WE EAT SOCIAL MEDIA FOR BREAKFAST

               

                Dr. Preston's tone in his post titled, "We eat social media for breakfast," is surprised. The first sentence is, " This weekend I did something I swore I would never do." Dr. Preston finds himself taking pictures of his breakfast, and sending them to someone. His diction and syntax, is not exactly straight to the point, but instead he goes into further detail of the reason behind his action. Dr. Preston goes on to say that you need the right tool for the right job, and his use of rhetorical questions, attract the reader's attention. He also mentions that the Internet is not just a tool, it is the way we communicate. Dr. Preston explains that he thought about all of this before he texted pictures of his breakfast. The reason Dr. Preston texted pictures of his breakfast was because he missed someone, that someone being his daughter, and he wished he was having breakfast with her at that moment. He shares with us his views, on how pictures are different from when he was a kid. Back then, pictures were expensive and rare, but now we have them at our fingertips. Our pictures depict our lives, and how we live them, " Our pictures create impressions; others who view our lives online come to "know" our identities through our photo streams." Ultimately, the message Dr. Preston is trying to get us to understand, is to consider what tools we will need for our job, in order to be successful at sharing our stories. 

IGNITE TALK

1. My Big Question is, Is there an Afterlife?

2. The one thing I did over spring break to explore my topic is: I looked up stories about people who claim they've been to Heaven.

3. One thing I learned by exploring over the break was about a Neurosurgeon who was skeptical about near-death experiences, until he had one when he went into a coma.

4. One connection between my topic and something we've read is Young Goodman Brown when he questions whether Heaven is real or not, just like some of us.

5. What I'm doing next is, I will be continuing my research on the afterlife.

Resources for my Masterpiece Academy

1. Live Science: What Happens when you Die? Near death experiences

2. Proof of Heaven: A Doctor's Experience with the Afterlife by Dr. Eben Alexander A Neurosurgeon's story of his experience with the Afterlife after being in a coma for 7 days.

3. Near-Death Experiences: Glimpses of the Afterlife. Explaining some different views on the Afterlife

4. 'I crossed over': Survivors of near-death experiences share 'afterlife' stories. Some stories of people with illnesses and having been cured by their near death experience.

5. Heaven or Hallucination: Are near-death experiences proof of the Afterlife? Near death experiences and debunking Dr. Eben Alexander's near death experience.

Masterpiece Academy Topic

My topic is on the afterlife and whether it is real or not.

Spring Break post 3

I went to Moss Landing and Gilroy, it was fun.

Spring Break post 2

I went to a swap meet in Santa Cruz and travelled around the area.

Spring Break post 1

I'm in Salinas and its pretty fun, the change of scenery has been nice.

Fahrenheit 451 Essay

Ray Bradbury's tone towards Clarisse and Captain Beatty is completely different from each other but that's what makes it their characters all the more interesting. One big difference between the two, would be their outlook on life. Clarisse is a very curious young girl, that hardly watches Tv, and loves talking and watching people. While Captain Beatty is a Fireman, and takes pride in his job even explaining to Montag that Firemen are, "... Official censors, judges, executors. That's you, Montag, and that's me." Despite this, Captain Beatty often will use quotes from books when speaking. In a way, Captain Beatty is the "bad guy" and Clarisse is the guide that helps Montag get into a world very different from the one they live in, which is a world with books.

Fahrenheit 451 guiding questions pp133-147

1.  The significance of the apple, milk, and pear is that Montag said to him that would be a sign that the world would accept him and give him the time he needs to think about the things that need to be thought about.

2. Montag saw a deer which he mistook it for the mechanical hound.

3. He sees a fire and says he never knew fire could warm something instead of burning it.

4. Granger wrote a book, Fred Clement was a former of the Thomas Hardy Chair at Cambridge, Dr. Simmions studied Ethics at Columbia University, Reverend Padover has given many lecture over 30 years.

5. The Helicopters corner in on a guy walking down the street and set the mechanical hound on him.  However, the guy is not Montag.

6. Granger means that they rebelled against society and the Government, and it was the right decision for them, but others might think it was a mistake.