Masterpiece Update

My other blog is in the works right now and I will post my link for it once I finish setting up my tabs and formatting it. So then this Masterpiece will be an ongoing process that I will like to continue with throughout college and hopefully it'll be something that other people find insightful and use as something they can go to for all things going on with the fashion world.

Ozymandias Poem Analysis

Title: Ozymandias was a pharaoh that reigned during 1279-1213 BCE and his statue was about 57 feet tall. The site of where the statute used to be is nothing but remains of a once mighty yet broken king that he once was

Paraphrase: the sculptor who made the statue captured the king as he saw him to be. He was distressed unhappy and a cold person that thought of himself to be a powerful king but left nothing but a broken and shattered memory which explains why his stature is also destroyed and is blending in with the rest desert.

Connotation: " Look on my works, ye Mighty and despair." This could be meant in a mocking way that the pharaoh found himself to be this strong and powerful ruler but inside was hurt and broken.

Attitude: the author has a mocking and reflecting attitude towards this once great pharaoh.

Shift: the shift occurs when the author says "the hand that mocked them and the heart that fed" because then the authors mood and attitude shifts.

Title Revisited: it's just the name of the pharaoh was once mighty but broken and the author has some sort of connection to him in what I see as a negative way.

Theme: All people will fall

T Swift Mash-up

So lately I've been a little obsessed with this song and have been listening to it, every chance I get. It's a mash-up of Taylor Swift's Blank Space and Style songs but with a slower tempo and duet from two very talented people. I've been getting into slower paced songs these days and so I just thought I'd share something that I like from my music world right now.

Masterpiece Progression

For my masterpiece, I'm actually taking on two different pieces. One is with the Boys and Girls Club of Santa Maria with my friends Hannah and Judith and the other is my own personal fashion blog. Originally I was just going to do my fashion blog and figure out something else related to the career that I want to go into. Then Hannah had asked if I wanted to be a part of her and Judith's masterpiece project and of course I couldn't say no! I'll be able to spend time with my friends while doing something that I love to do. So what we'll be doing is going to the Boys and Girls Club over Spring Break for three days for two hours each day and we'll each coordinate an activity with the profession we want to go into, but make it fun for the kids to enjoy. So I'll be doing a crafty fashion related activity, while Judith will be doing arts and crafts, and Hannah will be doing a little soccer camp. So I'm looking forward to working with the kids and my friends and being able to get involved with the community while creating memories for my last Spring Break of High School. Then for my personal masterpiece I'll be setting up my Fashion blog that showcases fashion tips, fashion inspirations, my personal styling pictures, and other style and fashion related content that I come up with. Once I get it started, I want to try to post something everyday til the end of the year especially, but hopefully I can continue this blog throughout college and gain a group of followers that like my personal insight into my fashion world.

Brave New World Essay

Human nature is the sum of qualities and traits shared by all. When we hear that certain things are categorized under "human nature," it's usually pretty easy to tell whether we think it is or not. We are all human and should know that we all do, want, and need certain things in our life in order to be considered human. So why is it that in Brave New World people are programmed to go against certain human nature characteristics. The book may express certain views on conformity but it may not be as far off from our modern wold as we think. In many ways Brave New World can compare and contrast with our world that we live in, but all people have certain human nature qualities that are hard to go against. In the book Bernard Marx has all the features to conform to his World State society but has an internal struggle with not believing that he fits into his caste and questions whether he wants to be a part of the social norm or just criticize it.

Bernard has a hard time believing that he should be considered an Alpha because he doesn't feel like his size and appearance for the title. He struggles with conforming but ironically that's all he really wants is to fit in but at the same time criticizes the World State and everything that it does. Bernard is human and expresses his internal struggles through his weaknesses such as jealousy, anger, and his self consciousness to fit in when he doesn't look like he does. Bernard wants to so badly fit into a world that he bashes on because he wants to be seen and recognized, which he doesn't feel like he is. When Bernard revives recon guncotton from Lenina and John he finally is starting to get what he's always wanted. He starts conforming to his world but at the same time doesn't realize that he is a hypocrite for bashing on everything that his society stands for. For Bernard to finally be able to conform by being with Lenina and John he doesn't realize he is going against everything that he dislikes about his society. He's blinded by his own desires that he forgets that he wants to be one person but internally thinks he's somebody completely different. So he goes through this constant push and pull effect that confuses not only himself but everyone around him.

