tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32538366092464493522024-03-08T15:59:52.620-08:00AP HLBlogOne of the last safehavens for knowledge, learning, and truth. Uncensored. HLBreak the chains.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253836609246449352.post-14541366910380613522012-05-17T08:52:00.001-07:002012-05-17T08:52:21.797-07:00My PlansMy plans for the rest of the year are not completely clear yet. Cambria and myself are trying to look into the global causes thing and somehow connect with that musically. Other than that I am sort of interested in the big question library thing but I have not looked into it yet.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253836609246449352.post-75670604836634001562012-04-30T13:17:00.000-07:002012-04-30T13:17:19.560-07:00My AP Study ProcessToday I was actually humbled while studying with my group. I realized that I didn't know the literary terms as thoroughly as I had previously thought. As we all yelled out terms expecting to hear their definitions repeated, everyone was silent yet my silence was the loudest to me. I thought I had all these terms down. Well I guess I was mistaken and am definitely taking another few looks down that list tonight. With everything else I still feel pretty comfortable but after today I am having second thoughts in those areas too.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253836609246449352.post-68099336518442613712012-04-24T08:39:00.000-07:002012-04-24T08:39:21.682-07:00My AP PlanMy plans for this class and my future in it are simple. I'm going to collaborate with a few close friends to get a little bit better at what I need to work on in my essays. Other than that I feel confident that there isn't much that I need to work on.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253836609246449352.post-70901105165233569832012-04-02T08:42:00.002-07:002012-04-02T08:42:54.814-07:00My Favorite 3<div class="post hentry"><div class="post hentry"><div class="post-header"><div class="post-header-line-1"></div></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1998258820500527858"><a href="http://kmrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/#!/2012/03/la-video.html"><span style="color: #442186;">http://kmrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/#!/2012/03/la-video.html</span></a><br />
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<a href="http://jprrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/2012/03/help-by-kathryn-stockett-remix-video.html"><span style="color: #442186;">http://jprrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/2012/03/help-by-kathryn-stockett-remix-video.html</span></a> </div></div><a href="" name="1998258820500527858"></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253836609246449352.post-3664927574449173322012-03-22T08:43:00.000-07:002012-03-22T08:43:33.217-07:00Socratic NotesThe information that I picked up from our socratic seminar today that I can use in my life is plentiful. The main realization that I myself came to today is that I need to do a little more introspection on my life and how this class can help prepare me for the real world and what I can accomplish once I'm thrust into it. These discussions have shown me that every person must make these choices for themselves and no one can make them for them. I have flourished in this class to an extent, but not as much as I'd like to see myself do. I have all of these tools to utilize right in front of me, yet I've only scratched the surface. This is a valuable lesson for anyone in life. You can't just sit back and let someone tell you what to do as much as they'd like to. You need to be active in making what you want to happen, actually happen.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253836609246449352.post-50793558937208974912012-03-14T09:38:00.000-07:002012-03-14T09:38:29.174-07:00Lit Analysis 4: Lord of the Flies1. <i>Lord of the Flies</i> by William Golding is a novel written about a plane full of young school boys that goes down on a lost island which causes them to attempt to survive on their own with no adult supervision. Their wills to survive and even their humanity is tested. At first, the boys see a use for an attempt at civillized democracy, however this soon begins to crumble. The boys' adolescense comes into play as their rules break down and fear of a beast on the island destroys what little control they have left. At this point some of the children are injured and ostracized. However it still gets worse. Humanity is completely abandoned when the one boy still hlding onto civillized views is killed. After this tragic event they are rescued and forced to come to terms with what they have done. But did they leave one world of animosity to another?<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">2.) The theme of the book is how we are all animals inside, and as much as we think that we are civillized, really we aren't. It is showing us that human nature itself is flawed, and no matter how much one person tries to fight this (Piggy), nothing will change until we all fight our inner animosity.</div><div style="text-align: left;">3.) Golding's tone was one of pessimistic apathy. He simply stated things as if he were an uninvolved observer who ended up being disgusted in what he saw. For example:</div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><ul><li>"Ralph did not take the hint so the fat boy was forced to continue." (Page 11). Instead of feeling bad for the "fat boy", the author simply stated the obvious with no remorse. </li>
