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Project update

Right now Isaac and I have been gathering information that we would like to post on our blog. I'm glad thAt Issac is willing to help me because I still don't have much help at all. By the end of this week I would like to have all of the information necessary to get this blog started so that mex week I can actually focus on getting it up and running !

My Project

• Short Term Goals:  Focus on the current presidential election.  I plan on creating a blog that will allow people to voice their opinions on certain topics regarding the election.  I will post video clips or quote the candidates and underneath each post there will be a comments section.  My plan isn't for it to be completely anonymous to the point where users can just voice their opinions and hide behind a computer screen, so I want the comments to be in video format.  If the user feels uncomfortable with showing their face they can cover the camera and just talk during their video.  I want to show and hear from both sides   and actually see the different viewpoints.
• Long Term Goals:  I want to still do the same thing with the commenting aspect of it, but i want to be able to discuss any conflict, controversy, or laws that will be worth debating and discussing.  
• Right now all I need is HELP!  I need to recruit classmates or even outsiders who would be interested in collaborating with me and helping make this idea a reality.  I will need to do a lot of research to find out what is going on in the election and with the candidates.
• I want to get this blog created very soon!  I'm not the most tech-savvy person, so that is what I really need, and once I have this help, I will be able to get the website aspect of it done.  
• I will show my classmates my blog and i will explain the process and why i am so passionate about it.

Study journal #3

After taking today's Lit term quiz It was a big wake up call for me. I need to study each term more specifically do that I know each term on demand based on their exact definitions. I do feel though that my writing is improving due to the essay practice prompts. I have been making prewrite webs for the topics I have looked over and that is just do that when the ap exam comes along, a prewrite will be like second nature to me. They make writing easy and organized and they genuinely work for me and my style of writing.

Study Journal #2

Today I focused on the ap vocab terms. I feel it is very important to know these word like the back of my hand sp I plan on doin so so that I am successful on the ap exam. A couple words were difficult to remember because they seem like they would be familiar words that I already know the definition to, but they have completely different meanings with different tenses ! Tomoro I plan on focusing on looking at the essay topics.

Today's studying

Today we talked about some of the books that we read this year for our literature analysis. Many of us read the same book so we just discussed themes and plots of those books. I also went back and studied the lit terms from the past because I feel like I struggle on those. Today is going to be dedicated to learning as many lit terms and vocabulary as I can. I think this will help with the multiple choice questions on the Ap test. 

Reflection on Unstructured Learning

A Reflection on Unstructured Learning The theme of the writing was that sometimes you can get answers to your questions, from unexpected sources. The man in this excerpt was looking for a name for when he goes out in character at night. He was unsure and couldn't think of a name for some time. After turning down plenty of beers by his co-worker, he got the name "Nite Owl". That is what he stuck with and that was a unexpected source that gave him the answer to his problem. This could happen to anyone with a question or problem. 

AP study plan experience

Ap study plan expirence While studying for the Ap test I began with the English Literature and Composition section 1. I did the first 10 questions and tried to answer each question honestly and i answered them tge way I would on the ap exam. It is kind of hard to pick the answers that I would honestly pick, but it is a good test to see if I have any clue about the questions and the answers. I have a harder time identifying the literary terms and I think those questions are harder for me. Also there was another question that was asked and I had a hard time with. It asked what the view of nature might best be described as. I didn't know what any of the answers meant except for one and I didn't feel like that was right. If I were taking the test it would be beneficial if I knew that.  

Essay prompts

Essay Prompts Th essay prompts that I thought were best for Macbeth were these 3:  1976 The conflict created when the will of an individual opposes the will of the majority is the recurring theme of many novels, plays, and essays. Select the work of an essayist who is in opposition to his or her society; or, from a work of recognized literary merit, select a fictional character who is in opposition to his or her society.  In a critical essay analyze the conflict and discuss the moral and ethical implications for both the individual and the society.  Do not summarize the plot or action of the work you choose. 1979 Choose a complex and important character in a novel or a play of recognizedliterary merit who might, on the basis of the character’s actions alone, beconsidered evil or immoral. In a well-organized essay, explain both how and whythe full presentation of the character in the work makes us react more sympathetically than we otherwise might. Avoid plot summary. 1983 From a novel or play of literary merit, select an important character who is avillain. Then, in a well-organized essay, analyze the nature of the character s villainy and show how it enhances meaning in the work. Do not summarize plot.

Macbeth soliloquy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTYZZgEVhYg&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Macbeth Notes

Straight forward play compared to other Shakespeare writings and character driven play
No real humor or humanity; only example of some sort of humor was the scene with the porter and that is arguable
It's a great tragedy; with Macbeth as a tragic character- has a flaw that influences outcome of story and leads to their demise.
Macbeth is loaded with honor and enjoys what the future may bring on him. And starts the story being well liked and having many people on his side.  By the end he is isolated without a place in the social community 
 He did this all to himself and was the architect of own destruction.  
Murder of Duncan 
Why isn't Macbeth happy with what he has?
Because of his ambition and his want to be king. He even says it in Act 1 scene 7 in lines 25-28
Macbeth doesn't question the witches and this makes Lady Macbeth curious and she says this is Act 1 scene 7 lines 41-49
Macbeth is constantly changing his mind and by not questioning the witches, Shakespeare is letting us know that he isn't surprised by them
He does have a very good understanding of right and wrong, which is a heroic quality 
If he were to kill King Duncan, then that would be violating every rule of the community, but he must act on his want to be king
For Banquo he realizes that the prophecy is unreal and isn't worth it to him to break the law; on the other hand the prophecy obsesses Macbeth and takes over his life
Lady Macbeth is always there to try and convince Macbeth to do the wrong thing. She is the evil impulse of the story
She doesn't seem very mother like and tells Macbeth to be more manly
Even thought she is the evil impulse we can blame Lady Macbeth for what Macbeth ends up doing
The dagger is important because he can't grab it and after puts a horror into Macbeth for what he is about to do
Macbeth as King 
After this he is the least admirable tragic hero; he is a mass murderer; it could be his horrible determination
Macbeth will not compromise and pay whatever price no matter how much it will cost him
irony- his evil makes him afraid of his own self
Lady Macbeth falls apart and some of the examples are sleep walking, fainting and eventually killing herself.  Her lack of inner will and her inability to separate herself from human nature

Macbeth Test Answers Review

*Adopted with gratitude from http://www.apclarke.freeserve.co.uk/mbtest.htm
**Please include Act/Scene so we can refer easily tomorrow.

1. Macbeth won the respect of King Duncan by
A. slaying the traitor Macdonwald.
B. serving as a gracious host for his king.
C. not pleading for advancement.

2. King Duncan rewarded Macbeth by dubbing him
A. the Earl of Sinel.
B. the Thane of Cawdor him.
C. Bellona's bridegroom.

3. In addressing Banquo, the witches called him which of these?
"Lesser than Macbeth, and greater." (I)
"Not so happy as Macbeth, yet much happier." (II)
"A future father of kings." (III)
A. I and II
B. I and III
C. I, II, and III

4. When Macbeth said, "Two truths are told / As happy prologues" he was referring to
A. his titles of Glamis and Cawdor.
B. the victories against the kerns and gallowglasses.
C. the predictions made to Banquo and to himself.


5. "Nothing in his life / Became him like the leaving it" is a reference to
A. the traitorous Thane of Cawdor.
B. Banquo's son, Fleance.
C. Duncan's son, Donalbain.

6. Duncan's statement, "I have begun to plant thee and will labour / To make thee full of growing" is an example of
A. a simile.
B. a metaphor.
C. personification.

