The Love of Music

Recently I saw a video of these two strangers in an airport. One of them is playing piano by himself, and a lot of spectators watch him play. Soon after that, a complete stranger walks up and watches the man play piano. As he watches him play, the man watching chimes in to play as well. This is called improvisation. Where a spectator watches a man or woman play piano, and chimes in to play with the entertainer. It's completly normal for a person to play along side a piano player.

The Generation of the Piccards

The Piccards are well known explorers who achieved great things into figuring out earths mysteries and limits. Auguste Piccard was the first man the reach the stratosphere,  having record breaking hot air-balloons flights, and he invested his time of Earth's upper atmosphere and cosmic rays. Quite an amazing background from him. I would think his off spring wouldn't top this, but i thought wrong....

His son Jacques Piccard became the first man to reach the ocean's deepest point. Spectacular! The video below is an advertisement for Hennessy about having a "wild rabbit" and the commercial shows a great example of both Father and son having a wild rabbit.

The Mind

I came across a video, so i can have the motivation to study for my finals. And when i viewed this video, it really inspired me in many levels. The quote that sticked to me was when the narrator said "if you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start". I really encourage people to watch this video, a learn from it, https://youtu.be/z1PSbDmV8Gw

Something Intresting Yesterday

This was suppose to be done yesterday, but i didn't have anything intresting yesterday (so i thought). But as i over viewed my day yesterday, i finally thought of something intresting i did yesterday:  i learned a new magic trick. It was a frustrating time, but i finally got it down, and succeded on my first try. Which is a good thing because here and there i mess up on the first time i preform a trick. I just gotta practice more. Practice makes perfect.

Immigrants in Our Own Land

The theme in the story in my opinion would be faith/hope. When Jimmy was in prison, he had to endured and all the things he experienced through out his life in jail. He thought this was him all time low.

Tone- Sad

Mood-  impassive

Devices - flashbacks, realization, conviction

Influencing Our Future

As we move forth in our life, growing and learning through our experiences, we often stumble on a moment where we reflect on our decision we have made. Often, we think about these past or present decisions right before all of us individually go to sleep. And now and again we think about it, and we could not go to sleep because of how possibly "stupid" the decision was. Maybe that's just me....but looking back at those things, those choices we've formed define who we are as individuals, and to the people around us. Society brings all sorts of suggestions; things to follow, a rule to be guided on, etc. But those so called "rules" restrict us from actually opening up, and finding our own passion. Always being restricted, or off limits to do things.  Strive at your own pace, strive at your power.....Often people think about that sucess is a gift, that its only gifted to the people that are special.,But it is inside all of us, you just gotta dig down deep in yourself, and find sucess. It aint gonna be easy going through that dark tunnel, seeing all the choices you've made, but that's why life is a good challenge. We say "life rough. or why me? Why is this happening to me lord"?A motivational speaker going by the name of Les Brown once said "For those of you that have experienced hardships, don't give up on your dream. The rough times are gonna come, but they have not come to stay, they have come to pass."


Some of you may or may have not read the Essay written by Ralph Waldo Emerson, but he says ""Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man,Commands all light, all influence, all fate;Nothing to him falls early or too late.Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still."  Meaning, follow your own voice, you are the person who guides you, no one else. You command your life, and how you want to go with it. 

You may want to flee back from your desires because of the fear of failure, but thats how we develop to become great. Our decisions, and passions guide us to where we want to be. Just like the short story called "A Sound of Thunder" written by Ray Bradbury. At the point of the story, a man name Eckels goes in the wilderness where dinosaurs are fair game to kill. And once he sees the dinosaur he panics and does not want to kill the beast because he is scared. Now, that could be each and one of you in a situation with life. Second guessing yourself, and not pushing forward. Go what you want to do, nobody can influence you but you. Strive at your own power, and be fearless, of failure.

Biutiful

So, during the week off of school i had the time to watch a couple of movies during my spare time. And i came across a movie that is absolutely incredible. I saw it a few days ago, and it just blew me away of how this movie can affect a person by just watching something. The movie is called "Biutiful".  (no i did not wright the title wrong)  Biutiful is the phonological spelling in spanish of the English word beautiful.  It's a gritty, and demanding movie of a struggling man named Uxbal, staggering from mishap and catastrophe as he attempts to bring his daughter and son single - handely in dismal and bleak back streets of one of Barcelona's least desirable neighborhoods. It's a foreign movie in Spanish, there are English subtitles in the movie, or maybe you will have to find a link of the movie with English Subtitles. Its not on Netflix unfortunately, but it is on YouTube for rent.

