Polar Express Tao

I knew that I could have any gift I could imagine. But the thing I wanted most for Christmas was not inside Santa’s giant bag. What I wanted more than anything was one silver bell from Santa’s sleigh. When I asked Santa smiled. Then he gave me a hug…

The polar express shows children and adults the true Christmas spirit, and this boy shows us how simple it is to believe in Santa Claus. For those who don’t believe in this jolly old fellow, can find them self’s lost in life. The simplicity of the gift, shows how simple one has to be to believe in Santa Claus. Boys and Girls around the world can be a perfect example of simplicity and wisdom. They don’t have to see it to believe it as they get older they start to lose the touch that makes it so special of being a child. As we grow up, Adults get into our mind each time we get more mature we believe in the saying, seeing is believing and like we don’t ever see Santa Claus we lose the simplicity of being a child, of being A UNIQUE AND SIMPLE BEING.

At one time most of my friends could hear the bell, but as years passed it fell silent for all of them. Even Sarah found one Christmas that she could no longer hear its sweet sound. Though I’ve grown old the bell still rings for me as it does for all who truly believe.

“I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.”

GO! Tao Go!

The Tao teaches us about the Yin Yang to balance out good and evil, in Go we reflect this with the stones because it teaches us not to over think, to be very simple when we are playing and when we are playing “life” to be simple with our life to not over thinking thinks and jump because someone is going to catch us. We learn some strategies to win in Go and we learn to win in life with the Tao. At fist in Go you over think things and we do the same in life and as we get practices we do it from our memory, there’s no need to over analyze it any more.

exercises

exercise1:

Exercise 1
C: world/textbook/banana/ essay
D: acid/thought/crystal
N: smoking/ poetry/applause/conduct/progress/biology/shopping
Exercise 2
Defense/ beauty/experience/rain/emotion Exercise 3
Because diabetes can cause devastating damage to virtually all body systems, people with diabetes should not underrate the seriousness of their disease. Learning to live with a chronic illness such as diabetes must be an ongoing process.
The Hospital's Center for Family Life Education is sponsoring a five-part educational series on diabetes. The series will begin on April 30 and continue through May 29. The program will be held in the second floor classroom of the Education Center from 7-9 p.m.
The diabetes series is free and open to the public and will be of specific interest to people who have diabetes and their families and friends.
Exercise 4
these person/a research/this eggs/those arguments
Exercise 5
Though you can make the decision on purely economic grounds, buying a computer is often more like joining a religious cult. Buy an Apple, for example, and almost by default you join Apple chairman Steve Jobs in his crusade against IBM. Every machine has its "users' groups" and a band of loyal enthusiasts who tout its merits. That makes it all the more difficult for the uninitiated to decide what machine to buy. Students have a huge advantage, however. The computer companies are so eager for students' business (it builds "brand loyalty") that many offer huge discounts.
In the past six months, IBM, Apple, and others have brought out new computers, and the fierce competition has forced prices down. Also, time is on your side: next year at this time you'll have even more choice and more computing power and features for the same price. On the other hand, this will probably be true for many years. So for those who need or want a computer now, it's a great time to buy one.

exercise 2:
1. quite a bit of students have trouble with economics
2. It requires quite a bit of reading.
3. few advisors spend as much time with their students.
4. He has little hope of passing his exams.
5. George's advisor spends quite a bit of time with him.
6. He knows few people in the class.
7. Bill spend little money on clothes.
8. She spends quite a bit of money on CDs.
9. He has few suits.
10. He understand little of the reading.

Education

Our looks will pass and our relatives and love ones will die but our education will always be with us. If we have the opportunity to have a great education we must take it and all the opportunities that come with it. “When Wisdom and intelligence are born the great pretence begins.” Pg 20 we will always meet our goals and what we inspire in life if we take our education were ever we go.

Yin Yang

“All can know good as good only because there is evil.” Pg 4

When I first read it gave me a sense of what we are getting at with the Tao Te Ching, it is like a yin yang type of thing. One completes the other. We only know what is good because we have lived or seen evil, if evil didn’t exist neither would good so that is when he yin yang situation comes in they need each other to balance out you could see the examples through chapter 2.

Our Thoughts Are The Most Powerful Things On Earth

If someone told you that you have the power to control your own destiny, would you believe them? You don’t have to find a magic genie, all you have to do is attract it to your life, it’s called the law of attraction “like attracts like” This theory has been known for century’s buts it’s now that we discover, “The Secret”.

Most of the people ask them self’s why bad things happen to them? And it’s because they attract them. It’s the law of attraction: everything that happens to you good or bad- it’s because you attract it to yourself. Most people focus in what’s wrong in their life, the more you think about this the more you attract that [negativity]. Your thinking I don’t sit in a chair and think “I want bad thing to happen to me” but you doubt every good thing that is coming your way, you need to grow spiritually, not in a religious way but to find your own identity. And most important yet, people forget to be grateful for the things they already have.

All your thoughts, feelings, and action have to be pointing to the same goal; the feelings that you thoughts make is what attracts your goals, all you have to do is give it an extra push with your actions. Let’s say Julian wants to lose 15 pounds before the end of the year, what Julian has to do is think positively “I lost 2 pounds already” she can’t say “ I only lost 2 pounds?” the positive thoughts will make good feelings, thinking about the future like how good she will look in her brand new bikini. She can’t stay home and watch T.V that’s not helping she has to go to the GYM and do some exercise she’s not going to lose the weight over night, this is the action she most do for her goal to be accomplished.

Remember our thoughts is what controls the word use them wisely.

Confcius Knows Best

Confucius always did make a difference and grew as a person, because learning was something he loved as he said In 7.12 “I prefer to follow that which I love.” The last generations on earth have decided they were already perfect and didn’t need to learn anything new, but Confucius takes his opportunity every second of his life to learn something new to change his ways, and grow as a person. This is something I admire out of every situation he learns from it he strived to be like those who he admired, and he changed himself by the mistakes that others did he at no point wants to stop learning he says school isn’t over, it just beginning (life). “When walking with two other people, I will always find a teacher among them. I focus on those who are good and seek to emulate them, and focus on those who are bad in order to be reminded of what needs to be changed in myself.” 7.20

When Are We Going To Start?

“To make a mistake and yet to not change your ways- this is what is called truly making a mistake.” 15.30 If we have done something wrong we have to recognize it, if not we are doing something worse than a mistake we are not growing as a person, because we choose not to recognize our mistakes. If we were to grow as a person, our community would change, and our country would change, and finally the world would change. So if every human change something that is morally wrong our world would become a different place to live for the future generations. We already had our chance and the people who made this possible are 5 generation behind then so let’s look for a brighter future and start changing.

Can you Level With Me?

“Remaining silent and yet comprehending, learning and yet never becoming tired, encouraging others and never growing weary”7.2 This is the definition of what a full and wise person is. Why people don’t get there is very simple they are selfish, you need to become selfless and start thinking of others before you think of yourself. This will make you grow as a person, you will understand the meaning of life and its faces. I think that after you have understood all this you can finally rest in peace. I believe that every life you have is like a video game level, you can pass each level by learning something new, getting the mission accomplish, and when you complete all these levels you don’t reincarnate you just become a higher being, a new video game.

Did you hear them ?

Can You Hear Them?

“Observe closely the sort of mistakes a person makes- then you will know his character.” 4.7 While reading I came to find this, it caught my attention and I came to ask myself if all the mistakes I had made on this earth, had made me the person I ‘m today. It’s true, it’s human nature to do mistakes after all were not perfect, so most of humans learn from their mistakes and grow as a person, but the number of people who do learn from their mistakes and grow are decreasing. Every generation has lower values and they are making assumptions that they don’t have to grow as a person because they don’t need it. And they leave this earth without making a difference. People have come to realize this and these are the people who have made a big difference this last century, they have come to share the message with the world “We need change”.


