Spring Break HW 3

I read the article What Really Happened to the Titanic? on scholastic.com. The R.M.S. Titanic was the prized ship that crashed on it's way to New York and many were killed. The article brang up a scientific theory on how it exactly came to sink, which went off the usual theory of how the ship hit the iceberg. It brang up a theory that involved illusions and water columns of pressure. I agree with some aspects of this article and i don't agree with others.

I agree with the aspect of the article that helped cause the sinking called thermal inversion. "The Titanic, he says, sailed from warm Gulf Stream waters into the freezing Labrador Current. There, the air column was cooling from the bottom up, creating layers of cold air below layers of warmer air." (What Really Happened to the Titanic, by Jennifer Walters, scholastic.com) This often makes a haze which means they couldn't have really have saw the iceberg before it was to late.


I disagree with the aspect that there was another ship and with the thermal inversion saw a smaller ship, also when the ship sent Morse lamp they couldn't see it. In other information it was shown that it would take many hours for another ship to come help. It seems odd that just because the ship was not huge the other ship wouldn't even try to save anyone. In other information they often say that the ship Californian came later and didn't see them then. This aspects makes me doubt this theory.


There will always be other theories about the famous sinking. Many will say they hit an iceberg, others may say other things like there was a mirage. But no doubt the prized R.M.S. Titanic sunk killing 100's of men, women and children, unprepared with now enough life boats. We will always remember the great tragedy and the untimely deaths to the  civilians aboard. Through all the theories about the sinking that will always be a fact.

spring break HW 2

1.) What the student did wrong is that he/she needed to either put a star after that quote and then at the end of their post say the URL or when using the quote say from which  website and article directly into your post like this:  http://www.vangoghgallery.com/painting/starryindex.html from he  article "A Brief Understanding of the Starry Night Paintings". Then it would give full credit to the website and it's article and if it has an author so it wouldn't be plagiarism. 


2.) Vangough's painting Starry Night has plenty of emotions and visual elegance like "There is a peaceful essence flowing from the structures. Perhaps the cool dark colors and the fiery windows spark memories of our own warm childhood years filled with imagination of what exists in the night and dark starry skies."  (http://www.vangoghgallery.com/painting/starryindex.html

Title of article: "A Brief Understanding of the Starry Night Paintings")

3.) 3 ways to avoid plagiarism is... 1.) Put the orgin of the quote before or after the quote itself. 2.) Have a cited sources page at the end of the post. 3.) Put a number or symbol next to the quote and later on put the orgin of the quote in the post. BUT MOST OF ALL ALWAYS SOMEWAY GIVE THE WEBSITE, ARTICLE, BOOK OR PERSON CREDIT!

Spring Break HW 1

I liked Diana's post on "Much a do about nothing" and Josh's poem "What is America".

First i want to talk about Josh's poem. Reading this was a privilege. When i drove down south this spring break, in states like South Carolina and Georgia i saw bumper stickers and billboards plastered with phrases like "TAKE BACK AMERICA" and "AMERICA LAND OF THE BRAVE AND FREE", yes they were obnoxious boasting about how "were the best" but his poem shows the cold and painful truth about our sugar coated nation. Wile driving through the south i passed Trayvon Martin's home town which brought me a chill down my spine. For example a young boy can be murdered for basically being black and yet the racist murderer isn't charged for it for over a month, that is are so called fair justice system. Or like Josh brings up the 13 million Americans who can't find work. There will always be problems, we will always have to struggle but we have to keep trying. Anyway his poem bang tears to my eyes, it was written in a way that is hard to describe so the best way i can is to say in a perfect structure with simple yet meaningful words, so perfectly put together it's positively divine.

I liked Diana's post very much. I liked how she kept it simple only using the details f the performance she needed to, saying what she liked, what she did not, her favorite characters and things like that. But she did elaborate very well using the details she needed to use from the play. Very nice short and sweet.

Sometimes i feel like i put too much summary and not enough about the actual context in the article, book or any type of text. I also like to elaborate, but sometimes i admit i go over board, now i understand that you have to keep it simple. Elaborating with too much summary or unnecessary dialogue can damage your post even if you have a good idea.

