My Masterpiece Idea

   For my project I want to have Biology include with music. Still I am not so sure with the music part of my plan. The only reason why is because I really don't know what to do with the music part of the project but the song that influenced both ideas for this project was "Inspire" by Gazzo. But still I wanted to make a song with biology included, I am still a little more on the just biology side. I have liked science since I was a kid.

   I remember as a 6 year old boy watching the Discovery channel I was always so fascinated by the animals, I loved learning about animals. I remember being so excited for a dinosaur movie or show. Seeing different animals and watching scientists study animals. I would go outside and actually study insects and birds, I would watch them eat and fly and live their life. It felt great and I somehow didn't get bored of watching them just eat. When I was fifteen years old I wanted to go out and explore some parts of my city and see if there was any other type of environment. My old friend actually took me outside of the city and I found the woods of the city. It wasn't much but to be honest it was really one of the most gorgeous. There was a flood in the woods and it was really cool because we actually spotted an otter, some turtles, and ducks. It was really cool, I felt like a Biologist in the wild! 

  I was planning on making a song, but right now I am a little lost on where I really want to go with this. IF you have any suggestions please comment and help me out.

Lit. Analysis

1. Brave New World is a novel about a world where people are artificially made, and everyone is pre-destined to be part of a society that is meant for sufficiency and order. Everyone is in a certain class, everyone has a job, everyone is a subject to a government which they are embedded in like a code. Main character is Bernard who is an alpha but not like every other same and perfect alpha., he was shorter than every other alpha, he didn't enjoy all the activities that most liked to do. He was different mentally and physically. He asked a lot of questions, and was more curious than others. There were some flaws in the society, it has some secrets that lay behind the walls of the dystopian city. Something Bernard is going to find out soon enough.

2. The theme to this story was was to relate the story to our world on how everything was starting to become like The Brave New World. How The Alphas were racist to the Deltas and lower classes, and how brainwashed everyone is to even care about what really is going on outside of there world depending if its outside their country or their neighborhood.

3. The tone of the novel was serious and humorous.

"Oh, my Ford!", and in the beginning of the book there was a professor talking in about how they make artificially made babies in a very slow and boring lecture.

Brave New Essay Topic

So I finally got a essay topic that relates to our society and in the society in Bernard s' world. This essay topic can go on taking a side on one of these societies or just to compare it, whatever you think is more fun. Now what I am thinking is, "How is Bernard s' society better than ours?" You can go with it or against it (or like I said before compare them together.) Lets just say that both of our worlds are in the same dimension, same land. What place do I want to pick? How will I be able to answer this?
The way I would answer this is by honestly making this a little more interesting and make me into a brainwashed beta in the "Brave New World" society and say on how better it is than the one on the other side. How twisted and weird those other "humans" (as they call themselves as) and how great it is to be a Beta in this city with a perfect society and a wonderful leadership,  no chaos on who is taking control. Just all betas working together without "questioning" their trust in others.
That is honestly a essay I would be looking forward to.

Literature Analysis #1

The Great Gatsby

1) In the novel The Great Gatsby, this book had a lot of reflection on the American Culture, but in a story with the narrator Nick Carraway, cousin of a Daisy Buchanan, who married Tom Buchanan a former football star, and Jay Gatsby. With Nick talking to a lady in a party and gossiping about The Great Gatsby and his "secrets" that were over-exaggeratedly false. The book is about a mysterious man named Gatsby who lives in the top of his mansion, makes parties every night, but never shows up in the party. Nick meets him and meets a whole new world, he meets Gatsby and his real self behind all of the gossip and stories about him that were never true, F. Fitzgerald really showed a great reflection of the american culture/american dream. He confuses wealth with corruption, because in his time it was a time of being rich is the best thing that could ever happen.

2.)  The theme to this novel is feeding the social satisfaction (witch will never be satisfied)

3.) He thought of the new America as naive and blind, naive because everyone in the party were all partying for escape of problems that have been going on in their live. So they get drunk and start doing stuff people tell them to do. They Blind part is for people who are gossiping and talking about someone without knowing them is just blind of them to do so.

COB

exposition; A detailed explanation through speech or handwritten.

expressionism; A technique in literature that is used to distort objects  and  events in order to represent them as they are perceived by a character in the literary work.


fable; A short narrative that usually gives out an edifying or a cautionary from an animal that speaks and acts like a human.

fallacy; A false argument.

falling action; Following narrative or action that comes down to the climax.

farce; a light dramatic work which has exaggerated characters, improbable situations and slapstick elements that are used for humorous affects.

figurative language; simile or metaphor, can be classified as five categories, relationship and resemblance, emphasis or understatement, figure of sound, verbal games, and errors.

flashback; a blast from the past.

foil; a subsidiary character who emphasizes the traits of a main character

folk tale; tradition stories, music, legends, etc. Shared in a small village/community.

foreshadowing; telling the future of a story (Spoiler alert)

free verse; Verse composed of variable, usually unrhymed lines having no fixed metrical pattern.

genre; A type or class.

gothic tale;Gothic fiction was the predecessor of modern horror fiction, but was more like a mystery that often involved the supernatural (ghosts, haunted buildings, hereditary curses); disturbing dreams or omens; and characters overcome with anger, sorrow, or terror. They were often set in dark castles or medieval ruins.

hyperbole;an extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally

imagery; The use of figurative language to represent objects, actions and ideas in such a way that it appeals to our physical senses.

implication; the relation that holds between two propositions, or classes of propositions, in virtue of which one is logically deducible from the other.

incongruity;not harmonious in character

inference; the process of deriving the strict logical consequences of assumed premises.

irony something you wouldn't expect to happen but it did happen.;

AP PREP POST 1: SIDDHARTHA

•  1971. The significance of a title such as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is so easy to discover. However, in other works (for example, Measure for Measure) the full significance of the title becomes apparent to the reader only gradually. Choose two works and show how the significance of their respective titles is developed through the authors’ use of devices such as contrast, repetition, allusion, and point of view.

http://mseffie.com/AP/APOpenQuestions.html

• Really interesting essay question in the link below.

http://faculty.guhsd.net/mejohnson/SiddharthaEssay.htm

• Briefly describe Siddhartha 

http://www.studymode.com/essays/Siddhartha-Reading-Questions-641015.html

HACKING MY EDUCATION

I would like to focus on music and biology a lot through out this semester. I want to learn how to become a biologist or a musician or maybe even both! This is hacking my education which would be actually pretty interesting, I want to know how to become a biologist/musician. I want to have hands on experiences with animals and music. I want to be able to show my skills to help and understand others in need of my assistance. I actually have a friend online who is studying to be a biologist right now, he can be a great resource in my network. This is actually a great start for a hack! Alright so far this is my hack. Will add on soon! I am getting excited.