College: sociology 100

Notes and assignments

IF YOU FORGET ME

I want you to know
one thing. 

You know how this is: 
if I look 
at the crystal moon, at the red branch 
of the slow autumn at my window, 
if I touch 
near the fire 
the impalpable ash 
or the wrinkled body of the log, 
everything carries me to you, 
as if everything that exists, 
aromas, light, metals, 
were little boats 
that sail 
toward those isles of yours that wait for me. 

Well, now, 
if little by little you stop loving me 
I shall stop loving you little by little. 

If suddenly 
you forget me 
do not look for me, 
for I shall already have forgotten you. 

If you think it long and mad, 
the wind of banners 
that passes through my life, 
and you decide 
to leave me at the shore 
of the heart where I have roots, 
remember 
that on that day, 
at that hour, 
I shall lift my arms 
and my roots will set off 
to seek another land. 

But 
if each day, 
each hour, 
you feel that you are destined for me 
with implacable sweetness, 
if each day a flower 
climbs up to your lips to seek me, 
ah my love, ah my own, 
in me all that fire is repeated, 
in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten, 
my love feeds on your love, beloved, 
and as long as you live it will be in your arms 
without leaving mine.
Pablo Neruda

TPCASTT: *Poem Analysis Method: 
title, paraphrase, connotation, diction,
attitude, tone, shift(s), title revisited and
theme *

•Poem title meaning: this poem is reflecting on the idea that if his lover is to let go of everything they've once had, he will not wait around. He will not allow himself to wait around for nothing.

•Paraphrases:
"I want you to know
one thing." " If suddenly 
you forget me 
do not look for me, 
for I shall already have forgotten you. " these two show how he is informing the lover he will not wait for it is now or never she must make sure shes making the right choice

•Connotation: " I shall lift my arms 
and my roots will set off 
to seek another land." he is not literally going to search for land but he is going to find happiness elsewhere on his own.

Lit Circles Notes

Slaughterhouse five:
•3rd person
billy main character
•unstuck in time goes from war to marriage
•bombing of dresdon where prisoner of war in slaughterhouse five
•no one likes him he doesnt fit in
•married wife because felt sorry
•blamed ronalds death on him. rosaro wanted revenge
•alien sex zoo with famous movie star and observe
•motif: so it goes
•metaphors
• dark humor

Kafka on the Shore:
• imagery
•foreshadowing
•theme: dreams vs reality
•tone: sad sometimes humorous
•motif: but the whole thing... if theres a curse...
• boy runs away mother and sister ran away when he was four father is emotionally abussive
•disabled man runs away
•tone modern greek proficy
plays with perception of character
• the two plots converge and clash at the end

Life of Pi:
•young man paceen changes name to pi odd boy in indian family owns a zoo wants to serve god. raise hindu then meeta a christian priest meets muslim from mosc. practices three religions. argue about which religion is better but he just wants to serve god
•similes about animals
•theme: serving god, survival, 3 animals and obstacles
•motif:territorial dominance
circus masters that taim lions which is why he trains tiger
people and animals like their territory. need space to function well
•boat sinks and brings zoo to sell animals for money
•trying to survive and adapt with what they have
• things we think are good but in reality aren't
•color orange pi sister had an orange cat, life jacket, orange juice, tiger
•theme: self discovery
•narration: people dont believe so gives a realistic view. had a lot of religion then lost faith a biy but the journey on the boat strengthened it
•3 sections divided into

AP Practice Exam Part 1

1. E
2. A
3. E
4. A
5. B
6. A
7. D
8. C
9. D
10.B
11. A
12. E
13. D
14.D
15.D
16.C
17. A
18. E
19. D
20. A
21. B
22. C
23. B
24. B
25. C
26. C
27. A
28. C
29. B
30. C
31. D
32. A
33. B
34. A
35. C
36. D
37.  E
38. C
39. C
40.D
41. B
42. C
43. A
44. C
45.C
46. E
47.B
48.E
49. B
50. D
51. B
52.C
53. C

