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HA, you would have thought I'm doing this blog post.  I still haven't used my freebie for this semester so I'm going to use it here. I had every intention of doing this blog post.  However, due to my third grade cursive education being basically useless, I could not understand anything in the notebook, even with the descriptions. I'm also just lazy. (This is what you get when you google 'white people face')

Jay-Z is frequently compared to Gatsby for achieving the modern American Dream (both named Jay).  He originally sold cocaine on the streets to support his family then he got famous off of rapping becoming one of the best, and richest of all time.  Unlike Gatsby he kept the girl he treated like trash.  How would you describe the American Dream?       Basically to me the American Dream is doing better for yourself than your parents did.  To expand on this the most common American Dream is the rags-to-riches story.  The person who was born to a low-class or middle-class family, then works hard to become rich is the Dream. Then once you have this power and money you can get your children everything your parents couldn't get for you.  The idea that if anyone from anywhere can achieve anything if you work hard enough is the basic concept of the American Dream, and is the main pushing factor as to why anyone works hard for anything. Wha...

Here is my planning: And here is my vocaroo, my computer didn't start recording until like thirty seconds in, all you missed was me saying my name and the name of the book.  Also sorry for making yall listen to my nasally voice. (click hyperlink) My IOC Criterion A: 7. The commentary shows a good understanding of the text as a whole, however there where parts where I was not specific or stumbled over some aspects of the plot.  I made sure to include many references and quotes from the texts that I analyzed well, however I probably should have included more parts where I related the quotes back to my thesis.  Criterion B: 5. My main two literary effects were dialogue and exposition, not the most impressive literary aspects.  However I believe I did a good job explaining the effect of the dialogue between Moira and Offred, then the exposition between Offred and her mother very well.   Criterion C: 4.  I formatted this well, start...

(Gregor Clegane (right) the most monstrous bug) It is said that the Eskimos had 50 words for snow. Not to be showed up Franz Kafka had four ways to say a guy woke up as a bug. Gregory Samsa woke from uneasy dreams one morning to find himself changed into a giant bug. Diction- The characters full name is used, maybe to make it sound more normal to caucasian audience.  Uneasy dreams so something was off but he wasnt quite sure of what was off.  He found, like it was revealed to him.  Giant bug makes me think of a cockroach the size of a human. Syntax- There is medium length with no commas or periods to break it up.  It seems like a straightforward sentence. Imagery-  When you 'find' something it was hidden and then revealed to you.  A giant bug makes you think of an average bug but slightly louder. The most straightforward sentence that doesn't use fluff to make it more stylistic. When Gregor Samsa awoke from troubled dreams one morning ...

Overall Analysis:       Of the four covers presented, the images are the most different aspects of the cover.  Word-wise, each cover generally has the title, the author, and sometimes an award received.  There are two covers with an image of a young girl turning away from the camera.  However, one of the covers is blurred, perhaps to show that cover as part of a memory.  The other image is a clear picture of a girl, to show her as being more in the present.   Another cover has a clear image of a boat docked by the shore.  After reading the book it is obvious this is the boat they visited as adults, however before reading the book it gives a melancholy feel and might represent transition in life. The last cover is my favorite and is a hand-drawn image of the insides of a human body.  This cover is more clean than the others, leaving out any awards won to give a simple feel.  The image is referring to the students donating the...

There's More to Life than Being Happy      The basic argument of this talk was that the meaning of life is not the pursuit of happiness (or 42).  It is a combination of Belonging, Purpose, Transcendence, and Story-Telling.  The speaker began by discussing how the 'pursuit of happiness' has done a mediocre job giving people's lives meaning, with depression and suicide rates rising.  She said that after intensive research and talking to her peers she has discovered that there are four pillars to create meaning in one's life.  The first pillar was belonging, she discussed how belonging is a sense of belonging somewhere and having a friends and companion's who like you for you, not for some alternative meaning.  The second pillar was purpose, which was finding a cause or ideal that you spend your life working to improve.  The third pillar was transcendence, which was finding a higher purpose to what you are doing.  This could be relig...