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Vocabulary 1

meme: something funny offensive or cringe, made in a video, article or picture virus: something in electrical devices that could get in if no secure browser is present. It causes the device to load slow and glitch out. viral: a person who is well recognized and known by many. People get viral over many things such as funny videos or something entertaining Blog: a type of journal or diary that is online for many people to see and give comments on your thoughts. A blog can be about your imagination or whats on your mind Wiki: a website that anyone can be free to write anything on, so its not really that trustworthy URL: A URL is an online source that is used to easily find a web page Website: an online page that is used to create whatever the maker wants WWW: the first 3 letters in a web address that stands for World Wide Web Internet: a platform that connects people together even from a far 2.0: this is a better version of a previous version

Emerson's Essay

      Emerson's essay on Self-Reliance is all about having to be your own self, and not try to be like others. His tone gives us a good strong feeling about what exactly it is he wants to to learn. I will sum all this up and explain to you how Emerson's thoughts and ideas can help me with my own life.       Emerson's main goals in the essay is to persuade us readers to be our own selves, and try not to be another version of someone else. He wants us to have our own voice, to be someone unique, and honest with ourselves, and with others. The way we are able to do all of this is by standing out, standing out as in be someone that people want to be, try to step up as the leader, and make people want you. You make yourself, and you can't be scared about others bringing you down with their hate. Emerson's is all about this, he really tries so hard to make you understand that we are all our own kind of beautiful.       This essay has a really s...

Emerson's Notes

We have been reading and analyzing Emerson's Self- Reliance, and i have to say, this has really been helping me learn more about his writing and his thoughts. These are the notes that i took.        If you are told what to do all day, you will not have to think much. If you are never told on what to do, you will work hard to try and find your source. Learning means changing your mind. You get more info and you think about changing your mind. There will also be those people that call you a fraud, or saying that you are not true to your word, but what those people do not get is that we all learn and change our thinking. Our job is to look for ourselves, not try to look around and find someone you should be. Just because your life is becoming lucky, does not mean it will last forever, we will always have some bad days, but nothing will bring you peace but yourself. We can all go to others for help and ball our eyes over someone, but in the end, we have to come back to...

Today's Emerson Reading

-Words I did not understand: Eminent: to be respected, or have respect Admonition: an act of giving warning Sentiment: an emotion or view towards something -Ideas: Emerson wants us the readers to follow our individual self instead of confronting to social expectations Emerson wants us to be our own voice and follow what we say, not what other people want us to believe, such as a church Emerson believes the readers should always be honest in the relationship with whom they are talking to