Hey! It's November 25th! You know what that means! It's a month until Christmas! Even though Thanksgiving is in two days, I think that it seems a bit appropriate to start listening to Christmas music now. So, I have composed a small Christmas list for the blog, that will be around until New Years. So please enjoy. I insist...
And the track list:
New Found Glory- Ex-Miss
Blink 182- I Won't Be Home For Christmas
No Doubt- Oi To The World
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones- X'Mas Time (Sure Doesn't Feel Like It)
Bad Religion- White Christmas
Jonathan Coulton And John Roderick- Uncle John
Monday, November 25, 2013
Thinking Outside The Box
Both Plato and Sartre had similar ways of sharing a story of enlightenment or thinking. Both stories have a location that is meant to be a metaphor. In "The Allegory Of The Cave", the cave and the shackles are representing the modern way of learning, and how we're supposed to take in what an instructor wants us to learn, later seeing the light means that we go outside the lines and put things in our own perspective. In "No Exit", the location that the main characters meet themselves in is supposed to represent Hell, and the characters having to figure out that they're actually in Hell.
Thursday, November 21, 2013
Allegory Of The Cave Sonnet
As I finish reading The Allegory Of The Cave,
It started to get me thinking,
The concept was quite interesting,
And the new thoughts that it gave.
I thought about the allegory itself,
About learning and how we're taught,
How learning is about learning someone's certain view or thought,
And not having certain ideas or views from ourselves.
What if we based off learning from ideas Plato gave,
Would this idea enlighten us,
Make us better learners and students,
And be able to escape the cave?
Hopefully this could makes learning a little more bright,
And escape the cave and see the light.
It started to get me thinking,
The concept was quite interesting,
And the new thoughts that it gave.
I thought about the allegory itself,
About learning and how we're taught,
How learning is about learning someone's certain view or thought,
And not having certain ideas or views from ourselves.
What if we based off learning from ideas Plato gave,
Would this idea enlighten us,
Make us better learners and students,
And be able to escape the cave?
Hopefully this could makes learning a little more bright,
And escape the cave and see the light.
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Brain With 8 Legs
The people that I will be working with in reading are Javi, Kevin, and Mia. To conquer this, we will assign ourselves a certain amount of chapters or pages to read, then use social media, or talk in person to discuss and review what we have read.
Thursday, November 14, 2013
Plato's Allegory Of The Cave
1. The Allegory of the Cave is supposed to represent how we see and interpret certain things.
2. Imagery is used in the allegory in the statement of seeing shadows in the cave.
3. It suggests that education is only teaching people what the instructor wants them to learn.
4. The perspective of the cave dwellers are that they can't see much, but since they are shackled, it is the only thing they can see.
5. One thing that shackles the mind is our daily routine, or our daily schedule. It's the same thing we go through all day/week. We get used to it and it becomes a normal thing that doesn't change.
6. The cave prisoners are forced to see what they see, and are forced to know what they see. When the freed prisoner sees something and it's up to them to interpret what they see.
7. Two ways they can occur are belief, and imagination.
8. A prisoner is released, then has to rely on his new perceptions of reality to try and get himself out.
9. I agree. I think there is a difference on how things actually appear, and how we view them, or how they appear to us.
10. Two alternative assumptions could be understanding, and interpretation.
2. Imagery is used in the allegory in the statement of seeing shadows in the cave.
3. It suggests that education is only teaching people what the instructor wants them to learn.
4. The perspective of the cave dwellers are that they can't see much, but since they are shackled, it is the only thing they can see.
5. One thing that shackles the mind is our daily routine, or our daily schedule. It's the same thing we go through all day/week. We get used to it and it becomes a normal thing that doesn't change.
6. The cave prisoners are forced to see what they see, and are forced to know what they see. When the freed prisoner sees something and it's up to them to interpret what they see.
