A HUG IS NEARLY A GUN SPELLED BACKWARD

A HUG IS NEARLY A GUN SPELLED BACKWARD

 

Many might agree with E.M. Forster when he stated that personal relations are more important than causes or patriotism. What do you personally think about this? Are personal relations really more important than patriotism, or is it the opposite? I personally think that personal relations are more important than patriotism, here’s why. Patriotism means “love that people feel for their country,” as the Merriam Webster dictionary says. As you can see there, patriotism is just the love towards your country, which to me doesn’t seem that important. Now, personal relations are “close connections between people, formed by emotional bonds and interactions,” as the online dictionary says. This seems to grab more my attention, due to the fact that is mentions “connections between people.” Now to answer the question, Agree or disagree with E.M. Forster's view that personal relations are more important than causes or patriotism? I would say that I do agree with E.M. Foster’s statement. I do agree that personal relations are more important than patriotism because it’s something that most of us humans have in common and can connect with. With personal relations we bond, love one another, connect, and many more with family, friends, and partners. When in patriotism you can only share your facts and/or affection towards your country.

To begin with, you can see personal relations between family, like mostly every day. Personal relations are seen in families when they express their love towards one another. As many might know, some families don’t even show love, but there are other ways that they show personal relations. For example, when a family is bonding in any way, no matter how but them being together and them spending time as a family, in a positive way of course. You can’t really see patriotism in families, unless they love talking about their love towards their country, which I don’t think they do, maybe. With personal relation a family comes together as one person. In less words, personal relation is like the pillar that holds the family together, in my own personal opinion. It can also be seen between friends. Friends bond with each other mostly every day, they come together to appreciate that they have each other. Personal opinions can also be seen between partners. Partners build up affection and love, which shows how personal relations takes place. Personal relation is seen and experienced by others every day, no matter the occasion.

Next, patriotism is quite different from personal relations as I mentioned before. I would consider myself not much of a patriotic person. You may wonder why, so here’s why. I know that patriotism comes around when people celebrate a holiday from their country. For example, in America most of the people celebrate the 4^th of July big. That’s the time of the year when everyone shows patriotism, their love towards their own country of whom they are proud of. Patriotism isn’t really something of much meaning, people might not even know much about their country. There might be some persons out there in the world that show patriotism in a daily basis, not just by saying the Pledge of Allegiance but in a different way. We all show patriotism everyday but it’s probably only once per day, maybe even just for 5 minutes, that is when we say the Pledge of Allegiance. Many don’t know the main facts about the United States, which isn’t bad.

Lastly, patriotism and personal relations might have different definitions to them, but they have some things in common. They share the fact that they both bring persons together as one. It can bring them together either by discussing how they feel about something or how they feel towards each other. They don’t have many similarities, but I’ll try my best to say most. They provide communication towards persons and their family, friends, and/or partner. They both also show love towards something. People can bond with each other, some people love talking about their love for their country and no, it’s not weird it’s called being different. It’s like me just talking about my love for agriculture every day, which I kind of do. Anyways, those are all the similarities that I could think of.

Clearly, I agree with E.M. Forster's view that personal relations are more important than causes or patriotism. Personal relations show more affection between people and can share more facts towards basically anything. Even though both show love towards something personal relation would still be my choice. Expressing yourself in such a way towards something besides a country might be hard with patriotism. I know I already stated my opinion to what I think is more important, but that doesn’t mean that other think the same as me. Every single person has different opinion towards things and also a different way of thinking. To connect with the title, hugs come in helpful no matter the occasion. We all need them once in a while, or even if we don’t need them we still get at least one. Hugs helps you stay connected and close to the people you care about!

   

WHEN LOGIC FAILS

10 Logical Fallacies:

* Hillary Clinton spoke about the retroactive classification of more than 2,000 emails she sent on her personal server
* Straw Man
*  Argument directed at the person
*  Because of China & Mexico we don't have jobs
*  Trump blamed 9/11 on George W. Bush
*  Trump repeating himself over & over again
* Red Herring
* They both kept getting off topic
* Dismiss a claim because of it being absurd without providing any evidence
* Ad Hominem

MISTAKES FOR PRESIDENT

Well............ I am now watching the Presidential Debate and in my opinion I think it's getting really intense after something is said by either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump. I know there's a lot of logical fallacies in this debate but here are the ones I caught.....

-Hillary says that Donald never says what he's going to do, if he decided to bomb a country it'll be a surprise. She says how we have to be precise about when they talk about those kind of issues.

Donald Trump's words towards Clinton
-She has no business ability, she claimed to have great power when she doesn't
-she doesn't have the look, stamina
-tremendous stamina to be president of the U.S.
-be able to negotiate with japan
-precise about they talk about those issues
-she has bad experience
-the U.S. cant handle another 4 years of bad experience

Hillary Clinton's words towards Trump
pregnancy is an inconvenient to employers
women in a beauty contest, called women a piggy and a housekeeper because she is a Latina

Hillary's words
-she supports democracy, sometimes you win sometimes you loose
-the election is about us, our family not much about them
the future depends on the people

Donald's Trump's words
-a nation that is in trouble

Extra Facts-
-Donald Trump blamed 9/11 on George W. Bush

SOMETIMES MY MIND

I sometimes think if life would be different without social media, or even phones. How will the world act towards each other and stuff if they didn't have the tendency to be using their phones every once in a while.

