Monday, March 12, 2012

Literary Report Response

This question is from the blogger, TheDuckksPond.

2. Why would they go out at night?
In the book, Running After Antelope, Scott Carrier and his brother prefers to go out at night to look for the animals they want to hunt. Scott's older brother believes that some animals sleep in the daytime and go out at night, but if they hurry  they can catch some of them. As the younger boy, Scott would just believe his older brother even he doesn't have any clue how his brother these information. In fact, Scott's older brother enjoys catching wild animals with his bare hands- mainly lizards, turtles and snakes (P.3). As children, Scott and his brother really enjoy running and chasing animals around which grows more throughout the story. 

10 Questions

Running After Antelope: A Trip to Cambodia
  1. On page 67, why did the author choose to runaway from his other crew to try to visit Siem Riep?
  2. From all of the cities in Cambodia, what makes Siem Riep stands out from the other cities?
  3. With all the journalist on the the Foreign Correspondents Club, why did the bartender chose Ed Firtzgerald for Scott Carrier to talk to about Cambodia? 
  4. Explain the following line: "I think you should tell people to come to Cambodia" he said (71). 
  5. Explain the significance of the killing fields in Cambodia. What do they symbolize? 
  6. How are United States and Cambodia opposite? What are the major differences between these two countries?
  7. Who were the Khmer Rouge? What were they significant in Cambodia?
  8. How were the Khmer Rouge and Pol Potees similar? What did the Pol Potees do to the people of Cambodia? 
  9. What role does the director play for the people in Cambodia?
  10. Explain the significance of the final paragraph in page 79 of the book. 

Thursday, March 8, 2012

Creative/Literature Nonfiction

"How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Myself" by K. Miller

I chose this literary nonfiction story to be meaningful because it's one of the problems that teenagers go through their lives. I believe that everyone of went through a phase where we felt so indifferent from others. Sadly, some teenagers attempt to do suicide and kill themselves to end their lives becaue they never got to open up and ask for help. Thus, the authot of this nonfiction realized that suicide was not the way to her problems, but loving herself was one solution.

The Full Moon

It was a cold night. As I look at the full moon, it reminds me of a big ball. But the moon looks more a big white marble. As I drive home from work, different thoughts are going through my head. Whatever I get in my TEAS test this month determines if I can go back home to the Philippines with my family to see my grandma who is in coma right now. Excitement and anxiousness are what I feel in the moment, yet nervousness is taking over me. My studying habits and my determination will determine whether I'll be in the RN program at CSUB in fall of 2012. Only God knows what's the future holds for me.

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

In a Winter Forest

It was a windy, snowy day in the Forest. As I walk through the snowy path, I noticed that I was the only one walking, yet there's these bunch of weirdos flying in the air. It seems like they are following me around, but I hear the trees say that they're just jealous of me. The snows are like clouds, pure and white, very similar to my appearance. No wonder these bunch of crack heads are envy of my beauty, what can I say? I'm just blessed.


HAHA!

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Who Says By Selena Gomez

I wouldn't wanna be anybody else.
You made me insecure
Told me I wasn’t good enough
But who are you to judge
When you’re a diamond in the rough
I’m sure you got some things
You’d like to change about yourself
But when it comes to me
I wouldn’t want to be anybody else

Na na na
Na na na

I’m no beauty queen
I’m just beautiful me

Na na na
Na na na

You’ve got every right
To a beautiful life
C'mon

[Chorus]
Who says
Who says you’re not perfect
Who says you’re not worth it
Who says you’re the only one that’s hurting
Trust me
That’s the price of beauty
Who says you’re not pretty
Who says you’re not beautiful
Who says

[Selena Gomez - Verse 2]
It’s such a funny thing
How nothing’s funny when it’s you
You tell ‘em what you mean
But they keep whiting out the truth
It’s like a work of art
That never gets to see the light
Keep you beneath the stars
Won’t let you touch the sky

Na na na
Na na na

I’m no beauty queen
I’m just beautiful me

Na na na
Na na na

You’ve got every right
To a beautiful life
C'mon

[Chorus]
Who says
Who says you’re not perfect
Who says you’re not worth it
Who says you’re the only one that’s hurting
Trust me
That’s the price of beauty
Who says you’re not pretty
Who says you’re not beautiful

