare for all of the senior year activities. This will make me feel good about myself because I will be able to give the juniors a big advantage.

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Final Project

1) Our for this project is to Orient the junior class about the whole senior year experience. My group and I plan to explain the Ap Test, College Choices, and everything in between
2) The materials we would need would have to be my laptop and that's probably about it.
3) This week we have been discussing our presentation process and we will be planning to present next week to the junior class.
4) After we present and assess the class we will have taken notes and plan to come to class with a run down of how things went.

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Study Update:4

Right now, our back table is trying to hold back our laughter because this is the easiest post you can do for credit. Well anyways back to the Ap test, I plan to study for it today on my way to a baseball game in San Luis. I plan on looking over old essay questions and trying to come up with at least an introduction for them.

Ms Williams Response

1) Ms. Williams has good organization throughout her essay as well as insight. It is also convincing and well supported. Her work may be improved by using more mature diction and syntax.

2) I would say her premises of discrimination in the education system are true even though I am not a witness of it. As far as logical fallacies, I didn’t identify any.
Based on my experience, I am in agreement with her on how teachers brag about the education they have and yet they don’t fully apply themselves to helping their students; that could improve. She does focus on the black race with the discrimination but I think all students of all races can find this applicable.
3) A lesson I can take away from Ms. Williams’ work is to sacrifice time and effort to things that I truly believe in. She learned a lesson from this novel and applied it to her life and portrayed it in a well-written essay to hear her opinions.

Monday, April 30, 2012

Ap Exam: Study Journal

Today in class our group in the back got a lot accomplished. We were able to discuss how we were going to study for this test. Myself and Aj are going to prepare by doing the read and respond questions while Max and Mariah are going to study vocab.

Sunday, April 29, 2012

A Reflection on Uninstructed Learning

The text from The Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons provides so many different outlooks on how to accomplish the impossible and unimaginable. When the author(s) talked about how "three months of self-doubt and self-ridicule" turned into something so worthwhile, it makes the hardest of obstacles and the worst of trying times seem manageable. The theme being put across in this text is that even when the going gets rough, just stay strong and try and try again. Sometimes, the hardest assignments can kill you but as we all know, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger and makes you a fighter.

Study Update:3

I seriously need to study! I need to sit down and pick up the Ap vocabulary sheet and study so I will

Saturday, April 28, 2012

Study Update:2

I'm sitting here watching Bryce Harper make his MLB debut at 19 years old, while trying to study for the Final. Right now I am working on the read and respond paragraph questions because they are the hardest for me because I can not stay focused for that long. Wish me Luck!

Friday, April 27, 2012

Study Update:1

Well right now I just got home from the PowderPuff game. I am going to attempt to work on the multiple choice section of one of the tests because I feel like I need to start, to recognize the wrong answers immediately. This might not click right away but, in due time it will.

Thursday, April 26, 2012

2004 Ap Section 1

I chose this section because I feel we can all use help in these sections. Most high school students, like myself feel rushed when we get to these sections because we feel like we don't have enough time to read and complete all the questions accurately. So I feel like we can all use a little prep in this section

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

MacBeth Prompt

Prose Essay Prompt
1975: Lagerkvist’s The Marriage Feast: Define and discuss the subject of the story. Direct your remarks to the significance of the events described.
Poem Prompt
1989 Poem: “The Great Scarf of Birds” (John Updike)
Prompt: Write a well-organized essay in which you analyze how the poem's organization, diction, and figurative language prepare the reader for the speaker's concluding response.
Open Essay
1975B Unlike the novelist, the writer of a play does not use his own voice and
only rarely uses a narrator's voice to guide the audience's responses to
character and action. Select a play you have read and write an essay in
which you explain the techniques the playwright uses to guide his
audience's respnses to the central characters and the action. You might
consider the effect on the audience of things like setting, the use of
comparable and contrasting characters, and the characters' responses to
each other. Support your argument with specific references to the play.
Do not give a plot summary.

Ap Prep(Absent)

I am not taking the Ap Test but, that doesn't mean I don't have to prepare for it. I feel like I really need help on the multiple choice sections, so I need to develop a strategy, that will enable me to become better. I feel confident on the free response questions because I have confidence in my writing style .

