Is it possible?
Can I be free?
My savior told me we will be
He gave me the courage to want to be
It was him all along
He was the one to give me strength
He promised we will leave
Not only my savior but a savior to others
He risk his freedom for another one
O no did the witch find him
Where is he?
I won’t leave without him
I wait for him because without him I can’t be free
He’s back in person but that’s not him
The witch took him but I won’t let her
He is still going to be free with me
My savior took me out of misery so I do the same for him
Now we can be free together
Finally, freedom.
Friday, June 5, 2009
Lobotomy (CN Part 3)
A lobotomy is a neurosurgical procedure, a form of psychosurgery. It consists of cutting the connections to and from the prefrontal cortex. Lobotomies have now fallen out of use, as doctors use various drugs and psychological therapies to treat mental health issues. Lobotomies were used mainly from the 1930s to 1950s to treat a wide range of severe mental illnesses, including schizophrenia, clinical depression, and various anxiety disorders, as well as people who were considered a nuisance by demonstrating behavior characterized as, "moodiness" or "youthful defiance". The patient's informed consent in the modern sense was often not obtained. After the introduction of the antipsychotic chlorpromazine, lobotomies fell out of common use and the procedure has since been characterized "as one of the most barbaric mistakes ever perpetrated by mainstream medicine".
Electroshock Therapy (CN part 2)
Electroshock therapy was introduced to mentally ill patients by Ugo Cerletti, an Italian psychiatrist. He first saw electroshock therapy being used to pigs in a slaughter house. The pigs that were being shock went unconscious and was easier for the workers to slaughter them. Cerletti saw this as treatment for mental illness patients.
Electroshock therapy is the concept of having electricity pass through your brain. Electroshock therapy is also commonly called electroconvulsive therapy or ECT. One year later, ECT was introduced to the US by the New York State Psychiatric Institute. For about thirty years, patients of all ages received ECT. ECT was used for what doctors thought were disorders, including, depression, mania, schizophrenia, and homosexually.
By the end of the 1960s, ECT almost vanished from the psychiatric scene. Novels like “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” played a major role in discrediting ECT. ECT was put on hold after a while. Many new doctors felt other therapies were better.
Electroshock therapy was one of the most drastic procedures used for psychiatric therapy. Today it is rarely used to “cure” people the way it used to.
Electroshock therapy is the concept of having electricity pass through your brain. Electroshock therapy is also commonly called electroconvulsive therapy or ECT. One year later, ECT was introduced to the US by the New York State Psychiatric Institute. For about thirty years, patients of all ages received ECT. ECT was used for what doctors thought were disorders, including, depression, mania, schizophrenia, and homosexually.
By the end of the 1960s, ECT almost vanished from the psychiatric scene. Novels like “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” played a major role in discrediting ECT. ECT was put on hold after a while. Many new doctors felt other therapies were better.
Electroshock therapy was one of the most drastic procedures used for psychiatric therapy. Today it is rarely used to “cure” people the way it used to.
The One (CN part 1)
God, provider, commander, women, the one
The one holds everything, my life, my emotions, my sanity
With her I’ll go crazier then what I am
Without her I’ll have nothing
Her power is much too great for her to can handle so she as help from her angels, slaves, demons
Society has named as unworthy of their god so they send me to one for help
She is my savior but enjoys my fall
She lives for my humility
I live for her pleasure
I’m so afraid I pretend not to hear her commands
But there is one other who is my real savior, my hero, the one
The one who is not afraid and will save me from this hell.
The one holds everything, my life, my emotions, my sanity
With her I’ll go crazier then what I am
Without her I’ll have nothing
Her power is much too great for her to can handle so she as help from her angels, slaves, demons
Society has named as unworthy of their god so they send me to one for help
She is my savior but enjoys my fall
She lives for my humility
I live for her pleasure
I’m so afraid I pretend not to hear her commands
But there is one other who is my real savior, my hero, the one
The one who is not afraid and will save me from this hell.
Monday, June 1, 2009
Response to Lantern Theater performance
Hamlet was not my favorite play, but The Lantern Theater’s performance was a decent
one. The reason I say decent and not extravagant or appalling is for various reasons.
When I first walked into the theatre I was a little taken back by the set and it’s structure. My first reaction was what in the world is going on, but as the play started I liked how the actor’s were coming out from all different angles and were right in front of me. I felt as though they were performing for me. I liked how the lights were coming on and off and lighting different spots of the set or actors.