A sound of Thunder Vocab

Paradox- an event or statement that sounds impossible but seems to be true

Coralate- to figure out or create a relationship between two items or events

Subliminally- Below the level if councisness

Infinitesimally- in amounts so small,as to be barely mearsuable

Undulate-  to move in waves or in a smooth wave like motion

Resilent- Strong but flexiable, able to with stand stress without injury

Annihilate- to Destroy

Staganating - to become foul or rotten

Expendable-  not worth keeping, not essential

Malfunctioning -to not work

My Vignette

I wish that my childhood would last longer. Because i would not worry about specific things now. All i needed to do back then was to do my homework, get good grades, and being a good kid. Which all those characteristics apply to this day. If i were to have a longer childhood, i would feel poised. I would have an equal balance of more fun, and have more remarkable attriubutes as a kids.

Art of Acting

I usually spend my time on Youtube to look at tricks, or maybe funny videos. But at some occasions, i will watch videos about acting. Just to stand clear, i do not want to be an actor, i just enjoy to art of it. The way an actor or actress express his or herself in a way that i so gripping, it makes you appreciate how someone can make an emotion written out for the seem so real. Couple of weeks ago, i watched this video call "The Best Acting of All Time" I viewed it, and it was just astonishing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bIT8_f1ydM

This link will show you the video of these outstanding preformances.

An Earth Shattering Fart

It amazes me how Ray Bradbury can think of things to create, and touch the reader in so many ways. Basically, Ray Bradbury has given us an imagination on if we were given a chance to go back in time, would we take the chance? It's crazy at a turn of events a man would kill another man in the process.

Emerson's Child

Since we have read "Self-Reliance" and knowing Emerson's thoughts. I believe if Emerson were to still be alive and witness our President election, I feel he would be disappointed in our choice. Since Trump won, I feel like he would say "Astonishing how our minds work. A man, with no experience in government, a businessman who does not think with his mind. But thinks with his mouth, is out of the ordinary". But I know Emerson would think of a solution to this. I would think he would suggest to pause and think about what we did at the polls. He would ask "Did this feel like the right choice to you?" He would make us analyze on what we did. In addition to suggestions, to all people trying to learn and observe, Emerson would repeat one of his quotes to inspire us to reflect, and visualize on what we want to pursue, and to see how the outcome would be if we did follow our goals. And that's how he would want us to feel prepared. Imagine yourself in the position you want to be in, and see how things go in your head by imaging it. And by imaging it, that following your own pass, following yourself. But sometimes it can be hard being yourself. People may not accept who you really are. We people are shy to show our real colors, that's we put on a mask everyday or every other day. We may be wild, or isolated, maybe any other problems  we are dealing with. We don't want anybody feeling sorrow for us, we want to feel appreciated and accepted to society. Just like Emerson says "imitation is suicide". It may make sense to a person who is reading this, at the age of 13 through beyond. But if someone were to explain this to a 10 year old, all that is needed to say is "Be yourself, do not pretend, live your own life".

Emerson Day 4

Danliea and Arille

People who look at a certain person werid, look at a person like a robot. Its so easy to be misunderstood.

Edgar

People are afraid to share their thoughts, and scared to express them. Everyone will realize that jealousy is stupid. Go what you think, your opinion matters.

Esperanza and Elizibeth

Don't rely on tools and gadgets, move foward. Keep doing your best, be proud of yourself.

Neri and Maria

Be yourself, live by your owns, listen to the voice in your head people envy you.

Your mind messes with you, sometimes be yourself, speak what you think, try not to imitate people, be your own pack.

Emerson Day 3

Demi

You got to know what you're doing. Don't worry about other people think of you. Worry about yourself. Don't let other people influence you on decision, go with your own ideas.

Madi 

He focuses on why we shouldn't follow society, always be yourself. Main focus on do what you do, and move forward. Someone can motivate you, but you can make to final decision

 

Maria, Leo, Polo

Don't copy someone else,  cupcake game with Emerson quotes

Jesus and Axel

Kahoot game, its hard to make up questions 

Emerson Day 2

Jorge

Everyone has a role. We chose to be that role, no one else.

Yasmin

Be your own star, no one else can be you. For example, you look at a mirror and its you, only you. You are your own star.

Regina & Jesus

Urges people to follow their individual. Don't be like everyone else (a herd of sheep) be your own person. Don't try to fit in with society.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself"

Emerson For The Young Buck

I learned a lot of things during the time i read "Self Reliance", but what really intrigued me was Emerson's point about being a man. We gotta go with our gut, we gotta go with the things that feel good to us. We people always imitate other people because we do not want to be different. That's what Emerson is trying to say, we gotta go with things that we believe in. We must entitled to our own opinion. And for a 10 year old could understand this if we talked to them in there own language. Meaning using there slang of words so a 10 year old could understand. Therefore, a  10 year old could understand this essay.

