VOCAB SPRING #2

accoutrements: personal clothing or accessories
-My aunt has the most accoutrements of anyone else I know, her outfits are never boring.
apogee: the highest or most distant point
bicker: to engage in peevish argument
coalesce: to grow or come together into one
contretemps: an embarrassing occurrence
convolution: a coiled or rolled up condition
cull: to select or choose
disparate: essentially different
dogmatic: pertaining to
licentious: going beyond proper limits
mete: to distribute my measure
noxious: harmful to health or physical well-being
polemic: a controversial argument
populous: heavily populated; crowded
probity: honesty
repartee: a quick and witty reply

VOCAB #1 PERFORMANCE REVIEW

I did well on the vocal quiz but I realized that I need to stop focusing only on the definition on the word and think more about how and when the word is used. Defining the words is always the easy part for me because that's just memorization but using and putting the words into sentences takes a little thinking and really proves understanding of the word.

VOCAB SPRING #1

adumbrate: to report in an outline 
apotheosis : highest point of a story, the climax

ascetic: self disciplined when comes to indulging
bauble: small trinkets or decorations
beguile: to charm in a deceiving manner 
burgeon: to grow rapidly
complement: to bring to completion or perfection
contumacious: stubborn
curmudgeon: badly tempered person
didactic: in a teaching manner
- I was sure to adumbrate all of the information into very organized notes during the lecture.
-Once I reached the apotheosis of the story I could not put the book down.

-When my mom goes on a diet, she remains completely ascetic, never giving into temptations.
-My room is full of baubles, I collect little knick knacks.
-My sister is notorious for beguiling to get her way.
The flowers in my grandma's garden burgeoned.
-The scarf was the perfect complement to the rest of my outfit.
-You are so contumacious, you can never admit when you're wrong.
-Nobody wants to be around a curmudgeon who is always grumpy.
-My sister is very didactic when helping me with my math homework.

HACKING MY EDUCATION

Whenever we discuss hacking this course with our personal interests and taking our education into our own hands I become so overwhelmed. Some have such clear ideas about what they want to do and where they want to go and what they can do to get there and I still haven't figured all of that out yet. There's tons that I want to do and so much that catches my interest but I'm not sure that I've found my passion yet. I get so anxious because I'd like more than anything to have this all figured out but that's not the case. My plan is to really think hard about what I can do in this particular course that is going to help me in the long run, and maybe even help me put an end to all of my doubt.

THE CHOICE

The choice thats being referred to in the title is whether the little girl is going to take her medicine, or the "poison" on her own or if her parents are going to have to force her to take it.  Although it is a real choice there is no alternative. No matter what the little girl chooses she is going to have to take the medicine. The word "poison" is used when talking about the medicine because that is exactly what it is. It's a poison taken to kill the cells, not just the bad ones but all of the cells in order to eliminate the ones that may be dangerous. The little girl wants to play with the toys intended for older children because she knows that with her sickness she may not live to be that old so she argues that since she might not have the chance she wants to play with that toy while she can. I do agree with her because knowing that your life possibly may be cut short i would want to get the absolute most out of it just as she does. If playing with a toy intended for a child a few years older makes her happy then I don't see even the slightest problem with that. If there was a possibility that I might not live past the age of 30 there would be so many things that I would feel pressured to do so before then, so many actually that its hard to just pick one. I would focus mostly on traveling and seeing parts of the world other than where I've grown up. It would be important for me to get out of here and go to all the places that I want to go to and see before I die. Forcing the uncomfortableness of the medication and horrible taste on their daughter was really their only choice. A few moments of a bad taste is worth an attempt to add time to their daughters life. Suffering is unfortunately most definitely a part of life and love. Everyone will suffer from their own troubles and have to watch those they love most suffer as well. Sometimes there won't be anything you can do which will make the situation even more difficult to get through but it's just a part of life.

PAPER CUT

The process of writing the paper in sections and taking over a week to really spend a lot of time on each part was something I had never tried before. I usually just bust out an essay in one sitting. This particular research paper was a little different than most I have been assigned because of the length requirement. I found it much easier to meet that requirement by cutting up the paper into sections  because it made me really focus on each section and how it blends with the one before it. From my first draft of this assignment I feel like the idea behind my paper improved and became much more clear and easy to follow. The hardest thing for me was trying to get all the pieces to flow and mesh as one paper but the steps we took made it a lot easier.

I CAN READ!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qCs8wlNgiM