Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Gross!!!
I have been working with a program that teaches young children (grades kindergarten to third) how to read and how to become better readers since I was in 4th grade. However, last night was the first time in all those years that a child got sick!!!! It was disgusting and horrible. To make matters worse, she started crying after it happened.... :( poor kid....
Close Reading Bingo
Problems...
1. He presents words like "if you really want to know" and "if I have to" that explains his boring life as the average teenager. Amanda
2. In Chapter One of The Mezzanine, Nicholson Baker's elegant and flowing elevation, journalistic and descriptive denotation, and slightly sweet musical tone convey the vivid detailing of the narrator's office. Although there is not an emotional tone to the passage, it still presents a brilliant and exact description of the building and its surroundings. His scholarly word choice is depicted through "radians of black luster that ride the undulating outer edge" and the lobby's "towering volumes of marble and glass." His denotation is evident through the descriptions of "the struts and piers" and the "black Penguin paperback and small white CVS bag" which are clearly easy to picture. The mood isn't very uplifting, but the connected words of "sunlight," "glossy," and "shine" help to emphasize the melodious sound that Baker employs. XC Hoosier 3366
The problem I have with the above quote is that although the writer uses strong verbs, they also use a halping verb before hand.
3.In Nicholson Baker's work The Mezzanine, he uses elegant and intricate diction to create a formal tone. Skittles Train
4.The breezy feeling of ease when he notices the "Long glossy highlights" in the the cracks that hang among escalators. The Chief
This one is more grammatical but it it is a run on.
However the best one that I read is from my dear friend Cara, who I have not talked to in a long time! :( Anyway, here's the link... Less Than Three
1. He presents words like "if you really want to know" and "if I have to" that explains his boring life as the average teenager. Amanda
2. In Chapter One of The Mezzanine, Nicholson Baker's elegant and flowing elevation, journalistic and descriptive denotation, and slightly sweet musical tone convey the vivid detailing of the narrator's office. Although there is not an emotional tone to the passage, it still presents a brilliant and exact description of the building and its surroundings. His scholarly word choice is depicted through "radians of black luster that ride the undulating outer edge" and the lobby's "towering volumes of marble and glass." His denotation is evident through the descriptions of "the struts and piers" and the "black Penguin paperback and small white CVS bag" which are clearly easy to picture. The mood isn't very uplifting, but the connected words of "sunlight," "glossy," and "shine" help to emphasize the melodious sound that Baker employs. XC Hoosier 3366
The problem I have with the above quote is that although the writer uses strong verbs, they also use a halping verb before hand.
3.In Nicholson Baker's work The Mezzanine, he uses elegant and intricate diction to create a formal tone. Skittles Train
4.The breezy feeling of ease when he notices the "Long glossy highlights" in the the cracks that hang among escalators. The Chief
This one is more grammatical but it it is a run on.
However the best one that I read is from my dear friend Cara, who I have not talked to in a long time! :( Anyway, here's the link... Less Than Three
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Close Reading
The Catcher in the Rye By: J.D. Salinger
Salinger's bluntly precise and gritting use of language in The Catcher in the Rye depicts life in its entirety as seen from a nonchalant teenager. The passage begins with "If you really want to hear about it," suggesting that his life is nothing more than the average teenager's life. The narrator describes his childhood as "lousy." He displays the laziness in teenagers when he says, "I don't feel like going into it." He uses vulgar words like "crap," "hell," "damn," and "goddam." This suggests that Holden Caulfield is somewhat uneducated, rouge, and ignorant of the facts of life.
You find out later in this novel that he is only two of the three that I have proposed.
Salinger's bluntly precise and gritting use of language in The Catcher in the Rye depicts life in its entirety as seen from a nonchalant teenager. The passage begins with "If you really want to hear about it," suggesting that his life is nothing more than the average teenager's life. The narrator describes his childhood as "lousy." He displays the laziness in teenagers when he says, "I don't feel like going into it." He uses vulgar words like "crap," "hell," "damn," and "goddam." This suggests that Holden Caulfield is somewhat uneducated, rouge, and ignorant of the facts of life.
You find out later in this novel that he is only two of the three that I have proposed.