I'm Self Reliant

I have a question on the essay, why did Emerson write this? What purpose was he trying to get at? Through out the essay, i thought to myself, is Emerson telling the reader to be a "man"? I'm thinking that might be what he is getting at. Because when Emerson writes "trust thyself"....., he wants people to believe what is right to yourself. Also, when he says "traveling is a fools paradise"..... I'm analyzing that people often go with the crowd, people don't think there own way. It's an intresting way Emerson is using these comparisons to make the reader feel more entitled to their own opinion, instead of choosing what society is giving us.

Something Intresting in the Book I'm Reading

Since I watched the movie, and I was really interested in the book. I'm reading no country for old men. And there is a scene where the assassin and a gas station clerk are talking, and the assassin pulls out a quarter and says "call it". It is a very intense moment, and I'm trying to figure out if the assassin did not like the clerk, or he just wanted to kill him. Because the coin was representing the clerks life. So clerk had to choose from heads or tales. The clerk chose heads, he he got to keep his life.

Crowd Control

As you already saw the title, you already know this is about magic. So, today was the rally for my school. A rally is a huge event where all the students and faculty go to an area and celebrate about an event that's going to happen later in the day. Anyways, before the rally had started, I when up to a few people and showed them a couple of tricks. And so, the person I showed was amaxed at my performance and started to gather up his friends so I could show his friends other tricks. So I did.

When the bell rang, I told everyone that I was gonna go to the rally. They crazy thing is though, they all followed me there. I was headed to the gym to go to the rally. All the people I was with, showing tricks all followed me. I never had that kind of attention before. The people around wanted me to do more magic tricks. At the end of the day, I felt good. Not only for myself, but just bringing joy, excitement, and a little bit of confusion to the people I was showing tricks to. That's why everytime I show a trick to someone, I make someone's day a bit better. Chris Ramsay (other magician on youtube) once said "magic means a lot of things to a lot of people. To magicians, magic is mostly the emotions a spectator feels. I think that the magic is there" And that's why I do magic tricks, I like to see people's reactions and emotions toward the tricks I do.

Quote of the Day

I saw this quote a few years ago that i quit enjoyed, and made me think about my choices that i make.

"Someone once told me the definition of hell; the last day you have on earth, the person you became will meet the person you could have become".

Pretty chilling isn't? It makes me think, if i do anything wrong and die without telling my sins, i will see the person i could have become.....

My American Voicr

Speaking up is a good thing to do. Talking about what is on your mind is a really a great thing to do. A person. Can be able to express there feelings with a person on to see what is going on in their life. It may take time to share someone's feelings towards another person, but it will be comfortable. A person will be able to express, and feel comfortable around a certain person. And that causes a great relationship.

Vocab Fall list #6

Meme - a element of culture or system of behavior that may be considered to be passed from one individual to another

Virus - an infective agent that typically consists of a nucleic acid molecule in a protein coat, is too small to be seen by light microscopy, and is able to multiply only within the living cells of a host.

Viral - related to a virus or viruses

Blog - a regularly updated website or Web page

Wiki - a website that allows you to add, edit or delete things

URL - an acronym for uniform resource locator

Website - a location found on the internet that maintains one or more pages in the World Wide Web

WWW - The World Wide Web is a network of online content that is formatted in HTML and accessed via HTTP

Internet -  a global communication network that allows almost all computers worldwide to connect and exchange information

2.0 - a more advanced version of an original concept

Open Source - denoting software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified

Vocab Pictures

Today I am a good human being

This was suppose to be done yesterday, but yesterday i went to church with my dad and brother. My dad is very religious, he comes from a religious family. And he brought it down to us to learn his religion. The bad thing is though, i haven't been to church in 3 weeks. To my Dad, church is really important. So, i went with him, and i felt a lot of positive energy through out that church, it felt good to feel that.

