Presentations

Michael Kurgan Topic: Time





Jesus Oliveras- Topic: Oral hygiene
Diseases
Gingivitis- makes gums red, and bleeding occurs while brushing.


Tanya Topic: Makeup
Makeup was made to enhance natural beauty
Pressure- Makeup
Makeup in today's society can totally change someone.

Dominic Caulderon
Topic: What's your purpose in life

Noelia
Topic: Can judgement be a good thing
You shouldn't judge someone by the way they act or where they live or their skin color.
Racism is the idea that one race is greater than the others.
Bad judgement is formed at a young age. Social media is a big part because people on the internet like to judge a lot.

Avelina Sanchez
Topic: Can people live without social media
People can't live without it

Journal

 My favorite football team the New York Giants. Recently they have picked a running back, tight end, and a quarterback. They now have three good recievers Odell Beckham, Sterling Shepard, and Brandon Marshall. With a veteran quarterback Eli Manning who has two Super Bowl rings I feel a lot of confidence in him. I have watched Eli through out the years and he seems to be very good at what he does. Also Odell Beckham has been improving since he was a rookie showing maturity.

Essay

  Montag throughout the story has been very dynamic and showing change from the beginning of the story to the end. Throughout the story Montag is faced with many different problems from which he is shown the reality of life. It all starts when he meets this girl Clarisse and she asks him "are you happy" and Montag in his mind says "of course I'm happy". Later that evening as he steps into his cold empty house and then goes into his bedroom and feels the emptiness in there too. Montag then suddenly realizes that "he was not happy" and that "he wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask".
  Montag changed after realizing he wasn't happy and started to think about it more. Then Montag walks into his bedroom where he finds that Mildred had overdosed on sleeping pills. "Montag was cut in half ". "He felt his chest chopped down and split apart". Montag after calling for doctors and having Mildred's stomach pumped and he wishes that machine could have "taken her mind along to the dry cleaners. Montag feels sad that Mildred is sad and that everyone around him is sad.
  Then Montag who is a firemen then goes to the firehouse where the mechanical hound starts to growl at him. Captain Beatty tells Montag that it is impossible for the hound to be threat. Later Montag continues to meet up with Clarisse and start learn more. Then one day Montag is told by his wife that Clarisse's family had moved and that she had died but Mildred says it in a weird way. At the firehouse an alarm goes off and they case about woman on her porch reciting Hugh Latimer. Montag while in the house grabs a book before they tell the woman that she can either die with her books or with out them. The woman chooses to die with her books which really affects Montag because the next day he is feels sick and doesn't want to be a firemen anymore.
  Captain Beatty tells Montag that every firemen goes through something like this but Montag still isn't fine at all about it. Montag feels worse about it because he then tells his wife but she doesn't seem to care. Later in the story Montag begins to like reading books so he decides to find a teacher so  goes to a guy named Faber. They have a conversation about books and Faber tells Montag "it's not the books you need, it's some of the things that once were in books". This shows Montag that burning books is the wrong thing to do so they start plotting a plan to destroy the system.
  Later Montag has to put up with Mildred's friends but instead he reads poetry to them and make them cry. Beatty then starts to taunt Montag with contradictory quotes which then leads to the firemen going to Montag's house. Montag in his head has many emotions about being forced to burn his house in which he had good memories in. So the heat of all this Montag then kills Beatty out of frustration. Montag flees the scene and has lots of thinking to do about what he has to do.
  So in the end Montag throughout the story has changed in many ways during the story. In a way he was a mindless person not even second guessing what he was doing. But in the end Montag realizes that there is more to life than just burning books. Burning books was like burning away knowledge and Montag in the process of preserving knowledge then changes himself. At the end Montag escapes the city which has been bombed and has found a group of survivors who love to recite books. Montag decides to be like them and follows them but notices that the group had fallen behind him. Montag then goes aside to let Granger pass but Granger nods him on. This to me shows that the group thinks of Montag as a leader. So in conclusion I think that Montag has gone from being a sheep in the herd to being the Shepard.

Questions 114-122

1. The hound attacked Montag because Montag had killed Beatty.
2. Montag defends himself by flaming the hound until it dies off.
3. What Montag realizes about Beatty is that he wanted to die.
4. Montag goes to Faber's to get advice on what to do.
5. Montag is almost run over by some kids out joy riding.

