"Beowolf" Essay

                Feminism is the advocacy of women's rights on the grounds of political, social, and economic equality to men. When feminists come into the picture, people get a little weary of what could come. If the epic poem "Beowolf" was told in a feminist perspective, I believe the story would drastically change. In our past history, women usually are not the center of the story but somewhere in the background and the story could involve or be the main theme of how women should not be allowed rights that men had in that time. Beowolf was a story of a heroic man and the narrator is a Christian man and I believe this story was passed down from the 8th and 10th century because of  both that. I bet there were other stories of women trying to break the norm from back then but didn't get passed down and if the story was told from a women's point of view, I would think it wouldn't get passed down either.

               Since the story was told from a man's perspective, the women in this story were all portrayed differently than I would see it, such as Grendel's mom. Grendel's mom was just trying to avenge her son's death, but we all saw it as evil doings, but why? Grendel's mother was trying to protect her own kids, and any mother would do that. Just that leaves a legacy for women. Women are essentially carers and birth givers for our planet and how all of us are even on this earth, but some could see women as causes of disasters and are shunned from the spotlight and never looked up as heros."Beowolf" narrated by a Christian women could be how scared she was of the characters (cliche) and maybe the story would portray Grendel's mother as I would see it. If this story was in the point of view of Grendel's mother, she would be the ultimate feminist of this story. 

Fashion Magazines have great life advice/ goals! WHATTT

Fashion magazines are not always useless and just full of non-realistic girls and useless fashion advice. I was reading one because I have a subscription to a few and I came across an article that had some great life advice/ goals, some may not apply to me or you but the highlighted ones I LOVED, i now have this article in my binder because I like it that much.

1) Getting married with your eight month old in a wagon as a flower girl.

2) 4 months' rent in the bank, student loans paid off, and 22 sires containing the words Southern France in your search history.

3) Knowing that nobody else's success or happiness makes or breaks yours.

4) Being one size on top and another on the bottom, and buying the best trends for each.

5) Reflexology with scalp massage 52 times a year.

6) Going to bed exhausted on Friday and waking up energized on Monday. Life goal, people. 

7) Having your diet coke with a side of fries.

8) Doing the conference call while your toenails dry.

9) Buying yourself a little diamond anything. 

10) Having the brain of Hilary Clinton, the womb of Angelina Jolie, the badassery of Olivia Pope, and What The What?! How about just some good genes from your parents, a solid education, and a really fun ringtone. 

11) Working for a company (or a person, possibly yourself) that gives you five mental health days aa year. 

12) Realizing that everyone who appears to "have it all" is making it up as they go along, just like you. 

If you are actually reading this Dr. Preston that last one (12) is definitely you, I have you figured out. 

"sometimes I wish I was bored"

Senior year so far has just been so crazy for myself. With all these ASB events & officer duties, then my role in Special Olympics, my academic studies, social life/senior activities, working at jamba juice, extracurriculars/clubs/volunteering, family life and COLLEGES APPS & SCHOLARSHIPS have been very hard to balance out. I need to learn to balance everything, but that is impossible so I have to work on things that are most important to me. I saw the quote "sometimes I wish I was bored" in a movie about stress that Mr. Herman played in Health Class and I related it to my life. I'm pretty sure everyone has to learn to balance things out but I just thought it was a funny quote because who likes to be bored.

VOCABULARY: FALL LIST #2

1. Accoutrements: Additional items of dress or equipment, or other items carried or worn by a person or used for a particular item. 
ex-She never leaves her house without her accoutrements.
2. Apogee: The highest point of something. 
ex-The White House is considered the apogee of American achievement.
3. Apropos: Very appropriate to a particular situation.
ex-The writer's reference to the child's play was apropos.
4. Bicker: Argue about petty and trivial matters.
ex-My brother and I bicker over irrelevant items.
5. Coalesce: Come together and form one mass or whole.
ex-We made a coalesce to keep warm.
6. Contretemps: An unexpected and unfortunate occurrence.
ex-Seeing my evil step mother was a contretemps.
7. Convolution: A coil or twist, esp. one of many.
ex-Her art project had elaborate convolutions.
8. Cull: Select from a large quantity; obtain from a variety of sources.
ex-You have to cull wisely, so you don't make a horrible choice.
9. Disparate: Essentially different in kind; not allowing comparison.
ex-An orange and a sandwich are very disparate.
10. Dogmatic: Inclined to lay down principle as incontrovertibly true.
ex-My brother speaks in a very dogmatic manner.
11. Licentious: Promiscuous and unprincipled in sexual matters.
ex-The movie, Taken, is all about licentious and drug use on young girls.
12. Mete: Dispense or allot justice, a punishment, or harsh treatment.
ex-Terrorists should receive mete and no get off free.
13. Noxious: Harmful, poisonous, or very unpleasant.
ex-Spiders can be very noxious when they bite you.
14. Polemic: A strong verbal, or written attack on someone or something.
ex-My sister experienced a polemic letter when she started dating this girls ex boyfriend.
15. Populous: Having a large population, densely populated.
ex-Sacramento is very populous and sometimes hard to drive through traffic.
16. Probity: The quality of having strong moral principles, honesty and decency.
ex-Some politicians aren't probity when they speak.
17. Repartee: Conversation or speech characterized by quick, witty comments or replies.
ex-When my friends and I have discussions, I respond with repartee.
18. Supervene: Occur later than a specified or implied event or action, typically in such a way as to change the situation.
ex-I hate to do supervened work when I just finished an assignment.
19. Truncate: Shorten by cutting off the top or the end.
ex-I want to truncate my sister's very long hair.
20. Unimpeachable: Not able to be doubted, questioned, or criticized, entirely trustworthy.
ex-I believe that the bible is unimpeachable.

