A Walk by Myself

When I first started walking I thought about how long I am going to walk for, I decided on 10 minutes since I had to start on homework and ice my knee. I observed that even though it is fall and the weather is suppose to be cooling down that it was hot outside (California weather.) I thought about my soccer games this weekend and how I played and what I need to work on. I heard the birds chirping which made me think about homecoming (random) and how my sister is looking for a dress and a lot of my friends are excited to go. Right before I got back home I felt really calm and at ease with the world and my head felt light and stress free.

Links:
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/rom.html

http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/hum_303/romanticism.html

http://www.uh.edu/engines/romanticism/introduction.html


Based off of the websites above my thoughts from my walk qualify as Romanticism because I discuss nature, the word "I" is used, and there is the author (my) personal thoughts/feelings.

A Dream Within A Dream

Edgar Allan Poe wrote the poem "A Dream Within A Dream" and it is very different from all his other literary work. This Romanticism poem has imagery, "And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand-" and it hints at his feelings of losing someone "O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?" I think Poe is not wanting someone/something change but he knows it won't stay the same forever. This shows Romanticism because it leaves interpretation up to the reader, the I's have it, and there is the authors personal feelings.

Vocabulary: Fall List #6

Adroit-Clever or skillful
Exemplary students are adroit in their work.

Amicable-Having a spirit of friendliness
Puppies are very amicable.

Averse-Strong dislike
I have an averse for slow hallway walkers.

Belligerent-Hostile or aggressive
The criminal held people belligerent until the police came and arrested him.

Benevolent-Kindly
Being benevolent to others will make you a well liked individual.

Cursory-Not thorough or detailed
If descriptions of characters are cursory then the book probably isn't well written.

Duplicity-Deceitfulness in speech
Having duplicity makes you a good public speaker.

Extol-To praise enthusiastically
Babies and dogs are extolled when they did something good.

Feasible- Easy
Her life was feasible because her never made her work for anything.

Grimace-A twisted expression on someones face
When someone is lying they have a grimace and are trying to hide it.

Holocaust-The mass murder of Jews
The holocaust is a sad subject in the world's history.

Impervious-Not allowing
Rules are impervious to kids having fun.

Impetus-The force of energy
The impetus of her falling left a bruise on her leg.

Jeopardy-Danger or loss
Endangered animals are in jeopardy of going extinct.

Meticulous-Showing great attention or detail
When working on artistic projects my meticulous side kicks in.

Nostalgia-Sentimental longing for the past
Nostalgia can hold you back from moving on.

Quintessence-The most perfect or typical example.
The math book always had quintessence of how to do a problem.

Retrogress-To go back to an earlier state
In US history we learn about retrogress of our country.

Scrutinize-Examine or express closely
The teacher scrutinizes the students work.

Tepid-Showing little enthusiasm
She acts tepid when she has to visit her family.

Vocabulary Fall List #5

Allude-to refer to something the author thinks you should know

- He made no intimation at the time of the proposition, nor did he in hisreply allude at all to that suggestion of mine. 

Clairvoyant- able to read mind
- Unless you were a clairvoyant you would have to guess at the future price of the bond.

Conclusive- final or decisive. to conclude
- Even without conclusive evidence that it can, heated questions are being raised.

Disreputable- of a poor reputation
- And he was not only a commoner, he was a commoner in a slightly disreputable profession.

Endemic- native to an environment
- Endemic animals are special because they are found in only one location on the planet, and nowhere else.

Exemplary-Serving as a desirable model; representing the best of its kind
-  Teachers, impressed by her exemplary behavior, took a liking to her.

Fathom- nautical measure of depth. to understand
- He could not understand the temptation that had come to him nor could he fathom the reason for its coming.

Guile-trick
- Marks lack of guile has characterized his service here, where political calculating is an accepted reality.

Integrity- integrating thought, word, and action
- Your ignorance is almost outweighed by your lack of integrity.

Itinerary-trip schedule or plan
- Buy travel guides that cover points along your itinerary and keep them with you on the trip.

Misconstrue-to misunderstand 
- To suggest that an operator must comply with this oversight process is to misconstrue the intent of the system.

Obnoxious-rude, loud. abrasive
- So, please be sure not to commit their mistake and form a negative picture of a large number of people based on an obnoxious few.

Placate- to calm down or satisfy
- Whoever the next president is, he will have to placate several groups with contradictory desires.

Placid-calm
- And the placid beasts still gazing with their mild eyes full of loving.

Plagiarism-taking someones writing without permission
- Plagiarism is committed everywhere in the world almost every day.

Potent-powerful
- Other species, which use the venom as a defense, retain potent stinging power and are responsible for human deaths each year.

Pretext- an excuse. text before the text
- In other words, appellant argues that the stop of his vehicle was a pretext to conduct an illegal search for contraband.

Protrude-to speak-out
- Many people have disks that bulge or protrude and do not suffer back pain.

Stark-easy to see
- People in cities can sometimes forget that the class divide in places like the highlands can appear even more stark than in the cities.

Superficial-shallow

- The target audience is likely to have an interest in superficial knowledge of a widely diverse array of topics.

Revision Strategy for Essay

In our in class essay on the short story "Young Goodman Brown" I didn't do as well as I know I could have. My plan for revision is we do get a chance to improve is; look over notes taken day before, skim over story, and be prepared to write a well written essay!

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Vocabulary Fall List #4

melancholy- a gloomy state of mind

exemplary- worthy of imitation

peculiar- strange; queer; odd


dread- to fear greatly

AHA Moment

My "AHA" moment was during a discussion today on Meanings, Signs, and Symbols. What made me "AHA" was when our class reread part 3 of the article and I understood it better. Our teacher discussed the difference between a sign and a symbol and then it really clicked in my head. The difference is a sign is any representation of something else, a symbol is a specific kind of sign, one that is arbitrarily chosen.

Vocabulary: Fall List #3

 encomium-  a formal expression of high praise; eulogy
An encomium by the President greeted the returning hero.

 coherent-  logically connected; consistent
His older sister and him were having a coherent argument.

 belabor-  to explain, worry about, or work at (something) repeatedlyor more than is necessary
He kept belaboring the point longafter we had agreed.

Young Goodman Brown Symbols

1) Faith's pink ribbons stand for her innocence and being young and naive. When they talk about the pink ribbons you thought of a child that could do no harm.
2) The staff symbolizes a serpent and the serpent in the bible leads people down evil paths.
3) The trees represent a community of people that pressure Goodman Brown to keep going on the dark path.
4) The old man that looks like Goodman Brown symbolizes the devil he tries to lead him to hell.
5) Cloud in the story symbolizes hopelessness and doubt. Goodman Brown was going to pray but the cloud got in his way and he was hopeless and doubtful.
6) The priest symbolizes that everyone sins.
7) Forest represents the evil world that everyone lives in.
8) The fire symbolizes temptation and how people are drawn to evil.
9) The unhallowed alter symbolizes confusion and unholiness.
10) The path that Young Goodman Brown is on symbolizes how hard it is to leave the devils presence.