#Preston is Simon Cowell and I didn't choke on stage!

What are the REAL causes for death?

Waking up this morning I intended to have a nice day with clouds in the air and no new work being thrown at me. I had no idea that I would be changing my BIG question today. Last semester we were told to choose a big question and I chose "Is death like a domino effect? Meaning does one death cause others." I intentionally thought of this question because my father passed away in November 2015 and then my grandpa passed away in January 2016. To me, at that time, it seemed as if their deaths were related in a way. The only thought coursing through my mind, during my grandfather's funeral, was If my dad didn't die, would my grandpa still be here? I guess you can say that I haven't dealt with their deaths so it makes me upset when I don't see them in family reunions. My BIG question was special to me in a way to find closure. I found closure in a way to the point where my BIG question doesn't seem to excite me anymore. I found a BIG question to go through in which I'll share my thoughts of the REAL cause of death.


WHAT ARE THE REAL CAUSES FOR DEATH?

Death has many causes; murder, drugs, alcohol, being electrocuted, etc. These deaths are very common so no need to go through each one and explain. I'm curious about the uncommon deaths, the deaths that has no reason to it. In June 2013, Harold and Ruth died within 11 hours of one another. In July, Les and Helen brown died within a day of each other. Last year Carrie Fisher died on December 27, 2016 and her mother died December 28, 2016. Of course there was a 'reason' to that Carrie died of a cardiac arrest and her mother died of a brain issue. But those other four deaths, Harold, Ruth, Les and Helen, are mysterious.

Who has heard of broken heart syndrome? For those that haven't heard of it, let's take a moment and imagine a couple meeting at 20 years old. They fall madly in love with each other and spend 50 years married together. They had everything; kids, a house, a billion memories, etc. Sadly the lady grows ill dies on her 71st birthday and the man, healthy, dies 10 hours after her. Why does he die? He died of grief, their souls intertwined closely that they couldn't be pulled apart or died of a broken heart as most heard of. When you get married the priest says "Till death do you apart" but clearly part/ or all of their soul dies. Here is a cause for death.

Who here has watched or heard of 13 reasons why? Spoiler alert the main character, Hannah, kills herself. She slit her wrists and bled to death on the last episode. Everyone knows that that was the cause of her death but that isn't just it. Hannah slit her wrists for reasons. Everyone in the show, besides Clay at times, was ganging up on her. They were spreading rumors about her on how 'easy' she was. Nobody was there for her when she needed them so all  these thoughts caught up to her which slowly killed her inside and eventually killed her physically. We can relate her death to deaths of students/ people like us, young. They have no help and here we are not paying attention to them.

I have came up with a conclusion that deaths aren't just murder, suicide, etc. It is all up to how you or a person are psychologically. Nothing but what you feel/think causes you to kill yourself, or kill others. A  

We eat social media for breakfast

-I timed myself for 25 minutes and was only able to get 2 paragraphs done because I was thinking of how to place everything and how to actually make it a decent essay. There was a lot of deleting and editing.-

DP's essay tells the truth about social media this day. I am a narcissistic sharer of food myself, yet we both do it for different intentions. For Dr. Preston, his intention was to still share a meal with his daughter who wasn't there, while others intentions (mine included) are to just share a picture on social media to show that we are still a person online. It isn't the fact that the food is yummy or unique, it is just the fact of posting a picture online. The world is a narcissistic place now whose only interest is showing the world that we still post things, no matter how stupid the post are. DP's essay, however, had more than meets the eye in the text explaining it.

The tone of the essay was very relaxed and casual. It was as though the author was talking to his child as he was writing it or that was the message he sent her. The author's diction is again like everyday language. It seemed like it was written on the spot and it wasn't researched like other essays are. I believe that the author wanted his diction and tone as it is, so the essay can be understood by all ages. The author's syntax corresponded with his diction quite well. It allowed for the sentences to be placed in the perfect spot, corresponding with the other sentences. 

