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.

Literature Analysis #1 The Scarlet Letter

1. In the beginning if the book that I read, The Scarlet Letter, it's starts off with a woman named Hester Pryne, and she has to stand up in front of the entire town with the "Scarlet letter A" in to her chest. She committed adultery against her husband, Roger Chillingworth. She will not speak the name of the man she cheated on her husband with to anybody. She also had a baby with the man. The setting is in the seventeenth - century Boston. Hester then supports herself by working as a seamstress and her baby girl named Pearl grows up. They live in a small cottage in Boston. Suddenly, officials of the community want to take pearl away from Hester but a man named Arthur Dimmesdale helps her. But something very sad happens to Dimmesdale which makes Chillingworth move in with him. Suddenly, Chillingworth's suspicions start to rise when he notices something about Dimmesdale and Hester. When tragic events happen Hester and her daughter flee without any notice to anyone.More and more events happen which lead to sad, yet happy ending.

2. In my opinion the theme is the novel is sin and shame. Throughout the entire book Hester Pryne wears a Scarlet letter A and an example of adultery and it's practically a sin. She wears a scarlet A on her breast 24/7, so she feels shame.

3. What made me choose this book is that is had a little of something to do with romance, and I love romance novels. I also thought that it had drama and exciting, thrilling moments in the book. But, honestly, I didn't like it. The exposition is really long, and it made not want to keep reading at all throughout the whole book.

4. I did make some connections throughout the book because I have felt shame all through my life. People always hang stuff over my head for the things that I did in the past. So I really connected with Hester and the scarlet letter.

5. In the novel the author's tone is somewhat bitter or harsh. For example when he described the people in Boston as "being of the most intolerant brood"(Hawthorne 86). He is also very opinionated and descriptive, in example, when he described Mr. Dimmesdale as "more careworn and emaciated than as [we] described him at the scene of Hester's public ignominy"(Hawthorne 86). He also uses harsh words like, "scorned them in their hearts, and ...reviled them with their tongues". 

6. An example of a metaphor in The Scarlet Letter was when Hester considers the scarlet letter A to be the Black Man, and according to my research the Black Man is like satan. Another example of a simile was when the author said, "She has wandered without rule or guidance in a moral wilderness; as vast, as intricate and shadowy, as the untamed forest".

Symbolism: "...The sunshine vanished..."

Imagery: "...gray twilight into which the clouded sky and the heavy foliage had darkened the noontide...".

Characterization

1. An example of direct characterization is when Hawthorne describes when Chillingworth sees Hester while standing on the pillar saying, "...the stranger bent his eyes on Hester Pryne. It was carelessly, at first, like a man chiefly accustomed to look inward, and whom external matters are of little value and import...". Another example of direct characterization is when he describes Hester Pryne and a beautiful, tall, thin,  and dignified person. An example if indirect characterization is when in the book people look as Hester as a tramp or a promiscuous person but really she is dignified and loyal. Another example of indirect characterization is that in the book the impression on Mr. Dimmesdale is that he is helpful and trustworthy.

2. The author's diction does not change when describing a character. Throughout the book the text is written in Shakespeare language, i.e., thy, thou, or shall. 

3. The protagonist is dynamic and round. She plays a very big part in book mostly because she's the main character. She being Hester Pryne. She's very dignified and confident and is described toward the end of the book as loyal. 

4. I did feel like I met Hester Pryne personally because the author describes her significantly as if she was standing in my room. I actually had a vision of her as I was reading. Like when she walked off of the pillory that she was on the head up while people were gazing at her in disgust and shame, but she still stood her ground.

One quote that I liked or will remember from the book is "Ah, but let her cover the mark as she will, the pang of it will be always in her heart". I like this quote because it reminds me of something that recently happened to me a few months ago. Someone really hurt m g feelings to the point where I didn't want to go to the place where I would always see them, but now I have forgiven them, but I will never forget what they did to me.

Roots and Derivatives


1. aud(it) (hear): audience, auditorium, audition, audiovisual

2. avi (bird): aviation, aviculture, aviatrix, avifauna

3. belli(i) (war): rebellion, rebel, belligerent, postbellum

4. ben(e) (good, well): benefit, benevolent, benediction, benfice, benison

Word List

1. antebellum a: before the war, especially the American Civil War, typical of how things were before any war.
- I attended the conventions of the antebellum South.

2. audit v, n: to attend a class only as a listener, not for credit; to check or examine a company's financial records; n, the process of making such an examination.
- Companies must have their accounts audited.

3. auditory a: related to the sense of hearing.
- We learned about the auditory nerves.

4. avian a: characteristic of or pertaining to birds.
- We were learning about avian tuberculosis.

5. aviary n: an elaborate structure for housing birds.
- We built a bird house for an aviary.

6. avionics n: the technology of (using) electronic equipment in aviation, missilery, and space flight.
- I want to study avionics.

7. bellicose a: eager to fight or quarrel; hostile.
- The current dispute has excited bellicose passions.

8. belligerency n: the condition of warlike hostility; a hostile action.
- Tom screamed and shook his fist at the waiter in a belligerent way.

9. benefactor n: a person who gives another (financial) help; a patron.
- Bill Gates is a huge benefactor in many charities.

10. beneficiary n: one who receives a benefit (of payment), as from an insurance policy.
- When my neighbor's husband died, she collected the payment from his insurance because she was the beneficiary.

11. benign a: not malignant; gracious and kindly; good-natured.
- What got her MRI back it was benign.

12. inaudible a: unable to be hear.
- The intercom sounds inaudible.