Revealing Secrets

As a person who does magic tricks, I often get asked "tell me how you did it. Or "just tell me, I'll tell no one". You can never trust the spectator, because as soon as you give it up, you'll be nothing to them. They'll beg you, and flatter you for the secret. That's why we magicians keep everything close to the chest. I've shown a couple of people in my life about the tricks I've done,and the trickery, but not the tricks I respect the most. Because once in a while, I or the entertainer will find a trick that is so impressive, that the trick must never be revealed. And that's the magicians code, or how the old saying goes " a magician never tells his secrets".

https://youtu.be/7MsfHsWs3rE

(This link is a scene from the movie The Prestige. It gives a good example of why not to tell your secrets)

literature analysis book #2

The story i read over the weeks was the book called Hatchet. The book involves a young man named brian who is going on a trip to see his father, since his parents are divorced. When brian is on the plane, and up in the there, his pilot has a heart attack while flying the plane and brian has to think fast. He tries to manage the plane, but soon the plane crashes onto a river. And brian is stuck in the woods, and trying to survive.

The theme of the story was not to give up/ survival. Because in the story, he is left in the woods trying to survive everything he encounters. He encounters a bear that he saw, the bear almost attacked him, but soon left. Brian had many struggles through out the story. Many things that could actually happen.


Based on what the author gave his character brian, i would say he is a  sad person. Because in the story, brian talks about the secret that led to his mother and fathers divorce. He starts to be fearful of his surroundings. There is very little distance in his thoughts, because he always thinks of the bad, and thinking what if no one finds me.

 I found a metaphor i found was on chapter 3. page 25, the narrator says "his stomach tighten into a series of rolling knots, and his breath came in short burst". As for a simile i found in chapter 5, page 50 "gradually sloshing like oil, his thoughts settled back, and the panic was gone"

The author wants the reader to feel, and imagine the sadness/ fear in brian. The author is making us go into brians shoes, and see how we would feel if the reader was in the same situation.

Letter to a Mentor Draft

My big question was how would the fifth dimension look like if we lived in it?

For this question  i would have to ask, Stephen Hawking, Michio Kaku, and Neil degrasse Tyson.

Dear, Neil Degrasse Tyson,

I have a concerning question that has been on my mind for quit a while. How would the 5th dimension look like if us humans lived in it? If we finally had the chance to experience interstellar travel, how would we proceed it going towards to the fifth dimension? How could we get to the fifth dimension? Would we use worm holes? I know that us humans could possibly not experience the fifth dimension since the fifth dimension would be rolled up into a tiny contact loop on the order of 10^-33 centimeters. And the reality of the fifth dimension is composed of vibrating strands of energy. But if we had the opportunity to go inside the fifth dimension, how would our bodies and minds react to this experience?

Sincerely,

Joseph A. Cruz

Vocab List # 5

Venomous - full of malice or spite

Stolid - calm, dependable, and showing little emotion or animation

Hypnotized -  Produce a state of hypnosis

Suspended - temporarily prevent from continuing or being in forced or effect

Transformed - make thorough or dramatic change in form

Accused - a person or a group of people charged with or on trial of a crime

Anticipate-   expect or predict

Fringe - an ornamental border of threads left loose or formed in tassels or twists

Melancholy - a feeling of pensive sadness

Earnestly - fervent, intent, purposeful,  determined, industrialist, ambitious

Dissolve -  (referring to a solid) to be incorporated into a liquid

Aggravate- make worse or more serious

Illuminate - light up

Capillary - a tube that has an internal diameter of hairlike thinness

Proboscis - a nose of a mammal  


  

Poem of the Day

Poem  of the Day:
(This poem is meant for the people we've lost in the past. And I really enjoy this poem because it symbolizes that we should not mourn those people's death, but we should wait until our time is up to see them again)

Goodbye is not forever. Goodbye is not the end. It simply means, I will miss you until we meet again.

-Unknown

Respect My Authority

The one person who is always on my case everyday, and always asking me what i did in school, and what i learned from it is my older brother Anthony. I know he does this so i can push myself to do better things, it may be annoying at some points but it really does help. He has his schooling, and other things to worry about, but he always worries about me. He's the one who can punish me when my dad is gone. Overall, i learn from everything he tells me, and i apply it to other things. So, I thank him for making me go over my limits, and pushing me ,

Inciting Incident

The inciting indecent would have to be when he was walking, and the cops made him stop walking. Which i can get because of the cops protocol, they see something suspicious, they look into it.

My Yoda

My Yoda for my big Question would have to be Stephen Hawking or Michio Kacku. Both are Astrophysicists, and both could help me on my big question

Pedestrian First Impression

As Dr. Preston was reading he story The Pedestrian, I felt intrigued on how the story was building up. It makes me want to read more.

My Big Question

How would the world look like if we lived in the fifth dimension?

To find evidence for this question: 

-Physics

-Dynamics

-Astrophysics

-Quantum Mechanics

-Theory of Relativity

Fall Vocab #4

Intermittent- Not continuous or steady

Ebb- To move away from land

Regress-  return to a former or less developed state

Tendency- An inclination toward a particular Characteristic

Antiseptic- of relating to, or denoting substances that prevent the growth of disease-causing microorganisms


The Native Americans had to Ebb from there land to the Europeans.

