Metaphors

Metaphors are the comparison of two unlike things. The word metaphor comes from the Greek word metapherin (meaning "transfer").The simplest form of metaphor [first thing] is a [second thing] perfering to this example Her home was a prison.
Example : John is a real pig when he eats.
What this sentence is trying to explain is that John is greedy he eats a lot.

Another metaphor simile is the comparison of two things using like or as. " These cookies taste like garbage. " [ Garbage is Dirty or nasty so the cookie probably taste bad and is very good as other cookies usually be or taste.] They fought like cats and dogs.[ Cats and dogs hate each other so the people probably disagree on something and fought horribly. ]
In the elephant cartoon it shows how 5 blind men observing an elephant and reflects of what they know For example "A elephant is Like a Empty Oil Pipeline " the blind men is observing the elephants nose and its drained out and empty so he compares it to the oil pipeline .
Another Metaphor is Hyperbole uses an exaggerated or extravagant statement to create a strong emotional response. Hyperbole is frequently used for humor.

Examples :

I'm So Hungry I Could Eat a Cow

He is as skinny as a toothpick .

That joke is so old, the last time I heard it I was riding on a dinosaur.

These examples show how the person is trying to be funny while expressing something this is one way it actually shows the way to prove it.The first example shows how someone is very hungry they can eat a cow because a cow is very big and has a lot of meat on it. Toothpicks are very thin so there describing the human being as being very skinny.

Another Metaphor , anthropomorphism is used with Gods or gods. It is also a form of personification. It is used in religions, literature and everyday as well. Usually people use animals to show this .For example, the use of plants, vegetables and fruit in conjunction with human characteristics is a common theme, often found in products for the kitchen.
A Parable is a short story that's designed to illustrate or teach some truth, religious ways, or moral lesson. For Example : "Parable of the Scorpion" The lesson of the parable is that a thing will always act in accordance with its true nature. A snake is a snake, a spider is a spider, a scorpion is a scorpion and a Democrat is a Democrat.
The word "fable" comes from the Latin "fabula" (a "story"), itself derived from "fari" ("to speak") with the -ula suffix that signifies "little": hence, a "little story". A fable is a succinct story, in prose or verse, that features animals, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature which are anthropomorphizing (given human qualities), and that illustrates a moral lesson

Example: The Boy Who Cried Wolf

In this fable A shepherd-boy, who watched a flock of sheep near a village, brought out the villagers three or four times by crying out, "Wolf! Wolf!" and when his neighbors came to help him, laughed at them for their pains. Then One day the wolf really came and attacked him no one believed him and helped. There is no believing a liar, even when he speaks the truth.

Analogy : is a similarity between like features of two things, on a comparison

Example:
Fire is to ice Cold.
Hot is to Cold.

These examples shows a way in which two things are comparing but in other words .
In the Poems "Joy", "Play" by:For You, A Star . She states "that first blade of grass,the messenger of spring". What the writer is trying to explain is that winter was ending and we started to see grass growing and that meant spring was here for good and winter was gone. Touch them with your finger tip - but there's the barrier of glass. This persons saying that we need to find another way to get to the other side because a barrier is like a fence.
In the personification poem " Natures Chorus "the author says that that cherry trees form a circle but trees can't move how could they form a circle ? The oaks dance just like debutantes an oak is a form of tree and a debutantes is a young women who has reached the age of maturity , and everyone knows they can't dance . The trees usually stay still and grow. Woodpeckers tapping on their trunks woodpeckers don have trunks they use they pointy noses to tap on trees . Listen to the sounds of natures chorus ! What fun it does arouse! This Poem shows how many things happen and how the use of personficatiton is used such as a n creature conceived or figured to represent a thing or abstraction.

