Graduation speech second draft

AACT. This is a school that means many different things to each of us. Some of us hate it, others love it, but we are all here to graduate. Even if you think you won’t miss this place you are wrong. We, as a senior class, have seen many of the milestones which this school has gone through, we had to deal with them whether they were good or bad. These milestones have shaped us into the class we are today, and when we think back to our memories of these past four years we can think of all of the teachers that have left. Like Mrs. Valerie, when in doubt “Right Click”, Mrs. Lopetagui’s Biology and Anatomy and Physiology classes and when most of the Medical teachers left, but why? I am not saying I don’t like the new ones it is just odd. Another thing we all share is when someone asks where you go to school they either give you the look, and yes we all know what this look of confusion is. Then you explain to them whatever your interpretation of this school is and the person usually is like “oh that school” even when they still have no clue what it is still or they say so a smart person school. This school has given most of us a taste of something that we want to do in the future and if it hasn’t, it has shown you what you definitely do not want to be in the future. Look at what we have accomplished from just having that small interview and our essays that we had to write Eighth grade year. Even though this process was a more tedious process than getting into a “normal high school”, it was worth it. This experience has given us many connections with people throughout the community. Since we had made the step forward and gave this high school a try we have the knowledge needed to accomplish many different new and exciting things.

Second draft and I am changing more of it as well.

Graduation speech first draft

AACT. This is a school that means many different things to each of us some hate it and others love it, but we are all here to graduate. Even if you think you won’t miss it you are wrong. We as a senior class have seen most of the milestones this school has gone through, and we had to deal with them whether they were good or bad. This had shaped us into the class that we are today, and when we think back to our memories of these past four years we can think of all of the teachers that have left. Like Mrs. Valerie, when in doubt “Right Click”, Mrs. Lopetagui’s Biology and Anatomy and Physiology classes that were fun. Most of the Medical teachers, why did they all have to leave? Not saying I don’t like the new ones it is just odd. Another thing we all share is when someone of us are asks where you go to school they either give you the look, and yes we all know what the look of confusion is, and you tell them whatever your interpretation of this school is and the person usually is like oh that school even when they still have no clue what it is still or they say so a smart person school. This school has given most of us a taste of something that we want to do in the future and if it hasn’t it has shown you what you definitely know what you do not want to be in the future. This is what we have gotten from that small interview and our essays that we had to write and go through in our eighth grade year, even though it was a tedious process it was worth it because through this school we have made many connections with people throughout the community which is a good thing in our position. Lastly I would like to congratulate you all on making this far and say good luck with whatever you are going to do next.

This is my first try at my speech and I am changing it now.

The Importance of being Earnest Essay

In his play, “The important of being Ernest” Oscar Wilde uses irony, hyperbole and understatement to show a cynical and humorous outlook on the Victorian society. The first act gives this play a foundation to let the proceeding acts build on to finish the punch line at the end of the play.            

            In the first act Wilde implies this cynical theme by using both the verbal and dramatic irony of the character Ernest throughout the entire play, whether it be Jack or Algernon using this name. In this act Wilde also uses the emotions of the female characters to show an exaggeration of the joy and feelings that they’ve shown towards each other. This was shown in the quote “You’re quite perfect, Mrs. Fairfax,” that Jack exclaims towards his love interest, Gwendolyn. Even though this is exaggerated Wilde also put some understatements in this act as well. This is shown in the quote “I am a little anxious for Bunbury, that is all,“ this quote gives an understatement that he is not very anxious at all to see his “brother” Bunbury, but in fact he is happy just not to get out of this town and away from his aunt.

            The second act possesses these figurative elements as well, though the irony carries over from act to act. This is because of the lie that both Algernon and Jack continue to up hold. The Hyperbole within the second act is given by Cecily when chatting with Algernon about all of the letters that “he” wrote to her. An understatement that Wilde puts into this act is the understatement of how much Cecily loves Ernest.