[Bridge]
Who says
Who says you’re not start potential
Who says you’re not presidential
Who says you can’t be in movies
Listen to me, listen to me
Who says you don’t pass the test
Who says you can’t be the best
Who said, who said
Won’t you tell me who said that
Yeah, oh

[Chorus]
Who says
Who says you’re not perfect
Who says you’re not worth it
Who says you’re the only one that’s hurting
Trust me
That’s the price of beauty
Who says you’re not pretty
Who says you’re not beautiful


Who Says by Selena Gomez is a very strong, beatiful song for every girl today. When you listen to the song, you can already feel the meaning of it. The alliteration of Who Says in the lyrics emphasizes that no one should have the right to tell you that you can't beautiful in your own little way. The "beauty queen" symbolizes this image of a tall, petite, beautiful, and smart lady; however, Selena makes it clear that you don't have to be a beauty queen to feel beautiful inside and out. In addition, the song has its own rhyme to it. The message of this song is that no one should say we can't be beautiful because we are beautiful; we are made to be beautiful by God.

Monday, February 6, 2012

The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

I chose this poem because I really like the meaning of it. After analyzing this poem in class, I understood it more and fell inlove with it!

Thursday, February 2, 2012

Metaphor & Rhinoceros

Metaphor 
1. Losing someone you love is a permanent pain in our hearts. 

Rhinoceros 
I have been a rhinoceros when I became friends with a wrong group in middle school and half of my high school years. I was a girl coming from the Philippines and was just trying to fit in with everyone. But, I'm glad I got to experienced being rhinoceros because now I know better than myself. 

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Transformations Question



1. Explain the significance of the first four stanzas of "Cinderella."
The significance of the first stanzas is that it details real-life fairy tales that we would hear on television: a plumber wins the lottery or a nursemaid is married by the oldest son of her rich employer. Each of this example in a low or poor position and through some fate, they were changed in a position of means or power. Each of the four stanzas are somewhat cliche "from rags to riches, and it ended with a sarcastic phrase, "That story." In these four stanzas, Anne Sexton showed her sarcasm that she doesn't really believe in such real-life fairy tales stories. 

