Wednesday, February 9, 2011

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.

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

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"