When I crushed the paper into the ball, i tried to regress it back to its former state

I have a tendency of space off in class.

The hand sensitizer I have is a type of

The beam we tested in physics, and it was not an intermittent beam.

Chemistry Class Performance

Yesterday, I was in Chemistry class, and our class had a substitute.  So, our assignment was to find the significant Figures in our hand outs the substitute gave us. And so, i finished the worksheet, and i had free time to do anything i want. I was thinking things to do, but the only thing i could do was take out my cards. Obviously, this is a move i do to persuade people to look at the cards. Then it worked, people asked me "why do you have cards"?  And i give them my answer "I do tricks with them". So, the people who asked me tell me to show them, so i showed them. I was only going to show one person, but then a big group came in to see what was going on. I did the trick called S.W.A.K, it's a spectacular trick, and one that amazes people. The trick involves the spectator to pick a card, show everyone including me , and i take back the card and let them sign the card, and put there card in there mouth,  All in all, i pick my own card, sign it, and put it in my mouth, I gaze at the spectator intensely, I take out my card I put in my mouth, and they take out theirs, and I show the spectator that the cards magically switch in our mouths, So now, i have the spectators card, and see has mine. That was the only trick i was going to do, but then everyone wanted to chime in and to show them another trick, so I did. But before i get any further, before i did any of that, i was a quiet person in the class. No one really knew me, i knew a couple of people but not the whole class. Now after i did all those tricks in front  of everyone, people started to recognize me. As the "Magic Man", the people i didn't know, now became the people i do know. Magic can bring people together, it can bring people happiness, confusion, and excitement. That's the amazing thing about magic, you can brighten anyone's day, or do an ice breaker to know the person.

S.W.A.K Performance: 

My Aeries

When I was handed back my results for my essay, I was actually surprised on what I got. I predicted myself to get a B-. I didn't know I would get an A-. I thought I did an ok job at my paragraphs, but I got an A-.

Me, the People, My Experience, and Misdirection

So far, I've been getting a lot of exposure with people around my school. Ever since I showed  1 trick to my friends, the exposure was spreading like wild fire. People were talking about it, my classes are talking about it, even my siblings are asking "how did you do"? People are going crazy for magic tricks! People look at me as  if i discovered fire for the very first time. Asking "how did you do that? or Do it again"! But obviously a magician never tells his or hers secrets, or the same trick. That is the key in magic, If people ask you to "do that trick again". Do a different trick, they may ask you "no, no, do the other one", keep doing other tricks, because the person you showed will try to find out how you did it.  That's why we "magicians" (I don't consider myself a magician) tell stories through our performance. So we can get the viewer to be distracted, so no one can look at the slight of movement with your hands. While the entertainer is telling the story, the viewer is looking right at you, they don't know what is happening below there eyes. Therefore, the person viewing does not know whats going on, The whole point of magic, the art of of distraction. There is a video that i saw about misdirection, I'll put the video or link at the bottom of the page. But the person who is explaining the art of misdirection is an actual pit pocketer. He is a famous pick pocketer, he starts to discuss how misdirection is exampled as looking off to the side, but often, the misdirection is right in front of us. He starts to say that the things we look at at everyday, is really the stuff that blind us. For example reach in your pocket, turn on your phone and check what icon you have on the bottom right corner.  How accurate were you? Now, put  your phone back in your pocket, and with out looking at your phone or anything telling you the time, tell me, what was the time when you checked your phone. How accurate were you? Lastly, close your eyes and think of what your best friend, boyfriend, girlfriend, parents, or sibling was wearing today. Check later to see if you were right. Its interesting isn't it? We focus on the important things, than the less important things. That why magicians can be liars,  and devious folk. Now, there is a guy named James Randi or so called "The Amazing Randi", he was an escape artist back in the 1950's. His monologue on stage would be "I will lie to you, no matter how smart you are, or how educated you are, you will be deceived by me" He is a old fellow now, but he is a magnificent escape artist, and wonderful mislead-er. My experience with magic is only been 3 months, and I've shown quit a lot a people. I've went to malls, store, and restaurants to do my performances. And yes, I was nervous as hell going into those places. I had many thoughts that i would mess up, get laughed at, even be ignored by people. But  I faced my fears, i just go up to people and just tell them to pick a card. The people may be confused about what you are doing, but most likely they will go along with you. I used to be shy when going up to people to ask for something very simple, i never came out of my comfort zone. I just stayed in my little shell, and isolated myself. But i overcame that, i built the confidence to talk to people, go up to strangers and ask them questions or show them a card trick. (I'm not encouraging you to always go up to strangers, but to feel comfortable to go up to people)  Yeah, sometimes I got rejected by people, by asking them to show them a magic trick. And it's ok, it will happen, just ignore it and move on. Often people find excuses to not do things, and you  just give up, but people give up to fast because its to easy. Yeah there is few people to show because there is a low audience in areas you are at. But if you go to school, work, or anything you do that surrounds you with people, there is your big audience. The funny thing is that when you show a magic trick in school, you will be known as the "Magic kid". Which is a cool nickname, and especially you will leave a mark on those people to always remember. Doing tricks like that leaves a token for the person to keep. When I do Magic Tricks  I always say to the spectator to keep the card, so they can remember that moment. And one day, the person you preformed  to will most likely tell a  friend or relative on what happened that day. If anybody is interested in magic, I will leave a video for a simple trick to do to anybody, and will amaze the spectator. Their is a you tuber that gives excellent tutorials on magic tricks, and much more. His channel is Disturb Reality, and he gives a saying at the end of his videos that I will sign off with..



