The blog that never wanted to go up. Daggers?

This quote has so much meaning to it. This quote “Come, you spirits. That tend on mortal thoughts! unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top full Of direst cruelty; make thick my blood …” “There’s daggers in men’s smiles …” is from lady Macbeth. In this quote she means She wants the strength or the will power to do the murding. Like she is calling for her spirits to give her strength to be more like a man. So she can do terrible things which she don’t have in her but I feel like every person has the will to do anything. I feel like if she was motivated enough she could defiantly do it. When she says she wants to be so called “ unsex” she wants really man characteristics. Like the violence and hatred and unfeeling of a woman. Like now a days in the 21st century, I feel like it has gone down alil bit. We have gotten better as an society about that type of stuff. It was like the whole women movement really impacted our society so things like this couldn’t happen. She doesnt want that feeling of being judge because she is a woman. In some cases it has happen for like when Mrs. Clinton ran for president people were saying we could never have a woman president, I rather die than have that happen. She actually ran up against Obama who won it all. But she put up a fight to win. I don’t really know if there are daggers in men’s smiles because I am a man. I would hope not. But the other gender has probable cause to think otherwise. I would really love to hear the female’s point of view on this. So I can see both sides of the story and come to a middle ground with this statement. But it might be right because I know some dudes who are ruthless and could care less about anything. So I would really love to discuss this in class to see where people’s opinion falls where.

ambition

Ambition is the drive you have to get something done. The desire for success. It is the want to that sets apart the winners and losers, the ordinary and extraordinary. I feel like it is a positive thing because it’s the want to, to do the best you can. If everyone in this world had the ambition to get better,the world will be a better place. Wale made a song about an ambitious girl.” Ambitious girl, the drive-drive me crazy
I'm tryna stay with you, lay with you
I'll pay you tuition, pray with you if you aint intuition
I'm tryna fxck the shxt out your aspirations
see, the last one I dated, I hated
we wake up, i go to work, she leave out
come back with some make up, high heels, and a purse, or
worse i ask, "Babygirl, what you aspire to be?"
she reply to me like, "why you perspiring me?" bxtch..
pardon me if I'm sweating you but,
I wanna see something else in you before I invest in you
ambitious girl, (what you sitting for)
I'd rather you tell me to hit you later,
because you gotta finish a paper
then to be in my face asking for a rosea cup
see these bxtches can't cut in yo business
I'm in love with your business
and your productivity is the reason I intrest, ambitious girl
see, I like the person that you are,
but I'm in love with the person that you have potential to be
and all your dreams sharing with me
and your secrets baring with me
and the flaws, you aint even got to mention to me,
ambitious girl, you just wanna win, and you'd rather chase your dreams,
then to try to chase these men
that try to chase these skirts
that try to chase these shots with flavors that not even as sweet as her
my ambitious girl, I wont forget you,
I just reflect on how I aint met you, yet boo
you somewhere, getting your life in order
http://www.elyricsworld.com/ambitious_girl_lyrics_wale.html
so for the time being, i hope this (overscribe) might support her
support her, or work her, she worth it”

the root?

Radix malorum est cupiditas.The literal translation from Latin would be, “The root of evil is desire.” i think the times changed since the chaucer times. I feel like greed is the root of all evil. I feel this way because greed means you want everything for yourself. For example, the dude who robbed all those people for their money. That was greed. But who said greed was the only root. Have you ever seen a plant with only one root? Never theres tons of things that are the root of evil. I feel like its revenge at times because when you get embarresed by a person, it's the worst feeling that anyone can have. You feel like you have to get the upper hand in this situation. So i feel like theres tons of things that are the root of all evil.

