The Alchemist
My Alchemist Essay demonstrates well enough in ideas and content. Most importantly, my writing makes sense and has great examples (quotation, context) that explain the main questions in the essay. In my own point of view, I think that I had a quite well and clearly written topic sentence and I appear to know the topic well. I also included some of interesting and relevant details but because I didn’t make sure to explain them well, it wasn’t that effective to the reader. Last but not least, my lacking part of ideas and content was explaining the quotations relate to the main idea of the paragraph. I didn’t show my full understanding of the quotation and therefore, I think I should focus on this instead of others.
My Alchemist Essay demonstrates organization in a variety ways. First of all, I usually begin the paragraphs with an interesting hook to grab my reader’s attention. I created a void in the paragraphs which means that I left some interrogation behind. However, it seems it wasn’t clear enough that the reader could extract the meaning behind the contents. I think that the thesis statement is acceptable but lack of stability meaning that I tried to make it as interesting as possible and made small mistakes. One thing I did well on is starting off in my body paragraphs. I began with clear topic sentence in my body paragraphs. I didn’t do well on introducing a quotation. I explained them but not thorough enough. Again, I did well on closing the paragraphs with transition sentences. At the end of the essay, I lost track of my main topic and didn’t really narrowed the topic of essay.
Julius Caesar
My Julius Caesar demonstrates well enough in ideas and content. Most importantly, my writing makes sense and has great examples (quotation, context) that explain the main questions in the essay. In my own point of view, I think that I had acceptable topic sentence and I appear to know the topic well. I also included some of interesting and relevant details but because I wrote them with words from the dictionary, I think it has made some misunderstanding to the interesting facts . Last but not least, my lacking part of ideas and content was explaining the quotations relate to the main idea of the paragraph. Although I explained how my quotations relate to the main idea of the paragraph, I believe it wasn’t that clear to the reader because I wrote it based on my point of view which means that it can be inexplicit.
My Julius Caesar Essay demonstrates organization but not well enough to impress the readers. First of all, I usually begin the paragraphs with an interesting hook to grab my reader’s attention with strong vocabulary. I think thesis statement of introduction is explicitly written. I also did well on starting off in my body paragraphs with clear topic sentences. I didn’t do well on introducing a quotation. I explained them but not thorough enough. I did well on closing the paragraphs with transition sentences. However, all two of transition sentences are written in a same structure, so it was not creative as it could be. As I get to the end, I lost track of staying with the topic and I wrote my perception of how astute Antony was.
Personal Growth
In my opinion I saw a improvement over my essay, however because we got a second chance to rewrite the essay, I got better grade on the Alchemist essay than Julius Caesar essay. In term of writing skills and structures I got vast changes because I used my Toefl idioms as well as strong vocabularies. I also found out that I need to seek for help if I’m not clear with my choice such as choosing the quotation, I think I used my time wisely on asking those questions. However, because I’m still learning English as a second language, I need some more practice on explaining quotes with appropriate vocabularies.
SLR
The SLR I chose for my essays was reason critically because I had to give evidence for every statements I made. Another reason is because these essays were mainly focusing on analyzing one person’s life and one’s acts.
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Antony the Closer
“Cry havoc and let slip the dogs or war, that this foul deed shall smell above the earth with carrion men, groaning for burial. Antony is burning with revengeful thoughts towards the conspirators who killed his pitiful lord miserably. He is no longer a confident and devoted supporter of Julius Caesar who always flattered to Caesar; on the contrary he is now a horrendous Roman seeking for the ways to kill those conspirators. Despite the conspirators were outnumbered than Antony but he was noticeably high in intelligence and flattering skill. The reason why Antony didn’t despair of his future was because he had patriotism and respect to Caesar and the Rome.