<li>"For now the littluns were no longer silent... They begun to cry in sympathy, two of them almost as loud as Percival." (Page 87). </li>
<li>"He used all the bad words he could think of in a fit of temper that passed into yawning. How long could you go without sleep?..." (Page 190) </li>
</ul><div>4.) Six techniques very critical to the novel were personification, imagery, foreshadowing, motif, dialogue, and irony.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253836609246449352.post-63399406728959966172012-02-24T09:03:00.000-08:002012-02-24T09:03:27.573-08:00Poem Analysis: DovahkiinFrom analyzing this poem, I can tell that the dramatic situation is the rebirth of Alduin, and the hope of mankind resting in the arms of the Dragonborn. The structure of the poem is that of a chant almost, or a song. The poem's purpose is a call to arms to the Dragonborn, to stop Alduin's conquest. The speaker writes in rhyming couplets. Many very vivid images are conjured from the poem, such as the horrors that await mankind upon Alduin's conquest. This conveys the importance of the Dragonborn's existence and destiny. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253836609246449352.post-66621351602834586342012-02-17T08:45:00.000-08:002012-02-17T08:45:11.288-08:00Mini AP essaysToday's essay exams were kind of exactly like I had expected them to be. They were what I expected them to be about as well. I feel like I was very prepared for these essays I just wish we had more time to complete them more fully because I don't feel as if I got most of the message that I was trying to get across, actually across. I worked pretty well under pressure but I wish I had more time to actually express the ideas I had thought up. This has made me focus more on getting my thoughts organized more quickly.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253836609246449352.post-35839508584258177072012-02-15T08:40:00.000-08:002012-02-15T08:40:41.914-08:00Tale of Two Cities Lecture Notes-"level of personal intensity." Dickens really wrote realistically.<br />
-His friend's play The Frozen Deep influenced writing heavily.<br />
-Ellen inspired Lucie.<br />
-Influenced by terrible things he saw when he was a young child in London.<br />
-He grew up in a labyrinth of wretchedness and darkness and fascination.<br />
-Visited Paris in 1844 and he was fascinated by it.<br />
-Admired the elegance of Paris.<br />
-He was drawn to the morgue and morbid aspects.<br />
-He drew many parallels to London.<br />
-Dickens wasn't a revolutionary he was against riots and bloodshed.<br />
-Victorian Fear: RevolutionUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253836609246449352.post-4586680054655033422012-02-09T09:03:00.000-08:002012-02-09T09:03:40.646-08:00Dickens' ReasonI believe that Charles Dickens wrote <u>Great Expectations</u> to show that money is the root of all evil. Pip is a benevolent and innocent person while he is poverty-stricken. He only becomes a rude and mean person when he comes into monetary wealth. This is a prime example of irony.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253836609246449352.post-24216267584829767712012-02-01T08:44:00.000-08:002012-02-01T08:44:56.796-08:00Great Beginnings.So far in the first fifteen pages of <u>Great Expectations</u>, I have drawn several key similarities between the protagonist, young Pip, and Charles Dickens himself. They are both poor orphans abandoned on their own. Dickens' childhood abandonment led to much of his inspirations. It's almost as if Pip is designed after Dickens' true childhood, and this novel will chronicle key events from that.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253836609246449352.post-37087787201095246912012-01-30T18:25:00.001-08:002012-01-30T18:25:51.212-08:00BQ Intro.<span lang="EN"> Dreaming is one bodily process with which everyone is fascinated in it, yet it is one process which we know almost nothing about. Where do we go when we dream? What does our body do whilst dreaming? Is there anyway in which we can gain control of our unconscious bodies? This last question is one example of just why this requires more research. If there was some way we could control our dreams and access larger amounts of our brains, what power, knowledge or abilities would we end up unlocking. Among the vast arrays of information on this subject, I started with the theories of popular psychologists.<br />