blog 13 the major people in our society

I am on a quest and i need three people to represent what i want our society is about. Our society is made up of alot of things. But the three that i would take with me is Lil Wayne, Donald Trump, and Obama. I represent the cool laid back but a mix of all these people. I would be introducing a mix of all these people on our journey.
I would take Lil Wayne because he is what our society has become. His lyrics are tremendous. He is music right now. He says stuff that people could just be in aw. How he links one thing to another thing is not human. The story i would make Lil Wayne speak about is life from then and now.He would rip it because he is a genius with words. Lil Wayne represents tons of things like music, the youth, drugs, and struggle. He would probably win the poetry change.
The Next person i would bring is the business side of the world. The person who represents the business side of the world is Jerry Jones. Jerry Jones has that attitude that just never stops. He has that never quit attitude and do what is best at all cost. He shows if you don't go big don't go at all mentality. He will reel and deal all the way to the end. He would talk about fight to the end and never back down. He is the type of guy i would want to be in life. A successful man and can have whatever he sets his mind to.
Obama is the last one i would take. He is the last one i would take because he is the most important here reason being is that he was the change and was the first black president ever in the white house the stories from when he was a child to now being the latest president can influnece so much people. He explemplies what everybody should do and go for in life. That thing is called dreams. I believe this guy will have a story that will last forever and lead you to where you wanna be.

Blog 12 review work

While reading my blogs, I noticed I can get a bit off topic and not focus on the question that was given to us. It looks like I did not even read the material or made any sense while talking about the topic. I realized I do not quote the book or make any inferences towards it. It looks like I just put sentences or words together just to meet the requirement. I am repeating the same thing over and over in the blogs. But one thing I can say is that I meet the requirement most of the time. It defiantly does not look like I wrote these blogs. I do not know what I was on when I came up with some of these ideas. I look at my blog and I feel like I could be more descriptive and quote more. I feel like I could express myself in my writing a whole lot better, if I can actually understand the question. The nature of my post actually has not changed, usually when you do something often enough things will get better. But when I read these post I feel like I am not getting better at it. My blogs truthfully they are not exciting enough for me to even read, let alone for someone else to. I feel like they would lose focus fast and become disinterested in it. I notice the stories and stuff changing, I could see change here and there but that is not enough to make my post great enough. The changes I can account for is when we talk in class about a subject, it actually gives me a idea of what I actually want to write about. So I feel like that can help abit as well. One of the ideas I feel that is worth on revisiting was the post on “ Am I Human?” That was actually I feel the best post I had so far. I feel like we should write about life and what is on your mind at the end of the week. But we write atleast three blogs a week which can be a bit overwhelming at times. The blogging is not a bad idea but you got to change the subject from time to time, like maybe one time change it to a thing that we would never write about. That would be a good post.

Blog 10 the dragon view

In the book Grendal, the dragon is the type of character that exhibits a lot of characteristics. One of his major characteristics are him having wisdom like an old man. He shared his wisdom about life and what he had experienced to Grendal. The dragon changed Grendal point of view on life completely. The dragon says that the world was made up by gods whereas the dragon says that human kind is the downfall to life. While the dragon tells him that, he also belittles Grendal thought and says its foolish of him to think that way. While the dragon lives alone by himself he still understands people through language. While Grendal thinks the same but just do not get it as well as the dragon. Like Grendal is like the opposite of the dragon, he wants to be accepted by the people but they will not accept him because of what he has become. Grendal downfall is he has no one to express himself to or like to talk to. He has no one to tell him why things are the way they are and how come they cannot change. So The only one he can actually talk to is the dragon because he knowledgeable about things that happen in this world because he has lived on this world longer, so that is why he can go to the dragon and actually listen. The dragon has so much wisdom so that is why grendal needs him for things like that. That is like me listening to my parent because they been through some of the stuff I am going through. So grendal listens attentively, so he can change for the better. Wisdom separates the two characters from each other. So these are the reasons I believe separate the characters.

End of blog 11

In Grendel, Beowulf is described as a different type of hero. Usually heroes get great the whole treatment of the town greeting them and cheering but in Grendel it ended with a fatalistic view on life. Like in this book they give you grendel point of view on the situation between him and Beowulf. Beowulf is just minor part in the book of grendel. It’s the same way in Beowulf like he gets a mini episode. But in Beowulf you get to the end and you get extra information.

Am I human?

