Syriana review

Syriana is a movie about oil and money with a twist of corruption in America. This movie is geared towards a more mature audience with much attention paid to a complex storyline. The movie indulges the mind with a series of little stories wrapped around a much larger, more intriging plot. The movie also deals with the U.S. government and shows the side the media can never quite cover correctly. This movie is diffidently a must see movie for all those who are interested in the corrupt system that we call oil..

harry potter review

After the Sourcers Stone was released and did so well at the box offices, there are not high hopes for The Chamber of Secrets. Ever sence the release of Sourcers Stone, Harry Potter has become more mature looking, giving the movie higher hopes to attract an older audience. The movie is suppose to be more intense than the prequal, gearing towards a teenage audience. This movement to attract a different audience has raised expectations of the3 movie very much. Everyone who is interested in Harry Potter will deffidently love the new movie coming out.

analyzing on turning ten

I feel as if collin is trying to show how much people truely change as they grow up. He did this by telling the people about the different things he wanted to be as he grew up. For example, when he was four, he wanted to be a wizzard and by the age of seven, he wanted to be a soldier. I think that he captures the true undecisiveness of childhood. This poem is effective due to the examples used. I think this fits into my childhood perfectly because my mind changed all the time during childhood.

Essay Definitions

Beauty: Beauty is whatever you want it to be. Anybody can be beautiful because it's an opinionated statement.

Denial: Denial is just a difference of opinion between people of strong beliefs.

Evil: Evil is the need to harm others.

Definition essay questions

1. I think there were many fresh ideas in this essay. I thought that the extended definition is a good way to really explain what a word really means.
2. I didnt actually understand what allusions meant in this essay. Sorry.
3. I thought the author did a fantastic job at dividing the topics of what a Yankee is and what a Yankee is not. i felt he balanaced these two very well and I now understand what the definition of a "Yankee" is.
4."To most Americans, though, the word Yankee means either the pin-striped New York baseball team or the Northern forces in the American Civil War, the soldiers from north of the Mason-Dixon Line. In time, though, the idea that the word Yankee suggests has shrunk geographically until it is on the verge of extinction"

My spring break was filled with adventure, unfortuantly, i don't have the time in this class to tell you about any of them. Just know I had fun-filled spring break!

Modest proposal.

1. I think the thesis in this essay is, the government needs to really put their minds together and figure out what they can do to solve the problems in their country. I can't think of any other logical thesis's that would make sense for this essay.

2.The number of souls in this kingdom being usually reckoned one million and a half, of these I calculate there may be about two hundred thousand couple whose wives are breeders; from which number I subtract thirty thousand couples who are able to maintain their own children.

3. I figured out where this essay was going after paragraph six where the author called the women "breeders".

4. I think that this essay was attacking England for continuing to take recources and ect. for Ireland and the irish for not doing anything to help theirselves.

5. I didn't read any real proposals for solving the issue's in Ireland in the essay. I also think that the essay was partly satirical but also an attack at the isish for not doing something about their situation and letting it escalade to the point it has.

6. I think this last paragraph was showing the audience that he didn't really want to suggest what he did, but he did it for the sake of his homeland. When the author said "I have no children by which I can propose to get a single penny; the youngest being nine years old, and my wife past child-bearing. The End" I think he stated that to show that it's easy to suggest such a crazy way to solve issues when you don't get hit by the consiquences.

7. In this essay i did not spot any other ways to convince the audience that his idea was the best. I have participated in many jobs involving labor but i didn't resisit any of their demand for me because they were all reasonable. I think the agrier you are, the likely you are to resist an idea or purposal.

8. I would be the worst baby marketer because i would be laughing about how dumb the idea was the whole time while marketing. But if i had to, i wold deffidently give the baby meat a french name, they sound fancy. And of course baby meat would be processed to the point of being unreconizable. pork doesn't look like pig , does it?

I want a wife.

1. This essay has a very explicitly stated thesis.The thesis is stating the reasons why she would like to have a wife while poking fun at home much husbands expect their wife's to do.

