Super 5

1) My sister is in a great university and has a lot of friends also I know quite a few people in college who would be able to help us out.

2) Quite a few staff members on campus would be able to help us out if we need the help as well. Mr. Blanco I'm sure would be very helpful.

3) My mom's friend Sally, works for the city and deals with transit so it would help with the project to incorporate bus schedules.

4) We could also talk to people who work for colleges and ask them how people usually get along with the transition from high school to college.

5) Lastly, our group can definitely get the word out about our website by posting it in the career center or anywhere people often pass by.

Project Resources

Masterpiece: A Guide to College Life

1. A resource for my masterpiece would definitely be the people in class and also in my group. Since it is a guide to 'college 101' I know a lot of people who are currently in college and would be able to share their advice and experiences.

2. Googling 'college advice' would give an endless amount of resources we would be able to use and refer to if we got stuck.
- http://www.collegeadviceblog.com/
- http://www.collegetips.com/

3. We thought about doing this project online and making a cool website that people could go back and refer to when they need it. Our project is all about helping people become ready for college once they're they can be confident about college.

The people I am working with are Micaela Hellman (period 3), Rachel Nolan (p.4), and Sarah Stevens (p.4)

My Team

In my groups' project we are doing a guide to college life. My group has four people; myself, Micaela Hellman, and from period 4: Rachel Nolan, and Sarah Stevens. We have quite a lot of resources that we are able to use. We may be incorporating other fields of inquiry and maybe even marketing. 

BNW Notes Chapters 6&7

Chapter 6 

--Lenina contemplated bailing on Bernard for the trip to New Mexico for Benito who was going to the North Pole

--she chose to go with Bernard

--Lenina doesn't understand walking & talking with Bernard

--Bernard wants to be himself; he doesn't want to be a part of something else (the social body)

--Lenina is confused with all that Bernard is saying to her

--Bernard thinks of Lenina as meat

--Bernard is becoming very curious 

--he's in mourning 

Part 2

--Bernard wants to see the savages and is attempting to get the director to sign off on a permit

--first sight of confidence in Bernard

Part 3

--they are now on the savage reservation

--Ford is repeatedly used in the context of God ie. "thank Ford"

--Bernard's confidence is lost again when Helmholtz informs him the Director plans to send him to Iceland

--they have arrived for the summer festival

Chapter 7

--they're exploring the Mesa

--first encounter with the savaged at the pueblo; Lenina does not like it

--"But cleanliness is next to fordliness," she insisted

--simile 

--imagery

--syntax/diction

--the celebration has begun; singing and dancing

--snakes were brought out in the midst of the celebration

--a sacrificial ceremony takes place during the celebration

--Linda was the directors interest of the time and he got her pregnant, their son being the stranger they meet after the sacrifice

--John is the son of Thomas (the D.H.C.) and Linda

--Huxley's births/birth control theory

Launch

This is what I first had wrote when I answered the launch/draft questions:
• what am I passionate about? What do I want to do?

- I am very passionate about makeup and hair. I really want to become a makeup artist for the stars. 

• How can I use the tools from last semester (and the internet and general)?

- I can use tools from online to help create looks and also get my work out there. 

• What will I need to do in order to "feel the awesomeness with no regrets" by June?

- I will need to do more YouTube videos and Instagram more. Also find the right cosmetology school. 

•What will impress/convince others (both in my life and in my field)?

- I think my dedication and my skill will really impress others in my life and field. 

•How will I move beyond 'What If' and take this from idea --> reality?

- I think I could move beyond 'what if' by just doing what I need to instead of imagining it. 

• Who will be the peers, public, and experts in my personal learning network?

- The peers and public would be viewers who enjoy what I do and can see it whenever they please. The experts would be the trained and famous makeup artists who get to see the world because of what they do and who will be able to guide me in the right direction and also help me with whatever I may need. 

I will be teaming up with Micaela Hellman, Sarah Stevens, and Rachel Nolan. We are doing something along the lines of business and a guide to college for the next year. 

I, Jury

Well when I went through other peoples' blogs I noticed that people took a lot of time and wrote some really insightful essays. They were very good considering we are only on chapter five of the book. Something I can avoid on my next essay would definitely be summarizing. I don't usually summarize a book whilst writing an essay but I always need to remember that. Something that I will remember whilst writing my next essay would be to go more in depth about the topic/prompt.

