Mythlogical Allusions

Posted on December 11th, 2009 in Uncategorized by cstaggs

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Trident – The three-pronged spear of Poseidon, god of the seas; Trident Gum is a popular gum. (Note: ‘Tria’ is Greek for ‘three’ and ‘donti’ means ‘tooth’; hence, Trident translates literally as ‘three-teeth’, or ‘triple-toothed’. Trident Gum, if one is to believe the advertising, helps to clean your teeth, thus the allusion.)

 

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Mars – Roman name for Ares, god of War; name of popular candy bar.

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Atlas-Was doomed to support the heavens on his shoulders; a modern moving company (Atlas Van Lines); also, Atlas Travel is a popular name for travel agencies all over the globe.

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Hydra – Sea serpent with nine heads, killed by Hercules; It’s the chosen name (www.hydra.com) of the Internet Chess Club.

 

Twitter Persona Assignment

Posted on December 3rd, 2009 in Uncategorized by cstaggs

Psyche

10 tweets of my mythlogical character

  • Im the youngest of three sisters
  • I waited for Zephur
  • I felt terror flooding my heart
  • I did not fall in love at all
  • I sat on the High hilltop in the darkness
  • I had stumbling and contradictory answers
  • I wish my sisters would just leave me alone
  • My favorite towns deserted and falling in ruins
  • The fame of my surpassing beauty spread across the earth

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In our English class we were told to pick a mythlogical character and learn about them. Then we add tweets on twitter like we were them.

 

 

 

 

 

Thesis Statement

Posted on December 3rd, 2009 in Uncategorized by cstaggs

In the painting of Cronus devouring his children by Fransico de Gayo, Cronus’ mouth wide open and blood on the little kid shows cruelty,fear, and sanity of the family.

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Mythology Assignment

Posted on November 16th, 2009 in Uncategorized by cstaggs

glogster assignment

Posted on October 19th, 2009 in Uncategorized by cstaggs

This is the link to my glogster

Best sentences

Posted on October 1st, 2009 in Uncategorized by cstaggs

I have picked the best sentences out of the book Claws by Will Weaver.

Simple sentence-I just ran into this weird chick who mentioned your name. pg. 23

Compound sentence-i froze; it was as if blood stoped moving in my veins.  pg.57

Complex sentence-As you know, under the state of minnesota legal code, this being a public, that is to say tax payer supported, institution- almost complex

compound-complex sentence- She stood there, in the middle of this buitiful pine grove, clutching her hands with both hands and weeping.

Claws Book Review

Posted on September 25th, 2009 in Uncategorized by cstaggs

16-year old Jed thinks life couldnt be any better, with a senior girlfriend (jeds a junior), 1969 Camero and number one tennis player. But a punk girl name Gertrude makes Jeds life come to a stop. She continues to tell him things about his own life that jed doesnt belive.

This is a very good book. It was so good is didnt want to stop reading it. In places of the book your expectations weren’t what happened no matter how bazaar it was. There were twists in every chapter I can think of.

I was not disappointed in this book in any way. It was not what I expected.

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Quotation Assignment

Posted on September 15th, 2009 in assignment by cstaggs  Tagged ,
MARK TWAIN
 Mark twain was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens. He was born in Flordia, Missouri on November 30, 1835 and died on April 21,1910. Twain is most famous of the novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. He also invented a bed clamp for infants, a new type of steam engine, and a machine that engraved printing plates. Mark Twain said this quote because the kids that were not in school got into trouble. But Twain found Wider sources of information in public libraries than he would have in a conventional school. When Twain said this quote he meant that when a school closes down, students will have no education. With no education most students or adults cannot get some kind of job. So to stay alive they steal or other things that are against the law. So the number of students that were in the school may not fit in the jail the city owns. So a whole new jail may have to be built.
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