Latin Roots #6

Roots

1. corp(or): body
2. cred: to believe; to trust 
3. cur(r): to run; to flow
4. dic(t): to speak or to say

Word List

1. benediction: the innovation of a divine blessing, as at the close of a religious service; a blessing or state of blessedness
2. concourse: a running or flowing together; a broad public walkway or hallway; a crowd or throng
3. concurrent: occurring at the same time; meeting or acting together
4. corporal: related to the physical body
5. corpulent: very stout; fleshy and obese; fat
6. credibility: the quality of being believable or trustworthy
7. credulity: the willingness to believe too easily without proof
8. cursory: done in a superficial or hasty manner
9. dictum: an authoritative saying or maxim
10. incorporate: to form into one body or functioning unit; to combine several different things into a whole
11. incredulous: not believing, skeptical, or doubting
12. indicative: characteristic of or very much like; suggestive

Sentences

1. The family felt great benediction after finding out that their daughter survived the plane crash.
2. The young woman gets claustrophobic when in a concourse. 
3. The mother and daughter found it funny that they made the same dinner for their families concurrently without knowing.
4. The lady was relieved to find out that her symptoms were not corporal, but mental.
5. The little girl went from a corpulent figure to a stunning young woman.
6. My sister has great credibility because she can't tell a lie.
7. I try not to have credulity because I have been known to fall for some crazy stories.
8. The ladies cursory ways was the reason she had no friends.
9. The Miranda Rights are a dictum.
10. The boyfriend tried to incorporate all of his girlfriends likes into one present.
11. The detective gave the suspect an incredulous look because he knew the suspect was lying.
12. The child was indicative to his mother.

Literature Analysis #2

The Road by Cormac McCarthy is about a man and his son's journey to the south during an apocalypse. Along this journey they encounter many troubles such as starvation, illness, and cannibalism. These things give the novel suspense which is what compelled me to keep reading the novel. Just when you think that death is upon them something happens like them finding more supplies or a good place for shelter. The reason that the father is taking his son on this journey is because he knows that in the North they wouldn't be able to survive the weather. Even though it seems as though the father won't survive anywhere. Throughout the story the father coughs blood and the author explains how he is weak. This is the biggest reveal in the end because you want the father to live, but you don't find out until the very end of the novel what becomes of the father and his son.
The main theme of the novel is you can never say for sure that you would do something until the time comes when you have to do it. I believe that it is this because throughout the novel the father contemplates about the idea of having to kill his son. He wonders if he would actually be able to do it even though he knows that it would be to save his son from the cannibals.
My connection to this book is the love that the father has for his son. I can relate to this because I have a really close relationship with my mom and my sister. We always say that it is us against the world and in the novel it really was for the father and son. The father would give his son the little food they had and sometimes take none for himself and that is how my mom is. So this is how I was able to connect to the book.

Greek Drama Questions

1. For dancing choruses of worshipers a goat or bull was won.
2. Fourteen thousand spectators would gather in the open-air theater.
3. The masks helped project the actor's voices.
4. Antigone was suspenseful because the audience knew a lot of things that the characters in the play did not.
5. The Shepard was to leave the infant with its legs pinned together.
6. "What creature goes on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, and three legs in the evening?"
7. Polyneices, Etocles, Antigone, and Ismene
8. After Oedipus is exiled Creon takes over Thebes.
9. Antigone tried to bury the dead body.

Into Antigone

I’m not sure that I would do what Antigone did in this situation. I mean I would love to give my brother what he deserves, but I wouldn’t even think of the idea of burying him myself. I would secretly have something in his honor. Like in the memory of him, but not physically bury him. I’m not sure if that would be considered against the law, but if it was I would do it anyway. Especially if he was my favorite brother I guess. My ceremony in his honor would be me with maybe some candles and I would say a prayer for him. I am not sure if that would be enough considering the gods say that you have to be buried in order to move on to the afterlife. I wouldn’t do anything that would put my life at risk though because I am sure that he wouldn’t want me to die for him. Also, I doubt they would bury me, so I wouldn’t be able to move on to the afterlife either. Basically in an effort to bury my brother I would be killed and spend eternity wondering the earth because I can’t go to the afterlife. This would all be pointless because after finding out that I buried my brother the king would most likely have him unburied. Which is why I would just stick to a little ceremony in his honor all by myself if my sister is even too scared to do that.

Jonathan Safran Foer Webinar Reaction Assignment

1) On October 28,2014 my class and I watched a persuasive video presented by Jonathan Safran Foer. The title of the video was Jonathan Safran Foer Webenar.

