Literature Analysis #1

Literature Analysis #1

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

1. The story is narrated in London, England and ends at the country side of England. The protagonists of the story are two men named Algernon Moncrieff and John Worthing. Two familiar friends keep in touch and enjoy a simple English lifestyle of wealth and finding a future wife. The play starts out with Algernon eating a complementary amount of food while his servant, Lane, have conversations with so. John Worthing enters the room and initiates a warm welcoming with Algernon. John says that he was in the country, which of course Algernon asks why. Business as the usual response, but this is when John says that he goes by the name of Jack in the country and Ernest in the city.
2. When characters say one thing, they often lie to themselves and lose morality in what they truly believe in.
3. Oscar Wilde expresses a very comedic tone, frequently entertaining the readers as they enjoy the story of two unlikely characters. The author adds a haughty behavior within the characters because of the vain approach of wealth and relations with strangers in order of marriage. Of course, Wilde displaces a bantering tone as well when characters make small remarks about each other at every other encounter because of the small trifling pettiness.
4. [In Progress]

Characterization:

1. Wilde sets apart characterization by indirectly describing the protagonist personalities. Algernon is one of those guys who likes to receive attention and definitely a social type. Wilde's impersonation of Algernon as the man who talks negatively to other characters of the story and destines to place them under a category he is familiar with. Wilde uses both approaches for readers to understand the attitudes of all the characters when they interact especially.
2. Wilde's syntax doesn't change since it is prescribed in a screen play. It's like William's Shakespeare's writing in a similar sense. He connects the syntax with all characters, not discriminating what they would say and how they act with others.
3. [In Progress]

Creative Commons

Just like sharing work for one's purpose on Dr. Preston's Course Blog, we must add along that we share likewise ideas and discussions on these blogs.

You can do so by clicking onto here: http://creativecommons.org/choose/

Creative Commons lets you do the following options on the link found above

Here's a guide to putting it down onto your blog, this guy and his super helpful guide: http://igotgenes.blogspot.com/2011/01/common-good-adding-creative-commons.html

My Dashboard

This Netvibes dashboard helper seems cool to check out, but right now my dashboard is mainly based on tabs and folders on the top of my Google Chrome web browser. It's suitable to me at the moment and its right there, so I don't have to search for it. I have all the links, URLs, and websites bookmarked and in a folder of different categories. Common sense basically.

I could maybe use Netvibes in the future, maybe in college but right now, I'm too occupied with my work studies and this setup will just take up most of my time to set and organize. I'll probably utilize this website when I build a fan base or set up events/organizations to keep track of different statuses.

Character Study (I)

Long awaiting periods seem antagonizing. In fact, when you hear of this elongated tragedy, it typically means he or she was denied, but if that mail/email comes in, it's something else. This first time in his life he felt the difference, it was time to move on. He got accepted to his dream school, down there in LA.

 Jayce told his mom and dad that he can finally live on. His dad denies it undoubtedly, but the show must go on and higher education is the way to success indeed. The family doesn't want him to suffer the same consequences his siblings had gone through. No, not again. Jayce had to prove to them that he can get farther in this cruel American world and tread on. He started to think about this now.

 The campus was already there. The dorms seemed like an open social entrance to meet new and similar-like attributed people. Jayce hopes that his sister was right about choosing the dorms because this big step was a hop back to the exposition of a novel. His denouement of the high school book was just a kick-starter of a new career. 

Now he started to contemplate going back. No, he couldn't. He was here, he worked too hard to be here. All those AP and Honors classes taught him many things. Things that were going to be interesting to look forward into. The help he received from the smartest peers he has ever known was unforgettable. The colleagues who gave him advice definitely paid off as well.

 The top notch school gives off good vibes. Jayce walks in with one shoulder with regret, three hours drive for this moment, the other shoulder dragged forward by reins of zeal. Here he goes, another big challenge up for grabs and another adventure awaiting to be explored.

Reference to this fictional story is found here.

