THE FINAL!!!!

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LAQ :)

Its about black maids working for white women that live in the south and have no respect. Most of the maids took care of generational white families. Although they had families of their own. They are treated badly but the maids affaid to speak or do anything about it because they can lose everything theys have. The maids take care of the children and they bond with them like it was their own child. They were not just maids for the family, they were also nannies. The white people drop of their parenting to these maids.

Racism takes a big part of this novel because the blacks had to live with it. They were affaid of there lives because if they spoke out they were in jeoperty of losing there lives by the KKK.

 The auther wanted us to have a perspective of  what it was like being a southern maid and to see what they have to deal with in they lives.

 Aibileen was a black character that lost her son and hates how her people has been mistreated. She respected everyone although she was not given the same respect back. She wanted to make a change in her life. By that said Skeeter gives her that chance to speak without the white people know ing its her. Skeeter was her writer. She wanted to make a point in what she wants to do in her life.

Sketter was a white person that wanted to show others she can write and she just needed a chance to prove herself.She needed a story that can show she is a jounalist.So she did write to prove herself and others that she can be a jounalist. She wrote about life as a maid in the south and how it affects them.


Celia Foote - Newest resident of Jackson, Mississippi, winds up hiring Minny because she cannot cook and initially tries to hide Minny’s involvement with the house cleaning and cooking from her husband, Johnny Foote. Celia has also been unsucessful at carrying a fetus to term. She forms an unlikely bond with the sharp tongued Minny. Celia dresses provocatively, but is really a sweet person. She’s also unaware of the history between her husband and Hilly (they were together prior to Johnny meeting Celia).

Minny Jackson - The “sassy” maid, Minny’s mouth has gotten her into trouble one too many times. Aibileen’s friend, and a character who’s unable to keep employment because of her bossy demeanor and sharp tongue. After she loses her job with Miss Walters (Hilly’s mother), Aibileen helps her land another one with Celia Foote, who’s considered white trash and is shunned by sorority sisters and socialites like Hilly and Elizabeth. Minny is married with five children and a sixth on the way.

When I finished reading the book it made me realize that I not the only one that had a bad life time and that life is better know then ever. It also shows people character flaws that makes you want to be a better person.

REFLEXION ON ESSAY -.-

         I think I could of asked my teacher to re-word the topic we had to write about because some students and I were confused about what we has to write about. But I tried my best although I don't know if I did what is required for this essay. I think I could have written a better  essay with all the requirements that it needs. Overall I thought I did a okay job.   (BUT I THINK I CAN DO BETTER)

report :) HENRY JAMES!!!!

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notes on Brave New World chapter 1-4

I am HENRY JAMES!!!!

I AM HENRY JAMES AND I WAS BORN ON APRIL 15, 1843 IN NEW YORK.

I AM A SHORT STORY AND NOVELIST WRITER.

I AM ALWAYS A VORACIOUS READER.

I AM IMMERSED MYSELF IN FRENCH, RUSSIAN, ENGLISH, AND AMERICAN CLASSIC LITERATURE.


I AM A PERSON THAT INSPIRED OTHER AUTHOR'S WORKS AND ADAPTATIONS TO THE STAGE/ SCREEN.

My Modernist :)

Henry James is my modernist author because I thought that this will very interesting and I thought it would be better to research someone that you don't know. I was reading on about him and he sounds like a very interesting person

vocabulary #3

Chronic-constant; habitual; inveterate
Sentiment-an attitude toward something; regard; opinion.
Morality-conformity to the rules of right conduct
Remorse-deep and painful regret for wrongdoing; compunction.
Defect-a shortcoming, fault, or imperfection
Acquaintance-a person known to one, but usually not a close friend
Sanity-the state of being sane; soundness of mind.
Implication-something implied or suggested as naturally to be inferred or understood
Alternative-a choice limited to one of two or more possibilities
Savage-fierce-ferocious, or cruel; untamed
Phenomenon- a fact, occurrence, or circumstance observed or observable

