Latin Roots#7

Roots

1. duc(t), duce: to lead
2. fed(er), fid(e): faith; trust
3. fin(e): end; limit
4. flect, flex: to bend

Words

1. aqueduct: a large pipe or other conduit made to bring water from a great distance
2. conductive: tending to lead, help, assist, or result in
3. definitive: completely accurate, reliable, and authoritative; decisive or conclusive
4. fidelity: faithfulness to one's promises or obligations; steadfast faithfulness; technological faithfulness
5. fiduciary: an individual who holds something in trust for another; a trustee
6. finale: a "grand" conclusion, as of a performance; the last scene of a play
7. finite: limited or bordered by time or by any measurement; measurable
8. flexuous: winding in and out; bending and wavering
9. inducement: anything used or given to persuade or motivate; an incentive
10. inflection: a slight change in tone or modulation of the voice, as in a point of emphasis
11. perfidious: characteristic of one who would intentionally betray a faith or trust; treacherous
12. traduce: to speak falsely of; to slander or defame; to disgrace another's good name; to vilify

Sentences

1. We learned about aqueducts in history.
2. The teenager was conductive to the old lady everyday after school.
3. Some people find the internet definitive even though sometimes it isn't.
4. The marriage of the young couple was pure fidelity.
5. Her granddaughter was the old ladies fiduciary.
6. The finale of the play was the best part.
7. After finding out that she was sick she knew that her life was finite.
8. The pattern on the fabric was flexuous.
9. The runners family acted as an inducement by waiting at the finish line.
10. While acting the young actor spoke in an inflection tone to show that she was powerful.
11. The family saw the fiancees true perfidious nature, but the young girl was too in love to reason.
12. The love stricken girl thought her family was traduce towards her fiancee. 

Literary Analysis #3

The Battle Between Generations

In the novel The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan there is eight characters, four mothers and four daughters. All of these character’s stories are about how things were different when they or their mother’s were younger. Each generation handled their problems different and had different ideas about certain things. One difference is that the mother’s couldn't just get a divorce when they no longer loved their husbands. Another difference is that the mother’s were raised to respect their mothers, but some decided to raise their daughters differently and allow them to have their own voice. This is one of the main reasons that the daughters didn't really take their mother’s life lessons and superstitions seriously.
The main difference of the generations is how they handled love. This is also due to the fact that they lived in different countries. Most of the mothers had arranged marriages and were raised to please their husbands. While the daughters married who they wanted and had a different mind set. They felt that they should be treated equal with their husbands. In addition the daughters were allowed to get a divorce if they were unhappy with their husbands. While the mother’s were taught to work things out or suffer through it.
As for raising children all eight of the characters felt the same way. Which is they didn't want to raise they’re children how they were raised. This way of thinking caused quite a conflict. Then again in reality everyone thinks that way. They use the way they were raised as an example of what to do and what not to do. The daughters felt that their mothers were silly and had strange ways of thinking, but sometimes those ways of thinking were smart and useful.
Another difference is the generations ideas of family. The mother’s were raised to always do good to make their family proud. Also that they had couldn't disgrace the family otherwise they would be shunned. This happened to An-Mei Hsu’s mother. She was no longer welcome to the family after she disgraced it which was quite sad. This made the mother’s raise their own daughters to know that they would love them no matter what and they proved that. They were always there when their daughters needed them. Although many of the daughters didn't see it this way and often disliked being around their mothers. They did have a similar idea of family which is that the daughters were to take care of their parents in their old age. Most of the characters did exactly that no matter how much they couldn't stand their mothers.
In conclusion, the different generations do have different ideas and ways of dealing with issues, but in the end they all used the generation before them as an example. They did have some similarities though. Such as raising their children and about the importance of family. In the long run these ways of thinking are what kept the families together.

Leopard Man Questions

1. Tom Leopard is called Leopard Man because he has a full body tattoo of leopard prints and he acts like the animal.
2. The author said he is unimpressed with people who have tattoos and piercings. He feels this way because he believes that such people are desperate for attention from society.
3. Leopard Man is different because he isn't doing it for attention. He clearly proves this by isolating himself from everyone.
4. Leopard Man lives in the Scottish wilderness.
5. Feys said that society fears people who are different.
6. Conformity is the world's most common psychological disorder. Feys argues that we are under constant pressure to surrender our individuality.
7. Leopard man is happy because he doesn't have to live up to any expectations and he doesn't have stress.

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.