My Essay Essay

Young Goodman Brown, by Nathaniel Hawthorne is about a guy who goes on a non - typical walk.  His reality is lost and it's confusing weather or not it is a dream.  The theme of YGB is what's the true reality of faith?  Hawthorne expresses many different examples of how many people who are involved and or surrounding us in our lives can be full of evil in their heart and minds.  In this story, the author also uses symbols that represent things such as the pink ribbon that represents faith in his wife's hair.  At the end of Goodman Brown's walk, all the ribbons have disappeared and drifted away, representing faith has been lost.

do. or do not. there is no essay.

• Teachers tend to defend the educational system and assume the problem is the students. The "victim"
• Essays always have a regular, old, standard grading system.
• Hawthorn Effect???
• Honest feedback depends on trust and trust to be earned.
• Students experience trauma of their own.  Anxiety in our culture has increased which leads to depression.  Lives now at school, we always have to worry and practice for a active shooter.  Our reward in school is just a degree and student loans.
• French word for attempt is essay
• When we write an essay, we're just trying to help the reader understand us.
• Transcend = go beyond
• We learn best when we do what we love.
• In order to become better... we must write.
• An essay is an attempt to participate in a gran human conversation in each paragraph, instead of an insult to our intelligence.

Password Management

• Your password is secure as the weakest site you are on.

• Change your password once a month.

• 5PH1NX - you'll want to have lower and uppercase letters in your password.

Young Old Good Bad

1. Hawthorne's purpose for writing this story shows even the nicest of people can have the worst, negative intentions.  Many of the characters that were introduced in the story, at first were described as good Christians, but then later the main character, young Goodman Brown, slowly started to discover the actual beliefs of many of the people he would consider "good Christians."
   
2. The name Faith suits Brown's wife because throughout the story, he is always thinking about the good in his wife, and how she is his only hope left when something bad happens.
   
3. I think the pink ribbons signify the sign of hope, similar to the month of breast cancer awareness, the pink ribbon signifies hope for everyone.
   
4. I think everything Brown witnessed, was just all a dream.  Towards the end of the story it says, "... Had Goodman brown fallen asleep in the forest, and only dreamed a wild dream of a witch meeting?"
   
5. I believe the old man was the devil who was just tempting / taunting Brown because he would for most of the story.  He would tell him lies about helping past family relatives.
   
6. The staff means he has fallen into the hands of the devil and now on his side.
   
7. If he didn't venture into the forest, Brown would still be naive about the townspeople and his wife.  He wouldn't believe that the people that surround him everyday, are bad people.  

Oh Now I Remember

The strategy I used to help myself memorize, "The Laughing Heart", was repetition and grouping.  I would repeat the first couple lines out loud and when I felt confident that I had that small bit down, I would move onto the next.  After that, I would repeat the two bits together until I had it solid, then I would repeat that strategy. Now that's how I memorized, "The Laughing Heart".

A Second Helping of the Socratic Seminar

• "Knowing your right" - something people should know and honor.
• Claiming the right to our own is not entitled to someone else's opinion.
• Important to understand or own individual rights.
• En local parenti - the illegal principle to allow teachers to act like parents of students during school hours.
• Claiming opinion to be right doesn't bring us closer to being right.
• Giving your opinion - it's not just saying what you think, but also you must provide evidence to prove your point. 

Training Like a Memory Champ!

From what I understood from this reading, there are many different ways to help your mind memorize things.  From grouping, to reciting, to writing things over and over again, to talking in front of the mirror.  Everyone has at last on way to help their selves remember things and as long as it gets the job done, everything is good! 

How I Read

I love reading in a quiet setting like outside hearing nature or either in my room.  Reading outside helps me to focus a lot more, I love listening to the wind and the ruffle of the leaves.  To me, this is how I prefer to be when reading a book.  Since that is not so possible where I live, I just lock myself in my room because it always tends to be quiet in their.  Overall, reading in a quiet area always helps my mind concentrate.  What helps you?

Conscience of a Hacker

When I started to read the hacker, I wasn't understanding what was being said. After a few lines in , I noticed that the reading was talking about how all teenagers are " the same".  Adults expect teenagers to start acting like young adults, yet they we're being treated like children and frustrates many of us. When a teenager figures out something big, older people don't really take many serious because we are still "kids", which means that they probably got the idea from someone else.  Do you believe you're a hacker?

