Paper Man Critical Interpretation

This cartoon represented so much. First of it represented love at first sight when he saw her at he train station. Another thing that was portrayed through the cartoon was perseverance. He was strongly attracted to the woman and wanted to do anything to get her. The building of the paper planes represent this. Another important aspect was that if you really want so etching and work hard, things will always come back around for you and make thing better. Another characteristic of the film was true love. It can happen anywhere and anytime and it displays what you will to do get it and become happy.

Rabbit Critical Interpretation

In the rabbit atory, the underlined theme was to explain that jealousy and gullablness can be taken advantage of. This rabbit and had a long tale, and boasted to the others, but when he got hungry and nobody liked him he went to the fox to ask how to catch fish. The fox was a trickster always up to no good and he told the rabbit to put his tale in the water to cath fish. The underlined message was that you will do anything out of desperation without taking the time to comprehend it or think about it.

Idioms

#1. Dead as a doornail.

Literal- this means the person is dead and since a doornail is not living it means they're that dead.

Inferential- this mean is a person who is dead with no chance of recovery. When door nails we used construction, and attorney down,the nails could not be retrieved and were considered "dead".

Critical- once your dead you can never come back.

#2. Crocodile tears

Literal- it literally means the tears of a crocodile.

Inferential- since the tears of crocodiles was not out of pain, but rather to get what they wanted and help them to eat. In real life it means fake tears to manipulate the true meaning and get what you want, faking that your actually in pain.

Critical- manipulating someone for your own advantage, we also fake to get our way, no matter the situation.

#3. In the Crapper

Literal- being on the toilet

Inferential- Thomas crapper from England was the one to revolutionize indoor plumbing that's why his last name is used when people had to use the bathroom.

Critical- people names are associated with the things they create, also we use language to make the best of the words we use.

Monday, January 28th

At the beginning of they year I set out to get an A in this class. I did it for myself, not just because it looks good for college, but because I expect a lot of myself. Also, according to PowerSchool,  I have a 96, which I'm very happy about. I hope I can maintain this grade for the remainder of the year and I will be happy.

Slam poem

Opportunities

My home is the United States. More than I can say for all the children suffering from starvation in third world countries, or counties deprived of war and disease. My home is called opportunity. Yet the country I was raised in has the number one inmate population in the entire world along with highest conviction rate. For such a blessed nation, I see my people take advantage of the holy grain bestowed in front them, and without a second glance, they throw it away. We work so hard to make sure we're successful, but in the process become miserable. In this country doing what you love is possible, yet our social classes, our peers, our friends, and family all judge us by how successful we are instead of how happy we are. That's another question I ask. How is it we can live in a country that supply's us all these advantages yet we all are to afraid of the failure that is tagged along with it. see I think we need to take our opportunities with a grain of salt, with a chip on our shoulder. All of us have opportunities, but all of us don't take it. The more we do things for us, and less for them, we'll find peace within ourselves, we'll be happy, appreciate more, love more, hate less, feel more. And like a wise man once said, the most difficult part of our lives is not when no one understands you, it's when you don't understand yourself. And after we can all figure out ourselves, nothing less than an opportunity can come from it.

Poem comments

Poem #1- Scratch and Dent Dreams. From this Poem, I got such a strong realization of what can really make you happy in life. This poem was a story of how all the little things mean so much and how much their worth. It also is a great example of how slam poems don't have to be complex, they can be simple themes, with deep, underlined meanings.

Poem#2- Touchscreen, Marshal Davis Jones. This poem was all about how our feelings,life's,and relationships revolve around technology and why it's so bad for us. He does a great job of making me personally feel like I need more face to face time with people and I don't even have a Facebook. It was a fantastic display of the truth and how it we, as people, need to get back to what really matters.

Poem #2- I'm Taking my Ball and Going Home(Scott). This poem was about the harsh reality of being a social outcast. It also portrayed the importance of telling people the little things that matter in life and being their when no one else is. The poet makes it very clear that outcasts in society are shunned and he debates it through an underlined metaphor.

