I AM HERE

I think I have done fairly well in this grading period.  I have been getting good grades and doing pretty much everything that is asked of me.  Overall, the grade I'am looking forward to getting in this grading period is an "A"

ESSAY POST GAME ANALYSIS:

I think I summed up some key information well in my essay. Next time I will improve the length of my essay. I would give myself a B + on this essay.

PARLOR POETRY

Montag chose to recite Dover Beach in front of the woman in the parlor because it was about life, love and feeling feelings.  Something Montag knew these woman didn't understand.

The poem I chose:  No regrets- Live your life

Don't regret it,

Don't forget it,

Life is short,

May your moments be worth,

Don't just stand there watching the rain,

Make your life worth it everyday,

Don't look at your enemy with greed,

Simply fight for what you believe,

Don't stay at home and read a book,

Seduce someone with just one look,

Don't watch all day TV,

Let's go to the movies and watch a horror or comedy,

Don't worry about getting into a relationship,

Worry about keeping your friendship,

Don't let others control you,

Do everything like you wanna do,

Don't let others stop you,

Don't think of being wealth,

Here's a hint,

Be yourself

I chose this poem because I feel that this is how we should live our lives.

Here's a hint,

Be yourself.

MY F451

A war has broke out in a world where firefighters jobs are to start fires and end all way of freely thinking.  A middle aged man that goes by the name Montag; Guy Montag and his wife Mildred have quite the peculiar relationship.  Very dry and not loving at all.  Montag is a third generation fireman.  His job is to burn down houses and books, and arrest anyone who owned them.  He enjoyed his job very much and looked forward to going in to work until one day, when he met his seventeen year-old neighbor Clarisse.  She points out to him there is more to life then what he is doing now.  After thinking about all this he remembers and old man he met in the park one day.  He was a retired professor named Faber.  Faber loved books and all they information they had to offer.   Montag started to rebel against the rules of his town little by little. Meeting up with Faber now and again to talk about books because he knew Faber was the only one out there who would listen to all he had to say.  He wondered more and more about books and what the meaning of life actually was.  His fascination with books became stronger and more tempting that he ended up saving books and reading them and memorizing them.  Once his captain Beatty found out he had been getting interested by books, he gave him a few chances to get over it and come back to his old ways of burning things and loving fire.  Beatty realized after Montag had become more and more rebellious enough was enough and had to step in and stop Montag with all his absurd new ways of thinking.  After Making Montag burn down his own house and books he has stored away for a year or so, Montag finally cracked.  He kills his captain and runs from the law with his books in hand.  After leading on police with a chase, he escapes to a river just outside of town and is floats away like a piece of drift wood, being carried away farther and farther from the city and all he left behind.  After hiding in the forest he comes across a group of old men.  They welcome Montag with open arms and let him become part of their quest for seeking better ways of living.  They were all once professors and understand Montag.  The war continues until they drop the bomb that will end their old lifestyle and foolish rules forever.  Hoping to recreate a new town and rules, Montag and his new group start fresh with nothing but the shirts on their back and memories of all the books they had once read.

David Foster Wallace: TO MODERN OR TO POSTMODERN

What I got from this quote is even when we're in "dark times" we don't always have to talk about them in our fiction, and that We can bring out the best of things in any situation if we apply ourselves to.

SPRING VOCAB #2:

Praetorian: body guards used by roman emperors
Sieve: sifter, separator
Veiled: partially covered or concealed
Saccharine: containing sugar
Harlequin: a character from a popular Italian comic
Toil: hard or continuous work
Delinquents: neglectful, failing
Gibbering: to speak foolishly, chatter
Insidious: intended to trap
Strewn: to let fall
Patronage: act of buying something
Cadence: pace, beat
Suffused: gradually spread through or over
Centrifuge: machine that spins quickly to separate
Dentifrice: things used to help clean teeth
Leisure: freedom from work
Vessel: container to hold fluid, or large craft
Phonograph: record player
Profusion: abundance of large quality of

Time of my life : 2-1-13

I used today's time by finishing up my homework for this class and other classes to make the rest of my day much easier.