Posted on March 31st, 2008 by a l m a *
-Back from Spring Break!!-Imagery 17-Research rough draft due!
-For peer editing
-Along with the four sources
-Make sure you defend your own argument
-The argument is against your opinion
-Mr. E read an example from Colonization in Africa.
-The two men wrote professionally, yet attacked one another through tone and detail. They both argued about their ideas in public. Make sure [...]
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Posted on March 19th, 2008 by Jose Ignacio Sanchez
“Repression is not the way to virtue. When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. Only through freely chosen discipline can life be enjoyed and still kept within the bounds of reason.”
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
Is “freely chosen discipline” truly the way to be [...]
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Posted on March 19th, 2008 by Tara is Awesome
Class begins and for the first few minutes we just talk amongst ourselves. Nghiem gives my table the Detail for today, but i suppose Eldridge passes it out to the class a few minutes later.
Class works on the daily practice. Except class was being really loud and annoying! (Imanii, pink berry sucks!) At 9:53 the [...]
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Posted on March 18th, 2008 by elisangan
I don’t want to talk about the rumor/fact that Eldridge received a parking ticket today for speeding, I want to talk about today’s class (paralipsis)!
We started off to a slow start by being assigned fallacies to apply to our stances on which was better: day or night.
List of Fallacies you need to know:
Equivocation
Either/Or
Faulty (Generalization)
Faulty Analogy
Begging [...]
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Posted on March 18th, 2008 by Jose Ignacio Sanchez
tuesday March 18, 2008
-Eldridge arrived promptly at 6:55am
-need at least a 7 and 66% to get a 4 on the ap test
-don’t shoot for minimums, they become maximums
-AUTHOR # 1
has solid paragraphs
tells us tone
identifies pathos, uses substantial amount of quotes
*paraphrase=in your own words
-you can manipulate the quotes but don’t change the meaning
slippery slope=domino theory= one [...]
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Posted on March 17th, 2008 by christinaontiveros
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!! [even though it technically isn't.=)]
Eldridge was early! Yay!
Michael and Brandon “are freakin’ leprechauns”-Liz C.
Work was passed back to everyone
It is not St. Patrick’s Day today because “The Catholic Church in England and Wales says St Patrick’s Day is simply not on the calendar of feast days this year. This week is [...]
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Posted on March 16th, 2008 by Jose Ignacio Sanchez
I was reading “A Treasury of Philosophy” and I came across a section on happiness and found my good friend Arthur Schopenhauer!!! I will write his idea, “All willing arises from want, therefore from deficiency, and therefore from suffering. The satisfaction of a wish ends it; yet for one wish that is satisfied there remain [...]
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Posted on March 14th, 2008 by Jose Ignacio Sanchez
Today we have started with no Diction nor a syntax sheet; we have started the day with nothing of the sort. Today we started with a sort of talk period in which we have some fascinating discussions about people’s everyday lives. Then, Mr. Eldridge walked to the board, as if on a mission of [...]
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Posted on March 14th, 2008 by jaimienguyen
Patricia was supposed to be the scribe because we were going to switch but unfortunately, she wasn’t here and I had to sub for her.
Hello Everyone
Mr. Eldridge wrote on the board:
LATE WORK DUE
MC Practice (Stephen Douglass)
TW – “St. Joan,” Shaw
Have your source (1 or 2) out on your desk
After that, he passed out [...]
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Posted on March 11th, 2008 by ivettezuniga
Hello!
I was scribe again today!
So Alma and I were walking to class we
arrived at the door i opened it and saw
people i had never seen then Alma laughs
and says,” oh the library….” so then we walk to
the library and as we walk in we see we have a sub and
I look retarded because I was [...]
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