Macbeth Intro

•evolution to hero as antihero
•anachronism: out of place in times
•Macbeth: kings were supposed to be kingly
-tone: sinnister
king halo like holy but not
-Dark Play
-evil central characters
-bloody deaths and miserable
-1606 james first king of england for 3 years and refers to this in the play
fasinated by witch craft
-james inherited thrown through banquo and fleance. dunkin was murdered and it was well known
-1040-1057the real macbeth was killed by malcoms son malcom the third. 10/14 kings murdered
macbeth ruled well and wise. defeated by malcom who invaded scottland and killed macbeths family
-king james uniting englanf and scottland
-political correctness- cant live witn consequence and has remorse tries to redeem himself
-noooo human affection trust love etc.
-"fair is fowl and fowl is fair" (paradox)
-witch craft was a popular belief but only bad witches, go out at night, make poisons. can't have good without something to prepare it with. we try and show whos god and who isn't for society
-demonology by king james
-1604 witch craft was a capitol offense hanging burning or drowning. they are evil servants. devil was very real and trapped people
-temptation witches present and are mustrusted
-can stop sun, daylight storms, invisible(antagonist) open graves, called the dead
-macbeth supernatural human
-end audience was satisfied to see wrong deeds get punished
-intrigued by witches powers. witches dont ever lie to him he just interprets it wrong. they alwllow him to deceave himself (fallen hero)
- devil doesn't do anything to us but leads us into temptation

Carrie: Lit Techniques

•Time:1979
•Tone: depressing, sad, mysterious
•Direct Character: Carrie and her mother. Carrie is very relatable and makes the reader feel sorry for her in the sense that we are in high school and can relate or have seen bullying in such manner. Her mom is straight forward. She is that strict old fashioned parent and in that time setting it wasnt unusual however she was an extremist.
•Theme: the need of acceptance
•Anatagonist: Chris is constantly making Carries like miserable.She was the one who first pointed out that she has started her period in the shower and it was her idea to terrorize her at prom with the pigs blood.
•imagery: first startes in the locker room than continued throughout novel
•Motif: constant refernece of the locker room mishap
•Symbolism: pigs blood(killing spree starter), telekinetic(weapon or defense), carlin street(where she feels she belongs and always returns), dirty pillows(being a women is a sin in the eyes of her mother)
•Simile: "she was about as good looking as the ass ended of a dray horse"
•Personification: "the mirror fell on the floor and shattered at her feet, leaving only the plastic ring to stare at her like a blinded eye"
"a huge, oily cloud of fire climbed over the elms in courthouse park, lighting the duck pond and the little league diamond in scarlet
•references used throughout novel:
my name is susan snell by susan snell, the shadow exploded, carrie:the black dawn of tk by jack garer, ogilivies dictionary of psychic phenomena, sinners in the hands of angry god by jonathan edwards

Sacratic Seminar

*THEMES
•Consumerism: everyone needs to have new things..
Ex-throwing away old clothes, shakespeare, god, etc.
•dedicated to the greatet good
•Unity: can't be the ideal society without everyone on the same page
Ex-not wanting to stay a scientist because of the disgrace
•Corruption of values: marriage, mothers, children, family
• More optimistic at the start of the novel.. Trying to prove a point
*SYMBOLS
•Ford: Industrialism
•Froid: inter ego of humanity
•Assembly line: mindlessly doing own task
•Soma: control of government and conditioning
-Everyone has there own soma
*OTHER NOTES
•Conditioned to think they were chosen ones (gamma, beta, etc)
-Main conditioned is to be happy
-Disreguard other emotions
•Our conditioned is to feel individually special
•John makes lenina seem pure and then she throws herself at him
•Bernard becomes corrupt towards the end
-Ex: John gets into a fight and bernard won't help because he doesn't want to get cast away
• He writes because her thinks people aren't aware
•Demonize genetic engineering but a lot of that technology is helpful and we do use it today
• technology vs. ethnics
* GENDER ROLES
•Mother vs. father
-try to make equality within their casts
-make men more dominate based on who gets the girls
-huxleys own values because no female authority
Ex: johns mom being called a whore reflexs our society
-gender gap made women equal but not in charge
•Alpha plus were all males
-Women work with embryos so motherly instincts
*SIGNIFICANCE OF TITLE:
•ship crashes never seen a man like sering a new creature.. Huxley seeing world evolve and being apart of the brave new world
•Border of postmodern why? The time period it was written in .. •Transition from modern to postmodern
-consistant with vision on the future not to postmodern

