http://youtu.be/6q2mFiN7GIc
The song that I chose to embed into my blog was one i actually just discovered or at least haven't heard in a while called "Gambler" by Kenny Rogers. At first I was just looking to find a song that could fit well enough with my book so I could use it, but then after I got lucky enough to find this song I found that it fit perfectly with situations Nailer was in. Along with matching well with Nailer I also just really enjoy the song. I myself learned from it and sense I also enjoy playing poker, I got what he was trying to say. In the song it says "you got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, and know when to run." I feel that Nailer does a good job of this in the novel because he understands the difference in situations between fate/luck and when he actually needs to strategize.
The situation that I mostly imagine Nailer in when i hear this song is when he is in the air ducts collecting wire. This of course is Nailer's job in the book which puts him in hazardous situations most of the time. In these old air ducts he is confronted with these situations where he has to decide whether to keep going, give up, or just simply decide what he has is enough and turn around and head back. Also in the song it is said "You never count your money when you're sitting at the table. They'll be time enough for countin when the dealins done". This can also be used to connect to Nailer in the air ducts because there is no time to see how much wire you actually have because those ducts could break any second so there is plenty of time for you to do it when you get out. In the beginning of the book, the ducts do just that and break and Nailer falls into an oil pit where he is forced to the decision of risking his life and sinking under the oil to find a way out. That was just one of those times where he chose fate/luck over anything else.
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Ship Breaker in Pictures
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| I read the book Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi for the Second Quarter |
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| The book takes place on the coast. |
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| The old coasts are now flooded. |
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| Copper wire is the wanted item is the wrecked ships. |
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| In the book they have to crawl through air ducts to get the copper wire. |
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| All workers are indentured servants. |
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| The crews always have to work together. |
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| This is how I imagine Nailer |
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| Nailer's dad |
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| Nailer's mom who dies when Nailer is young. |
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| There is barely any known oil in the time of the book. |
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| There are a lot of drug problems. |
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| All workers live in poverty. |
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| Nailer gets stuck in a room full of oil and is considered lucky for finding it when he gets out. |
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| The only thing the pit bosses cared about was money. |
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| They have to work fast, because there are storms that wipe out their work place. |
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| This is what the crews work on. |
Monday, December 5, 2011
Critiquing My Fellow Class Mates
Alex Kippenbrock-
Kippy, Kippy, Kippy... you are certainly the pot calling the kettle black. Although I am behind on my blogs you are as well, but I see you put in some work and i applaud you for that. I would like to point out that you said you took full responsibility for not having you're vlog uploaded but yet you still blamed me for it... do i sense some jealousy that you don't have an incredible phone like I do? But enough of that onto you're actual blog. I agree with you that it was weird how our Animoto's were graded but i now understand what Mrs. Hayes wants and I hope you do as well. I myself was really excited for the video chatting with the students from other schools but it's a shame we did not get to do that this quarter. I have also looked at your blog in the past to help me understand the book I am now reading sense you read it last quarter and you have been very helpful! I look forward to seeing the rest of your blogs when they are finished!
Jacob Garwin-
Greetings Jacob, I am here to tell you all the things you don't know about your own blog! Alright so where shall we start? Something that Mrs. Hayes told me at the beginning of the second quarter that I did right was my grammar. I capitalized my I's and the letters after the periods. Here it does not look like you did so. In the blog above it where you were commenting on people's blogs it looks as though you did it though which tells me you were just lazy starting off the second quarter which is alright you just need to fix it! Another thing I noticed was that this was only one paragraph long. This is just not acceptable to Mrs. Hayes and Mr. Lukes so you Mr. Garwin need to fix it ASAP. But enough of being a Negative Nancy, I much enjoyed your 1st quarter blogs and am sorry to hear about the grade you received. But like you said, just forget about the grade you got then, and worry about the second quarter grade! I of course will try and do the same.
Macie Wheeler-
Hello Macie! Let me just congratulate you on getting an A on the first quarter blogs! I am really jealous right now seeing as how i did not get such a good grade and that i am not as good as blogger as you are. I am really happy to see that you are able to but your upbeat attitude into your blogs in some way or another especially in your vlog. I also, had the same problem you did which was not having long enough paragraphs. This was very hard for me to do last quarter because I really didn't know what i was doing, but it looks like you got through the blogs just fine anyway! But if you do find yourself getting distracted a lot I would get checked for ADD and I hope you were able to pay attention up till now. Oh well Macie, best of luck to you with the 2nd quarter blogs! Keep up the good work!
Kippy, Kippy, Kippy... you are certainly the pot calling the kettle black. Although I am behind on my blogs you are as well, but I see you put in some work and i applaud you for that. I would like to point out that you said you took full responsibility for not having you're vlog uploaded but yet you still blamed me for it... do i sense some jealousy that you don't have an incredible phone like I do? But enough of that onto you're actual blog. I agree with you that it was weird how our Animoto's were graded but i now understand what Mrs. Hayes wants and I hope you do as well. I myself was really excited for the video chatting with the students from other schools but it's a shame we did not get to do that this quarter. I have also looked at your blog in the past to help me understand the book I am now reading sense you read it last quarter and you have been very helpful! I look forward to seeing the rest of your blogs when they are finished!
Jacob Garwin-
Greetings Jacob, I am here to tell you all the things you don't know about your own blog! Alright so where shall we start? Something that Mrs. Hayes told me at the beginning of the second quarter that I did right was my grammar. I capitalized my I's and the letters after the periods. Here it does not look like you did so. In the blog above it where you were commenting on people's blogs it looks as though you did it though which tells me you were just lazy starting off the second quarter which is alright you just need to fix it! Another thing I noticed was that this was only one paragraph long. This is just not acceptable to Mrs. Hayes and Mr. Lukes so you Mr. Garwin need to fix it ASAP. But enough of being a Negative Nancy, I much enjoyed your 1st quarter blogs and am sorry to hear about the grade you received. But like you said, just forget about the grade you got then, and worry about the second quarter grade! I of course will try and do the same.
