Scorpians=dreams

I keep having this reoccuring dream about Scorpions. In my dream it is an orange color. Like the desert on Starwars. I am on this trail. Everytime I am with someone different and we see tons of them coming after us. One even bit me in the hand. This dream scares me so much that I don't want to go back to sleep. In one of these dreams I remember Will smith being there and he saved me by letting me sit on this lounge chair with him and his kids while he read them a book. I think there is always a bench too. I remember sitting on the bench once before the scorpion came to "get us" and us being this little asian dude. The one who gets stuck underneath the car on Crash. The one Ludacris and his friend run over. I havent had one lately and hope I don't. SCARRY!

Oedipus Rex

Oedipus the King (Greek Oἰδίπoυς τύραννoς, ([Oedipus Tyrannus] (help·info)) or "Oedipus the Tyrant"), also known as Oedipus Rex, is a Greek tragedy, written by Sophocles and first performed circa 429 BC.[1] It was the second of Sophocles' three Theban plays to be produced, but it comes first in the internal chronology, followed by Oedipus at Colonus and then Antigone. Over the centuries, it has come to be regarded by many as the Greek tragedy par excellence.[2]

Wallace Stevens

Wallace Stevens (October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955) was a major American Modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, and spent most of his adult life working for an insurance company in Connecticut. His best-known poems include "Anecdote of the Jar," "The Emperor of Ice Cream," "The Idea of Order at Key West," "Sunday Morning ," and "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird."

Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom (born July 11, 1930) is a literary critic. Bloom defended 19th-century Romantic poets at a time when their reputations stood at a low ebb, has constructed controversial theories of poetic influence, and advocates an aesthetic approach to literature against Feminist, Marxist, New Historicist, Post-modernist (Deconstructionists and Semioticians), and other methods of academic literary criticism. Bloom is currently a Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University.[1]

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and author of short stories. Known for his biting wit, he became one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London, and one of the greatest celebrities of his day. Several of his plays continue to be widely performed, especially The Importance of Being Earnest. As the result of a widely covered series of trials, Wilde suffered a dramatic downfall and was imprisoned for two years hard labour after being convicted of the offence of "gross indecency" with other men. After Wilde was released from prison he set sail for Dieppe by the night ferry. He never returned to Britain.

Finnegan's Wake

"Finnegan's Wake" is a ballad that arose in the 1850s in the music-hall tradition of comical Irish songs.

It is famous for being the basis of James Joyce's masterwork, Finnegans Wake, where the comic resurrection becomes symbolic of a universal cycle of life. Whiskey, which brought both Finnegan's fall and his resurrection, is derived from Irish uisce beatha (IPA: [ˈiʃkʲə ˈbʲahə]), meaning "water of life." So too, the word "wake" is both of a passing and of a new rising. Joyce removed the apostrophe in the title to assert an active process in which a multiplicity of "Finnegans," that is, all of us, wake, i.e., arise after falling.

It also featured as the climax of the primary storyline in Philip José Farmer's award-winning novella, Riders of the Purple Wage. The song is a staple of the Irish folk-music group, The Dubliners, who have played it on many occasions and included it on several albums.

Mae West

Mae West (August 17, 1893 – November 22, 1980) was an American actress, playwright, screenwriter, and sex symbol.

Famous for her bawdy double entendres, West made a name for herself in vaudeville and on the stage in New York before moving to Hollywood to become a comedian, actress and writer in the motion picture industry.

One of the most controversial stars of her day, West encountered many problems including censorship.

When her cinematic career ended, she continued to perform on stage, in Las Vegas, in the United Kingdom, on radio and television, and recorded Rock and Roll albums.

Don't you just hate that...

So I have this problem. It is call compulsive shopper syndrome (I don't know if that is real but that is what I call it). I have this tendency to buy things on impulse. Like this little books at Barnes and Noble next to the stands or hand sanitizer at Wal-Mart or candy. So I'm at Barnes and Noble one day and I come across this book called Don't you just Hate That? 738 Things that annoy by Scott Cohen and I buy it. Dang it got sucked in again. Or did I? I really enjoyed this book. You put it on the back of your toilet for guests to read. Well one my favor ties is 48. When you're paying for something at a store and they ask you what ZIP code you live in. That is one of my peeves. I'll make something up when they ask me or I'm like are you serious? I think this is one of my favorite lines in a book. I have more but they all have meaning to me.

