Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Goal Changing

      At the beggining of the year i stated that all i wanted for my future was a decent post high school education from the University of Kentucky.  Even though my demand for a great education in engineering my overall thought about this has changed.  Instead of just focusing on the degree my senior year has made me crave a greater experience from college.
      From visiting several different colleges over my senior year, i have discovered that class is just half of the overall experience of college and that there is a social presence that can be found in all students.  However, the sense of dependency is what I'm really looking forward to, and as such i have set new goals for myself.
      I want to obtain a great deal for myself after college and my senior year has set those standards even higher then they were at the beginning of the year.  I want to earn a job were I'm my own boss and can run my business the way i see fit.  To become the boss in a field of engineering is not a small task and will require a lot more then just a bachelors degree on one's belt.  The road that i have paved for myself is not a smooth one, but the prize at the very end of my journey is one that will bring me self satisfaction and a feeling of personal worth.

Monday, April 16, 2012

Ap Literature

The AP Literature exam consists of a multiple choice section and a free response section.  It is designed to test one's knowledge in identifying the structural importance of paragraphs.  The multiple choice section consists of approximately forty-six questions in sixty minutes and is 45 per cent of the exam score. One-hundred twenty minutes is allowed for the free response section which accounts for 55 per cent of the score.

Monday, April 9, 2012

Life changing


Duane Robbins
Mr. Roberts
AP Literature
04/09/2012
Reading in my life
During my life I have read a number of different novels hat have projected me into wild and wonderful stories both of fiction and non-fiction.  Sadly, I can honestly say that few have ever changed my view of the world or even a certain subject.  However, the novel Frankenstein gave me a greater understanding and overall view of regret and sadness.
Throughout Frankenstein the reader continually hears about regret through the eyes of the monster and of doctor Frankenstein.  Regret for his creation and for the death of his friends and family haunted the young doctor until he became deathly ill and in the end, led to his death.  Regret has never been a concept that I had top deal with in the few years I have lived, so reading about the trouble that regret causes these characters and allowed me to learn a lesson, without having to live it.  Regret ruled the life of Frankenstein and gave me a wake up call before I made a grave mistake and lived with regret for the rest of my life.
Throughout this story sadness from a cruel society, destroys the kindness that the monster once felt and replaced it with violent revenge towards his master/creator.  Carroll county has never been a school system ruled by bullying so I never seen or experienced the cruelty of society.  The life that the monster was exposed to, opened my eyes to the cruelty that society can show when they are scared or don’t understand.  This shows the narrow mindedness that todays world shows and the anger that a otherwise peaceful society can unleash in a blink of an eye.

            Throughout all 5 novels, death seems to be a recurring theme and can actually be described as a main theme in a fraction of the stories.  Death has never been a big thing in my life, because almost all my family is alive, and I was an infant when one of my great uncles had passed away.  So these novels gave me a great insight to the overall theme of death.  The sorrow, despair, anger, hatred, joy, and forgiveness that is the novel Frankenstein truly gave me the greatest view.   
            Overall not to many novels have changed my views that I had already based an option on, but there are a selected few that have left an impact.  Some lessons will help me in life and will better me overall and some will make me more aware of my surrounding environment.  Great American literature is not meant for just a pleasant read, but have hiding messages and lessons sewn into the paragraphs to help the reader become a better individual.