Fourth Diplomatic Mission Personal Reflection

The fourth diplomatic mission was tough for me. I found myself not being able to wait for summer and losing focus on my work because of it. I also became distracted because I had decided not to continue with humanities next year so I could not focus on my work this year. I found that my personal team work had improved this mission. I realized what it took to be part of a team that not everyone contributes to and how it is not an excuse to have poor quality teamwork. I experienced reading a non-fiction book which is something I had never done but always wanted to do. I discovered that it was not what I was hoping it to be but still and excellent experience that taught me how to understand another persons point of view. Something that I greatly need to work on and will for the rest of my life is my procrastination. I am horrible and I really want to improve upon it. It will take time but I will get it down by next school year.

Defining different types of irony

Situational Irony- something that has an effect that is exactly opposite of what is indented

Verbal Irony- a statement that implies a meaning in opposition of what the literal meaning is

Dramatic Irony- a literary technique, originally used in Greek tragedy, by which the full significance of a character's words or actions are clear to the audience or reader although unknown to the character.

Irony of the short story The Wall

In the short story The Wall the author uses irony to tell his story. The types of irony used vary from dramatic, situational. The most obvious one is situational. It is displayed in the story when the former mason who is building the wall with such care because, "What pleasure would there be in escaping from a prison that was poorly built?" This is situational irony because he is implying that he will escape through the walls of the prison when he really just wants everyone to think that. This gives him the opportunity to simply walk through the front gates. An example of dramatic irony in the story is in the last paragraph, when the prison director hires a professional burglar to to fix his window sash. This is dramatic irony because we know something is bound to happen based on the tale above.

Theme of the short story Lifeguard

The theme of the short story the lifeguard is don't take things for granted and appreciate others no matter what. The reason I feel one of the themes is don't take things for granted is because the main character Chris feel sorry for himself because his dad walked out on his mom bother and himself. But as the story goes on he realizes that he's lucky to even have a family. Chris comes to this conclusion when the little boy Mike loses his parents in a car crash that also disables him. Later after Chris has been visiting Mike at the hospital he realizes the other theme, appreciate other. Chris discovers that the little kid he hated for being a nuisance was actually not that bad. In the end he even admired Mike for his courage to fall into fall into his own little world when he tipped into the deep end of that pool.

Characteristics of a Short Story

• Short enough to be read in one sitting
• Concise, information given is revalent to the story being told.
• leaves a single impression

intriguing opening

well developed and appropriate structure

action

tension

clearly recognisable climax

satisfying ending

Comparing Characteristics of a Short Story

Writing Characteristics	Short Story- The Lifeguard
Intriguing Opening	Has an intriguing opening, introduces the main character and grabs our attention by stating, “I had my own problems that summer.”
Well Developed Structure	This story has good structure, I
Action	There was lots of action in this story because there are multiple aspects to it. Between the Chris his father his mother and the little boy mike
Tension	The tension in this story is also good. There is tension between Chris and his Father because you are always wondering if they will ever talk. Tension is also present between Mike and Chris when Chris gets frustrated with mike.
Recognizable Climax	The climax of this story is very recognizable it is when Chris finds out Mike and his family has been in a car accident.
Satisfying ending	The ending is satisfying because the tension is resolved. Chris has come to terms with his dad not being there and he also enjoys mikes company.

Personal Reflection Diplomatic Posting #3

In the third diplomatic mission I feel that my overall performance was good but I could improve. One of the things I would like to improve is my writing technique. Writing has never really been one of my strengths and I would like to improve on it. Some of the things I did well in this mission are group work, and presenting. I felt in my group I was a good leader and contributed a lot into every project. In presenting the projects I feel I did a fairly good job on keeping eye contact and looking at the audience not the screen, but I could still improve upon that. In the fourth diplomatic mission I would like to take all the things I have learned from the start of the year till now and really bring them all together. I am looking forward to the book report and also preparing my first portfolio.

Team Evaluation

Third Diplomatic Mission

Shelby, Chelsea, Doug, Logan, Calder

In the third diplomatic mission our team completed assignments on time and overall worked well together. Some things we could improve on are better delegating the tasks so everyone knows what their role is on certain assignments. Also planning out our time between team assignments and personal assignments. On the other hand we all contributed ideas and got along well. We think that overall our team in the third diplomatic mission was a great group that worked well together and enjoyed working together. 

Movie Review

            The movie version of the play Romeo and Juliet, titled Romeo plus Juliet captured the mood and atmosphere of the play in a respectable way. Though the movies setting was not the traditional one of Verona, Italy. In the movie I feel they capture the overall mood of the play, especially the mood of Romeo and Juliet’s love. The overall atmosphere of the Capulet Montague feud was well captured also. Even though the setting and some of the scenes were not the same I think they captured and almost overplayed the moods of characters and atmosphere of the entire play. In general the movie did what it was supposed to do, provide a easy to understand visual aid for the mood and atmosphere of the text.   

