Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Lit Analysis #2

The book I was call Cool, Hot, and Blue. It is based on jazz music, how it started, how it has changed music and how it has also changed over the decades, jazz artist like Duke Ellington, Buddy Bolden, Louis Armstrong, Ray Charles (WOOHOO!) and etc. Now being a musician who also like to listen and  play jazz music I could really relate to the story of these great jazz artists. In the beginning  when the artist were starting out they didn't care about getting money or becoming famous. Most of them just played because they simply loved the music, which I totally admire.

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Extra Credit Vocab

  • Impetus - A moving force; impulse; stimulus. 
  • Impervious - Not permitting penetration or passage; impenetrable. 
  • Innuendo - An indirect initmation about about a person or thing, especially of a disparaging or derogatory nature.
  • Misconstrue - To understand. To misread something misrepresent.
  • Clairvoyant - Being able to perceive beyond the senses; having or claiming to have the power of seeing objects or actions beyond the range of natural vision.
  • Itinerary - A detail for a journey, especially a list of place to visit.
  • Apportion - To distribute or allocate proportionally; divide and assign according to some rule of proportional distribution. 

Thursday, November 8, 2012

BIG QUESTIONS

 My first question is to the people who say that the world is going to end. So my question is how many people who thought that the world was going to end did stupid or crazy things?

My second question is will people ever find out if Big Foot really exsist?

Monday, November 5, 2012

Vocab Fall List #10

Pedagogue - A teacher; a schoolteacher
     - My friend's dad was a pedagogue when he was younger
Cavernous - Being, resembling, or suggestive of a cavern
Coquettish - (A woman) characteristically flirtatious, especially in a teasing, lighthearted matter.

     - My friend's ex-girlfriend was very coquettish.
Tête-à-tête - A private conversation or interview, usually between two people.

     - I sometimes have a tête-à-tête with my drum coach.
 Suffice - To be enough or adequate, as for needs, or purposes. 
     - Having one brother is suffice.
Amorous - Inclined or disposed to love,especially sexual love.

     - Almost every boy in high school is amorous.

Monday, October 29, 2012

Vocab Fall List #9

Vouch - To give credibility. 
    - I vouch to my peers for what they do best. 

Abounds - It is everywhere.
    - Music is abound world wide.

Advert - advertise.
    - Billboards advert companies all the time.          

Tranquility - Peace; calm.
    - My room is were I can be tranquil most of the times.

Reverie -Spell or dreamlike state.
    - It seems like people are are reverie when they are in a relationship.

Ingratiate - To win over.
    - The lawyer's main goal is to ingratiate the judge.

Magnanimously - Generously.
    - The volunteers at the shelter are so magnanimous.

Brook- A small river or stream.
    - I think I saw a brook father down the woods.

Prudently - Practical.
    - Prudently is how I describe book. It seems like other books I have read before.

Pervade - To get into, to see through the whole thing; to see through entirety. 
    - The detective try to pervade on the investigation.  

Implore - Begging; to beg.
    - My brother at time has to implore to go to his friend's house. 

Tarry - To linger, to delay or be tardy. 
    - I don't understand how people tarry to there class.

Gambol - To skip out. 
    - The boy had to gambol at the soccer game. 

Incessant - Continuing without interruption.
    - drummers have the ability of keeping beats incessant.
    

Thursday, October 25, 2012

Presidential Debate Fallicies

During the Presidential Debate with Romney and Obama the fallicies that I saw was that was that both of were getting off topic from the subject that was stated to them. A fallicie that Romney made was he thought there should be more troops on Iraq. Near the end of the debate Obama was attacking Romney with facts that were not correct, he was making lies so he can try to win the audience and the people over for hearing things that they want to here.

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Vocab Fall List # 8 pt. 3

  • Salutary - Producing good effects.








  • Straitlaced - Strict; rule abating.  



  •  Scourge - A whip a lash.  








  • Precept - A general rule or behavior. 








  • Transient - Not lasting, enduring.

Vocab Fall List #8 pt. 2

  • Extricate - To free or release.



  • Soporific - Causing or tending to cause sleep.





  • Scathing - Bitterly painful or severe.




  • Unwieldy - Hard to move or to carry. 





  • Vapid - Lost of sharpness or flavor.









  • Prognosticate - To forecast or predict.





  • Sepulchral - A tomb or interment. 



Vocab Fall List #8 pt.1

  • Flout - Scorn, or contempts; scoff-at; mock. 




