PROJECT IN PRGRESS

today in class while Preston worked with other students, my partner and I talked about our project and what we were going to do.  We ended up decided to make a website on the four major subjects we learned this year.

Brag Sheet

What I have done that I'am most proud of is stay in school and get good grades.  Not everyone can say that as confident as I can.  Many times I have thought about what it would be like to just quit and drop out, but I knew that wasn't the right choice for me.  There's a saying I learned this year in Preston's class, "when the going gets tough, the tough get going", and that exactly what I do.

• My academic achievements:  I can confidently say I've earned a GPA of 3.0 or better throughout high school.  Freshman year I received the Golden Warrior Award in my Earth Science class and I aspire to earn more as the year progresses. 
• Sports:  I have played basketball for eight years now.  I'am so thankful I tried out for the Girls Righetti High School Basketball Team because it has made me the person I'am today and has had so many benefits.  
• Volunteer:  I have had numerous volunteering jobs.  Freshman year I helped set up Solvang's annual bike tour.  It was a very nice experience meeting all the different people there and serving them. Another volunteering job I've had was working at Solvang's Cancer Center doing whatever I could to help the patients there.  Keeping all the patients company and helping around the office was something I'll never forget.
• Languages: I've grown up around big family of Spanish speaking relatives.  I took two years of Spanish throughout high school and still am learning more and more Spanish each and everyday. 
• Awards: I have earned many awards while in basketball and school.  I've been asked to attend Righetti's Renascence Awards numerous times for my excellent grades.
• Travel: I have been all across the country traveling to multiple states varying from up and down the coast of California, to the Lone Star state of Texas, and all the way to the corn fields in Iowa.  
• Interests: I have many interests.  Some of my favorites are painting, listening to music, and being outdoors.
• GPA: One of the most important things about school are your grades, and I'am proud to say that I've earned a 3.0 or better throughout my school years. 

"BEST OF AMERICAN LIT"

What I remember most about this year is not about a certain subject, but how to use the computer as my advantage in school.  Before Preston's class I hardly used my computer at all.  After I use it nearly everyday.  Realizing how our blogs can be seen by anyone around the world just amazes me and we can use them to contact people for advice or just post something that we want others to see.

: DERBY REPORTAGE

The narrator (I couldn't quite catch his name) is a reporter from San Francisco.  He is meeting an English illustrator, Ralph Steadmen, to write an article about the Kentucky Derby.  There ultimate goal is to capture someone who was drunk and messy to get the full effect of what the race was like in reality.  At the end of the story the narrator looks in the mirror and realizes that they were the perfect examples of this hag, drunk, sloppy derby regular.  This is Gonzo Journalism because they put themselves into the story which is a big no-no in regular journalism.  I noticed the sentences are very choppy because he is writing everything as soon as he thinks it.

"JOHNNY CYBERPUNK"

Johnny has a device that was implanted in his brain that carries secret information.  He meets a girl names Molly that has had surgery to make her fingernails like razor blades.  When she sits down at the table her and Lewis get into an argument and he tries to hit her and she slices his arm.  Johnny fires his gun at the bad guy because he had surgery that makes him faster.


This story is cyberpunk because it has science fictional qualities in it.

FUTURE ME !!

This was hands down the coolest assignment I've had. Really had me thinking! Crazy what technology can do these days. Can't imagine what the future has in store!

Post modern prezi's!

Watching Frank present his post modernism project. The song was good :)!

MY SLAUGHTERHOUSE

    What is Postmodernism?  Some believe Postmodernism can be whatever the hell you want.  Others believe it can be considered postmodern by not being in chronological order, have a sense of humor, and breaking rules.  Slaughterhouse Five, by Kurt Vonnegut, can be considered postmodern because it goes back and forth in time, it mixes reality with science-fiction, and has irony.

   Billy Pilgrim, the main character, is a time travel that moves back and forth in time.  Kurt Vonnegut would be talking one moment about how Billy was a child, and the next he would be a prisoner in WWII.  Kurt uses postmodernism in this novel by breaking the rules of time and not writing it in chronological order.
 
Another reason it is classified as a postmodern is because Kurt mixes reality with science-fiction.  Billy would be a prisoner of war in Dresden, and then he would time travel to the planet Tralmafadore.  Combining the two in Slaughterhouse Five makes these the perfect post modern elements of a story.

 Lastly, it is postmodern because of Kurt Vonnegut's use of irony.  After something terrible would happen, or someone died, Kurt would say, "So it goes."  A phrase said with no expression of feelings.  In reality is would be sad, but in Slaughterhouse five, they just moved on like nothing happened.  So it goes.

 All in all, Slaughterhouse Five is one of the best examples of a postmodern book because it's use of irony, lack of rules, and lack of chronological order.

Post modernism project:

So It Goes.....

Chapter 9;

Billy lost his wife in a car accident. She heard about his plane crash and was hysterical. She was driving to get to the hospital and got into a fender bender. As she took off the muffler came off of the car and by the time she arrived to the hospital she became unconscious and died of carbon monoxide poisoning. Rooming with Billy was a 70 year old man named Rumfoord. He had a 25 year old fiancé that brought him books. Rumfoord would talk to Billy about his time in Dresden and how horrible it must have been. Billy time travels back to New York where he buys more books that Trout wrote then travels back to tralmafadore to Montana and the baby.

Chapter 8;

Billy meets an author that he absolutely adores. His name is Kilgore Trout. Kilgore is fascinated with how Billy knows him because he hasn't had a single fan of his books so far. Billy invites him to his anniversary party and when the quartet starts to sing to Billy he starts to feel sick. Kilgore knows something's suspicious and suspects he has seen a time portal. But Billy denies it and realizes that he felt sick because it reminded him of the night Dresden was bombed. Billy then time traveled to Tralfamadore and told Montana the story of Dresden. He travels back to the war when the city got bombed and the prisoners of war and guards found an Inn where they were welcomed to stay.

Chapter 7;

Not much happened in chapter 7 of Slaughter House 5. Billy was going on a trip with other optometrists on a plane and he knew the plane would crash. Right before it did he closed his eyes and time traveled back to the war in Dresden. There, he, Gluck, and Derby were walking around the camp looking for the kitchen. They wet to work the next day. They were surrounded by a special syrup that had minerals and honey in it. You weren't supposed to eat it because it was only for pregnant women but there was hidden spoons around everywhere for the workers to secretly eat some once or twice a day. Billy and Derby had some syrup and heard someone coming to they went back to work.