Brave New Essay

Essay Prompt:  It seems undeniable that most World State members are happy, though people like John, Bernard, and Helmholtz might criticize the quality of their lives. What, then, is wrong with World State society? Discuss the relationship between truth and happiness, and the use of soma?

       In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley everyone in the World State is pretty much brainwashed. At a young age everyone is brought up the same way and are taught to think the same way. There are also classes to segregate each person in the World State. There are Alphas which are the highest class or the better people, Betas who are second best, Deltas, Gammas, and Epsilons. Now the Epsilons are the lowest class and of course no one really knows which is better or worse. Everyone is "happy" or so it seems, if they had a choice they wouldn't want to be ranked under that class. A few people of the World State that know more than they should and aren't happy with the life they have been told to lead would be Bernard, John, and Helmholtz.

      The World State society is a gloomy place, its a place where people are put in ranks and do not know which ranking is better than the other because they are all drugged up on pills they have to take that cancel out any emotion they would ever know. That drug is called soma. This is something that the people in the World State don't know that they are able to think for themselves if they didn't take soma and left the World State. Although if they try to find it the little bit of truth they know will be ripped away from them. By taking soma they know nothing more and it is just how they are programmed.

      Bernard is a complainer and never feels like he fits in. He always has to let people know it too. Bernard is short, chubby, and doesn't fit in with his friends. John and Helmholtz fit in perfectly with Bernard because they also feel like they do not belong in the World State. They feel like they know so much more than they should and every time they try to grasp it, it seems to fade away.

      Happiness is never actually there. It's a figment of their imagination and drugs. Everyone is told to believe the same thing and one of those things would be to believe they're happy. The World State is a gloomy place that a normal person would go crazy in. Everyone in the World State is actually really sad if they had the slightest ability to think for themselves.

Brave New Essay Topic

Essay Topic: It seems undeniable that most World State members are happy, though people like John, Bernard, and Helmholtz might criticize the quality of their lives. What, then, is wrong with World State society? Discuss the relationship between truth and happiness, and the use of soma?

The World State society is a gloomy place. Its a place where people are put in ranks and do not know which ranking is better than  the other because they are drugged up on soma all the time. Truth is something that none of the people in World State know. If they try to find it, the little bit of truth they hold onto is ripped away from them. Happiness is caused by soma. Soma is a drug that causes them to feel no emotion so they don't get attached. Its how they are programmed.

I Am Here

Well I think I am on the right path. I've been keeping my blog up to date and it is always on time. I am not really sure what I will do my senior project on. Although I am always thinking of something I could do. I am doing pretty well in my opinion. 

BNW Notes Chapter 5

Part 1
--Lenina is sleeping with both Henry and Bernard
--social classes are very hateful towards each other
--"We can't do without anyone."
--it's your conditioning that makes you think the way you do
--a switchback occurs when someone finally and definitely disappears
--"The sexophones wailed like melodious cats under the moon..."
--repetition of "good-night, dear friends"
--taking contraceptives and precautions had become automatic for Lenina (automatic as blinking)

Part 2
--a celebration (like a party or holiday) is taking place
--"Oh, he's coming!" The Greater Being
--twelve as one
--"Orgy-porgy"
--Bernard was as miserably isolated now as he had been when the service began
--he was separate while the others were being fused into the Greater Being
--Morgana's eyebrow thought Bernard

BNW Notes Chapter 4

Part 1
 --George Edzel (allusion)
--real places mixed in with not real places (literary allusion)
--repetition with "go down go down" and clause (anaphora, parallelism)
--the liftman's job it repetitive
--obstacle golf
--Lenina wants Bernard by making sexual puns
--no conflict, just interaction amongst each other
--sexual description starts with simile
--extended/metaphor of their sexual encounter
--extended metaphor when looking into distance
--many references to nature; microbial references; subhuman, leaf-green
--Lenina was a popular girl sleeping with many Alphas
--What is "Roof"? Why do they "Roof"?
--Benito Hoover has entered the scene
--reference to taking off in flight while having sex

Part 2
--Bernard felt guiltiest and more helplessly alone than ever
--he is very distressed and dislikes talk of the alcohol said to be in his blood-surrogate
--size was a universal ideal
--mockery made him feel as an outsider so he acted like an outsider
--envied other men like Henry Foster and Benito Hoover
--Helmholtz Watson was very similar to Bernard Marx in that they were the result of a physical defect
--shared the knowledge that they were individuals
--Helmholtz has a queer feeling he can't quite describe
--it seems they are beginning to wonder about life outside of their norm
--simile: "Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly--they'll go through anything."

