Mr. Lonely http://groverwood.edublogs.org blogging Fri, 21 May 2010 15:38:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 AOW 25 http://groverwood.edublogs.org/2010/05/20/aow-25-2/ http://groverwood.edublogs.org/2010/05/20/aow-25-2/#comments Thu, 20 May 2010 19:26:01 +0000 groverwood http://groverwood.edublogs.org/?p=157 This is a very unique article.  I really enjoyed reading it because most of the information in is very relevant to today’s society.  Rules like #6 and #14 are very helpful and is a slap in the face for some people.  If everyone were to follow these rules, then I wouldn’t really mind people using their phones around me. 

Sometimes, it just gets very annoying and bothers me.  Society will be so much more better off without the excess amount of cell phones possessed by the younger generation.  It would definitely limit communication and prevent them from communicating with adults when they are in trouble, but it would greatly reduce the rudeness produced by them and these rules could be unnessessary.

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AOW 25 http://groverwood.edublogs.org/2010/05/19/aow-25/ http://groverwood.edublogs.org/2010/05/19/aow-25/#comments Wed, 19 May 2010 19:25:02 +0000 groverwood http://groverwood.edublogs.org/?p=155 Synthesis

All four of these words would fall under an emtionally unstable person.  They would keep looking inside themselves (introspective) and try to have a delusion of greatness (megalomania).  They would also try to be vivacious and be a cognoscenti of theirselves.

Divergence

Goods that a cognoscenti would prefer is going to vary.  Some people know that the same product is cheaper, but lower quality than another brand, but are willing to sacrifice quality for price.  Other people work the exact opposite.  They know some brands are lower quality than others, but cheaper, but they like products of the highest quality.  They are willing to sacrifice price for quality.

Analysis

CIRCUMVENT=go around 

circum+vent=around+go

EXCULPATE=free of blame

ex+cul+pate=not+blame+act of

HELIOTROPIC=sun following

helio+tropic=sun+turning

Evalution

A criminal should be exculpated if the methods used by the police are illegal and unconstitutional.  That is just very hypocritical.  How can a policeman arrest a criminal if the crime committed is the very same crime the policeman does?

Intuition

When I am eighty, I will probably do something that is very stereotypical for old people.   I would want to do stuff such as knitting,  criticizing the way the younger generations dress, and be rich.

Emotion

A viviacious person is lively, crazy, and ADHD

Aesthetics

A pelucid sculpture would be fascinating.  I would love to see a sculpture made of something pelucid, like plexiglass.

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Aow 24 http://groverwood.edublogs.org/2010/05/13/aow-24/ http://groverwood.edublogs.org/2010/05/13/aow-24/#comments Thu, 13 May 2010 22:53:59 +0000 groverwood http://groverwood.edublogs.org/?p=152 Technology today decides many things today including the thinking process of our youth.  Today, our younger generation takes high-level technology for granted and doesn’t think much of it.  They think that things like Kindle are real “books”.  For them it is way beyond a computer being a necessity of life.  This article is showing that some kids expect everything with a screen or monitor should have a touch feature.  It shows an example of a child being so used to an iPhone, she touches the screen on a laptop and expects a reaction.

Some people think that this kind of reliance on technology is good and will help the future generations by improving their thinking processes.  They believe that it will become even more sophisticated and knowledgeable.  Others argue this point and say that high-level technology should be stopped at all costs.  They believe that it is bad for the future generations by giving them objects that they become more and more reliant on.  Personally, rapid growth of technology should be prevented by society today.  It is downgrading future generation’s mind by deceiving them.  Future generation’s will not do character-building work, but will rely on technology to do it for them.  It is degrading society as we know it.

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WWW 24 http://groverwood.edublogs.org/2010/05/13/www-24/ http://groverwood.edublogs.org/2010/05/13/www-24/#comments Thu, 13 May 2010 21:37:54 +0000 groverwood http://groverwood.edublogs.org/?p=150 Synthesis

I believe they will all fall under the category of ignorant things.  Infidels do not know the truth, while robots do not know feeling, and somnambulists do not know they are sleep-walking.