Much Ado About Nothing.

Overall i liked it. It was a Shakespeare comedy. Instead of putting it in 15th century they made the setting in the end of world war 1 and the beginning of the roaring 20's. With it they had plenty of live jazz and costumes like suits and fedoras and Short dresses and head bands. The main characters were Beatrice a feisty independent girl, Benedict a young truthful man, Claudio a rude soldier, Hero a young sweet girl and more. The plot was confusing there were love triangles, deaths, betrayal and self discovery. The props could of used some work, all they had were 3 Tables and 3 chairs, a drink closet and a phonograph. I had absolutely no idea where they were. A house? a bar? what. But they used the props well and the space. The general acting was good, they read the lines very well and clear.

Romeo and Juliet response

My favorite character has to be Mercutio. He is a fun loving and very witty and sarcastic kind of guy. The best friend of Romeo and yet quite opposite to him. Romeo is a serious and dramatic poetic lover like on page 17 act 1 scene 1 his father says: "Many a morning hath he been seen,with tears augmenting the fresh morning's dew, adding to clouds more clouds with deep sighs". But on the other side Mercutio says to romeo on page 43 act 2 scene 4: "if love be rough with love! Prick love for pricking and beat love down."(He uses oxymoron because people don't normally put the words beating with rough) and things like: "Nay gentle Romeo we must have you dance." He constantly uses puns and battles with his wits. i really deeply admire Mercutio and his sense of humor.

I feel like this is a very important line in the play: "if love be rough with love! Prick love for pricking and beat love down." Means that you can't let love get you down you have to man up and move on, otherwise you won't end up well. In modern times this still applys, people who sit on the couch eating ice cream and crying over break ups need to just move on and forget.

Creative writing:
I decided to write a small scene or dialogue.
MERCUTIO: Now Romeo, many a time have you cried over your Rosaline, and thou has explained that your love will not be hit with cupids arrows many a time. You most forget and move on.

ROMEO: I can not, it's not possible, she was an angle fallen from heaven and endowed with god's gift of beauty, she will always be hard to forget, she will never be forgotten.

MERCUTIO: The sun has risen in the east and set in the west many times and thous sighs still become deeper and thous cries have become louder until thy point where you have become mad with sorrow and love. If thy can make i may make this any clearer you must spread your wings and fly away from Rosaline. You must forget and you must move on.

ROMEO: I suppose you are right my friend. There are many beauties in Verona, Just because i do not have Rosaline's love doesn't mean i can never love.

Sonnet

Isabelle Sturges 807

“The Unfolded Future”

As I sew the quilt my fingers tremble

But the quilt has something to resemble.

My future, my entire existence

Unfolded, unhinged I take the distance.

Sewn together by a single thin thread

It is easily broken which I dread.

And it is so very fragile like glass

And by one mistake, one small mistake CRASH.

I fear what comes next, ringing my hands,

I claw to the top, which only expands

To higher, taller more challenging heights,

In this sadistic game we have to rights.

When I get older what do I desire?

Just to have fun before I expire.

Harlem responce

Harlem by Langston Hughes

What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?

This was my favorite poem we read. For a while now Langston Hughes has been my favorite poet, ever since last years poetry study. I used to honestly hate poetry, every year in school we would have a study and read some stupid poem and talk about what it meant and stuff. But since last year i had to go beyond the poems my teachers had spoon fed me and venture in to  poetry. Along the way i did read some terrible poems and then i found the beautiful ones. The ones that yelled out to me the got the gears in my brain moving, that made me think about all day and stay up all night. And then there was Langston... his words made me tear up (no joke) they made me angry,they made me somber they made me giddy. And for the first time since kindergarten Poetry made me feel something.

his words are mesmerizing in a way for a poem about dream the words are dreamy and sort of sleepy and heavy. They roll of your tongue. This is not one of his louder poems but a quiet one. I really like the first sentence's alliteration. The poem roams and wanders from one word to the next. The poem has a clear topic but i goes from one question to the next sort of making you wonder and question.