Macbeth Quotation

My quotation is "If chance shall have me king, chance shall crown me". I think this quote is pretty important, seeing as if he would have stuck to this mindset then the whole play would be over after the first witches scene. This scene and other opening scenes let us get to know Macbeth, and help us start to like him, so we can still sort of like him even as he's doing all these horrible things. I mean they weern't his fault, he was straight up corrupted by greed and all that business.

Another important quote would be "fair is foul and foul is fair." I could be over analyzing this, but this could be a hint at the corruption that Macbeth is about to go through, going from "fair" to "foul". This was also a neat scene, with the witches telling the prophecy and everything. Chants like that really set the mood for the scene. Spent 4 hours on that portfolio.

Macbeth Big Ideas

I think the big idea that is most important for Macbeth is the idea of fate vs choice. When the witches give Macbeth the prophecy, all of the future events in the play were then set in stone. The prophecy was the catalyst for his murder of Duncan, and their would be no way he wouldn't do it. This is why chance wouldn't crown Macbeth, the fates knew that he would be tempted to go in and seize the bull by the horns.

Free post

My father and I are going to be building a pirogue soon and I'm pretty excited about that, since I can finally go and explore the mysterious spooky swamp behind my house. I'm going to have lots of wack misadventures with it, it'll be great. I'm not sure what I'm going to name it yet, though. Maybe something awesome like Leviathan or Kaiser, but maybe I should save those names until I get to own my own aircraft carrier or destroyer class vessel.II also haven't decided what color I'm going to paint it, but I'll probably just freehand some woodland style camo or varying shades of forest green. 

Reading Times

Read for three hours, worked on english for three as well.

4/14 Statement Rsponse

Statement: Sometimes you have to do things other people consider wrong to get ahead.


I agree with this. The success of one is built on the failures of many others, and to gain power one must normally have to do some plotting, lying, backstabbing, and other unsavory things. This is related to Macbeth because Macbeth himself is about to kill King Duncan in order to rise to the title of King. Assassination is pretty wrong, but Macbeth's ambition and desire to rise up overpowers is moral conscience.

Reading Times

Read for about 3 hours, worked on Nervous Conditions for about 3-4 hours.

Reading Times

Read for 2 hours, with outside reading being an hour and a half and the poems being 30 minutes.

Reading Times

Reading Romance of the Three Kingdoms at home and Conference of the Birds at school.

Animal Collective's "Summertime Clothes"

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/animalcollective/summertimeclothes.html

Song is "Summertime Clothes" by Animal Collective.

This song uses anaphora a lot, mostly to give it a cool pre-Avey-going-insane-and-the-group-making-pop-music-aimed-at-the-lowest-common-denominator-of-fans style AnCo rhythm. "Kissing the wind through my window screen" is apostrophe, I think. It also uses personification in places. I really don't know how to expand further than this. 
Ok ok, got it. so the whole song represents AnCo's innocence and enthusiasm to make great experimental psych pop but because Avey looked into the future and saw the abomination that was Centipede Hz, and also the chick that nearly broke up the group whose name I forgot. She's also an artist, but I refuse to listen to any of her music because of what she did to Avey. It's like she didn't even listen to Merriweather Post Pavilion. Anyway so he saw all of that and wrote this song. Walking around during the summer represents all the psych pop goodness, and his desire to walk around with "her" is his passion to make music.  It could also be a simple song about walking around in our summertime clothes. But I like my idea with time wizards Avey Tare and Panda Bear. Ooh, it counts as both a symbol and a metaphor. Avey so smart. The song also uses end rhyme, but you said not to list that so I don't know. 

Poem "ten outta ten"

Bing bang

ballah Kow Zo.

You know what I know

and I don't grow

flowers.

Ooh aah

so unique.

So progress

So mystique.

Mystique wasn't used right.

what a shame.

If I were famous

This would probably 

be much more expensive.

Let's make a price.

But but but

You will soon forget

All this and that

the CIA funded modern art to combat communism.

Never mind that was a joke.

No it wasn't.

Gaude Mater Polonia

is the only Polish phrase I know

God bless the Poles

May they always show

True true Polish courage

Teutons be mad.

This poem, titled "ten outta ten", used Assonance, Cacophony, Onomatopoeia, and Anaphora.

[LATE] Reading Times

I straight up read for three hours. Conference of the Birds, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian. Also had the flu so please don't count this as late!

Research Draft Paper

While I thought my paper was pretty good, I'm really concerned about the fact that it's only three pages. I even added unnecessary quotes just to lengthen it. I really hate having a minimum number of pages on papers, because it makes me struggle to jam things in even when I've made my point. Still, I think it's pretty good OH MY GOD I JUST NOW REALIZED I DIDN'T PUT MY CITATIONS.

Free Post

So I got this cool map of the world from 1914 and I hung it on my wall. It's a reprint of course, but it's still really neat to look at. I'm getting back into reading a bit more after I bought Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Conference of the Birds. I'm reading Conference now and it makes me feel bad for not wanting to straight up go wander in the desert for God or something. The translation is also really pretty, if that's how you describe it.

Reading February 3rd

Read a lot, worked a lot. All together I'd say about 4 1/2-5 hours worth.

Reading January 24 [LATE]

Read for like 3 hours, been getting back into it. I did the annotated bib for the nhd project, and read some of the class book.

2 for 1 NHD explanation thing [LATE]

1:

Oh heyo friend, have you heard of the rad new project in English? It's called the national history day research paper, and it's, like, totally wizard! I'm doing my topic on healthcare reforms in the US, wazouuu! I'm not really interested in the topic at all but I kind of misunderstood the directions and thought it had to be current events, basoooooooooooooon! I'm pretty far in research and have realized that Scandinavia (excluding Finland and Sweden) and Switzerland are the greatest places on earth, cawkaaaaaaaaa!


2:

My National History Day project is focused on Health Care reforms in the US. This topic interests me because of recent events and legislature. My thesis is: Health Care reforms can bring both positive and negative effects to the US.

NHD Topic

My NHD topic was going to be about health care reforms in the US, but since I realized that this wasn't like Ms. DaQuanno's current event project and that we could do actual history stuff, I really want to change it to "the rights given to citizens of the Polish-Lithuanian Union, or the First Republic of Poland." That would incorporate the rights and responsibilities theme, and I could still give a general report on the Commonwealth. The Commonwealth was pretty unique, since it had a parliament, senate, and king-elect in like the 16th century. They had some early system of Prussian Constitutionalism/constitutional monarchy before that was even really a thing, which is pretty sweet. The nation later made a very liberal constitution, which intimidated its neighbors so much that it was gobbled up in just four years afterwards by a combination of Russia, Austria-Hungary, and Prussia. Poland wouldn't even become a nation again until 1918, but it's people still held on to their culture and heritage regardless. Lithuania was released as well. My family is full Anglo Saxon mode, but I've always felt a strong connection towards Poland, so I'm some kind of spirit Pole. Gaude mater Polonia, gaude!