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.
Monday, December 8, 2008
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
Ouch!
Confucianism is about the goodness of people. I had heard about Confucius before because my mom is interested in our cultural knowledge and usually takes us to museums. One time we were in Canada and they had an exposition on Confucius theories and about the Chinese. My mom bought the book about the theories but not the analects book we are reading right now so I had read about it before and I found it very interesting analyzing it in class.
“Those who are good feel at home in Goodness, whereas those who are clever follow Goodness because they feel that they will profit from it.” (p.10) this quotation I agree with, the world has become forced goodness. The school used to take us to the hogar forced us to there were some people who wanted to go but others just had to so they could benefit from it and avoid punishment. So we can see that celebrities some times donate money to foundations in order to clean their names or to look good which works but no necessarily is because they want to. Who is able to leave a room without going out through the door? How is it, then, that no one follows this Way? (p.17) this tells that people know that it is the only way but they try to find another when there isn’t one. This could also be people are sometimes not satisfied with what they have so they keep looking for something that is not there.
The things that I read seem to be something that you can use on daily bases. Because sometimes I am forced to do good but now, I can try to do it because I want to not because I have to. I felt bad reading Confucius because I realized I am not as good as a person I could be.
“Those who are good feel at home in Goodness, whereas those who are clever follow Goodness because they feel that they will profit from it.” (p.10) this quotation I agree with, the world has become forced goodness. The school used to take us to the hogar forced us to there were some people who wanted to go but others just had to so they could benefit from it and avoid punishment. So we can see that celebrities some times donate money to foundations in order to clean their names or to look good which works but no necessarily is because they want to. Who is able to leave a room without going out through the door? How is it, then, that no one follows this Way? (p.17) this tells that people know that it is the only way but they try to find another when there isn’t one. This could also be people are sometimes not satisfied with what they have so they keep looking for something that is not there.
The things that I read seem to be something that you can use on daily bases. Because sometimes I am forced to do good but now, I can try to do it because I want to not because I have to. I felt bad reading Confucius because I realized I am not as good as a person I could be.
Obama Accpetance Speech
Obama
He uses many rhetorical devices in his speech. Mostly, he uses pathos explaining that the ways are not going to be how it used to be and that America is going to change. He uses ethos when what changes he would make as a president. He uses forensic rhetoric blaming the old government, and uses demonstrative and deliberate rhetoric to show what he would do as a president.
He uses many rhetorical devices in his speech. Mostly, he uses pathos explaining that the ways are not going to be how it used to be and that America is going to change. He uses ethos when what changes he would make as a president. He uses forensic rhetoric blaming the old government, and uses demonstrative and deliberate rhetoric to show what he would do as a president.
Mighty Word Oh Mighty Word
Is the mighty word worth more than your friends? Well apparently it does, job’s friends could not convince him that god is good however, god said one word to him and made him change his mind. Job changed his mind when ironically god spoke to him. In this case, whom would you believe someone like your friends who have been there for you a long time a go or a voice that calls him-self god who you cursed? It is complicated but since we are in the bilbe times it us to expect that people listen to god.
Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the heart? Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven, When the dust groweth into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together?” (Job.38.37-39) these are the words of wisdom god gave on to job to change his mind. However, if god appeared to my face and said this to me I would also believe him. The words god said are very true job only looked the bad side of god but who created us? Who gave us the things we enjoy for me god gave me chocolate.
Maybe jobs situation if you overlook it sounds ridiculous but after you take it in consideration you would probably act the same way as job did.
Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the heart? Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven, When the dust groweth into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together?” (Job.38.37-39) these are the words of wisdom god gave on to job to change his mind. However, if god appeared to my face and said this to me I would also believe him. The words god said are very true job only looked the bad side of god but who created us? Who gave us the things we enjoy for me god gave me chocolate.
Maybe jobs situation if you overlook it sounds ridiculous but after you take it in consideration you would probably act the same way as job did.
He Seems To Be A Child
Job’s thoughts toward God never changed even though his friends tried to help him and convince him that he was good. “He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them again.” (Job.12.23.) He believed that god gave you something takes it away. However, this situation were his friends Zophar, Bildad, and Eliphaz are trying to help him and he refuses, for me is somewhat immature. “Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth, that the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?” (Job.20.4-5.) this is some of what Zophar explains to him about god that I agree with because any evil done uncovered it will be. Yes, maybe Job is the first rebel or revolutionary character of the bible he has some philosophical believes different form every one at the time, yet he knows what is best for him but still he does not follow. Job is also immature to God because God is trying to teach him something but job just does not understand god and gives up.
I think this is an example of how people grow and maybe god just gave job the personality to think like that so he can later grow but you never know what would happen. He and his friends think very differently so they see god but with different eyes.
I think this is an example of how people grow and maybe god just gave job the personality to think like that so he can later grow but you never know what would happen. He and his friends think very differently so they see god but with different eyes.
Thursday, December 4, 2008
How Do I Know?
In the story of job, we see how job develops in to what was a “good person” to what became a bad person clamming himself to be perfect. We could say that job’s behavior had to with the devil trying to make him unhappy and manipulating so he could get in to power so went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.” Job 2 , which it is true but no matter what he, was tested and yet the next thing you know job is cursing god. “Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, there is a man child conceived. Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.” (Job.3.3-4.)
This shows how can a situation make people change, at the begging job was a good person one that would never do anything wrong and later he just loose it. You never now what people will do unless something happen people change under situation and turn out to be someone you never expected, your best friend in any minute can become your worst enemy such as Satan did with god and angel turned to be dark. You just never know or do you?
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
He Is A Supernatural Being!
In the second book of Samuel, I noted allot of fear from Saul and everybody. “But the spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him.” It is a book filled with mischievous, fear, and war. As I clearly sated on my last entry I had no idea that the bible was this cruel I thought it was as they taught me nice and peaceful.
In addition, the doubts to God are because they know he is doing the wrong thing in my opinion, warlike God. However, my god is a being looked as the perfect, omniscient originator and ruler of the universe, the principal object of faith and worship in monotheistic religions. He is a supernatural being, an idol and an icon. Well you everyday get a different surprise and it looks that today mine is something not expected. I am starting to have doubts about the bible and of God, each book he is a different person, multiple personality God.
In addition, the doubts to God are because they know he is doing the wrong thing in my opinion, warlike God. However, my god is a being looked as the perfect, omniscient originator and ruler of the universe, the principal object of faith and worship in monotheistic religions. He is a supernatural being, an idol and an icon. Well you everyday get a different surprise and it looks that today mine is something not expected. I am starting to have doubts about the bible and of God, each book he is a different person, multiple personality God.
War-like God
Samuel 1
Samuel, makes god look like a warrior cold blooded one, his statements sound like if he wanted revenge and blood. It rather reminds me of the Spartans who are also great warriors. It sounds to me that the god I know is completely different from the god I know read. He is cruel, vicious and he looks forward for war. Our god or at least the one I have learned about is more caring and he is “against war”. This is weird for me. I now have a different point of view of what god is. I had never being Christian read the bible until now and I am enjoying it.
It could be that after the humans having so much wars we decided to stop if maybe god said that war is bad. God encouraged people to go to the crusades to kill in his name as Nicholas Machiavelli once said “the end justifies the means” that is what god practically said, what about world war two, killing because god said we needed a pure raze. Maybe God is our excuse
We use him, and blame him for so many things, even though as the Ten Commandments sate we shall not use his name in vane. Have you heard about the crimes committed now days because God spoke to them please! What world are we living in! Maybe god is different for all us and we can have different perceptions.
Samuel, makes god look like a warrior cold blooded one, his statements sound like if he wanted revenge and blood. It rather reminds me of the Spartans who are also great warriors. It sounds to me that the god I know is completely different from the god I know read. He is cruel, vicious and he looks forward for war. Our god or at least the one I have learned about is more caring and he is “against war”. This is weird for me. I now have a different point of view of what god is. I had never being Christian read the bible until now and I am enjoying it.
It could be that after the humans having so much wars we decided to stop if maybe god said that war is bad. God encouraged people to go to the crusades to kill in his name as Nicholas Machiavelli once said “the end justifies the means” that is what god practically said, what about world war two, killing because god said we needed a pure raze. Maybe God is our excuse
We use him, and blame him for so many things, even though as the Ten Commandments sate we shall not use his name in vane. Have you heard about the crimes committed now days because God spoke to them please! What world are we living in! Maybe god is different for all us and we can have different perceptions.
