WE EAT SOCIAL MEDIA FOR BREAKFAST

A common way of engaging a ready is by providing an emotional connection and make their writing relatable. The author of this essay uses informal language and in a sense, having a casual conversation with the reader. The author uses emotional experiences to pull the reader to continue reading. The use of words and it's phrases in this essay was casual by trying to be relatable with the reader and keep them reading by providing an emotional connection.
The author's use of diction wasn't complicated and was understandable to the reader. The direct and straight forward sentences helped the reader understand what the essay was about, being that the internet connects people by sharing their experiences online. The auhor's use of words made the essay relatable towards the reader by providing an 'everyday' event such as 'whipping out my IPhone' and 'snapping a picture'. There was no formal wording, helping the essay become understandable and relatable towards the reader.
The use of syntax in this essay was short and casual, making the essay seem as an conversation between the reader and author. The arrangement of the casual words made the essay as a personal experience by containing moments of making breakfast with his daughter. Simply by arranging words, the sentence becomes informal, such as 'thanks' instead of 'thank you'. Again, making the essay seem as an conversation between the reader and author.
The author's tone being casual tied either the author's rhetorical strategies of providing a emotional experience. The tone of having a conversation with the reader, helps the author bring experience to his writing and connect even more with the reader. By bringing emotional experiences to the author's writing, such as cooking with his daughter, leaves the reader in a certain mindset and helps the reader to continue reading the essay.
Therefore, the author's casual use of words and tone connects the reader with the essay. This use of engagement of providing experiences, helps create a connection with the reader emotionally. This strategy makes the essay remain in the reader's mind and overall create a emotional connection.

AP Exam prompt: 2015 Q3

Polite language is constantly expected to be used in any form of conversation or interaction. The simple question of asking about someone's day is expected rather than actually being concerned about the person's day. It's a standard and rule to be polite to 'superiors' in school or work situations, meaning another expection to follow. Being polite to people gives off a certain atmosphere to the person of an educated person, usually being too polite to a person means to impress the person. Therefore, polite language is constantly expected from people unless the person wants to be seen as 'rude' or 'impolite'.

Politeness being constantly expected in school and work, made the expectation rather into a rule. Responding to these 'superiors' as 'sir', 'ma'am', and 'may i' is obligated in order to seem respectful to theses 'superiors'. The sense of responding with polite language to teachers and bosses as a rule shows that we aren't as superior to them, rather inferior, and if we don't respond politely, we're seen as rude and we 'think' that we're on that same level of superiority. If we don't respond with polite language, we're punished, seen as even more inferior to these 'superiors' and uneducated to respond with 'rude' language. If there is a disagreement, and we speak out about our disagreements, we're seen as impolite and again, rude. There's no way of responding to a disagreement as polite, and 'disrespecting' the other person. In a job environment, we're obligated to be  polite to costumers and never to disagree, since the costumer is 'always' right. Again, if we're seen by our 'superiors' disagreeing with the costumer, we're punished and seen as 'impolite & not helpful. Polite language is a rule in a school and job environment, rather than having the desire to be polite to the person.

Politeness is also rather a expectation in a social environment with other peers to make others 'like' you. The use of politeness to gives the sense of a caring person by the way they phrase their words and speak, making the other person like you and seem more compatible. The use of diction ties with politeness because people don't want to seem rude to another person, since sometimes they want the other person so trust them. Impressing a person by the use of diction in their polite language gives off a sense of a nice person that cares for others. Yet the standard of being polite to everybody on first interaction gives off the sense that everybody is a nice person, but not everybody actually means to be polite rather follow the imaginary rule of being polite. In social settings, using polite language at first interaction with another person gives off the sense that the person cares rather than realizing that there's an expectation to be polite to everybody.

Therefore, polite language is more of an expectation than actually meaning the words and respecting the other person. The use of polite language in school and job settings is rather a rule and obligated to be used with everybody, especially towards 'superiors' and customers. Diction also ties with polite language to not give off the sense of a rude person that doesn't care for the other in social settings. Polite language being used is rather a imaginary rule to follow in all types of interactions, and seems as a standard rather than actually meaning your words.

THE CHASE IS ON

1. The Hound attacks Montag because Montag burned the house and killed Beatty.
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3. Montag realized that Beatty wanted to die because when Montag threatened Beatty, he didn't try to save himself rather tested him by making him even more mad.
4. Montag went to a gasoline station to get cleaned up and look less suspicious, but he was unconsciously going towards the direction of Faber's house.
5. Montag heard a car's engine and immediately thought it was the police and that they caught him. Montag tried to play it calm but started running then falling, he later realized it wasn't the police.