Canterbury Tales (II): What a Character!

The Squire

• Son of the Knight
• young and a lover
• a fire in his heart to be one with himself
• Almost as strong as his father and skillful with service and cavalry
• As expected from a young man, he wants to live life easily through service and await his fair maiden as he completes his training with the Knight to become a powerful soldier
• He was calm about everything, even through his aura
• a natural to adjusting to new things and ambitious mindset
• Nevertheless, the squire serves his father as his fundamental trainer
• Acknowledges all the components of fighting and being on the defensive physically and mentally

Canterbury Tales (I)

I want to see all characters because seeing a single character, a protagonist in action, is the usual person defining the plot. In Canterbury Tales, more characters make a pilgrimage interesting. Its a tale told in many stories, stories are told more in different directions, different backgrounds, different lifestyles, etc. I'm just wondering where these characters are going to meet up at. Maybe at the holy site or a church or a really big cafe? How will they be going about doing so in their meetings? I'm particularly fond of the squire because Canterbury Tales describes the fellow as an ambitious one, trying to match his father's honor and fighting skills

Techniques:

• Rhyming every two lines
• No broken stanzas
• First person view, Chaucer overseeing people go by and he travels
• Notations of the littlest things possible (i.e. the nun and the squire)

Some notes:

• Typical character based that you would see from medieval times
•  The Prologue features a lot of characters; so many to keep up with
• It's going to be a long set of lines describing people's lives and how they go about finding their place in the pilgrimage to Canterbury.

Litter Patrol - Environmentalist In Action

Masterpiece idea for anyone?

Drunken for Sleep

So the AVID Wake-A-Thon was a no sleep, all nighter event. The night was fun and no trouble was involved. Two times I've been to it and two times I stayed up all throughout the event. There's always a person or group of people who sleep or try to sleep. You maybe still thinking, "How does this title relate to the essay?" Well I'll tell you.

This recent Wake-A-Thon was a special one because most people started to doze off at 4-5 A.M. in the morning. I was one of those people. I started to be one of those one drunks. (Disclaimer: No alcohol involved in this event at all, no intoxication whatsoever!) There's something I call "drunken for sleep" because you really really want to get that 5 minutes of sleep, but you can't. So what you do, you have to say words outrageous to your normal self to keep yourself awake. You can always listen to music and mimic the words (or try to). My friend Jennifer tried this because she was so deprived of sleep, she needed an alternative for consciousness. It's a weird concept to assume by, but if compare the two situations personally, you can see the similarities. Heck, it can apply to a cranky, angry drunk to a cranky, angry all nighter. I don't know any easy other way to explain a person who needs sleep without being a regular, functional character.

Overall, if you've had a previous nap and energetic enthusiasm for Wake-A-Thon, this high school ran event can be a memorable one. And this is why students need to get their sleep now or they'll be acting like someone else.

Repeated Disclaimer: No alcohol involved in this event at all, no intoxication whatsoever! If I saw one, then I would see one and tell you.

How to Set Up Tabs and Labels on Blog

Labels
First, go to your "Posts" tab when you go to your [design/posts/settings/etc.] on your personal blogger menu to the left. There you will see what you have posted on your blog.

Next, click on a post or more to mark with a checkmark next to it. Once you've done so, on top of your most recent post you will see a "Tag" icon indicating "New Label" once you clicked on it (Hint: It is next to the "Publish" tab). You can name that label and mark what posts relate to that label as indicated when you click on the list you have created.

Go to the "Layout" tab on your left selections that was explained in step one. From there you can add the gadget called "Labels" (shared by Blogger). You can put this gadget at your own convenience, but make it viewable to your viewer's access.

Tabs
For this one, you follow the first step above, but going to the "Layout" tab. When you've clicked that choice, you add the gadget called "Pages" (shared by Blogger) to either the side of your blog or below the title (preferably under the title.) You can edit what links and URLs you are inputting to your blog.

