Last ACT in my life tomorrow.

Today I came to the conclusion that my life sucks. Tomorrow I have an Act and am required to wake up at six. I will spend the next week, studying for my finals all day long and this whole weekend. Once I am done I will go to Cabo!! Butttt I will spend my two amazing weeks of my winter break doing my funn college apps!

Dear Santa,

Help me home boi, home home home boi.

Friday Finally!!

Friday Finally and closer to winter break!!! Ahhh I want to be done with school already. I have a math final the last day of school so I am nervous of that. I am understanding calculus pretty well but it is hard to memorize all the equations and all that. For Environmental Science my group is almost done with the whole project, stop motion and Zine. And english is amazing as always :) Ready tp s;eep all weekend.

Finalyyyyyyy BREAK!!!

It is finally thanksgiving break. I will mostly be working on my college apps and sleeping. I will also buy the new call of duty black ops. I finished my in class essay that I was preparing for. I think I did pretty good, I believe I could have done better.

Finalizing Tragedy and Understanding it

This weekend I have had the chance to watch two movies. Brilliant Minds and The Social Network. As I was watching them hubris and our tragedy project for some reason came to my mind. I began to analyze the movie plot and came to the conclusion that it was a perfect example of hubris. A character starts off middle class but for some reason begins to be an important figure but because of hubris they fall. This project helps understand tragedy and truly learn and analyze stuff in our daily lives.

Tragedy Paper

This week I began my tragedy paper. My three R's for all my reading are very helpfull because I basically did my whole essay with them, now I just need to put it together and make it flow. I am a little confused about Krutches reading. I believe he says that a tragedy for him is some sort of religon. I kind of understand that but I dont really get why it is some sort of religon or how. For my rough draft i stated all that I knew aboutthe authors. I also just gave a brief paragraph of my opinion. I will need to makethe essay smooth better and maybe include some quotes in there.

Tragedy

As I continued researching about tragedy I decided that my form of portraying tragedy would be through Images. I also believe that videos or movies are a very strong way of portraying tragedy. For example a really good scene of a movie that portrays tragedy is the scene of Avatar the movie. The scene where their tree it being burnt down by the humans and that the avatars begin to panic and cry. Although videos are a great way to portray tragedy I chose images because you get to figure out what was happening when the picture was taken.

Oedipus The King

This past school week was short, because we had a field trip on Tuesday and on Friday we had college day. We got to finish the exciting story of Oedipus and watched the tragic ending in class. Oedipus is a man who escapes from his prophecies but by doing that he fulfills them. In our english class this week we were assigned to summarize the While play into two sentences I personally wasn't able to because i explain everything in detail. I believe the ending was very disturbing and scary to see the video. I do not see the point of why Oedipus would take his eyes out, why didn't he just kill himself like his mother/wife?. Overall I enjoyed reading the story it really captured my attention while reading it.
I am going to buy my next book read this weekend I am excited and want to start reading it.
I am also looking forward to the next project that Stephanie told us about yesterday and I believe I am going to make a piece of music or take a picture. I am a little confused about the project but will ask questions on Monday. I am looking forward to the following weeks.

The Story of Oedipus

I am enjoying the reading of Oedipus. It is a great story that is interesting and makes you want to know more. I enjoyed watching the clip of the play today in class because i can feel it more. It is different to read it than to watch it because sometimes when I am reading I don't understand it but if I see the face expressions and listen to it it is easier to understand it and analyze it. It is also helpful to read it out loud in class with people reading each characters lines. I am looking forward to see what will happen next.

My next reading is Siddhartha, i still haven't bought the book but i will do it this weekend. I enjoyed reading the Alchemist and i will definably recommend it and possibly read is again.

First Week of October

For my book club reading, my group and I decided to read three books. Them being "The Alchemist" By: Paulo Coelho, "One hundred Years of Solitude" By: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, "Siddhartha" By: Hermann Hesse. I have been reading The Alchemist, I like the book so far I am almost done. I like the way that Coelho writes and how he invites the reader to imagine everything with many details. I like the story that he is telling because it engages you and makes you want to keep reading I reading every page. I believe that My group and I did the right thing by choosing "The Alchemist" because he is a good example to compare to the heroes journey.