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.