Welcome to the Interdisciplinarity

Interdisciplinary (adj) means combining or involving two or more academic disciplines or fields of study: The economics and history departments are offering an interdisciplinary seminar on Asia.

After high school I will be going into cosmetology, esthetics, and manicuring. I know that for cosmetology and nails you have to be quite creative with different looks you can create. Makeup has always been a passion of mine and I enjoy so much. I've always created many different looks and looked up many ways to create something I wasn't sure how too. Something that would help will definitely be art. Art is such an amazing thing that let's you express yourself. That's what I do when I do makeup and hair. There are so many tricks to creating different looks which make it easy. I know that putting black eyeliner in your waterline will make your eyes appear smaller. Also using a lighter eyeliner in your waterline will catch the light and bounce off your eyes to make them brighter.  

BNW Notes Chapter 3

Chapter 3
--"Imagine the folly of allowing people to play elaborate games which do nothing whatever to increase consumption. It's madness," mused the Director
--trying to get the children involved in erotic play
--the controller, Mustapha Mond, enters during playtime while in the park
--one of the top ten world controllers
--straight from the mouth of Ford himself
--home was a rabbit hole hot with frictions of tightly packed life reeking with emotion
--"Manically, the mother brooded over her children...brooded over them like a cat over its kittens; but a cat that could talk, a cat that..."
--pregnancy substitutes are given to young girls
--Ford v. Freud
--his theory was the world was full of fathers, therefore the world was full of misery
--family was dangerous and full of madness and suicide
--impulse and energy
--repetition: "But every one belongs to every one else."
--Lenina Crowne has been with Henry Foster for four months
--she needs to have another man
--"Think of water under pressure in a pipe."
--meant to feel strongly, in solitude, in hopelessly individual isolation
--stability: the primal and ultimate need
--imagery: "Impulse arrested spills over,...of the barrier."
--Assistant Predestinator
--Lenina has found interest in Bernard Marx, an Alpha Plus
--he doesn't like obstacle golf
--liberty was to be miserable, freedom to be a round peg in a square hole
--introduces hearsay about religion and government and history
--adapting future demand to future industrial supply: "Ending is better than mending,"
--Fanny is trying to discourage Lenina
--introduction to Shakespeare
--multiple thoughts and conversations carried out in the end?
--no ability to get old
--"Suffer little children," said the Controller.

Hafta/Wanna

The differences I see between my life during and after high school are major. I don't see myself living at home I see myself either up north or down south. I also know I won't see the same people I see everyday. I will be making friends who are mature and know and go after what they want in life. Similarities would be talking to my family everyday and keeping in touch. I see myself still doing makeup and getting opportunities to do other peoples makeup and hair more. Well, I would like to see people change and grow up after graduation. It is important to mature and move on with your life because you cannot stay a kid forever as much as you would like to. I work ahead if something is to be done and has a due date I usually try to get it done before so I won't worry about it and then I have more time to do the things I enjoy.

Lit Terms #6

simile: a figure of speech comparing two essentially unlike things through the use of a specific word of comparison

soliloquy: an extended speech, usually in a drama, delivered by a character alone on stage

spiritual: a folk song, usually on a religious theme

speaker: a narrator, the one speaking

stereotype: cliche' a simplified, standardized conception with a special meaning and appeal for members of a group; a formula story

stream of consciousness: the style of writing that attempts to imitate the natural flow of a character's thoughts, feelings, reflections, memories, and mental images, as the character experiences them

structure: the planned frame work of a literary selection; its apparent organization

style: the manner of putting thoughts into words; a characteristic way of writing or speaking

subordinate: the couching of less important ideas in less important structures of language

surrealism: a style in literature and painting that stresses the subconscious or the nonrational aspects of man's existence characterized by the juxtaposition of the bizarre and the banal

suspension of disbelief: suspended not believing in order to enjoy it

symbol: something which stands for something else, yet has a meaning of its own

synesthesia: the use of one sense to convey the experience of another sense

synecdoche: another form of name changing, in which a part stands for the whole

syntax: the arrangement and grammatical relations of words in a sentence

theme: the main idea of the story; its message(s)

thesis: a proposition for consideration, especially one to be discussed and proved or disproved; the main idea

tone: the devices used to create the mood and atmosphere of a literary work; the author's perceived point of view

tongue in cheek: a type of humor in which the speaker feigns seriousness; aka "dry" or "dead pan"