7. Lady Macbeth characterizes her husband as being
A. "the glass of fashion and the mould of form."
B. "too full of the milk of human kindness."
C. "a cannon overcharg'd with a double crack."







8. When Macbeth agonizes over the possible killing of the king, which of these does he say?
"He is my house guest; I should protect him." (I)
"Duncan's virtues will "plead like angels" " (II)
"I am his kinsman and his subject" (III)
A. I and III
B. II and III
C. I, II, and III

9. Macbeth's statement to his wife, "Bring forth men-children only" signifies that he
A. is proud of his wife's transformation.
B. is concerned over the succession to the throne.
C. has accepted the challenge to slay the king.

10. As part of the plan to kill the king, Lady Macbeth would
A. get the chamberlains drunk.
B. smear Duncan's face with blood.
C. arrange an alibi for Macbeth.

11. Trace Macbeth's transformation from a good man to an evil man.

12. What motivates Macbeth to take the evil path he chooses?

13. What influence do the witches have on Macbeth?

14. Contrast Macbeth's response to the witches' predictions with Banquo's.

15. Describe the relationship between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Trace how it changes over the course of the play.

PART 2
1. "Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible / To feeling as to sight?" is a reference to the
A. ghost of Banquo.
B. dagger.
C. bubbling cauldron.

2. Lady Macbeth confessed that she would have killed King Duncan herself except for the fact that
A. she couldn't gain easy access to his bedchamber
B. he looked like her father
C. one of Duncan's guards spied her on the to stairway





3. Shakespeare introduced the Porter in order to
A. allow Macduff to gain admission to the castle.
B. remind the audience of the Witches' prophecies.
C. provide comic relief.

4. Malcolm and Donalbain flee after the murder
A. because they fear the daggers in men's smiles.
B. in order to join Macduff in England.
C. lest they be blamed for it.

5. Macbeth arranges for Banquo's death by telling the hired killers that
A. Banquo had thwarted their careers.
B. if they fail, they will pay with their own lives.
C. he will eradicate all records of their previous crimes.

6. Macbeth startles his dinner guests by
A. conversing with the Ghost of Banquo
B. attempting to wash the blood from his hands
C. saying to Lady Macbeth that, "Murder will out."

7. The Witches threw into the cauldron
"Eye of bat and tongue of frog"(I)
"Wool of bat and tongue of dog" (II)
"Fang of snake and eagle's glare" (III)
A. I and II
B. I and III
C. II and III

8. The three apparitions which appeared to Macbeth were
An armed head. (I)
A child with a crown. (II)
A bloody child (III)
A. I and II
B. II and III
C. I, II, and III

9. In Act IV, Malcolm is at first lukewarm toward Macduff because he
A. wasn't prepared to overthrow Macbeth.
B. suspects a trick.
C. wasn't worthy of becoming king, in his opinion.





10. Birnam Wood comes to Dunsinane when
A. the witches rendezvous with Macbeth.
B. the camouflaged soldiers make their advance.
C. Lady Macbeth convinces her husband to stand and fight.

11. What is the significance of the line "Fair is foul, and foul is fair" (I, i, 10)?

12. How does Macbeth function as a morality play?

13. How does Shakespeare use the technique of dramatic irony in Macbeth?

14. How does Lady Macbeth overcome her husband's resistance to the idea of killing King Duncan?

15. Contrast Macduff's response to the news of his wife's and children's deaths with Macbeth's response to being told Lady Macbeth is dead

PART 1

1: A. slaying the traitor Macdonwald.
-Act I, Scene 2.  In that scene, we see Duncan talking about Macbeth.  He calls Macbeth "valiant" and "worthy."
The reason that Duncan says these things is because of Macbeth's performance in battle.  Duncan has just been told that Macbeth has performed very bravely in a battle against people who would have overthrown Duncan.  Specifically, Duncan has just heard about how Macbeth killed Macdonwald.
2: B. the Thane of Cawdor him.
-Act 1, scene 2Duncan decrees that the thane of Cawdor be put to death and that Macbeth, the hero of the victorious army, be given Cawdor’s title. Ross leaves to deliver the news to Macbeth.
3: A. I and II
Act 1, scene 3
-Then they tell him that he will never be king but that his children will sit upon the throne (1.3.63–65).
4:C. the predictions made to Banquo and to himself.
Act 1, scene 3-Macbeth ignores his companions and speaks to himself, ruminating upon the possibility that he might one day be king. He wonders whether the reign will simply fall to him or whether he will have to perform a dark deed in order to gain the crown. At last he shakes himself from his reverie and the group departs for Forres.
5:A. the traitorous Thane of Cawdor.
-Act 1, scene 4
6.B. a metaphor.
7.B. "too full of the milk of human kindness."
-Act 1, scene 5 What thou art promised; yet do I fear thy nature;/ It is too full o'the milk of human kindness/ To catch the nearest way.
9: C. has accepted the challenge to slay the king.
10:A. get the chamberlains drunk.
11.he is one of King Duncan's generals, noted for his fierce courage. In his battle against Duncan's enemies, he fights so furiously and valiantly that Duncan rewards him by making him the Thane of Cawdor. He then becomes a bloodthirsty tyrant as he sets out to gain the throne of Scotland. In the plays conclusion, the last view of Macbeth is one of courage in battle, a glimpse of his former self.
12.Macbeths ambition is aroused by the witches' prophecies, and once he becomes Thane of Cawdor, he sets out to gain the throne of Scotland.
13.Macbeth gained his power with help from the Witches and it destroyed him. They present things to Macbeth, planting the seed of ambition which is watered by his wife. He brings about his own demise, the witches were only the tools who acted as a catalyst.
14.Macbeth lets ambition corrupt him immediately upon learning that he has become the new Thane of Cawdor. The fact that one of the witches' prophecies comes true makes him hungry for the rest. Banquo, however, is very distrusting of the witches' because they are evil beings. He won't put much stock into what they have said just yet because he's concerned about the reprecussions.
15. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are very interesting in so far as they are quite ambivalent. Lady Macbeth admires her husband but also triggers his downfall. Lady Macbeth encourages her husband to slay Duncan. 
This event is pivotal and needs to be stressed if we really want to understand the whole concatenation of this wonderful yet mysterious play. Lady Macbeth symbolizes evil, Macbeth symbolizes gullibility. In short the relationships between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth can be construed as a mixture of cruelty, anger and admiration. 

PART 2

Part I.

1. Macbeth won the respect of King Duncan by
A. Slaying the traitor Macdonwald.

2. King Duncan rewarded Macbeth by dubbing him
B. The Thane of Cawdor him.

3. In addressing Banquo, the witches called him which of these?
"Lesser than Macbeth, and greater." (I)
"Not so happy as Macbeth, yet much happier." (II)
"A future father of kings." (III)
A. I and II only

4. When Macbeth said, "Two truths are told / As happy prologues" he was referring to
A. His titles of Glamis and Cawdor.

5. "Nothing in his life / Became him like the leaving it" is a reference to
A. The traitorous Thane of Cawdor.

6. Duncan's statement, "I have begun to plant thee and will labour / To make thee full of growing" is an example of
B. A metaphor.

7. Lady Macbeth characterizes her husband as being
B. "too full of the milk of human kindness."

8. When Macbeth agonizes over the possible killing of the king, which of these does he say?
"He is my house guest; I should protect him." (I)
"Duncan's virtues will "plead like angels" " (II)
"I am his kinsman and his subject" (III)
B. II and III

9. Macbeth's statement to his wife, "Bring forth men-children only" signifies that he
C. has accepted the challenge to slay the king.


