This Boy's life project.

Rachel's art on Jack was astounding. It shows clearly how Jack is trying to see who he really is.

Ebony's slideshow was highly detailed and described all of the main key points in Jack's life.

Ashley's collage was very creative and has pictures from the movie to further describe the brief explanation of the collage.

Graphic Novel Choice

Maus I

Memoirs

A writer should draw the line between fact and fiction should be in the tension of the issue, don't make it up, make sure its fact so it is valid. Tobias Wolf does lie, but in a way to further inspire people, a fib to draw the masses. He is still himself, he just exaggerated the situation to grab the attention of the readers. Everyone exaggerates a little bit when they tell stories.

Boy's life vocabulary #1

As the waves beat upon the shore

Their crests conjures a fine foam

The sand groveling for the waves to beckon

The waves curtly touching the scabrous sand

The docile waves retreated slowly

as if to allow the sand to absorb every nuance of the sea.

This Boy's Life

I do agree with the quotes, especially after reading "The Great Gatsby". I have been in the zone for understanding this type of themes.

People assume poses in High School with their actions towards life, those who act in a more pleasant manner usually have a higher pose in high school.

Corruption is a part of life because you sometimes have to learn from your mistakes the hard way to find out more about yourself.

The Solace of Open Spaces

14. A

15. D

16. D

17. C

18. B

CST practice questions 1-13

1. C

2. A

3. D

4. A

5. C

6. A

7. B

8. B

9. D

10. B

11. A

12. D

13. D

Mo money mo problems

The fastest way to make money would probably be to rob a bank or drug dealing (both of which are illegal). The best way to make money would be to get a job in the medical companies since there's always someone who's sick. Also, invest in stock with your spare money, it might pay off in the end. Old money are traditional wealthy people and new money are modern wealthy people.

Ben Stein (Logical Fallacies)

Ben Stein seems to be on the winning side in the Stein vs Dawkins youtube video.

there doesn't seem to be a lot of logical fallacies, but the whole "other civilizations brought us up" is highly skeptical.

Intelligent Design

Intelligent Design is having a method where you are using proven facts and putting them in an order without any reasonable doubt.

Some of the arguments against evolution are how there is very little evidence supporting it and how its very skeptical on hows its described.

the creation theory with science is very different from intelligent design. many different theories and beliefs.

Logical Fallacies

- Logical Fallacies are reasonable mistaken beliefs that people have. in other words: reasonable deception.

- Ad hominem is an argument based on emotions, not logic.

- False causality: faking the reasoning of cause and effect or giving something an illegitimate cause.

- Red Herring: a clue that is intended to be misleading

- overgeneralization: to draw a conclusion that is more general than the evidence supplies.

- Bandwagon effect: something that becomes fashionable amongst a group of people.

Tough Decisions

Well, there are some things that i do that is against my parents wishes, such as dating someone that they dont know about. If they did find out, i dont think it would work out lol. Sometime you have to do what you think is right, even if you risk getting in trouble. Hopefully it would be something to bring up later. Its a little hard at first, but it becomes easier to do.

Satirical Cartoon

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This Satirical Cartoon is a parody because it's referring to the incident in Florida about a Student saying "Don't taze me Bro!!!". Gators are the mascot of Florida State.

Other Writings by Mark Twain

"The Man that corrupted Hadleyburg"

Someone in Hadleyburg had enough with the offensive environment, and he sought revenge caused by Hadleyburg's cruel intentions. So he made an evil plan to corrupt Hadleyburg.

"The Mysterious Stranger"

The person had missed Satan's visits to his lonely town and on one day, Satan did return, but only to say a final goodbye, since he was off to other places and would not return during this man's lifetime. The man asked if he would meet him in another life and Satan said that there is no other, enlightening the man to see that there is no afterlife or reincarnation of any sort. Almost an atheist view on life.

There is some satire in these stories, such as How the man wants to Corrupt a town that is almost corrupt on its own (The Man who corrupted Hadleyburg) and how Satan's presence made the man cheerful instead of dreadful (The Mysterious Stranger)

All three of the stories were done in 1st person, as if he is actually the character in the stories, and might have possible been in an experience such as the ones depicted in the stories. They could be fragments of his life. The themes in these stories have little in common with Huckleberry Finn, the only thing in common was between that book and The Mysterious Stranger is that the min characters were enlightened by what they learned in the end.

Life of Mark Twain

-Mark Twain was born on Nov 30, 1835 and died on April 21 1910, both of which when Haley's comet came by.

- He had a son and 3 daughters (Langdon, Susy, Clara, and Jean)

- On august 18, 1896 his daughter Susy died of meningitis at 24.

- In his last decade, his wife and other daughter had died, leaving him a very lonely author.

- Most important western writer did most of his wring on the East Coast or in Europe

The Onion Satire

-"We are moving quite cautiously and continuing to monitor the situation, because this appears to be a very serious pulled pork sandwich,"

-"There's a chance that Shaq could have gone back into the game, but with a pulled pork sandwich of that magnitude you can't be too careful. I've seen lesser ones knock a guy out for the rest of the season."

-"This is such a shame. A pulled pork sandwich this severe was the last thing Shaq needed at this point in the season,"

-"Shaquille will be in our thoughts and prayers," Cavaliers general manager Danny Ferry told reporters. "As a former player, I know that when you get older it becomes harder and harder to recover from a pulled pork sandwich that severe."

-Later in O'Neal's career, doctors discovered that the 7-foot-1-inch center's ability to shoot free throws was compromised by complications from chronic pulled pork sandwiches, a condition commonly known as "greasy digits."

Norman Mailer

Norman Mailer's point of view seems to depict women writers as unentertaining or boring, possibly saying that women are inferior in writing due to their lack of a pair of testicles.He says that only when a whore becomes a call girl and tells her story would be when the story is interesting. He believes that women don't seem to fit the writer's criteria. I personally don;t believe that women are inferior when it comes to literature, but i do agree with the "call girl" story idea, it would be pretty interesting :).

Similarities and differences

The similarity between the two stories were at the moment when she saw her "supposed dead" husband and when Ethan saw Mattie after hitting her, reality had struck them. The difference is that the woman had died from the shock that reality had on her, and Ethan was enlightened by the incident (in a bad way).

The difference is that the widow had a real sickness and Zeena had a false sickness.