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AP Prompt Essay

AP Prompt Essay Question: Pretend to contribute to a magazine or newspaper; write an article describing a place you know well that might be of interest to readers. Define the significance, use descriptive detail to make attitude clear.

451 Fahrenheit answers update

The Chase is on

1) Why did the hound attack Montag?

      -- The hound attacked Montag because since the hound is meant to kill criminals or anyone who disobeys a law, Montag murdered Beatty and other firemen therefore making Montag a criminal.

2) How did Montag defend himself?

      -- Montag defended himself by using the flamethrower on the hound.

3) What did Montag realize about Beatty?

     -- Montag realizes that Beatty wanted to die. That is why, Beatty was throwing insults at Montag wanting him to use the flamethrower.

4) Where did Montag go?

     -- Montag was on his way to Faber's house but stopped on the way to one of his firemen's house to plant a book in there.

5) What happened when Montag crossed the street?

      -- Montag was able to barely dodge a speeding car, and since Clarisse died by getting ran over, Montag assumes that they are the ones who killed Clarisse

A Step Ahead of the Hound

1) What did Montag do at the Black's House?

     -- Before going to Faber's house, Montag when to the Black's house to plant one of the books.

2) How does Faber describe the war?

     -- (I don't know the answer to this, but I'll come back to it later)

3) Describe Faber's TV

    -- Faber's TV is small and was placed behind a picture.

4) What was on TV while Montag was on the run?

    -- The TV showed that they were still looking for Montag and assigned a new hound to capture him.

5) What was Montag running for when everyone locked out of their houses?

   -- Montag was running towards the river to find other writers.

Fahrenheit 451 answers part 2

1) Mildred is afraid getting caught by reading the books while Montag hopes that these books will lead to an understanding.

2) Montag wonders why the war is not discussed among the people in the society, or even on TV. He is also annoyed that they fly overhead constantly, without a moment's rest. But the people of the society believe that the war is nothing to worry about.

3) Professor Faber is a man that Montag met in a park a few years ago which this man gave his number to Montag also.

4) Since Montag was riding on the subway, he finds it very difficult to read the bible since there were advertisements that were too noisy. He then complains out loud which causes people to look at him. This part of the book is a turning point in his life because this is the first time he notices how advertisements or technology can get very annoying,

5) The argument that Faber creates for books is first the quality. He states the book s have quality because they speak both the evils of humanity as well as all the good things humans do. The second thing Faber argues is that the books require leisure. People have to take time to read and digest the books. Lastly, the third argument Faber states is the right to carry out actions based on what we learn from the interaction of the first two.

6) The "small green metal object" is the green bullet that goes in Montag's ear so that Faber can talk to him whenever. It allows Faber to listen in on the conversation that Montag has.

7) The White Clown TV shows the society of people to be mindless drones who are easily and cheaply amused.

8) Mrs. Phelps is carried away by the emotion of the poem because she has never heard a poem or read before. She begins crying, and she is not sure why. She says that she started crying because the poem was bad. She has been conditioned to believe that literature is bad, emotion is bad, and feelinfs is bad.

9) When Montag and Beatty arrive to their destination. Beatty watches Montag like a hawk because he wants to see how Montag will react to the realization that the house the men plan to burn tonight is Montag's. Montag realizes that someone turned him in so his books will be set on fire.

Fahrenheit 451 answers part 1

1) Bradberry starts off the story with, "It was pleasure to burn", to show readers that Montag enjoys and is happy by burning people's homes and books. It's more pleasure to burn books than reading the books because in the time zone of this book, they don't want people to gain more knowledge.

2) Bradberry compares the books to birds because it gives the reader the image of fluttering wings and feathers falling smoothly into the ground. It is a more descriptive way than simply saying "and the books burned."

3) The difference between Montag and Clarisse is that besides Montag actually going outside most of the time, he is curious about books and takes risks which means he is willing to break the rules while Clarisse has no interest in books at all, and would want to stick with the rules so that they won't get caught and killed.

4) In the book, Bradburry predicts that the size of our TV screen would get bigger. Also entering the "play" suggests a prediction that technology would be more interactive. Montag also predicts correctly on how technology can make the relationship of one another difficult.

5) I actually don't know the answer to this one. Oh well, i'll come back to it.

6) I think Bradburry is trying to to show the clear contrast of these two characters. Clarisse is this happy cheerful person while Montag's wife attempts suicide. I also think the author introduces this part of Montag's life because it shows that Montag really isn't happy.

7) All the houses are all fireproof in this book because this book is taking place in the future. And in the future, fireproof houses exits to keep people safe from fires.

