The Apolgy 51-61

Page 43 Paragraph 3
"I have gained this reputation, gentlemen, from nothing more or less tahn a kind of wisdom."
The reason I thought this was interesting was because I think that this is what people just assume of Socrates because of what they hear. They believe that  Socrates is a bad person because of what they hear which I think is unfair.

Pericles Funeral

IN my text I underlined a sentence that said "AS for poverty no one need be ashemed of to admit: the real shame is not taking practical measure to get out of it. I thought this was interesting because of the meaning. This sentence is so true because a lot of people are going through this and they are doing this. One way that this is related to the trial is because it is talking about the people and how they are so poor.

Jigsaw

1) Give a quick explanation of the topic and propose a debate resolution of the topic. (a couple of sentences)
1- I think that a good topic to talk about would be about the amendment that was passed back in 2004. It stated that we were not allowed to burn the U.S. flag. But this is just telling us that we have no freedom of speech.
2) Explain why it is an important topic. You choose what to write about, but here are some suggestions if you are stuck: How does it impact your constitutional rights? Can it impact your daily life? Does it empower or disempower you as an individual? Does it promote or inhibit public discussion? Does it help or hurt people getting along with one another? (short paragraph)
2-I believe that this is an important topic because it impacts us on so many levels. For one it just reduces our freedom as Americans. I don't believe that it impacts our daily life because i don't think someone is going to want to burn a flag for the fun of it.
3) Write one or two sentences that explain a good point made by the con side and one or two sentences that explain a good point made by the pro side (2-4) sentences total).
3- One good point made by the pro side was that they are breaking the first amendment and they are reducing freedom.

The press in a time of crisis

1. I think that my reading section was con because of everything that it stated.
1)they say that the media is a safeguard of democracy
2)People are being thrown in jail for no reason and they have no right to a fair trial.

2.I also agree with the con side. i thihk that we should not censor the media becuase we need to know as much of the thngs that are going on in the world. How would we even know what is happening around the world. We need the media so that we know what is going on in america.

Opinion Essay

Antonio Valencia Valencia 1
Humanities
4-18-07
Mr. Jana

Opinion Essay
On the radio there are many thoughts that are said and many thoughts are spoken. All over the media there is many things that are said that could offend other people’s feelings. They say things such as racial slurs and other things that are offensive and they say things about a lot of other touchy subjects such as religion. Recently there was another incident about a racial slur that was aired over the radio. A lot of people’s had an opinion over this thing.
My opinion over this thing was that I think that this guy deserved to be fired because of what he did. A lot of people were listening to the radio talk show that day and I believe that they were offended. Nobody wants to hear racial slurs on the radio especially since everyone can hear you. Plus it was coming from a guy who had already done this multiple times and had gotten away with it too. Do any of us really want to keep this guy on the radio so he can say it again and get away with it? I think not.
On the other hand this guy really helped out the company and got it most of its money so he should have at least got like a warning or something like that. He might have said something that shouldn’t have but that’s how the talk how got most of it’s money. But that is just how sometimes it is going to be some things just slip out without you noticing.
But that is just how comedy works sometimes and we can’t fix that.
In conclusion, I agree with both sides of the argument because they both have good arguments. But I am going to go with the side that says that he should be fired because he said racial slur. That is why I agree with one side more than the other. This is my opinion on this topic.

Blog & Discussion Questions

1. Why does the NAACP think Imus should be cansored?

The reason that Imus lost his job was because he crossed the line when he did the racial slur on the radio show. This offended many people and that’s what got him kicked of the air. Also people have been wanting to stop racial slurs and that got on their last nerve.

2. Why does Frank Rich think he should not be censored?

He thinks this because everyone on the media already so why should he have gotten fired from the job. Plus they also said that he was just using free speech to get out what he thought out on the air.

3. What do you think and why?

I think that he should have been fired because he offended everyone who was listening that day. He did racial slurs and that could have hurt many people’s feelings and he could have pissed off a lot of people.

Q) What is your reaction to the ending of the section? What is good and/or bad about the type of society outlined by Socrates?

I think that his ideas are not right for many reasons. One he is removing a lot of ideas that loert of people believe are true. If we were to remove that then all of us would be very confused and scared of the outcome that might come out. If we were to adapt to this kind of enviroment we would forget what everything that happened and all the entertainment we are use to. We would stop progressing.

Commenting Assignment

Austin Cook's Comment:
There was a lot of helpful things in this comment that made me realize what I did wrong. One of the things that I like about this comment was that it told me exactly what I did wrong. It also told me what was good about my comment which was good. This is why I think this is a good comment.

Laura Mitchell's Comment:
I like this comment because it told me some good things about my posts. She also stated some things that everyone could relate to which helped a lot. She also talks about my first sentence and how it made the posting all the better.