Option 1 Essay

In the very beginning of the school year, we read “The right to your opinion”, in which we learned that we don’t exactly have the right to our own opinion. I translate opinion to the word tone seeing as they both resemble each other in a way. Ray Bradbury wrote the novel Fahrenheit 451, the main character in the novel was Guy Montag yet there were other characters such as; Clarisse McClellan, Beatty (the Firemen Chief) and Guy’s wife Mildred. Bradbury had different tones with each of his characters, with Montag it was a motivational type of tone. It resembled a sort of “Come on Montag! You do you!” For Mildred, it was more of a snobby tone, seeing as Mildred thought she was better than others and only her life mattered. But for Clarisse and Beatty? What was Bradbury’s tone for those two?

First off, Clarisse and Beatty are complete opposites throughout the entire book. We, the readers, only met Clarisse for a few pages but we noticed how she was different than the rest of the characters. In the very beginning of the book, Clarisse and Montag were talking and she said something like, “I’m different than the other students. While they ask how something is done, I ask why it is done.” Bradbury’s tone with Clarisse was professional and clear. I believe that Bradbury wanted Clarisse to act like an adult but he didn’t want to make her an adult, seeing as the adults in the book seem brainwashed by society. Bradbury’s tone for Clarisse was very friendly because, I believe, that he wanted the readers to enjoy listening to her so that she would be a great role model to Montag to get him out of his enclosed box. No matter how much Bradbury’s tone was pleasant towards Clarisse, he wasn’t pleasant to other character.

Bradbury's tone with Beatty had a different route. The tone with Beatty seemed as if it were foreshadowing to something evil, how right he was. The tone was meant for us to be cautious of Beatty because Beatty was the main source of the book burning in the book. We, the readers, were meant to not trust him so the author's tone was very much welcomed. Beatty liked to confuse Montag with his strange riddles and reciting poetry. Beatty was the true version of an antagonist seeing as the way he was brought into the story seemed to get us with shivers of disgust. 

THE CHASE IS ON!

1. Why did the Hound attack Montag?
2. How did Montag defend himself?
3. What did Montag realize about Beatty?
4. Where did Montag go?
5. What happened when Montag crossed the street?

1.The hound attacked Montag because it was commanded to, in case Montag ran away, yet I feel that now the hound attacked Montag because not only is Montag running but he killed Beatty.

2. Montag defended himself by attacking the hound with the fire gun! He burned that thing to ash.

3. Montag realized that Beatty wanted to die, if he didn't want to die then Beatty would've shut his face up and pleaded for Montag to let him go.

4. Monag first went to the backyard to find SOME books (stupid Mildred didn't find all of them) and then limped his way away.

5. When Montag crossed the street he could hear sirens going off so he 'ran' to the alley. He heard footsteps so he planned to stay there shortly. He checked his pockets and found money and his seashell. In the seashell he heard the alert to look for him.

1. Mildred is acting more like a spoiled brat who doesn't want to eat her vegetables, yet in this problem she doesn't want to understand books. Montag, however, is acting like a little kid on Christmas, he wants to understand books and read! Faber is Cindy Lou and Mildred is the Grinch/Grouch.

2. There is a war happening so something big will happen. I honestly feel that it's just a background to make the story feel real but the bombers will show up later in the story.

3. Professor Faber is a man Montag met at the park who has books. However continuing on with Part 2, Faber is a new friend that Montag has. Faber is going to teach him about understanding books.

4. Montag felt that his boundaries weren't being respected, the commercials were invading his thoughts and he didn't have his peace and quiet. 

5. Faber makes  3 important facts on books; quality texture of information, leisure to digest it,  and the right to carry out actions based on what we learn from the interaction of the first two. Faber compares books to life. Books are just the difficulties of life out to paper, but his society doesn't want difficulties of life. His society wants everyone equal and all things 'evil' gone.

6. The small green metal object is a two way earpiece. It is sort of like a Bluetooth earpiece that lets you speak and listen, even when you're not in the same room.