To add more links (and pick out the most relevant posts on your blog), you can find that "Labels" can benefit at your extent. Once you edit "Pages", you will see a highlighted blue marker saying "add external link." Remember to refer back to your labels and copy the link to where they are located onto that URL and name it and paste it. Remember to delete that "http//:" lettering so that putting pages will actually work and not fail on you (Damn you Google for making it complicated)


I hope this was helpful and any more questions, comment below. I will edit things I missed out.

PHONAR14

Photography Narrative is what the acronym means. To randomize more of things, we have habits as humans to follow a certain system. To tie it in, photography is there to justify something "fixed in time" and stuck within a frame. A photograph can define a diverse image and valuable data. "The experience and evidence" of a photograph makes something memorable and noticeable to the viewer. Also, there is a difference to a photograph and image. Photographs are accessible and uploaded to the most popular social networking site. People with the availability of a camera is considered a photographer. So anyone who takes photos and uploads them, can be someone with a potential to have a variety of character in oneself. It's like a story from one picture and then it continues as you upload photos that are "linear" to your storyline. People with a connected, nonsecuritive hub can progress. You can learn more by a visual image or photograph that says 1000 or more words.

Other Side Notes:

• What do you need to be a photographer?
• What is photograph now?
• Instagram and Snapchat
• Business shaped the way images represent and how we product images to satisfy

Reference to Jonathan Worth's "Why Phonar? Lecture 1" Video

Masterpiece 1

A start maybe. Not a mask representing theater. Arts of another segment. It's on its way!

Biology is what I'm going for and expect to earn my knowledge through it with validity.

Textbook Reading Yay! Part 3

from A History of the English Church and People --- Bede (pgs. 74-82)

• Background: Monasteries of Bede were known for keeping their works and traditions of learning ongoing
• Bede taught his fellow colleagues of Old English literature and kept the history of Great Britain alive by doing so
• Basics were the first segments to teaching illiterate people
• Britain was formerly named Albion before calling itself many more names afterwards
• Promontories: noun peaks of high land sticking out into the water
• First paragraph introduces Great Britain as this enormous island, close to the other countries of Europe
• From what I'm understanding from the text and the introduction, it seems like Bede is securing his students knowledge of Great Britain and it's geologic location is standing
• Basically describing England's economy and lifestyle
• Innumerable: adj. too many to count
• Nights are short in summer - The sun rises over the country like an illuminating force than most countries, but experiences major cooled climates
• Sun rays represent illumination throughout Britain
• Bede teaches people all languages in relation to Latin as the source for vernacular distinctions
• After British peopled settled in their nation, Ireland settled next north of them, and then the Scots

from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

• the force - Danish settlers; Vikings
• thanes - lords in Anglo-Saxon society
• King Alfred combatted against ash-ships with longships
• Stranded: verb forced into shallow water or onto a beach; left helpless
• The battles of the Danes and English
• Barricaded: verb blocked
• Ravaged: verb destroyed

The Canterbury Tales: The Prologue (pgs. 90-115)

• Direct Characterization presents direct statements about a character
• Indirect Characterization uses actions, thoughts, and dialogue to reveal a character's personality.
• Social Commentary, writing that offers insight into society, its values and its customs
• Author of the title is Geoffrey Chaucer, middle class man
• -served for the English Army, was captured and held prisoner
• -utilized his skills for poetry, first work, The Book of Duchess
• - displays insight into human character
• The Canterbury Tales encompasses medieval literature
• (More Notes Coming Soon)

Word Counter

If you're lazy like me, or wait to be more accurate: you don't want to waste time on counting and messing up on what place you numbered your words, I suggest using this site:

http://www.wordcounter.net/

You can use this to keep track of how many words you put into personal statements and scholarship fill-ins.

