WORK CITED

WORK CITED

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. London: Penguin, 2000. Print.

Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451: The Temperature at Which Book Paper Catches Fire, and Burns ... New York: Ballantine, 1953. Print.

Preston, Dr. "Dr. Preston's American Literature 2016-2017." Dr. Preston's American Literature 2016-2017. N.p., 01 Jan. 1970. Web. 01 June 2017.

Arlington Robinson, Edwin “Richard Cory” Children of the night 1897

MASTERPIECE ACADEMY PAPER

Richard Kern

Dr. Preston

English 3

June 2, 2017

A Look Back

A Reflection of this year

                Have you ever looked back and asked yourself if you could have done something better? This year in English Class has been a very interesting and surprisingly very enjoyable one. This year has had its ups and downs but for the most part this was a big year for me to grown and learn into what I am at the end of the year. I have learned a lot and have been given a lot of information that I really haven’t taken advantage of even though I should have. There is going to be 7 elements of that things that we talked about spread throughout this essay about the things that happened and the things that I have personally learned about this year in my English class.

            This year in class was all about communication and learning to trust one another in a new way. We have been treated as colleagues and had some very big choices in the way that we learned and the way the course was even being taught. Also, we have been given such an important level of trust. I feel that at times we really deserve the trust but sometimes we just abused this power and just didn’t do the work that we were supposed to. Some people had this trust all year but some lost it. I feel that we all earned it but sometimes we really didn’t honor it. Sometimes we are giving a certain amount of trust and we either keep it or lose it no matter what.

            The characters that we were reading about felt real even though they were fiction but some felt real. “The lie that tells the truth” is a perfect way to describe some of the characters such as Montag who realized that technology can make people blind to emotion and feelings. The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald is a novel that shows many various parts of society like the rich but the miserable, Gatsby, or the pretend that everything in the world is positive even though you are sad, Daisy. I feel that Montag kind of showed a part me because I can see that everyone loves and pays more attention to their phone more than their friends. Richard Cory was also a character that is very like how I am in the way that he keeps things to himself and doesn’t really need to show a lot to people. The way that the authors of these books and poems used diction and syntax was so well because it made the characters on paper feel so real and genuine. Sometimes I feel that through books and movies we can find ourselves in characters that are just made up.

            Sometimes things that we love or find enjoyable can be forgotten but then brought back better than ever and predictions can be so scary that they become reality. This year I have been going back to listening to music a lot because in 7^th and 8^th grade I would always have my iPod on but freshman and sophomore year I didn’t really listen to music I just started to just leave my phone home and throw away my headphones. One of the things that made really laugh was that the events that were happening in the book Fahrenheit 451 were starting to happen in our real time and the book was already old so the author Ray Bradbury was able to predict such thing is crazy and really funny if you think about it. The fact that something from a sci fi book can start to happen is crazy.

            There are many ways and things to teach but sometimes people think alike and can create something different and be so similar. In the masterpiece academy presentations, many people went but some of them could be considered similar such as Adrian and Elias’s presentations were similar because of the way they talked in front of the class and the topics of not really giving up on your goals and sticking to them. Another similar presentation was Alex and Luis’s because they both talked about clothes and both showed examples of different websites that you could go to start your own type of business. I also felt that Jaime’s presentation about lasagna was like Isaias’s presentation about makeup more because of the way they were presented in seeing the steps and then the final product. I feel that my own presentation on the impact of music was like Victor’s presentation on religion because I let the music play to show my message while he read exerts from the various books to explain his message. A lot of the presentations were similar in the sense that they would talk for a little big and then play a video. Also, Satchel and Angle’s presentations were similar because they both had riddles in them. Ever though you can see similarities these presentations were good and different.

            In life, we must go through things that almost feel like a fairy tale and we are either the hero or the villain. I don’t really know if I am the hero because I think that there was room for improvement many times but I never took any chances or tried anything different but maybe. I feel that I tried every time that we had to do something I didn’t really want to be the minimum I want to kind of go beyond. I never really found a mentor but there is always people who inspire me and I feel that this class has helped me conquer the challenge of being quiet because I started to talk a lot more even with my friends even though most of the time I am the quiet one. Sometimes the things that seem the hardest can be the easiest if you practice and find something that inspires you to try harder.

