Fall Semester Reflection

1. Sadly, not really. The thought of someone being able to see your work at any time really makes you fear that you made an mistake and people are gonna look down on for your stupidity.

2. A course with an blog changes a class because you could get feedback almost immediately. We would probably go back to thinking in 1 dimension on our class work is impacted on us. 

3. It makes me spell check many times, and puts pressure on me to post stuff that ca't not be bias. Not really different than the way they are now.

4. Yes because now we can take a classroom and shrink it down to the size of a phone and take it where ever we see fit.

5. You are your own teacher and student, ours is merely a guide for us to explore our age of technology and spread our knowledge through it. 

6. They are chances or opportunities, but the way you go to get them may be your downfall.

7. I don't get responses on my blog.

Final Presentation

http://www.mindmeister.com/236509617

http://youtu.be/dxX66vLSZoQ

here's a interesting way to watch the debate

He revealing doubt, that something seems unreal in the first stanzas. The second he expresses regret in the line "while I weep-while I weep!" All I'm getting is he has doubt and regret to a person he has feelings for.  That he doesn't feel it is real when the line A dream in a dream.

Vocab #6

Adroit: Skillful and adept under pressing conditions. Hostage negotiators must be adroit at their job.

Amicable: Characterized by or showing friendliness; friendly. Adults are amicable to small children.

Averse: Having a feeling of great distaste or aversion. Hitler was averse towards the Jews.

Belligerent: Inclined or eager to fight, hostile or aggressive. People in UFC are belligerent.

Benevolent: Characterized by or suggestive of benevolence; kindly. The man was benevolent to his brother.

Cursory: Hastily and superficially done; Not throughout. Must assignments are in the work of cursory.

Duplicity: Deliberate deceptiveness in behavior or speech; double dealing. Russia is know for doing duplicity dealing.

Extol: To praise highly; laud; eulogize. The people extol the famous.

Feasible: Capable of being done, effected, or accomplished. A back flip is feasible task though a difficult one. 

Grimace:  A facial expression, often ugly or contorted, that indicates disapproval, pain. The man had a grimace face while looking at the trouble maker.


Holocaust:  A great or complete devastation or destruction, especially by fire. There was so much death is was like a second holocaust.
 
Impervious: Not permitting penetration or passage; impenetrable, incapable of being injured or impaired. The titanic was thought to be a impervious structure.

Impetus: A moving force; impulse; stimulus. The president speech was impetus.


Jeopardy: Hazard or risk of or exposure to loss, harm, death, or injury. The dream home was in jeopardy.



 Meticulous: Taking or showing extreme care about minute details;precise; thorough. The art of composing can be meticulous.


 Nostalgia: A wistful desire to return in thought or in fact to a formertime in one's life, to one's home or homeland, or to one's family and friends; a sentimental yearning for the happiness of a former place or time. Soldiers in Irag are always nostalgia.


 Quintessence: The pure and concentrated essence of a Substance. People want to know what is the quintessence of chocolate is.


 retrogress: To go backward into an earlier and usually worse condition: I had a cold but it retrogress into the flu. 


 scrutinize: To examine in detail with careful or critical attention. The critic scrutinize the chef recipe.

tepid: Moderately warm; Lukewarm. The gulf of Mexico is tepid.

my choice of novel is The sum of all fears by Tom Clancy and yes I have read that 957 page book.

Vocab #5

 allude:  to refer casually or indirectly; to contain a casual or indirect reference. The man kept alluding the police. 

clairvoyant:  having or claiming to have the power of seeing objects oractions beyond the range of natural vision. The US in the 1800's was clairvoyant about the land in the west. 

 conclusive: serving to settle or decide a question; decisive; convincing. The professors work on effects of gravity was conclusive to the others.

 disreputable:  not reputable; having a bad reputation; discreditable; dishonorable. People think the pit bull is a disreputable dog.

 endemic: natural to or characteristic of a specific people or place;native; indigenous . The cheetah has a endemic for being fast.

exemplary:  worthy of imitation; commendable. Steven Hawkins is exemplary.

 fathom:  a unit of length equal to six feet (1.8 meters): used chieflyin nautical measurements. Rock one fathom up ahead captain.

 guile: insidious cunning in attaining a goal; crafty or artful deception.The government runs in a guile manner.