BOB 1

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spring vocab #3

brouhaha-excited public interest, discussion, or the like, as the clamor attending some sensational event;
 cloy-to weary by an excess of food, sweetness, pleasure,
 demeanor-conduct; behavior; deportment.
 deference-respectful submission or yielding to the judgment, opinion
 enigmatic-resembling an enigma; perplexing; mysterious.
 definitive-most reliable or complete, as of a text, author, criticism, study
 bumptious-offensively self-assertive
 choleric-extremely irritable or easily angered; irascible
 bulwark-a wall of earth or other material built for defense
 curtail-to cut short; cut off a part of; abridge; reduce; diminish.
 adamant-utterly unyielding in attitude or opinion in spite of all appeals
 profligate-utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated; thoroughly dissolute
 mawkish-characterized by sickly sentimentality; weakly emotional; maudlin
 thwart-to oppose successfully; prevent from accomplishing a purpose
 onus-a difficult or disagreeable obligation, task, burden
 requisite-necessary for a particular purpose, position
 mollify-to soften in feeling or temper, as a person; pacify; appease
 sartorial-of or pertaining to tailors or their trade
 presentiment-a feeling or impression that something is about to happen, especially something evil; foreboding
 impromptu-made or done without previous preparation
 forbearance-the act of forbearing; a refraining from something
 remit-to transmit or send (money, a check, etc.) to a person or place, usually in payment

ESSAY POSTGAME ANALYSIS

       I think that the first essay was okay then when I turned it in I realize that I wouldnt want to turn anything in like that... so before I left school and Dr. preston left his classroom and asked him if I can re-write the essay... he told me that I was able to write it again and turn it in tomorrow.  I was thankful to get another chance because I didnt want to go home with my mind saying I didnt do a good job with my work. On the first essay I did I would have gane myself a C but since I re did it I give myself a B+

PARLOR POETRY

 I thought that this poem was very similar to the "Dove Beach"  because I thought that it showed the same strength of loss in faith and need of integrity. I also thought that it would show what she probably though before she burnt herself with her books. For example, wen it says "Your scars weighing heavy"... I think it can refer to the books burning because that can be a weekending to her. 



Place your hopes on high
Make way by dim candle light
Play it out like you have before
This shell isn't you
Optimist with a pessimist view
These times bind you in doubt
Your scars weighing heavy
I see it in your eyes
Regret of failure in doing it all right
How can so many choices
Turn out with such consequence's
Starve the meaning
And build the reaction
Carve doubt from dreaming
And it all collapses

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LAQ #1

Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. It is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.
Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses, looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken.
Minny, Aibileen's best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody's business, but she can't mind her tongue, so she's lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own.
Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times.Sometimes lines are made to be crossed.
In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women - mothers, daughters, caregivers, and friends view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope. The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don't.

 

spring vocab #2

Praetorian - a member of the roman guard

Sieve - a utensil of wire mesh or closely perforated metal used for straining

Veiled - partially concealed with a veil

Saccharine - of or relating to sugar

Harlequin - a comedian

Toil - to work hard or incessantly

Delinquents - group of persons offending by neglect or violation of law

Gibbering - speak rapidly or unintelligibly

Insidious - proceeding in a gradual subtle way

Strewn - scatter or spread untidily over a surface or area

Cadence - pace

Centrifuge - a piece of equipment used to spin an object around a fixed axis

Patronage - act of buying

Suffused - to spread over or through

Leisure - time free from work or duties

Dentifrice - toothpaste

Vessel - big boat

Profusion - an abundance of something

Phonograph - a record player

spring vocabulary #1

Proboscis - a long, flexible snout or trunk

Pantomime - the art of conveying emotion

Proclivities - tendency to do something regularly

Centrifuge - a piece of equipment, driven by an electric motor, that puts an object in rotation around a  fixed axis

Ravenous - extremely hungry

Jargon - the language, especially the vocabulary, of a particular trade

Parlor - entry room to a house

Stagnant - not flowing or moving as water, air, etc

Cacophony - harsh, jarring, discordant sound

Tamped - past tense of tamp, to pack something tightly by tapping

Plateau - a land area having a relatively flat surface

Flourish - to thrive

Rollick - to move in a care manner

Asylum - an institution for the maintenance and care of the mentally ill or other persons requiring specialized assistance

Odious - deserving or causing hatred

I'M A POET AND I KNOW IT

                           FOR MY FATHER OH SO DEAR!  <3
She couldn't begin to know from the start
how much love she can hold in her heart

For the father that held her hand as she learn to walk,
with a loving smile he taught her to talk.
He's walking her though life,
They comfort each other in times of great strife.

For her father oh so dear,
also her friend so near.
He teaches her to let go of fear.


