Friday, February 28, 2014

Lit Analysis: Macbeth


Note: Sorry this is slightly late, I thought that I had sent it, but it showed up later as only a draft.

1. The book opens upon witches talking about Macbeth.  They meet Macbeth, and they tell him that he will be king of Scotland, and the Thane of Cawdor, and they tell his friend  Banquo that he will father a long line of kings. we learn that Macbeth has done well in battle, and for this, King Duncan made Macbeth the Thane of Cawdor.  After a while of being Thane, Lady Macbeth gets Macbeth to kill King Duncan, and she blames it on the king’s servants.

Thursday, February 27, 2014

Super 5

1) Richard Ayoade - can help with my interest in arts, as he as an exceptional British Comedian, who acts in some of my favorite shows, such as The IT Crowd, and who wrote and directed my favorite movie Submarine.  He was a member of The Footlights, and I would like to contact him in the hopes of getting to know more about Cambridge University.

2) Craig Melchert - a UCLA professor of linguistics and Indo-European studies, whom I have had some correspondence with.  He is able to help me with my studies of Indo-European cultures.

3)Steve Jones - a biology professor at University College London.  I saw an interdisciplinary (evolution in biology and linguistics) lecture by him that fascinated me.  He can definitely help me with my scientific studies.

4)John Heritage - another UCLA professor, but this time, a professor of sociology.  As my experiment deals with sociology, he could be of help.  One of his studies in sociology is the study of how drugs are prescribed, and the psychological effects of drugs, which could help me in my future in pharmacology. He also went to Leeds University, which could help me, as I would like to know more about going to graduate school in England.

5)Daan Frenkel - the chemistry department head at Cambridge University.  He could help me as he is a professor of physical chemistry, which is a field that I intend to study in the near future.  He also has worked at both UCLA and University of Cambridge, which are the two schools that I intend to go to.

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Launch

I still cannot tell people what I am doing to start out my general study of everything that I can study, but I am currently writing the beginning of it.

Monday, February 24, 2014

I, Jury... iJury

The two big things that I got from reading other people's essays is that I really need to make my introductions and conclusions more smooth, as it really makes or breaks an essay.  I also feel that I need to summarize less in my writing.

Sunday, February 23, 2014

Brave New World AP Essay 1


There are two sides to many people in this world: the outside that conforms to the world around them, and the inside that secretly wants to rebel.  When people do not agree with the society or culture around them, human nature often makes it difficult for them to make their concerns known to their peers, allowing this desire to go against the grain to grow inside them.  This inner want to change the system has lead to much literature, and many characters devoted to describing the difficulties of breaking the societal mold, especially in the modern era.  Bernard, the protagonist at the beginning of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is one of these characters who cannot break free of the culture around him that he knows is wrong.  The “tension” created by Bernard’s outward conformity and inward questioning is what makes the beginning of this novel so meaningful.

Thursday, February 20, 2014

Brave New World AP Essay Question

The Question can be found here.

Although I would probably write this question on either Winston of 1984 or Jake of The Sun Also Rises, I would first go about answering the question by making a pre-write in the form of an organized list of the ways Bernard conforms against his better judgement, such as more or less taking part in the decadent love affairs of

Wednesday, February 19, 2014

BOB 1

I intend to bring my findings to class tomorrow, so they will not be represented here, but I was just wondering why I am getting the same amount of page views from the usual suspects when everyone from my class is supposed to be viewing my blog and then rating it... this just seems odd to me.

I also wanted to say that people should look at more blogs than just the first one on the list.  The first blog has way more views than others that are of equal quality that are lower on the list, and I feel that this is unfortunate, as people are just being lazy.

I Am Here, Here I Am... Here Am I

    I feel that I have made moderately good progress this grading period.  Although I have had more troubles with time commitments than usual, I feel I have worked well in the time I have been allotted.  My focus this grading period has generally been to improve my writing, as I am

Thursday, February 13, 2014

Everything is Interdisciplinary

or, Welcome to the Interdisciplinary.
For my project, I intend to conduct a scientific test on the denizens of my school.  This test will cover a variety of disciplines, including classical scientific inquiry, the transportation aspect of civil engineering, sociology, psychology, community dynamics, law in respect to education, and the general learning process of students on my campus.  If my hypothesis proves correct, it may improve on all of the above.

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Have To / Would Like To

Note: Sorry Doctor Preston, but I like my title better

I feel that people do what they want to all ready.  People generally do not like to do school work, and do not use their schooling as their medium to do what they would like to.  If people did not do what they wanted to aside from what they had to do, this world would not really have much music or any other thing of beauty.  If we did simply what we were told, there would be no scientific advances or anything, because we are not told to do that in school.  The Beatles did what they did aside from their school work, and I study culture and classical music, yet I do not have a music history class nor one for ancient culture.  People do what they want already.