VALUE OF LEARNING/VALUE OF LIFE

My week should look pretty grueling. Wednesday i will be assigned a section to read from the value of learning packet. I will hopefully get all my questioned answered by the time the class period is over. I will then post everything to my blog Thursday night, along with the rest of my group's work, and then come to class on Friday with everything done. My group has 6 people in it, so we are splitting ourselves into 2 smaller groups, each with one section to read. We will then check each other's work and post everyone's work onto our own blogs, with the credit given.

Master Vocabulary List For Midterm #1

Vocabulary #1
Expository: to set forth or explain
Composition: combining parts or elements to form a whole
Assuage: make milder or less severe
Decadence: act of falling ito an inferior condition or state
Hackneyed: make commonplace
Coalition: combination or alliance
Transcend: rise above or go beyond
Meritorious: deserving praise
Lurid: gruesome, horrible
Petulant: showing sudden, impatient irritation

Vocabulary #2
Obesity: condition of being overweight
Accumulate: to gather or collect
Mass: a boy of coherent matter; collection of particles
Disease: a disorder or dis-functioning part of the body
Diet: particular selection of food
Prevalence: widespread
Stigma: mark of disgrace or infamy
Prevent: keep from occuring
Adolescent: growing to adulthood; youth
Cardiovascular: pertaining or affecting the heart
Excessive: going above and beyond the necessary limit
Mechanism: assembly of moving parts performing a complete function
Sedentary: accustomed to sit or rest a great deal to take little excersize
Predispose: give a tendency to beforehand
Syndrome: group of symptoms that come together that characterize a specific order

Vocabulary #3
Accomplice: a person who knowingly helps another in a crime or wrongdoing
Annihilate: to reduce to utter ruin or nonexistence
Arbitrary: subject to individual will or judgement without restrictions
Brazen: shameless or impudent
Catalyst: a person or thing that precipitates an event or change
Exodus: a going out, a departure
Facilitate: to make easier or less difficult
Incorrigible: bad beyond correction or reform
Latent: present but not visible
Militant: vigorously active and aggresive
Morose: gloomily or sullenly ill-humored
Opaque: not transparent or translucent
Paramount: above others in rank or authority
Prattle: talk in a foolish or simple-minded way
Rebut: to oppose by contrary proof
Reprimand: severe reproof or rebuke
Servitude: slavery or bondage of any kind
Slapdash: hasty, haphazard
Stagnant: not flowing or running
Succumb: to give way to superior force

Vocabulary #4
Accede: give consent or approval
Brandish: to shake or wave, as a weapon
Comprise: to include or contain
Deft: skillful
Destitute: without meaning or subsistence
Explicit: fully expressed or demonstrated
Extirpate: to remove or destroy totally
Inopportune: inappropriate or inconvenient
Ironic: using words to convey a meaning that is opposite of the meaning
Musty: lacking originality or vitality
Officious: official
Ominous: portending evil or harm
Pinnacle: a lofty peak
Premeditated: planned in advance, done deliberately
Rampant: violent in action or spirit
Solace: comfort in sorrow, misfortune, or trouble
Stately: majestic
Supple: bending readily without breaking
Suppress: put an end to activities of
Venal: willing to sell someones influence

Vocabulary #5
Adroit: expert or nimble in use of hands or body
Amicable: characterized by goodwill
Averse: strong feeling of opposition
Belligerent: warlike
Benevolent: kind feelings
Cursory: rapidly oer something
Duplicity: deceitfulness in speech or conduct
Extol: to praise highly
Feasable: capable of being done
Grimace: facial expression
Holocaust: complete disaster or destruction
Impervious: not permitting penetration
Impetus: a moving force
Jeapardy: risk or hazard to exposure or loss
Meticulous: showing extreme care to minute details
Nostalgia: wistful desire to return to past thoughts
Quintessence: pure concentrated essence
Retrogress: to go backwards to earlier/worse conditions
Scrutinize: to examine in detail
Tepid: moderately warm