  • Caveat - A warning or caution.  









  • Blazon - To set forth conspicuously or publicly, display; proclaim. 









  • Filch - To steel (especially of small value).


  • Fractious - Unruly or bad tempered. 








  •  Equitable - fairness or reasonable. 








  • Autonomy - Independence; freedom. 








  • Addendum - A thing to be added; an addition.






  • Amnesty - Official pardon; general pardon for offenses.





  •  Axiomatic - Self-evident.  

Monday, October 8, 2012

Fall Vocab List #7

1. Ad infinitum - To infinity; endlessly; without limit.
    - The exam seem to be ad infinitum
2. Apportion - To distribute or allocate proportionally divide and assign according to some rule of proportional distribution.
    - To apportion expenses.
3. Bona fide - Made, done, presented, etc. in a good faith; with out deception or fraud. Authentic; true.
    - the musket the man brought to the shop was definitely bona fide.
4. Buoyant - Not easily depressed; cheerful; cheering or invigorating.
    -  She is so happy and buoyant.
5. Clique - A small, exclusive group of people; coterie; set.
    - The gang in the neighborhood was so big that they started setting cliques around.
6. Concede - To acknowledge as true, just, or proper; admit.
    - He finally conceded that his sister was right.
7. Congenial - Agreeable, suitable, adaptive, or pleasing in nature or character.
    -  That couple is very congenial.
8. Lofty - Exalted in rank, dignity, or character; eminent.
    - When I talk to a police I make sure to talk to them in a lofty manner.
9. Migration - The process of migration.
    -  Animals usually try to get a lot of food before they go to migration.
10. Perceive - To become aware of, known, or identify by means of the senses.
    - The cat perceived felt the dogs presence when it came into the room.
11. Prelude - A preliminary to an action, event, condition, or work of broader scope and higher importance.
12. Rancid - Having a rank, unpleasant, stale smell of taste, as through decomposition, especially of fats or oils.
    - What is that rancid smell?
13. Rustic - Simple, artless, or unsophisticated
    - My friends imaginary can be rustic at times.
14. Sever - To separate ( a part ) from the whole, as by cutting or like.
    - My teacher is sever from my past teachers.
15. Sordid - Morally ignorable, selfish, self-seeking.
    - My brother can be so sordid.
16. Untenable - Incapable of being defended, as an argument, thesis, etc.; indefensive.
    - At times everyone feels untenable.    
17. Versatile - Capable of adapted for tuning easily from one to another of various tasks, fields of endeavor.
18. Vindicate - To clear, as from an accusation, imputation, suspicion, or like.
    - To vindicate someones honor.
19. Wane - To decrease in strength, intensity, etc.
    - Her enthusiasm for the cause is waning

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Class Work

In the "from Thoreau’s Walden" that we read in class I thought Thoreau was his itinerary and had a guile for what he wants to do in life. He was kind of saying that he wants to learn and understand the things he does before doing anything else. He wants to ascetic every point that he think that’s is a good point to him. He lost his despair in everything like if he just gave everything up and just let it all go. I think that he thinks that his life can be very lurid sometimes with all the thing that he has to go though. I also think that he is thinking that he can thinks of pious for what his reactions are. He has his own endemic that he is doing. He is exemplary to what he thinks his life was before he ages. He is very expostulate and innuendo because it seems like he doesn’t care what other people think. For example “Still we live meanly, like ants; though the fable tells us that we were long ago changed into men; like pygmies we fight with cranes; it is error upon error, and clout upon clout, and our best virtue has for its occasion a superfluous and evitable wretchedness. Our life is frittered away by detail.” I think this shows that he is willing to thin about what other think about what he has to say but be happy with whatever he thinks it is.

Monday, October 1, 2012

Mid-Term Studying

For the mid-term exam I will review the old vocab (I'm so glad that I kept all my flash cards!) and make to piles. The ones that I know and the ones that I do not know or unsure of. I would also like to form a study group one of the days of this week and just collaborate with my classmates. 

Sunday, September 30, 2012

Romanticism

 When I went to my walk I was thinking of all things on what I have done, what I've experienced, what I regretted, what I could have done better, etc. and I was just thinking about all these things in my head. There was a point were I just decided to stop thinking, I cleared my head from all thoughts and just relaxed (which I haven't done in a while) and it felt nice, I wasn't stressed or worried about anything about anything.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/romanticism 
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/romanticism
http://www.answers.com/topic/romanticism

The websites that I went to had pretty much of the same definitions. It describes that Romanticism as when someone is expressing emotion or that they are emotional and they are trying to find themselves (which I sort of experienced).