"Inspire to learn, Aspire to disturb, and always rise above"
                                                                                                       -Evan Cloyd

PERFORMANCE & TUTORIAL: 

Side Note (Two Card Monte is a story telling Magic Trick. The Video will explain how you will tell the story.)

ART of Misdirection TED Talk

Literally Analysis Questions

1. The Hobbit or so called There and Back Again, is about a hobbit who goes on an unexpected journey with dwarfs, and a wizard to take back the dwarfs mountain called Arabor, but soon the dwarfs, hobbit and the wizard will encounter frightful things on the way there.

2. The theme in The Hobbit is taking a leap of faith. Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who sits around and ear dinner everyday by himself, and waiting for his life to passl by. But soon when The Wizard called Gandalf, he is reluctant to join an "unexpected journey" because he is very cautious about leaving his belongings behind him. Don't be the person sitting on the bench, go out there and see what you can do.

3.Based on the tone the author gives to the character, Bilbo would be a morning person, waking up early, drinking tea, cleaning his house, and waiting for the mail to come to his porch. Because in  in the other lord of the rings, hobbit are usually lazy, and friendly, and like to eat and have feasts, In addition, Bilbo may be solving riddles since hobbits are really impressive with riddles.

4 In The Hobbit, the simile I came across was on Pg.1 it says "The door opened on to a tubed shape hall like a tunnel. As for a metaphor, in chapter 9, it says "there the great tree beeches came right down to the bank, till there feet were in the stream. I couldn't spot an allegory in the book, but i did find a personification on page 65 " It burned with rage that made it gleam if goblins were about"....
The way the author used his words is to make the reader imagine the things he made up. He uses so much description that you can already see the character in your mind when the reader is reading the passage.

Vocab List #3

Coherent: logical and consistent

Belabor: argue or elaborate

Eschew: deliberately avoid using

Acquisitive: interested in acquiring money or material things

Emulate: match or surpass

Banal: lacking in originality

Excoriation: to strip off or remove

Congeal:  to change from a soft or fluid state to a rigid or solid state, as by cooling or freezing: 

Carping: difficult to please

Substantiate: to provide evidence to support or prove the truth

Temporize: avoid to making a decision or committing oneself in order to gain time

Largesse: generosity on bestowing money or gifts upon others

Tenable: able to be maintained or defend by an attack

Insatiable: impossible to satisfy

Reconnaissance: military observation of region to locate an enemy

Germane: relevant to a subject under consideration

Ramify: form branches or offshoots

Intransigent: unwilling or refusing to change ones view to agree to something

Taciturn: saying little

Vocab Definition & Sentences #2

Faith : complete trust or confidence in someone or something.

Threshold: a strip of wood, metal, or stone forming the bottom of a doorway and crossed in entering a house or room.

Tarry: of, like, or covered with tar.

Resolve: settle or find a solution to (a problem, dispute, or contentious matter)

Discern: perceive or recognize (something).

Martyer: a person who is killed because of their religious or other beliefs.

Mirth: amusement, especially as expressed in laughter

Catechism: a summary of the principles of Christian religion in the form of questions and answers, used for the instruction of Christians.

Pious: devoutly religious.

Frenzy: a state or period of uncontrolled excitement or wild behavior.

Sentences:

I have complete faith that you will pass your test.

The threshold is cracking by me pushing the couch through the door 

Back in the day, people would throw tarry all over there enemies when into battle.