Fox in Socks : Tongue Twister

The Making of an Essay

When I write an essay, I get a writer's block for a good 15 minutes, and then I start to write a bit.  Through out my school or just any day, I'll start to brainstorm ideas and then I tie them into my introduction and a body paragraphs.  Writing an essay can be very frustrating because you're required to provide evidence and explain your point.  Having to write something under pressure can be frighting for many especially slow thinkers like me.  At the end, you get this happy and satisfying feeling that you were able to finish in the time that was given to you.

Communication Strategies of a Hacker

The Mentor's tone of voice really effectively conveys his message by demonstrating a perspective of a teenager and how they feel when adults categorize us "alike".  All teenagers are different in unique ways.  Many teenagers don't know how to act because of this which is why most don't share their ideas and keep to themselves. 

For the Win!!!

What I feel I have done very well in this course, is keeping up with our journal topics and taking part in class.  I do try my best to express myself thoroughly in our journals and take up the space needed.  

So This Guy Goes For A Walk...

My first thoughts from this reading was that the story was similar to the story of Adam and Eve.  The snake in both stories was very quiet, mischievous and evil.  Both stories were also very interesting in their own unique way.  The old man was telling Goodman Brown lots of good things about what he has done in the past and how nothing will go wrong, similar to how the snake in Adam and Eve told Eve that nothing will go wrong and everything will be fine.  And what happens, Adam and Eve are banished from the Garden of Eden.

Literature Analysis #1 : To Kill A Mocking Bird

1.  The plot of this story is told by six year old Jean, nicknamed "Scout".  She is very adventurous, curious, rebellious and is a "tom-boy".  This story is set in a small town named Maycomb, a small town in Alabama in the 1930's.  So around this time is when segregation was still out and existed.  Scout lives with her older brother Jem and their widowed father Atticus, who is a Lawyer here in Maycomb.  Jem, Jean and their summer friend, Dil, are very curious of a mysterious man who lives across the street, Boo Radley. 

2.  The theme in this book is kind of like exploring the nature of human being.  Close to like the difference between evil and good.  Atticus is defending a case  with a case with an African American and of course, all the whites are against him and claiming him guilty of what he had done.  Atticus and the kids are on his side, but Jem is sort of victimized after discovering the evil behind racism during and after the trial.

3.  In the beginning of the novel, Scout describes anecdotes growing up in a small town and the tone is light and sentimental.  Most of this focuses a lot on times when Atticus scolds the kids for bothering their mysterious neighbor across the street, Boo Radley.  Another example is when Jem invites a poorer classmate for lunch, this comes back to a sentimental tone expressing the depression era of the south.  I would think the author drinks tea and has oatmeal in the morning for breakfast.  She gets up early and probably meditates outside in the meadow.

4. 

1. "Punk, punk, punk, her needle broke the taught circle."  This is an onomatopoeia, the bold words helped me almost feel Aunt Alexandra's anger when she was knitting.
2. "Your name's longer'n you are.  Bet it's a foot longer."  Jem is comparing Dil's long last name to his height, this is a metaphor, this helped me understand the break down of the comparison.
3. "The events of the summer hung over us like smoke in a closed room."  This expanded my thoughts on how Scout expresses her heavy feelings as to trapped smoke.
4. Allusion : Helped me understand all the context and references in an event.
5. Personification : Helped me understand the depth of the figurative language used in the book.

Am I Not Entitled to my Opinion?

When people tell me, "No one asked for your opinion.", I do get somewhat offended.  I think to my self then you could've said it in a nicer way or not even say anything at all.  "If you nothing nice to say, don't say it at all."  Anyways, we've been expressing our opinions since we were young.  We end up in an endless circle of right and wrong with one another because nothing is always correct.  I wouldn't want to live in a world where one certain thing is correct.  Don't you want your voice to be heard?

Big Brothers

I had to go back and reread a bit of the first paragraph because I didn't understand it very well. Then I started to understand that it was about people making the English Language very difficult to understand and to communicate. If people don't make the English language as hard, many adults would be able to learn and communicate better with ease than needing to look or have someone to expand and help them with it.

The Medium is the Message

In general, I always use snapchat for communication.  Otherwise I use iMessage to text family members and email to communicate with my teachers.  There is certain approaches to take when communicating via message or social media.  You wouldn't text your teacher through phone number would you?

Hack 2 School Night

What is this class about?
- This class is about learning how to write and express our thoughts better.

What is the easiest part of this class?
- The easiest part for me in this class is writing out journal topics.

What is the hardest part of this class?
- The hardest part of this class is keeping up with all the blogs.  I tend to fall behind on them and not post them on time.

