Cesar Chavez Movie

If he were still alive would he be satisfied with the way the farm workers are treated today? Would he enjoy the sight of no tables or chairs to rest on? The conditions have been improved, but there is still work to do.

Such a great Movie trailer. It gives me the chills every time I watch it. Hope the movie turns out to be a good representation of what Chavez did for his people.

I AM HERE

 I AM HERE please explain your progress in this course during the first grading period.  Have you begun thinking/working on your senior project, big question, collaborative working group, or other endeavor/venture that shows how you're putting this course to work for you? Document and explain your performance.

Coming fully back this semester with as much as enthusiasm as the first was and continues to be very difficult. Aside from this I have kept up with this course and the rest of my classes. I feel more comfortable in the course, I know what is expected of me and I know what I expect out of myself. I have completed all of the course assignments to best of my ability and I am constantly up to date on blog post, reading, and assignments.

My senior project is going to be a continuation of my compassion project from first semester. Since I know I am not the best video editor so I plan to collaborate with Miranda Nillo this time around. My project's theme will be compassion, but I am planning on expanding and adding people's thoughts on love, failure, acceptance etc. I am not quite sure that I will embed all of these different threads into compassion, but the ideas are flowing. I have not started to film any new footage yet, but will do this coming week.

WELCOME TO THE INTERDISCIPLINARITY

Launch/Draft:  Compassion Project

• Sympathy and Kindness
• Etiquette/Manners
• Science of how it works
• Ethnic Studies
• Humanity as a whole
• Interdependence
• Awareness
• Connections
• Collaboration
• Research
• Education
• Neuroeconomics
• Neuroscience 
• Society

My Resource

Stanford University's
CCARE (The Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education)

http://ccare.stanford.edu/tag/ccare/

http://neuroscience.stanford.edu/research/programs/nsccare.html


CCARE Blog:

http://ccare.stanford.edu/blog/

Lit. Terms #6 Remix

Simile: a figure of speech comparing two essentially unlike things through the use of a specific
word of comparison.

Soliloquy: an extended speech, usually in a drama, delivered by a character alone on stage.

Spiritual: a folk song, usually on a religious theme.

Speaker:  a narrator, the one speaking.

Stereotype: cliché; a simplified, standardized conception with a special meaning and appeal for
members of a group; a formula story.

Stream of Consciousness: the style of writing that attempts to imitate the natural flow of a character's thoughts, feelings, reflections, memories, and mental images, as the
character experiences them

Structure: the planned framework of a literary selection; its apparent organization.

Style: the manner of putting thoughts into words; a characteristic way of writing or speaking.

Subordination: the couching of less important ideas in less important structures of language.

Surrealism: a style in literature and painting that stresses the subconscious or the irrational aspects of man's existence characterized by the juxtaposition of the bizarre and the banal.

Suspension of Disbelief:  suspend disbelief in order to enjoy something.

Symbol: something which stands for something else, yet has a meaning of its own.

Synesthesia:  the use of one sense to convey the experience of another sense.

Synecdoche:   another form of name changing, in which a part stands for the whole.

Syntax:  the arrangement and grammatical relations of words in a sentence.

Theme: main idea of the story; its message(s).

Thesis: a proposition for consideration, especially one to be discussed and proved or disproved; the main idea

Tone: the devices used to create the mood and atmosphere of a literary work; the author's perceived point of view.

Tongue in Cheek: a type of humor in which the speaker feigns seriousness; also called
"dry" or "dead pan"

Tragedy: in literature: any composition with a somber theme carried to a disastrous conclusion; a fatal event; protagonist usually is heroic but tragically (fatally) flawed

Understatement: opposite of hyperbole; saying less than you mean for emphasis.

Vernacular: everyday speech

Voice:  The textual features, such as diction and sentence structures, that convey a writer's or speaker's pesona.

Zeitgeist: the feeling of a particular era in history

HAFTA/WANNA

One of the questions I have been constantly asked this year is “How does it feel to be a senior?” I simply respond good, and stressful. The real response should be…not much different. There were some changes this year that I most certainly label as “life-changing” and “learning experiences” but when I think about it I am in the same environment I was in for the last three years. The transition from high school to college will be different in the way that I will have more freedom with my education and my life in general. For the most part I will have control over an aspect of my life. In fact, it is probably the most control and freedom I am going to have in my 17 years of life. When I go off to college the Erica that I “left” after high school graduation will come with me. There will certainly be aspects of my life that I will work on changing, but I will not completely transform into another person. There are things that I am going to have to do to mold myself into my college life, but molding is different from changing. And even  “self-molding” will take some time. I have no rush and I am pretty good at balancing my time. For the most part I do what I have to do first and then I do what I want. It is very rare when that is reversed. I see what I have to do as a “must” and what I want to do as a reward. I am also very good about taking breaks and slowing down if I feel like I am burning my self out. I have very high expectations for myself and at times can be very hard on my self for the same reason. Throughout the years I have learned to give myself credit and reward myself once in a while. I know that my high expectations and work ethic will allow me to conquer my goals one step at a time.

The Nose by Nikolai Gogol

QUIZ

1. What does Ivan Yakovlevich do for a living? 
-He is a barber.

2. What does Ivan find in a loaf of bread? 
-A nose.

3. How does his wife respond to Ivan's discovery? 
-She was surprised and asked him Ivan whose nose he had cut off. She began to blame him and said that it was one of his customer’s nose.

4. What does Ivan set out to accomplish?
-He want to get rid of the nose as soon as possible.

5. When Ivan tosses the "package" in the river, for a brief moment he is happy; then he is arrested. What does this scene suggest about the role of happiness in Ivan's life/community/society? 
-The moment of happiness represents the relief in Ivan. It lets the reader know that like any other human being Ivan is preoccupied on what other people would think of him if he did something wrong (like having someone else’s nose). The nose is a conflict, and getting rid of the conflict is what Ivan wanted.


6. Where does the title object belong, and how does it finally get there?   
-The nose belongs on the Majors face, and it finally gets there when the police finds it and returns it to him.