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This is what 04:00 has me doing :0

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I present you, the joker. That’s about it. I’ve picked up cross stitching, I messed up a section so I have to take that out and re-start (:(. 

Corona-cation ≧◠‿◠≦ (lol no)

19 March 2020 : Decided to paint a simple background of catus and a slight sunset. A fun fact about me is I lived in Yuma, Arizona for 2 years :), my dad was stationed here for the US Marine Corps. 

Resources

• Anxiety in the West: Is it on the rise?
• Major depression on the rise among everyone, new data shows
• America Really Is in The Midst of a Rising Anxiety Epidemic

Cue Theme Music

Central themes represented from Gatsby are :

• Domination
• Honesty 
• Trust
• Obtaining the American Dream
• Love makes us do anything to obtain it 
• Loyalty
• Wealth

I believe Gatsby was a variety of these themes. An example of love, Gatsby really went far with trying to obtain the love he had with Daisy. He tried bringing the past to relive the moment he had with her. Domination was between Tom towards Daisy. Or basically in this story, they still lived the fact the woman had no say in anything and was just an object. Trust can was shown when Nick didn’t tell Tom about Daisy and Gatsby. Loyalty towards his cousin. 

TGG CH.9

• Gatsby is dead. 
• No one showed up to Gatsby’s Funeral. 
• Nick is at the funeral and starts reflecting on his life. Where he’s been and where and how he got to where he is now. 
• Gatsby meeting Daisy was like finding America. 
• American Dream right in front of you. 
• The more we want to change the past or present. It’s bette off to go with the current.

Guiding Questions : Chapter 7

1. Gatsby stops having parties because he realized that Daisy didn't like the parties and she wasn't enjoying herself. 
2. Gatsby fires his staff because he doesn't like how they spread rumors and don't mind their business. He replaces them with new people that won't care about his life or what he does. Their personalities reflect on Wolfsheim because they like to be unbothered.
3. Daisy's reaction to her daughter was kind but she also wanted to point out how much her daughter looks like her and not a lot like her father. Gatsby on the other hand, doesn't really show an expression and has a blank stare. He in shock about Daisy having a daughter but only he would know. 
4. The outing was quite interesting. Daisy teases both men while she is practically telling Gatsby her feelings for him in front of her husband Tom. 
5. On the way back to Long Island, Gatsby tells Nick that Myrtle is dead and that Daisy killed her but he is going to take the blame. 
6. At the end of the chapter, Tom and Daisy are talking with no emotion but they were talking really close that Gatsby had no idea what is was about and he was standing close to "protect" Daisy.  Daisy character is of an honest person that admits that she loves two guys and that at some point she loved Tom. 

The Great Gatsby Chapter 6

• TUOLOMEE
• Who is Ella Kaye?
• Gatsby inherited from Dan Cody.
• Why did Daisy insist Nick if he wanted to kiss her, just to let her know any time?
• OBLIVION?
• INARGUABLY?
• UNPRECEDENTED?
• APPALLED?
• EUPHEMISM?
• “Suck on the pap of life, gulp down the incomparable milk of wonder.

The Great Gatsby Chapter 5

• Why did Gatsby leave the house to only renter to meet Daisy?
• When did Daisy and Gatsby meet before?
• Why was Daisy crying and why is she hiding it from Nick?
• ECSTATIC?
• I have a feeling Gatsby brags a lot about his house.
• Is Gatsby trying to impress Daisy? If so, what for? Crush??
• Why is Daisy crying over “beautiful” shirts. Lol
• POMPADOUR?
• Nick believes Gatsby and Daisy are better off alone and him leaving. Feeling excluded???
• FLUCTUATING??
• Why did Nick set up Gatsby and Daisy?

The Great Gatsby Test

Chapter 1 

> How does Nick feel in the beginning of the book?

> Why does daisy hope her daughter will be a beautiful fool?

Chapter 2

> Why is Tom cheating on Daisy?

> What is the Valley of the Ashes?

Chapter 3

> Why does Tom hit Myrtle. 

> Describe two ways in which Nick differed from the guests from Gatsby’s Party. 

Chapter 4

> Why did Gatsby run off?

> What does Gatsby tell Nick himself?

Socratic Seminar

• Jordan Baker, symbolic, start of something big when Gatsby meets her. Friendship wise. 
• How does music affect you psychologically?
• Running for Prom/Homecoming court is just really a popularity contest.
• Abortion depends on what the woman wants to do with their body. 
• Pressured by teachers to take AP classes then when you go into the class and stress to your teacher they tell you why did you choose this class. 

