The Road not Taken

(Please excuse this awkward angle)

This Book is dangerous

Please excuse my uniform and terrible hair just got out of work. :(

 (This is so challenging with braces too because of my slur).

Ancient Rhetoric in Modern Times

Logos was introduced in the title and the starting paragraphs. Talking about self-driving cars and what they should do at a crosswalk. He was very clear and provided data and argumentive sentences. He also added in studies to support some of his sentences which supported the claim. I liked the author's ethos it was very straightforward with what he was writing about. Addressing the concerns of the car's and issues. Letting the audience know that there is a debate going on with the cars. Pathos in it is the writer asking what would we do in the situation, save one or five? Kairos is perfect, he is addressing the problem with self-driving cars when they are starting to be developed and brought into the world. He is explaining may be that we aren't ready for this yet and that the mechanics and designers need to look into it more before such a thing can be on the streets.

Anatomy of a Persuasive Argument

The argument will be about going out with friends:

Logos:

- I did all my homework

- I will give you updates if we go somewhere else

- We won't be out late

Ethos:

- Stay calm

- Don't yell or get attitude

- Be understanding

Pathos:

- Use examples of things I wouldn't  do

- Talk about things we will do

- Let them know that I have never done

bad things and they know that

Kairos:

- I never go out
- Only sports, school and work

- I might not be in Santa Maria in a few years

Let me walk you through the pedestrian

Starry nights are nice and usually and quiet. That's how it started for Leonard. He was quite an observer, walking late nights and watching how he was the only one out there while others slept or watched TV. He continued his nightly trip before he was stopped by the police because he was walking at night. They didn't understand why someone would do such a thing and began to question him if about why he was out as if he was a lunatic for wanting to go on a stroll. They just couldn't believe that someone would want to go on a walk for the air, to see and to walk. He did get up in the police car and got drove off. I just want you to think he predicted that in the future that people would just be looking at their screens and that the people that don't do that and go for walks or reads books are judged as if it out of the ordinary.

Story of my life

Well, let's see most of my life is like on repeat as if someone keeps restarting the day over and I get to make a different choice that makes small changes. I guess I can talk about the day where my big question actually started a conversation with one of my teachers. I was working on my blog catching up on work and editing post then I decided to ask my teacher to read my post, I was currently in the class I TA for. So I sat down and waited for him to read the post and after he was done he asked if it was my blog and I explained to him what we do this class and he thought it was a pretty cool thing then asked about the post. Therefore I started to explain to him that we all had to choose a big question that we want to focus on throughout the school year. After we began to look into it more, forming different yet similar opinions. He was not choosing sides but he did give reasonings and what he thought was unfair. It was nice to talk to him but because it gave me insight into the question and more reasoning for me. 

After I walked away, I ended up coming late to my class. In the end, it was worth it.

So this way goes for a walk

I think Ray Bradbury wrote this because he wanted to share this kinda absurd experience. Why was this person who did something "out of the ordinary"  get treated like so? He started to predict what the future would come to with people staring at their screens. Which is how it is now. The author turned this small event into his life and made it this whole thing erratic. He added so many details in the story which is admired because it made me feel as if I was there with him.

Literature Analysis #2

1. I remember reading it in elementary as a class assigned but so I decided to reread it at my new level so I can understand it more.

2. It started off slow but I wanted to get through it hoping that it would pick up.

3. I try to picture myself there with the character, with this book it was Harry Potter. I try going on the adventure with him. Sometimes I have to reread parts to fully understand it.

The story is about a young bullied boy. His parents were killed and he was forced to live with his aunt, uncle, and cousin. He then turns 11 years old and finds out that he is a wizard. From there he starts to explore this whole new world that he had no idea about, let alone that he could've been apart of. He meets his arch-enemy and his best friends in this story. FOr this book, the main bad guy was a teacher who was being controlled by the murderous villain Voldemort. The wizard that killed Harry's parents. He has to fight him off and survive him once again after he was going after a stone that grants immortality. 

Same words different people

In my group, they said for the meme is something that gets passed around. For the virus them out as in disease. Viral spreads quickly. Similar definitions for the blog, wiki, website  They had long definitions for URL.
For the most part, everything was similar but somewhere different definitions overall.