7. I believe that the television shows in their society is sadistic. The white clowns chop each others limbs and people laugh. Their television shows are very bland and it's trying to find humor in pain.

8. I felt that Mrs. Phelps cried because "Dover Beach"  was talking about true love and she doesn't have that. She understood poetry (once, this one time) and she felt her emotions understand the words because that's her life, not true love.

9.At the end of Part II, the firemen end up at his house because Mildred called in the book fiasco! 

College/ Universities Rally?

Today the juniors (class of 2018) went to a college day for higher education week in the Wilson gym. I honestly feel that most people only went to it so they didn't have to be in class. I saw most of the kids just walking around the booths and playing on their phones. They just wasted their precious time by doing nothing instead of looking for potential colleges.

I visited the Cal Poly, UC Davis, UC Merced, University of Idaho, Fresno State and the SBCF. I only visited these schools because I plan to major in Agricultural education and Agricultural business and these schools have agricultural programs. I got to learn more things from the different booths. For example, most colleges make you take 2 years of basic credential such as math, English and science, however Cal Poly doesn't. They let you just dive into the many things in agricultural that you want to. They're motto is "Learning by doing" just like FFA's motto is "Learning to do, doing to learn, earning to live and living to serve." Cal Poly focuses on hands on activities and most of ( I believe all of them) the majors they have always ends up with a job. I loved hearing new things from these different universities and can't wait to see what college has in store.  

Fahrenheit 451 Notes part 1

• Guy Montag
• Firemen
• 30 years old
• Married to Mildred
• Happy?
• Clarisse McClellan 
• niece to Leonard Mead
• crazy and 17 (17 next month)
• very curious girl
• next door neighbor to Guy Montag
• anti-social 
• didn't want to know how a thing was done but why it was
• Mildred
• attempted suicide by overdosing on sleeping pills
• acts as if nothing happened
• Is she an actress?
• She doesn't care about spending Guy's money
• SHE RUNS OVER DOGS AND BUNNIES
• rain= wine??
• Mildred is 30 and Clarisse is 16 yet acts older then Mildred
• Mildred vs. Guy= He wants kids and she doesn't
• Clarisse's generation is gruesome. They kill or are killed. Kids in her grandfather's time were responsible and were disciplined. 
• "But they all say the same things and nobody says anything different from anyone else."
• This is so true! It seems that everyone talks about the same things everyday or everyone talks about the same boring things as the next person. 
• All firemen have black hair, black brows, a fiery face and a blue-steel shaved but unshaved look!?
• any man who defies the government is crazy and gets sent to the mental asylum
• law= no books?
• Mildred and Guy can't remember the first time they met. Is their love tank over?
• Clarisse got ran over? Or her family moved? FOUR DAYS AGO
• "Firemen" job started during Civil War
• "The bigger your market, Montag, the less you handle controversy." Remember that
• Intellectual= swear word
• "We must all be alike...Not everyone born equal but made equal."
• So what I understood was books were burned because they didn't make people happy
• ^Actually whatever makes people unhappy, burn it (i.e. funerals make people unhappy. Don't have them and just cremate them. Just burn them into ash
• Happy world? Firemen are the happy boys who are in charge of taking down anything unhappy in their happy world
• Guy Montag has 20 books he's saved throughout the years and he and Mildred are going to read them at least once
• Guy seems like a little child on Christmas morning while Mildred seems like the Grouch who doesn't understand anything 

Group Imagery

Great Gatsby Essay Question #3

How does Fitzgerald’s characterization create a tone around the theme of happiness?  What is Fitzgerald’s attitude toward happiness?  Does it depend on love, on external markers such as wealth, on repairing or atoning for the past, or on something that is unattainable?

