Vocabulary: List #7

1. aberration-(Noun)A departure from what is normal, usual, or expected, typically one that is unwelcome; A person whose beliefs or behavior are unusual or unacceptable.
2. ad hoc-(Adjective)Formed, arranged, or done for a particular purpose only.
3. bane-(Noun)A cause of great distress or annoyance;Something, typically poison, that causes death.
4. bathos- ludicrous descent from the exalted or lofty to the commonplace; anticlimax;
5. cantankerous-(Adjective)Bad-tempered, argumentative, and uncooperative.
6. casuistry-(Noun)The use of clever but unsound reasoning, esp. in relation to moral questions; sophistry;The resolving of moral problems by the application of theoretical rules to particular instances.
7. de factor-(Adverb)In fact, whether by right or not; (Adjective)Denoting someone or something that is such in fact: "a de facto one-party system".
8. depredation-(Noun)An act of attacking or plundering.
9. empathy-(Noun)The ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
10. harbinger-anything that foreshadows a future event; omen; sign: Frost is a harbinger of winter.
11. hedonism-the doctrine that pleasure or happiness is the highest good; choosing pleasure as a way of life
12. lackluster-lacking brilliance or radiance; dull: lackluster eyes.
13. malcontent-not satisfied or content with currently prevailing conditions or circumstances. dissatisfied with the existing government, administration, system, etc.(Noun) A person who is dissatisfied and rebellious. (Adjective) Dissatisfied and complaining or making trouble.
14. mellifluous-(Adjective)(of a voice or words) Sweet or musical; pleasant to hear.
15. nepotism-(Noun)The practice among those with power or influence of favoring relatives or friends, esp. by giving them jobs.
16. pander-Gratify or indulge (an immoral or distasteful desire, need, or habit or a person with such a desire, etc.).
17. peccadillo-(Noun)A small, relatively unimportant offense or sin.
18. piece de resistance-the principal dish of a meal; the most noteworthy or prized feature, aspect, event, article, etc., of a series or group; special item or attraction.
19. remand-to send back, remit, or consign again.
20. syndrome-a group of related or coincident things, events, actions, etc.;predictable, characteristic pattern of behavior, action, etc., that tends to occur under certain circumstances

Wuthering Heights LAQ

Wuthering Heights

By Emily Brontë 

General

1.    Well, I have to say that Wuthering Heights is a depressing “love story” filled with the do’s and don’ts of marriage in the eighteenth century. Lockwood is a guy who is traveling and decides to rent Thrushcross Grange from a guy named Heathcliff. One day while visiting his landlord’s house, it starts to snow and he is trapped for the night at Wuthering

Amor Vincit Omnia

"AMOR VINCIT OMNIA"

be an epicurus...

   

      Amor vincit omnia- "love conquers all" ( quoted from the Canterbury Tales Prologue). Life is but a roller-coaster ride filled with ups and downs, and turn arounds. Life isn't simple. For anything to really having meaning and be of value to oneself, one has to work for it. You must strain yourself, and endure hardships even when at the time the odds may be stacked against you.

      As Bukowski wrote, "your life is your life don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission. be on the watch. there are ways out. there is a light somewhere. it may not be much light but it beats the darkness....". Honestly, I can quote the entire poem and still have meaning in each sentence be relevant to life choices. When life seems tough, that's when you have to stop and think, "why am I doing what I am doing?' Because, without love, life is empty. Whether it is love of work or love of another, love brings happiness and hope of better future. Happiness and hope is what endures when all else fails. "Those who endure, conquer." If you truly want something in life, you have to work for it, build it, mold it, and grow with it until it becomes apart of you. 

      For some, this may seem gibberish filled with truth. For others that can fully grasp the modicum of reading between the lines, I applaud you. 

   

Active Reading Notes Bede (pp.74-82) & Prologue to Canterbury Tales (pp.90-115)

Active Reading Notes Bede (pp.74-82) & Prologue to Canterbury Tales (pp.90-115)

History of the English Church and People (pp. 72-78)

• Historical writing- tells story of past events using evidence, such as documents from the period, that the writer has evaluated for reliability
• Bede (673-735) is a historian who documents the history of England and the spread of Christianity even if majority or people are illiterate
• Written in Latin so it died pretty easily because who clergy understood Latin
• Speaks of geography and areas around the city
• Abundance of fish products 
• Scarlet dye is symbol of power and endurance because it is a dye that does not fade
• Bede wrote of Ireland in a nicer way... he didn't speak of snakes or anything that could view Ireland in a bad/scary way

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (pp. 79-82)

• Written because Bede's account is not as accurate
• Invasions caused much danger
• the people were spread out so communication hard plus they never agreed on anything
• They are unified as a culture but not in opinions
• Picts choose kings from female blood line
• Britain contains four languages (English, British, Scots, Latin, and Picts)
• Picts settled in south of Britain
• Scots are called Delreudians…dal means division
• Prepare to Read “The Canterbury Tales Prologue” (pp. 90)
• Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400) – soldier, diplomat royal clerk
• He gives broad spectrum of personalities/experiences
• He worked for wife of Lionel of Antwerp- close to aristocratic life
• He was captured as a soldier and latered freed when king paid ransom 16lbs
• He married Philippa Pan
• No one knows why he wrote stories perhaps when he went on his own pilgrimage=inspiration
• Tales varies from romance to comedy, rhyme to prose, crude humor to religious mystery
• He only completed 24 out of 120 stories

Characterization: (pp. 91)