The beginning of the play started off as I expected or pictured it would. Everyone was dressed as I pictured. Even Hamlet’s outfit was what I thought it would be, because I always saw Hamlet as a rebel, so I expected him to dress more dark and different from everyone else. The person who threw me totally off and rubbed me the wrong way was Ophelia. Ophelia had a J C Penny’s Easter dress and a CVS pharmacy headband on, when her own father and brother had on robes and vest made from royal fabrics. Before I saw the play I already didn’t care for Ophelia, so her standing out just enhanced my dislike for. Not only was it the way Ophelia dressed, but the was she acted was getting under my skin. She kept whining and was acting like a child. There is a possibility that I might be one minded because I am basing this off my interpretation of the play and the Hamlet movie I was shown, where Ophelia was this older mature women, so I expected her to be that way in this play. But I also feel because she wasn’t mature is the reason that led her to insanity and suicide.
The play that I thought was striking was Hamlet. This Hamlet was cunning, passionate, and sarcastic. I like this characteristic because I can relate to them because these are traits of people I surround myself with. It also puts a twist on Hamlet that is modern even with the original text being said. It was helpful to my understanding of what was going on. Hamlet kept my attention so I wasn’t bored which is important to the audience.
Hamlet wasn’t the best play I ever experienced, but not the worst either. Though I was entertained, I will never like Hamlet because of the story line and the deceit that it based around.
one. The reason I say decent and not extravagant or appalling is for various reasons.
When I first walked into the theatre I was a little taken back by the set and it’s structure. My first reaction was what in the world is going on, but as the play started I liked how the actor’s were coming out from all different angles and were right in front of me. I felt as though they were performing for me. I liked how the lights were coming on and off and lighting different spots of the set or actors.
The beginning of the play started off as I expected or pictured it would. Everyone was dressed as I pictured. Even Hamlet’s outfit was what I thought it would be, because I always saw Hamlet as a rebel, so I expected him to dress more dark and different from everyone else. The person who threw me totally off and rubbed me the wrong way was Ophelia. Ophelia had a J C Penny’s Easter dress and a CVS pharmacy headband on, when her own father and brother had on robes and vest made from royal fabrics. Before I saw the play I already didn’t care for Ophelia, so her standing out just enhanced my dislike for. Not only was it the way Ophelia dressed, but the was she acted was getting under my skin. She kept whining and was acting like a child. There is a possibility that I might be one minded because I am basing this off my interpretation of the play and the Hamlet movie I was shown, where Ophelia was this older mature women, so I expected her to be that way in this play. But I also feel because she wasn’t mature is the reason that led her to insanity and suicide.
The play that I thought was striking was Hamlet. This Hamlet was cunning, passionate, and sarcastic. I like this characteristic because I can relate to them because these are traits of people I surround myself with. It also puts a twist on Hamlet that is modern even with the original text being said. It was helpful to my understanding of what was going on. Hamlet kept my attention so I wasn’t bored which is important to the audience.
Hamlet wasn’t the best play I ever experienced, but not the worst either. Though I was entertained, I will never like Hamlet because of the story line and the deceit that it based around.
Friday, May 8, 2009
Hamlet Act 2
In Act II, something that stood out to me was Hamlet’s soliloquy on lines 563-622. In the movie, the actor displays Hamlet’s range of excitement profusely. In the Kenneth Branagh’s, Hamlet, understanding of how Hamlet started off calm, and then rose to rage, then calmed back down to a conclusion. The soliloquy didn’t so much catch my attention, but the way the movie portrayed this section made me go back to the book and re-read it. In my opinion, I believe Kenneth Branagh did a good job expressing Shakespeare’s idea. The areas where Kenneth Branagh expresses his rage is exactly where Shakespeare adds exclamation marks. You see in the book where Hamlet gets excited, as portrayed in the movie, and also where he calms down. The punctuation is key in figuring how Shakespeare wanted this section to be read.
Hamlet Act 1
As I started to read this play, I was immediately disgusted by the fact Gertrude, Hamlet’s mother and queen, married her deceased husband’s brother, Claudius. Not only did she marry him, but also the wedding ceremony’s food was provided by Older Hamlet’s funeral. At this point I feel as though any action Hamlet does that is seen crazy is very normal for the position he is in. Hamlet must feel as though everyone he loves is gone. I believe he feels he lost both his parent’s, because his mother betrayed him and married his uncle, her brother-in-law, after his father died. The only person that is truly there for him is his friend Heratio, because no one is holding Heratio back from being a friend and support system for Hamlet. Heration even expressed that he came to Older Hamlet’s funeral, not Queen Gertrude’s wedding. Even though Hamlet loves Ophelia, she has her father holding her back from being by Hamlet’s side, and right now he doesn’t need that drama and stress in his life. That could possibly make his life worse.
