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Immigrants in our own land Notes

• Theme:Everything has a purpose

• Tone: To get you thinking

• Mood: Inspiring 

• Devices: IDK

 Extra Notes: Before Jimmy Santiago Baca was born his mother was bite by a rattlesnake.

Essay/Speech

I really strongly believe that the choices you make can influence our future why? Because our decisions mean something like if I decide to not eat then I'll be hungry. If I decide to not sleep then I'll be tired and won't work as efficiently. Those decisions will effect in a minor way but some things will effect it in the long run. Like when I decide to to this essay/speech I made the decision to do it and get my grade which will help me pass this class and will help me graduate which will help to go to a university and will eventually help me fulfill my dreams. So yeah decisions can definitely can change your future. For Emerson being yourself and letting your mind be free can change your future because if you decide to speak your mind and your opinions someone will appreciate it and will be inspired by it and will want to speak their mind as well. With Bradbury when he decided to make Eckels leave the trail he want him to decide his future. He disobeyed the rules and something terrible came out of it so yeah your choices can really change your future.

A Sound of Thunder study Guide

*Vocabulary*

Annihilate: Destroy utterly, obliterate
Expendable: To spread or stretch out
Infinitesimally: Extremely small
Primeval: Resembling the earliest ages in world history
Resilient: Able to recoil or spring back into shape after bending, stretching, or being compressed
Revoke: Put an end to, to cancel
Sheathed: To put- a weapon like a knife- into a sheath
Subliminal: Perceived by or affecting someones mind without their being aware of it
Taint: Trace of something bad
Undulate: Move with a smooth wavelike motion

*Literary Terms*
-Foreshadowing is when you indicated whats going to happen next is something like a story, etc.
-Foreshadowing in the story is when the guide tells Eckels to not ever leave the trail cause he could kill something that can change something in the future.

-Simile Is the comparison of one thing to another
-The Simile in the story when they compare

-Metaphor is when you refer to one thing to another and it doesn't use "like" or "as"
-The Metaphor in the story is when

-Protagonist is the main character in a story
-The Protagonist in the story had to be Eckels

*Questions*
1.What company does Eckels visit?
2.What are the penalties for disobeying instructions?
3.What about Eckels is thankful?
4.What did some people want to do if Duetsher won the election and why?
5.What does the man behind the desk tell Eckel what happened last year that makes Eckels think about gong on the safari?
6.Who is the safari leader?
7.How many people besides Eckels are on the trip? Name them
8.What does Travis tell Eckels is the best way to kill a dinosaur?
9.When the hunters arrive at their destination, what does Travis tell that hasn't happened in history?
10.How many years did the men travel?
11.What is the anti gravity metal path and why must the men stay on it?
12.What happened to the machine and the men's clothes before they made their journey?
13.Why do the men wear oxygen masks?
14.What is unique about the dinosaurs that the men cam shoot?
15.What is a paradox?
16.What does Eckels jokingly pretend to do?
17.How does the reader know Eckels is afraid?
18.What does Eckels say when he sees the size of the dinosaur?
19. How do the men know which dinosaur to shoot?
20.Where was Eckels on his way when he stepped off the path?
21.What do Billings and Kramer do after the dinosaur is dead?
22.What does Lesperance offer  Billing and Kramer that they turn down?
23.What does Travis tell Eckels they are going to do to him?
24.What does Travis tell Eckels do in order to go back with him?
25.What does Eckels notice about the sign on their return?
26.What does Eckels find at the bottom of his boots?
27.What does Eckels learn about the elections?
28.What is the reader to infer Travis does to Eckels?

*Answers*
1. Eckels visits the Time Safari INC.
2. The penalties are $10,000 and government action
3. That Keith won the election.
4. People wanted to
5. The man tells him "Good Luck"
6. The safari leader is Mr.Travis and his assistant Lesperance
7. There are only 2 other people that go and its Billings and Kramer
8.  He tells him two in the eyes to blind them then in the back of the head
9. Travis tells them Christ hasn't been born, Moses hasn't gone into the mountains to talk to god, the pyramid haven't been built yet, and Alexander, Napoleon, Caesar and Hitler haven't been born.
10. They traveled back sixty million two thousand and fifty-five years
11. It floats so they wont hit anything that might change the future.
12.
13. They wear oxygen masks because
14. Travis's assistant studeis the dinosaurs and finds out how they die so they can go back and kina change the way it dies i guess.
15. A paradox is
16. He pretends to
17.-28
*Couldn't find rest of answers*

