JOHNNY CYBERPUNK

This story is about a man named Johnny who stores other people's information in his head. He has some client named Ralfi who wants him dead. Razor Molly tells Johnny that the information in his head was stolen from the Yakuza gang. The Yakuza don't want anyone to get the information out of Johnny's head by using squids. Squids are things used to get the information out people like Johnny's heads. A Yakuza assassin ends up killing Ralfi and Molly takes Johnny to the Lo-Teks, a gang who are against the use of high technology for savages.Once there, they unlock the Yakuza information for blackmail. Molly confronts the assassin at the Lo-Teks and kills him. Johnny and Molly then live with the Lo-Teks and work to pull all the information out of Johnny's head and use it for profit. Johnny wants to only retain his own memories.

This is Cyberpunk because it's science fiction, involves technology being used to get information, and because it involves hacking.

This is Postmodern because it is something unusual, it isn't normal.

FUTURE ME

SCHLACHTOF

After taking drugs to fall asleep, Billy wakes up in his prison bed next to Edgar Derby and Paul Lazzaro. Lazzaro promises to kill the officer that beat him up. Billy remembers how he dies because he has seen it before. The men are then transported to Dresden and find the place to be very nice. It seems to be untouched by the war going on around it.

SCHLACHTOF FUNF

Chapter 4: Billy can't sleep so he watches a documentary about WWII forwards and in reverse. He then goes outside and is abducted by aliens, which bring him back to the war in his mind. Back in the war, he is in a prison camp where he has to take a shower with a group of people. The chapter ends with him going inside the mind of one of the people in the shower with him and he sees the mans life and the reason he is there.

Chapter 5: Billy time travels into a hospital bed next to ex captain Elliot Rosewater. His fiance Valencia Merble is next to his bed as well. The next day a man knocked unconscious is brought to the hospital because he tried to steal something. In Tralfamador Billy meets actress Montana Wildhack and she soon gets to know him and the sleep together.

SCHLACHTOF DREI & SCHLACHTOF VEIR

In chapter 3 it becomes obvious that Billy suffers from post traumatic stress disorder. Whenever he falls asleep, he finds himself back in the war. He can't focus at work and sometimes doses off right in front of his patients due to his sleep deprivation. Basically every time he falls asleep he time warps back into the war.

THIS IS ABSURD

Absurd- Wildly unreasonable illogical, or inappropriate.
Ex. It's absurd when a group of people get punished for the actions of a few people.

SCHLACHTOF EINS

• The main character is writing a book about Dresden 
• He goes to an old war friend, O'Hare, to remember more about the war.
• O'Hare's wife didn't like the main character at first because during the war he was just a kid and he was going to write the book as if he was a man.
• The main character slept in one of O'Hares kids rooms and read a book about the history of Dresden to try and remember events that happened.
• He read about a massacre where after, the only thing that could be heard was the birds chirping.

THE GREAT GATSBY ESSAY

     Nick Carraway is a crucial asset to the story. He helps us tour Gatsby's world, understand Gatsby's personality, and he changes the course of the plot through his interactions with other characters.

     Nick helps us tour Gatsby's world because he is always around him and learning more about him. Previously Gatsby's life was a mystery, but as they become friends some details about Gatsby are revealed. We learn that most of Gatsby's actions are done in order to get in touch with Daisy. An example of this would be the parties he throws. The parties and the people invited are important because they are an effort to get Daisy to come to a party. We also learned that Gatsby did some shady business to become rich just because he knew that Daisy would love him more if he had money. Without Nick all that information about Gatsby would be unknown.

     Another reason that makes Nick so important is he helps us understand Gatsby's personality. We learn that Gatsby is an odd guy, but also an interesting guy. He was shy and was always off to the side at his parties. As we got to know Gatsby more we found out that he had a lot of knowledge and cool stories. Gatsby told Nick about how he met Daisy when he was in the military and how when he got back she had already fallen in love with someone else. That was a key part in the story because it revealed that Daisy was the one thing that Gatsby wanted to become happy. Without Nick we would never understand Gatsby's personality.

     Gatsby and Daisy may have not ever been reunited if it wasn't for Nick. Nick knew Daisy and Gatsby begged him to invite her over while he was there so they could be back together. Through his interaction with Daisy and Gatsby Nick created a big part of the plot.

     If the story was narrated by an anonymous, omniscient voice we never would have know what was going threw Nick's mind at key points in the story which wouldn't allow us to really understand his character. Nick Carraway added more detail and better understandings to the story.

