1.cursory: going rapidly over something, without noticing details Ex- help
2.impetus:a moving force Ex- Knowing that im doing the homework is impetus to getting good grades 3.pinnacle: the highest or culminating point, as of success, power, fame Ex- Obama reached his pinnacle last year.
4.contumely:a humiliating insult Ex- Girls are best with contumely actions when you get them mad 5.bereavement:a state of intense grief, as after the loss of a loved one; desolation. Ex- When M.J. passed, a lot of people suffered from bereavement.
6.cache:anything so hidden Ex- During the holocaust Jewish people wished they could get food and put in a cache
7.consummation:the act of consummating; completion. Ex- After typing for hours, the thought of consummation is harassing me.
8.calamity: a great misfortune or disaster Ex- The calamity and destruction of hurricane katrina will always be remembered.
9.avarice:insatiable greed for riches Ex- Kings and Queens in old times were avarice for land and gold. 10.fortify:to protect or strengthen against attack Ex- Celebrity's are always fortified with security gaurds before and after performing
11.erratic:deviating from the usual or proper course in conduct or opinion. Ex- Women have erratic behavior 12.ubiquitous: existing or being everywhere, especially at the same time Ex-If you enter an area with ubiquitous fog, drive more cautious
13.fortitude:mental and emotional strength in facing difficulty, adversity, danger, or temptation courageously. Ex- Help
14.nonchalant: coolly unconcerned, indifferent, or unexcited; casual Ex- When you act nonchalant during a serious matter, people get frustrated
15.affect: to act on; produce an effect or change in Ex- The surplus amount of bugs had a harsh affect on this years crops
16.effect:something that is produced by an agency or cause; result; consequence Ex- The effect of not putting on sun screen is sun burn
17.misappropriate: to put to a wrong use Ex- People sometimes misappropriate the use of butter knives with the use of steak knives.
18.pragmatic:of or pertaining to a practical point of view or practical considerations Ex- Help 19.metacognition: higher-order thinking that enables understanding, analysis, and control of one’s cognitive processes, especially when engaged in learning. Ex- Help
20.devoutly: devoted to divine worship or service Ex- People devoutly sacrifice time and money for religious purposes.
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Value of learning/Value of life
Okay so my week to be is pretty stuffed with this class and some personal stuff, in class is going to be a little confusing because we have no idea what were doing the rest of the week and that's the good and the bad of this class. The one thing we did get assigned is answering the activity questions in this section called the value of life, the reading I chose was Hamlets famous "to be or not to be" soliloquy. Everything I type from this sentence on has to do with the value of life through Hamlet.
Activity 1
My thoughts about being alive is that it's a luxury. People always wish that a passed loved one could be "Alive" to enjoy the memorable moments that they have encountered since the passing. Humans that aren't dying are enjoying the luxury of being of being alive, its plain and simple. How do you assign value to life? I've never been so stumped by a question in my life until reading this one, then I realized that there isn't a right or wrong answer to this. We can assign value to life anyway that we desire, no one is the same and everyone has different values and different meanings of value. In life, the little things can be just as challenging as the big things( little problems/ big problems) only because the little things can cause a snow ball effect and just keep getting bigger and bigger. Steve forgot to bring his note cards to Spanish and didn't write the words down so that he could study,forgetting those note cards made him a little behind. "I will do it when I get home" is what Steve told his teacher, instead Steve didn't do the homework and watched T.V. In class he's slap dashing everything together and trying to slide by, test time comes around and he fails the test. Steve's parents are disappointed and ground him, the snow ball will catch up to you and it sucks when it hits you. Now lets try and focus on the good things about life such as your first family vacation, your first date, your first high school dance and your first car, the list can go on and on, I enjoy life everyday. The way i value life is simple, live to make life the meaning you want it to be, you could choose to devote your life to charity and volunteer work for many communities or you could devote your life to making money and being successful, its yours choice and its all up to you.
Activity 3
1. I have little experience when dealing with Hamlet, but I've read Romeo&Juliet sophomore year.
2.The page format and annotations are placed awkwardly, but that is what makes the play beautiful and so well known.
3.I noticed that his writing is very similar to how people may write and interpret poetry that is also very compact.
Activity 4
1. A tragedy could be classified as a devastating event or a really sad story that involves a lot of death. Any type of theme that demoralizes the meaning of happiness can be found in tragedy's, outcomes such as death, regret and sorrow are also well known in tragedy's.
