Reflections on 01/28/14

We talked aboutmaking our future plans and how we will finish the year. The easiest part of this assignment would be what i wanted to do as a career. I want to become a veterinarian. And the hardest question was what steps can i take to move beyond 'what if' and bring my idea/s into reality? That one was kind of hard for me because it was kind of hard for me to think of how i would go about doing this. But hopefully when i speak to dr. preston and we start making plans on the subject. it will be clear to me and i can do my best.

Hafta/Wanna

During highschool you kind of have more margin for error where as after high school, not so much. after high school you will hopefully be doing something with your life and when it comes down to something improtant to you, i would hope that you wouldnt mess around. i would hope that you are focussing on doing something good for your future. like going into a career or college so that you can go into a really good career. In highschool you feel like you can slack a bit but that isnt the case for college and all that. They are kind of similar. though. you will be forming friendships and all that. and hopefully carying on your education.

There is quite a bit of difference between the two though. I would say more difference than similarities. A major difference would be change of scenery. depending where you go and where you live. a major similarity would be that friends will still be your friends as long as you keep in touch.

I think depending on the person they will either stay the same as they are during highschool as out of highschool but they can also change but it wouldn't necesarily be a bad thing. Like if they become more responsible when they get out of highschool. Thats a pretty good positive change.

Me personally i would try to change after highschool but for the better. like changing work habits and study habits and hopefully become very hapy in a new and exciting life of college. To me it sounds really great and fun and will be a nice expirence but to others it might not. I want to go out and try lifes challenges by myself for a while and see how it is and if i can make it.

Vocab: Spring 3

Apostate: a person who renounces a religious or political belief or principle.
In an omish community, if you were to apostate and leave you would be shunned for ever.

Effusive: expressing feelings of gratitude, pleasure, or approval in an unrestrained heartfelt manner.
After the man saved his life, he was very effusive in repsonse.

Impasse: a situation in which no progress is possible, esp. because of a dissagrement; a deadlock.
United states terrorist policy is impasse towards reaching their demands.

Euphoria: a feeling of great happiness or well-being.
When a runner wins a marathon, they get a great feeling of euphoria as they cross that finish line.

Lugubrious: looking or sounding sad and dismal.
He looked pretty lugubrious after the accident.

Bravado: a disposition toward showy defiance or false expressions of courage.
A man shouldn't show a bravado but actually show is courage.

Consensus: general agreement.
The people came to a great consensus on who to pick as a represenative.

Dichotomy: a division or contrast between two things that are or are represented as being opposed or entirely different.
The kids had a dichotomy between the boys and girls.

Constrict: make narrower, esp. by encircling pressure.
The snake constricted the tiny rat.

Gothic: of or relating to the goths or their extinct East Germanic language,. which provides the earliest manuscript of any Germanic language.
Germany's gothic culture existed in 4th-6th centuries AD.

Punctilio: a fine or petty point of conduct or procedure.
Some countrys show other country representatives with punctilio attitudes.

Metamorphosis: the process of transformation from an immature form to an adult form in two or more distinct stages.
Metamorphosis is usally just for insect or amphibians but can almost be connected to humans because some people need to mature and stop immature.

Raconteur: a person who tells anecdotes in a skillful and amusing way.
Its fun listening to the Raconteur story's that are filled with excitement.

Sine Qua Non: an essential element or condition.
If he wanted to go to the party with his parents he would have to agree to their sine qua non.

Quixotic: exceedingly idealistic; unrealistic and impractical
A vast and perhaps quixotic project.

Vendetta: a blood feud in which the family of a murdered person seeks vengeance on the murdere or the muderes family.
Serial murderers family's probably feel all the victims family's vendetta towards them.

Non Sequitur: a conclusion or statement that does not logically follow from the previous argument or statement.
In murder cases jury's do non sequitur's all the time when chosing if they are guilty or not.

Mystique: a fascinating aura of mystery, awe, and power surrounding someone or something.
He was covered in a mystique aura.

Quagmire: a soft boggy area of land that gives way underfoot.
The swamp has a few quagmires in it.

Parlous: full of danger or uncertainty; precarious.
James Bond was a parlous fellow.

I, SENIOR PROJECT/FIRST DRAFT

I am very passionate about animals and would like to relate my class work to animals any way that i can.

Also i can use some of the old skills we learned in the fall, like maybe using a collabrative working group to work on my animal blog some more, or research skills to find interesting things in the animal science field.

 I will just have to try my hardest at doing everything i can and try not to have any regrets.I will also need to think up new ways to include animal science into my work.

Life After...

After highschool i plan to go to college. I plan to go to a community college and then transfer to a university. the one i would like to go to is cal poly pomona because of there vetrinarian study. I would like to become a vetrinarian as a career choice. I don't know which kind. meaning a vet tech or study medicine. its still a mystery for me. This has been my plan for about a year now. I hope everything turns out ok.

VISUAL STORYTELLING

Some of the techniques that they use in movies to show visual story telling is the music, just showing and not having any dialog, and creating a good mood. For instance the movie that we have been watching in class uses the showing and not telling technique in the first few seconds of the movie. he uses a few accourtments for his wheelchair and as he gets dressed. they use music after the american team loses to show a sense of sadness from the players. The movie creates a good mood by showing all of the players in there homes and how they act. they just live a normal life. living day by day just like everyone else. Most of the players faced contretemps and thats why they were place in the wheelchair. when they were trying out for the team only the best were culled out for the team.

PROFILE IN COURAGE

In the "profile", I saw a lot of courage. The men that had a horrible accident and came back to do stuff on there own. That takes a lot of courage. and they enjoy is the bettter part. I liked that they explained the feelings that you get when you get home. That you just feel horrible about what you used to be able to do. All that photos of you doing activities and all that. must be hard for them. I do like that they are able to do all of the stuff without the use of there legs or even there forarms for the matter. It take a lot of courage to bounce back from some of the stuff that they went through and i admire them for that.