Happiness is the feeling of being mentally/ emotionally positive. While reading Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby", none of the characters seemed "happy" to me. Throughout the whole story happiness had to depend on something; for Gatsby it was the past, for Daisy it was money, for Tom it was two women, for Jordan it was Nick and for Nick it was Gatsby's friendship. Fitzgerald tried his hardest through out the whole book to make his characters happy at least once, yet everything comes with a price. In my honest opinion, all the characters tried to be ecstatic, positive but money always got in their way. Money is truly the root to all evil, yet for a few people (Daisy and Tom) it was all the happiness they could ever need.

I felt as though Nick was the reader. He had his opinions yet they couldn't be voiced out just as much as we do. To the readers, Nick was our ray of sunshine/ happiness throughout the whole book. Maybe this is why Fitzgerald made Nick as a character, to relate him to us. The readers dealt with Nick through the whole book and read all the ordeals that occurred.  However a nagging feeling told me that he wasn't happy, perhaps it was because he was lonely. This was then when Fitzgerald gave us Jordan and later introduced Gatsby. Jordan WAS supposed to be the woman to sweep Nick off his feet and be tied down, yet issues like money (Daisy, Tom and Gatsby?) got in the way of that. Gatsby, however, is Nick's muse, his best friend. Nick acted 'himself' with Gatsby and didn't let money,love, the past or something that is unattainable get in the way.

Gatsby is a different story though. Gatsby wanted to live in the past, the past to Gatsby was his happiness and what he attempted to recuperate. However, Gatsby's past was living in the future with a husband and kid. Fitzgerald perhaps attempted to make Gatsby the American Dream but every dream has its flaws and Gatsby's flaw was Daisy. He wanted to finally be happy being with her and, now that I think about it, Fitzgerald wanted the readers to be happy by seeing romance between them. Money got in the way, as usual, for this.

Tom and Daisy are the definition of bad people. Tom had two women to himself yet he was never happy. His happiness revolved around alcohol to push his worries away. Daisy wasn't happy either, she had a cheating husband. Daisy was finally going to be "happy" with the man she "loves" yet I believe this isn't true. I believe that Daisy never loved Gatsby, just like Gatsby she was trying to re spark an old flame. In some way that made her happy, to re spark something long forgotten. Her other love however, wealth and power, killed her beloved. Daisy left on an extended vacation with Tom to be happy. Her love for Gatsby was never real, she must've just wanted to make him happy.

Fitzgerald must've thought that love wasn't true. All his characters believed in it yet in some way it got crumbled. Money was the root of all evil for most of these relationships. Money/greed  and the past killed Gatsby. He wanted the past but his past wanted money. "They were careless people, Tom and Daisy they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made" (The Great Gatsby Chapter 9) Tom and Daisy loved nothing more then themselves and money, that was their definition of happy. Maybe that's why Daisy wished for her daughter to be a beautiful fool, because that way she doesn't get hurt, like Gatsby did, and can just be happy and rich and not worry about another thing. Fitzgerald's characterization didn't know a thing about the true meaning of happy, their happiness revolves around the artificial things, money. 

Chapter 7

• DAISY CHEATS ON TOM!!
• Is it bad that I feel good/bad for her? I mean good that she's standing up for something she believes in, her love for Gatsby, but an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. I feel that if Tom didn't cheat on her then she wouldn't have cheated on him with Gatsby. 
• Gatsby and Tom interact with each other
• Honestly they just bicker for a bit. They bicker in Tom's house then they bicker in New York. It was like two kids fighting for a toy that they both loved. Haha Daisy the toy.
• Gatsby admits the love affair that him and Daisy have!
• Does he only does this to get under Tom's skin? For example, they were bickering and to finally one up him he goes "Well she loves me not you so HA!"
• Tom and Gatsby fight...again
• In  my opinion I felt that Tom, Daisy and Gatsby could have fought about this elsewhere, not in front of NICK AND JORDAN. 

My main question is...... DID WILSON KILL MYRTLE???

Great Gatsby Quiz

Chapter 1

1. What does second cousin once removed mean?
2. Where does Nick live and where does Daisy live? Compare the two locations.

