Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Grendel 1

In the story “Grendal”, Grendal listens to a Shapers philosphy on the world with no color.“The idea was that people who were feeling morally dirty would be quicker to make the connection between immorality and blackness on the moral Stroop test, which is exactly what they found. And what’s more, they found this with much looser definitions of morality and immorality—including words like dieting, gossip, duty, partying, helping, and so forth. In other words, those primed for misbehavior linked blackness not only with crime and cheating but with being irresponsible, unreliable, self-centered slackers. “
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFYQQPAOz7Y&feature=fvst

Emeniem shows how people have to be better then others and what people have to go through. It shows how normal the world is.

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Word Hoard #1

Hilt- handle of a weapon or tool


Hasped- a clasp for a door that is fastened by a pin


Resplendent 
Part of Speech: (adj.) 
Context: the most resplendent torque of gold I ever heard tell of anywhere on earth or under heaven. 
Sentence:There was a resplendent on the table. 


Doled 
Part of Speech: (n.)
Def: Benefit paid by the government to the unemployed
Syn: distribute, handout

Fiend 
Part of Speech: (n.)
Def: A wicked and cruel person 
Syn: monster, ogre, barbarian 

Girdled 
Part of Speech: (n.)
Def: Something surrounding a belt
Syn: Enclose, circle

Harrowed 
Part of Speech: (v.)
Def: To cause distress to
Syn: Bother, torment