Knowledge

In a world full of much information, knowledge is key. To have knowledge means that people act on their own decisions. To not have knowledge keeps a person from acting on their own ideas. knowledge helps the population deal with events more effectively. Sources of knowledge range from the internet, school, and the news. Those with knowledge can help others to make sure their economy becomes better.

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    Jobs. Decisions. Family. These are some of the basic blocks in life. Of course, These 3 ideas border eachother. However, family should not be entitled to choose your career for you. This usually leads to children being led into an hated profession. In a life, children are exposed to their parents dreams. For example, parents that are doctors generally want their offspring to continue in their steps. This makes kids pressured into doing a career that is not wanted to be done. Children should be able to choose what they want to pursue in life. They are entitled to their own decisions especially when it comes to professions. Kids that don't get to live with their own decisions are led to be what their parents want them to be. Instead of choosing their child's profession, they should be able to support their offspring in doing what they want. Who knows, instead of a child being a small town doctor, he/she might end up being a world renowned spokesperson. At the end of the day, people in this generation should look towards encouraging their kids what they want to do.

Joy Luck Club Essay

    Love and family. Throughout the history of time, the idea of love and family seemed to have gradually changed over the past centuries. Over time, as the values of love and family change so do the perspectives toward marriage, divorce, and child rearing. Love and family set the generations of the past, apart from the current generation.
    Love and family. To older generations, love and family can be seen as a topic that today's generation has in common. Genuine love has been the same throughout history. Family has been an important part in a person's life. Whether it is ruling all of ancient china, or working at a gas station.
   Throughout history, marriage has been a conforming topic. In today's world, marriage has been about being with the one you love and being able to live in harmony with love and equality. In the book however, Lena St. Clair's relationship is an example of an unbalanced relationship. She is a very passive person, so it reflects on her relationship. This shows that her and her husband are not on the same page. In the past, marriages were set up by the parents in order to marry into a rich family. This can be seen in the play, Romeo and Juliet, where Juliet is forced to marry Paris, who is a wealthy kinsmen to the prince. It reflects why this form of marriage is unpopular among society. Whether or not, marriage will continue to evolve and change under the views of different generation.
    In America alone, divorce has become a very occurring topic. Divorces in this generation are handled similarly to divorces in previous generations. Divorce can come from a lack of balance and a hunger for freedom. For example, Rose Hsu Jordan wants to divorce her husband Ted Jordan. Even though her mother disapproves, she wants Rose to be free like her garden. This example shows the view of the older generations, Rose Hsu Jordan's mom, perspective of divorce. Her mother doesn't recommend divorce, but she is willingly smart enough to let her daughter be independent in making critical life changing decisions.
    Bringing up a child, expectations have been a byproduct of bringing a child. For instance, the mother and daughter relationships are quite similar. The mothers, throughout the book, criticize their kin in order to guarantee their success in the new world. Even though, the daughters see it as a lack of affection they know it's the way that their mothers grew up also. This shows the love between them.
    It's not simply black and white between the way each generation deals with topics like this. Generations of the past have learned to keep pace with the new to make dealing with issues a much more fluid task. Love and the fondness of family changes how generations view various topics. In a novel about balancing traditions and cultures, it shows the thought needed to balance a family.

Leopard Man questions

1. Number of paragraphs in the article.
A- 12.
2. Explain the title in your own words,
A- The sociology of Leopard Man. This is that social life of leopard man.
3. In the right hand margin, predict what this article will be about.
A- I predict, this article will be about society and the life of the leopard man.
4. Survey the length of reading, is it long or short?
A- It's a short article.
5. When I first looked at the picture, I thought the leopard man was weird. I was thrown off by his appearance. However, he seemed to enjoy his features.

Diction Handout

Low or informal diction:

Example of Jargon: Spar

Elevated language or formal diction:

1.a).phosphorescent: of or relating to a type of light that glows softly in the dark and that does not produce heat

• "Before I could form a guess, a faint flash of glowing light, which seemed to issue suddenly from the naked body of an, flickered.."

b).cadaverous: looking very thin & pale; resembling a corpse

•"...a broad livid back immersed right up to the neck in a greenish pale glow." 

c).elusive: hard to find or capture; hard to understand, define, or remember 

•"...flickered in the sleeping water with the incomprehensible, silent play of summer lightning in a night sky." 

