Yep, you guessed it. Or you didn't. I don't know, I'm not a mind reader.
10 Things I Hate About You.
I was forced to see this by a certain movie freak friend of mine. She insisted it was a must see, something everyone should have seen besidesneverhavingseenasingleTerminatormoviecoughcough. But nevertheless.
So this afternoon, after baking a cake for our AP US History class, we decided to watch it.
And it's not too bad.
Basically JGL wants this girl and he can't get her because her dad says she can't date. Then her family has an argument and her father says that she can't date until her older sister dates. So JGL decides he's going to make that happen. He and his dorky buddy team up with this douchebag, who also wants the girl, to try and get that to happen. They use the douchebag to pay this rebel dude who everyone is scared of to go out with the girl's older sister. Obviously there are the usual problems like with the douchebag and JGL both wanting the same girl, and other cliched stuff. And I'm just gonna ruin it for you, everyone dies. Just kidding.
So it was released in 1999, and it's essentially a typical chick flick. Not that it's bad.
It has the typical "be yourself" message in there and "don't date douchebags, but feel free to date the shady rebellious and/or dorky guys" message.
But seriously. A movie with a young Heath Ledger and Joseph Gordon Levitt in it? I can't complain.
Along with that though, they did a fantastic job of appealing to my more feminine, girly side of wanting some guy to come and sweep me off my feet, and love me no matter. Sure, it was cliched. But sometimes, we just have to indulge ourselves and let ourselves hope and believe that there really is going to be that perfect guy out there who we will just fall head over heels for.
Overall, I couldn't complain. The acting was good, believable for the time period ("Where did you come from? Planet 'Loser'?") and I generally enjoyed it. And I wouldn't mind watching it again.
But honestly Macy, you can't consider 10 Things I Hate About You to be a "must see" and have never seen any of the Terminator movies. And if you consider Arnold Schwarzenegger to be attractive, it's practically a more action-y 10TIHAY.
Sunday, April 21, 2013
Thursday, April 18, 2013
A poem for my AP language and composition class
Abstruse Oblivion
1 My mind roams free
2 Every night,
3 On an adventure,
4 Through the tumult of silence.
5 Everything is loud; everything is silent.
6 My mind out to all of the memories
7 Of the long hard day.
8 All is calm; all is wild.
9 My mind dregs
10 Through the past
11 Reminiscing bittersweet days
12 And mourning the ones wished forgotten.
13 Away slips my mind and my consciousness,
14 Reaching with open arms to the Almighty
15 And deep down to embrace Lucifer.
16 My mind then forgets
17 The eyes, the ears
18 And sees and listens with the heart.
19 In this prison
20 I find freedom
21 From everything
22 And from myself.
Self Analysis
Line 3/12: Personification- “The mind” is said
to “roam free.” Minds don’t actually get up and walk around. Minds also don’t
mourn, technically.
Line 4: Oxymoron- Tumult is defined as
disorder or an outbreak of disorder, which contradicts the word describing it,
“silence.
Line 5/8: Parallelism- Everything/all is
_______; everything/all is _________ = similar structure
Line 11: Paradox- The word bittersweet
contradicts itself, but is accurate.
Line 13: Zeugma- “Away slips my mind”
and “away slips my consciousness” produce different meanings. The latter
intends to create the picture of falling asleep and the former illustrates
dreaming or the like.
Line 13: Inversion- Most would normally
say “my mind slips away” or “my consciousness slips away.”
Line 14/15: Allusion- “The Almighty” refers to God
and “Lucifer” is Satan, in case you didn’t know. Referring to God brings to
mind heaven and good things, so the mind thinks of good things. Mentioning
Satan refers to hell, and thus bad things, and one might make the connection
that the mind thinks of bad things.
Line 17: Metonymy- By looking at line 18,
one can tell that “the eyes” refers to sight and “the ears” refers to hearing
Line 3/9/16: Anaphora- While not in succession, the
repetition of the phrase “my mind” should be evident. Every other sentence begins with the phrase,
emphasizing the subject, the narrator’s mind.