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

A Dream Within A Dream

When I read A Dream Within A Dream I was amazed on how much feel and emotion Poe, I can see myself seeing Poe in his situations and what he has gone through. When I was reading the poem it seemed to me that he had some regrets and he just wishes that he was dreaming so that way it wouldn't have had such an effect on him. Also when he is going through his emotions he is he put that "I hold within my hand the Golden sand How few! yet how they creep Through my fingers to the deep," I feel like that he had some regrets or things that he wish he could have done that he didn't do and the sand represents the chance that just slipped away in through his fingers. So this poem definitely shows some romanticism because it shows that don't do things that you will regret and don't regret the opportunities you will have in life. 

Monday, September 24, 2012

Vocab Fall List #6

  1. adroit - Cleverly skillful, resourceful, or ingenious                                                                                - The teen boy was very adroit with the power tools.
  2. amicable - Characterized by or showing goodwill; friendly; peaceable.                                                - The animal trainer was very amicable when he was handling the injured dog.
  3. averse - having a strong feeling of opposition, antipathy, repugnance, etc; opposed.                              - I am not averse of drinking any time soon.
  4. belligerent - Of warlike character; aggressively; hostile; bellicose.                                                        - The student had a belligerent tone with the tone with the teacher when they were having a discussion.
  5. benevolent - Expressing goodwill or kindly feelings. Desiring to help others.                                        - That person had a benevolent attitude the entire day.
  6. cursory - going rapidly over something, without details; hasty; superficial.                                            - I always take a cursory look on the topic in class.
  7. duplicity - An act or instance of such deceitfulness.                                                                              - Newspapers are full of duplicity, but it is entertaining.   
  8. extol - To praise highly; laud; eulogize.                                                                                                - My friend extolled his father in a different way.
  9. feasible - Capable of being done,  effected, accomplished.                                                                  - I was feasible when it came to the five page essay. 
  10. grimace - A facial expression, often ugly or contorted, that indicates disapproval, pain, etc.                  - When the boy was auditioning for the football team the instructor gave the coach a grimace
  11. holocaust - A great or complete devastation or destruction, especially by fire.                                      - The fire up in the mountains was a big holocaust.
  12. impervious - Not permitting penetration or passage; impenetrable                                                        - The guards were impervious when they were protecting the castle.  
  13. impetus - A moving force; impulse; stimulus.                                                                                        - When the band started playing everybody in the stand started to become impetus.
  14. jeopardy - Hazard or at risk of or exposure to loss, harm, death, or injury.                                          - The dog was in jeopardy when it crossed the busy intersection.    
  15. meticulous - taking or showing extreme care about minute details.                                                        - At times my parents can be very meticulous.
  16. nostalgia - A wistful desire t return in thought or in fact to former time on one's life, to one's home or homeland , or to one's family and friends; a sentimental yearning for the happiness of a former place time.                                                                                                                                                   - I am nostalgia for my old childhood in Santa Barbara.
  17. quintessence - The pure and concentrated essence of  a substance.                                                      - The juice company wanted the quintessence of the next flavor.
  18. retrogress - To go backward into an earlier and usually worse condition. 
  19. scrutinize - To examine in detail with careful or critical attention.                                                           - The teacher was scrutinize when she was reading the papers.
  20. tepid - Characterized by a lack of force or enthusiasm.                                                                      

