Qtr1Vocab+Lindsay

1. [] This is a blog site that is ran by High School student. However, the students are showing examples of how //we// could also write like them and publish our blogs to the world. They have great style of writing, fun topics and interesting ideas. The word choices are chosen tastily but are not just easy words like we use commonly. We can learn new vocabulary by reading these blogs from here. Could be a good college essay example!

2. [] I have been considering about my diet-whether to become a vegetarian or not. Not liking meat in general, even though I do eat once in a while, it wasn't such a big deal to me to become a vegetarian. I just had to avoid eating meat even once in a while. However, I saw this title, "pregnancy at slaughter" the other day. I actually have never watched a video so I was curious. So I watched the video and read the blog. Very disturbing it was. I do not recommend you people who don't have a good stomach to read this or watch this. But to me, it was deep. So I cried. I'm never eating cow meat. Thanks for making the decision for me.

3. [] This is a blog from a woman named Erin Pavlina. I think it would be great if all seniors could read her blogs because it kind of meditates you from the stressful APs and SATs that we have in the next couple of months- not to exclude applications. APPLICATIONS! Well she she addresses on topics like spirituality, compassion, and interpersonal skills. She also addresses more new agey topics like astral projection and lucid dreaming. Erin also has "good" writing style in that she writes on the topic that she is interested in.

lindsay's vocab
HOD SETTING

Sea or the Ocean: When the narrator describes the water in detail from the very beginning.

Waiting-room: Marlow is in front of the waiting room of the company. He is feeling nervous and anxious, so he starts to describe all the objects in surrounding him.

Forest or some other place with trees: Marlow sees the blacks in despair and their subordination to the whites under imperialism. They "sat between the trees leaning against the trunks...in all the attitudes of pain, abandonment, and despair" (83).

London: The place where Marlow spent most of his childhood at.

The theme that seems to appear till now is imperialism Marlow implies roundabout. He does not make it so noticeable but does it only to the extent of making the readers doubt the perspective. The descriptions like "Black shapes crouched, lay, sat between the trees leaning against the trunks, clinging to the earth, half coming out, half effaced within the dim light, in all the attitudes of pain, abandonment, and despair" (Conrad 83) shows that Marlow sees them as being inferior and uncivilized. They are uncivilized than the whites and simply associated with nature--well, here nature, is not having power but having the savage character. Moreover, the discrimination is not limited to the blacks but other races as well. Other races, nonetheless, are uncivilized like the blacks. They are outsiders that do not fit in the society and make whites uncomfortable. For example, in the waiting room of the company, Marlow is unpleased with the two women's presence and tries to avoid them. The only way he can think of getting out that awkward place is by sleepwalking as he says that "I began to think of getting out her way, as you would for a somnambulist" (73).

Marlow is quite different from other characters even if all whites are discriminating. While Kurtz accepts the fact that he is oppressing the natives and coercing them to give him ivory, Marlow is perversely discriminating. He is not open about it, which seems more eerie and threatening. When I think of Marlow, he is like a serial killer that has a goodie good face but kills people quietly and gently--smiling at the victim. Reticent people are, sometimes, more scary than outspoken ones. Not saying that Marlow is quiet, but the way he thinks of the natives makes the readers suspect what he is really up to, whether he is really discriminating or not, whether he thinks of the natives inferior or not. This is the main reason that makes people debate about the perspective of the book, I think. Anyway, Marlow considers the natives as objects or even "machines." He is utterly dehumanizing the natives under the name of "civilizing" them. Therefore, the Marlow plays a big role in creating the theme of imperialism in the the Heart of Darkness.

BOOK REPORT

• a. identify climax, major conflict, resolution or denoument, what type of plot (see page of literary terms) CLIMAX: When Biff and Willy are at Frank's Chop House, Biff expresses his true feelings towards Willy and tries to tell the truth and the reality that Willy is missing out on. Because his dad Willy is delusional and refuses to hear what he doesn't want to accept, Willy brings up the topic about how Biff failed math class in high school. Biff no longer is able to stand this and leaves Willy in the restaurant as Willy's mind retrogrades to the old days when he was with The Woman in the hotel room, where Biff discovered them being together. The ending is also the climax as well. Biff and Willy once again meet at home; Biff confronts Willy for the last time. Biff resents his dad for falsely selling him he hopes of American Dream when he was young, and blamed him for his unsuccessful business life. Although Biff knows everything about Willy's adultery he doesn't bring the subject up. He simply wants Willy to forget about the American Dream and give up on his false hopes and dreams because those are the things that are pressuring Biff. So Biff says that he will leave Willy, the house and the family for good.

MAJOR CONFLICT Willy transfers his hope for success in career to his son Biff. However, Biff wants to be free from Willy's expectations and live his own life.

