Super 5

5 Potential Experts/Role Models to Endorse My Work:

1. Mrs. Dirkes can promote our blog in the Career Center.
2. Social Media will also help promote our blog to a wider audience.
3. My sister is in college and my group can also interview other college students to get different perspectives.
4. To connect my major to our project I want to talk to my family's accountant and a financial adviser to get expert tips on spending and saving money.
5. Other college related blogs can serve as inspiration to our website.

Launch

 My career goal is to major in Business Accounting/Finance to assist others in managing their money.
 For my final masterpiece I plan on working with Micaela Hellman and Rachel Nolan to create a blog that is a guide to college living. The blog is going to be directed at highlighting each of our specific intended majors (Micaela- Business Marketing/Advertising, Rachel- Liberal Studies). Since college is expensive and college students don't have a lot of money our guide to college living will exemplify how to save money with smart shopping and DIYs, how to get a job/internship, how to manage your time (social vs academic), and maintaining and organized life.

I also plan to work with Micaela on talking to experts in different business fields to see their insight on the companies they work for and build our networks.

Brave New World Essay

Prompt:  1995 Writers often highlight the values of a culture or a society by using
characters who are alienated from that culture or society because of gender,
race, class, or creed. Choose a play or novel in which such a character plays a
significant role, and show how that character’s alienation reveals the
surrounding society’s assumptions and moral values. ---

In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley the society is broken into a five part class system. The highest social class in the World State is Alpha. Bernard Marx is an alienated Alpha for not physically matching up with the other Alphas. Huxley uses Bernard Marx's alienation to illustrate the World State's attitude toward unique characters.

Huxley introduces Bernard directly in dialogue between two other characters. "'He's so ugly! said Fanny. ... 'And then so small.' Fanny made a grimace; smallness was so horribly and typically low-caste. ... 'They say somebody made a mistake when he was still in the bottle - thought he was a Gamma and put alcohol into his blood-surrogate. That's why he's so stunted.'" (p. 46) By Huxley introducing a character in a negative light by other characters the reader infers that he is on the outcast of society. The World State's society suggests that to be superior is to be physically greater than the other class levels.

Bernard is not only physically different from the other Alphas but mentally different as well. The social normality in The World State is to have multiple partners and begin sexual activity in childhood. This prevalent idea is one Bernard does not agree to publicly share as Huxley represents Bernard's views when Lenina discusses their plans in a public elevator setting. With Bernard's physical difference, shouting at a lower class Epsilon to get an order obeyed was a task he only had to do which Alphas like Henry Foster and Benito Hoover took for granted.

Bernard's significant presence in Brave New World suggests to the audience the societies moral values. "The mockery made him feel like an outsider; and feeling an outsider he behaved like one, which increased the prejudice against him and intensified the contempt and hostility aroused by his physical defects." (p. 65) Huxley uses Bernard Marx's defects to highlight the World State's ideas of society and the way the society works. Bernard's differences create a sense of humanity in a society filled with manufactured people.

Lit Terms #6

Simile:  a figure of speech comparing two essentially unlike things through the use of a specific word of comparison.
Soliloquy: an extended speech, usually in a drama, delivered by a character alone on stage.
Spiritual: a folk song, usually on a religious theme.
Speaker: a narrator, the one speaking.
Stereotype: cliché; a simplified, standardized conception with a special meaning and appeal for members of a group; a formula story.
Stream of Consciousness: the style of writing that attempts to imitate the natural flow of a character’s thoughts, feelings, reflections, memories, and mental images, as the character experiences them.
Structure: the planned framework of a literary selection; its apparent organization.
Style:  the manner of putting thoughts into words; a characteristic way of writing or speaking
Subordination: the couching of less important ideas in less important  structures of language.
Surrealism: a style in literature and painting that stresses the subconscious or the non-rational aspects of man’s existence characterized by the juxtaposition of the
bizarre and the banal.
Suspension of Disbelief: suspend not believing in order to enjoy it.
Symbol: something which stands for something else, yet has a meaning of its own.
Synesthesia: the use of one sense to convey the experience of another sense.
Synecdoche: another form of name changing, in which a part stands for the whole.
Syntax: the arrangement and grammatical relations of words in a sentence.  Theme:  main idea of the story; its message(s).
Thesis: a proposition for consideration, especially one to be discussed and proved or disproved; the main idea.
Tone: the devices used to create the mood and atmosphere of a literary work; the author’s perceived point of view
Tongue in Cheek: a type of humor in which the speaker feigns seriousness; a.k.a.
“dry” or “dead pan”
Tragedy: in literature: any composition with a somber theme carried to a disastrous conclusion; a fatal event; protagonist usually is heroic but tragically (fatally) flawed
Understatement: opposite of hyperbole; saying less than you mean for emphasis
Vernacular: everyday speech
Voice:  The textual features, such as diction and sentence structures, that convey a writer’s or speaker’s persona
Zeitgeist: the feeling of a particular era in history

