Coming to a end..

Now that the school year is almost coming to a end I think that this English course has helped me out a lot. This whole school year has been a very long journey in a very short of time. My final for this course was a term paper that I have currently turned in and feel that I did a good job even though I feel that I could of added more information. I am proud that I have at least turned it in and I’m  at this point of my high school journey.

My Best Writing

I have a writer's conference coming up with Dr. Preston, and I am excited to go over my blog post about “It’s my life” and “My Big Question.”  I chose these two pieces for specific reasons. I want to show Dr. Preston my post about “It’s my life” to show how each individual or just myself have different ways onto viewing a topic or situation and how our decisions take action. “My Big Question” is my second piece I would like to show because it relates to how life is changing by the use of technology and how it even affects people we know.

Brave New World Essay

There are people that act who they tend to say to be but in reality they are not. People try to hide their real identity due to what happened in the past, and they want no one else to know. In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley there are multiple characters that act like someone who they are not, one of these characters is John the savage. Throughout the book we see how John changes his personality and tries to blend in with the rest because he was the only one that had a mother. John is different than most characters in many ways. John is the type of character that does the right thing but at the end changes. This relates to how people see society and how it changes them.

John is someone who is special in many ways. People see him differently because of where he comes from. In the beginning of the book we can see that John is someone who is lonely and like to do his own things. In chapter 8 we can see that John said "If one's different, one's bound to be lonely. They're beastly to one. Do you know, they shut me out of absolutely everything?” From what John said we can conclude that he did not have no one by his side because his mom would be sleeping with other men and he had no one else there for him.Therefore people looked at John and especially his mother differently for what they are.

People take drugs to take away the pain and to feel differently. Everyone in the Brave New World take soma for anything even when they’re going to sleep with someone else. In chapter 18 John reveals "Helmholtz exclaimed solicitously, "you do look ill, John!" “Did you eat something that didn't agree with you?" asked Bernard. The Savage nodded. "I ate civilization." From John’s and Helmholtz’s conversation we can see that John had taken some soma. John had felt guilty to what had happened between him and Lenina and how he rejected her. John is not used to how people live in the World State and he thinks off based on Shakespeare’s imagination. This also concludes that John changes because he was the only character the have not taken soma but his pain and guilt had got to him.

People evolve differently from someone’s first impressions because of the actions they had done. From Johns end of the story he could not take it no more from his mother’s death, Lenina and to the rest of the people’s lifestyle. At the end of chapter 18 the first arrivals said “Just under the crown of the arch dangled a pair of feet."Mr. Savage!" What they had seen was that John has committed suicide. This connects to the theme on how people see society and how society changes them. John did not have a great experience with people from the World State which then had cause the society to change him. The society had changed him because he started to see how people would act that ended up being too much for him to get used to.

In conclusion to how John had changed at the end  was that society had controlled him. Society took over John’s  life and who he was. Not everyone stays being who they say they are whether they keep saying it. Therefore people change their personalities and identity just to look like the rest.

Huxley Chapter 16

• Mustapha new chapter 
• Mustapha says that Shakespeare is banned 
• John says that that world is stupid
• John is shocked by the way that the people in Mustapha’s world life like if they were hard working people 
• The Controller new character 
• Mustapha send the police to take Bernard because he’s panicking and make him take soma until he is relaxed
• Bernard and John are introduce to science 
• Helmholtz is going to stay at the Falkland island 

Huxley Chapter 15

• As John is observing the delta workers line up to take their soma 
• He realizes that Linda was a slave
• He’s trying to convince the deltas that the soma is poison to their bodies and souls
• Bernard and Helmholtz think they lost John 
• John starts to yell to all the deltas that they’re crazy for taking soma and throws it around
• The deltas start to attack John and Helmholtz for throwing their soma 
• The riot end with the deltas calming down and leaving home
• Bernard is trying to seek out but gets fought by one of the police men

Huxley Chapter 14

• John is interested in how much technology is in the hospital 
• John went to see his sick mother 
• John finds the children who are deltas
• Linda is waking up but the memories that pop up to John are the bad memories he had
• John is upset because Linda mentions Popé 
• As Linda was talking she dies the very next second 
• John breakdown and starts to cry because his mom died because it was to late to save her
• John mentions god instead of Ford 