2. Elevated language makes the text & time more formal. Paraphrasing the passage makes the passage shorter and less formal.

Abstract & concrete diction:

4.a).saw

b).climbed 

c).clutched 

d).stare

5.The authors chose to everyone, but Conrad nameless to make the experience ghastly.

Denotation & connotation: 

6. The Denotation of the title "The Secret Sharer" is that the sharer shares with an unknown identity.

Chart:

Word: 

1.cadaverous:

Denotation- looking very thing or pale

Connotation- 

2.darkling:

D-in the dark

C- someone or something that is dark

3.pale:

D-light skinned

C-

4.phosphorescence:

D-luminescence that is caused by the absorption of radiations

C-

5.ghastly:

D-very shocking or horrible

C-

6.headless:

D-having no head

C-mindless or can't think 

7.fishlike:

D-acting or feeling like the characteristics of a fish

C-something or something underwater 

Latin Roots #6

Roots and Derivatives

 Corp(or): body, corpse

Cred: to believe, to trust, credo

Cur(r), Curs, course: to run, to flow, current

Dic(t): to speak, to say, diction

Word List

Benediction: the invocation of a divine blessing, as at the close of a religious service; a blessing or state of blessedness.  I recieved a sensation of benediction at today's mass.

Concourse: a running or flowing together; a broad public walkway or hallway; a crowd or throng.  I jogged along the concourse in the building to see what had occured.

Concurrent: occuring at the same time; meeting or acting together.  In order to open the vault, we have to turn our keys on a concurrent fashion.

Corporal: related to the physical body.  Anatomy is a branch of corporal study.

Corpulent: very stout; fleshy and obese; fat.  The corpulent elephant charged towards us. 

Credibility: the quality of being believable or trustworthy.  He is a source of credibility since he has never lied to me.

Credulity: the (naive) willingness to believe too easily without proof.  The people who display credulity in this town will believe he is innocent after his pathetic hearing.

Cursory: done in a superficial or hasty manner.  The old man displayed cursory when he hastily confiscated the toy from the toddler.

Dictum: an authoritative saying  or maxim.  The judge made announced his dictum on the defendant's fat yesterday evening. 

Incorporate: to form into one body or fuctioning unit; to combine several different things into a whole.  In order to incorporate religious ideaology into global occurances, one must have a penetrating outlook on life.

Incredulous: not believing, skeptical, or doubting.  One must always be incredulous of the word of one who is not credible.  

Indicative: characteristic of or very much like; suggestive.  Not many of my associates have indicative mentalities as I do. 

Lit Analysis Essay

Part 1

Throughout the book, Billy Pilgrim travels between moments in his life. Billy Pilgrim was drafted in the army for WWII. He was then shopped oversees for the battle of Bulge in Belgium. During the battle, he was captured by enemy forces which leads him to Dresden. Dresden later is bombed which herds Billy into a slaughterhouse in order to evade the incoming bombs. After the war, Billy returns to Illium to pursue Optometry. He then attends an asylum and meets a man named kilgore, who is writing a book, While in the asylum, events trigger his flashbacks of the war. It then forwards to when a relative has a wedding, in which he is captured by aliens that trap him with an actress named Montana Wildhack, While aboard the alien ship, Montana conceives Billy's babies. Billy never sees her again. Time then changes to a point in which Billy is in a plane crash and becomes the lone survivor. He then was taken to get surgery. After the surgery, billy then says that he remembers everything.

Part 2

I believe the theme is that war takes a toll on the body AND mind of a person. I believe Vonnegut tried to take on the topic of war and the harshness of it. One thing to point out is that Billy Pilgrim's so called moments of "time travel" are actually just a byproduct if war on a person's mind and the feeling of wanting to go back in time to unsee the harshness of war

Part 3

Billy Pilgrim is a flat character. However, This book jumps around from different points in time.

Part 4

"Poo-tee-weet?" this is a phrase said by the Bird after the massacre. This symbol shows that war is intellectual like that bird that is speaking.

Part 5

I chose this book because I wanted to read an Anti-war book. The senselessness killing of war is just not needed and the this book explains why.

Part 6

" So it goes" this phrase takes the harsh fact that war is not a fun topic and that death can take a toll on the mind.