Chapter 2

1. What is the name of Tom's Mistress and relationship status?
2. What are Tom's and his mistress' feelings on their other partners?
3. Compare Daisy and Tom's Mistress. Further information: In chapter 1 Daisy was taunting Tom with "hulky" and he didn't get upset. However in this chapter, Tom's Mistress keeps saying "Daisy" and Tom slaps her. Does he not "love"  her enough?
4. What lie did Tom tell his mistress on why he can't get divorced?

Chapter 3

1. What things were people saying about Gatsby?
2. What do Gatsby and Nick have in common?
3. What does Nick discover about Jordan Baker?

The Great Gatsby Remix

CAREFEUL JORDAN IS DRIVING

Remix/ Questions?

• Does the fact that Tom and Daisy not being in Chapter 3 mean that they're not MAJOR characters?
• If Gatsby is almost the same age as Nick then how is he so important in society?
• If Gatsby is rich then why did he have to join the war? Couldn't he just pay his debt to society and be on his way, away from the blood and guts?
• Did ladies in the 1920s need to have a date? Like Jordan had her escort, but did she HAVE to bring him? Could she not come alone?

(I will probably have more questions tomorrow in class.)

Chapter 3 Notes (completed chapter)

Beginning of chapter

• Nick goes to Gatsby's soiree
• Nick sees Jordan Baker and mingles with her
• Two ladies come to "mingle" with Jordan and spark up a conversation with Nick about Gatsby

• Nick meets a random man and talks to him
• They talk about the war (both in)
• Man looks around Nick's age
•  "Oh I don't know where Gatsby is. Where is the host? Yada yada."
• The random man introduces himself to Nick as Gatsby
• Nick apologizes and feels embarrassed
• Gatsby apologizes for not introducing himself sooner
• Lovey Dovey jazz song comes on and couple dance
• GATSBY HAS NO LADY LEANING ON HIM!!
• Gatsby's butler asks Jordan to follow him to meet Gatsby
• Gatsby spills some juicy drama that we don't know yet
• Nick 'leaves' Gatsby's house to see a car wreck outside
• (In my opinion, the car crash wasn't even that important. Nobody got hurt so meh.)
• Nick doesn't see Jordan Baker for some time
• NICK MEETS JORDAN AND FALLS IN LOVE?
• just kidding...?
• Jordan is a liar 
• The golf tournament
• the car's top that she left down and rain ruined it (Full House anyone?)

MY FAVORITE (so far) CONVERSATION BETWEEN JORDAN AND NICK

"You're a rotten driver," I protested. 

"Either you ought to be more careful, or you oughtn't to drive at all."

 "I am careful." 

"No, you're not." "

Well, other people are," she said lightly. 

"What's that got to do with it?"

 "They'll keep out of my way," she insisted. 

Jeez I love her comeback! Badabing badabong! 

1. In what city/state does the story take place?

            a.  Long Island, New York                                          c. Boston, Massachusetts      

            b.  Chicago, Massachusetts                                        d. Los Angeles, California

2. Who is the narrator?

            a. Jay Gatsby                                                              c. Daisy Buchanan

            b. Tom Buchanan                                                        d. Nick Carraway

3. The two areas in which the characters live are

            a. East Beach & West Beach                                       c. East Egg & West Egg

            b. East Sound & West Sound                                      d. East Island & West Island

4. The following set of adjectives BEST describes Tom Buchanan’s personality

            a. Assertive, compassionate, caring,                           c. Docile, calm, timid, subborn

            b. Aggressive, condescending, arrogant                       d. Destructive, belligerent, hateful, intolerant

5. What is the main difference between the houses in East Egg and West Egg?

            a. In East Egg, the houses look like brand new hotels, and in West Egg, the houses are older and more

                colonial looking.

            b. In East Egg, the houses are older and more colonial looking, and in West Egg, the houses look like

                brand new hotels.

            c. In East Egg, the houses look like rich mansions, but in West Egg, the houses look more poorly built

                and “run down.”

            d. In East Egg, the houses look more poorly built and “run down,” but in West Egg, the houses look like

                rich mansions.