Friday, October 21, 2011
Currently
This one is from Hidden in a Journal "Voice is what imbues a novel with the feeling that it communicates. And no two novels ever share the exact same voice."
I like this introduction because it immediately captured my attention and it made me want to finish reading. I know that seems cliche because English teachers have continually told us to capture your readers' attention, but it is so true! I have to be caught into a book by the end of the first chapter or I will not finish because it bores me. This is why I would not read the neither Blue Blood's series, despite Taylor telling me to, or Heart of Darkness, despite the fact that Mr. Jankowski made us write an essay on it. (I plead the 5th whenever asked what I received on that essay........)
"1984 by George Orwell uses straightforward and exact diction, colloquial formality, and dull sound to create a harsh feeling for the reader, much like how Winston feels the chill of the bright cold day and the enormous eyes of the face watching him." This person has another awesome quote that I am posting. "Homer's The Odyssey poetic connotation, elegant and scholarly formality, and melodious sound."
Lucky
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Style Mapping
To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, uses the coarsely sophisticated literal language which accurately conveys the dialect of the narrator. The narrator is Scout, a girl growing up in the segregated south in the town of Maycomb, Alabama. She writes in long seemingly run-on sentences, but uses words like "assuaged" and "apothecary," while also saying blunt ignorant comments like "If General Jackson hadn't run the Creeks up the creek." Contrastingly, Charles Dickens' David Copperfield uses the elegant, lyrical, and archaic language of Victorian England. The first sentence begins with "Whether I shall." Even more different is the style of language that is in George Orwell's 1984. He uses what he thinks to be "futuristic" language that has many made up words and long seemingly run-on sentences that are more sophisticated than those of To Kill A Mockingbird.
Friday, October 14, 2011
Quarterly
This quarter, I have been notoriously bad at maintaining my goals for reading. I feel like I'm breaking a New Year's resolution, and in a way, I am. At the beginning of the school year, I made a promise to myself that I would work on homework before it is due. Yet, I end up doing the majority of my reading on Thursday nights and Friday morning on the bus. I want to do better at work ahead over the weekend. I need to apply this to everything I do: other course work and debate included. I think everyone should implement this to an extent. Now, I'm not saying that we should be like robots and only do work. All work, no play left Jack a dull boy.
Anyway, so my goal is to read better books and more pages, which will lead to more books.
Anyway, so my goal is to read better books and more pages, which will lead to more books.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Tomorrow
So I am so excited for tomorrow because I am going to DePauw. I have to be ready to leave the house by 7:15, which is a half hour later than I would usually have to sleep. I am going to IHOP and eating breakfast. We will then hit the road and drive for 3 hours to get to the college. I have a tour at 11:30 and then I am sitting in on a class. I emailed the proff yesterday and she said that I could participate in the class if I want to and if I have something to contribute. So the good news, she sent me a pdf file so I can read what they have read so I can participate. Apparently it is on the Principle-Agent Theory. Which, Mr. Hill, if you read my posts tonight and happen to remember it from your lawyer days, then I would appreciate it if you could dumb it down for me. Anyway, that leads me to the bad news, the file is 30 pages long! I guess I should get used to it because it is what I will have to do if I go there and study Political Science. Anyway, after my class, Clay Knappenberger will be showing me around and talking to me about DePauw. We all (him, his mom since she's driving me there, and myslef) might go out to lunch too. Then, it will be heading back sometime after that. I hope to do some homework and some debate work while I am in the car for so long. Anyway, i best be getting to the clubs that I am in, as I am currently sitting in the IMC and it is almost closing time.
Monday, October 10, 2011
Discussion on The Case for Life
So Scott continues by saying that there are no major differences between those that are adults and those that are the pre-born. He says that they philosophic way to argue that there is no difference is through what is called S.L.E.D. This stands for Size, Level of Development, Environment, and Degree of Dependency. One of the things I did one night while I was writing a paper for We the People, was to go to this site that has pro-life quotes and a comments section. The following is what another person said.
