blood

I would say that the most important theme in this book is blood. It is a main point in the book. People die all the time, and the scenes can be very bloody. The main character has a beginning when he fights the the enemy and kills lots of people when we don't see this as a big problem. Then when he starts to solo out people and the scenes become more bloody he then starts to be affected. So the more blood makes the main character feel the worst.

Also blood is very prominent for other characters too. Lady Macbeth has a scene when she is trying to wipe the blood off of her hand which is a very vivid scene. The movie scene in the play is a very good explanation of this. The scene is vivid and a great scene to explain what Shakespeare is trying to say.

Free Reading 30 Friday
1 hour Saturday free reading
30 minutes Sunday Free reading

Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,
And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full
Of direst cruelty!- Lady Macbeth

This quotation is during the part where Lady Macbeth is basically saying that Macbeth is not being a man and trying to kill Duncan. She says she wants to be the man in this and not have any nice feminine parts or actions and be filled with cruelty and meanness. This part really shows the true character of Lady Macbeth. 

Let not light see my black and deep desires- Macbeth

This part is all about Macbeth having to deal with the morality issue of killing king Duncan. He doesn't want the perfect and pure light of the stars to see this evil and terrible craving to become king through killing king Duncan. He wants this to happen with no moral or physical consequences


1 hour Sunday working on portfolio
1 hour Monday working on portfolio

"Umbrella" by Rihanna feat. Jay-Z - Lyrics

"Umbrella" by Rihanna feat. Jay-Z - Lyrics 


The rhyme scheme is very different than anything that we have learned in class. It jumps all over the place. At first it will have a ABAB scheme and stick with that for a stanza. Then it will switch to a AABB and keep that for another stanza and and then it will for to the refrain and go back to the ABAB. This songs likes to switch around alot. 
Ex:

It's raining, raining
Ooh baby, it's raining, raining
You can always come here to me
Come in to me

It's pouring rain, it's pouring rain
Come in to me, come in to me
It's pouring rain, it's pouring rain
Come in to me, come in to me

This song also keeps coming back to a common theme of the umbrella, the rain, and preparing for the rain. When it has the ABAB it has a happy moment, like the friendship and keeping the oaths. When it goes to a AABB it goes to the sad moments like the raining and preparing for the rain.

40 minutes, class time reading 
20 minutes Saturday, editing Final Draft 
15 friday, Free reading 
30 Saturday, free reading 
15 sunday, free reading 

Free Post

Break!1!!11!!!

Wasn't fun at all for me! Well it was good to not go to school for a while but it was very boring. As soon as I got home our family were trying to decide where to go. It comes down to the fact that the whole family cannot go to a place so I was stranded at home. I couldn't leave or do anything. It stunk.

So it came down to me deciding what to do. The first day I had to help my dad with the yard so that covered most of that day. Then the next day I just chilled at the house and played video games. So eventually had to go to soccer practice which was like the first time I went outside. This was my entire break.








2 hours reading Empire: Wounds of Honor

Quotes

Ambition is a positive, desirable trait in a person.

 I would strongly agree with this statement because something about a person with ambition just gets me. When I meet someone with an extreme desire, they just have something that I want. A certain energy just radiates of them. A vibe, an energy just that everyone needs and wants. Macbeth becomes a person with ambition when he wants to become the new king. 

Who we are--our essential character and temperament--is fixed and unchangeable.

 It is kind of cliche but people change. It is true though. People gain new experiences and can completely change their whole view on life. In the beginning of Macbeth he says that if chance will king me then chance will crown me but then he goes and kills everyone 

Monday 1 hour- writing and producing song

Thursday 1 hour - blackboard discussion board 

(not total hours for all work)

 

Reading times

Monday 20 minutes studying for poetry test
Sunday 10 minutes studying for poetry test
30 minutes total class reading
30 minutes free reading Saturday
20 minutes Sunday , free reading
10 Thursday free reading

Poem

Wake up in the morning to a groggy sloppy, alarm
Bleeping with a repetition of blaring horns
Eyes crusty, with the attack of the sandman
Bright lights cracking through the dusty windows
Blaring into my eyes, pain-
Ful of joy to start the day
New, given by God
A gift, the present, We say that we are
Thankful for the things we have yet
Regretting these simply, hard times
Time, do not have a lot, but
Want it to pass, looking forward to a day,
But never back, remembering the happy and the pain,
Never the normal days, when it was just
Okay.
The normal, never different,
Un-deifying , good or bad
To early to think about, with all the
Lag

Times

Wednesday : 1 ATD posts 20 minutes
Thursday : 3 ATD posts 70 minutes
(not positive about the days but I think)
Tuesday: class reading 10 minutes
Friday: class reading 10 minutes
Wednesday: class reading 10 minutes

Research Draft

I feel okay about this draft. I am not sure if I am confident enough to get a lot of points on this but I am always nervous for things that are a lot of points. I am concerned that I will be able to score a lot of points on this project. Staring the paper was pretty easy and it go hard when I had to put in the very specific details but when I was starting it was easy to put down the obvious and the main ideas. The grammar is not good in the paper, that  can be fixed but I want to know if the ideas are clear and the paper flows well and is ordered correctly.

