Activity 15: Making Predictions and Asking Questions

1. What topics related to the issue of how society values life do you think Ebert might have talked about in his interview?

   The values of life in Eberts interview about how he had to make some difficult decision I his life for instance. Doctors could have gave Eberts a surgery to let him talk again but he made the decision to not talk. The text reminded me of Hamlets to be or not to be text, because he had to make the decision to kill someone to become super wealthy but living with the regret of killing someone or not killing someone that would make his life terrible. 

2. Do you think Elbert's claim about the value of life will agree with hamlet's or not?

   I feel like Elbert's claim would not be as drastic as hamlet's because hamlet had to choose whether he wanted a wealthy life or a poor life, to kill a man or not to kill a man. Where Elbert's was to basically make decisions that would influence his life in many different ways. Like for him to talk again or for him to get surgery to life for one more week. But he wouldn't live with the dread of killing someone to get where he was.  

Activity 14: Surveying the Text

1. What do you know about Roger             Ebert? 

 Roger Ebert is one of the best movie reviewers of his time. He also watch 281 movies in ten months in one of his favorite movie theaters, which was the Lake Street Screening Room. Roger Eberts have lost track of the surgeries he has undergone since the first one, for thyroid cancer, in 2002, followed by the one on his salivary glands in 2003. After that, they disagree about the numbers and dates.cancer, and had his jawbone removed. Chaz Ebert, Roger Ebert's wife kept a journal of all the time that they spent in the hospital. So Roger Ebert had to communicate with his hands by tapping his nails to get peoples attention or by writing letters in his Palms. Roger now uses his thumbs to communicate whether or not he is ok. Two thumbs up means, he is ok and two thumbs down, he needs his full time nurse. Roger wrote hundreds or thousands of reviews. But he wrote his last one on April 6, 2013 on the movie "To The Wonder". He died two days after he released the information on how the cancer has came back to his body. 

2. What kind of writing do you think it is? 

 

This writing to me, was how Roger Ebert battled cancer changed his life In many different ways. One being not being able to talk.

3. Do you notice anything interesting about the way this text looks?

 I noticed in this interview that there wasn't a question and awser format that interviews usually go by. 

vocab. #7

Cursory- hasty and therefore not thorough or detailed.
              I feel some CURSORY when I try writing a essay
Impetus- the force or energy with which a body moves.
               There is a large IMPETUS when I push someone
pinnacle- A high, pointed piece of rock
                soon I will be at the pinnacle of my life
Contumely-insolent or insulting language or treatment
                  Sometimes I CONTUMELY when I mess up
Bereavement- be deprived of a love through a profound absence
                       I feel like I'm BEREAVEMENT when I go out of town
Cache- a collection of items of the same type stored in a hidden or inaccessible place
            I have a large CACHE of Gatorade in my room
Consummation- the point at which something is complete or finalized
                           there is a CONSUMMATION on my grades at the end of the semester
Calamity- an event causing great and often sudden damage or distress
                 there is a CALAMITY in Iraq
Avarice- extreme greed for wealth or material gain
               I have a AVARICE for money like most people in the world
Fortify- strengthen (a place) with defensive works so as to protect it against attack
             we have a FORTIFY in the  pentagon
Erratic- not even or regular in pattern or movement
             Dub step has an ERRATIC beat to it
ubiquitous- present, appearing, or found everywhere
                   there is a UBIQUITOUS of GTA posters
Fortitude-courage in pain or adversity
                there is a FORTITUDE when something you love breaks
nonchalant- feeling or appearing casually calm and relaxing
                    when I play video games I fell nonchalant
Affect- have an effect on
            I have an AFFECT on people when I first meet them
Effect- a change that is a result or consequence of an action or other cause
           when someone slaps me there is an EFFECT and I slap them back
Misappropriate- dishonestly or unfairly take (something ,esp. money, belonging to another) foe one's own use
                         it is MISAPPROPRIATE when bully's take money from littler kids
Pragmatic- dealing with things sensibly and realistically in a way that is based on practical rather
                  cops are really PRAGMATIC when entering a rough situation
Metacognition- awareness and understanding of one's own thought processes
                         Doctors are really METACOGNITION
Devout- having or showing deep religious feeling or commitment
              I am really DEVOUT for Jesus.