My Final Essay

 As I move on to the next level in my life I want to leave high school with no regret, but I know I am going to leave with regret. The should have, could have, would have is going to go through my mind as i get older and wiser and I'm sure so is everyone else. "I wish i would have studied more", "I Should have done a sport", "I could have gone to Africa, Hawaii, and Yosemite, but I didn't". But for now I just want to leave knowing I tried my best and I had fun.

Seeing all of my colleagues present there masterpieces was great. to see the passion and emotion in their eyes and the way they talk about it was amazing. I have some high respect for the ones that put themselves out there and to take down their guards for us to see who they really are and to conquer their fears. Sam stuck out to me because she was so quiet all year and to see her go up there and talk for 10 + minutes was great. and i know how hard it is to speak in front of a large body of people because i still get nervous when I speak in front of people but i do it anyways. she did awesome, so proud of her.

I felt that others thought of my presentation as boring and I hate that but, I understand that everyone has their own interest. I love talking about Physical therapy and the rush it gives me when I talk to patients and help the overcome their injury or disability is amazing. I wish it wasn't as boring to them, but we all get interested in different things and that is why I am doing to continue my education after high school at Hancock to major in kinesiology and anatomy so I can learn and become 100% passionate about Physical therapy and have a career in it. If it doesn't work out then i will switch my major to agriculture and stick to what I know and what I'm comfortable with.

Over this past year I felt that I didn't belong in the class. The reason for my feelings toward this is that the class is filled with geniuses and I can't even understand what their talking about most of the time. I feel way out of the loop. I feel like I'm just under average. almost everyone in the class has multiple scholarships and awards for college and I only have two. So maybe that's why I have such of a lack of motivation and inspiration in that class because I know I won't sound intelligent i'm just average. My family is proud of me because there is only a hand full of family that graduated high school and going to college.

The Masterpieces this week were great but the ones that stuck out to me was Classy U, Destructive therapy, It Started With a Seed, and Students Hacking Life. They all did such a great job and put in so much effort in it, it was awesome. I really liked classy u because i can totally see myself using it, just like the pentrest account Student hacking life, the only thing that would keep me from that is that i'm not on pentrest But its great for those who do!  Destructive therapy was great to watch and it made me want to try it or think f my own versions that i can do. It started with a seed was very inspirational, to watch them grow into a flower and to see all of their ups and downs was great to watch, it was human, not perfect and i loved it.

I don't feel like a hero to be honest i feel like an average person doing there best to be themselves and not get labeled. I don't want the attention of a hero i just want to do what i can for others and myself to be successful in life. I'm going to do the best I can and that is all i can promise.

Lit analysis

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

1. Briefly summarize the plot of the novel you read according to the elements of plot you've learned in past courses (exposition, inciting incident, etc.).  Explain how the narrative fulfills the author's purpose (based on your well-informed interpretation of same).
There is four sisters Beth, the youngest, Amy, the second youngest, Jo, the second oldest, and Meg, the oldest. the sisters are very close. the novel just goes on about how they find their true loves and happiness. Meg marries first to a poor man but they live happily with two children. A childhood friend, laurie, tells jo he loves her and want to marry her, she says no, he then falls in love with Amy and they get maried. Beth falls sick and dies. Jo goes to New York and meet a professor and the professor falls in love with her. Jo goes home and the professor comes and visits and tells her he got a job else where they proclaim their love for each other and get married. the sisters aunt dies and leaves Jo her house and she turns it into a rich/ poor boy boarding house.
2. Succinctly describe the theme of the novel. Avoid cliches.
all of the sisters married for love even if they had the opportunity to marry for money.
3. Describe the author's tone. Include a minimum of three excerpts that illustrate your point(s).

4. Describe a minimum of ten literary elements/techniques you observed that strengthened your understanding of the author's purpose, the text's theme and/or your sense of the tone. For each, please include textual support to help illustrate the point for your readers. (Please include edition and page numbers for easy reference.)


CHARACTERIZATION
1. Describe two examples of direct characterization and two examples of indirect characterization.  Why does the author use both approaches, and to what end (i.e., what is your lasting impression of the character as a result)?

