Leopard Man Questions

9. Tom Leppard is called "Leopard Man" because he is tattooed from head to toe with leopard spots, and he intentionally act like a leopard. He lives in solitude in the wilderness, away from society.

10. The author finds himself unimpressed with individuals who radically alter their appearance through extreme tattooing, piercings, and hair mutilations. He has these opinions being he believes that some people change their appearance just for attention from others.

11. Leopard Man is different from other tattooed and pierced people because he doesn't live for other peoples reactions. He lives in solitude, so he has no one to impress, which is his decision.

12. Leopard Man lives in a small cabin in the Scottish wilderness.

13. Society looks down upon freakish and extraordinary individuals alike and views them with suspicion. They especially fear loners, those mysterious creatures who pursue their own values without seeking others' permission or permitting others to hamper them.

14. Conformity can be seen as the world's most prevalent and most pernicious psychologists disorder. The consequences of it are no less than the suppression and destruction to one's self. Feys argument in this paragraph is that human are meant to be different, and living in society, we are under constant pressure to be different in almost everywhere we're at.

15. Leopard Man is happy because he is free. He lives in solitude and he has no worries about people judging him for who he is. He states, "As far as I'm concerned, if there is a paradise on Earth, I'm in it. You're welcome to what you've got. I'll keep this."

Diction Handout

1.  An example of jargon in the story is, "The cigar dropped out of my gaping mouth with a tiny plop and a short hiss...".

2. opaque-not able to see through; not transparent.
   elongated-unusually long in relation to its width.
   elusive-difficult to find, catch, or achieve.
   cadaverous-resembling a corpse in being very pale, thin, or bony.

 The boat made a shadow on the sea at night. Then he saw something long and pale floating towards the boat. As he started to wonder what it was, a flash that looked like lightning in the sky. He gasped as he saw a pair of feet, long legs, and someone's back. The man that he saw grabbed the ladder, but he didn't have a head. Surprised by this headless corpse, his cigar dropped out of his mouth. The corpse raised up his head aside the ship, and the man tried to look closer to see what it was aside the boat. The man held on to the ladder of the boat as if he were a resting swimmer, and the sea lightning shined on him and he appeared like a ghost.

3. It makes the tone more dreary and almost scary. When paraphrasing, the tone becomes more casual and less frightening.

4. 1)One hand, awash, clutched the bottom rung of the ladder.
    2)The cigar dropped out of my gaping mouth.
    3)...leaned over the rail as far as I could...
    4)As he hung by the ladder...

5. The author chose to leave the captain and the group's names out of this passage because he wanted to focus more on the visionary or imagery in the story.

6. The denotation of secret is something kept private, sharing is, however, a public act. This brings to light the dialect of the public versus the private world.

Cadaverous: resembling a corpse in being very pale, thin, or bony: corpse/body

Darkling: of or relating to growing darkness: dark

Pale: light in color or having little color: white

Phosphorescence: light emitted by a substance without combustion or perceptible heat: glow with light without becoming hot to the touch

Ghastly: resembling a ghost, especially in being very pale: white

Headless: without a head: lacking good sense or prudence

Fishlike: any of various cold-blooded, aquatic vertebrates, having gills, commonly fins, and typically an elongated body covered with scales: any of various other aquatic animals

Latin Roots #6

Roots

1. corp(or): body
2. cred: to believe; to trust 
3. cur(r): to run; to flow
4. dic(t): to speak or to say

Word List

1. benediction: the innovation of a divine blessing, as at the close of a religious service; a blessing or state of blessedness
2. concourse: a running or flowing together; a broad public walkway or hallway; a crowd or throng
3. concurrent: occurring at the same time; meeting or acting together
4. corporal: related to the physical body
5. corpulent: very stout; fleshy and obese; fat
6. credibility: the quality of being believable or trustworthy
7. credulity: the willingness to believe too easily without proof
8. cursory: done in a superficial or hasty manner
9. dictum: an authoritative saying or maxim
10. incorporate: to form into one body or functioning unit; to combine several different things into a whole
11. incredulous: not believing, skeptical, or doubting
12. indicative: characteristic of or very much like; suggestive

Sentences

1. Every Sunday, before church ends the pastor says the benediction.
2.  A railroad is an example of a concourse.
3. My best friend's and my boyfriend's birthday parties were concurrent.
4. My brother was involved in a corporal punishment.
5. My mom used to be very corpulent.
6. That would give him a heads up on how much credibility we put on the so-called psychic tipster.
7. But I had more credulity in those days than I have got now.
8. After a cursory look, she moved on.
9. His favorite dictum in politics was, "Why not leave it alone?" 
10. Like the Arabs they held that demons became incorporate in serpents, as in Gen.
11. He lunged out of the chair and fixed her with an incredulous stare.
12. Small red regions are indicative of rapid plant growth.