Personal Assignment #7 part 2

Friar Lawrence’s plan for Juliet to be with Romeo is most likely not to succeed because it lacks communication between the two parties. First off a plan where someone fake kills themselves probably is not the best idea in the first place. Since Romeo was so far away it was not realistic for news of the plan to get to him, and it was even more unfortunate when Juliet was forced to move the plan up a day. As a result the plan was really doomed before it started and the odds kept stacking up against them, which lead to the untimely of both Romeo and Juliet. 

Personal Assignment #7

I believe that Juliet has changed since the beginning of the play…

            In the play Romeo and Juliet, Juliet is a dynamic character because she develops abundantly as a person throughout the play. At the start of the play Juliet is talking with her mother, Lady Capulet, about the potential of getting married to the county man Paris. Juliet states, “It is an honour I dream not of,” (Shakespeare, pp. Act 1, Scene 3, Line 67) when asked if she wanted to wed. This is an example of how she is young and naive at the start of the play. However as the play goes on Juliet becomes determined and courageous. She provides evidence for both of these starting in Act 4, Scene 1 after Romeo has been banished for Tybalts death and Juliet is told she will marry Paris. Juliet shows her determination for Romeo by going to Friar Laurence’s to come up with a plan to runaway with Romeo. When the Friar gives Juliet a sleeping potion she takes it even though she does not know what is exactly going to happen. This shows her determination to be with her beloved Romeo. An example showing Juliet’s courage is when she wakes up from her sleep in the tomb and sees Romeo dead. Juliet felt she needed to be with her lover for the rest of her life and had the courage to follow through with it. That is why Juliet has changed since the beginning of the play. She went from the naive girl, to the confident and determined women.

Character Webs

Being a teenager can be difficult

Everyone knows growing up is a difficult thing. People are faced with multiple challenges, and how an individual deals with those challenges makes them who they are. And through all the tests of life most people would agree that your teens are the hardest.

Now compared to the lives that Shakespeare’s famous teen stars Romeo and Juliet lead, my life seems pretty mellow. I have fantastic friends, and a tremendous family who love me unconditionally. My parents got me involved in sports at a young age which kept me busy and out of trouble. I am dedicated to everything I do whether it be sports or school and always try my best to give one hundred percent. Although my life is great and I am very blessed, there is some classic teenage problems that I deal with.

First off being a teenage girl I feel is a lot worse than being a teenage boy.

Boys can just punch each other a bit and call it quits, but girls on the other hand are nasty. I have gone from being best friends with a girl to her hating me for no reason. Another hard thing about being a teenage girl is, girls always talk behind each others backs. With girls it will never be just between two people, everyone always finds a way to be involved.

Another aspect of being a teenager that is difficult is the huge decisions you have to make that will affect the rest of your life. Since registering for high school last year I have had to make decisions that will setup the platform for the rest of my high school career an eventually my life. The first major decision was if I should take the Humanities course or English and Social courses. Well it is apparent which one I have chosen, the reasons I chose it was because I believe the Humanities course prepares you for university and also the life of business after university. And I can truthfully say so far in my humanities journey my initial reasons for choosing the course stand true. The other decision I had to make was taking a 20 level science in the second semester of grade 10. Now this was something I really wanted to do because I want to take all my sciences and it would be great if I take one earlier I worked really hard to achieve success so I would be able to take Biology 20 but in the end my marks were good but not good enough.

So overall there are not that many things that make my life that difficult other and those to things. Sure there are days when I think my life sucks, my parents aren't fair and the days when I think why me? So when I have those days I just remember how in the grand scheme of things my life is pretty darn good.

Bibliography

Alberta Education. (1995). education alberta. Retrieved 02 10, 2011, from Alberta Education: http://education.alberta.ca