Part 2

1. "Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible / To feeling as to sight?" is a reference to the
B. dagger.

2. Lady Macbeth confessed that she would have killed King Duncan herself except for the fact that
B. he looked like her father

3. Shakespeare introduced the Porter in order to
B. remind the audience of the Witches' prophecies.

4. Malcolm and Donalbain flee after the murder
A. because they fear the daggers in men's smiles.


5. Macbeth arranges for Banquo's death by telling the hired killers that
C. he will eradicate all records of their previous crimes.

6. Macbeth startles his dinner guests by
A. conversing with the Ghost of Banquo


7. The Witches threw into the cauldron
"Eye of bat and tongue of frog"(I)
"Wool of bat and tongue of dog" (II)
"Fang of snake and eagle's glare" (III)
A. I and II

8. The three apparitions which appeared to Macbeth were
An armed head. (I)
A child with a crown. (II)
A bloody child (III)
C. I, II, and III


9. In Act IV, Malcolm is at first lukewarm toward Macduff because he
B. suspects a trick.

10. Birnam Wood comes to Dunsinane when
B. the camouflaged soldiers make their advance.

More Macbeth Notes

Witches = foreshadowing (prophecy)

-theme- we see the hatred of women 

-Shakespeare had to be careful because he was writing a play and the current king james I had relations to some characters in real life. 
-Many underlying things

-Sailors wife= foreshadows lady macbeth

-3 witches told macbeth he would be king. 

-Banquo wants to know what about him

-Do the witches have a purpose?

- Banquo = key player, big part of Macbeths rise and fall (after math)

-Angus and Ross inform Macbeth he has the title to be next in line for king

-Previous thane of Cawdor = in line for treason (norway)

Literary elements used that add to theme and tone

-Foreshadowing- 3 witches
-Witches often speak in Rhyme.. which adds to the theme of predestination (prophecy)
"When the hurlyburly's done, when the battle's lost and won."
-Sailors wife Foreshadows lady Macbeth
-Metaphor= (chestnuts in her lap) Stripping away manhood
-Chaiasmus= "Fair is foul and foul is fair..
hover through the fog and filthy air" "By each one her chappy finger laying upon her skinny lips: you should be women."- Imagery
-Paradox- Contradicting statement that portrays some kind of truth
"Fair is foul and foul is fair"

Lady macbeth wants the throne.. but realizes king Duncan is in the way.

In the castle before dinner Macbeth ponders his thoughts of murdering Duncan

When macbeth decides not to kill duncan.. lady m. is outraged and calls him a coward

They come up with a plan to get the guards drunk then sneak in and murder Duncan.. then smear his blood on the sleeping guards to frame them.

Banquo and his son Fleance go to macbeths castle around midnight.. they talk to macbeth about the witches briefly..

B. and F leave.. and then macbeth has a vision of a daggar.. pointing towards duncan

Macbeth kills duncan but lady macbeth has to take the daggars back to the room to frame the guards.. mysterious knocking frightens macbeth.. he goes into his room and washes off the blood.

Macduff and lennox were knocking at the door

Macduff asks to see the king.. so macbeth takes him there and when macduff sees he has been murdered he freaks out and runs out of the room screaming.

Macbeth and lennox run in to look

Malcom and donablain arrive and are told there father was killed

Macbeth says that in the furry of Duncans death he killed the guards(Chamberlains)

Malcom and Donablain feel unsafe and fear they are next

Ross declares that macbeth has been made king 

Suspicioun grows about the two princes because they fled the scene

Macbeth fears Banquo will seize the thrown so he hires a group of murderers to kill Banquo and his son Feance

Fleance escapes but Macbeth is visited by Banquos ghost durring a noble dinner and is fearful

Macbeth goes to see the three witches who give him prophecy to fear Macduff

When Macbeth hears that Macduff has fled to england to be with Malcom he orders that Macduff's wife and kids be killed

Macduff is filled with grief and vows revenge.. he joins malcoms army in england and rides to scotland to challenge macbeth's forces

Lady macbeth goes through some sleep walking and eventually kills herself

Macbeth grieves

At first macbeth feels invincible due to the witches prophecy but he is fearful, however, when he learns that the English army is advancing on Dunsinane shielded with boughs cut from Birnam Wood. Birnam Wood is indeed coming to Dunsinane, fulfilling half of the witches’ prophecy.

Macbeth keeps fighting until macduff kills and beheads him..

Malcom is now the king of Scotland.. and declares he has good intentions.

Literature Analysis 3 Notes

The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald.
Characters: Jay Gatsby: The main character of the story lived in poverty as a child. His one goal in life was to become rich, not only to escape poverty but mainly to try and impress Daisy Buchanan, the love of his life. He does everything to try and win her.
Nick Carraway: Nick is the narrator of the story. He is the narrator because he happens to be Daisy Buchanan’s cousin, which lets him help in the affair between Jay and Daisy and everyone seems to entrust in him their secrets.
Daisy Buchanan: She was in love with Jay, but when he left for the war, she found Tom and married him. The only things that Daisy really cares about are money, being wealthy and living in luxury. She can’t seem to really show affection for the people around here.
Summary: Nick Carraway moves to New York in the West Egg district in Long Island. His neighbor is Jay Gatsby, who has huge parties every week. Nick goes to a dinner party, with his cousin, Daisy and her husband Tom. They introduce Nick to Jordan, who he has a relationship with. Jordan tells Nick that Tom is having an affair, with Myrtle. Nick goes to one of Gatsby’s parties and he meets Gatsby, with Jordan. Through Jordan Nick finds out more about Gatsby and his lifestyle. Gatsby then wants want Nick to create a meeting between him and Daisy. Nick does this and Gatsby and Daisy begin an affair. After a while Tom begins to suspect of his wife’s affair. When he figures out that it is with Gatsby he approaches Gatsby and says that Daisy and he have a history and he can’t ever comprehend it, she then tells his wife that Gatsby is a criminal and he obtained his fortune from bootlegging. Daisy then stays faithful to Tom and leaves Gatsby. When Nick Jordan and Tom are driving through the valley of ashes, where Myrtle lives. They find that Gatsby’s car has hit and killed Myrtle. When they go back to Long Island, Nick finds out from Gatsby that Daisy was driving, when she hit Myrtle, but Gatsby is going to take responsibility. Tom tells Myrtle’s husband George, that Gatsby killed Myrtle. George then assumes that Gatsby was Myrtle’s affair. George then finds Gatsby and kills him then shoots himself. Nick holds a funeral for Gatsby calls it off with Jordan and moves back to the Midwest.
Theme: A theme from The Great Gatsby is the shallowness of the upper class. Daisy cares about no one except herself and being rich. She only really cares about material items and possessions.

Macbeth Notes

Macbeth is suppose to upset people.. Shows life at most brutal point.
In a barbaric era, population pressures made war and even the slaughter of one community by another a fact of life.
"Macbeth" means "Son of Life" -a christian name
"canmore" means big head/great ruler
Evil/Predestination

-Supernatural forces

*Full of double meanings. "fair is foul and foul is fair"

*Is the message of Macbeth one of despair or hope?
-dog eat dog world... human life itself is meaningless and tiresome.

*Shakespeare wrote Macbeth around 1605-1606.. historical

*Need to understand historical background in order to make connections in the play.

-Macbeth is an openly political play.

-Shakespeare changed history in Macbeth to create suspense and tension.

-If we understand the background we can figure out the motives of the characters. 

-Macbeth was a man of penetrating genius, a high spirit, unbounded ambition. -Intelligent and ambitious.