• One specific moment that stood out to me was when Foer stated that "76 million Americans get food poisoning each year." That is a crazy amount of people. This is all because of the foods that we consume. Foer stated that the main source of food poisoning is animal agriculture. Animals are not the same as they were years ago. They are being subjected to more these days which make them primarily not safe to eat.
• Another moment that stood out to me was when Foer said that when doing his research he went to factory farmers who make hot dogs and they said that they would never consume a hot dog themselves. They are the only people who know every ingredient that goes into making hot dogs.
•  "99% of American Agriculture is now factory farming." This really stood out to me because Foer further explains that their isn't live stock running around farms like back in the day. Packaging that says free ranged chicken and non hormone beef is all lies. Foer really did his research and put these companies out on front street. I don't understand how this false advertisement is legal.

2) This presentation can relate to my life because I actually tried being a vegetarian. I didn't have any support though. Which made it harder. I considered becoming a vegetarian because I just all of a sudden stopped liking the taste of meat. It really disgusted me. My mom got mad at me though. She said that I was just being picky and that I was going to make it harder for her to cook because I'm Mexican and our food always has meat. This is true which is why I am not a vegetarian although after learning these facts from Foer I think I might consider it again.

Latin Roots #5

Roots and Derivatives

1. cent(i): hundred
2. cid(e): cut, kill
3. clam, claim: cry out, declare
4. cord, cour: heart

Word List

1. bicentennial: a celebration of a two hundredth anniversary; happening once in a period of two hundred years or lasting two hundred years
2. centenarian: a person who has lived to be one hundred years old
3. centurion: a Roman officer commanding one hundred men; related to the military mind, especially as it favors military solutions for handling social problems
4. clamorous: characterized by continuous loud and complaining voices; noisily complaining: insistent
5. concise: covering much in few words: brief and to the point
6. concordance: a condition of harmony or agreement; an alphabetical index indicating reference passages, as from a writer's works
7. cordial: of the heart; warm and friendly; amiable
8. discordant: harsh or inharmonious; clashing
9. genocide: the systematic experimentation of an ethnic group
10. incisive: keenly penetrating, cutting into
11. proclamation: an official statement or announcement that informs or honors
12. reclaim: to claim again; to restore to former importance or usefulness

Sentences

1. The family had a bicentennial for their great-great-great-great grandfather's death.
2. Their grandfather was a centenarian.
3. After serving in the war the man could not shake his centurion.
4. My grandmother is very clamorous which is embarrassing in public.
5. She gave a concise speech that still managed to make the audience tear up.
6. The concordance in the book helped the students get their work done faster.
7. The love letter that the girl received was written in a cordial manner.
8. She spat the discordant words at her enemy like she was no more than gum on her shoe.
9. We learned about the most famous genocide when reading the book The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.
10. The harsh words spoken were incisive to the other girls self esteem.
11. The young man was nervous to announce the proclamation on live television.
12. The king planned to reclaim his respect in his kingdom.

Latin Roots #4

Roots and Derivatives

1. bon, boun: good
2. capit, capt: head chief, leader
3. carn(i): flesh
4. ced(e), ceed, cess: go, yield, surrender

Word List

1. accession: the attainment of a certain rank or dignity; an increase by means of something added; the act of becoming joined
2. bona fide: in good faith; genuine
3. bonanza: a sudden and unexpected source of money or riches; a windfall
4. bounteous: inclined to be generous; plentiful and abundant
5. capitulation: a surrendering, usually upon prearranged terms or conditions; a final giving up
6. carnage: a great slaughter, as in a battle
7. carnivorous: flesh-eating, as an animal
8. incarnate: literally, in the flesh; in bodily form; personified; flesh-colored
9. intercede: to act on another's behalf; to meditate
10. precedent: a previous act or decision taken as a valid model; a having gone before
11. recapitulation: a brief repetition; a summary, as of what has already been said
12. reincarnation: a thing that is reborn, or comes back into being, although perhaps in a different (bodily) form

Sentences

1. After getting promoted the employees accession was considered higher.
2. Her charity work showed her bona fide personality.
3. Winning the lottery caused a bonanza in the young mans life.
4. The young man now had a bounteous amount of money.
5. The capitulation to her marriage showed upon the young girls face.
6. The carnage of the war was too much to see and bare.
7. The man attacked his dinner of ribs like a carnivorous beast.
8. The stunt double in the movie looked like an incarnate of the actress she was portraying.
9. The understudy for the play had to intercede because the lead got very ill.
10. It was hard to live up to the precedent play, but the actors managed.
11. Shakespeare's plays often need a recapitulation to be understood.
12. My mom enjoys watching a show where young kids claim to be the reincarnation of people who have actually lived before.