Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski

• Born: August 6, 1920- March 9, 1994
• born as Heinrich Karl Bukowski
• born in Andernach Germany
• moved to America in 1923
• Pasadena CA

• His father was usually unemployed, frequently abusive, both physically and mentally, beating his son fro the smallest reasons.
• Charles Bukowski was very shy and socially awkward, he had a very serious case of acne, and made fun of for his german accent, and the clothes his parents made him wear.
• it seemed like he suffered from Dyslexia, but was highly praised for his art work in school
• "This [alcohol] is going to help me for a very long time", he later wrote, describing the genesis of his chronic alcoholism; or, as he saw it, the genesis of a method he could utilize to come to more amicable terms with his own life‘   
• http://www.poemhunter.com/charles-bukowski/biography/

• Graduated from Los Angeles High School, then attended Los Angeles City College for two years taking art, journalism, and literature courses. Later he moved to New York to begin his career as a writer.
• on July 22, 1944he was arrested on suspension of draft evasion
• worte many short stories, but became disillusioned with the publication process nad quit writing for almost 10 years, he was reffered to as a “ ten-year drunk”.
• was a very strong drunk 

MAPLAN

Well Im doing a group project with a couple people from class, and our idea is to all link our own authors to one another and set a scavenger hunt amongst our blogs. The clues will be based on facts about author, and in one way they shall connect to another author have it as a chain link. Then in the end we will reveal all of our authors.

Josie College

After Mrs. Durkis presentation about college, it made me realize that I actually don't have that much time left before I need to register for colleges. A lot of her information, and websites were very helpful, and to know about those websites and how they narrow down schools to your interest was really cool! A campus that I've been interested in for a long time is Cal Poly SLO, mainly because they have a good liberal arts classes, it's close to home, and I love the environment of San Luis. Although I haven't had the chance to explore other schools that deal with journalism, and I think the websites from the presentation could help me see a bigger variety of schools.
I think the biggest challenge after high school is going to be money, and debt. Even though I know I can get a lot of help from scholarships I'm still debating on going to Hancock for my first two years and then transferring, just so I won't start off my college life with a big debt.

I am Scott F. Fitzgerald

1. I am in love with living large, and feeling luxurious.
2. I am an alcoholic, and died at age 44 from alcoholism.
3. I am known as one of the greatest writers in the 20s.
4. I am most famous for my first book This Side of Paradise, which later allowed me to marry my wife.

Introducing F. Scott Fitzgerald

1. Fitzgerald was named after the man who made the " Star Spangle Banner"
2. He died of alcoholism at age 44
3. After he sold his first most famous book This Side of Paradise he married his love Zelda
4. In 1917 he dropped out of school to join the army, but he was afraid that he might die in World War I without fulfilling his dreams in writing.
5. Caught in a big debt because his and his wife loved to live luxurious.

Vocab

• Chronic: constant, not getting better
• Sentiment: feeling, attitude towards something
• Morality: conformity to rules, moral conduct
• Remorse: deep/painful regret
• Defect: imperfection, shortcoming
• Acquaintance: A person known to one (normally not close friends)
• Sanity: The state of a sound mind/being sane.
• Implication: to imply or suggest something
• Alternative: Another option; two or more possibilities
• Savage: fierce and cruel
• Phenomenon: observable occurance