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.