“If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living.”
Gail Sheehy quotes

HISTORY

Barack Obama is a true speaker apart from saying what the people want to hear, his enthusiasm towards each subject he addresses shows he is a true believer in what he is planning to do. His charisma, his love for his country and for his family, shows us indeed that when he commits, he is committed. The tone of voice he uses delivering a speech is incredible it keeps the audience captivated, you could see his passion for his country, he knows how to use different tones to captivate us., and apart from the change he is proposing, and the charisma his form of talking of delivering a speech is what made him the 44th President of the United States Of America. Obama is very effective in persuading his audience to trust him, he uses his charisma, and ethos to do his. He uses Pathos a lot in his speeches when he talks about the America it is and what it should be. In this speech especially he uses forensic because he is taking about the future of what’s to come.

Is Anyone Their?

“How I sympathized with Job! I did not deny God’s existence, but I doubted His absolute justice” Pg 42 When I was reading Night I didn’t have Job in mind but as I read this part I came to understand. What had Job done to deserve the fate he got yes at the end he gets it all back and more, but what did the Jewish people done to deserve any of this if all that I have read in the bible were the Jews suffering. And what did they get in return? Anger, long sleepless night, they didn’t go to the life they had then it’s not a fairy tale ending for them. Job and Night is the same thing but in different events and a different outcome. HUMAN SUFFERING why does God let us suffer? Where is God?

What Now?

Job showed constant love towards God, even thought his wife and his friends told him to curse him, he would not. He served God, and God did recognize this and he gave Job his children, and all his wealth, with interest. “And the Lord turned the captivity of job when he prayed for his friends: also the Lord gave twice as much as he had before.” (Job 42:10)

Gob sounds like a commercial “trust in me and I will give what you want, and more” no better yet it sounds like a politician offering the people what they want, for their vote. But Job didn’t know what he would get. So what are we suppose to do with religion, trust in something we don’t see, or not trust in anything at all? I think we can trust ourselves with such an important matter.

If we were to trust in something we don’t see, we would surly ask ourselves: where is God? And most people can’t answer, they say they are believers, but they are not. If we chose not to believe in anything at all then we will look towards science something to describe all the natural phenomenon’s and ourselves, but truly nobody can rely on science, at one point all that knowledge will contradict each other.

The string theory is a very good contradiction of science it selves because a lot of people say it exits but they can’t prove it so no one accepts it. In a few years when they have the technology they will prove this theory and people will freak out and the foundation of science will start to break. It’s the same thing with religion when someone proves there is a higher being than us, one that we should follow, the foundation of our civilization will crack.

Why Are We So Complicated?

“Behold God is mighty, and despiseth not any: he is mighty in strength and wisdom.” ( Job 36:5) They say we can’t compare God, and it’s true, a lot of people compare him with other god’s and well they are one in the same. If we look at each religion standers they all say the same thing. But people compare religion’s and get into war’s because of it if we look back all recent war’s have had something to do with religion’s or ethnic believes. Why can’t people stand being near each other if they consider them self’s different from each other? What’s their problem?

Is God Perfect After All?

It’s incredible how Job left Satan and the Lord with their mouth opened to the fact that he did not curse the Lord after he had lost everything his oxen, his seep even his own son’s. What show’s is that even God can be fooled be Satan, even though Job wasn’t tricked at all by Satan. “In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.” (Job 2:22) When I say the Lord it’s because Satan convinced the Lord to do this act against Job who had done nothing wrong except fear God. “But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face. And the lord said unto Satan, behold, all that he hath is in thy power” (Job 2:11-12)

Peace Of Mind

“It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.”
Aeschylus
“Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.”
Buddha
“David took an harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him." 1 Samuel 16 23 Jealousy can take a person to do very stupid thing, in this case it’s Saul with David he wanted to kill him at the end it leads him to his own death and David becomes king. Jealousy leaves us blind and expects us to fight it but it overpowers us and leaves us to decide our own faith. Are we stupid enough to let it come to this or we able to fight, it all depends on your own state of mind. As well as peace of mind. Isn't that what we are all looking for in our own separate way?

Obama

ethos : ethics

• Especially the one who traveled the farthest, a champion for working American’s and a inspiration to my daughter’s and yours. Hilary Rodom Clinton.

pathos: simpathy

• Four years ago I stood before you and told you my story of the brief union between a young man of Kenya and a young women from Kansas that weren’t well off or well known but shared a believed that in America their son could achieve whatever he set his mind to.
• Enough this moment this moment this election is our chance to keep in the 21 century the American promise alive

logos: logic

• Next week in Minnesota the same party that brought you two terms of George Bush and Dick Shany will ask this country for a third

Can You Say I Mean See It Again?

Comparing our readings between Genesis and Exodus I can see clearly that they are getting each time deeper and deeper into details. Genesis is very head on they don’t describe their action, they just throw them at you in Exodus they throw their actions as well as describing then which at a point gets repetitive. "And thou shalt put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, that the ark may be borne with them. The staves shall be in the rings of the ark: they shall not be taken from it." Exodus 25 verse 14 to 15 in verse fourteen we get it they don’t have to repeat it in fifteen and I think that’s one of the reasons I understood better Genesis than Exodus even thou I knew Moses story, not this way there’s more to it.

My family is catholic, I was raised being one, but not one time have I read the bible, well apart from religion class that we use to play games, even though this isn’t what I want to get that. I have never been comfortable in my religion, I believe more in spiritualism, and I believe I have to search even deeper. At the same time I am reading the bible for English class I am reading it for myself, for my religions point of view. And all the story’s well chapter’s I don’t know how to call them, I have read so far, I have seen in movie’s in book’s but I am having a different emotion, view, over my religion.

The way the movie’s the books portray them is just wrong they should show the truth about our religion, most of the times they end the story like fairy tales and well the bible isn't quite a fairy tale maybe a brothers Grimm fairy tale yes but not one of Disney's fairy tale because it doesn’t have a "and they lived happily ever after. The End.” Maybe it gives faith about our world, for children to be happy. But I don't know what's worse to never find out the truth about our world and live in a bubble or to find about it when you’re older and the whole world is crushing you.

أنت لا الملح,你不是鹽,ti sol ne,Thou shalt not... Human's Don't Understand

God’s favorite word: Thou shalt not. Its incredible God still hasn’t learned from his mistakes, Adam and Eve? Temptation doesn’t it ring a bell? We had already established that if you say to a human being that something is forbidden or thou shalt not, whichever way they are going to want to do it even more. If we look back at the commandments people do what they are told not to do and don’t do what they are told to do it’s incredible. “Remember the Sabbath day, keep it holy” Exodus 20 verse 8, not a lot of people practice this anymore and if they do they have little tweaks to it “Thou salt not kill. Thou salt not commit adultery. Thou salt not steal” Exodus 20 verse 13 to 15 these are the type of things people do every minute of their life. Why is the forbidden so tempting? I still don’t know.

President's Speech

MACCAIN
Past-“The catalyst for this housing crisis was the Andy and Freddy May that caused the sub-prime lending situation.”
Present:Americans are hurting right now, and they're angry.
Future-“We need to cut the business tax rate in America, we need to encourage business in America.”

OBAMAM
Past- “the failed economic policies of the last eight years, strongly promoted by President Bush and supported by Senator McCain"
Present- “we are experiencing the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression”
Future- “what we haven't yet seen is a rescue package for the middle class. Because the fundamentals of the economy were weak even before this latest crisis.”

Trust Leads To... BIG THINGS

Does God trust us? “And they did so; for Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod’ Exodus 8 verse 17 “And the lord did so” Exodus 8 verse 24 at first God could trust us because things first were easy to do but when thing’s started to get complicated he just trusted us to be messengers. Are we a message to the rest of living creatures? Does he want us as an experiment for him to us as a example of total failure? As It also came up in my mind that we are not dependable that we were created by God to do the easy things so we have always looked for a easy way out of stuff. I don’t know if what I want to say is clear but because God didn’t think Moses and Aaron capable of doing BIG THING'S, we are now unable to do BIG THING'S for ourselves, for our civilization, for our world.

Wait For it

What is God’s intention when he turns’s Moses rod into a serpent? Don’t we use a serpent as a sign of evil? “And Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh, and it became a serpent” Exodus 7 verse 10 It’s a sign that evil was coming towards the pharaohs way, if we look after this verse it says that the pharaoh’s heart was harden. This isn’t in a literal way but it just says he was too naïve to see what was going to happen and because of this bad things like the water turning into blood happened. I now I have always said this in all my blogs but it’s true mankind is coming to an end because we don’t see where we are going our hearts are too hard to see it, just like the pharaoh. People have come to warn us but we haven’t paid any attention to then, they stay in the back of our mind and we have other priorities like war, money, power, that’s what we are searching for. There’s a big surprise waiting for us.