            This year was fun because of the way that Dr. Preston made and structured this course. This course required so much trusted between the students and the teacher that for some could seem that it was too much freedom and a bad idea which sometimes it was but most of the time it was fine. We, the students, at times had to do things that were out of our comfort zone and speak up even if we didn’t want we just had to. This course also made me think that working as a team could help whenever than just thinking by yourself. This course at times was really frustrating and at time boring but the times that were exciting and extremely special made all of the bad things go away this course is very special and I am extremely grateful for having the teacher that I had and the classmates that I had because everyone in that room made it special.

Today's presentations

#1 the first presentation was on tradition Mexican dances
There are different types of dances
Each dance tells a different story
All of the stories are very different
there is so much that you need to know about the dances and how to do them

#2 The second presentation is about bringing the open source learning that we have in this class to mexico
there are teachers in mexico who are trying to do something similar but with younger kids
In india it has been proven that they could learn so much through a tablet
In mexico there is already 2 different types of learning systems

#3 The third presentation was about cutting hair
this presentation showed step by step on how to do a shadow fade
the cool this was that Chris wanted to keep doing it because he thought it was fun

WE EAT SOCIAL MEDIA FOR BREAKFAST

    Do you every think that posting a picture is dumb or do you do just cause? In this essay we get the opinion from Dr.Preston about us just using social media to post about dumb things then actually using it to communicate and talk to each other. Taking the example of people just posting their meals other that actually sitting down and enjoying and using it to show us that we live in a world where people don't really communicate but just message and send pictures to instead of doing things in the real world. While some people say that they do not use social media that is kinda of a lie because everyone does but some are just on it for no reason just cause everyone else is. In this essay we will be analyzing the diction, syntax, tone, and rhetorical strategies that the author used.

   In this paragraph we will be analyzing the authors use of diction and syntax. The author arranges the words in such a way that everything is in a spot that make so much sense and so every thing is flowing very well and all makes sense. The author's use of diction is very good because he uses simple words and doesn't over complicate anything and make it easy for the reader to understand and to read.These words are arranged so well that it feels really good to actually sit down and read this essay and it also doesn't use big words to confuse the readers. The author's use of diction and syntax is really good and helps make the essay even better.

   Next we are going to be talking about the author's tone towards the readers and towards the topic. We can see that the author has found something in the world that he feels isn't very good because he shows through his words that he would much prefer a face to face conversation over some texts back and forth. The author thinks that people are using social media in the wrong way and are using it for reasons like posting a picture of their food instead of actually using it to communicate with other people and interacting for work. The author's tone towards this subject is almost confused or concerned because social media is taking over people's lives. Now we are going to see the author's rhetorical strategies that are used in his essay.

    The author's use of rhetorical strategies is so good. The author compares posting a picture to Instagram or Snapchat to going to a store and giving them the film to then develop the pictures. He states that there is no use of film anymore and that everyone just has it backed up onto their phones and that there was some sort of magic to getting a physical copy of a picture other than seeing it on our phone or anything else. The way we got pictures before social media and now are extremely different because we had to go out and buy film but now we can take 100 pictures in a couple of seconds and they are sometimes not even that special anymore. The author uses these rhetorical strategies to show his point that social media has made people not really find any special things in pictures and communicating with others.

    The author has a very special way of using diction,syntax,tone, and rhetorical strategies  The diction and syntax is used very well that the readers do not get lost and confused. The author's tone towards the topic is very concerned that people who are using social media will loss the way they talk with people in the real world and just talk to people on social media platforms. He uses rhetorical strategies to show that there are some importance in the old ways of doing things in this world instead of just posting a picture of our breakfast and hoping some will see it. The author uses there strategies in great ways to make his point more relevant in a world where every one is consumed by social media.