Huxley & Wallace interview

•Communism (enemies around the world)
•smoking on interview?
•More materials more gov control
•Everyone is the same in communism
•Technology taking away freedom
•Television=propaganda( brain washing)
•Over population turns the economic position and central gov takes over more
•BNW coming right around the corner
•Problems of survival and freedom
•Society is over populated and over organized
•Communist party is more organized
•Everyone sees the same television around the world and makes the world and different cultures closer
•Propaganda is overpowering our minds and conditioning us
•Artifically happy
•Soma makes you more happy like drugs but is mibd controling_no drug like soma today
•Birth rates remain high
•Technology more and more complicated
•^ lifestyle changes
•Mentions Hitler propaganda and related that to using technology and imposing his will
•Can't be caught by surprise by advanced technology
•Propaganda is like the hypnopedia
•Unity identity and stability
•BNW designed to filled task everything is controlled
•Everything controlled by someone
•Over population prevents population from being inferior. It Designs them to fill out their future jobs

LIT TERMS APPLIED

The extra time provided during class has helped me tremendously on the lit terms. Even before the actual test I was able to review Brave New World and pick out literary devices used in the text. I feel as if I did decent on this test but could have done somewhat better by studying my own time rather than just class time.

BNW Chapter 4 & 5

•Proving to be unfaithful to Henry
•Imagery, syntax, anaphora
•Invited herself on vacation
•Soma(take when feeling down)
•Benito "sunny"
•Bernard takes sex hormone gum
•Henry ford builds machine(coincidence)
•Bernard;characteristics of a Gamma(defects)
•Propaganda House
•Good looking girls have no morals
•Lenina first memory of fear
•Being content with who you are
•Setting: forty story apartment
•Soma with coffee
• Anaphora: bottle of mine
• Bernard thinking about Morgana’s unibrow
•ecstasy=Great Being
•Orgy-porgy

Lecture notes on Huxley

Huxley born in 1800s

Understanding on England at the ti me

Place were people aren't delt with

Household doing more for less

Smart superior child but not understood

Seperateness for BNW

14 his mother died.. Happiness couldnt come from mother figure

Soma like heroin but no side effects like sickness and keeps happiness

BNW unhappy is going to New Mexico reality of povert illness and death-greater level of happiness because hoing through life

Oxford graduated with Honors, met authors

One child

Time in Europe and America

Didn't go to war like his friends

a lot of people talking but not saying much

Birth control in italy.. Enough kids for an army (in future a question for state)

Wrote BNW in just four months & compared with 1984

1931 before Hitler so no reason for dictatorship

1946 forward so social sanity isn't impossibility. Convinced sanity can be achieved

Dangers to threaten sanity may occur in the future

Comercials vs Hypnopedia

Govt can deprive people of freedom. We have to take it with intent. What can we do about it

Looking for a drug to find an escape from self in the 1950s. Focus in the mind

47 books as a writter. Some thought he was better at writing essays

BNWresearch research research!!!!

Wasn't an American citizen.. Passivist because of his religion

First Quarter Review

 a) My work this quarter had been very poor. I fell behind slightly and now playing the catch game. I am proud of myself however for not giving up. On a good note I've been doing better with my vocabulary and my studying habits are improving with the help of the extra time provided in class.

b) Stay on top on assignments
Read read read
Fix up my blog
Work on Senior Project
Don't let anything stop me from finishing next quarter strong

c) The course as it is now is perfect. I especially enjoy the extra time provided to us during class time to work independently and get the feel of a college course environment.

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Lit Terms 101-finish

Pun:  play on words; the humorous use of a word emphasizing different meanings or applications.

Purpose: the intended result wished by an author

Realism:  writing about the ordinary aspects of life in a straightfoward manner to reflect life as it actually is.

Refrain:  a phrase or verse recurring at intervals in

Romanticism:  movement in western culture beginning in the eighteenth and peaking in the nineteenth century as a revolt against Classicism; imagination was valued over reason and fact.

Requiem:  any chant, dirge, hymn, or musical service for the dead.

Resolution: point in a literary work at which the chief dramatic complication is worked out; denouement.

Restatement: idea repeated for emphasis.

Rhetoric: use of language, both written and verbal in order to persuade.

Rhetorical Question: question suggesting its own answer or not requiring an answer; used in argument or persuasion

Rising Action: plot build up, caused by conflict and complications, advancement towards climax.

Romanticism:  movement in western culture beginning in the eighteenth and peaking in the nineteenth century as a revolt against Classicism; imagination was valued over reason and fact.

