Project Humanity is a student based community service club that gets all of Righetti involved with the community. Our goal is to assist and support a safe and a fun environment for our community. This club just started this year. My friend, Danny Luu and I created this club with the intention of participating in projects with the community, but so far we have been creating events at Righetti that would warm the students up and get them ready for the bigger events in the community. Our goal in the upcoming spring semester is to make an impact in the community in any way that we can.
Our first major project was called "A Warrior Holiday". This project consisted of asking for donations around Righetti and then using the donations to create care packages for the kids of the Good Samaritan shelter. These care packages consisted of school supplies, hygiene products, toys, and candy.
In the video that I embedding in my blog post is a video that Miranda Nillo created for our final presentation showcase for our AP English class. Our intention was to show the collaboration with many students from Righetti and how the collaboration ended up with a great result.
On behalf of Danny, myself, and Project Humanity, thank you Miranda for creating this awesome video for us! We hope to create more memories like these in the future!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30y5VmfGv7k Click this link to watch this incredible video created by Miranda Nillo!
Thursday, December 12, 2013
LIFE AFTER THIS BLOG POST
I can't believe that this is my last fall semester of my senior year! My letter consisted of how thankful I am for all of my friends and family that have always supported me. I'm also thankful for the homeless shelter event Project Humanity did. It refreshed my memory of the feeling of helping people. Every smile that was made that day brought more and more happiness to me. I'm also proud of all of my friends and peers at Righetti who supported, donated, and participated in the event. It was a great day for all of us! I'm also starting a brand new year with new goals. My number one goal is to be more focused than I already am for school. I would like to be able to say that I ended senior year with a big bang.
Friday, December 6, 2013
Sunday, December 1, 2013
Lit Analysis
Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
I am in a group with Danny Luu, Jenna Noce, and Miranda Nillo.
2. Does the author's syntax and/or diction change when s/he focuses on character? How? Example(s)?
3. Is the protagonist static or dynamic? Flat or round? Explain.
2.The author's syntax and diction doesn't change when he focuses on the character because he uses the same type of style for his sentences and the same type of word choice for both dialogue and narration.
I am in a group with Danny Luu, Jenna Noce, and Miranda Nillo.
2. Does the author's syntax and/or diction change when s/he focuses on character? How? Example(s)?
3. Is the protagonist static or dynamic? Flat or round? Explain.
2.The author's syntax and diction doesn't change when he focuses on the character because he uses the same type of style for his sentences and the same type of word choice for both dialogue and narration.
- "'I perceive your tongue is,' returned madame; ' and what the tongue is, I suppose the man is.' He did not take the identification as a compliment; but he made the best of it, and turned it off with a laugh. After sipping his cognac to the end, he added...". (P. 177)
3. I think the protagonist is round and dynamic because, after leaving his French royal title, he moves on to find life without being ridiculed by the social discrimination and injustices of the life in France. He then starts to build up courage to show his true identity to the people that he meets. This shows that he is a dynamic character because he starts to let go of his camouflage, his different persona to others and starts to show the real person that he is inside. When he comes back to France, he realizes that the life he left before is the same.
Sartre v. Plato Essay
Transform yourself and your vision to something totally different. Imagine a life filled with peace and not filled with war, anger, and hatred. You can't right? Life is all about maintaining a good balance between the good and bad. If we can't maintain that balance, then everything is just going to end badly. But, if we can maintain that balance, then we can make sure that life is as smooth as it can get. Maintaining that balance must come from having an open-mind. If one is open-minded, then they are eager and motivated to make a change to set that balance to make reality better. Although, if one is close-minded, then they won't be able to make a change to set that balance or even experience true reality.