Divergence

Pandemonium is very common in this world today.  One can see it everywhere they go.  A good instance of pandemonium would be in a public school.  Public schools are generally more strict than private schools and have harder rules to follow.  They try to force the students into total order.  So naturally, this would cause pandemonium in the school.  There are always those who desire to follow the rules and regulations and those who choose not to.  This creates horrible pandemonium.

Analysis

Re-back ; Voc-voice  back voice (recall)

Evaluation

It would be a good idea to market androids that do housework.  It could do the work that usually takes up valuable time for people.  A couple hours of housework is  such a waste of time for most people.  They could be doing more important things.  If a personal androids did all thise, people can go about their business with more time.

Intuition

I would love to converse with just common dirt.  Everybody steps on it and it must feel very low.  It would be very cool because it would be very humble and nice.

Emotion

Emotions associated with urbane behavior would be very selfish.  Sophisticated people generally believe they are better than other people because they know more things and have more knowledge about the world.

Aesthetics

If someone paid me money for me to create an odd piece of art, I would make it based on human pain and suffering.  These two subjects interest me greatly.  It would depict pain and suffering being inflicted on a person and the person’s reaction.

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AOW 23 Reflection http://groverwood.edublogs.org/2010/05/06/aow-23-reflection/ http://groverwood.edublogs.org/2010/05/06/aow-23-reflection/#comments Fri, 07 May 2010 01:33:35 +0000 groverwood http://groverwood.edublogs.org/?p=147 I believe that this article is an indirect implication of the violation of people’s rights by the government.  The government is trying to force upon people the “privelege” of access to high-speed internet.  This is of course, not going to work out totally.  The government cannot totally please every single person in America. 

This situation is not different.  The Obama administration is trying to create a high-speed internet system around the country, even against some people’s will.  One might find this strange, or even absurd, but for the objectors, it is not.  Just because the Internet is considered a luxury, convenience, and lifestyle for a majority of the population, doesn’t mean that it applies to everyone else.  The government cannot force upon the people, a so-called “convenience”.

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AOW 23 Questions http://groverwood.edublogs.org/2010/05/06/aow-23-questions/ http://groverwood.edublogs.org/2010/05/06/aow-23-questions/#comments Fri, 07 May 2010 01:13:24 +0000 groverwood http://groverwood.edublogs.org/?p=144 3.  If some people do not prefer the Internet at their homes, they have the right not to have it.  Although, I do not know exactly where, but I am pretty sure that that is unconstitutional.  The government cannot force something like the Internet into a person’s hands.  If they do not want something, they have the right not to have it.  Another example would be that if someone does not want to eat, they do not have to.

4.  Florence Pearson got over her fear of the Internet through persuasion of her daughter.  Someone who is linked  to the “modern” world can always help those still living in the past.  Pearson’s daughter must have told her that the Internet is not a bad thing.  Of course, her daughter did not have to persuade her.  If people don’t want to learn, they don’t have to, it is a violation of their rights.

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WWW 23 http://groverwood.edublogs.org/2010/04/30/www-23/ http://groverwood.edublogs.org/2010/04/30/www-23/#comments Fri, 30 Apr 2010 19:28:21 +0000 groverwood http://groverwood.edublogs.org/?p=142 1.   egocentric,demagogue, disputatious

2.  Unalienable rights should be kept sacrosanct in everday American life.  These are the rights pointed out by our Founding Fathers many years ago and should still be respected.  The issue of states’ rights should be reexamined because there seems to be a lot of problems in that issue now.

3.  Egocentric

Ego-I

Centri- Center

egocentric- self centered

androgynous-

andro-man

gyn-descendent

ous-full of

androgynous-masculine and femine

4.      I have attended private schools in the past, and now a public school.  Therefore, I actually have the right to compare the two unlike most kids who just say private schools are just for rich and snobby kids.  Kids behaviors should not be circumscribed in public schools.  If parents want their kids to act right, they should send their kids to a private school, or home school them.  They send their kids to public schools out of a risk.  I would say a public school is better for a child’s moral development.  They are not just exposed to goody goody nice kids who are afriad to break rules.  They really get tested at public schools where not everyone is nice.

