Reviews

The reviewer of the watchmen movie strongly disliked that film.  He thought the movie was very lenghtly and dragged on for far to long.  He thought there were far to many characters which made it impossiable to focus on one main story line.  he felt that the film attempt at polictal satire was horriable and left understanded.  He quoted his opinion "who is buff, buck naked, and blue, like a porn star left overnight in a meat locker"

The reviewer of syriana was greatly intrested in the oil industry. Also he stated that this was a "reform and revenge, bribery and betrayal industry".  I think this reviewer attempt to make the movie come to life by doing this project is a helpful idea.  He thought the film had a easy story line to follow with well known actors to help you follow it.  His final opinons on the movie were "I think "Syriana" is a great film. I am unable to make my reasons clear without resorting to meaningless generalizations"

The reviwer of When Harry Meets Scary thought the film was very slugish and slow.  This film is very scary and has a scene of a died cat hanging in a alley. He thought that was bad but it gets scary "Later, they're chased through the Forbidden Forest by an army of giant spiders."  He thinks that this movie is vey scary but a very good so its a must see.

Turning Ten

Billy is talking about growing up and how when we were kids that we could do anything because we believed in our minds but as you grow older that it fades away and you have to become more serious about stuff. He captures his childhood by describing specific events such as "I could make myself invisibleby drinking a glass of milk a certain way." then the process of growing up he describes as sad and dark such as "This is the beginning of sadness, It seems only yesterday I used to believe
there was nothing under my skin but light.If you cut me I could shine.But now when I fall upon the sidewalks of life,I skin my knees. I bleed." this fits into my own life because growing up you have to worry about stuff that as kids you never had to care about like jobs money and bills. I feel the same sadness that he is desbring because as a kid i could go out for hours on end and imagine stuff but now i have work for hours on end.

Defintion essay questions part 2

1.The true meaning of beatuty is all a marketing scheme by the retailers trying to sell hopes and dreams into young womens minds
2.The true meaning of denial is socail rejection .

defintion essay questions

1. there are some fresh or new ideas in this essay such as "Perhaps the most famous Yankee of all (no offense to the musical Damn Yankees! intended) has star billing in Mark Twain's novel Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. "
2. the techiques of this essay stipulative and extended ones because the essay is really long and also very informing and general.

Modest Proposal

1.      The real thesis is that he thinks that England should treat Ireland better because the lives of the Irish people would be better off being killed.

2.      I apprehend there cannot be so many, under the present distresses of the kingdom; but this being granted, there will remain an hundred and seventy thousand breeders. I again subtract fifty thousand for those women who miscarry, or whose children die by accident or disease within the year. There only remain one hundred and twenty thousand children of poor parents.

3.       The reader finds out this is an ironic essay at the end of the last paragraph.

4.       The attacks are directed to Englanders and not only are they to blame but the Irish are to blame also because they need to solve some of their own problems.

5.       No it does not just function as a satirical attack. Yes swift presents logical proposals that the end of the paper

6.       The last paragraph of this paper is to show that he doesn’t want to eat babies but there is a real problem in Ireland that he is bring attention to.

Wife

1. I think the thesis is implied in the writing and I think the author is poking fun at how much the wife does and who wouldnt want a wife if they did this much. Showing all the work the wife has to do around the house and all of her wife duties.

2. The effect of the saying " I want a wife" is that it like beats into your head that wives do all this stuff and who wouldnt want one.

3. Brady doesnt actually want a wife like this but she is poking fun at like what men think a perfect wife is and listing all duties and desires and things they are responiable for in the household and family with the husband and kids. No this ideal wife doesnt exist because it would be impossiable to all this stuff.

4. Brady charcterizes the wife in listing things or responbiles in several paragraphs and she is over dramizing the whole thing to show how some wives are slaves to their husbands and to bring attention to wives all over and say look how much we are doing for them they should treat us with alot more respect and help with the duties around the house so you and our wife can relax together.