In your opinion, is it ever right to harm somebody? Why or why not? What would Socrates and/or Thrasymachus say in response to your answer?

In my opinion I think that it is right to harm someone if you really need to. I think this because if the person that you want to hurt did something wrong than he does deserve to get hurt. This is when it is right to hurt someone. The only time when it is not right to hurt someone is if the person did not deserve the hit or if he hasn't done anything wrong. I think that Socrates would agree with me because he thinks this about justice too.

Simile of the Cave

1. Compare and contrast what Socrates says in “The Simile of the Cave” with Fahrenheit 451. How are characters like Mildred similar to characters in “Simile of the Cave”?

A: The reason that the charecters in the cave and Mildred are the same is because they always believe what they are told. They are afraid of figuring out the truth of what is really going on the world. Both of these people are under the control "The Man" or the government because they are afraid of speaking their minds or to go against them. One difference is that the people in the cave actually tried to come out but they were afraid and overwhelemded by what was realy going on. Mildred keeps going on with her life and doesn;t even think.

Thoughts

One time when my [parents told me a lie was when they told me SAnta Claus was real and I acytually believed them. Later on in my life i ended up figuring that he wasn't real and that devitated me emotionaly. Even I got over it which a good thing. I miss the thought of Santa though he was really special

Illiad Reflection

I think that Pride is major thing in everyone’s life and there is many consequences to pride. There was this one time when my pride really got in the way. I was a playing a game and someone had just scored on us. This got me really angry and this caused me not to pass the ball because I thought that I could score too on the other team. Eventually I ended messing up and the took the ball away from us. This is the one time where my pride really got in my way of my life and I really messed up. I felt really selfish that day and blue.

Illiad Assignment

1) Do you believe Achilles will turn his back on Agamemnon even after all the gifts that Agamemnon is giving him.

2) My opinion on Agamemnon before reading this would be that he is a coward and he was very inconsiderate of all off his soldiers. He would never go with them to battle. He would just sit back and watch all of his men die in battle which is really messed up. Even after all of what he did for Achilles in this section it still doesn’t change my mind of him being an inconsiderate leader. The only reason that he is doing this for Achilles is because he knows that without Achilles in this war the Greeks will not have a fighting chance against the Trojans. He is just trying to persuade Achilles to fight with him again. All Agamemnon could provide Achilles is women and material things.

3) Pg. 255 Line 137
A) Agamemnon says “Why look, that man is worth an entire army the fighter Zeus holds dear with all of his heart”. This applies to reason because it is obvious that with Zeus the Trojans would easily kill all of the Greeks. The reason all of that this relates to reason is because Zeus counts as a whole army so with that in mind it is easy to tell that the Trojans will easily win.

Phoenix
- Reminds his of his father past. This appeal to emotion.
- He uses his father’s life past to persuade him to go to war

Illiad Reflection

I agree with the second one of the statements . The reason for this is that Achilles has been mistreated by his own leader Agamemnon which I think is wrong. One thing that think Achilles should have never done was ask for another war prize after he gave the girl back. I think that he did the right thing by asking Agamemnon for another war prize even if he is his leader. I think that Achilles did the right thing by sitting out this war. If I was a Greek I would support Achilles idea of doing what he has done.

Disagreement and Conflict

Me and my brother were arguing about if we wanted to eat at Mcdonalds or if we should eat at Panda express. He said that he wanted to start eating healthy so he punched me in the shoulder really hard. This was one oft all the major conflicts that I had while doing this. After that he ended up calling my mom and I ended up get hit by my mom when I didn't do anything at all to my brother. This was one of the major conflicts that I had when I went to get food. This was one of the many times that I have been hit for not doing anything at all

My Rage-Cause

There has been many times where I have been mad. One of the times I will never forget was when I was at a soccer game and I was playing playing defense. This player was coming at m and I got the ball from him. I was just to simply get the ball and kick it out of our side. But instead I decided to try to take it all the way to the other goal keeper and score. But they ended up taking the ball away from me and they scored on our goaly. I was very pissed at myself for ever doing that.

Fahreheit Scene Reinactment

Page:114
I run outof the house as quickly as I can because i know that the firemen are coming. They are on their way to burn down my house. Iget my bags and somee clothes and I call a cab. While I wait I cntinue to get more of my stuff to take me. I am so scared that I was about to piss my pants. Oops it came out I pissed myself because far away I see a big red fire truck coming toward so I start crying. Finally the cab pulls over in the front lawn. I run as fast as I can and I trip over a ladybug. I scream at the top of my lungs because I sprang my ankle and I start crying. I yell as loud as I can" Wait up cab I'm on my way". So I pick up my stuff and run toward the cab and the driver asks,"Where do you want me to take you mam" and I reply "Just get me out of here while I keep Crying like a little girl. And we speed away. I turn back and i see that the hose starts to go up in flames and I still keep crying like a little girl.