Monday, October 20, 2008
Stubbornness
Stubbornness could be a quality I would give if someone asked me to describe the pharaoh. However, what is stubbornness? Is the quality or state of being stubbornly inflexible. He made his people suffer, because he did not want to let Israeli people leave, he was being inflexible. “Pharaoh’s hearts, so that he would not let the children of Israel go out of his land.” (Exodus chap. 9) Why not, the Pharaoh does not like them anyway, what is the problem. Is it he wants for his people to suffer the ten plagues of Egypt, well it looks like it. This reminds of a movie we saw last year, with the religion teacher the reaping, but instead of analyzing the movie as we are in class, we analyzed it different about faith and religion. What I would I hate most if were alive during the plagues, would be lice. Lice is a horrible animal that sticks in your head, if you think about it I would not like any of the plagues, maybe the last one, but no I would miss allot my brother.
How can a person be so selfish and let people suffer, I would never wish to anyone what those poor people had to go through, and if it did happen to me I would be a rebel against the Pharaoh. Now days, People would kill for pride I could say it is important in my life but I would not kill for it.
How can a person be so selfish and let people suffer, I would never wish to anyone what those poor people had to go through, and if it did happen to me I would be a rebel against the Pharaoh. Now days, People would kill for pride I could say it is important in my life but I would not kill for it.
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Wo, Is Who? Confused, So Am I...
The LORD and God, are two different people no matter what said about them being the same, we have discussed this in class, their difference. However, as I read exodus I found something that was very interesting, as LORD appeared to Moses “I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.”(Exodus chapter 4, 6)
You can see, during Moses talking to the lord sometimes they change Lord to god, which proves exactly my point. They are to different people, and as they changed, you notice that the change was due to the words that they were saying. Therefore, god did not speak to Moses but was the one, that gave him the power and, LORD did to speak to Moses. I found this quite curious, for the fact that there is more to the bible than what meets the eye, which is what we have been studying but I had never paid attention. Exodus being, somewhat different than Genesis, I find it that is more profound, it looked to me that Genesis was a list of events as for Exodus, being an epic.
“And God spake unto Moses, and he said unto him, I am the LORD.” (Exodus, chapter 6, 2) what? Came to my mind as I read this part, how is this possible, I had already identified that LORD and god were different people. Then I remembered what priests say that, god and the Holy Spirit, and Jesus are the same person. Can this be possible? We have a god with multiple personalities. I now realize that god has different sides, viewed by different people, like Christians see god as the messiah, but the Muslims see him as a prophet. He did the same things but we take the things as we want to, as it suits our lifestyle
You can see, during Moses talking to the lord sometimes they change Lord to god, which proves exactly my point. They are to different people, and as they changed, you notice that the change was due to the words that they were saying. Therefore, god did not speak to Moses but was the one, that gave him the power and, LORD did to speak to Moses. I found this quite curious, for the fact that there is more to the bible than what meets the eye, which is what we have been studying but I had never paid attention. Exodus being, somewhat different than Genesis, I find it that is more profound, it looked to me that Genesis was a list of events as for Exodus, being an epic.
“And God spake unto Moses, and he said unto him, I am the LORD.” (Exodus, chapter 6, 2) what? Came to my mind as I read this part, how is this possible, I had already identified that LORD and god were different people. Then I remembered what priests say that, god and the Holy Spirit, and Jesus are the same person. Can this be possible? We have a god with multiple personalities. I now realize that god has different sides, viewed by different people, like Christians see god as the messiah, but the Muslims see him as a prophet. He did the same things but we take the things as we want to, as it suits our lifestyle
Monday, October 13, 2008
Poem Counting Sylables
The vile/ cushions/ above/ the air/ A
Weeping /the death/ of the sun, B
The streets /resting/ full of /despair/ A
Shooting/ his tears/ with a gun, B
Hit by/ bullets,/ crying /in pain C
Walking/ alone /beneath/ the rain/
Weeping /the death/ of the sun, B
The streets /resting/ full of /despair/ A
Shooting/ his tears/ with a gun, B
Hit by/ bullets,/ crying /in pain C
Walking/ alone /beneath/ the rain/
Live His Way
After Noah’s arc God decided not punish anymore, well Noah’ arc was a fresh start were God learned from his what so called “mistakes” he decided to give people a chance and let them start growing. “And the LORD said, behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.” He could not let us be animals for the rest of life, he had to lets us grow, but his way. “Now the lord had said unto Abraham, get thee out if thy country, and from they kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee.”
This is the part of the bible were we comprehend that God is the ultimate power, and that the earth is his world and we have to live it as he wishes, in order for us to know he uses messengers as Abraham, were he would show us the promised land.
As I understood it, God realized we are a superior race, but need guidance and god is our guidance, that is why we have the Ten Commandments the set of rules.
This is the part of the bible were we comprehend that God is the ultimate power, and that the earth is his world and we have to live it as he wishes, in order for us to know he uses messengers as Abraham, were he would show us the promised land.
As I understood it, God realized we are a superior race, but need guidance and god is our guidance, that is why we have the Ten Commandments the set of rules.
Poem
The Sistine chapel there it is
Up above in the sky,
It has a certain mist,
That makes all cry.
Nobody knows what Michangelo did
But it sits on the wall
It made some persons lid
And now it makes us crawl
Why?
Wisdom is the ability to discern or judge what is true, right, or wrong, a wise outlook, plan, or course of action. If this is so, Adam and Eve found what is called wisdom they out looked and saw what more than what they could see, “And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. “ Why is it wisdom punished? Now days we admire wisdom, when you have it people look upon you. Why was it punished, what were LORD GOD’s intentions? Why did he cursed us all “And the LORD GOD said unto the serpent, because hast done this thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life.”
If wisdom is admired why, did god did not admire it too. It looks like if, we had never eaten of the tree, we would be no different from animals. Did God want us to be animals? Was he afraid we would gain more power than what he has?
Wisdom is what divides us from animals, should we see God as the humans’ god or the world’s god? If we see it as the human’s god, we are mistaken because according to the bible he did not want us to be any different from animals. What would have happened, if an animal eat of the tree?
Monday, October 6, 2008
i am a symbol of what?
“Blackness as well established as a mark of vice.” What does this mean? A color, is a symbol for a feeling a situation, is it weird? I can sometimes associate my life with, a situation, color, or someone, to express myself better. In the past when they said, “The plot and plotters were black foul accursed locus from the nethermost” they meant that, someone or something was so bad that they could not be expressed with words they had to be a mark, now days when we see someone as a bad person we call them a dark person we call them a dark person. This kind of things are the things we keep from the past the ability to separate people. In other words if we see through history there is a proof of division, not necessarily racism but division. Like a school, my friends are the ones that look most like me, mostly everybody’s friend look like them (not physically but mentally) that is division, it is an ability to distinguish those difference and the likeness on other people. If I see the color dark, it causes me a sad feeling or anger so people that are like that can be a symbol for that color.
Differences can be seen as good but when we separate we can get to the point of racisms where if was asked I could say that racism started form this ability. Someone just could not stand the idea of difference in the world. For me to live well we need to difference because I would not like a world were everybody thought the same way looked the same way it would just end the fun of life.
Differences can be seen as good but when we separate we can get to the point of racisms where if was asked I could say that racism started form this ability. Someone just could not stand the idea of difference in the world. For me to live well we need to difference because I would not like a world were everybody thought the same way looked the same way it would just end the fun of life.
my way is not the right
I can sometimes be dim sighted, I have my eyes open but I do not use them. It is as if I only see what is wanted to see. When I think something is right even if I am wrong, it is right for me until something I later suffer consequences. I am focused on my believes and it is a mistake because we have to be open minded like as said in gods secretaries “A new king meant a new world” it means that sometimes if we open our minds the world can change and be easier. To stop myself from doing this mistake y often ask people what to they think about my way, and if they give any suggestions I consider on taking them. That way i can change my rigidness. I am very stubborn too because sometimes I do not want to hear the suggestions so I just blow them off which is also a mistake because my way is not always right. I am not the only one to make this mistake, many people make it but what happens when you correct it? “More then we can perhaps realize now, a change in monarch in an age of personal rule meant not only a change of government and policy, but a change of culture, attitude and belief.”
We change our way of seeing life we open our eyes and use them. We do not stay half-neither awake nor half-sleep we are how we should be. At least I learn something every day to see that I have to stop evaluate myself and correct mistakes.
We change our way of seeing life we open our eyes and use them. We do not stay half-neither awake nor half-sleep we are how we should be. At least I learn something every day to see that I have to stop evaluate myself and correct mistakes.