2.Shakespheres language is very difficult to understand and its filled with unfamiliar words and hard to understand phrases.
3.When i dont understand something I usually have to re read the parts that don't make sense to me or eventually ask someone to help.
4. I believe that the question is asking if he should be the person that he isn't write now or stay neutral and be the same person he is. I think that by killing his uncle and continuing on with his life he chose to be the different person.
Activity 7
1. Hamlet asks the central question of soliloquy in the first line, "to be or not to be".
2. In greater detail he restates the question through lines 2-5
3. Hamlet doesn't really answer his own question, he struggles to come to a conclusion about either acting and changing his life or to be neutral. Then Hamlet starts talking about what happens when you remain neutral and talks about the fear of what comes after death.
4. In his speech he asked two more questions, why anyone would put up with the suffering humans endure in life when they have the means to escape and then the second one Hamlet suggest that fear of the unknown causes us to bear the burdens owe have.
5. when Ophelia enters the room it cuts off Hamlets thoughts and then destroys the suspense that has been building up to find out the answer to his question because he never finishes his thoughts. Nick has the other part of my questions and Elias did what is a life worth
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Lit Analysis #2
Topics and Events
The book I selected to read is called "Three years in the gas chambers" and the author of the book is Filip Muller and he is a survivor/ Eye witness of Auschwitz. This story is basically all about his struggle for survival and the road blocks he had to endure. He watches people he grew up with, get tossed into the oven, he threw them in. Working in that room gave him the privilige of staying alive. Friends and family were murdered and tortured before his eyes,then later that day he saw them again when he had to strip them down and get them ready for the ovens. My authors decided to write about this because its his story of surviving the worst mass attempt of Jewish extermination. Also I believe that he is among the few who have actually survived and was strong enough to write his story. This book really caught my attention because I'm a sucker for books about world wars and historic events. By putting myself in the shoes of Filip it makes the book way more interesting and it just attaches my brain to the book. This book is as realistic as it gets, I could easily connect to my friends grandpa who had told us stories about being in the Korean and Vietnam war because he watched friends and close ones die before his eyes and then having to see them later in the coffin.
People
The authors choices say the he wanted to make it through the holocaust at whatever the cost is. He chose to write about all this because he was one of the few and proud Jewish people that survived the worst attempt to exterminate a certain race. There's a few characters in this book that really caught my attention,Fischl and Filip. Fischl is a strong willed man, he is tall and very muscular. The German camp managers wanted to keep him alive because he was a good worker and would do anything to keep himself alive and well feed at any cost. Filip is very similar to Fischl very strong willed, hes willing to make sacrafices, he wants to see himself and others to live to see the next day. The story didn't really describe the guys in detail but I'm sure they had brown hair and brown eyes and a little taller then average. If I was to characterize them in a non fiction book, I'd most likely do direct because I'd want people to see the view of their life through their eyes. I really don't know why these people are so interesting to me. Three years in the gas chambers and in the crematorium room, Filip had only watched Fischl work there for two years, watching Fischl work and watching how the guards treated him mad Filip think that Fischl was among the few that were privileged and successful. Fischl was a prisoner before Auschwitz and he was a prison again in Auschwitz, he was a murderer before Auschwitz and he's a murderer in Auschwitz. He used both approaches because it was appropiate, Filip wanted to be Fischls friend because of his size and his privileges and my last impression of Fischl is simple, I'd do the same thing as Filip and respect him for what he's doing know but still question his loyalty to fellow Jewish people. Throughout the story it felt like I was reading someones journal, so it felt like I'd met a person. The things that he described, watching people die, watching people be cremated, listen to how the German leaders would trick men, women and children to think that they were going to take a shower but really they were stepping into the gas chambers and then listen to the screams and bangs while the troops joked saying " maybe the showers to hot for them", only humans could experience that.
Style
The author made the story journalistic, he had kept track of what day he went to a certain camp and the month or year he left that place and had been moved to another. In the story the author was more lengthy and detailed on the places and actions, but mostly places and this made the story long and boring after about 60 pages or so. He used really detailed descriptions of everything that was happening around him, mostly death and sorrow. His attitude was that of someone trying to survive, he wanted to live, he wanted to save as many people as he could, and he wanted to watch the Nazi force be destroyed.