2. Does the author's syntax and/or diction change when s/he focuses on character?  How?  Example(s)?

3. Is the protagonist static or dynamic?  Flat or round?  Explain.

4. After reading the book did you come away feeling like you'd met a person or read a character?  Analyze one textual example that illustrates your reaction.

My first scholarship award!

My Ed

My Ed is my physical therapists, Patrick and Chris. They are such great people ans have helped me and I have learned so much from them and they would always help and give advise when I needed it or If they thought I needed it.

Seeking Mentor

I kind of have mentors at star physical therapy, pat and Chris. They are such awesome people and I know they would totally help me and answer my questions when I have them. I'm lucky to have them.

Resource of the Day

Today me and Haley talked about our masterpieces and we're going to interview my physical therapist and her physical therapist during spring break and her dad has been recording her while she doing gymnastics and I have a couple of pictures of when I swam in a meet so we're going to sort it all out and make a video

5 Resources of Macbeth

1.) http://web.archive.org/web/20080513104821/
The whole play

2.) http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/MobMacb.html
version of Macbeth by scenes

3.) http://shakespeare.mit.edu/macbeth/full.html full

4.)http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/plays/playmenu.php?WorkID=macbeth
An open source learning of Shakespeare and all of his work including Macbeth

THIS IS ONLY A TEST

1. What is a major tendon in your leg?
A. Biceps Brachii                   C. Hamstring
B.Triceps Brachii                    D. Supraspinatus

2. What is a physical therapist purpose?


3. What is one of the hardest bones to break in your body?
A. Fibula                                   C. Tibia
B. Femur                                    D. Patella

3. Name as many bones as you can.


4. How many bones are in your foot?
A. 12                                            C. 20
B. 26                                             D. 60

5. How many bones are in the human body?
A. 200                                          C. 197
B. 226                                           D. 206

Resource of the Day

So i will be collaborating with Haley Zahn because she wants to do hers on gymnastics so we are going to make a video on the common injuries in gymnasts and how to prevent injuries.

Lit Terms #6

Simile: comparing two things using the word "like" or "as"

Soliloquy: a long speech given by a character in a play to the audience that reveals their thoughts

Spiritual: a folk song, usually on a religious theme

Speaker: the person who is speaker; narrator

Stereotype: a fixed idea of a character/idea which does not allow for any individual prejudices

Stream of consciousness: a style of writing that portrays the inner workings of a character's mind

Structure: framework of a work of literature

Style: the distinctive way in which a writer uses language; use of diction, tone, syntax

Subordination: words, phrases, and clauses that make one element of a sentence dependent on another

Surrealism: movement that replaces conventional realism with the full expression of the unconscious mind

Suspension of disbelief: suspended not believing in order to enjoy it

Symbol: a person, place, thing or event that had meaning in itself and also stands for something more than itself
- BNW: soma= need to control the citizens; Shakespeare= love, beauty (things new world stays away from)

Synesthesia: to present ideas, characters, or places in such a manner that they appeal to more than one senses like hearing, seeing, smell, at the same time

Synecdoche: a figure of speech in which a part represents the whole

Syntax: the way an author chooses to join word into phrases, clauses, and sentences

Theme: the insight about human life that is revealed in a literary work
-BNW: dangers of an all-powerful state

Thesis: the sentence or group of sentences that directly express the author's opinion, purpose, or meaning

Tone: the attitude a writer takes toward the subject of a work, the characters in it, or the audience

Tongue in cheek: cleverly amusing in tone

Tragedy: any literary composition dealing with a somber theme

Understatement: the ironic minimizing of fact; presents something as less significant than it is

Vernacular: everyday language; slang

Voice: the author's style that makes his or her writing unique and conveys the author's attitude, personality, and character

Zeitgeist: the general cultural, intellectual, or spiritual climate within a nation or even specific groups

Resource of the Day

my masterpiece is on physical therapy and how the body moves, I'm going to try to go in Star Physical Therapy and interview/ volunteer and record my experiences. I have already volunteered there many times its just going back and documenting it. i think my masterpiece will turn out ok

SUPER

My role models are.....
1. Nikki, my soon to be sister-in-law, she is always there for me and pushes me to do my best.
2. Wayne, my oldest brother, he would do anything for me and listens and talks to me about my problems, situations, and dramas. He's the one that's marrying nikki: )
3. Patrick wasteland, he is the owner and head physical therapist at star physical therapy, he is such a great guy and has taught me so much when I volunteered.
4. Chris, he is the secondary physical therapist at star physical therapy, he is so funny and really nice he makes what he does fun and he has also taught me a lot and I a very grateful
5. Nana <3 RIP my nana is one of the biggest influences in my life she has taught me how to live my life and how to forgive, trust, love with all I have, and do my best.  She always believed in me and I always believed in her.