Sunday, September 28, 2008
What is stalling?
What is stalling?
Lying is a method that we use in order to protect ourselves from silly things. We sometimes use it when we are in front of the computer and our mom asks us to go to bed, I for example am logged in facebook, but instead of saying that I am on facebook I say that I am working on homework so she cannot really send me to bed without my homework done. A prove to see that in the past people used the same method could be Penelope’s web, she lied to everybody by knitting a web and un-knitting it at night so while she waited for her husband, Ulysses. This could also be seen as intelligence. It is intelligent but we lie, is what I like to call a white lie. When you have a friend that invites you to a boring conference you lie in order to say no, and not hurt his feelings. When I say a white lie, I do not think about it, it is a natural thing and that is what parents try to stop when we are growing up now is habit and cannot really stop. Penelope stopped when she was caught, I think lying is only bad when you are caught because if you do not nobody knows.
Are white lies considered bad? Are we not to lie? Was Penelope right about the web?
Lying is a method that we use in order to protect ourselves from silly things. We sometimes use it when we are in front of the computer and our mom asks us to go to bed, I for example am logged in facebook, but instead of saying that I am on facebook I say that I am working on homework so she cannot really send me to bed without my homework done. A prove to see that in the past people used the same method could be Penelope’s web, she lied to everybody by knitting a web and un-knitting it at night so while she waited for her husband, Ulysses. This could also be seen as intelligence. It is intelligent but we lie, is what I like to call a white lie. When you have a friend that invites you to a boring conference you lie in order to say no, and not hurt his feelings. When I say a white lie, I do not think about it, it is a natural thing and that is what parents try to stop when we are growing up now is habit and cannot really stop. Penelope stopped when she was caught, I think lying is only bad when you are caught because if you do not nobody knows.
Are white lies considered bad? Are we not to lie? Was Penelope right about the web?
Contrato
I,andrea , hereby understand and will abide by the Pre-AP/AP
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admission status and standing in the Pre-AP/AP Course, english 9th grade.
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Pre-AP/AP Academy Expectations;
• Maintain Acceptable GPA,
• Motivated and Positive,
• Responsible and Dedicated Work Ethic,
• Attend Opportunity Day and/or Additional Review Classes,
• Complete AP College Board Exam,
• Sign Pre-AP/AP Student Contract.
Pre-AP/AP Academy Admission/Drop Policy;
• First Progress Report with Teacher’s Signed Approval…receive no course credit,
• End of First Semester with Teacher’s Signed Approval…receive only partial course credit for grade of 6.0+. No partial credit will be awarded for any grade below 6.0,
• Students who Drop Pre-AP/AP Courses or who Do Not take the College Board AP Exam will have the Pre-AP/AP Designation for that course removed from their transcript and they will not receive any grade or GPA enhancement awarded for taking that Pre-AP/AP course.
Please note that at any time during the school year if the teacher deems that you are not meeting the expectations above for any or all reasons, then that teacher will require that you sign an additional academic probation contract. Your admission status and/or removal from the above identified Pre-AP Course will then be re-assessed based on your abiding by the academic probation contract signed and agreed to by you and the respective Pre-AP/AP Teacher.
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__andrea moseres Date: september 23 2008_______________________________
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Academy’s expectations, obligations, and admission/drop policy outlined below with respect to my
admission status and standing in the Pre-AP/AP Course, english 9th grade.
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Pre-AP/AP Academy Expectations;
• Maintain Acceptable GPA,
• Motivated and Positive,
• Responsible and Dedicated Work Ethic,
• Attend Opportunity Day and/or Additional Review Classes,
• Complete AP College Board Exam,
• Sign Pre-AP/AP Student Contract.
Pre-AP/AP Academy Admission/Drop Policy;
• First Progress Report with Teacher’s Signed Approval…receive no course credit,
• End of First Semester with Teacher’s Signed Approval…receive only partial course credit for grade of 6.0+. No partial credit will be awarded for any grade below 6.0,
• Students who Drop Pre-AP/AP Courses or who Do Not take the College Board AP Exam will have the Pre-AP/AP Designation for that course removed from their transcript and they will not receive any grade or GPA enhancement awarded for taking that Pre-AP/AP course.
Please note that at any time during the school year if the teacher deems that you are not meeting the expectations above for any or all reasons, then that teacher will require that you sign an additional academic probation contract. Your admission status and/or removal from the above identified Pre-AP Course will then be re-assessed based on your abiding by the academic probation contract signed and agreed to by you and the respective Pre-AP/AP Teacher.
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008
cliches
Five movies:
As good as, it gets.
You got served
Run away bride
Yours mines and ours
Friday the 13
Five plot lines:
A Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love with girl. Boy loses the girl and gets
her back.
X number of friends, living together in an apartment, who have wacky dating misadventures together.
A cop is on a case. Cop then advances the case in a nonconforming way, but makes his boss angry. His boss kicks him off the force for his nonconforming techniques. Said cop continues case despite they kicked him off the force, because now "It's personal." Cop solves case. As reward for solving case, he is back on the force.
A dedicated scientist that cares only about working, and looses everything and then he gets it back.
Group of people who used to be life-long friends and they meet again.
As good as, it gets.
You got served
Run away bride
Yours mines and ours
Friday the 13
Five plot lines:
A Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love with girl. Boy loses the girl and gets
her back.
X number of friends, living together in an apartment, who have wacky dating misadventures together.
A cop is on a case. Cop then advances the case in a nonconforming way, but makes his boss angry. His boss kicks him off the force for his nonconforming techniques. Said cop continues case despite they kicked him off the force, because now "It's personal." Cop solves case. As reward for solving case, he is back on the force.
A dedicated scientist that cares only about working, and looses everything and then he gets it back.
Group of people who used to be life-long friends and they meet again.
vocab excercises
1. is my jacket? I wanted to it today, and if I can't find it, going to be late.
2. Jane wanted go on the school trip, but her mother said that hundred dollars was much for the family budget.
3. As she waited for Rodney to become , Selma was seized with an attack of -- was there anything she could have done to prevent the accident?
4. The map the intrepid treasure hunters to a box of precious stones.
5. Have you seen coats? going to need them; it's cold outside. I last saw the coats over .
6. After conducting careful research, Shufang had a brilliant ; she'd write a paper on Thomas More's concept of the society in Utopia.
7. Even though Bob would rather play video games study, he decided to hit the books and play some Halo.
8. easy to admire a business that puts so much effort into creating signs and window displays.
9. fortunate to have survived the car crash without a scratch; it must have been because you were wearing seat belt.
10. I would you to seek qualified legal about how to handle this situation
2. Jane wanted go on the school trip, but her mother said that hundred dollars was much for the family budget.
3. As she waited for Rodney to become , Selma was seized with an attack of -- was there anything she could have done to prevent the accident?
4. The map the intrepid treasure hunters to a box of precious stones.
5. Have you seen coats? going to need them; it's cold outside. I last saw the coats over .
6. After conducting careful research, Shufang had a brilliant ; she'd write a paper on Thomas More's concept of the society in Utopia.
7. Even though Bob would rather play video games study, he decided to hit the books and play some Halo.
8. easy to admire a business that puts so much effort into creating signs and window displays.
9. fortunate to have survived the car crash without a scratch; it must have been because you were wearing seat belt.
10. I would you to seek qualified legal about how to handle this situation
reaction to action
Every action has a reaction, though this maybe a science rule it also applies to life. If we act well we are rewarded if we do not we suffer consequences at least in school. In the Greek mythology, “I am Scylla, the daughter of Nisus. I surrender to you my country and my father’s house. I ask no reward but yourself; for love of you, I have done it. See here the purple lock! With this I give you my father and his kingdom.” Scylla’s actions got her killed by her own father, maybe she was acting for love but she betrayed her father and the most important thing you had to have in ancient Greece was loyalty to your family. Our actions are the reflection of who we are she showed a passion for love and a strive to accomplish what she wants even if it means acting in a wrong way. Scylla is seen as a modern day woman that follows her heart, with no importance of anything else. However, Minus was not a modern day men and reject her because of the difference.
This thought of disobeying family just appeared recently the basis of ancient Greece were family, loyalty at least I can deduce it from the readings of the mythology. And the myth of Scylla is a weird case were people are punished for their differences.
acti
This thought of disobeying family just appeared recently the basis of ancient Greece were family, loyalty at least I can deduce it from the readings of the mythology. And the myth of Scylla is a weird case were people are punished for their differences.
acti
Three silly mistakes
Three stupid mistakes I always make, are not thinking before talking, let my feelings control me and judging people by appearance. What I have realized is that I am not the only one that makes them, in the Greek mythology the make the same three mistakes.
