Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Vocab

Prudence - regard for one's own interests - noun
Baleful - obsolete - adj
Libation - a pouring out of wine or other liquid in honor of something - noun
Precedence - the right to precede in rank - noun
Glutton - a person who eats and drinks excessively - noun
Harangue - intense verbal attack - noun
Rapine - plunder - noun
Scion - a descendant - noun
Insidious - stealthily treacherous - adj
Chastise - to criticize severely - verb
Succumb - yield - verb
Auspicious - promising success - adj
Lucid - easily understood - adj
Audacity - boldness or daring - noun

George's prudence lead him to trigger the booby trap for the sack of coins, dooming his friends by activating the spike trap behind him.
The musket is obsolete in terms of fire rate when compared to an assault rifle.
As Bob sat on top of the shrine clueless, he watched the libation of blood in his honor from the 60 tribesmen below
Joe earned his precedence when he single handedly liberated all of North Korea.
Micah, who is a glutton, snuck into the cheese factory and ate all of the cheese overnight.
The harangue that Jack received for knocking over his grandmother's urn was one that made him re-think all of his life choices.
The 56th anniversary of the Rapine of City Wok celebrates the dreadful day the Mongols plundered the restaurant.
The scion of Godzilla took it upon himself to take up his grandfather's legacy by destroying Tokyo.

Monday, April 27, 2015

Characters and All That Fun Stuff

Characters: 
Odysseus, Telemachos, Penelope, Athena, Poseidon, Mentes,Calypso, Mentor, Nestor, Menelaus, Helen, Agamemnon, Orestes, Aegisthus, Clytemnestra, Ajax, Zeus, Antinous, Eurymachus, Aegypitus,
Laertes, Icarius, Hailtherses, Eurycleia, Pisistratus

Literary Elements:
Allusions -Trojan Horse, Helen

Symbols - Birds, Food

Motifs - Story-telling, Disguises, Seducing

Major Theme - Hospitality


Friday, April 24, 2015

books 1 & 2

One: This book  takes place after the Trojan war and Odysseus hasn't been home in 20 years. He has  been unable to make it home because Poseidon has a thing against him for killing his son, the cyclops. While Poseidon is against him, the other gods are all rooting for him. At a dinner of the gods, Athena asks Zeus if they could spare Odysseus and give him a way home. While the gods are eating, Odysseus has been stuck on an island with the witch Kalypso for the past few years. Athena goes to Odysseus's house disguised as Mentes and notices that his house is full of lazy suitors eating all of his food. Telemachos, Odysseus's son, says the situation would be better if his father was here, and then Athena gives him a pep talk about his father and gives him a vision of his father before leaving.

Two: Book two starts with Telemachos rounding the suiitors up for a meeting, the first meeting since Odysseus left. At the meeting, Telemachos says he's tired of the suitors eating his food and wine, and trying to get his mom. Antinoos blames Penelope, as she is delaying it when it's her duty to get a king. She said she wouldn't marry until she finished weaving a shroud for Odysseus's father, who isn't dead, but a maid blabbed that she secretly unravels her process at night. Telemachos is told to either send Penelope back to Icarus or made to choose a suitor. Telemachos doesn't want to do either and as a result, Zeus sends two eagles to attack the town's people. Giving up on arguing, Telemachos decides to sail to Pylos to hear anything about his father. That night, he prays to the god that visits him, and Athena visits him as Mentor, telling him that she will find a boat and supplies for him. Him and a group of trusted men leave right away.


Thursday, April 16, 2015

Thesis and Order


Carrying a concealed handgun is currently legal in all 50 states but there are heavy arguments against it wanting it banned. But should there be? Concealed carry laws should not be banned because in the long run, they will help society. First, we’ll go over how it deters crime, helps respectful owners protect against violence, how to get permits, and how it’s the second amendment as well as being heavily supported.