Word of the Day October 23-25

• Candor 
• Openness, being open 
• Noun 
• Gerald was very candor with the policeman when he was questioned. 
• Greg was always so candor, you could ask him anything and he would tell you the truth. 
• Apathetic 
• Lack of feeling or emotion 
• Adjective 
• The news reporter seemed oddly apathetic when covering a fatal car crash. 
• The apathetic man only shrugged when someone told him they hit his dog.
• Transitory 
• Temporary or brief 
• Adjective 
• There was a transitory moment when Chris thought he was being watched, but he soon came to the conclusion that he was being paranoid. 
• For a transitory moment, the stranded man thought he saw a boat out on the water.

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• Ferret 
• To bring notice of something forward
• Verb 
• The vaccine for polio was ferreted out by Jonas Salk.
• The rats in the kitchen were ferreted out by the exterminator.

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• Consecrated 
• Something that its made holy 
• Adjective 
• The consecrated Indian Burial Grounds cursed whoever settled on them.
• The church is a place for consecrated worship.

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• Rampant 
• Uncontrolled 
• Adjective 
• The dragon ran rampant throughout the town. 
• The rampant honey badger destroyed the home of the ants. 

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• Dislocate 
• To lose something 
• verb 
• I dislocated my phone, then found it after i bought a new one. 
• After Christine dislocated her wallet, her identity was stolen. 

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• Mandatory 
• Required 
• Adjective 
• The mandatory health inspection threatened to close the restaurant. 
• The assignment was mandatory and whoever didn't do it failed. 

Word of the Day October 10 & 11

• Labile
• Adaptable 
• Adjective 
• The honey badger is a very labile creature. 
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• Chromatic 
• Related to Colors 
• Adjective 
• The signs held up at the sports event were very chromatic. 
• His jersey collection was organized in a chromatic way. 

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• Gruesome 
• Ugly or Frightful 
• Adjective
• The injury was so gruesome I could hardly look at it.
• My friend's Halloween costume was gruesome. 

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• Desultory 
• Going from one thing to another without a logical order 
• Adjective 
• The recipe seemed to be desultory, but the cookies turned out to be exceptional  
• The student's essay was desultory.

Word of the Day October 1st & 2nd

• Camouflage 
• A disguise to used to blend in
• Noun 
• The soldier's camouflage allowed him to blend into the grass. 
•  My camouflage helped me blend in with the red wall. 
• Corpulent 
• Obese 
• Adjective 
• The corpulent man waddled his way into McDonald's for the 3rd time that day. 
• The slaughter house chose only the most healthy and corpulent cows for the meat. 

Gatsby

     I think that Gatsby represents the american dream in The Great Gatsby. From his childhood he would always hope of becoming successful, despite being the son of a farmer. He was able to achieve that goal, although not through entirely honorable means. Along the way he fell in love with Daisy. His desire to get her back is like the part of the american dream wanting to achieve something. In the end, however, he falls short. Most of the time when someone is pursuing the american dream, they don't fully achieve what they want.

Word of the Day September 26 & 27

• Boorish 
• Rude 
• Adjective
• The boorish man didn't apologize as he pushed the the crowd. 
• The boorish tourists drove 5 under the whole way. 
• Salvage 
• To rescue or save 
• Verb 
• I salvaged working parts from my computer after it broke. 
• The salvaged boat was pulled to shore to be investigated after it's wreak. 

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• Diverse 
• Being of many different kinds or qualities 
• Adjective 
• He had a diverse wardrobe because he wore something different every day.
• The rainbow has many diverse colors.

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• Felon 
• A criminal 
• Noun 
• The felon stood trial for robbing the gas station.  
• The felon was never caught.

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• Forestall 
• To prevent an anticipated event 
• Verb 
• I forestalled the efforts of the TPers by staying up all night. 
• Someone had forestalled attempt to break a world record by shooting me with a sleep dart. 

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• Aggravate 
• To annoy, make a situation worse 
• Verb 
• When dropped salt on my arm and it aggravated my wound. 
• My little cousin was aggravating me.

Lonely Myrtle

     In the Book The Great Gatsby the character Myrtle Wilson shows the theme of loneliness. She is lonely because she doesn't really love her spouse. In order to try and find happiness, she cheats on her husband with Tom Buchanan. However, she is still a very lonely character even with Tom. She wants to to divorce her husband so she can marry Tom, but Tom says that he can't convince Daisy to get a divorce because she's catholic. We soon learn this is a lie, making us assume that he doesn't really want to marry Myrtle most likely because she is lower-class than she is. What could make someone lonelier than that?

