A Dream Within A Dream

This poem makes me feel like all of the feelings that have or once feel are just fantasies. We all once feel love or special when being with someone but those are just dreams those are thing in our heads that we wish could be true. We all wish that what we want can be what it really is those thoughts are nothing but dreams. Nothing will ever be what we want them to be.

Essay revision/improvement strategy

After I was done writing the essay I thought about it and I wrote more of summary. I did include the three literary elements but I didn't specify it in the text, but everything was included. Next time I will not write a summary, but specify what i want the reader to know.

Notes on my lit. book

• It describes from what is around the kitchen. Seems like the kitchen is in the middle of the house.
• Main character is Willy Loman, a salesman.
• He is passed 60 years of age.
• Dresses quietly
• His wife name is Linda, she more than just loves but she admires him.
• He has two sons, Biff and Happy. Biff is 40 years old and Happy is 38 years old.
• Seems like he doesn't have a good relationship with Biff.

Vocabulary List #6

Adroit: cleverly skillful

Gymnast ANDROIT bodies to do flips.

 Amicable: characterized by or showing goodwill; friendly, peaceable

The AMICABLE girl helped me find the restroom in the school.

Averse: having a strong feeling of opposition, antipathy, repugnance, ect.

My classmate had an AVERSE argument in his essay about why we should take care of the planet.

Belligerent: war like, given to waging war

 Benevolent:  desiring to help others

I like BENEVOLENT people because they are always nice and really helpful

Cursory: going rapidly over something, without noticing details

Many times when I have to read a short story to write an essay I CURSORY through the story.

 Duplicity: deceitfulness in speech or conduct, as by speaking or acting in two different ways to different people concerning the same matter

DUPLICITY people are just people who haven’t accepted themselves the way they are so the just act different.

Feasible: capable of being done, effected, or accomplished

My homework is FEASIBLE.

Grimace: a facial expression, often ugly or contorted, that indicates disapproval

You know that you’re not getting the job when you see the GRIMACE face on the boss.

 Holocaust: a great or complete devastation or destruction, especially by fire.

The HOLOCAUST in Germany killed hundreds of people.

 Impervious: not permitting penetration or passage

You are sometimes able to IMPERVIOUS the bad odor by closing the door.

Impetus: a moving force; impulse

 Jeopardy: hazard or risk of or exposure to loss, harm, death, or injury

His felt like his life was in Jeopardy.

Meticulous: taking or showing extreme care about minute details

Artists seem to be very METICULOUS with their paintings.

Nostalgia: a wistful desire to return in thought or in fact to a former time in one's life, to one's home or homeland, or to one's family and friends; a sentimental yearning for the happiness of a former place or time

While thinking about my past I feel NOSTALGIA and wish to return.

Quintessence: the pure and concentrated essence of a substance.

 Retrogress: to go backward into an earlier and usually worse condition

When an awkward moment happens I don’t want to RETRGRESS.

Scrutinize: to examine in detail with careful or critical attention

Whenever I go to an art show I SCRUTINIZE the pieces.

 Tepid: moderately warm

I like the TAPID breeze of summer.

Laughing Heart Questions

1)The name of this poem is called The Laughing Heart by Charles Bukowski.
2) The use of this poem by a corporation might be considered ironic because the poem is basically saying that your life is your life and that you should know it while you have it, meaning that you should never let anyone take over your life because its yours. While a pair of jeans isn't going to change your life at all.
3) The poem reflects the reputation of the author because he always knew that no matter what, there is light or faith for you to keep going.
4)I googled the information on on Levis Go Forth and found it there.

Vocabulary Number 5

 Allude: refer to something the author thinks you should know.
As I'm reading in the text the author gives me clues of how the character is.

 Clairvoyant: able to read minds.

`In my opinion CLAIRVOYANTS only exist in movies.

 Conclusive: final, decisive

My art teacher was CONCLUSIVE about what bowls we had to do for the festival.

 Disreputable: poor reputation

The DISREPUTABLE secretary wasn't able to get a job.

 Endemic: natural to an environment

Leafs are ENDEMIC for the cycle of  life.

 Exemplary: worthy of imitation

The EXEMPLARY act that my math teacher made really did help me understand my homework.

 Fathom: notical measure of death v. to understand

 
 Guile: trick

As the clown left my little sister with her mouth opened with his GUILE.

 Integrity: thought, speech, and action

It is important for people to be aware of their INTEGRITY.

 Itinerary: trip schedule, trip plan

Before going on a family vacation one should always have an ITINERARY.

 Misconstrue: misunderstand, misrepresenting

A MISCONSTRUE action lead to an argument.

