Guiding Questions: Chapter 7

1. Gatsby stopping having parties because Daisy didn't like them.
2. Gatsby fire is staff because he doesn't want them to spread rumors about him to daisy,at first we found out Daisy really nice and then she ended up killing someone
3.Gatsby reaction is he cant believe its Daisy's baby, and Daisy's reaction is she's unsure.
4. Gatsby Wins, Gatsby told Nick that Daisy never loved him.
5.Marval is killed by Daisy.
6. Tom and Daisy are on the opposite side of the dinner table eating chicken.

Test Questions

1.The Green Light symbolizes?
2.The Valley of Ashes symbolizes?
3.How Did Nick know Tom prior to marrying Daisy?
4. What does Gatsby call everyone? 
5. What does Nick describe Jordan?
6. Why did Tom do on his wedding?
7. What is the relationships of Nick and Daisy?

Meet Nick

Well, I didn't get much of the story but I caught something from him. Like how he graduate from Yale. He also I guess describes himself as highly moral and highly tolerant, that's what I got from the first chapter. I believe he also lives in a place called West Egg and its in New York how he knows a lot of people from East Eggs. From what I read, he is a wealthy man who live with rich people and is somewhat different from them. He's also writing a book or something...
I believe the first chapter was a bit confusing for me, might have to read it again or something :)

Argue This

What is Syllogism? Well in my words I think it's a way in saying something and coming to a conclusion to a statement you made. For example, "All birds lay. Therefor a swan is a bird. The word Syllogism has a way into concluding what something really is.The minor premise is that a swan is a bird. The word Syllogism is also greek which means conclusion.

How did I do today?

First Impression: On Self-Reliance

My impression on today’s read from my teacher was interesting I guess. I didn’t get the topic much but I got something out of it. Like how if you have an idea of something you should speak your mind. Unless it’s a bad idea that you know others won’t like. If you know answer to a question that the teacher asks the class and no ones speaks up to answer because there to scare too. You should have confidence to say the answer at loud. What I learn is that you should say what you think because it will allow people to know who you are.

Let me take you for a walk The Pedestrian

       Ray Bradbury wrote the story The Pedestrian to show how cops in our society take control over their own power, and abused it. The story The Pedestrian is a man who goes for a nightwalk every single night for many years. He comes across a police officer one night who ends up stopping him just for walking at night alone. The main character can't figure why this happen to him. The thing is that he has been walking down this path many times and not once has someone stopped him. The story also takes a strong look into the future.

    Mr. Leonard Mead, the main character of the story, doesn't understand why the police officer has stopped him. The officer ask Mr. Leonard Mead a lot of question. For example he asked, "what are you doing out here". He responded, "I'm just walking, and getting some fresh air, and going for a night walk" The Offer sounded curious because he asked Mr. Leonard, "just walking" As if he didn't believe him. Later on he's told by the officer to get in. At this point Mr. Leonard Mead can't figure out why he's being arrested.

   I believe that the character from the story feels angry toward the police officer whos arresting him. The main character tries to find a reason why he's being arrested when he hasn't commit a crime. Before the arrest the police officer asked him many questions that he answer in a good manner. Thinking if he was nice to the officer he would let him go. That's not the case. He gets arrested for something he didn't do wrong. The thing that makes this story interesting is that he's the only one who goes for night walks.

    Mr. Leonard Mead, has been walking down that road for 10 years and never has seen a person walk at night. So why out of all days does he meet this officer. Probably bad luck I guess. The officer tells Mr. Leonard Mead to get in the back of the car, the officer tells Mr. Leonard that he’s being taken to a psychiatric institution to be studied for regressive tendencies. To this he listens to the officer, and he drives alway with Mr. Leonard Mead.

    In conclusion, Ray Bradbury wrote this short and interesting story to tell us that cops sometimes are unfair with people and take, and abuse their power they have. He also wrote it due to a cop stopping him one night when he went for a walk. So when he went home after the small in counter with the cop, he wrote the famous story The Pedestrian. The story has a strong meaning and a strong message that will get you thinking. All in all, this story gave me a different view of how police officer are seen in our society.




 Also I just realized that the police officer was a talking car 🤦‍♂️ My bad...

How we read

Meme: an element of a culture or system of behavior that may be considered to be passed from one individual to another by nongenetic means, especially imitation.




Virus: an infective agent that typically consists of a nucleic acid molecule in a protein coat, is too small to be seen by light microscopy, and is able to multiply only within the living cells of a host. /// a piece of code which is capable of copying itself and typically has a detrimental effect, such as corrupting the system or destroying data.


Viral: relating to or involving an image, video, piece of information, etc., that is circulated rapidly and widely from one Internet user to another.

Blog: a regularly updated website or web page, typically one run by an individual or small group, that is written in an informal or conversational style.


Wiki: a website that allows collaborative editing of its content and structure by its users.

URL: the address of a World Wide Web page.

website: a location connected to the Internet that maintains one or more pages on the World Wide Web.

www: The World Wide Web 

Internet:a global computer network providing a variety of information and communication facilities, consisting of interconnected networks using standardized communication protocols.

2.0:  used to denote a superior or more advanced version of an original concept, product, service, etc. 

open source: denoting software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified.

FIRST IMPRESSION OF A DREAM

Today’s journal topic got me thinking. What if what’s happening right is a dream? Really hope not. I have a pretty good life going right now. Then again how can we tell, this thing called life could be an  Illusion. You can feel, feelings in dreams, well I think I can. I don’t know why but once I wake up from a dream I forget all about it. I wish I could remember my dreams I can remember some but not all. What if dreaming can tell the future. Does that mean we can see the future in our dreams? This topic really got me thinking about dreaming. I’m going to do more research about dreaming because it’s a really interesting topic not going to lie.

My essay my essay

Young Goodman Brown is about how he went for a walk in the wood after saying Goodbye to his wife Faith. Then he meets this old mad with a snake staff, later on he turns out to be the devil. Which represented the Adam & Eve story. The old man then starts to talk about some of his family members, by saying how bad they were or something like that. Young Goodman Brown tries to avoid the old man by turning back from the woods and heads home. Then I believe he takes the old man's staff because he was struggling to walk. Due to this he was zooming through the wood which lead him to a ceremony. A witches ceremony. Knowing this, he saw all his towns people and the ceremony including his wife Faith without her pink ribbon. The pink ribbon represent her innocence and how pure good of a person she is. Young Goodman Brown saw his wife at ceremony, he lost his trust for his wife. I believe after he left the ceremony he went to his home and saw all the towns people, but not the same way, he lost his trust for everyone including his wife Faith.

Young Goodman Brown questions

1: Hawthorne’s wrote this story for the purpose so people wouldn’t go into the woods alone.
2: No, I don’t agree with Faith and her name, it doesn’t fit her personality. Brown doesn’t have true faith at the end of the story because he doesn’t trust her.
3: I think the pink ribbon is signify that she’s a good person and wouldn’t be the type of person to do anything bad.
4: I don’t think everything brown witnesses was real. I think he took a quick nap and woke up in his village afterwards. I think is says in the story that he took the mans walking staff and he was at the ceremony in just one second.
5: I think the old man is a homeless person, who is on something. I don’t know have any textual clues.
6: The Staff represents how fast he can travel with it. The staff leads Brown in his own conscience/mind.
7: Yes if he had not intervene into going into the forest he would have still trusted his wife and his fellow town people.