WHAT I SEE IN LITERATURE

1. '& the afternoon, the evening, sleeps so peacefully'
       : gatsby is @ peace bc dead, no worries about daisy
2. 'Time for you & time for me & time yet for hundred indecisions'
      : daisy & gatsby, daisy chosing tom, indecisiveness - relationship between gatsby & daisy
3. ' To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet'
      : gatsby creating a image of wealth and power for daisy

The Great Gatsby Notes

- bootlegger: illegal business of transporting alcoholic beverages
- why is there always rumors about gatsby?
- weird ppl @ gatsby's party
- chocked @ 'educated at oxford'
- Gatsby: too perfect to be American - sketch
- gatsby mirrors jame gatz ( Dan cody)
- Gatsby - self made man
- cigs, decay as much as them
- 'light off' no connection, isolated
- more emotional - daisy & gatsby
- racy pasquinade
- could've been alive - gatsby , if didn't cover for daisy
- don't let love distract you
- Tj Eckelberg spectacles - god sees everything no matter what - don't over look
- can't blame gatsby for his death
- gatsby shows love to daisy - parties and money
- tom & daisy are alike
    - reason bc daisy doesn't leave
    - came from money
    - don't care for others & consequences from it
    - daisy didn't love time but stayed
- green light represents seeing everything thru out story, fitz reflecting: cheat, killers
     - American society moral wasteland

Ch1-3 notes

Ch 1

- characters: gatsby, daisy, tom

- middle western -> East

- Tip of Egg village, peak of rich

- main knows gatsby

- supercilious: behaving or looking as though one thinks one is superior to others.

- effeminate - having or showing characteristics regarded as typical of a woman; unmanly

- 'best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool' 

 - cried when it was a girl - daisy

Ch2 

- Nick mid-west -> New York

         - suburbs -> between rich ppl

         - gays by next door neighbor

         - daisy distant relative, ' women are fools'

- tom, Daisy's husband 

- jordan baker -> daisy & tom's friend 

- tom w/ Mrs. Wilson -> Myrtle 

      - bought her a dog 

      - stay @ apartment 

      - M wants to play house 

      - Mr, Wilson wants something from Tom

   - Nick 3rd wheel

Ch3 

- displacement : wrong place, wrong time for character

- anachronism: out of time 

    - chronism: time

- use of quotations marks -> irony & humor 

- Gatsby -> doesn't want trouble w/ anybody 

- jay didn't recognize gatsby 

- why isn't gatsby there 

- the lonely crowd 

- jovial: friendly but rude

- more 'in' than others

- gatsby more formal than others

- vinous: drink on wine

- snobby ppl

- baker: incurable dishonest 

- 'few honest ppl to ever know'

The Great Gatsby Chapter 1 Quiz

The Great Gatsby Chapter 1 Quiz

1. a.  Long Island, New York
2 d. Nick Carraway
3. c. East Egg & West Egg
4. C. Aggressive, condescending, arrogant                  
5.c. In East Egg, the houses look like rich mansions, but in West Egg, the houses look more poorly built and “run down.”
6. a. a “beautiful little fool”
7. a. Nick himself
8. d. White
9. c. Tom Buchanan
10.  d. Tom’s “other woman on the side”
11.b. Jay Gatsby
12. b. a green light on the dock

Music as literature

Music is literature, music is somebody's literature that they wrote for others to listen to. Music is the type of literature that has a lot of meaning behind it, it can be sad, angry or happy literature. All songs have a story behind it and it is told as, maybe, in a catchy tune. The difference between a novel, a poem, a rap, a song, a opera and a symphony is that each story that is told is different and in a different amount of time. Each story, is more powerful than others in a way that the story is told, a story can be told better than others basically. What they gave in common is that, again, they all tell a story and have a meaning behind it.

Hello 2017

Comparing myself from January 2016 to January 2017, is kinda hard to do since I don't even remember much of early 2016. But from my guess, I believe I've grown as a person and as a 'writer', wouldnt really qualify myself as a writer since I've only written essays and journals but, I do believemy vocabulary somewhat expanded and the way I phrase my words. My mindset has changed, many of my beliefs or views on things have changed, I believe I've become a better person and actually matured but the only thing that stayed the same, is probably the amount of stress I have for the future.