            The third Act is the concluding act and holds the ironic punch-line that Jack is actually named Ernest. This gives the play a good cohesive ending that gives the reader or audience a good life.

            The play as a whole uses all of this language to show how the Victorian Society specifically how picky and conceded they can be when a name is just on the line. Even though the girls found out that their lovers had different names than Ernest they had not accepted them until the end. Thus proving how superficial people of this time period could be.

Poem essay

This is an essay where we had to describe the emotions and perspectives in the speakers language.

In her poem, Up Hill, Christina Rossetti uses many literary devices to display her feelings and perspectives throughout the poem. This is useful to figuring out what the meaning of the work as a whole is.

               In the first stanza Rossetti uses the question in the first line “Does the road wind up-hill all the way?” this sets up a scene of a hill which the whole poem reflects on. Rossetti’s feelings in this stanza show that she is willing to take this road as long as it goes. This stanza also show the beginning of a longer effect of this road which is the way of the mourning of an old friend.

               The second stanza gives the audience a perspective of a part that is farther down the road. Trying to find a resting place shows that the speaker is getting exhausted and needs a place to rest, and become a new for the new days to come.  Rossetti uses personification of a “slow dark night” to show how the speaker is tired at the end of all of this traveling. After spotting an inn within the darkness the speaker proceeds towards it.

               Stanza three gives the perspective of right outside the inn begging the question of meeting new people within this inn “Shall I meet other wayfarers at night?” With the use of word wayfarers the speaker sets the image that these are wanderers or vagabonds that just come and go.  The use of the slogan “They will not keep you standing at that door.” the speaker plants the image of a very successful business. This also gives the feeling of warmth and homeliness to this inn full of vagabonds.

               This fourth stanza uses some figurative language to show the ending of a life by finally getting into the inn at the end of the road and laying down for a final rest. Even though this figurative language is used the literal perspective of the inn is simplistic and showing a sense of home.

Break and coming Back

The past few weeks I have been on a much needed break from school. During this break I had gotten a lot of things accomplished that needed to be done. These things include organizing and getting ready for the brand new semester as well as sleeping in and going on a trip to Pasadena, California to work on floats that were in the Rose bowl Parade. This had also helped my attitude towards school change also it had given me a new perspective on being a senior. Right when we got back I had gotten homework from most of my teachers. I know that it stinks, Though I think it was a needed slap in the face that would get me back into the groove of school. I have also learned that I enjoy hearing poetry from what we have been doing in my AP English class. This had also helped me through the proceeding weeks to get back into school because if we just started out reading dense texts I do not know how I would feel about that. This is my first blog of the new year and I will try to be more on top of these things. Bye readers.

scholarship essay rough draft

Scholarship essay

                Many people do not know what they are going to do or where they are going to go in the future, but I know exactly how I would like to spend my future. As a long term goal I will study to become an Emergency Department Nurse. I see myself here because I enjoy medicine and saving people’s lives. To achieve this ultimate goal I will start small as a senior I am working towards getting my EMT Basic certification which I can then use to work at the local ambulance company, REMSA, or work as a patient transporter in RENOWN. After I begin working I am planning on going to the University of Nevada Reno, UNR. This is where I will further my education to becoming a Registered Nurse. The Nursing program at UNR is very well built for my goals. After working at either of these jobs I will try to network with the higher up people in these jobs which will better my career as I get further down that path. As a minor in College I will choose education. This is because if I ever lose my job I need a backup plan I have always found teachers to be fun and loving towards their students so I think that would be a very nice way to spend my time as well.

