Super 5

CEO of VTC: Jason Telander

From my knowledge, VTC is a program that helps teach basic skills to adults 18+ so that they can obtain jobs.

Good Samaritan Shelter

They house the homeless

Local church Pastor *Currently unknown*

Many churches aid nonprofit organizations


As for the rest, I'm still doing some research. For the most part, this is all a rough sketch but I'm hoping to start making progress soon.

Literature Analysis: Brave New World

 

1. Brave New World is a dystopian novel about a future world where government has almost complete control over the worlds population. In this world, the governments goal is to create the perfect society. People are not born, they are created. Positions are not earned, they're assigned. The government has total control on who someone is and what they will become, there is no independence. Everyone is separated in classes, Alpha being the highest and Epsilon being the lowest. One Alpha, Bernard, does not want to conform to the world he was brought into. Bernard is the black sheep of the Alphas, he's short, self-conscious and rather awkward to be around. He falls for another Alpha, Lenina, and takes her to the reservation to see the savages. While he is there, Bernard befriends a young savage, John, and brings him back to the Brave New World. John is disgusted by the Brave New World and soon leaves it to live in a abandoned lighthouse. The public is drawn to Johns isolation and he becomes a subject of the media. The public soon overwhelms John and convinces him to take part in an orgy ritual. When John realizes what he's done, he is sickened and hangs himself. Thus ending the story.

2. There are various themes in Huxleys novel, Brave New World. One of the themes that stood out the most was that Our world is susceptible to fall if we do not change our ways. Brave New World was very similar to our modern world. The importance of sex, drugs and status in Huxley's novel was very relevant to sex, drugs in status in our world. If you're not taking drugs, you know someone who does, sex is exploited at every corner and almost everyone wants to be well known. Our society is falling into  a conformed world that is controlled by the media. This book may not be history but our world is definitely about to repeat it.

3. Huxley's tone is somewhat difficult to determine. For the most part, it's rather robotic and distant. He doesn't really have a specific tone throughout the novel, aside from humorous at times .

Humorous: "Thank Ford!" , "Orgy Porgy", Students disgusted by the word "mother" .
Distant: "But Epsilons, we don't need human intelligence." 


4. Satire: Most characters are originally disgusted by the idea of savages (as the students were in the beginning of the novel) but when Bernard brings John back to the Brave New World, everyone wants to meet him.

Diction: The dialogue is very sophisticated throughout the novel "The women was a blonde and brachycephalic Alpha-Minus.."

Setting: The opening was " CENTAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE"

Symbolism: "Soma" Is the drug used to control everyone.

Tone: "The light was frozen, dead, a ghost." The authors tone is distant.

Allusion: " A gramme in time saves nine." Basically saying that Birth Control saves you nine months of pregnancy.

Dark Humor: The whole novel is somewhat darkly humorous. The fact that young children were sexually active was disturbing but the class reaction was hilarious.

Repetition: "Drop, drop, drop. To-morrow and to-morrow and to-morrow."

CHARACTERIZATION

1. Direct:  Tall and rather thin but upright, the Director advanced into the room. He had a long chin and big rather prominent teeth, just covered, when he was not talking, by his full, floridly curved lips. Old, young? Thirty? Fifty? Fifty-five? It was hard to say. And anyhow the question didn't arise; in this year of stability, A. F. 632, it didn't occur to you to ask it.” This is the 

Direct: “Lots of men came to see Linda. The boys began to point their fingers at him. In the strange other words they said that Linda was bad; they called her names he did not understand, but that he knew were bad names.”  Huxley is describing Linda as a whore.


Indirect: "And then he spends most of his time by himself – alone.” There was horror in Fanny's voice."
Indirect:

2. Both Huxley's Syntax and diction remain the same throughout the novel.

3. The main protagonist, John, remains the same throughout. He sticks to his morals and values and does not conform for the Brave new World.

4. In a sense, I feel like I met John. He stuck to his beliefs and didn't crack (well at least while he was sober). Being a church girl, morals and values play a huge role in my life.It's hard to stick to your beliefs when there is so much riding against it. I had mad respect for John. I do feel like his choice to solve his mistake was excessive but on the other hand, it only expressed how much he really values his beliefs. He reminds me of a lot of people I have met in my church, they know what they believe in and they stick to it.