Questions for Fahrenheit

1. It's easier to burn books which we hate reading than actually reading them so it's more pleasuresble.
2. The books are compared to birds because books have pages that flap like wings on a pigeon.
3.Montag's life is slowly coming down on him and things for him are going to get worse. On the other hand  Clarisse's life is a bit different in the way that her life consists of confusion and asking lots of questions.
4. The technology within the novel are about the exact same thing as our current technology. They depicted earphones but in the novel they are seashells. In the novel technology didn't improve the quality of life because now they just were secluded from each other with their technology. No one was talking to each other because everyone was separated by their technology.
5. The narrator introduces us to Montag at this time to show the conflict of the story.
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8.Mildred required because she tried to commit suicide by taking lots of sleeping pills. The service provided then the medic came and pumped her stomach.
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10. The society considers her anti-social because she is always confused about how things work and always asking questions.
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12. Their relationship is complicated and not connected

1. D
2. A
3. D
4. C
5. D
6. D
7. B
8. B
9. D
10. A
11. B
12. D
13. D
14. D
15. B
16. A
17. C
18. B
19. A
20. D
21. C
22. D
23. B
24. C
25. D

Chapter 7 notes

Gatsby fires all his servants because they gossip a lot.
Gatsby finally tells Tom that Daisy doesn't love him and that she never loved him.
Daisy kills Murtle and we don't know if she did it on purpose or on accident.

Questions on The Great Gatsby

1. Who's the Wolfshiem?
2. Why did Gatsby wanna die in the military?
3. How did Gatsby decide to become Gatsby?

Notes

We learned today that Daisy is a smart girl acting dumb so she can get along because she can't support herself by herself. Another thing we learned was that there is a new character Doctor T.J. Eckelburg.

Final Essay

Salaman Rushdie talks about the job of a poet and what it takes to be poet. Rushdie says that a poet should start arguments, take sides, and point the frauds out. A poet should use diction in way that amazes the reader. As a learner in this course the first poem that we read was Richard Corey then we went to a story Young Goodman Brown then to Earth on Turtle's Back. During the discussions of our interpretations of the story in class gave me a new way of thinking because I was listening to all different opinions which gave me a new way to interpret a story. In class we read stories and two stories that had the same theme were Richard Corey and Earth on Turtle's Back. The similar theme for both stories was looks can be deceiving. In the story Richard Corey about a man named Richard Corey  who people thought was happy because he was wealthy but in reality at the end of the story he kills himself leaving everyone speechless. In the story Earth on Turtle's Back a group of animals have to dive down deep in the water to bring back up the earth and in the process many animals fail. Until this tiny muskrat volunteered to try and she suceeded  even though she was small she showed the animals that looks can be deceiving. Now as a student I can relate to what Rushdie's quote is saying because like a student my job is to go to class on time, have good grades, and stay out of trouble. Similar to the poet's job described by Rushdie except a poet and a student are different except in the fact that they are both trying to get better at what thy are doing. Rushdie's tone toward this quote was candid. The reason is because the way Rushdie talks about the job of a poet. Rushdie talks about the job of a poet in a foreword and truthful way because all the points he talks about are what makes a great poet. The mood of this quote is inspirational because the way he talks about if your a poet it's your job to connect to your reader through poetry. The theme of the quote is that a poet is suppose to keep the reader in amusement by using his diction in a way that works.

Emerson's child

 Emerson's essay is pretty long and confusing but we still found a way to make meaning of his words in a way that everyone can understand. In a way Emmerson's essay talks about that inner kid that we have deep down inside of us. The reason because when we were kids we didn't have care in the world about what other people thought and we did things the way we wanted to without almost thinking about it. But now as teenagers we have kept that kid deep down inside of us because we are scared to be judged by other people.
 We tend to be forced to being the person that everyone wants you to be which is why we never have a chance to be ourselves. “Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self" meaning be yourself and not someone else. It's really easy in this world to be someone else because it's hard to be yourself in this world full of judgement. In the end we have to do what will make you happy and follow your heart.
 Another point that Emerson tries to get us is to not follow trails but instead make your own. "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail". Another interpretation for this is to be a leader and not a follower. Be the one to make choices and not be the one who has choices made for them.
 Emerson said "Traveling is a fool's paradise". Meaning that when we go to other place we believe that we can escape from our problems. But in reality people like to think that you can run away from your problems by traveling to other places. In the end we come back home realize that our problems are still here. 
 In the end I believe the main idea hat Emmerson is trying get to us is to be yourself and do what you feel is right and do things that make you happy. Always stick with your heart and don't worry about what other people think about because if you do you will put yourself in a mental jail unable to get out. Finally be your best self and do not seek outside yourself but look within.