Or if you are on Google Docs, you can highlight a written section, press Shift+Ctrl+C and click on tools saying word count, you will see the results. [Credit for this tip is Erica (Her Blog)]

Declaration of Learning Independence

I hereby declare this blog post to be readable by anyone who's a global thinker and an enthusiastic learner. I hereby call myself president of my own world, peace in mind and glory in physical appearance. I am determined to run my independence with a thorough mindset. I can run it in an anarchy of thinkers and aspirators. Founding this post is one step closer to my goals and career path. If this does not succeed, I probably failed myself because my brain has stopped working and/or ignorance has taken over. But we all know that we will succeed as individuals who control our lives our own way. I can't run this learning independence alone, therefore we must connect each other's ideas by networking and in person. Fighting the war against ignorance is entirely based on the upcoming generation, well here we are, and here and here and lastly here.

Where I operate: 5PH1NX
How I distinguish myself: Dope Fresh Blog
Step by Step guide: AP English Literature and Composition Blog

Vocabulary #4

obsequious - adj. attentive in an ingratiating or servile manner; attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery

beatitude - noun one of the eight sayings of Jesus at the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount; in Latin each saying begins with `beatus' (blessed); a state of supreme happiness

bete noire - noun a person or thing disliked or dreaded or dreaded; bane; bugbear

bode - verb indicate by signs

dank - adj. unpleasantly cool and humid

ecumenical - adj. of worldwide scope or applicability; concerned with promoting unity among churches or religions

fervid - adj. extremely hot; characterized by intense emotion

fetid - adj. offensively malodorous

gargantuan - adj. of great mass; huge and bulky

heyday - noun the period of greatest prosperity or productivity

incubus - noun a male demon believed to lie on sleeping persons and to have sexual intercourse with sleeping women; someone who depresses or worries others; a situation resembling a terrifying dream

infrastructure - noun the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area; the basic structure or features of a system or organization

inveigle - verb influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering

kudos - noun an expression of approval and commendation

lagniappe - noun a small gift (especially one given by a merchant to a customer who makes a purchase)

prolix - adj. tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at great length

protege - noun a person who receives support and protection from an influential patron who furthers the protege's career

prototype - noun a standard or typical example

sycophant - noun a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage

tautology - noun useless repetition; (logic) a statement that is necessarily true

truckle - noun a low bed to be slid under a higher bed; verb yield to out of weakness; try to gain favor by cringing or flattering

Narrative:

Give It All You Got - Roger Bannister Report

Running is the one sport I've been doing all my life. Running influences how I live, how I breath, and how I maintain a balanced lifestyle. I've never been the best runner. There's always that one person who totally dominates me when it comes to speed or endurance. Either if it was a tall dude with long legs --- making my 3 strides look like his 1 stride --- or a short dude with exasperating energy and speedy Gonzalez power legs, I still ran with or against these amazing guys. I never thought of pushing myself hard enough because my body was not capable enough or I didn't have the correct mindset at the given moment. I've heard stories and  seen videos of athletes burning themselves out, pushing their limits and injuring their muscle capacity. My brother showed me Youtube videos of track athletes breaking down, but there was one man that broke down after a mile. It wasn't any mile, it was the very first mile under 4 minutes.

The first 4 minute mile breaker is named Roger Bannister. He's an Englishman who gained reputation and respect for doing something no one could do at that time. Bannister was an Oxford grad and a medical student in progress at an incipient stage of his running career. His specialty was long distance and mid-distance running events such as the 880m and 1600m. For mile runs like the 1600m, he would lower his mile times seconds by seconds in the big events. He was a runner up for the Olympic trials, but decided to keep practicing. The 1952 Olympics was coming up and Sir Bannister was nominated as the top contenders to win mid-distance and long distance events. Bannister won the 880m event like a piece of cake, but when it came to the mile, he only managed to take fourth place and soon was disappointed with himself.

 As dissatisfying as it may be, Bannister wanted to do the impossible after the tragic loss. He couldn't do it alone. Speed was his main goal and he intended to pursue it with the help on pacemakers. Pacemakers were the ones to challenge your current speed and make you run faster than them by passing them; it's exactly like the Native American run, but smaller in size of two or three runners. The Oxford grad was determined to convert his energy to a high powered motivational force.

