WE EAT SOCIAL MEDIA FOR BREAKFAST

Topic: Write an essay in which you analyze the author's use of diction, syntax, tone, and rhetorical strategies to develop his main argument.

Words are life. We can use words in a good or bad way. In the essay called WE EAT SOCIAL MEDIA FOR BREAKFAST, the author uses all kinds of variety’s if diction, syntax, and rhetorical strategies to develop his main argument by doing exactly what he said he wanted to do. In the essay, the author starts off his essay by having a paragraph that is nothing but questions which is a rhetorical strategy, he also uses diction to say what he wants, and the tone was genital, sincere, and truthful. There are many ways to write an essay that will lead you to your main argument.

            In the start of the essay, there is a paragraph that was all question which is a rhetorical strategy because he wanted us to be thinking about questions and be ready for what is coming. One important question that was asked was “What IS the job? “because many of us have wonder what is the job and how to do it. These questions us lead us to the point of the author and it makes us want to better understand what the author wants us to know. Rhetorical strategies are used here to make us ask these questions to ourselves and to answer it then as we read on we get the right answers and learn from it.

            The right use of diction and syntax was one of the things that made this essay good and believable because it makes a person know what they are reading. A good sentence from the essay that used good diction and syntax is “We no longer tell the stories of our pictures. Our Pictures tell the stories of us”. What this sentence basically means is that we can’t say enough words to describe a picture because a picture is like a million words and we don’t know the right way to say what we want to say.

            There are many ways to write an essay that will lead you to your main argument. These sentences are my reason for why the author's Diction, syntax, tone, and rhetorical strategies to develop his main argument which was that we must think about what is the right tool for the job because some us don’t think and we just DO and that leads to trouble and bad things happen to us.

Journal's April 24-26

The Digital Divide

I stand between The Digital Divide because I have thoughts on both sides. In a way, The Digital Divide is good and bad because those groups of people that aren't online they are not divided and those who are online are divided. I think that the use of technology is helping me get ahead and achieve my goals and it is holding me back also. I think that my data is not private and protected because people can see my information that I give. I don't know how other people see me online.

IGNITE TALK

1) My masterpiece topic is Math/Physics.

2) One thing that I did over the break to explore my topic was, doing math problems and read about Physics.

3) Something new that I learned over the break by exploring my topic was about magnetism and that the three elements that can be magnetic are iron, cobalt, and nickel. [I also learned that in a magnet there is always a south and a north pool, so if you have a magnet and you break it there it will always have two pools a positive and a negative pool.]

4) One connection that I see between this course and my topic is about the book  Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, that is that all science ideas comes from Sci-fiction because in Fahrenheit 451 that was written in the past had a lot of ideas like earphones that now exist.

5) The next thing that I will be doing is reviewing and doing more practice problems for Math/Physics and learning more about my topic.

#3 Spring Break

Another thing that I did over the break was that I read Chapter 24 and Chapter 25 of Conceptual Physics Twelfth Edition for Mr. Woman's class because today April 24 we had a test about the reading. In these two chapters, it talks about Magnetism (The phenomena associated with magnetic fields. See also electromagnetism and magnetic force.)  and Electromagnetic Induction(The phenomena of producing a voltage in a conductor by changing the magnetic field near the conductor. If the magnetic field within a closed loop changes in any way, a voltage is induced in the loop. The induction of voltage is actually the result of a more fundamental phenomena: the induction of an electric field. See also Faraday's Law.). This helps me understand my topic a little bit more because for the topic I chose Math and Physics.

#2 Spring Break

Another thing I did over the break was going to a party that one of my dad's friends did.

I learned nothing from this experience. Attending this party didn't help me understand my topic more but I had fun there and that's the important part in my opinion.

#1 Spring Break

One of the things that I did over spring break was to study and review for the AP Calculus Exam that I will be taking on May 9. I watched this video many times to better understand Calculus.
Calculus in 20 minutes - Reviewing Calculus

Other Websites that used to study was CollegeBorad where it had AP Exams from last year and the year before that.

Click here for more information about the test.

What I learned from this was many new examples of the problems. This helped me better understand my topic because now I have a fresh memory of what I did.

MASTERPIECE PART I

1)-Masterpiece Academy Topic: (What I know)- Math/Physics

2)-Five Resources:

1) Classmates

2) Teachers

3) Khan Academy-
Math- https://www.khanacademy.org/math
Physics- https://www.khanacademy.org/science/physics

4) A script (on what to say)

5) Topic(MATH): PowerPoint/Posters/Movie Clips/ 

3)-10 Academy Members:

1)

Journal's April 10-12

ESSAY

Option 1: Describe the difference in Ray Bradbury's tone with regard to Clarisse & Beatty. Support your analysis with examples of Bradbury's diction and detail.

Do you sing? There are varies ways of saying something with varies different pitches. In Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, written in 1953, he uses a different kind of tones on different characters that he made up for his story. His tone towards Clarisse and Beatty were two different tones because one of the characters, Bradbury likes to write about (Clarisse) and the other he does not because in his work it sounds like he hates that character (Beatty). Every day in our life we use a tone when we speak and talk to one another and also tone is everywhere from books to movies and songs. Ray Bradbury's tone towards Clarisse is positive and it’s a little negative towards Beatty. 