Welcome to the Interdisciplanarity

Rachel and I want to recreate our DIY blog.
How it connects to everything:

• Creativity
• Branding
• Communications
• Networking Connections
• (List to be Continued . . .)

Hafta/ Wanna

My high school life will be different from my life after high school. My entire environment is going to change and with that I will evolve. After graduation I am not going to magically change overnight but overtime I think I will think different and therefore react different than I do now. The change I am predicting in my life following high school is not a significant difference. How I live my life will be different but my persona will relatively stay the same since it has been this way up until this point in my life. Balancing the things you want to do and the things you have to do is what a lot of people struggle with especially when entering college and not having your parents breathing down your neck telling you what to do. Finding the balance is knowing and making a conscious effort to complete the harder tasks first and then relax a bit. I expect myself to slack off a bit at times but I know I will always complete my work to the best of my ability. I also expect myself to take time for my family, friends, and self to maintain a healthy balance of "work and play". The world around me is constantly changing so as far as my environment I expect it to evolve but at a slow rate so I can adapt to the change.

Lit Terms #5

Parallelism: the principle in sentence structure that states elements of equal function should have equal form.
Parody:  an imitation of mimicking of a composition or of the style of a well-known artist.
Pathos:  the ability in literature to call forth feelings of pity, compassion, and/or sadness.
Pedantry: a display of learning for its own sake.
Personification: a figure of speech attributing human qualities to inanimate objects or  abstract ideas.
Plot: a plan or scheme to accomplish a purpose.
Poignant:  eliciting sorrow or sentiment.
Point of View: the attitude unifying any oral or written argumentation; in description, the physical point from which the observer views what he is describing.
Postmodernism: literature characterized by experimentation, irony, nontraditional forms, multiple meanings, playfulness and a blurred boundary between real and imaginary.
Prose:  the ordinary form of spoken and written language; language that does not have a regular rhyme pattern.
Protagonist: the central character in a work of fiction; opposes antagonist.
Pun:  play on words; the humorous use of a word emphasizing different meanings or applications.
Purpose: the intended result wished by an author.
Realism:  writing about the ordinary aspects of life in a straightforward manner to reflect life as it actually is.
Refrain:  a phrase or verse recurring at intervals in a poem or song; chorus.
Requiem:  any chant, dirge, hymn, or musical service for the dead.
Resolution: point in a literary work at which the chief dramatic complication is worked out; denouement.
Restatement: idea repeated for emphasis.
Rhetoric: use of language, both written and verbal in order to persuade.
Rhetorical Question: question suggesting its own answer or not requiring an answer; used in argument or persuasion.
Rising Action: plot build up, caused by conflict and complications, advancement towards climax.
Romanticism:  movement in western culture beginning in the eighteenth and peaking in the nineteenth century as a revolt against Classicism; imagination was valued over reason and fact
Satire:  ridicules or condemns the weakness and wrong doings of individuals, groups, institutions, or humanity in general.
Scansion: the analysis of verse in terms of meter.
Setting: the time and place in which events in a short story, novel, play, or narrative poem occur.