If you're not convinced enough at this point, Bannister didn't practice for five days before the big meet. Taking in from a runner's experience, a track runner especially, practice makes perfect and if you don't do so you can seriously injure yourself immensely. This was a big risk indeed for Sir Bannister, which meant ending his running career. No matter what the consequences were, it had to be done before anyone else.

 The air was chilly, wind settles in; this was not an average running day and not the perfect conditions to compete in. I breathed in the cool air, inhaled then exhaled. This sensation was what Bannister had gone through and thought that it wasn't the day. The red coated track referee points the gun. "On your mark." "Set." Inhale. He triggers the gun. Exhale and the heart starts again. Bannister ran second place for 3/4 of the race. Two laps under a lap time of 58, 59 seconds. The third lap was 1 minute and 3 seconds with Bannister still in second place. At that given instant, Banner overtook first place Chris Cathaway and pacmanned it to the finish line at 3.59.4 minutes. All the energy was lost at the end of that race, but the battle was victorious to the greater extent.

Roger Bannister was well deserved with gratitude and enrichment of exciting expressions from the crowd. Sir Bannister's message was to accomplish what no one could do and never give up with what you have now. At the climax of his life, Bannister gave it all he had when he was thinking of retiring track and field in 1954. I hit the "brick walls" and "lock my legs" all the time, but I push my body to the extreme. As bad as I wanted to win like Bannister had, I loved to finish the line with nothing in my soul and then receive resuscitation after a run like that. Not only did Bannister inspire runners around the world to break their mile times, but he changed the perceived idea that our minds can combat our physical fitness and that it is more powerful to become a winner. If you truly want to live with a greater mindset, it's better to give it all you got.

On a side note, Roger Bannister did finish medical school and took his career further into neurology and master at Oxford University.

Could Schools in Africa Partake In Open Source Learning?

I wondered about this question for awhile and I think it'd be the best idea for learning. Many African countries can't support minors and even adult schoolers to go to the post secondary school or benefit from a respectable education like here in the United States. I know it's really hard for regions to hire teachers, foreign or local, to teach kids. And I know the struggle that these African kids have to pay monetarily to go to school, likewise goes for kids in the Philippines and Mexico. I do know however that the internet is becoming a sensational degree for most countries in Africa. With the internet as accessible as it can be, can Open Source Learning be a part of the those schools?

It also doesn't have to deal with schools because of it's limitations and validity to teach in such a way. If proper education is not served to all, since education is not free there --- we take it for granted here than ever and I am ashamed at how we don't take advantage of it --- kids must endure certain conditions. Money is a problem, internet may be a problem, staying away from the negative influences, and how far can the length of availability it can be are factors that don't worry us, but those who experience this everyday in African countries. Notably, Open Source Learning primarily involves the internet and African students may share what they learned through it. As you look into Open Source Learning, you can either use it for putting homework assignments, writing purposeful topics, commentating on today's issues, and/or attributing personal experiences to draw people of the same outcome. If it were any easier, it could have affected Mr. William Kamkawamba to connect with TED a lot more faster when he was The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind. Young adolescents have talents and intelligence and all they need their whole life are resources. It's like saving students from being ignorant on the basis that an education is not provided. I feel like this is the only best alternative for researching, relearning, restudying, and redefining how to live more so originally.

Connectivity is super important also because if teachers are not present at schools, kids can reach out for a short duration of video calls of educators from the other side of the world. It also doesn't have to be an educator from the US, there are also potential advocates for OPSL in the UK and elsewhere that I can't name now because its a rather new concept to the traditional classroom setting. I mean if you aren't learning then, why not learn now. It's probably best to post an article or two or more of the world news, BBC news if so, to adolescents. Getting more people involved in reading a piece of literature means that these kids in Africa can develop their own themes and establish their own authority. Students here establish our own authority and override the system with our genuine perception and intuition. Why not share it with the world around us? Why not break those traditional centuries year old classroom settings with new ones? We shouldn't call in Western teaching anymore and offend people with the idea of "Western" and input the name "Universal" teaching.