Bradbury's book Fahrenheit 541 had many touching moments where he used many different tones such as sad, happy for the moments that were happening in the specific moment in the book. His tone towards the characters Clarisse and Beatty are one that he written in almost two different tones because of who he wants the characters to become in the book. We get introduced to Clarisse as this 17-yearr old that doesn't seem all that crazy because when Montag asks her how old is she, she response "I'm seventeen and I'm crazy". This is part of Bradbury's tone because after this sentence Montag and Clarisse talk about fireman's and how reading books are against the law. In each of the following sentence, Bradbury's describes Clarisse by her asking questions that other people won't normally ask in their society like "Are you happy?".  

His tone towards Beatty is in a more aggressive way because I think that’s what he wanted the reader to know about Beatty that he is a big tough guy the bosses people around and makes them listen and obey to him without them asking why. When Beatty arrived to check in Montag for why he didn't show up to work we got a tip on Bradbury's tone towards him, " "Shut the 'relatives' up," said Beatty, looking around at everything except Montag and his wife. This time, Mildred ran. The yammering voices stopped yelling in the parlour." In this sentence, Bradbury's perspective towards Beatty is to make him look like a big tough guy that makes people do as he wants. This is a very mean and kind of mad tone because the tone is deep because Beatty told Mildred to turn off the relatives and she ran off to do it because she knows Beatty doesn't like to be played with or anything. 

Ray Bradbury's tone towards Clarisse is positive and it’s a little negative towards Beatty. In both of these character's Bradbury's tone is like any other author's tone towards their characters because all authors use their own tone to tell us the reader who that author is and how he is part of the book or his role in the book. Bradbury's tone is light and dark. His light tone is for the good that is left in the book and that is Clarisse because she is different from other people because she has read books and is social unlike Beatty that is dark because he burns books for a living and that he thinks that they are evil and the books just destroys those who read it. The tone is what decides and makes these characters who they are because with the right use of tone you can make anything seem good or bad depend on your tone and diction. 

Fahrenheit 451 QUESTIONS ON pp. 148-158

1) They laugh to that because that was an overrated cliché that has been used so many times and they think that he has nothing better to say and that's why they laugh.

2) Montag still cares for Mildred because after all the things they have gone through, he still cares for her because he has spent most of his life living with her and he has nobody else. I think that the author wants us to know that Mildred was a big impact to Montag's life, who made him who he is at the beginning of the book.

3) The hands symbolize the characters of Granger's grandfather and Mildred because the hands represent what they did with their life and that the hand has a mind of its own and that the things that it does are on you. Your hands are what gives life purpose because without hands we wouldn't be able to do work.

4) Granger's remembrance of his grandfather is parallel's to Faber's telling Montag that it wasn't the books that were important, but what was in the books that were important. Faber is saying that the only important thing of the book is the information it had to give those who needed it. This is the same in Granger's remembrance of his grandfather because he said that he doesn't cry for his grandfather but he cries for what he did and the things that he could have done if he was still alive. These two talks are the same in a way the tells us a deeper meaning to the conversation they had in the books and about what they are actually trying to tell us.

5)  The three seconds are "all of the time in history' because those are the last 3 seconds that the people in the city have to live and it's all over because a bomb was dropped down to the ground and when it hits all life in the city is gone. This is why the 3 seconds are like the last seconds in history because after it drops there won't be a history of those who lost their lives in the explosion when the bomb hit.

6) The significance of the Phoenix is to compare the difference between it and us. The Phoenix lives life long but it burns itself just to be reborn and never learns from its mistakes but humans have a history in which they know what they have done and as long as we have the information of what we have done in the past we have the future to fix the things we want, unlike the Phoenix.

7) The significance of this scene is that Montag is becoming a leader and that he has changed a lot since the beginning of the book. Montag has grown to a man that isn't afraid to show who he really is because, in the beginning, he used to only obey what others told him what to do and now he makes his own choices with what to do.

Journals April 3-7

GUIDING QUESTIONS pp. 133-147

1)The significance of the glass of milk, the apple, and the pear represents that Montag has gone through a change in which how he views or sees the world in a different perspective.

2)Montag thought he saw the Mechanical Hound and reached his breaking point but what he actually saw was " a billion leaves on land " and the empty, dry, warm dust on the field that he found himself into going in the direction if his way to find a new home.

3) The reason why this is ironic when Montag sees that fire was that because it was not his fire but the fire of the sun and lights up the world and the moon. He then talks about that the sun burns day after day and it is running against time and that we don't burn but we still waste time and never think about what we are doing now.

4) Granger is the leader of his associates and he wrote a book called The Fingers in the Glove; the Proper Relationship between the Individual and Society. He struck a fireman when he came to burn his library years ago. His associates are Fred Clement, a former occupant of the Thomas Hardy chair at Cambridge before it became an Atomic Engineering School. Dr.Sommons from U.C.L.A is a specialist in Ortega y Gasset. Professor West did ethics. Reverend Padover gave a few lectures 13years ago.

5) The show that Granger was watching on his small TV with the rest of the people there was the chase of Montag. The police didn't want to say that they lost Montag so they decide to fake it and caught an old innocent man that was just standing there going for a walk. But the TV cameras blurred his face so the town people didn't see his face.

6) What Granger means when he says "We all made the right kind of mistakes" is that all of them had to do what they had to do to be safe because they all done something that they didn't want to do. Like Montag, he killed Beatty because he had to or he would have been in jail fo the rest of his life.