Yang

Hello! My name is Allen Yang. I'm currently a freshman in SLA and about to move up to be a sophomore. This is my page of all the things that I've done this year in my English class.
 * Intro:

**__The Odyssey Essay:__  Allen Yang

Red English First Quarter BM __The Odyssey Essay__  October 27,2009 A good story in my opinion is one that is told with description, so that the reader can read it with ease. A good story often put its main characters in difficult situations. Story with twist and turns with a wide variety of situations that at the end would come together at the end, is what make it best. But that’s not all, highly organized with a vivid description is important, because it shows how well the book was written and the words describe more of a situation. __The Odyssey__  has this all.

__The Odyssey__  is considered an great book because of it’s very descriptive and it has the “twist and turns” situations where Odysseus is encountering non-stop chaos up ahead. An example is in Book 5 of (page 161, line 309) “ But now Poseidon, god of the earthquake, saw him…changed their minds…. I’ll give that man his swamping fill of trouble! “ The example previously, talks of Odysseus’s plan to return to his loved one after Calypso was forced to send him away in peace, but Poseidon encounters him on his raft and is furious, resulting in ravaging water.

The Odyssey is a very descriptive book but the words used are hard to understand because of the words and the character names, it uses to create the image. A book can be very descriptive for those who understand most of the words, but those who are clueless of certain words, can often get thrown off the track. An example in the book is “ We’d have to escaped the droning prophecies then and the way you’ve loosed the dogs of this boy’s anger--- your eyes peeled for a house- gift he might give you. Here’s my prophecy, bound to come to pass. If you, you old codger, wise as the ages, talk him round, incite the boy to riot, he’ll be the first to suffer, let me tell you. And you, old man, we’ll clap some fine on you you’ll weep to pay, a fine to crush your spirit!” This phrase could seem very complicated even though there are lots words describing one scenario.

All the stories in the book is spread out to many other situations or point of view. It is not all about Odysseus, at some points it goes back in time and then returns to present. Ranging from Telemachus’s encounter to Athena, it would then transition to the gods and people like Calypso. But at the end it narrows back down to him.

At an overall view from my opinion, The Odyssey is a great book because it is exciting, long yet descriptive in its own nature and it has many twists and turns that keep the reader wanting more and more just to know the ending of it. It’s all about mortals and immortals, how each can be powerful in their ways.  This is the Memoir Vignette, where the class had to write vignettes about anything in their life that they find interesting. This is my memoir, it's about me growing up as an accident prone and how I live with it. ** media type="file" key="Memoir Vignette-English.m4a" width="300" height="50" __Kindred Essay:__ __Macbeth Creative Project:__
 * __Memoir Vignette:__

Below is a video I made called "Macbeth" that was done on Imovie. It's a creative that my english teacher Mrs. Dunn had the class do after reading the book Macbeth. At first we had to pick 5 quotes and do an analysis on it, the video is a thorough summary of the book from my opinion after reading it.**


 * __Journal:__**

Allen Yang 9.25.09

__Freewrite__

School has gone out to a rough start, well only on the homework part. Everything else is smooth, people are nice freshmans are treated as if they've always been here. The school has a great system that keeps things going, all the teachers are different from others that I and many others would expect. It's very free, privileges are given to us and we all respect that. Though the set back has been the fact that we, the new freshmans are experiencing a crapload of homeworks on the 2nd week of school and has stayed that way for a week or so. Now it has ended, moon festival is taking effect tomorrow! Things have loosened down and tomorrow many people are going to attend the event! But anyway back to how the school is, it's a school that I've always wanted. The macbooks have just been shipped. Friends have been made and enemies at this point are at it's minimum, everyone just keeps in touch on Facebook. From my first impression of the before I attended it, I thought that the school was completely tech and computerized but as the first couple weeks passed, I saw it with a different view. Not everything is computerized but even with paper ad hands-on-work it is still fun!