Antony was not described as a patriotic man until he spoke out in front of all the Romans. From the Antony’s soliloquy, it shows how much he grieves for the death of Caesar because he just lost the key, which is the most authoritative way to make Rome a wealthy and peaceful world. If he only thought about his lord, Caesar was innocence, he would not have used his great intelligence to falsify that he is a friend of conspirators. ‘Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood!.... Domestic fury and fierce civil strife.’ From his soliloquy, it seems like he conceives about the Civil War just to pay back for Caesar’s death but it also implies the meaning that he must raise an army to kill the rebels, for the future’s good of Rome. This quote explains how patriotic Antony is because in his speech the Civil War would be a war against the people who just tried to ruin both history of majestic Rome and the public of Rome. It shows how much Antony cares about the Rome. “Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears” The next evident reason is in the speech to all the crowds, which are Romans. He uses the ability of a speaker to convince an audience of their point of view. So, by sating friends, Antony is saying we are close enough to share this idea of how Caesar was assassinated, and as Romans an countrymen, they all should know how brutally those conspirators killed our great Caesar, which is extremely dishonorable. This clearly shows Antony is a patriotic man because coming towards the crowd and has no fear to be the leader of the deathly War is not just as easy as anybody think of. Without patriotism, this can never work out because only having a truthful patriotism will then give the grandest braveness and intelligence. His patriotism played at fair deal in his motivation of taking revenge to the conspirators, but it would never have been achieved if he had no respect to Caesar.
Showing respect to mighty Caesar, Antony clamors that he will make up his mind to revenge for the assassination of his lord although he knows it risks death. that he will Antony used to be always by Caesar’s side when Caesar goes outside and attends him every moment. For Antony, Caesar was like his only true buddy who can be trusted with no fear. However, as his lord was assassinated by intriguer, he shows his respect to Caesar by assuring he will soon take revenge to the intriguer. It is really obvious that Antony is truly respecting Caesar because he plotted the revenge taking risk of death. “Oh pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, that I am meek and gentle with these butchers.” In this quote, Antony asks for forgiveness that he was weak, not showing braveness to challenge then why they killed Caesar so savagely. It shows that Antony respects Caesar because he even asks for forgiveness for not fight for him but which was necessary in order to survive from the chaos around him. “I thrice presented him a kingly crown, which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition? Yet Brutus says he was ambitious and sure he is an honorable man.” Pg 134 line 95 This quote is really significant because it carries two major things. One of then is that Antony is now elucidating that Caesar wasn’t ambitious man. Second evident thing is when Antony says Brutus is an honorable man which is in fact he is dishonorable. So, at the same time, Antony respected Caesar and taking revenge for Caesar. Without his intelligence, he might have never thought of it.
In short, there is a vast change in characteristic of Antony. As he concludes that the conspirators must me executed ruthlessly, he also concludes that he will fight until one’s side defeat. Patriotism and respect by his side he acts like true Roman who wishes the Rome to be a better country. With his patriotic mind and respect to Caesar he easily captures all the Romans’ mind by his side. And therefore, he finally defeats the conspirator which signifies that he accomplish his goal. The reason why he could have defeat them easily is because he was faithful to himself, believing that he can to what he have chosen to do as long as he is with the Romans. Last but not least, his act was really fantastic and worthy because he uses all of his values in a clever ways such as flattering Brutus to get a chance to go out to the crowd and announce what happened. Also, by using his magnificent way of convincing the crowds, which he then caught Romans attention and support. His tactics was way too thorough that even defeated the conspirators.
Antony was not described as a patriotic man until he spoke out in front of all the Romans. From the Antony’s soliloquy, it shows how much he grieves for the death of Caesar because he just lost the key, which is the most authoritative way to make Rome a wealthy and peaceful world. If he only thought about his lord, Caesar was innocence, he would not have used his great intelligence to falsify that he is a friend of conspirators. ‘Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood!.... Domestic fury and fierce civil strife.’ From his soliloquy, it seems like he conceives about the Civil War just to pay back for Caesar’s death but it also implies the meaning that he must raise an army to kill the rebels, for the future’s good of Rome. This quote explains how patriotic Antony is because in his speech the Civil War would be a war against the people who just tried to ruin both history of majestic Rome and the public of Rome. It shows how much Antony cares about the Rome. “Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears” The next evident reason is in the speech to all the crowds, which are Romans. He uses the ability of a speaker to convince an audience of their point of view. So, by sating friends, Antony is saying we are close enough to share this idea of how Caesar was assassinated, and as Romans an countrymen, they all should know how brutally those conspirators killed our great Caesar, which is extremely dishonorable. This clearly shows Antony is a patriotic man because coming towards the crowd and has no fear to be the leader of the deathly War is not just as easy as anybody think of. Without patriotism, this can never work out because only having a truthful patriotism will then give the grandest braveness and intelligence. His patriotism played at fair deal in his motivation of taking revenge to the conspirators, but it would never have been achieved if he had no respect to Caesar.
