The Joy Luck Club Essay

Prompt: Although much of the plot of each story revolves around men, The Joy Luck Club as a whole centers on the relationships between mothers and daughters. How would the book differ if the Chinese characters were fathers and sons instead?

In The Joy Luck Club there were many miscommunications between mothers and daughters. Many of the conflicts these women went through were because of the diversity between their cultures. The mother being Chinese and the daughter being American. I believe that this book would completely change if these characters would be based on men instead of women for 3 reasons. The reasons being that men have less conflict, they are less emotional, and finally they're a lot less influential than women. This leads me to explaining further on about the examples I listed previously.

The first reason as to why I think this book would change if the Chinese characters would be men is because men tend to have less conflict with others. We can see in the chapter called Rules of the Game when Waverly Jong gets overwhelmed by her mother's constant pressure for the game of chess. Waverly breaks in emotion one day with her mother and asks her why she has always tried to take credit for her success. This creates conflict between these characters because at the end of the day Waverly lost interest in something she once had passion for and all because of her mother's selfishness.

The second reason why the book would change if it revolved around men is because men are less emotional. They never really express what they are feeling and tend to not have emotional breakdowns. The chapter The Voice from the Wall portrays how Lena is confused from her mother's actions and state of mind. Ying-Ying, Lena’s mom, suffered from a loss of a baby. She would always cry and never say much and claim to see the future. This affected Lena’s life because she never really got to interact with her mother throughout her childhood. By this, a wall was created upon them causing diversity between them.

The last reason is that men are a lot less influential than women. After Suyan passed away, it was June’s call to take over her mother's legacy and fulfill her wish. June was influenced by her mother and her legacy to fly to China and find her long lost sisters and give them Suyan’s message. Men don’t usually influence other’s or have a sense of control over someone, which is why I think this would be different if it was a book based on Chinese men.

In conclusion, those were the 3 examples why I thought this book would be different if it focused on Chinese men. I thought this book was very inspiring in the sense of how we should always be grateful of what and who we gave in our lives because one day they will all be gone. The book teaches us to always have a type of communication with our loved ones and if there are misunderstandings we should try to fix them. It’s better to solve a problem together than time passing by and not being able to say sorry.

Antigone Questions 9-15

9. Tom Leopard is called the Leopard Man because he is covered with a leopard tattoo and acts like one too. As described in paragraph #1.

10. The author thinks that people with tattoos and piercings are desperate for societies attention, and he finds himself unimpressed by them. He has these opinions because he thinks that when people try to attract in a positive form and have failed, they go for the more darker and negative way to attract others, otherwise known as attention.

11. The Leopard Man is different from other people with tattoos and piercings because he actually acts like a leopard. He lives in the wilderness and has no clothes.

12. The Leopard Man lives in a small cabin in the Scottish wilderness.

13. Society fears people who are loners because they pursue their own values without seeking others' permission.

14. Fey's argument in this paragraph is that even though weird people do have mental disorders, "normal" people have disorders too. For example, "normal" people suffer from alcoholism, eating disorders, depression, panic attacks, and other debating conditions.

15. Leopard Man is happy because he doesn't live up to anyones expectations, aka society.

Diction Handouts

1. An example of low or informal diction is, "...I only climbed on the spare spar and leand over the rail as far as I could, to bring my eyes nearer to that mystery floating alongside."

2. Words & Definitions
-Opaque: not able to be seen through
-Elongated: unusually long in relation to its width.
-Phosphorescent: something glows with light without becoming hot to the touch
-Elusive: difficult to find, catch, or achieve.
-Immersed: dip or submerge in a liquid
-Cadaverous: resembling a corpse in being very pale, thin, or bony
-Ghastly: causing great horror or fear; frightful or macabre

Paraphrasing the paragraph:

The side of the ship made a hazy belt of shadow on the darkling glassy shimmer of the sea. I saw at once something extended and pale floating very close to the ladder. Before i could form a guess a faint flash of shimmering light, which seemed to issue suddenly from the naked body of a man, flickered in the sleeping water with the intangible, silent play of summer lighting in a night sky. With a gasp I saw revealed to my stare a pair of feet, the long legs, a broad livid back shot right up to my neck in a greenish cadaverous glow. As he hung by the ladder, like a resting swimmer, the sea lighting played about his limbs at every stir, and he appeared in it terrible, silvery, fishlike.

