Launch/Masterpiece

My career goal is to major in Mechanical Engineering. In order to do this I will have to max out my learning in calculus and physics. To get some experience with mechanical engineering I will be attending the weekly long tour at Cal Poly this summer so I can get some actual experiences and information from the field. I will need to stay focused and continue to work hard to achieve my goal.

I, Jury

Mia: Your essay is good with a lot of information. I like how the introduction has some background on Huxley.

Ian: I think that your thesis is strong.

Lesther: I like how you use thinkers because it refers to thinkers in the past, present, and the future.

Kylie: I like how you compare your ideas to today's society.

The essays that I read are well written and have good information. In the essays I discovered that they each have a comparison to Brave New World and today's world. I thought that was good while proving there points. I also compared today;s society with Brave New Worlds society.

Brave New Essay

Essay Topic: Describe the elements of our real-time world that you think relate-- or don't-- to Huxley's Brave New one.

      The elements in Brave New World may seem different to our real-time world. However, the elements in the book are camouflaged. The concepts of the elements are the same but the way they are taught and done are different.
      Teaching is extremely important in every society whether it be in today's society or on Brave New World's society. The concept of teaching is to learn new things and in our world we learn in a classroom and get detention if we do things wrong. In Brave New World the way of teaching is more crude and nobody questions why they teach that way. An example is when the children are in the room and they here a loud noise when they begin to do something. These two concepts are similar because they both involve learning to keep everything balanced. This is all a part of how we get into are own social classes. 
      In Brave New World Huxley categorizes the characters into alpha's, beta's, and deltas. The alphas and betas are the two that are in charge and get to do more than others while the deltas are at the bottom of the chain. This is similar to our real-time society because we are categorized as upper, middle, and lower classes. Much like the alphas and betas the upper and middle classes get to do more than the lower class.
      There is plenty of parallelism in Brave New World and in our real-time world. Huxley does a good job of showing us this by relating basic elements we use everyday into Brave New World.

Brave New Essay Topic

It seems undeniable that most World State members are happy, but at what cost? Some, like John, Bernard, and Helmholtz criticize the quality of life in the World State.  Consider the results of stability being privileged over freedom, and decide what, if anything, is wrong with the World State’s society.
  
Analyze the character of Bernard Marx.  In what ways is he admirable? In what ways is he less than admirable?  Overall, how would you characterize his motivations and actions?  Explore the function his character plays in the novel. What purpose does he serve?

I would go about the first prompt by getting more information on how the characters see themselves. This will give me information about there lives and if they see themselves as being happy. I would base the way they live and tie it into there freedom.

I would answer the second prompt by showing how Bernard has some humanity in the story. This is uncommon in the book.  

I Am Here

The end of the grading period is coming up soon and I feel like I have done well. I am trying hard in my assignments so that why I can better myself. I have made my senior project my masterpiece and have been working on it. It is going to take time but is coming together piece by piece.

Welcome To The Interdisciplinarity

My goal is to become a mechanical engineer and there are several things that I am going to need and have to do.

• Calculus
• Physics 
• Good with hands
• Understand moving parts
• Information from those who are experts
• Collaborating with others who share the same interest regarding mechanical engineering

Hafta/Wanna

School is important to my life and I see myself continuing with school after I graduate from high-school. I expect it to be harder than high-school and I am preparing for it. I see it as being very similar to now because I will still need to do things in order to pass the class and actually come away with something. Current habits will always be in play and it is important to work on these habits now so that way they are good habits. I expect it to be a nice and interesting ride as I continue with my education and life.

Lit Terms #6

simile

• Comparing two things using the words like or as.

soliloquy

• an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, esp. by a character in a play

spiritual

•  of, relating to, or affecting the human spirit or soul as opposed to material or physical things.

speaker

• A speaker who speakes

stereotype

• a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.

stream of consciousness

• a person's thoughts and conscious reactions to events, perceived as a continuous flow

structure

•  construct or arrange according to a plan; give a pattern or organization to

style

• A way of doing something.

subordination

•  the action or state of subordinating or of being subordinate.

surrealism

•  a 20th-century avant-garde movement in art and literature that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind

 symbol

•  A deeper meaning of something

synesthesia

•  the production of a sense impression relating to one sense or part of the body by stimulation of another sense or part of the body.

synecdoche

•  a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa, as in Cleveland won by six runs (meaning “Cleveland's baseball team”).

syntax

• The style of writing

theme

• The main idea.

thesis

• The overall message of what is going on.

tone

•  The attitude towards the piece of work.

tongue in cheek

•  without really meaning what one is saying or writing.

tragedy

• a play dealing with tragic events and having an unhappy ending, esp. one concerning the downfall of the main character.

understatement

•  the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is.

vernacular

•  the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region.

voice

•  express (something) in words

zeitgeist

• the defining spirit or mood of a particular period of history as shown by the ideas and beliefs of the time.

Lit Terms #5

parallelism

•  In writing or in speech, parallelism is the use of components in a sentence that are grammatically same or similar in their construction, sound, meaning or meter.

parody

•  Parody is an imitation of a particular writer, artist or a genre exaggerating it deliberately to produce a comic effect

pathos

•  Pathos is a quality of an experience in life or a work of art that stirs up emotions of pity, sympathy and sorrow. Pathos can be expressed through words, pictures or and even with gestures of the body.

pedantry

•  excessive concern with minor details and rules.

personification

•  the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

plot

• The main events in a piece of work.

poignant

• evoking a keen sense of sadness or regret.

point of view

•  a particular attitude or way of considering a matter.

postmodernism

•  a late-20th-century style and concept in the arts, architecture, and criticism that represents a departure from modernism and has at its heart a general distrust of grand theories and ideologies as well as a problematical relationship with any notion of “art.”

prose

• written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure.

protagonist

• the good guy in a story.

pun

•  a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings.

purpose

•  the reason for which something is done or created or for which something exists.

realism

•  the quality or fact of representing a person, thing, or situation accurately or in a way that is true to life.

refrain

•  stop oneself from doing something.

requiem

•  a Mass for the repose of the souls of the dead

resolution

•  A firm decision to do something.

restatement

•  A revised statement.

rhetorical question

•  a statement that is formulated as a question but that is not supposed to be answered.

rising action

• the events leading to the climax.

romanticism

•  a movement in the arts and literature that originated in the late 18th century, emphasizing inspiration, subjectivity, and the primacy of the individual

satire

•  to expose and criticize foolishness and corruption of an individual or a society by using humor.

scansion

• The analysis of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem in order to establish its metre.

setting

• Were the story takes place.

The Time of My Life

Today in class my group and I had specific tasks to accomplish. I feel that we did do just that because we have a good conversation with what was going on. We took notes on what we though was important and all contributed.