Meter

The vile/ cushions/ above/ the air /A
Weeping/ the death /of the/ sun,/ B
The streets /resting /full of /despair/ A
Shooting/ his tears/ with a/ gun,/ B
Hit by/ bullets,/ crying /in pain/ C
Walking/ alone /beneath /the rain/ C

AbraHUM?

“[1] And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.[2] And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.[3] And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.” Genesis 22 I know people are devoted to their religion take for example the Muslims with their five prayers a day, but I have never heard of a man that would bear to give his child as a sacrifice to God. What kind of man is he if he had work so hard to bare this child, how can he give him up that easily? As he was going to kill him an angel stopped him, but if he not? How could god play with life’s that easily? I know that’s a stupid question he’s Gd but we are his creations should he not take care of us?

Wrapped Up In Name's

After Noah’s Ark everything starts getting so complicated with the name’s that I had to start over about three times. I think that god secretaries, the people who wrote this, got too deep inside the details because they come and show us literally the whole civilization family tree even if we don’t need it. Genesis ten is a very good example it shows us Noah’s whole family tree, I could be there. “[1] Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.[2] The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.[3] And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.[4] And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.” Genesis 10 Believe it or not this goes on about thirty verses more. The first time read, I missed out on the most important details, I got wrapped up in the name listing of the family tree. The second time around I decided to make a diagram of the family tree, it didn’t quite work. Then I ignored the names completely and it was just fine. People sometimes get so wrapped up in none important details they can’t see clearly what the writer wants’ them to see.

Temptation

A dim light surrounds me as I say goodbye, (A)
To everything I knew.(B)
There no reason to cry, (A)
I’m just blue.(B)
I ask myself why?(A)
Temptation just grew,(B)
and I got the forbidden fruit.(C)
It wasn’t astute.(C)

Obese Civilization

Temptation has always got the best of man since the beginning of our creation. “For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.” Genesis 5-6 Eve was offered to be as a god, how could she resist? She was like a little girl that when you tell her not to run with scissors she has to run with scissors to learn not to run with scissors. It’s incredible but that’s how the human brain work’s you have to do the forbidden to learn that you shouldn’t do it. As a civilization we still are eating the forbidden fruit and they are so good that we keep eating, there’s no way to stop, at one point we’re going to be obese and die.

Importance of Being Important

“He was never famous, even at the time, because, as Walker said, Savile took all the credit for the Chrysostom and the five years Bois had spent on the Bois had spent on the translation ‘makes no noyse, because it carries no name’. He wasn’t a particularly good man, nor particularly likable, nor a man of any scale. John Bois Was no William Tyndale, Lancelot Andrews or Henry Savile… wrote on his preface to the King James Bible, ‘ A man may be counted a venturous man, though hee haue made many slips in his life” PG 215 It’s incredible how they say that John Bois may have written in the bible, they talk about his life for one whole chapter and still they say he’s not important. Then what’s the point of writing one chapter about a person that they imply that is not important? Is it to waist space or is it because he is really important after all he was one of the people who wrote the Kings James Bible is he not?

Science VS. Church Who Win's When?

In those times’s the bible was the ultimate power the church ruled the world. People did whatever they needed to do to follow the bibles teachings. “In A sense that almost no one now understands, the words of the bible were the ultimate and encompassing truth itself. That depth of belief in the sufficiency of language is also one of the shaping forces of the King James Bible.” PG 182 Why was the church so powerful then and not now? Was it because science in those times was not as powerful as it is today, if we look at it people now look towards science to lead the way, the generations before us looked at the church for answer’s. “every last echo of meaning would be squeezed from the words of the bible.” Pg 181
As we look back in history the church was the one who built civilization who put it’s “structure” people believed whatever the church said even if they didn’t see it, they were too afraid to know what was really happening, but as our civilization grew, people came bumping into science and found that they could explain a lot of things, the church couldn’t. People started to leave the church behind and start thinking that everything that science tells them to is true.

Spelling

Dealing with student on a high-school level-that is, the second, third, and forth year of high school we must keep in mind that to some degree they are at a difficult psychological stage, generally called adolescence. Students at this level are likely to be confused mentally, to be subject to involuntary distractions and romantic dreaminess. They are basically timid or self-conscious, they lack frankness and are usually very sensitive but hate to admit it. They are motivated either by great ambition, probably out of all proportion to their capabilities, or by extreme laziness caused by the fear of not succeeding or attaining their objectives. Fundamentally they want to be kept busy but they refuse to admit it. They are frequently the victims of earlier poor training, and this makes every effort doubly hard. They are usually willing to work, but they hate to work without obtaining the results they think they should obtain. Their critical faculties are beginning to develop, and they are critical of their instructors and of the materials they are given to learn. They are beginning to feel the pressure of tome; although they seldom say so, they really want to be consulted and given opportunity to direct their own affairs, but they need considerable guidance.

Are We Blind ?

“Most Jacobean English Catholics, like most twenty-first century Muslims. Would not have dreamt of upsetting a status quo in which, on the whole, they thrived. But a small and alienated set of them were dreaming of a form of salvation” pg 1 This is very sad because most of us look at religion for spiritual guidance, not an excuse for war. If look into the past we see that all meager war’s were because of religion, is it just for people to use religion, “personal practices related to communal faith and to group rituals and communication stemming from shared conviction.” {Wikipedia}, as a way of destroying each other and our world around us. If we are here to rule the world why haven’t we gotten it right? If all our gods are only one after all?

Elizabeth

There was hatred towards Elizabeth, to her way of ruling her country, but it is good to keep in mind that the country itself was doing great. “The country felt younger and more vital than its queen…England was full of newness and potential: its population burgeoning, its merchants fleets combing the world, London growing like a hothouse plum, the son of gentleman crowding as never before into the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge, plants and fruits from all over the world arriving in its gardens and on its table- but the rigid carapace of Elizabethan court lay like a cast-iron lid above it. The queen’s motto was still what it always had been: Semper endein, Always the same.” Pg 2 But what came to me will I read “Semper endein, Always the same” that maybe the people hated her because she always ruled the same way she never had new ideas for her country, to lead them towards success. “The old war against Spain, which had achieved its great triumph of defeating the armada in 1588… Englishmen whose taxes were paying for it. The London and Bristol merchants wanted only one outcome: an end to war, so that trade could be resumed…Elizabeth had survived by ignoring problems or suppressing them and as a result England was a cauldron which had not been allowed to boil” pg 2-3

What Do You See? Is The Glass Half Empty? Or Half Full?

“ The men who did it, who pored over the greek and hebrew texts, comparing the accuracy and felicity of previous translations, argued with each other the finest details of chapter and verse, were many of them obscure at the time and are generally forgotten now, a gaggle of fifty or so black-gowned divies whose names are almost unknown but wose words continue to resonate with us. They have a ghost presence in our lives, invisable but constantly heard, enriching the language wit the ‘civility, learning and eloquence’ of their translation, but nowadays only whispering the sentence into our ears.” Its incredible how this phrases stood out from all the rest it showed me that it doesn’t matter how good you are, how good are the things you have done, but that some people are forgoten and some are rememberd, for the non important things they did. Hitler, Bush, Castro, Chaves, Osama Binladen, all this people have donde incredibly bad and unforgivable things, and we are so dumb we see the glass half empty instead of half full, society has come to see all the negetive people and their unforgivable actions but why can’t we remember those people who have done good? Nelsen Mandela, Martin Luther king, Abraham Lincon.

Greek Mythology is Real T.V

Love in the time of ancient Greece was not like movies portray love, looking at what we did this week for writers workshop, finding cliché plot lines and movies, I came to find that what we are seeing in the movie theaters couldn’t be more cliché it’s always the same love story, apart from the movie theater we come to find it on all the T.V shows. In the past weeks I have come to realize that all this people had interesting lives, even though some are exaggerated when we read it we imagine it as it were real, we make our own movie out of it, not the Hollywood cinema type of way but in our own extreme type of way.

