Final Exam Study Guide

Eng 102 Study guide

Upstairs 700

Office Hours:

5/20 T         9-10:45, 1-2:30

5/27 T         12-2

http://www.ted.com/talks/aaron_huey#t-17082

1.  Short Answer: Write out in detail what makes a good essay? 
2.  On the 28^th, write one essay on Justice from the questions our class wrote out on the blog AND/OR use the quotes from the final exam study guide. Remember you can combine the two into one good essay if you want. Write at least 5-7 pages typed.
3. Include vocabulary words in essay.

Conclusions:

Don’ts

1.     Don’t repeat what you just said

Do’s

Now that you have persuaded us to your way of thinking:

1.  Give us a “left upper cut” (give a wake up call, sound the alarm) (Louder)
2. Make the conclusion more universal   (broader)  (Softer)
3. Make it more personal (Quiet)

Vocabulary Words:

Surly – rude, impolite

Aloof – distant, cold

Narcissism – self preoccupation

Jostle - to knock or bump against somebody, or push or elbow somebody deliberately, sometimes as an expression of aggression or hostility

Peruse – read carefully, examine, scrutinize

Abject - allowing no hope of improvement or relief

Intractable - difficult to deal with or solve

Fidelity - loyalty to an allegiance, promise, or vow

To be faithful- consistently trustworthy and loyal, especially to a person, promise, or duty

Loyal-  always supporting someone, even in difficult times. willing to support, work for, or be a friend to someone, even in difficult times

Muster - to bring together a group of soldiers or the members of a crew, e.g. for inspection, or be brought together in this way

Immolation-   to kill someone by burning them

Repository -  a place where things can be store

Inside baseball- you’re talking about something with great familiarity as if everyone surrounding understands the subject

Capital unleashed- ability to make unlimited amount of money

Hegemony- conspiracy; a confluence of powerful influence that comes together to create the affect of a conspiracy [control society in favor of the more “elite” [rich]]

Social promotion- the practice promoting a child to the next grade level regardless of skill mastery in the belief that it will promote self-esteem.

Ironic/irony- the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.

Propensity- Statistical tendency

Indigenous-  originating or occurring naturally in a particular place; native.    

Legacy-  accumulation of the results of history

Sovereignty- supreme power or authority.

Gender (gentrification) - what sex; the way you stereotype or objectify a male or female (i.e. males macho, dominant, testosterone, heartless)

Cynical- believing that people are motivated by self-interest; distrustful of human sincerity or integrity

Corroborate- supports a point

Foment- to inspire hatred

Synecdoche - a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa

Agile- flexible, quick,

Situate- fix or build (something) in a certain place or position.

Diplomacy - the profession, activity, or skill of managing international relations, typically by a country's representatives abroad.

Veto- a constitutional right to reject a decision or proposal made by a law-making body

Sanctions bill- a threatened penalty for disobeying a law or rule:

Censured- to express severe disapproval of (someone or something), typically in a formal statement.

Quotes:

"get at it"

"situate"- or build (something) in a certain place or position


"Run roughshod"- cow boy term, even though terrain is rough and uneven you ride quickly through with your horse and buggy

Economist- studies economy

Boogeyman - a person or thing regarded as an object of fear

Dead horse-

Niche- specialty or focus

Spectrum- a position on a scale between two extremes or opposite points

Submerged- drowned

Articulate- to put into words

Upstairs 700

Office Hours:

5/20 T         9-10:45, 1-2:30

5/27 T         12-2

Justice Essage due May 19

You can learn to augment an internal justice amid life’s occurrences.

Life can and will be a struggle. No matter which walk of life you come from. In life there will hopefully be life’s lessons you can embrace think about and learn. Learn from mistakes and positive outcomes of your decisions. You can never always make the correct decision. However, as you except and learn from the effect from what happens, your experience can help you chose better in the future. When you realize once actions are expressed they can’t be reversed. Every situation has a cause and effect. Even as you struggle through the effects of your decisions you can make it through. One of the key things is to stop worrying about the outcome. Put it in God’s hands, leave it in Gods hands, and forget about. As you do this learning to live with a less weighted heart can provide the needed support to push forward for a better life. You can learn to augment an internal justice amid life’s occurrences.