Macie Wheeler-
Hello Macie! Let me just congratulate you on getting an A on the first quarter blogs! I am really jealous right now seeing as how i did not get such a good grade and that i am not as good as blogger as you are. I am really happy to see that you are able to but your upbeat attitude into your blogs in some way or another especially in your vlog. I also, had the same problem you did which was not having long enough paragraphs. This was very hard for me to do last quarter because I really didn't know what i was doing, but it looks like you got through the blogs just fine anyway! But if you do find yourself getting distracted a lot I would get checked for ADD and I hope you were able to pay attention up till now. Oh well Macie, best of luck to you with the 2nd quarter blogs! Keep up the good work!
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Blog Kick Off: 2nd Quarter
So here we go again, second quarter and blogging again. I didn't get such a good grade last time but I'm hoping to do better this time. Although i didn't the grade i would've preferred but i still did somethings right. According to my teacher, I had good writing, compared to some of my class mates. I made sure to type my blogs like i was typing a paper which turned out to be a good choice instead of writing like some people text or talk on Facebook. Somethings I could have definitely done better were things like, having more paragraphs when necessary. Also, my animoto didn't make the viewer really want to watch the movie like it was supposed to. My goals for this quarter are to try to pay more attention to what the blog prompt is actually asking me to do and to enjoy blogging more.
My feelings about blogging are kind of back and forth. I do enjoy the break from class work it gives us and how it is something completely different from something I've done before since i have never blogged before. I also do enjoy how the blogs are different every week and apparently this quarter is going to be different then the last so that is something to look forward to. There are some things about blogging that i don't enjoy. Like how each blog requires you to have multiple long paragraphs like the ones i am typing right now. Also if you fall behind on your blogging it can be very time consuming but we do get class time to do it, it's just sometimes i don't get it done in class.
The book I am reading right now is called Ship Breaker, by Paolo Bacigalupi. It seems like a pretty interesting book so far. My friends who read it last quarter seemed to of really enjoyed it up to the end but i am not that far yet so i wouldn't know. As to what people can expect to see on my blog this quarter is what i basically said in my first paragraph. I plan to go more in depth with what my blog prompt is asking of me and i plan to enjoy blogging more and try to keep up with it better.
My feelings about blogging are kind of back and forth. I do enjoy the break from class work it gives us and how it is something completely different from something I've done before since i have never blogged before. I also do enjoy how the blogs are different every week and apparently this quarter is going to be different then the last so that is something to look forward to. There are some things about blogging that i don't enjoy. Like how each blog requires you to have multiple long paragraphs like the ones i am typing right now. Also if you fall behind on your blogging it can be very time consuming but we do get class time to do it, it's just sometimes i don't get it done in class.
The book I am reading right now is called Ship Breaker, by Paolo Bacigalupi. It seems like a pretty interesting book so far. My friends who read it last quarter seemed to of really enjoyed it up to the end but i am not that far yet so i wouldn't know. As to what people can expect to see on my blog this quarter is what i basically said in my first paragraph. I plan to go more in depth with what my blog prompt is asking of me and i plan to enjoy blogging more and try to keep up with it better.
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Around the World in 80 DaysTrailer
Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.
This is my trailer for Around the world in 80 Days. It shows who the main characters are and what the point of the book is and with a stumper at the end. I feel it portraits the book very well.
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Insightful Comments
I started following Jacob, Macie, and Alex.
Greetings Jacob. i have no idea why i am even bothering to comment on this post of yours seeing as how two people that are obviously much greater than myself have already blessed you with there glorious words. But i agree with Macie and Richard in that you sir are a good writer. You can definitely tell that you wrote this because it matches you attitude so well. But I'm sure you are like me in that by the end of the year you will find blogging interesting and fun... maybe... probably not.
Wow Macie, I am surprised to see that no one has already commented on your blog because of how awesome you are but I am honored to be the first one! Your blog was very amusing to me and I enjoyed every second that I was reading it. Your writing style really matches your personality which is a good thing. You should not be worried about writing these blogs because you are a natural in my opinion. But as the year progresses I am sure that you will enjoy blogging more and more!
Salutations Alex. You should not worry about your blogging skills because this was very well written. You say you are scared but there really is nothing to be scared of, after all Mrs. Hayes gives us plenty of time to do them so you can get them done. I hope you feel the same as i do when i say that blogging is not as foreign to me now and is actually kind of a good alternative to class work. Well stick in there Alex, you will be fine.
Greetings Jacob. i have no idea why i am even bothering to comment on this post of yours seeing as how two people that are obviously much greater than myself have already blessed you with there glorious words. But i agree with Macie and Richard in that you sir are a good writer. You can definitely tell that you wrote this because it matches you attitude so well. But I'm sure you are like me in that by the end of the year you will find blogging interesting and fun... maybe... probably not.
Wow Macie, I am surprised to see that no one has already commented on your blog because of how awesome you are but I am honored to be the first one! Your blog was very amusing to me and I enjoyed every second that I was reading it. Your writing style really matches your personality which is a good thing. You should not be worried about writing these blogs because you are a natural in my opinion. But as the year progresses I am sure that you will enjoy blogging more and more!
Salutations Alex. You should not worry about your blogging skills because this was very well written. You say you are scared but there really is nothing to be scared of, after all Mrs. Hayes gives us plenty of time to do them so you can get them done. I hope you feel the same as i do when i say that blogging is not as foreign to me now and is actually kind of a good alternative to class work. Well stick in there Alex, you will be fine.
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