5. Dear Judy Brady,
                                 I'm writing in respone to your "Why I Want a Wife" paper that you wrote was very intresting and brought up a good topic. You did a fanstic job of getting your point across about how much a wife does for her husband and family even though the point of your message is implied in the writing most people that read this paper get it. The repeating of saying why I want a wife was annoying but effective at the same time it kinda was like that mean't this is want a wife does. Men who read this and treat their wives like slaves would see your point and hopefully treat their wives way better than they have before.
Sincerely,
Brandon Carver

James Thurber

I like the one titled the little girl and the wolf this story made fun of the classic little red riding hood. Because the little girl was traveling to her grand mother’s house with a food basket just like in little red riding hood. The most surprising part to this story was the ending when the little girl pulled out an automatic and shot the wolf died I think it was funny how it ended and the moral was “It is not so easy to fool little girls nowadays as it used to be” which is funny and that’s why I liked this one the best.

My second favorite was The Princess And The Tin Box; A Fable For Our Time this was also a very funny fairy tale and the reason I liked this one was because it shows that human nature can be tricky and he lead us down a path which was wrong and because the irony of the story we all thought that the princess was going to pick the tin box but she picked the most expensive item instead that why its funny. The moral was “All those who thought the princess was going to select the tin box filled with worthless stones instead of one of the other gifts will kindly stay after class and write one hundred times on the blackboard "I would rather have a hunk of aluminum silicate than a diamond necklace."’ Which is funny because we all thought that was going to happen until he tricked us at the ending.

Love Sonnet

Lover's day is here hearts are glowing
From their paramour's chocolates and gift
The weather is very cold and snowing
Hot coca warms, keeps the heart a drift
Cuddling while watching the notebook
I love you whispered out soundlessly
Responed with a soft kiss and cookbook
We talked and kissed so boundlessly
She wrapped around me with a clasped
Her heart beating very

fables

The Boys and the frogs are about boys throw rocks at frogs for a game which kills many of the frogs. Moral of the story is what we do in sport often makes great trouble for others.

The Horse, Hunter and stag. The horse wants to conquer the stag so he asks for the hunters help but has to agree to certain conditions so the horse does and they conquer the stag but then the hunter keeps the horse so the horse is conquered. Moral of the story is If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs

The Lion and the Mouse is about a lion who catches a mouse and might eat him but the mouse says he will help the lion out someway somehow so the lion lets him go. After the lion gets in a trap and tied up and the mouse sees the ropes and bites away at them and frees the lion. Moral of the story is little friends may prove great friends.

The man and the woods is about a man going into a forest to ask the trees for a branch each and the trees agreed to this because they were strong and healthy so they give him a branch then he takes all that wood and makes a brand new axe head to cut down the whole tree. The moral is then the Trees saw how foolish they had been in giving their enemy the means of destroying themselves.

The man and his two wives are about a middle aged man has two wives and one is older than he and the other is younger than him so he starts to have gray hairs and his older wife likes it because she gets mistaken for his mom so she pucks out a black hair in the morning and he sees his younger wife at night and she pucks out the greys. The moral of the story is yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield.

The Milkmaid and Her Pail is about Patty who is carry milk down to the market is debating what she will do with the money she will get from the sale of the milk she decides that she will buy chicken which will lay eggs then sale the eggs to buy new clothes and make a girl jealous and she sees that girl flips her head and slips all the milk. The moral of the story is do not count your chickens before they are hatched

The Fox and Mosquitos is about a fox who gets his tail stuck in a brush and the mosquitos see that and go feast on the fox and a hedgehog comes up and asks the fox if he wants him to make the mosquitos go away he says no because more will come with a fresh hunger.

The fishermen and the little fish is about a fisher who catches fish for his living catches a small single fish for the entire days work and the little fish begs and tells the fisherman that he is not fully grown and to spare his life and he will come back and be a great fish fit for the table of the rich but the fisher doesn’t take his bride. The moral of the story is do not forego a certain gain for an uncertain profit.

The wolf and the horse is about a wolf coming out of a field of oats meets with a horse and tells the horse he should go into the field because the wolf had left great oats for the horse and the horse thinks it’s a trick and doesn’t go to the field. The moral of the story is men of evil reputation, when they perform a good deed, fail to get credit for it.