* "Too full o' th' milk of human kindness/to catch the nearest way. Thou wouldst be great,/Art not without ambition but without/the illness should attend it."

When we first hear of Macbeth, he has just cut an enemy open ("unseamed") from belly button ("nave") to throat ("chops"). The king shouts "Oh valiant cousin! Worthy gentleman!"

Horses go insane and devour each others' meat while they are still alive.

-To show Macbeth his future, witches add to the brew "grease that's sweated from the murderer's gibbet." 
     *Would you like to know what that means? 
-The bodies of executed murderers were left hanging on the gallows / gibbet, often caged so their friends couldn't take them away, until they were skeletonized.  There will be a puddle of oil underneath the body. 

-Macbeth's head ends up on a stick. 

-In a barbaric era, population pressures made war and even the slaughter of one community by another a fact of life. Survival depended in having a capable warlord to protect life and property, prevent infighting, and protect from distant enemies. 
-Groups of warlords would unite under the nominal leadership of one king to promote their common interests and war on more distant nations. 
-While people pretended to believe in "the divine right of kings" and "lawful succession", continuing effective leadership was assured by warlords killing off the less capable family members.

-Boece made up Banquo and Fleance. (Scottish )

-The three witches remind English teachers of the three Fates of Greek mythology and the three Norns of Norse mythology. "Weird" (as in "weird sisters") used to mean "destiny" or "fate". Perhaps in an older version they were.

-on the morning of the day Banquo gets murdered, Macbeth asks him three times where he is going and whether his son will be with him. 

       ^Banquo should have been more suspicious. After the banquet, every one of the other warlords in Scotland knows that Macbeth killed Banquo for no good reason, and that he is mentally imbalanced, and that they are themselves in danger. In the scene after the banquet, the Macbeths have become distant from one another. They say little of consequence. 
-Brown suggests that Lady Macbeth writes a letter warning her friend, Lady Macduff, about her husband. 
   ^This explains the appearance of the messenger to warn Lady Macduff just before she is killed -- this episode does not contribute otherwise to the drama -- and afterwards, Lady Macbeth's repetitive writing during her sleepwalking.

-Around 1950, scholars noticed and argued the obvious. Macbeth was written specifically to be performed for, and to please, King James I.

-Some people will decide that the Macbeths are victims of supernatural forces beyond anybody's control. Other people will decide that the talk about predestination simply reflects the folk-tale, or that the Macbeths' era and/or their outlook on life guarantee that something really bad will happen to them. 

-Lady Macbeth, misogynist, wants to lose her femininity so she can be cold-blooded and commit murder like a man does

-Malcolm tells Macduff -- who has just learned about the murder of his family -- to bear his sorrow like a man. Macduff replies he must also feel it as a man does, i.e., he IS a man because he has feelings. 
Siward's son becomes a man in his father's eyes the day he falls in battle
-Third Murderer: It's somebody who knows Banquo and Fleance. The usual suspects include Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, or a servant or thane. All these people are supposed to show up momentarily at Macbeth's dinner party, without bloodstains.

Shakespeare's insight goes far deeper. first work in English that focuses on the isolation and meaninglessness that result from selfishness and cruelty. 
-By the end, Lady Macbeth dissociates from the horror of what she has become. 
-Shakespeare uses insanity as a metaphor for actually gaining insight in "King Lear" and maybe elsewhere. Lady Macbeth's insanity is really nothing more than her realizing the nature and consequences of the horrible thing she has done. 
-Macbeth verbally abuses and bullies the people who he needs to defend him (and who are abandoning him), while reflecting to himself on the emptiness and futility of it all. Of course, the couple no longer has a relationship, and Macbeth is merely annoyed when she dies.

    *Is human society fundamentally amoral, dog-eat-dog? If so, then Macbeth is right, and human life itself is meaningless and tiresome.
   *Or do the hints of a better life such as King Edward's ministry, Malcolm's clean living, the dignified death of the contrite traitor, and the doctor's prescription for pastoral care, display Shakespeare's Christianity and/or humanism? 

It's a dark play. The light of goodness seems still fairly dim. But evil always appeals more to the imagination.
 *Is the message of Macbeth one of despair, or of hope? 


The dramatic purposes served by Shakespeare’s unique portrait of a compassionate, tender Macbeth, and his adaptation of Kenneth’s eerie story are obvious .  But the changes also enhance the thematic content of the play, blurring the line between the two extremes of good and evil within Macbeth himself. 
-His commiseration in the play, and his intense feelings of guilt before and after the regicide clash with his "passion or infatuation beyond the reach of reason’ that propels him to commit the murder. By representing Macbeth’s nature in this way, Shakespeare "rescues Macbeth from the category of melodramatic villain, the kind of character we can dismiss with a snap moral judgment, and elevates him to that of tragic hero .... toward whom we must exercise a most careful moral and human discrimination if we are to do him even partial justice" (Calderwood, 52).

-The attention Shakespeare pays to Macbeth’s conscience would have been of particular interest to King James. 
-Basilicon Doron: written to teach his son, Henry, the ways of morality and kingly duties, James discusses the human conscience at great length, beginning with the statement: "Conscience ... it is nothing els but the light of knowledge that God hath planted in man; which choppeth him with a feeling that hee hath done wrong when ever he committeth any sinne ..." Macbeth was specifically used as entertainment for the royal court, Shakespeare’s inclusion of Macbeth’s guilty conscience was a way in which he could both intrigue and compliment King James.

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Literature Analysis Notes

I decided to re-read the novel Anna Karenina only because I don't feel like I got the complete experience of reading it the first time . I feel like there were many points that I missed and unanswered questions that I had.


1. initial perceptions of Leo Tolstoy as a writer and his sweeping novel Anna Karenina. What frightens or excites you about reading it?

2. first sentence of the novel:  "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Do you agree with its assertion?

3. Early in Part One, we meet the Oblonsky family in the middle of a very tumultuous situation: Stiva has admitted to his wife Dolly that he has had an affair after she found a letter revealing his secret. What are your first impressions of Stiva, Dolly and their household?

4. In Chapter V, we are given background into Stiva's character—he is described as "liked by all who knew him." Does he seem likable to you? Why or why not?

5. first impressions of Levin and your thoughts on his friendship with Stiva.

6. When we meet Kitty, she is tangled in an interesting web of courtship with two men. Do you get the sense that Kitty will make a good decision for herself? Do you feel she acts "rightly" towards Levin? What does the author say that's interesting about each of the men and Kitty's feelings about them?

7. family traditions discussed in the first part of Anna Karenina. 

8. Do you feel Anna's relationship with her brother and his wife Dolly is a good relationship? how you think it may play out as the book progresses.

9. The ball and the way Tolstoy writes about the interactions between Kitty and Vronsky, and Anna and Vronsky.

10. What do you learn about Anna's family life at the end of Part One that seems significant? How is that reinforced by the details the author chooses to show you about her marriage and home?

Socratic Seminar Discussion Notes

• Trial and error and its significance in a child’s life when growing up.
• Testing is the reason we are in school. We are here to basically compete with other countries based off of our testing scores.
• We must learn from our mistakes on our own. A parents job is to support and love their children, not to live their lives for them and force them to live in fear of the world itself because of all of the guidelines and restrictions given.
• Having internet helps people around the world ask questions that anyone can answer. People are able to answer questions and learn in another way.
• Learning opportunities don't stop in the classroom, because you have people out there who are able to help you out and teach you something you want to learn.
• In the cyber world we are able to do something great and are able to change the world.
• "First step to bettering the world starts with question" and we can solve our issues through this way without leading to violence.
• The more rules you have, the harder it is to break those habits. They have helped you survive and stay out of trouble.
• Do what you love, but it’s also as important to love what you do
• Everything you do requires trade-offs and even if you love it, then it will eventually turn into work.
• School is so directed and has so many restrictions. This has taken away from people self-learning and has take away people's ability to go out and learn on their own.