Allen Yang 12.01.09

Freewrite

The 26th of November was Thanksgiving, the day after was Black Friday and then it was a 2 day weekend. A wonderful 4 day break that relieved the stress out of those who took it as a vacation. My Thanksgiving was quite simple, enjoying myself on what I wanted to do. Stayed home from the time I work up and did personal things till 2:30. Mom and dad later dropped me off at Neshaminy 24 Theater. They went to shop, while I went to watch "The Men Who Stare At Goats". It was satisfying, and got a great laugh out of it. Saw some new movie trailers and movies coming out in 2010 before the movie started, such as "Green Zone", "The Crazies"& "The Edge of Darkness". The movie was done early and I still had time to spare, therefore I walked around and snuck into another room to watch "2012". I like catastrophic movies just for the special effects. But the first quarter part of the movie to the middle was just plain boring and bad. I had to leave right when the special effects took place... Black Friday came the next day, I wanted to look for an External Hard-drive, so the night before I looked online at "www.Walmart.com" for one, I found one and it was a "Western Digital Essential My Passport 320 GB" and it was sold for only $50! When usually they sell for almost $20. The next morning I was up at 7:30 and got ready, entered the WalMart at around 10:00. Doorbusters were till only 11:00AM and it was sold at limited quantity. I looked all around the electronics area for at least 20 minutes. Just when all hopes were lost, I found the last one in the whole store. The next 2 days was a bit of the same as other weekends.

Allen Yang 12.02.09

I always say "fail" for whenever someone does something stupid or just dumb. But on Tuesday night I surpassed most fails that I've seen or heard off. A usual call down for dinner from my mom, and I responded with an "ok! coming down". I turned off all the lights and made my way out of the room, just to make a bug "booom!" sound. "Crap! What the hell!?" "Oh, just forgot, the door was closed the whole time..." FAIL!.

Allen Yang 12.03.09

My first memoirs written above was about something 2 days ago, not necessary a memoir. Here is something that seemed scary at first but at the end, it wasn't what it seemed. Back in 06', 3 years ago, I was watching TV at around 1 in the morning. There wasn't much to see, and so I switched to Channel 57 CW and see what it had next. Right when I switched, they just started broadcasting a Jeep Commercial, half way in between the TV went to flurries, and then a mask appeared, I could make out what seemed to look like "Jigsaw" form the SAW series. The face was looking at me, and saying things. It cut off and went back to a different commercial, this time it was Verizon. Then it cut off again.... the mask said "Let's play a game". I was panicking and freaked out, took a look at the nearby closet, I thought the maniacal killer was real and I was going to be in one of his gruesome and grotesque torture traps. It cut off to a normal commercial and the commercial finished this time. After it the screen blurred again, but this time it was the trailer of SAW IV. I was still panicking, but turns out the whole thing was a prank and part of the trailer itself.

Here is the link on youtube that shows the same prank but in different commercial sequences.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGMij5m3zDY


 * Reflection:

This whole thing above is my portfolio for my freshman year in SLA. I feel good about the works, they're not all good and perfect and that shows the good times and bad times. It's like a timeline, viewers who are reading this, I expect them to get a bit of my life such as things that happened, how I feel and how I progressed through my 9th year in writing. The strengths in english that I have is that I'm willing to write and when I do I write long and thorough. Weaknesses might be that I can become unstable and lose track of what I'm writing. I had to revise some words and sentence arrangements. Had to upload my works from Imovie but the file was too big therefore I turned it into a .zip file and post it up here so people can download them to watch. I find the Macbeth Creative Piece to be the most satisfying to me, because I felt like I had alot of fun doing it and watching it gave me a satisfying feel. Some of my journals that I posted up here were also satisfying because they're memorable.

This year as a freshman at SLA has gone a long way. I've had my rough times and good times. Almost moving up as a sophomore now. These are some of my works that I've done in English of 09 - 10. **

-Allen Yang