Thursday, February 14, 2008
~My biggest fear~
My biggest fear is to lose my parents. I think if I were to lose my parents I'll die with them. I don't think I can survive without my parents always being there. My parents are the most important thing in my life and my biggest fear is to lose them. I think living without my parents would be very painful. I know that will happen sometime,but I just hope that it doesn't co mfor a long time not too soon. My parents are not scared of death,but I know I'm scared to los them. They are a great part of my life and if I was to lose them life would be dark and sad. Life without my parents is inmaginable, something I never want to happen.That is my biggest fear to lose my parents.
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
10 facts about Beowolf
1.Beowulf is an Old English heroic epic poem of anonymous authorship
2.Beowulf, a hero of the Geats, battles three antagonists: Grendel, who is attacking the Danish mead hall called Heorot and its inhabitants
3.Beowulf was written in England, but is set in Scandinavia.
4.It is an epic poem told in historical perspective; a story of epic events and of great people of a heroic past.
5.At the same time some scholars argue that, rather than transcription of the tale from the oral tradition by a literate monk, Beowulf reflects an original interpretation of the story by the poet
6.Beowulf is most definitely not a Christian hero, however. Since the epic of Beowulf is penned to be taking place four centuries before the actual epic was written and Scandinavia was not Christianized until at least the 12th century, the native Germanic paganism was the prevalent theological system at the time. It is more reasonably thought that the epic was Christianized by Christian monks, who later rewrote it to wider distribution.
7.The spellings in the poem mix the West Saxon and Anglian dialects of Old English, though they are predominantly West Saxon, as are other Old English poems copied at the time
8.The earliest known owner is the 16th century scholar Laurence Nowell, after whom the manuscript is named, though its official designation is Cotton Vitellius A.XV because it was one of Robert Bruce Cotton's holdings in the middle of the 17th century.
9.Icelandic scholar Grímur Jónsson Thorkelin made the first transcriptions of the manuscript in 1786 and published the results in 1815, working under a historical research commission of the Danish government
10.The fourth and final funeral of the poem is Beowulf's funeral.
2.Beowulf, a hero of the Geats, battles three antagonists: Grendel, who is attacking the Danish mead hall called Heorot and its inhabitants
3.Beowulf was written in England, but is set in Scandinavia.
4.It is an epic poem told in historical perspective; a story of epic events and of great people of a heroic past.
5.At the same time some scholars argue that, rather than transcription of the tale from the oral tradition by a literate monk, Beowulf reflects an original interpretation of the story by the poet
6.Beowulf is most definitely not a Christian hero, however. Since the epic of Beowulf is penned to be taking place four centuries before the actual epic was written and Scandinavia was not Christianized until at least the 12th century, the native Germanic paganism was the prevalent theological system at the time. It is more reasonably thought that the epic was Christianized by Christian monks, who later rewrote it to wider distribution.
7.The spellings in the poem mix the West Saxon and Anglian dialects of Old English, though they are predominantly West Saxon, as are other Old English poems copied at the time
8.The earliest known owner is the 16th century scholar Laurence Nowell, after whom the manuscript is named, though its official designation is Cotton Vitellius A.XV because it was one of Robert Bruce Cotton's holdings in the middle of the 17th century.
9.Icelandic scholar Grímur Jónsson Thorkelin made the first transcriptions of the manuscript in 1786 and published the results in 1815, working under a historical research commission of the Danish government
10.The fourth and final funeral of the poem is Beowulf's funeral.
Monday, February 4, 2008
My Weekend
My weekend was cool. On Saturday morning like at 9:30a.m me and my friends went to the AMC Theather over there at Long Beach. I went with my sister, Martin and Jacky. We took the Metro over there. We took like 45 minutes to get there. We saw the movie Cloverfield. The movie was not that cool. It made my head hurt, the camera moved a lot. From there we walked to Wal-Mart and just bought stuff there. Then we walked to Mc donalds and we ate there. We were all tired so we decided to go back home. We went back to Compton on the Metro. Then from there we walked to Jacky's house and then my mom came and picked us up. We got home and I was starting to fall asleep when my neighbor came and said if we wanted to go to a party so were like yeah so we went. We left my houde like at 6:00p.m and I got back to my house at midnight.Then on Sunday it was raining so i just stayed home.
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