Fahrenheit 451 Descriptive Assignment

Word List:
Disintergrate:
The reason I chose this word was because to me this word means that you have gotten rid of everything so for a person not to have nothing might be pretty scary.
Perish:
The rason I chose this word is because it reminds me of death almost everyone I know is scared of dying because everyone knows that death is pretty damn scary.
Fire:
The reason that I chose this wrod was because a lot of peopel fear fire because it can destroy anything because of like what happened in the book. This word also means a lot to me because it can do a lot of things and it destroys for the most part. This is what brings the most fear to me and books.

"2/6 - Hesiod Writing Assignment"

I think that this ancient myth tells people about how there was many gods in the ancient greek myths such as Zeus. It also tells me that there was a god for almost anything becasue there was a god for war and many other things which is interesting. They all valued children that they had and the all also valued many other things. Each one of them had specially powers and they all had a job such as one of them had to keep the sky from falling. One way that this story would develop would be by someone telling stories and he wouldend up passing on the dtory and then it would become a myth. Another thing that could create a myth would be by someone spreading a certain thought about an idea or something like that.

Something I Dread Words

I like the way that I described the bully's hair " his hair was like a jungle" it is simple and you can easily imagine what his hair is like which is pretty messed up.

The second descriptive quote that I like from my writing is when I say "it feel`s like baby food which I hate" it is very descriptive because every one should know what baby food feels like.

My final quote that I like from my writing is when I say that "eat as fast as the Flash runs" which describes how fast I can eat when my cereal gets soggy.

"Stubborn" is a word that can pretty much describe anyone these days bacause of how people are these days

Blog Group Comments

The quote that I enjoyed from Mike Corbin:
"unconcious regeneration" and the reason that I liked from this specific quote was because he described getting energy back when you are asleep in two simple words which was really good.

The quote that I enjoyed from Laura Mitchelle:
I liked the way that you used the word "thrust" because I do the same thing when I go into the water because I can't swim so I have to thrust them wildly

The quote that I enjoyed from Yesenia Guillen:
I couldn't find Yesenia's blog on google reader

Farhenheit 451 pg. 156-End of the Book

1.My question
"Why is it that Montag just doesn't give up and stop trying to save the books in the world since he is almost dead now."

2.For the Second Quote:
Why I thought that this quote means is that if he manages to save the books and later on in the future and someone asks him he will remeber the time that he saved the books. That is what I think this means.

Fahrenheit 451 pages 136-154

1. One question that I have about the book is what ever happened to Clarrese because they never really clarified on what happened to her on her disapperence?

2. One way that Montag has changed from the beggining untill now is that in the beggining of the book he was a regular fireman just burning things. Now in the book he is now a thinker and he knows what he used to do was wrong. That is one way that he has changed throughout the book and how his personality has changed. Now he actually feels bad about what he has done.

Fahrenheit 451 pages 125-136

What I found exciting about this book was when Beatty takes Montag to his house to burn his house and he actually escapes even after they burn his house. What sucked for Montag was that his own wife ditched him and left him. It was cool when tag ran away even though he burnt his own foot off since it was poisoned.

Here was My Favorite Work

http://antoniovalencialovessoccer.blogspot.com/2007/01/something-i-am-looking-foward-to.html

Fahreinheit 91-110

My summary:
Basically what happened at the living room was that when Montag read a page to ladies while they where doing their Parlor games Montag read a poem. One of the ladies began to cry for some reason and she did not know why. The incident that happened with Captain Beatty earleir in the book came back to haunt him because now they were going to burn Montag's house.

My Quote:
The Quote that I chose was “The room was blazing hot, he was all fire, he was all coldness; they sat in the middle of an empty desert with three chairs and him standing there…”. The reason I chose this quote was because it feels like if I was there and I was experiencing what was happening in this quote. This forces me to use my senses and I can see the blazing fires and I feel them.

F451 pgs 80-91

My question:
Why doesn't Montag get rid of the books while he has a chance before he, his family, and his books get burned.

Question B:
The plan that Faber explains to Montag is to put books in the other firemen's houses and frame them for having books at their house. If this plan were to work the firemen's houses would be burned to ashes. One reason that their plan won't work is because there is not enough followers that would help this plan come to life and there is only a little bit of books that are left in the world. Another reason is because it would be to hard to plant the books where they need to be so this would be another challenge that they would encounter.

