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