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

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.

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(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