College Essay

Task: Indicate a person who has had a significant influence on you, and describe that influence

When I was little I always did what I saw my big brother do. I would copy him in everything. He was my role model. No matter what he did I saw him as someone who had courage to fight for what's right. He so rarely broke down. He was and is like my second father.
So often I would do everything he would do and I would like everything he would like. When he wanted to play baseball I wanted to play baseball. When he wore one thing I wanted to wear it. He loves math, I love math. When he aspired to be an astronaut and work for NASA, I wanted to be an astronaut and work for NASA. That was his dream and as it was his dream it became mine.
This dream followed both him and me through out elementary and Jr high school. In High school his aspiration to becoming an astronaut died. I was left alone in the dream of going to space. "Our" dream of becoming astronaut did not die on my part. I spend to more years aspiring to live the dream me and my brother once had.
When I reached freshmen year in high school, my brother was already in his second year in college, with his own dream and his own major.I realized then that i couldn't live my life through the life of my brother. I could not want to do everything he did just because i admired him. As a began to find myself i realized that i too had other dreams that i wished to fulfil in my life. I began to realize i did not want to be an astronaut. I recognized, that dream was not really my dream it was my brothers old dream, that I followed it just because I looked up to him and wanted to do what every he wanted to do.
Though I may not have wanted to be an astronaut anymore, I still did desire to work for NASA. Even though I was just a freshmen i began to look for a career that might fit my dream of working for NASA. I wanted to go to some college that have some major that might help me accomplish my dream. I finally had a dream of my own. I began to research and became interested in learning how to build and make shuttles and space equipment.
Having my own dream has defined me better. I now see what I want out of life. Yet I can't deny that thanks to my brother I found that dream. He makes me want to finish high school and go on to college and follow my dream. He would be the first person from my family to finish college. He motivates me to keep going. Though I found my own dreams it doesn't change the fact that I want to do great things with my life as my brother is doing now.

A Reminiscence by Ana Ledesma and Jinn Camille Lopez

Task: Use at most 30 words from the list 1, 2, and 3 of the SAT vocabulary and create a poem, song, play, etc

Revised version of lost in love

A Reminiscence
By Ana Ledesma and Jinn Camille Lopez

I was my own nemesis, when I brought my own misery
Our love was a fiasco, falling into an abyss of never return
Our wedding seemed florid with all the flowers and décor
Thought it was a jubilation, where we can be with friends and family
That was supposed to be the best day of my life
But soon it became the day of my destructions

An emblem of a lasting love, with this ring, I said “I do”
I truly believed our love would substantiate
Never would I have thought the vow we took would be sordid
As the years passed by we grew more and more incompatible
You became petulant, arrogant and egoistic
You deplored all that I did, I had tried to work this out

Even though you knew the predilection I had for you
You called me arid, lifeless and futile you said
A compromise I made to reach out, to make you happy
Repudiating the fact that you no longer loved me the way I did
I tried to augment my love for you, you stopped me
You suppressed me; your words were like daggers

You killed me that day you jilted me
I was stupefied by the love I had for you
Out of the darkness there was a light
He embellished me, made me believe again
I was in another realm with him
No longer was I a replica of a woman lost in love

A reminiscent the way we were
How could I be so oblivious, but yet I feel no remorse
Your name is not engraved in my heart
A debonair brought sunshine back
He is my antithesis and yet we make perfection
It’s ironic, but I found a new love

ITHS
May 30, 2008
English pd 7
Ms. Hyde
Ana Ledesma and Jinn Camille Lopez

Lost in Love
I was my own nemesis. I brought misery to my life when I decided to stay at your side. Our love was a fiasco, falling into an abyss of never return. Our wedding seemed florid with all the flowers and décor. I used to think that day was jubilation, where we could be with family and friends. That was supposed to be the best day of my life, but soon it became the day of my destruction.

With the ring you had given, me, that day I truly believed our love would substantiate. Never would I have thought those vows we took would sordid. As the years passed by we grew more and more incompatible. You became petulant. Everything I did you deplore even though you knew the prediction I had for you.

You called me arid, lifeless you said. I tried to compromise, changing my ways to make you happy but it was not enough. I stayed by your side repudiating the fact that you no longer loved me the way I loved you. I tried to augment my love for you but you would not let me. You suppressed me with your words, hurting me deep inside, killing me softly with each word that came from your mouth. I loved you and always kept my fidelity intact. It did not matter to me that yours was not. I was stupefied by the love I had for you.

My life seemed to darken, but out of this darkness there was a light. He embellished me, made me believe again. I was in another realm with him. I was no longer the replica of a woman lost in a love that was never there.

I reminiscent the way things were with you and think to myself how I could have been so oblivious about you and me. I have no remorse towards you, but I don’t have your name engraved in my heart. I now have a debonair. The sun shines on me. My eyes brighten when I see him. We are antithesis and yet we make perfection.

It is ironic how I used to think I could never fall in love after you left. But now I know love is something that can’t be stopped. I truly know I have found my happily ever after.

