Roots and Derivatives
1. Corp(or): body
2. Cred: To believe
3. Cur(r), Curs, Course: To run, to flow
4. dic(t): To speak, to say
Word List
1. Benediction: the invocation of a divine blessing, as at the close of a religion service; a blessing or state of blessedness
After every Sunday Mass, the priest offers a benediction.
2. Concourse: a running or flowing together; a broad public walkway or hallway; a crowd or throng
The securities job was to monitor the concrete concourse area of the football stadium.
3. Concurrent: occurring at the same time; meeting or acting together
Hannah Montana lived a concurrent life; her ordinary life and her famous life.
4. Corporal: related to the physical body
There would definitely be less troubled students and better behavior if schools used corporal punishments.
5. Corpulent: very stout; fleshly and obese; fat
After the guy from super size me experimented from overeating McDonalds, he became rather corpulent in size.
6. Credibility: the quality of being believable or trustworthy
Once somebody has lied to me once, their credibility has gone out the window.
7. Credulity: the willingness to believe too easily without proof.
The con artist was able to sell was able to easily sell his products to credulous buyers.
8. Cursory: done is a superficial or hasty manner
Before my test, I cursory looked over my notes instead of studying the night before.
9. Dictum: an authoritative saying or maxim
My mom always tells me cheesy dictums that her mom once told her.
10. Incorporate: to form into one body or functioning unit; to combine several different things into a whole
Artist like to incorporate their own personality in their paintings.
11. Incredulous: not believing, skeptical, or doubting
It was obvious the jury did not believe the defendants incredulous alibi.
12. Indicative: characteristic of or very much like; suggestive
My brothers wedding ring is an indicative of his wives love.
Sunday, November 16, 2014
Thursday, November 13, 2014
Lit. Analysis #2 response: The Giver
1. The Giver by Lois Lowery is in a futuristic community wheres theres no color, no feelings, and everyone is pretty much the same. The main character, Jonas, however has always felt like he's different from everyone else, but doesn't quite know how to describe it. At the age of twelve, every twelve year old in the community gets placed in a career that the government assigns them for the rest of their life. Jonas was the last one called, and finally he was called up to be the new Memory of receiver because he's "different" from everybody else. On his first day, the receiver gives Jonas a happy memory, and Jonas wonders why the government took this away from everybody. Throughout the book, The Giver shares sad, happy, exciting nervous, traumatizing, and horrid memories of the past. Jonas isn't aloud to share these memories of the past with anybody because it causes pain and indifference. He didn't think this was right and wanted to create a plan to cross the border of his community and release all memory back to the people. Jonas and the Giver plotted a scheme for Jonas to escape and risk his life. After almost getting caught, and escaping a near death experience, he lived a memory that the Giver gave to him to give him strength. Jonas crossed the border, and finally all the memory was released.
2. The theme in this book is, memories and individuality is what makes the world unique. I believe Lowery chose to write about this because so many people want to be like each other or copy one another such as celebrities. However, if everybody was the same the world would be so boring. Also, I think Lowery wants us to cherish and share our memories especially the happy one, so that they will never be forgotten.
3.The protagonist is a dynamic and round character because he changes throughout the course of the story. For example, in the beginning of the book, Jonas had no problem with his community, however by the end he though it was wrong and awful, which made him set a plan to change the community. This sparked after the Giver had shared with him all the past memories of the world that nobody knows about.
4. The major symbols in the story include the senses such as hearing, seeing, and feeling. No one could see color or feel feelings such as frightfulness and happiness except for Jonas. Another huge symbol was Jonas's first memory of him sledding down a hill in the snow because by living this pacific memory, is how Jonas escaped his society.
5. I chose this book because my friend had read it and told me good things about it. Also, it had recently came out in theaters and the previews had appealed to me. However, I wanted to read the book first, so that I'm able to compare the book to the movie. When I began the book, it made me want to keep reading because it started as a sort of suspense of why Jonas was different from everybody else and I wanted to find out why.
6. It's hard to personally relate myself to this book because I and most everyone around me can see color as well as have our own feelings. However, everybody is different in looks and personality kinda how Jonas felt toward everybody else.
7. A part I expect to remember was when Jonas took Gabriel, the baby who has the same "ability" as him, with him when he escaped. Jonas could have gotten away a lot easier and faster, but instead he saved from dying and took him with him. "For Gabriel there would have been no life at all. So there had not really been a choice."
2. The theme in this book is, memories and individuality is what makes the world unique. I believe Lowery chose to write about this because so many people want to be like each other or copy one another such as celebrities. However, if everybody was the same the world would be so boring. Also, I think Lowery wants us to cherish and share our memories especially the happy one, so that they will never be forgotten.