Sunday, April 14, 2013
Have you ever had an overwhelming desire to learn about the deficit?
Yeah, I don't think I have either. But once my father decides he's going to tell you something, you sit down, shut up, and listen.
Today's topic was the deficit. It was fairly short too, so hopefully you'll come away from this somewhat more enlightened and not bored to tears.
He explained it like this:
Imagine you're a working person. You're on your own, have a steady income. But, you're spending $350 more than you're earning. And you've been doing so for the last three months.
This month, you realize, "crap! I've been spending too much!"
So what do you do? You budget. You look at what you've been spending and decide what you can cut out.
You look through your purchases and stuff and you realize that once a week you've been eating at McDonalds for breakfast. Each breakfast is about $4.25. You don't really need that, and decide to cut that from your schedule.
Is your problem solved now? What? It's not? But you cut that extra McDonalds from your spending!
Oh... 4.25*4 is actually only $17. Not quite the $350 you need. Just to not overspend this month, never mind paying back the last three months' debts.
That's a little like what the U.S. government has done.
We've been deficit spending for at least the last 12 years. Going from an already significant debt, that makes our current debt enormous.
In real life terms, this is what happened:
We were deficit spending. About to hit the debt ceiling (which is the maximum borrowing power of the government.) The government either needed to revise the budget or raise the debt ceiling. Democrats wanted to raise the ceiling. Republicans did not. So they said that the ceiling could be raised, if cuts were also made.
So they put together a group of people to decide how to fix/make the budget. They had a time limit, and if they didn't decide on something before March 1, 2013, then the sequester would be enacted. This means things would get cut. Things that no one wanted to get cut.
The government said, "DON'T WORRY Y'ALL, THIS COMMITTEE WILL FIGURE THIS SHIT OUT BECAUSE NO ONE WANTS THESE CUTS."
March 1st, guess what happened?
Yupp.
Those cuts.
Did you notice?
Nope.
Neither did I.
That's because those cuts were, as my father said, "a drop in the bucket." It was that $4.25 at McDonalds once a week.
Then he went a little into how Medicare and Medicaid were the problem, but yeah.
There's the deficit for you.
Feel enlightened.
Today's topic was the deficit. It was fairly short too, so hopefully you'll come away from this somewhat more enlightened and not bored to tears.
He explained it like this:
Imagine you're a working person. You're on your own, have a steady income. But, you're spending $350 more than you're earning. And you've been doing so for the last three months.
This month, you realize, "crap! I've been spending too much!"
So what do you do? You budget. You look at what you've been spending and decide what you can cut out.
You look through your purchases and stuff and you realize that once a week you've been eating at McDonalds for breakfast. Each breakfast is about $4.25. You don't really need that, and decide to cut that from your schedule.
Is your problem solved now? What? It's not? But you cut that extra McDonalds from your spending!
Oh... 4.25*4 is actually only $17. Not quite the $350 you need. Just to not overspend this month, never mind paying back the last three months' debts.
That's a little like what the U.S. government has done.
We've been deficit spending for at least the last 12 years. Going from an already significant debt, that makes our current debt enormous.
In real life terms, this is what happened:
We were deficit spending. About to hit the debt ceiling (which is the maximum borrowing power of the government.) The government either needed to revise the budget or raise the debt ceiling. Democrats wanted to raise the ceiling. Republicans did not. So they said that the ceiling could be raised, if cuts were also made.
So they put together a group of people to decide how to fix/make the budget. They had a time limit, and if they didn't decide on something before March 1, 2013, then the sequester would be enacted. This means things would get cut. Things that no one wanted to get cut.
The government said, "DON'T WORRY Y'ALL, THIS COMMITTEE WILL FIGURE THIS SHIT OUT BECAUSE NO ONE WANTS THESE CUTS."
March 1st, guess what happened?
Yupp.
Those cuts.
Did you notice?
Nope.
Neither did I.
That's because those cuts were, as my father said, "a drop in the bucket." It was that $4.25 at McDonalds once a week.
Then he went a little into how Medicare and Medicaid were the problem, but yeah.
There's the deficit for you.
Feel enlightened.
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