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

MacBeth Test Answer Key

Part I.

1. Macbeth won the respect of King Duncan by
A. Slaying the traitor Macdonwald.

2. King Duncan rewarded Macbeth by dubbing him
B. The Thane of Cawdor him.

3. In addressing Banquo, the witches called him which of these?
"Lesser than Macbeth, and greater." (I)
"Not so happy as Macbeth, yet much happier." (II)
"A future father of kings." (III)
A. I and II only

4. When Macbeth said, "Two truths are told / As happy prologues" he was referring to
A. His titles of Glamis and Cawdor.

5. "Nothing in his life / Became him like the leaving it" is a reference to
A. The traitorous Thane of Cawdor.

6. Duncan's statement, "I have begun to plant thee and will labour / To make thee full of growing" is an example of
B. A metaphor.

7. Lady Macbeth characterizes her husband as being
B. "too full of the milk of human kindness."

8. When Macbeth agonizes over the possible killing of the king, which of these does he say?
"He is my house guest; I should protect him." (I)
"Duncan's virtues will "plead like angels" " (II)
"I am his kinsman and his subject" (III)
B. II and III

9. Macbeth's statement to his wife, "Bring forth men-children only" signifies that he
C. has accepted the challenge to slay the king.


Part 2

1. "Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible / To feeling as to sight?" is a reference to the
B. dagger.

2. Lady Macbeth confessed that she would have killed King Duncan herself except for the fact that
B. he looked like her father

3. Shakespeare introduced the Porter in order to
B. remind the audience of the Witches' prophecies.

4. Malcolm and Donalbain flee after the murder
A. because they fear the daggers in men's smiles.


5. Macbeth arranges for Banquo's death by telling the hired killers that
C. he will eradicate all records of their previous crimes.

6. Macbeth startles his dinner guests by
A. conversing with the Ghost of Banquo


7. The Witches threw into the cauldron
"Eye of bat and tongue of frog"(I)
"Wool of bat and tongue of dog" (II)
"Fang of snake and eagle's glare" (III)
A. I and II

8. The three apparitions which appeared to Macbeth were
An armed head. (I)
A child with a crown. (II)
A bloody child (III)
C. I, II, and III


9. In Act IV, Malcolm is at first lukewarm toward Macduff because he
B. suspects a trick.

10. Birnam Wood comes to Dunsinane when
B. the camouflaged soldiers make their advance.

Thursday, April 5, 2012

Lit Anal 3: Invisible Man

Main Character/Narrator:
  • A gifted speaker
  • 1920's-1930's- lived in the South as a young man
  • Was rewarded with a scholarship to a black college 
Mr. Emerson:
  • He helps the narrator get a low paying job at Liberty Paints plant
    • An explosion happens and the narrator gets knocked out
Plot:
  • A man refuses other people to see him; hiding under a manhole
  • Steals electricity underground
  •  The narrator was introduced into a brotherhood
  • He meets the leader Tom Clifton
  • After the explosion at the plant he loses his memory and ability to speak
"Brotherhood"
  • They are all suppose to be brothers and have a bond
  • However, the narrator gets betrayed by them and wants revenge
  • He seduces a lady to find out secrets about the group
Themes:
  • Racism
    • The man struggles to find his identity
    • racial prejudice
  • Ideology
    • inner self complexity
  • Stereotypes
    • African American trying to escape prejudice
Literary Elements:
  • Symbolism, Imagery, Allegory
  • Liberty paints- demonstrated the relation to black/white (symbolism) 
  • Sambo doll- puppeteers dolls in same way the brotherhood manipulated the leader and the narrator 

Saturday, March 31, 2012

Top 3 Blogs

These are not in any specific order!
*http://afenlitcomp.blogspot.com/?m=1
*http://jhrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/?m=1
*http://ajkrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/?m=1

Monday, March 26, 2012

The Promise (Remix)

“To the students in Ap English, I’m sorry. I’m extremely sorry. We were hoping for flawless speeches. That was my goal, something that has never been done here. I promise you one thing, a lot of good will come out of this. You will never see any student in the entire class work as hard as I will work the of the season. You will never see someone push the rest of the class as hard as I will push everybody the rest of the year. You will never see a class work harder than we will the rest of the semester.
God bless.”

