Unphotographable Moment

It was a cool night; they wrapped their clothes around themselves as they sat on the bench overlooking the park. The sounds of cars merging onto the freeway were present, but neither took notice. For a hours they just sat there quietly remembering all of the fun and all of the other things they had shared together. Then She said "Its time I have to go." So they both walked quietly out of the park and quietly out of each others' lives forever.

vocab

abase - verb cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of

abdicate - verb give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations
They abdicated their jobs today
abomination - noun an action that is vicious or vile; an action that arouses disgust or abhorrence; a person who is loathsome or disgusting; hate coupled with disgust
That was an abomination
brusque - adj. marked by rude or peremptory shortness
my dog is brusque
saboteur - noun someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks; a member of a clandestine subversive organization who tries to help a potential invader
The person was a saboteur 
debauchery - noun a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity
He missed out on the panty raid debauchery 
proliferate - verb cause to grow or increase rapidly; grow rapidly
America has proliferated in the last 100 years
anachronism - noun an artifact that belongs to another time; a person who seems to be displaced in time; who belongs to another age; something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred
This bowl is an anachronism
nomenclature - noun a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline
the nomenclature of chemical compounds
expurgate - verb edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate
Many top secret files are expurgated
bellicose - adj. having or showing a ready disposition to fight
He took a bellicose stance
gauche - adj. lacking social polish
My gauche brother is annoying especially in public
rapacious - adj. excessively greedy and grasping; devouring or craving food in great quantities; living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
The world is full of rapacious people
paradox - noun (logic) a statement that contradicts itself
This sentence is a paradox
conundrum - noun a difficult problem
When I'm tied everything is a conundum
anomaly - noun (astronomy) position of a planet as defined by its angular distance from its perihelion (as observed from the sun); a person who is unusual; deviation from the normal or common order or form or rule
What a strange anomaly
ephemeral - adj. lasting a very short time; noun anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form
I could make so man jokes using this word in ephemerally
rancorous - adj. showing deep-seated resentment
After the rancor was killed in Star Wars its owners became rancorous
churlish - adj. having a bad disposition; surly; rude and boorish
My sister is always so churlish
precipitous - adj. characterized by precipices; extremely steep;done with very great haste and without due deliberation
The Ap classes were very precipitous with their homework over this weekend

THE POINT OF CANTERBURY TALES IS

To break the rules of standard writing in the culture of which it was produced. Chaucer does two things that makes this a good argument. One being his use of middle English redefining literature and two the way he coalesced all of the characters that would never interact with any of the others into one story just because he could.

Green Eggs and Hamlet

a) I know hamlet is the dude that said "to be or not to be" that's about it.
b) Shakespeare was a playwright in England and is probably the most well known author of all time.
c) Students frown when they hear Shakespeare because young students don't care for Shakespearean English in a play. The stories aren't bad, but through the medium they're presented in makes students automatically uninterested.
d)To be honest I don't know, but I remember Dr. Preston talking about how the course is going to be turned into a game. Maybe incorporate that somehow.

CHARACTER STUDY 1

"Wow man," I said to my new roommate, "Time really flies huh?" The guy just kinda looked at me strangely and grunted for his reply. Time really does fly though; last year I was just starting my senior year and already over the it, but now I am at college ready to start my my new life. Sure I changed in the last year in different ways. I'm a little taller, hair's a little shorter and blonder, and a little tanner. Aside from appearance I also changed I'm a little more outspoken, still a little too confident, but definitely harder-working. The last year was senior year. The best year of highschool. I definitely had fun taking advantage of all the perks, but it was the first year i actually applied myself to doing well in school and going for the grade and the knowledge not just the latter. The one thing I really learned though was that everything is always changing especially people and I'm no exception. Well that's about all the time I have to reflect. I'm going to go catch the last hour of my.... late night study group meeting.

My Dashboard

I didn't really change anything about the Netvibes aside from the weather. I have a live feed of Dr. Preston's blog. I pretty much left all of the standard widgets.

Phonar14 notes

• ·         Think differently
• ·         Photograph vs. image
• ·         Photograph is more experience rather than evidence
• ·         Mode of delivery, shaped the perception of the mode of information
• ·         To change the world you have to describe it differently
• ·         Artisan, connected, trusted.
• ·         Photography has the power to change the world
• ·         Hubs