Modernist Work

A time when teenagers wanted to be young, wild and free, or where a big robotic man called The Terminator saves your life with his famous pick up line, " Come with me if you want to live," sounds a lot like something you would find on MTV. However, this also resembles a time of Modernism back in the 1900s. A time where technology advanced greatly, leading to a mass destruction in WWI, leaving many people with the thought of, "Why? What's the point if the only thing promised in this world is death?" Experimenting life, being rebellious, and pushing the limits is what the world went to for answers, not to mention, literature. This was a turning point in art and literature, for example "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury, and "The First Seven Years" by Bernard Malamud, two stories that evolved around this idea of modernism through their connection to technology, and a young girl desperate to live her way.

By the looks of it, technology brought a lot of death, sorrow, and yet a new way of life in this Modernistic period. As well as in the story Fahrenheit 451, where technology was their only source of living, yet it alienated the real purpose and meaning of life, where people didn't even bother to look for it. In modernism there where people who wanted to take advantage of the time they had to live, and there where others who didn't see the point if they were going to die anyways. In this story, the author Ray Bradbury, showed how families didn't have that united tie to each other, and technology was more important than having that person to person relationship. The hound, a robotic dog that attacked people also demonstrated the destruction of technology, which came in WWI, and allowed people a new technique of ending someones life. Overall, it seems like death was a new topic for modernism, although it also brought up the excitement of life in some people like in the story, The First Seven Years.

A rebelious, independant, and somewhat stubborn young woman wasn't that common to find back in the 1900s, and for a father this wasn't the easiest thing to deal with. In the story the First Seven Years, a young woman named Miriam is pushed by her father to go to school, get an education, and marry a man who can support and take care of her. Yet, Miriam had the desire to read, explore life,work, and take care of herself. In Modernism, this was a new way of thinking for young people. They had the heart to try and experiment new things, and they knew life was meant to be an adventure.

Overall whether technology brought destruction or new ideas, and experimenting became a new trend, modernism was a new stepping stone to the growth of our species. After WWI, many people were left with this new question on the mind of whats the point, and over the years i believe that the point it to see the world as our playground, and we have the privileged to play on it.

Applied Modernism

Modernism

~Richard Cory:
  - Theme: a modernist poem

     - bleak future 

     -money cant buy happiness

     -inner world v.s outer world ( not what you think)

~Fahrenheit 451:

  -world/ books/ future  >destroy/ decay 

  - montag's though process > syntax

  -breaking the rules/ broken gov't

~ The First 7 Years

  - unreliable narrator

  - rebellious 

        -Miriam: not typical woman; wants to take care of herself; doesn't need a man to take care of her; wants to live life, explore

  - inner world v.s outer world

My Modernist

The author I wanted to do my project on is Charles Bukowski, because hi poems seem so real and relatable to real life. Also because I am already a little familiar with his work and I wanted to go deeper into learning about his way of thinking, his inspirations, and the meaning of his poetry. Although, if he isn't a modernist author, I would also like to learn about Virginia Woolf. Virginia Woolf was really involved with women rights, and their need for independence, andI believe that was very important for women to take that stand and she was a part of that.

BOB 1

(THESE ARE RANKED FROM A 1-5, 1 BEING THE LOWEST AND 5 BEING THE HIGHEST)

