final post

Some common themes in this semester’s content are contemporary romanticism enlightenment philosophy and ancient in the We covered contemporary in the earlier more modern works like the Elton john and Emily Dickenson and these works are contemporary because they were either popular or were composed in the recent years. When we covered romanticism we read the last songs and other works that dealt heavily in emotion and feelings. Enlightenment works that we covered like the declaration of independence and the marriage of Figaro were considered enlightenment because there works of either art or historic literature that includes completely new thought up concepts for the time period. When we studied philosophy we looked at Aristotle and Socrates and their views on many things and how they still matter to us today And finally we covered ancient epic literature which mainly had to do with ancient religion and beliefs about gods and the ways of life more specifically war and death. This semester we did blogs instead of quizzes and although I love my personal blog I didn’t really enjoy the blogs in replace of quizzes because I had the hardest time remembering that we had to do them even if I did the homework, also I detested the blogs because I tend to not be very computer savvy and there for lost points sometimes for minor things that I cannot do nor no how to figure out. I feel like the daily quizzes would help me learn more because we would probably end up going over the questions in class rather than just skip over the assignment at the beginning of class. I also would rather write a structured essay because I have more experience writing papers and essays and there easier to keep up with in my mind and instructor feedback would be more throughout. The blog is portable which is a plus then again so are laptops and papers and quite honestly I have never heard of a prestigious company hiring someone because they can blog they may consider the originality but I do believe that in that particular case it depends on the job one is applying for say for instance if I were to apply for a CEO position at Boeing they would laugh in my face but if I were applying to be a teacher they would consider it because it could be used to the teachers advantage … well that’s all have a nice summer

Middle Ages

i find it ironic that a woman would write about the deception of a woman because usual when a woman deceives she doesn't want anyone to know about it but also considering the place women were in during medieval times it makes it even more ironic because women only had a place in in the home or in the female community they were to support there husbands and children while the men did all the work

hubris is excessive pride over confidence and or arrogance. hubris today is considered annoying we tolerate it but it still annoys us normal people to no end. one example of hubris is pairs Hilton because she is sooo incredibly stupid and moronic but she considers herself so important and perfect like her money makes her smart another example can be found in some church organisations because some of these church groups feel like they can do no wrong and like everyone else are sinners they preach about how much people sin when there also sinners themselves.

Declaration of Independence,

Jefferson is considered an enlightenment thinker because he brought new ideas never thought of before and its obvious through the declaration which is considered one of the most important pieces of historic documentation in american history. the declaration is so well written and spoken that this was unfathomable at the time period it was conceived. enlightenment thinking is focused on the nobility and/or aristocracy of the time periods and and things that its involved in like the marriage of figgero for example which is biased on how fed up people are with the abuse of there rulers Mozart is considered a revolutionary thinker because his style of musicals and plays were entirely new style's and concepts, completely revolutionary making him famous and world wide recognized as a classical author.

Bourgeois and Proletarians

karl Marx believes that there are 2 groups of people struggling in this world and they are the Bourgeois and proletarians. He believes that the proletarians will win out because in the end they know how to work for what they want

Taylor quotes "the most simple, most monotonous, and most easily acquired knack" and the line refers to mill work and supports Marx's views where he says "Theses labourers, who must sell themselves piecemeal, are a commodity...they become an appendage of the machine". Janis Joplin "Mercedes Benz" i feel like this song is full of satire directed towards society because she is making fun of how society wants all sorts of materialistic things and there priories are not in proportion to there needs. . Is this song intended to be serious in any way? If so, how? What does Joplin mean by “social and political import?” Explain. Include a picture of Janis Joplin and a Mercedes Benz.

