Vocab #9 Remix

Bosom: Intimate, close to the heart


Prudently: Wise or judicial in practical affairs


Inveterate: Habit that won't likely change



Propensity: natural tendency


Repose: state of rest


Stripling: Youth


Sequester: isolated


Purport: intend

Imbibed: taking in an idea


Apparition: supernatural


Incessant: ongoing


Cognomen: name


Reverie: Trance


Gambol: Frolic


Spectre: ghost


tarry:  linger

Hessian: german soldiers

Novel Synopsis

My story is about a girl named Kamiisha Taylor. Her character is built off of bits and pieces of both my and my close friends experience. All events in her story were true events that were lived in my friends lives.

Kamiisha Taylor is a beautiful 17 year old musician who lives in Wisconsin. She attends Liberty High School and lives quite the extravagant lifestyle. Any normal person would think she had it all, the grades, looks and popularity, who wouldn't want to be in her shoes? But everything isnt as it seems for Kamiisha. Ever since she was four years old she hasnt seen her father, he took everything they had and left never to be seen again, leaving her mom bitter and broken-hearted. Her mom blamed Kamiisha for her fathers departure and left her and her older sister Mariah at a foster home for three years. Her mother would constantly call for Mariah, telling her not to blame her sister and to stay strong until she came back. Over the years Mariah grew hateful towards her and by the time her mother returned for them it was as if she was invisible. Both Mariah and her mom constantly abuse her both physically and mentally. Its hard but with the support of her best friends Kamiisha can fight on. Though her family is broken and her pain is deep her acquisition for knowledge is impervious.  Will she be able to overcome these obstacles and make it to the college of her dreams?

Information about Kamiisha:

* Plays piano and violin

*Best friends are Ellias and Tiana

*Main friends: Tiana, Ellias, Marcus, Jennifer, Kiara and Isaiah

*Struggles throughout story: Unsupportive family, abusive home, low self esteem, and of course every high school girls has to have a little boy drama (; 

*4.0 GPA, Well known around school.

*Housing life is kept a secret

*Has many mental battles

*Supported by her teachers and church family

*Not confident in herself

EDIT: Vocab #8

 flout: to openly disregard 
 caveat: exception
 blazon:  adorn 
 filch: to steal casually 
 fractious: bad tempered; easily irritated
 equitable: fair or impartial
 autonomy: Independence
 addendum: in addition
 amnesty: forgiveness for a pass offense; official pardon
 axiomatic: self-evident; unquestionable
 extricate: free from constraint or difficulty
 soporific: medicine inducing sleep
 scathing: critical or scornful.
 unwieldy: difficult to carry or move because of size; awkward
 vapid: boring; not stimulating or challenging 
 prognosticate: foretell a future event
 sepulchral: gloomy or dismal
 salutary: positive effect; beneficial
 straitlaced: extremely strict.
 scourge: a whipped used as punishment
 precept: A rule used to regulate.
 transient: impermanent 

Self Reliance Video

Self Reliance Remix
Information from :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq_Gt5GIznI
http://www.emersoncentral.com/selfreliance.htm

Picture from Google


Youtube Link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DBYnnqC4UI&feature=plcp

Nothing But The Beat

Honestly i figured out how the course was connected to this video within the first 30 minutes.  It clearly connected with self- reliance. David Guetta did something that was unheard of, by relying on his ideas and thoughts he turned something that was looked down on into something that is around the world. People tried to push him down but the "strings" in his heart were as hard as "iron" *Hint hint!!* and he managed to make his American dream into a reality. It also ties to Romanticism and the Romantics, David Guettas new genre was looked down on many times before people caught on to it because the music he was altering was seen as a "religious dogma" in a sense, nobody questioned why music was the way it was, if they liked it they went with it. But to sum off my little paragraph I'm just gonna get the the point,  David Guetta's self-reliance was the reason why he was able to become who he is.

Ad hominem

Ad Hominem:  argument appealing to emotions instead of logic

I heard a mother and a daughter arguing about self hygiene the daughter was telling the mother she had no need to shower everyday because it took a few days for her body to produce an odor so showering wasn't a necessity. Her mom was trying to tell her that showering everyday was part of personal hygiene and its important that she keeps up on it and the entire time her daughter was getting defensive saying how showering every day isn't of importance this ad hominem was quite blatant but very interesting to listen to.

