This month a lot has happened, I like reading Death of a Salesman, even though Willy is a complete ass, but he had his reason, and in the end he still died for his sons. I respect that. The essay we had to write in class was a little extreme, I only got a 4 on it. It was really hard and I definitely need a lot more work on them, I hope by the time of AP exams we will all be hardcore essay writers.
The eras presentation was ok, the project itself is fine but prezi took my group two days to figure out how everything functions. Jino, Ken, Yash, and I had really big trouble working with prezi, especially when it randomly log us out like every twenty minuets.
Saturday, November 19, 2011
Close Reading #4
A Phone App for Switching Out Your Light Bulbshttp://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/17/a-phone-app-for-switching-out-your-light-bulbs/?scp=7&sq=phone&st=cse
This passage isn't especially special in my opinion, although I like the diction use, there were a lot of them, and I like the fact Witkin used the reference "light bulb" in his story, it is the main reason why I kept on reading. Also Witkin's syntax grabbed me, "How many mobile-phone apps does it take to change a light bulb?" this "how many.... to change light bulb" phrase has been around for ever. It usually meant to be a joke, but Witkin worked his way around it. He started out by making the passage seem funny, but what he is trying to achieve is for readers to read about the new information that he is proposing. His information is dull, but his writing skill is old school, funny, and clever.
This passage isn't especially special in my opinion, although I like the diction use, there were a lot of them, and I like the fact Witkin used the reference "light bulb" in his story, it is the main reason why I kept on reading. Also Witkin's syntax grabbed me, "How many mobile-phone apps does it take to change a light bulb?" this "how many.... to change light bulb" phrase has been around for ever. It usually meant to be a joke, but Witkin worked his way around it. He started out by making the passage seem funny, but what he is trying to achieve is for readers to read about the new information that he is proposing. His information is dull, but his writing skill is old school, funny, and clever.
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Open Prompt #5
1970 Also. Choose a work of recognized literary merit in which a specific inanimate object (e.g., a seashell, a handkerchief, a painting) is important, and write an essay in which you show how two or three of the purposes the object serves are related to one another.
In the story Lord of the Flies, Piggy is the most intelligent, rational boy in the group, and his glasses represent not just a guild for Piggy to be fit in the group, it represents the last connection between them and the old world and the intellectual endeavor in society. The significance of the glasses was laid out from the very beginning of the story, when Piggy used a word that no one else understood.
Piggy is described as the boy that is the least physically fit. Other than that Piggy is really fat and cannot exercise because of health issue, he is also the only kid on the island that has to wear glasses to be able to see. Part of the reason he gets so upset when other kids took away his glasses is that, without them, he can’t see anything. “Seeing” is Piggy’s greatest attribute; it is main reason the boys don’t ostracize him completely; it’s the one way he’s useful. Without his glasses, then, he is actually useless.
The boys find themselves at an utter loss for a way to start the fire. Jack mumbles something about rubbing two sticks together, but the fact is these kids just aren’t wild enough to do what is done by barbarians. They have to rely on some remaining relics of their old world. So, of course, the glasses breaking mean they are in danger of losing touch with the civilized world they’ve left behind. With one lens broken, they’ve got one foot over the line.
The glasses first symbolized intellectual and the superior knowledge of one individual over the society. Piggy is the single most intelligent child on the island. He understands science, and how to survive in the wilderness without any adults. While other kids are laughing at Piggy about asthma, Piggy is the only kid that knows the danger behind the scientific term and he would be careful to protect himself from being hurt.
Piggy is always the one person that is left out for everything, he is physically unfit in every way compare to all the other kids. But he carries the single most important object on the island. The glasses, the glasses that started out the fire, the glasses from the old world, and ultimately lead to the huge fire of the island that got them rescued from the wilderness.
Piggy is described as the boy that is the least physically fit. Other than that Piggy is really fat and cannot exercise because of health issue, he is also the only kid on the island that has to wear glasses to be able to see. Part of the reason he gets so upset when other kids took away his glasses is that, without them, he can’t see anything. “Seeing” is Piggy’s greatest attribute; it is main reason the boys don’t ostracize him completely; it’s the one way he’s useful. Without his glasses, then, he is actually useless.
The boys find themselves at an utter loss for a way to start the fire. Jack mumbles something about rubbing two sticks together, but the fact is these kids just aren’t wild enough to do what is done by barbarians. They have to rely on some remaining relics of their old world. So, of course, the glasses breaking mean they are in danger of losing touch with the civilized world they’ve left behind. With one lens broken, they’ve got one foot over the line.
The glasses first symbolized intellectual and the superior knowledge of one individual over the society. Piggy is the single most intelligent child on the island. He understands science, and how to survive in the wilderness without any adults. While other kids are laughing at Piggy about asthma, Piggy is the only kid that knows the danger behind the scientific term and he would be careful to protect himself from being hurt.
Piggy is always the one person that is left out for everything, he is physically unfit in every way compare to all the other kids. But he carries the single most important object on the island. The glasses, the glasses that started out the fire, the glasses from the old world, and ultimately lead to the huge fire of the island that got them rescued from the wilderness.
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