Satire:  ridicules or condemns the weakness and wrong doings of individuals, groups, institutions, or humanity in general.

Scansion: the analysis of verse in terms of meter.

Setting: the time and place in which events in a short story, novel, play, or narrative poem occur.

Simile:  a figure of speech comparing two essentially unlike things through the use of a specific word of comparison.

Soliloquy: an extended speech, usually in a drama, delivered by a character alone on stage.

Spiritual: a folk song, usually on a religious theme.

Speaker: a narrator, the one speaking.

Stereotype: cliché; a simplified, standardized conception with a special meaning and appeal for members of a group; a formula story.

Stream of Consciousness: the style of writing that attempts to imitate the natural flow of a character’s thoughts, feelings, reflections, memories, and mental images, as the character experiences them.

Structure: the planned framework of a literary selection; its apparent organization.

Style:  the manner of putting thoughts into words; a characteristic way of writing or speaking.

Subordination: the couching of less important ideas in less important structures of language.

Surrealism: a style in literature and painting that stresses the subconscious or the nonrational aspects of man’s existence characterized by the juxtaposition of the bizarre and the banal.

Suspension of Disbelief: suspend not believing in order to enjoy it.

Symbol: something which stands for something else, yet has a meaning of its own.

Synesthesia: the use of one sense to convey the experience of another sense.

Synecdoche: another form of name changing, in which a part stands for the whole.

Syntax: the arrangement and grammatical relations of words in a sentence.

Theme:  main idea of the story; its message(s).

Thesis: a proposition for consideration, especially one to be discussed and provedor disproved; the main idea.

Tone: the devices used to create the mood and atmosphere of a literary work; the author’s perceived point of view.

Tongue in Cheek: a type of humor
in which the speaker feigns seriousness; a.k.a. “dry” or “dead pan”

Tragedy: in literature: any composition with a somber theme carried to a disastrous conclusion; a fatal event; protagonist usually is heroic but tragically (fatally) flawed

Understatement: opposite of hyperbole; saying less than you mean for emphasis

Vernacular: everyday speech

Voice:  The textual features, such as diction and sentence structures, that convey a writer’s or speaker’s pesona.

Zeitgeist: the feeling of a particular era in history

Lit terms 57-81

Genre: a category or class of artistic endeavor having a particular form, technique, or content.

Gothic Tale: a style in literature characterized by gloomy settings, violent or grotesque action, and a mood of decay

Hyperbole: an exaggerated statement often used as a figure of speech or to prove a point.

Imagery: figures of speech or vivid description, conveying images through any of the senses

Implication: a meaning or understanding that is to be arrive at by the reader but that is not fully and explicitly stated by the author.

Incongruity: the deliberate joining of opposites or of elements that are not appropriate to each other.

Irony: a contrast or incongruity between what is said and what is meant, or what is expected to happen and what actually happens, or what is thought to be happening and what is actually happening.

Interior Monologue: a form of writing which represents the inner thoughts of a character; the recording of the internal, emotional experience(s) of an individual; generally the reader is given the impression of overhearing the interior monologue.

Inversion: words out of order for emphasis.

Juxtaposition: the intentional placement of a word, phrase, sentences of paragraph to contrast with another nearby.

Lyric: a poem having musical form and quality; a short outburst of the author’s innermost thoughts and feelings.

Magic(al) Realism:  a genre developed in Latin America which juxtaposes the everyday  with the marvelous or magical.

Metaphor(extended, controlling, and mixed): an analogy that compare two differentthings imaginatively.

Extended: a metaphor that is extended or developed as far as the writerwants to take it.

Controlling: a metaphor that runs throughout the piece of work.

Mixed: a metaphor that ineffectively blends two or more analogies.

Metonymy:  literally “name changing” a device of figurative language in which the name of an attribute or associated thing is substituted for the usual name of a thing.

Mode of Discourse:  argument (persuasion), narration, description, and exposition.

Modernism:  literary movement characterized by stylistic experimentation, rejection of tradition, interest in symbolism and psychology

Monologue:  an extended speech by a character in a play, short story, novel, or narrative poem.

Mood:  the predominating atmosphere evoked by a literary piece.

Motif:  a recurring feature (name, image, or phrase) in a piece of literature.

Myth:  a story, often about immortals, and sometimes connected with religious rituals, that attempts to give meaning to the mysteries of the world.