He lead me though the darkness,
to the light.
Tough her to fight,
for what she knows right.


They have their good times and bad.
They keep each other from being sad.


If there is something that is troubling her mind,
that she cant press rewind...
Her dad is there, for she can share
and he will care.


so thats a good dad,
that she will ever have.

FAHRENHEIT 451

1.) Guy Montag is the protagonist, who presents the dystopia through the eyes of a worker loyal to it, a man in conflict about it, and one resolved to be free of it...
2.) Clarisse McClellan walks with Montag on his trips home,focusing on nature rather than on technology...
3.) Mildred Montag is Guy Montag's wife, addicted to sleeping pills, absorbed in the shallow dramas played on her "parlor walls" (flat-panel televisions), and indifferent to the oppressive society around her...
4.) Captain Beatty is Montag's boss,he has come to hate books due to their unpleasant content and contradicting facts and opinions... 
5.) Faber is a former English professor,spent years regretting that he did not defend books when he saw the moves to ban them...
6.) Mrs. Bowles and Mrs. Phelps are Mildred's friends, are representative of the anti-intellectual, hedonistic society presented in the novel... 
7.)Granger is the leader of a group of wandering intellectual exiles who memorize books in order to preserve their contents.
8.)Stoneman and Black are other firemen that are mentioned in the novel, Their main purpose in the novel is to show the reader the contrast between the firemen who do as they're told without question and someone like Montag...
9.) They are not allowed to have any books at all because they are ban, but yet some people hide them and eventually get caught for having them.  

1o.) The novel presents a future American society where books are outlawed and firemen burn any house that contains them...The book's title refers to the temperature that Bradbury understood to be the autoignition point of book paper.

THEME FOR ENGLISH B

Yes I am the person that my teachers think I am… I try my best and try to go beyond the things that I have to do if its possible and I try to never give up no matter how hard it is. As I pursue knowledge I can be my real self because I can have the knowledge to do what I want. So that means it doesn’t matter what color or who I am but that I can do anything in life and I will succeed. I find my self in a place that I want to be for example I want to be a doctor. There is times that I think that teachers are not treating people that are different color and / or races. In reality I think that everyone has there different thoughts that they think…so I say that because it looks like the colored person on the poem thinks that its he is treated or is different… Only because he has his own thoughts that about what he has to do.. I know that there are others that what to say what they think but others don’t what to know what they think because there opinion is different and then they might want to argue about it. So I think that everyone can express him or herself in any way and know that it might help us understand things better. For example, the poem is one way to show what you think.

BIG IDEA!!!!!!!!

I want to be a doctor. I have to accomplish my English skills which include communication. using this course can help me in many ways... like researching and seeing what I may need to know when I get there. as in that I mean find ways to communicate with people and read or look into what I may have to do to accomplish what my goal is.

***SPRING POST*** 1. "MUSIC ASW LITERATURE"

Yes we can consider music to be literature because its considered the background of American literature. American literature is stories,something written,songs that express something that help us understand things more clearly. In my opinion I don't think that there is a difference between a novel, a poem, a rap, a song, an opera, and a symphony because as i said the music or anything that has been written its something that is like the background of American literature  and makes a difference in everything that we think and talk about.

book report #3

Carmen buys a pair of jeans at a thrift shop. Magically, the pants fit Carmen and her three best friends. The other three friends are Lena, Tibby, and Bridget.Even though the girls have very different bodies. The girls, who “met” before birth when their mothers were in a prenatal aerobics class together, are spending this summer apart—their first significant separation. Carmen will go to South Carolina to spend the summer with her father. Lena will go to Greece with her sister, Effie, to spend the summer with their grandparents. Bridget will spend the summer at soccer camp in Baja California, Mexico. Only Tibby will stay home in Maryland, to work at Wallman’s, a superstore. Before each girl sets off to her summer destination, they have a friendship ceremony at Gilda’s gym, where their mothers met so many years ago. To stay close while they’re apart, they vow to send the pants—which they call the Traveling Pants—to one another throughout the summer.I think the tone is loving and kind because it shows us that they will do whatever to have a friendship and when they get mad with each other the will still show that they love one another. This story shows allusion,personification,similes and others more. Carmen is a person that is more focused in school. Bridget is a more athletic person and likes to do new things. After reading this book i feel like i was part of the store and I personally love this book... I recommend it to my friends.