Monday, September 17, 2012

Vocab Fall List #5

  1. Allude - A form of allusion, to refer to casually or indirectly.
       -The author of the story tries to allude the reader with his imagination and writing skills.
    2.  Clairvoyant - Being able to perceive beyond the senses; having or claiming to have the power of seeing objects or actions beyond the range of natural vision.
       - Apparently the sidekick we saw at the old shop was very clairvoyant but I highly doubt it.
    3. Conclusive - Serving to settle or decide a question; decisive; convincing.
       - The scientist work was conclusive once after running through some tests.
    4. Disreputable - Having a poor or bad reputation.
       - The man was disreputable after being convicted of a serious crime.
    5. Endemic - Natural to or characteristic of a specific people or place. 
       - The boy's endemic seemed to be with more mature people.
    6. Exemplary - Serving to be an example or pattern; exemplary.
       - The ex-convict wanted to be an exemplary for his little boy.
    7. Fathom - N. To measure of by means of a sounding line; sound.
                   - V.  To penetrate the truth of; comprehend; to understand.       
    8. Guile - Insidious cunning in attaining a goal; tricky; cleverness; to trick.
       - The spy so guile when he retrieved the stolen ruby.
    9. Integrity - adherence to moral the ethical principles soundness of moral character.
       - The teacher loved the student's integrity.
   10. Itinerary - A detailed plan for a journey , especially a list of places to visit. 
       - The dad's itinerary was to go all over the big monuments in Europe for the family vacation.
   11. Misconstrue - To misunderstand. To misread something, misrepresent.
       - The boy misconstrue the meaning of the word that he learned in class today.
   12. Obnoxious - Highly objectionable or offensive; rude or unpleasant.
       - The people that sat in front of us during the movie were very obnoxious.
   13. Placate - To calm down; to appease or pacify, especially by concessions conciliatory gestures.
       - The teacher was trying to figure out how to placate her students after the big news.
   14. Placid - Pleasantly calm or peaceful.   
       - The city park was very nice and placid.
   15. Plagiarism - Taking someone elses work and representing it as your own.
       - The man was sued for plagiarizing  a companies idea.
   16 Potent - Powerful; mighty.
       - The Greeks looked at the gods very potently, but also very graceful. 
   17. Pretext - Reason for doing something. To put something forward to conceal a true purpose or object.
       - The reason why the teacher put the pretext on the white board is because you  are supposed to figure out it what it means.
   18. Protrude - To stick out.
       - That girl in the choir protrude the most out of the most out of the group.
   19. Stark - Obvious or clear.
       - The stain on the white shirt was very stark.
   20. Superficial - Shallow, being at, on, or near the surface.
       - The wound was very superficial.                   

Sunday, September 16, 2012

Your Life Is Your Life

  1. The poem is The Laughing Heart by Charles Bukowski.
  2. The ironic thing about this poem is that it is being used for jeans brand commercial but there is a deeper meaning. It is not just about promoting some brand of jeans, its about not letting people taking control of your life, when you do you go into this darkness but when you are controlling it you seem to only find light.
  3. I believe that the poem reflect on the author's earlier life. He didn't live in the best neighborhood, he had an abusive father, and he was made fun of from other kids for the way he spoke and the way he dressed. When he graduated from high school he went to college for to years studying art, journalism, and literature and then he moved to New York to pursue his dream of becoming a writer. After all the things he went through in his life was an example of the darkness and when he went to New York to become a writer he found lightness because he was controlling his life and he could follow his dreams.
  4. For question one I asked one of my class mates to see if they had any information on the author and the poem and the gave me a website about the author and his poems. For question four I went to Wikipedia and searched the author because the website about the author didn't show anything about the author's past.      
   The Laughing Heart

  your life is your life
don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.
be on the watch.
there are ways out.
there is a light somewhere.
it may not be much light but
it beats the darkness.
be on the watch.
the gods will offer you chances.
know them.
take them.
you can’t beat death but
you can beat death in life, sometimes.
and the more often you learn to do it,
the more light there will be.
your life is your life.
know it while you have it.
you are marvelous
the gods wait to delight
in you.

Monday, September 10, 2012

Vocab Fall List #4

  • Melancholy - A gloomy state of mind, especially when habitual or prolonged; depression.
  • Exemplary - Serving for example or pattern; exemplary.
  • Peculiar - Strange; queer; odd. Uncommon or unusual.
  • Dread - To fear greatly; be in extreme apprehension.
  • Bough - A branch of a tree, especially one of the larger or main branches.
  • Pious - Having or showing a dutiful spirit of reverence for God or an earnest wish to fulfill religious obligations.
  • Communion - A group of people having a common religious faith; a religious denomination.
  • Auditor - A person appointed and authorized to examine accounts and accounting records, compare the charges with the vouchers, verify balance sheet and income items and state the result.
  • Multitude - A great number of people gathered together; crowed; throng; host.
  • Eloquence - The practice or art of using language with fluency and aptness.
  • Despair - Loss of hope; someone or something that causes hopelessness.
  • Hoary - Ancient or venerable.