Huxley Chapter 13

• Henry Foster invites Lenina to a feely 
• Lenina had refused his invitation and he wants to know who she’s sleeping with 
• Lenina is over worked up on John 
• Lenina can’t seem to get over John and she wants him bad
• Fanny thinks that Lenina should just rape John 
• Lenina is going to give herself to John the second she sees him
• John and Lenina are talking and John declares his love to her and talk about marriage, Lenina freaks out
• Lenina then throws herself to John and John doesn’t know how to react to their situation 
• John calles Lenina a whore and she runs and locks herself in the restroom 

Ignite Talk

From experience I’ve seen how little kids are taking over the use of technology. This lead to my big question which is, Is technology a good or bad thing for young kids? What I have done over spring break to support my big question was looking for research on the internet. From the research I learned that it is a good idea to let kids be on a screen but at the same time it can be a bad thing. This connects to Fahrenheit 451 because people can have an obsession to read and kids have an obsession to use technology. I will furthermore my research by making more research and ask people for their opinions.

Huxley Chapter 12

• everyone is waiting for John and Bernard is begging him to come out
• People from the World State make fun about Bernard for being less perfect
• Lenina is planing her attack
• Bernard’s ego isn’t so big no more after he keeps hearing rumors of people talking how less of a person he is
• Arch-Community-Songster
• Arch-Community-Songster took Lenina to sleep with her
• Bernard takes some soma to deal with his emotions 

Huxley Chapter 11

• No one wants to see Linda because she’s overweight
• Linda has been taking twenty grams of soma which leaves her only a months left to live
• Everyone seem to be interested in John 
• Bernard has over protection onto John
• Fanny new character 
• Bernard has been with a lot of women recently 
• People are pretending to like Bernard to be able to talk to John
• John goes to the Electrical Equipment Corporation where the Human Element Manager takes him on a tour to see the assembly line of work
• John goes to visit a school in London called Eton
• Savage Reservations is the place where people weren't worth the expense to civilize
• Bernard is flirting with Miss Keate
• Fanny thinks that Lenina is lucky to share so much of Bernard’s spotlight
• From the men that Lenina has slept with they just want to hear how is it sleeping with the savages
• No one believes that Lenina hasn’t slept with the savage 
• Lenina likes John and plans to sleep with him
• They’re unsure if John likes Lenina because he always stares at her
• Lenina try’s to make a move on John but John try’s to take it slow and says goodnight 
• Lenina doesn’t loose affection towards John but is upset of what happened so she takes soma to calm her down.

Book Club of One

On behalf of my reading and learning I think that it helps me a lot to talk about the reading with other people also interested in the book. When they know what I’m talking about I feel more confident because we understood what the book or chapter meant to say or show us. When people have no idea of what I am talking about I feel more unsure about what I think I read which can be right or wrong.

Endgame

What I want to learn or get better in this course from now till June is the chance to get more involved in my blogs. Although I do post most of my blogs I want to get used to posting everyday in order to stay on track with the class schedule. I also feel that I need to improve more on my reading because I feel that when I read with the class I don’t focus as much as I do when reading on my own.

Huxley Chapter 10

• Tomakin is the directors name
• The director is in the World State
• The director and Henry are have a conversation about Bernard 
• The director speaks out loud to everyone that everything is Bernard’s fault for how the society has turned out to be.
• Linda said that the director is John’s father 
• The director is denying what Linda is saying
• John comes out calling the director “father,father, father”
• Leaving the director speechless and embarrassed he ends up rushing away.

