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Blog Post #15

For this post, I wanted to reflect on each of my years in high school.  Some are good, some are bad memories, but they are all part of the high school experience that I had. Freshman year, I am so sorry to Mrs. Geneksy for having to know me 4 years ago.  The only good thing to say about that is that she can tell her grandchildren that she taught Andrew Rodts(who will be famous) for 3 years in high school.  When she told me this year that I used to wink at her from the back of the class in the 20 building, I realized how far I have come from that freshman year Andrew. But going into high school, I was super nervous.  I came from a private school, a big minority compared to most everyone else who came from public schools. I always had the fear of not being at the same level that other people were at.  I knew only one other person coming to Millbrook with me and probably what scared me the most was that I hadn't needed to make friends with people since I was in...
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Blog Post 14

STEP 1) Go to https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/documents/walt-whitman-and-abraham-lincoln. Click on the "Document" tab. Scroll through Whitman’s notebook and write down anything you notice- can you make out any words? Images? What might be significant? What is revealed about Whitman through his inner thoughts? From the pictures of Whitman's notebook, initially it looks like nothing more than a diary.  It has a lot of seemingly meaningless words (most of which I cannot read) which I am sure made perfect sense to him but have me pretty lost.  On the first page, there is a few addresses it looks like, the one that I can make out is of Charles Hine.  Also, for the first two pages, there are stamps printed on them.  They remind me of the types of stamps that one can receive when they travel to different states and can collect the stamp of each state that they have been to.  The second page has a few words that I can read that say "Brochure, two characte...
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Blog Post 13

1. How I would describe the “American Dream” The American Dream in my opinion is having a normal job that pays very comfortably.  The American Dream is stepping out of Church on a Sunday afternoon, putting on my Ray Bands, and climbing into my new and freshly waxed Porsche with my babe wife (look at that irony with how coming out of church I should be more giving towards other people rather than flexing my wealth, but hey that's my dream right now).  As a whole, the American Dream is an idea that reflects the wants of people inside of a time period.  It is what the biggest trends are, the slang, what people do or what sports people follow.  I believe that it is what everyone imagines success to both look and feel like.  Back in the 1920's, Fitzgerald told it to look like parties and getting drunk every night, following the motto of living in the heat of the moment(YOLO). 2. What my definition of wealth is My definition of wealth is not only in terms of money...
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Blog Post 12

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I emailed the voice recording, I was not able to get it on here :( Criterion A: Knowledge or Understanding of the Text or Extract - 7 because I referenced information outside of the text given showing that I had an understanding of the book and the themes that were present Criterion B: Understanding of the use and Effects of Literary Features - 7 because I feel like I hit on a lot of the techniques but sometimes I was not clear on how the techniques affected the meaning of the text Criterion C: Organization - 5 I broke it down between 3 themes that I focused on for part of the time Criterion D: Language - 3 because I could have used better words and I feel like I was basically just throwing up all the information and wasn't using more critical analytical terms
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Blog Post 11

#1:Gregory Samsa woke from uneasy dreams one morning to find himself changed into a giant bug. The word choice seen from the first translation is very bland.  'Uneasy' and 'big' are non-descriptive adjectives and lack any type of imagery in them.  The sentence structure is also a little weird because the subject is at the beginning of the sentence and the event that happened waits all the way until the end of the sentence.  When I first read this translation, I was tripped up a little bit because of the weird way it was put together, especially without any commas where one could have been added.  Again, there is a lack of description so I am not able to picture what is going on besides Samsa waking up and realizing he is a bug. #2:When Gregor Samsa awoke from troubled dreams one morning he found he had been transformed in his bed into an enormous bug. This diction is a little bit more detailed.  It uses strong words like 'transformed' and this excites me m...
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Blog Post 10

Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm using my freebie, to make it easier on you.
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Blog Post #9

https://www.ted.com/talks/matthew_winkler_what_makes_a_hero/transcript#t-1449 What makes a hero? The summary behind this ted talk is that every single hero, whether it be from modern day movies to ancient greek heroes, that they are all the same.  They all embark on what Matthew Winkler calls a Hero's Journey.  In this journey, there are twelve phases, or cycles, that the hero follows on his path.  Each hero starts out in their own familiar world, and during their quest they go in an unfamiliar world to them.  The twelve cycles that it passes through are as follows.  The first is status quo, which is who the person is and what they're known for.  Next, it is their call to adventure.  The hero is given some type of adventure, challenge, or invitation to leave their day to day life.  Next is assistance.  Every hero is given some type of assistance, usually from an old and wise person, where they either learn how to do something or they are...
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