week 1 post A

Vocab words:
schizoid (31)- denoting or having a personality type characterized by emotional aloofness and solitary habits; mad or crazy.
Ominous (34)- giving the impression that something bad or unpleasant is going to happen; threatening; inauspicious.

figurative language:
1. "Thanks to your plan, we can't spit without being spotted and recognized." (35)- This is figurative language because it is refering to one of the characters plans that resulted in the group getting spotted and now everyone is on the lookout for them so they cant do anything without people finding them.
2. "We'll be like cavemen, trying to weave clothes out of plant fibers." (40).- This is a metephor because it is saying that they will be like cavemen under certain conditions.
3. "The knowledge that she could rise up from the ground anytime like an angel." (44)- This is a metephor because it is saying that she feels like an angel.

Quote:
"We can't last on the run much longer. I say screw the mission. Let them blow up the world. We can find a place to hide out where no one can find us, and we can just. . . live." (36). This is significant to the book because it basically describes the whole story of each book in the series. This is a group of humans that have been genetically engineered to have wings so they can fly. They are constantly on the run and have a mission to save the world. They are getting tired of running (as said in the quote) and want to forget about everything and just live someplace safe.

Emerging theme:
One emerging theme in the book is the constant struggle with the people trying to get rid of the hybrid bird human kids.

my new outside reading book

title: Maximum Ride by James Patterson
year published: may 2007
Book is fiction
Number of pages: 405
This book is chanllenging for me because its longer than most books i read and ill have to read more often for longer periods of time.
I chose the book because i read the book before it in the series and this is the sequal so i have to read it. Also the book before it was very entertaining and intresting so hopefully this one is to.

week 5 post #2

Tampa had drafted some key players and was ready for the next season. They made it all the way to the NFC championship and then lost but they had the best defense anyone has ever seen. They were using a cover 2 defense were the corner backs and safteys would cover woever came into there zones. But ther key to there defence was gor the lineman to control there gaps and pass rush well. After all the years of having the staff together two of the defensive staff decided it was time to move on and one went to the jets and the other went with the rams. Tampa got Simeon Rice through a free agent and he was an allstar player. He didnt play with the intesity and determintation fo a good player but the the coaches changed that after he joined Tampa. They pushed him harder and harder until he played like they wanted him to. Tony Dungy added a new family member through adoption, Jordan, and he had a problem with his nervous system he couldnt feel pain. Jordan could run head first into a wall and not cry or feel the pain at all. They decided to add another through adoption named Jade and she joined the family a day before september 11, 2001. During a practice after the game against the philadelphia eagles Tony got the message that his mom has died from diebetes. He was sad because he had lost his mom but happy because she was in a better place. Tony had gotten the news papaer and saw that there was an article on him getting fired if he didnt win the playoff game. He didnt win the game and then 2 days later was fired by the team owner. Tony took the news just fine. He believed that god had a new place for him to go and had opened a different door. Tony's next job was with the colts as head coach and they werent doing to well.

week 5 post #1

i commented on Greg Weber's blog and Zach Worthy's blog

the sea inside post #3

There are two different camera angles and techniques that stood out the most through the movie. When you were traveling in the car with people they would use close up eye level shots to make u feel like ur sitting next to them and to make you feel like your apart of the conversation and intamite with the characters. Also they used trucking to make you feel like your in the car while the trees are passing by the car window. The second camers technique they used was when Julia left the room to get cigarettes and had a heart attack. When Ramon was screaming for manula to come and help the camera zoomed out and the picture faded into black to make you feel like you are losing something. Also it resembles Julia fading away from life.

the sea inside post #2

The sea inside and the diving bell and the butterfly were both very different but had some similarities. Some similarities were that Bauby and Ramon both were quadrapeligics and they both were stuck in beds with the occational wheel chair adventure. But the biggest similarity was that they both wrote a book about their lives. But there were more differences than similarities. Bauby became a quadrapeligic because of a major stroke but Ramon became one because of diving into shallow water and hitting his head and neck on the bottom of the ocean. They could control different parts of there bodies. Bauby could control his neck some and his left eye lid. Ramon could control his neck and everything above it perfectly. Bauby wanted to live but Ramon wanted to die.

The sea inside post #1

My general reaction to the film was that the film was sad and it made me think should people have the right to die. I personally think that Ramons wanting help for assisted suicide was a reasonable decition for him to make. If he is stuck in a place he doesnt want to be and cant get out he should choose what he needs to do next in this case he chose death. I think the courts decition to give him poison was a good one because then Ramon can do what he wants to do. I think that the friends that decided to help him were true friends. They made him happy by helping him with his dream to die and showed their respect for his judgements.