7. Two ways they can occur are belief, and imagination.
8. A prisoner is released, then has to rely on his new perceptions of reality to try and get himself out.
9. I agree. I think there is a difference on how things actually appear, and how we view them, or how they appear to us.
10. Two alternative assumptions could be understanding, and interpretation.
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
We Hang Together
The key to any strategic alliance is interdependence
This is usually done by businesses, whether a company is helping or competing with another business or company
Darwin's model of evolution shows tendencies of organisms to make relationships with others, where interdependence is also put into play
Trust and communication play significant roles in interdependence
People in this day and age are raised and learn the idea of independence and doing things by oneself
This is usually done by businesses, whether a company is helping or competing with another business or company
Darwin's model of evolution shows tendencies of organisms to make relationships with others, where interdependence is also put into play
Trust and communication play significant roles in interdependence
People in this day and age are raised and learn the idea of independence and doing things by oneself
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Sonnet Analysis #1
The Sonnet consists of 14 lines
The Italian Sonnet contains an octet (8 lines), then followed by a sextet (6 lines)
The Shakespearian Sonnet contains three quatrains (4 lines), then followed by a couplet (2 lines)
A Poetic Inquiry
At the beginning of the school year, I posted my big question that went like this:
"They say that music can affect one's personality and the way they view the world. My question is, how? I feel like the music I listen to has no real affect on me, so does it on others?"
While looking through the magical internet, I came across a sonnet a girl wrote for her English class sophomore year. Why did I choose this one? Because after reading it, it got me thinking...
Lying in bed with these buds in my ears,
I go from dead silent, to alive and fantastic
Feeling vibrations that beat out the tears
In a void of music, I feel captured by magic
This magic is real, and that is no lie
When I play my guitar with that clean open sound
It paints me a picture of a deep purple sky
And bring back my memories, to the past I am bound
But the magic doesn’t always work the same way
I see purple skies, but you’ll see something else
So these magical emotions, all I can say
Is they are not in the music, they are in myself
So as my mind is an endless page of white
I am painting a picture on this dead silent night
When I posted my big question, the only thing I had in mind when posting it were just lyrics to a song. It made me think of some of the anarchy-filled lyrics of some hardcore punk I listen to, along with explicit lyrics, usage of "bad words", and the occasional songs about drugs. But after reading this, I thought about how there's way more than just the lyrics that we enjoy or might inspire us, it's way more than that. I mean, sure we could enjoy the lyrics, but there's more! We can enjoy the instrumentation, or the beat that gets us going, or that awesome guitar solo, or (for me) that super awesome drum part going on in the back. So there's way more to enjoy, and to inspire us in a song or genre that makes us love it. And the thing is, I knew this the whole time, and didn't really take the time to think about it before hand when typing out my big question.
"They say that music can affect one's personality and the way they view the world. My question is, how? I feel like the music I listen to has no real affect on me, so does it on others?"
While looking through the magical internet, I came across a sonnet a girl wrote for her English class sophomore year. Why did I choose this one? Because after reading it, it got me thinking...
Lying in bed with these buds in my ears,
I go from dead silent, to alive and fantastic
Feeling vibrations that beat out the tears
In a void of music, I feel captured by magic
This magic is real, and that is no lie
When I play my guitar with that clean open sound
It paints me a picture of a deep purple sky
And bring back my memories, to the past I am bound
But the magic doesn’t always work the same way
I see purple skies, but you’ll see something else
So these magical emotions, all I can say
Is they are not in the music, they are in myself
So as my mind is an endless page of white
I am painting a picture on this dead silent night
When I posted my big question, the only thing I had in mind when posting it were just lyrics to a song. It made me think of some of the anarchy-filled lyrics of some hardcore punk I listen to, along with explicit lyrics, usage of "bad words", and the occasional songs about drugs. But after reading this, I thought about how there's way more than just the lyrics that we enjoy or might inspire us, it's way more than that. I mean, sure we could enjoy the lyrics, but there's more! We can enjoy the instrumentation, or the beat that gets us going, or that awesome guitar solo, or (for me) that super awesome drum part going on in the back. So there's way more to enjoy, and to inspire us in a song or genre that makes us love it. And the thing is, I knew this the whole time, and didn't really take the time to think about it before hand when typing out my big question.
