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.