User:Houston Jay/sandbox

Entry Number 1
Today on the first of class I learned from my professor of how there is so much more to Wikipedia other than just getting facts from different types of articles. What I found interesting is the fact i never knew that i can create an account on Wikipedia. So today she taught us how to create a user account and explained to us about how to use our sandbox. For MLA we will have to copy and paste a link in our sandbox, and we have to click then paste the link between that.

Entry Number 2
Today in class we were all adding more words to our sandbox about how we feel about reading the autobiography on Octavia Butler. Then professor had us working working in groups for us to put our heads together and share our ideas.

Entry Number 3
Today in class the professor gave everyone three different articles on the work Octavia Butler did in her life such as the her novels genre. Then we all got together in groups and shared our different ideas from our own articles we read. Then while we were in groups we had to edit the original theme that was already posted up on Octavia Butler's Wikipedia page. We had an option on to whether delete that original them, or to keep the original theme and just add in information we already knew. so my group chose to just add in information.

Entry Number 4
Today in class we all split up into groups of 4 people to each. So one half of my group split doing there own part while me and my partner worked on editing Octavia Butlers works. We looked at her Bibliography and got the tittles from there to help us do the editing. Then me and my partner combined our work with the work of the other two members from our group to finish the whole group assignment.

Entry Number 5
Today in class my group and I had to finish completing the assignment that we started two weeks ago before we had gone on break. What we had to do was to finish up the external links and cite them well. Then one of our partners had to go on Octavia Butlers Wikipedia page and copy and paste the links in the awards section. Then me and one of my partners worked together and went on Octavia Butlers page on Wikipedia, and then we copied and pasted her links from her works section and we merged it together with the citations.

Entry Number 6
Today in class we all got into two groups, and then we reread and edited our assignments that we worked on in our orignal groups last week. We all shared our thoughts and ideas together on retyping those paragraphs in our own words.

Entry Number 7
Today in class first we worked in groups of two people by rewriting quotes into our own words, and then she had the people who were assigned to the same assignments on blackboard to work together and answer some questions and do MLA.

Entry Number 8
Today in class we got into our original groups of the author's works we were assigned to and we had to go up and present our work,and answering the thesis questions from the professor. Then after that we were assigned to new sets of groups. In my group we had to combine our thoughts on what the article by Rob Gates is about, and type it down in our own team sandbox.

Entry Number 9
Today in class we had someone come in and explain the main ideas of the story Fledgling. And after that we all went to the groups that we voted to be in, and then my partner and I had to write a background as a part of our group work assignment.

Entry Number 10
Today in class I worked with my partner on Species,and we were rewriting draft number 3. We were adding in more details about how the Ina's hated Shori and we also wrote about the trial along with what exactly are the Silks family beliefs when it comes to Ina's and their family tradition.

Fledgling
This story is about a female vampire who first woke up in a cave and was some how badly hurt. At first she didn't know that she was a vampire, so she would wonder around and felt extreme hunger growing inside her. So one day she encounters an animal and she manages to kill it and eat it to give her strength. While she continues to wonder around she saw a house that was badly burnt reduced to ruins. Since she was naked and had no memory at all of how she got in this position, she figured that she would at least find some cloths in the house. The protagonist finds the cloths and then she made her way to a road while it rained. While walking on the road a man driving a car by name Wright picks her up and insists on helping her out. When Wright lets it be known to her that he was heading to hospital with her they both had a struggle in the car because she didn't want to go there. He then discovers that she is a vampire when he allowed her to sit on his lap and drink blood from his neck. At first he was scared but then he calmed down and decided to take her to his place. So now she has came to terms with Wright and she fully trusts him to take care of her. Wright then takes her to his house where he keeps her in his cabin. Anyone who she comes in contact with while she bites them, she somehow have them under her control and they enjoy it.

Fledgling
While reading these chapters, I realized how attached Renee is to Wright even though its only been eleven days she spent with him. I see that Whoever Renee has a bond with with, that is the person she will want to stay and she proved that to Iosif. Iosif is a vampire who claims to be a family member of Renee. So Iosif takes Renee and Wright to go visit the people he claims to be her brothers and her father. So while there, the people remember her as their sister named Shori but she doesn't remember any of them. Not only doesn't she remember any of them, but she doesn't trust any of them she only trust Wright.