These concepts can enhance my learning because it gives me a reason to go and learn something on my own. Like we said in class, school has taught us to go things a certain way and that has take away from our self-learning that we do when we are younger. It is taking away from the creative aspect of our thinking which really effects our actions and views on the world. Also something like video makes me want to make some questions of my own and figure out the answers to those. If I were to do that then I would be learning in the process and without realizing it.

They can help me for the Ap test because they give me the idea to ask questions about what I don't know and try to figure them out by collaborating with students whom may have the same questions as I. I can find ways to learn how to write a better essay or to do better on the multiple choice section. Also if we were to learn in a different way like we were talking about in class, I think I will have more enthusiasm for the class. Then I will eventually be more successful on the Ap test.

We will be able to collaborate with other people by putting reaching out to people. Whether that being asking a question or finding a common interest with that person. It will also improve the information exchange and overall value of your learning network. There will be an exchange because the people we are reaching out to will be able to answer questions we have and they will be able to use our blogs in whatever way they want too.

Notes 3/20/12

The internet allows-Globalization, localization and delocalization
Gives us a chance to listen, talk, and understand each others’ religion, concepts, and views of world.
How do you perceive the world around you?
-strange/unfamiliar or close relationship?
What form of resistance is effective?
Every effort to change world starts with people asking questions.
How can we all sit together and discuss? There needs to be a big meeting to discuss these issues .
With a large debate, together we can find solutions.
This “100 Questions” Event is a time coming for multiple viewpoints and ways to express your opinions. This is a modern form of communication.
Even though we are different, we all have the same problems
Together as one we are here to celebrate diversity and multiple viewpoints
Intentions: present voices that aren’t usually magnified in the media.
Questions:
1. Are Brands more powerful than government? – “some brands are more powerful and some brands are the govt.”
2. If darwins theory is right about life bginning in African then why are western states more developed than African states? –“it’s not about Darwin’s theory, it’s about power relations and how they are structured, we need to deconstruct and separate power.”
3. If these questions are answered then how will we get the world to listen? -Answers are available on the internet; every answer given today will be protected by Copyleft license, therefore every answer belongs to society and everyone will be able to work with these answers.
WHAT IS YOUR QUESTION….

"Life in a Love"....REMIX

3 Poem 9-point analysis

#1:  Pg. 839- Life In a Love
1. Dramatic Situation-  Falling in and out of love; Talking about a male and female
2. Structure-  Sonnet
3. Theme-  Love
4. Grammar/Meaning-  Easy to read; Given a vivid picture of what falling in love really is.
5. Figure of Speech-  Metaphors- "No sooner the old none god to ground"; Imagery- "My life is a fault at last, I fear."
6. Important Words-  Beloved, escape me, ever.
7. Tone- Loving; dramatic
8.  Literary Devices- Rhyming Scheme
9. Prosidy- Flows throughout; Rhyming scheme allows poem to flow smoothly.

#2- The Lamb -William Blake

1. The lamb not knowing who made it
2.  Every two lines rhyme.
3. Knowing ones origins.
4. Old English; Simple
5. The lamb is an image; describes scenery
6. Simple
7. Curious
8. Personification (to lamb) ; Repetition
9. Nice/ Steady flow

#3-  Infant Sorrow

1. Birth of a young boy
2. Couplets
3. Joy of life (birth)
4. Simple, clear, meaningful.
5.  Vivid/clear imagery
6. Helplessness, naked, piping loud
7. Serious/ sense of struggle
8. Imagery
9. Clear meaningful flow/ understandable.

Literature Analysis: OF MICE AND MEN

 1.John Steinbeck's novel, Of Mice and Men, is about two men named George and Lennie, they are going to a new job to work on a ranch.  George is a shorter man but very smart and witty, on the other hand Lennie is a bigger stronger man but slow on the intellectual side.  Lennie has a mental disability and George is the one who takes care of him.  There are times when George feels life would be a lot easier if he didn't have Lennie in his life, but its obvious their friendship and devotion to one another is mutual. When the men arrive at the ranch and George tells the boss that the two of them are cousins and Lennie was kicked in the head by a horse when he was young.  They are hired and meet the workers for the first time a short period after that. George admits to Slim that he and Lennie are not cousins and they are best friends.  He tells him that Lennie has gotten them into trouble in the past, like their last job where he got accused of rape.  Candy gives in to the pressure and lets Carlson kill his old dog. Curley picks a fight with Lennie and in the altercation Lennie breaks his hand.  The next night the men go out and Lennie is left behind with Crooks and Curleys wife.  While in the barn Curleys wife approaches Lennie in the barn, he tells her he likes to pet soft things and starts petting her hair.  He pulls to hard and she starts screaming and in an attempt to quiet her he snaps her neck.  Lennie leaves to the spot where George told him to go if he got into trouble.  George meets him there a short time later and doesn't seem mad but just talks to his best friend.  While his head is turned he puts the gun to his head and kills his friend out of mercy.  When the rest of the people get there, they are confused on what had happened as Slim and George walk off.
2.  The main theme in this novel is friendship. The friendship between George and Lennie is very strong and is the closest thing to brothers either of them have.  They both have one another's best interest in mind, protect each other, and know that there is someone in the world who is dedicated to looking over them.  They each have a dream that they shape their lives around and it also enhances their bond.  Even though there is a tragic end to the story, there is still no doubt that their friendship is as strong as ever at the end of the story.
3. The tone for Of Mice and Men is both tragic  sentimental.   It is tragic because right when you get a sense that things are starting to go right for George and Lennie, there is a turn in the story that brings a sense of failure for their life. It is sentimental in the fact that the audience starts to gain compassion for Lennie and then there is a plot twist towards the end.  The audience feels bad for Lennie and that's why there is a sentimental tone to it.

4.  A literary technique used in the novel is foreshadowing.  For example, when Lennie is petting the dead mouse at the beginning of the story.  We learn that he likes to pet soft stuff and ends up killing some animals.  At the end of the story he accidentally kills the bunny which leads to his downfall and eventually his death.One literary technique that is used often are symbols. One symbol is George and Lennie's Farm and this is what their dream is.  It also seduces all the characters in the story and it also makes the reader want to believe that there is the possibility of a free life.  The farm gives a sense of freedom and protection from the outside world. Another literary technique used is simile.  For example, "At about ten o'clock in the morning the sun threw a bright dust-laden bar through one of the side windows, and in and out of the beam flies shot like rushing stars."  Diction is also another literary technique that is used- "We could live offa the fatta the lan'." The final literary technique used is Imagery.  "Evening of a hot day started the little wind to moving among the leaves.  The shade climbed up the hills toward the top.  On the sand banks the rabbits sat as quitely as little gray, sculptured stones."

