Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Wordly Wise

Castigate-  “You can't CONTINUE to castigate, vilify and demonize a group of people for what you think they ‘MIGHT’ do. (Elliot City Patch)


     You should not continue to castigate people for what they might do because it could be an unfair stereotype.


Colloquial- However, unlike the related Slavic languages,  colloquial  Slovenian uses a definite article as a 
stand-alone morpheme. (Princeton Article)


     By using the colloquial language Slovenians might be viewed as uneducated. 


Epitaph- "I would hope that the right epitaph for all those September 11s would be the everlasting words of Gandhi: “Violence will prevail over violence, only when someone can prove to me that darkness can be dispelled by darkness.”"


     I would hope that this would be the victims of 9/11's epitaph because it is perfect for being on their tombstone. 


Exodus- The film Exodus gives an account of the secular triumph of Zionism. 


     The film Exodus has to do with a mass departure of people. 


Lacerate- Lacerations tend to be caused by blunt trauma.


     The blunt trauma could result in a cut or tear.


Largesse- Current measures of a nation's largesse only count funds doled out by the government, thus ignoring the primary way in which Americans help others abroad: through the private sector.


     It only counts the governments to maybe make it seem like the government is giving generously.


Obituary- An obituary is a chance to celebrate a person's life and accomplishments (ArticleSource:http://EzineArticles.com/2072164)


     A brief summary of someones life would be a great way to celebrate a person's life.


Omnivorous- The key category in the discussion of human diet is omnivores, which are defined as generalized feeders, with neither carnivore nor herbivore specializations for acquiring or processing food, and who are capable of consuming and do consume both animal protein and vegetation.


     A human is omnivorous because not only do they eat meat but they also eat plant life. 


Permeate- Well-controlled membrane filtration experiments were performed to systematically investigate the effect of permeate flux and tangential flow (crossflow) on membrane fouling.


     The permeate flux allows the liquid after they are filtered to pass through the membrane of the cell.


Rendition- And when Gaddafi fell, documents discovered in Tripoli suggested his rendition may have been authorized by Sir Mark Allen, then MI6's head of counter-terrorism.


      The people who discovered these documents interpreted that they had something to do with the previous head of MI6's counter-terrorism


Resurgence- WHEN SATISH KUMAR asked me to guest-edit the special Music For Transformation feature in this issue of Resurgence, I was delighted,


     The magazine has to do with a revival view of music itself or the idea of music changing


Stereotype- Psychologists once believed that only bigoted people used stereotypes

     The stereotypes that people would use about a certain groups of people main them seem bigoted.

Stipend-  Now, the new stipend for qualified' article-ship is likely to skyrocket by four or five times more


     If the stipend for people who write articles skyrockets by 4 or five times the writers will most likely be very happy.


Subservient- "Do you think submissive means subservient?


This would be two entirely different things because submissive is not being subordinate. 

     

     

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Thesis Claims

Their Eyes Were Watching God is a Modernist piece that represents how hard the female life is.
  • I do not agree with this thesis statement. One because I do not feel that this was what the book was about at all. I understand what the person was attempting to say but if they were to reword their thesis statement it could be much better!

Their Eyes Were Watching God is a great example of the trials and tribulations of love.
  • I would say that this is an acceptable thesis statement because this has acceptable amount of controversy to it and could be supported thoroughly.

 Why does Janie marry three different guys, but at the end doesn’t try to find another guy to marry?
  • I do not think that this would be an acceptable thesis statement because this is not a statement. This is a question. If this person would make it into a statement it would be easier to say if it was good or not but this is a half and half. I would suppose that if you were to make this a statement that it would be interesting to see what support they would use to say. It is hard to say when it is not a statement. 



Sunday, February 12, 2012

Weekly Post

This week was quite an interesting week. It was long at that too. Monday through Wednesday were not as bad as Thursday and Friday. First off Thursday felt like a Friday. With ring day and all of the other activities on Thursday it made it feel like the week was almost over. A lot of people said

"I don't want to go to ring day"

I agree with them. I think that we should get out of school and hour early that day and just let the families and friends go to ring day. Friday was super long. The only interesting part about that day was raising canes chicken fingers. That was a delicious lunch. Then that night was the basketball game. It was probably one of the craziest nights of basketball in a while. To start it off the girls won the game with a buzzer beater and then the guys took the lead at the end of the game to go on to be victorious.

Thursday, February 9, 2012

Sequel

I spent the next hour peeling at the wallpaper until finally my nails were bleeding. The blood fell like a light rain as I went to clean up myself. I noticed John on the floor once I came out and went to retrieve him a glass of water and some tonic. When John came to he was screaming at me to untie him because I had tied him to the bed. 
"Jane untie me darling, we need to get you to a hospital," said John.

"No we need to get you to a hospital," replied Jane with a harsh tone. 

I was upset because he was telling me that I needed to go to a doctor when he was the one who was passed out on the floor. He wouldn't even take the tonic. 

Eventually John fell asleep and all that was left in that room were me and my thoughts. I thought about my childhood, the wallpaper, and  I also thought about my illness. I didn't really see what everyone was talking about. I thought I was fine. That was until my sister came back.

When my sister returned she was horrified at what she saw. She opened the door and saw that everything seemed to be alright but only one thing was out of place. John wasn't up yet which was odd because he usually got up early to have everything prepared for me. So she called my name and I cam to see her. I remember she said I look pretty because I was wearing my pretty yellow and white daisy dress that she had given me for my birthday a couple years back. 

"Where is John?", she asked.

"Oh he is upstairs", I replied.

When she went up there I heard a loud scream. She quickly ran back down to tell me that John was tied up and dead. It turns out that I hadn't realized what I was doing and hadn't fed him or gave him any water for two whole weeks. My sister called doctor Weir Mitchell to come and help her. 

So now I am sitting in a mental institution waiting until I get better. And every once and a while I think of that yellow wallpaper with the lady attempting to get out. I blame her for why I am here. 

Thursday, February 2, 2012

Weekly Blog 4

This week has been a fairly quick week so far. Nothing crazy has happened and it hasn't been to stressful. The only real stressful part of the entire week was probably Monday. I had Benjamin Button to annotate and what do you know? I procrastinated until the very last minute to annotate it. Then Tuesday wasn't as stressful because I had finished my visual representation and my paper for Is Robert Frost a terrifying poet. Wednesday was fairly easy also. The only down part to Wednesday was that morning. It was 5:45 and my mom got me up and said,

"Chuck, we haven't gone over your schedule yet. Lets do it real quick."

I was reluctant to do it and said that we would do it that night when I got home. Well it turns out that I didn't get home from school yesterday until around 8:30. I had moch trial and I also had to wait until my sister finished working the power lifting meet. So I got home and complete my bible homework played some games.

So far it has been a pretty enjoyable week.