Final Qustions

167) In Glass Menagerie, what does Laura do all day instead of going to the school? A) Walk around the Park  B) Go to the Art Museum  C) Go to the Zoo D) All of the above   (Jacky Wong, 8th Period)

168) In The Great Gatsby, according to Nick, what was Gatsby looking at the night Nick first saw him?

A) A lighthouse B) Daisy's dock C) The Meaning of Life D) A horseracing track

(Jacky Wong 8th Period)

169) What is a  dystopia? A) An imaginary place where people lead dehumanized and often fearful lives    B) The opposite of an utopia    C) All of the Above    D) None of the Above  (Jacky Wong, 8th Period)

170) The young child ______________ the older man as he kept coming to bother him.

A) Espoused   B) Burnished   C) Discomfited    D) Engendered    (Jacky Wong, 8th Period)

171) The ____________ of the new medicine was proven to be amazing.

A) Efficacy   B) Affront   C) Detritus    D) Inexorable  (Jacky Wong, 8th Period)

Susan Cain: The Power of Introverts

This TED talk interested me because I feel like I am an introvert. I feel like Susan read my face and knows exactly what my life was from her talk. This talk wasn't as confusing or as weird as some other talks that we have seen. Her point about how the extroverts assert more control than the introverts seem to be true. I have seen many of these leaders, but there are also many introvert leaders in history who have been successful. The way she shows us the things in the bag also seems expected if you think about it too.

Suggested TED Talk

Sergey Brin: Why Google Glass?

This TED talk is quite interesting, maybe only to me. This is because it is about Google Glass which could be an innovation where humans get more advanced. The speaker is part of the team who created the Google Glass so it is information.

Glass Menagerie Questions

1) What does Laura do all day instead of going to the school? A) Walk around the Park  B) Go to the Art Museum  C) Go to the Zoo D) All of the above

2) Where did Tom say he was at during Scene 4? A) At work B) At the movies C) At the store  D) None of the above

3) What does the D. in Jame D. O'Conner mean (Said in scene 6)? A) Delaney  B) Dominick  C) Donald  D) Delfino

4) In Scene 7, what does Tom intend to do? A) Look for his father  B) Join The Union of Merchant Seamen   C) Take a public speaking course   D) Keep going to the movies

5) Why do the lights go off at the beginning of Scene 8? A) The city had a blackout  B) Someone closed the lights  C) Tom didn't pay the electric bills  D) Tom closed the lights so they can have a  candlelight dinner

6) What is Tom's punishment for neglecting to pay the electric bill?  A) He has to clean the dishes  B) He has to go out to buy candles  C) He has to go out to pay the electric bill  D) He doesn't get dinner

7) Jim is engaged with ______________    A) Laura   B)  May   C) Betty   D) Iris

8) How does The Glass Menagerie end?  A) Laura blows out some candles   B) Jim comes back and asks Laura to marry him   C) The father comes back  D) None of the above

9) What does Tom say about his job at the warehouse in the last scene? A) He hopes it will help them forever   B) He will abandon the Merchant Seamen and keep his job   C) He says his boss fired him
D) He says the warehouse is where he works, not make friends

10) The father comes back at the end of the play and helps the family out of their economic problems
 A) True  B) False

Steve Jobs- TED talks

I feel like Steve's life is one full of risks, to drop out of college and sleep on his friend's floors and starting businesses. It was unfair of the people to fire Steve from his own company. They eventually hired him back at the cost of awkwardly seeing him around after they fired him. He created Pixar, which has grown to be a great movie-making company. His luck in getting into thew calligraphy class was amazing, to be able to drop out of college and getting into the calligraphy class. He believes in what he did in the past will come back and help him in the future but I do not believe this.

TED Talks- 2 from in class

Tony Robbins:

This TED talk seems really interesting, with all these curses and swears in it, it seems more interesting to me because if we weren't watching, we might want to look up when he swears to see what he is doing. Also he makes fun of the audience when he asks the questions or he congratulates them which shows me he can be a so-so guy. But, by just listening to the rest of the TED talk made me feel confused and by understanding other parts, it makes me feel like he is asking, "Why do we live?" which makes me feel like he is one of the crazy people who want to find the meaning of life.

David Blaine:

This guy seems like a crazy man. That was the first thing I thought when I heard of what he did. He found a way to live his life and find a meaning of life for him. To him it is something great and fun, to us he is crazy. The ways he tried to make himself look like he wasn't breathing looked scary and it could kill you via the pipe method. He did accomplish 17 min of no breathing but it hurt him. But he should be proud that he accomplished this. He found his way of life and we need to find ours.

David Pogue: 10 top time-saving tech tips

I believe that David Pogue needs to relax a little. Also it seems kind of lazy to me that he is telling us how to be more "efficient" and to be honest, I think that a lot of people already know these things or most of these things. A lot of these seems more like common sense to do with technology that everyone knows. HE seems like he is stressed and just repeating many things a lot of people know. I do not see why people need to know this though, they can easily do what they have been doing and it can be instinct to do what they always do instead of doing something new.