SOMETHING INTERESTING

I think someone's mom texted me saying "Get up kids it's time for school!" and I just found it as some sort of random motivation. I texted the person shortly after asking who it was and they responded the next day saying it's time for school, around the same time again. Weird experience.

IMMIGRANTS IN OUR OWN LAND

The poem, ' Immigrants in our own land' by Jimmy Santiago Baca translates to me as a immigrant going into new land and then comparing it to life in prison.. Immigrants go into new land expecting it to be great but then it ends up being not what they expected. They get clustered into their own 'sections' & still not feeling like it's home or not feeling right. The author'stone gave us a sense a reality, it went straight to the point and gave no 'foreign language'. The poem somewhat feels more personal to my family and I because my parents have experienced the same things in this prom but have learned over time,

MY MAD DREAM OF A ESSAY

Remember that time you ate that spicy sandwich just before you went to bed on the night before the big graduation?  Oh, that weird dream you had about the 2016 presidential election.  When you woke up you couldn't quite remember the horrendous details, but after reading "On Self-Reliance" and "A Sound of Thunder" it's all coming back to you now.

The dream started badly.  You were in line with your family at Target waiting to be sent to a steep cliff.  Everywhere you looked there were posters of president-elect Sin Melox, looking like a crazy cat] who could eat a whole possum.   

Suddenly, there was Ralph Waldo Emerson telling you, "Nothing can bring you peace but yourself"  You realized that you have something to contribute to the world so you decided to dance.  But it wasn't easy.  First you had to put on a fancy dress and foot long heels and then you had make a package to go back in time to the museum so you could convince people to learn about the candidates and the immigration issues.

But right there in the museum there was a giant rabbit and it started roaring at everyone.  People started to cry.  You grabbed a broom from a nearby janitor and yelled we can change things that need to be changed.  Everyone stopped and listened, so you kept going.

Every decision in our lives always changes our future. Even the smallest change or decision can affect our lives and how they will look like, such as  what shoe to wear or doing our homework. Basically, everything we're doing right now at this moment, is affect our lives and maybe even the people surround us. If you look at our 'small' decisions all together, it doesn't look like a big emo act on our lives, more like a routine. An example will be when in 'A Sound Of Thunder', eckels doesn't expect a big change in his future from just stepping off the path and killing the butterfly. We can also be the change in which society wants/needs. We can change our future for the better, as Emerson explains in his essay, "My life is for itself and not for a spectacle", we can't keep wanting what others want but what ourselves want. We don't need to depend on others for the decision, we ourselves can be the change that we need.

SOMETHING INTERESTING ABOUT THE BOOK I'M READING

The book that I am ready is 13 reasons why by Jay Asher, this book is very different from what i usually read. The book has a different formatting and timeline than other books, also it has a very unique plot. The book is basically about a girl who commits suicide but before she does, she records herself why she did it, 13 reasons why she did it.  After the girl dies, the tapes of her 13 reasons why she killed herself are released.

SOMETHING INTERESTING ABOUT THE BOOK I'M READING

The book that I am ready is 13 reasons why by Jay Asher, this book is very different from what i usually read. The book has a different formatting and timeline than other books, also it has a very unique plot. The book is basically about a girl who commits suicide but before she does, she records herself why she did it, 13 reasons why she did it.  After the girl dies, the tapes of her 13 reasons why she killed herself are released.

MY AMERICAN VOICE

I think that it is important to speak up when the topic concerns you or effects you in anyway. If the topic doesn't concern you, I would say not to speak up, it wouldn't be very relevant to you to the point to not really do anything. If the topic is relevant to you then I would 100% say to speak up on the matter, to not be shy to say something that you clearly believe is right or wrong. It is always nice to prove someone wrong or right,

VOCAB Fall List #6

meme -  an amusing/ interesting picture or video that is spread widely through the internet
1. Pepe the frog, crying jordan, or celebrities caught off guard would be consider to be iconic memes.
virus - a computer program that is usually hidden in another nontoxic computer, it produces copies of itself into other computers to usually destroy or mess with data 
2. A disk that contains software checks for viruses in a computer.
viral- spreading very quickly through people usually through the internet 
3. A video of a person dancing became viral over the internet. 
blog - a website that is basically a person's journal online.
4. Our class created blogs for our English class to write our assignments.
wiki - a website that lets visitors make changes, corrections or contributions 
5. Wikipedia would be considered a wiki website due to it letting others write and correct topics on the website.
URL - the address of a website 
6. The URL of my blog would be http://fatixmaca.blogspot.com/ .
website -  a place on the World Wide Web that contains information 
7. This vocabulary list will be posted on my blog which is on a website.
www - World Wide Web
8. Www starts in all websites URLs to find it worldwide 
Internet - an electronic communications network that connects computer networks and organizational computer facilities around the world
9. The internet helps connect friends and families faster and collect information.
2.0 - an advanced version of something
10. A iPhone 6s would be the 2.0 version of a iPhone 6.
open source - 
11.