Oedipus V. Earnest

The differences between the plays are that one is a tragedy and ones a comedy. Set in different time periods. One is about love and the other is about a strange love. Oedipus falls in love with his mother and has kids with her after he kills his father. He didn't know all this until the messenger told him about it. Earnest walks around pretending to be Earnest and John because he was orphaned also but to come to find out he was who he said he was all along. He was placed in a hand bag at Victoria station and found his way back to his family. These are two very different stories yet they both have one thing in common. They are both orphanes until they end when they find out who they are. Earnest goes on to marry Gwendolen and Oedipus gashes his eyes out and walks the world blind. Sick

Hera'n Corte's De Monroy Y Pizarro

Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro, 1st Marqués del Valle de Oaxaca (1485–December 2, 1547) was a Spanish conquistador who initiated the conquest of the Aztec Empire on behalf of Charles V, King of Castile and Holy Roman Emperor, in the early 16th century. Cortés was part of the generation of Spanish colonizers that began the first phase of the Spanish colonization of the Americas.[1]

TB Blues

My First Memory of Pain.

I didn't write about my memory of my first pain because I wasn't in class that day then everyone kept talking about it and now I'm getting around to it. Sorry.

So it was a warm day in Omak, WA on summer day. I know it was summer because my step dad was working on my moms car and I remember smelling BBQ fumes. So my mom told my brother and I to take out the garbage and we could think of a million reason not too. Then my Mom goes make a it a race. Get on your bikes (The garbage was a ways away) so we get on our bikes with big black bags. My brother had two and I had one. ON YOUR MARKS GETS SET GO!!!!!!!!!! So we are off my brother in the lead then out of no where here comes my Dog Katie, not poopy, right in front of my bike it's to late to stop! WHAM! Right into the side of her and I go flying off my bike over my handle bars and hit the ground with a thud. Garbage flying everywhere and Katie still trucking after my brother. Knocked the wind out of me. Holy Smokes. My aunt Michelle seen it, my mom had turned right before it happened and heard it and turned around and they both came running. I had blood running down my hands and my knees and tears running down my eyes. My sister who is about 4 comes over and gives me her favorite mickey mouse doll to make me happy again. I didn't take it. I just wanted my mom and for her to kiss it all better. EWE! Meanwhile my poor doggy is bitting my brothers ankles all the way to the garbage's! HE! So the story doesn't end there.
The next day I go to the swimming pool and my knee is killing me but I wanted to go to the pool so I didn't say anything. I swim for a bit then sit in the shallow end. I'm sitting there looking at my knee and go holy smokes I have a hard scab already and it hasn't even been 24hrs. Nut. So I'm picking at it and then all the sudden a rock comes out of my knee. I'm like what the h-e-double hockey sticks. So I go to the office and show them the hole in my knee and the rock and they put a band-aide on it and send me home. I was sad. It was sad. But that is the first memory of my pain. I still have the scar. Emotionally and physically.