2. When Brady repeats "I want a wife" in her essay, I really start to understand how women are treated by men in some marrages. I think the hypocracy shown in this essay is very true.

3. I don't think Brady would like a wife like this because Brady know's the way the wife would be treateed is unfair. I do think the ideal spouse exist somewhere in the world. I think Brady wrote this essay to mock the hyppocracy shown by men when trying to find the "perfect" wife.

4. Brady defines a "wife" as a slave by having them do whatever the husband tells them. Brady organizes all the services a wife provides in order of when they're needed by the husband. The the characterization of Brady's opinion of what a wife should be is spot on. I feel that men actually do expect all these things from their spouse. I think Brady wants the audience to respond in an appalled manner due to how much a wife does for their spouse.

5. Dear ms. Brady,
I really admire how you explained the unjust way wifes are treated. I think you did an amazing job describing and depicting every single little detail involved about the standards wifes have to live up to. You also do a good job at showing how quickly some men move on after they get tierd of their current wife. You made me feel like such a hypocrite just being a man, so I think you did an amazing job pursueding your audience.Thank you for exposing the hypocracy women face during marrage.

James thurber satire

My two favorite story's out of this selection were "The Bear" and "The Little Girl and The Wolf". The reason i liked these stories is because they both had a very surprising ending. Thurber's stories began sounding very similar to other stories i've heard, but ended up nothing like anything i've ever heard. I think James uses satire by showing what he thinks would really happen now in the present in those types of situations. For example, nobody i know would ever get tricked by a random wolf in the forest, and on top of that, everyone i know would shoot the wolf  if they had a gun, which is exactly how that situation went down in Jame's story.

fables

Moral of Aesops Fable: Gratitude is the sign of noble souls

This fable was about the golden rule. the slave treated the lion right and the lion treated the slave right.

Moral of Aesops Fable: It is easy to propose impossible remedies

This fable was about how it takes skill to come up with an idea that will actually work, while it's easy to come up with impossible proposals.



Moral of Aesops Fable: Be not hasty to envy the condition of others.

The moral of this fable is be happy with what you got because the grass is not always greener on the other side.



Moral of Aesops Fable: "Any excuse will serve a tyrant."

The moral of this story is that people will make up any excuse to get what they want.

The Fox and the Mosquitoes Fable An Aesop's Fable With a Moral

The moral of this story is that it's better to deal with yur problems you have now, rather than get rid of those problems and have a new set of them.

Moral of Aesops Fable: Better no rule than cruel rule

The moral of this story is that it is better to be without leadership than to be with bad leadership.



Moral of Aesops Fable: When you are in a man's power you must do as he bids you

The moral of this story is do what you are told by the people who have power over you.



Moral of Aesops Fable: Better humble security than gilded danger

The moral of this story is be happy with what you have, because even though it may not seem like it, there is always someone else who has it worse.



Moral of Aesops Fable: United we stand, divided we fall

The moral of this story is that people are always stronger in numbers.



Moral of Aesops Fable: There is always someone worse off than yourself

The moral of this story was that there is always someone in this world who has it worst than you. Be appreciative for what you've got.

sitting here looking extrememly stupid
I am trying to find the right words to
find my true love just like that small man, cupid
then out of the blue, i turn to spot you
you are not the most beautiful girl
but i can forsee that you are special
i really think i need you in my world
having you be mine is quite essential.

essay's

A Love Beyond Boundaries

I thought this essay was a beautifully written essay with amazing metaphors and good similies. This essay stood out because it talks about a topic not often spoke of, adoption. I thought the writer portrayed how amazing adoption really is and did it with style.

The Value of the Middle

I thought the essay was fantastic. i appreciate how the author spoke about the pressures of being in the middle of situation. She also did an amazing job at suggesting that you don't ever need to be one extremem or the other, being in the middle and having different points of view then others is a position thing.

