TPCASTT- Woman Work

Title- woman work seems pretty self explanatory, women do much more work than assumed.
Paraphrase-

Shine on me, sunshine

Rain on me, rain

Fall softly, dewdrops

And cool my brow again.
i like this part of the poem because she talks about everything she needs to do and it randomly switches over to talk about weather but i took it as anything that comes her way she's willing to deal with.
Connotation- 

Storm, blow me from here

With your fiercest wind

Let me float across the sky

'Til I can rest again.
and then this part seems to prove the opposite, wishing the storm to take her away from her responsibilities, and relax for a bit and not have to deal with her chores until she can rest for just a bit. 
Attitude- i love it because it reminds me of my mom, having to put up with daily life and every thing on top of that and i think the author just wanted to say that yeah moms are hardworkers but they know what needs to be done and still need a break like any normal human. 
Shift- 

Shine on me, sunshine

Rain on me, rain

Fall softly, dewdrops

And cool my brow again.

Storm, blow me from here

With your fiercest wind

Let me float across the sky

'Til I can rest again.

i think this was the shift because the beginning makes you sort of believe she's wonderwoman but then it's a reality shock that shes actually human and needs a break too. 

Title Revised-  i think it starts out with yeah a hard working woman who needs to perform all those duties but then it also shows how strong a woman needs to be mentally and physically to deal with all those duties she's given 

Theme- things might not be completely as they seem, that under a strong woman is a strong heart, brain, and soul.

Tobermory

People do anything to get rid of secrets

Watch what you say

Strive to be your best self even when you think no one would find out 

Majorities may go against you but it's okay to go against them 

SEEKING MENTOR

oh wow i've always wanted to try an internship but unfortunately santa maria doesn't really have any big corporations that i find myself interested in. maybe once i move out of this city, i'll find the perfect mentor. my mentor would need to be someone in journalism. maybe even a professor. it's hard to just be able to trust someone with having your back. that's why i kind of hoped i would meet my mentor though a family member. sadly i dont have any family in journalism or publishing. :( i would probably ask them the basics. how did you get where you are? any advice. i dont know >.<

BRAVE NEW WORLD ESSAY

     "Fake". A word commonly used among teenagers to describe a person who says one thing, yet proceeds to do another. Is someone who acts one way and feels a different way a coward? Or simply smart enough to protect oneself from the unpopular opinion of society which would lead to social suicide? Why not both? A character who immediately comes to mind is Bernard Marx, an a-plus alpha in the famous Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. Ironic Bernard was a protagonist in a book titled, BRAVE New World when he proved himself the opposite. He felt this claustrophobic society was sickening, wrong, yet he never did anything about it. So the question resumes, was Bernard really disgusted by this didactic society or was he angry he was an alpha and treated like an epsilon?
     There were many themes that could come out of Brave New World and to say Bernard was the only protagonist would be ridiculous. Bernard had complex characterization which led to many different point of views for the audience. Something that all audiences could agree on would be that Bernard did little to change anything he felt strongly about. The whole book was left for the audience to interpret for themselves, from the beginning with the fertilization lab to John the Savages' death. All the protagonists' had the same motif, to feel a certain way and ignore it. The only exception being John. Which leads to the main theme of the book. Being too scared to pursue a lifestyle that you truly long for, that would lead to your own happiness. Bernard wanted respect, Lenina wanted love, John wanted integrity.
    Aldous created a society that thrived on sex and drugs. Today's media also tends to thrive on sex, drugs, and scandals. Aldous was pegged as a genius for being able to write this book which foreshadows today's society a bit too well. Not in the obvious way of a dictatorship which people tend to believe as "utopia" but deeper. People's longings, desires, cravings being unacceptable to society. Homosexuality, recreational drugs, art, anything anyone can create because that's who they are. If it makes you happy, is it truly unacceptable? Is it fair for people to have mental breakdowns for having to hide the things that make them who they are? Assuming John took his life because he was disgusted by who he was turning into, he was entertainment for the people of the society he so badly desired. Once he realized he didn't want it, it wasn't who he was, he took a stand. Which is more than we can say about Bernard, who was all but too happy to leave the people to fend for themselves.

MASTERPIECE PRE

Y1) Hopefully kids my age will benefit because AMERICA is still as prejudice as it was hundreds of years ago and this generation needs to start being able to tell what's going on and tell their future kids to be aware. 

2) I'm creating an article. Possible print it out for kids in the class if you need to do an oral presentation. 

3) right now I'm in the process of interviews. The fun part of writing comes later. 

4) I don't really need any motivation to do this because it's something I enjoy but I'm just getting held back by studying for my other classes which I'm not doing so hot in. 

