5 vocabulary
1. Raiding: An attempt to seize control of a company, as by acquiring a majority of its stock, to make a raid on.
2. Raging: Very active and unpredictable; volatile
3. Prod: To jab or poke, as with a pointed object
4. Hersir: a local leader in western and northern Norway.
5. Halbread: a combination of a sphere and an ax.
5 lines interesting
1. “ we’re not made like woman, that we become furious over everything” (chapter 44)
2. “ every kind of evil will come from her when she moves east” (chapter 33)
3. “And though you have been much tried, you will be tried much more, because many men will envy you” (chapter 32)
4. “ you have gnarled nails on every finger and he is beardless” (chapter 35)
5. “ she said that she was- and there aren´t many who would take the risk”
Monday, January 19, 2009
Who Is Njal?
Who is Njal? As I read through the book Njal´s Saga, the character Njal came out to be a character of wisdom and who everyone trusts. “I don´t want to say anything – then man is related to me. You say something, Njal, since everybody will believe you” (chapter 34) it seems that Njal has created such a reputation to everyone that he is known to for this. People that know him well trust his words, so we can see that he never fails. This character could also be perceived as a person with power or capability to analyze the situations and then see the outcome. “But the death of many will come from it. Will my death perhaps come from this? Said Gunnar. Not from this, said Njal” (chapter 58) he knows when his time to die will come or when his friends as if he has so much knowledge that he can tell. The sense we get that Njal is so great is because of his best friend, Gunnar that as soon he has a trouble he without second thought he will chose Njal over anything. We establish such a relationship with Gunnar we trust his words. We also have proof of what people say of Njal he is wise. So if I were to answer my question who is Njal? I would say that he is a mystical being someone so complex and smart that is indescribable someone wise.
Monday, December 8, 2008
Yesterday Memories
Yesterday"
I just cant believe your gone, still waiting for morning to come, when I see if the sun will Rise, in the way that your by my side, oooo where we had so much in store, tell me what is it All reaching for, when were through building memories ill hold yesterday in my heart, in my heart.
[Chorus]They can take tomorrow and the plans we made, they can take the music that well never play, all the broken dreams, take everything, just take it away, but they can never have yesterday. They can take the future that we will never know they can take the places that we said we will go, all the broken dreams take everything, just take it away, but they can never have yesterday.
You always choose to stay, I should be thankful for everyday, heaven knows what the future. Holds, or least where the story goes, I never believed until now, I know I’ll see you again im Sure. No, it’s not selfish to ask for more, one more night one more day one more smile on your Face but they can’t take yesterday.
[Chorus]
They can take tomorrow and the plans we made, they take the music that well never play, all the. Broken dreams take everything, just take it away, but they can never have yesterday, they can. Take the future that well never know, they can take the places that we said we will go, all the. Broken dreams, take everything. just take it away, but they can never have yesterday.
I thought our days would last forever, but it wasn’t our destiny, coz in my mind we had so much. Time, but i was so wrong, no i can believe me i can still find the strength in the moments we. Made im looking back on yesterday
[Repeat chorus]
You listen the song read the lyrics, and ask yourself how this can ever relate to the Tao Te Ching. This could just be another love song explaining why the memories never can be taken away because they are there, and how we should be thankful for what happened because what’s done is done. In addition, memories can be forgotten but never taken away. “Work is done, then forgotten therefore it lasts forever” (2) how memories are spiritual and to keep all about yesterday.
Or how there has to be pain in the world, Tao explains and gives things a reason “Misfortune comes from having a body” (13) in this song she explains why is she suffered all of her broken dreams and how she thought it will last forever where she has to accept misfortune because is a part of life. “Accept misfortune as human condition” (13) so we see her accepting it when she remembers what they had “I can find strength in the moments we had”
Tao gives balance by saying things like “all can know good as good only because there is evil” it is like saying we have a present because there is a yesterday. And the yesterday is our will our memories are what was once left of a life time the proof of existence and is eternal “spirit never dies” memories can become spirit.
I just cant believe your gone, still waiting for morning to come, when I see if the sun will Rise, in the way that your by my side, oooo where we had so much in store, tell me what is it All reaching for, when were through building memories ill hold yesterday in my heart, in my heart.
[Chorus]They can take tomorrow and the plans we made, they can take the music that well never play, all the broken dreams, take everything, just take it away, but they can never have yesterday. They can take the future that we will never know they can take the places that we said we will go, all the broken dreams take everything, just take it away, but they can never have yesterday.