To Be the Best Humans We Can Be

This was my favorite essay so far. The author did a great job at describing the scene and showing me (the audience) how he really felt and what he was going through. I thought that the essay gave out good standards for how to live out one's life.

Disrupting My Comfort Zone

This was an amazing article. I love how the article talked about facing challenges head on and to make the most out of the life we're given. The author described how he puts himself in hard situations so he can grow because he lives by the motto "if you're not growing, you're dying".

The artillery echoed throughout the valley after the attempt to assassinate the leader of the rebellion failed. Our army of faceless soldier's was no match for their brawny contraption which wiped out our entire force. the survivors had to endure excruciating torture encircling the vacuum that was our new lives. With a colossal bang, a bright luminance shined on us and we had been freed.
Written by kaleb murphy and kyle mcdermit.

SLAP! My face hits the ground causing huge rubling sound like an earthquake. I am sudden to get up, ready to quarrel. Just then, I realize that my wife had just slapped me. like a lightining bolt, im shocked, surprised that the love of my life would do something of such nature.

"let me show you what im talking about when I talk about the mac attack" I tell my buddy as we stroll through the streets of downtown columbus. "Im going to get this girl's number right here, just watch" As the very beautiful girl walks closer and closer, i prepare to bust out the mac attack. With each step , i feel an added sense of urgancy flowing though my body like an electric shock! I start to make my move as I seductively wink at the girl walking past. "ewwwwwwwwwwww" says the girl. All of my dreams cruched, with one long and idiodic sounding word.

As I wake up one morning, I feel a sudden urge to ball so hard. So I get out of my Squishy and soft temperpidic bed and make an amazing seafood breakfast for me and my family. My mother, which i refer to as jay, walks down and suddenly yells "that shit cray", and I respond with a yell "aint it jay?!" The look on her faced turned from a morning morn to an excited expression. My mother was so excited about the breakfast that she decided to buy me a mouse! I was filled with an exuberant feeling that over powered me. I had always wanted a pet mouse! I forgot about the delicous breakfast that was sitting on the table and rushed outside to ball with my mouse. He balled so hard mutha fuckas wanna find me. Soon everyone heard of my amazing mouse and gave me offers of up to a million dollars to sell it. But i was already too attached. We were the best of friends until suddenly out of the sky an eagle came and snatched my mouse from me! I ran after the eagle, chasing it through backyards and roads but eventually he went out of sight.  I looked around frantically as i realized i no longer knew where i was or how to get home.  I walked into the nearest building which was a chase bank to ask for directions.  After waiting in line it was finally my turn when there was a massive explosion followed by a man in a mask yelling " nobody move this is a robbery". 
     He was dressed in all black spandex, wich was obivously not a good look for the guy. he fired his gun into the air and shouted everybody get down on the ground! Get-get-down on the ground! everyone did just what he said and got down on the ground, that is everyone besides me! I wasnt a coward I i sure as heck wasnt about to get my fancey new cowboy outfitt dirty! so that man said what is it young whiper-snapper? you want to frezze or get down on the ground? and I didnt so he through sand on me
 He had a spain accent.
 He had a spain accent. He even spelled of pineapples. As we walked pass me.  He walked pass everybody and said put all cellphone pagers and and elvertonic devise in this bag. My buzzed. I think he heard it because he walked over to me "put it in the bag" he said. I out my phone in the bag and he walked away.

senior comp, its a boy!

When I walked into that crowded entryway, I got some very weird looks and quite a few raised eyebrows.

As I struggled carrying the fake baby into the overpacked entryway, i got some scary stares that pierced my heart, making me feel akward.

My friends came over, and we all piled into the car.

My friends are all frantically jumping into the car, piling ontop of each other like little kids fighting for car space.

These people were giving me rude looks and forming judgments about me because they thought I was a teenage mom

These people are giving me piercing looks of hate with a mixture of dissapointments as I carry the plastic eyebrow raising doll. I recieve looks of judgement as if I just was committed of a horrible crime.

