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.