Showing respect to mighty Caesar, Antony clamors that he will make up his mind to revenge for the assassination of his lord although he knows it risks death. that he will Antony used to be always by Caesar’s side when Caesar goes outside and attends him every moment. For Antony, Caesar was like his only true buddy who can be trusted with no fear. However, as his lord was assassinated by intriguer, he shows his respect to Caesar by assuring he will soon take revenge to the intriguer. It is really obvious that Antony is truly respecting Caesar because he plotted the revenge taking risk of death. “Oh pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, that I am meek and gentle with these butchers.” In this quote, Antony asks for forgiveness that he was weak, not showing braveness to challenge then why they killed Caesar so savagely. It shows that Antony respects Caesar because he even asks for forgiveness for not fight for him but which was necessary in order to survive from the chaos around him. “I thrice presented him a kingly crown, which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition? Yet Brutus says he was ambitious and sure he is an honorable man.” Pg 134 line 95 This quote is really significant because it carries two major things. One of then is that Antony is now elucidating that Caesar wasn’t ambitious man. Second evident thing is when Antony says Brutus is an honorable man which is in fact he is dishonorable. So, at the same time, Antony respected Caesar and taking revenge for Caesar. Without his intelligence, he might have never thought of it.
In short, there is a vast change in characteristic of Antony. As he concludes that the conspirators must me executed ruthlessly, he also concludes that he will fight until one’s side defeat. Patriotism and respect by his side he acts like true Roman who wishes the Rome to be a better country. With his patriotic mind and respect to Caesar he easily captures all the Romans’ mind by his side. And therefore, he finally defeats the conspirator which signifies that he accomplish his goal. The reason why he could have defeat them easily is because he was faithful to himself, believing that he can to what he have chosen to do as long as he is with the Romans. Last but not least, his act was really fantastic and worthy because he uses all of his values in a clever ways such as flattering Brutus to get a chance to go out to the crowd and announce what happened. Also, by using his magnificent way of convincing the crowds, which he then caught Romans attention and support. His tactics was way too thorough that even defeated the conspirators.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Destructing There Culture Reconstructing There Future
Think Creatively
Based on collecting pictures from all over the sites, I presented thinking creatively. Because my main theme were Death and Live, death representing their experience of civil war and live representing their hope as well as assimilation to America. So, on the death side, I put famine, poverty, wars as well as despair. On the other side, I put pictures of hope, money, work, America and their life in America. The reason why I divided into two parts is because I wanted to show that there is a hope although they have bad past, they are looking for hope in the future.
Reason Critically
As I said in the Thinking creatively section, I have divided into two parts, death and live. On the death side I showed how much those lost boys suffered, and on the other side, I put the pictures of nowadays. From my six word memoir I designed destructing referring to the death and reconstructing referring to the future and hope. I also put some of the texts saying that lost boys of Sudan need a lot of help in terms of education and food. These show that I feel empathy and have a good understanding of how much they have suffered from harsh traumas as well as past experiences.
Communicate Effectively
My collage is a great source to look how much the lost boys have suffered from harsh traumas as well as still in America. First of all, the Death section of my collage shows how much they have suffered in the Sudanese civil war, and how much they have hungered there, walking thousands of miles in the desert. On the Live side, most of the pictures are based on how they are living in America and interact with other people. The reason why I didn’t include photos for the plight of their assimilation to America is because my concept of this collage was to show dramatic change between their past years and nowadays. Also I used my 6-word memoir to communicate the overall lives of the lost boys of Sudan to the audience. I described how they have suffered in the past and trying there best nowadays to get out of that life.
