The one main thing that I do not get in this weeks reading is in chapter 30 on page 246 when Trabbs boy keeps reappearing around corners. "I had not gone much further down the street as the post office, when I again beheld Trabbs boy shooting around by a back way and this time he was entirely changed." So why does Trabbs boy keep coming around corners in front of Pip and why does he freak out when he is moving passing Pip?

This photo reminds me of how Pip does not really belong anywhere. He is in between social classes, his family and history is in the lower class but his future is in the higher social class. When Pip finds out that Joe is coming to England he feels excited but he does not want Drummle to see how Joe is a lower classed peasant. If he does then he will make fun of Pip and his connections to the lower class.

For my paragraph's three points I used the three levels of lies; small, medium, and large lies. The characters use this through out the whole story. My first concrete detail is on page 18 when Algernon says Lady Bracknell "Good heavens! Lane! Why are there no cucumber sandwiches? I ordered them specially." this is an example of a small lie, because it is only him hiding that he kept them for himself. Then I will have a concrete detail for medium adn large lies, and say how it relates to the story line of the play.

The importance of being earnest/ victorian research

The Victorian era research has helped understand the book so much better. If i hadn't researched this era I would have not gotten this book at all. I would be thinking about how an author could come up with something so bazaar. I would not even get the story line, I would be so lost at the couple pages. Not to mention later in the story with the climax of the story.

If I hadn't researched marriage in the Victorian era I would be so confused when Algernon and Cecily get engaged after knowing each other for only several minutes. pg. 53 "You will marry me, wont you?" This is a quote that Algernon says to Cecily on the same day that they meet each other. In the present times people take months or years together before they become engaged. Later in the story it proves that you should always get to know someone a lot better before you get engaged to them. pg.64 Cecily asks "Are you called Algernon" and he responds "I can not deny it." This proves how easily it is to lie about something, and make them believe you. Overall I am so glad that we had the chance to research this time period before we read the book.

I probably could change a lot in myself to make myself a better person but for this year I am only going to change a few things to make my life easier and funner. I could definitely organize my belongings because my room and backpack is a mess. I can also work on studying ahead of test days. And I might be happier in school if I try to look on the bright side of doing things, for example projects, and reading a book, or even a science lab

The reasons I chose these three things to change is that I have trouble finding papers, and I always forget about a test coming up, and I usually am depressed when a teacher says that they have a project to do. I need to organise my things so it is easier to find the miscellaneous thins that I may need in the future. And in some classes when I need to find some kind of paper in my bag I have to dig through my backpack every time and sometimes it rips, and then my teacher may not be happy with the appearance of the paper. On test days I always freak out because i forgot to study and I don't really get what the test is on and then I might get a bad grade. But if I just remember to study then I wont freak out every test day. When teacher say that we have to do something that I may think is boring I look only on the bad side of things. If I just look on the good side of things then school could actually be fun.

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.