FIRST IMPRESSION OF A DREAM

While reading "A Dream Within a Dream" I didn't quite understand it so I had to reread it a couple of times for me to understand. What I understood from this is that the sand that is getting away is like time and how time passes quickly it shows how at the end of our lives we may think of life as a dream. Our life may be great, sad, bad, or confusing, but in the end it will all seem like it went by too fast like how a dream does. This poem makes me feel like I should be doing more exciting things, things that make me happy, not wasting my time of unnecessary things. I want my life to end with me knowing that I did something to impact the world or peoples lives positively.

MY ESSAY ESSAY

I believe that Goodman Brown was dreaming when he went for a "walk". I believe that he is getting some type of signal from his conscious that everyone is not as innocent as they pretend to be. I think that all the leaders in government and church are not in the night forest with the devil.

YOUNG OLD GOOD BAD

I believe that Stephen King was affected by this story because this story shows that even the most kind and innocent person you know always has a bad side to them. This can say that we will never fully know the true colors of those around us. All we will ever know is what they choose to show us.

Young Goodman Brown Questions

1. I think Hawthorne's purpose for writing this story is to show that even the most innocent or nicest person you know has a dark side you could have never imagined.
2. I agree that Faith's name fits her personality because she's a caring person and loves her husband dearly. In the end Brown doesn't have faith in her because he did not greet her back.
3. The pink ribbon mean how good and innocent Faith is.
4. I believe that everything Brown witnessed was a dream because there was a passage that said " Had Goodman Brown fallen asleep in the forest, and only dreamed a wild dream of a witch meeting?" which means that if he had dreamed that then he wouldn't have dreamed about the devil disguised as a man.
5. I believe that the old man is actually the devil because in the text "But the only thing about him, that could be fixed upon as remarkable, was his staff which bore likeness of a great black snake " a snake represent evil and deception.
6. The staff are snakes and they represent evil and temptation. I believe that the staff make him keep on going because at one point they tell him if he's tired then he can use the staff to help him.
7. I believe that if Brown had not ventured through the forest then he would have stayed the same because the forest is what made him look at everything so much more differently. Brown would have still trusted everyone and everything.

Literature Analysis (Fiction) QUESTIONS

Book Title: We Are Okay by Nina LaCour

In this book Marin( main character) is a young woman who had left everything behind to forget her painful past after her only family had died. She ran from her reality and went to her new  college in New York somewhere where no one knew her or of her past. Her best friend comes to visit her for 3 days in hopes to convince Marin to move into her parents house for her breaks. Marin does not want to go back to her hometown somewhere where it is filled with memories. I feel like the the theme is grief because she is not grieving as she should. She doesn't seem to want to accept that her grandfather is really dead and in order to do that she pretends as if it never happened and tries to forget about it. Based on the authors tone I feel like she is someone who has probably gone through some very hard things in her life. She is more of a night person than a morning person someone who drinks when she's having a hard time and eats whatever is easiest to cook like toast with avocado, scrambled eggs, etc. 

THE MEDIUM IS THE MESSAGE

I have always thought that at least one person has looked through my messages I've never doubted it. What I learned is that to keep my email or other accounts secure I have to change each password every 30 days. Even though it sounds easy to change it I always have trouble memorizing passwords and especially if I have to change it often, but i'll do it to keep my information secure.

FOR THE WIN

Something that i'm really proud of is being able to express how I feel about certain things in my journal. It's somewhere where I don't have to feel like it's an assignment that has to get done. For me it's something where I can say what I truly feel.

I AIN'T GOT TIME FOR THIS

I am someone who is usually always busy after school. If i'm not home then i'm usually at club/organization meetings or doing some type of community service. It's what I love to do, but sometimes it can get stressing especially if I have a lot of homework. My day starts by waking up at 6 in the morning going to the bus at 6:30, go to my second period and then go through all my classes. When it comes to after school if I can I take the bus home, but if I have something to do that day then I go to the Mrs.Patty's office and hang out there with my friends and talk until it's time for a meeting or community service. I usually get home late and do some of my homework. If  my brother decides to take me to school (doesn't happen all the time) I get to sleep around 6 to 7 hours but if I take the bus then I sleep 5 to 6 hours depending on what time I go to sleep. I usually have fun though so that's what keeps me from being extremely tired.

TODAY I WAS THINKING

• Mindfulness-a mental state achieved by focusing one's awareness on the present moment, while calmly acknowledging and accepting one's feelings, thoughts, and bodily sensations, used as a therapeutic technique

I think that the one minute of mindfulness is a great idea because throughout the day we all go through stressful classrooms and sometimes feel like we're not completely there. I think that a lot of people usually just tell themselves "let's get through this class and go to the next" and then usually feel like their mind is there but not all of them. The one minute of mindful thinking makes me feel like i'm completely present in the classroom.

