Q4 Week 2 Comments

Griff S: Political Article Post

Savannah Y: Political Post

GOP Healthcare Problems

The article that I read on Fox News is a follow up of the failed GOP Healthcare Replacement. Joseph Weber mainly talks about what the Republicans are planning on doing to pass this legislation. His point is that the Republicans would make a new legislation rather than reform the current replacement plan. I would agree and disagree all at once. One side is the Republicans have worked hard on the replacement plan, but no one in congress wants to instate the plan even when the House of Representatives has a Republican majority. This leads to the other side where a totally new plan would help by being able to include some elements of what both parties want.

I do think that a replacement is in order. The current healthcare plan is supposedly not very good. I cannot comment on this very much because I do not know Obamacare well enough to determine if there are that many problems. There are many reasons that I chose this topic. I am old enough now to really dive deep into politics and I can understand politics better than previous years. I also like to be informed about what is going on in my country. The reason that I chose Fox News is because I always see CNN on my television and I wanted to experience something different. I also chose it because my parents read Fox News everyday and they recommended it to me.

Q4 Week 1 Comments

Griff S: Weddings and Funerals

Anders M: Free Post

Looking Back on Me

I have progressed dramatically as a writer, reader, and a student. There have been many hindrances in this process, but I still have gotten this far. The one thing that I have improved most upon is my writing. I have learned that I need to focus mainly on grammar and the way I connect my paper's elements. I have discovered that most of my arguments are sound and have very good evidence. I also found out how I work best. I need to be alone and have a quiet space. I also like to write the majority of my work in one sitting, so my thoughts can flow together and it allows me to remember everything I think about when I am writing.

I have improved as a reader as well. I have learned how to read for content and how to read for enjoyment all in the first 3 quarters of my Freshman year. I think that is pretty good. I have learned that I retain information very well and that makes me a very good test taker. These are some examples of my evolution as a first time high school student. I have improved in all of the above categories, but I have improved the most in writing and I think that is what Freshmen year English is all about. I would say I have passed the course and obtained the information I need for the rest of my English life in high school.

Baseball

I have been playing a lot of baseball recently. I have played 4 games in a week and I have also watch 4 collage baseball games in the same week. The 4 games I played in where good games, but we lost all of them. I even have another baseball game tomorrow. My team and I have learned something about baseball in our game played yesterday, the 18th of March. We learned that we could compete with the best.

We played Catholic High School and lost by a score of 11 to 9. This was very good for us. Catholic has one of the best baseball programs in the state. We played a 9 inning game instead of our usual 6 inning game and lost in the top of the 9th inning when they scored 2 runs. We were winning up until that point. Even though we lost, the team learned that we could hang with the best baseball program in the state. We could have won also. This gave us confidence that we will hopefully bring to the rest of our games this season.

Comments Q3 Week 7

Sydney S: Free Post

Hayley G: Free Post

My Video Games

I have a problem. I play to many video games. I play them for hours on end and just love them to bits. I usually stay up till 2 in the morning on weekends just to play video games. I play various games including Overwatch, For Honor, and Rocket League. These are all games that dominant my life and I really need to stop playing them. I need to ground myself with reality. I have the best fix to my problem. The answer is Virtual Reality. I will play my video games while being able to look around the game and thus, I will be immersed in the video game. On second thought, that would just get me more addicted.

Maybe I need to do more work. This could help me keep off of the video games. I need to do more school work. I need to play more baseball. I need to play more with my friends. I can always play video games on a rainy day. I just need to get out of the house more. I can do that by going to the movies, but that won't be nearly as fun as playing video games. I could play video games with my friend and do all other sorts of things in my games that I could not do in real life. I think I have made up my mind. I will not stop playing video games. I can be social over them and I could be transported to far away lands. That is certainly better than a 2 hour movie that cost $8.

Song Analysis

Umbrella by Rihanna is a song with some poetic devices embedded within it. One of these is rhyme. There is rhyme in every stanza. Some of the words rhyme when sung but not when spoken. For example, one such pair is entity and infinity. These words are similar, but really rhyme effectively when sung by Rihanna. A lot of the rhyme in this song is end rhyme, but internal rhyme can be found as well. One example is the line "You're part of my entity, here for infinity. There is more end rhyme to be found but let us keep on analyzing.

Another literary device is assonance. There is the repetition of the various e sounds. One example is the stanza, "Because when the sun shines, we'll shine together / Told you i'll be here forever / Said I'll always be your friend / Took an oath, I'ma stick it out to the end." The words when, together, forever, friend, and end contribute to one of the various e sounds in this song. 


Song name: Umbrella
Artists: Rihanna feat. JAY-Z
Lyrics: http://www.metrolyrics.com/umbrella-lyrics-rihanna.html