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.

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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.