Tragedy

Aristotle’s theory of tragedy is in his words is “drama not narrative” he says that “it “shows” rather than “tells”” the thinks that it is better than history because history only tells you what happened and not what may have happened and he likes it because “the audience can envision themselves within this cause and effect chain”
A complex plots have both reversal of what is supposed to happen and recognition connected to the problem
Simple plots have only a difference in fate or fortune
He believes that complex is better and more interesting
Hamartia -tragic problem
Katharsis- purgation cleansing of tragic emotions of pity and fear
Deus ex machine – no outside intervention

fate

Kenny Chesney's song there goes my life is a song about a boy who had plans but one bad choice changed his plans permanently and his mistake becomes his entire life. its a song about fate because no matter how much he wishes he could change the circumstances he knows he cant and that its his fate to raise a child i think that bacon would approve because its gods plan for the boy who made a mistake and he wouldn't have made that mistake if it were not what god wanted for him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP-Sxfntdb4&ob=av2e


All he could think about was I'm too young for this
Got my whole life ahead
hell I'm just a kid myself
how I'm gonna raise one

All he could see were his dreams going up in smoke
So much for ditching this town and hanging out on the coast
Oh well, those plans are long gone

And he said
there goes my life
there goes my future, my everything
might as well kiss it all good-bye
there goes my life.......

A couple years of up all night and a few thousand diapers later
That mistake he thought he made covers up the refrigerator
Oh yeah..........he loves that little girl.

Momma's waiting to tuck her in
as she fumbles up those stairs
she smiles back at him dragging that teddy bear
sleep tight, blue eyes and bouncing curls

He smiles
there goes my life
there goes my future my everything
I love you, daddy goodnight
there goes my life

She had that Honda loaded down
with Abercrombie clothes and 15 pairs of shoes and his American express
he checked the oil and slammed the hood, said your good to go
she hugged them both and headed off to the west coast

And he cried
there goes my life
there goes my future, my everything
I love you
baby good-bye

there goes my life
there goes my life

book 22, 23,and 24

Achilles does some inhuman things because he is grieving over his lost cousin He kills 12 Trojans soldiers as sacrifices he drags hectors body through the dirt all over and around the fighting camps and grounds and he refuses to remove the blood of his foes from hip body until his cousin is buried. Pram stricken with grief goes and asks for his son back the gods help him and his grief for his son urges him into enemy camp to ask for something that is nothing more than a symbol of what once was. The 2 bond over there lost loved one and they weep together finally Achilles returns the body to pram.

the Iiad

Medias res is means into the middle of things
The Iliad is about morality vs immorality and how to gain this through kleos and kleos aphthiton which are fame and undying fame.
Achilles is unique because his mother was immortal and his father was mortal but his mother being immortal didn’t want to see her son die when she would not. she dipped him into the river of Styx but held him my his heel and thus giving him only one weakness’. Briseis is Achilles’s whore and they have a strong relationship between them
a song that kinda explains fame and undying fame is when i grow up by the pussycat dolls because the song talks about how the singer wants to be famous for ever ...

Troy

The Trojan was began because the gods could not settle their own disagreements without the help of a human the gods were having a wedding and did not invite a certain goddess to this event so Eris the god of discord presented an apple to the gods Hera Athena and Aphrodite and said that whomever was fairest could have it so the gods got in to an argument and involved a human man Paris whom as a reward wanted a married woman as his wife and since she was married he had to steal her and in doing so he angered her husband who declared war on Troy the kingdom of which Paris was prince of.
The gods behave like humans because they display many traits of jealousy and pitiful anger there human in materialistic ways and want whatever appeals to them at that moment making them human despite their I feel that the gods were fake kings that just see themselves as gods and this religion is quite warped due to their fickle nature
In the movie troy Achilles is played by brad pit but I feel like he should have been played by Shila buff because 1 he’s is so much hotter and 2 he has more of a bad boy nature and could probably play the bad boy nature so much better.

