RE VIEW

The first thing I noticed in my blogs is that they sound much more intellegent than what I normally say. I actually sound like i know what I'm talking about and use words larger than because. I would say the overall mood of my blog is very informative, there are short burst of passion but other than that the word choice is kind of boring.
I really like this sentence, "While Romeo is a hopeless optimist thinking that everything will go just dandy as he marries his enemy." It shows my hatred for all things pathetic. I would say the over all theme for my blog is Emotions cause problems. Examples: Romance novels, Romeo, Pip's regret, Aunt Augusta being stuck up because she feels like she should be more important than she is, and my hatred for new years (take that world). But I also talk about how personal knowledge (experiences) is more important than anything else. Like in the case of Atticus Finch, he defends a black person because he knows form his own life that they are people too as opposed to uncivilised savages as society sees them. or in the case of lessons I actually contradict my beliefs, I learn nothing from others unlike what I wrote, i need to make my own mistakes and have my own epiphanies. My favorite piece from my entire blog is the picture I choose for Pip's regret, the skeleton looking at his human shadow. It is so open to interpretation that it can be used for everything. But I want to use it now, as an aid of my rejection, I am now looking back at my blogs and learning from them like someone who died would do with their life. Or that as I leave one year that the structure of my body brings the thoughts on to the next year. Think of the years as different skins to cover the bones. I think a quote that reflects my blog well is said by Albert Einstein, "Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning." i like it because it goes with my picture and let's me know that as life goes on you shouldn't dwell on the past, you should live where you are and enjoy it and never to stop learning.

summer reading

I am Lucas Henry Johnson and I would enjoy reading The Notebook by Nicolas Sparks and Charlie and the Chocolate factory by Rold Dahl because I really enjoy candy and I love romance novels.

Capulet, a family and a band

I was searching random terms from Romeo and Juliet when i found a band on MySpace music called Capulet, they're a slow rock type, down to earth. http://www.myspace.com/capuletuk is the link, i am specifically talking about their song Champ, that I am listening to while I write this.
I feel like the band reflects Juliet the Capulet part of the relationship well. She might be a romantic like Romeo, but unlike him she realizes the hardship that will follow their relationship if they choose to follow their "love." While Romeo is a hopeless optimist hoping everything will go just dandy as he marries his enemy. Capulet is an accurate portrayal of what Juliet's thoughts are after meeting Romeo, her star crossed lover.

photo post

I couldn't decide which of these two pictures to choose for my favorite part of the book so far, when pip is leaving and he is regretting his decision to leave his life behind. They capture the idea in different ways, the carriage is showing that he is moving forward and the skeleton with the human shadow because he is looking back at what he had. I decided that even though we were only supposed to put one picture up I'd put two to tie the views of the same moment together. The moment being a point where pip shows us once again that he isn't a jerk all the time but only most of the time, by feeling genuine emotion and showing it through crying and his thoughts of getting out of the vehicle and walking back to his family. I think he feels the worst about not having Joe walk with him to leave. Even though in the moment he seamed very confident he was just overcompensating for the extreme feelings of separation he is going to have later.

TELTIBE reppin'!!!!!! XD pWn3d n00bZ RaWr essay (BeAsT)

hey group kids, aka TELTIBE reppin'
my three points about aunt agusta are her saying she doesn't want to undecieve her husband, her thinkning that cecily is more attractive with money and her saying that jack is not on her list of eligible young men.
how do you think i should order them and transition to the next paragraph? whomever goes after me. I am also having trouble bringing it all together.

Earnest Research

In researching the Victorian Era I didn't see much need. but then getting into the play I am glad we were required too. It made two things more easy to understand. the first being the marriage factor and the second the classes playing a huge roll in everything.
In marriage, I would have been quite confused by why an 18 year old woman would want to marry a 30 something year old man. the woman would have been lucky to get someone this young it was typical for men in their forties to marry teenagers. which now is rare if not illegal depending on the age of the teenager. The role of the actual marriage is only to bond two families wealth. so this marriage of love is a strange thing of the times as alluded to by the men when they said, "The number of women in London who flirt with their husbands is perfectly scandalous!" this just shows that marriage is not a thing of romance purely wealth.
that brings me to the class section of this blog. The classes are a huge role in everything that happened in the time. I always thought of the butlers as sassy and very pessimistic due to them working for someone of higher class than them. This is proven when lane says, "It never is, sir." in regards to Algernon telling him that tomorrow is going to be a good day. The classes have a roll in the marriage too, as soon as Aunt Augusta learns that Cecily has a huge amount of money she is interested in her. this is because if her nephew Algernon marries her she gets a large amount of wealth and based on many hours of research I can conclude that class is directly related to wealth.

2010

My biggest problem when it comes to anything not just school related items is, as the world could guess, procrastination. I put everything off until the last possible moment, which oftern leads to losing sleep and not a lot of focus the next day. This is not just a one year thing i will be battling this ailment for the rest of my life. Some ways I can work on this are doing my homework at a reasonable hour and when I'm asked to do a chore, (i.e. feed the cat) I'll do it when I'm told instead of saying I'll doing it later and eventually just not doing it. My guess would be that as I mature the urge to procrasinate will increase, making the job of resisting this urge harder, so I need to begin my life long struggle as soon as possible. Although I find it silly that people wait to make changes in their lives until a certain date, I decided to join the trend and quit complaining.
Take that world.