Fledgling
In chapters 16-21, there was a group of 18 random people, who all ganged up to do an attack on the Ina's. They all came with gasoline and planned to attack the Ina's when they weren't expecting it, something like a blind side type of attack. Since Shori is a special type of Ina her senses are perfect, and she got a feeling of her and her people being under attack. So at that moment she woke everyone of her people up, and had them ready to defend themselves by notifying them of a potential attack by these 18 people. So during the attack Shori and the Ina's killed 15 of the 18 group of attackers, while the last 3 of the attackers were just injured. In one of the final 3 captured attackers whose name is Victor, Shori bit into Victor's neck and they went to Daniels house were Shori interrogated Victor. During the interrogation Victor told Shori that during the original attack the Silk family orchestrated that whole attack, the same attack the led to Shori being battered and injured lying somewhere in a cave. Victor also told her that the silks family were also behind the the failed attempted attack that led to to Ina's killing 15 of the 18 attackers and captured the final 3. So now that is when the counsel begins.

Fledgling
In the last chapters of Fledgling,the counsel is going on and Shori first explains her whole story of the type of pain she went through and how she found herself at an abandoned area in a cave near a forest with no memory of how she got there. So during the counsel session, it was basically Shori vs Milo. Milo represents the silk family and was trying to convince the court that Shori wasn't a real Ina, because she never knew any better so he was basically trying to belittle Shori in order to make everyone overlook and ignore what she had to say. Unfortunately it was revealed that Theodora was killed by Milo. So this was Shori's way of striking back at Milo, by convincing everyone that Milo was responsible for Theodora's death. So now everyone in the counsel was left with trying to figure out, why was every crime of the Silks family directed to Shori and to the people who were linked to her. So after that counsel process, Milo disappeared and its unknown to where he went to.

Fledgling Review
This starts off with a 53 year old female Ina named Shori who appears to look at least 10 to 12 years old. Shori was badly injured with memory loss at an abandoned place at a cave by a forest and she would still find the strength to hunt for food. She goes to a burnt down house and takes some clothes from there to cover herself, then late at night she wonders in a road. From there she meets Wright, and he takes her to his house where he takes care of her. Then she goes to a place where her Ina species are and from there she interacts with her Ina people tries to remember them, but she absorbs information about them and their past.

My impression on Octavia Butler
When I read the introduction in the cover page, I already knew there would be some negatives in her life and I also knew there would eventually be some positives. When I read the on the article about Octavia Butler in Afterword, at first I started to get the feeling that she was just a quiet person with low self esteem. My reason for that is because there was a time when she felt ugly,clumsy, and socially hopeless. While reading the beginning of this story, i just thought she was just a shy little teenage girl, with dreams of being a writer one day. In 1957, She lived in rural Louisiana with her mother who worked hard a lot and gave Octavia a lot of books to read. Octavia told her mother she wanted to be a writer and she supported her decision, but her aunt would remind her that Negroes can never become professional writers. Despite her aunt's response she still didn't back down from that dream because she prided herself in keeping her head held high no matter what. Her mother was very supportive of her decision.

Research Assignment 4
1) In an episode of buffy the vampire slayer, Kendra who is a new slayer end up following the orders of her superiors which ends up getting her killed, White Vampires having more power and control then anyone, 2)That Gilda and her vampire family have the ability to kill, but the option they choose for their lives is about learning and reciprocity instead of power and privilege. 3)Ina are a species that survives off of not just human blood, but they also need to coexist by sharing a bond with humans along with intimacy, honesty,interdependence, and cooperation just to survive. 4)Afrofuturism mentions that blacks fundamentally are the future and that Afrodiasporic cultural practices are important to imagining the the progress of human society. 5)? 6) Gaining a better understanding of the important intellectual and aesthetic work that the authors performed on national and global cultural fronts.

citation practice
Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

birth of a writer