Huxley Chapter 9

• Lenina take 3 grams of soma and falls asleep for 18 hours
• Bernard is trying to get John and Linda back to London 
• John thinks he’s been let down by Bernard because he isn’t there yet
• John breaks into Lenina’s luggage by the attacking smell of her perfume.
• John unzips Lenina’s onesie became he’s attractive to her beauty.
• He felt ashamed of him self after unzipping Lenina’s onesie.
• Miss Crowne
• Mr. Marx is Bernard last name 

Huxley Chapter 8

• Bernard is having a difficult time with the Reservation.
• John is telling Bernard his life story
• John’s mom Lindasleeps with a lot of men.
• Popé is a man who brings mezcal 
• Pope sleeps a lot with Linda 
• Linda gets whipped by the women at the Reservation because she’s sleeping with all of their men
• Linda starts acting different by giving more love to John
• In the “other world” everything is clean and you can live with happiness.
• Linda try’s to teach John how to read by the book “The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo. Practical Instructions for Beta Embryo-Store Workers.”
• Popé gives John the book “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare.”
• John realizes that some of the words in the book relate to Popé and John
• As John reads more he gets more hate toward Popé.
• John try’s to kill Popé while he’s in bed with Linda and stabs him
• After being stabbed Popé tells John that he’s “brave”
• John and Bernard feel alone
• Bernard asks John if he wants to go with him to World State
• John what’s to know if Bernard is married to Lenina.

BNW Chapter 8 Ideas

1. Bernard asks John to explain his whole life story because Bernard isn’t so sure about the reality of the reservation.
2. Linda’s relationship with men is that she sleeps with all of them at the same time. The effect that it has on the people of the reservation is that people from the World state see how people from the reservation don’t know how to act. John come to learn about it read the book about the embryos.
3.Popé takes Linda some mezcal which is like tequila.
4.John hates Popé. He reacts to his feelings by comparing Popé to a character of a story. John had stab Popé and Popé had reacted by just telling John that he is brave and whacks him away.
5. Shakespeare’s allusion in this chapter is relatable to how John lives his life and sees everything.
6.What caused John to feel alone is being left alone by his mom and the lack of love from her and also not allow to take part of a ritual.
7.John wanted to know how it felt to be curcified to be able to seat with his problems.
8. The idea that Benard proposes to John is to go with him to World State.
9. John felt relief to hear that Benard isn’t married to Lenina.

BQ Thoughts

What I have recently done for my big question isn’t much work and think that I need to work on it very more often. Although I haven’t put in work for my question I do think of it often when I have a conversation that is related to the topic of the question and sometime when I am spaced out. I feel that I end up talking or thinking about my question when I am not in school and am at home just laying down or when watch a movie because then I start to think about my life and my next step onto accomplishing what I want.

My Online Me

When I have searched myself on google, safari, yahoo and bing I found a picture of myself. As I scrolled more I was able to find my name on a comment that I had commented on for Dr. Preston’s post, I found my Facebook account along with my Twitter account. Although I didn’t find no more information, I think that what is under my name is accurate enough to find who I am or just my social media accounts. It can reflect as my best self because I don’t have inappropriate posts or things on the internet and feel that it is appropriate to say that my name isn’t used somewhere else and it is clean.

It’s My Life

We can manage the choices in our life that we can control by doing what we need to do or get done. Some of us choose a decision that we think is right to do but other might not think the same and can find it offensive. The decision that we choose can make us powerful and successful by doing the right thing. Another thought can be on how it benefits us and base on how we plan to show it.

Why are the chairs rearranged this way? Answers to Questions

1. Linda is Johns mom.
2. Linda is a Beta that came from the reservation
3. Linda had witnessed that someone was giving birth that made her feel the way she did.
4. John’s birth was considered a mistake  based on Linda’s behalf.
5. The beating sound of the ceremonial drums remind her of being at the reservation during her meeting.

Good Morning

Three habits that I have onto getting ready is waking up at 6:40am every day, brush my teeth and wash my face and lastly get my headphones. Some of my habits that I am trying to stop is rushing through the morning and being late and another habit is sleeping early at night to be wide awake in the morning. Two habits that I want to start doing is trying to wake up at 6am instead of 6:40am and finally to place all my thing in one spot so I don’t waste time trying to look for them.

Reading Me

I usually don’t end up reading at home. I don’t read at home often l there is times where I am to tired, stressed out or busy and run out of time. I also think that I have a better understanding when I am reading at school than at home. At school I can be reading through the loudness and be well concentrated. At home I can also read as well through the loudness it is just that I get distracted fast and end up not reading.