ESSAY 1 REVISED

After reading my colleagues' work and sharing ideas, I realized I could improve my first essay by including a hook and work on mechanics.
If I had to  choose family over patriotism? I would pick family without hesitation. The argument of personal relations being more important than causes or patriotism, is true being that personal relations are more meaningful than patriotism. I agree that personal relations are more important because personal relations can actually spread positively while patriotism can spread negatively. People may say that their country or state is better than others which can start arguments, hatred, and competiveness  between other countries and states. Others may say patriotism is more important by saying 'what's so bad about loving your country'? , well many will do anything to promote their country whether it is in a good or bad way.
Personal relations is essential to a happy and positive life. Such as, having a relationship with family is basic human nature and provides support and comfort between people. A relationship with family can be all peace and calm while patriotism can be aggressive and debatable. Indeed, Patriotism can unite people together and make people agree on one thing however, it can start wars and put countries or states against one another. Supporters recognized wanting the best for their country and promoting it in that way, still they do not recognize many promote in a way that degrades other countries.
Therefore, personal relations are more important than patriotism in a way of spreading more positively. Personal relations is essential while patriotism is unnecessary unless used in a way to unite others together. Patriotism is mainly used in a negative way to bring other countries down, rise hatred and mistrust

fall vocab #5

1. venomous - full of or containing venom
2.  stolid - calm or showing little emotion
3. . hypnotized - to fascinate or produce state of hypnosis
4. suspended - temporarily prevent from continuing
5. transformed - make a change in form, appearance or character of
6. accuse - charge with offense or crime
7. anticipate - expect or predict
8. fringe - threads left loose or formed in tassels or twist
9. melancholy - feeling of pensive sadness
10. earnestly - serious in intention
11. dissolve - to melt or liquefy
12. aggravate - make worse or serious
13. illuminate - light up
14. capillary - any of the fine branching blood vessels that form a network between the arterioles and venules.
15. proboscis - nose of a mammal

A HUG IS NEARLY A GUN SPELLED BACKWARD

The argument of personal relations being more important than causes or patriotism, is true being that personal relations are more meaningful than patriotism. I agree that personal relations are more important because personal relations can actually spread positively while patriotism can spread negatively. People may say that their country or state is better than others which can start arguments, hatred, and competiveness  between other countries and states. Others may say patriotism is more important by saying 'what's so bad about loving your country'? , well many will do anything to promote their country whether it is in a good or bad way.
Personal relations is essential to a happy and positive life. Such as, having a relationship with family is basic human nature and provides support and comfort between people. A relationship with family can be all peace and calm while patriotism can be aggressive and debatable. Indeed, Patriotism can unite people together and make people agree on one thing however, it can start wars and put countries or states against one another. Supporters recognized wanting the best for their country and promoting it in that way, still they do not recognize many promote in a way that degrades other countries.
Therefore, personal relations are more important than patriotism in a way of spreading more positively. Personal relations is essential while patriotism is unnecessary unless used in a way to unite others together. Patriotism is mainly used in a negative way to bring other countries down, rise hatred and mistrust.

Vocab #3

catharsis - the process of releasing, and results to providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions.
taboo - religious customs prohibiting certain things
sordid- involving dishonorable actions and motives
 swindle - a trick or a scheme to get money or possessions
 frivolous - not having any purpose or value
 inadvertently - without intention; accidentally
 incendiary - designed to cause fires
 jargon - slang ; expressions or phrase used by particular group & its difficult for others to understand
colloquialism - word or phrase that is not formal, typically used in ordinary conversation
 archaism - something that is very old or old-fashioned
 cudgel - short thick stick used as a weapon
 egregious - outstandingly bad; shocking
 anesthetize - give anesthetic to a person or animal
 euphonious - pleasing to the ear
 scrupulous - extremely attentive to detail & carefully thorough
 perverted - showing or having sexual desires that are not acceptable or normal
 superfluous - unnecessary or excessive
 Saxon - Germanic people that inhabited central and north germany
 slovenly - messy and dirty
 provocation - action or speech that makes someone angry