News Story Editorial

Watch video: Believe it or not! This cow pees gold

This is the editorial to the news- http://m.mid-day.com/articles/watch-video-believe-it-or-not-this-cow-pees-gold/17385185

LITERARURE ANALYSIS RESPONSE

"Top Ten Uses  for an Unworn Prom Dress"

By Tina Ferraro

Theme- The theme of the book is to never let anything bring you down no matter how bad the situation was even if the only easy thing you can do is to give up.

Tone- The tone of the movie is sarcastic and cheerful. Sarcastic because the author expresses herself by being humorous but serious at the same time.

Plot- Nicolette Antonovich got asked by "Rascal" to attend his prom. She paid her best friend's older brother to drive her around to find the perfect dress. Yet two days before the big date, Rascal cancelled saying he’s going with his off-and-on girlfriend who just moved back from Arizona. That was just the great way for Nic to end her sophomore year *I'm being sarcastic*. But she had the whole summer to cool down and plan out how her junior year is going to start off as.

Diction- The diction of this book is probably informal. Informal because it's written in a way how you would communicate with your friends or something like that. The book is written mostly for teens.

Syntax- I'm not sure how the author uses syntax in this book, but I'll soon post it. Haven't read the whole book yet.

Characterization- The only characters I have gotten to read about is Nicolette Antonovich, which is the main character of the novel. Rascal Pasqual, the guy who cancelled the date to prom with Nicolette. The last one is Nic's mom.

READING ANALYSIS BOOK #2

I am currently reading, "Top Ten Uses for an Unworn Prom Dress" by Tina Ferraro

MY YODA

Hmmm.... my mentor? I don't know exactly who my "mentor" is right now or who will be in the future. All I know is that my mentor will be someone who doesn't know the answer to my big question, but someone who imagines the same thing I do as to finding the answer to my Big Question/s. In my opinion, I think that just having a mentor to give you the answer to your Big Question isn't fun at all or worth it. Getting the answer won't make you sauisfied at the end. Yeah, you'll have the answer but you won't feel accomplished due to the fact that the answer didn't come from you. So yeah...... that's my description of my mentor/s. 😄

BIG QUESTION DISCIPLINE/S

My big question earlier this school year was, "what happens after we die?" I still haven't really found my answer to that and I don't really want to but at the same time I do. Many articles say that when we die we go off to heaven or that our spirits remain on earth while our bodies are gone. Some mention that we can either go to hell, earth, heaven or liberation.

FALL VOCAB 4

adroit- clever or skillful in using the hands or mind
          Welders using have adroit hands because they know where each piece of metal should go.
amicable-(of relations between people) having a spirit of friendliness; without serious disagreement or rancor.
          I would consider myself an amicable person.
averse- having a strong dislike of or opposition to something
          When they put the nose ring in my steer I    felt averse.
belligerent- hostile and aggressive
          When you mess with a dog they can usually get belligerent.
benevolent- well meaning and kindly
          I loved the way that teacher spoke, in a very benevolent way.  
cursory- hasty and therefore not thorough or detailed
          I didn't like how my floral arrangement was so cursory.
duplicity- deceitfulness; double-dealing
          My money was worth duplicity the second time through.
extol- praise enthusiastically
          When I hear music I love I extol it.    
feasible- possible to do easily or conveniently
          Playing and reading music is feasible to me.
grimace- an ugly, twisted expression on a person's face, typically expressing disgust, pain, or wry amusement
           The girl did a grimace expression when she smashed her finger with the door.
holocaust- destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war
           I remember learning about the holocaust last year in Modern World History.
impervious- not allowing fluid to pass through
           The pipe was impervious because it had a hole.
impetus- the force or energy with which a body moves
           I would consider my legs impetus.
jeopardy- danger of loss, harm, or failure
          During the summer it was a jeopardy that if I would or would not show my steer at fair.
meticulous- showing great attention to detail; very careful and precise
          My friend is a meticulous worker.  
nostalgia- a sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations
          I felt a strong rush of nostalgia as I thought back to my elementary days.
quintessence- the most perfect or typical example of a quality or class
          Babies are the quintessence of purity.
retrogress- go back to an earlier state, typically a worse one
          An addict can sometimes retrogress to its former stage.
scrutinize- examine or inspect closely and thoroughly
          I just had to scrutinize that milk fat, it's a dairy girl problem.
tepid- (especially of a liquid) only slightly warm; lukewarm
          The milk was quite tepid.

I'M HAVING THE TIME OF MY LIFE

I wish I can be having the time of my life right now but instead of doing "homework" that has to be finished by tomorrow. All this homework is stressing me out that I can't even enjoy my life right now. All that goes through my mind is "school, work, homework, due dates, etc." I don't have time to think of myself or the people around me. I'm too focused on assignments that, I don't really pay attention to what's really going on in this world. The only time I get to enjoy my life is Saturday and not much of Sunday. Oh gosh! I can't wait for winter break!! I need a break from school already.