You always choose to stay, I should be thankful for everyday, heaven knows what the future. Holds, or least where the story goes, I never believed until now, I know I’ll see you again im Sure. No, it’s not selfish to ask for more, one more night one more day one more smile on your Face but they can’t take yesterday.
[Chorus]
They can take tomorrow and the plans we made, they take the music that well never play, all the. Broken dreams take everything, just take it away, but they can never have yesterday, they can. Take the future that well never know, they can take the places that we said we will go, all the. Broken dreams, take everything. just take it away, but they can never have yesterday.
I thought our days would last forever, but it wasn’t our destiny, coz in my mind we had so much. Time, but i was so wrong, no i can believe me i can still find the strength in the moments we. Made im looking back on yesterday
[Repeat chorus]
You listen the song read the lyrics, and ask yourself how this can ever relate to the Tao Te Ching. This could just be another love song explaining why the memories never can be taken away because they are there, and how we should be thankful for what happened because what’s done is done. In addition, memories can be forgotten but never taken away. “Work is done, then forgotten therefore it lasts forever” (2) how memories are spiritual and to keep all about yesterday.
Or how there has to be pain in the world, Tao explains and gives things a reason “Misfortune comes from having a body” (13) in this song she explains why is she suffered all of her broken dreams and how she thought it will last forever where she has to accept misfortune because is a part of life. “Accept misfortune as human condition” (13) so we see her accepting it when she remembers what they had “I can find strength in the moments we had”
Tao gives balance by saying things like “all can know good as good only because there is evil” it is like saying we have a present because there is a yesterday. And the yesterday is our will our memories are what was once left of a life time the proof of existence and is eternal “spirit never dies” memories can become spirit.
The Laws
Tao Te Ching gives balance, it explains why what is there has to be there “all can know good as good only because there is evil” (one) and it sort of make you realize that is true. I can relate to the bible this is like the outcome of what a person would think after eating of tree of knowledge because now we can distinguish bad and evil thanks to wisdom but to distinguish you have to know like the ying and the yang there can`t beone without the other. you can not have good without evil and work without effort. So for me Tao can be seen as a set of rules or meanings or understanding a way of living.
Words That Sound Alike
1. Where is my jacket? I wanted to wear it today, and if I can't find it, we're going to be late.
2. Jane wanted to go on the school trip, but her mother said that two hundred dollars was too much for the family budget.
3. As she waited for Rodney to become conscious, Selma was seized with an attack of conscience-- was there anything she could have done to prevent the accident?
4. The map led the intrepid treasure hunters to a lead box of precious stones.
5. Have you seen their coats? They're going to need them; it's cold outside. I last saw the coats over there.
6. After conducting careful research, Shufang had a brilliant idea; she'd write a paper on Thomas More's concept of the ideal society in Utopia.
7. Even though Bob would rather play video games than study, he decided to hit the books and then play some Halo.
8. It's easy to admire a business that puts so much effort into creating its signs and window displays.
9. You're fortunate to have survived the car crash without a scratch; it must have been because you were wearing your seat belt.
10. I would advise you to seek qualified legal advice about how to handle this situation.
2. Jane wanted to go on the school trip, but her mother said that two hundred dollars was too much for the family budget.
3. As she waited for Rodney to become conscious, Selma was seized with an attack of conscience-- was there anything she could have done to prevent the accident?
4. The map led the intrepid treasure hunters to a lead box of precious stones.
5. Have you seen their coats? They're going to need them; it's cold outside. I last saw the coats over there.
6. After conducting careful research, Shufang had a brilliant idea; she'd write a paper on Thomas More's concept of the ideal society in Utopia.
7. Even though Bob would rather play video games than study, he decided to hit the books and then play some Halo.
8. It's easy to admire a business that puts so much effort into creating its signs and window displays.
9. You're fortunate to have survived the car crash without a scratch; it must have been because you were wearing your seat belt.
10. I would advise you to seek qualified legal advice about how to handle this situation.
Passion The Key To Life!
The analects were different teachings until the end were Confucius unties them all or gives an example of how someone would relate the lessons given. “The gentleman takes rightness as his substance, puts it into practice by means of ritual, gives it expression through modesty, and perfects it by being trustworthy. Now that is a gentleman!” (p.45 15.18) this is the perfect example of how should a person be according to Confucius. This gentleman described was the missing key to all of Confucian learning, this quotation marked me because it made me understand the book overall better than I did one week ago.