3. The elevated language contributes to the tone to make it sound more formal and more mysterious. Paraphrasing the passage affects the tone in a casual way. It sounds less formal and when reading the passage, it's not as intriguing as reading elevated words since it makes it sound better.

4. 4 examples of concrete diction in the passage are:
- phosphorescent light
-opaque belt of shadow
- a board livid back immersed right up to the neck in a greenish cadaverous glow.
- a headless corpse

5. The author chose to leave the captain, the ship, and the crew nameless in the story because he wanted the readers to still keep thinking and being in a way clueless as to who was being described. The elevated words are the ones which unveil what the objects are and how they look like.

6. The denotative meaning of the title The Secret Sharer is of a person who talks about their side that other people don't see, which is dark.

Word	Denotation	Connotation
Cadaverous	resembling a corpse in being very pale, thin, or bony	Body
Darkling	of or relating to growing darkness.	Darkness
Pale	light in color or having little color.	White
Phosphorescence	something glows with light without becoming hot to the touch	Flashy
Ghastly	causing great horror or fear; frightful or macabre	Scared
Headless	having no head	No mind
Fishlike	a characteristic of a fish	Feature

Latin Roots #6

Roots and Derivatives

1. Corp(or) (body): corpse, corporation, corps, corpuscle, corpus, corset

2. Cred (to believe, to trust): credo, credit, discredit, credence

3. Cur, curs, course (to run, to flow): current, excursion, discourse, concur

4. Dic(t) (to speak, to say): diction, indication, edict, addict, dictionary 

Word List

1. Benediction: the invocation of a divine blessing, as at the close of a religious service; a blessing or a state of blessedness.

Example: The benediction at the end of the service was as long as the sermon.

2. Concourse: a running or flowing together; a board public walkway or hallway; a crowd or throng.

Example: A long concourse extended from the main lobby of the airport to the check-in counters.

3. Concurrent: occurring at the same time; meeting or acting together.

Example: Things that happen concurrently happen at the same time.

4. Corporal: related to the physical body.

Example: Corporal pleasures are the enjoyments of the mind.

5. Corpulent: very stout; fat.

Example: Grown corpulent from years of overeating, Kamlesh decided to participate in the sack race.

6. Credibility: the quality of being believable or trustworthy.

Example: Only the most childlike credibility would allow a person to believe a phony set up.

7. Credulity: the (naive) willingness to believe too easily without proof. 

Example: From your credulity expression, I can tell that you don't believe.

8. Cursory: done in a superficial or hasty manner.

Example: A cursory examination is not as thorough as it might have been.

9. Dictum: an authoritative saying or maxim.

Example: "Business is business" was my friend's favorite dictum.

10. Incorporate: to form into one body or function unit; to combine several different things into a whole.

Example: We should incorporate as much traditional Americana into our news campaign as possible.

11. Incredulous: not believing, skeptical, or doubting.

Example: An incredulous smile is likely to suggest skepticism.

12. Indicative: characteristic of or very much like; suggestive.

Example: Any remark indicative of the truth should not be misleading.

Literature Analysis #2: I Am The Messenger by Markus Zusak

1. The book starts off at a bank robbery scene where the main character Ed Kennedy unintentionally becomes the town hero by telling the cops who the robber was. Ed knew who he was because he was one of the hostages kept by the robber in the bank. The day after, Ed receives an ace of diamonds in the mail by an unknown person. He then discovered that the card had three addresses written in the back of it, which ment that each address had a problem he had to fix . Throughout the book he got a variety of aces: diamonds, clubs, spades, hearts. It wasn't easy for Ed to finish one card a day because he had to find clues on how to get to the destination and he had to figure out how to fix the problem he had to face. At the end when Ed completed all of the cards given, he received a last card. This card was the joker and the address listed on it was his own address. Ed then learned from the card that he is not the messenger, but the message.

2. The main theme of the book is faith. I feel like this is the main theme because Ed was called worthless and useless all his life up until he reaches his last card. Throughout the book he stays motivated to continue with the messages even if it ment he had to kill someone. He just wanted to help the people that were listed in the poker cards. 

3. The protagonist is dynamic by the end of the book because he learns many things about himself that he didn't know. At first, he was very calm and at ease but towards the end of the book he gets out of his comfort zone and does things he never thought he would do. This explains why I think he's a dynamic character (also round) by the end of the book.

4. One significant symbol is the joker card he receives in the mail. This is symbolic because it's his last card but also because the last thing written on it is his home address. This reveals that the main character has to find out how he could possibly deliver a message but to himself. 