Frankenstein

Frankenstein by Mary Shelly is the book we are now reading in English class. This book thus far is pretty good. My favorite part is sun Victor, the stranger is on the ice cap all by himself and the people on the ship are yelling at him to come aboard so that he does not die in the attic on an ice cap. This part of the book bus far is my favorite because of how Shelly portrays everything that is going on with just a couple of letters. I know that the book is in the epistolary format which is writing with a set of letters news articles and journals. Since this is my first time ever reading an epistolary I find it very interesting to think in a new way to read this book. I also liked this part because I found it funny that there would be some guy on an ice cap floating around near the North Pole just chilling and as calm as can be. This part also set up the first chapter of the book because it is a flash back of Victor's early days, and that is what I think of Frankenstein thus far.

November blues

The November blues are not the best things in the world, but most people get them. I have not yet gotten a mental break down or any real down for that matter, but I have had my own sort of November blues that really have been bad for me. I have bee extremely forgetful which has been very bad for what I have left undone. I have forgotten many things throughout November which has been mostly homework or things that need to been done for school such as these blogs. I have been caught up all until the begining of November which I had forgotten to write a lot of. When I had looked the other day I had thought I had only needed three more blogs to be done the. I looked and I actually only had four of the ten that are supposed to be done. Then there was the incident with the yawning during my reciting of the Shakespearean soliloquy from hamlet. I am just glad that that is over and most likely not honing to happen again. I don't even know why I had yawned. I just wish that December is going to be better than November was.

Epistolary

The whole idea of an epistolary piece of writing is kind of cool. Having many letters or news articles or journal entries making up a novel or story. This had all came up because we have been discussing Frankenstein in my AP English literature class this had also been the type of book we at about to read as a class. This book is going to be Frankenstein by Mary Shelly. My friend thinks after reading a thousand leagues under the sea he knows what all epistolary ex are going to be like. In my head this is wrong because not all books that are written similar give off the same vibe as the book before it. With this I think that this book is going to be an amazing read. I have heard a lot of good things about this book and how the author, Mary Shelly, uses these letters in a great way. Although my sister's friend has ruined the whole book for me I think that I will enjoy it because it is a new way of writing that I haven't encountered thus far in my reading career. I also think that even though my friend said he wouldn't like this book he will turn around and like it by the end.

The year

Throughout the year of school many different things have happened so far and many different people have changed. This change has been both good and bad in some ways. Some of these people are better for the ways they changed thought some are words than what they started or they are just worse. I think that this might have at first been their own decision to change and become different then it transformed into someone else had been changing them to act a certain way or to thing another way. These people are the worst in my mind because the transform to the people around them. As an example someone might be hanging out with a set of friends for a while then all of a sudden they start acting like them, but then some freak accident happens and these people are no longer friends, and after a week they have changed again. These types of people just jump around from group to group or person to person changing. When should all this change end and when should some one finally stop changing just to become themselves. When some one does get out of this I think they become better for it. They set a better example and they chose the right decision to finally get their own person rather than being a sheep being led to slaughter.

The trip

I had been gone most of last week in a city named Elko. I know what some people are thinking, “what the heck is Elko,” I agree with that statement I had no clue where or how many people were in Elko. After we had left I realized that Elko is the place to be if you need to pre-order or buy things on black Friday this is because there are so little people in the city of Elko that everything is still there or not off of sale. One of the chaperons that went on the trip had gotten a PS 4 and was one of the first ones in line, and she didn't even place a pre-order or anything. Back to the trip though, I had a lot of fun on the Skills trip I hung out with some pretty cool people and I also danced a bunch. One of the songs that I danced to was a song named Gas Pedal and when the chorus of the song came on I went to the wall and twerked upside down on the wall. It was really fun and the teachers just shook their heads and laughed at that.

Soliloquy Fright

Having to recite a soliloquy was pretty difficult for me, although I do not have a hard time memorizing the lines itself I just got flustered up in the front of the class. The minute right before I had gotten up and took the walk up to the front I had recited my soliloquy perfectly. Then when I got to the front of the class I looked out and started I felt weird. I mean I have acted a lot previous to this and I usually do not get stage fright. After I blurted out the first three lines the rest just escaped me. I stood so still as if Medusa had frozen me and said “shot its gone all gone.” I called for my first line and kept trucking along missing half lines there and botching words here. It was a train wreck. To top it all of I gave out a giant yawn right in the middle of my speech the crowd started laughing and I went back to my seat in shame. I have no clue what went wrong, though I think it was the pressure of getting graded that had gotten to me and I had just fallen short.