The paper at first seemed like an impossible task. Even when we were doing the later steps it still seemed like an "uhh" project that would be not fun at all. It wasn't a blast but once I had got through the rough parts like writing the meat of the paper it wasn't that bad. It was good though that it was over the snow break, taught me an important lesson over non-procrastination. When you finish early it feels so good.

Log
Tuesday 1 Hour, Paper, page 1-2
Wednesday ,page 2-3, 1 hour
Thursday 4-5,hour
Saturday 6, forty five minutes

Class reading added up 45 minutes
15 minutes at home reading Wednesday

Sneaux Day Post

Well the snow days have just messed up everything. The days are weird now, I feel that we need some time to recuperate back to school (If that made sense?). I wonder what it will be like to have a full week of school. I love having not to wake up early for three days. The virtual school was also very nice. Why can't we have like a virtual Friday where we do the same thing as that. I stinks though that if you didn't do work you would get a Saturday school.

The virtual school day consisted of waking up about 9 o'clock. then warm up some frozen waffles or some good ole home cooking. Then watch some t.v. or check the twitter to check whether or not I have school tomorrow. Then I would log on to the Episcopal web page and sign into my episcopal. Then I would check the homework and do some work. Then I would go pay on the play station. Then go do some more homework. I would finish with a night of sleeping.

Reading record for 1/27/14

Sorry it was late I forgot about it.

Research 1 hour 10 minutes
Part time life 50 minutes

Informal and Formal Topic discussion

An informal topic discussion to my friend would be, in older Russia about 1910-1938 a man named Joseph Stalin went into power in Russia. This was after Lenin had done all he could to incorporate Communism into the Russian government. Now the reason communism sounded like such a good idea to the Russian people was because there past ruler Tsar Nicholas II (Tsar mean King). With Nicholas II he was a very poor ruler in that he didn't rule his people. He didn't fund many things and many bad things happened. So the country was in a poor state already but then the Germans invaded. So Nicholas II went to war and his country fell into an even poorer state.  Transportation shut down so the country side couldn't transport their foodstuff to the Russian people. This with inflation caused many Russian people to starve. This is why Communism sounded so good. So Lenin  started this rise for Communism. Then basically Stalin went into power and messed up everything.

A formal discussion to a class would start with, In Russian during the 1910-1938 the quality of Russia's government and economy was in very poor condition. The government was run by a king or Tsar. The current Tsar in the position in this time was Tsar Nicholas II. He was a very poor ruler that really didn't rule anything at all. He had a wife that dominated him and made all of the important decisions regarding day to day life in Russian, and most of these decisions were poor decision too. Then things got worse when the Germans invaded. Nicolas went off to war and let his wife control the government. The wife was then controlled by Rasputin a senator of the government. Then he replaced current senators with inexperienced friends and this didn't help. Then with no money going to important things like transportation the train system shut down. This caused the farmers in the outer country to not be able to transport bread and other foodstuffs. Also during this inflation of the Ruble  the cost of a price of bread rose by 4 times. Now with all of this increase the workers saw no increase in pay. Then Lenin came in with his idea of Communism and that dominated. Then after Lenin had taken over the government and he died Stalin quickly rose to power. Then he installed a dictatorship, ruined everything, killed 7 million people with his purges, and under funded his army causing any more people to die on the battle field.

Reading record

Diary of a part time Indian, 1 hour 10 minutes
Research Project 50 minutes

Research, research, research. Explain your topic, why should we care about it, and what specifically is on your research to-do list this week?

My topic is the Russia revolution and the rights and responsibilities of Joseph Stalin. This is a very important topic in Russia history. This is the beginning of the Communism in Russia. This is because of the Russia royal family during the war cause the price of everything to go up. Even with this the pay of the Russian workers say no increase. So a new system that had everyone sharing the wealth sounded good to the people.

In the start everything was going good. Lenin leading the revolution everything was good. It started to go bad when Lenin died and Joseph Stalin took power. He installed the dictatorship, killed so many of his own people and supported Hitler during the Holocaust. Some research says that he killed 8 million more people that Hitler. Either way you put it not nice guys.

1 hour, Diary of a Part Time Indian
1 hour, Bibliography

Deven: Write about one interpretation of evil and then write about how you see this interpretation.

"Evil is inherit to the human mind, what ever innocence may cloak it. " -William Golding

If I were to say that there was only one form of evil that I believe that would be a lie, an evil. Evil comes in many shapes and sizes like goo, but I want to know what is the difference between bad and evil. What could someone do that make that thing evil and not bad. Evil is based on perception. How one person views something as evil is a very big factor in that. Perception is very important because it separates one person views from another, but my view of evil I would say, as the worst is taking the life of another.

I am not really sure how I am supposed to interpret this but I guess I will take the point of perspective. For me to say that is the number evil is from my point of view and where I am in my life. Someone who is more religious than me might say not worshiping someone god. Again the view that you take from that person and what their experiences are shape that person. That whats is so great about having a conscious mind. That why I think taking that away is the worst evil.