Little Red Story

Once upon a time,
In a land far away from ours
There lived a grandma and her sweet grand daughter
But there was a deep dark forrest between there houses

One day Little red was going to take a trip to her grandma's
But before she has got there a Wolf had a great idea
What if he dressed up as Little red so he did
He arrived at the grandmas house and Brutaly tore her apart

As he was doing that little red walked in
She transformed into a werewolf and ate the wolf eating her grandma
Little red was happy to save her grandmother and her grandma made her cookies
and they lived happily ever after.

fairly tale poem

1. a) the mouse helps me out of the cage is nice and herioc but the twist could be after the mouse helps him the lion eats the mouse,

2. These lady needs to stop petting me before I eat her alive but if she scathes my tail it would help out alot.

3. I wish I was a mymaid to if i was I could spend else time with you.

4. Only if I was as big as that huge cricket because I would work so hard. the grasshopper stole all of the ants food and the ants starved.

5.I wish I could live with my nice mother and have nice clothes and not have to work all day.Cinderella doesnt come back before midnight and the step momther catches her.

6. The wolf is in a very nice costume as Little red riding hood and eats the grandma and then Little Red herself was a wolf and eats the other wolf.

7.Allison never fells into wonderland and it goes through her life as and adlut and meets elf played by will ferrell.

8.The giant never see the tiny little people and just steps on them so he doesnt get tied down.

9. The princeness jumps on the bed and the pea turns into a bean stalk and takes her all the way up in the air.

10.Snow white eats part of the apple and turns into one of the workers so she trys to tell grumpy what had happened to her and he just says beat it man.

11.

Reflections

    The first essay was a touching one about baseball. I dont play the sport but I could relate to the terms and knowledge of it. the essay gave off the main idea quickly which was to live in the moment and dont get caught up in planning for your future.

    The second essay was not as direct as the first one this one was titled The Power of Games.  This essay was well written and inspiring it makes you want to go pick up a deck of cards and start playing. The writer talks about how stressful and depressing life is and then explains how this simple card game gave her and her husband fun and time to smile and just be happy.

    The third essay was one that I can relate to the most out of all three so far because it was about family and traditions they have as a family. The essay was titled Pots and Pans but the essay didnt have much to do with the pots and pans was just one of the tradition they talked about wth their family. Family means the most to this writer and it also means the most to me.

    The final essay


   

Story of pictionary

BAM!!! All of a sudden the alarm in the prison had sounded and the luminance of the red flashing light warned everybody that there was a jailbreak. The warden check the vacuum jails cells and was frightened that the colossus prisoner has escaped from his jail. They set out to catch prisoners while listening to their favorite ballad. They suddenly cam across a deuce of their prisoners because they couldn’t get far with broken tibia’s, but there still were a lot of prisoners on the run the warden told me “to break out the big artillery” so I went into the gun storage area and picked up this large contraption its time to get down to business said the brawny guard next to me I response with a excruciation grunt. We  found our colossus prisoner he was foamy at the mouth so we decided to assassinate with the beak of a bird.

action words

Suddenly from the distance a sound came out of no where I asked myself what it could be. I looked around the classroom and I saw someone tapping their foot the repeated sound drove me crazy with in 10 seconds I was going to get up flip my desk and tell him to stop doing that Ludacris behavior. After he stopped tapping my ears thanked me and they were relieved from that annoying sound that nobody likes to hear.

BOOM! The slap came out of no where I asked why did I receive such a punishment from a simple joke? My intentions were oh so clear but she took it the wrong way and gave me a sudden surprise my face red from the hit and my friends all shouting “ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh” as loud as they can to make sure that everybody seen that I just got slapped was outrageous then I settled down and apologized for making a outlandish comment.

switching seats

Once upon a time under the green Christmas tree with lights so brightly shining out of no where a tiny animal moved about it was a tiny mouse the mouse shuffled through some of the presents and came across a very squishy bosu ball. The mouse flew through the air landing onto the kitchen table. The mouse not knowing how he got there was interested in the cold maple wood of the table and some left over crumbs for the huge Christmas feast. The mouse was so happy to be eating anything at all that when he seen the cheese cubes were left out he needed a way to get onto the kitchen counters but how he told to himself. The mouse had a profound idea that if he  launch himself off of the bosu ball again but how will I get down.  If only I were an eagle, thought the mouse.  He looked around, searching for any kind of rope or ramp that he could slide down.  Suddenly he spotted a towel that was hanging from the sink counter that traveled all the way to the floor.  The mouse felt so exuberant, having found a way down to the floor.  He bounded over to the kitchen sink, only to find out that the only way to the towel was to travel through the sink.  There was only one problem.  The sink was full of water and he couldn’t swim. suddenly kabooom!!!! The mouse activated the disposal  and tried to franticly swim away from the whirlpool that was created in the sink.  At last the mouse survived the almost devastating event, and was safely in the empty sink. 