Sunday, January 15, 2012

Grimm's Fairy Tales


THE FROG-PRINCE

One fine evening a young princess put on her bonnet and clogs, and went out to take a walk by herself in a wood; and when she came to a cool spring of water, that rose in the midst of it, she sat herself down to rest a while. Now she had a golden ball in her hand, which was her favourite plaything; and she was always tossing it up into the air, and catching it again as it fell. After a time she threw it up so high that she missed catching it as it fell; and the ball bounded away, and rolled along upon the ground, till at last it fell down into the spring. The princess looked into the spring after her ball, but it was very deep, so deep that she could not see the bottom of it. Then she began to bewail her loss, and said, 'Alas! if I could only get my ball again, I would give all my fine clothes and jewels, and everything that I have in the world.'
Whilst she was speaking, a frog put its head out of the water, and said, 'Princess, why do you weep so bitterly?' 'Alas!' said she, 'what can you do for me, you nasty frog? My golden ball has fallen into the spring.' The frog said, 'I want not your pearls, and jewels, and fine clothes; but if you will love me, and let me live with you and eat from off your golden plate, and sleep upon your bed, I will bring you your ball again.' 'What nonsense,' thought the princess, 'this silly frog is talking! He can never even get out of the spring to visit me, though he may be able to get my ball for me, and therefore I will tell him he shall have what he asks.' So she said to the frog, 'Well, if you will bring me my ball, I will do all you ask.' Then the frog put his head down, and dived deep under the water; and after a little while he came up again, with the ball in his mouth, and threw it on the edge of the spring. As soon as the young princess saw her ball, she ran to pick it up; and she was so overjoyed to have it in her hand again, that she never thought of the frog, but ran home with it as fast as she could. The frog called after her, 'Stay, princess, and take me with you as you said,' But she did not stop to hear a word.
The next day, just as the princess had sat down to dinner, she heard a strange noise—tap, tap—plash, plash—as if something was coming up the marble staircase: and soon afterwards there was a gentle knock at the door, and a little voice cried out and said:
 'Open the door, my princess dear,
  Open the door to thy true love here!
  And mind the words that thou and I said
  By the fountain cool, in the greenwood shade.'
Then the princess ran to the door and opened it, and there she saw the frog, whom she had quite forgotten. At this sight she was sadly frightened, and shutting the door as fast as she could came back to her seat. The king, her father, seeing that something had frightened her, asked her what was the matter. 'There is a nasty frog,' said she, 'at the door, that lifted my ball for me out of the spring this morning: I told him that he should live with me here, thinking that he could never get out of the spring; but there he is at the door, and he wants to come in.'
While she was speaking the frog knocked again at the door, and said:
 'Open the door, my princess dear,
  Open the door to thy true love here!
  And mind the words that thou and I said
  By the fountain cool, in the greenwood shade.'
Then the king said to the young princess, 'As you have given your word you must keep it; so go and let him in.' She did so, and the frog hopped into the room, and then straight on—tap, tap—plash, plash—from the bottom of the room to the top, till he came up close to the table where the princess sat. 'Pray lift me upon chair,' said he to the princess, 'and let me sit next to you.' As soon as she had done this, the frog said, 'Put your plate nearer to me, that I may eat out of it.' This she did, and when he had eaten as much as he could, he said, 'Now I am tired; carry me upstairs, and put me into your bed.' And the princess, though very unwilling, took him up in her hand, and put him upon the pillow of her own bed, where he slept all night long. As soon as it was light he jumped up, hopped downstairs, and went out of the house. 'Now, then,' thought the princess, 'at last he is gone, and I shall be troubled with him no more.'
But she was mistaken; for when night came again she heard the same tapping at the door; and the frog came once more, and said:
 'Open the door, my princess dear,
  Open the door to thy true love here!
  And mind the words that thou and I said
  By the fountain cool, in the greenwood shade.'
And when the princess opened the door the frog came in, and slept upon her pillow as before, till the morning broke. And the third night he did the same. But when the princess awoke on the following morning she was astonished to see, instead of the frog, a handsome prince, gazing on her with the most beautiful eyes she had ever seen, and standing at the head of her bed.
He told her that he had been enchanted by a spiteful fairy, who had changed him into a frog; and that he had been fated so to abide till some princess should take him out of the spring, and let him eat from her plate, and sleep upon her bed for three nights. 'You,' said the prince, 'have broken his cruel charm, and now I have nothing to wish for but that you should go with me into my father's kingdom, where I will marry you, and love you as long as you live.'
The young princess, you may be sure, was not long in saying 'Yes' to all this; and as they spoke a gay coach drove up, with eight beautiful horses, decked with plumes of feathers and a golden harness; and behind the coach rode the prince's servant, faithful Heinrich, who had bewailed the misfortunes of his dear master during his enchantment so long and so bitterly, that his heart had well-nigh burst.
They then took leave of the king, and got into the coach with eight horses, and all set out, full of joy and merriment, for the prince's kingdom, which they reached safely; and there they lived happily a great many years.

I think Anne Sexton chose to adapt this story in Transformations because it's one of those typical fairy tales story, yet it's also different because you have the frog in the beginning of the story. In her version of the story, she explains how people would describe a frog so ugly and slimy; yet people don't see that frogs also have something in them that are amazing and beautiful. 

Thursday, January 12, 2012

William Blake's "Auguries of Innocence"

A robin redbreast in a cage
Puts all heaven in a rage.

1. This stanza can be interpreted as a man attempting to enslave nature for its own amusement.The cage can be seen as a sign of slavery, the one that oppresses the poor and doesn't allow them to have their own freedom. In Blake's poem, God created man with freedom and a robin redbreast in a cage is a sign of those freedom being taken away which makes the Creator in this poem very angry.

2. Blake uses Symbol in this stanza by symbolizing a robin redbreast in a cage like a man whose freedom is taken away. In this stanza, Blake uses the word "heaven" which symbolizes the Creator who is very mad in this poem.