Mackenzie Greeley's AP Lit Comp Blog

1. Accolade- any award, honor, or laudatory notice I have many accolades from elementary school that I have kept as mementos. 2. Acerbity- harshness or severity, as of a temper or expression Everyday there is an acerbity in my greetings towards most people after I wake up early. 3. Attrition- a reduction in size, numbers, or strength In my choir classes there has been an increasing rate of attrition to each of the beginning choirs. 4. Bromide- a trite saying Throughout the day I hear comments similar to "YOLO" and "TMI", at which time I begin to think we need to get ride of these kind of bromide statements. 5. Chauvinist- a person who believes that one gender is superior to another While the patriarchal society is efficient in many ways there are some chauvinistic patterns displayed in history. 6. Chronic-continuing a long time or reoccurring Many people suffer from chronic pain in America. 7. Expound- to explain or interpret In the past couple...

[PROLOGUE] 1. The unusual part about Shield becoming king is that he used to be an orphan and became king due to the fact that everyone was scared of how much of a fierce warrior he was they just fell under his rule. His funeral was very nice and grand and they respected his last wish of how he was buried through a ship with a lot of treasures to go along. Also I believe Hrothgar was Shield's great grandson. [Heorot Is Attacked] 2. Hrothgar undertook the magnificent work of creating a mead-hall grander then any other ever seen that was to be called the Heorot. Heorot was attacked by Grendel a great monster and in his first attack killed thirty men who were sleeping in the hall. After that his attacks continued for twelve years without stop and the Danes could not do anything about it but live in sadness and cry for those who's lives where taken. [The Hero Comes to Heorot] 1. When Beowulf hears of Hrothgar's problems with Grendel he immediately goes to find a ship...

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Let me know if anything doesn't make sense for the next tests!!! (A post to Michelle Crosby) I am culling over all my options about how to obtain the apogee skill in memorizing the new vocabulary. However I am also trying to mete all of my responsibilities to make my test a success tomorrow. And I wish this comment was in person so you could make a repartee. Which we might have to explain to many people that it is not us bickering! Instead it is just sometimes a polemic to truncate those assumptions. But our conversations cover many topics from the new accouterments we might be showing off to the dogmatic views about cup of noodles after school being a neccesity.  The supervene of our conversations has to follow the lines of the topics and how apropos each is for the day and how they coalesce after the many discussions we have had over the past five years. This is disparate some of the noxious gossip some girls have in their friendships and I am proud of our probity. You are unim...

As things strike me in the text. I am going to type them out. Simple way for notes and please comment if this also struck your interest while reading. Backround reflects both pagan and Christian traditions, because during this time England's culture began to change and missionaries converted the Anglo-Saxons The Wrath of Grendel Christian views in relation to the monsters of Cain (the murderous son of Adam and Eve), all the evils of the world spawn from the exile of Cain's children Why does Grendel continue to travel to the hall each night to kill? Is it based solely on the evil ancestry deep within himself? Was King Hrothgar's throne really protected by God? How would the throne be the only object protected by the power of God? The Coming of Beowulf Healfdane's son = Hrothgar, is this a norm for the culture that the son is known by the father? Higlac is the lord of the Geats and is Beowulf's uncle. "His life lasted many winters..." W...

  From the reading, I started to view opinions in a more sensitive light. That my views are different and should be challenged by others in order for my fallacies be corrected and the "opinion" would instead be a more substantiated preference. But is there a right and wrong opinion? Instead some ideas that are considered opinions are just preferences, and some people cannot make that distinction.   It's the opinions that have no real logic behind these opinions, then no you are not entitled to those rights. But even people who are logical and willing to hear the differences are forgoing their rights, so what is the point of having these so called rights? No person who is having a discussion or heated debate listens to the great point about the actual topic after using the con of "I have the right to my opinion."   For example when Nathan in the novel the Poisonwood Bible , had dinner with Anatole all of th...

1. The major inhibitors for my participation is class are concerning my family, my jobs, and my commitment to the school through various extracurricular activities. Recently a portion of my family moved to Santa Maria and we have taken on the role of supporting them as they become accustomed to the new lifestyle. While my friends in this class are my biggest supporters without them I just wouldn't be able to keep up with all the stress from 7 classes and family demands. While scheduling I am fairly good at, unless a curveball from my family is thrown, as long as I have ample warning I can weave any amount of work into my schedule. 2. In my life I have always learned from my parents and they have always showed me right from wrong and up from down. It maybe a little constricting, but I did grow to be an intelligent young woman through their training. My greatest learning experience was from my dad. When I became a "student", not a daughter or a friend, just a professional ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfTglPDBAaQ&feature=youtu.be Mwhahaha no poem in class for meeeeeee!!!! I love technology!!!

Really we are sacrificing the things we could be doing other than hugging people; for instance going to eat food, walking to a meeting, or even studying for some exams. But is there really a sacrifice or are we making a difference? Do we lose something when we decide that we have something better to do than contribute to a better world. Even if its just hugging someone. School always teaches me something new and always reminds me that even as an adolescent my actions matter. However sometimes the concepts taught in school are very different; and I hope that I can be both the entrepreneurial and the volunteer who gives out hugs without a second thought of my sacrifice.

Why is school so demanding!? If I could I would just leave for about 2 months to volunteer in Africa. This came up because my mom was talking about the trip that some students took earlier this year, and I just thought... Why didn't I go? Well maybe it was because I am out of the loop or that I just wasn't listening close enough. But now I will start to really think about more volunteer programs that will take me somewhere new where I can make a direct impact on someone's life. It may not be a huge difference but if I can help build a wall for a house for a family that maybe has never owned one. I would be really content. Because right now I feel as if I am just lazing around complaining about little nothings. (That makes me made at myself.) As I have learned in AP Economics the idea of scarcity, that time is not to be wasted on nonsense!

Well I left off talking about Austen’s perspectives in Pride and Prejudice ; most of her analyses of human behaviors were developed from her personal experiences. Meaning that the focal points of the book were focused on the complexities of the female mind, which really all men agree that the female mind is a fortress they hope to one day enter. However this book uses all the characters a narrators, which allows the reader some insight into the connections these men and women are making when they interact with one another. Elizabeth in particular has shed a lot of light on the subject of marriage and her views of who should be a suitable companion for herself, however there are complications when she doesn’t look behind Mr. Darcy’s mask. Behind that mask he was the most perfect partner for Elizabeth but because she could not just look inside his head to know his truth thoughts she was lead astray.  Elizabeth’s first encounter with Darcy was not the best, however if she had the abi...