Self Reliance

1.  Discuss the meaning of the verse in the beginning of the essay.
Every man is their own person who possesses the power to rise above the expectations of others

2. Looking at the entire essay what does Emerson mean by self reliance?
Trust yourself, dont doubt and question yourself.
"The need for an individual to avoid conformity and alse consistency and follow his or her instincts and ideas."

3. Interpret the first sentence: What does every person realize at some moment of their education?
That you must better yourself to make it in the world.

4. Interpret the following quotes: "The eye was placed where one way should fall, that it may testify of that particular ray"
Where you put your focus on is whats intensified.

5.What does Emerson mean by the divine idea which each of us represents?
I feel Emerson is saying we are all individuals, we all stand for and represent different things

6. Explain the significance of the "iron string".
Iron is one of the strongest types of metals. Hes saying to guard our hearts heavily so we can defend ourselves from attacks of the world.

7. Define transcendentalism
To surpass others expectations

8.Interpret this quote: "security everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of the members."
Society causes restraints on people by stripping us of our opinion *Transcendentalism*

9. The virtue in most requests is conformity, self reliance is its aversion.
The best was i can describe this quote is that self reliance is stepping out of peoples comfort ones and doing the untold.

10. Interpret the metaphor: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen, philosophers and divines."
An idiotic habit is foolish and the easiest to manipulate

11. Discuss the use of the simile: "Words as hard as cannon balls."
I feel like this the same as the famous quote "Words can be the most powerful of weapons" because your words can and will affect someone.

Vocab List #7

ad infinitum: infinity
The thought of ad infinitum gives me a headache.
 apportion: approval
* I need my moms approbation to get a piercing.
 bona fide: genuine 
 Romeos love for Juliet was bona fide.
buoyant: to keep afloat
* A boat must have bouyancy in order to float.
 clique:a small group of people who share the same interests
* You can find me with my clique in the Greek Theatre at lunch.
 concede:to admit
* i conceded to cheating on the test.
 congenial: pleasant personalities
* My friends are known to be very congenial.
 lofty: proud
* My feelings towards my piano recital was lofty and content .
 migration: seasonal movement
* The ducks migrate every year.
 perceive: realization
 * After  studying the vocabulary it was easy for my to perceive the story of Young Goodman Brown.
 perverse: unacceptable behavior
*His manners were considered pervese at the resturant.
 prelude: introduction
 * Bach's perlude in C is a beautiful piano piece.
 rancid: unpleasent smell or taste
  * The milk became rancid
rustic: simplicity
 *The design of the house gave it a rustic complement.
 sever: break off
* She severed all ties with her mother after the abuse
 sordid: unethical
 * Murder is an unethical crime
 untenable: indefensible
 * His crimes were severely untenable 
 versatile: able to adapt
 * You have to be versatile to join the military 
 vindicate: defend or justify
 * She chose to vindicate her rights and start a petition 
 wane: decline
 *His grades began to wane as his study habits grew weaker

LAQ's: Tyrell and Catcher on the Rye

Please read after the jump.

Walden Translation

I went into the woods so i could live freely, to reveal the importance of life. Not to learn anything, but because i knew it would help me become more didactic  so that i could live with no regrets. I didnt want to give up on life, i wanted to live life to the fullest and to live it on the edge so i can gain more experience in life, because when you live a petulant mindset you will never be able to fully live. Many people live their lives in a cursory fashion and become conclusive with a misconstrued understanding of life.

Yet still we live as curmudgeon and continue to make error upon error and receive hit by hit so that our virtue has become belabored  with an interceded dread. Our lives have been wasted by meticulousness. An honest man barely has to do anything. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!! 

Study Strategy

Monday - Wednesday: Read words and try to learn 4 vocabulary words every hour (2 vocab lists a day) Study remaining and review Vocabulary before bed. Send a reminder text to Emily and Shelbi to make sure they have studied. Refresh memory in the morning.
Thursday: Review all vocabulary throughout the day and quiz self at night. Refresh memory in the morning and send an encouragement/reminder text.
Friday: CUPCAKES FOR ANYBODY WHO GETS AN 80% OR HIGHER :)