Mr. Liberal says:
Mr. Liberal says:
Wow! That’s the biggest list of crap I’ve ever read. You people call yourselves Christians? I’m sure Christ said that only he who is without sin should cast the first stone and not to judge unless you’re ready to be judged yourself. You people aren’t pro-life, you’re anti-woman. According to you a rape victim should be forced to carry her rapists baby; that’s real Christ like. Good God, you people have some real studying of the bible to do.
The following is what I replied to and I will also continue by adding what it is common to hear if you are part of the pro-life community and have discussed our views with those who believe differently.
pro-life expert says:
The following is what I replied to and I will also continue by adding what it is common to hear if you are part of the pro-life community and have discussed our views with those who believe differently.
pro-life expert says:
@ Mr. Liberal: First off, I am a woman, so how can a woman be anti-woman. I went to a lecture of Scott Klusendorf’s over the summer. He is a brilliant man who is an expert in bio-ethics and author of The Case for Life. The first and foremost thing that I will address is that rather than refute the pro-life stance, you attack the person them self and deem them someone who is “anti-woman.” So what exactly does that mean if it is a woman advocating the pro-life stance. Although Christ did say let he who is with out sin cast the first stone, he also said to tell your brother that they are in sin or you will be responsible for that sin. (Its in Ephesians) Also, you can hate the sin and love the sinner. The sinner needs prayers too. I am pro-choice when it comes to where a woman works, what she does at her job, what she wears, etc. except when it impedes upon the life of another human being. Whether that means that she murders someone else in society or her unborn child. The rapist ought to be charged with the full extent of the law. However, it is not a matter of how the child came to be but instead a question of what the child is. Greg Koukl said that if the unborn is not human, no justification is necessary for elective abortion, but if the unborn is human, no justification is adequate for elective abortion. At the point of conception, the pre-born is not a gamete but instead a whole, distinct, living human being called a zygote. The law of biogenesis states that life comes from other life and that like creates like meaning that I (a human) cannot produce puppies. The only difference between the zygote you were then and the person you are now (and this applies to anyone who can read this, is known as an acronym known as S.L.E.D. meaning that the only thing that differs is Size, Level of development, Environment, and Degree of dependency. You were not the size you are now the moment you were born. What is the difference between a tiny zygote and an infant? A toddler is less developed than a full grown woman, but does that mean that we can kill it? I’m not entirely sure about you, but when I leave a room, I don’t change into something or someone else. What makes a child that has moved through the 6 to 8 inches through the birth canal any different from one that has not. There are different degrees of dependency throughout life. A child depend on its mother and father until it is a legal adult (and then sometimes after that). What is the difference between an infant that is dependent on its mother and a pre-born that is dependent on its mother?
Alright, so let's look at what Mr. Liberal had to say...
First, note that he has not refuted the pro-life position (as many pro-choice people fail to do), but has instead chosen to personally attack the person making the claim. For instance, during an HBO special, comedian Rosanne Barr told the audience: "You know who else I can't stand is them people that are antiabortion....I hate them. They're ugly, old, geeky, hideous men. They just don't want nobody to have an abortion, cause they want you to keep spitting out kids so they can molest them."
So according to Rosanne, I am an ugly, old, geeky, hideous man because I am against abortion. Anybody see how that is completely untrue. I am a 17 year old young woman, who although I tend to be somewhat of a nerd, is not in any way an old man that wants to have women keep spitting out kids that I can molest.
Instead of defending the abortion act itself, some "pro-choice" advocates personally attack those who do not share their views. At a 1995 "Rock for Choice" concert in Pensacola Florida, vocalist Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam shrieked from the stage: "I'm usually good about my temper, but all these men trying to control women's bodies really piss me off. They're talking from a bubble. They're not talking from the street, and they're not in touch with what's real. Well, I'm f----ing mean, and I'm ugly, and my name is reality. Music--that is my religion. I would never force my beliefs on anyone--that's the thing."
Again, Eddie Vedder is assuming (my grandpa always told me never to assume because I make something out of u and me) that I am a man who is unable to see what is real. However, he could not deviate further from the truth. I believe we have already established my gender. And what I see as "real" entails the fact that as a country we will help those from Burma because they are already born, yet we will not defend life in its most pure state. This person attack that people use to silence pro-lifers is called the ad hominem fallacy.