I want to give students the opportunity to become one, to become themselves and not a student commanded by stringent education systems. The public domain envisions students with a dream to become something then, but why not now? Why not be a hero now of dreams, a conqueror of dreams who will know who's boss. I promote dreams and goals to be true thing wherever students might be in the world. If possible in anytime of my life, I want to build a school in a region in Africa and spread the internet love that adolescents desire to network with and build on.

By the way, sharing ideas with one another is a fundamental success on both sides of the Earth.

"I Can Do Whatever I Want!"

So this guy is a rebel in this link. And if you're out on Facebook trends or Twitter trends - which I don't go on usually anymore :( - you might see some interesting stories out there. If you haven't already clicked on the link, man are you missing out on the story. So here it goes.

A rebel for taking a different way with school pictures is what the story suggests and illustrates basically. Well its true. This high school student wants to do whatever he wants and can petition for it. He has the right to free speech against school authority, school yearbook team authority specifically. He's American with the first right, the First Amendment, you know from the Bill of Rights, to put his photo up there for a reason. I mean this guy is a legend for doing such a thing. He sticks up against the traditional output of classics scene for senior portraits. Yep, those beach, out in the wild, on the farm photos that almost every senior has. He petitions for future attacks that his school my enforce, but they hadn't done so yet.

This is the preview or hope to be photo of the yearbook:

Wouldn't it be so cool to add a photo like this up there. Well I'm a true nerd who likes Star Wars or a drama movie watcher who likes the Godfather, so therefore I'd put themes of those topics onto my background. Its something that I would love and aspire. Heck, I'd put my favorite dance crew, Jabbawockeez as the homies for a cameo. I think putting something up there will define what kind of person you truly are. I haven't considered it before, but can't we put whatever we think is the things we actually care for, endure so heavily to become it, to cherish its everlasting memory in the high school yearbook. I want to remember myself and get remembered for being that oddball with the goofy photo. 

We are humans and we can do whatever we want. Why are we restricted to the things that occurred in the past? We are restricted by other people, giving us a sense of direction they want you to go for. Its not a bad idea, but many other people follow their own protocols, their true self-direction. Just yell it out, "I can do whatever I want!"

In Today's Hacker No-No News

So those Russian hackers are at it again (the ones from summer 2014), but this time they are posting passwords and email addresses of Google users. It's only 5 million users leaked and the good news is that these passwords are old, outdated, and trashed.

Check out this article to what's up: https://www.yahoo.com/tech/russian-hackers-release-5-million-gmail-usernames-and-97147084299.html

I just wonder if these group of people, the hackers especially, have nothing better to do rather than ruin people's internet lives or justify their sense of technical superiority. I mean this is international, meaning that this can go up to the world court for this kind of stuff. There's no sense in looking through everyone's personal belongings, mail, etc. Just be aware on what you click these days and don't click on those sketchy web addresses.

The Smallest Things We Can't Fix

Today, I had an incident for overcooking or for say over-microwaving food. I mean this thing was as burnt as black sand. It was all over, turning to crisps. This little piece of food was sai pao. This Asian snack was sensitive to 2 minutes and 20-30 seconds in the microwave and my mom finally told me that it was suppose to be 30 seconds. Its also not the first time I've burned food. I mean who hasn't; one it was frozen and two I didn't know. And now I can't fix that burning smell in the kitchen. It's also a mistake I can't revert because science. Even though it was a consumable item, we can't always value it as the biggest problem in the world. Sometimes when these things happen, we have to move on no matter what. The things we can't fix are too small to care about and it couldn't affect anyone too seriously. Don't worry about the petty things and do what I do, eat ice cream and do homework.