5. The reason why I chose this book was because it looked like a mystery piece. I personally only enjoy reading mystery books because I get more intrigued by them and if keeps me wanting to finish reading the book. I wanted to keep reading more when I reached to the point in the book where Ed goes to 45 Edgar Street. Here he sees a woman being raped and he has to help her. In the end I thought this book was amazing. I honestly thought it was better than The Fault in Our Stars and that says a lot!

6. One of the connections I can make from the book to my life is that I have friends who sometimes tell me what they're affected by it. I remember one friend in particular that toled me how her mom would tell her she was useless. This connects to the book because Ed is constantly always being called out by his mom which are hurtful words. I believe my friend is not wot has because she is a great person and very smart. This also connects to Ed because he's intelligent and is his own hero.

7. One of the things I will forever remember from this book is the quote on page 224. "Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are." When I read this for the first time I was in complete shock. I feel like our generation/society is so focused in looks but what they don't realize is that a person is beautiful because of what they bring to the table. I can't go on any further explaining why I will always remember this quote because it already speaks for its self.

Greek Drama Handout Questions

1. What kind of prize is given for dancing choruses of worshipers? 

A bull or a goat.

2. How many spectators would gather in the open-air theater of Dionysos?

As many as 14,000 spectators gathered in the open-air Theater of Dionysos.

3. How does the mask affect the voices of the actors?

Masks had exaggerated mouthpieces that amplified the actors' voices.

4. Why was Antigone suspenseful to viewing audiences?

Antigone was suspenseful to viewing audiences because suspense came from their knowledge of things the characters on stage did not know. 

5. How is the shepherd to leave the infant on the mountainside ?

The shepherd is to leave the infant on the mountainside with his ankles pinned together.

6. What is the riddle the Sphinx gave to Oedipus?

The Sphinx riddle went like this: "What creature goes on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, and three legs in the evening?"

7. Who are Oedipus' kids?

His kids were: Polyneices, Eteocles, Antigone, and Ismene.

8. After Oedipus is exiled, who takes over Thebes?

Creon took over as regent of Thebes.

9. What did the family do to the dead body?

Creon considered Polyneices as a traitor, so he decreed that his body be left unburied, to rot in the sun outside the city gates.

Antigone Quick Write

What I plan to do to save my brother from dying in an unhappy way is something that no one would ever think of doing. First, I will take his body from where it is now without anyone noticing. Second, I will travel to a new country and bury him in a near by cemetery. After that, I will travel back home and make sure to not act suspicious about anything and continue on with my life. The reason why I chose to take my brother to a new country is because no one will suspect anything and will never find out. Yes, it is breaking the law that a person is taking the act of burying him but I love my brother and would do anything for him. As long as he’s happy, I’m happy. Although my sister is the only one who knows that I plan to do as I say, I know she’ll never say anything. Why I know is because I am everything she has and she is everything I have left. Sure we have our uncle, but he’s too focused on his duties he hardly pays attention to us. If I ever get caught, I will never say I didn’t commit such thing. In fact, I will own up to it because it’s something that I did willingly and wouldn’t regret the happiness of my brother and I. That is my plan!

Jonathan Safran Foer Webinar

Today we had a webinar session with famous author Jonathan Safran Foer who has impacted life with his novels such as Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. The webinar we had today was presented by Foer himself which talked about his most recent work, Eating Animals. I feel like this webinar session was persuasive, informative, and ingenious. There are many reasons as to where I believe so which leads me getting into the details.

One of the reasons I think this presentation was persuasive is because there was many talks about how being a vegetarian is a better lifestyle than feeding our bodies with any types of meat. One of the things that I heard Safran Foer say was “meat is murder”. The way I understood his quote is in the way of meat having a strong impact to our bodies, but in a non healthy way. Not only that, I feel like this quote also refers to the animals that have been brutally killed to be served on plates.

Another category I believe this webinar session falls into is informative. It was very informative because anytime someone would ask a question he would give many details and build up on it going into another significant topic. At some point throughout the conversation he was talking about the food industry and how farmers provide to it. He said, “farmers produce what people want.” This in my opinion was very clever of him to say because it is absolutely true. Why would farmers spend money on something that in the end won’t benefit them?

The final category I felt this discussion fell into is that it was ingenious. Foer was clearly clever and original as to they way he talked about the many different topics. He was concise answering all of the questions asked although for some he took longer because of all the detail being said. Those are some reasons why I believe this discussion was ingenious.