Lit Terms # 5

Parallelism: grammatical or rhetorical framing of words, phrases, sentences, or paragraphs to give structural similarities

Parody: a statement that seems to be self-contradictory but may include truth

Pathos: a method of convincing people with an argument drawn out through an emotional response

Pedantry: an adjective that describes words or phrases that is overly academic or bookish

Personification: a figure of speech when a thing, idea, or animal is given human attributes

Plot: refers to the sequence of events and happenings that make up a story

Poignant: causes a strong feeling of sadness

Point of view: the perspective from which a story is told

Postmodernism: literary movement which involved breaking the fourth wall (character talks to readers)

Prose: a division of genre that refers to fiction and nonfiction because they are written in ordinary language

Protagonist: the main character in a literary work

Pun: when a word is used in a manner to suggest two or more possible meanings to create humor

Purpose: the author's reason for creating a particular work

Realism: any literary or artistic portrayal of life in an accurate manner

Refrain: a repeated part of a poem

Requiem: a song of prayer for the dead

Resolution: end of a literary work when loose ends are tied up and questions are answered

Restatement: to state again in a new form

Rhetoric: describes the principles governing the art of writing effectively, eloquently, and persuasively

Rhetorical question: a question that is asked for effect and doesn't expect a reply

Rising action: the development of conflict and complications in a literary work

Romanticism: literary movement that gives the readers a sense of identity, emotion, and imperfection

Satire: the practice of making fun of a human weakness or character flaw

Scansion: a close, critical reading of a poem examining the work for meter

Setting: identifies the time and place of the story

LAUNCH

My polished masterpiece idea is just recording my experiences of my remainder of my senior year including what i want to do after high school so i guess its like a documentary or a scrap book in a video of my senior year but i was also talking to Amanda Cagle and collaborating with her and her masterpiece

Brave New Essay

In Brave New World there is no emotion except happiness and Soma. Soma is a substance that the characters in the novel drink when they start to feel an emotion other than "happy", that drugs them up to feel nothing. The novel has no emotion or feeling to it because everyone is "happy" all the time to the point where there is no war, no complications, and no problems. it a great big boring happy drugged up world. There is not many that think different, but the ones that do try to fight against it.

The New world is always happy and soon their going to get tired and think for themselves, once one thinks they all think and then soon it will be a revolution or the happiness can continue and the controllers get more strict and then the people will wonder why its getting so strict and start thinking and break the system.

If the world is always happy all i can think is blah always moving in the same place never changing becoming numb by drinking soma all the time and becoming addicted to it so now the world is full of a bunch of soma junkies that think nothing is wrong. Soma is like meth to them, the ones that are always happy but feel alone do it or the ones that have nothing else to use do it. so once they feel lonely they drink soma until they feel happy and it works. Imagine the world with a bunch of junkies, the world wouldn't function correctly or at all. It will be ran by a bunch of junkies that are so numb they dont know what there feeling.

Brave New World Essay topic

How does the substitution of lack of feeling instead of unhappiness affect the morale and ability of the future community to function.

Lit Terms # 3

Exposition: part of story where characters and setting are introduced and background information is given

Expressionism: writing approach in which a writer depicts a character's feelings about a subject rather than the objective surface reality of the subject


Fable: a short story that teaches an explicit moral or lesson

Fallacy: a statement or argument based on a false inference; erroneousness

Falling action: the action and dialogue following the climax that lead the reader into the story's end


Farce: type of comedy that relies on exaggeration, horseplay, and unrealistic or improbable situations to provoke laughter

Figurative language: language that has meaning beyond the literal meaning

Flashback: interruption of the chronological order to present something that occurred before the beginning of the story

Foil: another character in a story who contrasts with the main character usually to highlight one of their attributes

Folk tale: stories passed along from one generation to the next by word-of-mouth rather than written text

Foreshadowing: important hints that an author drops to prepare the reader for what is to come, and help the reader anticiate the outcome

Free verse: poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme

Genre: type of form of literature, music, ect.

