End of the year Reflection

This years AP Lang class has helped me grow as a student giving me a understanding of how my later education years may go. This course has prepared me for school by teaching me there's nothing wrong with having different thoughts on thing mostly because it's  a very thought compressed class that helps really regulate how you stand on certain subjects. This course has prepared me for life by having group sessions such as the Socratic Seminars, helping students such as myself having an opening to really say how I feel about specific things. 

1. The Rhetorical essay was most difficult for me to write.

2. The Argumentative essay I found was the easiest. What made it was  easy was the fact that it's capturing your whole thought process and how you feel about something but also recognizing the opposing view as well

3. The book I enjoyed and was very fascinating to me was In Cold Blood. In Cold Blood interested me the most more because of it's compelling story line as in the characters and explanation behind the actions they took. 

4. My least favorite was The Great Gatsby

5. This class was my favorite. And your a GREAT teacher! 

Americas Fascination With the Dark Side

Unknown supernatural theories fascinates almost every American because of its captivating mysteries. Numerous genres of American literature has an aspect of darkness.

In Paula Cappa’s The Dazzling Darkness, what starts out as a simple ghost story develops into a many-layered imaginative tale of the supernatural, science, religion, and love. The story is set in Concord, Massachusetts, an area rich in the transcendentalist philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Antonia and Adam, living near Old Willow Cemetery, are torn apart when their 5 year old son Henry slips away from his sister’s grasp and disappears on his way home from school. The panicked parents suspect Elias Hatch, the secretive cemetery keeper, who happens to be a devotee of Emerson’s philosophy. Restless cemetery residents begin to make appearances, even to Henry’s sister.

 

 

 

Another example is the character Harry Potter, either represented by books or movies, It is written and packaged to look like fantasy when, in truth, it is a carefully written true description of the training and work of an initiate in an occult order.In every instance, everything harry does is an extension of his own beliefs. His foundation is in magic through will. The concept that magic is an extension of will is a foundational occult truth.

Everything that Harry learns is immediately applied to his life and practiced over and over. Harry learns that everything he thinks, says or does is an act of magic. This concept in magic is written out through the exercises that he does while at Hogwarts School for Wizardry and Witchcraft. The fact is that everything we think, do and say is an extension of our belief system.

 

 

Unknown supernatural theories fascinates almost every American because of its captivating mysteries.

 

 

 

 

 

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Blog #1

Olivia Pope leads a specialized team which were known as "The Fixers". Olivia is an anti-hero because of her connections to handling the upmost secretive tasks and misconduct within the White House, and her personal life. Olivia gets herself caught up in a situation with her somewhat misleading the President of the United States, while engaging in another man. Luck and watching your every move is the equivalence to being careful is what Olivia Pope and Ichabod Crane, the anti-hero from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving, have in common.

 

Ichabod Crane fell deeply in love with Katrina Van Tassel, a young lady who is fortunate enough to come from money. Identically Olivia Pope fell in love with the President of the United States who's great affection is shown in the picture below.  

 

 

Being the woman everyone comes to, to "Fix" his or her problems comes with a high expectation of not only getting the job done but also pleasing certain authorities. Olivia falling for the President shows or gives stimulating questions as to how she wants to get the job done or is she just in it for its incredible connections which makes her want to love?

 

Olivia Pope and Ichabod Crane were both attracted to very fortunate lovers. Not making it seem as if that was all they were after. Being sneaky but efficient were characteristics the both Olivia and Ichabod shared. Ichabod was only after  Katrina's money, well her dads money. Olivia shared personal secrets in depth, and gave her trust and loyalty to the President, but always made her actions clear.

 

The "Fixers" mentality wise is another similarity to Ichabod Crane shares with Olivia Pope. Being all about their work but open to love, sort of being self-centered symbolizes why they are anti-heroes.

 

  Olivia Pope and Ichabod Crane are not your typical anti-heroes. They don't give the expected moral codes as a regular hero would, but along with that they provide key attributes as to being trust worthy and letting people know their dependable no matter what. Olivia Pope gives excellent help to fixing peoples problems and Ichabod Crane is an honorable teacher. These characters are not traditional heroes but are not evil either, which considers them to be anti-heroes.