Literature Analysis #1

1. Hazel grace is just a normal teenager who falls in love with a hottie named Augustus Waters, well i actually lied about the normal teenager, Hazel is anything but a normal she a teenager living with cancer and so is the boy who she falls in love with, Augustus. Throughout the book it describes their odd love life because it isnt like the usual teenage love its much more mature than that. Hazel constantly struggles with her health throughout the book, having to go the hospital and always having chest pains and breathing problems because of the kemo. And by the end of the book the unexpected happens.

2.For me the biggest theme from this book would be that no matter what life throws at you you have to make the best out of the situation that you possibly can. In the book the author gives us a character named Isaac who has to get eye surgery because of the cancer he has which is going to make him permanently blind. But despite all that the girl that he thought he was going to spend the rest of his life with dumps him. With all this emotional damaged Isaac does become a little depressed but it didnt stop him from living his life.

3."I went to support group for the same reason that I'd allowed nurses with a mere eighteen months of graduate education to poison we with exotically named chemicals: I wanted to make my parents happy."
Hazel tends to be straight forward a lot her condition actually made her that way because she knows that she is hitting the early stages of death and she doesnt want to be treated like some little kid who cant do anything for themselves.
"I didnt tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! Youre a women. Now die."
This quote always makes me laugh because just the way Hazel is just so frank makes me feel i should see things in  a new perspective.

4.Some literary element John Green uses in Fault in our Stars is irony. Hazel doesnt understand why Augustus feels its so important to leave a mark. But not trying to, Hazel leaves ends up doing it herself.Another literary element would be symbolism, Augustus Waters, water is an essential we need in life, without water life wouldnt be possible. Augustus shows Hazel how to live life even with the disease she has.

Hafta/Wanna

My perspective in life during and life after high school would have to be like comparing fire and ice, they are complete opposites! My high school life hasnt really taught me anything about reality! I have no idea how to pay bills even do my own taxes basically how to live on my own and it is partially my fault but i thought high school was a big step into reality when i was in 8th grade but once i got here nothing really changed much except it was a bigger school and there is so much more people. Once we all graduate and start our own lives i know for a fact we wont change in a heart beat its going to take time growing into and adult! And we will all take our old habits into our daily activities its only human nature to do so. One big thing we have to do in adulthood is balancing the things we want to do and the things we have to do and how to balance that exactly i wouldnt quite sure know the answer to that because ive really experienced it before but when i do i will be more delighted to tell you guys! My expectations on the world around me would have to be that its going to be tough in the beginning but we all learn and prosper and become mature adults with years of experience!

Vocabulary #3

Apostate-someone whose belief have changed and who no longer belongs to a religious or political group
Effusive-expressing a lot of emotion
Impasse- a situation in which no progress seems possible
Euphoria-a feeling of great happiness and excitement
Lugubrious-full of sadness and sorrow
Bravado- confident or brave talk or behavior that is intended to impress other people
Consensus- a general agreement about something
Dichotomy-a difference between two opposite things
Constrict- to make (something) narrower, smaller or tighter
Gothic- of or relating to a style of writing that describes strange or frightening events that take place in a mysterious place
Punctilio- a minute detail of conduct in a ceremony or in observance of a code
Metamorphosis-a major change in the appearance or character of someone or something
Raconteur- someone who is good at telling stories
Sine qua non- something that is absolutely needed
Quixotic- hopeful or romantic in a way that is not practical
Vendetta-a very long and violent fight between two families or groups
Non sequitur- a statement that is not connected in a logical or clear way to anything said before it
Mystique- an air or attitude of mystery and reverence developing around something or someone
Quagmire- soft land that shakes or yields under the foot
Parlous- dangerously shrewd or cunning

Visual Story telling

In the movie Murderball they use a lot of visual story telling for example when that one guy(blanking on his name at this moment) got back from rehab because of his condition of being paralyzed from the waist down, right when he got into the car they zoomed into the handicap sign they had hanging in the car emphasizing his condition. Another example would have to be when one of the guys on the rugby team described his dream on how that sometimes he dreams about flying and when he was flying he grew legs and arms and how he loved the feeling because it actually felt real! While he was describing his dream they showed a short little visual sketch just to get a feeling on how he felt in his dream