3.The protagonist is a dynamic and round character because he changes throughout the course of the story. For example, in the beginning of the book, Jonas had no problem with his community, however by the end he though it was wrong and awful, which made him set a plan to change the community. This sparked after the Giver had shared with him all the past memories of the world that nobody knows about.
4. The major symbols in the story include the senses such as hearing, seeing, and feeling. No one could see color or feel feelings such as frightfulness and happiness except for Jonas. Another huge symbol was Jonas's first memory of him sledding down a hill in the snow because by living this pacific memory, is how Jonas escaped his society.
5. I chose this book because my friend had read it and told me good things about it. Also, it had recently came out in theaters and the previews had appealed to me. However, I wanted to read the book first, so that I'm able to compare the book to the movie. When I began the book, it made me want to keep reading because it started as a sort of suspense of why Jonas was different from everybody else and I wanted to find out why.
6. It's hard to personally relate myself to this book because I and most everyone around me can see color as well as have our own feelings. However, everybody is different in looks and personality kinda how Jonas felt toward everybody else.
7. A part I expect to remember was when Jonas took Gabriel, the baby who has the same "ability" as him, with him when he escaped. Jonas could have gotten away a lot easier and faster, but instead he saved from dying and took him with him. "For Gabriel there would have been no life at all. So there had not really been a choice."
Sunday, November 9, 2014
Greek Drama Questions
1. Dancing choruses of worshipers began competing for prizes such as a bull or goat.
2. As many as fourteen thousand spectators gathered in the open-air Theater of Dionysos.
3. The mask affected the voices of the actors because they had exaggerated mouthpieces that amplified the actors' voices.
4. Antigone was suspenseful to viewing audiences because since they already knew the story, the suspense came from their knowledge of things the characters on stage did not know. The audience pitied them and wanted to warn them of their impending doom.
5. The Shepard is ordered to leave the infant to die on a lonely mountainside with his ankles pinned together.
6. The riddle the Sphinx gave to Oedipus was, "What creature goes on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, and three legs in the evening?"
7. Oedipus had four kids: two sons, Polyneices and Eteocles; and two daughters, Antigone and Ismene.
8. After Oedipus is exiled, Creon takes over Thebes.
9. After death, the family closed the dead person's eyes and mouth and began to prepare the body for the prothesis (the wake). The women of the house washed the body and dressed it in white or in wedding clothes. Then they places the body on a portable framework, making sure that the feet pointed toward the door, and sprinkled it with herbs which were believed to keep evil spirits away. Women waited near the body, and men entered with their right arms raised high in the air. When the closest relative held the dead persons head with both hands, the other mourners wailed and sang accompanied by the reed pipe.
2. As many as fourteen thousand spectators gathered in the open-air Theater of Dionysos.
3. The mask affected the voices of the actors because they had exaggerated mouthpieces that amplified the actors' voices.
4. Antigone was suspenseful to viewing audiences because since they already knew the story, the suspense came from their knowledge of things the characters on stage did not know. The audience pitied them and wanted to warn them of their impending doom.
5. The Shepard is ordered to leave the infant to die on a lonely mountainside with his ankles pinned together.
6. The riddle the Sphinx gave to Oedipus was, "What creature goes on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, and three legs in the evening?"
7. Oedipus had four kids: two sons, Polyneices and Eteocles; and two daughters, Antigone and Ismene.
8. After Oedipus is exiled, Creon takes over Thebes.
9. After death, the family closed the dead person's eyes and mouth and began to prepare the body for the prothesis (the wake). The women of the house washed the body and dressed it in white or in wedding clothes. Then they places the body on a portable framework, making sure that the feet pointed toward the door, and sprinkled it with herbs which were believed to keep evil spirits away. Women waited near the body, and men entered with their right arms raised high in the air. When the closest relative held the dead persons head with both hands, the other mourners wailed and sang accompanied by the reed pipe.
Thursday, November 6, 2014
Antigone Quickwrite
If I were to wake up on vacation and find myself surrounded by people who say parents have lost their minds and my two brothers killed each other in a fight, I'd definitely put that down in the books for worst vacation. Then later finding out that my uncle has declared himself king, left my favorite brother for the maggots and birds to dine on, while my jerk brother got buried with honor, I would be absolutely furious. First I would go around the town advocating what my uncle has done and find a way to stop him. If my sister was all I had and she didn't want to help me, then I would go and find brave strong willed people who would help me burry my brother. I mean it wasn't even my favorite brother's fault because he didn't even start the fight! It was my jerk brother who started it and now somehow he gets buried with honor. How does this happen? I would get all the people I could find to help me put my uncle through the Anti-gone machine, as he did to my parents. If I gathered lots of people then my uncle would have no chance, no one would be executed, and my brother can be buried peacefully with honor. Everybody is happy, and we can precede to our family vacation.
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