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DERBY REPORTAGE

In the artical of the Kentucky Derby by Hunter S. Thompson's i find its very interesting how he writes it. instead of writing as many others would like in a magazine or in newspaper he writes if he was writing it from a journal or a diary that just explains what he experienced when he was over at the derby.he tells the reader what he experienced in person and has some valuer language through out the story.

Johnney Cyberpunk

Is a cyberpunk story. we learned about this in class and cyberpunk is science fiction or close to earth. The creation of things is cyberpunk Gonzo journalism is different than cyberpunk because its often written in first person and the reporter puts himself into the story.

MAPLAN

My plan is to read a book and experts from other books by the author i chose. Then take what iv learn about the authors style of writing and id put quotes along with my opinion of my i thought it was important. Id also talk about what inspired him to write what and how he did along with examples. id also talk about important invents in the authors life. and maby a few other things i come up with along the way.

To This Day - Shane Koyczan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltun92DfnPY

vocab

Chronic- long duration; continuing. Prolonged; lingering.

Sentiment-A general cast of mind regarding something. A specific view.

Morality- The quality of being in accord with standards of rights or good conduct.

Remorse-Moral anguish arising from repentance for past misdeeds; bitter regret.

Defect-The lack of something necessary or desirable for completion or perfection; deficiency.

Acquaintance- Knowledge about someone or something. Knowledge of a person acquired by a relationship less intimate than friendship.

Sanity-The  condition of being sane. Soundness of judgement or reason.

Implication- The act of implicating or the condition of being implicated. The act of implying or the condition of being implied.

Alternative- The choice between two mutually exclusive possibilities.

Savage- Not domesticated or cultivated; wild merciless; brutal. Lacking polish or manners. A primitive or uncivilized person.

Phenomenon- Extraordinary things or occurrences. Prodigies.

I am Samuel Beckett

I am a play write

I am smart

I am hard working 

I am creative 

I am me

Introducing Facts on Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett was born on Good Friday, April 13, 1906 

Despite his reputation in the world of drama, Beckett wrote novels, short stories, and poetry for nearly two
decades before turning his attention to plays.

Nearly all of the English-language premieres of Beckett’s plays were directed by Alan Schneider. The two maintained a close working collaboration until Schneider’s death in 1984.

Although an Irishman, Beckett was of French descent. Many of his most famous works, including Waiting for Godot, were originally written in French and later translated into English.

In the early 1980s, Beckett attempted to shut down a production of Endgame directed by the well-respected Joanne Akalaitis. Beckett’s primary reason was that Akalaitis disregarded his stage directions and changed the setting of the play to a subway station.

The American premiere of Waiting for Godot featured Bert Lahr, best known for his performance as the Cowardly Lion in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz.

Vocab

Brouhaha - Excited public interest, discussion, or the like, as the clamor attending some sensational event; hullabaloo.
Cloy - to be weary by an excess of food, sweetness, pleasure, etc.
Demeanor - Conduct; behavior; deportment.
Deference - Respectful submission or yielding to the judgment, opinion, will, etc.
Enigmatic - Resembling an enigma; perplexing; mysterious.
Definitive - Most reliable or complete, as of a text, author, criticism, study, or the like.
Bumptious - Offensively self-assertive.
Choleric - Extremely irritable or easily angered.
Bulwark - A wall of earth or other material built for defense; rampart.
Curtail - To cut short; cut off a part of; abridge; reduce.
Adamant - Utterly unyielding in attitude or opinion in spite of all appeals.
Profligate - Utterly and shamelessly immoral dissipated; thoroughly
Mawkish - Characterized by sickly sentimentality; weakly emotional.
Thwart - To oppose successful; prevent from accomplish a purpose.
Onus - A difficult or disagreeable obligation, task, burden, etc.
Requisite - Required or necessary for particular purpose position.
Mollify - To soften in feeling or temper, as a person; pacify; appease.
Sartorial - Of or pertaining to tailors or their trade.
Presentiment - A feeling or permission that something is about to happen, especially something evil.
Impromptu - Made or done without previous preparation.
Forbearance - The act of forbearing; a refraining from something.
Remit - To transmit or send money, a check to a person or place, usually in payment.