Vocabulary #1

Adumbrate- to indicate faintly, report and outline or to foreshadow
Apotheosis-The climax
Ascetic- practicing strict as a measure of personal and especially spiritual discipline
Bauble- a showing ornament of little value
Beguile-to charm
Burgeon-to flourish
Complement- complete or brings to perfection
Contumacious-rebelious
Curmudgeon-a bad temper
Didactic-intended to convey instruction

Hacking Your Education

This semester i really hope that what we learn can really help me take the steps into nursing! What i really want to learn about is to get more of an understanding in the medical field because that is where i want to spend the rest in my career in and getting a feel of it now can really help me determine if its right for me. One thing i really want to demonstrate this semester is my determination i have to reach my goals and that becoming a nurse really means a lot to me because its what ive always wanted to be!

Vocabulary #2

Accoutrements-additional items of dress or equipment
Apogee-the highest point of development
Apropos- an opportune time
Bicker-to argue about petty matters
Coalesce- to come together and form one whole
Contretemps- an embarrassing occurrence
Convolution- a form or shape that is folded in curved windings
Cull-to select from a group
Disparate- completely distinct or different in kind
Dogmatic- characterized by or the expression of opinions very strongly or positively as if they were facts
Licentious-lacking legal or moral restraints
Mete- to distribute or give out by measure
Noxious-harmful, poisonous or very unpleasant
Polemic-an agressive attack on or refutation of the opinions or principles of another
Populous-containing many people or inhabitance
Probity-complete and confirmed integrity
Repartee-a swift witty reply
Supervene-occur later than a specified or implied event or action
Truncate-to shorten by or as if by cutting off
Unimpeachable-inquestionable

Profile on Courage

 Today we watched murderball and it was so much different then what i expected it to be! Murderball is  a movie about people who have spinal problems and they play this rough game of rugby on wheelchairs. In the beginning of the movie we get introduced to a couple of the players and they explain their story but some of them didnt have spinal problems at birth some of them got it through tragic accidents. I really have to give a lot of props to these guys because they are just so strong and they dont want any pity because of the condition they have they just want to be treated like any other person.

The Choice

We all have to make choices in our life, some are harder than others but we pull through. I know I make choices on a daily basis whether it is something simple like whether to eat some cereal in the morning or eating some toast? But ive also made some really tough decisions that were difficult to deal with. One realization ive been though is realizing that someone so close to me, someone i trusted trusted with all my secrets becomes this negative energy in my life. No matter how hard i made excuses for that person the more exhausted and emotionally drained I became and who wants to make the choice not to have that person if your life anymore? Even though it was a hard decision to make it was also the best one ive made.

Vocab #1 Performance Review

For the most part i would have to say that i did pretty good on the vocab quiz! I studied all of the words and made sure i was using the words in sentences that made sense.

The Choice

1. The choice is referred to in the title by the choice of whether he is making the choice to give his daughter the poison or if she will make the choice on taking it herself.

2. It is a real choice because the poison is actually the medicine for his daughters cancer and the reason why they call it that is because it is poisoning her cells. The alternative of not taking the drugs is that she will die and the worst part about the drug is that it might kill the good cells that she need for growth.

3. I think the author uses poison in the first line because he wants it to stand out in the article, to make it a appoint that it is the focal point.

4. I think the daughter wanted a chance to be able to play with toys that are for older kids because i think she might of had the thought that she wont be able to play with them in the future. And i do agree with her because if i were a parent going through the same situation theyre going through even though i would hate to think of the possibility of my daughter/son of dying i would still want them to feel they can conquer anything no matter the age they are.

5. If i thought i might not live to the age of 30 i would want to travel everywhere i had the chance too because that is always been a big dream of mine, to travel the world

6. Well in this article the daughter hates taking her medicine but her parents enforce it because they want her to get better. And even when she was going through chemo she had a bunch of tubes attached to her which the father describes on the look on her face she hated every second of it. But even through all this discomfort if their is a chance the daughter might have her sickness go away who wouldn't take the chance of all this discomfort to save her life.

7. I really don't think we need to suffer in our lives because if you are suffering whats the point of living? I know its a harsh thing to say but no one wants to suffer in throughout their life it just gets tiring after awhile.