Narrative:  a story or description of events.

Lit Terms 81-100

Narrator:  one who narrates, or tells, a story.

Naturalism: extreme form of realism.

Novella: short story; short prose narrative, often satirical.

Omniscient Point of View:  knowing all things, usually the third person.

Onomatopoeia: use of a word whose sound in some degree imitates or suggests itsmeaning.

Oxymoron: a figure of speech in which two contradicting words or phrases are combined to produce a rhetorical effect by means of a concise paradox.

Pacing:  rate of movement; tempo.

Parable:  a story designed to convey some religious principle, moral lesson, or general truth.

Paradox:  a statement apparently self-contradictory or absurd but really containing a possible truth; an opinion contrary to generally accepted ideas.

Parallelism: the principle in sentence structure that states elements of equal function should have equal form.

Parody:  an imitation of mimicking of a composition or of the style of a well-known artist.

Pathos:  the ability in literature to call forth feelings of pity, compassion, and/or sadness.

Pedantry: a display of learning for its own sake.

Personification: a figure of speech attributing human qualities to inanimate objects or  abstract ideas.

Plot: a plan or scheme to accomplish a purpose.

Poignant:  eliciting sorrow or sentiment.

Point of View: the attitude unifying any oral or written argumentation; in description, the physical point from which the observer views what he is describing.

Postmodernism: literature characterized by experimentation, irony, nontraditional forms, multiple meanings, playfulness and a blurred boundary between real and imaginary.

Prose:  the ordinary form of spoken and written language; language that does not have a regular rhyme pattern.

Protagonist: the central character in a work of fiction; opposes antagonist.

I am here

During this semester, I set goals for myself that I was unable to keep. This semester I came across some hardships that effected my school work. I am not doing my work like first semester and now I'm finding myself playing the "catch up" game. I am getting back into the swung of things this grading period and going to push myself to catch up and stay on the ball. That is my new goal.. To not let personal home problems effect my school work or my work in general

Lit Terms 31-56

31. Dialect: the language of a particular district, class or group of persons; the sounds, grammar, and diction employed by people distinguished from others


32. Dialectics: formal debates usually over the nature of truth


33. Dichotomy: split or break between two opposing things


34. Diction: the style of speaking or writing as reflected in the choice and use of words

35. Didactic: having to do with the transmission of information; education

36. Dogmatic: rigid in beliefs and principles

37. Elegy: a mournful, melancholy poem, especially a funeral song or lament for the dead, sometimes contains general reflections on death, often with a rural or pastoral setting

38. Epic: a long narrative poem unified by a hero who reflects the customs, mores, and aspirations of his nation of race as he makes his way through legendary and historic exploits, usually over a long period of time (definition bordering on circumlocution)

39. Epigram: witty aphorism

40. Epitaph: any brief inscription in prose or verse on a tombstone; a short formal poem of commemoration often a credo written by the person who wishes it to be on his tombstone

41. Epithet: a short, descriptive name or phrase that may insult someone’s character, characteristics

42. Euphemism: the use of an indirect, mild or vague word or expression for one thought to be coarse, offensive, or blunt

43. Evocative (evocation): a calling forth of memories and sensations; the suggestion or production through artistry and imagination of a sense of reality

44. Exposition: beginning of a story that sets forth facts, ideas, and/or characters, in a detailed explanation

45. Expressionism: movement in art, literature, and music consisting of unrealisticrepresentation of an inner idea or feeling(s).

46. Fable: a short, simple story, usually with animals as characters, designed to teach a moral truth

47. Fallacy: from Latin word “to deceive”, a false or misleading notion, belief, or argument; any kind of erroneous reasoning that makes arguments unsound

48. Falling Action: part of the narrative or drama after the climax

49. Farce: a boisterous comedy involving ludicrous action and dialogue

50. Figurative Language: apt and imaginative language characterized by figures of speech (such as metaphor and simile)

51. Flashback: a narrative device that flashes back to prior events

52. Foil: a person or thing that, by contrast, makes another seem better or more prominent

53. Folk Tale: story passed on by word of mouth

54. Foreshadowing: in fiction and drama, a device to prepare the reader for the outcome of the action; “planning” to make the outcome convincing, though not to give it away

