This week while Mrs. Ramirez was off in Austin enjoying herself we were stuck with Mr. Brock. Thank You Mrs. Ramirez. Mr. Brock... oh Mr.Brock. That's all I am going to say about Mr. Brock However, it was really funny when he called Jamie James (sorry Jamie), and we all had our share of fun talking to him and asking questions. He would threaten us to quit talking or else, and then trun around and ask us a random question, and he did that more than once. I don't understand that man. That's my spill about Mr. Brock.
Anyway, my crime... taking AP English
My punishment... work loads, long books and essays
Because I decided to take AP, I have to write an essay (actually multiple essays) about Crime and Punishment which I still am having trouble following and understanding. Mr Brock agrees with me that it's confusing and hard to follow. ( He even went as far to say that " it isn't worth (pause) poop." I thought that was funny, but I wouldn't go that far because I think that if I understood it I would probably think that it was an okay book.) Crime and Punishment is a forever long book too. Who makes a book with seven parts and seven chapter in each part? Apparently Fyodor Dostoevsky, but what I don't see is why did he have to make it SEVEN parts instead of just two, crime and punishment, with more chapters. I think it would seem shorter if he did it that way. I would think it would be more reasonable that way and actually try to understand it more instead of being like oh well theres always the next part to try and understand.
I use to be a reader, but thanks to AR I now try to avoid reading at all cost, and for some reason this comes as a shock to most people that I don't read. So being forced to read a certain book is truely seen as a form of punishment for me. However, I am just now starting to read for pleasure again, so I am beginning not to mind reading because I have to as much now as I use too.
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
miscommunication
We seem to be having miscommunication problems. This is why noone can afford to miss out.
Apparently Flannery O'Connor said "I refuse to dwell in poverty." according to Mrs. Hues instead of "I don't do pretty." How she completely mixed that up I can't tell, but I think that I wrote a fairly well written essay on "I refuse to dwell in poverty" though, and was disappointed when I herd that it only counted for a participation grade.
When I first herd that there was miscommunication, it reminded me of the game telephone that I use to play when I was little. The game where there is a bunch of people in a line and the person at the beginning starts by whispering something in the next persons ear only once and it gets passed all the way down the line and the person at the end says aloud what they herd and then the person who started it says what it was suppose to be and see how different they really are. And some how something like "purple people eater" gets turned into "pineapple clippers" or something else completely random or sounds nothing like what it was suppose to be. More often than not it comes out nothing like the original and it never comes out exactly like the first one.
Maybe this is what happen to Mrs. Hues even though she had an email and even had a printed copy to look at. Oh well, I found it comical at least.
Apparently Flannery O'Connor said "I refuse to dwell in poverty." according to Mrs. Hues instead of "I don't do pretty." How she completely mixed that up I can't tell, but I think that I wrote a fairly well written essay on "I refuse to dwell in poverty" though, and was disappointed when I herd that it only counted for a participation grade.
When I first herd that there was miscommunication, it reminded me of the game telephone that I use to play when I was little. The game where there is a bunch of people in a line and the person at the beginning starts by whispering something in the next persons ear only once and it gets passed all the way down the line and the person at the end says aloud what they herd and then the person who started it says what it was suppose to be and see how different they really are. And some how something like "purple people eater" gets turned into "pineapple clippers" or something else completely random or sounds nothing like what it was suppose to be. More often than not it comes out nothing like the original and it never comes out exactly like the first one.
Maybe this is what happen to Mrs. Hues even though she had an email and even had a printed copy to look at. Oh well, I found it comical at least.
The White Tiger's Crime and Punishment
As I was finishing up reading The White Tiger and reading part one of Crime and Punishment, I realized just how similar the two really are. It got really bad when I had to write about Crime and Punishment and got it mixed up with The White Tiger. More than once I had to erase something because it actually didn't happen exactly like that in Crime and Punishment and managed to catch myself before I turned in the paper.
Both start out with the main character being a guy in poverty and their plots to get away with murder, and both end up murdering the people keeping them in poverty as a desperate attempt to get out of poverty and break out of the chicken coop.
As I finished The White Tiger and kept reading Crime and Punishment, I realized that The White Tiger was really only like part one of Crime and Punishment. The major difference being that after part one of Crime and Punishment the rest of the book is solely about the punishment, and in The White Tiger there wasn't really any punishment for him at all and he actually goes up in this world as the guy in Crime and Punishment doesn't really he actually goes down in a way.