Beowulf Essay (You are Beowulf)

Prompt: Beowulf exemplifies the heroic traits and the literary techniques of its time.  Analyze this in the context of our class discussion and the commentary you read, and compare with a contemporary hero and the way his/her story is told.

You are Beowulf

"A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men" is a quote by Plato who describes heroes in his own fashionable way. Plato probably followed up with Greek mythology heroes who suppressed superhuman qualities, feared nothing, endured a warrior mindset, and expressed love for mankind. That same heroic mentality and physicality applies to the first Old English hero Beowulf. Readers and listeners adorned a person who can do such things that they couldn't do themselves or as a whole. A hero stands out and faces danger in the frontal assault against evil. Beowulf exemplifies such qualities that it inspires today's heroes to act the same way or present in a manner of being a true warrior at heart. Nothing could compare to Beowulf as the force behind preserving man, but it just happens that Beowulf is not the only hero as the contemporary world features heroes today.

As time prospers by, a small amount of individuals value time and exploit to do good where ever they are. They're known as BAMFs or to be more appropriate, a hero who doesn't hold onto the superhuman qualities that Beowulf has, but a person who takes the initiative for doing something morally and virtually right. We see some of these people in literature with a heroic story line that gradually adds up to the character's growth. Harry Potter for example is one of those heroes who faces wickedness at it's finest, but not alone since his friends help him along the way. Heroes in contemporary literature do not fight the battle alone necessary because having someone's back is what heroes really need during desperate times. Harry is trusted with friends like Ron and Hermione who definitely protects Harry's blindsides. Other literature protagonist such as Percy Jackson, a demigod who grows up to be as strong as his father, the god of the sea, Poseidon. Heroes like Percy always need help from friends, unsurprisingly does get aid when fighting mythical creatures. Harry and Percy are recognized to fight evil as it fogs over their realm, they face it head on just as Beowulf has without being told by authority.

"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer," quoted by Ralph Waldo Emerson is for people who do extraordinary things. As humans we are obscured by fate and god, which of course Beowulf knew were his decadence of a soon to be demise. In addition, there has to be a balance between the two forces, which also happens to be human action. Human action is what makes a hero viable and diverse advocate for making a difference. Whether if it's saving kids from a runaway chased vehicle by ramming it with a truck or making up money to give a homeless man a second chance, a hero is an everyday person who cares about the safety or future of others. Beowulf captured a similar sense of fortitude with his people by giving back or paying forward to make his kingdom feel content. Today's heroes do the same even if they aren't as rich and powerful as Beowulf, they care to be the anthropologist that others seek to be. It can be one who protects one's country, enforces the law, treats patients, or fights fire. Wait isn't this Beowulf? Nope, just ordinary citizens expressing Beowulf's heroic qualities. 

Upcoming heroes are not really seen in media or novels. They are the light in the dark working everyday to become the hero. Community wise, these heroes always help out to improve or volunteer. The assignments they are given are obstacles they have to match and will provide them with a heroic capacity of knowledge. The heroes of today have a kingdom within their own mindset, a future that awaits them as they fight down stress. The heroes we know now are ones who take up a challenge and can become stronger intellectually and socially. They are able to own their own choices like Beowulf has and takes no order to where they are headed. Assiduous students make ends by being aggressive when taking charge for getting something done. Students are the shadowed heroes who create their own heroic story and can tell their epicness to others.

The 21st century is not limited to one hero. We see heroes pop up from the importance of literature, the surprising media, and the destined heroes of education. A society is satisfactory to have many heroes stand up for what they believe in. Not every hero can be Beowulf, but Beowulf can't be like the other heroes.