55. Free Verse: verse without conventional metrical pattern, with irregular pattern or no rhyme

56. Genre: a category or class of artistic endeavor having a particular form, technique, or content

Lit Terms 6-30

Analogy: a comparison made between two things to show the similarities between them

Analysis: a method in which a work or idea is separated into its parts, and those parts given rigorous and detailed scrutiny

Anaphora: a device or repetition in which a word or words are repeated at the beginning of two or more lines, phrases, clauses, or sentences

Anecdote: a very short story used to illustrate a point

Antagonist: a person or force opposing the protagonist in a drama or narrative

Antithesis: a balancing of one term against another for emphasis or stylistic effectiveness

Aphorism: a terse, pointed statement expressing some wise or clever observation about life

Apologia: a defense or justification for some doctrine, piece of writing, cause, or action; also apology

Apostrophe: a figure of speech in which an absent or dead person, an abstract quality, or something inanimate or nonhuman is addressed directly

Argument(ation): the process of convincing a reader by proving either the truth or the falsity of an idea or proposition; also, the thesis or proposition itself

Assumption: the act of supposing, or taking for granted that a thing is true

Audience: the intended listener or listener

Characterization: the means by which a writer reveals a character’s personality

Chiasmus: a reversal in the order off words so that the second half of a statement balances the first half in inverted word order

Circumlocution: a roundabout or evasive speech or writing, in which many words are used but a few would have served

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

Cliché: a phrase or situation overused within society

Climax: the decisive point in a narrative or drama; the pint of greatest intensity or interest at which plot question is answered or resolved

Colloquialism: folksy speech, slang words or phrases usually used in informal conversation

Comedy: originally a nondramatic literary piece of work that was marked by a happy ending; now a term to describe a ludicrous, farcical, or amusing event designed provide enjoyment or produce smiles and laughter The Hangover

Conflict: struggle or problem in a story causing tension Miss Congeniality 

Connotation: implicit meaning, going beyond dictionary definition
Denotation: plain dictionary definition

Contrast: a rhetorical device by which one element (idea or object) is thrown into opposition to another for the sake of emphasis or clarity

Denouement (pronounced day-new-mahn): loose ends tied up in a story after the climax, closure, conclusion

POETRY ANALYSIS

Smith College

Absence
In the absence of women on board,
when the ship reached the point where no landmass
was visible in any direction
and the funk had begun to accrue-
human funk, spirit funk, soul funk-who
commenced the moaning? Who first hummed that deep
sound from empty bowels, roiling stomachs,
from back of the frantically thumping heart?
In the absence of women, of mothers,
who found the note that would soon be called “blue,”
the first blue note from one bowel, one throat,
joined by dark others in gnarled harmony.
before the head-rag, the cast-iron skillet,
new blue awaited on the other shore,
invisible, as yet unhummed. Who knew
what note to hit or how? In the middle
of the ocean, in the absence of women,
there is no deeper deep, no bluer blue.


Smith College

PurificationIn Taiwan, a child washes me in a tub
as if I were hers.
At fifteen she has tried to conceal
her age with makeup, says her name is Cher.
Across the room,
her dresser has become an altar.
Looming largest,
photos of her three children, one black,
one with green eyes, one she still nurses,
then a row of red votive candles, and in front,
a Buddha, a Christ, a Mary.
She holds my face to her breasts, rocks me.
There is blood still under my fingernails
from the last man who died in my arms.
I press her nipple in my lips,
feel a warm stream of sweetness.
I want to be this child's child.
I will sleep for the first time in days. 

We Real Cool Referred to by Dr.Preston's Post
We real cool. We

Left school. We
Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We
Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We
Jazz June. We
Die soon.

Those Winter Sundays


Poetry Foundation 

Sundays too my father got up early

and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,

then with cracked hands that ached

from labor in the weekday weather made

banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him.

I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking.

When the rooms were warm, he’d call,

and slowly I would rise and dress,

fearing the chronic angers of that house,

Speaking indifferently to him,

who had driven out the cold

and polished my good shoes as well.

What did I know, what did I know

of love’s austere and lonely offices?