“Consternation at the unprecedented affliction, he strove to divest himself of his power; he hated the gift he had lately coveted. But all in vain; starvation seemed to await him.” Midas the king who asked for the power in to turning everything in to gold, did not think what he was doing so he starved to death since food also turned to gold. In my case, I was fighting with some one and said something I did not mean, and really hurt him. When I let my feelings control me, I get or too excited or too sad because of silly things. Midas’s actions could be an example of how letting feelings your control you affect life. He let greed control him and made him ask for gold. When we judge people because they look funny, or because they wear something odd, we can be making a big mistake. To judge someone you have to get to know him good. You never know if they are important people. I would say that people who judge before knowing them is a cliché, since it is very common in movies, or books. However, even though is a cliché I think it is right about not judging before you know. Only guess if you are educated about the guess
“Consternation at the unprecedented affliction, he strove to divest himself of his power; he hated the gift he had lately coveted. But all in vain; starvation seemed to await him.” Midas the king who asked for the power in to turning everything in to gold, did not think what he was doing so he starved to death since food also turned to gold. In my case, I was fighting with some one and said something I did not mean, and really hurt him. When I let my feelings control me, I get or too excited or too sad because of silly things. Midas’s actions could be an example of how letting feelings your control you affect life. He let greed control him and made him ask for gold. When we judge people because they look funny, or because they wear something odd, we can be making a big mistake. To judge someone you have to get to know him good. You never know if they are important people. I would say that people who judge before knowing them is a cliché, since it is very common in movies, or books. However, even though is a cliché I think it is right about not judging before you know. Only guess if you are educated about the guess
Sunday, September 21, 2008
let us control it.
Curiosity has been a problem most of us seem to have, in cupid and psyche there is a great example of what happens when you are curios. “Hast thou almost perished by the same curiosity. But now perform exactly the task imposed on you by my mother, and I will take care of the rest.” Psyche looked at her husband when she was not supposed to and suffered great consequences. I once was told not to read a conversation on messenger, but my curiosity led me and I found out something I was not supposed to, and got in to trouble. Curiosity is something that can affect us in a bad way, but we or at least I was too stupid to realize that when we are told not do something is for out own good. If Psyche wouldn’t have looked she would probably be okay, it was for her own good not to look at her husband but this a feeling that can lead us to do horrible things.
Sometimes, I let my feelings control me and sometimes that is what we all do, and we do not even think about it we just kind of let them take over and when we realize is too late. And there is nothing we can do but feel the regret and feel bad about it.
Sometimes, I let my feelings control me and sometimes that is what we all do, and we do not even think about it we just kind of let them take over and when we realize is too late. And there is nothing we can do but feel the regret and feel bad about it.
Poem about helen of troy.
I sometimes feel that I did something I was not supposed to do that like a feeling that destiny had not planned this for me. That is what Helen of troy feels when she instead of staying at home with his husband leaving to be with Paris. She may have been wrong, but thanks to her a war was created.
When we have this feeling should we control it or should we follow what we think is right?
You never know what the future awaits for you, but you will never know if you don’t make any decisions.
So what is wrong and what is right?
Something we can’t find out, another riddle of life.
My life is also like that, never know what to expect that is why I take a chance every day of my life,
That is what most of us should do forget about everything and follow our hearts.
In the ancient mythology at least that is what they did, and thanks to Helen, we have now a story to tell our children who is now remembered as a great epic.
She might have caused a war but she is history and our oldest text is thanks to her.
Should we say thanks or judge? It is all up to us, now we can see this as a lie or as a surprise what ever we think is right for us
So we should just close our eyes and hush.
When we have this feeling should we control it or should we follow what we think is right?
You never know what the future awaits for you, but you will never know if you don’t make any decisions.
So what is wrong and what is right?
Something we can’t find out, another riddle of life.
My life is also like that, never know what to expect that is why I take a chance every day of my life,
That is what most of us should do forget about everything and follow our hearts.
In the ancient mythology at least that is what they did, and thanks to Helen, we have now a story to tell our children who is now remembered as a great epic.
She might have caused a war but she is history and our oldest text is thanks to her.
Should we say thanks or judge? It is all up to us, now we can see this as a lie or as a surprise what ever we think is right for us
So we should just close our eyes and hush.
Monday, September 15, 2008
Are you angry??
Imagine this, your best friend just got the video game you wanted and it was the last one in the store, what do you do? Do you steal it? How far are you willing to go just to get what you want? Envy is a dangerous road of mixed feelings that has ruined our life in someway. “Typhon saw this, and filled with envy and malice sought during his absence to usurp his throne. But Isis, who held the reins of government, frustrated his plans. Still more embittered, he now resolved to kill his brother.” In ancient mythology the bad person was taken over by envy, making them killing or, ending someone’s life. Nevertheless, that still happens in real life, how many crimes we see each day by the news explaining how someone killed his brother from envy. We feel envy all the time but are educated to control it and let it be. According to education, we are not to feel jealous of your friend but happy and share with him his happiness. But, slowly we see envy growing inside of us. To stop this we can learn form people in the past like the mythology to let envy take us over, or the consequences will be worse.
What are you doing now? The past is the way to our future and the present is the time to learn the past.
What are you doing now? The past is the way to our future and the present is the time to learn the past.
What are you doing to help the world?
Ignorance is a problem that appeared a long time ago in society, although many people think it is a recent problem. However, if we study carefully ancient mythology we can see how ignorance is a problem that has been with us for a long time. In the story of the man who killed the sphinx, Oedipus or Swollen-foot, we can prove the ignorance committed. “Ignorant of his parentage, had already become the slayer of his father; in marrying the queen he became the husband of his mother.” Though this could have been an accident, still it shows of how people become to lazy or too carless to study or learn. If we continue like this we would probably end like in the movie, idiocracy were it shows that an average human being is the world smartest man. If we keep the laziness, we are going to end with a life that has no future and society will end in catastrophe. Where are we going? End of society can be one of the answers to the questions if we keep going with ignorance.
This is not a problem that is not being taken care of each time the Colombian government is doing something to improve the education of the homeless. Education is becoming cheaper for those who cannot afford it, and they are banning children from begging in the streets. It is being taken care of here in Colombia; but what about the rest of the world, in countries such as Africa, what are they doing for education? The world needs people willing to change and help, to learn and teach, to read or write, people that care.
What are you doing about it? What is anyone doing about educating the mind? It is time to change the world by trying the best we can.
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Society is based on what?
People in the past think the same as we do about death, we always seem to avoid the subject unless a person is suffering allot they think is prudent to let them die. “At last all hope of relief vanished, and men learned to look upon death as the only deliverer from disease. Then they gave way to every inclination, and cared not to ask what was expedient, for nothing was expedient.” This quote can say that people in the past though we think are very different, is the opposite they are the foundations of society. We have based every great theory on the past either the roman, Greek, Muslim empire. So we can’t really say there is a difference instead we have to thank them. Democracy’s basis are taken form the roman republic. All great mathematicians in the present would not be able to do anything without people such as Pythagoras from the Greek empire. In other words we can’t guess without sufficient proof.
I enjoyed reading the mythology because it reminded me of the bible in other words like Pandora and Prometheus they don’t have that much differences they very a like. Prometheus is the Adam and Pandora is the Eve of Christian religion. Chaos is like god, that created the earth in seven days, chaos’s story does not tell time. Pandora’s Box is the tree of knowledge of the Christian religion; but instead Pandora opens the box, and Adam and Eve eat the apples that will release suffering to the world. In my words our story of Adam and Eve is an adaptation from the Greek mythology; our modern world is an adaptation with improvements from the past.
I enjoyed reading the mythology because it reminded me of the bible in other words like Pandora and Prometheus they don’t have that much differences they very a like. Prometheus is the Adam and Pandora is the Eve of Christian religion. Chaos is like god, that created the earth in seven days, chaos’s story does not tell time. Pandora’s Box is the tree of knowledge of the Christian religion; but instead Pandora opens the box, and Adam and Eve eat the apples that will release suffering to the world. In my words our story of Adam and Eve is an adaptation from the Greek mythology; our modern world is an adaptation with improvements from the past.
foreseen but not accomplished
Where are we going? She asks herself, as she eats a tangerine,
Is that question easy to answer or is it just another goofy scene.
