I'm Here..

There are so many things that go through a students mine when you ask them why they aren't doing the tings that they need to do for class. Most will say that they we busy or that they really just didn't have time for it. Well let me tell you that's a bunch of bull shit. Most students just don't do things because they really didn't feel like it.

When I don't get something done it's not because i didn't want to it's because I am either at sports or at work. The students here at Righetti have a very lazy work ethic. I am not excluding myself from that because I know that I have that same type of work ethic at times too. Is it possible for people to actually get things done when they need to? Is it the way that this course is set up or is it just the way we were raised by our parents and how we were set up by our former teachers?

What have I done in this class? I really haven't done much to be honest. I wish I was able to say that I have done everything that I needed to do to get a solid A in this class, but I haven't There is work that I have turned in late, there is work that I haven't even turned in. But for the most part what I have turned is reflects how I think about things. This blog may not be the best blog that Dr Preston has ever seen but it damn sure is a great blog. The way I learn isn't the same way that other students learn and that's just fine with me.

I am a person who is going to do things in the way that I feel will best help me understand things. I am not someone who is going to sit back and let people bother me at all. For the rest of the year I really hope to get things done and show people how I really go about things. Projects are the best way for me to show what I like to do and that's pretty much it.

Have I read Catcher in the Rye? Hell yeah I read that book, and i loved it. This is the second time that I have read this book and I couldn't explain it any better then a book that helps people think about what they really are inside. Ask me how I can prove that and I will show you. Have fun reading and writing.

Catcher in the Rye Notes

• Holden is "crazy" because he is telling the story itself from and asylum
• Ambiguity: figure it out for yourself.
• Get to actually know Holden instead of just flat out knowing everything about him from the start of the book
• Holden feels lobe when he is with his sister (doesn't use the same type if vocabulary)
• Holden is a person that has many different sides of himself for the different people in his life
• What was it about Phoebe and Ally that makes him more of an emotional person
• Why is it that he only ever wants to leave the school when he wants to go and see his sister?
• Rhetorical question : a question that is asked to get a point across. Causes the person who is asked the question to think deeper into the meaning.

Catcher in the Rye Summary

The novel by J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye, is a classical American novel that has touched the lives of many people.  The Novel takes place during the late 1950s. Told by a guy named Holden Caulfield, who is telling his psychiatrist the story of his latest Christmas experiences.Holden is not a troubled kid, aside from being a heavy smoker and getting expelled from four different schools.  He fails to recognize the importance of his schoolwork and does not agree with his peers on anything of any value. Holden is notorious for making extremely rash decisions. One being he makes the choice to leave his prep school, Pencey Prep, a few days before he is scheduled to leave for winter vacation. He stays in numerous places before finally going home. All the while, he attempts to "live it up" by taking girls out on dates, getting drunk , and ordering prostitutes. In the action of all of this happening Holden is only 17. Typical guy stuff, if you were living in the late 1950s. As he goes through all this stuff, he begins to wonder why he's doing what he's doing. Holden comes to a realization, "Why was he going about, living this way, when everyone and their mother knew that he shouldn't be living his life this way?" J.D. Salinger wrote a masterpiece of a novel that adeptly defines the maturing process of human nature.  Holden goes from being an immature teenager making bad decisions to taking his actions into consideration and making himself a better person.  Salinger takes into consideration the thoughts and actions of the younger generation and pens his main protagonist as a kid that others can easily connect with and relate to.  Through Holden's actions we see the struggles of daily life of newly graduated individuals who, for the first time in their lives, no restrictions in their day-to-day lives.  The dilemmas they face can be brutal and leave them worse off than they were before, but somehow,  through all the pain and suffering, that terrible event can cause the person to rethink his position on life.

Catcher in the Rye Project

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