Vocabulary.

Decapitated (verb): to cut off the head.
"After slaughter, the hogs were decapitated, split down the length of the belly, pried open, eviserated, and strung up by the hind hocks on a high conveyer belt." pg 42
Sentence: During the french revolution there were many decapitations because of treason.
This comes from my own knowledge since this word is used everywhere.

Hubris (n)
excessive pride or self-confidence; arrogance.
"This initial incident is the beginning of Creon's hubris" P. 176
Synonyms: Audacity- People who have the audacity to do/say what ever they want.
Sentence: I am one of those type of persons who have way to much Hubris in himself.

Imminent (adj)
Likely to occur at any moment
"Dope might help him cope with the very imminent and engulfing presence of death." P 152
Synonym: Forthcoming- Can happen anytime at any moment
Sentence: My cousin is in her 9th month of pregnancy and she is imminent of having her baby.

Motivation

At the moment my motivation for school is much gone.  I am just going day by day seeing how things go by.  I started out with six different classes, and now I only have two classes out of all I started with.  The reason for this is because I have chosen the wrong classes in which I need to succeed in.  By following other people's decisions I strayed away from my own set of ambitions and because of that I made some wrong decisions which have affected my course and goals I had in two years.  The only way I find able to get my motivation back and set of ambitions is by going to summer school at the moment and making up the classes in which I have failed in.  By doing this I would be able to set everything back in track and start fresh once the fall semester has started again.  Another thing would be talking to a teacher or even a counselor in which he would help me make the right decisions in which classes I should get and which ones I shouldn't bother which just yet.  I really need to set everything back in track because I am playing to transfer in a year or two tops.  And I won't be able to do that if I keep slacking off and not doing anything about that, so my plan starts off going to summer school then just going with the flow and start doing better and getting all my motivation back at the moment.

Vocabulary #4

Feign- To represent Fictioulsy put on an appearance of
Source Sentence- The letter covered seventeen handwritten pages, its tone jumping from self pity to anger to irony to guilt to a kind of feinged indifference. (pg156)
Salvaged-The act of saving a ship or it's cargo
"I tried to salvage all the parts from the wreckage of the ship"
It is common sense to know this.
Altercation- A heated or angry dispute; Noisy arguement or controversy
During my time at dominoes pizza i had many Altercations with customers because of how rude they are.

Reflection #4

During the past week I have been procrastinating quite a lot my plan was to start doing everything ahead and get a better schedule going because i tend to slack of a lot and not go to class since i feel it is not necessary at all.  That is quite a bad habit since I miss a lot of work from the majority of my classes.  My plan for the week ahead was to start looking for a job again since I’ve been unemployed for quite a while already and i have many bills i have to pay and I’m running low on cash.  I also planned to study and prepare more for school and sleep way earlier since i tend to sleep late and feel horrible in the morning.  When i look back this week I didn't really accomplish any of my goals since i missed quite a lot of class with random incidents i have had. At home everything is stressing me out and in a way its impeding me from really reaching my full potential in school.  There are just way to many things i have to worry about everywhere and slowly the boulder I'm holding in my shoulders is dragging me down. I just really need to start getting committed to what i intend to do and really follow through the plan.  I need guidance in every thing i do because i am already under probation from last semester. I just really think i need to talk to a counselor or even get a counseling class to set me straight and get an actual schedule so i can know what classes to take.  The reason is because i want to transfer and go to a university so that are my goals this semester.

Vocabulary #3

1) Impassive- (adjective) Without emotion; apathetic; unmoved.

His eyes were flat and impassive (pg.60)
It felt like all the students in the class room were impassive
Your logic, I based this on there emotions in the way they reacted in class.

2)Ordnance- (noun) military weapons with their equipment, ammunition, etc.

What'd They hear? why all the ordnance? (pg. 75)
All the ordnance around the military base seemed to be taking up the majority of the space
Your logic, based on your knowledge of military weapons.

3)Shrill- (noun) high-pitched and piercing in sound quality
The next, the tips curled upward as if caught in a final shrill syllable. (pg. 111)
The shrill the animal yelled out before it was slaughtered sent shivers down all the soldiers spines.
Example, found based on reading the original sentence that the word was found in and learning what the word meant from there.

Reflection #2

One of the events in my life that i would share with people but never tell the actual facts about is my childhood.  The reason is because there is so much personal agonies and situations which are way to hard to be explained.  Dealing with divorces and constant arguing isn't something that easy to talk about.  Also the many situations in which you have faced and are hard to even come up with the words since it was a difficult situation.  I would be able to tell the story of my childhood and touch the human heart since there are many other people who have had similar situations in my life or i can even make it relate to them just to be able to appeal to them.  By telling a story you always try to appeal to the audience so in a way you are forced to switch up certain parts of your story to make it seem for intriguing. But for me it would be different because of appealing to people i would switch up certain facts because i Don't want certain things to be said because they are just to personal and I'm in many ways not comfortable having to explain my feelings. Yet i think even if i would switch up certain facts to my story it would still reach out to people since it is distressing growing up with constant arguments. I would be able to reach to the heart even with fiction and non fiction facts.

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Vocabulary

1) stooge- (noun) one who plays a subordinate or compliant role to a principal
Was Ho Chi Minh a communist stooge, or a nationalist savior, or both, or neither? (pg.40)
The student felt like a stooge in the classroom.
Your logic, I based this on "The Three Stooges" and how they act.

2) schizophrenia- (noun) a psychotic disorder characterized by loss of contact with the environment, by noticeable deterioration in the level of functioning in everyday life, and by disintegration of personality expressed as disorder of feeling, thought (hallucinations and delusions) and conduct
It was a kind of schizophrenia. (pg. 44)
The man at the grocery store had schizophrenia.
Your logic, found based on watching movies with people that are schizophrenic.

3) bewilderment- (noun) the quality or state of being bewildered
The emotions went from outrage to terror to bewilderment to guilt to sorrow and then back again to outrage. (pg. 46)
The families feeling of the situation turned into a bewilderment feeling.
Example, found based on reading the original sentence that the word was found in and learning what the word meant from there.

An "Emcee"

The things I carry are the many burdens my parents have inherited to me. "I wear my scars like the rings of a pimp." I carry around the many lessons of life which have been taught to me by the many friends and family members in which I have encountered.  I have learned through my own set of goals that I am not restrained by the ignorance of society. I have my own set of beliefs and live every day knowing that what I stand for is what I believe in not what other people have suggested or even tried to enforce. I live day by day knowing that I do not believe in god and people shun me even put me down for that action.  My life revolves around music which I listen every hour of the day. Music is what dr ves me to succeed, every quote from each song I listen to has in some way affected even influenced my decisions in life and what is to come. I am pretty much jamming to the beat of life living every day with the knowledge that I'm living it the way I want, that I do not depend on anyone else's happiness to make my own.  I hope that one day I learn true happiness but I know that won't be till imp older.  In a way I am still naive but imp still young so for now I will use that as my excuse. "The definition of over, doesn't have to be the end"