Health survey

Immigrants in our own land

Theme: Expectations versus reality

Tone: serious

Mood: Sad, depressing

Devices:

Response to a sound of thunder

At first when I was reading the beginning of the story i didn't understand it. Later on when I was reading I understood it was about time traveling. The story was interesting and grabbed my attention. What I liked from the story was the part where they go to past and see dinosaurs and hunt them.

I'm self-reliant

I think that Emerson's essay is mostly about believing in what we think is right and to not believe what society wants us to believe. There's some things that he wrote that I didn't understand well.

On self reliance

Vocab: fall list # 6

Meme- an idea or element of social behavior passed on through generations in a culture
Virus- a part of a computer program often to damage or shut down a system or network
Viral- of, pertaining to, or caused by a virus
Blog- a journal written on-line and accessible to users of the internet
Wiki- a web application that shows anyone visiting a website to edit a content on it
URL- Uniform Resource Locator a protocol for specifying adresses on the internet
Website- a group of connected pages on the World Wide Web containing information on a particular subject
WWW- World Wide Web
Internet- a large computer network linking smaller computer networks worldwide
2.0- the internet viewed as a medium in which interactive experience in the form of blogs, wikis, forums, etc plays a more important role than a simple accessing information
Open source- intellectual property esp. computer source code, that is made freely available to the general public by its creators

Vocabulary pictures

Letter to a Mentor draft 1

Dear Mentor,

                I want to know how did life begin. How did everything get started? How was everything created? I really want to know how life began, if life started since the day we were born or did life started years ago. There could be different people who think differently than me or have an answer to my question.

Vocabulary: fall list # 5

Venomous- full of or containing venom; poisonous
Stolid- not easily stirred or moved mentally or emotionally
Hypnotized- to put in a state of hypnosis
Suspended- to hang by attachment to something above, esp. so as allow free movement
Transformed- to change in form
Accuse- to charge with a fault, offense, or crime
Anticipate- to realize or feel beforehand; foresee
Fringe- a decorative border of short threads, cords, or loops
Melancholy- a gloomy state of mind; depression or dejection
Earnestly- serious of intention, purpose, or action
Dissolve- to become a mixture or solution of
Aggravate- to make worse or more severe; intensity
Illuminate- to supply or brighten with light; light up
Capillary- one of the tiny, hair like blood vessels between the arteries and the veins
Proboscis- the long flexible nose of certain animals as of an elephant

Respect My Authority

I think an authority figure could be anyone like a mom, dad, older brothers and sisters, or anyone else
who will care for my future. Authority figure will let me know that I should be responsible for my choices. Also, to encourage me to do my best everyday and learn from my mistakes.

Inciting incident

The pedestrian was walking in the night and while he was walking a ploice man stopped him . The police man was asking him questions like where was he going and for what. He answered that he was walking for air and to see. Later the police told him to get in the car and the pedestrian asked the police man where was he taking him and he answered to the psychiatric center.

Mistakes for president

The debate was very strong. What I didn't like was that Trump was interrupting Clinton some of the time. I liked how Clinton was explaining everything so well and I was happy that she won the first debate.

The pedestrian first impression

The story is getting interesting and also has a little bit of mystery.

Fall vocab #4

Intermittent- stopping for a time then starting again
Ebb- the flowing back of the tide to a lower level as the water returns to the sea
Regress- to move backward
Tendency- a natural disposition to move or act in some direction or toward some result
Antiseptic- causing the destruction of microorganismo that cause disease

Vocaburlary list #3

coherent- logically connected,, consistent
belabor- to explain, worry about
eschew- to abstain or keep away from shun; avoid
acquisitive- tending or seeking to acquire and own often greedily
emulate- to try, to equal or excel
banal- devoid for freshness or originality hackneyed
excoriation- the act of excoriating
congeal- to change from soft or fluid state to a rigid or solid state
substantiate- to establish by proof or competent evidence
temporize- to be indecisive
largesse- generous bestowal of gifts
tenable- cable of being held, maintained
insatiable- incapable of being satisfy
reconnaissance- gather information
germane- closely or significantly related; relevant; patient
ramify- to divide or spread out
intransigent- refusing to degree or compromise
taciturn- inclined to silence

My Aeries

My grade on my essay was not what I expected and my reaction was surprising because I thought I was going to get a lower grade.
I received the grade that I got because I needed more diction and syntax on the essay.
I agree on the grade that i received.
The grade that I have earned on this first grading period is maybe a B because I think I could have been posting more on my blog.
The work that I have done on this course is the journals.

"The Conscience of the hacker" response

The story is about a hacker who got arrested and he was called a criminal. The hacker mentioned that we are all the same and that a lot of times they call us criminals for small little reasons. For example for exploring, seeking knowledge, and other reasons. He also says that they are the ones who build atomic bombs, cheat, and make everyone else see that it's for there own good, but still they us criminals. I agree with the hacker in his way of thinking and his way of seeing life.

"Young Goodman Brown" Respnse

Young Goodman Brown was confusing and also long to read. I didn't read everything but I understood some of it. Goodman was going to a journey and left his wife Faith. While he was on his journey he wasn't alone he had company.

Big question

How did life begin?

Ancient stories

1. The language in the story " The Earth on Turtle's Back " is basic because it's easy to picture in your mind and easy to understand. When it comes to comparing it to my language it's not hard because they use common grammar to the ones we use today.

2. I only had to read the story ones because I was so interested and understood it the first time. There's other times where I have to read the stories more than twice and I still won't get it but I try my best to understand the stories.

The Earth on Turtle's Back

The story "The Earth on Turtle's back" is a very interesting story because it's talking about how the wife fell into a hole and some birds caught her so she wouldn't fall. They were trying to bring her back up to earth. A lot of them tried but couldn't reach the bottom so then the muskrat went down and reached the bottom. When she did she went back up to the surface and then holding her paw so tight everyone knew that she had earth on her paw. They asked themselves where they could put it so the great turtle offered his back. They noticed that it grew bigger and bigger until it became the whole earth.

Welcome message

Hi I'm Lesly Martinez and welcome to my blog!! I know that I will learn a lot in Dr. Prestons class and also learn a lot about him. And I'm looking forward to the rest of the year. 🙂