Monday, November 4, 2013
Hamlet is MY Friend. (Essay)
Thursday, October 31, 2013
"Tools That Change the Way We Think."
Sunday, October 27, 2013
Thursday, October 24, 2013
Brave New World Lit. Analysis #3
1. "The Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley, takes place in the future where the government (in London) has complete control over the population, allowing it to have the "perfect" society. People are no longer born; they are cloned for that perfect society.These clones are artificially made and are "predestined" to be a part of the society. There are Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas, or Epsilons. They also have a plus or minus that indicates their intelligence. These types of clones are meant for certain types of jobs and are conditioned to enjoy it. It sounds more of a distopia, it seems like a utopia but people are scared of being themselves because well they can't they are conditioned and "predestined" to do this and nothing else. "Machine men with machine minds!" (The Great Dictator, Charlie Chaplin speech). The author wanted to show that we are all human we should care about each other, he wanted to show that this is horrid, the way we treat each other. What might become in the future, he showed us a glimpse of how humans are kind of acting like right now, giving us an insight on horrible that could be. Please watch the video if you haven't seen what I see.
2. The theme of the novel is having bad luck and not showing emotion through it is better than having bad luck and showing emotion of it.The characters would always take this drug called soma, whenever they are in a situation they would step out and take them to relieve them of the stress.So if felt like they were escaping from it because that's something they haven't been "programmed" to think that emotion might be a good thing.
3.Auxley saw the society as a confused distopia kind of place, he would criticize the nature of the society, for example, " But in Epsilons, we don't need human intelligence" which shows that he saw the society poorly. Seriously who would say this in our society?(maybe there are some people who would) Still there was heroism at certain points into the novel like this one, " Free, free!’ the Savage shouted, and with one hand continued to throw the soma into the area while, with the other, he punched the indistinguishable faces of his assailants. ‘Free...Men at last"
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Vocab #8
Abase: to lower rank
Abdicate: to relinquish formally
Abomination: to cause disguist
Brusque:Abrupt and curt in manner or speech
Saboteur: one who commits sabotage
Debauchery: Archaic Seduction from morality, allegiance, or duty.
Proliferate: To increase or spread at a rapid rate
Anachronism: The representation of someone as existing or something as happening in other than chronological, proper, or historical order.
Nomenclature: A system of names used in an art or science
Expurgate: To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication
Bellicose: Warlike or hostile in manner or temperament
Gauche : Lacking social polish
Rapacious: Taking by force
Paradox: a statement that may or may not be true.
Conundrum: A riddle in which a fanciful question is answered by a pun
Anomaly: Deviation or departure from the normal or common order, form, or rule.
Ephemeral: Lasting for a markedly brief time
Rancorous: Bitter
Churlish: Difficult to work with, such as soil; intractable
Precipitous: Resembling a precipice; extremely steep
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
Character Study 4
Sunday, September 29, 2013
Character study 2 and 3
It has been 2 suns and 1 moon since I last have seen my loved ones. They are nothing but ghosts of my present, I am going down the road of Ma'Nurah, this road has plenty of memories that have scarred me through my life and others that made me realize that life is beautiful, from meeting The young and beautiful Daina to sliding my first blade into a mans gap of his right rib cage. As my reminiscing was drifting away and my reality of dreams become trees and dirt, an odd figure was extremely blurry. It looked as if it was struggling with something. It was actually a man he wasn't a very physically muscular one but he seemed to have heart. "Ahh, You piece of... Ahh!" he fell back into his back and landed on his bottom, "Oh, I'll never get this done" said the man. I looked back at him and said,"Are you in need ,sir?". He was offended by my offer and shouted, "Why would you say something like!? Just because you have larger toned arms and chest does not mean that you can come around and bully me, and call me names and you deserve to be called upon the gods, oh if I were a god I would smite thy before the second moon comes." This man was very proud of his work I suppose, still I was only going to help him not hang him in a branch with his trousers (although it sounds like a good idea now that thought about it). "What is your name, you!" "I am Little Bear" "Bah! You must be a joker, because you look as if you would kill a man for looking at the ground that you have just stepped on!" He blabbered on some more until I said,"And your name might be?" "EEEEEE EEEEEEEEE the son of the Great and Almighty Douglas EEEEEEEEE" "Ha, Your name has as much bad taste as the foot of Glorwitch!" As we were arguing about our names there was a huge earthquake and dust came out, a strange long figure came out. It's breath was heavy, it's horns were mighty and sharp, it had scales, wings and even eyes of a snake, it was a dragon! EEEEEE said well," EEEEEEEK!" I ran to the mighty beast with my blade, it roared with a grand haze in back of its loud proud explosive sound. EEEEEE found his courage and ran to the beast and got a hold of its raging tail, while I got thrown by its massive clawed arm right into his head, I pulled back his head and he started flying up, and up until the clouds where black and the stars were close... By the gods, we are in the forbidden realm of the Deadra Devil. Luckily for me I was protected With my armor, I also saw that EEEEEE had the amulet of the Deadra Devil. The dragon was still blowing fire, alas I grabbed my blade and speared it through its massive and extremely rock-like forehead. It did not move, it has finally died, but now I feel my temperature rise... my arms and legs were getting really hard to motor. I looked up and there was this huge rock, it looked as if it were my home. Something felt really wrong about what was about to become, the dragon started to flare I cut through its stomach while EEEEEE is still latching on to the tail as if he was a statue, frightened by what happened he was paralyzed. I grabbed his arm and pulled him into the cavity of the dragons chest, we were going to brace for impact.The dragons body was becoming extremely hot, gravity was becoming extremely hard to deal with, I closed my eyes for a few minutes for some rest. Still inside the dragons body, I wake up hearing people and looking at the dark clouds that have surrounded me due to the impact blast. I got up and saw 5 other figures. It was 2 men and 3 women... but they were wearing different outfits, ones I consider taboo. One of the girls looked very shocked at this moment... I wonder why she does, I didn't land on her nor her horse.