Sigmund Freud, one of the most well-known psychologists, believed that dreams were all reflections of a strong, subconscious desire, maybe even dating back into our early childhoods. We dream about these secret, often sexual, desires every night and they combine with our past experiences to produce our jumbled up dreams that we seldom derive meaning from. He believed that every dream we have is driven by a long lost childhood wish. Freud also believed that no one could interpret a dream except for a trained psychologist. This theory runs opposite to the theory of another well known and respected psychologist, Jung. <br />
Jung believed that anyone can interpret their own dreams by correlating dreams we have with other similar dreams. By combining similar dreams that we have, we push together all of the reoccurring details which we then analyze. He however, never really looked into why we dream what we dream.<br />
Another psychologist who did study the purpose for dreams however is Cayce. He believed that sleeping and dreaming built up our minds, bodies, and souls and dreams were a way of telling or showing us how to become better people. Cayce was determined that if you knew yourself well enough, such as your fears, goals, desires and limits, that you would be ready and able to start interpreting your dreams, and becoming the best person you can be. This theory goes along with how we learn subconsciously all of the time, however we can only tap into this knowledge and understand it if we know ourselves and can learn it subconsciously while we sleep. He believed we pulled back into our subconscious completely when we slept. <br />
Evans’ theory is yet another one completely on what we are doing while sleeping. He believed that during sleep, especially REM sleep, our brains pulls back into itself so to speak, and organizes and modifies all of the information that it has required throughout the day. While part of our brain is focused on this, the rest of our brain catches glimpses of these memories or flashes of knowledge and plays these glimpses back in what we call dreams. They really have no meaning. They are just random, shuffled up clips of what our brain is processing. <br />
Nearly every notable psychologist in history has had at least some vague interest in dreaming and sleep. It is proven that everyone alive dreams, yet no one is for sure about why or what happens while we do. That is need enough for a field of study. There is so little known about why we dream, that this deserves our attention.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253836609246449352.post-76432512108482595502012-01-30T11:14:00.001-08:002012-01-30T11:14:02.761-08:00Charles Dickens: Great ExpectationsI believe that this novel is titled this because of its protagonist Pip, who has all of these great expectations for how he thinks his life will be. He has great expectations about the woman he loves and the man he wants to be. Although things do not work out as smoothly as he plans or expects them to, Pip ultimately achieves his goal of becoming a good man.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253836609246449352.post-85313961409441504452012-01-23T09:11:00.001-08:002012-01-23T09:11:51.612-08:00On second thought...This is my new favorite poem: Dovahkiin<br />
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DRAGONBORN DRAGONBORN / BY HIS HONOR IS SWORN / TO KEEP EVIL FOREVER AT BAY / AND THE FIERCEST ROUT / WHEN THEY HEAR TRIUMPH’S SHOUT / DRAGONBORN FOR YOUR BLESSING WE PRAY<br />
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AND THE SCROLLS HAVE FORETOLD / OF BLACK WINGS IN THE COLD / THAT WHEN BROTHERS WAGE WAR COME UNFURLED / ALDUIN BANE OF KINGS / ANCIENT SHADOW UNBOUND / WITH A HUNGER TO SWALLOW THE WORLDUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253836609246449352.post-59319733733792676192012-01-22T12:40:00.000-08:002012-01-22T12:40:56.100-08:00Favorite PoemHere is a list of fearful things:<br />
The jaws of sharks, a vulture's wings,<br />
The rabid bite of the dogs at war,<br />
The voice of one who went before.<br />
But most of all the mirror's gaze,<br />
Which counts us out our numbered days.<br />
-Untitled by Clive Barker (Under the pseudonym Righteous Bandy)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253836609246449352.post-61558818554972546142011-12-05T16:48:00.000-08:002011-12-05T16:48:11.924-08:00Lit Analysis 3: The Scarlet Letter1. <u>The Scarlet Letter</u> takes place in puritan New England and is the story of Hester Prynne and how she committed adultery in a time where this was an unheard of sin. She was condemned to wear a scarlet A forever. At first people shunned and ostracized her, but she never stopped giving to the community and being an all around altruistic person. Soon people saw her for the good person she was on the inside instead of the cheating harlot that she was previously seen as. <br />
2. The theme of this novel is to withhold judgement on someone based from what you've heard, until you finally know what kind of person they are. Redemption is also a key theme in this story.<br />