LAUNCH

My six questions and answer can be located in this prezi.

I haven't gotten much feedback from my peers, but I have been talking to a few people in both AP English and Expository Comp who share my same passion. I've been doing a lot of thinking and I'm hoping to actually launch this project. I would like to stat contacting individuals who have made businesses out of helping others and spend some time learning to understand them.I would also like to start doing more community service and start giving out "God bless you" bags to those who are less fortunate. God bless you bags contain basic necessities such as soap, tooth brushes, food, water, etc. They are to be carried around and given to those you see around the street. Over time, I'm hoping to get a large sum of people carrying them and giving them out. I would also like to work on somewhat of a "Pay it forward' business. We would help others get back on their feet and get into the world. Helping them with job applications, resumes, interviews, interview attire and job training in hopes that one day that person helps someone else who has been in the struggle. I would also like to start a program for the elderly and youth that encourage young people to stay in school and get an education and to also aid taking care of our elderly. Each person we help will have a customer testimonial or review on our help so that we can spread our good intentions to others and expand our business. It seems like a lot now, but I was taught that faith the size of a mustard seed can move mountains, I'm not giving up until there's absolutely nothing left to give in my life. I fully intend on planting seeds of faith and helping them grow. Together we can make a better world and create lives worth living.

Brave New Essay

Prompt

Compare and contrast our modern world with the world described in Brave New World.

Essay

Roses and electric shocks, the khaki of Deltas and a whiff of asafœtida–wedded indissolubly before the child can speak. But wordless conditioning is crude and wholesale; cannot bring home the finer distinctions, cannot inculcate the more complex courses of behaviour. For that there must be words, but words without reason. In brief, hypnopædia." This quote is referencing the training of children. In the infantry, the workers begin to train and convince children what they like and dislike at a young age. It's the same thing with advertising and social media. With all these commercials, TV shows and new social internet apps, it's difficult to tell what we like and do not like. We are trained at a young age to like and want certain things. Many commercials in children's shows advertise new toys and movies. Advertisers around the globe attempt to make more appealing commercials for children in hopes to spark their interest. If the commercial is a success, they begin to play it repeatedly so that the child see's it more often until they ask their parents to retrieve that item for them.  Just like in Brave New World, people today take advantage of the mind of a child so that they can control their desires (or hatred) .

As the book progresses, the similarities become more apparent. The one similarity that Huxley seems to drag throughout, is the importance of sex. Sex was originally a sacred act between man and wife. In the modern world, people are having sex as early as twelve, thirteen years old. As the years go by, sex seems to decrease in value even more. Remaining a virgin until marriage used to be so common, now virgins come one in a million.  "But seriously," she said, "I really do think you ought to be careful. It's such horribly bad form to go on and on like this with one man. At forty, or thirty-five, it wouldn't be so bad. But at your age, Lenina! No, it really won't do. And you know how strongly the D.H.C. objects to anything intense or long-drawn. Four months of Henry Foster, without having another man – why, he'd be furious if he knew."

"Six years later it was being produced commercially, the perfect drug." Drugs.Can't live with them and you can't live without them (medicine), but why is it that drugs seem too be a trend lately? Rappers make songs about drugs, Netflix is littered in documentaries about drugs, not to mention almost every good movie has a drug seen. Though illegal, drugs seem to be widely accepted in this day and age. If you're not doing them, you know somebody who does. In Brave New World, everyone took a drug called Soma, to provide a euphoric feeling that eliminates pain and suffering. When life seems down, take drugs. When life seems confusing, take drugs. When life seems hard, take drugs. It's all about drugs. Soma is so widely accepted in Brave New World, everyone does it and everyone living large because of it. In China, citizens take a pill that goes by the name "Ya Ba". It's a meth based pill that allows them to work longer hours and stay happy. Some bosses give it to their workers and many entrepreneurs use is to get ahead, people are dependent on it. Almost like in Brave New World, people take Soma to be happy and continue on with their lives and just like Chinese citizens. "And do remember that a gramme is better than a damn." They went out, laughing."

Sex, Drugs and Power, everything our world revolves around now. Wars are started and lives are ended everyday in thanks to these three things. In fact, they make the world go round. One can only wonder what's next for this world.