It's strange to think that some people can't be who they are because they are afraid of what their society might think of them. That's one key feature in human nature we all judge on another even when we don't realize it, it's just something that we all do. It doesn't necessarily mean we are bad people for thinking we do one thing when in reality we do another and don't even know it. That's how we are programmed. In the book they are put into castes and in our world in a way, so are we. We either are born poor, rich or average and then we can either end up average, rich, or poor. We control our own destiny though and for Bernard he knew what he wanted and who he wanted to be. His thoughts were just different from his actions and he didn't even realize it. Which isn't all his fault because he was born and programmed to be and do one thing while his mind was programmed to go against everything he knew. Bernard was stuck in between being a part of his society and saying he wouldn't be. In reality he was just confused because he didn't know whether to be a part of something he grew up in or go with his thoughts which he didn't know how to control. So he was always stuck in between doing and saying different things that he didn't even know he was doing, which lead him to conforming outwardly but inwardly lost.

Lit Terms #6

simile - noun a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as')
soliloquy - noun a (usually long) dramatic speech intended to give the illusion of unspoken reflections; speech you make to yourselfspiritual - adj. lacking material body or form or substance;concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul; resembling or characteristic of a phantom; concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church; noun a kind of religious song originated by Blacks in the southern United Statesspeaker - noun someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous); the presiding officer of a deliberative assembly; electro-acoustic transducer that converts electrical signals into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distancestereotype - noun a conventional or formulaic conception or image; verb treat or classify according to a mental stereotypestructure - noun a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts; the manner of construction of something and the arrangement of its parts; a particular complex anatomical part; the complex composition of knowledge as elements and their combinations; the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships; verb give a structure tostyle - noun a slender bristlelike or tubular process; a particular kind (as to appearance); editorial directions to be followed in spelling and punctuation and capitalization and typographical display; (botany) the narrow elongated part of the pistil between the ovary and the stigma; a pointed tool for writing or drawing or engraving; distinctive and stylish elegance; how something is done or how it happens; the popular taste at a given time; a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period;verb make consistent with certain rules of style; designate by an identifying term; make consistent with a certain fashion or stylesubordination - noun the quality of obedient submissiveness; the grammatical relation of a modifying word or phrase to its head; the state of being subordinate to something; the act of mastering or subordinating someone; the semantic relation of being subordinate or belonging to a lower rank or classsurrealism - noun a 20th century movement of artists and writers (developing out of dadaism) who used fantastic images and incongruous juxtapositions in order to represent unconscious thoughts and dreamssymbol - noun something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible; an arbitrary sign (written or printed) that has acquired a conventional significancesynesthesia - noun a sensation that normally occurs in one sense modality occurs when another modality is stimulatedsynecdoche - noun substituting a more inclusive term for a less inclusive one or vice versasyntax - noun the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences;studies of the rules for forming admissible sentences; a systematic orderly arrangementtheme - noun a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work; (music) melodic subject of a musical composition;(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; an essay (especially one written as an assignment); the subject matter of a conversation or discussion; verb provide with a particular theme or motivethesis - noun an unproved statement put forward as a premise in an argument; a treatise advancing a new point of view resulting from research; usually a requirement for an advanced academic degreetone - noun (linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages; the quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author; a steady sound without overtones; a musical interval of two semitones; the quality of a person's voice; a quality of a given color that differs slightly from a primary color; (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound); a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound; the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people; the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli; verb give a healthy elasticity to; change to a color image;change the color or tone of; vary the pitch of one's speech; utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmicallytongue - noun the flap of material under the laces of a shoe or boot;a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity; a manner of speaking; the tongue of certain animals used as meat; any long thin projection that is transient; metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side; a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language; a narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea; verb lick or explore with the tongue;articulate by tonguing, as when playing wind instrumentsin - adj. currently fashionable; directed or bound inward; holding office; adv. to or toward the inside of; noun a state in midwestern United States; a unit of length equal to one twelfth of a foot; a rare soft silvery metallic element; occurs in small quantities in sphaleritecheek - noun either side of the face below the eyes; impudent aggressiveness; either of the two large fleshy masses of muscular tissue that form the human rump; an impudent statement; verbspeak impudently totragedy - noun drama in which the protagonist is overcome by some superior force or circumstance; excites terror or pity; an event resulting in great loss and misfortuneunderstatement - noun a statement that is restrained in ironic contrast to what might have been saidvernacular - adj. being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language; noun the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language); a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)voice - noun a means or agency by which something is expressed or communicated; the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech; the ability to speak; the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract;something suggestive of speech in being a medium of expression;a sound suggestive of a vocal utterance; (metonymy) a singer;(linguistics) the grammatical relation (active or passive) of the grammatical subject of a verb to the action that the verb denotes;the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music; expressing in coherent verbal form; an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose; verb give voice to;utter with vibrating vocal chordszeitgeist - noun the spirit of the time; the spirit characteristic of an age or generation