Tim O'Brien Speech

Ana Ledesma
Ms Hyde
Blue= Tim O’brien
Red= My interpretation


“Ambush” Tim O’Brien
When she was nine, my daughter Kathleen asked if I had ever killed anyone. “You Keep writing these war stories,: she said, “so I guess you must’ve killed somebody.” It was a difficult moment, but I did what seemed right, which was to say, “Of course not,”… Someday, I hope, she’ll ask again… I want to tell her exactly what happened, or what I remember happening, and then I want to say to her that as a little girl she was absolutely right.
I could not bear telling my daughter the truth about my experience in war, so I lied to her making it seem like I have never killed anyone. Yet I want to tell her the truth, when she gets older.
… I was afraid of him---afraid of something---and as he passed me on the trail, I threw a grenade that exploded at his feet and killed him.
War brings out fear in those people even if they are trained to be in the worst situation that may come their way. It brings out the desperation in most of us.
…I did not see him as the enemy: I did not ponder issues of morality or politics or military duty. …I was terrified. There were no thoughts about killing. The grenade was to make him go away... I had already thrown the grenade before telling myself to throw it.
I did not ponder on what I was doing. My fear over came my morals. I wanted to scare the man away, to make him go away, but not kill him
Even now I haven’t finished sorting it out. Sometimes I forgive myself, other times I don’t. In the ordinary hours of life I try not to dwell on it, My regret lived with me at any time of the day. but now and then,..I’ll look up and see the young man coming out of the morning fog….he’ll pass within a few yards of me… then continue up the trail to where it bends into the fog.
I would see the man. I would picture the man going about his way. Instead of throwing the grenade and killing him I simple let him and he would walk way. There would be no confrontation and life for me and him would be simpler.

Tim O'brien Bio

Tim O’Brien Bioagraphy

• Tim O’Brien was born on October 1, 1946.



• He was born in Minnesota. ž



• Tim O’Brien was sent to fight in the Vietnam war even if he was against the war.ž



• After returning from the war O’Brien went to Harvard as a graduate student.ž



• He left school when receiving an internship at Washington Post.

Achievements/ Awards received for “The things they carried.”

• Finalist for the Pulitzer price



• Finalist for the national book critics circle Award



• National magazine Award for Short story

Achievement for “In the lake of the woods”

• James Fenimore Cooper Prize from the Society of American Historians.ž



• Named best novel of the year by Time Magazine

Achievements for “Going After Cacciato ”

• National Book award in Fiction.

Literary Achievements Awards

• American Academy of Arts and Letters



• Guggenheim Foundation ž



• Society of American Historiansž



• American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Ambitions

• Tim O’Brien graduated from MacAlester College in St. Paul with a degree in politics of science.ž



• He became a reporter for the Washington post which opened him to writing his novels.

Contribution against war

• Tim O’Brien wrote many books about war.ž



• He used the experience he gained during the time he served in the war to tell his readers the troubles a soldiers faces during war.

Bibliography

• http://www.illyria.com/tobbio.html#Awards ž



• http://illyria.com/tob/images/tob.jpg



• http://illyria.com/photos/obrienvn.gif



• http://mshyde.net/coursedes.html ž



• http://biography.jrank.org/pages/4637/O-brien-Tim.html

Interpertation of Slavery song

I think that this song is a persuasive literature because it speaks how slavery was in humane. It tells the listener how slaves were mistreated during slavery. It gives examples of the brutalities of the whites towards the blacks. The picture is relevant to the song because when I read the song I imagine just that picture of a slave being chained and whipped.

Chief Joseph Speech

1. How is the art of rhetoric evident in Chief Joseph's speech?
The rhetoric is evident in Chief Joseph's speech because he is trying to let the US government see that he has as much right to be in this land as much as they do.
2. Who is he addressing in this speech?
He is addressing his speech to the people in congress and the government.
3. Who is he indicting and why?
Chief Joseph is indicting the American government because they are taking the Native Americans from their land and placing them in small reservations where they could not live with the great number of disease and the small living area.
4. Identify any heroic characteristics?
Chief Joseph was a hero because he contained himself from started a war with the Americans so that there would not be any bloodshed from his people and the Americans.
5. Why is this speech Protest Literature?
This speech is a Protest Literature because in it Chief Joseph is trying to show the Americans government that it is wrong that they are taking their land away. Also he is trying to tell his story so that people could see the injustice of the government towards the Native Americans.

Wiki- Vocabulary (Ending Poem)

Task- Wirte the definiton for the vocabulary words for "Ending poem"

1. Metiza- Person of mixed race
2. Diaspora- a dispersion of an originally homogeneous entity, such as language, or culture
3. Jibara- A rural inhabitant of Puerto Rico
4. Shtetl- a small Jewish town or villlage formerly found throughout Eastern Europe.
5. Forbears- a person from whom you are descended
6. Mija- a)word used to address younger girls by older. b)shorter way of saying my daughter in spanish
7. Caribena- a female born the Caribbeans
8. Boricua- a female born in Puerto Rico