If I were to imagine, I would imagine myself as a prisoner from Plato's "Allegory". I would pretty much not know how to react to a world without evil because I would have been used to the cave and its environment. But then again, I am still shackled in this deep cave. It will take some time to adjust, but as long as I am open-minded to new ideas and ways to experience the real world, then I will be set to help make change to set a balance in my life and the life of others. If I really think about it, the fire can resemble the fiery passion of escaping the shackles of life and pushing forward. The light from the fire can resemble the clarity of our vision for our path to escape the shackles of life. The shadows can resemble the one-sided perspective we all have unless we venture forward to find out whose owns those shadows. Plato certainly uses figurative language to prove his insight and his ideas.
In comparison with the prisoner to Garcin from "No Exit", Garcin also realizes what he has done wrong. He realizes and thinks about what is happening to the life that he left when he died. He exclaims to whoever is listening that he wants to get out of there which then makes the door of the enclosed room to swing open. Life, no matter during life or after life, makes you have an introspection evaluation on yourself to see your strengths, your weaknesses, the things you did great on, and the things you didn't do well on. This is what Garcin had. His mind constantly bombarded him with thoughts about his life before his death and what his life will become after his death. Sartre focuses more on self reflection and how it is the one way to get out.
Both characters, the prisoner and Mr. Garcin, thought about how to escape their "cave", their mental cave. Both needed to be able to figure out what to do after being shackled. The prisoner was shackled in a cave and in his mind, while Mr. Garcin was shackled in an enclosed room (Hell) and in his mind. Both Plato and Sartre focuses on the mind. They focus on the fact that it is up to ourselves to escape the shackles of life. The cave and Hell can represent their minds to because your mind isolates you from all kinds of things. It always give you one side of the perspective, but it is our responsibility to venture out and show ourselves and our minds that life isn't all about one-sided perspective. It's more about being able to see reality and experience reality by having an open-mind to new ideas, new perspectives, and new challenges that will only make us stronger.
If I were to imagine, I would imagine myself as a prisoner from Plato's "Allegory". I would pretty much not know how to react to a world without evil because I would have been used to the cave and its environment. But then again, I am still shackled in this deep cave. It will take some time to adjust, but as long as I am open-minded to new ideas and ways to experience the real world, then I will be set to help make change to set a balance in my life and the life of others. If I really think about it, the fire can resemble the fiery passion of escaping the shackles of life and pushing forward. The light from the fire can resemble the clarity of our vision for our path to escape the shackles of life. The shadows can resemble the one-sided perspective we all have unless we venture forward to find out whose owns those shadows. Plato certainly uses figurative language to prove his insight and his ideas.
In comparison with the prisoner to Garcin from "No Exit", Garcin also realizes what he has done wrong. He realizes and thinks about what is happening to the life that he left when he died. He exclaims to whoever is listening that he wants to get out of there which then makes the door of the enclosed room to swing open. Life, no matter during life or after life, makes you have an introspection evaluation on yourself to see your strengths, your weaknesses, the things you did great on, and the things you didn't do well on. This is what Garcin had. His mind constantly bombarded him with thoughts about his life before his death and what his life will become after his death. Sartre focuses more on self reflection and how it is the one way to get out.
Both characters, the prisoner and Mr. Garcin, thought about how to escape their "cave", their mental cave. Both needed to be able to figure out what to do after being shackled. The prisoner was shackled in a cave and in his mind, while Mr. Garcin was shackled in an enclosed room (Hell) and in his mind. Both Plato and Sartre focuses on the mind. They focus on the fact that it is up to ourselves to escape the shackles of life. The cave and Hell can represent their minds to because your mind isolates you from all kinds of things. It always give you one side of the perspective, but it is our responsibility to venture out and show ourselves and our minds that life isn't all about one-sided perspective. It's more about being able to see reality and experience reality by having an open-mind to new ideas, new perspectives, and new challenges that will only make us stronger.
I CAN READ
Here is my attempt on "Fox in Sox" by Dr. Seuss
It was quite a tongue twister
Fox in Sox by Dr. Seuss Reading Attempt
It was quite a tongue twister
Fox in Sox by Dr. Seuss Reading Attempt
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