Book seventeen of the analects, talks about the six virtuous words and corresponding vices. This was my favorite part of the book because I learned from it and enjoyed reading it. “Loving Goodness without balancing it with a love for learning will result in the vice of foolishness. Loving wisdom without balancing it with a love for learning will result in the vice of deviance. Loving trustworthiness without balancing it with a love for learning will result in the vice of harmful rigidity. Loving uprightness without balancing it with a love for learning will result in the vice of intolerance. Loving courage without balancing it with a love for learning will result in the vice of unruliness: Loving resoluteness without balancing it with a love for learning will result in the vice of willfulness.” (p.49 17.8) it explains how you should always have a passion to keep learning or to live. Living each day means learning something new that is why this quotation refers to passion. As you should have it for the rest of our lives. You can’t love without passion you can’t live without passion.
Passion for me is the key of life.
Book seventeen of the analects, talks about the six virtuous words and corresponding vices. This was my favorite part of the book because I learned from it and enjoyed reading it. “Loving Goodness without balancing it with a love for learning will result in the vice of foolishness. Loving wisdom without balancing it with a love for learning will result in the vice of deviance. Loving trustworthiness without balancing it with a love for learning will result in the vice of harmful rigidity. Loving uprightness without balancing it with a love for learning will result in the vice of intolerance. Loving courage without balancing it with a love for learning will result in the vice of unruliness: Loving resoluteness without balancing it with a love for learning will result in the vice of willfulness.” (p.49 17.8) it explains how you should always have a passion to keep learning or to live. Living each day means learning something new that is why this quotation refers to passion. As you should have it for the rest of our lives. You can’t love without passion you can’t live without passion.
Passion for me is the key of life.
What Good Will It Do You?
Something that pre-ap English has teach is that you can analyze most of the texts either old or new, and that there will always be two sides of it. Like Confucius, you can look at it in many ways and interpret how you like and that is something you will find everywhere in the world interpretation depends on the person.
The analects so far have been confusing sometimes I have to reread a sentence about seven times and break it apart to understand it’s meaning clearly. .“Eating plain food and drinking water, having only your bent as a pillow – certainly there is joy to be found in this! Wealth and eminence attained improperly concern me no more than the floating clouds.”(p.20 7.16) having something but not having to work for it is the same thing as looking at the clouds, there are there for you but what to you get from them? Not much, wealth should be something you work for not something obtained. Bill Gates for example, does not plan to give his kids an enormous amount of money but instead they have to work for it as he did so they can learn that value of money and to get wealth is by obtaining it yourself.
“If you are responsible but lack ritual you will become exasperating; if you are careful but lack ritual you will become timid; if you are courageous but lack ritual you will become unruly; and if you are upright but lack ritual you will become inflexible.” (p.23 8.2) this could say something like if you are responsible sometimes you have no right to call yourself responsible. You can only do that when you do it with “ritual” or consistency. Moreover, if you do not do it with ritual then it makes no sense why would you be responsible on only one time, what is the point of that? What good will it does to you? It is like saying I did wrong, but only one time so I shouldn’t t be punished, is the same thing as saying responsible for one day. If you want to take advantage do it every day to accomplish satisfaction
Wha
The analects so far have been confusing sometimes I have to reread a sentence about seven times and break it apart to understand it’s meaning clearly. .“Eating plain food and drinking water, having only your bent as a pillow – certainly there is joy to be found in this! Wealth and eminence attained improperly concern me no more than the floating clouds.”(p.20 7.16) having something but not having to work for it is the same thing as looking at the clouds, there are there for you but what to you get from them? Not much, wealth should be something you work for not something obtained. Bill Gates for example, does not plan to give his kids an enormous amount of money but instead they have to work for it as he did so they can learn that value of money and to get wealth is by obtaining it yourself.
“If you are responsible but lack ritual you will become exasperating; if you are careful but lack ritual you will become timid; if you are courageous but lack ritual you will become unruly; and if you are upright but lack ritual you will become inflexible.” (p.23 8.2) this could say something like if you are responsible sometimes you have no right to call yourself responsible. You can only do that when you do it with “ritual” or consistency. Moreover, if you do not do it with ritual then it makes no sense why would you be responsible on only one time, what is the point of that? What good will it does to you? It is like saying I did wrong, but only one time so I shouldn’t t be punished, is the same thing as saying responsible for one day. If you want to take advantage do it every day to accomplish satisfaction
Wha
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