Whitley Frank ;o)

The 48 Laws of power by Robert Greene and Joost Elffers are clearly obnoxious. For example Law number 6; Court Attention at all Cost. Everything is judged by appearance; what is unseen counts for nothing. Never let you get lost in the crowd, then or buried in oblivion. Stand out. Be conspicuous, at all cost. Make yourself a magnet of attention by appearing larger, more colorful, and more mysterious, than the bland and timid masses.
I can see where somebody wearing bright colors and acting important would draw attention, but it wouldn’t make you powerful. Britney Spears draws plenty of attention and me she’s just a crazy white woman who happens to have a decent voice. In no way is she powerful.
Another law, number 4, say less than necessary could possibly have helped Bush out a little during his time in office. Now not only do people think he’s stupid, but they can back it up. What English class was he taking in Texas?
One law that I know doesn’t or wont work on a lot of people is number 8, make other people come to you –use bait if necessary. One good example is “playing hard to get”. Those types of people end up on their own because they think they are too good. They are unsocial and would total LACK power.

I can recall only one time when I felt really guilty. It was in eighth grade and my mom trusted me fully and I snuck out. My friend picked me up in his voltswagon bus and we drove to the harbor, back when I lived in Tacoma. We met up with and picked up some of his other friends and mine, Elizabeth. The whole time I was sitting on that picnic bench seeing my mom sitting on my bed waiting for me to come home. It scared me to where I didn’t even find this whole adventure fun. I went home and my mom never even knew.

I think that Mac Beth should tell Lady Mac Beth that he doesn’t want to be king, even if he does. He feels guilty after killing him so he could fess up, keep quiet, or disappear. I personally am a fan of disappearing. That way he wouldn’t have to confess and be killed or feel guilty for all of his life. Even though he is running away and he’d still feel bad, he wouldn’t have to deal with all of the pressure as well.

I think we learn Shakespeare because of his personal unique writing style. He had his own type of English that seemed very proper, yet is harder to understand these days. I believe that Shakespeare is studied a lot in high school and college because the professor or teacher wants the student to adapt to different types of reading, and really if you can learn to understand Shakespeare, he writes wonderfully.
What I didn’t like when I read Romeo and Juliet was the language being hard to understand and the dragging out of one idea. Another problem I had was since I didn’t know what half of the words meant; it was hard for me to imagine what was really going on.
Last year one thing that my freshman year English teacher did was have us read by chapter and watch a chapter of the movie after that same chapter we read. Then if you didn’t understand it you would by the end of watching the movie. So overall I think we learn about Shakespeare because it’s something different.

I went online and posted all the ones I saw saved as drafts I think that Might have messed with the dates. I am sorry and I am trying to keep up. I couldn’t find a list of archives? Let me know if I missed one? thank you!

Whitley Frank
English pd. 1st
December 7, 2007

The Hospital Orderly/Nurse

The flooding of wounded filling up the hospital beds, the loud noise of bombs going off and gunfire occurring rapidly after another. I had to tend to a soldier that was shot in the leg just barely missing a major artery and he had metal pieces sticking in and out of his back due to an explosion. All the doctors were busy and this was the first time I had ever dealt with a seriously wounded by myself. I pulled the bullet out with long metal tweezers along with the scraps in his back that I was able to easily retrieve. Then another man was carried in injured. Why was it that I was the one tending the brutally wounded? Was I now a qualified doctor? Was every wounded soldier in this bad of a condition? I didn’t want to be here anymore. I broke down, feeling the salty tears streaming down my face to my lips.
I had to suck it up. Who was in a worse place right now? The soldiers. I just had to use as much knowledge as I could to tend to each of them by how critical their condition was. The newly brought in soldier had a slit in his chest. He had been shanked with the tip of an enemy rifle. I poured alcohol over the terribly ripped open flesh and stitched the wound to cut off the bleeding. As I was just finishing him up another nurse came over to help me.
How much blood must be shed to make our enemy content? I don’t want to be here anymore.

Dear Mr. Dunbar,

I can easily remember when you could buy Doritos or Grandma’s cookies from a vending machine in the hallways of your own Middle School. Now we have baked chips and other healthier choices, but the point is, if someone really wants to make a change in the way they are eating/living then they can do it themselves. This school offers plenty of options for each and every student’s diet. As where parents have a problem with it, you may think it is just because the other parents don’t.I believe each student should have the responsibility to take care of their bodies. If they have the money they can make the decision. This is High School, not Elementary.

Sincerely,

Whitley Frank

Surfer Boy, Country Boy – Car Accident

Surfer Boy= “Maaan, look at my bus dude. It’s all jacked and stuff.”

Country Boy= “Yerr buhs? Lewk at mah truck boiy!”

Surfer Boy= “ahh hahhh, yeah dude your chariot is trashed.”

Country Boy= “you thank this uh time to laugh? Iss funny ta yew?”

Surfer Boy= “ahh hii” [high pitched laugh]

Country Boy= “gimmie ur ‘sureance.”

Surfer Boy= “man, this was all your fault. I’m not up to give it to you when you hit me. For all I know you’re probably some like con dude.”

Country Boy= “this aint no game boy, this truck her took me long time to get”

Surfer Boy= “well man, my bus is messed up too, how do you think I’m gunna get some chicks tonight If I can’t haul my board?”

Country Boy= “I’m really nawt sern’d bout chur old hippay bus, mah truck is all I have ‘sides the horses.”

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1. Why do you think the State, the Fed, your teacher wants you to take the WASL?

I think that the wasl is just like all the other standardized state tests. It is to see what you know for your grade level, check up on your progress and see what is too hard or easy for you.

1. What are the good aspects and not so good aspects of the WASL?

Its good because that way the state and district can analyze what each area knows and most likely why its that way?

Its bad because it puts a lot of stress on students  and draws a line on how “smart” or well someone knows something when really it could just be the style of the test.

1. What do you think the WASL is supposed to accomplish and if we didn’t have the WASL, what would be the best way to accomplish these things?

The WASL is supposed to test us to let us know what we know, but I really think that is probably the best way to do it. I’m not against it I just find it annoying.

1. What is the author (Jacobs) trying to convince you is true. Quote one sentence in which she clearly states what she believes. She believes that all electronics have made Americans dumb/dumber. “Dumbness, to paraphrase the late senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, has been steadily defined downward for several decades, by a combination of heretofore irresistible forces.”

2. Why evidence does the author give to prove that America is dumber than before? How does baby Einstein prove we’re getting dumber? She showed the percentage of people who read books for pleasure within some years of each other and blames it on the rise of technology.

3. What does Jacobs believe caused dumbness? Xbox and Facebook profiles.

4. What does the author mean by “anti-intellectualism?” What is it? What causes it? She means that we don’t think as much as we used to. for what we used to concentrate on like books, now its all toward video games.

5. What is the “erosion of general knowledge?” When Roosevelt went on the radio and was going to explain to everyone about pearl harbor and told the people to go get a map and 80 percent of american adults tuned in to learn.

6. Summarize the 2nd to last paragraph (” That leads us to the third and final factor”). People believe that they don’t need to know things they think that dont revolve around them. lack of knowledge and not wanting to know it is all ignorance and is plain out pathetic.

7. Is she right? Explain with evidence from your own life. I think that she is right because people do seem to think they shouldn’t learn anything more than what they want to, but what they are going to do later on in a career. I think that college has the right idea. You should have to learn the general knowledge then specialize in what you want. Its all what it takes to get to the top.