   

Emmerson Presentation Day 3

"Traveling is a fool's paradise"
Explanation: Meaning people think that they can travel to other places to get away from problems but  they can't.
Smile now cry later
"Yet he dismisses without notice his thought because it is his"
Explanation: Like when someone comes up with the idea you thought of but you didn't speak up because you thought it was wrong and didn't want to be judged.
Don't be ashamed of who you are and don't be afraid of expressing your opinion.

Emmerson Presentations Day 2

“Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. ...

Meaning be yourself and don't be someone else. 

"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself"

Meaning if your sad or down your the only one who can fix it.

"Every man is his own star"

"Trust thyself; every heart vibrates to that iron string"

I'm Self Reliant

One thing I want to know is what does Emerson mean when he said  "My giant goes with me wherever I go". Another thing I didn't get was when Emerson said "Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles".

Vocab List #6

meme- an element of a culture or system of behavior that may be considered to be passed from one individual to another by nongenetic means, especially imitation.
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- of the nature of, caused by, or relating to a virus or viruses.
blog- a regularly updated website or web page, typically one run by an individual or small group, that is written in an informal or conversational style.
wiki- a website that allows collaborative editing of its content and structure by its users.
URL- Uniform resource identifier
website- a location connected to the internet that maintains one or more pages on the World Wide Web.
www- World Wide Web- is a network of online content that's is formatted in HTML.
Internet- The global communication network that allows almost all computers worldwide to connect and exchange information.
2.0- Used to denote a superior or more advanced version of an original concept, produce, service, etc.
open source- Denoting software for which the original source code is ade freely available and may be redistributed and modified.

Big Question

why do we have a conscience?

Vocabulary List 5

venomous- (of animals, especially snakes, or their parts) secreting venom; capable of injecting venom by means of a bite or sting.
stolid- (of a person) calm, dependable, and showing little emotion or animation.
hypnotized- produce a state of hypnosis in (someone)
suspended- temporarily prevent from continuing or being in force or effect.
transformed- make a thorough or dramatic change in the form, appearance, or character of.
accuse- charge (someone) with an offense or crime.
anticipate- regard as probable; expect or predict.
fringe- an ornamental border of threads left loose or formed into tassels or twists, used to edge clothing or material.
melancholy- a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause.
earnestly- resulting from or showing sincere and intense conviction.
dissolve- (with reference to a solid) become or cause to become incorporated into a liquid so as to form a solution.
aggravate- make (a problem, injury, or offense) worse or more serious.
illuminate- light up
capillary- any of the fine branching blood vessels that form a network between the arterioles and venules.
proboscis- the nose of a mammal, especially when it is long and mobile, such as the trunk of an elephant or the snout of a tapir.

Respect My Authority

Authority figures really influence the way I act sometimes. Like at football practice if the coach tells you something you better do it and don't be fooling around on the sideline. Also in my class of chemistry when my teacher asks for an answer I have to think about it before I shout out my answer. So yah sometimes I do feel threatened to be myself in class because I don't want to look like and idiot in front of everyone.

Vocabulary List #4

Intermittent- occurring at irregular intervals; not continuous or steady
Ebb-  the movement of the tide out to sea
Regress- return to a former or less developed state
Tendency- an inclination toward a particular characteristic or type of behavior
Antiseptic- of, relating to, or denoting substances that prevent the growth of disease-causing microorganisms.

The Pedestrian reaction

The Pedestrian seems like a very weird type of story. There is no sign of live which gives it a eerie feeling. Also Leonard Mead is just walking around in the night alone just wandering which is weird.