Live Ethically
As people look at the contents of my collage, they will realize how much of sufferings the Lost Boys went through. In my collage, I have included pictures as well as some texts which are basically all about needing help. The reason why I made those texts is to create empathy and to evoke emotional response from the audiences. Firstly, it would give them a sense of what it feels like to lose one's whole family to a violent and merciless war. One of the texts is about lots of people are dying due to the lack of food. As the audiences it creates empathy over them because they are eating 3 meals a day and they don’t. At the same time, interacting to the texts, some of the pictures create empathy. As an example, I put a picture of three children who are very slim and looking for food with the dishes. Because we all are wearing good clothes and eat three meals a day, almost everybody will have at least little empathy to them. Therefore, in my opinion, my collage will do good job in creating sympathy in the people and encourage them to take action to help the lost boys of Sudan
Based on collecting pictures from all over the sites, I presented thinking creatively. Because my main theme were Death and Live, death representing their experience of civil war and live representing their hope as well as assimilation to America. So, on the death side, I put famine, poverty, wars as well as despair. On the other side, I put pictures of hope, money, work, America and their life in America. The reason why I divided into two parts is because I wanted to show that there is a hope although they have bad past, they are looking for hope in the future.
Reason Critically
As I said in the Thinking creatively section, I have divided into two parts, death and live. On the death side I showed how much those lost boys suffered, and on the other side, I put the pictures of nowadays. From my six word memoir I designed destructing referring to the death and reconstructing referring to the future and hope. I also put some of the texts saying that lost boys of Sudan need a lot of help in terms of education and food. These show that I feel empathy and have a good understanding of how much they have suffered from harsh traumas as well as past experiences.
Communicate Effectively
My collage is a great source to look how much the lost boys have suffered from harsh traumas as well as still in America. First of all, the Death section of my collage shows how much they have suffered in the Sudanese civil war, and how much they have hungered there, walking thousands of miles in the desert. On the Live side, most of the pictures are based on how they are living in America and interact with other people. The reason why I didn’t include photos for the plight of their assimilation to America is because my concept of this collage was to show dramatic change between their past years and nowadays. Also I used my 6-word memoir to communicate the overall lives of the lost boys of Sudan to the audience. I described how they have suffered in the past and trying there best nowadays to get out of that life.
Live Ethically
As people look at the contents of my collage, they will realize how much of sufferings the Lost Boys went through. In my collage, I have included pictures as well as some texts which are basically all about needing help. The reason why I made those texts is to create empathy and to evoke emotional response from the audiences. Firstly, it would give them a sense of what it feels like to lose one's whole family to a violent and merciless war. One of the texts is about lots of people are dying due to the lack of food. As the audiences it creates empathy over them because they are eating 3 meals a day and they don’t. At the same time, interacting to the texts, some of the pictures create empathy. As an example, I put a picture of three children who are very slim and looking for food with the dishes. Because we all are wearing good clothes and eat three meals a day, almost everybody will have at least little empathy to them. Therefore, in my opinion, my collage will do good job in creating sympathy in the people and encourage them to take action to help the lost boys of Sudan
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Lost boys of Sudan
As the British governed North Sudan and South Sudan as a different region, after Sudan gets independent from British and Egypt, they had a civil war against each other due to the different opinions of creating a federal government that would give the South autonomy. Because of this durable civil war lots of people died from the starvation and the hot weather in Sudan as well as from the war. Those South Sudanese who were survived from this atmosphere, they fled from the war place and moved to the refuge camp for their safety and help. Then a while later, Forced migration was set up for those people who were selected to migrate to America, to live a life without so many difficulties as they had back in there country and to receive a better education and earn money from the social life, so that they could help their tribe with the money benefits that they made out of there jobs. The men that migrated to America were called "The Lost Boys of Sudan". There was quite a lot of people migrated to America and Peter was one of the men who was forced to migrate to America. Peter is a man from the Dinka tribe and one of the representatives of this Refugee camp who have to take care of this tribe after all. Back in the documentary “The Lost Boys of Sudan” most of the people who are going to America said that America is like heaven when they just arrived there, however, they weren't expecting any of the hardships that they will face because they are new to this society.
