Final's Project

For my final project, i will be working with Kyle Stickler. What we are going to do, is make a fagebook page of all the Logical Fallacies and give videos of Presidential Debates, famous comedians, and pictures of the Fallacies being done in the real world. We are going to relate them back to some of the stories we have read

My Big Question Part II

      Think about my Big Question is kind of concerning me a little bit. My question is not as easy to find answers. Yes it is looking into the future, but its looking into something people right now are stumped on. I want to know, what is going to happen to the world in a couple years. Yes it is a head scratching question, but thats what the assignment was right? Here what I have been thinking about it.
      So, first of all, im going to research all of the things that is happeneing in the world as we speak. How mich debt the US is in, global warming, the ozone, everything. Ever since the damn Mayans ran out of space on their calendar, and had everyone freaking out about the world ending in December, I have always had that little doubt in my mind. I want to take action into this subject and see if what their "prediction" was really does make sense or if it really is a big load of crap.

Sleepy Hollow Vocab

Pedagogue: a strict school teacher

Cavernous: vast in shape and atmosphere

Coquettish: flirtacious, mainly women

Suffice: sufficient

Amorous: in love

My Big Question

My Big Question is whats going to happen to the world. I know its not just going to end. But i honestly want to know whats going to happen in the next year.

Sleepy Hallow Vocab

Bosom: heart or center of
Prudently: conservatively
Inveterate: hibitualy
Propensity: likely hood, tendensy
Repose: state of rest
Stripling: youth
Sequester: isolate, isolation
Apparition: vision of supernatural
Purport: intend
Imbibed: drink in
Incessant: ongoing, continuous
Cognomen: his name
Reverie: dream-like state or transe
Gambol: frolic or play
Spectre: ghost you can see
Tarry: to linger
Hessian: German Mersenary in Civil War

Legend of Sleepy Hallow

I honestly didnt understand what we were supposed to write on our blogs about Legen dof Sleepy Hallow. But i wanted you to know that i didnt just blow off the homework, but that i didnt understand the assignment.

Vocabulary Remix

Flout: treat with distain, scorn or contempt
Caveat: warning or caution
Blazon: to set forth conspicuously or publicly
Filch: to steal something of little value in particular
Fractious: refractory or unruly
Equitable: characterized by fairness
Autonomy: independence in freedom
Addendum: thing to be added
Amnesty: general pardon for offenses
Axiomatic: pertaining to or of the nature of axiom
Extricate: free or release from entanglement

Katy Perry-Kesha Remix

http://youtu.be/d1EVRCYGUAc

I thought this was pretty interesting, considering were covering the Remix topic in class. Here is the song California Gurls by Katy Pery and the song Tik Tok by Ke$ha being remixed into each other. I didn't even catch the similarites until i came across this video on Youtube. Enjoy (:

 

Remix

So, you told us to post about the remixes in real life. The song "Nothing Lasts Forever" by Maroon 5 is definitely part of this subject. Of course its not very popular because the famous Kanye West Remixed this song and called it Heard 'Em Say. If you listen to the chorus of Kanye's song, it is the exact same chorus as Maroon 5's song. Not many people knew that this remix even existed because Kanye was more famous at the time this song came out, than Adam Levine and Maroon 5 were.

Self Reliance-David Guetta

So after watching the David Guetta video, i found out how self reliance ties into it. all the artists, including himself, all live life their way. they dont follow people or copy any one. they "rock to the beat of their own drum," they set their own stage.

Ad Hominem

I was at a baby shower today, and my two cousins were talking about the types of icing on the cupcakes. One of them was sure that the icing was some sort of chocolate, the other knew that it was chocolate pudding. When they were argueing back and forth, the one who knew for a fact it was the pudding, had for sure declared that it wasnt icing at all, the other cousin had said, "well you know what else isn't icing, YOU RACE." I right away grabbed my phone and wrote down what he had said because i knew it was an Ad Hominem.

Im Sorry

I feel like I haven't been on my blog in forever. I'm so sorry, I know you work so much and I feel terrible. I know time is not the issue, but seriously I am working so hard to find time to do this. This weekened I plan to get my blog up to date.