“If a serpent’s life is so dear to the gods, I would I were myself a serpent.” No sooner had he uttered the words than he began to change his form. Harmonia beheld it and prayed to the gods to let her share his fate. Both became serpents. They live in the woods, but mindful of their origin, they neither avoid the presence of man nor do they ever injure any one.” [P 1 cadmus] “Their prayer was granted. They were the keepers of the temple as long as they lived. When grown very old, as they stood one day before the steps of the sacred edifice, and were telling the story of the place, Baucis saw Philemon begin to put forth leaves, and old Philemon saw Baucis changing in like manner. And now a leafy crown had grown over their heads, while exchanging parting words, as long as they could speak. “Farewell, dear spouse,” they said, together, and at the same moment the bark closed over their mouths. The Tyanean shepherd still shows the two trees, standing side by side, made out of the two good old people.”[P3 Baucis and Philemon]

As one reads this you can imagine all this types of cinereous and that’s what I think makes unbelievable fun because if you find the right type of book you can make the movie you want. I have had cases in which I have read an entire book in a day, I can’t drop it I need to know what’s next’s and I think that’s what attracts me to Greek mythology.

Spelling!!!

1. Where is my jacket? I wanted to wear it today, and if I can't find it, we're going to be late.
2. Jane wanted to go on the school trip, but her mother said that two hundred dollars was too much for the family budget.
3. As she waited for Rodney to become conscience, Selma was seized with an attack of conscious-- was there anything she could have done to prevent the accident?
4. The map led the intrepid treasure hunters to a lead box of precious stones.
5. Have you seen their coats? They're going to need them; it's cold outside. I last saw the coats over there.
6. After conducting careful research, Shufang had a brilliant idea; she'd write a paper on Thomas More's concept of the ideal society in Utopia.
7. Even though Bob would rather play video games than study, he decided to hit the books and thenplay some Halo.
8. It's easy to admire a business that puts so much effort into creating its signs and window displays.
9. You're fortunate to have survived the car crash without a scratch; it must have been because you were wearing your seat belt.
10. I would advise you to seek qualified legal advice about how to handle this situation.

Crystal Clear Cliché

Five movies with cliché titles:
1. As Good As It Gets
2. When Harry Met Sally
3. That's A Wrap (T.V)
4. Flirting With Danger (T.V)
5. Race Against Time (T.V)

Five cliché plot-lines:
1. Bank robbery gone bad. (The Bank Job, Taxi)
2. Medical Shows ( Grey's Anatomy, E.R)
3. Investigation of death ( C.S.I, Law and Order)
4. Gambling ( Oceans Eleven, Twelve, and Thirteen)
5. Love story ( Mama mia, Romeo and Juliet)

Meditation is the key

Midas first thought were wealth when he was conceived a wish for his hospitality towards Bacchus. “The old man had been drinking, and in that state wandered away, and was found by some peasants, who carried him to their king, Midas. Midas recognized him, and treated him hospitably, entertaining him for ten days and nights with an unceasing round of jollity. On the eleventh day he brought Silenus back, and restored him in safety to his pupil. Whereupon Bacchus offered Midas his choice of a reward, whatever he might wish. He asked that whatever he might touch should be changed into gold. Bacchus consented, though sorry that he had not made a better choice” [ P1] His greediness and his unmediated choice came to haunt him, he found him self struggling to eat, to touch, to fell anything because all became gold, when he came to realizes the consequence of not meditating his choice he wanted to undo it.

Pre AP/AP Student Contract

I, Alejandra Moncaleano, hereby understand and will abide by the Pre-AP/AP (Print your name)Academy’s expectations, obligations, and admission/drop policy outlined below with respect to my admission status and standing in the Pre-AP/AP Course,
AP English.(Print the name of the Pre-AP/AP Course)Pre-AP/AP Academy Expectations;
• Maintain Acceptable GPA,
• Motivated and Positive,
• Responsible and Dedicated Work Ethic,
• Attend Opportunity Day and/or Additional Review Classes,
• Complete AP College Board Exam,
• Sign Pre-AP/AP Student Contract. Pre-AP/AP Academy Admission/Drop Policy;
• First Progress Report with Teacher’s Signed Approval…receive no course credit,
• End of First Semester with Teacher’s Signed Approval…receive only partial course credit for grade of 6.0+. No partial credit will be awarded for any grade below 6.0,
• Students who Drop Pre-AP/AP Courses or who Do Not take the College Board AP Exam will have the Pre-AP/AP Designation for that course removed from their transcript and they will not receive any grade or GPA enhancement awarded for taking that Pre-AP/AP course.Please note that at any time during the school year if the teacher deems that you are not meeting the expectations above for any or all reasons, then that teacher will require that you sign an additional academic probation contract. Your admission status and/or removal from the above identified Pre-AP Course will then be re-assessed based on your abiding by the academic probation contract signed and agreed to by you and the respective Pre-AP/AP Teacher.Student Signature of Agreement, A.MonMaru
Date: September 23, 2008

What do you "Reflect"?

Medusa is what we can call a “reflection” of what a person really is. “She was once a beautiful maiden whose hair was her chief glory, but as she dared to vie in beauty with Minerva, the goddess deprived her of her charms and changed her beautiful ringlets into hissing serpents. She became a cruel monster of so frightful an aspect that no living thing could behold her without being turned into stone.” [P1] What we first see is her physical appearance, and she is beautiful, but then we see how she really is inside and it comes to reflex on her out side, and now no one can bare look at her. A lot of people are like this their physic is incredible, but their personality show other wise.

Where are you coming from?

Chronometer= comes from chromos

Flowers= comes from Flora goddess of flowers

Fate=comes from fates goddess of destiny

Nike= comes from the goddess of victory

Ocean= comes from Oceanus titans god of water

Two Lovers Can They Ever Be Together?

The story of Hero and Leander is a type of forbidden love. No one stops them from being together, apart from the river. “LEANDER was a youth of Abydos, a town of the Asian side of the strait which separates Asia and Europe. On the opposite shore, in the town of Sestos, lived the maiden Hero, a priestess of Venus. Leander loved her, and used to swim the strait nightly to enjoy the company of his mistress, guided by a torch which she reared upon the tower for the purpose. But one night a tempest arose and the sea was rough; his strength failed, and he was drowned.” [ P1]
Forbidden love can come in many ways not just between economical standing of family disputes, some fight it but what comes to amaze me is that two forbidden lovers can never live happily ever after, they always die we can see this in the play Rome and Juliet by Shakespeare or in the movie The Lake House. “But one night a tempest arose and the sea was rough; his strength failed, and he was drowned. The waves bore his body to the European shore, where Hero became aware of his death, and in her despair cast herself down from the tower into the sea and perished.” [ P1]
Hero and Leander

Who’s Wright Any Way?: Rubric

• Fluency/ Clear Ideas :
  1) Writers has unclear ideas, hard to understand content, difficult to read.
  2) Writer’s ideas are mostly fluent, many have confusing thoughts, Some parts aren’t fluent.
  3) Writer is easy to follow, has good fluency, superior concrete ideas
• Word Usage/ Grammar:
  1) Writer has more than five spelling mistakes, contain simple words, packed will bad usage of commas, periods, and more grammatical errors.
  2) Writer shows good use of word usage, demonstrate good grammatical usage, display no spelling mistakes.
  3) Writer shows impeccable punctuation, perfect grammatical usage, Wonderful word variation.
• Answers the question:
  1) Writer doesn’t respond any of the questions, nor does he have a hero.
  2) Writer has the three questions but doesn’t answer them properly, includes hero but hero doesn’t have values.
  3) Writer has three complete and concise answers, hero covers all of the values.
• Creativity:
  1) Writer’s title is blunt, doesn’t attract reader, need a spark at the beginning.
  2) Writer’s title is appropriate, fits into text. Writers hook calls our attention, good way to real us in.
  3) Writer’s title and hook are appropriate, creative.

Why don't we learn? Why don't we let go ?