Peter's main goal was to receive an education from the high school that will help him to provide for the Dinka tribe. (He can go back to his tribe and teach the kids what he has learned.) When Peter left his friends in Houston it seems like he was leaving for his own good of satisfaction, he was sacrificing a lot for himself and the Dinka tribe in several ways. Leaving his friends would have been harsher to him but there were lots of supporters who helped him in terms of making new friends, which made him to stay there for such a long time without his friends back in Houston and feel that his place is better than the Houston. Another thing that Peter suffered from there is paying for his food and sending back some money back to the tribe, which made him to work harder. Leaving Houston would have decreased their relationships with each other since they lived so far apart from each other with little communication. When Peter went to his School he knew that it was not going to be easy for him to fit in. He experienced racial comments from people a lot throughout his education from students to teachers, and since the school that he attended didn’t have a lot of students that looked like him, he had to try even harder to be a part of the school. However, there were some nice people who supported him to socialize with them. In my opinion, I think they are the people who would like to share there own life that they experienced and learn new things from there own culture. The perception of teachers and their point of view in Peter was erroneous and inappropriate. When he was talking to the counselor about applying for a college, the counselor thought that he might not do well on his college with only little experience, and he was sort of referring back to his life. So the counselor wanted to help him but not really in an appropriate way which was telling him other options which was taking 2 year course of community college before the 4 year college. Peter proved the counselor wrong by giving him his written essay of his own life and about also with the information of applying it for his college education. When the counselor was looking for an biography formation of essay for applicant, Peter amazed him by telling him that he had already done it. When the counselor started to read it, he put it down quite fast which means he didn't read to the end, saying that it was too sad and that he could not bear to read it. This again is discrimination, for the counselor had an opinion that Peter's grammar and writing skills are very poor that he needs a lot of help. Peter showed his determination and passion of studying as well as how much he is eager to get what he want by answering all of the questions that were asked to him directly showing that he wasn't going to take no for taking the recommended course for counselor. From the documentary, when a teacher was interviewing and getting some of the information about him, she asked some of questions such as how is your life look like, how did his parents die, and asking such question as what will you do if you had one million dollars. Because he is still not familiar with the currency of the money and for him a million dollar is something that he can think of because he had to live his life always with starvation, no education and lack of money as well. And these questions also made him think back to how sorrowfully dispersed from the civil war. Although, it’s something about an education and learning in variety ways, but this way had actually made Peter to feel uncomfortable.
Peter lived a very difficult life, but he proved to himself and the Dinka tribe that nothing is impossible and he will figure out everything by himself in Kansas. Peter is now a model of the kids in the future (the Dinka tribe kids), they now have someone reliable to look up to when it comes time for them to leave Kenya and go to America. Last but not least, although he seems he is not caring for back in Kenya, his tribe, but he really shows that he didn’t forget them from his way better life in America. He also says that he will send money when he gets some left money after he use for his food and education.