Gothic tale:  tale used to thrill readers by providing mystery accounts of murder and the supernatural

Hyperbole: exaggeration that is powerful and purposeful

Imagery: a term that incorporates all sensory perceptions

Implication: an indirect indication; a suggestion

Incongruity: when two unlike objects or people are put together in a  story

Inference: to gain meaning from something that is not directly said

Irony: technique that involves amusing contradictions or contrasts

Lit Terms # 4

Interior monologue: A piece of writing expressing a character's inner thoughts

Inversion: When the normal order of words is reversed in order to achieve a particular effect of emphasis

Juxtaposition: When two or more ideas, places, characters, and their actions are placed side by side in a narrative or poem for compare and contrast

Lyric: A type of poetry that explores the poets personal interpretation of and feelings about the world

Magic(al) realism: A literal genre or style that incorporates fantastic or mythical elements into otherwise realistic fiction

Metaphor (extended, controlling, & mixed):
Extended: a metaphor that is extended or develops as far as te author wants to take it
Controlling: a symbolic story in which the real meaning is not directly put across the whole poem
Mixed: a metaphor that has gotten out of control and mixes it's terms so they are visually imaginatively incompatible

Metonymy: A word that is used to stand for something else that it has attributes for or is associated with

Modernism: rejection of 19th century traditions

Monologue: A dramatic soliloquy

Mood: The atmosphere of the story

Motif: object or idea that repeats itself through the literary piece

Myth: A story dealing with supernatural beings or heroes

Narrative: A collection of events that tells a story either through telling or writing

Narrator: One who tells a story

Naturalism: A literary movement seeking to depict life as accurately as possible

Novelette/novella: An extended fictional prose narrative that is longer than a short story but not quite a novel

Omniscient point of view: When the reader is seeing and all knowing

Onomatopoeia: Words that sound like what they mean

Oxymoron: A phrase composed of opposites; a contradiction

Pacing: The way the author speeds up or slows down the story

Parable: A story that instructs

Paradox: A situation it statement that seems to contradict itself, but on closer inspection, it does not

LAUNCH/DRAFT

What am I passionate about?  What do I want to do?
Ecer since I tore my ACL my sophmore year while during wrestling practice i got interested in doing physical therapy because it seemed so fun and exciting to meet so many people and hear there stories and help them recover from their injury, but i am also considering to become a sports sergeon because i have a stomach for that kind of stuff and its kind of fun to see inside the human body.
How can I use the tools from last semester (and the Internet in general)?
It can help promote myself to the world and help through my schooling on how to properly research and hack my studies.
What will I need to do in order to "feel the awesomeness with no regrets" by June?
To have fun and get out of my comfort zone and to land out on top in acedemics 
What will impress/convince others (both in my life and in my field)?
To put my heart and soul in everything i do and always try 110%
How will I move beyond 'What If' and take this from idea --> reality?
Just do it dont be afraid of the unknown
Who will be the peers, public, and experts in my personal learning network?
My Family, Friends, Teachers/Professors, employers, clients, critics, colligues, and bistandards

HAFTA/WANNA

From high school to after high school there is going to be different aspects to my life now and my life then and then the simularities.The differences would be living for free without having to pay for anything, but then again im used to living with a small income. difference would be not going to school on a regular basis instead of going to college where its at a bunch of times and still having a packed schedual with work studing and school. I dont think i will transform real fast after graduation just have the same mind set that its summer and i go back to same rutine in august and get the reality check when it comes. I do all the things i have to do first like pay bills, work, go to school, ect. then do the thing i want to do if i have time or money because its not high school anymore i cant just screw off anymore this is where my future depends on... I hoping i will be successful and happy and get what i want and need out of life.

