My Essay Essay

Evil can always transform someone's behavior, attitude, and personality for the wrong reasons that a person can be. Also, lead them to a dangerous path. In the short story, Young Goodman Brown written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Goodman Brown is a minster and married to his beloved wife named Faith. At sunset in the town of Salem, Goodman Brown has left to the front door of his house. On his way out, he leans head back inside to kiss his wife goodbye as she, leans out toward the street to embrace him. Faith is wearing a cap adorned with pink ribbons that flutter in the wind. Little does she know that her husband will go to the forest and encounter the evil side of the spiritual world. Hawthorne communicates the theme of evil in life through symbolism, characterization, and allegory. 

List Of Things To Add On Essay:

• Talk about how evil can transform a person's attitude, character, and lead them to a dangerous path
• Compare and contrast the story to The Garden of Eden
• For body paragraphs explain each literary techniques

My Thesis Statement

The main point from "Young Goodman Brown" would be an intriguing to have as a prompt would to talk about the evils of the devil and how can it transform someone's attitude/ character and lead them to the wrong path of mischievous, out of character, and danger. In my point of view, I think that having to reflect on a story like "Young Goodman Brown" with a prompt to guide us will help us to reflect on the story then to come up with nonsense that later on be confusing for us and our understanding. Having to reflect on a story that I've already read and went over such as "Young Goodman Brow" would help on my confusion and comprehension on the reading that I was encountering during my time of reading. 

Read Talk Understand

The Making Of A Password:

• Your password is as secure as the weakest sit you are on 
• Change your passwords at least 30 days or once a month
• Ways to create a password;
• Using different phrases (Ex: D0gC4t!)
• Upper case and lower case letters
• Numbers/ symbols

Do. Or Do Not. There Is No Essay:

• The common word that's been used for describing essay is stress, angry, crying, and dropout
• Anxiety has increased throughout the years
• When writing an essay is to have the reader to understand us (our thinking)
• "Our job is to understand others and in turn, to make ourselves understood"
• Main idea: opposing the standard idea of an essay/ making yourselves be understood
• There is not "try" on writing an essay

Young Old Good Bad

The story of Goodman Brown represents the common man, which brown has to learn his faith which is both of his belief and his wife behind for the night, so that he can pursue and face the devil that is within his personal self and his family. Brown's journey takes him really deep into the heart of the forest where he had encounters with his adviser on his way to a congregation, high ranking religious leaders from the village, and the devil. From what Stephen King's story that he wrote based on personal conflict shows us that we are all capable of good and bad even when we think we would do the opposite of our actions. Truly makes us think beyond our character and actions through many obstacles that may over come within our timeline including the religious side as well. 

Young Goodman Brown (Questions/ Answers):

1. What do you think Hawthorne's purpose was for writing this story?
        The purpose of writing this story is to show people that there's always good and evil within us all. We may not know what we're capable of in different types of scenarios in ways we can't respond back as we imagine on doing.
2. Hawthorne states that Brown's wife is "aptly named" Faith. After reading the story, do you agree? Does Faith's name fit her personality? Does Brown have true faith in her?
         After reading this story, I disagree that Brown's wife, Faith, fits her personality because Faith was there for him the whole time; however, when he would go to the party of the evil and saw that his wife was there that's when things were taking a turn.
3. What do you think the pink ribbons signify?
        I think that the pink ribbons signify a part of Faith since that it represents her happy/ youthful atmosphere of hers. 
4. Was everything Brown witnessed real, a figment of his imagination, something conjured by evil, or a dream? Support your answer with passages from the text.
       Even though he was dreaming something dark and knowing if or not it's true doesn't mean he should take it upon his hands in real life terms. He seen that everyone around him was corrupting due to his excessive curiosity. Therefore, he lost his innocence by inevitable whether his dreams were real or not. 
5. Who do you think the old man really is? What textual clues tell you this?
      It would have to be the devil because Brown knew that he should't be doing something bad and later encounters a traveler who is clothed "in grave and decent attire..." gives Brown a clear indication that there is something mysterious about him.
6. What does the staff represent? Do you think the staff leads Brown onward or is the primary motivator Brown's conscience/ mind?
      The staff represents evil because when the traveler touched it everything started to move away. Brown's own conscience that leads him to keep on moving.
7. If Brown had not ventured into the forest, how would his life be different? If he'd stayed home, would Brown still have Faith? Would he still trust his wife and his fellow townspeople?
      Yes, his trip into the forest was a nightmare, he given the choice between heterosexual love or its rejection. When he returns home he is reluctant husband who trusts no one.