Let America Be America Again
 
Poets 

Let America be America again.
Let it be the dream it used to be.
Let it be the pioneer on the plain
Seeking a home where he himself is free.
(America never was America to me.)
Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed—
Let it be that great strong land of love
Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme
That any man be crushed by one above.
(It never was America to me.)
O, let my land be a land where Liberty
Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath,
But opportunity is real, and life is free,
Equality is in the air we breathe.
(There's never been equality for me,
Nor freedom in this "homeland of the free.")
Say, who are you that mumbles in the dark? 
And who are you that draws your veil across the stars?
I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart,
I am the Negro bearing slavery's scars.
I am the red man driven from the land,
I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek—
And finding only the same old stupid plan
Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak.
I am the young man, full of strength and hope,
Tangled in that ancient endless chain
Of profit, power, gain, of grab the land!
Of grab the gold! Of grab the ways of satisfying need!
Of work the men! Of take the pay!
Of owning everything for one's own greed!
I am the farmer, bondsman to the soil.
I am the worker sold to the machine.
I am the Negro, servant to you all.
I am the people, humble, hungry, mean—
Hungry yet today despite the dream.
Beaten yet today—O, Pioneers!
I am the man who never got ahead,
The poorest worker bartered through the years.
Yet I'm the one who dreamt our basic dream
In the Old World while still a serf of kings,
Who dreamt a dream so strong, so brave, so true,
That even yet its mighty daring sings
In every brick and stone, in every furrow turned
That's made America the land it has become.
O, I'm the man who sailed those early seas
In search of what I meant to be my home—
For I'm the one who left dark Ireland's shore,
And Poland's plain, and England's grassy lea,
And torn from Black Africa's strand I came
To build a "homeland of the free."
The free?
Who said the free?  Not me?
Surely not me?  The millions on relief today?
The millions shot down when we strike?
The millions who have nothing for our pay?
For all the dreams we've dreamed
And all the songs we've sung
And all the hopes we've held
And all the flags we've hung,
The millions who have nothing for our pay—
Except the dream that's almost dead today.
O, let America be America again—
The land that never has been yet—
And yet must be—the land where every man is free.
The land that's mine—the poor man's, Indian's, Negro's, ME—
Who made America,
Whose sweat and blood, whose faith and pain,
Whose hand at the foundry, whose plow in the rain,
Must bring back our mighty dream again.
Sure, call me any ugly name you choose—
The steel of freedom does not stain.
From those who live like leeches on the people's lives,
We must take back our land again,
America!
O, yes,
I say it plain,
America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath—
America will be!
Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death,
The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies,
We, the people, must redeem
The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers.
The mountains and the endless plain—
All, all the stretch of these great green states—
And make America again!

here are the peomes for now. working on the analysis just wanted to get something up for the time being

St. Crispin’s Day Speech... Coming Soon

To be or not to be was a piece of cake compared to this speech. Now it is obvious how lengthy St. Crispin's Day is and that was going to be an obstacle no matter what but I was willing to do it. In this case, life got in the way. Each time I sat down or put my headphones on to listen to the reciting, my mind went blank and focused on the personal problems at home. Normally, I am a fairly quick learner and good with memorization but this time I let my personal life take over. The number of times I sat down, turned everything off, and just read trying to memorize is countless. Each time I'd get more and more frustrated as my mind would just go blank and I'd just lay down and think. My head wasn't in this one but I am trying oh so very hard still to focus on this and only this so I can get it down and recite it. I understand it is going to be late and may not be credited but I am going to get it done so expect one to be posted soon.

Lit Terms 1-5

Allegory: a tale in prose or verse in which characters, actions, or settings represent abstract ideas or moral qualities; a story that uses symbols to make a point

Alliteration: the repetition of similar initial sounds, usually consonants, in a group of words

Allusion: a reference to a person, a place, an event, or a literary work that a writer expects a reader to recognize

Ambiguity: something uncertain as to interpretation

Anachronism: something that shows up in the wrong place or the wrong time

As I was trying to come across videos and examples of the above words I came across this video(below) full of literary elements and their definitions.. In a rap! check it out!!!

AP PREP POST 1: SIDDHARTHA

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/siddhartha/study.html
1.Siddhartha features substantial activity and narrative action. At the same time, it is about one man’s largely internal spiritual quest. What is the relationship between the internal and exterior worlds of Siddhartha? How does Siddhartha negotiate these worlds?

• Though his spiritual enlightenment his desires within become deeper.  Siddhartha doesn't try and find a balance between the world he has now and once had.

2.Discuss the ways Siddhartha attempts to attain spiritual enlightenment. Which approaches are successful? Which ones are not successful, and which ones have limited effectiveness? How does Siddhartha progress from one approach to the other?