Midterm Study Schedule

On Mondays and Wednesday I have Cheer Practice in Ventura, so for the hour and a half car ride there and back, im going to study each list for each direction. So on the way there will be week one. For the ride back home will be week two. And so on and so on. The days i dont have practice i can take an hour each night while im in bed and study the other lists. Since I know the majority of the words it most likely wont take me the whole amount of the time alotted. I can use the Vocab lists I hand wrote in class, and if wordt comes to worst I can just go on my blog and review using my phone. Thank God I have a smartphone or else I wouldnt have as many opportunities as i do with one.

Romanticism

When I took a walk, I could smell the fresh cut grass aroung my neighborhood. I closed my eyes for a while and could hear a dog barking and a car drive by me. Im sure the car was thinking I was a nut job for standing there, but I never knew how much I took for granted. When people say, if you loose a sense, your other senses take over. That is very true. If i didnt have my eyes closed, I would have never smelled the dog poop next to me. While I was walking with my eyes OPEN, i never noticed that I could walk under all the branches in my neighborhood. Some of the perks of being short finally came out when i was looking for little details.

My Three websites: http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/hum_303/romanticism.html
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/romanticism
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/roma/hd_roma.htm

Romanticism, from what I thought, had to do with love and relationships and all that goo go gaga stuff. Little did I know, it had to do with the Roman Era, and around the time of the French Revolution. I also had no idea that Romanticim was incorporated in the Star Wars soundtrack. I didnt know that Romanticism also had to do with Gothic Romance either. What i wrote in my notes, didnt really have to do with this stuff. Like I said, /i thought it was more about Love than Historic events

Dream Within a Dream

Since i didnt do this for homework last night. I decided to do it now. After thinking about our class discussion, i would have to agree with Miyah, and say that it could possibly be about a breakup of somesort. Or even , like you said, a separation of some sort. But with anything in life, there is always a greater meaning if we think about anything for a while. When he talks about the grains of sand slipping through his fingers, hes talking about the fact that he has to let whatever he is dwelling on, go. With a breakup or boarding school, you have to let the anger or depression go, or else he will go crazy

Vocabulary September 27

Adroit: expert or nble in use of hands or body
Amicable: charaterized by goodwill.
Averse: strong feeling of opposition.
Belligerent: warlike.
Benevolent: kindly feelings
Cursory: rapidly over something
Duplicity: deceitfulness in speech or conduct
Extol: to praise highly
Feasible: capable of being done
Grimace: facial expressions
Holocaust: complete devistation or destruction
Impervious: not permitting penetration
Impetus: a moving force
Jeopardy: hazard or risk to exposure to loss
Meticulous: showing extreme care about minute details
Nostalgia: wistfull desire to return in thought
Quintessence: pure concentrated essence
Retrogress: go backward to earlier/worse conditions
Scrutinize: examine in detail
Tepid: moderately warm

I think the way i can better my writing, is not add so much information in the openning paragraph. I also need to give more detail and back up information into whatever topic i am writing about.

Vocab September 17

Allude: to refer to something the author thinks you should know.
Clairvoyant: able to read minds
Conclusive: final
Disreputable: poor reputation
Endemic: natural to an environment
Exemplory: outstanding
Fathom: nautical measure of depth, to understand
Guile: to trick
Integrity: consitant in thought, speech and action
Itinerary: plan, schedule
Misconstrue: misunderstand, misrepresent
Obnoxious: rude, loud, annoying
Placate: to calm down
Placid: calm
Plagiarism: taking writing thats not yours
Potent: power
Pretext: excuse
Protrude: to stick out
Stark: obvious, easy to see
Superficial: shallow

Septemebr 10, 2012

After today's discussion, I really do want to be able to get text messages to my phone everytime you post on the blog. During class we had talked about being able to recieve a text everytime you post something, or possibly comment on your blog. I think that would be an awesome idea, becasue that would make us be more involved and catch all the extra credit posts. That is just my opinion on the subject, but I know I am not the only one that feels this way. Most of my classmates in 1st period feel the same way i do.