An Earth Shattering Fart

It was pretty easy to read I guess. The words weren't to hard. But the story doesn't really interest me. Like yeah time traveling that shit is super cool. But going back in time to just fucking hunt, that shit sounds dumb to me. And it's fucking expensive to like $10,000 is a lot of money to me. Maybe in the future $10,000 is like $1 or something. Like people are just like "$10,000 that's it inthought it was expensive. And they don't even guarantee your safety like that's the first sign that it's not a good idea. But no people actually want to do their shit..fuck that.

Emerson's Child

I think Emerson would think the election of like a growing point. To learn from it and to keep going. I think he would want the people to stick together, have people keep speaking their minds. He would want us to grow out minds to think outside the box about the future of the country. I think he also would want us to come together and to help each other out.
I think Emerson would want us to listen to what they teach even if we won't ever use it. As for viewing our aspirations I feel like he would want us to persue our dreams and goals. He would want us to do whatever makes us happy. And whatever shows the person we really are.
Yeah it's pretty hard to really be yourself but I think and know that when you speak your mind and really find yourself someone will appreciate it. And will agree with what you have to say. How I am when I'm alone and it's just me and my mind. I tend to be a pretty quiet and serious but when you get to know me I can be pretty happy and "normal" I guess.I can also be pretty mean and petty when you say stupid shit or something that offends me. But being yourself is literally one of the most peaceful things ever. To just let yourself be free, to not be acting fake and not really say or do what you wanna do or say.
How I would explain Emerson to a 10 year it would probably be like to just be yourself. I mean 10 year old are pretty smart they know things so I think it's like talking to a regular person I guess. But to just tell them to be who you wanna be. To not listen to the dumb things people have to say to you.
That's all I have to say about that.

Emerson Presentations Day 3

"Nothing can bring you peace but ... triumph"
•Be happy

"Traveling is a fools paradise"
• You can't escape your problems
•"Smile now cry later"

"Yet he dismisses without notice his thought because it is his"
•To not think your mind and thinking is bad
•Don't be afraid of your own thinking

"We but half express ourselves..."
•We represent something different
•Don't be ashamed of how you are
• Don't follow the crowd

"And there for man..."
• Sticknto your first instinct, regardless of what people"

Emerson Presentation Day 2

"Every man is his own self"
Emerson 👉🏽 Religious
Devine👉🏽 Man= Star

"Be your best self"

"These me the voices ... society..."

Monopolies 👉🏽 Money 💰 - We are consumers any they one producers

- Stop being a consumer he be a producer

- Creater of our own life

- Finding yourself

Emerson Presntation Day 1

*Couple notes that I got *

• To say what's on your mind - To express your self

•To be your best self

• Be the person you wanna be- Express yourself

• " Man is his own star".

Emerson for the young buck

What the essay Self- Reliance wants us to learn us to be yourself. To think for yourself or to not let other people put other ideas into your head. He also thinks everyone is a genius from a baby to an elder person. That's what Emerson what's us to learn.

Why I'm so serious

All lot of my friends say they thought I was mean or a bitch cause I'm always so serious. Well I just have one thing to say about that. I DONT FUCKING KNOW WHY IM SO SERIOUS. That's just how I am that's just how my face is. And when people think I don't laugh. What the fuck I laugh maybe at not what they fucking say but I laugh. Ok I'm done :)

Emerson said it

* I don't have all five cause I couldn't really hear people*


"What I must do is all the concerns me, not what the people think"
- To not really care what people think about you.
"But these impulses may be from below, not from above"
- Heaven & Hell
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*The quotes that I found with my reason*
"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself"
- What i think it means is that you have to make your own decisions to make your self happy and at peace.
" Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self"
- I think this means to be yourself. To not follow anyone to make your own path, to think for yourself. To not let someone put words into you head.

I'm Self-Reliant

What my impression of Self-Reliance was that it was pretty hard to understand. But once you get to the main ideas you start to understand the essay. And u actually really liked it's like a motivational speech, kinda tell you to be yourself and to think for yourself.