What I came to realize is that we have failed before and we are still not learning from our mistakes. “gold, were produced. War sprang up, using both as weapons; the guest was not safe in his friend’s house; and sons-in-law and fathers-in-law, brothers and sisters, husbands and wives, could not trust one another. Sons wished their fathers dead, that they might come to the inheritance; family love lay prostrate. The earth was wet with slaughter, and the gods abandoned it, one by one, till Astræa alone was left, and finally she also took her departure.” [P10]
“Deucalion, and his wife Pyrrha, of the race of Prometheus, found refuge—he a just man, and she a faithful worshipper of the gods. Jupiter, when he saw none left alive but this pair, and remembered their harmless lives and pious demeanor, ordered the north winds to drive away the clouds, and disclose the skies to earth, and earth to the skies. Neptune also directed Triton to blow on his shell, and sound a retreat to the waters. The waters obeyed, and the sea returned to its shores, and the rivers to their channels.” [P12]In the terms of Ishmael we can consider these two Leavers, now that they worship and are faithful to the gods they get to live and they create a new civilization that are to become Leavers. Apparently this new civilization as done the same mistakes as the previous and it’s because no one is here to tell us our errors.
Are we one day Going to learn from our Mistakes?
Prometheus and Pandora

Wind Flower

When life gives warnings we don’t always take them into consideration and this is what happened to Adonis. “Beware how you expose yourself to danger and put my happiness to risk. Attack not the beasts that Nature has armed with weapons…. But Adonis was too noble to heed such counsels. The dogs had roused a wild boar from his lair, and the youth threw his spear and wounded the animal with a sidelong stroke. The beast drew out the weapon with his jaws, and rushed after Adonis, who turned and ran; but the boar overtook him, and buried his tusks in his side, and stretched him dying upon the plain.”[P= 1 & 2] Also how the wind flower describes our lives, since we are born until we die, is incredible “It is said the wind blows the blossoms open, and afterwards blows the petals away; so it is called Anemone, or Wind Flower, from the cause which assists equally in its production and its decay.” [P3]

Venus and Adonis

Society Narcisms

Echo and Narcissus Is very reveling towards what I think of society, a lot of people are narcissus and don’t care for others or their surroundings. They are so devoted to themselves, that at the long run they will only here an echo of themselves. “he cherished the flame that consumed him, so that by degrees he lost his color, his vigor, and the beauty which formerly had so charmed the nymph Echo. She kept near him, however, and when he exclaimed, “Alas! alas!” she answered him with the same words.”[ P=4] And the echo is the only one that will respond to them in return, they are alone after all. People get so caught up with themselves that they don’t leave room for others, in this case we can say in the terms that Ishmael gave us the Takers are narcissist.

Echo and Narcissus

Ulysses and Today’s Self-Righteous

Ulysses is very smart when he tells the cyclop's his name is no name it show his good judgment, but then his pride takes over, and he tells him his real name it’s the most brainless thing he can do, after all it’s what made it so difficult to get to his homeland, after all he was away for ten years after the battle of Troy. He asked his name, to which Ulysses replied, “My name is Noman… He, bellowing, called aloud on all the Cyclopes dwelling in the caves around him, far and near. They on his cry flocked round the den, and inquired what grievous hurt had caused him to sound such an alarm and break their slumbers. He replied, “O friends, I die, and Noman gives the blow.” They answered, “If no man hurts thee it is the stroke of Jove, and thou must bear it.” So saying, they left him groaning… Know it is Ulysses to whom thou owest thy shameful loss of sight.”[P3-5] Pride can be a good quality as well as the worst a person could have, some people are so self-righteous that they become a pain in the neck to be around them. Now a day people a lot of people fell superiority to the rest of the human race, they can do whatever they want and won’t get as badly punish as normal people do examples include all celebrities the worst are Paris Hilton, Nicole Richie, Lindsay Lohan.
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Return of Ulysses

The Magical Fruit

The fruit that all man come to desire, the one that will cure them from all their troubles, the lotus-plant. “ Ulysses sent three of his men to discover who the inhabitants were. These men on coming among the Lotus-eaters were kindly entertained by them, and were given some of their own food, the lotus-plant, to eat. The effect of this food was such that those who partook of it lost all thoughts of home and wished to remain in that country.” [P2] People always run away from their problems may be it taking a vacation, using Facebook, doing exercise or whatever they find distracted. What people never take into consideration is that their problems, will built up and become more of a hassle; Ulysses men found the lotus-plant and their memory was erase, that’s what all people look for. When facing their responsibilities, people always look for a way to take it off their minds to make it disappear, this is terrible, it shows the lack of capacity we have of being in charge of the world like we think we are.
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Return of Ulysses

A Human Flaw

Here what Helen story represents is the capacity that some humans have to forgive “Thus she became reconciled to her husband, and they were among the first to leave the shores of Troy for their native land.” [P1] What I personally hated is her capacity to be a “volta- arepas” When Paris dies she runs to the Greeks side “After the death of Paris she aided the Greeks secretly on several occasions, and in particular when Ulysses and Diomed entered the city in disguise to carry off the Palladium. She saw and recognized Ulysses, but kept the secret and even assisted them in obtaining the image.” [P1] This to me is unbalibable because at first she leaves Menelaus for Paris and because of her a war starts, and when things start to get ugly she goes on the winner’s side. This is one of the biggest flaws people have, and will never learn to correct it in time.
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Menelaus and Helen

Searching to be Loved, A Classic Symbol of Being Human

What I see in calypso's tale is that shy can’t be alone, not in a prostitute kind of way but like most humans feel. She needs someone to accompany her, so she offers them her sensuality and her services as well as her immortality. “Telemachus, has given us the adventures of the son of Ulysses in search of his father. Among other places at which he arrived, following on his father’s footsteps, was Calypso’s isle, and, as in the former case, the goddess tried every art to keep him with her, and offered to share her immortality with him.” [P3] Like most humans, she feels desperate to get attention and to be loved and that’s why see falls in love so fast. “Calypso received Ulysses hospitably, entertained him magnificently, became enamoured of him, and wished to retain him forever, conferring on him immortality. But he persisted in his resolution to return to his country and his wife and son.” [P1] Aswell I think that’s the reason she is a nymph and pleasures men’s needs, is because it shows her she is being “loved” and that she in being payed attention to.
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Calypso

Live For Love,Love Your Life

Psyche is a symbolism of what we normally do in our life or at least this is my interpretation. Our fate is decided for us and until we don’t see it we are scared and unsure of our future. When we come across it we find many complications along the way, life gives us boundaries and we always cross the edge. In this case it’s when psyche is tempted to see cupids face in "cupid is our own life". “She often begged him to stay and let her behold him, but he would not consent. On the contrary he charged her to make no attempt to see him, for it was his pleasure, for the best of reasons, to keep concealed.” [P11]We always listen to people who are jealous of how our lives turned out in comparison to theirs. These are the sisters who tell her to look at his face in the myth. ‘The view of these celestial delights caused envy to enter their bosoms, at seeing their young sister possessed of such state and splendor, so much exceeding their own.”[P13] Like most times in our lives we screw up, and the opportunity fades away, if you are persistent and your destiny is to do that you will find your second opportunity. “Drink this, Psyche, and be immortal; nor shall Cupid ever break away from the knot in which he is tied, but these nuptials shall be perpetual. Thus Psyche became at last united to Cupid”[P32]

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Cupid and Psyche

Apollos Sour Love

In Apollo’s’ and Daphne’s tale we find that Apollo’s arrogance of slaying the snake, came to haunt him. “Apollo saw the boy playing with his bow and arrows; and being himself elated with his recent victory over Python, he said to him, “What have you to do with warlike weapons, saucy boy? Leave them for hands worthy of them. Behold the conquest I have won by means of them over the vast serpent who stretched his poisonous body over acres of the plain! Be content with your torch, child, and kindle up your flames, as you call them, where you will, but presume not to meddle with my weapons.” [P3]In what why you may be asking? Well his heart will love someone who will never love back. How are we sure that Daphne will never love Apollo? Well it’s very simple the boy that Apollo talked to was not an ordinary boy it was cupid the good of love and he did the following “two arrows of different workmanship, one to excite love, the other to repel it. The former was of gold and sharp pointed, the latter blunt and tipped with lead. With the leaden shaft he struck the nymph Daphne, the daughter of the river god Peneus, and with the golden one Apollo, through the heart. Forthwith the god was seized with love for the maiden, and she abhorred the thought of loving.”[P3]
What I most liked about the story is that Apollo tells her all that he’s worth, and she still didn’t pay any attention to him, like most women today would. “I am no clown, no rude peasant. Jupiter is my father, and I am lord of Delphos and Tenedos, and know all things, present and future. I am the god of song and the lyre. My arrows fly true to the mark; but, alas! an arrow more fatal than mine has pierced my heart! I am the god of medicine, and know the virtues of all healing plants. Alas! I suffer a malady that no balm can cure! The nymph continued her flight, and left his plea half uttered”[P 4-5] What I didn’t come to comprehend is the end when she turns in to a tree and Apollo tells her that, she will be his tree and more things , but at the end does she come to accept it? “The nymph, now changed into a Laurel tree, bowed its head in grateful acknowledgement.” [P5]
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Apollo and Daphne

