Power Corrupts

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TO2wgsrCuQ

The two poems I watched were Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen, presented by Joshua Kelly; and Facing It by Yusef Kumunyakaa, presented by Branden Wellington. Both were very well done. To start off with both have appropriate dramatization, both presenters did not use any unnecessary gestures. I could also tell that both presenters understood there poems, as they read I could see what was going on in my head. They both did fairly well on all the other things too, those two just stood out to me.

I believe that the first ones meaning is saying that people say it is ok to die for ones country but when you see your friends dying around you, you don't think it is true. Also when you think you might die you don't want to die at all, for your country or not. I think that the second ones deeper meaning is facing the horrors of the Vietnam War after you are out of it and looking at the memorial wall and seeing some of your friends names on it.

I learned about motif from To Kill a Mocking Bird so much better than just the deffinition. In To Kill a Mocking Bird there were very good examples about motif that taught me what it really is. Motif is a reacuring theme in a story for example the mocking bird theme, it comes up alot in the story.

Motif adds to To Kill a Mocking Bird because it gives a plot line to the story. The plot line needs something to be centered on like the solar system. The sun would be representing the motif, and the planets would be like all the different themes like Boo Radley and the to kill a mocking bird theme.

Extra Credit

One of the characters I played was Bob Ewell and For my picture I chose fire. I chose fire because both fire and Bob Ewell are dangerous and unpredictable. For example, compare a forest fire and Bob Ewell drinking and beating up his daughter. A forest fire can burn trees up like snacks and you can never be sure where it's going to go and what its going to burn. And if you where anywhere near Bob Ewell when he was drinking and angry, which he is pretty much all the time, you could get punched in the face even if you are his daughter.

One Christmas when I was visiting my relatives in Illinois, I was talking about bullies at my school to my uncle when he told me that if I don't ever want to get bullied you should always treat others like you want to be treated. At the time I may have just been interested in my presents that I would get to unwrap the next morning, but those words stayed with me.

Now I always try to be everyone I meet for two main reasons. The first reason is I don't really want anyone to be mean to me because then I might make enemies with someone who could have been my new best friend. My second reason is that it is just nice to be nice and bullying can ruin some peoples lives. The words that my uncle said so long ago may have saved my from a lonely, sad, and depressing bullies life and for that I am eternally grateful.

My Best Friend

My best friend is probibly the most random, crazy person I ever met. He moved from Alaska in sixth grade and was really quite. Then soon as I got to know him he turned out to be the opposite of what I thought he was like and turned out to be really talkative and funny. He is super funny and can make me laugh any time I feel sad or angry. The main thing that is unique about him is that he can make the wierdest sounds and is almost always smiling and/or laughing. He is also super amazingly good at playing the piano and when ever he comes to my house always starts playing the piano my family has, and he is so good.
My best friend is very shy around strangers and people he doesn't know but if you talk to him a little bit then he turns into a really cool outgoing person. Hi s dad was in the army so he has to move a lot and when he moved here from Alaska, for a while, he had a hard time fitting in. But then we had a class together and started talking and I found out how cool he was so then we became really good friends. The only problem with our friendship is that he had to move to Virginia because the army wanted to move his dad.

My Birthday

My Earliest memory that I can think of write now is my third birthday. I had it in my house and the key part that I remember was my moms friend had a son that was my age. My mom didn't want to be rude to her friend so she invited the kid to my birthday party. Now the conflict in this story is that I REALLY DISLIKED THE KID. The reason I did not like him very much is because he was probibly the most violent three year old kid in the world and always attacked me when I wasn't looking at him. And yes we were both seriously three years old. When I figured out he had to come I was super angry and pouting to my mom about why he had to come. Then all she said was "Sorry, do you want some cheese with that whine." Then she didn't want to here anything about the "devily kid" as Icalled him.

As it ended up he didn't come cause he got sick(I did not pioson him). But I was really happy and my birthday went good. I was so nervous before my party because the last time I had seen him he gave me a skar on my forehead that I stil have. So when he didn't show up I had the best time eating cake and getting all my presents.

Treasure Island: Imagery

The author uses imagery to add different things to different parts. Robert Louis Stevenson would add imagery into a fight scene to add drama or suspense. He might also add it in describing surrounding to describe where a character be like the island and features of the island. I believe that he adds it in very well and makes it a much better story than if it did not have any imagery.

I am reading Treasure Island for my outside reading book and so far I think it is pretty good and it does grab my attention from the start. It is fairly interesting because it starts right out with adventure.
I believe the dominant literary feature is imagery. I think the author includes it to describe what is going on and it paints a picture in my head. I believe it wasn't to hard to figure it out but at the very beggining there are several different ones.
The tone switches alot for the first chapter I think it is informative, it is informing you about the characters. Then it switches almost every chapter like a different chapter may be dramatic or zealous.