How did we get here? She drinks a cup of tea,
not knowing the answers hopping to see me,
at the beautiful sea.
Why are we here? She thinks as she falls asleep,
she imagines a herd of sheep that
know the answer she wants to find out in a dream.
Sheep crying, they say we are going were the soul rests,
the deep place they call heaven were there are fests.
The bees, which live with the sheep,
Say we got here by being half-awake and half-asleep
not distinguishing right from wrong, like the any pretty bee.
The flowers that to be pollinated by bees,
Say that we are here to learn a lesson such as the A, B, C
and to live someone that cries for us and sing Ave, there for me.
She, having the power to see the future, sees the world in a different scene
The world is powerful because it listened to the flowers, bees, and sheep.
So we have changed the future as foreseen
It was just so simple to open wide our eyes to see.
As I stay awake, I see how hard it was to notice how bad we are
And it could all be the fault of a car
The greed of knowledge
Let us to know some things not needed
Now the old women stay up knitting.
Is that question easy to answer or is it just another goofy scene.
How did we get here? She drinks a cup of tea,
not knowing the answers hopping to see me,
at the beautiful sea.
Why are we here? She thinks as she falls asleep,
she imagines a herd of sheep that
know the answer she wants to find out in a dream.
Sheep crying, they say we are going were the soul rests,
the deep place they call heaven were there are fests.
The bees, which live with the sheep,
Say we got here by being half-awake and half-asleep
not distinguishing right from wrong, like the any pretty bee.
The flowers that to be pollinated by bees,
Say that we are here to learn a lesson such as the A, B, C
and to live someone that cries for us and sing Ave, there for me.
She, having the power to see the future, sees the world in a different scene
The world is powerful because it listened to the flowers, bees, and sheep.
So we have changed the future as foreseen
It was just so simple to open wide our eyes to see.
As I stay awake, I see how hard it was to notice how bad we are
And it could all be the fault of a car
The greed of knowledge
Let us to know some things not needed
Now the old women stay up knitting.
Sunday, September 7, 2008
what is purpose of life? to be confused
Where are we going? How did we get here? Why are we here? Three simple questions on the first look but if we look down really deep they are the three most complicated questions you can answer. Gilgamesh’s ending is not what I had expected is just a way of repeating the story in other words. The book whole purpose is to teach us a lesson of humans and it did, it shows how humans got were we are. We got here by the invisible ownership of the world, by trying to conquer and rule everything in our path to make ourselves believe that we are the superior race. We do not respect the other creature’s lives we, destroy everything in the path; Gilgamesh is a perfect example for how humans are now days, when he entered the Cedar forest to kill the protector of nature so he could divide what is called “uncivilized” in other words animals from “civilized” us humans he destroyed other animals life to make his life easy. To answer the question in simple words we got here by our actions of conquering. Gilgamesh’s way of being is an example of all questions. But the book answers more clearly the how did we get here than the rest.
So the epic novel of Gilgamesh is a book that gets in the end there is a part I got to interpret “The one who goes to the Nether World without leaving behind him any to mourn for him? Garbage is what he eats in the Netherworld. No dog would eat the food he has.” (Gilgamesh, page 92) o got to this quote is this how we are all going to end up? With no one that will mourn for us? It depends on how you live life. It depends if you waste it trying to avoid death or just to make money. It depends on each of us. But what is the purpose of life? For me is what you make it we have to live life as much as we can enjoy it every single second. This is not a lesson we learn directly from the book but we can somewhere find it. It is hard to realize what are we doing with our lives is it right is it wrong? But I have noticed that is not our time to make so many questions we got here by our actions and were we are going depends to us. I really enjoyed the book because I learned about life in my way it answered many questions that I had but it also left me with doubts that I will have to solve the rest of my life. I think that the lessons we learn from a text depends on the point of view and how we want to learn it, it depends on how closely are we looking or how far. In other words it depends to us.
So the epic novel of Gilgamesh is a book that gets in the end there is a part I got to interpret “The one who goes to the Nether World without leaving behind him any to mourn for him? Garbage is what he eats in the Netherworld. No dog would eat the food he has.” (Gilgamesh, page 92) o got to this quote is this how we are all going to end up? With no one that will mourn for us? It depends on how you live life. It depends if you waste it trying to avoid death or just to make money. It depends on each of us. But what is the purpose of life? For me is what you make it we have to live life as much as we can enjoy it every single second. This is not a lesson we learn directly from the book but we can somewhere find it. It is hard to realize what are we doing with our lives is it right is it wrong? But I have noticed that is not our time to make so many questions we got here by our actions and were we are going depends to us. I really enjoyed the book because I learned about life in my way it answered many questions that I had but it also left me with doubts that I will have to solve the rest of my life. I think that the lessons we learn from a text depends on the point of view and how we want to learn it, it depends on how closely are we looking or how far. In other words it depends to us.
Do we finfish what we start? I dont think so...
Most of the people when they set a goal and their told is impossible to accomplish they just stop, Gilgamesh on the other hand, two parts a god one part a man does not stop even if told so. He is willing to go on for what he has fought to accomplish, avoid death. What I have read of the book so far has lead me to the thought of Gilgamesh being a human, just like any other, there are times were we see he is afraid and there are times like right now we see he is a strong person “new life may be obtained by means of it I will carry the thomy plant back to my city” (pg-80) Gilgamesh as we can see with the voice of this quotation is determination to do whatever it takes him to reach his city without empty hands. As I have made connection to the book, I noticed that people can be described so strong, and have a week side, every one of us has a side of feelings. All of the heroes if the history have a side were they can be devastated like a week spot Aquileis’s heel could be an example. In this case Gilgamesh’s fear to die is his Aquileis’s heel. “Must I die too? Must I too be like that?” (pg 63) he is scared of death.
Not only this book shows the human side on all of us, but it teaches how to end what we have started, like Gilgamesh always finished what he started. Gilgamesh is considered a hero for his reputation but he didn’t obtain his reputation by giving up in the cedar forest no he continued. Gilgamesh is a book written in the early times with the purpose to teach and to tell a story and I personally have learned allot about the character and about life.
Not only this book shows the human side on all of us, but it teaches how to end what we have started, like Gilgamesh always finished what he started. Gilgamesh is considered a hero for his reputation but he didn’t obtain his reputation by giving up in the cedar forest no he continued. Gilgamesh is a book written in the early times with the purpose to teach and to tell a story and I personally have learned allot about the character and about life.
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
are we all part human part gods??
How would you like to be remembered? It was Gilgamesh fault that Enkidu is dead, for him to stop feeling bad he builds a statue “Gilgamesh called together the masters of statues lapidaries, forgers, workers in copper and gold, and commanded that there be made a statue of him, of Enkidu” (pg. 46-47) in my personal opinion I would not like to be remembered by a statue, unless I am really famous because it would be kind of ridiculous for someone to make a statue out of me when I am just one of the crowd. And in the case I get to be famous I would prefer a film that people everywhere can see it, or a documentary, or book. Gilgamesh is sad and in order for people to remember his foil (I would say Enkidu is Gilgamesh’s foil because in the previews chapters he was always behind him) he made a statue.
The great admiration I had for Gilgamesh when I started to read the book is now gone, I don’t think is fair what he did and “hear my prayer and save me as I enter into the passes where there are lions!”(pg 49) what happened to he is the strongest, the Sheppard, I don’t think so he is afraid of lion, and the all powerful can kill a lion. At the start of the book I had the image of Gilgamesh as hero a God but now, I have discovered that every hero has a human part but still no man who is 2 thirds a god and 1 third a man should be afraid of lions. But again maybe the author is trying to empathize that Gilgamesh is a human and makes mistakes as everyone. So I shall say that this novel is one that we should read carefully and slowly to understand the points of view it has.
If it means that Gilgamesh the god has a human side, do we human have a god-like side? If we do what is what can we do?
excercises
Using Commas: Exercise #1
Choose the correctly punctuated versions of the phrases or clauses from the drop down lists in order to complete the sentences below.
1. He left the scene of the accident and tried to forget that it had happened.
2. Oil,which is lighter than water,rises to the surface.
3.Madame de Stael was an attractive, gracious lady.