Poetry slam

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SBJoZKe_lLw http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GAx845QaOck http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JfTa4B7wQ_8

Warm up January 23rd

Finding our talents are very intentional concepts. It takes time to discover what you're good at; and it takes effort to recognize it. Another aspect to our talents and passions that TED talked about was that our talents make us different from each other and allow us all to be successful in who we really are. The highly decorated speaker who I cannot remember his name at the moment said, agriculture is what we need in education.  He used this term because agriculture is always changing and embracing new challenges and getting better. That is what he believes; even though our schools are more like assembly lines in a factory. It was proposed that instead of evolving, we need to start revolting and start changing and growing; this way, everyone has a chance to be successful in a system that is right for them.

Random thoughts January 22nd

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Poem January 20th

His Home

The young man closed his eyes

His wife and son play harmlessly in the lucious fields 

He can't focus

Mortar rounds cloud his vision

He focuses even harder 

He can almost hear their tender voices

No bullet can distract him now

They speak to him, telling him it'll be alright

He can't open his eyes

Sergeant orders him to push on

But he's almost home

No time remains

He reaches out to his sons hands

They rejoice in their short moment

He's reached home

Shortly his eyes open into the dark battlefield 

But he's fine

He was already home

Text incorporation

Fruit is an  important of the human diet. It was been for a long time. In fact, " Citrus grew in China 20 million years ago"( Fruit: Fun Facts)

Fruit: Fun Facts, Fact monster inc., web. 17 Jan. 2013

Crows are very interesting animals and have unique habitats. "Crows use a mixed habitat including woodlands for roosting, nesting and perching, open areas, agricultural fields, coastal wetlands, marshes, rivers and streams."(Habitat) Habitat, Crow Busters inc., web.17 Jan., 2013

January 16th imaginary H.S day

Empathy is the ability to mutually experience  thoughts, emotions, and direct experience of others. Sympathy, is a feeling of care and understanding for the suffering of others. Both words have similar use but differ in their emotional meaning. Well a typical teens day stated out in the morning pounding on the alarm showing no sympathy for its well being. Then he/she might get ready for school by picking out their clothes and getting ready to leave. Then as they arrived at school, only interested in themselves, they would walk right past the bully picking on a little kid showing a tad bit of empathy but not enough to do anything about it. Then they would continue their day and try and make the most of it, only to repeat the process again the next day.

Tuesday January 15th

Once as a younger child, I was in a serious situation in which i needed a great deal of help. I was in the backyard, laying in the grass helplessly, when all of a sudden two awkwardly tall tenagers appeared from out of nowhere. Then suddenly, a barrage of rocks stated flying. Boom! One right next to my head. I frantically tried to evade the intense war zone, but as I was making my escape I felt the warm sensation of pine cone graze my neck. I knew it was fight or flight time even as a younger child. I choose to run obviously. But as I was running around the edge of the house, I could feel the presence of my brother and his friend close behind. Suddly I triped and accendtally revealed my defenseless front to the enemy and that was all it took. Clank!! A rock hit my head with trmendous velocity and as I was falling I could hear the laughing cries of teens turn to a sudden concerned tone of voice. Laying on the ground crying, I could feel the warm blood flow down my face. Iat this point I not only needed help, but medical assistance. I was put in the car and raced to the hospital where I was treated. But what I really learned was that brothers and siblings love to see you in pain no matter what it is. After I was all patched up the first words my brother said were " Don't tell mom" then I got an apology. So overall I was helped in a time of need by a bother who thrived in my pain. Kind of ironic but it worked out!

Monday January 14:

Dear  Malichi
Poverty. This one word makes me realize how truly lucky I am. But this word also makes me extremely disappointed. For one, we are a fully developed country that thrives in the world, yet we focus on giving to people in foreign countries. Instead of taking care of our own nation, and providing for the ones who can not provide for themselves, we take care of poorer less fortunate counties first. I believe we are doing the right thing in helping other counties, but I really think we need to take care of our country first. We are a nation and a family and need to take care of each other, and that is why we need solve the epidemic of poverty in our own country while also giving a bit to the world as well,

                      Sincerely, Nik