Word of the Day September 16th-19th

• Aver 
• To say something is true 
• Verb 
• I averred that I had done my homework, it was just at home.
• Sometimes i aver I didn't think practice was hard, even though I did.
• Celerity 
• A quick motion 
• Noun 
• I delivered the mail with celerity.
• The runner ran his race with celerity. 
• Repulsive 
• Disgusting 
• adjective 
• The burger at McDonald's was repulsive. 
• The repulsive hamburger came to life. 
• Benefactor
• Someone who helps others
• Noun 
• The benefactor was working at the soup kitchen.
• Free brownies were given out by a benefactor.

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• Immolate 
• To sacrifice someone, mostly by fire
• Verb 
• The tribe seized the outsider and immolated him. 
• In ancient Greece the people would immolate animals to the Gods.  

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• Confront 
• To face someone or something 
• Verb 
• When he found out who was dumping trash on his lawn, Carl decided to confront him. 
• Greg confronted Mr. Anderson and asked how he could get his grade up.

American Dream

      The American dream is that everyone can have a great life with equal opportunity. It is a not a dream of material possessions, but one where everyone will be recognized for their abilities, no matter who they are.

   

      I believe in the American dream.  I believe in it because i think that everyone deserves to be recognized for any accomplishment, even for something as small as fixing a printer. While having material possessions can be nice, it's more important that you can work hard and be recognized for it regardless of your background, because that will last longer than something you own. The American Dream says that you should be able to do anything that you want to do if you put your mind to it and work hard. It's a concept we can all relate to, and that's why I believe in it.

Word of the Day

• Recipient 
• Someone who receives something
• Noun 
• The UPS delivery man gave the package to it's recipient.
• The recipient opened his package and was surprised. 

Prejudice in To Kill A Mockingbird

            In chapter 9 Jem and Scout receive air rifles for Christmas. In chapter 10 Atticus tells them that they can shoot at any blue jay they see, but not mockingbirds, killing a mockingbird is a sin.  Later, Miss Maudie says this is because mocking birds don’t harm anyone and provide beautiful music. I predict that throughout the book black people will constantly be ostracized by others, specifically the black man that Atticus is defending in court, Tom Robinson.  If we get to hear about his case, I think that it will come to a result that was made up because of others prejudices.  For example, I think that the evidence will not be enough to completely convict Tom of whatever crime he is being accused of, but the jury will still vote guilty because they are from the south and it isn’t too long after the civil war, so there must still be a lot of racism toward blacks in this book.  However, I don’t think that prejudices’ will be completely directed at blacks in this book. Another person that I think that will be affected by people’s prejudices is Boo Radley.  He hasn’t been seen for a while and there are many rumors going around about him.  I think that when and if he comes out he will be treated like a monster for some time, despite the possibility that he is probably very harmless.  If he does eventually become seen as a harmless man, I think that it will be a while because of what everyone thinks of him already.  All in all, I think that there will be a variety of people affected by prejudice throughout this book. Whether it be Tom Robinson, Boo Radley, or someone else, we may even meet another character that if affected by prejudice later on.

Boo Radley Character Devolpment

                Boo Radley has so far been portrayed as a creepy, animal-like man.  As the book progresses, I think that this portrayal will change.  I predict that when the children first meet Boo, he will seem like an animal, because he has always spent his time inside.  However, as they spend time with him, he will start to seem less and sell like the stereotypes that they have heard for their entire lives.  He could very well only go out at night, but I don’t think that he peeks inside homes and eats animals raw. I think that as the story progresses Boo will come out at times and have subtle influences on what is going on, up until the point where they actually get him to come out. All of the rumors are most likely just that, rumors. How crazy he actually is still remains to be seen. While he may not seem like a completely sane human being at first when they meet him, by the end of the book he might seem more sane than he does now. 

Mistakes of the Judicial Branch

     Our Judicial Branch has a bit of a rough history.  While it has made mostly good calls in its lifetime, I believe that it has there have been some times when they’ve made some bad choices, or weren’t completely in control of what they were supposed to be. One such instance was when the issue of whether or not to make the Native American’s move to designated areas.  The Supreme Court was charged with making the decision, and they decided that it was unconstitutional to make them move, which I think was the right choice.  However, the president didn’t agree with them and decided to go ahead and make all of the Native Americans move to the places that we weren’t going to use.  The system didn’t work the way it was supposed to. There were also times when the judicial branch has made decisions that were completely unfair, especially when looking at them by today’s views.  Back in the 1920s a black man named Homer Plessy filed a lawsuit against a railway system because they forced him to sit in a separate train car than white people.  Courts kept ruling against him, and he kept bringing the case to higher and higher courts. Eventually the case made it to the Supreme Court.  The Supreme Court ruled against Plessy, saying that separating people by race still kept them equal.  This introduced segregation as a lawful and accepted practice.  Back then it probably wasn’t so easy to realize the unfairness, but today almost everyone sees it.  As you can see, courts around America have made many mistakes, even the Supreme Court.  The judicial branch has not always worked the way that it was supposed to, and will probably continue to make mistakes in its judgment, even if those mistakes aren’t recognized for years to come.