THE GREAT GATSBY: CH. 7 ACTIVE READING NOTES

This chapter was intense. Gatsby finally told Tom that Daisy never loved him, but when Daisy was asked if she loved him she said yes. Daisy crumbled under the pressure and sort of said she loved both of them. That's basically what the whole chapter was about. The truth finally coming out.

THE GREAT GATSBY: CH.6 ACTIVE READING NOTES

In this chapter the way Gatsby got all of his money was revealed, but I'm still not sure how he did. Later Nick stops by Gatsby's house where he, the Sloanes, and Daisy and Tom are having a dinner. Gatsby tells Tom that he knows Daisy and Tom becomes suspicious of the two. At the end of the chapter Gatsby is upset because Daisy was not having fun at his party and he wants things to be like they were back in Louisville.

THE GREAT GATSBY: CH. 5 ACTIVE READING NOTES

Gatsby is so excited to hear that Nick agrees to invite Daisy over that he offers Nick a way to make money and someone to cut his grass. Nick declines. When the time comes for Gatsby's and Daisy's reunion, Gatsby is very nervous. At first the reunion starts off awkward, but later eases up and the two seem become accustomed with each other again. Gatsby gets his servant Klipspringer to play the music for them and Nick leaves when he feels like Gatsby and Daisy forgot that he was there.

BRAVE NEW WORLD ESSAY REFLECTION

Overall I think I did a good job on this essay. Maybe it's not as long as it could of been, but I think I answered the prompt to the best of my ability.

MODERNIST AUTHOR PROJECT

MAPLAN

My plan for my Modernist Author Project is to make a prezi presentation that answers everything in the directions.

JOE COLLEGE

I don't really have a campus or major that interests me yet, but I will definitely start doing some research so that I can find my interests. Planning for life is after college is going to be a lengthy process. There are many things that I still have to do on my path to college.

I AM GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

I am a play writer.
I am a critic.
I am the owner of a Nobel Prize.
I am a political activist.
I am a Modernist.

MAP(1): INTRODUCING GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Fact 1. He was largely self-taught
Fact 2. Bernard died at age 94 when he fell down the ladder while trimming a tree.
Fact 3. Received a Nobel Prize for literature.
Fact 4. He was a free thinker.
Fact 5. He named his shed after the UK capital so that when visitors called they could be told he was away                   in london.

VOCAB: SPRING LIST #6

Chronic- an ongoing, not going to get better.

Sentiment- a view toward a situation or event.

Morality- principles concerning the difference between right and wrong.

Remorse- deep regret or guilt for a wrong doing.

Defect- a shortcoming or imperfection.

Acquaintance- a persons knowledge or experience of something.

Sanity-the ability to think and behave in a normal state of mind.

Implication- a conclusion that can be drawn from something.

Alternative- one or more things available as a possibility.

Savage- fierce and violent.

Phenomenon- a fact or situation that is perceived as true but it's happening is unexplainable.

APPLIED MODERNISM

     Fahrenheit 451 is a Modernist work. It's considered a Modernist work because a battle of inner self vs. outer self takes place, the government is corrupt, and the rules are broken.

     The battle of inner self vs. outer self begins when Montag meets Clarisse. She tells him that there is more to life and that he is different than others. Montag then begins to wonder why books were so important to people and ends up snatching a book without anyone knowing. He then has to keep this a secret and be on high alert. Throughout the novel Montag battles with himself, for example, after he killed Beatty he realized that he shouldn't have done it because it was what Beatty wanted all along. Another battle he fought with himself was when he questioned whether or not he missed his wife Mildred when she died.

     The fact that the government was corrupt also made this a Modernist work. Things such as the parlor walls and the seashells were put out by the government to distract the public and make them not worry about what they were doing. The government also made laws to prevent the public from owning books because it would make them think, and the government did not want people doing that. Perhaps the most extreme example of the government's corruptness came when the police made the mechanical hound take down an innocent person so that nobody would know that Montag escaped.

     During the Modernist period rules were broken. The very first thing that the novel says is, "If they give you ruled paper, write the other way." That quote basically says to not follow the crowd, be different. It foreshadows that rules will be broken later in the novel. Montag does break the rules and keeps a collection of books even though it's against the law. He pays the price for breaking the rules at first, but in the end he gets what he wanted.

     In conclusion, Modernism was a time period where people broke rules, had a corrupt government, and battled their inner selves vs. their outer selves. Fahrenheit 451 includes all of these things and therefore makes it a Modernist work.

MY MODERNIST

My modernist is George Bernard Shaw. I chose him for two reasons. The first reason is I like that he was a free thinker. Secondly I liked that he addressed world problems in his plays.