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Friday writes

Tristan Romani

English 12

Friday write week 1

 

The difficult decision

​Many have had the displeasure of having to make difficult decisions and I am no different. When I was in grade eight, I had the option after graduating Pitt river middle school to either attend riverside secondary or terry fox secondary. My father gave me the decision after I had the worry that it may come across weird or awkward being that my dad is a teacher at riverside. At first I was leaning more towards going to terry fox secondary to try to avoid what I thought at the time having my dad as a teacher at my school as a bad thing, but instead I looked at the benefits of each option such as terry fox secondary not having my dad there and my worries that he would be constantly be breathing down my back watching everything I do. I also looked into the benefits of riverside like having my dad as a teacher creating multiple benefits such as lunches, rides home with no wait and someone I know personally that I can talk to if I need be. As well as the fact that riverside is closer to my home than terry fox. So, in the end I decided to attend riverside as my institution where I would do my high schooling. Although being a tough decision with much anxiety at first, I can see now that I most certainly made the right decision and although I may never know what my life could have been like if I had gone to terry fox, I don’t regret my choice.

Friday write 2

 

A comic or ridiculous misunderstanding with another person

​When I was about 9 years old and in grade 5 my mom and brother had a black cat named Meowzer who had a bad problem of shedding a lot, and myself being allergic to cats when I didn’t know any better pet him and cuddled with him a lot which often caused me to rub my eyes after petting him which made my eyes very red and puffy which happened a lot. One day when I was going to school my teacher noticed my abnormally puffy and red eyes and asked me what was the matter and I told her I didn’t know why they were puffy and scratchy, so apparently she thought I had pink eye due to the school having a unusually high amount of students having pink eye at the time creating her to believe that I had caught it. So, she sent me down to the principles office so he could take a look and decide what to do with me. The school ended up suspending me for two days due to what looked like pink eye and what the very ironic thing was is that my red and puffy eyes cleared up a couple hours after my mom picked me up, which actually made my mom very frustrated that now she cant send me to school for two days just for a simple misunderstanding.

 

 

Friday write 3

The proudest moment of my life

The proudest moment of my life has to be when I won the Emily ingles award at pitt river for persevering and completing all my schoolwork with straight B’s after missing three and a half months of school due to my back surgery. After I moved from Winnipeg to Vancouver in 2013, I had an odd felling on my spine which I would latter find out to be a benign tumor on my spine which caused me to almost become paralyzed and miss three months of school for recovery after my surgery. I had a lot of school work to catch up on and my teachers ended up telling me that I would have to attend summer school at the end of the year in order to catch up on work I missed, but due to my 13 year old brain thinking summer school was the kind of place only bad kids went too I made it a goal of mine to get all the work I hadn’t finished from the 3 months at the same time doing the work I still had to do from my ongoing schooling and in the end I finished all my work and passed grade 7 with straight B’s impressing my peers enough to grant me the Emily ingles award for astonishing persistence and achievement.

 

Friday write 4

 

The day I realized the world is bigger than I thought

All my youthful life I had never really known how the world truly worked until about grade 10 when I had planning 10 and realized the true extent of what the world truly is like with all the jobs, universities, people and different ways of thinking. Most of the way I perceived up until this point I saw life as a straight line that is pre drawn out to you where you are constantly told what to do and someone makes the overall decisions of your life for you and you have to make due with what those choices are. When this realization hit me I was truly shocked not because of the typical reason of having the great feeling of having my life in my own hands but actually fear, because I actually felt better and had already come to terms with the way I thought the world worked with someone always telling me what to do and at the time I actually liked that idea better and until about a year ago I was scared at the idea of having to do almost everything myself. Fortunately, I have found what I want to do with my future and career so since then I haven’t had much anxiety over it.

 

Friday write 5

 

Sometimes people are unable to control the directions of their own life

​For most of my life so far I have had little choice in the direction of my life due to only being a minor and I was told the older I get the more freedom I would have to make my own decisions of where I want my life to go, but what I have realized is that is not always true many times when I think I have control over the direction in my life I find myself ending up. Such as the time when my dad met a woman in 2015 who definitely had a couple screws loose moved in with her two daughters and ended up turning my life upside down and reverted my previous thoughts of what I perceived adults were supposed to be like and showed me the true world. When she first moved in, I showed a lot of resistance to her moving in but most of it was ignored and it truly felt like I had no control over this section of my life which really opened my eyes to the way life can truly be.