8) Mildred required emergency service, for example, the police, ambulance, fire brigade, etc. because Mildred is very unhealthy. She needed her stomach pumped to take out the old blood and replace with it new blood.

9) A mechanical hound is a fake dog which looks real. This dog is made up of copper, brass, and steel. The job of the mechanical hound is to hunt people down who have books or criminals.

10) The society considers Clarisse as anti-social because she is anti-social. In school, she refuses to interact at school socially because she believes what they teach is useless and intended only for mind control.

11) The women lit the match because she didn't want to heave her books. They were hers and it was no use because her books were dead and she wanted to be dead with them.

12) The relationship of Montag and Mildred is fake love. They don't really love each other and they are also not happy with each other. In fact, they both can't remember where they went for their honeymoon.

13) The purpose Beatty's visit is to lecture Montag on how he should stop and not waste time on being curious about books. Beatty reminds Montag on why firefighters do what they do.

14) I don't have time to answer this question yet. I'll come back to it later.

15) Montag feels fat because of he feels all the new knowledge of and interest in books he has gained feels like a burden to him. This burden makes him feel uncomfortable in his body and affects him physically.



THANK YOU GOOGLE!!!!!!!

My College Fair experience

The college fair made me realize how time is really fast approaching. UGH! The stress! Anyways, we got inside the gym and was seated on the bleachers to see a quick power point. It was pretty cool I guess, I mean they mentioned about type of degrees for CC, CSU, UC, blah blah etc. After the power point was finished, we were all set to go to learn and ask questions from these booths. May I just say, it was hella crowded! You have to understand that there were 40 colleges here and probably around 180 students in the gym, so there would be lines on each booth. I asked questions such as, What are your top majors in this school? How is the social life there? and all that type of shiz. 

What I see in Literature? (Unfinished)

Some examples of imagery about Gatsby my group and I thought of is when the author talks about Gatsby's parties. We were talking about how we could easily imagine all kinds of people there, the laughter, the smell of alcohol, and the sound of loud music by the orchestras. We also talked about how we could picture Gatsby reaching out at the green light standing at the end of the dock. We could imagine the color of the green light and the smell of the ocean. My group and I talked about how these examples that we came up of, kind of relates to the theme the american dream.Where people would want to have wealth because they think wealth will bring them hope and happiness. So when Gatsby reaches out for the green light, we thought that Gatsby is reaching out to hope for a happy future. Prufrock was a little difficult since, we had a hard time understanding the poem. So we googled it. The last paragraph that we read together at the end of the class, my group and I agreed we could easily picture when the author talks about mermaids and women talking about Micheal Angelo. This imagery relates to how Prufrock spends his life appreciating beauty from afar and never really reaching out touch the women and the things he desires.

Are movies better than the books?

Some people may say that reading the book is much better than watching the movie, and I somewhat agree. The book gives you more details and draws you in, but sometimes reading the book can be a little bit boring. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that watching the movie is better than reading the book, it's just that people prefer the movie because of visual appeal. People watch movies to see action, listening to sound effects, and watching the cute characters on screen (,,,,,,hehe guilty),but sometimes when you read the book and watch the movie, you get disappointed. Why? It's because when you're reading the book you're already imagining what you think it should be. So while watching the movie we say "That's not how I pictured it!".

Gatsby Chapter 7 Notes

• Gatsby fires his servants because he doesn't want servants who will gossip about how Daisy comes over
• The characters of the book complain about how the weather is HOT
• Gatsby, Nick, and Jhordan gets lunch and Daisy's and Tom's place
• They all go out of town together, Tom, Jhordan, and Nick rides together in Gatsby's car while Daisy and Gatsby rides together in Tom's car
• Tom and them stops by Wilson's Garage for gas and Wilson talks about how he wants money so that he and Myrtle can go out.
• Myrtle thinks that Jhordan is "Daisy" and gets jealous
• Tom and Gatsby gets into an argument which causes the tension in the room to be awkward.
• Gatsby snaps and tells Tom that Daisy never loved him.

