IM prologue

In this photo, I see an African American man, in the basement of somewhere. He is sitting in a chair, and above him there are hundreds of lights. He is in a room that is kind of messy but its his living space. There are so many things hanging everywhere, on the ceiling, and in random places. This tells me that Jack the main character of Invisible man lives here. And this was his hole that he lives in. Because of all the stuff that is in the room it seems that he is cozy and he enjoy living there. It is a lot different from what I expected. It tells me that he enjoys being by himself in this place and even though you can see any facial expressions he looks like he is satisfied.

Blog Post #3

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Veterans day

This is an interview about how someone who served the country just found out that his grandfather also served. She found out from her fathers relatives a lot of facts, and learned about his personality and other things. Joseph W. Rounseville , was involved in the Tet Offensive in 1968 after enlisting in the Army at the age of 17. Unfortunately, he gave the ultimate sacrifice and was killed in action.

Questions I have are how do people find out about their history from a long time ago? Are there veterans that arent accounted for that people don't know are in their family?

Joseph W Rounseville, was in a leadership position and had a great influence on history.

IRP Blog Post 1

Quotable: Finally a Foolproof Plan to Stop Vick

This article seems to be about ways to stop Vick from being a successful player. If he plays the whole game, then there less of a chance of him being successful the whole game. The way he plays makes him prone to injury, and that is a concern. Some ways to prevent him from being injured is to throw away the ball, go out of bounds, and go down before taking a hit.

Questions that I have about this article are what is the style of play that makes Vick so prone to injury? Why do people want him to be unsuccessful?

Vick hasn't been injured yet, and the people that know him best, and the best ways to prevent that are the people who formarlly coached him.

IM Introduction, Ellison Bio, and UbD Post

Where IM started and how it became a 581 page novel

economics, geography,sociology that influenced Ellisons writing.

One day Ralph Ellison just wrote down the words " I am an invisible man." down on paper. Eventually that sentence transformed into a novel within seven years. Ralph Ellison wanted the novel to be a work of art he wanted to reveal the truths about the African American experience without making it seem like the average novel on that topic. He wanted to show what it was like being black and American, and describe the barriers that were put up because of race, religion, the color of your skin. Another factor that could have influenced Ellisons writing could have been his father who wanted to be a real American, and then wanted that for his son. Ralph Ellison growing up in Alabama and going to the Tuskegee Institute an all black college, deffinitly had an affect on what he wrote about. He wrote about being thrown out of an all black college, which can lead into which community he was accepted into, being an African american but potentially not being accepted by the black community.

Theme 2 Reflection

This theme I did not do as well as I had hoped to, but i realize that the grade I received is close to the grade I deserved. I didn't have a lot of detail and content in this theme which could have been the major factor in my grade. What I did well was coming up with a character and personality to go along with the character.

Some opportunity areas for my writing are still adding more content and being more indepth in reviewing the theme before turning it in. Also not being repetitive and having more facts related to the story could have made the paper better.

What I can improve on for next time would be to make more connections to the story and to not be light on including facts and meaningful content.

Theme 1 Reflection

1. On theme number 1 I feel like I did really well with this theme, and I enjoyed writing it and reading the finished product. My first draft of my college essay received the grade that it deserved, and I feel as though i made substantial changes that earned me the second grade. I worked hard to make my college essay better and the original essay and the final draft showed improvement. What I did well was taking the prompt and answering it in a creative way. I told a story about myself, and even though I had to come up with the topic that I really wanted to talk about, once I knew what I was writing about the content came fairly easily.

2. Some opportunity areas in my writing is through the content. I have an idea but putting it on paper is not always the easiest part. Other opportunity areas is also with being indepth in my content and not repeating ideas, because that can de value what I am saying.

3. What I can improve for next time is to do more drafts originally rather then rushing to make the paper perfect. Putting more detail and less repetition can also improve my writing.

the Great Gatsby Final Project

1.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ScaZyNmZJo

2. Analyzing the Great Gatsby shows that living the “good life” speaks to the idea that greed is dangerous, exterior perceptions are deceiving, and love can be destructive.

3. A brief overview of your project: what were you trying to show? How?

We are trying to show that Myrtle, Daisy, Tom, and Gatsby all show aspects of their good life. We show that greed, perception and love are big factors in living the good life. Perception is shown mostly through the characters Gatsby and Jordan, Love is shown through again Gatsby and Daisy and other main characters. Greed is shown through Tom, Daisy and Gatsby as they try to obtain wealth and love.

4. I used imovie for my project and I really enjoy it. I would use it again because it is user friendly, but you can do alot with it. Each time you make an imovie you can add different elements just like any web 2.0 tool. The only downside is that only one person would be able to work on the imovie at a time.

5. What went well was coming up with the content for the project, what could be changed for next time was being more organized in terms of what was going to be added into the project.