Song

      The song that was picked was save me by Nicki Minaj. It has deep meaning about whats happening in her life. She feels weak and wants to give up, so she wants someone to save her.Also in this song she uses figurative language throughout it.


   The song talks about her trying to find herself and she feels like she is giving up. She's asking "someone" to save her, someone that as helped her before but she was never satisfied. Before she pushed that someone away and now she is tired of being alone. People search forever looking for something they think they need, in this song its a man and she has been searching for him. She thinks that a person matters so much that you need them to survive.


     There are a few figurative language devices said throughout the song. One is the first line "I drove for miles just to find you and find myself", this is a metonymy. She also uses syllepsis "all these voices in my head", shes using voices as a word to apply two others in different senses. Also "gave me hope for a lifetime" is a hyperbole, shes exaggerating by saying lifetime. She has alot of anaphora "this time wont you save me?" is repeated many times throughout the song. "But I'm alone on my throne" is a metaphor she doesn't actually mean she has a throne, she means shes alone in her life. One last device used is aphorism "I'm givin up, baby".

Dairy

Dear dairy,


        Now that our country is split in two and we don't have a lot of money and food, I'm very sad. I'm hungry and I need money! I stay home a lot more now and never really see my friends. Mom isn't in the mood to teach me new things since she's worried about daddy fighting in the revolution. I'm worried about him too but I pray everyone night for him to be safe. I try to be the same and not be active in the rebellion, and keep my opinions to myself. Everyone around me doesn't act the same anymore though, they don't talk as much and look worried out of their minds. I don't sleep as much anymore either, neither does mom. We stay up together drinking tea until we eventually fall asleep. I hope things get better in time, I don't want to live like this much longer. I would like to go back to seeing my friends all the time and daddy being home so mom will be happy again. Hopefully it will as change soon.


                                                  Morgan

Hero Analysis

    Morgan McCrady

    Mrs. Sweezy




                                                         Hero Analysis


      In this book by Homer, there is a main character, Odysseus. He portrays odysseus as a hero that is

emasculated but still brave and strong. Homer creates sympathy for odysseus through Poseidon's

violent storm attack. Homer makes odysseus prove himself a strong and courageous hero with alot of

great power. Odysseus is not only portraded as brave, strong and powerful but also as strategist.


  Odysseus has many herioc qualities such as, bravery, patience and intelligence. He is also a loyal,

maybe not to his wife but to his family and country. But just like every other hero he has some bad

unherioc qualities such as, deceitful, trickster, and sometimes excessive pride. But odysses is an

overall good hero.


    These flaws that he has affect his journey is various ways. His excessive pride makes the gods

become angry with him. The gods then create major obsticles for him to make his journey harder for

him to go through.


  Odysseus is an not an overall ideal hero during his journey. One reason is because in the end he

realizes that a man is nothing without the Gods, he learned a valuable lesson but heros dont need to

be taught a lesson, they should be teaching other people lessons. He has too much pride and thats

why his journey was made so difficult for him.

Historical and Modern day heroes

Morgan McCrady

Ms. Sweezey

English II

September 26, 2012

                                       Modern heroes and historical heroes

     Modern day heroes and historical heroes are both alike and different. A modern day hero does good

deeds for his city without being asked. A historical hero took journeys away from his own city to help

other places.   They both always end up “saving the day”.

       Modern day heroes have more human characteristics and their journey involves more everyday life

situations. Modern heroes are very strong and rarely get defeated by the enemy. But they always end

up saving the victim and getting them back safe. They face challenges such as who they fight, now a days

other enemies have better weapons, and better fighting skills.

    Historical heroes are older and more ancient, obviously. They are also strong like modern day heroes.

But they save people while they are away.  Back then there enemies didn’t have weapons, they only had

to worry about people being skilled in fighting. Historical heroes also fight for their race more than just a

certain victim.