Vocab list #6

Definitions

Meme: System of behavior passed from one to another.
Virus: A piece of code that is capable of copying itself
Viral: To move fast news widely from one user to another.
Blog: Web journal
Wiki: Website or database developed by user
URL: Reference to internet
Website: Online presence
WWW: Network of online content
Internet: Conversation between loca access
2.0: We can have conversations
Open Source: Online copy and paste, make better

Literature Analysis #2

1.The book that I read was called "Beautiful Demons". The book was about this girl who is in the foster care system and she has been in and out of foster homes since she was 8. The reason she has been in and out of foster homes is because of the mysterious things that happens when she gets mad.

2. The theme of the book is to be proud of how you are and what you stand for. And to have good friends to help you through the difficult time ain't our life.

3.i think that the author of the story doesn't wake up until like noon. And I feel like she only drinks black coffee. I also think she has like the lightest breakfast in the world, like a yogurt and that's it.

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1.The biggest that probably attracted this book to me is that it's on my phone. That I don't have to pick up a book and read like I always have my phone and it's a lot easier to remember.

2.What kept me reading was that I really like the book. It was like a sorta mysterious book and I really like that.

3.My reading habits suck. I literally won't read for like 1 week then like read almost the whole book in like a day, mostly because I'm. It a big reader I don't really like to read.

Vocab List #5

Definitions

Venomous: Full of  malice or spite
Stolid: Calm or dependable 
Hypnotized: Capture while attention of someone or something; fascinate 
Suspended: Temporarily preventing from continuing 
Transformed: Dramatic change in appearance, form or character 
Accuse: Claim that someone has done something wrong 
Anticipate: To look forward to 
Fringe: Oranamental boarder 
Melancholy: Sad or mad 
Earnestly: Having a purpose 
Dissolve: Close down or dismiss
 Aggravate: Annoy or make something worse
Illuminate: Light up or to decorate with gold,silver and colorful designs 
Capillary: Fine branching blood vessel 
Proboscis: Anything that sticks out of the face of a mammal

Respect my authority

I really haven't had any problem being my self infront of a authority figure. I think they respect the fact that I'm true to myself and other people. But yeah I haven't had a problem with that.

Inciting incident

The part of the story that I found inciting was when they were arresting him. Why because it was like the climax of the story like everything was like falling and it may have ended bad but I still liked it. And I also liked that the story kinda left on a cliff hanger so the reader can image what the ending is.

Mistakes For President

What the fuck.  That's all I can say about the debate. Both of them were all over the place they were both dodging the questions. But atleast Hilary gave some good answers. But Donald I don't know what the fuck he was talking about. He was literally talking out of his ass he was all over the place. That's all I have to say about the debate.

The Pedestrian

My first impression of the story that Leonard is a weird guy. He walks when no on ease is that's weird. I mean he could like the peace and quiet but I think it's weird. He seems like such a nerd like he lives with mom or something. So that was my first impression of the story.

Big Question Disciplines

My Big question was Why people were so ignorant with other people beliefs, sexuality, etc.

And the disciples for it are sociable, and psychological

Fall Vocan List #4

 Definitions

Intermittent: Occutring at irregular intervals;not continuous or steady
Ebb: Outgoing tide
Regress:  Return to a former or less developed state.
Tendency: Possession to a former of land or property as a tenant 
Antiseptic: Relating to 

Sentences 

1. Sometimes my brain is working in a intermittent speed.
2. The ebb at the beach is beautiful.
3. Sometimes it's in possible to regress.
4. I had to move from my lad house because the tendency asked us to.
5. I like when I can antiseptic with someone.

My Aries

Describe  the grade you earned on your essay and your reaction to it.  Why did you receive that grade?  Dpoyou agree with it?  AND: what other grades have you earned, what work have you done so far in this course, and what do you think you've earned for the first grading period?

My reaction to my essay grade was nothing. I've done so many essays that I honestly kinda don't care for them anymore. I know how much work I put into them I know what I do and I know (Kinda) on what my grade will be. I received my grade cause I tried and I worked to get that, I read the stories and looked for the theme and tone and I got what I wanted. My other grades are good they could be better but they're good. Thework I've done, I've done almost all of the assignments from the course and the grade that I think I've earned is like B+ or like a A-. Why because I work hard for my grade I do my work and I should get rewarded for it.

