Hawaii Trip Tommy B.

This past week i went to a small island in the islands of hawaii called kauai. I stayed for a total of 7 days 8 nights. This was my 11th timt to this particular island and i must say it was the best and most memeorable time. I did more during this trip than i have ever done when going there. Everything from swimming in the hotel pools all day to going ziplining and deep sea fishing. My most memorable moment from the trip was going down the 900 foot zipline overlooking the wetest place on earth known as wymaya canyon, it was so green and imense of soo much natural life. While there i also attended a wedding which was on the beach at a resturant at sunset this just tottaly toped off the vacation. The weather while on the isalnd was just amazing it stayed 90 all day and droped to about 80 at night. The food was so delicious i ate more fish than i have ever ate. My favorite meal was the mayi mayi fish and chips i got the third night. Overall this trip was soo relaxing and i had a amazing time and i hope to share more with whomever wishes. Thanks.

Rhetorical Devices

Allusion

Definition: an indirect reference, often to another text or an historic event.
Example: In George W. Bush's speech, he states, "And I pray they will be comforted by a power greater than any of us, spoken through the ages in Psalm 23: 'Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for you ae with me' ". This is an example of an allusion.

my grade

Ms. A i just checked mygradebook.com and it says i am missing 3 things
my lifeboat precis which is on the blogg
my afterward precis which i did with Kenny Brown today
and my research paper #3 which you graded and i received a score of 20/25
please fix it ASAP thanks.

Juxtaposition

It's when you place two things side by side, in order to create an effect. Jay and Bob hanging out together.Jay is an annoying, skinny, loud-mouthed dude. Bob is a laid back and silent guy.

Rhetorical Device

In Tracy Kidder's Mountains Beyond Mountains, Kidder uses the rhetorical device of tone to emphasize how Dr. Paul Farmer is. In the book Tracy Kidder quotes Dr.Paul Farmer using his dirty language in order to show his sarcasm most of the time. This device is very useful in showing how the character is.

Literary Devices

"Good coffee is like friendship: rich and warm and strong." (simile)
"I can mingle with the stars, and throw a party on Mars;
I am a prisoner locked up behind Xanax bars."(metaphor)
"Unseen, in the background, Fate was quietly slipping the lead into the boxing gloves."(personification)

Rhetorical Device

Paralepsis: The rhetorical strategy of emphasizing a point by seeming to pass over it.

examples of it:
"The Tooth, the Whole Tooth, and Nothing but the Tooth," Robert Benchley employs paralepsis for comic effect, describing "the scene in the dentist's waiting-room" after disclaiming any intention of doing so.

Rhetorical Device

PARADOX

• Definition: A seemingly contradictory statement that may nonetheless be true


• Example: The living dead, bittersweet

Rhetorical Device Amani Albahri

Loaded language: words with strong emotional overtones or connotations. Both positive and negative. Usually biased.
function: to evoke emotion from the audience

examples: Fair Language: “You have asked for my views on the man named Mr. Smithers. He has been a valued employee here for years. If you can find a position for him in the management sector of your company, I will be pleased.”

Loaded Language: “You have asked for my views on that creature named Smithers. He has been a clinging nuisance here for ages. If you can find a crevice for him in the woodwork of your sweatshop, I will be relieved.”

Juxtaposition

Definition: things that are placed together with contrasting effect in a text


Examples:In "Romeo and Juliet":
-young and old age
-servants and nobles
-Romeo's personality with Tybalt's personality

Lists: a series of related items in a meaningful grouping or sequence

examples:

1. Red

2. Blue

3. Green

4. Purple

5. Double Double

...this is a list of different lightsabers and fruity patties

Rhetorical Device: Anastrophe

Anastrophe

Definition: Figure of speech in which a language's usual word order is inverted

Examples:

• Smart you are: You are smart
• Save you it can: Can you save it
• Quickly we must go: We must go quickly
• Big rock is: Rock is big

Anastrophe emphasizes the displaced word or phrase.

Rhetorical Device

Anecdote

Meaning: An anecdote is a short and interesting story taken from a person's past experience - or that of someone they know or have heard about.

Example: Essay that asks a writer to persuade the readers that homeless people suffer and need help.

Person gives a story about his past friend in order to persuade the readers to understand that homeless people suffer and need help.

'I know that many of you think the homeless are a lost cause and that they are lazy good for nothings. Well, of course, that might be true for some of them, but let me tell you about Dave. I went to school with Dave for three years until Year 11. It was just before our exams when Dave's mum and dad hit problems - big-time! From there on in life began to fall apart for Dave. He just wasn't able to cope. By the time he was eighteen, when I was sitting for my A-levels, Dave was on the streets...'

from: http://www.englishbiz.co.uk/extras/writingskillsanecdotes.htm

Rhetorical Device: Paradox

Definition: a statement that appears contradictory but is actually true.

