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.