First thoughts on Crime and Punishment : it's really confusing and hard to follow but it's getting better.
Last thoughts on The White Tiger : it's a good book and I would recommend anyone read it. ( I actually liked it for once and that says a lot for me. )
Both start out with the main character being a guy in poverty and their plots to get away with murder, and both end up murdering the people keeping them in poverty as a desperate attempt to get out of poverty and break out of the chicken coop.
As I finished The White Tiger and kept reading Crime and Punishment, I realized that The White Tiger was really only like part one of Crime and Punishment. The major difference being that after part one of Crime and Punishment the rest of the book is solely about the punishment, and in The White Tiger there wasn't really any punishment for him at all and he actually goes up in this world as the guy in Crime and Punishment doesn't really he actually goes down in a way.
First thoughts on Crime and Punishment : it's really confusing and hard to follow but it's getting better.
Last thoughts on The White Tiger : it's a good book and I would recommend anyone read it. ( I actually liked it for once and that says a lot for me. )
Monday, November 22, 2010
the key to an open door
"I was looking for the key for years
But the door was always open"
-The White Tiger
This quote caught my attention ever since the first time I read it, and it was repeated a couple times after that too. Each time I read it, I had to stop and think about it and I interpreted this quote differently each time I read it. The one interpretation that I kept thinking about the most was about the key to a persons heart. I thought it could be talking about a person who liked someone and was always trying to make the other person like them back, but secretly they always liked them back and was trying to make that person fall for them too, each not knowing that the other already liked them the way they are. This is stereotypical for a lot of songs, movies, books, and I personally have even been a victim of this misfortune.
A couple years ago, I liked this guy but I didn't think he liked me back. He use to always cut in front of me in the lunch line and ask me how I was, and I just thought he was using me to get his food quicker (like a typical teenage guy). However, he did seem to be honestly asking how I was doing and always asked if I was okay if I missed a day, but I never met a guy that wasn't decent at acting. Well, one day one of my friends was behind me talking with me, and he came up like always, and she ask me if we were going out in a subtle way. When he finally caught on to what she was asking, he straight out told her "No, I'm not good enough; I'm too lazy for her." I was in shock at what he just said. I couldn't believe it, I didn't want to believe it. Finally, after a couple of minutes I told him "you're not too lazy, you just never tried". And so the story goes, not even a month later he tells me one afternoon that he wouldn't be there the next day or ever because he was moving, and just leaves. He just left me without even saying good bye, and that was the end of that.
We were searching for the keys, but the doors were wide open. We just never tried. You have to try the door first before you try and pick the lock or go looking for the key. Believe it or not, some things are just that simple. There are a lot more open doors than you think, you just have to try them and see what you find, and don't miss your opportunities.
But the door was always open"
-The White Tiger
This quote caught my attention ever since the first time I read it, and it was repeated a couple times after that too. Each time I read it, I had to stop and think about it and I interpreted this quote differently each time I read it. The one interpretation that I kept thinking about the most was about the key to a persons heart. I thought it could be talking about a person who liked someone and was always trying to make the other person like them back, but secretly they always liked them back and was trying to make that person fall for them too, each not knowing that the other already liked them the way they are. This is stereotypical for a lot of songs, movies, books, and I personally have even been a victim of this misfortune.
A couple years ago, I liked this guy but I didn't think he liked me back. He use to always cut in front of me in the lunch line and ask me how I was, and I just thought he was using me to get his food quicker (like a typical teenage guy). However, he did seem to be honestly asking how I was doing and always asked if I was okay if I missed a day, but I never met a guy that wasn't decent at acting. Well, one day one of my friends was behind me talking with me, and he came up like always, and she ask me if we were going out in a subtle way. When he finally caught on to what she was asking, he straight out told her "No, I'm not good enough; I'm too lazy for her." I was in shock at what he just said. I couldn't believe it, I didn't want to believe it. Finally, after a couple of minutes I told him "you're not too lazy, you just never tried". And so the story goes, not even a month later he tells me one afternoon that he wouldn't be there the next day or ever because he was moving, and just leaves. He just left me without even saying good bye, and that was the end of that.
We were searching for the keys, but the doors were wide open. We just never tried. You have to try the door first before you try and pick the lock or go looking for the key. Believe it or not, some things are just that simple. There are a lot more open doors than you think, you just have to try them and see what you find, and don't miss your opportunities.
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