Notes: Pg. 2-14 & pg. 31-60

PAGES 2-14
Conquest of Britain
-Two groups of Celts: Brythons settled on Britain & Gaels settled in Ireland.
-Farmers and hunters, Organized in clans with loyalty, Priests settled disputes.
-Roman conquerers, like Julius Ceasar
-Next Anglo-Saxons, which were fishers who took over more of England. 

Coming Of Christianity
-Romans had accepted it. Although Rome fell, the religion/Celtic church didn't. They established monasteries, promoted peace, and helped to unify English people.after

Danish Invasion 
-Norway wanted Scotland, Whales, and Ireland. Denmark wanted Eastern/southern England. The vikings destroyed monasteries and killed people and England fallen to invaders. 
-King "Alfred the great" was throned, which split between Saxon and Danish territory.
-King preserved danish lifestyle and then Edward became king.

The Norman Conquest 
-Descendants of vikings. Then next came Harold II, but he was killed by William who rightfully took the throne he was promised. The everything shifted from Saxon to Norman lifestyle. 

The Reign of the Plantagenets 
-Henry II founded House of Plant and he had a conflict with the church. 

The Magna Carta 

-Richard I, military expeditions over seas. King John inherited his debt, taxed people, but people resisted, brought brinks to civil war and they made the Magna Carta which was a constitutional Government in England. 

Lancasters, Yorks, And Tudors
-Then came three henry kings of Lanc. Yorks conflicted with them, known as Wars of Rose and they fought over the throne.

Decline of the Feudal System 
-After the plague, labor work increased, which got treated badly and the peasants revolted. 
-But the cause faded, and the fight for social injustices would come again

Literature
-Anglo-Saxon-reciting of poems and they focused on heroes, or deaths of loved ones. 
-English Middle Ages-dramas emerged. Chaucer depicted medieval life, knights, love deeds, outlaws. 
-advancements in printing lead to widespread literature productions
-Romances, Lyrics, and Ballads

English Language
-Derived from low germanic tongue from Saxons.
-Modeled from more sophisticated words from other languages like Latin and Greens
-Mixed with french from Normans and now called Middle English

-The Exeter Book- Collection of manuscripts that included pieces of oral tradition. Properly compiled by monks during Alfred the great's reign. "Seafarer", "Wanderer" and "Wife's Lament" all came from book. Inspired through Anglo-Saxons. 

PAGES 31-60 
-Tristia had moved from her mother country, Dardanian Troy, when it was attacked by the Grecian Army.
-Now in the Pontus, feels like the days go by like years
-Despises the common theme of death races (referring to gladiator games and/or the continuous war between the Romans and their enemies)
-Feels like a barbarian not being able to communicate with people of the new land, had to use body language and was exiled from Rome. 
-"Injured the power of Caesar the god," in result was sent to assimilate with the Scythian race as a punishment

-Believes she deserved to be exiled but not to such a city 
-Portrays the Anglo-Saxon culture of eighth century Britain
-Beowulf: sword-wielding slayer of monsters, upholder of the right, warrior-chieftain
-Takes place in sixth century Scandinavia, speaks Old English
-Beowulf seeks to help the Danish King Hrothgar in fighting the swampland monster, Grendel.
-Scops often told long narrative poems by mouth in Anglo-Saxon England which resulted in it's change and growth
-The Electronic Beowulf Project revived the burnt original manuscripts of Beowulf

-He was the strongest man, Beowulf was going to kill the "monster"

MY UNIVERISTY

So during the week that Dr. Preston was gone. I could say that MY university was very much catching up on all my work that I hadn't got done. This class during the week he was gone was very much up to me, if I wanted to work and be productive. This week showed me how much I shouldn't procrastinate.

Hokey Pokey WHAT

Just a little something that we did when our beloved teacher was across the pond.