Because I said so!

This should be more helpful towards Period 7, but your journal topic today really ties into everything that we are discussing today. The reply "because I said so" usually isn't something that we tend to use in an argument, usually we tend to cuss each other out and continue to keep doing that until eventually someone gives up and walks away. We also learn new terms that tie into what we watched when we saw Jiro's dream of sushi video.

Jiro

Jiro to me is probably one of the most hardworking yet dedicated person that I've ever seen in my life. To be working so hard and still wanting to perform at his very best at his age is something that you'll see once in a lifetime. I've met plenty of people over the years who take pride and accomplishment in what they do but I probably won't ever see anyone as committed to their work as Jiro is. Even at Jiro's age he could've retired nearly twenty years ago and lived a happy life but as we saw in the video this is something that he's worked to perfect for his entire life and yet he still feels like he can get better and better every single day. Jiro doesn't do this job for the money, he really couldn't care less about the high achievement that his restaurant has achieved. His passion is what keeps him going and that is something that usually fades away as we get older, we get to that certain point where we believe that as we get older are dreams become no longer relevant. For myself there isn't one thing other than the sport I play yet don't think that I could achieve feel the same way about tennis as Jiro does about making sushi as odd as that may sound. To end I'm using a quote from the brilliant mind or Mark Zuckerburg about passion "If you just want to work on stuff that you like and are passionate about, you don't have to have a master plan of how things will play out."

Learn Something

Today I learned that with the journal topic about how certain people tend to take a very long time to get certain places and how others are practically sprinting towards their next class or wherever they are going. Well what I've noticed is that usually in the morning many people tend to start out very slowly because they are all tired and just want to get through the day. Whereas as the day goes on and we head into lunch, it's like the 100 dash where people are literally sprinting to get to either the cafeteria or the lunch carts, some will stop at no reason whatsoever to get their stupid lunch. plus you also get the idiots who are walking in the hallway dragging their feet when all of the sudden, they suddenly decide to stop on the middle of the hallway and talk to their friends or some other person. That's what I notice whenever I walk through the halls.

Yesterday/Journal Topic

Yesterday with Mr. J being our sub basically didn't do anything at all except for responding to the journal topic which I'm about to do right now. If Holden Caulfield had walked into this room right now I'm sure that at this point I would probably be used to his tardiness yet still give him a sarcastic answer as to why he may be late. Similar to how Dr. Preston would respond if Chase would walk into class late any other day. Holden is the type of person who would probably not really care about whether or not he showed up late to class or even if he went to class at all.

I'm Here!

Right now it's accurate to say that my blog is going in and out of a coma really because I was not a fan of doing this blog originally and for me it's safe to say that I'm still not on board with the whole idea of this blog and how it would "change our own idea of thinking." But that's purely my own opinion, I know that I need to post more about "The Catcher in the Rye" or responses to all of the chapters. Slowly I will start to get us to the idea of this blog despite the fact hat we are already past the halfway mark of the year.

The Catcher in the Rye Chapter Presentations

Chapter 1: First of all I want to say what an amazing job that Morgan Ethan and Megan did in doing that wonderful presentation today on Chapter 1. Out of all the presentations other than the Chapter 8 presentations, this one will definitely stick out in my mind. In Chapter 1 we get introduced to Holden is a very unique character, we quickly expresses his view on his brother who everyone views him as a wonderful and successful businessman, yet to Holden he's viewed as a phony, cheat and a liar.

Chapter 3: We find that Holden has started to read three different books, (Return of the Native, Bondage and Out of Africa), these books seem to capitalize on Holden's feelings of wanting to escape and maybe explore the world. Holden appears to be someone who enjoys being obligated and is starting to show a deep affection for his mother yet at the same time seems very sarcastic. His history teaches uses a certain "fancy" word which instantly frustrates Holden.

Chapter 4: Holden and a new character Stratlater is introduced and right away we get a sense of some of Holdens' true feelings for those closest to him. For instance how he talks about Jane in a sense of affection, he also switches his emotions by saying how he feels that Stratlater is very lazy and isn't responsible.

Chapter 5: Starting to evolve into this bigger and more emotionally deep person

Chapter 7: Holden is heading into Mr. Ackley's room and reveals to him that he feels alone and that maybe he doesn't belong in society. He makes a point about Catholicism which hits a nerve with those that are around him at the time, which shows that he can be very insensitive about his thoughts and feelings as well as those around him.

Chapter 8: When Holden decides to head to the train station he runs into this older lady who asks him about his Pencey jacket and he replies that he used to go there and then the old woman talks about her son who currently goes there now and the more that she talks to him the more that Holden realizes that who she's talking about is a complete and utter douchebag who Holden doesn't hold back in revealing this to her. Later throughout the course of the train ride Holden wants to feel like an adult so he tries to ask the same old woman to buy him a cocktail, she refuses and then Holden goes into this long rant about how he has brain cancer and that he's going through all of this treatment when in reality he's just making up this story as he goes along.

Chapter 13: Holden is taking this incredibly long walk to this hotel where he is staying and throughout the walk is drinking this bottle of whiskey and when he finally arrives at the hotel he gets into the elevator and this guy comes up to him and asks if he wants to have this fling with a prostitute. Holden decides what the hell and accepts the offer, Holden is trying to make a statement by saying that he is up for whatever may happen. Finally the time comes and the prostitute shows and Holden comes to the conclusion that he can't go through with the deal and decides to back off and has to almost fight the prostitute to get out of his room and go away making him feel like a coward.

Chapter 6 (Pgs. 43-46)

From the first half of Chapter 6 we start to see how Holden is starting to show that he really cares for certain people, such as Jane his date as well as his brother. We then see Stratlater having a moment of unclarity when he punches the air and Holden even has a time lapse of events. In which eventually turns into an argument between both Stradlater and Holden. They seem to argue constantly over, Stratlater constantly is telling Holden to shut up and keep his mouth shut.