Poetry of Coleridge and Shelley
1. Enacting social change and political change was the main idea for most literate in the Romantic period. For instance, Kubla Khan was written to endorse social change. Coleridge wrote this poem to caution readers against the pleasure of thinking for themselves and thinking outside the box. Because of the author’s trip on opium it was safe to say his sanity was not fully intact. There is a range of views in the poem. For example, "with walls and towers were girdled round", " by woman wailing for her demon lover", and " a sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice". The author’s thoughts jump from one topic to another. The author’s mind has very eclectic thoughts, which just results to his writing into unruliness. His writing could have been a warning to readers in the dangers and confusion of using your imagination. It is great to have imagination but you have to know where to draw the line between imagination and reality. The author clearly had no boundaries, which confused his imagination with reality.
2. There are three voices being heard in the poem, which are narrator, the traveler, and the king, Ozymandias. The three voices give the listeners three different perspectives on the situations occurring the poem. The narrator might not have experienced the traveler’s journey, but that is a perspective looking from the outside in. The king’s voice informs listeners about his character. For example, Line 10-11 " My name is Ozymandias, king of kings, Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!". This shows listeners how egotistical and prideful he was. At the end of the poem it talks about how the statue fell. When statue disintegrate it was symbolizing for the downfall of his empire. The empire downfall was due to the King being hubris.
2. There are three voices being heard in the poem, which are narrator, the traveler, and the king, Ozymandias. The three voices give the listeners three different perspectives on the situations occurring the poem. The narrator might not have experienced the traveler’s journey, but that is a perspective looking from the outside in. The king’s voice informs listeners about his character. For example, Line 10-11 " My name is Ozymandias, king of kings, Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!". This shows listeners how egotistical and prideful he was. At the end of the poem it talks about how the statue fell. When statue disintegrate it was symbolizing for the downfall of his empire. The empire downfall was due to the King being hubris.
Friday, March 20, 2009
Blake poetry
1) I believe that Blake’s poetry had the power to enact social change but he doesn’t appeal to the reader’s imagination. Kids were very much dying in actual life, so I feel he enacts social change by appealing to the reality of what occurred in actual life. I believe Blake wanted readers to empathize for the children who were dying in the soot of their job.
2) This didn’t affect my reading. I fell wherever the text is written will not change my opinion.
2) This didn’t affect my reading. I fell wherever the text is written will not change my opinion.
1984
George Orwell’s novel, 1984, includes a doctrine that O’Brien proclaims to Winston. The role, which the doctrine plays, is to maintain the system of oligarchic collectivism. Also, the fate of Winston is proclaimed in this doctrine.
O’Brien is a conniving, manipulating, sneaky character in Orwell’s 1984. He manipulates Winston into thinking he could be trusted, but he is actually sneaking behind Winston’s back and is actually a spy from the Party. Winston has always been against the Party and what they stand for, but he never publicly portrays his opposition of the Party. He has kept his secret to himself until O’Brien comes along. O’Brien wins Winston’s trust, but when he realizes he has him at his best, he turns on him, and the doctrine comes into play.
During O’Brien’s broadcast, Winston is being tortured. O’Brien proclaims that Winston’s crime was the refusal of the Party’s command and history. O’Brien tells Winston only acceptance will stop the pain and will keep his sanity. He feels as though the Party is a perfected society that needs no change, which leads him, feels that torture is what will “cure” Winston.
Winston accepts the Party and what they stand for. He agrees with anything the party has to say, for example as O’Brien held up four fingers Winston accepted that he was holding up five. Winston even admitted and convinced himself that O’Brien wasn’t the cause of his pain, but not accepting the Party was.
Within this passage, Winston’s fate can be proclaimed. At the end of the book Winston is freed with the acceptance of the Party. He realizes all along by conforming and following the Party’s bylaws is what he should have done along time ago. The Party was always there to keep everything in order and was always right.
Through this doctrine many ideas were proclaimed, which was to prove that the system of oligarchic collectivism was the best way to run a society and keep everything in order. Also within this doctrine the fate of Winston was also determined.
O’Brien is a conniving, manipulating, sneaky character in Orwell’s 1984. He manipulates Winston into thinking he could be trusted, but he is actually sneaking behind Winston’s back and is actually a spy from the Party. Winston has always been against the Party and what they stand for, but he never publicly portrays his opposition of the Party. He has kept his secret to himself until O’Brien comes along. O’Brien wins Winston’s trust, but when he realizes he has him at his best, he turns on him, and the doctrine comes into play.