Vocab List #3

Definitions

Coherente: A argument or part of a argument.
Belabor: Argue or elaborate (a subject) in excessive danger.
Eschew:  Deliberately avoid using; abstain from
Acquisitive: Excessively interested in acquiring money or material things.
emulate: Match or surpass; imitate 
Banal: Lackinht in originality as to obvious and boring.
Excoriation: Harsh criticism 
Congeal: Shape or coalesced
Carping: Difficult to please; critical 
Substantiate: Provide evidence to support to prove the truth of.
Temporize: Aviod making a decision.
Largesse: Money of gifts given generously.
Tenable: Able to be maintained to defended against attack or objection.
Insatiable: Impossible to satisfy.
Reconnaissance: Preliminary surveying or research.
Germane: Relevant to a subject under consideration 
Ramify: Spread or branch out.
Intransigent: Unwilling or refusing to change ones view or to agree about something.
Taciturn: Reserved or uncommunicative in a speech; saying little.

Literature Anaylis Questions #1

Questions 
1.Briefly summarize the plot of the novel.
2.Succinctly describe the theme of the novel. Avoid cliches.
3.Based on the author's tone, describe how you imagine the author's morning routine.  Does she/he get up early or sleep late?  Coffee, tea, or no caffeine? Yoga/meditation/exercise?  Groggily stumble to the toilet and wish s/he wasn't so hungover?  Breakfast?  If so, what kind of food?  No, I am not kidding.  There is no shortcut for this, only your own imaginative thinking based on how you read his/her work and interpret his/her tone.  Include no fewer than three (3) excerpts from the text that illustrate your points.
4.Describe five (5) literary techniques you observed that strengthened your understanding of the theme and/or your sense of the tone.  These techniques may include characterization, figurative language, or anything else you've ever studied.  If you can't come up with five, do your best to remember and then look up "literary techniques" online and see if something rings a bell.  Include three (3) excerpts for each technique that will help your reader understand the technique and how it helped you gain insight.

Answers
1. The plot of my novel is about a guy named Richard and he wife Valérie and she's having an affair,with the neighbor, and Richards son might be mentally disturbed. He sells pharmaceuticals and he has a sudden route to Africa and he starts to realize the idea of a full life the love is just a illusion. And also that leaves the neighbor's wife questioning her faith with her husband, Jeff. 
2.The theme of my novel is basically sadness/depressing, anger, and that love is just an illusion.
3. I think that Louise Dean wakes up is at the beach under a strangers arm. And I feel like she for a has super short workouts and she only goes to check out the younger guys and just hangs out at Starbucks for the rest of the day drinking her super specific drink. And I also think that if they even get it slightly wrong she will throw a big fit and would to speak with the manager.

MY BIG QUESTION

My question is... Why are people so ignorant? Like people don't accept everyone's sexuality, religion, etc.

Vocabulary List #2

Definitions

Faith: Compete trust or confidence in someone or something 
Threshold: Magnitude or intensity that must be exceeded for a certain reaction.
Tarry:A word that i couldn't find.
Resolve: Settle or find a solution to a problem.
Discern: Perceive or recognize 
Martyr: A person who is killed because of their religious or other beliefs.
Catechism: A summary of the principles of Christian religion in the form of a question and answer used for the instruction of Christians.
Pious: Devouty religious 
Frenzy: Start or period of uncontrolled excitement or wild behavior.

Sentences

1. In a lot on religions you have to have faith.
2. These sentences are a threshold.
3.I couldn't find a word for tarry.
4. It's hard to resolve problems sometimes.
5. It's hard to discern things at school sometimes.
6. I think it's sad when people perform martyr.
7. My friends tell me all about catechism.
8. A lot of people are in a pious.
9. Sometimes my mind at school is in a frenzy.

YBG Questions/Answers

   Questions

1. What do you think Hawthorne's purpose was for writing this story?
2. Hawthorne states that Brown's wife is "aptly named" Faith.  After reading the story, do you agree?  Does Faith's name fit her personality?  Does Brown have true faith in her?
3. What do you think the pink ribbons signify?
4. Was everything Brown witnessed real, a figment of his imagination, something conjured by evil, or a dream?  Support your answer with passages from the text.
5. Who do you think the old man really is?  What textual clues tell you this?
6. What does the staff represent?  Do you think the staff leads Brown onward or is the primary motivator Brown's own conscience/mind?
7. If Brown had not ventured into the forest, how would his life be different?  If he'd stayed home, would Brown still have Faith?  Would he still trust his wife and his fellow townspeople?