Vocabulary list #3

catharsis- emotional discharge through which one can achieve a state of moral or

renewal or achieve a state of liberation from anxiety and stress

                The author used catharsis throughout his whole book.

taboo- social prohibition that forbids mentioning a word or subject

                My sister always says that its taboo to mention a bad word.

sordid- something dirty, squalid or morally distasteful

                The food at the restaurant was really sordid.

swindle- to take money or property from someone by using lies or tricks

There are two kinds of people in this world, people who are swindle when asking for money and those who are honest when asking for money.

frivolous- self-indulgently carefree; unconcerned about or lacking any serious purpose

                I tend to be frivolous frequently.

inadvertently- something done accidentally or unintentionally

                I inadvertently cut a piece of her hair off.

incendiary- a person who commits arson; designed to cause fires

                In my opinion, cigarettes are incendiary.

jargon- a use of specific phrases and words by writers in a particular situation, profession or trade

                The presentation had to be jargon.

colloquialism- use of informal words, phrases or even slang in a piece of writing 

                Colloquialism will sure not be appropriate for a resume.

archaism-  beginning or ancient

                That statue in the museum was archaism.

cudgel- a short heavy club

                A cudgel might be a good tool to defend yourself.

egregious- extraordinary, but in a negative way

                Fake people seem to be egregious.

anesthetize-  to give drugs to a patient so that no pain can be felt

                I was given anesthetize when I got surgery.

euphonious- sweet-voiced; use of words and phrases that are distinguished as having a wide range of noteworthy melody or loveliness in the sounds they create

                The choir was euphonious.

scrupulous- someone who is detailed and precise, or someone who is aware of the right thing to do

                Many teens now-a-days aren’t scrupulous about mostly everything.

perverted- a person with abnormal sexual behavior

                The girl accused the man for being perverted.

superfluous- something that is more than needed 

                In order for me to be in tune and have a good sound the reeds were superfluous.             

Saxon- the language of the Saxons, in particular

 I don’t know the language Saxon.

slovenly- (especially of a person or their appearance) messy and dirty

                Little kids are very slovenly when it comes to eating.

provocation- action or speech that makes someone annoyed or angry

                The ride “It’s a small world” in Disney Land is known as provocation.

BIG BROTHER'S FIRST IMPRESSION

I'm going to be honest here. I didn't read through the whole thing but I did skim through out. I didn't understand most of it, I got lost at some point but managed to somewhat keep up. My opinion towards it is simple, in a way, English is very confusing. Which is why I didn't understand most of what I just read. Of what I understood, Orwell really does understand the way every student speaks. The language we use that in some way it's confusing.

I'M READING BIG BROTHER

Politics and the English Language By George Orwell

·         Our civilization is decadent and our language

·         any struggle against the abuse of language is a sentimental archaism

-archaism-a thing that is very old or old-fashioned

·         decline of a language must ultimately have political and economic causes

·         slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts

·         Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits

·         vagueness and sheer incompetence is the most marked characteristic of modern English prose

·         work of prose-construction

·         DYING METAPHORS

- assists thought by evoking a visual image

- metaphor which is technically ‘dead’

·         OPERATORS OR VERBAL FALSE LIMBS

-save the trouble of picking out appropriate verbs and nouns

- keynote is the elimination of simple verbs

-range of verbs is further cut down by means of the -ize and de- formations

·         PRETENTIOUS DICTION

- phenomenon, element, individual (as noun), objective, categorical, effective, virtual, basic, primary, promote, constitute, exhibit, exploit, utilize, eliminate, liquidate, are used to dress up a simple statement

-dignify the sordid process of international politics

BAD WORDS

In my opinion what makes words mad is the way how people use them. Words aren't really bad, only when you don't use them properly. Words can be used in many different ways, either in a good or bad way. The idea of Bad words increase understanding between people because of how often they use them. If people wouldn't use bad words daily then the people would'nt really know or understand them.

Vocabulary #3 Definitions and Sentences

1.slovenliness- untidy especially in personal appearance
sentence: A kids room is usually slovenliness.
2.frivolous- not having any serious purpose or value
sentence: The reading she read was frivolous.

Satire Project

I decided to do my satire project on Disney movies because I have noticed that many of them have irony in them. They offend/ make fun of people without us knowing. I wasn't able to print my solution out today but I'll just say it here. My solution was that for people to actually know what they and their kids are watching, Disney should make a movie where it shows all the satire/ irony clearly for people to see. To show how princesses can only be skinny, beautiful, and rich girls. Or that beautiful girls can get any guy to like her just because of her beauty not because of her personality. Disney Princess movies also deliver a lot of negative messages, in my opinion. They deliver the message of how being pretty is always the key to everything. Or that wealth can buy you anything you want in the world. Or even worse, how it's sometimes okay to steal. There are many ways to make people see the irony in movies. But the only way to show them will be for Disney to make a movie showing all that, as I said before.