tragedy: in literature: any composition with a somber theme carried to a disastrous conclusion; a fatal event; protagonist usually is heroic but tragically (fatally) flawed

understatement: epposite of hyperbole; saying less than you mean for emphasis

vernacular: everyday speech

voice: the textual features, such as diction and sentence structures, that convey a writer's or speaker's persona

zeitgeist: the feeling of a particular era in history

Brave New World Notes: Foreword and Chapters 1-2

Foreword
--somewhat negative attitude towards the judgement humanity has
--one extreme to another: utopian or savage
--author wants to offer up sanity and wants to see humanity sane in the Brave New World
--Brave New World is about the future; man's Final End
--theme of BNW is the advancement of of science as it affects human individuals
--in favor of conservatives
--for the last 30 years there have been none; there have only been nationalistic radicals of the right and left
--science is the progress; the future
--very educated in our nations' history
--predictions of the future hold true ie. there are as many divorces as marriages in particular American cities

Chapter 1
--bokanovskified eggs will bud, proliferate, will divide
--"Making ninety-six human beings grow where only one grew before. Progress."
--Bokanovsky's Process leads to social stability; sanity?
--bokanovskify indefinitely would solve the problem but 96 is the limit
--Podsnap's Technique accelerated the process of ripening
--no intention of imitating nature but of human invention
--want to advance maturity time in humans/epsilons
--multiple countries in a race to produce the most...that's odd?

Chapter 2
--"pale as death"
--the Director was torturing the babies and training their instincts
--giving the babies reflexes that were unalterably conditioned
--didn't want the babies to like books or flowers: books because they could decondition one of their reflexes, the flowers: unknown
--flowers: they were once compelled to like them but their love of nature kept them out of factories & kept them from transport
--it was decided to abolish the love of nature
--"We condition the masses to hate the country but simultaneously we condition then to love all country sports," concluded the Director (pg.23)
--tried teaching the children in their sleep and it didn't work
--need to teach moral education
--they repeat what they've heard/learned in their sleep
--hypnopaedia: the greatest moralizing and socializing force of all time

Lit Analysis #2 Brave New World By: Aldous Huxley

GENERAL:
 1. The novel Brave New World begins in London in the hatchery where the Director is guiding students on a tour of the Bokanovskify process. As the Director proceeds to explain the process throughout the introduction of the novel hypnopaedia is introduced. This is the process of teaching the children in their sleep. The children are encouraged to get involved in erotic play. This erotic play is known as obstacle golf and Bernard is first introduced when he does not participate. Lenina is then introduced when she finds interest in Bernard even though she is discouraged by Fanny. Lenina pursues Bernard and yet Bernard continues to feel more hopeless than ever. As the novel continues, characters like Hemholtz are introduced, because of their differences from the others. Many of these differences are shown through the different social classes as well as events such as the alcohol that is said to have been in Bernard’s blood surrogate before he was born. Soma is also introduced as the drug that keeps them going. It is the boost to their system when in need. Bernard continues throughout the novel as curious as ever and takes a trip to the reservation with Lenina in order to humor his curiosity. There he meets Linda and John who wish to return to London with them to see the Director; John’s father. When the four of them return things begin to go south and the Director is humiliated with Linda’s return. As John carries on with life in the Brave New World he is disturbed by the assumptions accepted by the society he sees. It comes to a point where John is so ooberly in love with Lenina but yet is so confused and can no longer take it anymore that as a result he hangs himself.

2. For the theme of the novel I concluded that there is to be no happiness without truth. The people of the Brave New World are so dedicated to their willful delusion that they know no true happiness. They only know what they have been told to be true yet characters like Bernard see that there is more to life and there are truths to which they do not know than what they have been told.

3. Defining the tone of Brave New World is difficult. I would consider the tone to be informative as well as dramatic. The entire novel is about the telling of a Brave New World in which we do not know unless we continue to read the novel. Huxley repeatedly states things such as, “But every one belongs to every one else,” in order to emphasize the attitude of the society of the Brave New World. The extended metaphor used to describe the sexual affair between Lenina and Bernard support the dramatic tone of the novel. The introduction of the novel when the D.H.C. is giving the tour of the hatchery and declares, "We condition the masses to hate the country but simultaneously we condition them to love all country sports," Huxley's audience is informed of the alterations that take place while the embryos are developing.

4. -Repetition is used throughout the novel quite often to emphasize the society of the BNW. "But every one belongs to every one else."