 

Friday write 6​

(Good copy)

The important things in life endure over time

When I was young the important things in my life was often, what my next meal would be; when’s recess, and what type of games we’d get to play. As important as those things were then they don’t even cross my mind now; while maybe what I’ll eat for dinner.  As I leave high school I worry about finding a job Ilike; securing good friendships and paying bills, like my cell phone. I can’t guarantee anything, but I suppose as my life continues to develop I’ll find other things become more important… like post-secondary school, finding a mate, finding my own place to live and just figuring out what I want the rest of the my life to look like. My dad always says ‘being young usually means, you don’t know what that you don’t know’. I know it’s one of my dads ‘life lessons’ he’s always preaching about, so I know it must be important in some way, but maybe it’s one of those things you don’t figure out until you get older… you know, as you get more life experience. We like to think that our life will work out a certain way, but from what I’ve seen it doesn’t always work out for other people, and suspect that it won’t necessarily work out the way I believe it will. Life is sure to throw me some curves, but along the way it will have it’s ups and downs, the point of it all is to appreciate what you do have and to learn along the way. My dad always says… failure is still the greatest teacher. I’m not sure that’s right, but he’s definitely endured more in his life than me, so I’m going to trust his word and ride that one out.

Nelson Poetry Song

I must’ve dreamed a thousand dreams
Been haunted by a million screams
But i can hear the marching feet
They’re moving into the street.
Now did you read the news today
They say the danger’s gone away
But i can see the fire’s still alight
There burning into the night.
There’s too many men
Too many people
Making too many problems
And not much love to go round
Can’t you see
This is a land of confusion.
This is the world we live in
And these are the hands we’re given
Use them and let’s start trying
To make it a place worth living in.
Ooh superman where are you now
When everything’s gone wrong somehow
The men of steel, the men of power
Are losing control by the hour.
This is the time
This is the place
So we look for the future
But there’s not much love to go round
Tell me why, this is a land of confusion.
This is the world we live in
And these are the hands we’re given
Use them and let’s start trying
To make it a place worth living in.
I remember long ago –
Ooh when the sun was shining
Yes and the stars were bright
All through the night
And the sound of your laughter
As i held you tight
So long ago –
I won’t be coming home tonight
My generation will put it right
We’re not just making promises
That we know, we’ll never keep.
Too many men
There’s too many people
Making too many problems
And not much love to go round
Can’t you see
This is a land of confusion.
Now this is the world we live in
And these are the hands we’re given
Use them and let’s start trying
To make it a place worth fighting for.
This is the world we live in
And these are the names we’re given
Stand up and let’s start showing
Just where our lives are going to.
Description
1. This song is about the issues during the cold war and how the USA and USSR were in a head to head race against each other in just about everything. This poem addresses that Ronald Reagan was at times looking like he was considering the nuclear option against the USSR
2. The whole song takes place inside of Ronald Reagan’s dream and he dreams about the issues that were around during the 1980’s and how the news lies to the people about what is really going on and that there is no more war but the song mentions that there is clearly still issues in the world.
3. The poem brings up “My Generation will put things right” meaning that the singer believes that his generation will fix the worlds problems for the most part the song is pretty straight forward in its choice of words and understanding with most lines in the song pointing towards the worlds problems and wanting to fix them.
4.The song is depressing due to the singer, singing how many issues the world has and people lying about how bad they are and that it seems like there is no-one to help, but the song is also hopeful with the singer talking about how its not too late and start trying to make the earth a place worth living.
5. The length of each stanza in the song is on average 6 lines creating a short but descriptive description of the point of the song without losing the smooth rhythm  of the song. The writer of the song uses repetition in the song quite a lot such as his repetition of the name of the song “This Is the land of confusion” and “To make it a place worth living in” which both give it a sense of what the point of the song is (Being unsure of what is happening in this world and wanting to fix the problems the world faces)