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Hamlet Remix
I thought I'd mix it up a bit (see what I did there?), and took my essay, and made it into a Prezi!
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Sunday, November 3, 2013
Hamlet Essay
The play of Hamlet contains techniques on how people communicate with each other in the play. Three ways include locutionary force, illocutionary force, and perlocutionary force. Along with these, there are also other techniques like self-overhearing that are used as well. So here are how they're put into play into the play.
Locutionary Force is the ability for language to deliver a message, and the understanding of the message. One example of this is in Act II, Scene II when it becomes apparent that Hamlet might be going insane. Everyone, who includes Polonius, Guildenstern, and Rosencrantz, start to see and become aware that Hamlet is starting to act crazy. While this is what they understand, they are still unsure of what exactly is making him act this way.
Illocutionary Force is what is done in being said. For example, giving an order, or denying a request. This is shown in Hamlet during Act I, Scene V when Hamlet makes his first encounter with the ghost, which is discovered to be his father. The ghost makes an order for Hamlet to go and kill King Claudius as revenge for Claudius killing King Hamlet. Another example of the illocutionary force is between acts III and IV, when King Claudius makes an order for Hamlet to be sent to England to be executed.
Perlocutionary Force is what is achieved by being said, or a followed order. Most of the play itself is about this idea, and that is Hamlet's revenge on Claudius. Hamlet's revenge on Claudius has caused quite a few events to occur. First, one event that happens is the play that Hamlet sets up to place guilt onto Claudius. Then after the play, Claudius then gives order to send Hamlet to England, and plots more techniques to try and kill Hamlet, which then leads to the deaths of both Hamlet and Claudius.
Self-Overhearing is listening to oneself when talking to get a general idea of how they're acting and how they feel. This used throughout the play in soliloquies. Since Hamlet is only talking to himself in a soliloquy, he can understand his feelings and his thoughts. It can easily be seen that he is upset, depressed, and feeling suicidal over the death of his father, and his mission to kill Claudius.
So these are the techniques used in the play that are used for communication of characters in the play. With the use of locutionary, illocutionary, perlocutionary forces, and self-overhearing gives the characters understanding of what is going on with each other. And not to mention that it's also used in more than just Hamlet.
Locutionary Force is the ability for language to deliver a message, and the understanding of the message. One example of this is in Act II, Scene II when it becomes apparent that Hamlet might be going insane. Everyone, who includes Polonius, Guildenstern, and Rosencrantz, start to see and become aware that Hamlet is starting to act crazy. While this is what they understand, they are still unsure of what exactly is making him act this way.
Illocutionary Force is what is done in being said. For example, giving an order, or denying a request. This is shown in Hamlet during Act I, Scene V when Hamlet makes his first encounter with the ghost, which is discovered to be his father. The ghost makes an order for Hamlet to go and kill King Claudius as revenge for Claudius killing King Hamlet. Another example of the illocutionary force is between acts III and IV, when King Claudius makes an order for Hamlet to be sent to England to be executed.
Perlocutionary Force is what is achieved by being said, or a followed order. Most of the play itself is about this idea, and that is Hamlet's revenge on Claudius. Hamlet's revenge on Claudius has caused quite a few events to occur. First, one event that happens is the play that Hamlet sets up to place guilt onto Claudius. Then after the play, Claudius then gives order to send Hamlet to England, and plots more techniques to try and kill Hamlet, which then leads to the deaths of both Hamlet and Claudius.
Self-Overhearing is listening to oneself when talking to get a general idea of how they're acting and how they feel. This used throughout the play in soliloquies. Since Hamlet is only talking to himself in a soliloquy, he can understand his feelings and his thoughts. It can easily be seen that he is upset, depressed, and feeling suicidal over the death of his father, and his mission to kill Claudius.
So these are the techniques used in the play that are used for communication of characters in the play. With the use of locutionary, illocutionary, perlocutionary forces, and self-overhearing gives the characters understanding of what is going on with each other. And not to mention that it's also used in more than just Hamlet.
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