Gatsby Chapter 6 Notes

• Nick figures out Gatsby's backstory and turns out, he was lying about coming from a wealthy family.
• Gatsby comes from a really poor family and worked as an assistant in a yacht
• Weeks later, Tom and Daisy arrives at Gatsby's party
• Because of Tom disliking Gatsby, he watches out for Daisy
• Daisy gets upset at Tom because Tom said that Gatsby's fortune comes from bootlegging
• After the party ended, Gatsby is upset that Daisy had an unpleasant time at the party
• Gatsby believes that you CAN repeat the past

Gatsby Chapter 5 Notes

• Nick comes home and notices Gatsby's mansion lit up
• Gatsby seems nervous and kept on asking Nick on what he wants, he'll give it to him.
• Nick agrees to invite Daisy over for Tea.
• It rains on the Tea day
• Gatsby gets nervous when he sees Daisy and runs outside the rain and comes back inside
• At first it was awkward, so Nick left them alone and the awkward tension is gone.

Gatsby Test Grades (ALL PASSED!!)

Answer Key:
1) answers may vary, as long if it is not a nonsense answer
2) Tom's Mistress, Myrtle.
3) Tom made Nick come and meet her.
4) A puppy
5) The owl eyed man found the books extraordinary, because they were real and had pages.
6) Nick accidentally had a conversation with him
7) It's can be either or : a) he came from a wealthy family
                                      b) he grew up at Oxford and studied at Oxford Univiersity
                                      c) he was at war
8) Jordan revealed that Gatsby and Daisy were in love.

Gatsby Test Chapters 1-4

Chapter 1:
1) Does Nick have any interest in anyone ?
2) Who phone called Tom ?

Chapter 2:
1) How did Nick meet Tom's mistress ?
2) What did Tom buy for his mistress for their apartment in New York ?

Chapter 3:
1) Why did the owl eyed person find Gatsby's library so extraordinary ?
2) How did Nick finally meet Gatsby ?

Chapter 4:
1) Give one thing Gatsby told Nick about himself.
2) What did Jordan reveal to Nick ?

Gatsby Chapter 4 notes

• Nick mentions many people who attended Gatsby's party including the many famous people and wealthy people.
• Gatsby picks up Nick for lunch
• Gatsby tells nick a little bit about himself and Nick could tell parts on where he was lying or telling the truth.
• Police stops them for speeding but Gatsby shows the police officer a white card and lets them off the hook.
• A new character introduced ---- Meyer Wolfsheim, who responsible for fixing the 1919 world series.
• Jordan tells Nick about her conversation with Gatsby -----> Gatsby is in love with Daisy
• Jordan tells Nick that Gatsby bought his mansion in West Egg to live closer to Daisy.
• Gatsby wants Nick to invite Daisy for tea.

Gatsby Chapter 4

1) What "truth" does Gatsby tell Nick in this chapter ?

    --- First the obvious truth Gatsby told Nick is the fact that all the rumors he heard about him, are all a lie. Second, a truth he told Nick is his backstory. He told him that he was the son of wealthy people in the Middle West and states that they're all dead now. He told Nick that he studied in Oxford since it was a family tradition thing. But that could be a lie because Nick noticed he rushed on the "educated in Oxford" part. I feel like Gatsby was telling half a truth and a half a lie. There's still something fishy about him. But I do think he was telling the truth when he was talking about  him in the war because he took out a piece of metal slung on a ribbon when he was in Montenegro during the war.

2) What "truth" does Jordan tell Nick  ?

    ---- Okaaay, I'm having a hard time what's happening so far but I think the truth Jordan told Nick is the fact that when she met Daisy who had an unknown admirer, a military officer, named Jay Gatsby. And I think there was a love triangle toward Daisy, Jay, and Tom but she ends up marrying Tom. *sighs I don't know. This whole situation is giving me a headache.

Gatsby Chapter 3 Remix

For this remix, I thought it would be cool talking to Nick. Confused ? Okay well, I'm going to pretend I'm an unimportant character in the book who was invited by Gatsby to the party. And my character is just as confused and curious as Nick about Gatsby. I walk around the party, and I come across Nick and decided to have a conversation with him.

Me: How do you do ?
Nick: I'm doing fine, you ?
Me: I'm doing okay. This your first time attending to one of the biggest parties in the town ?
Nick: Sure is. Is it that obvious ?
Me: Pretty much. Don't worry, this is my first time attending to these kind of parties as well. Soooo.....Gatsby?
Nick: What about Gatsby ?
Me: Do you know anything about him ?
Nick: No I'm afraid not. I was walking around with my friend a while ago and I did hear some rumors about him.
Me: What kind of rumors ?
Nick: That he killed someone or that he's a German spy. Frankly, I don't blame them for making up those kind of rumors. I'm curious myself and I've spent most of my time looking for him in this party.
Me: Good to know. Enjoying the party so far ?
Nick: Yeah, I am. I'm talking to people getting to know them but they can get annoying though.
Me: Ah. yeah. I get what you mean.
Nick: Man.....this Gatsby is so mysterious. I need to know more. Well, nice chatting with you. I got to meet with my friend now.
Me: Okay, nice to meet you. Good luck on finding Gatsby! Bye.