Function: To point out an apparent contradiction.

Examples:

• "I must be cruel to be kind." (Shakespeare)
• "War is Peace" "Freedom is Slavery" "Ignorance is Strength" (George Orwell, 1984)
• Nobody goes to that restaurant, it's too crowded.
• If you get this message, call me; if you don't, then don't worry about it.

Rhetorical Device

Juxtaposition
Definition:

an act or instance of placing close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast. It is almost the use of opposites to create an effect

Example: Life and death, hot and cold

Rhetorical Device

Amplification: involves repeating a word or expression while adding more detail to it , in order to emphasize what might otherwise be passed over, which means that the amplification allows to call attention to a particular thing to expand a word or the idea that want to be expressed in order to make sure the reader realizes its importance.

Example: in my hunger after ten days of rigorous dieting i saw visions of ice cream--mountains of creamy, lusciuos ice cream, dripping with gooey syrup and calories.

Extra Credit Rhetorical Device: Allusion

Definition: An indirect reference, often to another text or an historic event

Function: to lend authority to an idea, to make an association with something the reader knows.

Example:
"Psalm 23: 'Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for You are with me.'"
-President George W Bush, 9/11 speech

Rhetorical Device: Imagery

Definition: figurative description or illustration; rhetorical images collectively

Example:
"Becareful of that curse that falls on young lovers
It starts so soft and sweet and turns them into hunters"
-Florence and the Machine, Howl

"A fallen star
Fell from your heart
And landed in my eyes.

I screamed aloud
As I tore through them
And now it's left me blind."
-Florence and the Machine, Cosmic Love

A Rhetorical Device

Hyperbole: exaggeration for the purpose of emphasis. It's function is to provoke a response, to cast something in a strong light.

EXAMPLE'S: 

1. I'm so hungry i could eat a cow
2. I nearly died laughing from that joke
3. My teacher gave me papers a mile high                  

Rhetorical device: Chiasmus

Repetition of ideas in inverted order
Repetition of grammatical structures in inverted order (not to be mistaken with antimetabole, in which identical words are repeated and inverted).
 
Examples
 
But O, what damned minutes tells he o'er
Who dotes, yet doubts; suspects, yet strong loves.
—Shakespeare, Othello 3.3

Metaphor

"Terrorists attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America."

Anaphorism

Definition:
A breif statement of principle, truth, or opinion.

Example:
"If you always do what you did, then you will always get what you always got."

The message basically says that if you continue doing the same things then the results will always be the same.

Refrain

a refrain is a repeated line in poetry/text
e.g. in Tichbourne's Elegy by Charles Tichbourne he repeats 'and now my life is done' at the end of every stanza to empahsise his sense of regret and doom at his impending execution

Chapter 25

I haven't read all the way through the chapter yet, but I just want to give a little summary of what has happened in the book and what my thoughts are on it. Basically the chapter starts of with Farmer talking about how the atmosphere in Cange is very different and so callous compared to that of Boston, and how he can't stand how many people are talking about weight loss while others in Cange are losing their life to diseases and other illnesses. Then he begins to talk about patients who he has taken back to Boston in order to cure her, and one patient stood out the most and his name was John. Though in chapter five it does not talk about Farmers first hand account but rather this PIH'er name Serena. John is suffering from some sort of cancer that has caused swelling in his neck and the only way to save his life is to bring him back to Boston for surgery. Serena and another now have to go back to Haiti and bring him back, but when they do, they find that John is very sick and can't find a way to bring him back on a commercial plane due to his critical condition.

After reading John's illness and finding out about his history and how his siblings and father have died due to other ailments and now his mother is the only one alive, I felt very emotional because of how he still has the courage and capacity to stay alive when everything has been taken away from him on top of that he is dying from a very serious illness. It just shows the persistent attitude of John and how he can fight through the pain. To me his a very inspirational person not because of illness but his mentallity of never giving up.

Ms. Amezcua this is my post for last week. 9/5/2011

Mountains Beyond Mountains, Chapter 23

Chapter 23 discusses how Paul Farmer raises money for TB drugs in Russia. He gets his Russian friend Alex Goldfarb involved. Farmer sees what tuberculosis is like in a Russian prison. He treats the prisoners like people. Alex and Paul share conversations about costs and involvement of other people.