3. The tone is quite bitter and not very happy.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253836609246449352.post-15917106037237529492011-11-28T21:07:00.000-08:002011-11-28T21:07:24.906-08:00Term PresentationDefinition: Evoking strong emotions, painfully affecting the feelings. <br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/saalGKY7ifU?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div>When I was a child, <em>Titanic </em>was the first poignant film I watched. This song still brings back strong, melancholy feelings.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253836609246449352.post-17602496942380400592011-11-27T20:49:00.000-08:002011-11-27T20:49:52.462-08:00Thinking Outside the BoxBoth Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" and Satre's "No Exit" display the limitations of the human mind and our thinking, and how we often do not want to step outside our private comfort zones to achieve new ways of thinking. With the cave, the prisoners were isolated because of their chains and when one was able to free himself and see the world outside, the others refused to believe him. Comfortable with their ignorant bliss, they chose to keep their chains rather than face the unknown. The characters in "No Exit" were isolated as well and had only what each other and those surrounding them knew as knowledge. If we are ever to evolve oour thinking any higher we must listen to others besides those right next to us and not be afraid to break our chains and think of something differently even if it is uncomfortable.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253836609246449352.post-14626051141381266202011-11-17T12:55:00.000-08:002011-11-21T19:53:52.421-08:00Big QuestionWhat constitutes the world of dreams and how does that influence our view of reality?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253836609246449352.post-28975945405438466092011-11-07T15:38:00.000-08:002011-11-07T15:38:02.106-08:00What I've Learned Thus Far...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/6ZgZ9hxUuuM?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div>One thing that I have taken away from this class so far this year is a sense of reality. This is my life and I'm almost ready to go out in the world and face it. This class has opened my eyes to this fact more than anything else so far and has lit fire under me to get going on the things that I want and need to do with my life. This video ties to this because this is the project that I've been working on this year which really is following a dream I've had since I was in seventh grade. I have gotten the final push towards inspiration in getting what I want to do in my life going.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253836609246449352.post-29849544761104011112011-10-25T13:40:00.000-07:002011-10-25T13:40:42.023-07:00Lit Analysis 2<ol><li><i><u>The Invisible Man</u></i> starts with the narrator letting us know that he is telling us about his life while writing underground. He's a black man that dubs himself "the invisible man". The story is told through flashbacks in his life. Hewas an orator who was chosen to present a speech in exchange for a scholarship to a college. He recieves the scholarship and goes off to college where he is the driver for the school's trustee, Mr. Norton. Mr. Norton is drinking and passes out from this. Dr. Bledose, the dean, hears of this and instantly blames the invisible man and expels him promptly. He then heads to New York City in search of work. He finds a menial job and starts working, but is knocked unconscious while at work. He awakes to a member of a brotherhood who heard his speech, and asks him to join the brotherhood. He agrees. The narrator works with the brotherhood for several months before a magazine interviews him. The brotherhood is angered and blames him for using the brotherhood for his own private gain and forces him to work in Harlem for women's rights. Awhile later a riot breaks out and the invisible man's friend is shot dead. The invisible man then conducts a march in Harlem to protest his friend's untimely demise. But when he returns to the brotherhood, they are enraged that he tied his dead friend with the brotherood, because they say he is a traitor. The invisible man flees the brotherhood and travels to Harlem to protest. A larger riot breaks out and the invisible man falls down a man hole where he is to this day. He concludes the story by reminscing on his past choices and his time spent with the brotherhood. </li>
<li>The outstanding theme present is to remain who you are in the face of adversity. </li>
<li>The tone present is a nonchalant, uncaring tone about the events that unfolded. </li>
