Yay for Four Day Weekends!

I'm sorry, I just HAD to add this picture.
It's Aizen from Bleach!
Pfft!

Now we get to sleep all we want, right?
Don't forget to do my homework though! Again, a here a [link] to the blog you have to post your homework on.  I'm postponing the due date to midnight between Saturday  and Sunday.  Anything late [that starts 12:01 am on Sunday, November the 14th!] will get 5 points reduction for each day.  The homework is worth 35 points (I know I said 50 to some of you guys earlier-- I changed it, okay?).




Right-o. Well, the real reason why I wanted to blog was because I saw some interesting parallels to Acadec-ish related information in some stuff I was browsing through.
First, a quote:

"Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

What does Emerson have anything to do with the Great Depression?  The novel!  You know, the theme, the Over-Soul? Yeah, Steinbeck got that from Emerson!
I'll be going over themes post-scrimmage, so... too bad if that's going to be on the scrimmage tests, you should just read the entire Lang & Lit section from the test.

Ummm!
Oh, yes.
Second: videos.
Okay, so here's Vigilante Man by Woody Guthrie, which I played for you guys at the end of Tuesday's lesson.  If you remember, Woody Guthrie did the "So long, it's been good to know you" song from the CD.

I played this video because of the reference to Jim Casy in the verse around 1:50.

Here's the new video I wanted you to watch:

For those who didn't know, university students in England were protesting new government policy: a rise in tuition by nearly three times, and a reduction in government funding by 40%.  Mr. Callahan brought it up during Econ class, for those in his period 5 gold class.  Here's the [article] I got this video from.

Can you see the parallel I'm trying to make?  If I were you, I'd spend some time reflecting on whether or not strikes are "good", etc.  You never know, could be one of the essay topics.  Also, spend time reflecting on the role of strikes and how they have shaped our society today, and whether or not they are as effective today as they were in the 1930s.

And lastly, because I put on Woodie Guthrie, I just GOT to put on his son, the beloved Arlo Guthrie.  I grew up with this guy-- friggin' hilarious :)


It's a three-part video.  You gotta watch all of it, 'kay? ^^
Funni, funni stuff xD
Once you watch it, you will get half of my humor when I start speaking in funny voices during Pre-Calculus class...