Cause and Effect of Nature Towards Enkidu and Gilgamesh

When we see Enkidu and Gilgamesh react to nature we see two opposite sides, as we soon come to later see a joint between their feelings towards nature. At first we can sort Enkidu as a Leaver in the terms we used while reading Ishmael, he lives and interact with nature and it's creatures, at the same time we see Gilgamesh as a Taker he is accustomed to living in the city and is afraid of nature and its creature that’s why Uruk has a wall. When Gilgamesh and Enkidu meat each other things start to change, they learn from each other Gilgamesh comprehends better nature and now see that their nothing to be scared of, even thought his Taker ignorance and fear take hold of him like in the cedar forest. Enkidu instead becomes more human than animal, he thinks he can punish those who have done wrong, we see this when he proposes the journey to the Cedar forest to defeat Huwawa.
Enkidu like the rest of the human race think we are the ones who decides who shall will live and shall will die, and in this case I think the gods came to prove a point when they decided who should like or die between Enkidu and Gilgamesh, they came to remind them that the gods are the ones who decide not them. When we see Enkidu die we see how all that ego and self confidence that Gilgamesh had slips away with Enkidu to the Netherland, we see how Gilgamesh reacts with a nervous breakdown and fear towards Enkidu death and the awareness that he doesn’t chooses who lives and who dies.

Last Tablet

As I read this tablet I came to think that it was in disorder. It states that Enkidu and Gilgamesh are having another one of their adventure, as I kept going I came to find that Gilgamesh was just morning Enkidu and the thought of death. “Who will bring back my drumstick from down there? Who will bring back my drum from the nether world… I will bring up the drum stick from below. I will bring back the drum from the netherworld.” Pg 85 Enkidu was the only one that went to the underworld for the theoretical drum and drumstick. Gilgamesh can’t be more scared of the idea of dying, before Enkidu death Gilgamesh wasn’t scared of anything now we find him trembling of the thought of death and what’s to come. “Open a hole in the roof of the nether world so Enkidu may rise up like vapor” pg 90 When Enkidu comes out Gilgamesh asks him how was death, how it felt, the answer that Enkidu gave him I think Gilgamesh became petrified.

Read Tablets X-XI: the journey for eternal life

Gilgamesh has become obsess for Utnapishtim to tell him the secret to live eternally like the gods. He doesn’t want to go like Enkidu did he saw his suffering and he wishes no t to die he wants to live eternally. “He looked like one who has undergone a journey, his face bitten by hunger or by sorrow.” pg 54 The most ironic thing is that he is killing himself to find the answers to eternal life, but he never comes to realize it being that he is so blinded by his search. “Almost as soon as Gilgamesh the king sat down to test himself, a mist of sleep as ocean mist comes over the shore from the water, came over his eyes, and so the strongest slept… Gilgamesh said: I had almost fallen asleep” pg 76-77 Utnapishtim told Gilgamesh before he left for Uruk of the plant How-the-Old-Man-Once-Again-Becomes-a-Young-Man. “ I will give some of the plant to the elders there to share among them, telling them it is called How-the-Old-Man-Once-Again-Becomes-a-Young-Man. And I will take my share of the magic plant” pg 80 He had finally had found what he was looking for and he was not planning to keep it to himself and I think in this is one of the many ways Enkidu has change Gilgamesh way of thinking.

Robin The Light

The man who stood out of all the others,
the one who was ready to teach.
The man that had the power to
change a whole civilization around.
This is the story of Robin
the one who saved us from ourselves.
He has been honest with us, we are
a mess and if we don’t pick up for ourselves,
we will never evolve into a higher being.
He has persisted with us
even though some thought him crazy but he was right
now we have evolved into something better
and we’re creating a utopia.
Through evolution we have learned more about ourselves,
and how we all came to be this way.
It’s all thanks to robin who has guided us
Through the hard patch and into a new beginning.
He is the light that we have to follow.

Using Commas: 2

1. There was no question that John's painting a huge, colorful, and ugly mural, was the worst entry in the art exhibit.
2. Werner von Braun, Willy Ley, and Edward Teller, noted authorities in the field of rocket development, have done much to guide the missile program of the United States.
3. Mr. Cready's ability to say the wrong thing at the wrong time is,I believe, amazing.
4. Running around the house,the dog was abruptly stopped by a fence.
5. If the opposition should win, our candidate would never have any political future.
6. Gracefully, lightly, and daintily the ballerina moved across the stage.
7. Glamour the woman's fashion magazine, recently incorporated with Charm, another fashion journal.
8. Joe was born on May 7, 1955, and his best friend was born exactly two months later on July 7, 1955.
9. Mr. and Mrs. Kwon my parents' best friends sat in front of us at the football game.
10. November 11, 1918, the armistice ending World War I was signed.

Using Commas:1

1. He left the scene of the accident,and tried to forget that it had happened.
2. Oil, which is lighter than water,rises to the surface.
3.Madame de Stael was an attractive gracious lady.
4. Nice is a word with many meanings ,and some of them are contradictory.
5. The contractor testified that the house was completed,and that the work had been done properly.
6. Some people refuse to go to the zoo,because of pity for creatures that must live in small cages.
7. Taxicabs,that are dirty,are illegal in some cities.
8. The closet contained worn clothes, old shoes, and dirty hats.
9. The uninvited guest wore a dark, blue, tweed suit.
10. After surviving this ordeal,the trapper felt relieved.
11. Mark Twain's early novels,I believe,stand the test of time.
12. December 7, 1941,will never be forgotten.
13. The field was safe enough,wasn't it?
14. Write the editor of the Atlantic at 8 Arlington Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02116.
15. He replied,"I have no idea what you mean."
16. After a good washing and grooming,the pup looked like a new dog.
17.Because of their opposition to institutions that force creatures to live in captivity,some people refuse to go to the zoo.
18. Vests,which were once popular,have been out of vogue for several years.
19. As a celestial goddess, she regulated the course of the heavenly bodies,and controlled the alternating seasons.
20. I hope that someday, he will learn how to be polite.

Tablets VIII and IX: The Obsession

“Gilgamesh wandered in the wildness grieving over the death of Enkidu and weeping saying: Enkidu has died. Must I die too? Must Gilgamesh be like that? Gilgamesh felt the fear of it in his belly. He said to himself that he would seek the son of Ubartutu, Utnapishtim, he, the only one men by means of whom he might find out how death could be avoided. He said to himself that he would hasten to him, the dangers of the journey notwithstanding. At night in the mountain passes there were lions, and Gilgamesh was afraid, and entered afraid … hear my prayer and save me as I entered into the passes where there are lions!” pg 48-49 After watching his brother die I think he becomes obsess with him and the idea of not dying. You can also notice that he is more nervous than usual. I think Enkidu was making a lot of changes in his life and he still wanted to learn more just like the student from Ishmael.

Sentence Fragments: 3

My brother was always my best friend when we were children, especially as we were almost alone in the world. We lived with our old grandmother in a little house, as big as a shack in the country. Whenever I think of him now I see a solemn, responsible boy, a boy too old for his years, who looked out for me no matter what. Once there was a bully John Anson who looked enormous to me, though he was probably an average twelve-year-old. John had it in for me because he liked Littice Grant who liked me, he decided to beat me up right before her eyes I was lucky my brother came by he didn't interfere, any he just stood there somehow though his presence gave me confidence, I licked the stuffing out of John Anson. If my brother hadn't been there I don't think I could have done it.

