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