Peter's main goal was to receive an education from the high school that will help him to provide for the Dinka tribe. (He can go back to his tribe and teach the kids what he has learned.) When Peter left his friends in Houston it seems like he was leaving for his own good of satisfaction, he was sacrificing a lot for himself and the Dinka tribe in several ways. Leaving his friends would have been harsher to him but there were lots of supporters who helped him in terms of making new friends, which made him to stay there for such a long time without his friends back in Houston and feel that his place is better than the Houston. Another thing that Peter suffered from there is paying for his food and sending back some money back to the tribe, which made him to work harder. Leaving Houston would have decreased their relationships with each other since they lived so far apart from each other with little communication. When Peter went to his School he knew that it was not going to be easy for him to fit in. He experienced racial comments from people a lot throughout his education from students to teachers, and since the school that he attended didn’t have a lot of students that looked like him, he had to try even harder to be a part of the school. However, there were some nice people who supported him to socialize with them. In my opinion, I think they are the people who would like to share there own life that they experienced and learn new things from there own culture. The perception of teachers and their point of view in Peter was erroneous and inappropriate. When he was talking to the counselor about applying for a college, the counselor thought that he might not do well on his college with only little experience, and he was sort of referring back to his life. So the counselor wanted to help him but not really in an appropriate way which was telling him other options which was taking 2 year course of community college before the 4 year college. Peter proved the counselor wrong by giving him his written essay of his own life and about also with the information of applying it for his college education. When the counselor was looking for an biography formation of essay for applicant, Peter amazed him by telling him that he had already done it. When the counselor started to read it, he put it down quite fast which means he didn't read to the end, saying that it was too sad and that he could not bear to read it. This again is discrimination, for the counselor had an opinion that Peter's grammar and writing skills are very poor that he needs a lot of help. Peter showed his determination and passion of studying as well as how much he is eager to get what he want by answering all of the questions that were asked to him directly showing that he wasn't going to take no for taking the recommended course for counselor. From the documentary, when a teacher was interviewing and getting some of the information about him, she asked some of questions such as how is your life look like, how did his parents die, and asking such question as what will you do if you had one million dollars. Because he is still not familiar with the currency of the money and for him a million dollar is something that he can think of because he had to live his life always with starvation, no education and lack of money as well. And these questions also made him think back to how sorrowfully dispersed from the civil war. Although, it’s something about an education and learning in variety ways, but this way had actually made Peter to feel uncomfortable.
Peter lived a very difficult life, but he proved to himself and the Dinka tribe that nothing is impossible and he will figure out everything by himself in Kansas. Peter is now a model of the kids in the future (the Dinka tribe kids), they now have someone reliable to look up to when it comes time for them to leave Kenya and go to America. Last but not least, although he seems he is not caring for back in Kenya, his tribe, but he really shows that he didn’t forget them from his way better life in America. He also says that he will send money when he gets some left money after he use for his food and education.
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Duet Acting Assessment - Julius Caesar
Context of the quote
Cassius begins a conversation with Brutus by asking whether he will go to see the order of the course. Cassius is gradually pulling him into the conspiracy against immortal Caesar. Cassius praising Brutus and on the other hand he expresses how he feels that Brutus can not see himself. Cassius with his eloquence, he says that he will be his mirror to let him see his inner qualities. In Cassius speech, it is being included that Brutus’s inner qualities such as honorable and noble mind are not known from Brutus himself which is blocking himself to pursue his willing. However, Brutus feels suspicious about Cassius why on a sudden he is desperate to help him out with his and what he is intending to do.
Why is this passage significant?
This is really significant since this part can be where the conspiracy starts to grow bigger. This passage is also significant because Cassius is pulling a great influential character, Brutus into conspiracy by using his talent for speaking.
Where is this passage? Act? Scene? Page?
Act 1 scene 2 pg. 25 to 77
Passage
CASSIUS.
Will you go see the order of the course?
BRUTUS.
Not I.
CASSIUS.
I pray you, do.
BRUTUS.
I am not gamesome; I do lack some part
Of that quick spirit that is in Antony.
Let me not hinder, Cassius, your desires;
I'll leave you.
CASSIUS.
Brutus, I do observe you now of late:
I have not from your eyes that gentleness
And show of love as I was wont to have:
You bear too stubborn and too strange a hand
Over your friend that loves you.
BRUTUS.
Cassius,
Be not deceived: if I have veil'd my look,
I turn the trouble of my countenance
Merely upon myself. Vexed I am
Of late with passions of some difference,
Conceptions only proper to myself,
Which give some soil perhaps to my behaviors;
But let not therefore my good friends be grieved--
Among which number, Cassius, be you one--
Nor construe any further my neglect,
Than that poor Brutus, with himself at war,
Forgets the shows of love to other men.