Something I am looking Foward To

One thing that I am looking foward to is going to Sherman with my friends and playing soccer with them. When I play soccer and I finish I feel like if someone dumped a cool bucket of water on me because of how much I sweat when I play. My sweat keeps me so cold I feel like if it was snowing around me. Sometimes i take my reebok weights and strap them around my legs so i get more muscle on my legs. It feels as if I had two rocks straped to both of my ankles which is not a very comfortable place to put weights. I am determined to make something out of myself when I play soccer because i enjoy playing that sport and I feel joy when I play with my soccer ball. My ball smells like crap because of how many people's cleats have kicked and where this ball has landed( catch my drift what dogs enjoy to do everywhere ). It sends chills up my spine when I have to take it back home and I smell it. When I play soccer you always see me smiling because i am having the time of my life. When i run I enjoy the cool breeze going against my chest, The bright sun beating on my face, and also when i play in the warm nights. It feels like if I had my blanket on my body because of how hot I get. Some of the people that I know there are hialrious and i feel like if I was Watching a comedy movie because some of them say stupid stuff that is funny. Sometimes i overhear them talking to each other. Then the day ends, everyone starts to leave Sherman, it starts getting lonely and then it gets as empty as space.

Fahrenheit 451 pages 68-80

1. Write a question about the reading. What are you confused about? If you don't get an answer on your blog, be sure to raise the question in class. Even if you do get an answer, and you think it's a good question with a good answer, bring it up in discussion.

One question that I have is that why does Mildred hate books so much and why is she scared of Montag reading them. Does she fear Montag getting to know about people that never existed.

B. How will books get us out of "the cave?" What is the cave and how will books get us out of it?

A: I think that basically what the cave reffers to is the state of not being aware of what is happening in the world and not knowing what happened then. I think that the books have the key to getting out of the cave because they have information that the firemen are trying to get rid of by burning the books. The books could tell the people what happened when the book was being written in their own time. The firemen basically try to keep the people in "the cave".

Something I Dread....

AHHH!AHHHH my own best friends try to jump me at the trolley station, This also happens at the bus top. The bus driver is my friend but since I go for America so he tries to kick me off the bus but I am stubborn so I won't get off. The bully is funny but he is fat like my little brother. He also has hair that looks like a jungle because he does not take good care of it. The other bully is tall and skinny. He also looks like rocker cause of how he dresses. These two bullies love to pick on me. The other thing that I hate is getting up in the morning and eating cereal with milk because it makes it all soggy and it fell`s like baby food which I hate. This forces to me to eat as fast as the Flash runs which is really quick. These are all the things that brings pain.

Fahrenheit 451 pages 40-68

Q:
Captain Beatty tells Montag that firemen are the “happiness boys” and that they are custodians of “our piece of mind.” Why does he say this? Be sure to include the problem with minority opinions, individual thought, and the historical conditions that made this possible. Use quotations and other evidence from the text in your response.


A:
The reason that captain Beatty says that the firemen are the happiness boys is because they are the ones that clear up the minds of other people. He believes that by erasing someone's books he would make people happy and also make peace. He thinks that he is making scientists happy because books just disprove someone's ideas or calling their thoughts stupid. One other thing that he says is that he also gets rid of books that have thoughts that are against minorities so he also gets rid of those kinds of books. One thing that he says is that books say nothing so there is nopoint in keeping them. That is what he said in the book. Another thing that he told Montag after he found out that Montag found the book was that if he didn't get rid of the book in twenty four hours he would burn the book himself so that means that Beatty doesn't know what books have in them. Beatty also believes that it is better not to be educated and just be go on and not know anything because you may not believe it

Fahrenheit 451 pages 21 to 40

1) One thing that I don't understand about the reading is how Montag keeps running into Claresse even though he is never even searching for her. Also I want to know if Claresse has any family.

2) There is many ways that the people in the book are like the people today and different. One way that they are different is that people today don't spend time to smell flowers and do childish things. People now a days rely on technology for entertainment and Claresse shows that you don't need technology to have fun. Now we don't even wonder about anything such as what is on other people's minds and in the book they spend time talking and ask random questions. Now all people talk about is new gadgets and cars and other material things. Some things that we have in common is do stuff for fun and then sometimes we work. Another thing that we have in common is want and wish for things to happen.

Fahrenheit 451 pages 3 to 21

1) Ask a question that you have about what's going on in the novel. What do you find confusing?
A: One thing that i found confusing about this part of the book was the kind of writing that they used the descriptive metaphors. An example of this would be when they would use a certain metaphor and I didn't see how they had anything in common.
Q:Why is there so many metaphors that don't have anything in common such as in the beginning of the book.

1) Even before Montag and his wife Mildred talk to one another we know that they are alienated (distant) from one another. How does the author convey this?
A: I think that the author conveyed this by saying that the wife had been waiting for a long time and that showed a bad relationship.

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