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Knowledge, knowledge is they key to power tbh. I define knowledge with someone who is highly educated at something. It could be education, or a varsity player at a sport. They know what they are doing. Knowledge is basically what someone does that is higher above then someone. There could be education knowledge where you are really intellectual

Controversial topic

Anime, mmhh well first off I think that anime is the greatest thing ever created. That's just me some people might hate it with a passion, and that is their own choice. The things I can't stand though is when someone says they hate anime, but they have never even tried watching it . I'm like really ;-; that's not even cool that's like saying your at a dinner table and there is something new. You say you hate it, but you have never even tried it before. The only thing I can say is that you should at least try watching anime 

There are many different types of animes. For example there can be a sports anime like a soccer basketball tennis football baseball anime, there really no limit of anime there is out there. There is magic fighting anime just total awesomeness. I get that anime is not for everyone, but they should at least try anime. At first I thought I would hate it but now I've been watching a lot lately and it's kind of taking over my life :( but the animes are so much better then our regular tv shows in my opinion. 

Lit Analysis #8 essay choice

How do the generations differ in their ideas about love and family? how does each difference manifest itself in the way each generation deals with issues such as marriage, divorce, and child rearing?

    Marriage is a big deal now, shows that you are making a commitment to spend the rest of your life with the person you love. In the book the Joy Luck Club there is a lot of marriages. Not only that, but there are tons of different opinions about the topic of marriage. The different generations have their own thoughts about it. There is really no right or wrong answer about it.
    Take Lena's vase for example, she had put the vase in a dangerous area. She didn't do anything to protect the vase. Supposedly her husband Harold had built the table. unstable and wobbly. Basically saying that he didn't put enough love into his marriage so when Lena realizes this she does nothing. Ying-ying "accidentally" makes the vase fall and shatter on the floor. She tells Lena she should something instead of just standing there and let it passively happen. Not to be a standby.
    Lindo Jong is married her and her husband light a red wick candle at each end. If the candle were to blow out prematurely it would be bad. Lindo didnt want to get married so she blew it out during the night. One of the servants had relit. Later they all found out that the candle had "died" So Lindo gets herself out of the marriage. Lindo is creating her own fate by blowing out the candle. Showing that she is in control of it she had a choice. The candle is showing that it is a tradition, but know it is showing power.
    In the end marriage is marriage you get to control what happens so ultimately you can do whatever you want. Lindo had took matter in her own hands. She did that by using the the tradition of the candle to get out of her marriage. Lena on the other hand was basically a door mat. She let people walk all over her. She could've changed the marriage. She could've done anything, but no she just stood there and let her marriage crumble. In marriage the choice is all yours. There is no one that could guide you through it. It it just you and your partner. No one else.

Diction Handout

1. "...I only climbed on the spare spar and leaned over the rail as far as i could..."

2. Opaque: not able to be seen through; not transparent 

The side of the ship made it hard to see part of the ocean clearly
Paraphrase: 
The side of the ship had made a huge shadow. Then there was something near the ladder A light had flashed and i wasnt able to recognize what it was. Then it hit me i saw it.  A headless corpse glowing a greenish hue. I had dropped my cigar which fell making a hissing sound. I had stared down at the mystery of the sea.
3. The elevated tone just makies the passagae seem for sophisticated. While paraphrasing it just made it easier to understand not that complicated.

4. "The cigar dropped out of my gaping mouth with a tiny plop and a short hiss quite audible in the absolute stilness of all things under heaven."
"With a gasp I saw revealed to my stare a pair of feet"

"One hand, awash, clutched the bottom rung of the ladder."

"A short hiss quite audible in the absolutestillness of all things under heaven."

5. Author didnt use a name so the story could feel abit more mysterious 

6. The Secret Sharer is a person who shares without others knowing.

7. 
Cadaverous: looks like a corpse/ dead : negative

Darkling: growing darkness : negative

Pale: lacks in color : negative

Phosphorescence: a glow : neutral

Ghastly: horrifying 

Headless: without a head: negative

Fishlike: looking like a fish : negative 

Lit analysis #2

Of Mice and Men 

By: John Steinbeck

For the literature analysis, I had read of Mice and Men. The main characters were George and Lennie. Lennie was a buff guy that really didn't know his own strength. While George was very smart and very aware of his surroundings. Lennie wasn't the smarted person. George takes care of Lennie while they look for a job and find work at a farm. Lennie is a clutz. He always gets into trouble be he kills the farmers wife and in the end George has to kill Lennie.

The main theme was that to be careful of your actions. Lennie doesn't know what is wrong and what is right. He hurts things because of his abnormal strength. George has to basically be a baby sitter for Lennie since he doesn't know anymore. Throughout the book George has to constantly be watching over Lennie because without George he would be lost.

The protagonist, George would be a dynamic and round character. Reason for Dynamic is because he shows all of the emotion. George is a good person who had to make tough decisions. Lennies' very important because he is the one cause all of the problems that's George has to fix.

Forgiveness is significant. George always ends up forgiving Lennie. Reason for this because he understands Lennie doesn't do it on purpose. George is a very understanding person and cares very much about Lennie.

Reason I chose this book was because I read it in junior high. I really loved the book. I felt that I remembered parts of it and I loved it. Once I started reading I just lost myself in the book. I had finished it in one day. That's how good it was for me.

I think Lennie would be the closest character to me. Reason for that is because I'm really lost in school. I don't know what I am doing. It's not that I am strong or anything like that I am just very curious about the world.

Thing I will remember the most about the book would be the ending. Spoiler alert. When George is chasing after Lennie. George grabs the gun and status telling Lennie about what they are going to do with their farm. It gets rally emotional. Once he is done talking George shoots Lennie in the head. It had to be done. That is what I will never forget. Of Mice and Men is really a truly amazing book

Greek Drama questions

1:
 What kind of prize is given for dancing choruses of worshippers?

bull or a goat.

2:

How many spectators would gather in the open-air theatre of Dionysus?

20,000 spectators

3:

How does the mask affect the voice of the actors?

 project their voices to their audience.

4:

 Why was Antigone suspenseful to viewing audiences?

The audience could see and know of things that the characters of the actors didn't. 

5:

 How is the shepherd to leave the infant on the mountainside?

 with pinned knees.

6: What is the riddle the Sphinx gave to Oedipus?

What goes on four feet in the morning, two feet at noon, and three feet in the evening? Man is the answer

7:

 Who are Oedipus' kids?

Eteocles, Polyneices, Ismene, & Antigone are Oedipus' kids.

8:

 After Oedipus is exiled, who takes over Thebes?

Creon becomes king of Thebes

9:

 What did the family do to the dead body? 

Eteocles is given a proper burial, but Polyneices isn't buried and is left to be eaten away at.

Antigone Quick-Write

If that situation had ever happened to me and he ended up being the bad one. I would do anything to fix all loose ends. Searching up everything and any type of evidence to prove my brothers innocence. It's not fair how my brother I dislike is being the hero. There isn't a thing I wouldn't do to save him. Family isn't left behind. I would convince my is get no matter how long it took to speak up about the truth/help. She, helping me would make this a lot easier for finding evidence, I know for a fact that my sweet brother would never do such a thing. Why he wouldn't hurt a fly let alone his brother even though he is a horrible person. We don't actually do anything that far, I would personally investigate everyone that was on the island that when we met. I would talk to the manager because he seemed kind of off when me and my family had gotten to the island. He must know something we don't know. After all that and I still don't know what happened I am going to bury my brother. Even though I am going to get in trouble I don't care. He is my brother. I will do anything for him. I know in my hear that he is innocent.