Grendal says he sees himself watching them. So he is seeing it in another view. It is like an outer body experience. He also saying that he is not him he is someone else. He is not use to this so it is strange to him. So that is why he is startled. . ‘Then I am not that which observes!’ I am lack” (chapter 2, 29) which means he is less then what he really is, if he doesn’t see outside the box. What I have learned from grendal is he is lonely. He has the same characteristics as a human, which are feelings. So he wonders why he does not have someone to talk to or relate with. Like humans can’t go without having someone to talk to. They’ll go insane. Like that one movie name castaway, the dude loses his mind and actually has a conversation with volleyball. So he is just like us. He has his desires of being with a person. When Grendal says “He wanted it, yes!” He is talking about the language the human’s speak. But he understands it though. But the only problem is that they don’t understand him. So he can say I want to be friends with you and they think he wants to harm them because of how he presents his self. That’s like if a genius dressed in baggy clothes and wore gold teeth. He would be judge by his appearance. But it’s how he looks and acts. He could be acting like a complete good person but jus the look does not come off good. But the main question is if he is human or monster. I feel like he has a human inside. He thinks like a human but he has a monster outlook. So his is fifty fifty. But most people say it matters what is in on the inside so that means he is human. He thinks like one. So that sets him apart from a lot of animals in the world. So that is the many reasons I say that he is human than monster.

DIFFERENCE

The graphic novel by Gareth Hinds is only one of many. But the graphic novel I felt like it was better for me. It was better for me because I could actually see what was going on. Instead of guessing what was happening. It put a mental picture in my head that I can actually see. But the online version was kind of hard to understand. Even though it was in translation form from old English, it was hard for me. But the book makes you come up with your own image of the action that is happening in the book. The book is very detailed in both. Like the pictures show what is going on to the point, while the online version got you thinking on how gruesome or how detailed it looks by the words they use. I do think the graphic novel is a valuable rendering of the text. I think so because the saying “picture is worth a thousand words.” So I do feel it is valuable. So that is why I agree on this graphic novel. I feel the only difference between the two endings of the books is that you’ll understand it easier from a picture book. But from the novel it would be harder because it would be so detailed but to confusing to put it together. While looking around the class and listening to the rest of the students in our class, I came to the conclusion that most of them like the graphic novel because they could not understand the translation and neither the old English. Also because they are lazy. The ending of the book will have the same general idea but would present it in two different ways. Which will cause a problem with certain assignments? Like we should come to agree on one of them to read because you might get a imagine that was totally wrong from the novel book then the graphic which will cause you to get a certain answer on a test or essay wrong. But they are amazing both of those books. But I rather read the graphic novel. But those are my reasoning’s on this matter.

archetype of the epic hero

The archetype of the epic hero in Beowulf is that he has courage, powerful, strong brave, and unrelentless. Beowulf has abilities and talent that are like god like. He is the warrior that everybody wants to be and the enemy that nobody wants to face. The society saw him as their hero who would protect them; he is like the Hercules of their time. He had to defend his society from the demon grenade. Grendal has made havoc on the mead-hall for 12 yrs because of what is inside of it. So Beowulf got the job done because that is what a true hero does for his people. I feel like the hero's back then was savage and the ones now stand for justice like for the country.
They did whatever it took to kill their enemy while you just have them go to jail now. Like superman saves lives but he does not kill anyone. Batman is the same way; they just put them in jail. But back then they wanted blood and mutilation. They both have the same ideas of being a hero but one is tougher and the other is more cleaned up fighting. They have the same type of powers and stuff. The powers they have are supernatural. Like He-man strength, courage of a lion, and the weight of the world. Yet they still get the job done. If I was one of those I would want to be half Beowulf and my other have superman. But they both are humble which makes them better than any other hero. Some are very cocky and make the people of the town feel bad but neither of these heroes is those types of guys. We went over in class was vocabulary words. Some of the words I didn’t understand because we hardly use that text these days. But you helped us as in the class with understand those words because we used the text when we did this.

Heaney suggests, “abounds in passages which will leave an unprepared audience bewildered”



"thereupon to Beowulf the broad kingdom
on hand passed into his hands;he ruled well
for fifty winters--then he was a wise king,
an old warden of the fatherland-- until one began 2207-2215
in the dark nights, a dragon to rule,
he who in a high house watched over a hoard,
a stark stone barrow; the path below lay
unknown to men."

"he who sorely injured him,

because of dire-distress a thief of I know not which
sons of men fled hostile blows,

in need of a hall and there within raged,

a man haunted by guilt, immediately watched over;
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then against the stranger stood horror and terror;
nevertheless upon the wicked one"

days and nights, until the flood of Death 2269
reached to his heart.

