The Project So Far

Individualism. we are going to interview the students andask them how they feel about open source learning and if they prefer it to other orthadox classes. we will record the responses and edit together a video and present forthe class.

Brag sheet

-Teaching myself guitar -being a quick learner -not giving up -helping people -learning 3 languages -10 triathlons -athletic -helpimg people with mental and emotional problems -artistic -mechanic -self tought mostly everthing I know -bein good with my hands

Reflection on yesterdays essay

I really enjoyed the essay I wrote, because i feel it had a very different aproche then the rest of the might of had ... do i think it could of been better? Yes surely I need improvement

modernist author plan

So me and Nick have decided that we would do an interview video on our modernist author, which was langston huehgs. So our plan was to have a skipe call and map out everything that would go in our video project, as far as anything else goes or at least for your intrest just check back in, in the very near future.

JOE OR JOSIE college

Ive been pomdering this for the last 2 years. I have my choices laid out, either studing culinary arts or becoming a motorcycle technician or automotive technician. Why? Because thats what I love and what im good at... so where do I want to go? Santa barbara city college and then transfer to a university. Everything else is still unwinding.

my modernist

I have chosen james Henry. I picked him because I really liked the way he refered to life and how he questions things that most people would just follow or take for granted.

I AM HERE

I feel like this corse is working wonderfully! I feel smarter every single day after I walk out of doctor Prestons class, and to me thats the most important thing I can get out of this! To grow a smarter beter version of my self. The rest of what anyone else thinks or wants of me can go @#/===_#+÷/'*&$/^ it self, because to me having the skills and knowledge to back it up is the best I could hope for.

In Mildreds parlor.

Faith is a part of Life because we are intelligent beings, we therefore know with a clarity which may even defy logic that there is a deeper meaning to our existence. Faith Poems are about the belief that since God created us he therefore must care about little me. How important we must be if God cares about us. On Faith alone, the entire universe can stand.

going in a different direction

Sooooo ive decided that im going to post something a little different on here, kainda of course but it should hit home with the poetry part of things. Anyway my point is that i will be posting 3 bands every week that I have been into, if you like great indie rock then by all means subscribre... or not its your life man.

This week goes to...

Voxtrot

Bright eye's

And Funeral suits.

Essay postgame analysis

Im sure I did just fine on the essay, besides for the length which was slightly short, everything was alright. Everything came along well and Covered the basics, but I think that my favorite part of my essay was the connections between the way the society was described in the book and our society. I'm suite there's things to improve, its far from perfect but I think I would give myself a solid B.

Spring Vocab. #2

Praetorian- of having the power of a praetor

Sieve- a strainer

Veiled- to obscure with a veil

Saccharine- artificial sweetner

Harlequin- a jester

Toil- work extremely hard or incessantly

Delinquent- characterized with a tendency to commit crime

Gibbering- speaking rapidly and unintelligibly

Insidious-proceding harmfuly im a subtle fashion

Strewn- to scatter or spred

Pratonage- the act of buying something

Cadence- pace

Suffused-to spred through or over

Centrifuge- a machine with rapidly rotating container

Dentifrice- tooth paste.

Leisure- freedom from work

Vessel- a large craft

Phonograph- record player

Profusion- an abundance of stuff

to modern or postmodern

I think what he's trying to get across is that thing's change but the more we try and change things the more they stay the same, all the modern "creativity" that comes upom us is just the samething that someone came up with before but slightly tweked. So in an ironic way of looking at things everything "new" has been dome before so we need some sort of fictional reallity to break the chain of recycled ideas.

...I'm a poet and I know it... *sigh*

Lately, I've been having these dreams lately. A friend for years, now suddenly deeper emotion grows. Barring she's not alone, no need for me when she walks down her atomic Forest. No need for me. This idealistic future of mine that only happens at night, my eyes are closed but my mind is open. Endless possibilities to contemplate but only you come to mind, with our two fingers interlocked we shift from district to district. A gentle tune that describes all emotion, nothing could feel better than this abyss of sadness that I backslide to when I awake from my slumber...lately all these emotions have come to me lately.

Theme for English 3

I dont think that my case completely touches that of the poem, for example I'm not a black college student from harlem, but regaurdless Im not the same person out in the "wild" as I am in school and around my teachers. Although im not the exact opposite of what I am in school and I can be real with my teachers and studies, but not my rude and nonchalant attitude about all the little things. Otherwise I would get nothing done, but my outer interests will help me out with a high school English 3 class, unless I have to cook a kiesh or tune the suspension on a motorcycle. On another note im completely responsible for my education and with frinds or alone I'll continue my education without sweating the little things.

SPRING POST 1: MUSIC AS LITERATURE.

its funny, i just finished playing guitar before starting this post. I think that music is literature, its one of the oldest ways people communicated and just like a book or a poem, music gives off emotion and gets some kind of point across. over all one couldnt excist with out the other, wether its a song a poem a book a rap excetera.

