Sunday, January 31, 2010
Blog Post #6 (Shay) Mrs. Copeland Needs to see this.
I was absent, so i can't answer this blogpost. Sorry, it was when i had to leave on thursday. And then friday we didn't read.
Blog Post #5 (Best Friends Forever)
Question: Why do you think New Pretty Town advocates bungee jumping?
Answer: I think that they take it as a symbol of how they were almost as ugly as can be, then they were pulled back from being ugly, and were turned beautiful.
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Years before the discovery of the land diving natives on Pentecost Island, a British mathematician named Robert Hooke was discovering the physics of bungee jumping. He began working as an assistant to the famous scientist Robert Boyle in 1653. However, it wasn’t until 1660 that he formulated and wrote down Hooke’s Law of Elasticity. In laymen’s terms, Hooke’s law basically tells us how much tension a spring can endure, and the maximum length it will reach. Hooke’s law can be used on any material that is considered linear-elastic, or stretching lengthwise. Oddly enough, rubber is usually considered non-linear, because variations of stress and temperature can have a significant impact on the elasticity of the rubber.
http://www.readarea.com/physics-of-bungee-jumping/
Answer: I think that they take it as a symbol of how they were almost as ugly as can be, then they were pulled back from being ugly, and were turned beautiful.
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Years before the discovery of the land diving natives on Pentecost Island, a British mathematician named Robert Hooke was discovering the physics of bungee jumping. He began working as an assistant to the famous scientist Robert Boyle in 1653. However, it wasn’t until 1660 that he formulated and wrote down Hooke’s Law of Elasticity. In laymen’s terms, Hooke’s law basically tells us how much tension a spring can endure, and the maximum length it will reach. Hooke’s law can be used on any material that is considered linear-elastic, or stretching lengthwise. Oddly enough, rubber is usually considered non-linear, because variations of stress and temperature can have a significant impact on the elasticity of the rubber.
http://www.readarea.com/physics-of-bungee-jumping/
Blog Post #4 (Best Friends Forever)
Tally: Likes Peris, and wants to see him again because he hasn't been communicating with her. Shes out going and wants this friendship.
Peris: Obviously is to caught up in having to much fun being Pretty. He is a loser because he'd rather have looks then a friend.
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I think that this friendship isn't really a friendship at all. I think that its a former friend thats trying to fight for her old friend to come back to her. This is not a true friendship because in a friendship, you need more than one person.
Peris: Obviously is to caught up in having to much fun being Pretty. He is a loser because he'd rather have looks then a friend.
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I think that this friendship isn't really a friendship at all. I think that its a former friend thats trying to fight for her old friend to come back to her. This is not a true friendship because in a friendship, you need more than one person.
Blog Post #3 (New Pretty Town)
Question: Find and quote one oxymoron from the chapter or one example of irony.
Answer: I find that the toothbrush pill is an example of irony due to the fact that you have to swollow it.
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Question: Why do you think that Tally chose to wear a mask to the party that was deemed "white tie"?
Answer: She didn't want the "pretties" to know that she was ugly.
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Masks have been worn in nearly all cultures, for various reasons, since the Stone Age. Masks have been worn as a form of disguise, by an actor in a performance, as part of a religious ceremony, as part of membership in a secret society, as punishment for a criminal or in celebration of a holiday.
The comedy and tragedy masks have come to represent theater. These masks were first developed in ancient Greece and had both an entertainment and religious function. A similar tradition is that of the masked fool; a masked fool of some sort is found throughout many cultures and continents. The masked fool's purpose in theater was to keep order. The fool kept children from being unruly and distracted the audience from the dressing room or scene changes. In society, the fool questioned the status quo without the repercussions others might have faced.
http://www.ehow.com/about_5369538_brief-history-masks.html
Answer: I find that the toothbrush pill is an example of irony due to the fact that you have to swollow it.
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Question: Why do you think that Tally chose to wear a mask to the party that was deemed "white tie"?
Answer: She didn't want the "pretties" to know that she was ugly.
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Masks have been worn in nearly all cultures, for various reasons, since the Stone Age. Masks have been worn as a form of disguise, by an actor in a performance, as part of a religious ceremony, as part of membership in a secret society, as punishment for a criminal or in celebration of a holiday.
The comedy and tragedy masks have come to represent theater. These masks were first developed in ancient Greece and had both an entertainment and religious function. A similar tradition is that of the masked fool; a masked fool of some sort is found throughout many cultures and continents. The masked fool's purpose in theater was to keep order. The fool kept children from being unruly and distracted the audience from the dressing room or scene changes. In society, the fool questioned the status quo without the repercussions others might have faced.
http://www.ehow.com/about_5369538_brief-history-masks.html
Blog Post #2 (New Pretty Town)
Question: Have you ever had a friend like Peris who abandoned your friendship after moving? Explain.
Answer: It was in fith grade when I met one of my best friends. We would always hang out in class when we had "Dawg Time" at Ellisor. Then, 6th grade rolled around and we saw less of each other, but we still stayed connected. Then, his parents decided to move to Conroe. We would talk maybe four times a week, then three, then two, untill it was maybe once a month. After a while, we just stoped communicating. I never lost his number, but, I've also never just picked up the phone and called. So, maybe it wasn't just him that abandoned the friendship.
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1. Interface ring: A card that makes you visible to the technological world.
2. Toothbrush pill: A nasty little pill you take that brushes your teeth.
3. Cacaphony: A loud, obnoxious noise.
Answer: It was in fith grade when I met one of my best friends. We would always hang out in class when we had "Dawg Time" at Ellisor. Then, 6th grade rolled around and we saw less of each other, but we still stayed connected. Then, his parents decided to move to Conroe. We would talk maybe four times a week, then three, then two, untill it was maybe once a month. After a while, we just stoped communicating. I never lost his number, but, I've also never just picked up the phone and called. So, maybe it wasn't just him that abandoned the friendship.
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1. Interface ring: A card that makes you visible to the technological world.
2. Toothbrush pill: A nasty little pill you take that brushes your teeth.
3. Cacaphony: A loud, obnoxious noise.
Blog Post #1 (Before Reading)
Question: How do you define beauty? What would the world be like if everyone was "beautiful"?
Answer to #1: I define beauty as a gift that we all have. Meaning, that everyone is beautiful in their own way. But you can be beautiful and not know it.
Answer to #2: It wouldn't be any different, due to the fact that everyone is already beautiful. You just have to take a good long look at yourselves and realize that you're beautiful.
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I chose this picture for beauty because it resembles life, and all life is beautiful to me.
I chose this picture for what I find ugly because death is so horribly ugly and depressing, I just had to use it.
Answer to #1: I define beauty as a gift that we all have. Meaning, that everyone is beautiful in their own way. But you can be beautiful and not know it.
Answer to #2: It wouldn't be any different, due to the fact that everyone is already beautiful. You just have to take a good long look at yourselves and realize that you're beautiful.
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I chose this picture for beauty because it resembles life, and all life is beautiful to me.
I chose this picture for what I find ugly because death is so horribly ugly and depressing, I just had to use it.Thursday, January 28, 2010
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