Thursday, March 22, 2012

The Love Lives On :(

After watching a video in Gov, and becoming teary eyed. I will never forget the last time I saw you and will always remember the good times we spent together.

Buried Onions (Lit Anal #2)

Gary Soto's "Buried Onions" is the story of a protagonist who seeks to rise above the low expectations of his peers. Soto begins the novel describing Eddie, who is nineteen years old, is living alone in the same area he has grown up in, making ends meet by performing odd jobs. Although he initially was enrolled in a local community college, he has dropped out. The lack of focus makes him susceptible to the demands of the mother of his cousin who gets killed. When confronted with this type of internal conflict, Eddie isn't able to turn to his mother, who has never provided emotional, mental, and physical support. This makes it difficult for Eddie to navigate a world where there is constant violence and temptation to pursue an alternative path. By the end of "Buried Onions," Eddie's desire to leave his surroundings motivates him to join the military for the guidance he has never received.

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

3/21 Lecture paragraphs

1) After discussing these concepts in class I have been enlightened on so many different concepts. I have learned that as a child your parents try to always hold your hand on everything you do. But, if you allow this once you become 18 and are on your own you will become helpless. This is where the saying if you don't use it, you will lose it.
2) The first paragraph relates mostly to the AP test. If you do not use the knowledge you learned throughout this class you will lose it and do poorly on the AP test. But, this testing does not prove a thing because not everyone is built for testing. This is not genetics it is just that not everyone can sit down and concentrate for an entire test period.
3) I feel that we can apply what we learned in today's seminar, to our group/partner work. We learned that knowledge/wisdom is power and that great minds working together can teach us that we are able to do anything if we just place our mind to it. These conclusions will allows to double our intellectual intake in this class.

3/20/12 Notes

The internet allows-Globalization, localization and delocalization
Gives us a chance to listen, talk, and understand each others’ religion, concepts, and views of world.
How do you perceive the world around you?
-strange/unfamiliar or close relationship?
What form of resistance is effective?
Every effort to change world starts with people asking questions.
How can we all sit together and discuss? There needs to be a big meeting to discuss these issues .
With a large debate, together we can find solutions.
This “100 Questions” Event is a time coming for multiple viewpoints and ways to express your opinions. This is a modern form of communication.
Even though we are different, we all have the same problems
Together as one we are here to celebrate diversity and multiple viewpoints
Intentions: present voices that aren’t usually magnified in the media.

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Infant Sorrow w/ AJ

1) Dramatic Sit- Birth of a little boy
2 Structure- Couplets
3) Theme- Joy of life aka birth
4) Grammar- Simple, clear, meaningful
5) Images- Vivid and clear imagery
6) Importance- Helpless, Naked, piping loud
7) Tone- Serious yet, hint of struggle
8) Devices- Imagery
9) Prosody- Clear meaningful flow, understandable