9 Elements of Poetry

"Dear Mama"

You are appreciated

[Verse One: 2Pac]

When I was young me and my mama had beef
Seventeen years old kicked out on the streets
Though back at the time, I never thought I'd see her face
Ain't a woman alive that could take my mama's place
Suspended from school; and scared to go home, I was a fool
with the big boys, breakin all the rules
I shed tears with my baby sister
Over the years we was poorer than the other little kids
And even though we had different daddy's, the same drama
When things went wrong we'd blame mama
I reminice on the stress I caused, it was hell
Huggin on my mama from a jail cell
And who'd think in elementary?
Heeey! I see the penitentiary, one day
And runnin from the police, that's right
Mama catch me, put a whoopin to my backside
And even as a crack fiend, mama
You always was a black queen, mama
I finally understand
for a woman it ain't easy tryin to raise a man
You always was committed
A poor single mother on welfare, tell me how ya did it
There's no way I can pay you back
But the plan is to show you that I understand
You are appreciated

[Chorus: Reggie Green & "Sweet Franklin" w/ 2Pac]

Lady...
Don't cha know we love ya? Sweet lady
Dear mama
Place no one above ya, sweet lady
You are appreciated
Don't cha know we love ya?

[second and third chorus, "And dear mama" instead of "Dear mama"]

[Verse Two: 2Pac]

Now ain't nobody tell us it was fair
No love from my daddy cause the coward wasn't there
He passed away and I didn't cry, cause my anger
wouldn't let me feel for a stranger
They say I'm wrong and I'm heartless, but all along
I was lookin for a father he was gone
I hung around with the Thugs, and even though they sold drugs
They showed a young brother love
I moved out and started really hangin
I needed money of my own so I started slangin
I ain't guilty cause, even though I sell rocks
It feels good puttin money in your mailbox
I love payin rent when the rent's due
I hope ya got the diamond necklace that I sent to you
Cause when I was low you was there for me
And never left me alone because you cared for me
And I could see you comin home after work late
You're in the kitchen tryin to fix us a hot plate
Ya just workin with the scraps you was given
And mama made miracles every Thanksgivin
But now the road got rough, you're alone
You're tryin to raise two bad kids on your own
And there's no way I can pay you back
But my plan is to show you that I understand
You are appreciated

[Chorus]

[Verse Three: 2Pac]

Pour out some liquor and I reminsce, cause through the drama
I can always depend on my mama
And when it seems that I'm hopeless
You say the words that can get me back in focus
When I was sick as a little kid
To keep me happy there's no limit to the things you did
And all my childhood memories
Are full of all the sweet things you did for me
And even though I act craaazy
I gotta thank the Lord that you made me
There are no words that can express how I feel
You never kept a secret, always stayed real
And I appreciate, how you raised me
And all the extra love that you gave me
I wish I could take the pain away
If you can make it through the night there's a brighter day
Everything will be alright if ya hold on
It's a struggle everyday, gotta roll on
And there's no way I can pay you back
But my plan is to show you that I understand
You are appreciated

[Chorus]

Sweet lady
And dear mama

Dear mama
Lady [3X]

The poem I chose was  "Dear Mama" by Tupac Shakur.  It showed people a completely different side of Tupac and it shows how much he appreciates his mother and I was able to connect with that.

• The first element from the poem is dramatic situation.  The speaker of the poem is the rapper 2pac and from the poem we can tell he is a sad guy who often is upset.  We can tell from his circumstances that the people around him don't care enough about him to help him with his depression.       The structure of the poem is it is 3  stanzas and has 4 last little lines by themselves. All the lines in the poem relate to the fact that he is appreciative of everything his mother has done for him and his sister growing up, but he has not always expressed this. Each line is a complete thought that continues off of the last one.  There is only repetition in the lines with "you are appreciated" in them and the poem has a rhyming scheme to it. 

·                     The theme of the poem is that no matter what is going on in your life, you always need to appreciate those who have stood by you and who love you most.  Most people do have as sensitive side to them.  Tupac was supposed to be this bad guy who is tough and doesn't let anything get to him, but at the end of the day his mother is his soft spot. When really it really comes down to it, he puts his mom above everything.   The theme is to make sure you appreciate you loved ones because you never know when they’ll be gone forever.  . 

·                     The grammar the author uses is proper but the lines are fragments.  The author doesn't continue off of these fragments so his thoughts are complete to the audience.  There is a lot of meaning to his words that go beyond the literal meanings of the words. 

·                     I think that this poem does have a lot of literal and figurative language.  When he repeats “There’s no way I can pay you back, but the plan is to show you that I understand, you are appreciated" he is literally meaning that there is no way that he can repay his mother for everything she has put up with and done for him, but at the end of the day all he wants is to let his mom know that he appreciates her.   The figurative language he uses is like, "You always was a black queen, mama," by that he is talking about his mother and how she is a queen in his eyes.

·                      The important words of the poem are, "Dear mama", "You are appreciated", and "Place no one above ya, sweet lady." These are the most important words because the author is letting us know that he does in fact appreciate his mama more than anything in the world.   If he did have a friend that cared then he would spill his emotions to that person, but since he doesn't he has to hide those feelings.

·                     The tone of this poem is optimistic and appreciative.  He wants the audience to know that through everything, he remains appreciative and tries to live his life taking nothing fore granted. 

·                     There are some literary techniques like metaphors and a hyperbole.  His metaphors compare his mother to a black queen.  He says that his anger wouldn’t let him feel for a stranger (his father).   He exaggerates the fact that his past experiences and his mother takes form and is with him all the time. 

·                     The procedure of the poem is there is a distinct flow to it, that is easy for the reader to comprehend what his message his.  There is also a rhythm to it and that also helps to the reader.  The rhyme is every two lines are grouped together throughout. 

Reflection on Today's Essay Exam

Due to the limited amount of time given to write the essays today, I felt like that was one of the hardest part about the whole exam.  I did feel like I was prepared to write about Dickens Great Expectations which made it really easy for me.  Since I reviewed all of my notes the night before it was easy for me to think of the characters and their qualities when the essay prompts were given.  Getting started is always the toughest part for me.  To help with this, I created a pre-write which really helped me.  

       I learned that the AP questions are able to have a broad spectrum of answers which makes it easy once you really break the questions down.  I actually was very calm under the pressure, which isn't normal for me.  I am not usually a good test taker, but maybe because writing is one of my strong points, I was very calm.  My pre-writes really helped me too.  In order to prepare for the AP exam I need to make sure that I do a review of the novels I have previously read to refresh my memory which will allow me to be more exact with my essays.  All in all I feel like I did a good job on my essays.

Why Dickens' wrote a Tale of Two Cities

Charles dickens wrote this book to help portay how horrible the federal system was and the laws that the king let his people live.Dickens wanted to change the laws. Charles Dickens was haunted by the memories of being forced to work in the debtors prison for so long and losing his sister whom he idolized and being unable to marry the women whom he loved.

10 questions on a Tale of Two Cities

A Tale of Two Cities
Questions
1. Why does the novel start with the quote, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..."?

2. The story takes place during the French Revolution in Paris and London. Why are they chosen as the two separate cities for comparison?

3. Mr. Lorry says, "Recalled to life." What is he trying to say and what relation does it have to his life?

4. Why is Dickens's tone in the book very ominous or sad?

5. What is the big surprise about Lucie's dad?

6. How does Monseiur Defarge react to Lucie and Lorry when they come into his wine shop in England?

7. How does Lucie's dad react when Lucie shows up?

8. What is meant by the quote, "death was a recipe much in vogue,"?

9. Who is Jerry Cruncher and why is he relevant to the storyline in the current year 1780?

10. What is the relationship between Lorry and Charles Darnay?


Answers

1. That quotes symbolizes the contradictory attitudes from the two separate cities of London and Paris. While Paris was the center of the Revolution going on, they weren't in any major concern state of mind. Meanwhile, London was scared of another revolution starting. They were scarred for life by the American Revolution and did not want that to come back to haunt them like it did the first time around.