My ranking scale

Connor Albright: 8
Andrew Alcazar: 9
Francisco Ayala: 8
Mareya Biely: 7
Ethan Clardy: 8
Des Cruz: 5
Eli Esparza: 10
Allison Fouratt: 8
Christian Hernandez: 8
Mia Hernandez: 10
Whitney Houg: 10
Nathan Limon: 5
Ricky Luna: 7
Jared Perry: 7
Malik Pope: 8
Uriel Ruiz: 8
Sarah Stevens: 10
Chase Uriarte: 5
Rudy Valentine: 7
Angelica Velez: 3 Lissette Villalobos: 3
Adam Wilkanoski
Analyssa Brown: 5
Ashley Chantry 8
Julia Chavez: 5
Austyn Childers: 6

poem

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
― Robert Frost

What would you do

If someone gave you 10 billion dollars and told you to fix the country by any means you see fit how would you do it.

comment below and tell me your answer.

Spring Vocab 2

Patronage- The power to control appointments.

Cadence- A rhythmic flow of a sequence of sound or words.

Suffused- To overspread with a liquid.

Sieve- A strainer.

Centrifuge- A compartment spun around an axis to separate contained materials of different densities.

Dentifrice- Tooth paste.

Leisure- Unhurried ease.

Vessel- A hollow container to hold liquid.

Saccharine- Excessively sweet.

Phonograph- Record player.

Profusion- Abundance.

Praetorian- Forming or resembling the Roman Imperial bodyguard.

Veiled- Having or wearing a veil or a concealing cover.

Harlequin- A character in comedy with a shaved head, masked face, tights and wooden sword.

Toil- Hard work.

Delinquents- People who commit crimes.

Gibber- To speak meaninglessly.

Insidious- Intended to entrap or beguile.

Strewn- To scatter or sprinkle.

Spring Vocab  1

Proboscis- the trunk of an elephant.

Pantomime- the art or technique of conveying emotions, actions, feelings, etc. by gestures without speech.

Proclivities- natural or habitual inclination or tendency.

Centrifuge- an apparatus that rotates at high speeds.

Odious- deserving or causing hatred.

Jargon- the language, especially the vocabulary, peculiar to a particular track, profession.

Ravenous- extremely hungry, famished.

Parlor- a room for the reception and entertainment of visitor's to one's home.

Stagnant- not flowing or running.

Cacophony- harsh disordenance of sound.

Tamped- to force in or down.

Flourish- to be in a vigorous state.

Plateau- a flat stand.

Rollick- to move or act in a carefree, frolicsome way.

Asylum- an institution for the maintenance and care of the mentally ill.

▶ David Foster Wallace- -This Is Water- (part 2)

▶ David Foster Wallace- -This Is Water- (part 1)

LAQ 1

1. I read the perks of being a wallflower and its told in first person and is about this kid whos just starting high school and just before school starts his best friend kills him self and the book is about how and what its like to go through high school for the main character.

2. The theme of the book is what its like to go through high school.

3. The way Charley tells it (the main character) is he writes these letters to the stranger and these letters are what we read and what makes up the book and so his tone is more empethetic.
“
we accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn't change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks Of Being A Wallflower

LAQ 2

1. I read Go ask alice and this is being read in first person and is about a girl who trys drugs and her decent in to the life of drugs an what her life is because of the drugs.

2. The theme of the book is the how drugs can effect your life.

3. The tone of Go ask alice is more of a moral and whats right and wrong.

“I'm partly somebody else trying to fit in and say the right things and do the right thing and be in the right place and wear what everybody else is wearing. Sometimes I think we're all trying to be shadows of each other, trying to buy the same records and everything even if we don't like them. Kids are like robots, off an assembly line, and I don't want to be a robot!”
“I really am only one infinitely small part of an aching humanity.”
― Beatrice Sparks, Go Ask Alice
“The same old dumb teachers teaching the same old dumb subjects in the same old dumb school. I seem to be kind of losing interest in everything. At first I thought high school would be fun but it's just dull. Everything's dull. Maybe it's because I'm growing up and life is becoming more blase.”
― Beatrice Sparks, Go Ask Alice




Im looking for my third one and will post it when i find it thank you.