Here is my Essay

Krystal F.
English 123
Essay

The Great Expectations of Matilda

Mister Pip is an amazing tale of a young lady Matilda. She lives on this island with her Mom, Her dad lives in Australia trying to make money to send to them, and meanwhile on this island in the Solomon Islands is at war. There are the Redskins and the Rebels. There are no white people left but Mr. Watts or “Pop eye”. He lives with his wife Grace who is black. Mr. Watts starts to teach because all the teachers are gone. When he is at the school house he introduces them to Mr. Dickens (Charles dickens to most) and Great Expectations. In this book they learn of Pip and his amazing story of becoming a gentleman. It is a story of fiction and that does not sit well with her mom who reads the Bible and thinks Mr. Dickens is the white devil. There is a lot of drama and sadness in this book. There is Gain and loss and what is good gain and what is good loss, living a life less ordinary as to leave a legacy, and being what people make us to be when we are gone.
"There are something’s you never expect to loose, things you think will forever be a part of you, even if it's only a toe nail." then him and Matilda go on about "losing" a big toe nail and she says nothing is lost because another one will grow back. He then says "Except that particular toenail. You could say that same about a house or ones country. No two are the same" (Jones, 2006, pg. 69). Mr. Watts wanted Matilda to know the value or meaning of losing someone or something and it not being able to replace the meaning of the original. When the Redskins came to find out who Pip was, Matilda had put Pips name in big letters with rocks on the beach. When no one could prove who Pip was, the book was missing from the school house when Mr. Dickens (Mr. Watts) told Matilda to get it. It was not there. The Redskins in a fit of anger gathered the villages’ belongings out of their houses and lit them on fire. Matilda lost her shoes that her dad gave her. Replacing them would not have brought the meaning of the first pair. They were small and hurt her feet but they still meant something coming from her dad. It was a material possession When the Redskins had left Matilda saw her fathers mat in the rafters of her house and there rolled up inside was the book. Great Expectations with Pip inside the binding. Matilda’s mom had stolen it because she considered fiction to be the white devils work. The Redskins come back to see if any one has found this Pip character, and that is just what he was a fictional character, and no one responded. Even though two people knew they could stop this madness and didn’t. So here are the Redskins wanting to know who Pip is and Matilda can’t speak up because she is afraid of her mom and does not want to get her mom in trouble. Her mom does not speak up because she does not want anyone to know the trouble she has caused. So they go into everyone’s houses, this one guy even pisses in someone’s house and sets them ablaze. They have now lost their houses. There is nothing like losing a house, or a pair of shoes that mean something or a life. Pip lost his life in that fire too.
"Curiosity killed the car" was Mr. Watts explanation, "If everything we did made sense the world would be a different place. Life would be less interesting" (Jones, 200, pg. 92). A life less ordinary is one worth living. Mr. Watts made life more interesting by going around in a red clown nose and a wagon with his wife in the back. He made his wife’s life a little less ordinary. It left a little mystery to Mr. and Mrs. Watts. How Matilda made Pip her friend, this imaginary character from a fictional book made it so Matilda’s life wasn’t so plan on this little island. Reading Great expectations made it so the children could escape into a world where there is not war. It made them want to come to class, and it made their lives a little more bearable and interesting. They made Mr. Watts into a legacy in their minds. They recounted the story when "Great Expectations" was lost in the house fires. It made them think. Made them use their imaginations. Life was a little more exciting. It is what you do with this life that is going to matter in the end. How you live it and how people remember you for doing it. When you leave this world how are they going to remember you?
“To sort of fall out of who you are into another, as well as to journey back to some essential sense of self. We only see what we see. I didn't know the Mr. Watts that June Watts knew. I only know that man who took us kids by the hand and taught us how to regime the world and our lives. Your ship could come in at anytime, and that ship could take many forms. Your Mr. Jaggers might even turn out to be a log” (Jones, 2006, pg. 244-245).
Grace never "snapping" out of Queen Sheba caused her to fall out of being a dental student to Queen Sheba. Her ship was Queen Sheba and the comfort that being her brought. Mr. Watts losing himself in his stories that he told about his life, along with Matilda and the rest of the village. Mr. Watts was Mr. Dickens to the Redskins because that is all he could think of at the time. He was also Pip to the Rebels. His ship was getting lost in the fiction. Matilda’s ship is when she was holding onto the log that she called Mr. Jaggers. The log saved her life just as Mr. Jaggers did in Pips life.
“Mr. Watts was more elusive as ever. He was whatever he needed to be, what we asked him to be. Perhaps there are lives like that- they pour into whenever space we have already made for them to fill. We needed a teacher, Mr. Watts became a teacher. We needed a magician to conjure up other words, and Mr. W had become that magician. We needed a savior, Mr. Watts filled that roll. When the redskins required a life, Mr. Watts had given himself” (Jones, 2006, pg. 245).
Mr. Watts pretending to be Pip when the Rebels were around. Telling the Rebels stories of when he lived in London and Grace his wife and of the Mayfly. All of this was to distract the Rebels from raping and murdering while occupying their village. Mr. Dickens was needed when the Redskins were around and he took the roll to protect everyone else from them. Matilda’s Mom had been her savior. She would sleep in front of the door when the Rebels were in town. Matilda’s Mom also saved her from a horrible rapping and beating from the Redskins. Her Mom sacrificed her life but left a legacy of being a wonderful Mom. She has been poured into that position. Matilda being whatever someone needed her to be. She had to be a strong little girl when it came to her mother. Someone who reads the Bible and listens to whatever she says and does not believe in the fiction Mr. Watts was reading to them. Mr. Watts being a teacher when the kids needed one and reading to them about Pip. Being the life that was required when the Redskinds went looking for one. . Mr. Watts needed Matilda to be a leader. She was the messenger, the interpreter, and the mediator for all situations. In the end Matilda was what she wanted to be. Free.
Although Matilda has been through a lot in losing her shoes, her Mom, MR. Watts it seems that she understand gains and loss. She has understood the legacy that her Mother and Mr. Watts had left behind, and what people make us out to be As in Grace, her mom and Mr. Dickens, Her and her Mom. There is so much heartache and Matilda overcomes it. She had great expectations of herself and it worked.