The BIG question

So Nick an I were having an intense conversation about life, you know who defines whats right, and whats wrong. which i guess is every athiasts question right? not that religion has anything to do with it, but if that comes into play than all those hard questions become simple and resolve themself. I dont think thats good enough. I would be engulfed with joy if i knew that i was part of something bigger than myself...life is a wonderful mistery.

vocab list #9

 Bosom: Close to the <3, chest
2. Prudently: Practically
3. Inveterate: Habitually
4. Propensity: Likely hood, Natural tendacy to behave in particular way.
5. Repose: state of rest
6. Stripling: youth, young
7. Sequester: isolate, Or hide away
8. Purport: To intend, Mean, Signify, Imply
9. Imbibed: Drink In
10. Apparition: A vision of something super natural
11. Incessant: On going
12. Cognomen: Name, Nickname, Last name
13. Reverie: Dream-Like state, trans, day dream
14. Gambol: play
15. Spectre: ghost you can see
16. Terry: To linger, delay

Vocab. List #8

Flout: Openly disregard (a rule, law or convention): "these same companies still flout basic ethical practices".


Caveat: A warning or proviso of specific stipulations, conditions, or limitations. “Yet it is appropriate to issue certain caveats here”

Blazon: Display prominently or vividly. ”The knights shield displayed an heraldic blazon which identified the knight”


filch: Pilfer or steal (something, esp. a thing of small value) in a casual way “I didn’t have enough money for the headphones, so I filched them.”


fractious: Easily irritated; bad-tempered: "they fight and squabble like fractious children".


Equitable: Fair and impartial. “The tax policies are equitable”


autonomy: A self-governing country or region “America is not a autonomy country”


addendum: An item of additional material, typically omissions, added at the end of a book or other publication. “See addendum to the rics post graduate diploma in property investment prospectus”


Amnesty: An official pardon for people who have been convicted of political offenses. “I would like to declare an amnesty, in the hope they may be returned”


Axiomatic: Self-evident or unquestionable. “The war in the west that the war was won in the west has become axiomatic”


Extricate: Free (someone or something) from a constraint or difficulty. “Extricatestill extricating himself out of his parachute so he had no chance to run anywhere.”


Soporific: Tending to induce drowsiness or sleep. “Engine noise is minimal with only a slight and quite soporific vibration.”


Scathing: Witheringly scornful; severely critical: "a scathing attack on the governor".


Unwieldy Difficult to carry or move because of its size, shape, or weight: "the first mechanical clocks were large and unwieldy".


Vapid: Offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging: "tuneful but vapid musical comedies".


Prognosticate: Foretell or prophesy. “Prognosticates some great revolution in the land.

Sepulchral: Of or relating to a tomb or interment: "sepulchral monuments".


Salutary: (esp. with reference to something unwelcome or unpleasant) Producing good effects; beneficial.


Straitlaced: priggish: exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my plugs".


Scourge: A whip used as an instrument of punishment. “we used to scourge them in the prison.”


Precept: A general rule intended to regulate behavior or thought. “This violates every precept of english law as well as natural justice.”


Transient: Lasting only for a short time; impermanent. “Our relationship was Transient.”

just a wee late... vocab list #7

 ad infinitum: No limits; endless
ex. Counting numbers is ad infinitum.
2. apportion: to divide proportionally
ex. The brothers apportion their chores.
3. bona fide: authentic; true
ex. The president's words were bona fide.
4. buoyant: able to float; floating
ex. The drift wood was buoyant.
5. clique: a small, exclusive group of people
ex. There are many cliques in school.

6. concede: to acknowledge
ex. The teacher conceded the student's work.
7. congenial: agreeable or pleasing in nature or character
ex. The terms of the contract were congenial.
8. lofty: extending high in rank or in height
ex. The CEO is lofty.
9. migration: to go from one country or region to another; to shift
ex. Migration boomed the United State's population in the 1800s.
10. perceive: to identify by means of the senses
ex. I was able to perceive the board by seeing it.
11. perverse: determined to counter what is expected
ex. The failing student was preverse and got an A on his exam.
12. prelude: any action, event, comment, etc. that precedes something else.
ex. The prelude to the book gave us a hint on what to expect.
13. rancid: having an unpleasant smell or taste
ex. The bathroom gave off a rancid smell.
14. rustic: simple, unsophisticated
ex. The essay was rustic.
15. sever: to seperate from the whole
ex. Being different dosn't necessarily sever anyone from humanity.
16. sordid: dirty
ex. The restaurant was sordid.
17. untenable: incapable of being defended, as an argument
ex. He couldn't come up with a conclusion so his thesis was untenable.
18. versatile: capable of many uses
ex. Water is versatile.
19. vindicate: to justify by argument or evidence
ex. The lawyer's case was vindicate.
20. wane: to decrease in strenght
ex. After someone stops working out, they will wane.

Take a walk.

So here I am on the top of a mountain, it's hard to breathe. But anyways I though I'd be alone here, it seems that no matter where you go there's always something to remind you that civilization along with all the problems it comes with is waiting for you as soon as you walk back down. Even up here there's paved roads and telephone poles to remind you that industrialization has take over and the only way out of this earth is death. And up here it easy to "trip" and not have to worry About the problems you might have tomorrow... But I have a brain and with that brain comes a little voice saying that life is worth living and that all this beauty surrounding me makes up for every imperfection humanity comes with, even though I know that isn't true. So now I'll walk back down to my car where I can contemplate that this dream that others call life isn't worth waking up from.