• 2 Jarrett Anzalone: http://jarrettanzaloneamlit.blogspot.com/ 
• 4 Alyssa Barajas: http://alyssabarajasrhsamlit.blogspot.com/ (Alyssa has most of her posts on her, and it pretty up to date but has a couple things missing, overall she's doing good though!)
• 2 Joseph Beas: http://jbeasamlit.blogspot.com/ (Joseph has some post on his blog, but it isn't up to date with the current assignments.)
• 5 Jasmine Beebe: http://jbeeberhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/ ( She has all her post, and even added some extra just for her own self, and her blog looks nice with the black history month background!)
• 2 Jacob Bigelow: http://jbigelowrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/ (Jacob has some of the most recent blog posts, but still has a few things missing)
• 4 Michaila Bohard: http://mbohardenglitcomp.blogspot.com/ ( She has most of all the posts required, and it looks like she put a lot of time in  her blog :) she even has some followers!)
• 5 Amanda Cagle: http://acaglerhsamlit.blogspot.com/ (Amanda has all the post, and her blog looks very up to date, and I love her dog video! haha)
• 3 Roman Davis: http://romanericdavis.blogspot.com/ ( He has some of the post from the homework, but it looks like his work is very thought out.) 
• 3 Jose Farias: http://jfariasrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/ ( Jose had a couple post missing, but he still had some of the recent blog posts)
• 5 Syerra Fox: http://syerra-fox.blogspot.com/  ( She had all of the post need, and her blog looked great!)
• Danny George: http://dgeorgerhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/ 
• 2 Derek Gonzalez: http://dgonzalezrhsengcomp.blogspot.com/ ( Derek was missing most of the post 0
• 1 Cory Grant: http://cgrantamlitcomp.blogspot.com ( He only has a couple post on his blog)
• 3 Shelby Hennick: http://shennickrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
• 1 Trevor Henson: http://thensonrhsamlit.blogspot.com/ 
• 1Melissa Hernandez: http://mhernandezrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/ 
• 1 Shelby Kanakanui: http://shelbykanakanui.blogspot.com/ 
• Frank Limon: http://franklimonengitcomp.blogspot.com/
• Jonah Maher: http://jonahmaher117.blogspot.com/
• Taylor Martinez: http://tmartinezrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
• Rosario Mena Ortiz: http://rmenarhsamlit.blogspot.com/ 
• Chance Miranda: http://cmirandarhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
• Miguel Moreno: http://mmorenorhsamlit.blogspot.com/
• Shelbi Nunes: http://snunesrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
• Joe Ortiz: http://jortizrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
• Karla Paredes: http://kparedesrhsamlit.blogspot.com/
• Nicholaus Paulus: http://npaulusrhsamlitcomp.blogspot.com/ 
• Alicia Ramirez: http://aramirezrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
• Cameron Reese: http://creeserhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
• Matt Reynolds:  http://mreynoldsrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
• Josh Salcido: http://joshuajsalcido.blogspot.com/ 
• Carlos Serrano: http://cserranorhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
• Teanna Silveira: http://tsilveiraengcomplit.blogspot.com/
• Kyle Stickler: http://kstickleramlit.blogspot.com/
• Diego Tejeda-Mora: http://diegosamazing-blog.blogspot.com/ 
• Patricia Tuttle: http://ptuttle.blogspot.com/
• Vanessa Vargas: http://vvargasrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
• Miyah Velasquez: http://mvelazquezrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/ 
• Jessica Wilkin: http://jesi101.blogspot.com/?m=1

Spring Vocab 5

• brouhaha: A noisy and overexcited critical response, display of interest, or trail of publicity

•  cloy: Disgust or sicken (someone) with an excess of sweetness, richness, or sentiment

•  demeanor: Outward behavior or bearing

•  deference: Humble submission and respect.

•  enigmatic:  Difficult to interpret or understand

•  definitive: serving to provide a final solution or to end a situation; serving to define or 

specify precisely

•  bumptious: Self-assertive or proud to an irritating degree.

•  choleric: bad-tempered

•  bulwark:  solid wall-like structure raised for defense 

•  curtail: To cut short or reduce

•  adamant: extremely hard substance

•  profligate: Recklessly extravagant or wasteful in the use of resources.

•  mawkish: Sentimental in a feeble or sickly way

•  thwart: Prevent (someone) from accomplishing something

•  onus: Used to refer to something that is one's duty or responsibility

•  requisite: Made necessary by particular circumstances or regulations.

•  mollify:Appease the anger or anxiety of (someone).

•  sartorial: Of or relating to tailoring, clothes, or style of dress

•  presentiment: An intuitive feeling about the future

•  impromptu: Prompted by the occasion rather than being planned in advance

•  forbearance:  refraining from the enforcement of something

•  remit: Cancel or refrain from exacting or inflicting

IM HERE

So this post is supposed to be titled I'm here, yet I actually don't feel that I'm completely here in this course. Overall, I know I could do a better job on keeping up with my blog yet I just feel like I have so many things on my plate that actually getting on the computer is one of the last things I do nowadays. However, I have out a lot of thinking and planning toward my smart goal, and it's actually looking like this goal might come true! My SMART goal was to go to Cal Poly SLO, nd of course this is one of the top schools in the state, so grades are a big key to getting in, In which my 3.5 GPA doesn't quite meet the standards, yet I've talked to my guidance counselor, and the Mrs. Derkus to see what I could do to help me reach my SMART goal nd we've discussed class that I could take for my senior year, nd I've also decided to take a summer class in Hancock for English just to get ahead of the game.
This course has really helped me see what I'm capable of, and has pushed me to always give things a try!:)