DP- Source code that is free to the public to copy use modify and distribute/share

The art of hosting good conversations online

Main points in what the host wants to achieve:

- A good group of people who have the same passion and are willing ogo beyond t the subject

- Hoping that the people in the group will increase their social skills

Main points in Good online discussions:

- Allow the people to talk to others and allow knowledge sharing

- Make people feel  welcome and for them to get to know each other

Main points in a host are:

- They need to make sure there are rules 

- Make sure too stay up with the post and try not too angry anyone

- The host is a character and also needs to memorize a lot

Main points in a host do and try to grow:

- There is a lot of technology experience needed to be a host

- KEep few simple and clear rules

Main points to host behavior:

- Be patience, civil and don't take sides

- Get to know a=everyone, welcome all

-Encourage the people, give them things o talk about

Vocabulary we need

Meme- a cultural item that is transmitted by repetition and replication in a manner analogous to the biological transmission of genes

Virus- a segment of self-replicating code planted illegally in a computer program, often to damage or shut down a system or network

Viral- pertaining to or involving the spreading of information and opinions about a product or service from person to person, especially on the Internet or in emails

Blog- a website containing a writer's or group of writers' own experiences, observations, opinions, etc., and often having images and links to other websites

Wiki- a website that allows anyone to add, delete, or revise content by using a web browser

URL- Uniform Resource Locator: a protocol for specifying addresses on the Internet

Website- a connected group of pages on the World Wide Web regarded as a single entity, usually maintained by one person or organization and devoted to a single topic or several closely related topics

Www- a system of extensively interlinked hypertext documents: a branch of the Internet (usually preceded by the). Abbreviation: WWW

Internet- a vast computer network linking smaller computer networks worldwide (usually preceded by the). The Internet includes commercial, educational, governmental, and other networks, all of which use the same set of communications protocols

2.0- used postpositively to denote a revised or improved version of the original

Open-source- used postpositively to denote a revised or improved version of the original

The value of my time

Honestly, today is highly stressful. I mean I'm not going to say why but there is a lot going on. There always is life isn't so simple but here we are pushing through it. I don't know what to do to relieve this type of stress. I am doing all my work when I have the chance even if it is 5 minutes I continue to do my homework. It is hard to figure out what you have to do to get to your goal in the future because there is just so much to do.

Meet my new vocabulary

1. Allusion- a passing or casual reference; an incidental mention of something, either directly or by implication

2. Myth- a traditional or legendary story, usually concerning some being or hero or event, with or without a determinable basis of fact or a natural explanation, especially one that is concerned with deities or demigods and explains some practice, rite, or phenomenon of nature.  

3. Personification- the attribution of human nature or character to animals, inanimate objects, or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure.

4. Specialized- to pursue some special line of study, work, etc.; have a specialty:

5. Exacerbate- to increase the severity, bitterness, or violence of (disease, ill feeling, etc.); aggravate.

6. Intuitively- perceiving directly by intuition without rational thought, as a person or the mind.

7. Affirm- to state or assert positively; maintain as true:

8. Hullabaloo- a clamorous noise or disturbance; uproar.

9. Inclined- disposed; of a mind (usually followed by to):

10. Uncanny- having or seeming to have a supernatural or inexplicable basis; beyond the ordinary or normal; extraordinary:

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1. The author used allusion by mentioning the story about Adam & Eve.

2. A unicorn is just a mythical creature, don't believe myths.

3. The cars barked at each other in traffic.

4. I specialized in cooking a steak to perfection.

5. Smoking exacerbates lung cancer.

6. He intuitively knew where he is going.

7. I will have you affirm the price value.

8. The city hall was surrounded by a hullabaloo crowd. 

9. I was highly inclined to jump into the pool.

10. She has this uncanny cake that she can make.  

Hawthorne & Poe on Dreams

I think the reasoning why both of them, Hawthorne and Poe make us believe that is the deal is real is the details. They describe everything so well throughout it that it makes the story/poem sound real. Hawthorne uses literary devices like symbolism and allusion. Poe uses symbolism as well. Though he has other literacy devices like metaphors and personification. 

Investing in me

I work a lot I have two jobs at the moment and once I get to work more after highschool the checks will be bigger. Thankfully they will and the means that I can pay for school and get a car. I don't think there is anything else to do to get money, yes scholarships but other than that it is mainly about working for it.

Letter to my mentor

I was looking for something to support my big question and during my search, it was hard to come across and site that would help. I searched many things to get something to help me with my big question and even though it is aimed towards men it continued to bring up women. That bugs me because yes women are a victim of different types of abuse but SO ARE MEN. So I came across this writing by Natasha Tracy. I just want to thank her first and then as I read it I notice that she gave all these reasons and why these people stay. It was nice to read somethings and agree with it all. I just hate that people have this stereotype against men that they are terrible people. Not all are and sometimes it is the women. 

First impression of a dream

My first impression was confusion, I reread it a couple of times because I didn't really seem to understand it at first. As I got to start reading it over and over again until I realize that there are two things going on. The first part is about sad love and the other one the person is on the beach that just seems mad. Not really maybe the fact that it is also about a dream as well.

My dream within a dream