Guiding questions: chapter 7

1. Why does Gatsby stop having parties ?

NOTES AND THOUGHTS ON GATSBY CHAPTER 5

As Gatsby and Daisy met again, after five years, the author sets the mood up by bringing up that it’s raining out side over and over. 

KeyWords: Pouring, draining, trees dripping, muddy, embarrassment, nervousness 

The author sets up the a more of a calm, nervous, kind of mystery/ suspense type of mood as Gatsby and Daisy talked. 

Gatsby was known not to brag about his house and his belongings. But I think the purpose of all these things he has all this in his house they were so he could invite daisy over one day, look at her reactions, and see them through her eyes. Hoping she would like them. 

Gatsby ch. 1-4 question

Who was the man that Tom saw standing on the porch ?

Why’d Tom move out of his home town ?

Who is Miss Baker ?

Why was Gatsby reaching out to the green light across the dock?

Why did Gatsby specifically move into a house across Daisy’s place ?

What is the phrase Gatsby always uses to greet somebody?

Why did the police man in chapter 4 let Gatsby go freely ?

What did Gatsby do in Oxford ?

NICK’S CARDINAL VIRTUE

“Cardinal Virtue” is a very important person in Catholicism, being right under the pope
Nick means that he cardinal sin as in something that he hates about himself is that he’s honest

Chapter 3

The rumors about Gatsby were that he was a German spy, as told by the two chismosa girls.
Nick calls Gatsby owl eyed
Nick imagined Gatsby to be rosy, husky, middle aged, & imposing
Nick feels attracted to Jordan and noticed she is very dishonest
Nick and Gatsby plan to go on a hydroplane the next morning after the party
Nick feels like his cardinal virtue is being “honest”

Gatsby pp. chp.2-3

Tom Buchanan had gotten drunk and broke Mrs. Wilson’s nose because she was taunting him. Before all that she was explaining the story on how she had met Tom at the train station.
-The word “violent”  was seen a few times to describe Tom and now we know that it had been foreshadowing his personality.
-Contemptuous means so judge mental like is someone is hating on another person

Gatsby pp._-_

Huge sign on the wall with gigantic eyes, meaning they’re being watch everything is being seen.
Toms railing Wilson’s wife and she seems to not mind the fact that they’re both in the same house at the same time, Wilson is doesn’t realize anything and doesn’t know his wife is cheating on him with the man right in front of him that so happens to be seeking him a car.

DARK PATTERNS

An example of a dark pattern that i had encountered was when i was on the NFL shop, shopping for a jersey. It took me awhile to find the right jersey and the right size because of all the " Top Selling"/"Few more left" jerseys that were clearly not low on sale because of the number it was. Which is from an important person from the team. I feel like they just want to sell those for the most money and while not sending so much money themselves on expensive material, because to be honest those jerseys looked and feel like cheap material.

I'M IGNITED

Today was a very interesting day for our third period class. We talked about our big questions that have been driving us crazy and i'm going to list a few that have caught my attention and I would be interesting in hearing more about. First one that caught my attention was on from Dr. Preston's 2nd period class, "Why are people superstitious?" by Karla, this really caught my attention because i've thought about this myself and i would like to hear more about it but sadly i am not in the class period so i'll probably use my own time to actually look into that instead.
One question that was from my actual class period was by someone named Guadalupe and she had asked, " How will our actions about our ecosystem today influence the future?" This topic has been talked about by a lot of scientist and they all have their own answers but i would like to hear what she has to say about it because topics about our future no matter what it is, global warming, climate change, our ecosystem, etc. really interest me.
One more that had interested me was a question by a classmate of mine named Juan, he had asked, "Will we ever be able to desalinate and drink ocean water?" Now this is a question i have been asking myself since i was very young, ever since the talk about global warming started to come back up and how glaciers in Antarctica are "melting" and how are we going to be able to get fresh water after that? So i'd like to know what he has came up with and if we could possible do that one day. 

ARGUE THIS

What is syllogism?
 Syllogism takes a lot of thought, it’s a simplest form of an argument.

My big question is, what is the relationship between consciousness and reality?
My major premise would be that there is actually three separate ways to specify ‘consciousness’. There would be THINKING, FEELING, & BEING. My major premise is there is no ‘relationship’ between them but more of how or when the ‘thinking consciousness’ realizes reality etc etc. So in conclusion, there are different ways/ parts to this question that we really have to understand this dimensional ‘relationship’ to really know what is being said which would help in giving your own answer. 