EXPERIENCE #3

i had an idea that for my little cousins that in one of the eggs that they would get for Easter I would put one just like some rocks in it but I thought about it and said it i was little and got an egg with rocks in it I would be so pissed so I just said what ever and put candy onstead

EXPERIENCE #2

during spring break I had a bad thing happen and that was that my dog passed away and for me that thing was everything and having to go through that was something that almost felt unreal and the fact that I didn't really feel that same was hard to get over but in the end I had to get over it and try to figure out what happens in the future

EXPERIENCE #1

over the spring break the guitar orchestra had a trip and we had to wake up way too early so I woke up an hour and a half before we left at 6:15 and so I thought that if i get there to early it would be weird and if I get there to late then the bus would be gone so this experience helped me improve my time management skills.

MASTERPIECE ACADEMY RESOURCES

1. https://bebrainfit.com/music-affects-brain/

2. http://www.healthline.com/health-news/mental-listening-to-music-lifts-or-reinforces-mood-051713

3. http://www.consciouslifestylemag.com/music-and-the-brain-affects-mood/

4. https://www.connollymusic.com/stringovation/different-genres-of-music-affect-your-mood

5. http://mamiverse.com/how-types-of-music-genres-affect-mood-64945/

MASTERPIECE ACADEMY TOPIC

My topic is to see how different types of music or genres of music make us feel or affect our mood.

Fahrenheit 451 Essay

OPTION 1: Describe the difference in Ray Bradbury's tone with regard to Clarisse & Beatty. Support your analysis with examples of Bradbury'diction and details.

    Could you every picture a world where if you had a book are even enjoyed reading that it was illegal? In the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, there is a distant future where keeping books or reading is considered illegal and firefighters instead of putting out fires now go out and start fires. The main character, Montag , who is a firefighter, meets a young girl named Clarisse who is always super suspicious of every thing and bun bards Montag with tons of questions. Since Montag is a firefighter at the station there is a captain and his name is Beatty, he has a hatred towards books more than anyone else and is someone to be feared of. Bradbury shows both of the characters in completely different lights Clarisse as the positive in the story and he shows Beatty as the negativity in the story.

   Clarisse is used by Bradbury as a character who shows to Monatag that the world isn't just about being stuck and just sitting there and letting technology rule your life. Clarisse showed to Montag that people are having there emotions be numbed and letting technology like earbuds and tvs rule their lives. Through Clarisse, Montag when reading books he found through her words that there is something inside of books and it made him look at the world in a different life. When Clarisse and her family goes missing Montag is the only person that actually kinda cared and noticed even Montag's wife didn't even care or even know who she was. In the Clarisse even if she didn't have a large role in the story impacted the character of Montag from someone who is scared to show his love of book to someone who sees the deep and bigger meaning of books.

    Beatty is a character who is almost shown as the bad guys for doing his job and hating on book just like everyone else. Beatty being the captain at the fire station has a relationship with Montag and has seen people turn into what Montag is becoming. Beatty is the character the Montag is most afraid of because of his power and how with a simple push of a button he could have every one in the entire country on his butt trying to kill him. In the end Beatty was treated to a very hot death and it gave Montag some sort of relief but did it really have to be that way.

    Clarisse and Beatty are characters that Bradbury used to show the light and dark side of the future that Montag is living in and something that can be some sort of warning to us. Clarisse shows us the readers that the world that is presented to us is something that could happen and she is something special because in a world with all this board um and numbness she is someone who brings a positive vibe to this whole thing. Beatty shows to us that this world has created people who have just lost their ways and have just gotten angry for no reason. These 2 characters are some of the biggest reasons for Montag to make certain decisions on his journey.

RUN MONTAG RUN

I feel that the book will end with Montag getting captured and they are going to interrogate him to see why is he getting so worked up about all of the books.

