Mark Twain

Lately in class we have been reading The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. It is a wonderful and hilarious book. Mark Twain the author is considered Americas Best literary author of all time. Mark Twain is known for making fun of polite society and showing his hatred towards war. His books are filled with laughter, self morels, and adventure. I would recommend his books to any one, unless they were very easily offended.

Halloween

This past week in English we wrote Halloween story's that had to include the woods behind our school, our CTE area, and our class mates only. My partner and I never finished ours but I think it was a good story. In other news we get new computers in the computer labs today and tomorrow.

report cards

This week we got our report cards. I had three B's and one A. My parents and I were very happy with it.
In English I have to give a persentaion on slavery. My timeline goes from the trianglery trade to the underground railroad. I believe that I will do very well on it.

Uncle Tom's Cabin

In English this week we read summery chapters on Uncle Tom's Cabin. It is a tale about a group of slaves and there lives. Uncle Tom is a deeply religious slave that is sold from owner to owner. Some of the owners are kind and others are cruel, and threw out the story Uncle Toms religious beliefs are put to the test. The other part of the story is about a family of slaves that are escaping to Canada. The family is separated in part of the story but they are able to find one another again. They make it to Canada with the help of a group of Quakers. Overall the book tells use the life of the slaves and how they where able to get threw every day of it.

CTE Poem

In English last week we had to take a poem from one of the fireside poets and change the words in it to make it talk about our CTE program. For my poem I used Oliver Wendell Holmes poem "The Chambered Nautilus". Here it is I hope you like it.

THIS is the hard drive of pearl, which, non-techs feign,Sails the unshadowed mainframe,--The venturous waves of heat that flings On the sweet cooling unit wind its blackened blades In windows enchanted, where the headphones sing,And keyboards lie bare,Where the cold boot rises the operating system is streaming from the disk to the RAM.

Its web of large memory no more unfurl;Wrecked is the hard drive of pearl!And every chambered microchip,Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell,As the frail tenant shaped his growing files,Before thee lies revealed,--Its firewall hacked, its sunless encrypted files snatched!

Year after year beheld the silent CPUThat uploaded his lustrous data;Still, as the files grew,He left the past year's dwelling for the new,Stole with soft step its thought to be unpenatrable code,Built up its idle memory,Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more.

Thanks for the heavenly IM message sent by thee,Child of the wandering web,Cast from her lap top, forlorn!From thy dead keyboard a clearer note is bornThan ever web browser sent from server!While on mine window it shows,Through the deep caves of thought I see your words and read:--

Build thee more stately computers, O my soul,As the swift updates roll!Leave thy low-speed internet past!Let each new connection method, nobler than the last,Shut thee from network with a search more vast,Till thou at length art free,Leaving thine obsolete system by life's unresting sea!

Today

Today has been a weird day at school. It is because Halo 3 came out today and it is all anybody will talk about. I don't mind it, in fact I might get to play it tomorrow. I suck at video games, but I don't care, I still find them fun.

Getting Behind

I have gotten so behind in my homework for my history and IC3, Web110 classes that I'm having the hardest time catching it all up. Lesson hear is do your homework all of it no matter how long it takes.

Emily Dickinson

In English I learned to sing Emily Dickinson poems to old TV show thyme songs.
My favorite is Gilligons Island.

My Three Favorite Zen Quotes

1. Living in hell is like taking a walk in a beautiful park. Lin-Chi
2. The firefly gives light to its pursuer. Oemaru
3. Flowers in the summer, fires in the fall. Zen Saying

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe was one of the greast writers in american history. He is known for his dark and foreboding poems and short storys. Poe lived a hard life and it seemed that death followed him everwhere. I personally perfer his short storys over his peoms.

Missing School

I miss one day of school and it happens to be the best day of school ever. The Sobe bus comes and gives out free samples and shirts. Good stuff always happens when you miss school.

XYZ Affair

In History we had to write play about the XYZ Affair. Nobody knows what really happen except that the French wanted us to pay a big bribe and when we refused it almost caused a war.
U.S. History is fascinating, you learn the oddest stuff and do assignments that you think you would do in English. But I also do assignments in English that I would have expected to do in a computers class.

Random Question?

How many Political Offices did Thomas Jefferson hold?
Think about, take a guess and look it it up.

Yaaa! My second post.
Mondays are a drag and regular school started today.
Yep, nothing else to here.
bye

I have started my junior year of high school along with collage. I have learned that it is possible for teachers to act like teens at work and that collage math teachers are ten times more lad back than high school teachers. All in all, CAREER CENTER HIGH SCHOOL ROCKS!