Latin Roots #7

Roots and derivatives
1. duc(t), duce: to lead
2. fed(er), fide(e): faith, trust
3. fin(e): end, limit
4. flect, flex: to bend

Word list
1. aqueduct: A large pipe or other conduit made to bring water from a great distance
    Romans used aqueducts to supply their homes with fresh water.

2. Conductive: tending to lead, help, assist, or result in
    The library is a conductive place to get your homework done.

3. Definitive: completely accurate, reliable, and authoritative; decisive or conclusive
    It was definitive that I had to move schools after the semester.

4. fidelity: faithfulness to ones promises or obligations, steadfast faithfulness; technological faithfulness.
    When it comes to relationships, fidelity is number one.

5. Fiduciary: an individual who holds something in trust for another; a trustee
    The bank is a fiduciary to most peoples savings.

6. Finale: a "grand" conclusion, as of a performance; the last scene of a play
   The season finale of my favorite show Pretty Little Liars kept me on the edge of my seat the whole time, and left me wanting to know what else happens. 

7. Finite: limited or bordered by time or by any measurement; measurable
    There is a finite amount of time for me to study for my finals.

8. Flexuous: winding in and out; bending or wavering
    The flexuous road is extremely slippery when it rains.

9. Inducement: anything used or given to persuade or motivate; an incentive
    An inducement for her good grades was money for every A.

10. Inflection: a slight change in tone or modulation of the voice, as in a point of emphasis
    By the inflection in her voice, everyone knew she was nervous to give her speech.

11. Perfidious: characteristic of one who would intentionally betray a faith or trust; treacherous
    The women's perfidious actions drove her husband to divorce,

12. Traduce: to speak falsely of; to slander or defame; to disgrace another's good name; to vilify
    Magazines usually always traduce the readers on lies about celebrities lives.

Leopard Man Questions

9. Tom leopard is called leopard man because he tattooed his entire body with leopard print, and he lives in the wild and acts as any other real leopard would.

10. The author thinks people with tattoos and piercing are just attention seekers. He thinks this because he believes some people are psychologically dependent on others opinions.

11. Leopard man is different from other tattooed and pierced people in that he doesn't live for other peoples reactions, rather he does it because it makes him happy.

12. Leopard man lives in a small cabin in the Scottish wilderness.

13. According to Feys, society fears loners because they pursue their own values without seeking others permission.

14. The "worlds most common but dangerous psychological disorder" is conformity. Fey argues that people try so hard to fit in, it leads to suppression and destruction of ones self.

15. Leopard man is so happy because he is doing what he loves, and not what others want him to do.

Latin Roots #6

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.  

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."

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.

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.

Jonathan Safran Foer Webinar

Jonathan Safran Foer Webinar

On October 28^th, 2014, our class was lucky enough to view a live video chat with presenter, Jonathan Safran about his book, “Eating Animals.” I thought the category of his webinar was rather informative with a little bit of persuasiveness. Safran informed us with some interesting facts and views that I had never quite thought about. Although not trying to completely change our views on weather eating animals is right or not, he purposed questions that made my perspectives differentiate about its ethical purposes. For example, When he mentioned how the animals are locked in tiny cages where they barley fit, just to die for our own consumption.

Three stand out moments

1.      Something I found interesting was when he mentioned that mostly everyone knows the cruelty and torture animals go through, however they don’t like to hear it, and continue eating meat. Also he says people are ignorant to the fact and they won’t fix the problem because Americans are known as “selfish” and will only care if it applies to them. This I find is quite sad because as being an animal lover, I find animal torture no different than humans being tortured.

2.      The second stand out moment was when Safran said that, “You can eat meat your whole life without being able to read or watch about the animals affected and the issues that come along with it.” I found this bizarre because who would not want to know what is being put into their own body? The first concern people have is just the taste, but they don’t even bother to know what’s inside, it could be a rat for all they care.

3.      Lastly I found it interesting when he said that children don’t make decisions for themselves like this when they’re young. I agree with this because a person’s eating habit when they are young determines how they will eat the rest of their lives and it’s all up to the parents. A parent can feed their child only meat, cupcakes, and donuts, and that’s usually how they will eat all their life. Or, a parent can feed their child healthy with plenty of fruits and vegetables, and that will guide them throughout their life as well. I believe it all starts with the parent’s lifestyle to pass on to their kids.

This presentation can relate to my life because it makes me consider now what I am putting into my body. Previously, I have attempted to become vegetarian, only to later give up because my mom cooks a delicious meal containing meat. However, I do watch what meat I’m consuming, and have cut certain meats out of my diet. Nonetheless, I think it would be hard for me to cut meat out of my diet completely. This webinar made me especially think about animals and the cruelty they go through because I am a giant animal lover.