the story of Joseph and the bible

Although we didn’t have a class on “epic heroes” I think I can still explain how joseph is one. I learned in a class different from humanities that in order to be considered a hero you have to fallow the circle steps and although the circle mainly goes with writing books and stories it works with already made stories. adapted from Voglers the writers journey in order for a “hero” to become a hero they have to go through the cycle which is to state simply separation, decent, initiation, and then return in Josephs case his separation was when his brothers deceived him then his decent was when he was sent into the dungeons to rot for the rest of his life and once he proved his worth by interpreting the pharos dream he moved into the initiation stage and the return stage is when he is reunited with his family and he forgives them for their deceit.
Joseph is unique he is intelligent he has love and for no reason that he can understand his whole life is thrown into chaos and disarray and yet he still has hope and he still loves. Although Joseph has no ambition for success and power he somehow manages to gain a position of power and he does this by mainly just helping people he manages to wait out an entire famine just by planning for it and he saves hundreds of people which makes him a hero in the peoples eyes
As far as I can tell the differences between the KJV and the Koran is the language and the twist where josephs father knows that the brothers were the source of deceit towards Joseph much of the language is ye old English and it is probably meant to make the reader feel a little bit more religious I find little importance in the bland words it doesn’t appeal much to my human nature because it sounds fake unlike the king James version which is designed to appeal to the reader with its details and its story like writing.

Aristotle on friendship

Aristotle’s friendship is about … well friendship he claims that there are three kinds of friendship utility pleasure and goodness
He believes that utility based friendships are about people who are only friends because its useful to their goals he says that these friendships are not permanent that “when the motive of the friendship is done away, the friendship dissolves.”
And pleasure based friendship is based on their interest and enamor in a subject
But above all he believes that the only pure friendship is friendship that is based on goodness. He says that these friendships are rare and it’s a perfect friendship if it is based on the “men who are good and alike in virtue”
I believe that the song Find Out Who Your Friends Are by Tracy Lawrence is a fairly good rendition on how to know who your “true” friends are because it proves that “you find out who your friend are” when you need them most and there not there to give a care about what’s in it for them or how they get there

http://www.cmt.com/videos/tracy-lawrence/160946/find-out-who-your-friends-are.jhtml

Run your car off the side of the road
Get stuck in a ditch way out in the middle of nowhere
Or get yourself in a bind, lose the shirt off your back
Need a floor, need a couch, need a bus fare

This is where the rubber meets the road
This is where the cream is gonna rise
This is what you really didn?t know
This is where the truth don?t lie

You find out who your friends are
Somebody?s gonna drop everything
Run out and crank up their car
Hit the gas, get there fast

Never stop to think, 'What?s in it for me?'
Or 'It?s way too far'
They just show on up with their big ol? heart
You find out who your friends are

And everybody wants to slap your back, wants to shake your hand
When you?re up on top of that mountain
But then one of those rocks give way then you slide back down
Look up and see who?s around then

This ain't where the road comes to an end
This ain't where the band wagon stops
This is just one of those times when
A lotta folks jump off

You find out who your friends are
Somebody?s gonna drop everything
Run out and crank up their car
Hit the gas, get there fast

Never stop to think, 'What?s in it for me?'
Or 'It?s way too far'
They just show on up with that big ol? heart
You find out who your friends are

When the water?s high
When the weather?s not so fair
When the well runs dry
Who?s gonna be there?

You find out who your friends are
Somebody?s gonna drop everything
Run out and crank up their car
Hit the gas, get there fast

Never stop to think, 'What?s in it for me?'
Or 'It?s way too far'
They just show on up with their big ol? heart
You find out who your friends are, yeah yeah
You find out who your friends are

Run your car off the side of the road
Get stuck in a ditch way out in the middle of nowhere, man I been there
Or get yourself in a bind, lose the shirt off your back
Need a floor, need a couch, need a bus fare, man I been there
Man I been there
[ From : http://www.elyrics.net/read/t/tracy-lawrence-lyrics/find-out-who-your-friends-are-lyrics.html ]

