Spring Vocabulary #2

1. Accoutrements - to outfit and equip, especially for a purpose
2. Apogee - the farthest or highest point
3. Apropos - appropriately; pertinently
4. Bicker - to engage in petty quarreling ( to disagree angrily)
5. Coalesce - to grow or come together so as to form one whole
6. Contretemps - inopportune or embarrassing occurence
7. Convolution - tortuous winding, folding, or twisting together
8. Cull - to pick out, select; to gather, collect
9. Disparate - completely distinct or different; dissimilar
10. Dogmatic - marked by an authoritarian, often arrogant assertion of principles
11. Licentious - morally unrestrained
12. Mete - to deal out; allot
13. Noxious - injurous to health or morals
14. Polemic - controversy, argument, or refutation
15. Populous - thickly settled or populous
16. Probity - integrity, and honesty
17. Repartee - a swift, witty reply; conversation characterized
18. Supervene - to come or occur as something extraneous, additional, or unexpected
19. Truncate - to shorten by or as if by cutting off the end
20. Unimpeachable - beyond doubt or question

SENTENCES:
1. I bought some accoutrements to replace the old wind turbines because they were really beaten up by the weather.
2. My apogee in life is to be in an environmental studies career, whether it be an engineer or a lawyer for the environment.
3. The student` s comment was not apropos because he said somtehing very disrespectful and racist.
4. The elder lady on the bus, going home from school, always bickers with someone that doesn` t seem to know her very well.
5. Mega search engine Google and thermostat maker Nest have coalesced to provide the typical American home a more personalized and "smart home" experience with reminders and advertisements for your specific type of lifestyle.
6. A TV show where they air lots of funny contretemps is America`s Funniest Videos on ABC, and it shows how people can really just be nonresponsive to the world around them.
7. Convolutions were a typical and common thing in medieval times because if you could torture the prisoner, you could get their confessions out and be pardoned, or just sentenced to death.
8. I like to cull out the nice pieces of paper when I am doing a project because I like it when my paper is clean and neat.
9.  You are totally disparate from your cousin; you have no athletic skills and don`t have very good academic grades.
10. The college and career counselor is very dogmatic when it comes to deadlines because she wants us to be responsible for our own things now and in the future.
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Spring Vocabulary #1 Quiz Review

I believe I did not do good on the quiz because I really didn`t study the vocabulary words for it. Although they were only ten words to know, I think I could`ve done a better job by reviewing the words the morning before or the Sunday afternoon, or even both days.

Hacking My Education this Last and Final High School Spring Semester (Boo hoo boo hoo!)

The way that I would like to hack my education this year is to try to work around the idea of my future career which is being an environmental engineer. So, for example, in my Health and AP Environmental Science classes, I can use those classes to my most biggest advantage and try to learn even more from other classes this spring.

Spring Vocabulary #1

1. Adumbrate - to foreshadow vaguely, to suggest or disclose partially

2. Apotheosis - elevation to divine status, a "perfect" example

3. Ascetic - practicing self denial strictly, especially for religious, harshly simple

4. Bauble - trinket, a jester's scepter

5. Beguile - decieve by cunning means, to cause to pass pleasantly

6. Burgeon - expand rapidly and wildly, to put forth new growth, to burst into bloom

7. Complement - something that fills up, completes, or makes perfect

8. Contumacious - stubbornly perverse or rebellious, willfully and obstinately disobedient

9. Curmudgeon - bad tempered, difficult, cantankerous person

10. Didactic - intended to teach particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive

SENTENCES: 

1. I adumbrate tha tour supply of oil reserves in a global scale will be diminished by the year 2045, and will add to the already global warming incident going on.

2. Jimmy has such an apotheosis personality to him that everyone, even the guys, surround him at lunchtime. 

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New Year 2014 from Times Square

This video was taken from somebody else in New York`s famous Times Square. Enjoy !!!

Truly Interesting Piece Of Nonfiction (or a Memoir)

This piece of text is a memoir  more than nonfiction, but I still recommend it to anyone. Always Running, by ex-gang member Luis J. Rodriguez from the San Gabriel Valley, is now a former author, critic, journalist, and children' s book author. he also has put up a multicultural center in the San Fernando Valley called Tia Chucha` s Center where the Latino community can join and have fun.

In the memoir, Luis explains his troubles as he was getting older. He would inject himself some kind of drug into himself that provoked the body to be really intoxicated and the feelings and emotions Luis felt afterward. It also shows how rough the gang members are between each other. The title itself implies that gang members are always running from police and the law.

What I See Is All in My Head

So I went to this website to check out a cool illusion and my first impressions about the illusion I chose was that it really changes your vision, but just for a split few seconds. Once you take your eyes off the screen, I looked at the back of my hand and it looks really wierd. It looks as if my hand were in some kind of liquid like form. 

Why Seven Times?

NEWS PRESS RELEASE: 13 Year Old Andy Lopez Gunned Down By Santa Rosa Sheriff 

Research on Environmental Racism

This research paper turned into a blog post encompasses racism with the environment because we tend to place stereotypes based on how clean or dirty a certain country looks to be. The jump below this introduction will show you what I mean. Enjoy ! 

Help Needed

I need help, my viewers. I want to add a few more things to my blog but I just can`t seem to find the way how. So if any of you know or would like to share some links to a special website, do so in a comment below. Thanks a lot in advance.