I finally resolved my problem in math!

The person across street, i can barely discern him.

People would be martyered at the stake with cross.

I have not been in catechism since i was 7.

My dad is pious about god.

After eating to much sugar, the kid was on a frenzy.

YGB Questions

1. He was interested in evil and guilt because of his ancestor who was at the time during the Witch Salem Trials. Not only that but, the story maintains the concern of Young Goodman Brown if he is dreaming or, if its real.

2. The name actually fits well because his wife has not seen what Goodman Brown has seen. And she is being faithful about it.

3. The pink ribbons signify Happiness or joy.

4. I think his journey is irrelevant, such like brown we must take a "stroll into the woods". We must learn what is evil and what is good. Brown can not or he chooses not to deal with anything he learns.

5. I think the old man is the devil, since he was telling Goodman Brown he met his father and his grandfather. (no one could have lived that long to see Goodman grandfather, and his father. Then leading up to meeting Young Goodman Brown).

6. I think the staff represents the way the Devil lures people in the woods. But with that staff, he makes himself look casual with he staff, looking as if he is a fellow stranger wandering in the woods in the dark.  Yet again, why would a stranger just go in the woods at dark and appear out of no where?

7.  I believe so that Goodman Brown would have a better life. He would still have faith, and he would be the same person who trusted everyone.

Things I Have Encountered Today

I saw two post on this website called 9Gag, (by the way, the stuff they say and post are kind of nsfw. If you don't know what nsfw means, it mean not safe for work.) one showing a interesting topic about our how massive a black hole is in the phoenix cluster. In addition to that, the other post was about this family watching TV on the new curve TV  . (the pictures are on the bottom of this blog) But the one I really want to get into is how massive a black hole is. The video shows an illustration of how humongous a black hole is. And the video is comparing the black hole to suns. The Phoenix Cluster is the biggest black hole in our solar system. The black hole contain the mass of 20 million suns. Holy crap!!! That black hole can suck up anything it comes across it, if it were to reach the earth, bloop. We would be gone before we know it.Not only is the Phoenix Cluster tremendously huge, (even its millions of light years away) do not let black holes deceive you. There is a black hole it is small, and already a destroyer of worlds. Its called XTE J1650-500. It's the size of Manhattan ! Many black holes are almost the size of planets in our solar system or as Countries. The universe has many black holes, and they play an important role in our galaxy. I want you to imagine, if a you were to get sucked into a black hole. Would you see darkness? Would you be transported to another dimention? No one knows what we would see, the evidence scientist have said is we would be sucked in and stretched into a noodle. We would just be stretched beyond our bodies limit. We would be floating spaghetti. Because of black holes, our solar system is still here. There is about 4 million mass black holes in out solar system. If we didnt have black holes, we wouldn't even be here.

As for the other post on 9Gag, I just cracked me up on how the man sold all his stuff for a curve tv for his family. So it took all of his money, just to by the tv for his family. Now he's broke, and their living room is empty. It shows how much a man or woman would go to get something for there family, to make them happy.

Defining the Vocab Words

Theme: The central message of a story

Tone: The authors attitude towards the characters, the topic, and the audience

Mood: How the reader feels

Truth: If that which can be factorial verified in the world

Syllogism: Is the simplest and basic of a argument

Validity: A test of reason (does my conclusion follow my premise)

Diction: Is the words an author chooses to tell a story

Syntax: Arrangement of words

Transmitter: sends message

Stupid: Slow to learn

Adumbrate: To report or represent in outline

Apotheosis: The highest point in development of something

Ascetic: Someone who dedicates his or her life to pursuit an idea

Bauble: a small, showy trinket or decoration.

Beguile: charm or enchant

Burgeon: begin to grow or increase rapidly; flourish

Complement: a thing that completes or brings to perfection.

Contumacious: Rebellious 

Curmudgeon: a bad-tempered or surly person.

Didactic: Intended for Instruction

"The Conscience of a Hacker" Response

The short story was this man named mentor who was arrested, and shortly wrote this message of who he is. He is describing himself like a ghost. He is behind a computer screen, not like anyone else. He is not told what to do, he is his own teacher. People have the resources to do anything now, how he said, "i can out smart you"...  by him saying that, anybody can outsmart you. With this type of technology, we can do anything. We can be easily learn something quick, by our electronic devices. At any moment, when can just emerge into the virtual reality and express our opinion, and nobody would know, were just like a ghost behind a monitor.