Kony 2012

Friday, March 2, 2012

Dickens Mind Map

http://www.mindmeister.com/maps/show/143103455

Of Mice and Men: Lit Analysis

1. Of Mice and Men by John  Steinbeck is about two friends named George and Lennie, they are going to a new job to work on a ranch.  George is a shorter man but very smart and witty, on the other hand Lennie is a bigger stronger man but slow on the intellectual side. We learn Lennie has a mental disabilty and George is the one who has to take care of him.  There are sometimes when George feels life would be easier if he didn't have Lennie, but its obvious their friendship and devotion is mutual. The men arrive at the ranch and George tells the boss that the two of them are cousins and Lennie was kicked in the head by a horse when he was young.  They are hired and meet the workers for the first time a short period after that. George admits to Slim that he and Lennie are not cousins and they are best friends.  He tells him that Lennie has gotten them into trouble in the past, like their last job where he got accused of rape.  Candy gives in to the pressure and lets Carlson kill his old dog. Curley picks a fight with Lennie and in the altercation Lennie breaks his hand.  The next night the men go out and Lennie is left behind with Crooks and Curleys wife.  While in the barn Curleys wife approaches Lennie in the barn, he tells her he likes to pet soft things and starts petting her hair.  He pulls to hard and she starts screaming and in an attempt to quiet her he snaps her neck.  Lennie leaves to the spot where George told him to go if he got into trouble.  George meets him there a short time later and doesn't seem mad but just talks to his best friend.  While his head is turned he puts the gun to his head and kills his friend out of mercy.  When the rest of the people get there, they are confused on what had happened as Slim and George walk off.
2.  One thing in this novel is friendship and how much of an impact it can have on people. The friendship between George and Lenny is very strong and is the closest thing to brothers either of them have.  They both have one another's best interest in mind, protect each other, and know that there is someone in the world who is dedicated to looking over them.  They each have a dream that brings their friendship even closer and that dream is what shapes their life.  Even though there is a tragic end to the story, there is still no doubt that their friendship is as strong as ever at the end of the story.
3. The tone for Of Mice and Men is both sentimental and tragic.  It is sentimental in the fact that the audience starts  to gain compassion for Lennie and then there is a plot twist towards the end.  The audience feels bad for Lenny and that's why there is a sentimental tone to it.  It is tragic because right when you get a sense that things are starting to go right for George and Lenny, there is a turn in the story that brings a sense of failure for their life.
4. One literary technique that is used often are symbols. One symbol is George and Lennie's Farm and this is what their dream is.  It also seduces all the characters in the story and it also makes the reader want to believe that there is the possibility of a free life.  The farm gives a sense of freedom and protection from the outside world.  There is also foreshadowing and one example from the book is when Lennie is petting the dead mouse at the beginning of the story.  We learn that he likes to pet soft stuff and ends up killing some animals.  At the end of the story he accidentally kills the bunny which leads to his downfall and eventually his death.

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Open Essay

1972)
In the opening scene in Of Mice and Men, you meet two very different characters. George and Lenny are two traveling laborers who skip from ranch to ranch looking for work. They become very close throughout the story, just like two brothers do throughout their lives. But, just like brothers they encounter some very sticky situations throughout the story.

1984)
Alone in a barn with a bunch of little bunnies, sits Lenny. This is one of my favorite scene because a scene where everything is so calm, utter drama occurs. Lenny accidentally kills one of the bunnies and when is confronted about it he kills the women who confronts him. Lenny is not a cold blooded killer he is just a man lost in the sea we call life.

1990)
Of Mice and Men are full is full of conflict between the main characters. Lenny and George will constantly fight, not because they hate each other, because they are like two brothers who were never born together. George and Lenny will always bicker but, deep down they will always love each other and defend each other.

Monday, February 27, 2012

Of Mice and Men

John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men" which took me all of two days because it's a short novel...probably the shortest on my list. It was a quick read, and a powerful story, although I could tell after reading the first page or two that things were going to end very, very badly, and I certainly was correct in that assumption. The story concerns two migrant ranch workers living in California during the Great Depression. George is a crafty, wiry, and small man, and his sidekick Lennie is a huge man of great physical strength, but who is mentally handicapped. He's not bright at all, and he loves to pet soft things, like puppies and rabbits and mice. He doesn't care if they're alive or dead, which is for the best since he doesn't know his own strength and usually ends up killing whatever he is petting. In fact when the story opens, Lennie is petting a dead mouse that he keeps in his pocket. At the opening, George and Lennie are on their way to a new ranch near Soledad, California in the Central Valley. They had to leave their last job in Weed when Lennie petted a woman's dress because it was soft, and when she started to get mad he got scared and wouldn't let go, so naturally everyone assumed he was trying to rape her. Which he wasn't, because he wouldn't intentionally hurt anyone, he just wanted to pet her soft dress. This is how it goes with Lennie.

George and Lennie have a dream of saving up enough money to buy a small farm and live off the land. This would also give Lennie the chance to raise rabbits to help satisfy his urge to pet soft things. Lennie constantly asks George to tell and retell the story of how they will live on this farm, and it's clearly a powerful dream for both of them.