RESOLUTION: In the "Requiem" section, the family is at Willy's funeral: Willy committed suicide to sell his own life as an undaunted salesman who could not repress his dreams of selling himself. Linda is bewildered and needs private time. Biff feels sad yet free. Happy is not happy with Biff and decides to stay in the city and carry on his father's dream by becoming a businessman.

• b. comment about setting

The setting is almost always at Willy's house or the yard. Other places like New York or Boston is mentioned as he Willy visits, but according to the stage directions, WIll'y house takes place for the most part of the play.

• c. identify one major symbol and one minor.

Major Symbol: Willy plants seeds as he gets fired and realizes that he is not doing his familial role in the family. He feels helpless and unworthy in his house for not being able to bring food on the table. And thereby the sees represent Willy's hope to show his effort and worth of his labor.

Minor Symbol: The stockings that Willy seems to be almost obsessed with due to his memory with The Woman. Willy once had an affair with another Woman and Biff found out about it when he was young. Willy took Linda's stockings and gave it to the Woman. So since the adultery, he doesn't like Linda wearing stockings.

• d. discuss two characters. Label as round or flat, dynamic or static. Are they archetypal or foils?

Willy Loman, the main character of the play is a round and dynamic one. His state of mind wavers as he goes back and forth from reality to delusion. he is unable to accept the reality that he has failed his career. But he knows that his labor is not worthy in the house, so he tries to suicide several times. Also, due to his unstable mind, his character also is dynamic. He says Biff is a lazy bum, and then he says that Biff is nothing but lazy. Willy might be considered as the archetypal since characters like him appear in several stories: the character who chases the American Dream but fails to realize and falls into disillusionment. Willy might be similar to Jay Gatsby from the novel "The Great Gatsby."

Biff Loman, son of Willy Loman is a round yet static character. He feels trapped in his father's fantasies and does not understand Willy's and Happy's hope for achieving the American Dream. Biff is compelled to seek the truth about himself or wants to know he really is apart from his family. He doesn't go through much change throughout the novel despite his rebellious feelings towards Willy. Biff could also be the foil in this play since he is the opposite of Willy and Happy, as mentioned above.

• e. Open to the exact middle. What page? Write one paragraph about how this one page relates thematically, symbolically,

p.60 This is the scene when Biff confronts his father in Act II. Biff now is ready to stand up for himself and really is wanting to define himself--who he is. Willy, his father, does not understand Biff's actions and because he is immersed into the idea of American Dream. However, Biff is happy that he confronted and that he followed his instincts and his own hopes and dreams. It is apparent that the delusion of American Dream is another theme that occurs in the play several times through Willy's mindset. Willy only values the well liked-ness from others and the material success from the career guaranteed by the, again, American Dream. Biff, however, realizes that he should not follow his father's example but to cross over these confines and expectations from his father.
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SIMILARITY between The Death of a Salesman and The Crucible- both by Arthur Miller

-the relationship of the character to the society: both main characters have conflicts.

-intensity of psychological drama: in The Crucible, there existed the paranoia of the society against witches. and here in Death of the Salesman, there existed a psychological drama of an individual

-theme of family relations

-dramatic reaction of each character. dramatic setting.

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-the dramatic reaction of each character -very detailed description

2010. 1.8.**

1. Starting a gasoline fueled lawn mower takes three simple steps opening the choke the starter cord is pulled and close thhe choke once the engine is running Starting a gasoline-fueled lawn mower takes three simple steps: open the choke, pull the starter cord, and close the choke once the engine is running.

2. as a result of his first riding lesson at the sage ranch jason learned one thing about horses when they are hungery they stop to eat As a result of his first riding lesson at the Sage Ranch, Jason learned one thing about horses--when they are hungry, they stop to eat.

Writing a sentence with vocab and style we learned:
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Having seven days left before the final, I just wanted to abscond school and hide somewhere--only if my grades wouldn't drop down.

In Frankenstein The first four letters and the preface I read weren't mainly about the story it covered the intention of the writing and background of the narrator the book starts with an exploration of the narrator and covers a lot of topics through his letters. For example loneliness risks taken by discovery of new knowledge, and etc it seems like the letters are foreshadowing whats coming up in the future of this book. -- Try for 3 sentences. There is a possibility of a colon AND a dash.
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In __Frankenstein__, the first four letters and the preface I read weren't mainly about the story--it covered the intention of the writing and background of the narrator. The book starts with an exploration of the narrator and covers a lot of topics through his letters: loneliness and risks taken by discovery of new knowledge, and etc. It seems like the letters are foreshadowing what's coming up in the future of this book. -- Try for 3 sentences. There is a possibility of a colon AND a dash.