Vocabulary

Encomium- A formal expresion of high praise.
I was Encomiumed by the president or the united states for being a hero.
Coherent- Logically connected.
My friend was very Coherent driving to Paso last night.
Belabor- To beat vigorously.
I beat the Xbox video game Belabory last night.
Eschew- Avoid
I Eschewed getting on the bus with a bunch of bank robbers in the middle of the beating hot mojavee deseret, when i was only wearing underwear and a tank top.
Acquisitive- Eager to get wealth.
My girlfriend is very Acquisitive when it comes to her pay check.
Emulate- Try to equal or excel.
There's always that one person that tries to Emulate the teacher in the class.
Arrogate- To attribute or assign to another.
I Arrogate tasks to other people when im busy.
Banal- Originality
My Banal was all the way to the max.
Excoriation- To lose, Strip from something else.
The vice Principle Excoriated me from the football team.
Congeal- To curdle.
I told a Scary ghost story that made people curdle.
Carping- Characterized by fussy or petulant faultfinding.
I was Carpled by many people.
Substantiate- To establish by proof.
I was very Substantiate in my esay i wrote.
Temporize- To be indecisive.
My girlfriend is very Temporizing.
Largesse- Generous.
My Mother in law is very Largesse.
Tenable- Capable of being held.
My niece is very Tenable.
Insatiable- Incapable of being appeased or satisfied.
Sometimes my girlfriend is very Insatiable.
Reconnaissance- Figure it out, Find some intelligence.
Were going to go on a Reconnaissance mission.
Germane- Relevent.
The instructions to the computer are very Germane.
Ramify- To spread out into branches.
The army is very Ramified.
Intransigent- refusing to agree; Inflexiable.
Girlfriends are very Intransigent.
Taciturn- Incline to silent.
The class was very Taciturn.
Invidious-Hatefull.
People in this world are very Invidious.
Credit to: Jarrett Anzalone

Notes for Today: September 6

The color is the way we see the notebook. The notebook is made to be one color but out eyes are decieving.
The quality of the paper is the way we perseive it
Texture is quality of what we see out there
When writing we need to use the same currency
An issue of displacement is when you take somewhere from their Natural Habitat and place them somewhere they dont belong.

My AHA moment of yesturdays class session was that Shampoo can change the gender of fish ! That is soo cool Dr. P. thank you for teaching me that (:

Young Goodman Brown

1. The pink ribbon symbolizes Goodman Brown's wife.
2. One after another, the author keeps referring to Mr. Brown as "goodman" which is an easy way of saying he is a good man.
3.Where the people sad when he died?

Today's Notes

-A myth is a story pasted down from generation to generation, to explain something we dont understand.
-class debate about "the right to your own opinion" topic.

Reflections on Week 1

   To be honest, the only factors that i can think of are positive factors. I have an iPhone, so i can definately use that to help me with homework and the project infinity game. I have many friends in your classes, so we can get together and discuss homework, inclass topics, etc. I have a car, so transportation is not a problem, and i have my own laptop so thats easy.
   I think the best learning experience i have had was Freshamn year in Mrs. Coat's English 1 class. She was such an awesome teacher, with an amazing learning environment. She was super loud, and was the chillest teacher. I looked forward to going to her class, not only because it was my last class of the day, but because she made learning fun. She was very helpful when it came to work that i had missed from my cheer competitons and from my sick days. I could go to her for anything, school related or not. 
   I am extremely excited about the Project Infinity game. Not only is it a great idea for us to compete against each other, but also its a way to challenge each other to do good inschool, without it being at school. I also am very excited to do more work with the blogs, and see everyone's blog as it grows and changes. It is like our own twitter accounts for school work. It makes learning and school work sort of fun.

The first week of your class, i realized that i was going to love being in there for a whole year. Your teaching style compliments the way i learn, and the type of student i am. Your didactic personally, and the obvious non-ascetic lifestyle you portray,  really does reflect on your students. I love the whole "blog" idea, and the fact that these blogs adumbrate our personalities as students, is such a great way of learning. I love the fact that you are not a curmudgeonous person, and as a student we can be upfront with you with our problems. Whenever i walk into your classroom, i know i will be beguiling the 50 minutes i have with you, in a fun learning environment. I can assure you, i will most definately not be one of those contumacious, disruptive students. I hope to be a burgeonous student, and you can visually see my growth in your class. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to be in your class, and learn from the greatest. I dont know how to use the words apotheosis or bauble in a sentence. My vocabulary is not advanced enough to put them in a sentence correctly. Im sure i didnt put these words in the sentences correctly either, but i have no idea how to use those two words at all.