Identites paragraph

Tristan Romani
2/04/2019
English 12
Mrs. Nelson

Identities Paragraph
Police officers often get the benefit of the doubt, but what should we do when a officer fires upon an innocent. Should they be punished. “Identities” written by W.D. Valgardson is a story written about a man living in Winnipeg, Manitoba who takes a drive at night in his Mercedes when he looks at his surroundings. He notices the difference in clothing around him and the different styles of wear they use in this area of town as read in “There jackets gleam with studs. Eagles, tigers, wolves and serpents ride their backs. He passes a 10 foot wire fence enclosing a playground bare of equipment and pounded flat.” Valgardson 1 The man realizes the change in scenery and continues to drive down the road without noticing the police car creeping in the shadows behind him. The man continues down the street until pulling over next to the curb and gets out. Unknowing the police car had done the same and the officer is now behind him. The man believing his uptown appearance gives him immunity in this situation doesn’t think anything of seeing the police officer behind him and reaches for his wallet for the officer. Before he knew it the inexperienced officer nervous for his life fired his gun thinking the man was reaching for his weapon. Concluding the story. There are many different ways you could view this story depending on who you are. I believe that the officer was not right to fire at the man for multiple reasons. The officer did not have reasonable grounds to suspect the man was reaching for a gun/weapon. Firing upon the man should be considered a crime for the lack of evidence. The police officer had a prejudice as seen in “Who is suspicious of the car and because he is trained to see an unshaven in blue jeans as a potential their and not as a probable owner” the officer made some assumptions with who and what he thought the man was and was going to do, because of the environment they both were in such as mentioned in this quote “The houses are squat, as though they were once taller and have slowly sunk into the ground. Each has a band of dirt surrounding the bottom” showing the lower quality of the area and it being unkept. In my eyes the officer assumed the man was reaching for a weapon because he assumed that since they were in a shady area he was going to pull out a weapon, if the officer was in a higher end area of the city the officer may have not made that assumption. The officer didn’t give the man many directions as to what he wanted out of the situation. The officer only yelled halt to stop the man without giving further instructions such as “put your hands in the air” or “can I see some ID”. The officer could have asked the man as he started to reach for his wallet “stop! keep your hands in the air” which most likely the man would have listened to and complied with the officers orders without any violence taking place. In final with the evidence I have provided the evidence is clear that the police officer could have done more to prevent this fiasco, and the officer is more to blame for this event, due to having a major lack of evidence for what the man was going to do.

Blackout poem — “Death of a Salesman”

“Death of a Salesman” written by Arthur Miller

The play “Death of a Salesman” follows a middle aged man living in the 50s in New York City. Where he faces many problems struggling to meet up to his own ambitions of becoming a successful salesman such as his father and brother, but is also going through troubles of demencia, suicide, old age, financially and his children, confused as to what to do with their lives.

“Death of a Salesman” fits the poetic category of tragedy because at many points during the play we can see Willy Loman experiencing tragic and dramatic scenes such as the mistress in Boston, Willy’s attempted suicides and the final suicide of Willy at the end of the play, and how none of the characters in the play saw it coming, and Willy wasn’t remembered the way he hoped he would.

This blackout Meaning behind the creation of this blackout poem was to show many key words that can be used in many ways to identify the meanings behind this play and the characters within. The words that are shown in this blackout poem such as “down under” can be used to describe Willy Lomans mood through out the play, because Willy was always feeling like he wasn’t as good as his brother and father, aswell as the guilt he was felling for cheating on his wife with the woman in Boston so he was felling down under for most of the play due to past events. Another word “everybody” shows that although this play was mainly about Willy the play also had many interesting side stories such as Willy’s brother (Ben), Bernard, Biff, Happy, Charley and a small story from Linda shows that this play wasn’t just about Willy but about the people he lived around and their story’s. In final the play “Death of a Salesman is an amazing peice of entertainment, written by a very talented playwrite, and overall a great play if you want to get a real fealing experience with a lot of action, suspense and tragedy.

 

-Tristan Romani

 

 

DOAS Monologues

I am a young man trying to find my place in this world, but I always get shunned by my father. I try to make my dad happy but he is never impressed by my efforts. I was a successful highschool football player but now I am a struggling young adult trying to find who I am, and I topically live in my brothers shadow as the less successful brother

3D character activity

piggy in the book lord of the flies is said in many chapters to be an anxious, chubby school boy, such as on page 23 when Golding says that piggy is a obese schoolboy. Saying that he is overweight and chubby .second he is smart we can see throughout the book piggy is the one who takes offenders to others when they are not being treated equal so he is smart. He also has glasses from page 86 when the boys are building a fire and the book says that they took the glasses off piggy and lit the fire saying he has specks also he has long hair from being out in the wild for a few months aswell as being dirty from page 46 when gilong mentions that the boys have gotten older