1. What are the strengths of your partner’s essay? Why?
My partner's essay had many moments that were very descriptive.

2. What areas could use improvements? In other words, what suggestions can you give

your partner that will help his/her paper improve?

His sentences were mixed up at times, but i generally understood what he was saying.

3. What is your favorite literary device used in your partner’s essay?
I enjoyed the metaphors in my partners essay.
4. What is the part of the paper that stands out as the most "catchy" or important?
The most catchy part about my partners essay was how he described the scence with the dam and how how descriptive he was when talking about his fishing expirence.

Senior comp narrative answers

• Does my narrative involve the reader? Yes, my narrative involves the reader. I tried to make as many similies that help the readers really understand what i was seeing at the time.
• relates events in sequence? Yes, my story stays in order from the beginning to the end. i always always try to set up an image in the readers head of where i am at.
• includes detailed observations of people, places, and events? My story includes some detail about people, places and events.
• presents important changes, contrasts, or conflicts and creates tension? In my narrative, i try to create contrasts, and conflicts with me during the battle and the food fight at Denny's.
•  is told from a point of view--usually the author's point of view? My story is diffidently told from my point of view.
• focuses on connection between past events, people, or places and the present? My narrative connects the past and present together because at the end, it shows a lesson i learned throughout the process the battle.
• makes a point, communicates a main idea or dominant impression? The narrative doesn't really communicate a main idea, it's just a time in my life enjoyed instead of a life lesson.

hellen keller blog

1. What did you think of this narrative?
I thought the narrative was very touching heart-warming. While reading the narrative, I felt the joy Helen felt when she learned new words.
2. What was most interesting or engaging about it?
The most interesting thing about the poem was the detail. The deatil really made me imagine what it was like for Helen sitting out on her front porch waiting for something exciting to happen.
3. What surprised you?
What surprised me about this poem was how Helen learned the names for different objects, like dolls. I was also surprised with the imagery in the poem.
4. Did this change your outlook on Helen Keller at all? Why or why not?
Yes, my outlook changed after reading this poem. I now understand Helen Kellers tragidy a little bit more, forcing me to feel more empathetic.
5. Copy and paste three examples of vivid detail and imagery that helped enhance the story
1. The afternoon sun penetrated the mass of honeysuckle that covered the porch, and fell on my upturned face.
2.Anger and bitterness had preyed upon me continually for weeks and a deep languor had succeeded this passionate struggle.
3.Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in, and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen?
6. How can a narrative be more engaging than something like a biography? Why is it important to get someone's personal perspective?
I think a narrative is more engaging than a biography because when i read a narrative, I can feel their point of view and see what they were seeing, which gives me a better understanding of the situation. I think it's important to get someone's personal perspective because when you understand how they saw the situation, only then can you really understand the situation.
7. Make a bulltted lists of some things you could write a narrative about

• playing in a championship game.
• competing in a competition.
• first time meeting someone.
• learning how to surf

senior comp survey

Do you enjoy English classes?  Why or why not?

Yes, I enjoy english class because of the interesting activities and i enjoy writing.

What type of writing do you enjoy? 

I enjoy lists, letters, and jokes

What types of things do you like to read?

I like to read song lyrics, comic strips, and jokes.

I am from broken boom boxes and hundreads of CDs.
Unforgiving dance floors that leave bruises in places I wasn't even dancing on.
I am from torn up Puma's and soaked Adidas sweat shirts.

I am from frozen dinners taken to the bedroom quitely to be sure not to wake up mom,
and charcoaled chicken on holidays due to mom's bad cooking.
I am from "whatever you take, you eat!"
regardless of how bad it tastes.

I am from falling countless hours on the blacktop trying to learn how to crossover.
From forcing my mom to watch every Boston Celtics game.
I am from dedication and committment towards self progress.
From where good isn't good enough.

I am from a single mother sturggling to pay bills,
to me having a job, now paying bills
i am from learning about responsibilty to finally being responsible.

I am from reality.