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Things fall apart journal entry After reading the first two paragraphs in __Things Fall apart__ I had few questions. I was wondering who is the main character in the story because there were so many characters ilustrated in the book with similar names that made me confused. I never read this kind of book with Africa's culture and their real life. Also, I didn't actually understand why the oldest wife got kicked out of the house because of the entrance of the man. While reading this book, I was very surprised by the culture and tradition of Africa, especially certain male leaders' action. The male leaders have many wives and properties depend on their property and fame. Also, I thought that their culture has less respectivity and politeness of the son (Okonkwo) ignoring his own father who had enormous amount of debts and idleness, but who is still his own father. I predict that the oldest son Neoreo who was said to get weeped by Iknovia of his idleness and his mom getting insulted will dominate over the family and create a new life.

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Journal Entry 2

Quiz : Writing paragraph by using the one term on the poem What picture strikes you in the head when you first think of the word " incident" ? Incidental symbol which is the symbol that is trivial and have no other literary meanings but are important symbols in stories or poems. For example, the 'meta'l in the short story "By the Waters of Babylon" is one of the example of the incidental symbol which has not important meaning in reality (just another device) but is an important and sacred object on the story. Horse, wood, frozen lake, darkest evening- are incidental symbol in the poem " Stopping by woods on a snowy evening day". All of these terms present the feeling of the speaker and symbolizes his mind who is thinking about dieing in the nature and give up all his belonings and tasks. For example, in the line " To watch his woods fill up with snow", we can see that the woods are symbolizing the death which have similar characteristic of cold and miserable, and we can see that the speaker is thinking about suiciding. Also, the frozen lake and the darkest evening forms the deep imagery and make reader to guess the mind of the speaker- suiciding. Moreover, when we think of horses, it is just an animal which can carry people and have brown skin color. But in this poem, horse is an object that distracts the speaker's mind who wants to watches the nature and thinks about his death. For example, the horse dragged the author to leave the nature and go to his own belongings and shook the harness.

( letter to the friend)

Blogs

1. http://theheirtoblair.com/ This is a blog that I found when I typed "high school life" in google. When I typed it I saw an article " If you think that high school was the best time of your life, you must not have gone to college" came out which captured my mind. This title was so shocking because it contradicted my thoughts and beliefs that all students must study hard to get into the good college. When I clicked the link, I saw the life of the author, Blair, who is an American women now married and have a baby. Her photos and diaries were very sweet and funny that it made me smile! The author looked very happy with her life and her babies. I felt that I want to have a happy life like Blair and post some memories and stories on my own blog that will give others hope and meaningful messages.

2. http://www.confidentcheerleadingblog.com/ The second title I searched on internet was "Cheerleading". Because I am now in a KIS jv cheerleading team, I wanted to know how other people feel and think about the cheerleading team. The title "Cheerleading competitions : A winning way to practice" attracted my eyes and made me to click it. The blog was all for the cheerleading, named "Confident Cheerleading". It contained all the important facts and tips of cheerleading and most importantly, how to win in the competition! Because the Kaiac is coming up on Feb. 1 on DAHS which our team worked on it for a long time with all our efforts, I knew how important to win on the competition. Also because our jv team won in last year's Kaiaic I really wanted to continue our championship. This blog contained important tips such as the benefits of cheerleading and managing the personalities from cheerleading. These unique informaton provided me more confidence of representing KIS and promised myself to work harder.

I think the final test was fair and had many unique elements. For example, the essay part made students to show their ideas and writing skills with their knowledge. Also, the paraphasing part was varied by other students and was helpful to prove our thoughts to Ms.Porter. Moreover, the test was based on 3 books which was fair enough for the students to be tested on the stuff they knew. For this reasons, final was helpful for refreshing the memories but I regret that I should be prepared more next time.
 * Reflection of finals