-Puns are also used by Lenina when she is plotting to seduce Bernard.

-Similes like, "Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly--they'll go through anything," help to not only emphasize but clarify what is going on in the minds of the characters of society.

-Parallelism is also often used to parallel with past or upcoming events that are to take place. Also
parallelism occurs as the novel has resulted in paralleling with present society.

-Imagery is a constant attribute to the novel that Huxley projects through statements made by characters like, "But cleanliness is next to fordliness." Statements like this create an image in the readers head that helps in grasping an understanding of the BNW that could not be grasped as well without the imagery.

CHARACTERIZATION:
1. Two examples of direct characterization would be Bernard and John. Two examples of indirect characterization would be Lenina and the Director. Both Bernard and John are both directly characterized through their speech and actions. Lenina and the Director are characterized through the other characters. For example, Fanny as well as Bernard characterize Lenina by passing their own judgement about her actions.

2. I didn't really notice a change in Huxley's syntax or diction when discussing one character or another. I did notice that overall throughout the novel that there was a particular speech that was universally used by the characters in the Brave New World. Things like "to-day" and "to-morrow" we're often hyphenated repeatedly when used in speech.

3. I would say the main character in Brave New World would have to be dynamic and also round. They realized that they didn't want what everyone else had.

4. After having read the novel I felt like I came away having met Bernard. He was the main character and focus from the get-go because of his differences. I felt like over time I continued to learn more about his character more so than others.

Launch/ Draft

• what am I passionate about? What do I want to do?

- I am very passionate about makeup and hair. I really want to become a makeup artist for the stars. 

• How can I use the tools from last semester (and the internet and general)?

- I can use tools from online to help create looks and also get my work out there. 

• What will I need to do in order to "feel the awesomeness with no regrets" by June?

- I will need to do more YouTube videos and Instagram more. Also find the rigt cosmetology school. 

•What will impress/convince others (both in my life and in my field)?

- I think my dedication and my skill will really impress others in my life and field. 

•How will I move beyond 'What If' and take this from idea --> reality?

- I think I could move beyond 'what if' by just doing what I need to instead of imagining it. 

• Who will be the peers, public, and experts in my personal learning network?

- The peers and public would be viewers who enjoy what I do and can see it whenever they please. The experts would be the trained and famous makeup artists who get to see the world because of what they do and who will be able to guide me in the right direction and also help me with whatever I may need. 

Lit Terms #5

Parallelism: a balance within one or more sentences of similar phrases or clauses that have the same grammatical structure

Parody: is an imitative work created to mock, comment on or trivialize something by means of satiric or ironic imitation

Pathos: an element in experience or in artistic representation evoking pity or compassion

Pedantry: Characterized by a narrow, often ostentatious concern for book learning and formal rules

Personification: A figure of speech in which inanimate objects, abstractions, and animals are endowed with human qualities or are represented as possessing human form

Plot: the events that make up a story

Poignant: evoking a keen sense of sadness or regret

Point of view: The attitude or outlook of a narrator or character in a piece of art

Postmodernism: skeptical interpretations; set of critical, strategic and rhetorical practices employing concepts such as difference, repetition, the trace, the simulacrum, and hyperreality to destabilize other concepts such as presence, identity, historical progress, epistemic certainty, and the univocity of meaning

Prose: a form of language which applies ordinary grammatical structure and natural flow of speech rather than rhythmic structure

Protagonist: the leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text.

Pun: a form of word play that suggests two or more meanings

Purpose: A result or effect that is intended or desired, like the reason why the author would write a certain novel

Realism: depictions of contemporary life and society as it is

Refrain: the line or lines that are repeated in music or in verse

Requiem: A hymn, composition, or service for the dead

Resolution: the point in a literary work at which the chief dramatic complication is worked out

Restatement: A method of achieving emphasis by stating an idea twice

Rhetoric: the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing by the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques.

Rhetorical question: figure of speech in the form of a question that is asked in order to make a point and not elicit a direct answer

Rising action: events of a dramatic or narrative plot preceding the climax

Romanticism: validated strong emotion as an authentic source of aesthetic experience, placing emphasis on emotions like apprehension, horror and terror, and awe

Satire: the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices

Scansion: the analysis of verse to show its meter; describing the rhythms of poetry by dividing the lines into feet, marking the locations of stressed and unstressed syllables, and counting the syllables

Setting: The time, place, and circumstances in which a narrative, drama, or film takes place