Huxley Chapter 7

• obsidian: a hard, dark, glasslike volcanic rock formed by the rapid solidification of lava without crystallization
• Lenina had seen a women breastfeeding and felt grossed out and never seen something indecent
• indecent: not conforming with generally accepted standards of behavior or propriety; obscene
• Bernard and Lenina go to the Pueblo 

Huxley Chapter 6

• "Alcohol in his blood-surrogate,"
• disquieting: inducing feelings of anxiety or worry.
• Bernard is trying to make Lenina realize that she should be happy in her own way
• pneumatic: containing or operated by air or gas under pressure
• pencilled:to write
• Director and Mr Marx
• Those, I repeat who are born in the Reservation are destined to die there."
• Bernard is going to be sent to Iceland

Huxley chapter 5

• Monorail: a railroad in which the track consists of a single rail, typically elevated, with the trains suspended from it or balancing on it.
• queer: strange or odd
• Lenina and Henry left Stoke Poges Club House in a helicopter 
• Epsilon: conditioned before birth to be the lowest class worker;social class
• “whoever he may have been, he was happy when he was alive. Everybody's happy now."
• Henry lives in a 40 story apartment in Westminster

Huxley Chapter 4

•  annihilating: destroy utterly, obliterate
• stupor: a state of near-unconsciousness or insensibility
• Benito Hoover
• Lenina has spent a night with all the men from the Alpha Changing Rooms
• Lenina had probably been with Benito at one point
• Lenina is with Bernard but then leaves to go with Henry 
• Benito likes Lenina
• Lenina was heading over to Stoke Poges to see a Obstacle golf
• Bernard is trying to say that Benito isn’t who he say he is, that he is a bad person
•   Mr. Helmholtz Watson
• Helmholtz has a mental condition 
• There are three charming girls from Bureau of Propaganda
• They are inviting Helmholtz to a picnic 
• Bernard thinks he can do better that Helmholtz 
• hypnopædically: learning by hearing while asleep or under hypnosis.
• Bernard is scared of something 
• caste: social level
• queues: British word for lines
• Lenina didn’t want to talk about her affairs with Bernard because it will make Henry uncomfortable 
• Helmholtz can’t find a way to say what he wants to say
• "I suppose I've got things on my nerves a bit. When people are suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with them."

Huxley chapter 3

• apertures: open
• maudlin: sad
• The names have to do with big government 
• “Polly Trotsky”
• Huxley makes the kids say erotic meanings because they do t have parents and aren’t taken care of
• surreptitious: secretive 
• Mustapha Mond first characters 
• Henry Foster - nice personality and manners
• Bernard Marx 
• Lenina Crowne
• Fanny  works in the Bottling Room
• Huxley uses his format by going back and fourth through the the story
• Axiomatic: to appear as it’s own
• Huxley is trying to get us to think “how are we this different?”
• The whole point is that when people keep buying things and keep being productive where do they get the money from or how do they get it.

Brave New Conversation

• explaining the way that we live
• We don’t question what we do because it seems normal to us
• Explains how it can relate to the future now and what’s to come forward with 
• Us young people learn from observing other from what they have, look and do
• Younger people are controlled by technology which it’s a metaphor to the machines creating people
• Acting more as robots and following orders
• We say things as like if we knew them when we don’t 

Huxley Chapter 2

• You can't learn a science unless you know what it's all about.- it doesn’t make enough sense when being racist 
• hypnopædia: repeating words without meaning to

Huxley Chapter 1

• Huxley’s structure of starting his story is formed in a way that get us to imagine his point 
• “Not philosophers but fret-sawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society.”
• A. F. 632 ??
• “the Alphas and Betas remained until definitely bottled; while the Gammas, Deltas and Epsilons” 
• decanted: poured out
• For in nature it takes thirty years for two hundred eggs to reach maturity. But our business is to stabilize the population at this moment, here and now.( explains how kids nowadays aren’t mature enough that they don’t take a situation seriously)
• Labellers: small piece of paper or fabric 

We are living in the Brave New World

From the interview of Aldous Huxley over life in the brave new world he explains how life has changed us due to population, media/propaganda and drug addiction. In his interview he explains how population has had a rapid increase throughout the generations. Compared to now there is a huge growth of people all around the world which has lead the government to take a bigger responsibility. Between us and the media/propaganda now as of television it seems that we have been brainwashed from what we see on television like for example the advertisements that are being published. Over organization in technology has brought a great amount of people to start using technology. It seems that we have an drug addiction to what we have now. This type of addiction is also within drugs and the technical use that have been invented.