4. Nice is a word with many meanings,and some of them are contradictory.
5. The contractor testified that the house was completed and that the work had been done properly.
6. Some people refuse to go to the zoo because of pity for creatures that must live in small cages.
7. Taxicabs that are dirty are illegal in some cities.
8. The closet contained worn clothes, old shoes, and dirty hats.
9. The uninvited guest wore a dark blue tweed suit.
10. After surviving this ordeal,the trapper felt relieved.
11. Mark Twain's early novels,I believe,stand the test of time.
12. December 7, 1941,will never be forgotten.
13. The field was safe enough,wasn't it?
14. Write the editor of the Atlantic at 8 Arlington Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02116. (This question had both answer wrong, so I placed my own version)
15. He replied,"I have no idea what you mean."
16.After a good washing and grooming,the pup looked like a new dog.
17. Because of their opposition to institutions that force creatures to live in captivity,some people refuse to go to the zoo.
18. Vests,which were once popular,have been out of vogue for several years.
19. As a celestial goddess, she regulated the course of the heavenly bodies and controlled the alternating seasons.
20. I hope that someday he will learn how to be polite.
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Using Commas: Exercise 2
Choose the correctly punctuated versions of the phrases or clauses from the drop down lists in order to complete the sentences below.
1. There was no question that John's painting, a huge, colorful, and ugly mural, was the worst entry in the art exhibit.
2. Werner von Braun, Willy Ley, and Edward Teller, noted authorities in the field of rocket development, have done much to guide the missile program of the United States.
3. Mr. Cready's ability to say the wrong thing at the wrong time is, I believe, amazing.
4. Running around the house, the dog was abruptly stopped by a fence.
5. If the opposition should win,our candidate would never have any political future.
6. Gracefully, lightly, and daintily, the ballerina moved across the stage.
7. Glamour, the woman's fashion magazine, recently incorporated with Charm , another fashion journal.
8. Joe was born on May 7, 1955, and his best friend was born exactly two months later on July 7, 1955.
9. Mr. and Mrs. Kwon ,my parents' best friends, sat in front of us at the football game.
10. November 11, 1918, the armistice ending World War I was signed.
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Using Commas: Exercise 3
Choose the correctly punctuated versions of the phrases or clauses from the drop down lists in order to complete the sentences below.
1. The problems involved in this operation are, I think, numerous.
2. Celene,who does not usually tell anyone what she feels, said she didn't want to go to the dance.
3. To get tickets for some Broadway musicals, one has to order three months in advance.
4. Listening to the radio, Jun heard an announcement that Spangler, his own dog, was lost.
5. I used to live at 16689 Sutton Avenue, Milpitas, California, but we have since moved to 1895 Holland Way, Dubuque, Iowa.
6. The Valley of the Moon, the name of a section in Napa County, California, is the heart of the state's wine producing area.
7. Chris did not see how he could organize, write, and proofread this paper in only two hours.
8. By the pilings of the old pier, I found four starfish, a clam, and a sea anemone.
9. Yes, Helen did mention that all three of you were coming for lunch.
10. I believe, therefore, that fraternities are good influences on a college campus.
Choose the correctly punctuated versions of the phrases or clauses from the drop down lists in order to complete the sentences below.
1. He left the scene of the accident and tried to forget that it had happened.
2. Oil,which is lighter than water,rises to the surface.
3.Madame de Stael was an attractive, gracious lady.
4. Nice is a word with many meanings,and some of them are contradictory.
5. The contractor testified that the house was completed and that the work had been done properly.
6. Some people refuse to go to the zoo because of pity for creatures that must live in small cages.
7. Taxicabs that are dirty are illegal in some cities.
8. The closet contained worn clothes, old shoes, and dirty hats.
9. The uninvited guest wore a dark blue tweed suit.
10. After surviving this ordeal,the trapper felt relieved.
11. Mark Twain's early novels,I believe,stand the test of time.
12. December 7, 1941,will never be forgotten.
13. The field was safe enough,wasn't it?
14. Write the editor of the Atlantic at 8 Arlington Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02116. (This question had both answer wrong, so I placed my own version)
15. He replied,"I have no idea what you mean."
16.After a good washing and grooming,the pup looked like a new dog.
17. Because of their opposition to institutions that force creatures to live in captivity,some people refuse to go to the zoo.
18. Vests,which were once popular,have been out of vogue for several years.
19. As a celestial goddess, she regulated the course of the heavenly bodies and controlled the alternating seasons.
20. I hope that someday he will learn how to be polite.
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Using Commas: Exercise 2
Choose the correctly punctuated versions of the phrases or clauses from the drop down lists in order to complete the sentences below.
1. There was no question that John's painting, a huge, colorful, and ugly mural, was the worst entry in the art exhibit.
2. Werner von Braun, Willy Ley, and Edward Teller, noted authorities in the field of rocket development, have done much to guide the missile program of the United States.
3. Mr. Cready's ability to say the wrong thing at the wrong time is, I believe, amazing.
4. Running around the house, the dog was abruptly stopped by a fence.
5. If the opposition should win,our candidate would never have any political future.
6. Gracefully, lightly, and daintily, the ballerina moved across the stage.
7. Glamour, the woman's fashion magazine, recently incorporated with Charm , another fashion journal.
8. Joe was born on May 7, 1955, and his best friend was born exactly two months later on July 7, 1955.
9. Mr. and Mrs. Kwon ,my parents' best friends, sat in front of us at the football game.
10. November 11, 1918, the armistice ending World War I was signed.
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Using Commas: Exercise 3
Choose the correctly punctuated versions of the phrases or clauses from the drop down lists in order to complete the sentences below.
1. The problems involved in this operation are, I think, numerous.
2. Celene,who does not usually tell anyone what she feels, said she didn't want to go to the dance.
3. To get tickets for some Broadway musicals, one has to order three months in advance.
4. Listening to the radio, Jun heard an announcement that Spangler, his own dog, was lost.
5. I used to live at 16689 Sutton Avenue, Milpitas, California, but we have since moved to 1895 Holland Way, Dubuque, Iowa.
6. The Valley of the Moon, the name of a section in Napa County, California, is the heart of the state's wine producing area.
7. Chris did not see how he could organize, write, and proofread this paper in only two hours.
8. By the pilings of the old pier, I found four starfish, a clam, and a sea anemone.
9. Yes, Helen did mention that all three of you were coming for lunch.
10. I believe, therefore, that fraternities are good influences on a college campus.
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Who pays?? Is it fair??
What happens when you do something wrong and someone else pays for it? As I read Gilgamesh I thought of how unfair life was in the past. In the tablets 5 and 6 Gilgamesh kills the bull form the heavens so the gods decide to punish him by killing Enkidu. How is this fair? In a way they do punish Gilgamesh by killing his brother and his companion but we read that Enkidu didn’t do anything at all, so why? Gilgamesh is described as the prefect man the king the god, the wild ox, and Enkidu was his double, but Gilgamesh is needed but the humans as said by the gods because he is thier salvation thier way of knowledge. Though in some way Gilgamesh sufferes allot since they just took his brothere imagine how would you feel if they did that to you? I think is worse than killing him because now he has to live with guilt that because his actions, got his companion death.
Many thought also came up is how someone can make such an impact in your life. Enkidu was not so long in Gilgamesh life but still Gilgamesh made a sculpture in his honor. People, have a way to make you learn things of them so in a way I think that, this is the purpose of Gilgamesh, to make you realize of many things. i am enjoying so much gilgamesh right now that i have learned so much. Gilgamesh for me is not only a way to learn about how to write epic but we also learn about the history the past the gods. is that the character of gilgamesh gives you so many teachings that i think is important to realy read careful what is written.
Many thought also came up is how someone can make such an impact in your life. Enkidu was not so long in Gilgamesh life but still Gilgamesh made a sculpture in his honor. People, have a way to make you learn things of them so in a way I think that, this is the purpose of Gilgamesh, to make you realize of many things. i am enjoying so much gilgamesh right now that i have learned so much. Gilgamesh for me is not only a way to learn about how to write epic but we also learn about the history the past the gods. is that the character of gilgamesh gives you so many teachings that i think is important to realy read careful what is written.
Monday, September 1, 2008
dreams are??
There is allot of people in the world who believe that dreams are sign, especially in the past people thought of it as a superstition. As I read the tablets of Gilgamesh I thought as they talked about the dreams they had and how it represent the creature that they are going to encounter I imagined that this being and old text people at that time imagined dreams as a sing. But then a dream according to a doctor is a recompilation of the things that happened on your day. So I think how it that people thought of dreams as a sign. But then it made it clear that once again “on the next day they travelled fifty leagues, and fifty leagues a day for two days more” (pg 22) this text is in the past and they believed that a white bird was sign of peace and etc. In my opinion people had no way on knowing things like the anatomy of the body since they don’t have the technology that we do right now.