After this presentation, I feel that many of the topics talked about can relate to my life. I personally have always wanted to try to become a vegetarian but I’ve never really given it much thought until now. Safran Foer pointed out many things as to why becoming a vegetarian is better to the body and other different aspects. For example, when he said, “we can’t ignore meat so that’s why we still eat it although we hate animal cruelty.” His words really put it in perspective because it is true, we can’t avoid meat because it is constantly being presented to us everywhere we go. That is one of the things that have stopped me from becoming a vegetarian. Overall I think that this was one of the coolest experiences I’ve ever been through because these kinds of opportunities don’t come around every day.

Latin Roots #5

Roots and Derivatives

1. cent(i): century, centipede, centennial, centigrade, centimeter
2. cid(e) (cut)(kill): homicide, incision, suicide, scissors, circumstance 
3. clam, claim: clamor, exclaim, proclaim, disclaim
4. cord, cour: accord, courage, encouraged, cordiform, cordate 

Word List

1. Bicentennial: Related to a celebration of a two hundredth anniversary; happening once in a period of two hundred years or lasting two hundred years 

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2. Centenarian: a person who has lived to be one hundred years old.

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3. Centurion: a Roman officer commanding one hundred men; related to the military mind, especially as it favors military solutions for handling social problems.

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4. Clamorous: characterized by continuous loud and complaining voices; noisily complaining; insistent.

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5. Concise: covering much in few words; brief and to the point.

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6. Concordance: a condition of harmony or agreement; an alphabetical index indicating reference passages, as from a writer's works.

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7. Cordial: of the heart; warm and friendly; amiable.

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8. Discordant: sounding harsh or inharmonious; clashing

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9. Genocide: the systematic extermination of an ethnic group 

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10. Incisive: keenly penetrating; cutting into 

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11. Proclamation: an official statement or announcement that informs or honors

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12. Reclaim: to claim again; to restore to former importance or usefulness 

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Latin Roots #4

Roots and Derivatives

1. bon, boun
2. capit, capt
3. carn(i)
4. ced(e), ceed, cess

Word List

1. Accession: the attainment of a certain rank or dignity; an increase by means of something added; the act of becoming joined.

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2. Bona fide: in good faith; genuine 

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3. Bonanza: a sudden or unexpected source of money or riches; a windfall. 

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4. Bounteous: inclined to be generous; plentiful and abundant.

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5. Capitulation: a surrendering, usually upon prearranged terms or conditions; a final giving up. 

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6. Carnage: a great slaughter, as in a battle. 

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7. Carnivorous: flesh-eating, as an animal.

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8. Incarnate: literally in the flesh; in bodily form; personified; flesh-colored. 

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9. Intercede: to act on another's behalf; to mediate.

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10. Precedent: a previous act or decision taken as a valid model; a, having gone before.

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11. Recapitulation: a brief repetition; a summary as of what has already been said.

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12. Reincarnation: a thing that is reborn, or comes back into being, although perhaps in a different (bodily) form.

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Literature Analysis #1: The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards

1. The Memory Keeper's Daughter is about a couple, Norah and David Henry, who go out into a clinic in a snow storm due to fact that Norah is about to give birth. When they get to the clinic, David performs the birth and Norah gives birth to their very first child, Paul, who was healthy and beautiful. Minutes later after cleaning Paul, Norah starts to get contractions and suddenly goes unconscious. David realizes that they were expecting twins, fraternal twins. When he held their daughter, Phoebe, he detects she has Down Syndrome. Because of his childhood experiences he decided he did not want to put Norah through bad things in her life so he quickly wrapped Phoebe in a blanket, put her in a box, and gave her to the nurse assisting him, Caroline Gill. When Norah woke up David explained to her that their daughter had died at birth but their son remained alive. This is obviously a huge lie that will forever haunt David throughout the rest of the novel.

2. The theme of the novel is to not let the past haunt you which make you take decisions based on the traumatizing experiences. I feel that when David gave Phoebe to Norah he thought much about his past and how he didn't want those things to happen in his late life so he made a drastic decision, one which would change a lot of his life and would achieve a burden built inside him.

3. When I first read what this book was about I was very much intrigued by David's decision of giving his daughter away without even concerning his wife in his actions. I felt like this book would have a plot twist to it and a mystery like feel, which it did. That's what kept me reading, wondering how the truth would unveil in the end.

4. I found this book realistic because I believe feel that everyone lives such different lives and have different obstacles to over come. At first I thought this book was based on a true story but it turns out it's not. That's how true I thought it was.

