Journal 77: Slang

Slangs are words that are said but not written. These words are used by people talking to each other instead of in essays or articles. They are usually used informally or in informal essays. There are a lot of slangs. People use them when they are talking to someone they know. For example, 24/7 means all the time; always available; without a break. There are also other slangs to describe other things. For example, some slangs that describe cool or good are bad-ass, 133t ,  5 by 5 ,  A-1 ,  ace ,  active ,  aight ,  ain't no thing but a chicken wing ,  a kick ,  all good, all that , all that and a bag of chips ,  all that and a bag of Fritos ,  alrighty ,  alvo ,  amped ,  A-Ok ,  awesome , awesome possum ,  awesome sauce ,  B.A ,  bad ,  bad-ass ,  badassical ,  badonkadonk ,  ball ,  bang ,  bang on , bang up job ,  beast ,  beastly ,  bee's knees, the ,  bitchin' ,  blast ,  bodacious ,  bomb ,  bomb-ass , bomb diggidy, the ,  bomb diggity ,  bomb, the ,  bonkers ,  bonzer ,  book ,  boomtown ,  boss ,  bostin ,  broken , bullet, the ,  bumping ,  burger ,  butter ,  CAH ,  capitol ,  checkin' ,  cheez whiz ,  chicky ,  chill ,  chilling ,  chim , choice ,  classic ,  clean ,  clutch ,  colp. These are all slang words that describe cool or bad.

Journal 76: Analogy

Analogies are comparisons between two things to show how they are alike. I think that analogies are very good in conversations because it is a good way to tell the other person what you are meaning and what you are thinking. Although it is a good way, the person you are talking to must be able to understand it. In order to understand it, the person saying it and the person listening to it must understand the thing that is being compared to understand what the speaker is trying to tell. For example, if I want to make a analogy of someone's heart and rock, I could say "His heart is as hard as a rock." For the person who I am speaking to to understand, he has to know the person I am talking to and what he has in common. For example, I may be describing that the person has no feelings, because a rock is hard and if a person's heart is as hard as a rock, it can mean that the person has no feelings. Another example can be if I want to say that a person is very fast, I could say "He is as fast as a leopard." I can do this because everyone know's that a leopard can run very fast. This is why I can use this analogy to describe a person that runs very fast.

Journal 73: OOPS!

A lot of people say that your first impression of something is right. I believe that this is sometimes true, but not always. People have their first impression of something when they see anything. Their first impression is the thought that first comes to your mind when you see someone, some place, or something. For example, when you see an elephant, your first impression of them might be, "Wow, what a big animal." These kinds of impression is sometimes true, because what a thing does can change it's appearance. I once had a classmate who was very tall. Everybody thought he would be good at sports, but actually he was not. Another classmate was skinny and everybody thought he couldn't each much, but actually he could eat more than I could. Another time  I saw a person who had a bad looking face and a messed up suit. I thought he was a poor dude on the street, but he turned out to be one of the teachers in my school. These were all first impressions about someone, but at last, when I get to know them, they proved it wrong. This is why I think first impressions aren't necessarily right all the time.

Journal 74: Below the Surface

Have you ever judged a person based on his or her appearance? Although judging people by their appearance can sometimes be right, it is a bad and wrong thing to do. This is because a person should be judged by his characteristics and personality. If a person i very handsome or beautiful, that doesn't mean that is beautiful on the inside. A lot of times, a beautiful young lady may be a wicked-witch on the inside. On the other hand, an ugly or bad looking person may be very nice and gentle. This is why we shouldn't judge people based on their appearance. When I was in elementary school, one of my classmates was not-so good looking and he had a lot of bad habits such as not taking a shower. Although he smells (not kidding here), he is still a very nice guys and he was a good friend of mine. This is why I think we shouldn't judge a person by his or her appearance. We should try to understand, be friends with and think on their point of view. This way, we can know which friends are the best and who we should really be friends with.

Journal 72: My Tell-Tale Ending

The story "The Tell-Tale Hearts" ends by the narrator confessing the crime and turning himself in to the police. He did this because he thought he heard the old man's heartbeat growing louder and louder as his guiltiness grows larger and larger. Actually what he heard was his own heartbeat that is growing larger and larger as he is getting more nervous and excited. I think this is very good ending because like every other story, the villain gets punished at last. Even though I think it has a good ending, I have my own ending for the story. In my ending, the narrator feels the heartbeat growing louder and louder. Then he asks the police to leave. The police felt that something was wrong because he suddenly changed from welcoming into nervous and in a hurry. The heartbeat grows louder as he gets nervous. He kept telling himself to calm himself down because he's smart and he should know better. At last, the police found out something strange about him. He was moaning about something about the body. The police thought he was crazy and sent him to a madhouse. What the police never knew was that he killed a person.

Journal 71: Hints and Foreshadowing

When we read a story, we can find  lot of clues given by the author. These clues can help us understand the story and find out the mood of the story. These clues are given by the author usually by foreshadowing and hinting what will happen. These clues are usually in the text, but the author doesn't tell you directly. The author hides them in the text, but they are clear enough so that the reader can figure it out and know it. For example, if the author describes a person walking down the street with the cold wind blowing behind him like it's stabbing him. We can infer that the person walking down the street might be attacked or killed, because the wind was blowing behind him like it was stabbing him. I think foreshadowing and hinting is a good way to tell the reader more about the story because this way, it makes the reader thinks about the story and understand it. In the story, the narrator tells us that he hates the old man's eyes. The heartbeat he hears when he was killing the old man also foreshadows what happened to him in the end. This is why I think foreshadowing and hinting is a good way to use to tell the readers.

Journal 70: Narrator

A narrator is a person telling the story in a story. It can be in the first person view, where the narrator is one of the characters in the story. It can also be in the third person view, where the narrator is not any character from the story. When we read a story, we rely on the narrator to tell us what information we should need to understand and follow along with the story. In other words, if the narrator doesn't tell us anything and only describes briefly about the story, we would never know what the character is thinking and what the story is about. In the story "Tell Tale-Hearts", the narrator is a character in the story who is a crazy killer who claims that himself is smart and not crazy. Even though the narrator says that, we know that he is crazy by looking at the content and the things the narrator does. In this case, the narrator is not a reliable narrator, because what he says isn't always true. In these kinds of stories, we would have to find the clues in the story and question about what the narrators says. We can do this by paying attention into every detail in the story.