Socrates Apology

Socrates Apology was actually written by Plato which was intended to be a speech at a trial against Socrates. Apparently his charges were that he was inventing new gods, did not recognize the gods the state recognized and he corrupted the minds of the youths. And this speech isn’t exactly an apology as modern day believes but a defense speech defending his actions. A gadfly is a horse fly an insect n which Socrates likens himself to in his defense because the citizens have come to see him as an annoying pest that does nothing more than bit horses in there ass he believes that this is his life job because an oracle has claimed him the wisest man on earth and he thinks that she is right because he is aware that his knows nothing about wisdom and that after all is wisdom. The jury sentences him to his death and he says that he is un afraid because he doesn’t believe that one should be afraid of something they do not know about because only the gods know what comes after death

The Merchants tale

Fabliaux as defined by dictionary.com is “A medieval verse tale characterized by comic, ribald treatment of themes drawn from life” and Chaucer uses these throughout his Canterbury tales
The song Lying eyes says “every form of refuge has its price” and I feel like Chaucer is saying the exact same thing only in his own words because in the merchants tale the noble man is looking for a wife in his old age and he asks the gods to help him in his quest but he is to specific in his quest and chooses a madden beautiful in appearance but ugly at heart because she doesn’t love him back and she falls for another man and as her husband gets older he loses his eyesight and she is able to cheat on him even more the gods grant her husband his eye sight back so he may view her cheating on him and the lady twists what he sees into a confusing mass and her husband believes her story despite what he saw. I feel like the underlying meaning in this is that humans only see what they wish to see and I feel like the old noble man wanted to believe his wife and didn’t want to believe that she was cheating on him so when he actually saw it with his own eyes she was able to mold his view to her benefit which makes the old man a fool I feel like this story is didactic because not only is there one hidden meaning I feel like there are many hidden meanings in the story. For example and man is a fool for a beautiful woman he could have chosen a ugly faithful woman but he instead choose a beautiful cheating whore.

canterbury tales

according to Aelfric there are three medieval estates Laboratories, Oratories and,Bellatores. "Laboratories are those who labor for our living; Oratories are those who plead for our peace with god; Bellatores are those who battle to protect our towns and defend our land against an invading army." (course pack)

in the general prologue of the Canterbury tales Chaucer explains the estate of the people in his story he says that none of them knew each other and that they all came together by chance in an inn, and they all banned together to make a pilgrimage for their religion. Chaucer then goes on to give you a brief background of each of the people traveling. he goes in to a brief detail about each person and how they live. there were 25 total people

Estate Satire is a genre which sarcastically attacks the abuses that occur within the three Estates that Aelfric mentions

Midsummer nights dream acts 4-5

Shakespeare loves to use gender roles to add comedy for his plays for example in the midsummer nights dream he uses the fey queen as the overhand in a relationship in order to cause chaos Tatiana holds a servant boy over kind Oberon's head in order to get what she wants. and the father of Helena is supposed to be able to tell his daughter what to do but yet he has no power over her heart and she runs away to elope with her beloved lysander
in the end puck explanes that this play and its chaos will be remembered as but only a dream inorder for things to stay civil between the humans.

i am suposed to inbed a song but i have no idea how on earth to do so i shall try again later

Shakespeare Midsummer Nights Dream Acts 1-3

Theseus the duke of Athens and Hippolyta the queen of the amazons discuss their upcoming wedding with Favor and excitement. When Egeus the father of Hermia comes to the duke with a complaint, his daughter is promised to Demetrius whom loves her. While Hermias heart belongs to Lysander. Theseus demands the law be upheld if Hermia does not comply too her father’s wishes she goes to a nunnery or is put to death. Lysander Proposes that they run away to his aunts home seven leagues from Athens, and Helana confesses to Hermia that she is jealous of Demetrius love for her. Helana tells Demetrius of the plan to elope in hopes to win his love. Demetrius runs after them, thus is how they end up in the forest.
A group of theater men band together to discuss a play they plan to put on after Theseus wedding. They find a spot in the forest that is good to rehearse the play about two tragic lovers. They quarl some about parts and a man by the last name bottom wants to play every part. In the midst of arguing they are frightened by a bear and all run away. Bottom falls asleep in a random spot and everyone assumes he has been eaten by the bear.