6. What does Daisy want her daughter to grow up to be?

            a. a “beautiful little fool”                                                        c. a “modern woman of the times”

            b. an “intelligent, capable woman”                                         d. a “gorgeous little jewel”

7. Who reacts strangely/curiously when Jordan Baker says to Nick that she knows a man named Gatsby?

            a. Nick himself                                                            c. Daisy Buchanan, Tom’s wife

            b. Tom Buchanan, Daisy’s husband                           d. Pammy, Daisy and Tom’s daughter

8. What color is repeatedly used to describe Daisy and her friend Jordan?

            a. Yellow                                                                     c. Black

            b. Purple                                                                     d. White

9. Who says the following quote: “Well, these books are all scientific…This fellow has worked out the whole

    thing. It’s up to us who are the dominant race to watch out or these other races will have control of things.”

            a. Nick Carraway                                                        c. Tom Buchanan

            b. Daisy Buchanan                                                      d. Jordan Baker

10. Who telephones Tom at the dinner at his house?

            a. His wife, Daisy                                                       c. The main character, Jay Gatsby

            b. The narrator, Nick                                                  d. Tom’s “other woman on the side”

11. Who reaches out his/her arms across the water at the end of the chapter?

            a. Daisy Buchanan                                                      c. Jordan Baker

            b. Jay Gatsby                                                             d. Tom Buchanan

12. As Nick looks to see what this character is reaching for, what does he see at the end of a dock?

            a. a woman reaching back in a green dress      c. a green boat tied to the dock

            b. a green light on the dock                             d. an eerie, green light lighting the water under the dock

Great Gatsby Chapter 2 Notes

• Nick meets the mistress
• Mistress= Mrs. Myrtle Wilson
• SHE'S MARRIED AND CHEATING ON HER HUSBAND WITH TOM! TOM IS MARRIED AND CHEATING ON HIS WIFE WITH MYRTLE
• She's not even cute.
• Tom knows her husband, George.
• Tom and Myrtle meet up in New York when she "visits" her sister.
• Tom buys Myrtle a dog for THEIR apartment
• "Wilson? He thinks she goes to see her sister in New York. He's so dumb he doesn't know he's alive."-Tom

Oh yeah totally, Tom. George must be dumb for trusting his wife! HE MUST BE A COMPLETE IDIOT FOR LETTING HIS WIFE, THE LOVE OF HIS LIFE, VISIT HER SISTER!! WHEN IN REALITY SHE VISITS HER "SUGAR DADDY" AND LIES TO HIS INNOCENT FACE. Wow let's throw him in prison.

On another note, Myrtle what the hell?! If you don't love him, divorce him you harlot! Just because he "lied" to you on how much money he has means nothing! Actually it means that you're a gold digging hoe. You only "loved" him in the very beginning because you thought he was wealthy!

• Nick meets Catherine, Myrtle's sister
• Myrtle and Tom talk trash about their husband/wife

(Spoiler Alert below! Don't open unless you want to.)

On Friday, the beginning of 6th period, my U.S. history teacher, Mr. Hoult showed us a video. The video was of a boy named Royce Mann with his speech entitled "Rise Up". He was talking about all the injustices in this century, just like Martin Luther King Jr. talked about.

 However Mann's speech was a bit different then MLKJ's speech. Mann talked about all the injustices of all races, from Blacks to Mexicans to Muslims to ,even, Whites. His whole speech was about the injustices and it makes you wonder the "other people's" stories.

Great Gatsby Notes

• NICK MEETS THE MISTRESS

That picture is for TOM!!! The cheating...(you fill in blank)

Great Gatsby Remix(?) 1.

NOTES PART 2

NOTES PART ONE

Remix Idea!

Movies.

Basic genres in film making is; chick flicks, action, adventure, horror and romance. In the world there are over 500,000 movies made, yet aren't they all just remixes of the movies created before them?