Work Cited: Lloyd Jones, Dial The Press, Published 2006. Pg 256.

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The Expectations of Matilda

I am not going to be in class today so I will put what I'm going to write about on here.
I will be writing about losing things. Like when their belongins were burned, when Matilda ran to the school house to find "Great Expectations" and it was missing and how that effected the hole village, When there houses got burned and rebuilding them, losing Mr. Watts and remembering him. Her mother and how she feels about it and her Island. I am going from the quote on page 69 "There are somethings you never expect to loose, things you think will forever be a part of you, even if it's only a toe nail." then him and matilda go on about "losing" a big toe nail and she says nothing is lost because another one will grow back. he then says "Except that particular toenail.YOu could say that same about a house or ones country. No two are the same. you gain as you lose and vise versa."
Pg. 92 "Curiosity killed the car" was Mr. Watts explanation, "If everything we did made sense the world would be a different place. Life would be less interesting."
A life less ordinary is one worth living. He made his life more interesting when he told the stories by the campfire. How Matilda made Pip her friend, it made her life more interesting. Reading Great expectations made the children's lives more interesting and made them want to go to school to hear what was going to happen next. They recounted the story when "Great Expectations" was lost. That made them think and have something to look forward to when the book was lost.
Pg. 244-245 To sort of fall our of who you are into another as well as to journey back to some essential sense of self. We only see what we see. I didn't know the Mr. Watts that June Watts knew. I only know that man who took us kids by the hand and taught us how to regime the world and our lives. Your ship could come in at anytime, and that ship could take many forms. your Mr. Jaggers might even turn out to be a log. Grace going insane and never "snapping" our of Queen Sheaba. Mr. Watts getting lost in his stories along with Matilda and the rest of the village. Mr. Watts becoming Mr. Dickens to the Redskins and Pip to the rebells. The next paragraph tells us that He was whatever he needed to be, what we asked him to be. Perhaps there are lives like that- They pour into whaever space we have already made for them to fill. We needed a teacher, Mr. Watts became a teacher. We needed a magician to conjure up other words, and Mr. W had became that magician. We needed a savior, Mr. W filled that roll. When the redskins required a life, Mr. W had given himself.

Sonnet

Kayven’s Sonnet!
By: your mommy

I love you! Let me count the ways on your
Toes! You are Mom’s hunky monkey always!
I love making you giggle everyday all day yeah!
I can hear you coming down the hallway.

You are 18 pounds and twenty eight inches long!
Turkey and potatoes are all over you!
“You are my sunshine” is our happy song!
Please don’t kick off your green monkey shoes! Ha!

Cooing and cawing makes me want to play.
This old man he played nick-knack once again.
Your eyes are beautiful like a blue-jay!
Someday we will go to beautiful Spain!

I love you Bubbies always and forever!
I can’t wait to see you grow up to a wonderful man!

Love you always,
Your mommy!



This was my favorite assignment so far!