HAFTA/WANNA

The similarities between my life during high school and after is that I will still end up going to school for a good amount tying to studying what I want to become. There will also be times when I am stressed out whether iits during school or after. Another relationship that is shared with both timings is that I am going to still be responsible and even more after high school. Although life might turn out the same or different it doesn’t change the way that we do things.

What’s so great about Gatsby

-Gatsby is good to Daisy but some times is the greatest because he seems to be overprotective and almost obsessed to have her and whatever he wants ,acting two faced and hid who he really was.

-I don’t think Nick is so honest because  he talks behind people’s backs. He is constantly hanging out with dishonest people because they’re rich and are alway talking about rumors. He respects them and seeks out relationships with them because they all have something in common and hide information that no one knows.

-The author introduces Tom and Daisy as he did because they didn’t care or took serious their relationship as if they were forced to be together. They also tend to fight a lot and get other people involved who then ends up trying to come up with a solution which makes them careless. I do agree that they were careless because none of them took each other seriously and especially their daughter.

-I do not really understand Daisy’s behavior because she seems to be bipolar throughout the book. I do not agree to the choices she had made because she wouldn’t take precaution of who and what were her surroundings or thought about the outcome of her decisions. She isn’t someone who I’ll let date someone I know because she can end up leaving them for someone else and isn’t mature enough. 

-The last sentence of the book means that you can’t change who you are no matter what you’ll end up being who you actually are. This relates to the theme of the book and to the characters because the say and shows someone who they aren’t but try to act as if they were them just for show.

Gatsby Notes #8

-Daisy has a lot of attention 

-Gatsby truly loves Daisy 

-Daisy waited because she can’t think for herself 

-The last sentence of the book means that you can’t change who you are

Gatsby Notes #7

-Gatsby had fires all his servants and replaced them with Wolfshiem

-He fired the servants because he suspected that they were talking about Daisy’s visits to his mansion

-Gatsby invites Nick over to Daisy’s house for lunch because Jordan,Tom and Daisy are going to be there

Gatsby Notes #6

-‘Her voice is full of money’

-Tom finds out his wife likes Gatsby 

-Toms mistress is leaving

-Rumors are spreading about Gatsby and his parties

-Jay Gatsby’s real name is James Gatz

-Gatsby wants to recreate what he had with Daisy 5 years ago

Gatsby Notes #5

-Green light means go 

-Gatsby bought a house across Daisy’s house 

-Green light on Daisy’s dock is a symbol that Gatsby’s might have a second Chance to fall in love with Daisy 

-Daisy finds more affection with Gatsby than with Tom

-Nick invites Daisy over for some tea 

-Gatsby ends showing up to Nicks house because Daisy is there

 -Gatsby and Daisy have a reunion in Nicks living room 

Gatsby Notes #4

-People who weren’t invited to Gatsby’s would still go.

-Jordan Baker seem to be an old friend of Nick.

-Lucille is one of the girls that is with Jordan.

-Rumors of Gatsby are that he “had killed a man once, is a Germany spy during the war, that he was in the American arm during the war.”

-Gatsby and Nick were in the Third Division during the war.

-some one else was in the car when the wheel had fallen off

-Nick had a short affair with some girl in New Jersey but let it go because of her brother.

-Jordan ikes Nick because he cares

-Nick found out Jordan tends lies

Gatsby Test Chapters1-4

Chapter 1
1. In what ways was Gatsby introduced?
2. Why does Daisy call her own daughter a fool?

Chapter 2
1. Who is Doctor T.J. Eckleburg and what does he represent?
2. What suggestion did Catherine tell Nick about Tom and Myrtle?

Chapter 3
1. What are some of the rumors that people had spread about Gatsby?
2. Why does Jordan like Nick?