The Love for Learning

As a little kid you may go to first day of preschool or kindergarten and have no idea what's going on. Little do we know that this is the start of what could be the way that we learn in a structured environment for almost 20 years and sometimes more. We may cry because we don't want to leave our moms because we are going off into what seems to be this foreign world that we've never been apart of before. As each day goes by though we each become a a little bit older and little more wiser. We learn to become accustomed to this form of learning where we are provided with an instructor and tools to solve equations, questions, puzzles, or simply just to follow instructions. Doing the same routine day after day year after year becomes harder and more exhausting. Sometimes it almost gets to the point where we just want to give up because we are so tired and stressed out. Learning is supposed to be inspiring and knowledgeable but as we get older it seems to come down to the point where we just need to get what we need to get done and do whatever it takes to get good grades so we can pass onto the next level of learning.
If learning for everyone was something that every person got up in the morning and was so excited to go do, the world would be such a different place. We would be so much happier and we would love to get up everyday and just be so filled with curiosity about what we were going to discover today. If we got up everyday and went either to school or work and didn't dread it, I feel that everyone could be so much more productive because they were actually doing something that they wanted to be doing. It seems like more often than not we wake up dreading for the day ahead because it is filled with assignments, projects, and tests that need to be completed on a timely and nicely done fashion.We are expected to do our best because we all want to achieve and be successful, but its so hard when there are so many things that are going on at once that it's tough to focus in on one thing at a time. We are all put into this system where we learn because this system is what helps us become successful, we might be passing on to the next level of education for a while but without this structure we wouldn't be able to figure out what we want to live for. Maybe things would be a lot different if people were excited to go to school and actually do work, but in all honesty nobody likes doing the same thing over and over again. That's how life works we graduate from one level to move onto the next and to find something that we could be doing for the rest of our lives. It may seem tiresome to complete the same reoccurring cycle day in and day out, but we obviously all do it for a reason. That reason is because we all want to have the knowledge to make something of ourselves and find something that makes us happy. Although it may not seem like we love to learn in the moment, we each have to love it a little bit in order for us to want to continue on with whatever type of learning environment we are in. We all have dreams and goals but it can only be up to us to achieve them.
Each day may seem more exhausting than the next but one day everything that we have been working towards will be worth it. We will see all our hard work pay off, even though right now it seems to be exhausting and never ending. Each and every person loves learning in some way. It may not be through school or books but it may be through the experiences they undergo and the chances that they take to see an outcome either fail or succeed. We have the chance to learn from every situation and obstacle that's thrown at us. Learning, no matter at what age, is always something that is happening. Each day a person gets up in hopes of something great happening or hoping that today is at least a good day. So we all aspire to have positivity in our lives and the first step towards achieving a bright vision of the future comes through learning. No matter if its inside or outside of a school environment there are so many opportunities where a person can learn from something. What we decide to take from that, are the tools we need to have a future where learning can be a luxury and not a burden.