• Direct characterization: the narrator or a character in the story tells us what we need to know about a character
• Indirect characterization: we find out about characters indirectly through thoughts, comments, or actions of the characters
• Flat: character with few personality traits (few details given)
• Round: character with many personality traits (many details given)
• Static: a character that does not change personality, beliefs, ideas, etc. throughout  the work
• Dynamic: a character that experiences some type of change during the course of the  story due to events
• Social commentary: writing that offers insight into society, its values, and its customs
• Chaucer’s Guided Tour of Medieval life and Literature (pp. 92-93)
• Pilgrimage-  long, annual trips to holy places (joyous event that gathered people from various backgrounds and occupations)
• Prologue begins with a pilgrim at the Tabard Inn.
• Host Harry Bailey proposes a challenge that along the way there and back, each pilgrim tell a total of 4 stories… the most interesting story wins.
• 24 different stories told…. Even though there are 29 pilgrims, not including Bailey 

• Chaucer uses French poetic forms… a heroic couplet is a pair of rhyming lines with five stresses syllables each

The Canterbury Tales (The prologue) (pp. 94-115)

• Canterbury town where archbishop Thomas a Becket (martyr) killed 1170, people go pay respects
• Zephyrus is west wind
• Ram- Aries, the first sign of the zodiac pilgrimage began april 11, 1387
• 29 pilgrims at Tabard Inn preparing for journey to Canterbury
• Chaucer describes a 1) knight-honorable, distinguishable record, he fought 15 battles, and some battles with narrator, he was usually vanguard (forefront soldier), wise, modest, a true knight
• 2) knight’s son- squire, lover, cadet, handsome, 20yrs old,  could write, joust, ride horse, and recite poems… carved to perfection
• 3) yeoman (attendant) at knight’s son’s side- “proper forester”, he wore St. Christopher pendant, bow & arrow
• 4) nun (prioress-nun ranking below an abbess)-simple, coy, solicitous (caring, compassionate), pretty
• 5) monk-hunterer, garnished, bald
• 6) friar- jolly, listened and gave penance, beggar, truckled people into giving him money, he was respected beggar
• 7)merchant-blunt, and egotistic, in debt,
• 8) oxford cleric- thin, intelligent (read Aristotle), he only cared about study
• 9) sergeant at the law-fame, scholarly, high position, knows every case up to King William’s time, 
• 10) franklin (weathly landowner)- lived for happiness, happy-fat man, liked to keep house full of food, change food with seasons
• 11, 12, 13, 14, & 15) haberdasher, a dyer, a carpenter, a weaver, and a carpet-maker were worthy burgess, wisdom and rich
• 16) cook-good cook, made a good creamy chicken dish (blancmange), he had an ulcer on knee
• 17) skipper-who was a good watch, good worker
• 18)doctor- best surgeon, rich
• 19) wealthy woman-she was a traveler, been to many cities, bad teeth, skilled in old dances, aiding in loves mischances
• 20)parson- holy man, not like taxes, like visiting people
• 21) plowman- brother to the parson, good worker,
• 22, 23, 24, 25) a reeve( estate manager)- old choleric and thin, a miller- big strong man, manciple (buyer of provisions)- rational buyer , pardoner- gentle singer blonde, and a church court summoner- red face bc of carbuncles pus filled boils) very drunk
• 26) narrator will be blunt with his descriptions and dialogue
• Host was definition of a man, strong, he told challenge and all accepted
• They drew straws to start

Customize Blog

         Well hello viewer! Not everyone is tech savvy or knows how to customize/use blogger to its full extent. I am definitely barely learning, taking baby steps. Thanks to Ubi Kim and Matt Pattel, that journey to optimize my blogger to its full extent has been made easy. Ubi taught me how to add music to my blog, while Matt taught me how to use hyperlinks (which is a way to link a word on a comment). I hope these links help! I definitely recommend checking out their blogs and seeing how they "pimped out" their blog :)

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Vocabulary: Fall List #6 sentences

1. It is beatitude to live in America with free public education.
2. Spiders and cockroaches are my bête noire because I just cringe at the site of them.
3. Dogs are bodes of earthquakes because they always bark before an earthquake hits.
4. My cellar is dank because there is no are no lights and there is a pipe leak.
5. Milk is an ecumenical grocery to find inside a fridge. 
6. It feels as if every encounter is fervid and the atmosphere is electric.
7. Sometimes I detest living in Los Alamos because of the fetid smell of manure ever present.
8. Gargantuan only begins to describe the Great of China.
9. Eighth grade year was my heyday because I was involved in ASB, sports, and I was also valedictorian.
10. One of my brothers' favorite bands is incubus and they love the song "Threshold".
11. Employees are the infrastructure of a business. If the employees don't do their jobs, then the business will crumble.
12. Prostitutes usually inveigle a customer by sexual arrousement.
13. Kudos to Ubi for figuring out how to add music to a blog and for showing me as well.
14. People who attend the VIP party will acquire a lagniappe which varies from an iPod to a certificate to a day spa.
15. I found Hemingway’s writing style to be prolix when compared to Faulkner who used fewer words to describe a setting.
16. Joshua is my Protégé and I am his patron. I have bestowed him with my skill as a student and he has granted me his attentive ears.
17. Terminator was only the prototype of the X9's that will invade the earth in the future.
18. Mycha is a sycophant known for kissing up to the teacher around grading period.
19. Lance psyches me out sometimes with his tautology because he asks me if I want him to arrive at 12 am or to land at midnight at my doorstep.
20. I truckle to any question or favor under her mesmerizing gaze of beauty.