5. The author's tone is different in two aspects. I feel that when the chapters would go back and fourth from the lives of Norah, David, and Paul it would have a negative vibe. As to were as when the chapter talked about Caroline and Phoebe's life it had a more positive feel. 

6. 10 Literary Elements:
- Dramatic Irony: "Our little girl did not die. Caroline Gill took her and raised her in another city... I gave away our daughter"(322). This refers to dramatic irony because through out the whole book we know that Phoebe never died and David had lied to Norah all her life since she gave birth. 
- Symbolism: "She thought of the camera, its precise dials and levers. The Memory Keeper, it said on the box, in white italic letters; this, she realized, was why she'd bought it- so he'd capture every moment, so he'd never forget"(88). This symbolizes why the book is called The Memory Keeper's Daughter. 
- Onomatopoeia: "A fly buzzed, caught between the panes of glass in the old windows"(162). This is an onomatopoeia because it describes what the bus is doing.
- Flashback: "The doctor had felt transported back in time. His sister had been born with a heart defect and had grown very slowly, her breath catching and coming in little gasps whenever she tried to run"(17). David remembers this when he sees his daughter after the she was out of her mother's stomach because he thought of how much his mother had to struggle with when June, his sister, was alive.
- Simile: "Asleep in the dull glow of the streetlight, she looked like any child, her future as unmapped as the ocean floor, as rich with possibility"(95). This is a simile because it uses the words as and like which is talking about Phoebe.
- Imagery: "Then he turned her over to see her face. Creamy white vernix whorled in her delicate skin, and she was slippery with amniotic fluid and traces of blood. The blue eyes were cloudy, the hair jet black"(16). This symbolizes imagery because the author is describing how Phoebe looks as she had just gotten out of her mother's belly.
- Metaphor: "The sky was a dark ending indigo and the streetlights had come on..."(243). This is a metaphor because it describes the sky as something else but not becoming a simile. 
- Alliteration: "hidden in the back of a backroom drawer after the curators had gone; the single photograph of his father's family too.."(400).
- Personification: "Cars rushed over the fields of Doro's childhood, their headlights playing on the wall..."(95). This describes a personification because its a combination of a human trait being used by an inanimate trait.
- Repetition: "For the worst had already happened to them in the eyes of the world, then surely, surely, it was the worst that they left behind them now"(69). This symbolizes a repetition technique because it repeats the word surely.

1. Direct Characterization:
- "The moment he saw her, he knew something was wrong. She had large blue eyes, in a pale face that might have been forty or twenty-five, and whenever something was not to her liking a thin vertical line formed across her forehead..."(12). This describes Caroline Gill and her characteristics. 
- "Then he turned her over to see her face. Creamy white vernix whorled in her delicate skin, and she was slippery with amniotic fluid and traces of blood. The blue eyes were cloudy, the hair jet black"(16). This shows how Phoebe had been born, straight out of her mom's belly. 
Indirect Characterization: 
- "That was Lucy Martin... She's a dreadful gossip. Trust me. You just made her day"(57). This demonstrates how Lucy Martin is because of her actions, before this dialogue between Caroline & Al, Lucy had been looking out through the window observing Al's and Caroline's every move. 
- "Even at this distance she could tell he was a large person. He wore a bulky coat and a wool knit hat. His hands were shoved into his pockets"(54). This comes to show how Al looked like and what Caroline observed from the distance.

2. The author's syntax does not change because throughout the book she keeps the same tone or mood throughout each character. Especially about David.

3. I feel that David is a static and flat character because he doesn't really change. He's always very sad and depressed, ever since that snowy night. In the story he doesn't exactly go through a serious of changes he just goes and carries on in his life, trying to give out to others. Never really worrying about himself.

4. After reading this book I came out realizing that I had just read a character. Why I believe so is because anytime someone new came up it was just their description. I didn't necessarily feel like I had met a new character. 

One of the things I will forever remember from this book is why the book was named The Memory Keeper's Daughter. When I was reading page 88 at the bottom, I came across the dialogue between Caroline and David. The author, speaking for Norah, said, "She thought of the camera, its precise dials and levers. The Memory Keeper, it said on the box, in white italic letters; this, she realized, was why she'd bought it- so he'd capture every moment, so he'd never forget." This shows that the book was named after David. He was the memory keeper's daughter. I feel like this was a cool realization because even the name in the book was in white italic letters. I'm not exactly sure how to explain why this will always stay in my mind about this book, but I know it's a good one. It's like finding the last clue to a huge mystery, sort of how Nancy Drew feels after she's done helping with a case.  