 integrity: adherence to moral and ethical principles; soundness of moral character; honesty. The person who becomes president must have great integrity.

 itinerary: a detailed plan for a journey, ,especially  a list of places to visit; plan of travel. A traveler must have a itinerary plan on his trip. 

misconstrue: to misunderstand the meaning of; take in a wrong sense;misinterpret.  Some people may think the the right to bear arms is misconstrue.

obnoxious: highly objectionable or offensive; odious: obnoxious behavior. My sister is very obnoxious. 

 placate: to appease or pacify, especially by concessions or conciliatory gestures: to placate an outraged citizenry. 

 placid: pleasantly calm or peaceful; unruffled; tranquil; serenely quiet or undisturbed: placid waters. The mood in the house was placid.

 plagiarism: an act or instance of using or closely imitating the language and thoughts of another author withoutauthorization and the representation of that author's work as one's own, as by not crediting the original author: I just plagiarize by copying the definition.   

 potent: powerful; mighty: a potent fighting force. The c02 is potent to us.

 pretext: something that is put forward to conceal a true purpose or object; an ostensible reason; excuse. The authors purpose is in the pretext. 

 protrude: to project. Sorry I don't wish to protrude but you don't know what you are talking about.

 stark: extremely simple or severe. The child;s design was Starkey.

 superficial: being at, on, or near the surface. His his work work on the project was superficial.

Recreate assignment

I'm trying to recreate by choosing music that fits the poem.

1. The poem is the laughing Heart by Charles Bukowski.
2. Because the corporation represents darkness in the poem.
3.Yes because the authors back story has him coming to america and at first not doing well and went into a ten year heavy drinking phase. But he did publish his first book at the age of 24 then poetry at 35. He never gave up.
4. At first poem from go forth commercial then I type in the title of the video and just put poem at the in and led me to the laughing heart, and I went to poets.org to get the back story of the author.

your life is your life
don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.
be on the watch.
there are ways out.
there is a light somewhere.
it may not be much light but
it beats the darkness.
be on the watch.
the gods will offer you chances.
know them.
take them.
you can’t beat death but
you can beat death in life, sometimes.
and the more often you learn to do it,
the more light there will be.
your life is your life.
know it while you have it.
you are marvelous
the gods wait to delight
in you.

Charles Bukowski

Vocab #3

• Encomium: Warm or glowing praise. Many Americans gave the president encomium for getting Osama bin Laden.

• Coherent: Sticking together. That group is really coherent.

• Belabor: To attack with blows. To go over repeatedly or for a long time. They took a wheel and belabored it on a spin test.
• Eschew: To avoid, shun. The woman kept eschewing the man who was following her.
• Acquisitive: Characterized by a strong desire to gain or posses. The athlete was acquisitive about his dream to go to the top.
• Emulate: To strike to equal or excel through imitation. The brother emulated his older brother.
• Arrogate: To claim, take, or assume for one self without right. Britain arrogated a colony in Africa.
• Banal: Lacking freshness or originality; hackneyed. Green day is a banal band.
• Excoriation: To tear or wear off the skin off. Farmers excoriate the skins of deer.
• Congeal: To solidify, as by freezing. Water is a congeal at low temperatures.
• Carping: Nagging critical or complaining. The wife loves to carp the husband.
• Substantiate: To support with proof or evidence. The case was only a substantiate one.
• Temporize: To compromise or act evasively on order to gain time, and argument. The woman temporize the agent.
• Largesse: Liberality in giving, when attended by condescension. Thanks giving is a largesse holiday.
• Tenable: Capable of being defended or sustained. The white house is tenable.
• Insatiable: Incapable of being satiated, never satisfied. Rich people are insatiable.
• Reconnaissance: An inspection or exploration of an area. The reconnaissance team came back from Europe.
• Germane: Having significant bearing upon a point of hand. A captain must be germane about his heading.
• Ramify: To divide into or cause to expand in branches or branch like root. A seed might ramify into a tree.
• Intransigent: Refusing to moderate any extreme position. The U.S.S.R. was intransigent before it collapse.
• Taciturn: Uncommunicative. A man dream girl is taciturn.
• Invidious: Tending to rouse ill will, animosity, or resentment.The man over there is invidious towards your family. 

AHA! moment was when we talk about the differences in signs and symbols