• Siddhartha leaves wanting to find himself but not sure which path to go down. He analyses each path he goes down and which to eliminate. With this he is able to see what works for him and what doesn't. 

http://www.shmoop.com/siddhartha/language-communication-theme.html
3.What kind of communication is most effective in Siddhartha? Speeches? Body language?

• I feel, by reading that small passage, that both are ultimately very effective. Siddhartha's words allow us to realize how difficult it is to find one selves path in life. The again, there is his body language and gestures that also highlight that idea. 

http://www.gradesaver.com/siddhartha/
4.How was Siddhartha able to put aside social expectations to pursue his path to enlightenment? Results?

• He was able to meditate all the time, abstain from sex, and fast whenever he urged to do certain things. He then was able to move forth with reaching enlightenment.

http://mgreeleyrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/2013/01/ap-prep-post-1siddhartha.html?showComment=1358143683342
5."At that moment when the world around him melted away, when he stood alone like a star in the heavens  he was overwhelmed by a feeling of icy despair, but he was more firmly himself than ever." From this quote what do we understand about the authors message, even without reading the entire story.

• Finding yourself can be difficult; lots of ups and downs do's and don'ts but in the end it is all worth it " the hardest part is beginning"

C. Reading these questions and having already taken the AP test, I know I'm going to have to take full advantage of my resources to learn all I can about as many literature pieces as possible and take time in analyzing them.

Spring Semester Plan 1

My Smart Plan will not be attainable this semester, however; it will and can be done. I strive to become a college graduate and become a detective. This has been a goal of mine since as long as I can remember the only difference now is that I have a plan and ready to set out and achieve it. In order for me to go to college I need apply to many scholarships and stay on track this last semester since it isn't hard at all to get distracted. Although I see nothing wrong with junior college at all, I want and need to see what this world has out there for me and use every opportunity to my advantage, which is why when I say college I am referring to a 4 year. Once in college I want to get hands-on work by becoming an intern or a campus cop at my campus. Once I receive that degree I am going straight to every police station in Los Angeles because I feel that is where my help is most needed. This goal will be done and by age 28 I will be a successful detective working my way up. Being a detective and a graduate means the world to my mother; making her proud is the least I can do for her.

Fall Semester Reflection

Do you read your colleagues’ work online? How often? What is it like to read their work? How does being able to see everyone’s work online at any given time change the way you do your work?
i read my colleague's online work regualary. I like getting the different perspectives and ideas on subjects and literature pieces we are covering. Also, if I am confused on a subject I will go to their blogs for help.

How has the publicly and always visible course blog made this course different from one without a blog? How would the course change if the course blog disappeared tomorrow?
Most courses have assignments that you do, turn in, and forget about it, however; this course has allowed me to go back and view my work and see how I have grown as a student and a writer. This course would definately not be the same if the blog was taken away. It would be pointless to be in this AP class without it. We'd have to go back to the Normal way of learning instead of teaching ourselves.

Has publishing your work for the public to see changed your approach to completing an assignment? How so? How would your feelings about the course change if you couldn’t publish your work that way?
completing an assignment now doesn't mean half-ass and turn in. With the blog being public you have to make sure everythuing is accurate because there are people looking for answers that may come across your blog. If I didn't publish my work I most likely wouldn't be putting my all into it.

Has your experience of the physical classroom changed because of the open & online aspects? Where does your learning actually happen?We all came into this course knowing what to expect but being tooken away by what we learened.  We were all able to learn so much in that short period of time and become more collaborative yet independent. My learning happens on the blogs because my resources are now visible to me and unlimited. 

You were described in the Macarthur Foundation/DML interview as “a pioneer”-- how do you describe the experience on the edge to people who haven’t been there (friends and family)?
This experience is something that everyone will go through. As technology grows everyone should be able to widen their own horizons. It truly is a learning experience and needs to be taken full advantage of.

How do they respond when you describe the brave new world in which you’re working?
They were amazed. Technology is usually seen as something that corrupts the youths mind, however; in this case we are able to show everyone how useful and how many advantages come along with it.

What do their responses mean to you? What effect(s) (if any) do they have on you?
Their responses make me feel proud of myself and our accomplishments as a class. We are opening doors for so many other generations to come. This leads me into thius semester and becoming more and more aware of what resources are  available to me.