Two fairies in the forest are mad about the possession of a servant the queen fairy Tatiana refuses to give him to the king Oberon. Oberon vows to get revenge by making her fall in love with an idiotic object with the juice of a flower. He sends his servant Pluck to go get the flower.
The humans fall asleep in a grove and Pluck decides to play a prank on them and messes up the love triangle. Oberon gets his revenge and Tatiana falls in love with Bottom whom now has the head of an ass. And the fairies have a great laugh. Oberon finds out about the mishap with the humans and sends Pluck to fix it.




cited pictures

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shakespeare

who is this infamous shakespeare?

its believed that he was born in the family home on Henley Street, in Stratford-upon-Avon, England
he married Anne Hathaway who was eight years older than him and a farmers daughter.
he uses the form of verse and prose in his works he began working at a london theater company and later worked for Pembroke’s Men under elizabeths reign which later became chamberlans man under james




sources
http://www.william-shakespeare.org.uk/william-shakespeare-born.htm
http://www.enotes.com/william-shakespeare/shakespeare-biography
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Four Last Songs

What is a song cycle? a song cycle is a group of songs that the composer made specifically relevant to one another
In the song cycle by Richard Strauss Four Last Songs the overall theme throughout the four poems is the cycle of life and death and how after every death there is hope for life “”two larks soar alone “ the larks symbolize the path that we walk and the life we all live but it is also a bird of mourning I feel like this dude was severely depressed and doesn’t know how to see the light in life. The lark sings at the end of the day and he asks the question “is this perchance death?” I feel like this is not exactly hinting at the fact that they are dying but that the night symbolized the illusion of death to that particular day so that its not death to life its death to the day so that there may be a birth to a new morning . I don’t feel like the question makes anything more powerful just more symbolic.

Madam Butterfly

I believe that Pinkerton is your average one track minded American but in some ways I believe that he does love madam butterfly I think that the peer pressure on him from his friends and family back in America are what drives him to marry an American woman besides what he said about marrying an American woman on the marriage contract.
Butterfly is a naive young woman who was willing to believe that Pinkerton would return with love for her and her son. I feel like she should have forced herself to live for her son at the least
I feel like the opera tells us that the United States was a place of dreams for foreigners, it seems like madam Butterfly’s ideas on America were a little farfetched. Gauging by Pinkerton's attitude toward marrying a n on American woman prove that America was a aristocratic society at this point because they value purity and money much more highly than madam Butterfly’s family does.

Vanessa

This play is a triffic example of dramatic irony because the auidence knows that erica is preagnet with vanessas husbands baby and vanessa cannot for the life of her figure out why erica wants to kill herself. it intensifys the seen becausee it causes the auidence to wonder if or when vanessa will find out about the aboration living inside erica.
i believe that the original reason vanessa had the mirrors draped because she is depressed by love the text says that she has "arrested time" i feel like this means that she has become so cought up in the tims she spent with her past lover that she cannot stand to see herself age.

"must the winter come so soon" i believe that the author of this play chose a "hungrey deer" to intensify the idea that erica is hungry due the unborn child she so desperatly hides from the world. i also feel that "frozen owl" is a metaphore for erica herself she is frozen with feer and knows not what to do in her dire situation. when erica says "neither daun nor sunset" she is refering to the time stop that hapens when something happes to a person that is indede horrible in there view. time seems to stop when someone hits depression and the cold that invlopes a person slows time and a minor muniet becomes ten years. poor erika has fallen into a depression due to her unrequeted love for Anatol and the child she hides and doesnt want. and the depression has made her world wintercold.