Bernanke, B. Keynes vs. Hayek.image

Journal Entries

 The worst decision I have ever made was probably in grade 6 when I took 5 of my friends to a concert in Edmonton. Now the problem was I could only invite 5 friends and I had more than 5 really good friends. In the end I ended up having to leave out one of my best friends. This caused a lot of tension between us and lead to her hating me. At first I didn’t realize the severity of the situation, I thought she would get over it in a couple weeks. But girls being girls she didn’t get over it and when it was time for grade seven she wanted nothing to do with me. Even then I though I was upset about her not being my friend I thought I might be able to get over it as long as I had my other friends to help me through. But to my surprise the five best friends who I invited to that concert, no longer wanted anything to do with me either. I was shocked but mostly hurt, I went from having tones of friends to having none in just a small amount of time. So there I was seventh grade and no friends what so ever. Everyone hated me and I went along time just like that. Nobody ever picked me to be partners with them and I usually ended up doing group projects by myself, I was never invited over to anyone’s house, and for the first time since kindergarten I wasn’t invited to my best friends birthday. That’s when it hit me that I needed to do something about it and stop moping. So I started sitting by my old friend and her new ones at lunch and in class and slowly but surly they excepted me. I now had got my best friend back and gained two more friends in the process. The reason this was the worst decision I have ever made was because I almost lost a true friend because I picked the friends that were the ‘popular’ ones instead of true ones.

Team Assignment #1

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Education, Hayek and Keynes Comparison

             John Maynard Keynes, was a British Economist that after the major economic down turn if the Second World War, composed economic ideas that would involve a more so involved government. He believed that in order to make an economy work the government needed to be involved. On the other side of the spectrum is Friedrich Hayek, a economist that based his theories on previous examples of failed economies like Nazi Germany, and the Soviet Union. His concepts stated that those were two economies that were heavily government controlled and took away the freedom of the people. He states that you can't plan human society and the natural evolutionary wisdom from a free society is best.  Now to decide which one is related to the education system of Alberta.

             I believe that the Keynes system is the one that best describes Alberta's public education program. Public Education in Alberta is a program that is more so government involved.  The majority of our fees are payed by the government, our teachers are also payed by the government. Although our system is mostly Keynes there are aspects that go support Hayek as well. For ins-tense we pay taxes that go towards our provinces education. Also if you go to a private school it is not government involved. 

             So although our Education system has a few points that support Hayek it is much more so a Keynes based system. 

Romeo & Juliet Group Project

When was it written?

• 1594

Setting

• Verona, Italy in the 14th or 15th century during the renaissance  

Shakespeare wrote three different types of plays

• Tragedies, Histories, Comedies 
• Histories is King John
• Tragedies example, Julius Caesar
• Comedies example, Merchant of Venice 
• Romeo and Juliet is a Tragedy 

Three interesting facts about Shakespeare

•  Shakespeare's life lasted for fifty-two years. It is known that he was born in April 1564 and that he died on 23rd April 1616. 
• During his life, Shakespeare wrote 37 plays and 154 sonnets!
• He wrote on average 1 . 5 plays a year since he first started in 1589.

Personal Logo

My personal logo represents how I plan to use what I learn in humanities. I plan to take everything I learn throughout the three years of this program and take it with me and spread my knowledge everywhere I go.

Motivational Poster

Word Game

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

S U O U C I P S N O C N I C D D B M E S 
O C W T L R G F A I E O O T I E E E R E 
P I A C R N U S O D Z N J N S D N L E T 
P B R U I A S D I R T R Y E A N E A C U 
R D Y L S U N F I E A N L D P E V N T B 
E N B D A P I Q M M O Y E U P C O C I I 
S I O G E C I P U I E T V P R S L H T R 
S U E I A T T C T I A N I M O E E O U T 
I D O T T U A A I I L S T I B D N L D T 
V S I I O C D R R O U I A S A N C Y E A 
E O O U T A E U T O U W T Q T O E E T A 
N E S L R C F L U E M S N Y I C K R A R 
P L H G A N A T I A P U E L O W I E T T 
Y V E D I T P R D D T R T S N D L V I I 
S D P N U M E Q F D E D E C E S Y E V C 
I M A L E V O L E N T R B P I A D S A U 
E V I T I S I U Q N I O P G O D A R R L 
Z E N Y T I L A I D R O C Y L T L E G A 
C O R D I A L I N D E C I S I O N P Y T 
C I T A R R E U N F A T H O M A B L E E 

ARTICULATE
ASSUAGED
ATTRIBUTES
AUSPICIOUS
BENEVOLENCE
CONDESCENDED
CONTEMPTUOUS
CONTEMPTUOUSLY
CORDIAL
CORDIALITY
DEGRADATION
DICTUM
DISAPPROBATION
DOG
EDIFICATION
ERRATIC
FORAY
FRACTIOUS
GRAVITATED
IMPUDENT
INCONSPICUOUS
INDECISION
INFURIATED
INQUISITIVE
ISOLATE
LADYLIKE
MAD
MALEVOLENT
MELANCHOLY
OPPRESSIVE
PERPETRATED
PERSEVERE
PREDILECTION
RECTITUDE
RUDIMENTS
SECEDED
SIBLINGS
TENTATIVELY
TRANQUIL
TRANQUILITY
UNFATHOMABLE
WARY