The Earth on The Turtle's Back

• This story is a myth
• A myth is a story that explains something that we don't understand

This story tells us that we can accomplish our dreams no matter how big they are they are all achievable . I honestly believe that this is true because there are many people out there that have worked really hard to get to where they are right now. 

SO THIS GUY GOES FOR A WALK

This story paints a good picture in my head all I see while i'm reading it is these really tall trees with fog all around them, owls ,crickets, and water dripping down onto fallen leaves.The main character does seem really paranoid when he is going through he forest. When a serpent was brought up I remembered about the Garden of Eden because in the Garden of Eden a serpent represents the devil and deception.

THE FIRST 50 PAGES

Book: WE ARE OKAY by Nina LaCour

This book is quite interesting. When I first saw it I thought that the cover was kinda cool. When I read what it was about I wondered if it was going to be a good book. As I started reading it it was okay, but there wasn't any type of emotion from the character. She spoke with no emotions I figured she's depressed because of the way she is living and how she talks about the things around her as if it has no real meaning. As I got closer to reading almost the first 50 pages I realized that this book is actually quite interesting. From what I understand of this character she doesn't want to deal with her reality so she ran away and tries not to think about it until her best friend comes to visit her and talks about her deceased grandpa trying to make her face her reality. What I really like about it is that it points out an unhealthy coping mechanism that people turn to in real life.

HACK TO SCHOOL

What is this class about?

I believe that this class is about finding what inspires us and being ourselves whether it be online or offline.

What is the easiest part of this class?

I think that easiest thing about this class is our daily journals because they always get me thinking deeper and I don't have to rush to finish it everyday.

What is the hardest part of this class?

The hardest part would be the multiple blogs we have to do and memorizing poems.

What have you learned so far?

Iv'e learned to think deeper about other things and to question them.

What is your big question?

My big question is why do we have to go to school for years to only go back to school if you want to work a couple of decades to retire and then die?

COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES OF A HACKER

As I was reading "Conscience of a Hacker" all I could really wonder is what got him to start thinking like how he does? I'm not saying he shouldn't, but I would genuinely like to know when or if he's always thought the way he has. What I have noticed is the way he conveys his message by the use of tones; repeatedly saying "damn" criticizing and identifying others. The way the author uses syntax could get others to wonder how we as teenagers are too because of how the hacker points out the things he dislikes of people his/her age.

I CARE ABOUT YOUR UNDERSTANDING

For this post I chose to rewrite my welcome post. I went back to read it and I was not satisfied with how it came out. I want others to understand what I really meant when I wrote it.

 Welcome.
Hello everyone :) I hope this blog becomes my safe space; somewhere where I get to express my opinions. I am person who really cares about what is going on in this world and wants to make a change. Although I can't completely change it right now I hope one day to actually have impacted many lives in the future( in a good way that is :)). I hope that the reader feels free to comment on any of my posts and tell me what they think of my posts ( tell me whats wrong or how to fix it especially :)).

THE MAKING OF AN ESSAY

Notes:

• Montaigne
• the word essay in french means to try
• Essay for this course is to try to make yourself understood

Response
 For me I kinda like writing essays but not really. The part I don't like is the planning part of the essay especially having to find evidence and giving an example. However, I do like when i'm done with the planning and actually start writing then getting into writing the essay to the point where I lose track of time.

EVERYTHING IS A REMIX

Notes:

• A remix is to combine or edit existing materials 
• You don't need great skills to remix
• almost everything is a remix
• You can always see pieces of the original stuff in the new one
• Creativity is considered divine
• Expect something that is like no other

-How do we create?

• domain knowledge
• copying
• transforming 
• combinations

CONSCIENCE OF A HACKER

I thought the " conious of a hacker" was very interesting because the auther often repeated lines like"They're all alike" this prase made the main character sound annoyed. The main charcter would often repeat "Damn" making sound pissed about everything. The author made this character unique by not making her/him like everyone else. I wonder why he was so mad at just about everything. 

GETTING TO KNOW YOU

I feel like getting to know someone is important because it is better than judging them without any reason. Instead of judging someone based on their looks, or actions we should first get to know them as a person and then think if we like them or not. What we did in class was actually quite fun we got to know some interesting facts about people that we never could've guessed. We always assume things rather than actually finding out especially in people and that could always turn out bad.

TODAY I ASKED A QUESTION

My big qustion is why do people always have the need to be superior to at least someone or something? When we were children we loved asking questions we were always curious about everything. Now that we have grown up we avoid asking questions. In Gordon Mackenzie's book, Orbiting the Giant Hairball, he explains how he observed a class full of 1st graders and when asked a question all of them sprung out of their chairs excitedly. He also explained that as he asked the same question to each grade going up less and less students would rais their hands.