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Sunday, April 15, 2012

Socratic Seminar Questions: Cuckoo's Nest

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1. Is McMurphy the best representative of a do-good individual? Not really due to the fact that his main motivation is to win over the tyra...
Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Cuckoo's Nest 2

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So far in the McMurphy vs Big Nurse rivalry, I have to give the edge to McMurphy. Even after the employees have tried to take control of him...
Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Cuckoo's Nest 1

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Hero- McMurphy. As far as we know, he's the most sane person in the joint excluding the staff. He's obviously a smart individual who...
Sunday, March 4, 2012

Socratic Seminar Questions

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1) Who does Daisy really love: Tom or Gatsby? I think that Daisy really does love Gatsby. The problem is that Daisy got so used to living a...
Monday, February 27, 2012

The Great Gatsby Blog #2

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1) Wolfsheim is used to kind of expose Gatsby's unorthodox behavior in public. His actions and the responses by Gatsby are not typical a...
Monday, February 20, 2012

The Great Gatsby Blog #1

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Gatsby: Anti-hero I classify Gatsby as an anti-hero because so far he seems like a very aloof type of character compared to other men in th...

Justin Bua- Style

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His style is very relaxed and loose. Most of the objects are very free flowing. While they may not be geometicral, they still have aa realis...
Sunday, January 29, 2012

"Sixteen Military Wives" (2004) by the Decemberists

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The song is about tradgic events that start from things in everyday life. In just a few minutes, the song has switched from 16 military wive...

"Race for the Prize" by the Flaming Lips (1999)

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The theme of this song is that personal ambition often makes us lose sight of what is important in life. "Theirs is to win. If it kills...

Mencken vs Kroll

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Kroll's essay was more effective than Mencken's because it had a better use of pathos. In Mencken's essay, the closest we as the...
Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Example of Fallacy in Patrick Henry Speech

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1) "Has Great Britain any enemy, in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies?" 2) This ...
Sunday, January 15, 2012

Duck and Cover

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Overt- The governent wants you to be safe (They are giving you safety precautions against a new danger: the atomic bomb) Covert- The gover...

Destination Earth

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Overt- America is great because of oil (Cars, and all other inventions associated with oil) Covert- Go buy more oil (Generates revenue for...
Saturday, January 7, 2012

Propaganda (WW2 1941-1945)

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Overt- Eat less bread Covert- Sacrifice consuming wheat to send to troops overseas This is propaganda because it doesn't really tell...

"Clampdown" by the Clash (1979)

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The song is about the Nazi's reign over Europe and how the people are ushered into Nazi life. "We will train our blue-eyed men...
Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Propoganda, Persuasion, Rhetotric, and Argument

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The four quotes I liked the most were 13, 23, 137, and 151. They all deal with the forming and managing of political systems, and the advant...
Sunday, December 4, 2011

Final Brave New World Blog

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1. Does the One State really view getting rid of art, science, and religion as a "sacrifice"? 2. Can a breed like the savage sur...
Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Brave New World Entry #2

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1.        Do the high ranking officials really fear new ways of thinking as a threat to civilization? Answer: The officials don’t exactly fe...
Sunday, November 20, 2011

Brave New World Entry #1

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The Ford State has created equality and conformity through misleading equality through social castes. These castes determine what jobs they ...
Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Final 1984 Blog

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Big Brother has won over Winston simply because Winston no longer has the fighting spirit and hatred he once had toward Big Brother. He didn...
Sunday, October 30, 2011

10-28-11 "This land is your land" by Woodie Guthrie

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Guthrie's message is collectivist because he doesn't solely emphasize himself. He uses the phrase "this land was made for you a...

Journal- Aristotle's quote

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"It is the mark of an eductaed mind to be able to entertain a thought withot accepting it."-Aristotle I agree with this quote be...

Journal 10-26-11

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Americans can sometimes be viewed as selfish and overly competitive. They can sometimess be hostile or superficial to members of other cultu...

Video Journal 10-25-11: Individual and Collectivist Cultures

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1. Personality Traits: Individual- hardworking, competitive, selfish Collectivist- selfless, caring, social 2. I do think opinions for h...
Thursday, October 27, 2011

1984 Book 2 Response

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First of all, Winston is having difficult time accepting the words of Big Brother and The Party because he knows that they are full of lies....
Saturday, October 22, 2011

Listening Journal 10-21-11: "2+2=5" by Radiohead

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This song is talking about how the narrator's world is full of lies and without truth. In his world, things aren't the way they shou...

Video Journal 10-19-11: Globalization

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Conflict: The main conflict identified in the video is that Western Globalization is starting to overshadow indigenous cultures such as the ...
Monday, October 17, 2011

First 88 Pages of "1984": Governmental Structure

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In Orwell's 1984, the government is very invasive into making sure everyone follows the rules and that the government is always right. F...
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Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Writing Journal 10-11-11

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1. Utopia- a feeling of a perfect world with no issues whatsoever 2.My ideal world is one with no hunger, war, pollution, or terrorism. In...
Saturday, October 1, 2011

Listening Journal 9-30-11: "You were right"

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3 claims with facts: 1. Comparison is the main literary device in the song. -"All we are is dust in the wind" -"We are al...

Art Journal: "Young Life" by Bo Bartlett

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3 Claims with supporting fact:s 1. The man is a hunter -He is holding a hunting rifle 2. The boy does not aspire to be a hunter -He is n...

Listening Journal 9-26-11: "Shame" by the Avett Brothers

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Subject- Forgiveness Tone- Helpless 3 words that help push the tone: -lift -float -fade These help emphasize the burden of shame and ...
Wednesday, September 28, 2011

"Reading Critically" Summary

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The intro of the passage educates the reader on how to get the most out of the piece. It advises the readers to eliminate all distractions a...
Saturday, September 24, 2011

American Tongues 9-19-11

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1. Voice- The way one expresses oneself in writing 2. "Y'know the ....." IT's just more convient than the phrase "D...
Thursday, September 22, 2011

SOAPSTone: Batting Clean-Up and Striking Out by Dave Barry

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S- The subject of this essay is the roles/attractions of both the sexes. In the first part of the essay, Barry identifies that women are att...
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Friday, September 16, 2011

Listening Journal from 9-15-11: PAIN vs The Beatles vs Dubstep

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My opinion: I liked the Dubstep version because I thought the music variety was good. I heard both an opera-like sound and a techno sounde i...
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