The fable "The Goose with the Golden Eggs" Illustrated by Heather Olsen is about a countryman who works in a farm and in his farm he has a geese which is a type of bird and one day he seen a a Golden egg laying there and when he picked it up it was heavy and loaded like gold. He describes the egg by saying it was shiny yellow and glittering as gold this is a form of simile because he is using the word like and as. When he took it up it was as heavy as lead. Day by day he got richer and richer until open day he began to get greedy and wanted to get all the geese he wanted and when he finally opened the egg he found nothing. this was also a lesson learned .This Fable is also a form of parable because it teaches a lesson and illustrates more principles.

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This poem is represented in a weird style of writing the letters aren't like the regular way we write things such as in sentences . The presentation is not as we see or use during everyday life. If we were to present these words as in present life it would probably come into a sentence and make more sense to us. Now using these letters into a statement l(aleaffalls)oneliness we can change it to loneliness (a leaf falls) . Loneliness is the root to sadness, he uses the word through a leaf falling to point out that the leaf is with others while alive and on the tree, when the leaf falls it dies showing with loneliness comes death(sadness).

What metaphor(s) fit your life? The metaphors that fits in my life according to Leonard Holmes is [ A Roller Coaster - Life consists of ups and downs, and we are along for the ride. ] I'm guessing probably life will have its ups and downs, but if you hold on tight, you'll have a great time. In life im faced with many challenges, and I can either let them make me or break me. I can get on this "roller coaster" and say I made it too the top and back down or I can walk away an hide.

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*- This Video shows how us and our media changes during the time. It explains how we can use different tools now. Instead of an piece of paper now we use The Internet to get information. During the time we have found different sources to find out information such as GOOGLE Yahoo and AOL. I recognize in the video that it shows someone using a computer blogging and cutting out words and pasting out it order to do essays. It says that the machine is us in other words it's saying that we control everything in the computer as it is today. Rethink means to revise and look over we have to rethink alot of things such as family school identity etc.
Rethink: Copyright:the exclusive legal right, given to an originator or an assignee to print, publish, perform, film, or record literary, artistic, or musical material, and to authorize others to do the same. permission to publish . Authorship:the fact or position of someone's having written a book or other written work. The act, fact, or occupation of writing.. identity : the fact of being who or what a person or thing is. ethnics:of or relating to a population subgroup (within a larger or dominant national or cultural group) with a common national or cultural tradition. Aesthetics:concerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty. Governance : the action or manner of governing. Privacy : the state or condition of being free from being observed or disturbed by other people. Commerce : the activity of buying and selling, esp. on a large scale. Love : an intense feeling of deep affection. Family : a group consisting of parents and children living together in a household. Ourselves :used as the object of a verb or preposition when this is the same as the subject of the clause and the subject is the speaker and one or more other people considered together
How is writing evolving?

Like everything else in life, practice makes perfect.through a lifestyle of writing that one becomes comfortable with. In different human civilizations, more complete writing systems have developed examples are Chinese writing,Mesoamerica,Modern writing. namely the computer and the mobile phone, characters can be formed by the press of a button, rather than making the physical motion with the hand.
Rethink school

"There must be a renewed focus on increasing the quality of teaching by [giving] teachers more time and opportunities to plan, collaborate, and work with advanced technology systems." When people are connected through technology and/or collaborative arrangements, their effect is multiplied, for communities "can accomplish goals that would be impossible through more isolated efforts.'" What there trying say is that now in schools the teachers now can use computers and certain ways to teach in school with all the new technology they built. They also state on how things get done faster. Now during our days we get plenty of handouts that come from the computers in which teachers print out instead of writing it out and handing it to over 100 of kids. Messages get through way quicker and easier to . classrooms isolated from other classrooms, teachers isolated from other teachers, schools isolated from the outside world,"

How does this video address idea of rethinking?

The video is an example of rethinking because as you see in the video its showing how people used things before. Such as black and white t vs old time antique mobile phones and etc. But at the end of the commercial it shows how we the people can have a Car that drives & is in color. When the two man first see it in the commercials they think its weird because they never seen something like this. Therefore now we have many diffrent possibilities to choose from