Lit Terms #2

Circumlocution: when writer uses very long and complex sentences to convey a meaning that could have been done using short sentences

Classicism: art, literature, and music reflecting the principles of ancient Greece and Rome tradition and reason

Cliché: overused expressions that lose their original meaning

Climax: point at which the conflict is the highest point

Colloquialism: use of informal words, phrases, or even slangs

Comedy: amusing event designed to provide entertainment or produce laughter

Conflict: problem the protagonist of the story comes across

Connotation: when words create emotions or feelings in the reader

Contrast: when an idea or object is used in opposition of another

Denotation: the literal/dictionary definition of a word

Denouement: final outcome of a story after the climax and plot; all loose ends are tied up

Dialect: language used by people of a specific area, class, or district

Dialectics: pertaining to the nature of logical argumentation

Dichotomy: the split or break between two opposing things

Diction: distinctive tone/ wording of an author

Didactic: intended for instruction

Dogmatic: asserting opinions in an arrogant manner

Elegy: a poem or song written in honor of someone deceased

Epic: a narrative celebrating the feats of a hero

Epigram: a remark expressing an idea in a clever and amusing way

Epitaph: inscription on a tomb about the deceased person

Epithet: used as a descriptive device usually added to a person's name

Euphemism: to say something harsh in a pleasant manner

Evocative: calling forth memories and sensations

LIT TERMS #1

allegory: a symbolical narrative:
alliteration: the commencement of two or more stressed syllables of a word group either with the same consonant sound or sound group
allusion: a passing or casual reference; an incidental mention of something, either directly or by implication
ambiguity: doubtfulness or uncertainty of meaning or intention
anachronism: something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time, especially a thing or person that belongs to an earlier time
analogy: a similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based
analysis: this process as a method of studying the nature of something or of determining its essential features and their relations
anaphora: repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more successive verses, clauses, or sentences.
anecdote: a short account of a particular incident or event, especially of an interesting or amusing nature.
antagonist: the adversary of the hero or protagonist of a drama or other literary work:
antithesis: the direct opposite
aphorism: a terse saying embodying a general truth, or astute observation
apologia: an apology, as in defense or justification of a belief, idea, etc.
apostrophe: the sign ('), as used: to indicate the omission of one or more letters in a word, whether unpronounced, as in o'er  for over,  or pronounced, as in gov't  for government;  to indicate the possessive case, as in man's;  or to indicate plurals of abbreviations and symbols
argument: an oral disagreement; verbal opposition; contention; altercation
assumption: something taken for granted; a supposition: a correct assumption. Synonyms: presupposition; hypothesis, conjecture, guess, postulate, theory.
audience: the persons reached by a book, radio or television broadcast, etc.; public
characterization: the creation and convincing representation of fictitious characters.
chiasmus: a reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases

AP PREP POST #1 SIDDHARTHA

1. What purpose does self-denial serve in Siddhartha? What about self-indulgence?
after he reads the book it makes him snap out of it and make him realize what he was doing and i think it helped him realize it when he was in self denial,
2.What does enlightenment look like in Siddhartha? Is it a feeling? An attitude?
enlightenment to siddhartha looks lik starting over, being born again and i feel its more of an attitude than feeling because he's changing his ways despite that he will be alone in the begining of his journey.
3.If you were the river, would you be enlightenment or would you know enlightenment? In other words, what’s up with the river?

 found these two at http://www.shmoop.com/siddhartha/questions.html

4. How are the Samanas described? From his description, how does the author feel about them? 

https://sites.google.com/site/1112honors3smith/texts/siddhartha

5.Why is Siddhartha unhappy? Why is his spirit like a “waiting vessel”?

siddhartha is unhappy because he is alone and fed up with everything and the "waiting vessel" is about to blow.

https://compcolts.wikispaces.com/file/view/siddhartha%20study%20guide.pdf/437347494/siddhartha%20study%20guide.pdf

HACKING MY EDUCATION

What do I want to know?

What skills do I want to demonstrate?

the skills i want to demonstrate is to be independent, strong, capable of doing anything.

What experience do I want under my belt?

the kind of experience i want under my belt relates to what ever i want to do and in this case i want to either be a physical therapist or a sports surgeon, but i do have some experience by volunteering at star physical thereapy.

What am I looking for?

Who do I want in my network?

Roadmap for the semester:

At the moment I dont know what my semester is going to look like except making sure i have good grades. everything feels like a great big jumble. i feel myself stressing about after high school about where am i going to go. i know i still have five months but i like to know what i am doing in advance then last minute and right now i'm having a mind block where everything is do foggy and blurry i dont know what to do. so when i know you guys will know but as of now have no clue.