5) oh god okay 

LITERATURE ANALYSIS

I would like to apologize to Dr. Preston for getting this done so late. It's been on my to do list for a month now and I feel absolutely horrible! So I don't know if this is even acceptable but I heard a rumor we can do a modern book, if it's relatable to our senior project, which is great news because mine is! Never judge a book by a cover is so LAME. So of course I always did until recently, I picked up a twisted version of Alice in Wonderland (and no it's not because of my little crush on the Mad Hatter! Thanks for that Johnny Depp!) Anyway it's a gothic tale, like most fairytales until Disney ruined it. The main character is perceived as crazy because she sees things normal humans can't, which led to discrimination towards her and her friends :-)
1) So my book is called Splintered, it's a dark version of Alice in Wonderland. The protagonists' name is Alyssa and she's Alices' great-great-great granddaughter. Her family is known as "insane" because they see/talk to things other people can't. When she was younger, it was believed her mom attacked her and was thus put into a mental institution. When she hit 16 she began to experience the symptoms her family had experienced and she thought she was going crazy. One day she visits her mom and realizes she can actually communicate with her and finds out her mom isn't crazy at all but cursed. Her whole family is cursed and the only way to reverse it is by going down the rabbit hole. Alyssa finds the hole and ends up taking her best friend down with her, of course it's a boy whose tragically in love with her and vice versa. Although she's not quite sure she is COMPLETELY in love with him because she recognizes this voice that talks to her in her head. They travel into the hole and face trials and finally the find the voice. She ends up finding out it's her childhood best friend, whose also in love with her and she finds herself super attracted to him also. She tries to reverse the curse only to find out she's not cursed at all but was tricked by her best friend into coming back to him so that he can place her on the throne and save himself. She's heartbroken but in the end he sacrifices himself and she ends up with her human boyfriend (: BUT ALAS HE COMES BACK AND THAT'S WHY IT NEEDS TO BE SPRING BREAK SO I CAN READ THE NEXT ONE.
2) The theme of this novel is probably, don't be so naive to believe everything tells you.
3) The authors tone was definitely confusion. Alyssa was extremely confused throughout the book. She faced problems physically and mentally. Every time you thought you got a solution to one mystery, it ended up being some type of lie, so you questioned every decision that happened.
4)  Gothic tale- the setting, writing, imagery was very dark, mentally and violently.
Imagery- to describe a fantasy world takes a lot of description and she did that wonderfully.
Allusion- it obviously referenced the original Alice in Wonderland.
Irony- throughout the book she was referenced to as "mad" which she ended up being completely normal.
Ambiguity- everything that happened seemed to leave you with a question and you never got answers until you least expected them
Apologia- Morphesus (childhood friend) was like a definition of apologia, he was constantly apologizing in small ways because he knew he wasn't doing Alyssa right.
ASSUMPTION- OH MY GOSH HONESTLY THIS WHOLE BOOK WAS AN ASSUMPTION, YOU WERE GIVEN MANY STORIES WHICH ENDED UP BEING COMPLETE LIES UNTIL THE END. EXPLANATIONS ARE NEVER TRUE IN THIS BOOK.
Colloquialism- they used the funny way of talking that the characters did in the Disney movie, they used British slang, modern slang.
Dialectics- many, many of these because Alyssa was constantly trying to get answers that she never got with complete honesty.
Elegy- there was an elegy when Alyssa had to visit a graveyard and these two sisters live there and sing to the dead souls.
1) Direct characterization- Alyssa seemed like a bada**queen through her actions but through Indirect characterization you could tell she was struggling and she was confused on what she wanted.
2) I don't think the authors' syntax changed much when talking about a character, just her diction or tone.
3) Alyssa was definitely dynamic, she went in trying to save her family and left embracing her destiny of becoming the new Red Queen.
4) I WOULD LIKE TO DEDICATE THIS QUESTION TO THE AUTHORS' CHARACTERIZATION BECAUSE OHM YGOD IT WAS GREAT! it was one of those books that makes you hate your normal life and make it feels so bored but then you also leave questioning if your life is lie??? where's my rabbit hole??? she created these characters perfectly and I'm so excited to read the next book which will be from Morpheus' POV :D

Ha!

Oh of course there's a Shakespeare reference, No wonder Preston picked this book 😜

Aldous Huxley Interview Essay

Overpopulation

Propaganda

Technology

Overpopulation led to a disgusting way of controlling how human beings were to be produced. Overpopulation is a huge problem today because we have so many people, not enough people dying, and with global warming upon us, I wouldn't be surprised if we had to depend upon a certain type of producing, a more controlled way. Propaganda can be powerful. People tend to believe everything they see or hear on social media, newspapers, the radio. Whether propaganda is used for good or bad, people tend to believe whatever they WANT to. Makes me skinny? Eat it. Makes me fat? Burn it. It's used to control people's thinking. It's especially dangerous for children because their minds are still impressionable and they'll think the way people want them to think. Technology advances will always be know as "future" solutions. Anything that can do something for humans, so that humans don't have to do it, is all of a sudden called technology. We can never stop technology from progressing because humans are imperfect, they're greedy, and power hungry. They will produce anything to make life easier, faster, and cheaper. The more money, means more happiness. Which is sad, because we see all these things happening, now and back in the 50's. It's simply gotten worse, and it will never stop getting worse.