Young Goodman Brown

My impression on this short story was utter shock. He was weak on his religious faith, a stern and darkened man. When he went to the forest, that was a deep end for young Goodman brown. This story relates to a lot of things in reality, having a lot of confusion, depression, and in a dark world. People can relate to this, since the character was jumping into his past. People don't know what there gonna see what they left behind. And that's why people can relate to Goodman brown.

Impression on "My Biggest Question"

My impression on the story was very unique. Every question has an answer, no question is a dumb question. People think if we were to ask a question in class, it would slow down the class. And wait until the teacher answers the question. We keep restraining ourselves on questions we are interested in finding out. We have the power to learn, are we gonna not ask questions when we go to college? Are we just gonna let time pass by or savor time to ask questions?

Ancient Stories Q&A

Questions:

How is the language in this text similar to and/or different from the language you use in everyday conversation?

Answer: The language the text uses is quiet similar, but not so different in what I use on a conversation with my friends. The writer telling the story is using words such as ; expecting, grasping, budge, and sacred. Those words are used sometimes when I talk with relatives and friends. The writer has the a similar vocabulary structure like me. But the difference is he or she is describing the story they were told in a third person view, using he, she, etc. They are describing the story as if he or she is repeating word for word from a other story teller.

Because it began as an oral story, "Earth on the Turtles Back" can be found in multiple text versions. How important is it for a story to be repeated embellished, distorted, lost, or enhanced in the retelling?

Answer: It is important to repeat the story as it was told the first time. In addition, if one person were to say it differently, then their might a huge commotion of who's right. As for embellished, people can be creative and tell it in a different way,to make the story more interesting.

    

My Notes for Dr. Preston's Class

Response to "The Earth on the Turtles Back"

Response to "The Earth on the Turtles Back"

The reading is a representation on how the earth was created. It shows how one turtle had held up the earth on his back, and a woman planted seeds into the earth to have a better future. Now, this story is showing how the earth was created to a certain culture. There are many perspectives on how the earth was created; God said "let there be light" or, The Big Bang started out the earth. In other words, we started out as apes and grew into intelligent human beings. Many people have their own beliefs,  and according to this belief, this native tribe telling this story shows how each animal had a important role in their lives. In addition, these animals represent, perseverance, courage, and self sacrifice. In our beliefs, someone or something was sacrificed to make our future better. Whether it was, particles compressed together in space, and everything was in a tight spot to just explode in space. Or either when God said "let there be light" and every creation was created to make earth adaptable. Or maybe was it was this story, where a turtle held the earth on his back, and a woman planted seeds to make a better future. Everyone has their own perspective of things on how something was made, or introduced. But it's all a representation on what we were introduced in, and taught to believe in.

Richard Cory Poem

Response to "Richard Cory"

Response to "Richard Cory"

As I was reading "Richard Cory", I had an impression that the writer was giving a description of a person he met or an inspiration of a person. When he said "Good Morning" he was always happy, and joyful to meet people. When the poem said "and he glittered when he walked". People would have a impression on him that he was always a respected fellow. At the end he put a bullet through his head. It gave me a thought that he was depressed. He was rich, but that doesn't heal everything. When he would walk downtown, and say "good morning", he was wearing a mask over himself. He was disguising his emotions with happiness. The old saying goes "time heals all wounds". But his wounds were not completely healed.

Response to "The Right to your Own Opinion"

Response to "The Right to your Own Opinion"

As I was reading The Right to your Own Opinion, I came across a point where the writer gave an example of me, a friend, and a car. Where a friend and I were to cross the street, and I saw a car coming, but my friend does not see the car and starts to walk across the street. Both of us have a opinion, I say there is a car coming, and he or she says there is no car. We are both entitled to our opinion. But who's right? Do I let him or her keep walking? No, I must change his or her's  opinion that there is a car coming. Like it says I must draw his or her's attention. And now he or she will thank me on showing more precise evidence on my opinion. But the real question to me is what about religious people and atheists. They both have their right to their own opinion. But who's right? Religious people give evidence based on the bible, quotes and stories told by Jesus's disciples. Telling people Jesus healed people, he walked on water, etc. And then theirs the atheists, they think it's false. Jesus is a false and made up person. They may think going to mass and reading the bible is brain wash or joining a cult. Theirs always been articles and stories of people dying and coming back to life and telling what happen. People going to heaven and seeing God, seeing family members that had been deceased for a long time. Then other stories say all i saw was darkness. No sound, nothing in sight. Does it mean God doesn't want them to see heaven because an atheist does not believe in him. But when a believer in God, they see heaven, and their loved ones. They are both entitled to their opinion, and will stick with it. As it says in the last paragraph, some topics people are not interested in beliving the truth. But who is telling the truth? Which side has more evidence?

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