Journals
What is the difference between free will and fate? Is humanity’s existence determined by fate or does humanity have free will?
The difference between free will and fate is that free will is something that is done that you decide and no one else. Fate is something that your doing or you have done that is controlled by fate. Fate is also something that is uncontrollable in which whatever should happen to you is going to happen. Humanity’s existence is determined by free will because I believe that people make their own decisions and their lives are controlled by themselves.
1st Quarter
Journal 1
A time of year
Winter is full of white snow and wet streets. It is cold and stormy. Strikes of lightning shoot through the sky in cold nights. Hail fall down and sounds of thunder roam through the night. Wind blowing on the trees make the leaves fall down. In the morning you see leaves and trash are scattered through the ground. The sky is grey waiting for the first fall of rain. When it rains it pours. Trees are wet and some white with snow. Snowmen are made throughout the snow. Dark Clouds fill the sky without a spec of light.
Journal 2
How is pride like a donut?
Pride is like a donut by a donuts have holes in it. Pride can also have holes in them such as having pride for a wrong doing or a weak sense of pride. Donuts also have some sort of covering or sweet on top. Pride can make you feel sweet and more forth going in what you feel is right. Fill-ins are also in donuts. Pride can have fill-ins like adding more pride and giving you more motivation on who and what you are. Crumbs on donuts represent the rocky road in pride. Some things may go wrong and some may come out the way you would want it to be.
Journal 3
Beauty
A person can look at something and say it is beautiful. Another person may look at the same exact thing and say it is ugly. The person that thinks it is beautiful must have a different perspective on how a beautiful thing may look. The person that thinks it is ugly must have a different perspective on how a thing may look ugly. So how do we know if one thing may look beautiful or ugly when people have different perspectives on things? One way is to have more opinions on a thing and find out what most people think about it or by just looking at the obvious characteristics the thing might have. The truth is that it takes more than just one person to say something is beautiful or not.
Journal 4
How is a clock like the bubonic plague?
A clock is like a bubonic plague by a clock tells time and people die in time. People also die from the bubonic plague. As time passes by, more eventually die from old age or any other reason in time. The bubonic plague as well kills more people in time. A clock can show arrows go around its circle in sixty seconds or sixty minutes, and the bubonic plague can spread around the world also in a certain amount of time. A person can die quickly from the bubonic plague and time too can pass by quickly.
Journal 5
How is a window like an opportunity?
A window is like an opportunity by a window is something you can see through. An opportunity is something you can see also and you can make yourself think and see what that opportunity is. A window is something you can wash and clean so that it looks clear. Opportunities is something that can be cleaned also by having an opportunity to clean up something you thought was wrong or needed to be improved. One more thing opportunity is like a window is that a window can be lifted so that air can come through. Opportunity can also be lifted so that you have a better chance on going through that opportunity.
Journal 6
If you had a time machine, what people and places would you choose to visit?
If I had a time machine, I would go to the future and meet the future scientist. I would see what advances they had made and acquire as much knowledge as I can. I would also visit the cities to find out what new building structures there are and see how cars are built. One other place I would see is the ocean to find out if the sea level rose or lowered. This is helpful to know because then we would know where to build what near the coast. The time machine would be used many times to gather as much knowledge from the future and the past.
Journal 7
Differences and Similarities A Sound of Thunder and The Simpson’s Toaster Time Travel
The difference and similarities are that they both changed the future. In A Sound of Thunder, Eckels changes the future by going off path and so does Homer Simpson in The Simpsons. In one a different president is elected and the other has the same thing with Ned Flanders becoming the supreme ruler. They both also thought that changing the time would not change but it did. Another thing that was in both were they had to deal with the major changes that occurred after the messed with time.
Journal 8
How are memories like a river?
Memories are like a river by a river flows and so do memories by having a through thought. A river has rapids and vertigos which memories have by they also have bumps and curves in memories. Rivers also are sometimes deep which memories can be deep by thinking about something and not knowing that your deep in thought. Rivers can have boulders that are heavy and cause stops from the river flow. Memories can also be stopped when someone gets you a wake up call. Another way a river can be like a memory is rivers have fresh water and dreams can also be fresh by remembering something perfectly clear.
2nd Quarter
Journal 1
The statement that Santiago says, “I am sorry I went too far out. I ruined us both” figuratively means that he went too far by killing the marlin. Santiago’s hands have been cut up and all his energy has almost been used up on just catching one fish. It ruins Santiago by now he has to live with the guilt that he killed his greatest fish. Santiago also has to fight off the sharks and sail all the way back which also ruins him. It affects the theme of the novel by it is the marlin that is defeated and not Santiago.