Answers 

1. I think Hawthorne's purpose for the story was that everything isn't as it seems.

2.I think he name in a way fits she hasn't  seen what Young Goodman Brown has seen.

I'm not sure if Brown still has faith in her.

3. I think the pink ribbons signify how inocent, naive, and playful Faith is.

4.I do think that Brown was dreaming it says in the passage" Had Goodman Brown fallen

asleep in the forest, and only dreamed a wild dream of a witch-meeting?", and also when

Brown's old friend showed up she acted like he wasnt even there and how she just showed up out of nowhere.

5. I think the old man is like old family member like a grandfather or something.

6. I think the staff represents th Devils way to lure Breon farther and farther in to the woods.

I do think the staff makes him keep going cause at one point they ask him if he's tired so 

he can use the staff to help him keep going.

7.If Brown would have stayed home he wouldn't have changed in anyway his way of thinking  would have stayed the same. He would still trust everybody and everything.

Literature Notes

•Theme is a central message
•Don't judge a book by its cover
•The authors attitude toward the characters the topic the audience
•"The right to your opinion"
Definition
-truth is that which can be factually verified in the world.

Syllogism
Validity is a test of reason
Sign+intentionality= symbol (meaning)
Foreshadowing

Allusion is a reference to something that the author thinks the reader should know.

Some notes from Dr.Preston's class

Young Goodman Brown

All I can say about the story "Young Goodman Brown" is that it was confusing
to me so was it all really dream cause that would be sad all the reading for it to be dream. I only read it once so maybe I have to read it more but I'm confused.

The Conscience of a Hacker

What I think about "The Conscience of a Hacker" was that he or she is literally writing
what we are all thinking  but don't have the guts to say. The we are all alike the we are being taught
a bunch of crap we probably won't even use when we graduate high school or college. So to finish this post all I'm trying to say is that i really like it and would really recommend it to people so they can read it to.

The Conscience of a Hacker

What I think about "The Conscience of a Hacker" was that he or she is literally writing
what we are all thinking  but don't have the guts to say. The we are all alike the we are being taught
a bunch of crap we probably won't even use when we graduate high school or college. So to finish this post all I'm trying to say is that i really like it and would really recommend it to people so they can read it to.

Vocabulary List Fall List #1

Definitions
Theme: It is the central message
Tone: The general character or attitude of s piece of writing.
Mood: A temporary state it mind or feeling.
Diction: The choice of words and use of words and phrases in
a speech it writing.
Syntax: An arrangement of words and phrases to create a well-formed
sentence in a language.
Stupid: Lack of common sense and intelligence.
Adumbrate: Foreshadow or symbolize
Apotheosis: The highest point of something; or climax
 Ascetic: Suggesting the practice of severe self-discipline 
Abstination from all forms of indulgence.
Bauble: Small, Showy trinket or decoration.
Beguile:  Charm or enchant someone, sometimes 
in a deceptive way.
Burgeon: Begin to grow or increase rapidly; Flourish
Complement: Thing is get completes it brings to perfection.
Contumacious: Stubbornly or willfully disobedient to authority.
Didactic: Intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as 
ulterior motive.

Sentences 

1. The theme of the story was happiness.
2. The tone of that character was anger.
3. The mood of the was sadness in the poem "Richard Cory"
4. The diction in the book was dumb.
5. I couldn't really understand the way the syntax was arranged.
6. That guy was so stupid.
7. The adumbratewas in the beginning of the story.
8. The apotheosis of the story was when he came back to life.
9. That guy was so ascetic to himself.
10. The decorations in the class were so bauble.
11. The data of my science project was burgeoning.
12. Complements are good way to meet someone.
13. Comtumacious is how some teachers are.
14. Teachers try to didactic on the students. 

"The Earth on Turtles back"

For the reading of  "The Earth on Turtle's Back"  I thought the story was ok it was in a way inspiring because the tiny animal actually did what everyone wanted to do. The tiny Muskrat was determined and didn't stop until she finished her goal. That's my opinion on the story.

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