THE CHASE IS ONE

1. The hound went after Montag because he had just killed Beatty.

2. Montag defended himself by using the flamethrower on the hound.

3. Montag realized that Beatty wanted to die because he didn't defend himself.

4. Montag is trying to get the Faber's house to try and warn him before it is too late.

5. Montag fell in the street as things were trying to look for him.

MONTAG KILLS

I fell that Montag kills Beatty because he is thinking to himself that there is no way out of this and he has something to prove.

SONG #20

FAT LIP BY SUM 41
https://youtu.be/CMX2lPum_pg

F 451 PART 1 QUESTIONS

1. I feel the Bradbury started the book this way cause he wanted to show us where the world and this character of Montag is. They might think that seeing things burn is very pressure able because it is something that they have control of .

2. Books are being compared to birds because when a book is spread out it could look like a bird or because birds are sometimes thought of mindless thing that no one really likes.

3. Montag lives his life very straight forward not really questioning thing and not really having any emotion and just starts to freak out in his but Clarisse on the other hand wants to figure things out and discover and care about people like her family.

4. I feel that the technology inside the story is way more advanced than the stuff that we have today but some are very similar to what we have.I dont think that they do because it makes them more occupied on that stuff then paying attention on each other.

5. I think that maybe the narrator feel that this is the point in montag's life that we are going to see a big change.

6. I feel that The author introduced Clarisse way earlier than Mildred because Clarisse ends up having that most impact to Montag further down the line.

7. All the houses are fireproof in this society because they want it so fire fighters don't have to put out fire they have to start them.

8. Mildred overdosed on some pills and they send 2 guys that don't really care about helping people to her aid.

9. The mechanical hounds purpose is to seek out people who are finding something and inject something into them.

10. Society thinks of Clarisse as "anti-social" because she questions every thing unlike very one else who just expects what happens and doesn't question it

11. She lights the match when her house is getting raided because she feels that the books that she has are way more important that her own life.

12. The relationship between Montag and Mildred is almost depressing because they don't really show their feelings about each other and they just kinda of use the technology around them to talk to or ignore each other.

13. The purpose of Beatty's visit was to talk Montag that every firefighter goes thorugh a period of time in their life that this happens.

14.I don't really think that books violate the idea of every one being equal.

15. Montag feels fat because he isn't really doing anything and is just sleepin

F451 PART 2 QUESTION

1. Montag has some how came up with a sudden respect for books and the time and passion that is put into them by the authors and Mildred is just saying that the books are just worthless and hurt people

2. In section 1 the bombers that flew over made Montag feel even more nervious about the fact that Mildred just tried to kill herself  but in section 2 Montag starts to get annoyed by them and is starting to question why they fly over and why are they even still around.

3. Professor Faber was a retired English professor who had been homeless for around 40 years.

4. Montag reacts by almost going crazy and yelling at the screen to shut up and i think he did this because he is starting to pay more attention to the world around him and is starting to see that every thing is super super repetitive and annoying and it can drive you crazy.

5. Faber says that books have a deeper meaning that just words and that a book can go under a microscope and you would find life in the book.

6. The small green object is something that Montag can uses so Faber can talk to him

7. The clown show shows us that people in this society are pretty much mindless

8. She crys because she can feel the emotion coming out from words

9. His destination after reading to Mildred's friends is the fire station even though Faber told him not to.

SONG #19

SOUL FOOD BY LOGIC
https://youtu.be/k0x6KVyYYbY

SONG #18

CALIFORNIACATION BY RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS

https://youtu.be/WXqhKu30Yd4

Song #17

DO I WANNA KNOW? BY ARCTIC MONKEYS
https://youtu.be/bpOSxM0rNPM

Song #16

NJ LEGION ICED TEA BY A DAY TO REMEMBER

https://youtu.be/KbVNS7K8TVA

F451 QUESTIONS

One of my questions is why does Milidrid tak such an offense when Montag keeps bringing up the lady that they sadly burned?

Also why does it feel like no one in this world really has any type of emotion of feelings?

IDK

In the book that we are reading i don't know but i feel like the world that the characters live in are very emotionless and everyone's feeling must have gone some where and now everyone doesn't know how to show  emotions and also i think that books are almost getting hate for no reason and people might just blame problems on stupid books.