CASSIUS.
Then, Brutus, I have much mistook your passion;
By means whereof this breast of mine hath buried
Thoughts of great value, worthy cogitations.
Tell me, good Brutus, can you see your face?
BRUTUS.
No, Cassius, for the eye sees not itself
But by reflection, by some other thing.
CASSIUS.
'Tis just:
And it is very much lamented, Brutus,
That you have no such mirrors as will turn
Your hidden worthiness into your eye,
That you might see your shadow. I have heard
Where many of the best respect in Rome,--
Except immortal Caesar!-- speaking of Brutus,
And groaning underneath this age's yoke,
Have wish'd that noble Brutus had his eyes.
BRUTUS.
Into what dangers would you lead me, Cassius,
That you would have me seek into myself
For that which is not in me?
Cassius
Therefore, good Brutus, be prepar'd to hear;
And since you know you cannot see yourself
So well as by reflection, I, your glss,
Will modestly discover to yourself
that of yourself which you yet know not of.
And be not jealous on me, gentle Brutus:
Were I a commom laugher, or did use
To stale with ordinary oaths my love
To every new protester; if you know
That I do fawn on men and hug them hard,
And after scandal them; or if you know
That I profess myself in banqueting
To all the rout, then hold me dangerous.
Identify who is going to be who
Cassius : JaeHwan Han
Brutus : Adam Bakri
Cassius begins a conversation with Brutus by asking whether he will go to see the order of the course. Cassius is gradually pulling him into the conspiracy against immortal Caesar. Cassius praising Brutus and on the other hand he expresses how he feels that Brutus can not see himself. Cassius with his eloquence, he says that he will be his mirror to let him see his inner qualities. In Cassius speech, it is being included that Brutus’s inner qualities such as honorable and noble mind are not known from Brutus himself which is blocking himself to pursue his willing. However, Brutus feels suspicious about Cassius why on a sudden he is desperate to help him out with his and what he is intending to do.
Why is this passage significant?
This is really significant since this part can be where the conspiracy starts to grow bigger. This passage is also significant because Cassius is pulling a great influential character, Brutus into conspiracy by using his talent for speaking.
Where is this passage? Act? Scene? Page?
Act 1 scene 2 pg. 25 to 77
Passage
CASSIUS.
Will you go see the order of the course?
BRUTUS.
Not I.
CASSIUS.
I pray you, do.
BRUTUS.
I am not gamesome; I do lack some part
Of that quick spirit that is in Antony.
Let me not hinder, Cassius, your desires;
I'll leave you.
CASSIUS.
Brutus, I do observe you now of late:
I have not from your eyes that gentleness
And show of love as I was wont to have:
You bear too stubborn and too strange a hand
Over your friend that loves you.
BRUTUS.
Cassius,
Be not deceived: if I have veil'd my look,
I turn the trouble of my countenance
Merely upon myself. Vexed I am
Of late with passions of some difference,
Conceptions only proper to myself,
Which give some soil perhaps to my behaviors;
But let not therefore my good friends be grieved--
Among which number, Cassius, be you one--
Nor construe any further my neglect,
Than that poor Brutus, with himself at war,
Forgets the shows of love to other men.
CASSIUS.
Then, Brutus, I have much mistook your passion;
By means whereof this breast of mine hath buried
Thoughts of great value, worthy cogitations.
Tell me, good Brutus, can you see your face?
BRUTUS.
No, Cassius, for the eye sees not itself
But by reflection, by some other thing.
CASSIUS.
'Tis just:
And it is very much lamented, Brutus,
That you have no such mirrors as will turn
Your hidden worthiness into your eye,
That you might see your shadow. I have heard
Where many of the best respect in Rome,--
Except immortal Caesar!-- speaking of Brutus,
And groaning underneath this age's yoke,
Have wish'd that noble Brutus had his eyes.
BRUTUS.