One thing that I addressed that many people are on the borderline between pro-life and pro-choice is rape. As I stated above, it is not a matter of how the child came to be, but of what the child is. If it is not human, no justification for killing it is necessary. However, if it is human, no justification is acceptable for killing the innocent child.
Another thing that comes up often is "We don't know when human life begins." However, as Scott puts it, we should remain on the side of caution. He says that if we see what looks like a coat lying in the middle of the road but there is a chance that there is a homeless person under the coat, that we would swerve in order to be cautious.
Lastly, I wanted to say that there is going to be a Teens for Life at our school. I am in charge of it. I am looking at Halloween as the first meeting. If you are interested but cannot attend, please let me know or contact Mr. Panning, as he is the club sponsor.
Alright, so let's look at what Mr. Liberal had to say...
First, note that he has not refuted the pro-life position (as many pro-choice people fail to do), but has instead chosen to personally attack the person making the claim. For instance, during an HBO special, comedian Rosanne Barr told the audience: "You know who else I can't stand is them people that are antiabortion....I hate them. They're ugly, old, geeky, hideous men. They just don't want nobody to have an abortion, cause they want you to keep spitting out kids so they can molest them."
So according to Rosanne, I am an ugly, old, geeky, hideous man because I am against abortion. Anybody see how that is completely untrue. I am a 17 year old young woman, who although I tend to be somewhat of a nerd, is not in any way an old man that wants to have women keep spitting out kids that I can molest.
Instead of defending the abortion act itself, some "pro-choice" advocates personally attack those who do not share their views. At a 1995 "Rock for Choice" concert in Pensacola Florida, vocalist Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam shrieked from the stage: "I'm usually good about my temper, but all these men trying to control women's bodies really piss me off. They're talking from a bubble. They're not talking from the street, and they're not in touch with what's real. Well, I'm f----ing mean, and I'm ugly, and my name is reality. Music--that is my religion. I would never force my beliefs on anyone--that's the thing."
Again, Eddie Vedder is assuming (my grandpa always told me never to assume because I make something out of u and me) that I am a man who is unable to see what is real. However, he could not deviate further from the truth. I believe we have already established my gender. And what I see as "real" entails the fact that as a country we will help those from Burma because they are already born, yet we will not defend life in its most pure state. This person attack that people use to silence pro-lifers is called the ad hominem fallacy.
One thing that I addressed that many people are on the borderline between pro-life and pro-choice is rape. As I stated above, it is not a matter of how the child came to be, but of what the child is. If it is not human, no justification for killing it is necessary. However, if it is human, no justification is acceptable for killing the innocent child.
Another thing that comes up often is "We don't know when human life begins." However, as Scott puts it, we should remain on the side of caution. He says that if we see what looks like a coat lying in the middle of the road but there is a chance that there is a homeless person under the coat, that we would swerve in order to be cautious.
Lastly, I wanted to say that there is going to be a Teens for Life at our school. I am in charge of it. I am looking at Halloween as the first meeting. If you are interested but cannot attend, please let me know or contact Mr. Panning, as he is the club sponsor.
Currently from last week
I began reading Blue moon by Alyssa Noel. It's okay but I am not sure if I will continue reading it.
Anyway, I read 150 pages.
I have had a hard time lately getting all my posts and reading done.
Also, I haven't had any quotes to post because the books that I have been reading are either extremely dull or in the case of the Scott Klusendorf book, it has things that are memorable, but it all runs together and references things that were earlier in the book. So am I supposed to type out the entire book??? Anyway, as a substitute, I am going to choose some amazing quotes that I find online.
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche
All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
Jack Kerouac
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
T. E. Lawrence
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney
Alright, I think that that is enough.
Anyway, I read 150 pages.
I have had a hard time lately getting all my posts and reading done.
Also, I haven't had any quotes to post because the books that I have been reading are either extremely dull or in the case of the Scott Klusendorf book, it has things that are memorable, but it all runs together and references things that were earlier in the book. So am I supposed to type out the entire book??? Anyway, as a substitute, I am going to choose some amazing quotes that I find online.
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche
All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
Jack Kerouac
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
T. E. Lawrence
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney
Alright, I think that that is enough.
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