                After the mouse’s near death experience with the sink, he decided that to reassure he didn’t ever get stuck in the sink again, he was going to become a sand cowboy. He only had one problem, how he was going to break the news to his little mouse family.  As the mouse climbed down off the sink, he stated to imagine ways he could tell his family. Before he knew it, he arrived at his mouse crib. Slamming the door open, the mouse yelled “Im going to be a sand cowboy!”. His kids responded, “Dad! You’re going to ball so hard, mother Fu* ****s are goin to find you!” The dad mouse responded with”that shit crayyy”

                Suddenly a Spanish mouse from Spain burst through the door killing all the mice with a pineapple. The families relative came to the house to help clean up when they got killed

Empathy

• My stroy has a little bit of setup times and actual place but couls work on that more need spefic time
• I did recall some feelings and sights and sounds but I did not use tastes.
•  I did give actual names of all the people in my story and all the places I gave information on but not the spefic place.
•  My story needs some more conflict there is a little bit and it creates tenison at the end of the story. I did grow from this story added to my moral base because of the story
• The story is told from the author's point of view.
• My story is revelant to today because it built my some of my moral standards on where I am today , It will still be revelant in the future because i will never lose my morals so it will always be revelant.

Helen Keller

1. What did you think of this narrative?

 I thought the narrative was very well written with lots of sensory details.

2. What was most interesting or engaging about it?

The most interesting part was when she fought with her teacher about what a mug and water is because it showed that she was able to argue and make a point.

3. What surprised you?

The moment when she realized that the barriers can be taken down and she realize who was closet to her meaning her mother father and teacher was the most surprising.

4. Did this change your outlook on Helen Keller at all? Why or why not?

Yes this changes my outlook on Helen Keller because I thought she was just a mad little kid but this told me different and  that she was mad because she lost her vision and then Ann Sullivan came and helped her though her problems.

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. My fingers lingered almost unconsciously on the familiar leaves and blossoms which had just come forth to greet the sweet southern spring.

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?

Its important to get the personal perspective because then the narrative is more meaningful and if the writer includes tons off sensory details and some background information will make a great narrative.

7. Make a bulleted lists of some things you could write a narrative about

·         Trip to Canada where I fell off boat

·         Football when I broke my leg

·         Creek trip into the woods getting lost

·         Trip to Michigan with my grandparents

where i'm from

 I’m from the Amish the thoughts of following a horse and buggy with that bright orange triangle embedded in my mind.
I’m from off brand toys and hand me down clothes. Candle light dinner because the power was off.
 I’m from the moving truck that I always called home. The sound of the dolly moving up and down the silver bumpy ramp.
I’m from long nights with no sleep listening to my parents fight and complain.

I’m from the hot wheels cars and boy scouts. Building ramps out of sheets connecting them to the dresser.
I’m from the red and white poke ball. Long times spent next to my brother and our clear purple Gameboy colors.
I’m from the dark and mysterious forest. Where hide and go seek games go from minutes into hours.
I’m from the small winding murky water and tiny rocks that were use to stop up the creek and make a dam with my best friend.

I’m from the two hands that it requires to tag a player down. One day during practice Archie griffin came and talked to the our WYB team
I’m from mans best friend who was always be my side. My dog would always bark at my mom or dad when they gave me spankings.
I’m from bright red sunburn and crystal clear water and the smell of chlorine. After hours spent at the pool I got blisters and extremely red and went to the hospital with sun poising.
These things make me the person who I am and I am me.

Questions

1. I do not enjoy english class because i dont not enjoy reading and grammar.
2. Short story, Notes to friends, Jokes.
3. Comic Strips, Magazines, News paper.
4. there are no assignments that i really despise.
5. A
6. Yes, I enjoy classroom discussions because you get to express your opinons and thoughts and hear others thoughts also.
7. I normally contribute to the discussion but sometimes i will silently listen.
8. I take care of my sister.
9. Over the weekend I, went to the basketball game at kilbourne high school was the first away basketball game i went to it was really fun and exciting , also i went to the movies with some of my friends to see contraband but it was sold out and saw misson impossiable 4 instead it was a good and really long movie.
10. Nothing
11.