Literature Analysis #1 (A Walk To Remember By Nicholas Sparks)

1. There's love and loss throughout two people who are young. Landon Carter and Jamie Sullivan are two people who find themselves unexpectedly thrown together after a practical joke between Landon and his friends which  led a boy to the hospital. The consequences that led to that mess, Landon is forced to partake in some after school activity and to participate in a spring play. Landon can't act or doesn't know how so he acquires the help if the beautiful but some what invisible Jamie. Jami doesn't need to be noticed by her peers because she's a quiet girl who keeps herself to her most of the time. Landon's friends would always make fun of Jamie by her appearance and her way to self. It was like an every day thing for them to make fun of her. One day Landon had the courage to ask for help with his lines from Jamie. Through practices and tribulations it lead Landon to fail in love in Jamie who is the minister's daughter. From abandoning his friends to be with Jamie, Landon shares a true love story with the beloved Jamie but later on starts to unfold a heart breaking secret that lies within the couple. 

2. The theme of this story is how we all have the capacity to change. It's one of the prevalent themes in which emphasized throughout the story in which how we all have the capacity to change for the better as seen by all the characters in the story.

3. From the author's writing and tone that he uses in the novel, I imagine his morning routine to be very calm, cool and collected because when he expresses each event he doesn't make his writing too complex to understand. I see hi waking up, washing his teeth/ face, shower, eat breakfast and what I envision his breakfast to be it's coffee and eggs with toast. However, eating it outside at his front porch watching the view writing in a journal or reading. The reason why I picture Nicholas Spark doing this for his morning routine because he's the type of author to really write from the heart with different types of relationships and situations. Having the character say or go back in time to their younger selves at a place where there's nature involve. 

4. Nicholas Sparks uses Foreshadowing, Irony, and Symbolism for this novel. 

• Foreshadowing- when Landon warns the reader that we will laugh or cry, he foreshadows the loving friendship that will develop o between him and Jamie
• Irony- when winter is starting to begin and is turning into spring, Landon is struck by how life comes back even as Jamie lays dying
• Symbolism- Jamie's mother's bible symbolizes her innate goodness and plays a piece of herself that she gives to Landon later on before she dies

Having The Time Of My Life

Today's question: How can understanding your time use help you improve your decisions you make about how to use your time?

Having to understand the amount of time you're planing spend on a specific thing can really improve your decisions. By the amount of time we are wanting to spend shows how dedicated we are since that he are willing to spend endless hours for that activity. Understanding how time use is we are taking in charge on our decisions and actions on who or what we are spending time on.

First 50 Pages

The book that I'm currently reading right now is called "A Walk To Remember" by Nicholas Sparks. It starts off when fifty-seven-year-old Landon Carter narrating and reflecting on events about his past. Opens with a prologue in which the older Landon Carter is seventeen who lives in the same North Carolina town. Stands near the Baptist church that figures prominently in the novel and who gets into the mindset of his seventeen old self. Takes place in 1958, and Landon tells us a joyful and yet a sad love story that changed his life for the better. 

Today I Was Thinking

In today's class, I was thinking about how us humans we take our precious time for granted. This is a topic that always comes up in mind. How we all have a life with certain amount of years to live and hours to us to be with the people we love, explore, for work and school... God gave us a life and he's the only to take it away. With the amount of time that we have for us to enjoy life we take that without consideration. Yet, we also live in a world that we wake up to do the same routine everyday as if we were build as robots. How can someone live their life to the fullest if we are stuck with the same routine at a daily basis? 

So This Guy Goes For A Walk...

As we were reading the story, my first impression was that it's similar to story of Adam and Eve. The snake from both stories are similar to each other by having the same character traits as mean, and evil. They both carry the same traits but are also quietly unique as well. The old mad is welling Goodman Brown that there's a lot of good things about what he has done in the past which nothing will go wrong. The same thing happened to Adam and Eve where the snake told Eve that eating the apple wouldn't lead to something going wrong. 

The Medium Is The Message

• Medium- channel or media
• It's usually the channel that we decide to communicate. Within ourselves we choose on what channel to use to communicate without knowing how it can impact others.

