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Quote 1: “How’d you like that haircut to begin just below the neck?” Chapter 1, pg.

This was a death threat made by a Soc to Ponyboy. He had just walked out of the movie theater and was on his way home, when he was jumped by a red corvair. Five Socs jumped out of the corvair. They proceded to surround him and make the threat. It meant “do you want to die.”

Quote 2: “And you can’t win against them no matter how hard you try, because they’ve got all the breaks and even whipping them isn’t going to change that fact.” Ch. 1, pg. 11

Quote 11: “The fight for self-preservation had hardened him against caring.” Chapter 4, pg. 59

Dally had to fight for his life in New York, it was a a fight for self-presentation. He had seen so many things that he shoudnlt have, and it had hardened him to the point where he didn’t care anymore.

He didn’t care if anyone loved him or not

Quote 12: “This church gave me a kind of creepy feeling. What do you call it? Premonition?” Chapter 4, pg. 67

 When Ponyboy and Johnny walked into the church they felt a creepy feeling, Premonition. They were hiding out here so the police wouldn’t find them, because Johnny was on  the run for murder.

Quote 22: “I wouldn’t mind it so much if there wasn’t so much stuff I ain’t done yet and so many things I ain’t seen. It’s not fair.” Chapter 8, pg. 121

This was Johnny’s complaint. He was going to die and he realized that he wanted to do more in his life than what he had. He thought that it wasn’t fair

 

Quote 29: “I had the knife. I killed Bob.” Chapter 11, pg. 165

 This is what Ponyboy said when he was delirious. He thought that he killed bob and that Johnny was still alive. He snapped out of it later 

1) Protest in Washington D.C.

2) Malcum. X “By any means necessary” Civil Rights Activist

3) Ford Mustang

4) Vietnam War/ U.S Air forces

5) 60s Real estate

6) The Beatles

7) Bob dylan

Elvis, “The King”

9) Martin Luther King Jr

10) John F. Kennedy

11) JFK Assassination

12) Mohamed Ali

13) Neil Armstrong

14) Fist step on the moon

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16) Soldiers fighting in Vietnam War

17) Fighting in the Vietnam

18) Racial Prtotesting

19) More Protesting

The 2 images that I selected were

The beatles

The Beatles were a band in the 60s. One of their most famous songs was yellow submarine. They were very important to the 60s because they were what people where listening to, defining that generation.

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JFK Assassination

The assassination of John F Kennedy was a blow to the 60s. It showed that times were changing and that presidents weren’t as loved as they were before. It also showed that the president’s previous guard had to step their security up a notch, because the incident could easily repeat itself

The Beatles were imp

This poem shows that nothing can stay gold, or perfect. In the beginning of life all was perfect, but it is impossible to keep perfection, like trying to stop the sun rising, corruption destroys in the  end. Noting can stay perfect foreveer. This poem is fairly pessimistic. It tells that perfection,or gold, is a form that nothing can truly hold forever. But their is one pinprick of light in the void of darkness. This poem tells that perfection is attainable, the poet obviously believed this.

So for a time you can hold perfection but it becomes harder to hold like, smoke as he warning goes, nothing gold can stay…

1) Who discovered the Continents of America & South America
A - Christopher Columbus

B - Marco Polo

C - The Coca-cola Company

2) What year did the Renaissance begin

A - 1450

B - 1720

C- 1320

3) What theory did Galileo Galilei propose

A - That the sun would implode

B - That the earth revolved around the sun

C - That the US economy is going into a depression

4) Who was the “Renaissance Man”

A - Leonardo DiCaprio

B - Walt Disney

C - Leonardo Da Vinci

5) Who dropped the 2 weights down the leaning tower of Pisa

A - Adolph Hitler

B - Leonardo Da Vinci

C - Galileo Galilee

6) Name the three ships that Columbus used to find America

A - Boat 1, Boat 2, Boat 3

B - Niña, Pinta ,Santa Maria

C - The Dire, The Victory & the Ultimatum

7) Who funded Columbus’s first expedition

A - The Italian

B - The Spanish

C - The Portugese

What was one of the fine points of the Renaissance

A - People invented the nuclear warhead

B - That most of the population knew how to read and write

C - That serial killers roamed the streets

9) What does the word Renaissance mean

A - Death

B - Intellect

C - Rebirth

10) How were the african slaves treated while onboard the slave ships

A - Like royalty

B - Bad

C - Unrealistically gruesome

After reading an excerpt from a book on King Arthur, we were asked to either make a story or a ballad on an enchanted weapon or object given to our original character. Since I try to avoid lots of long writing, and tend to stretch a story out, I chose to do a ballad. This is it so far:

Once upon an olden time,

there was a flame that was divine

To burn forever was its cause,

Always subjected to the kingdoms awe

This fire so good, so holy and bright

Helped the kingdom in its fight

against the evil fiends of dark,

their evil reduced to but a spark

But then against the kingdoms cause

The fiends began to strike once more

Without a single moments pause

The Darkness began the Only Great war

Darkness forever closer comes

Only one shall never run

The kingdom protector of the flame

Shall fail its quest, t’was all in vain

The blaze shall dwindle small & weak

Another protector it does seek

Darkness forever closer comes

The one true hero is nearly here

This fire once born from good and light

Was corrupted by malice, rage and spite

Of evil known amongst few men

Except the one who entered the archfiends den

Darkness rules this land once good

A hero has come to destroy the bad

To claim the flame long corrupted & had

Lost to darkness since the war started

The flame is touched the fiends departed

Darkness burned by rays of light

Shall never come again despite

The power of the archfiends roar

They shall not battle forever more

The flame now kept by its protector

Forever safe forever strong

Shall burn away the armys of darkness

Land the duo shall conquer…

Note: Much thanks to www.rhymer.com

Writers Block should be abolished from this world.

Why?

Simply because it is the most diabolical, spiteful, malicious, atrocious, barbaric, fiendish, annoying, irritating, aggravating, distressful, exasperating, irksome, painful, provoking, troublesome, vexing object to ever exist in this world.

Those whose heritage does declare                                                                                             that they shall live in a house that’s fair                                                                                      above all other to be saw,                                                                                                               all that see shall gasp in awe.

A Fire is built for spite to build                                                                                                  against the rules of king and crown                                                                                             This Malicious Guild,                                                                                                                  Seeks the country to fall down

A Doom is sealed, the fire burn bright                                                                                           A War shall come from this sparse spite

Those whose heritage does so state

That they can live in a house of stone

A target of war that enemies hate

A siege of battle their house is prone

 

Their doom is sealed the fire burn bright

Siege don’t last against the height

 

A Lord of strength a lord of power

With anger enough to undo the tower

Against the will of the king

Pain and destruction he will bring

 

A Doom Is sealed the fire burn bright

This siege will last 1000 nights

 

The battle is long is cold is strong

Time to undo the enemy’s strength

This siege has lasted far too long

For any measurement, any length

 

A Doom is sealed the fire burn bright

This siege will end, the world is bright

 

The bodies are dead,

Their malice, their spite long lost

Betrayed instead

For comrades long lost to the frost

 

Their doom is done the fire can dim

Lost in malice, their souls begin

To emerge from darkness, they have seen the grim

Note: Why it says V2…

Let just say, I ll make sure my USB doesn’t see another day 

I think these rules of chivalry are still necessary today.

1) Thou shalt never lie, and shall remain faithful to thy pledged word.

Lying is still a bad thing to do in modern times and it can end up with varying results. A broken word can also cause much pain and suffering so it is best to be avoided. It’s still important to tell the truth.

2) Always maintain ones principals

To maintain ones principles is to do what you think is right. People still admire others who can follow their heart in times of problem or stress.

3) Avoid cheating.

In a game of cards, you’re first impulse when you pick up you’re hand ISN’T to cheat( if it is, go see someone about it), its a belief, something unspoken but constantly present.

4) Never abandon a friend, ally, or noble cause.

Its an unspoken (or spoken for the matter) rule for someone who has committed to something to follow it to the end.The same applies for friends, you don’t just abandon them. Like you dont dessert an ally

On October 26th Friday, the Students of SAS Pudong had Pompeii Day. We made a parody on the Mt.Vesuvius eruption in Pompeii. The order is as follows : Anchor, Scientist, Anchor, Eye-witnesses, Anchor, Mathematician and Anchor. I will not list the cast.

The film is below

My mark for the Scipio Article was very fair and I was happy with it. I believe that Mr.Power marked it very fairly

and that I deserved the mark that I got. I should have wworked more on the presentation of the article.