Life is Strange

Right now i am very speechless at this moment from the weekend, to now. From the title, some of you may be thinking "what is Life Is Strange? Are you talking about life"? Well, it's a video game i have been playing for a couple of weeks now. Yes, it is strange of me to talk about a game that i have been playing. Recently, i have finished the game and i am just blown away on how a game can impact me in my life. The story in the game is very relatable  to me, and possibly to other people who may have played this game. And the story presented to me, hit me on a personal level, and i have never in my whole life felt this way about a games story. The story follows a high school girl named Max Caulfield. She just moved from Seattle to a town named Arcadia Bay (the town looks like city of Oregon) and she is an outcast, a soft spoken, shy person who loves photography. She soon figures out that she has the ability to rewind time, leading her every choice to enact the butterfly effect. And with the butterfly effect, comes with great consequences. All of us especially have felt a moment in our lives to wish we could go back in time to fix things. And this game delivers it.

It gives you the imagination of what it would be like if you had the ability to rewind time. After I have finished game last Saturday,  I felt joy, and a little bit of emptiness because I have never had a connection between a character like this before. This game is not like your ordinary game, go to this place, talk to people, find something, etc. This games involves choices that will effect your story in the process of playing. In every situation I had to choose, I would be hesitatent to make a choice, because I would be thinking of the outcome and the possibilities this decision could make. I would actually take 3 to 4 minutes contemplating in my thoughts of what would be the right choice to make. This game changed my perspective in life, and to my choices I make. And I remember how in class we talked about is music art/ literature . And I explained that it is on how the artist writes, rhymes his or her lyrics. And now, I found a new art/ literature. Specific games are literature and an art. If a game really strucks you like this game made me feel, then this is truly an art forms. I seriously recommend this game, even if some of you may not like games, or find them "not enjoyable" trust me, this game you will love, and relate to in many levels.

It's avaliable on a

the platforms listed: Xbox 360, Xbox One, PC (go to the website Steam (it's a website other buy games. It's a safe website), or a local store who has the game. For example:Walmart, Gamestop, Target, or possibly Best Buy), Playstation 4, Playstation 3.

The Great Gatsby Ch 9

denouement

"..a token of forgotten violence staring down from the wall". pg 173

sparse pg 175

Jewess pg 178

bulbous pg 179

gonnegtion  pg 180

Great Gatsby Ch 8 Notes

fog-horn pg 154

Universal theme- Central message of a story

pavilions pg 154

"For Daisy was young and her artificial world was redolent of orchids and pleasant, cheerful snobbery and orchestras which set the rhythm of the year".... pg 158

"....road outside it sounded to him like the car that hadn't stopped a few hours before". pg 165

Great Gastby ch. 7 Notes

dilatory pg 118

"My Finn".....pg 118

Caravansary pg 119

perspired pg 120

awnings pg 122

"Ahead lay the scalloped ocean and the abounding blessed isles". pg 124

"her voice is full of money" pg 127

"He looked at me keenly"... pg 128

locality pg 131

"There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind"......pg 131

mint julep pg 134

Coming across Magic (again)

Thank you Dr. Preston for reminding me about my magic involvement. I finally had the opportunity   to see some David Blaine tricks. (because i have been busy for a few weeks) But now, i have some time to show some tricks. The tricks he does, i still don't know how he does them. Just twoof the tricks he proposed i know how he did them. Now, this was his comeback performance from his old special that was 5 years ago. And now, with this performance, he is promoting his new special.  Enjoy!

The Great Gatsby Question

I have a question about Mr. Gatsby......Why would he lie to Nick that he was rich and inherited his money from being so wealthy? I'm contemplating that he wants to let go of his past. I'm guessing, for him to truly becoming Gatsby he has to let go of his past, and become a new person. But i guess its for the better good i suppose. Well, for his sake.

The Great Gastby Notes Chapter 5 Part I

scrutinize pg 89

dripping bare lilac pg 90

demonic pg 92

"After half an hour the sun shone again and the grocer's automobile rounded Gatsby's drive with raw material for his servants dinner".....pg 93-94

"with enchanting murmurs".... pg 96

The Great Gatsby Questions Ch. 1-4

Chapter 1

1. Who Does Tom keep getting phone calls from?
2. What did Nick want to be, but instead chose a diffrent path of his career?

Chapter 2

1. What does Nick see at the Wasteland?
2. How many times has Nick been drunk in his lifetime?

Chapter 3

1.What are the rumors that people say about Gatsby?
2.Once Jordan is asked to talk to Gatsby alone, who does Nick see inside Gatsbys house?

Chapter 4

1.What is the reason Gatsby is using Nick for?
2.Who did Daisy love before she married Tom?

Accepting Defeat

Anytime anyone loses, its not a pleasant thing to have. We often feel emotional, feeling the other opponents happiness of winning. But, feeling all the anger, sadness, and misunderstandings  are helping you analyze, reflect on what you did. So you don't have to repeat the process again. Helps you build strategies  to make. There is a clip ill put down below of how defeat can be very emotional. But remember, it will help you in the long run.

The Great Gatsby Remix Chapter 3

When Nick and Miss Baker went to Gastby's house. And the moment where Nick did not know he was talking to Gastby. Gave me a recollection of how Nick described Gastby's smile. Where we would only see a smile like that 3 to 4 times in our life.  And it gave me a thought that i have only seen a smile like that only twice in my life. (the way nick describes it) It made me come to realize Nick is right on what he says. It gives the reader a thought if anyone has gotten a smile like that from Gastby to Nick.

The Great Gastby Ch.3 part lll Notes

indignantly pg 59

crescendo-makes things big pg 60

"A sudden emptiness seemed to flow now from the windows and great doors"...... pg 60

metropolitan twilight - a dimmed sunset from behind tall buildings pg 62

"Her grey sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations , and for a moment i thought i loved her". pg 63

"she was incurably dishonest" pg 63

The Great Gastby Ch 3 part ll

innuendo pg 49

"two finger bowls of champagne...." pg 51

"it was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life" pg 52

"urban distaste"... pg 54

"jovial condescension".... pg 54