Gilgamesh is one of the oldest texts we have of the world so in represents what the people believed in so we have to trust the people of that time. Who are we to trust? How can we believe if it is really sign?
Gilgamesh is one of the oldest texts we have of the world so in represents what the people believed in so we have to trust the people of that time. Who are we to trust? How can we believe if it is really sign?
a hero? who is he?
Who is Gilgamesh? How does he look like? What did he do? Interesting facts I learned as I read Gilgamesh. Gilgamesh is “who knew the way things were before the flood, the secret things, the mystery” (pg 2) as we can infer he did many great things so many that peopled loved him and as the book said he had the aura of an ox. Wile reading I thought of many things, how Gilgamesh can be so perfect. It looked like to me that the author had a great admiration towards Gilgamesh; he describes him like the greatest power on earth.
In some way Gilgamesh can be the same as Ishmael because they are both so intelligent and by the both authors so admired. They are like a hero like a figure; as far as I read my feelings through out the pages were admiration to the character described “there was no withstanding the aura or power of the wild ox” (pg.4) I’ve created like and admiration to the character and a bond a connection with the book.
In some way Gilgamesh can be the same as Ishmael because they are both so intelligent and by the both authors so admired. They are like a hero like a figure; as far as I read my feelings through out the pages were admiration to the character described “there was no withstanding the aura or power of the wild ox” (pg.4) I’ve created like and admiration to the character and a bond a connection with the book.
Thursday, August 28, 2008
It’s all up to us.
The last chapter of Ishmael is a closing to the book, but is not just a closing is what it represents, which is a hope for the humans. After all we learned on the book about society many people when they read the words “It was the pneumonia that got him- your friend the ape.”(p.260) they think that maybe without Ishmael the narrator can’t really go on. This goes further than just the end. Ishmael goal of making the narrator a person who can save the world was accomplished, but the narrator will without thinking he did. We can see the change in him; he created a great bond with Ishmael not as a teacher but as a friend.
“With gorilla gone, will there be hope for man?”(p.263) this quote creates irony in the novel because if we think Ishmael was a much smarter creature than any human, and when he is gone is there going to be someone like him in this case the narrator. So creates a feeling of desperation because for the narrator Ishmael was the only hope for man and now the world is in hands of those who read the book. The world is now in our hands.
Can we save the world? Is there hope for man? Is the end near? Is there someone like Ishmael who can change the world?
It’s all up to us.
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Michelle Obama`s speech corrected
can't tell you how much it means to have Craig and my mom here tonight. Like Craig, I can feel my dad looking down on us, just as I've felt his presence in every grace-filled moment of my life.
At six-foot-six, I've often felt like Craig was looking down on me too...literally. But the truth is, both when we were kids and today, he wasn't looking down on me - he was watching over me.
And he's been there for me every step of the way since that clear February day 19 months ago, when - with little more than our faith in each other and a hunger for change - we joined my husband, Barack Obama, on the improbable journey that's brought us to this moment.
But each of us also comes here tonight by way of our own improbable journey.
I come here tonight as a sister, blessed with a brother who is my mentor, my protector and my lifelong friend.
I come here as a wife who loves my husband and believes he will be an extraordinary president.
I come here as a Mom whose girls are the heart of my heart and the center of my world - they're the first thing I think about when I wake up in the morning, and the last thing I think about when I go to bed at night. Their future - and all our children's future - is my stake in this election.
And I come here as a daughter - raised on the South Side of Chicago by a father who was a blue collar city worker, and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me. My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, and her intelligence reflected in my own daughters.
My Dad was our rock. Although he was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in his early thirties, he was our provider, our champion, our hero. As he got sicker, it got harder for him to walk, it took him longer to get dressed in the morning. But if he was in pain, he never let on. He never stopped smiling and laughing - even while struggling to button his shirt, even while using two canes to get himself across the room to give my Mom a kiss. He just woke up a little earlier, and worked a little harder.
He and my mom poured everything they had into me and Craig. It was the greatest gift a child can receive: never doubting for a single minute that you're loved, and cherished, and have a place in this world. And thanks to their faith and hard work, we both were able to go on to college. So I know firsthand from their lives - and mine - that the American Dream endures.
And you know, what struck me when I first met Barack was that even though he had this funny name, even though he'd grown up all the way across the continent in Hawaii, his family was so much like mine. He was raised by grandparents who were working class folks just like my parents, and by a single mother who struggled to pay the bills just like we did. Like my family, they scrimped and saved so that he could have opportunities they never had themselves. And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values: that you work hard for what you want in life; that your word is your bond and you do what you say you're going to do; that you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don't know them, and even if you don't agree with them.
And Barack and I set out to build lives guided by these values, and pass them on to the next generation. Because we want our children - and all children in this nation - to know that the only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work for them.
And as our friendship grew, and I learned more about Barack, he introduced me to the work he'd done when he first moved to Chicago after college. Instead of heading to Wall Street, Barack had gone to work in neighborhoods devastated when steel plants shut down, and jobs dried up. And he'd been invited back to speak to people from those neighborhoods about how to rebuild their community.
The people gathered together that day were ordinary folks doing the best they could to build a good life. They were parents living paycheck to paycheck; grandparents trying to get by on a fixed income; men frustrated that they couldn't support their families after their jobs disappeared. Those folks weren't asking for a handout or a shortcut. They were ready to work - they wanted to contribute. They believed - like you and I believe - that America should be a place where you can make it if you try.
Barack stood up that day, and spoke words that have stayed with me ever since. He talked about "The world as it is" and "The world as it should be." And he said that all too often, we accept the distance between the two, and settle for the world as it is - even when it doesn't reflect our values and aspirations. But he reminded us that we know what our world should look like. We know what fairness and justice and opportunity look like. And he urged us to believe in ourselves - to find the strength within ourselves to strive for the world as it should be. And isn't that the great American story?
 It's the story of men and women gathered in churches and union halls, in town squares and high school gyms - people who stood up and marched and risked everything they had - refusing to settle, determined to mold our future into the shape of our ideals.
It is because of their will and determination that this week, we celebrate two anniversaries: the 88th anniversary of women winning the right to vote, and the 45th anniversary of that hot summer day when Dr. King lifted our sights and our hearts with his dream for our nation.
we are all in prison!!
As I read chapter twelve at first I was kind of thinking the same things as I did with the past chapters, that there are two sides of a story, that man have a thought of world was made for them. “In other words, man does have a place in the world, but it’s not his place to rule it” (pg.243) which corrects that thought we do not own the world but we are part of it. We can continue living how we are but, we have to leave the rest of the community live as well. We can’t go back to change our society to a leaver society we must change the system of ours and “not to reach back but to reach forward” (pg. 250) as Ishmael said.
In the past three pages Ishmael says something that marked me it made feel different of life. “The world of the takers is one vast prison, and except for a handful of leavers scattered across the world, the entire human race is now inside that prison.” (pg. 251) and it’s true because we live in such a screwed up world that we can’t get out of. There are people with allot of money and class but this is not about social status is about the whole world living in the same conditions a marked end. We don’t know when, but if we don’t find the key of the cell and change, we are all going to die sooner or later.
Is there going to be chance? Can we find that key? Is there going to be someone who can change our society? Is the end going to be soon?
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Two sides of a story. Two sides of a life
In chapter eleven, we learn more about the leavers and the benefits of the agricultural revolution, through a dialogue between Ishmael and the pupil. As I learned more and more of the leavers several thoughts came to my mind, I started to realize that I've always thought the leavers were un-civilized ”And so he has to stay on that treadmill forever, forever one step behind his prey and one step ahead of his enemies”(pg 220),it all depends on point of view. This chapter made me recognize a mistake that I always make, which is that I don’t take in consideration that in a story there are always going to be two points of view.
In page 224 the pupil tries to explain Ishmael that living as leaver is a wrong thing, when there happens to be no deer to hunt the leavers look for something else, the takers instead can mange to always find deer. “And this is why we lead shameful lives Bwana? This is why we should set aside a life we love and go to work in one of your factories? Because we eat rabbits when it happens that no deer presents itself to us?” (Pg.224). this proves exactly what I am saying, for a leaver when there is no deer, they you look for another thing, because they cant control deer. In his way of thought this the right way to live, but for the takers it is wrong to live like that.
Which point of view is the right one? Should we live life as leavers or as takers? Leave all to destiny or should we control it? Maybe, if mix the both points of view will it be a better way to live? But now it all depends to us.
exercises about sentence fragments
The sentences below appeared in papers written by students. Act as their editor, marking a C if the sentences in the group are all complete and an F if any of the sentences in the group is a fragment. Could you tell these writers why the fragments are incomplete sentences?
f_ 1. Then I attended Morris Junior High. A junior high that was a bad experience.