What have you learned so far?
- I've learned that I have to be open minded and express my thoughts and feelings more, not only in writing, but in life as well.

What is your big question ?
- My big question is how does school expect us to be able to finish all the work assigned in one night?  All students have a busy life outside of school, and because of school work and school activities.  Many students have to stop doing outside of school activities and wait until our long breaks come around to relax.  Not only that, many student athletes don't even get that long break during a vacation because coaches still assign practices.

Today I Was Thinking

Today I was thinking, why is most things all in our head?  Why do we let anxiety and depression get to us when nothing is hurting us expect ourselves with all these thoughts.  I know I overthink pretty much everything.  I get overwhelmed usually that means I'll have an anxiety attack.  Why are mental disorders existent?  Things happen for a certain reason.  There can be different types of impacts in your life that can lead to this.  What were you thinking?

I Ain't Got Time For This!!

Everyone knows I'm a very busy girl.  It's either, "Sorry, I have practice." or , "Sorry I have a jazz festival to go to this weekend."  My only days off are Sundays, which annoys me.  I can say, I'm stressed 24/7, I always have so much homework and I usually get home from practice around 6:00 p.m.  So, what do I not got time for?  Hanging out with friends on the weekend nor after school, but I would say, my friends don't tend to ask me to hangout with them because they just assume I'm just busy and I have no time for them.  I'm okay with them thinking that I guess.  I get to seem them during school and most of my friends are in band or on a sports team with me.  I don't have time for people who don't treat me as I should be treated.  I don't have time for fake friends.  All I have to say, if an event or even a person is very important to me, I'll make time. 

Getting to Know YOU

It's important to get to know someone because obviously, it wont be awkward talking to them because your're now comfortable to work with them.  Besides that, getting to know someone will help you two work together as a team and get thing done.  I was kinda confused on what we were doing but then I got the hang of it.  I don't know very much people in this class except like 5 to 6 people, but conversations were pretty easy to start due to all of us trying to finish our scavenger hunt first.  At the end, we all learned at least one thing about our class mates. 

Communication Strategies of a Hacker

The Mentor's tone with the use of diction and syntax is irritable and annoyed. He was very repetitive with using the words, "Damn", "Criminal", and "Kid", which helped me understand how he is towards his audience with his tone.  Teenagers act, we are criticized for being different, but we act the "same, like being laz.  y or we're always on our phones. Many teenagers don't know how to act because of this which is why most don't share their ideas and keep to themselves. 

First 50 pages : To Kill A Mocking Bird

I have already seen the movie of this book.  My dad was the one who got me into it.  The main characters are Jean, her nickname is Scout, her brother Jem and their father who is a lawyer in their small town of Maycomb, Atticus.  The kids' best friend for the summer is Charles Baker Harris, who goes by the nickname of Dill.  The kids are suspicious about Boo Radley, who lives down the street, no one has ever seen him outside, he got in trouble with the law and Atticus imprisoned him.  Jem bets Dill he won't hop over the fence to touch the house.  After he did so, Scout could've sworn she saw someone peeking through the blinds.  This book has more interesting tha details than the movie.

The Earth on Turtle's Back

The theme of the story is a Myth.  Myth is a story that explains something we don't understand, creation myths are created widely through out the world.
This story has a central and a moral, a one word synonym.  The moral of this story is never give up when you're trying... determination.  

Techniques :

Personification, which is anthropomorphism
                     antro meaning life  

palatable = taste good

I Care About Your Understanding

Trust and communication is key to a healthy relationship.  Arguing here and there is healthy.  Loving someone isn't easy, or at least trying to let them go.  I'm not sure if I'm making any sense.  I guess I want to give you advice on love.  Don't you think 1 year and 10 months is a long time?  I'm still head over heels for this guy I've been with since freshman year.  I think having all those little arguments, fun times and deep conversations on the phone helps the relationship become stronger.  There's no limit to becoming closer to you partner.  I believe that everyday is a step closer with them.  When it comes to this person, you'd do anything for him or her, they really be the most important person in your life... your #1 Best Friend.

Everything is A Remix

Anybody can do remixing.  Everything is a remix. When we make a remix, you might of combined something and made something new. 

Truth behind insight is even tinier insights.

How Do We Create?

- Domain Knowledge

•  Copying : mimicking someone else's actions, to acquire the domain knowledge. 

- Transformation

• TIME CONSUMING 
• Edison did not invent the light bulb, he took an existing design and improved it.

- Combination: existing things and putting it all together.

All 3 of these are the basics to CREATIVITY