Sentence Fragments: 2

1. How can a person find patriotism in a local night club? Well, it did not take me too long. About four weeks ago in a little night club in Louisville, Kentucky, a couple of my friends, Rick and Lon, the duo who were providing the entertainment that night for the club.
· About four weeks ago in a little night club in Louisville, Kentucky, a couple of friends that were providing the entertainment opened the night with the national anthem.
2. For the past twenty years, the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan has been measuring the level of Americans' trust and confidence in their politicians and quasi-political trust and confidence in their political institutions and their leaders. "Political" being all levels of government, and "quasi-political" churches, labor unions, large professional/business associations, educational institutions, and the like. The result is that a very sharp decline has taken place every year since 1964.
· “Political” appeals to all levels of government, and other are involved like the churches, labor unions, large enterprises, education institution and more.
3. For 200 years Americans believed in better jobs, better homes, a better life for one's children. This confidence no longer exists. Polls now indicate that fewer Americans who feel they are better off today than they were five years ago. A public-opinion analysis group has found that large numbers of Americans, at some times and in some places, see themselves as lower on the ladder. Adding worse living conditions and anticipation of further decline over the next five years.
· A public-opinion analysis group has found that large number of Americans, at some point and in some place, have seen themselves lower on the ladder and expecting worse living conditions and anticipation of future decline over the next five years.
4. Well, in looking at the picture at the left you see an old lady. She has a very funny look on her face. As if she's lonely and just wants to be left alone. She also looks as if she has seen a lot and experienced lots of things.
· If you look too you’re left you’ll see an old lady. She has a funny look on her face as if she’s lonely and just wants to be left alone. It also looks like she seen a lot and experienced lots of things.
5. A president is an appointed leader. Someone who is a decision maker in the executive branch of our government. This doesn't necessarily mean that the person the people elect is capable. Just hopefully assumes. Assumes through his past record as a politician, over the years' buildup of experience and handling situations.
· When a president is appointed leader their some one that makes decisions in the executive branch of government. They don’t have to be capable just hopefully assumes.

Tablets VI and VII: Brothers

What you come to appreciate is close that Gilgamesh and Enkidu have become. They support each other in battle and they work as a team. “And Enkidu wrestled and Enkidu cried out to Gilgamesh: The life of man is short, let us contend with the bull of heaven and win and Gilgamesh fought and fighting the bull they cried: two people, companions, they can prevail together.” Pg 34 I think it’s really hard to know that your brother because that’s what they have become will die, seeing him suffer in the process of dying, and know that when their gone you will never see them again. “Why am I left to live while my brother dies? Why should he die and I be spared to live? Enkidu said: Must I now go to sit among the dead, in the company of the dead without my brother? Gilgamesh said: Must I now sit outside the door of the house of the dead while Enkidu sits in the house of the dead among the shadow companions?” Pg 38 What I really don’t get is why they choose Enkidu? Just because he’s the side kick?

Tablets IV and V: So different but yet alike

It’s amazing how these two characters are so alike but different at the same time. While Gilgamesh is a tyrant Enkidu is compassionate and considerate. What I saw most in this tablet is the ignorance of Gilgamesh not being able to reason his dreams, this is were Enkidu has to come in and tell him the meaning of these dreams, their for I consider him to be so wise. You see the optimism that Enkidu has when he tells the dreams and Gilgamesh’s pessimism when he doesn't get the meaning. “There were other dreams that disturbed the sleep of the king night after night as the journeyed to the forest and Enkidu always said they were fortunate” pg 26

I think that this story is very alike to the Leavers and Takers in Ishmael by Daniel Quinn but in this case the taker is Gilgamesh and the Leaver Enkidu. What I seen from the book is that like in the case of Ishmael the Leaver (Enkidu) has a much better culture and beliefs’ than the Takers (Gilgamesh) have. The Takers and Gilgamesh are tyrants’ with the people and all that is around them; while the Leavers like Enkidu really live out of the gods they don’t say what their going to do the gods tell them what to do.

Radio Play

A. What is on trial in Sedaris’ radio play?
A dog named Cathleen, is on trail for the destruction of her owners sweater.
B. How does the worm’s testimony end?
Worm is declaring that Cathleen is the one who shred and chewed on the sweater, also mentions that shy should be locked up.
C. Describe the way in which the radio play is written.
It is written a comparison of how animals can act like humans but their wild side still comes out.
D. Compare the cricket to the worm.
While the worm is criticizing Cathleen of what she supposable did the cricket is criticizing the animals’ justice system and every animal but crickets and the grass hopper.
E. Why does the squirrel claim “emotional distress”?
The squirrel claimed to have suffered mental distress.
F. In the end who wins the trial?
The trail ends when the judge eats the cat that is claiming that Cathleen has eaten the sweater.

Tablets I-III: The Beginning

This is the story of Gilgamesh the king of Uruk two-thirds a god, one-third a man; and son of Lugalbanda and of the lady Wildcow Ninsun. His is thought the smartest, and feared by most of the people. What I haven’t quit gotten is that if he did great things to protect Uruk why people are not content with him? “The old men say: ‘Is this the shepherd of the people? Is this the wise shepherd of the people? Is this the wise shepherd, protector of the people? … They called the goddess Aruru saying to her: You made this man. Now create another. Create his double and let the two contend. Let stormy hearts contend with stormy heart that peace may come to Uruk once again.” Pg 5

Aruru does create his double, Enkidu he is the wild man of the grasslands the first one to see him is a hunter. This hunter comes to Gilgamesh and tells him that Enkidu has protected the animals by unsetting his traps and filled his hunting pits. Gilgamesh sends him back with a temple prostitute that with her beauty will attract the wild man and the creature that followed him will flee from him and this is what happens.

Gilgamesh told his mother a vision that he had; he described his attraction towards a star that landed out side Uruk and this is when Ninsun Gilgamesh mother tells him that a companion that will not forsake him has come. Meanwhile, Shamhat the temple prostitute convinced Enkidu to come to Uruk with her, when arriving Enkidu went to challenge Gilgamesh and they had a type of confrontation. “Then Enkidu and Gilgamesh embraced and kissed, and took each other by the hand” pg15 I think Gilgamesh understood that Enkidu is his companion that will not forsake him, that he saw in his dream and that his mother described. After this Enkidu and Gilgamesh talked about Cedar Forest and decided to go and face Huwawa the guardian of the forest.

Chapter 13: Ishmael's Goodbye

Ishmael had to die his work was done; his student new what he was suppose to do to save human kind and the ones who are suppose to come after us. What most impacted me was Ishmaels poster, “It wasn’t till I got Ishmael’s poster to the framing shop that I discovered there were messages on both sides. I had it framed so that both can be seen. The message on one side is the one Ishmael displayed on the wall of his den: WITH MAN GONE, WILL THERE BE HOPE FOR ORILLA? The message on the other side reads: WITH GORILLA GONE, WILL THERE BE HOPE FOR MAN?” Pg 262 when we first saw this it made sense Ishmael was behind the window and it seem as if someone was taking care of him, but as the book develops we see how Ishmael student needs him. Now that Ishmael is no longer here we see the dependency of his student towards him. And this why Ishmael had that poster; he new that when he was gone his student and all of us would have to ask that question to ourselves.

Chapter 12: A Good Future For Man Kind And Who Ever Next

Chapter 12 is a discoverment for the man, he now know what he is suppose to do what he is suppose to teach to the rest of the human race. As I read the book I didn’t understand why Ishmael gave him so much information that sometimes didn’t relate to save human kind and how they were suppose to encourage man kind to change. “All along I’ve been saying to myself, ‘Yes, this is all very interesting, but what good is it? This isn’t going to change anything!’… This is what we need. Not just stopping things. Not just less of things. People need something positive to work for. They need a vision of something that… I don’t know. Something that… I think what you’re groping for is that people need more than to be scolded, more than to be made to feel stupid and guilty. They need more than a vision of doom. They need a vision of the world and themselves that inspires them.” Pg 243-244 What I now see is that all the information that Ishmael gave the man was to correct man kinds mistakes and, to prepare him to evolve into something better.
Whatever is around when we have evolve will think of us as great creatures. “Just think. In a billion years, whatever is around them, who ever is around then say, ‘Man? Oh yes, man! What a wonderful creature he was! It was within his grasp to destroy the entire world and trample all our futures into the dust—but he saw the light before it was too late and pulled back. He pulled back and gave the rest of us our chance. He showed us all how it had to be done if the world was to go on being a garden forever. Man was the role model for us all!” pg 242 If we give a little encouragement to the Takers they will react fast and positive and this is what Ishmael had planed, for us to evolve and for future creatures to think positively about us and our actions.

