Latin Roots #6

Roots:
-corp(or) (body): corpse, corporation, corps, corpuscle, corporeal
-cred (to believe, to trust): credo, credit, discredit, credence
-cur(r), cuts, course (to run, to flow): current, excursion, discourse
-dic(t) (to speak, to say): diction, indication, edict, jurisdiction, dictionary

Words:
-benediction: the invocation of a divine blessing, as at the close of a religious service; a blessing or star of blessedness; The purpose of a benediction is to not bring destruction to your enemies.
-concourse: a running or flowing together; a broad public walkway or hallway; A long concourse extended gin the main lobby of the airport check-in counters.
-concurrent: occurring at three same time; meeting or acting together; Things that occur concurrently happen at the and same time.
-corporal:  relates to the physical body; Corporal actions do not solve problems.
-corpulent: very stout; fleshy and obese; fat; Corpulent people are not slender.
-credibility: the quality of being believable or trustworthy; A person with absolute credibility can be easily believed.
-credulity: the(naive) willingness to believe too easily without proof; Simpleminded credulity can lead one to believe incredible tales.
-cursory: don't in a superficial or hasty manner; A cursory examination is not as thorough as it might have been.
-dictum: an authoritative or maxim; Every actor or actresses have their dictum.
-incorporate: to form into one body our functioning unit; to combine several different things into a whole; To incorporate is not to take things apart.
-incredulous: not believing, skeptical, or doubting; An incredulous smile is unlikely to suggest skepticism.
-indicative: characteristic of or very much like, suggestive; Restless sleep and bad dream may be indicative of a troubled mind.

Literature Analysis- The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Part I: The book The Memory Keeper's Daughter written by Kim Edwards is about a married couple who had fraternal twins, but the girl had down syndrome and so the father, David, gave orders to the nurse, Caroline, to take the baby girl away. David had told his wife, Norah, their baby boy, Paul, was the only one to survive. Caroline bring such a kind hearted person did not want to leave the baby girl at a care place, so she kept the baby as het own and named her Pheobe. As Pheobe grew up she finally found out about her real parents and her fraternal twin brother. Caroline brought her to Norah, and she was shocked, but after David died of heart attack them three, Norah, Paul, and Pheobe lived together to catch up.

Part II: The main theme of this novel was think before you act because it will affect your future. I believe that the author chose this topic due to the possibility she was a child with sickness and was declined from the family of she might have been a mother of a special needs kid. I also believe that Edwards chose the father to decline the cold because maybe her father declined her or maybe because a newly father might have gotten scared.

Part III: I think the protagonist is dynamic braid she changes when she found out about her real parents. The protagonist is also round because she is always happy. David is another main character of the story because he is the father of Pheobe, the main character.

Part IV: The nurse symbolized the child's savior because Caroline basically rescues Pheobe from living in the care house and not ever knowing her real parents. I believe it reveals that that family of Pheobe did not know she exists except for the father.

Part V: I chose this book because I was suppose to read this book for my first assignment, but I got lazy and read The Giver that is how I came to read this book, The Memory Keeper's Daughter. What made me keep reading was when I found out that father gave away a special needs child.

Part VI: I can connect when David and Norah had babies to my cousin just had her baby. I can also connect my dad taking on a struggling kid to Caroline taking in a Pheobe with be in.

Part VII: The thing I will always remember is to take in a special needs kid when I get older.

Greek Drama: Out of Ritual Questions

1) The dancing choruses of worshippers began to competing for prizes like a bull or a goat.

2) As many as fourteen thousand spectators gathered in the open-air Theater of Dionysos to watch playwrights chosen by the city magistrates competed for prizes in tragedy and comedy.

3) These masks had exaggerated mouthpieces that amplified the actor's voices-an ancient solution to the problem resolved by microphones.

4) For Greek audiences watching Antigone, dispenser did not come from their anxiety admit what would harken next, because they already knew the story. Suspense came from their knowledge of things the characters on stage did not know.

5) Horrified by this prediction, they gave their baby to a shepherd with orders to leave the infant to die on a lonely mountainside with his ankles pinned together.

6) "What creature goes on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, and three legs in the evening?"

7) Oedipus' children were Polyneices, Eteocles, Antigone, and Ismene.

8) Jocasta's brother, Creon, took over Thebes.

9) Crown considered Eteocles an ally and gave him a hero's burial, he considered Polyneices a traitor, so he decreed that his body be left unburied, to rot in the sun outside the city gates.

Antigone Quick Write

If I somehow time traveled to an island with my two dead brothers and an alive sister and my uncle declared himself as king. Also, my uncle only buried the least favorite brother of mine, but not my other brother because they fought and killed each other. I would do everything in my power to bury my other loving brother. First, I would try to convince my uncle to bury both of them by begging him. For example, I would probably bribe him with money and treasures that I will search for. Of that does not happen I will ask my sister to help me bury our brother and if she refuses I will try to manipulate her by saying that she is a disgrace to our family. Also, I would try to make her help me by telling her that I will protect her from harm and from being killed. Finally, if nothing works I will do it myself even if it kills me.