SONG #15

GRAVITY BY ARCHITECTS
https://youtu.be/GktXlCEJ-HU

THE WORLD OF MONTAG

I feel that montag lives in a world that must have had a big change because having fire men start fires is way out of character for us. I also think thagt the world must have forgot something about having some form of emotion because he seems so emotion less and it is really scary even when his wife had just overdosed he just is thinking through his head instead of using real and physical emotions.

Song #14

BONES EXPOSED BY OF MICE AND MEN
https://youtu.be/IO-JbFtgeX4

Song # 13

KILLING IN THE NAME BY RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE

https://youtu.be/bWXazVhlyxQ

Song# 12

HEAVY BY LINKIN PARK FT KIIARA
https://youtu.be/lp00DMy3aVw

Song# 11

MOVE ALONG BY THE ALL-AMERICAN REJECTS
https://youtu.be/XleOkGsYgO8

Song #10

IMPOSSIBLE YEAR BY PANIC! AT THE DISCO!
https://youtu.be/e6XHLcIGESY

f451 guiding questions ch1

F1. Describe the society (a fictional America) that Montag lives in. In what ways is it similiar to, but more extreme than, our society?  What signs are there that it is a "dystopia" (the opposite of utopia/ideal society)?

I feel that Montag lives in a world where something has happened where firemen are instead of putting out fires they are starting them for some weird reason. Compared to our society Montag's feels like a more extreme and very demanding while our society doesn't really expect much from us

2. What makes Clarisse so special?  So different from most people in her society?

Clarisse is so special because she asks more of the bigger questions that no one else asks. She is different cause most people don't question their authority while she is giving Montag hard questions that he just doesn't answer.

3. Why do you think the mechanical hound has been programmed to react to Montag? 

Stories

I feel that we can take things that are really simple and over complicate them to something that we hate. I feel that with stories and reading cause no one likes to read or get told a story anymore. I can't really understand that cause stories are extremely important cause we can use them to learn from the past or just enjoyment. I love music that tells a story some of my favorite songs aren't my favorte cause of how it sound its cause of the lyrics and some of my favorite book are long cause they were very gripping and enjoyable.

MATH?!?!?!?!?

I don't understand my math class cause we have to do some stupid thing on a website but on friday we went to the rally so he said to do it on our own but i couldn't find the link and aeries says i have like 5 missing assignments like ok wtf

Song #9

BLEEDING OUT BY IMAGINE DRAGONS
https://youtu.be/jNFgynmVmx0

Song #8

DEATH OF A BACHELOR BY PANIC! AT THE DISCO!
https://youtu.be/R03cqGg40GU

Song # 7

BLUEPRINTS BY WAGE WAR
https://youtu.be/WQnPVIRGsRY

Song #6

THE DIVINE ZERO BY PIERCE THE VEIL
https://youtu.be/hzOF3R7lnok

Song # 5

MISS MURDER BY AFI
https://youtu.be/UPT1lW9y2P0

WHAT I SEE IN LITERATURE

1) This is a valley of ashes - a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air.

For me this piece tells me that where Gatsby lives is a place of sadness and when the parties are going on its happy but when that dies down there is no life. The valley of ashes puts almost a black and white movie vibe in my eyes and it makes me think that there is things that have died and are burned away.

2) " Wilson was a blonde, spiritless man, anemic and faintly handsome"

this quote shows me a person who look like he has lost something and is done with his life. It also shows that he was really lost and couldn't really find out where he belongs and he did have some joy but that was lost somewhere a long the way.  

3)  And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells: 

     Streets that follow like a tedious argument 

    Of insidious intent

This part of the love song shows to me that this place that he is in has had better days but the businesses are falling apart but still have their decorations up. The streets are filled with people yelling at each other and saying bad things that are extremely evil 

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

My first impressions of this story is that it is a more real and depressing version of love that some people don't think is out there. The song is about a guys who knows who he wants but can't really imagine them caring for him. The song is more like a real way of saying everything is not perfect and things can't just go very swimmingly even though we want it to. There is a place that he wants to be but he cant really see himself there but even if he gets there he might not be there long enough for him to enjoy it.

