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?

Contrato

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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.

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

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.
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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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.