Myth Presentation

Latin Roots #3

Roots and Derivatives

1. aud(it) (hear): audience, auditorium, audition, audiovisual
2. avi (bird): aviation, aviculture, aviatrix, avifauna 
3. bell(i) (war): rebellion, rebel, belligerent, postbellum
4. ben(e) (good, well): benefit, benevolent, benediction, benefice, benison

Word List

1. Antebellum: before the war, especially the American Civil War; typical of how things were before any war

Example: the antebellum was peaceful until everything changed.

2. Audit: to attend a class only as a listener, not for credit.

Example: she was an audit student in the English class.

3. Auditory: related to the sense of hearing.

Example: all students were checked to see if they had an auditory ability.

4. Avian: characteristic of or pertaining to bids.

Example: he had an avian attitude 

5. Aviary: an elaborate structure for housing birds

Example: he built an aviary like house for the birds 

6. Avionics: the technology of (using) electronic equipment in aviation, missilery, and space flight

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7. Bellicose: eager to fight or quarrel; hostile

Example: he was a very bellicose person

8. Belligerency: the condition of warlike hostility; a hostile action.

Example: they both had a belligerency attitude.

9. Benefactor: a person who gives another (financial) help; a patron.

Example: many true friends are benefactors to other friends 

10. Beneficiary: one who receives a benefit (of payment), as from an insurance policy.

Example: he was the kind of person who was a beneficiary.

11. Benign: not malignant; gracious and kindly; good-natured

Example: she was a benign person because she loved everything about everyone.

12. Inaudible: unable to be heard

Example: he felt inaudible in the class' discussion about religion. 

How School Kills Creativity

I feel that most of the times one can't exactly get what they want in school. For example, when you want to sign up for a class because you love the subject you can't take it or you don't get assigned to that class. I believe that I've been trough this because there's times in my school career that I want to take a class but I can't take it because it's not an A-G requirement. I personally believe that my education hasn't been personalized enough to be able to discover my talents because there's very little options (classes) to choose from. 

Latin Roots #2

Roots and Derivatives

1. anni, annu, enni: anniversary, semiannual, biennial, bicentennial, annuity
2. aqua, aque: aquatic, aqueduct, aquarium, aqualung, aquamarine 
3. arm: army, alarm, disarm, armaments, armory, armor
4. art: artistic, artificial, inarticulate, artmobile, article, artificer 

World List

1. Aqua: the hue of the sea: bluish-green

Example: The color of the sea was a beautiful aqua color.

2. Aquaculture: the cultivation of water plants and animals for human food.

Example: Aquaculture is an example of a class one can take for majoring in aquatic fields.

3. Aqueous: like, of, or formed by water; watery.

Example: The jelly had an aqueous like substance which made it taste weird 

4. Armada: a fleet of warships 

Example: An armada of destroyers set for war.

5. Armature: equipment or clothing for battle, or any protective covering; an arm like extensions

Example: The soldiers prepared their armature clothing to set for battle.

6. Armistice: a temporary suspension of hostiles by mutual agreement, as a truce preliminary to a peace of treaty

Example: The warriors fought for their right of armistice for their laws.

7. Artifact: any object produced by the art of the human hand; simple or primitive objects from the distant past.

Example: The artifact now lays inside glass windows in the museum.

8. Artifice: clever or sly trickery 

Example: Odyssus was a very artifice man.

9. Artisan: a person skilled at a craft, usually a handy craft

Example: Many artisan's tend to set up great parties because of their creativity. 

10. Millennium: a period of peace and great prosperity; a thousand years.

Example: Millennium years are the years to live for because there is great happiness.

11. Perennial: year after year; throughout the years 

Example: The soldiers fought in a perennial mode 

12. Superannuated: worn out, or retired from age and years of use or hard work; outdated.

Example: Her shoes were superannuated, since she bought them 3 years ago.

Journal

I think television has become more popular than books because people get too lazy to read. The reason why people don't read anymore is because they think they don't have time, but in reality they do. They're just too busy watching television. I believe many prefer to watch tv over reading because while watching tv you are able to mulitask such as doing homework, eating, doing your hair, etc. One of the other reasons why I also tink others prefer tv is because they don't understand what they are reading. Yes they know how to read but when you ask them something about it they can't explain what they just read. Those are the reasons why I believe people prefer tv over books.