    In the end, historical heroes changed into modern day heroes in good ways. They both take action to

help others. They always save the day and risk their lives just to help others.

once upon a time

  Once upon a time there was a princess name Olivia. She grew up in a huge castle with her dad and unfortunatly, a step mom and 2 step sisters. Her mother died from a flu that went around the village a few years ago. Every Saturday Olivia visits her mothers grave and puts a new set of flowers. Today is monday, and from 8am to 3pm she is homeschooled by a private tutor. Olivia always gets good grades and is always respectful. Her teacher reminds her that the ball is right around the corner, and she needs to prepare. The following day Olivia finds a dress to wear with the perfect pair of shoes. Then she goes to dinner with her dad, step mom and both step sisters. In the middle of dinner her step sister, Janice "accidently" spills juice on her and like usual Olivia doesnt get mad in front of her dad and goes straight upstairs to clean up. Olivia cries soflty into her pillow that night and wishes her mom was still here. The next day is the ball and once Olivia arrives she instantly spots a gentleman named Nick. The whole night she hopes he will ask her to dance and to her surprise he did. They danced the rest of the night and had an instant connection. Olivia wakes up to flowers next to her bed and wonders who they are from. She reads the card " Good morning beautiful -Nick". She is so happy, she wishes her mother was her so she could share the excitement. She decides to take the flowers to her mothers grave. As shes places them down she hears a noise coming from the woods but ignores it. All of a sudden two men grab her by the arms and put her into a van. They take her to a dark place, like a cave. They tell her they are holding her for randsom. Her father wakes up with a note on the side of his bed also " We have your daughter, give us 1 million dollars to get her back". The dad freaks out, gets up instantly and runs downstairs to the maid and tells her to tell the village what has happened. When Nick hears the news he sets off on a journey to find her and get her back safe. He climbs through the woods and looks through caves. He finds a cave that has a lit fire inside, he found her! He waits till everyone is asleep then sneaks into the cave and gently wakes her up and then they sneak out quitley. When they arrive back at the castle her dad is so happy, he falls to his knees ad thanks Nick. Nick and Olivia end up spending alot of time together after this. They fall in love and get married and live happily ever after.

                The end.

Archetype

   An archetype is a universal symbolic pattern. Some major ones are, The Shadow, The Anima, The Syzygy, and The Self. Each archetype represents something different, like The Anima represents soul. And The Self represents Human self and divine self, aslo spirits.

   A common example that everyone seems to know, is the movie batman. In the movie bats are represented a symbol. They symbolize his fear for them, which he finally overcomes. The bats are important to the movie because they symbolize the icon for batman.

Mythology

   The role of Myths in society have changed over the generations of time. Back then they didnt have TV's or any source of entertainment so people made up stories. As people made up more and more stories they seem to keep getting passed on through generations. Myths were more believable at that time then now. Noone had proof they werent real.

   Nowadays Myths are just stories people tell for fun and we are still not sure if they are true or not. For example, the story about Athena being born from Zues's head is told but not believed by many people. Mythology is meaning to the study of Myths or collection of Myths. Myths are related to legends or folktale. Some common elements were Gods and Goddess's, hero's, creation of people and animals, and power. A example of a Myth, Aphrodite was born on a large shell that was carried to land. She had sea nymphs dress her with flowers and gold.

    In the end all Myths have cultures that somewhat bind together. Either by being related or created in the same world. Most Myths were unrealistic and normally not true but people still tell them as a fun story. Throughout generations the same story will get passed down but with a little twist to make the story different. They will continue to go on for more and more generations as well.

  

About me

My name is Morgan McCrady and i go to Lake Mary Preparatory School. I love playing sports, like volleyball and lacrosse. Ive been playing volleyball since 6th grade and lacrosse since only last year. My favorite subject in school in spanish, im pretty good at it. Im 15 years old and i have a pet dog named Molly. We got her when she was only a few months old, she is a boston terrier and i love her so much. I was born in Florida and have lived here my hole life and ive never been out of the country before. My best friend is Anniston lol and we've known each other for like 5 years. I love to listen to music and watch movies all day long and hang with my friends.