Chapter 23 Reflection

In the biographical narrative Mountains Beyond Mountains, by Tracy Kidder, chapter 23 makes a refernce to a term know as World Bank. I decided to research this term and I found out that thw Wold Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans to poor countries. The World Banks main goal is to reduce poverty around the world. Theres a total of 257 countries that are part of this organization, including the United States, with the headquarters located in Washington D.C. This institute was created in 1944, originally with the same goal, and is still around to this date.

Chapter 19

Chapter 19 was when little kids in Haiti were suffering from asthma and also Farmer realized that the dots treatment wasn't working efficiently. Farmer soon found out that with more people getting sick he would have to have more money for resources. We also discover that Jim Kim's personality is similar to Farmers. Kim felt that if he helped out the poor then he wouldn't be discriminated. Kim was discriminated because the town where he grew up in. Kim was the only Asian there.

MBM Ch.23

What I took from this chapter was that Paul Farmer is someone who always keeps his composure, even amidst more difficulty. As if dealing with the issues in Haiti and Peru weren't enough, Paul Farmer in this chapter demonstrates his capability in being able to take on any challenges willingly: in this case, Russia and it's worsened state of MDR-TB. Interestingly enough it's as if everyone around him has developed this same drive within themselves, I'm positive that there wasn't a single person who complained or acted like they weren't going to be able to handle the business in Russia on top of all the other needs that need to be attended to. Kidder also demonstrated Farmer's kindness and compassion at it's fullest, so far, in this chapter. Demonstrating how Farmer is blind when it comes to a person's history or or features how in his eyes he sees patients in need, and his unending ability to prioritize his patients before himself.

Chapter 23

In this chapter Farmer goes to Russia to visit a prison the which is infected by TB and by AIDS, and the problem is getting worst because they are all crowed in the same place sharing everything and coughing in each other's face, he even says that it's the worst place he have ever seen and he compares it to Haiti and Peru as the worst one. The main argument Farmer makes in this chapter is that the government has the major fault of this problem which is becoming a global issue because it is spreading fast. He also argues that just by changing the system they would be able to control TB so easily for this reason he tries to organize some projects and make some alliances with organizations so they can start making some changes like the World Food Bank.

Euphemisms Extra Credit

"Dear John"

Meaning: a letter (as to a soldier) in which a wife asks for a divorce or a girlfriend breaks off an engagement or a friendship

Orgin: An early reference to Dear John letters was made in a United Press article of March 21, 1944.
There are a number of theories on why the name John is used rather than any other. John was a common name in the United States at the time the term was coined. John is also the name used in many other terms that refer to an anonymous man or men, such as "John Doe" or "Dear John". Another possible source for the term is the "Dear John" soap opera which was on the radio from 1933 to 1944.

Euphemism Extra Credit: Shuffle off this Mortal Coil

Meaning:

Die

Origin:

Taken from Shakespeares Hamlet 'To be or not to be speech'

EXTRA CREDIT; Euphemisms

Kick the Bucket

Meaning
To die.

Origin:
The phrase originates from the notion that people hanged themselves by standing on a bucket with a noose around their neck and then kicking the bucket away.

EXTRA CREDIT: Euphemism

In An Interesting Condition

meaning: pregnant

Origin: In the 18th century, interesting has been used as a term for being pregnant. Women were considered to be in an interesting state and child birth was called interesting event. This phrase was used by the Hagerstown Torch Light, which was printed out in September 1846

Chapter 21 reflection

Chapter 21 starts off with Kidder introducing another friend of Farmer, his name is Jorge Perez, and he is a Cuban doctor. Farmer is now at Cuba. Cuba and Haiti are very different when it comes to health. The health statistics in Cuba are the most accurate in the world, vetted by WHO. Though the health statistics are precise, some young Cuban doctors have never been in a situation where their patient has been diagnosed with malaria. Farmer is very appreciative with the medicine Cuba is providing. The doctors are poorly paid, yet they are trained very well. The main reason why Farmer went to Cuba was to raise money for his patients in Haiti. He felt guilty about leaving Haiti to go to Cuba, but it was for the good. Farmer also respected Jorge Perez, he had a great doctor-to-patient relationship. Farmer then goes on to question The Marxist analysis. He believed it was undeniably accurate. He also questioned many other "ologies." He did not understand them and he distrusted them.

Euphemisms

Euphemism: Put on the wooden overcoat.

Meaning: To die.

Origin: The 'wooden overcoat' is the coffin. This colloquial phrase is not recorded in many reference works and the origin is uncertain. It appreas to be American in origin and most of the early printing citations come ffrom the USA.

Extra Credit Amani Albahri

Departed: a person who has died or people who have died.
example:We will always remember our dear departed friends.

Origin:
1175–1225; Middle English departen < Old French departir, equivalent to de- de- + partir to go away; see part ( v.)