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Over the past two weeks, i have been successfully falling behind in my classes. Ever since a small excursion to Illinios, I have been working to catch up. I currently have a list of everything I need to complete turn in and hopefully get some credit but I did find a cool idea on Pintereset that looked fun and a good way to organize. This is similar to what I saw. Colorful and pretty is always nice.

Phonar14 Video

• to be photographer you need passion, camera
• habits, you become a slave to habits, you have to abide by a system that is  a solution to a problem
• systems make us not think for ourselves
• photographs- physical, colors, 2D, fixed in time, it ages
• Kodak- worth 28 billion, 100,000's workers
• Instagram- 1 billion, 13 workers
• Snapchat- knows different between image and photograph
• everyone's a photographer with their phone
• photograph is circular, bound by edges if frame, images is actually bigger
• mode of delivery shapes way mode of information
• commerce is shaped way we understand it
• we travel by looking int he rear view mirror
• if you want to change the world, star describing it differently
• stories will be told in a different way
• everyone's a photo supplier
• different perspective for different photographers
• some have a broader understanding than others
• whose version will be authority
• told from different platforms, stories by people who watch or know about something
• stories that explode from different directions
• linear story from students, start, journey, end
• add everyone's journeys together
• connected and trusted
• trusted source, credible perspective
• everyone's connected, challenge is to be heard
• when trusted, people will tell you their stories
• military story connector for families with soldiers in war
• visual culture

Character Study 1

I finally arrived, its nearly what I imagined it to be... but where are all the hot college boys? Alright Elizabeth, you are here to get an education, eye on the prize!Okay I'll fix my hair just in case I find this mythical creature.  I think I will take a stroll up to my new dorm! I mean, I might see a college boy or not, but if I do at least my hair is perfect. Okay, here i go, me, my suitcase, and I, walk, walk ,into the lobby, walk, walk, walk, push elevator button, ding, into the elevator, doors close. Oh, there's elevator music, I like it! I start a small celebratory dance that i made it and I'm on my way to my DORM. It's like I was just in Preston's class a year ago with all my friends and now I am here alone. Okay, fifth floor, here it goes! Oops, forgot my suitcase, ninja skills, and it is snatched from the elevator as the doors try to take my arm with it. then of course the doors open, elevators these days, just awful. Okay back on track, to the room! My roommate will probably be my best friend so I hope she's just not crazy. If I set my hopes low, then i can't get let down right? Yes, lets just aim for not psycho. Such little belief in humans, come on Elizabeth, have some faith! But honestly how can you know these days? Here it is! 518! Door opens and.... wow, this is anticlimactic. Everything is so bare and naked. If only I was crafty, but I'm not, sigh. Well there is a note with a goody bag. Extra points if there is food in it... I trot over like a happy college student and read the note. Take the goody bag, your suit case, and meet in the front of the bus station, more directions will be dispatched once you arrive. Ohhh a scavenger hunt, I like it . I reach in the bag, I feel something metal. What? What could it be? I pull it out and to my shock its a gun. My heart starts pounding and I look around. Am I in the right room? I am so confused. Wait this can't be for me. I look at the note and at the end it says, don't say anything Elizabeth, to anyone. Oh my goodness. I think I am going to faint.

Canterbury Tales 1

Why do they do the first 18 lines of the Prologue in Middle English?

Is it to give the reader a taste of the sophistication of the language and our lack of understanding of it? (i understood maybe three words out of every line)

My Masterpiece 1

My idea so far for the masterpiece is the Happiness Project. General idea is to make people happy. hopefully to male someones day fabulous when it has been terrible. It just "one of those days" where something bad after something bad happens, and that is the perfect time to make someone's day perfect. There is a grant program called Youth Making Change that might allow me to get a little bit of money to buy something for the project. I am not exactly sure what I would do with the money or how I could convince them I needed it but who knows. Also, so my main ideas to to get happy physically (body image, confidence), mentally (less stress?), and emotionally (hopefully happy), where you can smile and say today was a good day. that is the very rough idea of what I wish to do with the Happiness Project, which can hopefully grow into something amazing.

Prologue to Canterbury Tales pages 90-115

Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400)

• had a humble beginning, and was slowly able to work his way up in the aristocratic society
• wrote about a husband's late wife, then later was able to master his ability to display his insight to human character
• inspiration for Canterbury Tales might have come from a pilgrimage to Canterbury
• story encompasses medieval literature- romance, comedy, rhyme, prose, crude humor and religious humor
• only 24 of intended 120 stories were finished
• Chaucer was first to "rain the gold dewdrops of speech and eloquence" into English literature

Chaucer's Guided Tour of Medieval Life and Literature

• the rich, poor, old and young are participating in this journey to Canterbury
• 29 pilgrims are going to be on the trip
• Bailey, the host at the inn, proposes they each tell two stories there and two stories on the way back and whoever tells the best story wills a feast from everyone else
• Bailey tags along on the trip to be the judge
• Chaucer describes characters in order of their nobility
• popular genres include 
• romances (tales of chivalry)
• fabliaux (short, bawdy, humorous stories, basic human needs)
• stories of saint's lives, sermons and allegories (narratives in which characters represent abstractions such as Pride or Honor
• Chaucer wrote Tales with heroic couplet, a pair of rhyming lines with five stressed syllables each

The Canterbury Tales- The Prolgue

• Canterbury was a popular religious pilgrimage site because an archbishop was murdered there and people went there to pay their respects
•  The narrator says he will be taking a pilgrimage to Canterbury
• At the inn, he finds 29 people who also are on their way to take the pilgrimage and he requests to join their group
• Knight tale
• chivalry, trust, honor
• fought in war and many mortal battles
• he was humble, wore cloths as clothes and had son
• Squire tale
• 20 years old
• was in the cavalry, could ride a horse, wanted to win a woman's heart
• was talented, educated, couldn't sleep if something exciting was happening
• Yeoman tale
• servant, forester
• he had lost of weapons, arrows, shield, sword
• had a metal of St. Christopher
• Nun (Prioress) tale
• she sang, spoke French
• good manners, was sad when a mouse died
• Nun (Chaplain) tale
• Three Priests
• Monk tale
• hunter, had greyhounds
• lived lavishly, fancy clothes
• fat and personable priest
• Friar tale
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Bede Notes Pages 74-82

From A History of the English Church and People
by Bede

Describes Britain's setting, where it is located relative to other geographical locations.
Bede talks about the land, what grows on it, the species that live in the area, the minerals that are in the ground and the castles that speckled the land.
Pictich sailors wanted to settle on what was land of the Scots, but the Scots refused to grant them a settlement.
The Scots told them about a close island which the Picts moved to and settled.
Some Scots migrated over too.
Britain has large amounts of species, diversity, and life, where the Scots land is very bare and without other species.