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I redid my search on Shakespeare by typing in several phrases into multiple search engines this time, instead of typing in "Who was Shakespeare?" onto one single search engine. This gave me a wider view into a plethora of information previously unseen by me. I have now learned not to stop and simply rely on one search engine or even just one phrase while researching something on the internet. I've also learned that the internet is far from the most reliable source out there for any information.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253836609246449352.post-26547667667597744182011-10-18T18:45:00.000-07:002011-10-18T18:45:41.768-07:00To Facebook or Not to FacebookI've had a facebook for a few years now and I thought of it intially as an innocuous tool to keep in contact with the people I love and to stay current with musical artists that I love. I've learned to be more cautious from these conversations and articles about anything that I post. The advantages of having one is I am able to easily to keep in touch with those that I love very easily and can keep up to date on music and lots of other things that I love but the disadvantges are that people out there probably now know more about me than they probably should.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253836609246449352.post-89604026574775970732011-09-20T12:55:00.001-07:002011-09-26T09:44:23.327-07:00Literature Analysis: Brave New World1. The story opens up in the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre where people are grown from embryos and trained and indoctrinated to fit into a controlled and scary world. Their social caste is already chosen for them before they are created, ranging from the Alphas(government leaders) to the Epsilons(low-intelligence physical laborers).The story follows Bernard Marx and Lenina through this Utopian world. You see how the people are "sleep trained" from childhood to conform to the wishes of their leaders and to participate in the use of soma, a drug, and have random origies that distract them from their menial existences. These two take a trip to the Savage Reservation and discover a man named John who is the illigetimate son of the director of the hatchery and a woman who disappeared 25 years ago. They return to London with Marx and Lenina and the director is laughed out of office. John is a rebel towards the way of life and refuses to attend assemblies and denies Lenina's sexual advances. Lenina is too far absorbed in the way of life. John's mother starts to die and he overhears several epsilons talking bad about her and he gets violent with them and his mother ends up dying. Then he is arrested for trying to destroy a large amount of soma. Finally John flees society attempting to become independent when a photographer makes a film about him which becomes very popular. John is now a celebrity. He ends up hanging himself. <br />
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2. Two of the themes present in this novel are the incompatibility of happiness and truth, and the fear of an all powerful government. Throughout the story, the characters are split either lost in their own false realities due to soma and origies on their pursuits of happiness and ignorance to the truth. Or like John, defiant of these substances on the desperate search for truth. The author proves that no one can achieve both of these goals completely and simultaneously. The novel also radiates why an all powerful government is a terrifying thing. How these embryos entire lives are thought out for them before birth is scary, and the loss of free will is a dangerous and haunting thing to think of.<br />
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3. Aldous Huxley's tone is definitely one of drama and parody. "Twenty-two years, eight months, and four days from that moment, a promising young Alpha-Minus administrator at Mwanza-Mwanza was to die of trypanosomiasis." "Slowly, majestically, with a faint humming of machinery, the Conveyors moved forward, thirty-three centimeters an hour. In the red darkness glinted innumerable rubies." These two excerpts demonstrate his dramatic tone. His parodic nature shines through however with quirky little sayings like "orgy porgies" or "bumblepuppies" for semi-serious matters in the novel.<br />
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4. Style. Huxley's taunting style made me think longer about the text because he doesn't come right out and tell you what you need to know. Examples are when he describes John's death, he doesn't outright tell you he's dead. The same thing happens with the orgy porgy, and whether John and Lennina had sex. He just gave enough information to make a resonable guess.<br />
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Imagery. The consistent use of imagery comparing humans to animals is present throughout the novel and shows that the society is so dehumanized that everyone are compared to animals. "Straight from the horses mouth" is used frequently as well as, "Any cow can merely hatch out embryos" and "the stupid curiosity of animals" reffering to delta people.<br />
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Setting. Huxley's elaborate use of detail does well to disturb you and make you think about how scary this future really is. Through his description of buildings like the hatchery, recreational activities like centrifugal bumblepuppies, and even jobs like the World Controller. His vivid detail unsettles you immensely.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6