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English II H has had it’s ups and downs. Overall, this year was important for my growth as a writer. At the beginning of Eng. II H, we learned about book talks. We were introduced to reading a book in class together and staying on track. My essay writing has improved, i’ve gotten better at structuring them. The Serial podcast we did really helped me with my essay, because we all did the same thing on a really interesting topic. It was fun to go in depth and think about the details of the story. Another good thing about this year was practicing how to stay on track. We did a lot of assignments involving grammar, and the experience was valuable. My favorite part of this class was when we got to choose our own book for an essay. I loved this because I got to pick a book that really interested me. The quarantine was hard, but one great thing that came of it was self-discipline. SInce we had much less structure and could do our work at any time, I had to get better at time management. Even though this year was crazy, it had more positives than negatives. I enjoyed it.

I don’t know yet what next year will bring, however I am excited to take English III. I will not be taking honors next year. I had fun this year when worked on poetry, so I hope we focus on this next year. Outside of class I am excited about learning to drive. At the beginning of next year, I think we should just begin lessons normally. This is because, even though we missed some stuff, the things that we did online were not new to us. We were able to do a mosaic, and read at our own pace. I don’t think we need to catch up on any of that, since it was not our first time doing them. If we were to start at home learning the most helpful instruction would definitely be videos. If I were the teacher I would try to use them as much as possible.

I was surprised by the ending. I was expecting them to live happily after they got transported. John had decided he’d rather die than live in the world of menacing people who awe and taunt him for their interests. Who yell at him to beat himself with a whip for their entertainment as he cries. Brave New World is about society, utopia, and happiness. Happiness can be given but at what cost. “It’s not enough for phrases to be good; what you make with them ought to be good too.” I interpret this as a message. You can say good things or say you want to do good, but what good does the good do if you only say it. You have to act and do it if you want to make a difference.

Brave New World is the title because John exclaims “ Oh brave new world” before he gets to go to London. He learns from his mom that it is a beautiful place full of wonderful baths and massages. Full of wonders and soma and happiness. He believes the new world will be amazing.

My book ,Brave New World, qualifies as dystopian because they have Controllers that act like a form of government. The Controllers control everything in their life, they’re good intake, their dosage of elements to keep them young and healthy. They keep diseases away from them, only let them play high quality and efficient games to help them learn. The people that think like philosophers or want to learn about science and arts are thrown into islands.

The Controllers don’t approve of any new game unless it can be shown that it requires at least as much apparatus as the most complicated of existing games. The Controllers, I believe, are their form of government, but instead of working with the people they control their every move. They probably make sure everything is perfect.

My first impressions are kind of good. I didn’t expect it to have so many big words and it has more science talk. I thought it was going to be a story of a person going through the process of being made and wanting to stop the government officials from a bad accident. Instead it’s a book about the person in charge of the science around it. It’s seems like a book I won’t enjoy so far because of all of the words, my mind can’t stay concentrated on that and I’d likely accidentally skim over important parts.

The bad thing is, is that there’s not enough evidence to prove home guilty. That should technically mean he’s innocent since all are innocent until proven guilty. I have no idea who it could be. No one has any evidence, there are not enough witnesses, there was a lot of weed involved.

It was over fifteen years ago so how would anyone remember exactly what happened that day. The only two major people in the story is Jay and Adnan. They are both potential suspects yet Adnan was the only one thrown into jail. I don’t really get it.

I really like it so far. It’s so interesting and intriguing. Her details are good and I’m able to understand a lot of what she means. I don’t think he’s guilty yet but hat might just be from my first impression. I thought that jay killed her because he so so suspicious. He changed the story multiple times and he made such an effort to cover up what he didn’t do.

It’s been super easy to listen to podcasts in class. Especially since everyone seems into it so it’s really quiet which makes it easy to focus. We should definitely keep it and do more interesting stuff like this. Having the packets and being super into it, using a paper to write down information. Along with being able to wonder who’s guilty and not guilty. Her voice is very calming and nice so it makes it easier to pay attention.

You prove someone’s innocent or guilty by the evidence and the amount of information the jury is given. The judge doesn’t make the decisions they just say the rules and if you are overruled or aloud to speak your opinion. Trials are very hard from what I’ve seen. A lot of the jury can be biased which makes the innocent person be proven guilty just because the jury decides that because of their life style or race they are entitled to be in honest. In the movie Twelve Angry Men it’s about a boy who is accused of murder. A few of the jury people say he is guilty or not guilty from the information, but one of them just says guilty because he wants to get to a baseball game and for the fact that the boy is a different race.

I do believe all are innocent until proven guilty. The point of that statement is so innocent people don’t end up in jail and the guilty person gets to run free. Not all information is given though. As the defender what your client says is not to be repeated so even if they did do it and the defense knows it, they have to use what they can to make sure their client doesn’t go into jail and they get their money.

I think the freedom of speech and religion is what I would first go for. Along with everyone being equal. Not having everyone/religion equal makes war and violence. I don’t believe in violence. Violence only causes more violence. Death is very extreme, thinking about it scares me because death is scary. You don’t know what will happen depending on your religion. I think if I were to die and I saved the people as a whole then I think I would die peacefully.

I fear death a lot. I’m not a religious person. It’s not that I don’t believe in any of them it’s just that I don’t know if any of them are real. My mom is a philosopher, and from what I can tell they ask a lot of questions, including religion. The fact that I don’t know if they’re real means that I don’t know what will happen when I die. That fact along with the fact that you can literally die from anything scares me so much, but as I said before. If it saves the people as a whole, even the people I don’t know then I think I would be okay with it.