The end has come

           I know recently I have been writing a whole lot about the Shakespearean play “Hamlet,” but not to fear the end of Hamlet has come. All the people are dead, and all that is left is poor Horatio to deal with good old Fortinbras. Now that I am finishing Hamlet I can move on to my next topic which is going to be Frankenstein. I am excited for this new change in writing I was sort of getting over whelmed with all of the play type writing. Do not get me wrong I like Shakespearean plays and all that but to spend that long on them it got a little boring to me and some of the parts were harder for me to grasp at first. My first impressions of Frankenstein are that it is going to be a great book with a lot of killing, like Hamlet. I also think that we are going to bring a lot of the things that we had gotten out of hamlet back into this new book, though I have really been waiting to change to a new book and to finally stop talking about good old Hamlet.  Hamlet good bye I will come back to you in about five months.

The Theroy

What I really think of Ophelia’s death in the play Hamlet.

I think that the Queen, Gertrude, had went with poor miss Ophelia to the lake, and while Ophelia was in the tree Gertrude had decided to break the branch she was sitting on or that she just started throwing rocks at Ophelia. The reasoning behind this theory of Gertrude being the killing factor of Ophelia is because the day before Gertrude had saw Ophelia. At this time Ophelia was not in her best state, due to her father’s recent death, and Gertrude was just fed up with what Ophelia was doing. So this gives the Queen a motive, but how did she get away with it? It is because she was the only one around that she had gotten away with it. Due to Ophelia’s state it seems like a plausible thing that she would so. Since Gertrude had been the only witness she decided what to tell everyone what had happened at the lake that afternoon. So Gertrude tried to cover her death up with a suicide. Even Ophelia’s brother, Laertes, had thought that his poor sister killed herself, but we know the truth of what had happened at the lake don’t we...

Hamlet Deaths

Hamlet is an interesting play. And the first two people to die in the play are the two people that might as well be the most harmless characters in the play. These two characters are Ophelia and Polonius. Polonius had died by Hamlets hand. This was because he had hid in Gertrude’s room and Hamlet had been paranoid. Hamlet then proceeds to stab Polonius. Though it was while Polonius was hiding, and Hamlet had thought it was the king. Although Ophelia’s death had been worse than what had happened to her father Polonius. What the Queen, Gertrude, had said about her death was that she was sitting on a branch and had fell off of the branch into water and she had not tried to save herself by swimming away, or up for that matter. These two deaths were a tragedy, but Ophelia went crazy right before she had “killed herself”. Though these are not the only deaths that are going to happen within this play they are the deaths that set the tone for later on in the play. Ophelia’s death probably would not have happened if Polonius was not dead. She only went crazy because of her death. These deaths though tragic they are needed for the play.

Blogging

This year for English class we have to write a blog. At first I was very unexcited about this project but now later through the year I am happy that I get to do this. I just thought about how I can write about anything I really want on this blog, well within the limits of the blog project itself. I can also get feedback from people all over the world. I have been thinking about what else I can write about on this blog though I already have another blog, The Hooded Figure, that is a continuation of my series “Jandar’s Tale”. Although I have only written one post on this blog I will be working more diligently to keep this blog updated. I also like having this blog because it makes me think more about my writing and how I fair with different writing styles. My two blogs have been fun to post on, and I like just to put out some random things on them most of the time. I actually wonder if anyone reads my blogs or just kind of skims them than goes on to another better written blog. Hmm I will never know.