In my opinion, if I were to select my channels of communication it would to remember the person who I'm writing too. For example, if it's to a friend or family member I wouldn't be worried on the amount of errors I'll be making. It would be type and send to the carrier. Although, if it's something that is personal that's when I need to take more consideration on my errors by re-reading my writing, correct my grammar and spelling. Be more thorough on my work for the person to clearly understand my text. 

For The Win

Something that I feel that I've done really well in this course is keeping up with the journals. I would always finish them at my house rather then in class. Sometimes I would catch up on things that I missed in class or re do it since that I wouldn't have a care thought to think in class. Also, I've been reading my book and writing little notes that I'll be using later on for the Reading Analysis. I'm surprised that I'm reading and note taking important information on my book because I would always read in a rush and answer the questions all at once then taking my time to go more in depth with my work.

The Earth On Turtle's Back

• Myth- is a story that explains something that we don't understand
• Moral- a lesson
• The story used personification, anthropomorphic, and suspense
• The story also contains rising action
• Turtle- new life was begun for the turtle which came from the wife's seeds and later on was destined to be its fate
• Muskrat- is brave and courageousness
• she is small but has mighty courage, at the end she shows hard work/ dedication and earned what she achieved as well

I Ain't Got Time For This

What you do now will later make up your future. Starting off with school that is if you're trying, passing your classes/ tests, doing the work, study, puling an all-nigher that will benefit your grade, etc. I know that if you want something you have to sacrifice your time and work hard to earn it. I want to have a successful life/ career and financially stabled lifestyle. In order to do so you need to put in a lot of effort for school. Most of my free time that I have for after school I use to study and do homework. By the time that I'm finish it's late to do anything else besides sleep. We all know that we need a good amount of hours to sleep. However, with the amount of things that I need to do for school that won't cut it for my hours of sleep. Schools expects us to turn in the work that you're assigned to on the next day without thinking that we have other homework for other classes, practice for sports, jobs, and rest up as well for our health. I know it's a struggle right now but later on in the future it will pay off.

Big Brother's First Time

I'm that type of reader who has to re-read a passage twice in order to comprehend it. As I was reading this, I started to have a hard to to understand which I knew for a fact that I needed to read it again which on the second time I started to understood what it was talking about. Basically, it's about a group of people who are creating the English Language very difficult to comprehend and communicate as well. Without making the English Language harder for others to use than many people wouldn't be able to us it as to communicate with others, read, writing, express ourselves/ emotions, etc. Not having these aspects it would be harder for us to continue our lives in a daily basis by not looking for an interpret or another resource to make up the English Language. 

I Care About Your Understanding

Every time when we succeed in life or accomplish a goal for ourselves its always shut down by the people that we think would be happy for our achievements. Why is that?  However, if its the other way around they laugh towards your failure. The reason why they're like this is because they are jealous of your accomplishments. They wish they were you. They do this from bitterness on seeing a person who is doing really well for not only themselves but for their future as well. Those people who you called "Friends" aren't the definition of friend. a friend is someone who is there for you through the good and bad, who supports you on any aspect that you do in your life, and who is not fake towards your success. If you're not willing to be supportive and happy for your friend due to whatever you're going through in your life. Talk to him/her out it instead of taking that anger and jealousy that you care with you and transform it into something that will not only help you grow but your relationship with other people. Its all about communication within each other and listen to what the other person has to say as well.

The Making Of An Essay

• Montaigne
• Literature was published by the church and government
• Essay in french means to try or attempt
• Capturing your thoughts onto a piece of paper
• Essay- to make ourselves understood
• Purpose: TRANSFORM

There's Informative, Persuasive, and Argumentative Essays. They all bring the stress and fear within ourselves. Essays are overwhelming especially if it's an in class essay which you only have a specific amount of time to work on your essay. No matter how the situation is when writing an essay it will always bring so many mixed up emotions that we all can relate too. We were taught to write an essay using the same lay out (ex: five paragraphs, thesis statement, claim, conclusion, etc.). Having to write what our teachers expect from us without thinking more in- depth. Today I learned that the only thing that matters when writing an essay is making ourselves understood. By understanding your yourself when writing it'll help you with being understood on the writing from spewing all your meaningful connections/ thoughts. Letting your voice be heard in a different way rather then having to write the old fashion way. 