I am here.

My blog hasn't exactly been up to par lately. It's getting harder to grasp my future when it seems so far away. Funding college seems near impossible with my parents income and my effort has suffered significantly. Though my actions don't back this up, I have given a lot of time to thinking about big questions, senior projects and collaborative working groups. Lately I've been focusing my efforts towards my senior project and a collaborative working group that's been on my mind lately. I recently discovered that there are a group of peers who are also unsure of their majors and futures but we all share the same interest in helping people. I'm hoping to meet with them and discuss what our passions are and hopefully turn our interests into a group dedicated to helping others. Once this group is started, I hope to keep in contact with these students throughout college and maybe even collaborate on our own business together. It may sound a little far fetched now, but I have faith. I'm just praying that I can get it together before It's too late.

HAFTA/WANNA

I would like to say that a lot about me would stay the same, but that's not the case. I don't want to be the same Jasmine. I want to grow, learn and mature. Once I'm graduated and packed for college I'm leaving the old me. Tis' the season for change!

Similarities:

• Unknown

Differences:

• Happiness
• Maturity
• Motivation
• Drive
• Success
• Confidence
• Bigger and better goals

Though I have plans to change and grow, many people don't. I feel like it all depends on the path that is chosen after graduation. Most people who move out and move on with their lives seem to change for the better and from what it seems, more than a handful who stay seem to stay the same for the worse. Alas, none of my plans will matter if I fail to balance my wants and my needs. I need to learn discipline and realize that what I need will soon fold over and blend into what I want and overall what I desire. Success is nothing without a few sacrifices.

Launch !

Hacked ! I felt like a Prezi was the only way I could barely even scrape the surface of my Launch project. It may take a little time to load but I assure you, it does help understand my vision a bit more than you may think.

Click the link above.

Lit Terms #5

Parallelism (n.) : the state of being parallel or corresponding in some way.

Parody (n.): the imitation of the style of a specific writer, artist of genre for a comical effect
Ex: Scary movie 4 makes fun of various movies and tv shows.

Pathos (n.): a quality that evokes pity or sadness

Pedantry (n.): excessive concern with minor details or rules.
ex: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Personification (n.): putting human characteristics into something that is not human.
ex.Spongebob

Plot (n.): the main events of a movie, novel or similar work.

Poignant (n.): evoking a keen sense of sadness or regret.

Point of view (n.): the position in which something or someone is being obseved

Postmodernism (n.): breaking the "fourth wall" of literature.
ex: Open source learning.

Prose (n.): writing in sequence.

Protagonist (n.): The leading character of the story.

Pun (n.): joke exploiting different possible meanings of a word.

Purpose (n.): the reason for which something is done or created.

Realism (n.): the attitude and practice of accepting a situation as it is and being abe to deal with it accordingly.

Refrain (n.): stop oneself from doing something.

Requiem (n.) a musical composition; the act or token of remembrance.

Resolution(n.):  the action of solving a problem, the action of being determined.

Restatement (n.) : a revised statement.

Rhetoric (n.): the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing.

Rhetorical question: a statement formulated as a question but is not supposed to be answered.

Rising Action (n.)  a series of events that begin to build immediately after the exposition.

Romanticism (n.) : A movement in the arts and literature in the 18th century, emphasizing inspiration.

Satire (n.):  the use of humor, irony or exaggeration to expose and criticize peoples stupidity.

Scansion (n.):  the action of scanning a line of a verse to determine its rhythm.

Setting(n.):  the place and time in which a play, novel or film is happening.

Happy Black History Month !

This has always been a song that has been close to my heart. My great grandmother was a slave, though I didn't know her very well, my grandmother has always told me a lot of stories about her life growing up. If I recall the stories correctly, my great grandmother was a "house nigga" because of her light skin complexion. They have pictures of the first house she ever bought. It was beat down and raggedy, but the smile on my great grandmothers face was so heartwarming and joyous. This song has so much emotion into it, this video especially. Though my education hasn't provided abundant information on my history, I take pride in the small bits that I do know. If it weren't for the amazing people that I set as my background(Malcolm X, MLK, Rosa Parks, etc.), I might still be facing a lot of discrimination today, for that I am very thankful