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Poem Dissection

1) The main character is searching for the treasure of El Dorado. The main character is a knight and he is an older man.
2) The structure is depicted through the stanzas. The first parts are when he is young and searching and the second part is when he is older.
3) Never give up on something you are passionate for.
4) At the end of each stanza there is a punctuation and the stanzas are separated according to thought.
5) The images are very vivid and descriptive. He uses words to paint a picture of the knights journey.
6) The author repeats El Dorado in every stanza to show the treasures importance to the knight.
7) There is a very adventurous tone.
8) He uses alot of imagery, repetition, and Anaphora.
9) The structure helps the author convey his message by separating the stanzas and leaving open ended questions in order to get his message across without separating the stanzas we would not recognize the difference in his journey.

Friday, February 17, 2012

Review of Test

1) I feel that the essays were easier than I expected because I felt like I was really prepared for them. The only topic I had trouble with was topic 2.
2) The only thing I felt was difficult was the second topic. I felt like writing to that topic was difficult because it required more thought
3) I leaned that the Ap test will ask you no matter what because they expect you to know pretty much everything
4) I learned that I am a very clutch performer. I felt like I had plenty of time to write a well structured essay.
5) I will prepare for the final exam by catching up on all of texts I have read this year.

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Lecture Notes

There is a 3rd city involved

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Why A Tale of Two Cities?

Charles dickens wrote this book to help portay how horrible the feudal system was and the laws by which the king let his people live.Dickens wanted to change the laws. Another reason is because Charles Dickens was haunted by the memories of being forced to work in the debtors prison for so long and losing his sister whom he idolized and not being able to marry the women he loved.

Thursday, February 2, 2012

A Tale of Two Cities

Questions
1. Why does the novel start out with the quote, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..."?

2. The story takes place during the French Revolution in Paris and London. Why are they chosen as the two separate cities for comparison?

3. Mr. Lorry says, "Recalled to life." What is he trying to say and what relation does it have to his life?

4. Why is Dickens's tone in the book very ominous or sad?

5. What is the big surprise about Lucie's dad?

6. How does Monseiur Defarge react to Lucie and Lorry when they come into his wine shop in England?

7. How does Lucie's dad react when Lucie shows up?

8. What is meant by the quote, "death was a recipe much in vogue,"?

9. Who is Jerry Cruncher and why is he relevant to the storyline in the current year 1780?

10. What is the relationship between Lorry and Charles Darnay?


Answers

1. That quotes symbolizes the contradictory attitudes from the two separate cities of London and Paris. While Paris was the center of the Revolution going on, they weren't in any major concern state of mind. Meanwhile, London was scared of another revolution starting. They were scarred for life by the American Revolution and did not want that to come back to haunt them like it did the first time around.

2. Like stated above in answer #1, the two cities were chosen as a sort of comparison between environments during such a huge historical event. Paris was going crazy but kept its cool. London was fearful of what they thought was going to destroy the European nation. Dickens used these two cities like a science experiment with one being the control and the other being the variable. They each took the reactions in different ways; therefore, London and Paris were the contrast of the time period.

3. Lorry is mostly talking about how troubled he is with the circumstances in his life. This phrase refers to the fact that giving himself or someone else a second chance of life is like a renewal. He will be able to start from scratch and have a clean slate at the difficult journey ahead.

4. Dickens has a dreary tone during the majority of the novel to set the scene for a gloomy life going on during the time period. London is known for its foggy setting and with the sad tone mixed in, it represents the sadness that the community feels after losing their last revolution/war. The tone also shows the character's personalities and outlooks on life.

5. Lorry and Lucie find out that Lucie's dad is not dead. He is, in fact, in jail and has been for the past 18 years. He got locked up for witnessing (and being falsely accused) a horrendous murder crime.

6. When they first walk in the shop, he ignores them like they aren't even there. After a few minutes, he talks to Lorry quickly and then leads them up some stairs. Once they reach the room they are looking for, they come to find an older man.

7. At first, he doesn't really recognize her because she has grown up since he last saw her. Then he notices her blonde curly locks as a familiar sign. He begins to assume that Lucie is his wife because of her noticeable hair. Lucie goes on to speak about what's been happening and her dad weeps with shock and joy because he has been reunited at last.