Essay Postgam Annalysis

Like every other in class essay, it was hard for me to layout what I wanted to write and what order I should put it in. Although I did start out with a pre-write, and it helped me with what I wanted to include in my essay, I just didn't know how to lay it out in an organized understanding way. I don't think I clearly showed my thesis, and I mainly summarized what occurred in the end of the story. Overall, I would give myself a C grade, because I don't think I organized my essay well enough, but I still got my message a crossed.

Parlor Poetry

In the scene where Montag reads, " Dover Beach," if I were in that position I probably would've read, "The Laughing Heart," because this poem express freedom and individuality. Where in the setting of the book this concept doesn't really exist anymore, everything is about technology and everyone follows the same life style. The Laughing Heart really connected with me because it expresses that you shouldn't try to blend in with the crowd, and that everyone of us is different and marvelous in out own way. For the women in the parlor, it didn't seem like they had a sense of freedom, and any spark in their  life, its like they were empty inside. Like in "Moment for Life" by Niki Minaj, she says, " Just because your living doesn't mean your alive."

idk how to post it?!:O

so the other day I posted the poem recital thingy and it wont show up :( i need help pretty pretty pleeaaassseeee :O

MY F451

The novel Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, is a novel predicting what the future will be like being constructed of technology, where people don't interact anymore and the world is one big cyberspace. Guy Montag is a fireman, who ironically set fires instead of putting them out. One day Montag runs into this young seventeen girl who is very open minded, free living, and somewhat an old girl. They spark up a conversation, and Montag is beguiled by Clarisse's way of life, and he realizes how isolated and boring his life really is, with his career and marriage as well. Later Montag gets a call that a women is hiding books in her home, and living in this world of technology, books and literature are strictly forbidden. This is where Montag's job comes in of setting fires, and he is forced to burn down this women's house, strangely the woman would rather die with her books than escape from the burning house. Montag is shocked by the woman's decision, and begin's this research of books, and the meaning of literature. After days of research, Montag is hooked on books, and has his own stash of books hidden in his house, yet he still wants to know more so he goes to an old english professor, Faber. At first Faber is hesitant to help knowing, knowing the consequences is could lead to, but he decides to help to maybe start a change in society. They spend time learning and studying the meaning and background of books, and when Montag brings up the idea of books to his wife and her friends, things go down from there. The word gets out of Montag's books, and Chief Beatty sets the hit on his house to be burned down. When Montag gets the call, he is shocked that it had came down on him, and to top it off his own wife runs out on him. Chief orders him to burn down his own home with the flamethrower, and when the job is done Montag turns the flame thrower on his own Chief. Knowing that the authorites will now be after him and Faber, they leave town and meet up with the group called, "The Book People." They join together and start a movement to change the views on books and literature. 

spring vocal #2

Praetorian: having power of a person who administers law

• p= power ; prae= looks like predetor 

Sieve: Utensil of a wire of plastic mesh strain.

• s: strain, scatter, spread spoon (utensil)

Veiled: Partially concealed

• bride veil

Saccharine: artificial sweetener

• s: sugar

Harlequin: mute character pantomime; clown
Toil: work extremely hard

• t: tough, hard

Delinquent: Young person who has committed minor crimes

• d: dangerous > crimes

Gibbering: speaking rapidly, unintelligibly

• g: gibberish

Insidious: proceeding in a gradual, subtle way with harmful side affects.

• movie insidious: harmful events

Strewn: scatter or spread
s: scatter 

To Modern or Postmodern

From the quote I think it's trying to say that everybody is focusing on the wrong things going on in the world, yet nobody is doing anything about it. Especially in literature, most novels, fiction in particular, are based on writing about the "bad world" and just drag on the concept of dark times. This has become a common topic in these arts, that no feels they can change the subject, or write something positive and a solution, without looking sentimental or naive. People are pretty much scared of being the start of something new and different.