HOW DID DO IN MY INTERVIEW

Self Reliance:Part 4

       “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little mind,” it’s saying that little minds are scared of getting new information as big minds people want to learn more and receive new Information, not necessarily want to but they don’t mind it.
        “To be great is to be misunderstood.” People misunderstand a person due to his different ideas from the masses, then the person is, in fact, a great thinker.
      “ We pass for what we are.” Our character never changes no matter where we go. We pass for the person we are and not as someone else or something else.
        Emerson’s essay really does and has got me thinking on what happens in my daily life. But it’s really hard to under stand him even with the teachers help, I have to reread it multiple times to figure out what he means and most of the time his words do have an impact.

Self Reliance Notes:Part 3

“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.” .... says, Emerson’s essay is an absolute genius, especially coming from 20years before the civil war stating that any bad poor man is jsut as good as any good rich person. Claiming that he would go to prison for these people that are drunk and asking for money.

“Their works are done as an apology or extenuation of their living in the world,” meaning that mean do a good deed for charity or other stuff to make themselves look good even when they know they’ve done some hurtful or harmful stuff like tobacco companies nowadays and possible back then too.

“For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure.” What Emberson is trying to say is that people who try to speak for themselves are always shut out and kept quiet but the outside world, meaning you can let go out and say what you want without people telling you that you’re wrong or your claim is false.

FIRST IMPRESSION: On Self Reliance

I really like how the author uses Latin in the first sentence before even starting the actually story. It got me ( the reader ) really Interested in the story, also made me think about what the story was going to be about and it’s ended up being relatable to. Since Latin is the root of a lot of langueges it gets a lot of foreign or bilingual people already just interested in the story because they can point out some of the words.

Let Me Walk With You Through The Pedestrian

         In the story, “ The Pedestrian,” Ray Bradbury has this corrupt experience one night as he walked through the city.  As he walked through the city he get pulled over and was asked by a artificial intelligence police car to get in side the car. He must have felt really confused and agitated  at the moment because he hadn’t done anything wrong but just walk the streets. The author was also trying to explain how we need to be wary of technology because in the story nobody socializes anymore, everyone is stuck on their phone that no one interacts anymore.
       The tone in the story was very lonesome, it made me feel like society was so different from how it is in today’s modern world. He gave me this feeling by explaining into deep detail on how the streets of Los Angeles were dark and quiet, he explained everything so in depth that I felt as if I was in the story experiencing everything with him. This was set up by the fact that technology has pretty much taken over everyone’s lives and it was so rare for someone to be walking the streets at night.
         In the Pedestrian Ray Bradbury was trying to explain the wary of technology, and how it would affect us in the up coming years. What I learned from this character was that he was self conscious of how the world was at that time and he knew exactly why the police car had stopped him as he walked the streets. The character also gave the audience something to relate to because when he got pulled over he acted the same way as if someone in today’s day would’ve acted.
         The plot in the story is it when Leonard Mead goes on a long walk one evening. As he was walking he gets questioned by a cop on what was he authority that evening (as in what was he doing walking the streets at that time.) He responds with, “ I’m putting one foot in front of the other.” In the story and in today’s modern day a cop would not want to hear something like that and would become very frustrated and angry. The cop repones with more attitude and keeps questioning him until Mr. Mead was asked to get into the police car.
           In conclusion, the overall story was amazing and really put out the awareness of the wary of technology and how it would affect us in the future.

HOW TO GET ALONG ONLINE

Today I’m going to state a few ways on how to keep a conversation going or how to keep the person interested in you, if you know what I mean...
Okay first thing first is that it normally depends on who you are talking to, if you’re trying to get to know someone because you like them or just want to see if a friendship can be created then just start with simple, “ hey” or “hi” don’t start with anything creepy... Second step is after you got to know them or get them interested then you should probably ask to hang out some time soon or if that to fast then just ask how was their day and what they did. Lastly, if you haven’t already requested to hang out then you should ask ! But if you still don’t want to then I guess you can just, I don’t even know, if you don’t hang out with the person then there’s really nothing you can talk about.

THE VALUE OF MY TIME

Some of the time investments that I have changed to achieve a goal/s is that I’ve change my habit of playing video games when I should really be doing my home work or studying for tests etc. Even tho I have jsut started working on that it has helped me a bit and hopefully it’ll help me in the long run.

The Earth On The Turtles Back

My first impression of “The Earth on The Turtle’s Back” was really good. I like this myth a lot actually, how it use personification and gave us a moral. I like when stories give the readers a lesson to learn or a give a story to tell to young ones later on in your life.

Today I Was Thinking

Today what stuck to my mind was the fact that before class, we should take a moment before class to take a breath... take a breath and just let your thoughts flow through your mind and take a moment to to just be present in that point of time.

The Mentor

"The Mentor's, " use of diction is using literate words and very captivated, making us wanting to read more. The Mentor is a smart guy that knows what he's talking about using high vocabulary but also making it easy to read for the reader. The author's tone in this manifesto is very aggressive and disappointed.