One of the first steps is learning. How can you learn to augment justice? Pastor G showed examples daily. Pastor G’s justice was in the form of giving. He gave his time. In the beginning of his program to help other, there were so many helper who quick because they could not handle the situation. They could not see themselves neither giving the needed time nor giving their lives to defuse gang related issues. Pastor G saw a speck hope. Although he wasn’t sure how everything was going to work out he knew this is where he needed to be. Even though so many had run away with no change of hope for the community Pastor G stayed. This was the first step Pastor G showed towards his authentic internal justice. He sought similar internal change in the community.

Change must start from within. This is the only way justice can augment itself in you. Unlike society, Pastor G never downed anyone for their lifestyle. He never blamed them for the cause of their living situations. However, he did show the community there is a better way to life besides living one moment at a time. Whenever he witnessed rivals arguing he did his best to peacefully defuse it. He always gave them words of encouragement and peace. His consistency of peace gave the community a way to reach out. Alternative lifestyles were always offered as a way out of the gang.  Even daily staring death in the face Pastor G stayed in the community.

Pastor G became the community’s hope of augmented justice. As each gang member started craving a better life Pastor G showed them hatred was the enemy not the rival gang members. As he gave them outlets to jobs and staying busy they began to see life from a different angle. They saw violence really was a quick road to nowhere. They realized the only way to free their selves from the lifestyle was to be free internally. As ex-rivals began working together they realized peace was the way out. Learning to let go from the hurts of their past, while looking at life from a burnished heart. As they reached this plateau in life, then was when they realized they were learning to augment justice internally amid their previous life’s occurrences. 

5/12 "One Quote and Riff"

Homework

Single quote of Tattoos on the Heart

A Little homework for 5/12

Choose a single quote you really like and riff on it for a bunch of sentences, bring with you on Monday. Td

A Little homework for 5/12

humbug642.blogspot.com

Choose a single quote you really like and riff on it for a bunch of sentences, bring with you on Monday. Td

"Compassion is always, at its most authentic, about a shift from the cramped world of self-preoccupation into a more expansive place of fellowship, of true kinship."

Boyle, Gregory (2010-02-14). Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion (p. 77). Free Press. Kindle Edition.

Compassion = kindness, caring, consideration, concern, sympathy, and empathy.

Compassion can show its true form of sincerity when we stop being so fixated with our personal endeavors. Instead broaden our internal emotions to an explosive [volatile] and expandable peripheral outreach.

To establish a connection amid a perceived endless tunnel of self indulgence through compassion’s unsullied light.

Showing compassion does not show our weakness, on the other hand, not showing compassion can show just how weak we are.

A mother showing compassion for her son’s killer is stronger than anyone seeking revenge in order to avenge another’s death.

Pastor G, in spite of possible death, showed compassion, by putting himself daily in harm’s way.

Deficiency of compassion of a once thriving warmth; overtaken from an aloofness inside, calcified of life’s occurrences.

The calcification of hatred and greed melted away from acts of compassionate persistence of one man [ Pastor G.].

Can hatred and greed really be used in the essence of one’s own actions… or is the veracity of ignorance a premeditated rationalization of the action!

We deviate from our innocence of unconditional love, allowing life’s occurrences to daunt our purpose in life.

“If you surrender your need for results and outcomes, success becomes God’s business. I find it hard enough to just be faithful.”

Boyle, Gregory (2010-02-14). Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion (p. 168). Free Press. Kindle Edition.

Both quotes go together, because you can think beyond yourself, think past what your problems are and see how you can help others. If you truly have compassion for others and not a selfish attitude, you will do what you can to help others you see in need. If you can not help your heart can feel burdened, searching  for ways you can get help to them.