5.  It would be very funny if I received a diatribe in a dream.  I would picture the stranger as a homeless man who looks like he is addicted to drugs.  I probably would not have done anything to receive this diatribe.

6.  I really hate kids who are egocentric, and I admire them if they are pugnacious.  Loquacious kids just annoying me to death.

7.   Most music is euphonic, but that doesn’t mean it has to be.  Music is an art and art can be bad.  Therefore, music can be cacophous.

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aow 22 reflection http://groverwood.edublogs.org/2010/04/23/aow-22-reflection/ http://groverwood.edublogs.org/2010/04/23/aow-22-reflection/#comments Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:46:08 +0000 groverwood http://groverwood.edublogs.org/?p=139    This article was about states rights and its protesters.   It is just another case where the states government is arguing with the federal government over who is supreme.  This case has been visited before many times in history

     One thing I noticed while reading the article was that the govermnet put up a “fake and useless” amendment.  Article VI states clearly that whenever there is a conflict between the federal and state governments,  the federal government will be supreme.  This would, obviously make the citizens and the state government upset, so the federal government passed the Tenth Amendment.  The Tenth Amendment also clearly states that any power not given to the federal government will go to the states governmnents.  This is just again, a “fake and useless” amendment.  There will be no power given to the state governments.  The federal government is not just going to pass up power that could make them sovereign over the states.  The Tenth Amendment was just created so that the states right’s protester would not be upset about total federal government sovereignty.  Now, the people in this article are starting to realize that fact and protesting.

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Aow 22 questions http://groverwood.edublogs.org/2010/04/23/aow-22-questions/ http://groverwood.edublogs.org/2010/04/23/aow-22-questions/#comments Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:39:19 +0000 groverwood http://groverwood.edublogs.org/?p=136 1.    The Tenth Amendment states that any powers not given to the federal government goes to the states.   This Amendment connects peacefully with Article VI.  Since Article VI says that the federal government is supreme over states, the state’r rights protester would not like this.  To balance this, the governemnt put into efffect the Tenth Amendment.  Of course, it is basically useless, because no power will be passed up by the governement.

3.     Even if the state’s right protesters lose in court, they will leave a legacy and open up the path for future state’s rights protesters.  The case will not be forgotten and people will try to continue it.  The government cannot completely ignore the needs of the people or it will be  tyranny.  The whole point of the founding of the U.S. was to seperate from Britain, so it would be hypocracy.

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WWW 22 http://groverwood.edublogs.org/2010/04/16/www-22/ http://groverwood.edublogs.org/2010/04/16/www-22/#comments Fri, 16 Apr 2010 19:12:58 +0000 groverwood http://groverwood.edublogs.org/?p=134 1.  One advantage of having an oligarchy-based government is that there would not be as much fighting and arguing for the creation of laws.  The less people, the fewer problems.  Although this is a small advantage, there is a HUGE disadvantage to an oligarcy.  Since only a few people govern, there would most likely be a lot of agreements between them to be corrupt.  More people would mean fewer problems.

2.  the olympics, any major sport event, computers

3.  In means not and tract means pull so it means hard to pull, also stubborn.

4.  Hiram’s act of giving his uncle a sinecure job in the business was most likely out of kindness.  He knew his unlce was lazy and unprofessional, so he gave him an easy, lucrative job.

5.  Since the young person is naive and ignorant, the cheaters take advantage of that and take his money knowing that hte person can do nothing to stop them.

6.  Friends of a gregarious person would really like the person.  Since gregarious means social and likeable, the friends would feel comfortable around him/her.

7.  If I had diaphanous fabric to make art, I would drape it all over the mountain because it would show part of the mountain in some parts.  That would, in my opinion, look really cool.

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