Lit Analysis #2

  In the book, Sister Carrie, the story explains that an eighteen-year-old girl named Caroline Meeber, Sister Carrie, moves from her home in Wisconsin, and moves to Chicago to live with her sister. She meets a guy named Charles H. Drouet on the train ride, and they exchange addresses to meet again. She becomes very poor and miserable while living with her sister, and she cannot find work. She then finds Drouet again and he promises to marry and take care of her. They moved in together, but did not get married. Drouet introduces her to his friend named George W. Hurstwood, who was a rich, attractive, middle-aged man, who saw the beauty of Caroline. He fell in love with her and they eventually have an affair. He then stole some money, left his wife, and tricked Caroline into running away with him. They grew poor and Caroline saw Hurstwood as a pathetic old man, and left him. Hurstwood grew miserable and committed suicide while Caroline grew wealthy and became an actress.
  The main theme of this topic is social standing. Throughout the book, all Carrie wanted was wealth and fame. Hurstwood lost his social standing when he stole money from his job and left the country with it. The author chose to write this topic because of the Great Depression, I believe.
  The protagonist is dynamic and round. The book was based on Caroline. You can read her thoughts and how she feels about things. Everywhere she was, you were. Another important character is Drouet. He is important because he started Carrie off in the acting world. If she had not have met him, she would've still been poor.
  One significant symbol in this book was that there was a lot of imagery all throughout this book. The characters are all caught up in their thoughts. There is dialogue, but when they think and they're mysterious about things, that's what's more interesting, also how they look at things that are around them.
 I chose this book because it stood out to me the most. The name of the book made me curious. I looked it up on Google and I read the plot, and it said that is had a little romance in it, which I love. It made me want to keep reading once I began because the beginning started off immediately which action. It didn't have a boring intro, like some books.
 One connection in the book I made was about how Carrie felt about people around her who were so rich, and that wore luxurious clothing. I sometimes feel that way. I want what other people have, I envy them. I ask, why them and not me? She thought that if she could have those things she would be happy. That's how I felt.
  One idea from this book that I expect to remember for a long time is that when the author stated, "A half-equipped little knight she was",(Dreiser). This meant to me that you don't need anybody else to help you do what you want to do, sometimes Caroline relied on men to take care if her and make her become rich. Sometime you just have to be an independent person.

Greek Drama Questions

1) As a prize, dancing choruses and worshipers receive a bull or a goat.

2) As many as fourteen thousand spectators gathered in the open-air Theater of Dionysus.

3) Those masks that they wore had exaggerated mouthpieces that amplified the actors' voices.

4) Suspense did not come from the Greek audiences watching Antigone's anxiety about what would happen next, because they already knew the story. Suspense came from their knowledge of things the characters on stage did not know.

5) The shepherd took pity on the baby.

6) The riddle the sphinx gave to Oedipus was, "What creature goes on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, and three legs in the evening".

7) Oedipus's kids are Polyneices,  Eteocles, Antigone, and Ismene.

8) After Oedipus is exiled, Creon took over as regent of Thebes.

9) To Eteocles body, his Family buried with hero's honor and Polynecies' was left to rot outside the gates of Thebes.

Into Antigone

    If this situation happened to me I would bury my brother regardless of what my uncle says about it. Especially, if my brother was my favorite. No one should be thrown on the ground left for bird and maggot meal. No matter what someone did they should at least have a proper burial. My sister and my uncle aren’t acting like family if they don’t feel the same way that I do. I would talk to both of them and explain my thoughts. I would say that my jerk of a brother should not have a better burial than my favorite brother. That he started the fight in the first place. If they’re trying to be fair then they both should be punished by being thrown on dirt as bird and maggot meal, because they were both fighting not just one. I wouldn’t care if I will be executed if I buried my brother. Although, I don’t think that id get caught I’m pretty sneaky. I would also plan an alibi just in case my “sister” tells our uncle that I buried my brother.

Jonathan Safran Foer Webinar Reaction Assignment

1. After watching the video, complete a write-up that includes the following:
  a. The category of the video was persuasive and informative.
  b. The name of the presenter is Jonathan Safran Foer
  c. Jonathan Safran Foer Webinar
  d. October 28, 2014
  e.The content of the video was him explaining the purpose of his book. At least that's what it sounded like to me. He was explain what he believed the people in this world should do. He believes that people should be vegetarians, and to stop eating the animals. He thinks that its pointless to pay for something that causes you to be obese, and its very expensive sometimes.
  f. One moment that I found memorable in his book was when he said,"...an industrial pig-breeding facility in North Carolina, videotape taken by undercover investigators showed some workers administering daily beatings, bludgeoning pregnant sows with a wrench, and ramming an iron pole a foot deep into a mother pigs' rectums and vaginas"(Foer 181). I chose this moment because I thought that it very brutal and it inspired me THINK about being a vegetarian.
  Another moment that I found memorable in the video is when he says that there are people who justify animal cruelty towards farms animals, but towards pets its different. I chose this moment because I thought that this was informing, but it also made me confused about what he says in his book in the chapter entitled "A Case for Eating Dogs", he makes it seem like eating farm animals are better than eating the dogs.
  The last moment that I thought was memorable was when he questions why we buy and eat meat at expensive rates. What do we get out of it? Why would we constantly eat something that cause us to be obese. I chose this moment because it was motivational and inspiring. After I started asking myself those questions, but then I came to the conclusion that he's right and wrong. He wrong because even if we start  eating stuff like tofu and more healthier things its even more expensive, and hard to find. Why go searching for rice cakes when there's a Jack N the Box down the street? 

2. Explain in 50-75 words how this presentation can relate to your life.
 This presentation can relate to my life because I know a lot of people who are vegetarians, and the they lecture me all the time when I order a cheeseburger from Wendy's. Even though they get on my nerves, they always leave me thinking. What do I get out of eating this burger? What are the ingredients in it? How will it make me healthier. I always come up with the same answer. I don't care, I'm hungry.