Vocabulary #7
cursory: going rapidly over something
impetus: a moving force
pinnacle: the peak of something
contumely: insulting display of contempt
bereavement: period of mourning after a loss
cache: a hiding place, or being hidden
consummation: completion, an act of consummation
calamity: great misfortune or disaster
avarice: insatiable greed for riches
fortify: protect or strengthen
erratic: deviating from the usual or proper course in conduct or opinion
ubiquitous: existing or being everywhere, especially at the same time
fortitude: mental and emotional strength in facing difficulty, adversity
nonchalant: coolly unconcerned, indifferent, or unexcited;
affect: to act on
effect: something that is produced by action or cause
misappropriate: to put to a wrong use
pragmatic: of or pertaining to a practical point of view or practical considerations.
metacognition: higher-order thinking that enables understanding
devoutly: devoted to divine worship or service

Persuasive Reteric

Ethos: author's credibility/ what his impression is
Paythos: passion/care about what he is talking about
Logos: logic/ truth and validity. Reasoning and valid

Vocabulary #7

cursory: going rapidly over something
impetus: a moving force
pinnacle: the peak of something
contumely: insulting display of contempt
bereavement: period of mourning after a loss
cache: a hiding place, or being hidden
consummation: completion, an act of consummation
calamity: great misfortune or disaster
avarice: insatiable greed for riches
fortify: protect or strengthen
erratic: deviating from the usual or proper course in conduct or opinion
ubiquitous: existing or being everywhere, especially at the same time
fortitude: mental and emotional strength in facing difficulty, adversity
nonchalant: coolly unconcerned, indifferent, or unexcited;
affect: to act on
effect: something that is produced by action or cause
misappropriate: to put to a wrong use
pragmatic: of or pertaining to a practical point of view or practical considerations.
metacognition: higher-order thinking that enables understanding
devoutly: devoted to divine worship or service

TO BE OR NOT TO BE

I personally would go with what i already know to be true. I would not only want to change the world, but also fix what i have already created. The path i would take, is the honest route. I wouldnt want to step on people to get to where i want to be. Yeah it is what you have to do, but i would rather do it the hard way, so when i get to where i want to be, it feels that much sweeter.

My Translation to Hamlet's Work

To be or not to be, that is the question. In a way, he was talking about killing himself, but for the most part, that isnt what he was aiming for. Like Dr. Preston has previously explained, his uncle just killed his dad, and married his mom. Not only is his life so confusing at this point, but everything he knows the be stable, isnt anymore. He talks about sleep, sleep makes him escape from his messy world. Dreaming makes him go to a place where he is comfortable, where he can dream of the world he should be living in, and not the world that is actually around him at this point. Its so hard to translate, and i really want to know the actual translation, so can anyone help me with this?

Hamlet's Infamous Speech

To be, or not to be, that is the question:

Whether 'tis Nobler in the mind to suffer

The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune,

Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles,

And by opposing end them: to die, to sleep

No more; and by a sleep, to say we end

The Heart-ache, and the thousand Natural shocks

That Flesh is heir to? 'Tis a consummation

Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep,

To sleep, perchance to Dream; Aye, there's the rub,

For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come,

When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,

Must give us pause. There's the respect

That makes Calamity of so long life:

For who would bear the Whips and Scorns of time,

The Oppressor's wrong, the proud man's Contumely,

The pangs of despised Love, the Law’s delay,

The insolence of Office, and the Spurns

That patient merit of the unworthy takes,

When he himself might his Quietus make

With a bare Bodkin? Who would Fardels bear,

To grunt and sweat under a weary life,

But that the dread of something after death,

The undiscovered Country, from whose bourn

No Traveller returns, Puzzles the will,

And makes us rather bear those ills we have,

Than fly to others that we know not of.

Thus Conscience does make Cowards of us all,

And thus the Native hue of Resolution

Is sicklied o'er, with the pale cast of Thought,

And enterprises of great pitch and moment,

With this regard their Currents turn awry,

And lose the name of Action. Soft you now,

The fair Ophelia? Nymph, in thy Orisons

Be all my sins remembered.[2]