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Choose one of the poems that we have studied in your reader, and analyze the title. How does the title relate to the rest of the poem, and how does it create meaning? Provide examples from the poem to support your claims. This Is Just To Say Written By: Williams Carlos Williams I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold The title of this poem adds and helps to understand the meaning of this poem. Without the tile, the poem sounds like a sincere guy who gave in to his urges and ate some plums. Then he asks for the owners forgiveness. Now when you add the title to the poems meaning, it changes it. It makes the speaker almost seem sorry for eating those plums but sarcastic about it. They are just going to the owner and saying, "Hey, Just so you know I ate your plums, sorry not sorry." It changes the speaker from legitimately apol...

The visit to the Houston Museum of Natural Science Paleontology Hall was a very good experience. There is a lot of knowledge held within those walls and though I had been there before multiple times, there are still many things that I have yet to learn and that are interesting.  I thought that the trilobites were very interesting and to see how well they were excavated from the rocks that they were fossilized in was amazing. The people that process these fossils must spend lots of time and must be very careful in releasing these creatures from there rock coffin. I found it interesting how the oxygen levels relate to the size of the animals that exist on the planet. This sparked a greater interest and I would like to learn more about oxygen affect on life. This trip was very interesting and I learned much more than I mentioned here. I look forward to the new energy hall coming next year in Fall 2017 and gaining more knowledge in the realm of paleontology.

In "We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks uses the poetic element of enjambment. Why do you think she does this, and how does it affect the meaning of the poem? This poem by Gwendolyn Brooks uses the poetic element of enjambment and this has a great affect on the poem. It has a large affect on the flow of the poem making it seem more rushed and like it is one line. Enjambment affects the meaning of this poem because it makes it seem like the ending (death) comes much quicker then if it was not there. The poem is a story, starting the people thinking they are too cool for school and leave. Then they follow a bunch of events and go in a downwards spiral until it ends with there death. It tries to show a cause and effect with leaving school leads to death. The enjambment, I believe, adds to the meaning through affecting the flow and speeding it up. I think that it emphasizes that you will go downhill very quickly as opposed to a more extended period of time.

Bitter manioc is a plant in the Amazon jungle that many of the tribes depend on for survival. This plant contains a chemical in its leaves, flesh, and skin that turn into cyanide (poison) when digested. The people of the Amazonian tribes have created many tools to make this plant edible. Bitter Manioc   Manioc Grinder Manioc Stirrer (left) and Strainer (right)  Preparing Manioc 1. The people would take the manioc and skin it. Taking the poison from the skin, but leaving the poison still inside the flesh. 2. They will then use a grinder to turn the manioc flesh into mush. 3. The mush is then put into a manioc strainer to fully remove the liquid that contains the chemical/cyanide. Chinese Finger Trap The manioc strainer is like a Chinese finger trap. It is squeezed together and the manioc mush is added inside. Then it is constantly pulled apart and inward, squeezing the manioc mush repeatedly and taking out the liquid. Manioc...

What is poetry/a poem and how can you tell the difference between poetry and prose?    Blog Post done. Argument done. Well Not Really. First the questions, WHAT IS PROSE? WHAT IS POETRY? and HOW ARE THEY DIFFERENT? Well prose can be defined simply as a form of language that has grammatical structure and flows naturally. Poetry has a much different form that can, and often, breaks the laws of grammar and has a more melodic or rhythmic flow.  Most of the writing we do everyday can be classified as prose and though prose can be creative, poetry is more associated with creativity and almost always contains artistic speech. Poetry is usually divided into stanzas comprising of lines that can be either whole or parts of a whole sentence. Prose is usually more straightforward consisting of paragraphs made up several sentences.  The differences between prose and poetry are not the easiest to define in their entirety, but they are important in ...

1984 by George Orwell is a captivating dystopia that creates a future world that seems far fetched and insane, but ultimately possible. In 1984 there is a government that is oppressive and rules with an iron fist. Unlike previous oppressive governments this one has complete control over almost everything. They can observe you at every moment, see your thoughts, change the past, alter your mind, basically complete control over the population. Could a government like this ever be taken down? I don't think so, unless there are some other supernatural or possibly natural things that happen. It is unclear who the government is or who rules it, so if a rebellion where to happen it would just be against the idea of the government for there is no known real living figure. Should someone create some super plan to take down this government the thought police would be able to find that thought and take down the person with it. A government like this could never be taken down, so the only wa...

George Orwell's 1984 was written during the rise of many governments that had the power of the country in the hands of a few. He uses this book to warn the reader about what a possible world would look like if the government had complete control. Newspeak is a way for the government in 1984 to control the thoughts and minds of the people. It is an extreme way of saying that politicians and governments manipulate languages and words to convey the message they want and push the crowd towards them. This can be backed up by this quote in the book by Syme,"Don't you see that the whole aim if Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it." Language is one of the easiest ways to convey the information we have. If someone creates a language in which there is only one way of thinking there would be no way to say anything otherwise because you would not be able to...

In 1984 , Julia and Winston receive "the book" from The Brotherhood. Chapter 1, "Ignorance is Strength," analyzes this party slogan. A part I found very interesting was when it talked about how there will always be three classes in society, or what we call the high, middle, and low. In the book it says that the classes are in a constant never ending routine because the classes below the high want to be in the class above the one they are in. The middle will convince the low to displace the high by promising them a chance to become the new middle class, but when they are successful the middle leave the low as the low class and the middle kind of separates again into both the high and middle until the rebellion against the high class starts again. This can be seen in the world today because people all want to be in a higher class. In the USA, many people believe that with hard work and some just believe that one day they will be in a higher class then they are in n...

                                Whose message is this? Who created or paid for it? Why? Who is the "target audience?" What are the clues (words, images, sounds, etc.)? What "tools of persuasions" are used? What part of the story is not being told? What group/s does this empower? What group/s does it disempower? This poster is from the World Wildlife Fund and was created to gain support to help endangered animals specifically the tiger. It was released in India where the superstition of a tiger claw bringing good luck is common. This can information can be gathered from the words displayed on the poster.  The poster tries to create empathy for the Tigers and some logic to undermine the belief in the superstition. The story not being told is if this superstition is part of the culture and whether there needs to be a debate on which is more important, preservation of animals or ...

Now if you do not know where this slogan is from, it is from George Orwell's 1984 . I will be trying to explain what I believe the government of this fictional world was trying to tell the people with this poster. These posters were hung everywhere to let you know Big Brother was Watching you and the government, ruled by Big Brother, was monitoring your every movement and whatever you do will be seen. It erases any sense of privacy and if someone is thinking about doing something bad they are already committing a thoughtcrime and will be arrested by the thought police. This slogan tells all people who look at it that they are in the simple sense being watched. By 1984 it seems that many people have already adjusted to being watched and this slogan is just their to remind them if they forget. It is hard to imagine what it would be like if the world today was like 1984 and we had these posters on every street corner. So whenever you think or do something just remember, BIG BROTHE...