Gatsby Notes 3

• displacement- when character is out of unfamiliar context (wrong place at the wrong time)
• anachronism- chronos = time ------> out of time
• prodigality- it's suppose to be there
• use of quotation marks can mean a sense of irony and humor
• Nick received an invitation of Gatsby's party (note)
• NICK FINALLY MEETS GATSBY!!! He was shocked because they were having a conversation and he didn't even know he was talking to Gatsby this whole time >0<
• People try to figure out Gatsby's past life or secrets (german spy, a killer, etc.)

Chapter 1 Quiz Answers

1. A
2. D
3. C
4. B
5. C
6. A
7. C
8. D
9. C
10. D
11. B
12. B

Chapter 2

• Tom dragged Nick into this garage (cars bought and sold) to see his girl 
• Turns out, Tom's "girl" is also cheating on her husband, Wilson.
• Tom and Myrtle goes to New York -------> Wilson thinks that she goes to see her sister
• Tom and Myrtle have an apartment together in New York
• Myrtle's sister, Catherine, whispers to Nick "Why be married to people you can't stand ? Just get a divorce and get married to each other already!"

What we talked about in class and chapter 2 notes

Today in class we covered up what was confusing to me and the class about chapter 1 :

• Daisy (2nd cousin removed), just a distant relative. Daisy and Nick are close enough to go to each others houses to have dinner, but not that close to trust each other
• Miss Barry is just a friend of Daisy and Tom and is NOT the one who's having an affair with Tom.

I honestly don't know anything for chapter 2 to come up with notes since we were rushing the reading a bit due to the 5 min. of class we had left.

Great Gatsby Remix

Warning!! This remix will be so crappy. The class and I didn't quite finish chapter 1 and I'm still getting use to this kind of style of writing so this remix will only be about from what I know. For this remix, I will be writing a poem based from what I have gotten so far from this book.

The narrator is chill and laid back 

but chapter 1 was a little bit difficult for me to crack

His father tells him not to judge people

and learns that some people are evil

The narrator finds a man interesting and finds a man unbelieving
His name is Gatsby (Wow that did not rhyme at all! Whoops.)
I don't know much from this chapter, and some of you might find this chapter cool
But I know the foreshadow, that beautiful girls are fools.

HAHA this sucks, I know. I tried so hard for everything to rhyme.  

The Great Gatsby Notes #2

• characters introduced: 1) Tom Buchahan
                                       2) Daisy (wife of tom)
                                       3) Miss Baker
• Tom Buchahan = a bully and a racist douchebag
• "Nouns are very expressive even if they're not saying anything" - Dr. Preston
• author used divan (couch) to make the readers feel sophisticated
• Miss baker looks down on Nick for living at the West Egg
• Foreshadow ---- "...I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool - that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful fool."

The Great Gatsby Notes #1

• the narrator is a very chill low key person
• father tells son to not judge other people
• the narrator learns that people lie, exaggerate, etc ---------> not everyone is nice and honest
• has interest in Gatsby
• lives at the west wigg and his house is crappy compared to gatsbys mansion

Everything is a Remix notes

Remix: to combine or edit existing materials to produce something new
---------> arrangement or transformation of creativity

Myths of creativity:
We create by domain knowledge, to try to mimic what people do, and transformation (to create and expand)

Elements of creativity:
Implications: Property
Loss Aversion: Why things happen ?
(the lone creators ideas are property and ideas contain other ideas.

Music as literature

Can we consider music as literature ? Uhh duh! Of course we can consider music as literature. Music and literature are so much alike. When you think of literature you think of writing, and when you think of writing, you think of books. What do books do ? They tell a story. Songs tells stories. There is no song in the world that does not tell a story or have any meaning. In literature, poems are also used. Well, there are many poetic songs out there such as "Take me to Church" by Hozier or even "Let her go" by the Passengers ( I recommend to listen to these songs because they're hella catchy ). Literature and Music both have meanings and a story.

HELLO 2017!

New year new me!! Haha just kidding. To be honest, I haven't changed that much. But as the year 2016 went by, I made some mistakes and I'm not ashamed of them. You know what they say "We learn from our mistakes.", so there is no way I'm going to repeat them in 2017. I haven't changed a whole lot but I did mature and took responsibility better than the me in January 2016. I'll try my best to make this my year, if not, there are still plenty of years to come :D.