Everything Is A Remix (Notes)

• Remix- was originally applied to music
• to combine two materials to produce something new
• Ex) music, photo, and video
• Everyone can do a remix
• When we say remix- can be the thought of arranging them into creative activity
• Romantics (not romance)- were to help humans what to do or not to do 
• put out from the government and religion
• Light bulb- represents moment of insight
• Expect- work that is nothing alike
• How do we create (there's 3 basic elements)?
• Domain knowledge- learning the language to create your own spin to it by copying
• Transformation- taking existed stuff into variations
• Combination- merging two things that don't go together
• Ex) equations from Einstein
• Implication- original ideas that are considered as property
• Loss Aversion- when we are copying we really don't notice; however, if someone is taking our ideas that's when we get possessive
•  What Dr. Preston added:
• something that could be taught/ building blocks
• Class discussion:
• The reason why a person is talented is because they had put the hours to improve and get better

How I Read

When I read a book I prefer them to be suspenseful, mystery, and romance. The time where I truly made a connection for reading was in eighth grade. I never had the interest to read in my spare time. Util that year, my English teacher opened my love towards reading. As a kid I've always had a hard to learn how to read and write. My teachers would always say that I needed to improve my reading/ writing skills during parent conferences. I knew that I had to work on that as a kid but no one really  helped me on what type of books that would catch my attention. When it came to eighth grade that's when I found myself reading books in my spare time and exploring different types of genres. Now knowing what I like in a book, that is suspense, mystery, and romance it brings me anticipation on wanting to know what would happen next. Having me be on the edge of my sit while reading rather their love will last or if they found the killer or not. 

Getting To Know You

In today's class, we did and played a social activity where we have to guess a person's interests of a list of ten things that a certain person likes/ dislikes, hobbies, talents, etc. which made us get up and move around the class to figure out the correct person on the list. It was an interesting/ fun game because we learned more from the people who we're surrounded by in class. At first we were all confused on why we payed this game but as we finish we realized that the whole purpose of this game was to get to know your peers. 

Train Your rain Like A Memory Champion

Today I learned that there's more ways for you to memorize a certain passage. By reciting, grouping, reading back and forth, in front of a mirror, having it as a background, etc. Each and every one of us has a different method that works for us. We're all different types of learners that use different strategies to reach our academic goals rather it is learning a new lesson, having to pass a class/test and in fact memorization. As long as it works for yourself and it helps your learning that's all it matters then having a method that is not beneficial. 

Communication Strategies Of A Hacker

Well first of all, what is diction, syntax, and tone? Diction and syntax are both arguable. They're always right up front. With tone its the author's attitude toward the audience, the topic, or the characters. To show support on how the author shows tone in their agreement is their choice on the words they used and how they're expressed. The author of 'Conscience Of A Hacker' the mentor used diction, syntax, and tone to convey his message. The way how he treated his words to show how annoyed and irritated he was during the passage was to show his set of tone. He also used repetition as well by having to repeat a couple of phrases like "Damn kids..." and "they are alike," to show how kids can be irritating and annoying. We all know how kids can cause a lot of chaos and sometimes give us a hard time from not letting them do what they want, which we all know that it can be stressful for us older people. 

Hack To School

1. What is this class about?
     This class is about improving your writing, reading, learning and listening skills, communication, being understood, understanding the internet and the economy of our business culture.
2. What is the easiest part about this class?
     The easiest part of this class is having to answer a different prompt each day in our journals. The reason why it's the easiest for me is basically because your writing your point of view/ opinion based on the prompt. Also, being provided by many resources and knowledge to do the work while learning at the same time.
3. What is the hardest part of this class?
      The hardest part of this class is basically myself. Why me if you're asking? Well, it's because I'm the one who is deciding rather or not I'm going to do the work on the day that is assign. If my procrastination is going to take over my state of mind to accomplish the assignment. 
4. What have you learned so far?
     Honestly, I'm lucky to have this class as my AP Lang.because it's a different environment of learning. Not only we talk about the fundamentals of English but about ourselves, school, technology, and the world.
5. What is your big Question?
     Why do we live to wake up to the same routine? Were we made to act half robot and half human?

Conscience Of A Hacker

What makes a hacker, a hacker? How they naturally or develop the levels of  intelligence to hack? A possible reason why hackers like to hack is because they finally found an interest that they can have full control and power. Yes, hacking private information is illegal because you're invading someone's privacy but having to hack due to curiosity shouldn't be against the law. In my opinion, most hackers hack in order to get and find private information to either use as revenge or to explore the web. It could be used in two ways that only the hacker knows on why they are doing it, but mainly its due to having a mind of curiosity. Opening a path of fulfilling curiosity on different types of parts that make up the internet that you may want to know or later on start to dig into.