Into what dangers would you lead me, Cassius,
That you would have me seek into myself
For that which is not in me?
Cassius
Therefore, good Brutus, be prepar'd to hear;
And since you know you cannot see yourself
So well as by reflection, I, your glss,
Will modestly discover to yourself
that of yourself which you yet know not of.
And be not jealous on me, gentle Brutus:
Were I a commom laugher, or did use
To stale with ordinary oaths my love
To every new protester; if you know
That I do fawn on men and hug them hard,
And after scandal them; or if you know
That I profess myself in banqueting
To all the rout, then hold me dangerous.
Identify who is going to be who
Cassius : JaeHwan Han
Brutus : Adam Bakri
Saturday, January 30, 2010
The Lottery
The Lottery
In my opinion the story is mainly about lottery which caused me to make a firm idea of the title. I would call this story “The lottery” not only because it is about the lottery but in this case the lottery carries contrary meaning of it. There are two things which made me to think the lottery in this city represents death and sorrow instead of winning a big sum of money. One of them is Tessie Hutchinson strongly crying for redo about the result that her husband was the winner for this lottery. Another one is when a child named Tessie gets the hit by the stone on the side of the head which shows she will die. Before I get chance to read the ending part, I thought about what is the connection between the piles of stones and the lottery. I have thought several possibilities, and my guess was that the piles of stones will be the prize for the winner of the lottery. However, as we keep reading to the end, I found little suspicious. As the lottery time comes, I could see people were getting nervous. And in about few sentences later, when the winner was chosen, the wife of the winner was desperately crying for redo of this lottery by protesting that her husband didn’t get much time to choose the card from the lottery. At this point what came through my mind was that the stones were not just a prize for the winner it was to through at the winner. When the end was left out as a mystery I was very angry with the author of this writing because the story just left me just in the middle of the desert! When the mystery paper was given to me, I knew it was the ending part of this writing. Because I really wanted to know the ending story, without hesitating I just tore off the entry of this envelop and started reading the ending story. I almost had no clue about the black box that we had to choose one card from the box. But it just gave the tension and pressure while picking up the card. Because I was the first one who had to pick the card, extra pressure was upon me. So, basically I felt very strange about the black box, black spot and blank paper. Just one thing that I was clear about them was black spot represented a bad thing and blank paper represented nothing which means “safe” As soon as I read the end of the story, instead of the joy that I got the ending story right, I felt very frustrated since I hate killing children. Eventually, my guess was right and when I found out that the child was the one who will get tons of shots of stones, I felt very sorry for this young girl although it was not a true story. I think the author left these voids in the story in order to create more tension and take the reader think deeper and predict the story. Another reason why the author left voids were to make the story more interesting and to keep the reader keeps reading. From the beginning this story was different than other writings I have saw from last 15 years. It had no title and author information. From the very beginning the author created the void which made me to keep reading. No ending totally left me out in the desert because it only left me some clues and not the actual story. Text clues and foreshadowing made me little infuriating because it still didn’t confirm the real story. When the mystery paper was handed to me I felt very uncomfortable keeping it in my pocket and this feeling made me to find out the answer. When I got time to read the delayed ending the power of the void was no more in my mind which means I felt no more uncomfortable. In short, I realized the true power of void and what it creates whoever it is like listener or reader. If I get some free time I hope to create anything that creates THE POWER OF VOID.
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
School Of Athens - by Raphael
Art can mirror the society of the Renaissance period because it shows how people lived and what they did during the day at school. This painting was drawn by Raphael during the Renaissance. This picture undoubtedly shows knowledge because it is a painting representing a school. Within this artwork, there are two sides of thinking; the logical thinking and the scientific thinking. This painting also uses a lot of artistic techniques that were developed during the Renaissance such as vanishing point, anatomical accuracy, focal point, proportion, perspective and foreshortening. Most of the people in the painting are wearing tunics and robes representing the clothes of the Renaissance period. This painting, “The School of Athens” by Raphael manifests various elements that were mainly from the Renaissance.
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