 Obnoxious: rude, loud, abrasive,

I hate when I'm talking with my friends and all of the sudden little OBNOXIOUS kids interrupt.

 Placate: calm down

My father would always tell me to PLACATE when i would be fooling around.

 Placid: calm peace full

I love the PLACID nights at the beach.

 Plagiarism: to take someones words and use them as your own.

In school I was always thought that PLAGIARISM is never taking me anywhere good.

 Potent: powerful

When I was a little girl I used to love watching power rangers to me they were very POTENT.

 Pretext: an excuse, to think before you do something

Many times when I do something wrong

 
 Protrude: stick out

The hay stack was PROTRUDE.

 Stark: obvious easy to see

The stain on her shirt was STARK.

 Superficial: shallow surface

The SUPERFICIAL river felt warm enough to swim in.

Vocabulary List 4

Melancholy: Depression, sad

Certain MALANCHOLY songs get me in a sad mood. 

Exemplary: Worthy of imitation

The EXEMPLARY word problem that my math teacher gave us helped me a lot.

Peculiar: Uncommon

Her shirt was very PECULIAR.

Dread: To fear greatly

I DREAD to dogs because they bark loud.

Bough: Branch of a tree

My dad cut a BOUGH because it was too big.

Pious: Devout; Sincerely believing

I have PIOUS in God.

Communion: A group of persons having a common religious faith.

In the catholic religion in order to get married you have to have the first COMMUNION done as well as the confirmation.

Auditor: A university student registered for a course without credit and without obligation to do work assigned to the class.

The AUDITOR student does extra work for his own benefit.

Multitude: A great number

In school there is a MULTITUDE of students attending.

Eloquence: The practice or art of using language with fluency and aptness.

many people get good jobs because of their ELOQUENCE.

Despair: Loss of hope

In my opinion I don’t  think one should ever have DESPAIR.

Hoary: Gray or white with age

Today's Notes

The color of the notebook is in the way I see the notebook. Many people can see the exact same notebook in a total different shade. The paper I was writing on was smooth, I feel like it's because of my senses. Other people who have sensitive skin might feel like it's rough.

Displacement- When you take a character out of his or her habitat somewhere where they don't belong.

AHAA!!!!!

The only aha moment that I had yesterday was when Dr. Preston was telling us that we will end up like the chimpanzee, a loser, if I don't question other peoples vocabulary. Now that I had this aha moment I want to try harder because I want to achieve many things in life.

Symbols for "Young Goodman Brown"

Pink Ribbons: To me it symbolizes her innocence as a little girl.

Staff: The staff is a symbol of the devil.

Wife: She symbolizes heaven

The wife’s name is a symbol of his personal faith in goodness.

The word Faith: To me it symbolizes that he is somewhat religious and that he wants to take the right path.

Dark forest:  It symbolized his journey into evil.

Goodman’s rejection of the staff: That symbolizes that he is reluctant to the evil in the world.

Goodman’s acceptation of the new staff: It symbolizes that he is beginning to accept evil in the world.

Pink ribbon falling from the sky: It symbolizes that he is losing his faith.

Vocabulary #3

Encomium:  Formal expression of high praise.

 Coherent:  Logically connected

I have a COHERENT relationship with my friend.

 Belabor:  To work at something repeatedly or more than is necessary

When I don’t feel that good about the essays I write I BELABOR on it.

 Eschew:  To abstain or keep away from.

I eschew my homework from my little sister.

 Acquisitive:  Eager to get wealth, possessions

 Emulate: To try to equal or excel

I try to emulate her good grade in class.

 Arrogate:  Assume or appropriate to oneself without right.

 Banal: Devoid of freshness or originality

Many people are BANAL because they want to fit in.

 Excoriation: To strip off or remove the skin from your body.

 Congeal: To change from a soft or fluid state to a rigid or solid state, as by cooling or freezing

I CONGEAL  water into ice cubes using the freezer.

 Carping: Characterized by fussy or petulant fault finding

 Substantiate: To establish by proof or competent evidence

In science you SUBSTANTIATE a hypothesis.

 Temporize:  To be indecisive or evasive to gain time or delay acting.

When my parents don’t want to let me go somewhere they TEMPORIZE so that it can get late and I won’t be able to go.

 Largesse:  Generous bestowal of gifts.

I like to have LARGESSE for my family every once in a while.

 Tenable: Capable of being occupied, possessed, held, or enjoyed, as under certain conditions

 Insatiable: Incapable of being satisfied or appeased

 Reconnaissance: An examination or survey of the general geological characteristics of a region.

 germane: Closely or significantly related

 ramify: To divide or spread out into branches or branchlike parts

 intransigent: Refusing to agree or compromise

 taciturn: Inclined to silence

 invidious: Resentment, or envy