1. Slowly, but surely, Vasili's situation changes throughout the different entries of the journal. As proof of this, here is three specific examples from the text. 1) "I gave her several clouts across her head with my open palm, enough to make her stagger and daze her a little." 2) "...Nina bent over me, calmly preparing to strike again!" 3) "Plague and damnation! Blood and unspeakable horror! She has done it again!" These quotes show the changes that increasingly occur throughout the entries and the "shift in power" if you will.
2. The two most important things a relationship needs is trust and attraction, because without trust, you can't be intimate and intimacy is one another one of my five things a relationship needs. And without attraction, being faithful would possibly be hard, and that affects trust, which is also a thing a relationship needs. Two things a relationship doesn't need is cheating and lies, because of the reasons I just mentioned (if you lie, there's no trust, and I already mentioned being faithful).
3. Two common misconceptions males have about relationships are 1) girls DO want to have sex, and guys often think they don't, and 2) Girls don't care if you don't buy them gifts, because in actuality, they do. Now females' misconceptions: 1) girls think that guys aren' t emotional about a relationship because they don't care, this is false because whether they care or not, it isn't in their nature to assume emotion about things. 2) Also, girls are too over dramatic in situations to hold on to their bf, (in alleged cheating situations) which proves to be counter-productive.
Friday, October 10, 2008
Friday, October 3, 2008
Homecoming Week
1. My personal opinion of the homecoming week festivities is indifferent. I am much looking forward to the actual dance because unlike last year, I actually have a date. (although I did dance with the same girl most of las year's dance). The thing I enjoyed about this so far was when my date Katie said Yeah when I asked her to the dance. I was really happy because that means I didn't have to go with my ex-girlfriend anymore that I loathed. So in that case Katie made this homecoming week most memorable to me for reasons I already mentioned.
2. From my experienece, students in Oak Lawn have a lot of school spirit with the acception of not caring about the football team because "they suck." My freshmen year however, the varsity football team was actually good and they were supported and a lot more people went to their games. So in a way, most of oak lawn students aren't true fans, they only root for a sports team if they're good. So yeah, it obviously has changed from my freshmen year. Three things to change this would be getting a better football team, basketball team, and baseball. And I don't know how to answer the last question because I'm part of the "apathetic" type.
3. Well the only time I went to homecoming was last year, so I'll talk about that. First I went to my friend Leart's house, we went in his car to pick up Joe dwayer, then Leart dropped me off at Jill Verris's house. From there we went to one of her friend's houses to take pictures. Then we finally arrived at homecoming, 30 minutes late. I met up with Meagen and we danced all night. Although I did dance with other girls. Afterwards, Leart dropped me off at home. I ate and snuckout shortly after. Meagen and her friends picked me up. We went to Portillos and met up with her sister and her sister's friends (a bunch of sophomores at the time) they ate, yet I just got done eating so I just chilled. After that, we went to Brian Coughlin's party for like two hours and after that we went to this Richard's party. I got home at 4:30 in the morning.
2. From my experienece, students in Oak Lawn have a lot of school spirit with the acception of not caring about the football team because "they suck." My freshmen year however, the varsity football team was actually good and they were supported and a lot more people went to their games. So in a way, most of oak lawn students aren't true fans, they only root for a sports team if they're good. So yeah, it obviously has changed from my freshmen year. Three things to change this would be getting a better football team, basketball team, and baseball. And I don't know how to answer the last question because I'm part of the "apathetic" type.
3. Well the only time I went to homecoming was last year, so I'll talk about that. First I went to my friend Leart's house, we went in his car to pick up Joe dwayer, then Leart dropped me off at Jill Verris's house. From there we went to one of her friend's houses to take pictures. Then we finally arrived at homecoming, 30 minutes late. I met up with Meagen and we danced all night. Although I did dance with other girls. Afterwards, Leart dropped me off at home. I ate and snuckout shortly after. Meagen and her friends picked me up. We went to Portillos and met up with her sister and her sister's friends (a bunch of sophomores at the time) they ate, yet I just got done eating so I just chilled. After that, we went to Brian Coughlin's party for like two hours and after that we went to this Richard's party. I got home at 4:30 in the morning.
Thursday, October 2, 2008
The Skyscraper and the Airplane
1. The connection between the initial quote describing the Titanic, and the essay on 9/11 is that they're both a great tragedy that had a huge imprint on American life. So they are comparing these two great tragedies because they both resulted in the death of many americans.
2. Goodheart uses the informative method to describe 9-11. He gives the history about the buildings, explains how skyscrapers came to be, and how what people think about them. In this case, it is not an effective method, however. I say this because I don't think the confusing physics of how airplanes work has any bearing on what happened, and in my opinion, he unnecessarily confuses people with this analysis of the functions of airplanes. Like who cares? It doesn't change the fact or my reaction on what happened the morning of september the 11th. A specific quote that shows what I mean by how confusing it proves to the reader: "Perhaps one person in a thousand really knows, understanding coolly why it is that the contraptian doesn't plummet back to earth under our weight." (Goodheart is describing the people's "ignorance" on how airplanes function). Another quote that is also unnecessarily confusing: "first and foremost of course was the ability to produce cheap, high quality structural steel." Again who cares?
3. 9-11 did indeed negatively affect American life, and the affects are far from over, but it affected american muslims and arabs a LOT more than say white americans. These people had absolutely nothing to do with the attacks; some fundamentalists in their homecountry did, yet they were unrightfully racially hated and discriminated against because of this. Not unlike what happened in World War 2 with the Japanese. Also, another similar example would be the Jews in Poland and Germany and how they were racially hated (and prosecuted) although most of the victims had nothing to do with the "economic issues" in eastern Germany. So in that way, Bush is today's Hitler.
2. Goodheart uses the informative method to describe 9-11. He gives the history about the buildings, explains how skyscrapers came to be, and how what people think about them. In this case, it is not an effective method, however. I say this because I don't think the confusing physics of how airplanes work has any bearing on what happened, and in my opinion, he unnecessarily confuses people with this analysis of the functions of airplanes. Like who cares? It doesn't change the fact or my reaction on what happened the morning of september the 11th. A specific quote that shows what I mean by how confusing it proves to the reader: "Perhaps one person in a thousand really knows, understanding coolly why it is that the contraptian doesn't plummet back to earth under our weight." (Goodheart is describing the people's "ignorance" on how airplanes function). Another quote that is also unnecessarily confusing: "first and foremost of course was the ability to produce cheap, high quality structural steel." Again who cares?
3. 9-11 did indeed negatively affect American life, and the affects are far from over, but it affected american muslims and arabs a LOT more than say white americans. These people had absolutely nothing to do with the attacks; some fundamentalists in their homecountry did, yet they were unrightfully racially hated and discriminated against because of this. Not unlike what happened in World War 2 with the Japanese. Also, another similar example would be the Jews in Poland and Germany and how they were racially hated (and prosecuted) although most of the victims had nothing to do with the "economic issues" in eastern Germany. So in that way, Bush is today's Hitler.
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