College

I know that there are so many people out there that are going through the same things that I am going through. These things include: worrying about what you are going to do with the rest of their life or what is going to do with the rest of your life or where you are going to college. Over the weekend I had taken the ACT and I feel pretty good about my score, though when I get the score I will have no idea what I should do with them. I mean I know I send them to the college I want to go to, but I don’t know where I want to go to school. Before today I had a plan of what I was going to do, but as the days pass I get more and more worried if I can’t go through with it. I really want to become a doctor, but I don’t want to have to go through all the things they do within their job. Which is why I think I am going to get my doctorate in medicine, but work as a nurse. If you are reading this it may sound a little weird to you though I am just kind of writing about what is on my mind right now. Thank you for your time and have a good day.

Hamlet Act 3

In any tragedy play of Shakespeare’s in act three is always the first scene where someone will first die. In his play Hamlet he does not disappoint. In act three Polonius was the first to die. He was killed by Hamlet because Hamlet had thought that the person snooping behind the curtain was Claudius, the new king, but to his surprise it was not. Hamlet had only seconds before saw Claudius, and was contemplating killing him right there. The reason that Hamlet had not killed Claudius right then is because he was repenting for all of his previous sins that he committed and hamlet did not want to send him to heaven of to a good place. Though it was ironic how right after Hamlet left Claudius had redacted all of the things he had confessed. With this death Hamlet and his mother had grown closer because his mother knows what he is going to do and she has come to terms with it in a sense. Although this death has started what seems to be a very bad time for all of the people that are living in the castle, and if all those people who keep talking about hamlet to me are truthful everyone will die except Horatio.

Break

The break was a good time for me, I had gotten a bunch of stuff that I wanted to get done completed. With this break I used my time to get more organized for the remainder of the year. I had also gotten all of my assignments done, gotten ready for college in mind and organization I had spent some time contemplating what I was going to do with my life. I had also gotten ready for the act. With all of the things that are going on. I took one or two days to relax my brain and not think about anything just to have fun and be a “kid”. With all that is coming up in life it is important for me to be organized which is why I am glad that I had spent this time to achieve organization in my academic and home life.  I can now be more successful in both the upcoming quarter and years to come in my life. I liked that we had this little splurged break though I am glad to be back in school. I am now ready for what is to come as well and even though it may be sad I can face and overcome this to go to college.

Hamlet Act 1 Scene 2 Analysis

In his play “Hamlet”, William Shakespeare had implied that although distress and despair can come in many forms, it can ultimately lead to suicide or hardships throughout the rest of one’s life. This theme is the most prevalent through the speech that Hamlet gives in Act 1 Scene 3. In this scene Hamlet describes things that he finds to be troublesome and disgraceful towards the king. These things include how quickly his uncle and mother married, and how no one besides Hamlet is mourning over his father’s recent death. These two things are very well discussed throughout this soliloquy.           

To describe this he uses the emotion of Hamlet’s father’s death to help set the tone of Hamlet’s personality through the play. In this soliloquy Hamlet describes his feelings toward what his uncle and mother have done. To describe this he uses the phrases “But two months dead- nay, not so much, not two-“and “ Would have mourn’d longer- married with my uncle”. These two quotes show how emotional Hamlet is getting while his uncle and mother do these terrible deeds. These quotes also help to set the scene that no one besides Hamlet is still mourning due to the recent marriage within his family. These two points help out in describing Hamlet’s general feelings throughout the play. Finally they also help Hamlet build up his hatred for his uncle, but all together these terrible deeds force Hamlet to consider if death is the easiest way out of this horrific situation. With the thought of “self-slaughter” Hamlet must find a way to calm down. With all of the backstabbing from Hamlet’s family it might seem to be the easiest way for Hamlet to end these terrible deeds from happening, but he later finds that it was a good choice to not follow through with this plan.        

This theme of “distress and despair can come in many forms, but it can ultimately lead to suicide or hardships throughout the rest of a life” can describe Hamlets attitude through most of the play.