Song # 4

SOMETIME YOUR THE HAMMER, SOMETIMES YOUR THE NAIL BY
A DAY TO REMEMBER
https://youtu.be/xyW9KknfwLU

CLASSES

Today i went on to aeries and saw that i have like 3 C's and i was thinking about what i need to improve but then i saw that my grades all dropped because of test that i was under prepared for and also the ones that i didn't study for but also that ones were graded harder. I felt like posting something to the blog because these things are like where we can express our selves and i feel like i am also a horrible test taker and when ever i feel like i did good i get screwed over by failing.In my Spanish class to this point of the year we are still in only unit 1 and i feel like she is just trying to make up for what she missed by introducing something new once a week then a quiz that same week so we technically have to learn by ourselves instead of practicing in class all we do is pointless activities out of the book. Chemistry i never study but i do fine but we had a test we took in January and barely a couple days a it was put in and i did awful in that class i feel like nothing is every planned to be on time it is really when ever she gets around to it and then boom your doing bad in class good luck. In math i and just doing bad because he doesn't really teach he just sits at his desk gives us problems explains them really fast and complains why people dont come in at lunch or take their own notes out of the book. I feel like at the start of this year i have just been lacking and i don't know way i have lost this spark that i used to have because i used to feel exited to go to school but sometime it just feels like some big chore that i have to do or else im screwed for life or whatever.  

Song # 3

DIRTY LAUNDRY by All Time Low
https://youtu.be/hTwmxiLSD0w

Song #2

UNSTEADY by Ollie

https://youtu.be/iQbljOefpVo

CAN WE WATCH THE MOVIE?

I feel that watching has more appeal than reading the book because it is a visual representation of watch the book is or what someone thinks it is. A movie can also be very long and can drag on for a while and sometimes the movies can be only 2 hours and 30 minutes so sitting down for a movie is better that sitting down and reading the book. In some cases the movie can be better than the book but it also depends if you read book then watch the movie then to you the movie is worse then the book but if you watch the movie then read the book you can have a comparison and have respect for both of them instead of just writing the other off.

Song #1

A song I got really into this week was

"The One Armed Boxer vs The Flying Guillotine" by From First To Last

https://youtu.be/fa3_RFnEt9Q

chapter 8 notes

nick thinks when its night
wanly
light is such a big part of this story
gatsby's house feels like it is dead and has no life
broke against tom's hard malice
the story that gatsby tells nick is the story of him and daisy's love and how much it means
daisy isn't like nick or gatsby she is kinda weak

Gatsby Chapter 7 notes

trimalchio
sulkily-personification
the butler is mean
dilatory?
made people change
caravansary?
gatsby wants daisy to tell tom the she never loved him
no designs upon it
tom is the "master"
daisy and jordan are in the space that they were in the begining of the story
her voice is full of money

GATSBY TEST 1-4

Chapter 1

who is the narrator?

where is the setting of this story?

chapter 2

which is the rich side and poor sides of the eggs?

who is mrs.wilson?

chapter 3

who was nick talking to at the begining of the chapter?

where is the party?

chapter 4

what is gatsby's reason for coming to west egg?

how many girls does Benny arrive with?

GATSBY CHAPTER 3 REMIX

chapter 3 is this long build up for us to finally see and find gatsby but what happens is to me I feel that he is kind of a normal guy with just so much money that he just throws these giant parties so he can impress everyone else. I also feel that it would be impossible for him to remember nick if they just bumped into each other a once during the war. I think that these giant parties might be covering for something bigger but at this point you can really tell.