2. Like stated above in answer #1, the two cities were chosen as a sort of comparison between environments during such a huge historical event. Paris was going crazy but kept its cool. London was fearful of what they thought was going to destroy the European nation. Dickens used these two cities like a science experiment with one being the control and the other being the variable. They each took the reactions in different ways; therefore, London and Paris were the contrast of the time period.

3. Lorry is mostly talking about how troubled he is with the circumstances in his life. This phrase refers to the fact that giving himself or someone else a second chance of life is like a renewal. He will be able to start from scratch and have a clean slate at the difficult journey ahead.

4. Dickens has a dreary tone during the majority of the novel to set the scene for a gloomy life going on during the time period. London is known for its foggy setting and with the sad tone mixed in, it represents the sadness that the community feels after losing their last revolution/war. The tone also shows the character's personalities and outlooks on life.

5. Lorry and Lucie find out that Lucie's dad is not dead. He is, in fact, in jail and has been for the past 18 years. He got locked up for witnessing (and being falsely accused) a horrendous murder crime.

6. When they first walk in the shop, he ignores them like they aren't even there. After a few minutes, he talks to Lorry quickly and then leads them up some stairs. Once they reach the room they are looking for, they come to find an older man.

7. At first, he doesn't really recognize her because she has grown up since he last saw her. Then he notices her blonde curly locks as a familiar sign. He begins to assume that Lucie is his wife because of her noticeable hair. Lucie goes on to speak about what's been happening and her dad weeps with shock and joy because he has been reunited at last.

8. This phrase is meant along the lines of how to deal with crimes in the current time period. Many people who get convicted for whatever petty crime they did usually get killed because it is frowned upon to revolt against the laws.

9. Jerry Cruncher is an employee of Tellson's. He is married but he is very abusive towards his wife. He hates the fact that she has no true faith in him and beats her because of it. He becomes more involved in the storyline as he must go to the courthouse to attend to some important matters.

10. Charles Darnay is a man that has been accused for leaking secrets about the King of France, King Louis. He has to go up on trial in which Lorry is involved in as a witness to the crime.

Dickens' notes

Dickens was a writer who got very into his writing. He was seen as a creative genius to the world. And because he was so involved in this creative world he produced, he became distant from the real world. During the time he wrote "Tale of Two Cities" was a time of war throughout the world. In America we were dealing with the Civil War, and in England and Britain they were dealing with the French Revolutionary war. Dickens grew up in a family who did not have a lot of money whatsoever, and because of this , it made him a better writer. This allowed him to relate better with his readers because he had an authentic voice and they were able to immediately identify with him. "Tale of Two Cities" was written in a time in Dickens life in which he was dealing with a lot of pain and problems. You may even say it was his dark period of his life. His father died, and he met an actress and left his wife. This correlates with his somber tone starting off in the novel. A "Tale of Two Cities" is a classical historical novel that describes the French Revolution.

Tale of Two Cities : First 100 pages

Dickens first starts by explaining the parallels between Paris and London, and explaining the sort of situation that the cities are in. He delves deeply into the dismay and lawlessness that take place in London, and the indulgence and power-hungry French aristocracy. You can understand why he wrote about both things the way he did by remembering how he grew up poor and in a harsh environment. Then you can see why he knows so much about the ways of the London streets, and is resentful of the nature that was present in Paris pre-revolution.

Lit Analysis #4 - Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

1. “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” In Leo Tolstoy’s, Anna Karenina , begins with the Oblonsky Family being torn apart by adultery. Anna Karenina then arrives to mend the family issues and convince Dolly to not get a divorce. Kitty, Dolly’s younger sister has two men who both are potential suitors for her. Vronsky, the man Kitty chose, soon falls in love with Anna instead of Kitty. Kitty then becomes ill, and Anna returns to St. Perersburg and wit in that move, she decided that her and Vronsky just had a fling that was simply just an infatuation with one another. Vronsky Follows Anna and expresses his love for her, and once again she dismisses him. Years later, Vronsky participated in a horse race in which Anna and her husband Karenin , attended. This is when Anna admits to her husband that she is having an affair with Vronsky and he is the man she loves. Kitty and Levin rekindle their love at a dinner party, and they become engaged and marry. When Anna attempts to divorce Karenin, he rejects it due to the reflection of a divorce on their social status in society. Therefore, Anna just leaves, its not until Karenin caught Vronsky at the Karenin country home one day, he agrees to a divorce. Anna and Vronsky go to Italy, where they lead an aimless existence. Eventually, the two return to Russia, where Anna is spurned by society, which considers her adultery disgraceful. Anna and Vronsky withdraw into seclusion, though Anna dares a birthday visit to her young son at Karenin’s home. She begins to feel great jealousy for Vronsky, resenting the fact that he is free to participate in society while she is housebound and scorned. Anna becomes depended on sedatives to sleep, while she still awaits a divorce. Levin and Kitty move to Moscow to await the birth of their baby, and they are astonished at the expenses of city life. When Anna and Levin meet, they immediately become enchanted with one another which confused them both. Anna picks a fight with Vronsky and after saying goodbye to Dolly, agrees to meet him at a train station after his errands. At the station, despairing and dazed by the crowds, Anna throws herself under a train and dies. Levin was depressed but then becomes transformed by faith. And after a thunderstorm, Levin feels real love for his son, and Kitty is pleased. Levin reflects again that the meaning of his life lies in the good that he can put into it.

2. A Christian's first duty is to abstain from living by the work of others and from participating in the organized violence of the state. While all forms of violence are evil, any government compulsion shares this taint, since the individual must be free to follow his own inner goodness, seeking for himself what is right and wrong. These as yet unformalized doctrines motivate Levin's disinterest in the "Slavonic question" and make him challenge why Russian soldiers should murder Turks.

3. The narrator maintains an impersonal yet sympathetic tone. He focuses on both facts and feelings but without authorial commentaries on the fates of characters. Anna Kareninadoes not include explicit philosophical generalizations, except in the opening sentence of the novel.
a.) “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” It is not a narrative beginning that tells a story about particular characters and their actions. Rather, it is a generalization, much like a philosophical or scientific argument.
b.) “Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be. But if you don’t love me, it would be better and more honest to say so.” Anna makes an irrational connection between Vronsky’s mother in the first sentence and herself in the second. Anna refers to the lack of love Vronsky must feel for his mother and then immediately—saying “But” as if continuing the same thought—refers to his lack of love for herself. Anna’s contrast between respect and love is startling, even illogical.
c.) “. . . [M]y life now, my whole life, regardless of all that may happen to me, every minute of it, is not only not meaningless, as it was before, but has the unquestionable meaning of the good which it is in my power to put into it!” Levin’s gain corresponds precisely to Anna’s loss, in a symmetry typical of Tolstoy’s careful structuring of the novel.

4. Five literary elements used in the novel are interior monologue, stock epithets, symbolism, recurrent phrases, and structure.
a. Interior monologue: gives verbal definition to the semi-articulate processes of a character's consciousness. Anna's soliloquy as she drives to the place of her suicide is an example of this dramatic device.
B and C. Stock epithets and recurrent phrases: Anna's "dark curls" and "light step" appear frequently. Stiva's "handsome, ruddy face," Kitty's "truthful eyes," and Karenin's "deliberate, high-pitched voice" provide a few examples of this device.
D. Symbolism: the storm corresponding to the stormy state of one's soul; the symbolic value of the train station; the horse race as a working model of the Anna-Vronsky affair; the symbolism of the ball and the theater; Anna's "drooping eyelids" as the first sign of her witchery; her symbolic state of having a "double soul;" the "little man" of death in Anna's dream which echoes the ill-omened railway accident.
E. Structure: “. . . [M]y life now, my whole life, regardless of all that may happen to me, every minute of it, is not only not meaningless, as it was before, but has the unquestionable meaning of the good which it is in my power to put into it!” Levin’s gain corresponds precisely to Anna’s loss, in a symmetry typical of Tolstoy’s careful structuring of the novel.