The Great Gatsby (Chapter 2)

• Monte Claro : Known for their casinos
• Valley of The Ashes : a place between Long Island and New York City
• Toms wife walks past him and doesn’t say anything

The Great Gatsby (Pages 1-10)

In my AP English class we have started to read The Great Gatsby and I’ll be posting little parts from the book :)

• What happened at the diner?
• Are these people happy? - 12:23 no they’re not they’re odd
• INCREDULOUSLY
• CONTEMPTUOUSLY
• Daisy is always ahead or hooked back, she’s never in the moment
• “This fellow has worked out the whole things. It’s up to us who are the dominant race to watch out or these other races will have to control things.”
• Daisy is literal

How ‘Dark Patterns’ Influence Travel Bookings

We’re just teenagers, but most of us do know how to work technology more better than our parents. Say they’re having trouble booking a flight to Mexico this summer, you hop onto OneTravel or any other booking site.  “38 other people are trying to book the same flight as you.” Are they really? Dark Patterns are used, which is a “user interface” that tricks users into doing things, in this case, OneTravel is trying to make you buy this flight right now since “38 others” are also as well.  How could that be? Ophir Harpaz posted about her experience with OneTravel and wondered how did they come up with 38.

I’m Ignited!!

1. How does stickers stick, how does tape work?
2. Are we related through Adam and Eve? Is it incest?
3. Is the supernatural real?
4. Is the Mandela effect real or is it just time travel?
5. Why do we think we have to please people al the time?
6. Is ignorance bliss?
7. Why do we take advantage of the things we’re given?

MY BIG QUESTION

Question : How does anxiety and depression work in our brain neurologically? How does it really work?l
A lot of the time, everyone goes through events that cause anxiety and depression. The rate of anxiety and depression have risen by 20% in teenagers, and that was only between 2007 and 2012.

Last Century’s Writing Styles

Genre is a made of thing.

Naturalism : Raw, political forces, Great Depression, weather, economical forces.  

Characterized by a deterministic ethos. Characters were often depicted as being driven by forces beyond their control toward inevitable fates.

The character does not change, still keeps their integrity and still is the same person inside.

Realism : Literally keeping it real. Don’t care what he thought or felt. (Richard Cory)

Modernism : Values progress, freedom, and social equality. WWI was the optimistic time.  WWI, “The war to end all wars.”, but horrifying and brutal. Modern artist and writers were liminal figures.

Liminal : Not quite what we used to be but not quite what we will become.

Institutions can be liminal like individuals.

People who don’t know the rules break the rules. I want the break the rules to say something different. Which the Modernest broke the rules, presented the word fragmentary impressionistic prose meant to represent the confusion of the new world.

Post Modernism (20th Century)

Argue This! ... Syllogism?

Syllogism >
Preston : Is the simplest form of a logical argument.
Ex. : All lines have 180 degrees, an object has a 180 degree, therefore this is a line.
There’s the truth, thats it.
True : is factually, when it comes to logic there’s no faith.

Does the premises support the conclusion?
Ex. : All students at SMHS are all nice people.
Lilly is a student at SMHS so that means she is nice.
If its not factually valid, then it’s not true.

Deductive reasoning : General idea to specific example, case or conclusion
Ex. : Sherlock Holmes 

Google : An instance of a form of reasoning in which a conclusion is drawn (whether validly or not) from two given or assumed propositions (premises), each of which shares a term with the conclusion, and shares a common or middle term not present in the conclusion (e.g., all dogs are animals; all animals have four legs; therefore all dogs have four legs ).

Down The Rabbit Hole

• Lucid : very clear and easy to understand 
• Capacity : ability
• Irredeemable : not able to be saved 
• Concentrating : focus on ones attention or mental effort on a particular activity 
• Transcendent : above and beyond
• Duality : the presence of two things 

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• Steinbeck devotes his life to defending the disenfranchised and celebrating the highest potentiality of the human spirit
• “Despair, defeatism, cynicism, amnesia and assumptions”
• Good is good with something compared to that is bad

Notes from Today’s Lecture

The summer of our discontent

ETHOS : elements of the messenger that create the sense of creditability.
> may be non - verbal or verbal
LOGOS : 
PATHOS : 

FALLACY : An error

Martin Luther King Jr., “I Have a Dream”

• Emancipation Proclamation came as a joy to colores slaves
• Withering injustice : poetic, diction and syntax 
• 100 years later the negro is still NOT FREE
• DISCRIMINATION
• Negro lives on lonely island of poverty in vast ocean of improvement
• America has not kept their promise of life liberty and pursuit of happiness for black people.
• Now is the time :
• To make real promises of democracy
• To lift the nation from quicksand of injustice an racism to solid rock of brother hood.
• 1963 not an end, but the beginning 
• No rest of tranquility in America until negros are granted actual citizenship
• I have a dream 
• Let freedom reign
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Today I Interviewed an Expert!! XD

What I learned from today’s interview :

• 40 years ago, we had a change of politics, with Regan, stopping companies from becoming monopolies. 
• Back then we had rules over monopolies. Facebook bought Instagram, Google bought YouTube and Yahoo bought Flickr. 
• Eyewear brand, it’s now owned by one company. 
• Disney bought FOX, 50 talent agencies, now there’s 3. 
• Self Exploration? : The right to make up your own mind. 
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