Semester Reflection Part 1

I am really proud of my American Icon project because it was actually good. I had a hard time choosing my American Icon and when I thought of one I would keep changing it. I finally decided that my parents were my American Icons. I was proud that I choose my parents because not that much people choose their parents and I also actually knew my icons.
The process of choosing my icon was the hardest part because I didn’t really know who to choose. Once I chose my icons then I had to write why they were my icons. I knew why my parents were my icons but I didn’t really know how I could get it down on paper. When I finally wrote why my parents were my icons I felt that I used the best example possible which was when they encourage me to never give up. The last step in the process was taking a picture that would depict two people in one photo. The way that I choose to take my picture I was in my dads cap and gown and I was looking towards to the future just like my mom is always telling me to do.

Im most proud of my blogs. Im most proud of my blog because at first I thought that I wouldn’t be able to keep up with them. The blog that I am most proud of are my honors blog because I get to tell people about the books I read and what they are about and what I thought about them.

The process of doing the blogs is to follow the directions of the assigned blogs on Randy’s blog. To do the honors blog you have to read a book and then complete an assigned honors blog by Randy based on the book. Usually for an honors blog you have to find the theme and choose three literary terms that connect with the theme of the book. So far I have completed blogs for Invisible Man, and War of the Worlds.

Check out my War of the Worlds and Invisible Man honors blog by looking in the previous posts

Blog #24

The three literary techniques that I found in Neptune’s Navy: Paul Watson’s wild crusade to save the oceans that I might want to use in my paper is context, point-of-view, and theme.

Context is a literary technique that uses social/historical background, time and place surrounding a given situations. Raffi Khatchadourian uses this in page 1 paragraph 3. “There are a number of rules belonging to civilization that outrage his sense of morality, among them the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, which asserts that sovereign states alone are the ocean’s enforcers.” Raffi uses it to explain the rules of slaughtering whales and when they were enforced. Raffi uses this technique through out the paper and I think it makes his points stronger. I want to use this in my reviews for the beaches because I want to give my reader some background info on the beach so they know more about that specific beach.

The next technique that I found was point of view. The article is in third person. I think that in my review I would use this but I would use first person as if I was actually talking to the person reading the beach review and saying this is what I think about the beach.

The third technique that I found was theme. The theme that I found in Raffi’s was
“They belonged to the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, a vigilante organization founded by Paul Watson, thirty years ago, to protect the world’s marine life from the destructive habits and the voracious appetites of humankind.” In paragraph 1. In my beach review the theme will be beaches, of course.

Context, Literary Devices." Mr. Braiman's English Online. 5 Dec. 2008 .

Point of View, Literary Devices." Mr. Braiman's English Online. 5 Dec. 2008 .

Theme , Literary Devices." Mr. Braiman's English Online. 5 Dec. 2008 .

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I think that Arana is right when she says, "Isn't it time for the language to move on?” When Arana says this I see it as her saying that its time for us to stop identifying with one race like Obama he isn’t only African American he’s also ½ Caucasian. I agree that the language should move because we shouldn't base our decision or opinions based on race. In my opinion I think that most people voted for Obama because he was different he wasn't the typical president and I think most races felt that they could connect with him since he's African American and Caucasian, or how Arana describes him as biracial and bicultural. I didn't really know who I was for, one day I'd be for Obama then I would change my mind back and forth; I just found it kind of ignorant how most based their choice on race; it should be more than that race is like how Arana explains it, “an unreliable marker, a deceptive form of packaging”. Most look at Obama as our first black president; I look at him as our first half Caucasian and half African American president so that's why I agree with Arana.