Chapter 4
1. What does Gatsby reval about him to Nick?
2. What does Wolfshiem say about Gatsby to Nick?

Gatsby Notes Page 23-34

-Nick goes to Mr.Wilsons shop with Tom
-Mrs. Wilson is in her mid thirties and has a special relationship with Tom.
- Tom and Mrs. Wilson go meet up
- Mrs. Wilson’s sister Catherine is introduced
- Mr. Wilson has no clue what is going on with his wife.
-Myrtle thinks that Mrs. Wilson should get divorce and be with Tom.

RICH PEOPLE & BACKWARD THINKING

Nick appears as a sexist and racist character by relying onto the way he talks to someone. His way of explaining something sounds in a serious threatening way. In the story he says “Here’s your money. Go and buy ten more dogs with it.” As a way to getting something he doesn’t want to buy like if he was force to buy it.

Gatsby Notes 2

Nick had gone to visit Daisy and Tom to see how they were living. Daisy and Tom are married and have a 3 year old daughter

Tom- sturd straw haired man of thirty with a hard mouth and supercilious manners

Daisy- irresponsible, isn’t mindful of other people even to her daughter

Miss Baker- charming, polite reciprocal curiosity

Gatsby Notes 1

In the book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald published in 1925, the main character of the story is Gatsby.
Epigraph- quote an author uses to set the tone at the beginning of the book

HOPEPUNK

Hopepunk, America’s new way of a literary genre. Mostly know as a literary moment it can be define as resistance and to keep hope.

20th Century Writting Styles

Genre: categories composed by different styles

Naturalism: idea or thought represented through

Realism: thinking and acting with the way thing are

Modernism: expression or technique in modern character

Down The Rabbit Hole

I had chosen to follow this link to this article about  computer crashing before computers because I realize that technology has had a high increase ment till today and is improving at the same time. From the article I’ve learned that we always need to have a backup to all of our files because computers end up crashing and erases very important files that could of taken a long time. Therefore it is needed to have a extra copy to long term papers.

Link to article:

https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/05/27/john-steinbeck-dog-letter-manuscript/ 

Notes From Today’s Lecture

Ethos: credibility of the person making the argument, speakers identity
-Ex.
Famous people promoting the product that you are selling.


Pathos: sympathy and emotions experience in life
-Ex.
Advertising to adopt dogs with a sad picture of a puppy.


Logos: persuading others 
-Ex.
Recognizing images of logos to represent a type of brand.

The World Is My Library

Short Stories
1) Speech Sounds by Octavia Butler
   Source: Google-  https://www.google.com/amp/americanshortfiction.org/2018/05/01/14-writers-you-love-their-favorite-short-stories/amp/
Story link: https://www.unl.edu/english/docs/englishweek17/engl200-speechsounds.pdf
I had found this short story appealing because from what I’ve read I find it fascinating how someone can travel extremely to see what is left and I just like to know more about traveling and learn from their experience.

2) The Quiet Thing by Che Yeun
Source: Google- https://www.kenyonreview.org/kr-online-issue/2015-spring/selections/che-yeun-342846
Story link: https://www.kenyonreview.org/kr-online-issue/2015-spring/selections/che-yeun-342846/
From what I’ve read this story had grabbed my attention once I knew it was related to mystery and drama. I’ve always love to read mystery book because I prefer them and find them more interesting to read.

Novel
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
Source:Google- http://www.modernlibrary.com/top-100/100-best-novels/
In this novel there is so much mystery and I find it curious how someone is able to do something in order to get something else.

How To Get To Graceland

From my experience learning and reading is better when it is being shared. I think that my experience does align with what I saw in the Paul Simon video. In the video the people would contribute to Paul’s idea onto making music and onto adding beat or rhythm. When learning it’s always best to share with other because you can gain information or have a second opinion onto how you view something on the behalf of  their perspective.

LA District strike: My Thoughts

From reading Los Angeles Times article based off the districts staff having a strike I believe that the teachers are right onto demanding more nurses, librarians and counselors to be hired and also lower the class size. The teachers had started this strike due to the students not having the right amount of attention and resources. With winning the strike they can have a chance to change the way the students learn and to have a better education.