Joe: "Hey Rey, that movie last year had a crippled man falling for his nurse. Let's make a film like that but instead have the crippled man be a crippled women and add a few more scenes!"

Rey: "Genius! Let's get right to it."

Bam! 5 star rated film. Oh look it just won a Grammy.

Random Person: "Wow! That movie was so amazing and original. How did they ever come up with that plot. How genius!"

Me: "Umn dude isn't this movie just like last year's movie?"

Random Person: "No this movie is a crippled women the other one was a crippled man! They even have different names."

SPOILER ALERT! MOVIES ARE ALL REMIXES OF EACH OTHER! MOVIES AREN'T ORIGINAL. 

Remix in Life

Starting up with the remix videos, we learned three things; transform, change and copy.

Isn't that how life is? We are just one  big ball of remix. All the movies we watch like lets say "The Notebook", it's a classic chick flick (never going to see it in my life) and almost all of them are the exact same thing! They're just a little more transformed and changed up to seem original yet they're all the same ending with the girl falling for the guy or the guy changing for her. Princess movies always end with a "happily ever after" they're not original just a transformed version of the princess before. Jeez even "happily ever after" is a remix of years ago!

Songs now aren't original. Lesley was talking about a song from The Weeknd having the same chorus from a song from the 80s. Nothing in life is original if you really think about it. We're not original, we're remixes of our parents and their parents and so on. 

MY COMPUTER SCREEN!!!

Leaving Preston's class, my computer was nice and sound in my backpack. Ever since I got my tablet I was always gentle with it, even though I have insurance on it! I went into my French class and CAREFULLY put it down next to my new seat. We were doing a weird rotation classwork thing. (You moved from desks to desks in a group doing a small french assignment.) My tablet was in my backpack the whole time and I didn't think about it at all, I mean after all it was safe in my backpack. After all my classes I went on my computer and thought it was strange that my touch screen wasn't working. AND THEN I SAW A CRACK ON MY COMPUTER! SOMEONE MUST'VE KICKED MY BACKPACK OR SOMETHING!!!! Jeez I'm so mad. 

Music as Literature

Can we consider music to be literature? 

Novel: a fictitious prose narrative of book length, typically representing character and action with some degree of realism.

Poem:a piece of writing that partakes of the nature of both speech and song that is nearly always rhythmical, usually metaphorical, and often exhibits such formal elements as meter, rhyme, and stanzaic structure.

Rap: Rap musicians generally perform in a vocal style in which the lyrics are spoken, rather than sung.

Song: a short poem or other set of words set to music or meant to be sung.

Opera: a dramatic work in one or more acts, set to music for singers and instrumentalists.

Symphony: an elaborate musical composition for full orchestra, typically in four movements, at least one of which is traditionally in sonata form.

Back to the question at hand, can we consider music to be literature? The vocabulary definitions I set up top clearly describe music as a form of literature. A song is just a poem with music, a rap is just a poem that is spoken, an opera is a one or more acts put to music, etc. All of these are just short stories and novels shortened and put into music to sound more enjoyable. 

Literature: written works, especially those considered of superior or lasting artistic merit.
Artistic merit is a term that is used in relation to cultural products when referring to the judgment of their perceived quality or value as works of art.

Isn't music an artistic merit? Can they not be classified as a work of art, as a work of genius, as a work of LITERATURE?

Two types of literature are written and oral. Music is both dude. 

Hello 2017!

Hey 2017! Since the start of 2016 last year to the start of you, 2017, now, I've grown as a human. No I don't mean heights worth, I'm still a short 5'3. I guess you could say I've matured. I read different things now, for example Wattpad. I read different genres on there and I guess you could call me a savage with my comments on books. My whole demeanor changed also. Out is the old goofy 15 year old and in is a, still rather silly, serious 16 year old. I've learned to cherish the things in life but ,jeez, I have not learned to control my attitude. Hopefully you, 2017, will help me with different things this year and you will be the year that rocks. ✌✌😎