Chapter 11: Mother Cultures Nonsense

Mother Culture talks about how life was so appalling before The Agriculture Revolution but, what the main character finds is completely another story. “Mother Culture teaches that, before the revolution, human life was devoid of meaning, was stupid, empty, and worthless. Prerevolutionary life was ugly. Detestable.” Pg 216 What's more incredible is how Takers will belive what Mother Culture tells them to belive; these people couldn’t think of any other explanation to their questions and this made them become ignorant.

What Mother Culture comes to make us think is that we were not born to be hunter-gathers but agriculturalist; she tells that we are born with the instinct to be agriculturalist but what we clearly posses the gift of being hunter-gather. “Man was as well adapted to life on this planet as any other species, and the idea that he lived on the knife-edge of survival is simple biological nonsense. As an omnivore, his dietary range is immense. Thousands of species will go hungry before he does. His intelligence and dexterity enable him to live comfortably in conditions that would utterly defeat any other primate.” Pg 220

What I came to understand is that humans were built to live on earth; like hunter-gathers they have the instinct and knowledge to get their food and live comfortably. “Far from scrabbling endlessly and desperately for food, hunter-gathers are among the best-fed people on earth, and they manage this with only two or three hours a day of what you would call work- which makes them among the most leisured people on earth as well.” Pg 220

Sentence Fragments: 1

_F___ 1. Then I attended Morris Junior High. A junior high that was a bad experience.
___F_ 2. The scene was filled with beauty. Such as the sun sending its brilliant rays to the earth and the leaves of various shades of red, yellow, and brown moving slowly in the wind.
___C_ 3. He talked for fifty minutes without taking his eyes off his notes. Like other teachers in that department, he did not encourage students' questions.
____F 4. Within each group, a wide range of features to choose from. It was difficult to distinguish between them.
____ C5. A few of the less serious fellows would go into a bar for a steak dinner and a few glasses of beer. After this meal, they were ready for anything.
____C6. It can be really embarrassing to be so emotional. Especially when you are on your first date, you feel that you should be in control.
____C 7. The magazine has a reputation for a sophisticated, prestigious, and elite group of readers. Although that is a value judgment and in circumstances not a true premise.
___F_ 8. In the seventh grade every young boy goes out for football. To prove to himself and his parents that he is a man.
____F 9. She opened the door and let us into her home. Not realizing at the time that we would never enter that door in her home again.
___C_10. As Christmas grows near, I find myself looking back into my childhood days at fun-filled times of snowball fights. To think about this makes me happy.
___F_11. Making up his mind quickly. Jim ordered two dozen red roses for his wife. Hoping she would accept his apology.
___F_12. They were all having a good time. Until one of Joe's oldest and best friends had a little too much to drink.
___F_13. Although it only attained a speed of about twelve miles an hour. My old rowboat with its three-horsepower motor seemed like a high-speed job to me.
__C__14. With my brother standing by my side, I reached for the pot handle. Tilting the pot way too much caused the boiling water to spill.
___F_15. The small, one-story houses are all the same size and style. With no difference except the color.
___F_16. Being a friend of mine like he was when we first joined the soccer team. Together we learned a lot.

Chapter 10: Takers Ego

In chapter Ten Ishmael teaches his student about culture and how takers live and portray it so differently than leavers. What really impacts me in this chapter is the ego of man kind and how they think the sun revolves around them; they ignore their past and their ancestors what they now call primitive people in a primitive time. What they don’t notice is that thanks to them we have all the things we consider modern. “Mother Culture says that this is as it should be there’s nothing in the past for us. The past is dreck. The past is something to be put behind us, something to be escaped from.” Pg 201
The Takers thought that the Leavers were the peculiar ones, the ones that had no real purpose they had lost the gift of agriculture they had been born with. Agriculture was a natural instinct for Takers; they never realized that they were exactly like the Leavers thousands of years ago. “When the people of your culture encountered the huntergathers of Africa and America, it was thought that these were people who had degenerated from the natural, agricultural state, people who had lost the arts they’d been born with. The Takers had no idea that they became agriculturalists. As far as the takers knew, there was no ‘before.’ Creation had occurred just a few thousand years ago, and Man the agriculturalist had immediately set about the task of building civilization.” Pg 201
“The Leavers are still passing that accumulation along in whatever form it came to them… Of course the leavers save information about production too, though production for its own sake is rarely a feature of their live. Among the leavers, people don’t have weekly quotas of post to make arrowheads to turn out. They’re not preoccupied with stepping up their production of hand-axes.” Pg 200, 203 Leavers live simple life’s they have accumulated information about their ancestors’ teachings; although they don’t have to make an empire of merchandise from their ancestors teachings. Obviously Takers and Leavers are enacting different story’s you may say the opposite story’s.

Ishmael and his teachings

Ishmael is a vigorous book; it left me thinking for weeks. At first I thought it was just another book, soon I realized what the cover of the book said was entirely true “From now on I will divide the books I have read into two categories-the ones I read before Ishmael and those read after.” – Jim Britell, Whole Earth Review.
It narrates the story of Ishmael and his student; the twist to this story is that Ishmael is a gorilla. He teaches Alan [his pupil] "how things came to be this way". I always asked myself what was the meaning of Ishmael being a gorilla? Why doesn’t he tell his student all of his ideas up front?
When I first saw this I didn’t make much of it, "WITH MAN GONE, WILL THERE BE HOPE FOR GORILLA?" p.9 but, as I finish I came upon it again but rephrased "WITH GORILLA GONE, WILL THERE BE HOPE FOR MAN?” p.263. At the beginning of the book we think that gorillas are primitive and that mankind is going to save them for extinction; as we advance and get in the story we see that the gorilla [Ishmael] doesn’t depend on mankind but mankind depend on him and his teachings.
As I see it when Daniel Quinn portrait Ishmael as a gorilla it’s to make a point; an animal that we see as primitive takes his student in to the foundations and profoundness of our civilization to show him how human kind is on its last legs with nature. As well his teaching makes his student search for themselves and they comprehend it much better as they frustrate to get the answer; as you read and Ishmael ask these question to his pupil you should ask those questions to yourself.

Blog Questions

A.What is the difference between a blog and a book?
A blog is the opinion of an individual about a person, gossip, a book or any hot topic of the moment. Those who write in blogs are known as bloggers, they don't show concrete ideas or a concrete way of writing. Bloggers don’t use a formal way of writing; they often use slang and incorrect grammar. On the other hand, books normally tell a story or explain and idea. Authors have a concrete plot line for their book. Unlike blogs, authors use books to try to teach their knowledge and create a book worth mentioning.

B. How have blogs changes recently?
Over the years people have come to use blogs. At the beginning of 1999 there were a few dozen blogs, since then blogging has sky rocketed as people use it to comment on everything from politics to cats. In 2006 a search engine counted 27 million blogs. Probably the biggest change in blogs is that nowadays topics range from serious matters to the most irrelevant ones. They have become one of the most popular ways to express one’s view. Most major websites count with numerous blogs for their users to use.

C. Why might you read a blog?
You might come to read a blog because you’re interested in people’s opinions about a certain issue. By reading others opinion on an issue you might comprehend the matter at hand better. It’s also a good way of reading things that interest you.

D. Is there reason to doubt the objectivity of a blog? Why? Why not? Yes, blogs are a subjective way of writing. People use then to share their opinion, which by no means are objective.

E. If you kept your own blog, what would you title it? My blogs name would be Jumping all over the world, because I would keep a log about the places I travel, the people I meet, and the food I eat.