8. This phrase is meant along the lines of how to deal with crimes in the current time period. Many people who get convicted for whatever petty crime they did usually get killed because it is frowned upon to revolt against the laws.

9. Jerry Cruncher is an employee of Tellson's. He is married but he is very abusive towards his wife. He hates the fact that she has no true faith in him and beats her because of it. He becomes more involved in the storyline as he must go to the courthouse to attend to some important matters.

10. Charles Darnay is a man that has been accused for leaking secrets about the King of France, King Louis. He has to go up on trial in which Lorry is involved in as a witness to the crime.

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

A Tale of 2 Cities

A revolution of British colonists in America has ripped the colony from British hands, and in Paris, the masses of peasants are starving under the brutal oppression and tyranny of aristocratic rule. In both cities, cruel executions and police tortures are the order of the day. England is riddled with crime, and France with poverty. On the thrones of the respective countries sit kings and queens who rule the lands with what they believe are their divine rights as rulers.

Saturday, January 28, 2012

Big Question

Big Question

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Great Expectations

The main character, Pip, ends up with Great Expectations thanks to the seeming patronage of the local eccentric rich old lady Miss Havisham.  He starts to get full of himself, but things do not turn out in his life the way he thinks. Pride goes before a fall, and he is humbled and his Great Expectations seem really foolish and shallow in retrospect once he goes through everything he endures in the course of the novel.

Sunday, January 22, 2012

A Somber Day For College Football


Even though your last few months on earth might have been controversial, you will always go down as the greatest college football coach in NCAA history. You will be missed Joe


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Friday, January 20, 2012

Poem of my choice

I chose this poem, because this is the first poem I had to memorize and it brings back many fond memories.

Eldorado

Gaily bedight,
A gallant knight,
In sunshine and in shadow,
Had journeyed long,
Singing a song,
In search of Eldorado.

But he grew old-
This knight so bold-
And o'er his heart a shadow
Fell as he found
No spot of ground
That looked like Eldorado.

And, as his strength
Failed him at length,
He met a pilgrim shadow-
"Shadow," said he,
"Where can it be-
This land of Eldorado?"

"Over the Mountains
Of the Moon,
Down the Valley of the Shadow,
Ride, boldly ride,"
The shade replied-
"If you seek for Eldorado!"

Thursday, January 19, 2012

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Friday, January 13, 2012

Abstract: Big Question

Ethics, also known as moral philosophy, is a branch of philosophy that involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong behavior. Ethics has been studied for many years by some of the worlds greatest minds. The need for studying this philosophy is so that you know how to form an opinion on tough questions. Through the study of ethics you find many answers about yourself and your relationships as well. The study of ethics is broken down into three major categories. The first being meta ethics, which is a field within ethics that seeks to understand the nature of normative ethics. The second is normative ethics or the study of what makes actions right or wrong. And the final being applied ethics or how you apply them in your everyday life. These three categories come together to form what think of as ethics. But, how do these three ethics influebce our everyday decisions

Friday, January 6, 2012

The Road

1. “The Road” is the story of a father and son, never named, on a journey towards the east coast, their last hope. The post-apocalyptic world that they are thrown into is harsh and unforgiving. They are left with limited supplies and a gun with only three bullets. The only other people in the world are savage, cannibalistic freaks so the father and son must always be on the watch. When they finally arrive it is nothing what they imagined. It’s just as destroyed as the rest of the world, and shortly after reaching their destination, the father dies. This leaves the boy with no hope, he sits by his father’s dead body for days until he is found by a man from a nomadic group.


2. The theme is about the struggle of keeping integrity in a world that takes it away and continuing to do good.  Everything around them has become scandalous and willing to do anything to survive. It is never an easy task, but they don’t give in and eat another person, or steal anything. They try remaining honest in the toughest times.


3. Throughout the novel there is a strong sense of hopelessness. The father at times even doubts that they will make it. The entire plot just feels empty and like no good would come for these characters. 


4.  “The Road” uses many literary elements and techniques to create the gloomy and hopeless world: syntax, setting, and imagery are just a few.