THE BIG QUESTION: INTRODUCTION

Without doctors in our society, people will suffer and die from diseases. Without garbage men, trash will pile up in our streets. Without teachers, our students and therefore our society's future would lead to chaos. On the other hand, if you remove professional athletes out of society.... nothing really happens. So, why in the world do we pay these guys millions just to throw a ball around and make themselves look good for cameras to snap? Is it even possible for someone to come up with a reason why they deserve these of-the-chart salaries? These outrageous salaries usually belong to professional MALE athletes. There is no gender equity within professional sports between male and female athletes concerning salaries, endorsements, and marketing.

It is true that when it comes to sports, men are usually paid more than what women can earn even if they are playing the same sports. The most possible reason for this is that men’s sports are more popular and they often have lots of sponsors that bring in money as compared to women’s sports. The more sponsors a particular sport can generate, the higher pay the athlete can receive. And while there are no objective studies made on this, anybody can deduce the fact that men are paid twice as much even under the same circumstances, same experience, and the same qualifications. For example, the average WNBA salary for 0-2 years of service in 2012 is $37,260 and for 3+ years it is $54,000. The maximum salary is $95,000 per year and that is usually for the top one or two players in the WNBA. Sue Bird is considered to be the “poster child” for the WNBA and at the most makes $87,000 per year. In 2004 when Sue and her fellow teammates won the league title, they only received a $10,000 bonus. Now in the NBA, the teams who make it to the finals get about a $12 million dollar bonus to split accordingly amongst their players and the coaching staff. The differences between the two are evident, and it’s ridiculous how extreme it is. The maximum salary for NBA players who have been in the league for 6 years or less receive about $9 million per year or 25% of the salary cap; a player with 7-9 years of NBA experience receives $11 million per year or 30% of cap; 10+ years is about $14 million or 35% of salary cap. While opinions may vary, the main reason women athletes are paid less than male athletes is because the amount of revenue generated by male athletes. Male sports bring in more ratings on television which in turn bring out bigger sponsors who are willing to spend more money to endorse the team or product.

A common opinion of the typical sports fan is that athletes are overpaid. That is to say, athletes are paid more than their relative “worth”--- as opposed to teachers, lawyers, doctors, etc. For example, a USA Today article published in November 1994 cites a survey conducted on 2000 individuals on how adequately they feel athletes are paid. 87% of those surveyed responded that they feel athletes are overpaid, compared to nurses (10%) teachers (8%), and secretaries (2%). Sentiments have not changed much in the past 13 years. With these statistics, you can infer that society’s views an occupation’s “worth” as its value to society. After all, nurses are essential components in American health care; teachers are essential to public education; while secretaries are crucial to various administrative tasks. Within this context of the definition, professional athletes seem to have little intrinsic value to society. They seem disposable. Take teachers away, and we have nobody left to teach the children. Solomon and Anderson conclude that “fans cannot be the people who ascribe worth to professional athletes. After all, an athlete’s only concern is whether his employer thinks he is worth a high salary, not the fans…” True, higher fan consumption means higher revenue which means more worth. But at the end of the day fans are not the people who write the checks. This responsibility falls on the owners of these professional teams. Just as any CEO of a Fortune 500 company, it is the owner of the professional sports franchise that has the most at stake when examining whether an athlete is worth the investment. Therefore, he must examine this investment carefully; and if he doesn’t, his company will lose money and he will go out of business.

How does the franchise owner examine a player’s worth? In an interesting study entitled, “The NBA and the Influx of International Basketball Players”, economists Erik Eschker, Stephen Perez, and Mark Siegler examine the process by which an owner, or whoever within the organization has the responsibility of evaluating talent, determines a player’s worth on the market. They use the structure of the National Basketball Association as an example. As long as teams are able to buy or sell players, they say, NBA salaries will resemble an auction.

In today’s culture, it is evident that professional athletes are making a ridiculous amount of money. The only question I have is why. I don’t understand why or how In one year, first year rookie player in the NBA can make more than a top orthopedic surgeon can in 18 years. Another issue is the apparent lack in gender equity among professional sports. These men and women are putting in the same amount of time and effort into each of their selected sports, but they are definitely not receiving the same salary rates.

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Great Expectations

The main character, Pip, ends up with Great Expectations thanks to the seeming patronage of the local eccentric rich old lady Miss Havisham.  He starts to get full of himself, but things do not turn out in his life the way he thinks. Pride goes before a fall, and he is humbled and his Great Expectations seem really foolish and shallow in retrospect once he goes through everything he endures in the course of the novel.

Poem Worth Loving

Our Deepest Fear
By Marianne Williamson


Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness
That most frightens us.

We ask ourselves
Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.

Your playing small
Does not serve the world.
There's nothing enlightened about shrinking
So that other people won't feel insecure around you.

We are all meant to shine,
As children do.
We were born to make manifest
The glory of God that is within us.

It's not just in some of us;
It's in everyone.

And as we let our own light shine,
We unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we're liberated from our own fear,
Our presence automatically liberates others.



*My reasoning for choosing this poem was due to the message the author portrays. The author is telling you to look past the superficial lives we live and qualities we have and open up and witness our true purpose on this earth. "We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us..." Our true purpose...

THE BIG QUESTION: ABSTRACT

*Why do professional athletes make so much money ? Focus on the ethics of fairness and also gender equity.

Background: *The highest paid team in professional baseball is the New York Yankees.
*Tiger Woods is the highest paid athlete ($127,902,706). This includes his endorsement income.
*NFL average salaries by position in 2009 were: Quarterback- $15million, Defensive Tackle- $1.224, Running Back- $5 million
*Female Athletes: Sue Bird, the “poster child” for the WNBA makes at the most $87,000 per
year. in 2004 when Sue and her fellow teammates won the league title, they only received a $10,000 bonus.
*The average WNBA salary for 0-2 years of service in 2012 is $37,260 and for 3+ years it is $54,000. The maximum salary is $95,000.
*Maximum salary for 6 years and under is $9 million or 25% of the total salary cap; 7-9 years- $11 million or 30% of cap; 10+ years - $14 million or 35% cap.

Need: *In today’s culture, it is evident that professional athletes are making a ridiculous amount of money. The only question I have is why. I don’t understand why or how In one year, first year rookie player in the NBA can make more than a top orthopedic surgeon can in 18 years. Another issue is the apparent lack in gender equity among professional sports. These men and women are putting in the same amount of time and effort into each of their selected sports, but they are definitely not receiving the same salary rates.

Purpose: *To open society’s eyes to the faults in today’s culture. We are creating an environment for young kids in which glorifies its athletes to the point where it influences their career paths while growing up. They are aspiring to be professional athletes, not doctors or lawyers. And when and if that dream does not occur in these kids lives when they grow up, they will not know what to do because they never thought about a different career of life path. Professional athletes make entirely too much money, and yet…THEY STILL WANT MORE.

Organization: *I am going to first organize my research paper by giving my reader clear facts of my topic so that before they even get past the first two paragraphs they know that I did my research and I am giving them nothing but the truth. I will then explain my purpose and give them my own personal experience on why I am so passionate about this subject. Then I will explain the effect this is having on society, and then finish it off with the need for a change.