Enduring Memory
One idea that I will remembering because of this story is the value of life and how it means so much to us and how much everyone around us will be influenced to find their value in life also.
The book I selected to read is called "Three years in the gas chambers" and the author of the book is Filip Muller and he is a survivor/ Eye witness of Auschwitz. This story is basically all about his struggle for survival and the road blocks he had to endure. He watches people he grew up with, get tossed into the oven, he threw them in. Working in that room gave him the privilige of staying alive. Friends and family were murdered and tortured before his eyes,then later that day he saw them again when he had to strip them down and get them ready for the ovens. My authors decided to write about this because its his story of surviving the worst mass attempt of Jewish extermination. Also I believe that he is among the few who have actually survived and was strong enough to write his story. This book really caught my attention because I'm a sucker for books about world wars and historic events. By putting myself in the shoes of Filip it makes the book way more interesting and it just attaches my brain to the book. This book is as realistic as it gets, I could easily connect to my friends grandpa who had told us stories about being in the Korean and Vietnam war because he watched friends and close ones die before his eyes and then having to see them later in the coffin.
People
The authors choices say the he wanted to make it through the holocaust at whatever the cost is. He chose to write about all this because he was one of the few and proud Jewish people that survived the worst attempt to exterminate a certain race. There's a few characters in this book that really caught my attention,Fischl and Filip. Fischl is a strong willed man, he is tall and very muscular. The German camp managers wanted to keep him alive because he was a good worker and would do anything to keep himself alive and well feed at any cost. Filip is very similar to Fischl very strong willed, hes willing to make sacrafices, he wants to see himself and others to live to see the next day. The story didn't really describe the guys in detail but I'm sure they had brown hair and brown eyes and a little taller then average. If I was to characterize them in a non fiction book, I'd most likely do direct because I'd want people to see the view of their life through their eyes. I really don't know why these people are so interesting to me. Three years in the gas chambers and in the crematorium room, Filip had only watched Fischl work there for two years, watching Fischl work and watching how the guards treated him mad Filip think that Fischl was among the few that were privileged and successful. Fischl was a prisoner before Auschwitz and he was a prison again in Auschwitz, he was a murderer before Auschwitz and he's a murderer in Auschwitz. He used both approaches because it was appropiate, Filip wanted to be Fischls friend because of his size and his privileges and my last impression of Fischl is simple, I'd do the same thing as Filip and respect him for what he's doing know but still question his loyalty to fellow Jewish people. Throughout the story it felt like I was reading someones journal, so it felt like I'd met a person. The things that he described, watching people die, watching people be cremated, listen to how the German leaders would trick men, women and children to think that they were going to take a shower but really they were stepping into the gas chambers and then listen to the screams and bangs while the troops joked saying " maybe the showers to hot for them", only humans could experience that.
Style
The author made the story journalistic, he had kept track of what day he went to a certain camp and the month or year he left that place and had been moved to another. In the story the author was more lengthy and detailed on the places and actions, but mostly places and this made the story long and boring after about 60 pages or so. He used really detailed descriptions of everything that was happening around him, mostly death and sorrow. His attitude was that of someone trying to survive, he wanted to live, he wanted to save as many people as he could, and he wanted to watch the Nazi force be destroyed.
Enduring Memory
One idea that I will remembering because of this story is the value of life and how it means so much to us and how much everyone around us will be influenced to find their value in life also.
Vocab #7
1.cursory: going rapidly over something, without noticing details
Ex- help
2.impetus:a moving force Ex- Knowing that im doing the homework is impetus to getting good grades 3.pinnacle: the highest or culminating point, as of success, power, fame Ex- Obama reached his pinnacle last year.
4.contumely:a humiliating insult Ex- Girls are best with contumely actions when you get them mad 5.bereavement:a state of intense grief, as after the loss of a loved one; desolation. Ex- When M.J. passed, a lot of people suffered from bereavement.
6.cache:anything so hidden Ex- During the holocaust jewish people wished they could get food and put in a cache
7.consummation:the act of consummating; completion. Ex- After typing for hours, the thought of consummation is harassing me.
8.calamity: a great misfortune or disaster Ex- The calamity and destruction of hurricane katrina will always be remembered.