Vocabulary #3

accolade - noun a tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction

acerbity - noun a sharp sour taste; a sharp bitterness; a rough and bitter manner

attrition - noun the act of rubbing together; wearing something down by friction; a wearing down to weaken or destroy; sorrow for sin arising from fear of damnation; the wearing down of rock particles by friction due to water or wind or ice; erosion by friction

bromide - noun any of the salts of hydrobromic acid; formerly used as a sedative but now generally replaced by safer drugs; a trite or obvious remark

chauvinist - noun an extreme bellicose nationalist; a person with a prejudiced belief in the superiority of his or her own kind

chronic - adj. being long-lasting and recurrent or characterized by long suffering

expound - verb add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing; state

factionalism - adj. of a faction or factions; self-interested, partisan

immaculate - adj. completely neat and clean; free from stain or blemish; without fault or error

imprecation - noun the act of calling down a curse that invokes evil (and usually serves as an insult); a slanderous accusation

ineluctable - adj. impossible to avoid or evade:"inescapable conclusion"

mercurial - adj. relating to or containing or caused by mercury;relating to or having characteristics (eloquence, shrewdness, swiftness, thievishness) attributed to the god Mercury; relating to or under the (astrological) influence of the planet Mercury; liable to sudden unpredictable change

palliate - verb provide physical relief, as from pain; lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of

protocol - noun code of correct conduct; forms of ceremony and etiquette observed by diplomats and heads of state; (computer science) rules determining the format and transmission of data

resplendent - adj. having great beauty and splendor

stigmatize - verb mark with a stigma or stigmata; to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful

sub rosa - adj. confidentially; secretively; privately

vainglory - noun outspoken conceit

vestige - noun an indication that something has been present

volition - noun the act of making a choice; the capability of conscious choice and decision and intention

Narrative:

Sleepy Day

This is a poem I made up when I go on those all-nighters that I'm not used to (seriously) and this what I do throughout my school day. Enjoy!

On the bus, head on seat.
In class, teacher calls you.
You wake up with forehead flat
You answer with monotony
"Root Two over C squared da da la la..."
Back to hand on face.
You're so beat,
Throughout the day,
Homework is just there.
Blank with no pencil lines.
Nap time please,
Where's the couch,
I need it.
There's the bed
Your day's done.

Get Your Forum On! (OPSL)

Open Source Learning Forum is up for discussion. Hear out what students have to say and struggle throughout their hardworking senior year.

Here is the site to work with the the real world: http://oslap2014.boards.net/

There's also an app on mobile called Tapatalk to get connected to the OPSL forum.

Thanks to Joey and Jacob for the forum setup

Masterpiece in Progress

Bboy dancer on the road to being a doctor. That's my idea for the masterpiece and it's a working progress. You're probably wondering "No way could he have time to dance while trying to be a doctor!?" Or "Too much work for one dude." It's no problem and all it takes is practice, studying, researching, reteaching, and being on top of most work possible. I know I'm not those years of being a college student, a medical school student, a residency student, and a helper of people, but I do stuff now that will affect my future studies then.

Over the summer, I spent my time shadowing doctors in a physician mentoring program at Marian Medical Center and Arroyo Grande Community Hospital (Dignity Health). I shadowed doctors who knew what they were doing and followed procedures to aid their patients for their troubles. I saw some pretty common entries between doctors and patients. I also saw some gruesome surgeries too! It was sickening to watch at the beginning, but you had to get used to the operations.To be a doctor, you had to be consistent and not freak out about the human body and what it produces. This was my inside look into achieving one of my goals, the other half of my masterpiece.

I also took the time learning new dance moves during summer (exploiting free time from summer homework and summer program). It all started from watching cool, explosive dance breaks from movies and videos that blew my mind and inspired me to try it. A few moments later, I was passioned to get the steps down. Lately, with all the school work in the way and college and scholarship applications always scratching me down, I haven't been doing much with dance. Bboy and the history of Hip Hop gets me going. What I do know now is that there are chances that can't be wasted and life can't be too simple to run past through without me being the one to realize it's true meaning.

My masterpiece is going to be without a doubt in production and having a passion for doing what I actually love and trying to do the very best to achieve greater, it makes people want to say "Ain't nobody got time for that!"