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Vocab Fall List #3

  • Encomium - A formal expression of high praise; eulogy.
  • Coherent - Logically connected; consistent.
  • Belabor - to explain, worry about, or work at (something) repeatedy or more than is necessary.
  • Eschew - To abtain or keep away from: shun; aviod.
  • Acpuisitive - Tending or seeking to acquir and own, often greedily; eager to get wealth, possesion, etc.
  • Emulate - To try to equal of excel; imitate with effoert to equal or surpass.
  • Arrogate - To claim unwarrantably or presumptuously; assume or appropriate to oneslef without right.
  • Banal - deviod or fresh or originality; hackeyed; trite.
  • Escoriation - The act of excoriating.
  • Congeal - To change from a soft or fluid state  to a rigid or solid state, as by cooling or freezing.
  • Carping - Characterized by fussy or petulant fualtfinding.
  • Substantiale - To establish by proof or competent evidence.
  • Temporize - To be indecisive or evasive to gain time or delay acting.
  • Largess - Generous bestowal of gifts.
  • Tenable - Capable of being held, maintained, or defended, as against attack or dispute.
  • Insatiable - Not satiable, incapable of being satisfied or appeased.
  • Reconnaissance - The act of reconnoitering.
  • Germane - Closley or significantly out into branches or bramchlike parts, extend into subvisions.
  • Taciturn - Indined to silence: reserved in speech; reluctant to join in converation.
  • Ividious - Calculated toi create ill will or resentment or give offense.

Thursday, August 30, 2012

Vocb. Fall List #2

  • Simulate - To create a simulation, likeness, or model of a situation , system, or like.
  • Jaded - Dulled or satiated by overingdulgence.
  • Umbrage - offensive; annoyance; dipleaser. The slightest indication or vaguest fellings of suspension, doubt, hostility or the like.
  • Lurid - Grusome; horrible; revolting.
  • Transcend - To rise above or go beyon; overpass; exceed.
  • Provinvial - Belonging or pecualiar tp something particu;ar province: local.
  • Petu;ant - Moved to or showing sudden impatien irritation, especially over something trifling annoyance.
  • Intecrede - To act or interpose in behalf or someone in difficulty or trouble, as by pleading or petition.
  • Hackneyed - Made common place or trite; stale, banal.
  • Approbation - Approval; commendation. Official approval or sanction.
  • Innuendo - An indirect intimation about a person or thing, especially of a disparaging or derogatory nature.
  • Coalition - A combiation or alliance. especially tempory one between persons, factions, states, etc.
  • Elict - To draw or bring out or fourth; educe; evoke.
  • Hiatus -  A break or an interruption in the continuity of a work series. action, etc.
  • Expostulate - To reason earnestly with someone against something that person intends to do or has done; remonstrate.
  • Decadence - The act or proceses of failing into an inferior condition or state; deterioration.
  • Assuage - To make milder or less severe; relieve, mitigate.

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Earth on Turtle's Back - Tone and Mood

On the story for "Earth on Turtle's Back" I feel lik the tone for this story is that it starts out just neice ane calm and then it gets kinda tense but then eventually the story has a brake through and eventually sort of has a good ending. I think that the mood is like its supposed to be sort of inspirational, that no matter what challenge comes in your way you could succeed if you just push your to your limit.

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Socratic Seminar

Thred #1 - I do agree that you should have the right to your own opninion but I think there is a certain point or a certain subjects were you should keep your opinion to yourself so that way you won't harm or anger anyone around you.

Thred #2 - For "Earths On Turtles Back"  I feel that this story was like an old myth or a folk tale that people from many centeries ago used to tell each other before astronomy came into the world. I also feel like there is also a meaning to the it, I feel like in the story they are also trying to say that you don't need to be the biggest or the fastest to the strongest. I feel like that if you can push yourself to the edge and succeed in whatever you want to accomplish.

Thred #3 - I feel that technology is very importan, especially in this decade. We use technololgy to find cures for diseases, find and store information, contact people, and ect. but i feel like we are also are using technology in stuff that we can simply do ourselves or  there comes to point were we can't live with out, which is why i try not to get to attach to it. A big percentage of todays teens have a smart phones, computers, ipods, ipads, PS3's and so much more and we all feel like we would die without all of it which i think is not true. All I have is a phone and a computer and I'm okay with that I don't need any of that technology because I don't  need it. Also if anyone else notices this, but comercials these days are having alot of products for little kids that involve ipods, ipads, and computers because companies are trying to get the younger generation to get used to having technololy and also buy there products. I don't like it one bit because sooner or later the kids aren't going to play outside as much or get as much excersice and they are going to think that they are going to need all of that but they really don't. So I think technology is a good thing for research and communication but I beleive in reality  we don't really need technology as much as we think we do.