Entry #3: Venus(Aphrodite)

Entry #3: What qualities would you like to have as a Greek god or goddess?-Venus(Aphrodite)
I will like to have the qualities that Aphrodite has who is the goddess of beuty of love. The reason why I would like to have the qualities that Aphrodite has is because the qualities that Aphrodite has is 'beuty.' Because Aphrodite is naturally pretty and attractive, she won't be struggling with her out look. Even Zeus first saw Aphrodite, he was attarcted to her. If I were Aphrodite, I could have the beuty like Aphrodite has. Imagine all people falling in love with me^^, of course, I will have a difficultly but I think it will be really fun and stimulating. It's like being the most prettiest woman in the whole wide world!! Not only me, I bet entire woman in the earth wants to be as pretty as they can be and if I could just have the qulities that Aphrodite has, I won't have to be worrying about my out look appearance. Although I want Aphrodite's beuty, I wouldn't really want to have the kind of personality that she has-such as being jealous with other girls, eventhough you are the most prettiest person from the whole world.

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Entry #2: Sphinx

Entry #2: Greek Monsters- Sphinx

The name of Sphinx means the 'strangler', a female moster. Sphinx is a greek monster that has head of woman, the shape of paws, claws, and breasts of lion, and the serpent's tail with eagle wings. The myth of the Sphinx was that Sphinx's role was guarding the entrance to a specific area such as Greek city of Thebes and ask riddle to travelers. If the travelers do not answer the riddle correctly, Sphinx will kill the travelers. In the other hand, if the travelers answers it in correct form, they are allowed to pass the entrance. The riddle that Sphinx will ask travelers would be "what is it that crawls on all fours as a baby, then walks on two feet as an adult, and wlaks with a cane in old age." All the travelers suffered death for they weren't able to solve the riddle until Oedipus. Oedipus was the only man who answered it correctly and because Sphinx got shocked that Oedipus acutually solved the riddle, Sphinx threw herself from the high rock and died. However, there are the sculptures of Sphinx in Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Greece.

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Entry #1. Venus(Aphrodite)

Entry#1: Greek god or goddess-Venus(Aphrodite)
Venus who is also called as an Aphrodite who is goddess of beuty and love. There are two myth of how Venus was born. The first myth is that she was born from Thalassa and Zeus, but it is more comonly known that Venus was born from the island of Cytheria. Cytherea is an island and Venus came out from the sea that is near the Cytherea island and when she came out, because she was extremly beautiful she attracted other gods. So, as soon as she came our from the sea, she became one of the 12 god and goddess representing the goddess of beuty and love. Also, Venus is the wife of Hephaestus who is also one of the god and Venus has a son named Eros who shoots an arrow that makes fall in love. I'd rather say that Venus and Hercules have more difference than similarities. To compare those two, there are different gender. Also, when Venus can be drawn or known as weak and pretty, Hercules is drawn and known as with a muscular and with his strength. The similiar part that they both have is that Hercules was born as a god and Venus was also born as a goddess. The only different part of this would be that Hercules became mortal when Venus lived as an immortal.
Her personality will be described as a goddess who easily gets jelous. There is also a one story that relates to her jelousness which is about Psyche who is an extremly beutiful mortal woman. Eventhough, Venus was married to Hephaestus, she was in love with Ares which shows that she doesn't really like care about her husband and the personality of being a slut. As you can see, the story of Hercules and Venus doesn't realate or similiar to each other. When the story of Hercules is about being a true to become a god, the Venus' story is about the her jealous of others beuty.

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-info.: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphrodite>
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Entry of My Choice

*Why did I chose to read this book?

When I came into the library to choose a book, in my memory, I think there where 5 to 6 books that I could chose. So why did I chose to read "Fahrenehit 451?" There is no typical reason for this but I chose to read this book because from all of the other books, this book the most powerful and strong color which attracted my eyes. "Fahrenheit 451"...what would that mean? As you can see, if you pick this book up the first thing you would see is the title. The book of this title made me curious about this book and I could see that right below the title, there was small words written '...The temperature at which books burn.' Isn' t that curious? Well, at least it drew my attention!

When I choose a book to read it is important for me to choose a book that is very interesting to read or else, I get bored and exhausted of it which causes me to quit reading it. Therefore, when I choose a book, the first thing I do is reading the title, and then looking at the first page. If you see the first page of this book, it starts with ""It was a pleasure to burn." Now, that really drew my attention to the book. This book just didn't start with this lame words like introducing the main character, it started out with this curious words that you wouldn't understand. The "curiosity" made me want to read this book and overall, I feel that this book was quite good to read. There are acutually some parts that are boring, but overall story of this book was interesting to me. So, if you haven't decide what to read for your second book, try reading "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury!!

The Passage

*Please choose one passage from the novel that is significant to you. Wht is this passage meaningful? Please type it into one of your entries and comment on what you think about the passage.

The passage: <.....Then she seemed to remember something and came back to look at him with wonder and curiosity. "Are you happy?" she said. "Am I what?" he cried. But she was gone-running in the moonlight. Her front door shut gently. "Happy! Of all the nonsense." He stopped laughing. He put his hand into the glove hole of his front door and let it know his touch. The front door slid open. Of course I'm happy. What does she think? I'm not? he asked the quiet rooms. He stood looking up at the ventilator grille in the hall and suddenly remembered that something lay hidden behind the grille, something that seemed to peer down at him now. He moved his eyes quickly away.>-page. 10

This passage is when Montag and Clarrise meets for their frist time. As Clarrise goes back to her home, she asks if Montag is happy. This passage that I have chosen was significant to me. It's not only that it was significant, I liked the way how the passage was written and how the story continued and all those stuff. In this book, the best part I think was when Montag met Clarisse. It was the most interesting part that I read and that is why I have chosen this passage. From the whole conversation between Montag and Clarisse, I chose this part because it talked about the true meaning of "happiness." Montag never realized that he wasn't acutually happy before meeting this special girl Clarisse but this was the time when Montag acutually really asked himself if he was. Like Montag, I never thought if I was happy right now. However, by reading this part, it made me also think if I am happy and glad of my situation right now-yes, I am. Compared to Montag's situation I should be happy. I am happy that I have God that I can rely on, family, friends, and including teachers. Not only this passage made me think about myself, I just liked the way how Montag talked to himself and questioning. When I saw others postings, I found out that most of the people who read this book didn't like Ray Bradbury's style. But not me, it is true that this book was quite boring, but I just liked the style of Ray Bradbury's because it made me curious about the book as I keep read it through and I don't know..it's just that this book made me become interested into this book!!

The Climax

*What is the climax of this novel? What happens? How do the events of this novel make you feel?

I am not sure of where exactly the climax is but I think it is the part when Montag finally realizes that the way how the world is going on in his world is totally wrong; therefore, I think the climax is when Montag is chased over from the people. Because Montag realizes that it is just not right of how people are not allow to think or read, he turn upon his world. As Montag tries to get closer to books and keeps questioning himself, Captain Beatty decides to stop Montag. The news of Montag spreads all over the world which causes everybody search for Montag to arrest him. This is the part when I felt very nervous and excited for it was a dangerous sitation for Montag. It also made me to think this part as one scene of a movie like all the lights from the helicopters are finding for Montag and Montag running with bag on his back to save his life. I wondered what would happen to Montag when he was getting chased and when I found out that Montag went to a forest where he found people like him, I was quite dissapointed. I was dissapointed because I hoped something interesting and different thing to happen to Montag but when I found that the book ended by Montag going to the forest, I felt quite bored. Anyways, I liked the climax part of this book (wherever it is,) for I could imagine in my head!