During O’Brien’s broadcast, Winston is being tortured. O’Brien proclaims that Winston’s crime was the refusal of the Party’s command and history. O’Brien tells Winston only acceptance will stop the pain and will keep his sanity. He feels as though the Party is a perfected society that needs no change, which leads him, feels that torture is what will “cure” Winston.
Winston accepts the Party and what they stand for. He agrees with anything the party has to say, for example as O’Brien held up four fingers Winston accepted that he was holding up five. Winston even admitted and convinced himself that O’Brien wasn’t the cause of his pain, but not accepting the Party was.
Within this passage, Winston’s fate can be proclaimed. At the end of the book Winston is freed with the acceptance of the Party. He realizes all along by conforming and following the Party’s bylaws is what he should have done along time ago. The Party was always there to keep everything in order and was always right.
Through this doctrine many ideas were proclaimed, which was to prove that the system of oligarchic collectivism was the best way to run a society and keep everything in order. Also within this doctrine the fate of Winston was also determined.
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Gulliveer's Travels 03/9/09
Questions that I've come up with consist of the following:
1. What do you think the origin of Hekinah degul derived from?
I asked this question because I feel it’s relevant to know the origin of the language to possibly have a better understanding of the story. A term could come up that’s very common in that languages that if I did some research I will understand.
2 .What do you feel the main theme of this excerpt was?
This is a common literary question that is always asked.
3. Do you think if the Lilliputians weren’t in fear of Gulliver, would he still be a royal figure?
I asked this because when you read about royal figures they are usually feared. You never here about groups are praising someone who is so sweet and kind. I feel that fear is a main characteristic that is found in a leader.
Journal Entry:
Raheem, my partner, and I have came up with teaching guidlines to present on tuesday March 10, 2009. In our lesson we have compiled questions and predictions that refer to Gulliver’s Travel. These were a combination of our individuals questions and predictions that we feel were the most relevant and will get the most discussion from it.
1. What do you think the origin of Hekinah degul derived from?
I asked this question because I feel it’s relevant to know the origin of the language to possibly have a better understanding of the story. A term could come up that’s very common in that languages that if I did some research I will understand.
2 .What do you feel the main theme of this excerpt was?
This is a common literary question that is always asked.
3. Do you think if the Lilliputians weren’t in fear of Gulliver, would he still be a royal figure?
I asked this because when you read about royal figures they are usually feared. You never here about groups are praising someone who is so sweet and kind. I feel that fear is a main characteristic that is found in a leader.
Journal Entry:
Raheem, my partner, and I have came up with teaching guidlines to present on tuesday March 10, 2009. In our lesson we have compiled questions and predictions that refer to Gulliver’s Travel. These were a combination of our individuals questions and predictions that we feel were the most relevant and will get the most discussion from it.
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Allynn's Blog
This year
Change has come
A new life has been born, a new god has emerged
This Year, a new year, has come
Words have been altered
Their meaning has gone astray, their being is forbidden
This Year is why
Pleasure has a new meaning
Lust and thinking was once a pleasure we took advantage of
This Year, no more
Your actions are no longer yours
Your actions belong to the new god
This year he is always watching you
Four angels have come in this heaven
Minitrue, Minpax, Miniluv, Miniplenty
This year, which one are you?
Change has come
A new life has been born, a new god has emerged
This Year, 1984, has come
-Allynn
In the poem, “This Year”, written by myself, I have constructed my interpretation on what I thought was important in the novel, 1984. I used the word “changes” as a replacement for the rules the Party enforced on their lifestyle. I used “GOD” and the “angels” as a representation of “Big Brother” and the “ministries”, but I specifically used those strong, positive, and holy images to contradict the idea that the Party’s changes were relevant to run a group’s lifestyle and were conniving and devilish.
Change has come
A new life has been born, a new god has emerged
This Year, a new year, has come
Words have been altered
Their meaning has gone astray, their being is forbidden
This Year is why
Pleasure has a new meaning
Lust and thinking was once a pleasure we took advantage of
This Year, no more
Your actions are no longer yours
Your actions belong to the new god
This year he is always watching you
Four angels have come in this heaven
Minitrue, Minpax, Miniluv, Miniplenty
This year, which one are you?
Change has come
A new life has been born, a new god has emerged
This Year, 1984, has come
-Allynn
In the poem, “This Year”, written by myself, I have constructed my interpretation on what I thought was important in the novel, 1984. I used the word “changes” as a replacement for the rules the Party enforced on their lifestyle. I used “GOD” and the “angels” as a representation of “Big Brother” and the “ministries”, but I specifically used those strong, positive, and holy images to contradict the idea that the Party’s changes were relevant to run a group’s lifestyle and were conniving and devilish.
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