CHAPTER 3 NOTES

fiction is the lie that tells the truth
displacement
anachronism
quotation marks can symbolize sarcasm
everyone is enjoying the party
gatsby doesnt want to have troblem with anyone
he is very calm

Chapter 2 notes

supercoli
Tanked up
Contiguous
Nick hangs out with billionaires and is very uncomfortable at the garage
Tom mistress is thick but is looked at being attractive
The husband is clueless
Town tattle
A guy selling puppies on the street look like john d Rockefeller
Airedale
Myrtle?
Nick sees that everyone he meets acts the same but he is different
Tom is racist and a alcoholic and isn't happy
Catherine is bad at makeup
Acts above her place

CHAPTER 1 REMIX

I felt that chapter 1 of The Great Gatsby is really important and it feels like a beginning of a movie. The characters that meet fell larger than life and kinda fake almost that everyone has something to hide and isn't who they actually say they are. The setting of this story feels like factions almost about how fancy everyone is and how nice their car or house is. I don't really understand why there is this almost wannabe so much better than everyone else type of vibe that is just kind of annoying.

THE GREAT GATSBY NOTES

with out this i am nothing" f scott fitzgerald loves writing

in the author's eyes he wanted to tell a great story

i want to write something new" f scott said before the book was published

masterpieces are not accident

was a hard worker and it took 3 years to write it

gally profs 

every readers response to a work of fiction is always different

a author should write for the generation 

epigraph-a quote that comes at the beginning of the book that gives you a hint about the story

our narrator doesn't judge people and had a good relationship with his dad

an inyimate revelation was quivering on the horizon

he doesnt like Gatsby's life style

midas and morgan and maecenas- king midas turned every thing  he touches to gold

2 old friends whom i scarcely knew at all

supercilious-crabby

REMIX

What I want to do with my remix is mix music lyrics titles and musicians with normal everyday writing.

So we were talking about remixes but sometime it doesn't fit. I feel like sometimes your the hammer and sometimes your the nail. Last week we talked about misery and hope and music always come to me when those 2 subjects come up. Whether your a punk rocker, a metal head, a pop goddess, or a rapper 1 thing that all those people have in common is that they have issues. Issues can make the best music because it has feelings and is relate-able. Songs like misey loves my company, the other side,breaking the habit and so many others have these dark subjects but also talk about hope. The book Of Mice And Men is great but for me it is also a band. The lead sing of the band with the same name was super inspired by John Steinbeck's work that he decide for that to be the name of his band. I feel that the book has so many side to it that it is almost crazy. I feel the George is thinking that someone should have killed Lenny while they had the chance so he wouldn't be a problem but he also sees something in Lenny a kind of light or gentleness that makes him care for Lenny. Lenny him self is half the time getting away with murder or trying to find his last resort. George just doesn't want every one to see Lenny's bones exposed or else they are dead! The story  have themes of faith and trying be find out where you are going to be in the next 3 or 4 years in your life. Misery and hope can kind of numb you until you just faint because some people don't know how to get our of misery which makes them depressed or if they are so involved with hope that they become psycho. Genres are kind of pointless but they also serve a point. I don't care about you if you don't like what i like or read what i read we are all different and thats ok. It doesn't matter if you prefer Metallica over Slipknot or Nirvana or The Beatles it doesn't matter.

Notes for class

genre- the category of creative works that is unique to a time and place

Romantics wanted people to be the focus in stories while transadentalists wanted to go beyond

Writers write about things that are happening around them

More creative writing came during the industrial revolution 

Modern authors thought that the world was new and confusing 

EVERYTHING IS A REMIX

music,film,tech

other musicians using their tones to use in different music

remix-take an already existing work and make it something new

we also lost what we know as creativity

MUSIC AS LITERATURE

I feel that music should be considered as literature because music can move people and change people's opinions on topics just like a book or any other form of literature. The difference between a novel and a poem is that a novel is longer and has more details while a poem rhymes and is arranged differently. The difference between a poem and a rap is that a poem is more meaningful while a rap can mean many different things and compares things to other things. The difference between a rap and a song is that a song has a structure while a rap is more free flowing. The difference between a song and a opera is that a song can not just mean singing which is the main reason for opera. The difference between a opera and a symphony is that one uses voice and the other uses instruments.