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Lit Anal Video Remix

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.”

Buried Onions Mind Map

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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.

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.

Infant Sorrow Remix

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

Dickens Mind Map

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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.