___f_ 2. The scene was filled with beauty. Such as the sun sending its brilliant rays to the earth and the leaves of various shades of red, yellow, and brown moving slowly in the wind.
_c___ 3. He talked for fifty minutes without taking his eyes off his notes. Like other teachers in that department, he did not encourage students' questions.
___f_ 4. Within each group, a wide range of features to choose from. It was difficult to distinguish between them.
__c__ 5. A few of the less serious fellows would go into a bar for a steak dinner and a few glasses of beer. After this meal, they were ready for anything.
___c_ 6. It can be really embarrassing to be so emotional. Especially when you are on your first date, you feel that you should be in control.
____c 7. The magazine has a reputation for a sophisticated, prestigious, and elite group of readers. Although that is a value judgment and in circumstances not a true premise.
____ f 8. In the seventh grade every young boy goes out for football. To prove to himself and his parents that he is a man.
____f 9. She opened the door and let us into her home. Not realizing at the time that we would never enter that door in her home again.
____c 10. As Christmas grows near, I find myself looking back into my childhood days at fun-filled times of snowball fights. To think about this makes me happy.
____f 11. Making up his mind quickly. Jim ordered two dozen red roses for his wife. Hoping she would accept his apology.
____f 12. They were all having a good time. Until one of Joe's oldest and best friends had a little too much to drink.
____f 13. Although it only attained a speed of about twelve miles an hour. My old rowboat with its three-horsepower motor seemed like a high-speed job to me.
____c 14. With my brother standing by my side, I reached for the pot handle. Tilting the pot way too much caused the boiling water to spill.
____f 15. The small, one-story houses are all the same size and style. With no difference except the color.
____f 16. Being a friend of mine like he was when we first joined the soccer team. Together we learned a lot.
excercice 2
1. How can a person find patriotism in a local night club? Well, it did not take me too long. About four weeks ago in a little night club in Louisville, Kentucky, a couple of my friends, Rick and Lon, the duo who were providing the entertainment that night for the club.they opened with colombia es pasion and then colombia tierra querida.(dependant clause)
2. For the past twenty years, the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan has been measuring the level of Americans' trust and confidence in their politicians and quasi-political trust and confidence in their political institutions and their leaders. "Political" refers to being all levels of government, and "quasi-political"contain churches, labor unions, large professional/business associations, educational institutions, and the like. The result is that a very sharp decline has taken place every year since 1964. (no main verb)
3. For 200 years Americans believed in better jobs, better homes, a better life for one's children. This confidence no longer exists. Polls now indicate that fewer Americans who feel they are better off today than they were five years ago. A public-opinion analysis group has found that large numbers of Americans, at some times and in some places, see themselves as lower on the ladder. (instead of adding with) Adding worse living conditions and anticipation of further decline over the next five years. (dependent clause)
4. Well, in looking at the picture at the left you see an old lady. She has a very funny look on her face. (instead of a period a coma would be better instead of a capital letter a low case a) As if she's lonely and just wants to be left alone. She also looks as if she has seen a lot and experienced lots of things.(dependent clause)
5. A president is an appointed leader. ( instead of period a coma would be better) Someone who is a decision maker in the executive branch of our government. This doesn't necessarily mean that the person the people elect is capable. Just hopefully assumes. Assumes through his past record as a politician, over the years' buildup of experience and handling situations. (dependent clause)
excercice 3
correct paragraph:
My brother was always my best friend when I was a child, especially as we two were almost alone in the world. We lived with our old grandmother in a little house, almost a shack, in the country. Whenever I think of him now, I see a solemn, responsible boy, a boy too old for his years, who looked out for me no matter what. Once there was a bully, John Anson, who looked enormous to me, though he was probably an average twelve-year-old. John had it in for me because he liked Littice Grant, who liked me. He decided to beat me up right before her eyes. I was lucky my brother came by. He didn't interfere any. He just stood there. Somehow, though, his presence gave me confidence. I licked the stuffing out of John Anson. If my brother hadn't been there, I don't think I could have done it.corrections are in blue
Monday, August 25, 2008
Is the "right way" right?
In this chapter Ishmael, looses contact with the pupil. As soon as the pupil goes back to Ishmael’s apartment he finds out that he was evicted, so he calls the local zoos and the city hall to find out where exactly he could be. Finally the pupil finds Ishmael at a state fair. Ishmael’s first reaction as he sees the pupil was anger. “I didn’t invite you to make yourself my patron,” he said, “so kindly refrain from patronizing me” (p.195). as soon as I read this it reminded me of an anecdote where I was invited to my cousins recital and as soon as I got there I asked here why wasn’t she dancing her first reaction was anger and a bit of embarrassment, because I saw her in those conditions. I felt that Ishmael was embarrassed of his condition, he was like a role model to the pupil and, a role model is not found in that situation.
I also felt that the student was disappointed on Ishmael because he felt that no matter the situation they could still continue the lessons. “I looked around helplessly. “You mean you actually want to stay here? Once again Ishmael’s eye turned icy. “All right, all right,” I told him “but what about me?” (pg. 195) In a way the student feels guilty for not being able to help Ishmael, and not to be able to continue his lessons. It reminds me of the feeling you get when you feel helpless, it makes you depressed.
Overall this chapter made me feel that the book was going to have a sad ending. Instead ishmael agrees to continue the lesson about the mother culture and the knowledge of the takers that comes from the leavers of certain knowledge "Certain knowledge is knowledge of the one right way. That’s what takers want”(p.204). People try to find the right way to live so with out certain knowledge they can’t live right, and sometimes the right way is not even right.it is time for us to decide wether live by rules or to think out of the box.
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Another perspective of the problem.. wait we have one?
Ishmael is a book that tells a great story about a teacher and pupil. This book is not just telling any story, is a story that goes deep in to the understanding of life and society. I liked a lot about the book that the teacher is a gorilla, for me it is a way of saying that our society is so screwed up that we’ve got to the point were as instead of teaching animals, they are teaching us. I think the book represents a call back for humanity to stop destroying the world. It is nothing but a broke society the one that we are living on filled with the self-centered thought about the world made for man.
I made a connection with the theme of the book because, they have told many times about the world having a problem such as global warming but I never understood the graveness of it, since it is just like when your mom tells you not to play with scissors but you ignore it and still do it. Ishmael made me realize how serious the problem is. For me the book is a way of entertaining your self, as it is also a great source of knowledge. Many people in the world do not actually realize that we have a problem so Ishmael not only notes that but also explains why they do not know. It is clear that Ishmael finds a way to tell the reader to start making a change. The beginning of the problems starts with the foundation of the society as quoted by the book. “Trial and error isn't a bad way to learn how to build an aircraft, but it is a disastrous way to learn how to build a civilization.” (Pg. 103) This quotation explains how in the first place we do not realize the problem, since it has been there from the start of society and nothing wrong seems to happen. People cannot seem to see the world from another perspective; which is what precisely the teacher tries to pass on to his student another perspective of the world the side that people ignore.
The book starts with the words “Teacher seeks pupil. Must have an earnest desire to save the world. Apply in person.” In the usual sense, the pupil is the one who seeks teacher not the other way around but here we note that the book is not going to be a normal book. The teacher is so desperate to share his knowledge his gone extremely far to seek a student. This stands for after reading the book that the whole point of it is make people concerned about the world, and about a problem, this book for me can be a start to make people change perspective. To think out of the box, as if not belonging to modern society.
Thursday, August 21, 2008
answers
- a blog is a journal on line, written, read or updated. It consists of entries or posts organized newest on the top and oldest on the bottom. Some blogs include videos, quotes graphics and so on. A book is text written on paper containing several chapters or not depending on style.
- Blogs have changed in a way that allot of people in the world share it has increased its use. Not all for the same reason since some people use the reading blog, the gossip blog, the science blog etc.
- I might read blog for research or to comment or because I was in a searcher as Google and accidently I found it on the sources. In addition, a blog is easier to read and you can leave your comments on each post it is also a way to save paper.
- I think it depends on the creator or on what its saying, because you never know if what the author of the blog is true or not. In books if what wrote is not true is not published, you have a freedom in blogs. Overall, I think that blogs are not such reliable source. Once again, it depends on the author.
- My title depends on the purpose of the blog. If it is a reading blog, you should call it a reading blog. But the title can depend to your creativity.
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