"power and courage, for that he before many, 2349
narrowly risking, hostilities survived,"

"in the noble one by any means,
that he to Heardred would be a lord,
or the kingdom wished to accept;
yet he to him among the folk upheld with the counsels of a friend, graciously in honour, until he grew older, 2374-2379
ruled the Weder-Geats. "
words
Heatho-scilfings
Weder-Geats.
Haethcyn
Glee-wood
Twilight-scather
Hreosnabeorh

my hero

Today stories are not exciting and don't have that hero impact like how the folk tales have them. But a major hero in today's black society is Barak Obama. He is the latest president. He is an African American that won the presidency. The community was so proud because nobody ever thought that would be even possible. He inspired little kids. I hear little kids saying I am going to be the next president and I say it’s very possible if Obama can do it so can you. Forget about the color and the race and focus on what you can control like how can you make our country better. A leader would have to have a good attitude, great leader, and a go getter. Those are some of the things a hero will need and also the will to keep fighting and not to give up. If my hero doesn’t show how he wants to be the best and doesn’t try to strive for excellence then he is no better than a bum on the streets. But if he showing hard work and is fighting for that little extra, then they get all my respect. I want to be someone’s hero. If I can I would show them that everything I work for came from blood, sweat, and tears. You have to do the things that people are unwilling to do. So that is the reason why heroes are in another category then those regular people, it is because how they act and do things.

"Being Haunted? "

Juan Rulfo’s novel, as many of its critics emphasize, “Evokes for readers the experience of being haunted” (Anderson, emphasis mine). What does Anderson mean by that? Anderson means that this novel makes the reader uses its past haunted experiences to make them for what the character is feeling. The author relates this novel by using Juan to relate with the reader, which is making us closer with Juan because we are seeing what he is experiencing. The author did this to make the reader feel more attached like it was like you know them personally. So this means you going to feel what they go through and you’ll see yourself in that predicament. Like one of the major things that the author does to make the reader feel haunted is by making Juan talk to all those dead people. Like imagine you in that same situation it just seems way too crazy for me. Like one night I was reading the book and my mom bumped into the wall and it frightened me so I guess I do share the same experiences and feelings as Juan because I thought there was ghost in my room. I imagined myself in comala and seen dirt swirling around abandoned buildings and it was just a bad feeling I felt like I was in one of those feed me commercials and I heard howling of the ghost. I got that into it by reading. One of the themes that are in the book is madness. Madness was one of the things that made me feel tied to the book because you must be crazy to imagine that there is really ghost in this world. All these things are major parts of the book. Anderson makes a key point with his quote by saying” evokes for readers the experience of being haunted” I would have to agree with Anderson because when I read this book it makes me feel like I was one of the characters in it. I feel like I was in the journey with him doing it and helping him out, so this makes the reader feel like he is in it.

What do i see?

What did i see while i was reading the book "Pedro Paramo". I seen alot of things that everyday life people go through. Like the tough times and also the good. I didn't know a person could make me see what the character wasx going through like in the beginning of the book when it talks about being at his mother's deathbed and promising her, he would come back for the land they had. He see spirits like what people imagine and stuff. This story is very creative it has something different then any other story i have read. It touch me because i could see where the narrator was coming from. Once you put yourself in the other person's shoes you see it from a whole another perspective. You got to get out of your frame of mind and see what the book deeper meaning is. For some it comes easy for others you just got to expierence it.

senior year blog 2

What it means to read, interpret, write, and learn in the here and now? It means alot. It means alot because when you read you see a picture. Its like your mind is making a motion picture. When you read the words you interpet it in a way that totally different then the next person will because of your past expierences. You write what you see and you feel what you write so that's how they call come together. So when all this comes together you learn from all this. We should care about past literarly text because you learn about everything back then, and you can compare the past to the present. A PLN system can really help you out because you can always add on to a system to make it better for you.

senior year first blog

1) My sophomore year, we lost a major game. It was the first playoff game we had. I gave up the winning touchdown. It hurt watching that kid run while I was on the floor watching him go farther away from me. This experience has changed my life a lot. My expectations for myself became higher and I feel like I won’t ever let my team go through something like that. I don’t feel like it will change my approach to reading
2) Do right and get everything done such as work, being on time, turning in late work, and behaving properly.