9.avarice:insatiable greed for riches Ex- Kings and Queens in old times were avarice for land and gold. 10.fortify:to protect or strengthen against attack Ex- Celebrity's are always fortified with security gaurds before and after performing
11.erratic:deviating from the usual or proper course in conduct or opinion. Ex- Women have erratic behavior 12.ubiquitous: existing or being everywhere, especially at the same time Ex-If you enter an area with ubiquitous fog, drive more cautious
13.fortitude:mental and emotional strength in facing difficulty, adversity, danger, or temptation courageously. Ex- Help
14.nonchalant: coolly unconcerned, indifferent, or unexcited; casual Ex- When you act nonchalant during a serious matter, people get frustrated
15.affect: to act on; produce an effect or change in Ex- The surplus amount of bugs had a harsh affect on this years crops
16.effect:something that is produced by an agency or cause; result; consequence Ex- The effect of not putting on sun screen is sun burn
17.misappropriate: to put to a wrong use Ex- People sometimes misappropriate the use of butter knives with the use of steak knives.
18.pragmatic:of or pertaining to a practical point of view or practical considerations Ex- Help 19.metacognition: higher-order thinking that enables understanding, analysis, and control of one’s cognitive processes, especially when engaged in learning. Ex- Help
20.devoutly: devoted to divine worship or service Ex- People devoutly sacrafice time and money for religious purposes.
2.impetus:a moving force Ex- Knowing that im doing the homework is impetus to getting good grades 3.pinnacle: the highest or culminating point, as of success, power, fame Ex- Obama reached his pinnacle last year.
4.contumely:a humiliating insult Ex- Girls are best with contumely actions when you get them mad 5.bereavement:a state of intense grief, as after the loss of a loved one; desolation. Ex- When M.J. passed, a lot of people suffered from bereavement.
6.cache:anything so hidden Ex- During the holocaust jewish people wished they could get food and put in a cache
7.consummation:the act of consummating; completion. Ex- After typing for hours, the thought of consummation is harassing me.
8.calamity: a great misfortune or disaster Ex- The calamity and destruction of hurricane katrina will always be remembered.
9.avarice:insatiable greed for riches Ex- Kings and Queens in old times were avarice for land and gold. 10.fortify:to protect or strengthen against attack Ex- Celebrity's are always fortified with security gaurds before and after performing
11.erratic:deviating from the usual or proper course in conduct or opinion. Ex- Women have erratic behavior 12.ubiquitous: existing or being everywhere, especially at the same time Ex-If you enter an area with ubiquitous fog, drive more cautious
13.fortitude:mental and emotional strength in facing difficulty, adversity, danger, or temptation courageously. Ex- Help
14.nonchalant: coolly unconcerned, indifferent, or unexcited; casual Ex- When you act nonchalant during a serious matter, people get frustrated
15.affect: to act on; produce an effect or change in Ex- The surplus amount of bugs had a harsh affect on this years crops
16.effect:something that is produced by an agency or cause; result; consequence Ex- The effect of not putting on sun screen is sun burn
17.misappropriate: to put to a wrong use Ex- People sometimes misappropriate the use of butter knives with the use of steak knives.
18.pragmatic:of or pertaining to a practical point of view or practical considerations Ex- Help 19.metacognition: higher-order thinking that enables understanding, analysis, and control of one’s cognitive processes, especially when engaged in learning. Ex- Help
20.devoutly: devoted to divine worship or service Ex- People devoutly sacrafice time and money for religious purposes.
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
To be or not to be
To act for what is right or go with the flow,
you can either endure the pain ,
or you can grab the bull by its horns and go for a ride,
should i just check out of this world, or attack the unknown.
this is a question that decides my value in life
If i do check out and just accept it,
i can slide by and not care
but the con is that i need to handle my problems like a man,
being a man gets you the respect,
it only gets harder as life goes on.
But the path to being a man or being a grown up is a battle
if you don't do something to prove your value in life though,
you will regret it and always wish you had done something
but knowing the hardship of standing up scares us all no matter our size physically or mentally
( I dont really get the last 6-5 lines)
The level that appeals to me most is honestly just going with the flow, because knowing how hard it is to stand up is scary/demoralizing to most. I roll over a lot and just give in to what is happening around me because im to scared to try and make difference but fail in the end, one of societies biggest fears is failing, once you fail the hole just gets deeper. The path i want to take is the path of standing up and actually making a difference in my life or in something that affects my life.
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