Well, I have learned many things throughout the semester in Classical Foundations of Literature. I just wasn't sure what to do for my last post. I finally decided that the only way that I will someday be immortal is to get started on my story that will maybe be remembered by someone in the future. I don't have any great stories yet, but here is a start. Below is a link to my cultural autobiography. Maybe someday when I become a famous writer, people can look back at this autobiography and say, "Man, she had a pretty boring start. How did she become the person she is now?"
Cultural Autobiography link: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dfv9z9jq_3cvr5vn
Wednesday, May 2, 2007
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
Term Paper Link
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dfv9z9jq_1fp9j4p
(Well, as you can see, I am not a computer genius. Therefore, this is the best I could do to get my term paper available to everyone. Anyways, the link doesn't bring up a separate web page. Therefore, you will have to click the back button to navigate back to my blog. Enjoy!)
(Well, as you can see, I am not a computer genius. Therefore, this is the best I could do to get my term paper available to everyone. Anyways, the link doesn't bring up a separate web page. Therefore, you will have to click the back button to navigate back to my blog. Enjoy!)
Monday, April 30, 2007
Individual Presentaions Session 3
17) Luke- anything men love more than anything is power.
-Did women really need men?
-Sex seemed to be "running" men's' lives
-Through life, pain, miseries; it would be better to be dead. (Sophocles)
-Love of people
-Metamorphoses- love life "I shall have life!"
18) Ashley- Homeric Hymns (Demeter version)
-Women's introduction into the right of passage
-Issues of women being relationships, fertility, death
-Issues of men being war, etc...
-Both men and women needing to be part of heroic quests
-Human oppression = based on individual personalities
-In conclusion, we all need to have characteristics of men and women
-Final though: Poem titled Tiger Lily written by Ashley
19) Melissa- Scapegoat
-39,000 books with keyword scapegoat when "scapegoat" is googled
-Renee Girard - Scapegoat (Bacchae of Euripides)
-"The secret to success is knowing who to blame for your failures."
-5 ways to avoid being a scapegoat. (Symmetrization's)
1) Avoid being the new guy in town.
2) Be on time...
3) Avoid winning the game...
4) Avoid being different in any way.
5) Avoid being well liked
-"A good scapegoat is nearly as welcome as a solution to the problem."
20) Brian- Scapegoats
-Loved the Ace Ventura: Pet Detective excerpt
-Dolphins in the Superbowl...Finkle messing up the winning kick!
-Brian's scapegoat experience in Harrison Hall
-The notion of "scapegoating" is the best example of the past possessing the future.
-Scapegoating is the best wall humanity can relate to each other. WE ALL make mistakes, we all "scapegoat."
21) Alex- 5 conflicts of Antigones in relation to classic movies
-5 movies
1) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest = individual vs. society
2) Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs = old vs. young
3) Raiders of the lost Ark = gods vs. humans
4) Frankenstein = dead vs. living
5) My Fair Lady = men vs. women
22) Danielle- Triple Goddess
1) One person with three different characteristics. Maybe birth, love, and death.
2) Three different people as one. Ex. Mother, daughter, and grandmother.
-White Goddess by Robert Graves
Triple crescent
Triple goddess
23) John - science fiction is an extension of mythology.
24) Serita- The Doors and their Jim Morrison comparison to Dionysus.
-Mission to see the world in a different light.
-Morrison used drugs, but whatever!
-Open mindness
-The End From Oedipus.
-Freedom
-To become a classic, you must invoke the classics.
The End
This is the end, beautiful friend
This is the end, my only friend
The end of our elaborate plans
The end of everything that stands
The end.
No safety or surprise
The end
I'll never look into your eyes again
Can you picture what will be
So limitless and free
Desperately in need of some stranger's hand
In a desperate land
Lost in a Roman wilderness of pain
And all the children are insane
All the children are insane
Waiting for the summer rain
There's danger on the edge of town
Ride the King's highway
Weird scenes inside the gold mine
Ride the highway west, baby
Ride the snake
Ride the snake
To the lake
To the Lake
The ancient lake, baby
The snake is long
Seven miles
Ride a snake
He's old
And his skin is cold
The west is the best
The west is the best
Get here and we'll do the rest
The blue bus is calling us
The blue bus is calling us
Driver, where are you taking us?
The killer awoke before dawn
He put his boots on
He took a face from the ancient gallery
And he walked on down the hall
He went into the room where his sister lived
And then he paid a visit to his brother
And then he walked on down the hall
And he came to a door
And he looked inside
Father
Yea son?
I want to kill you
Mother, I want to...
C'mon baby, take a chance with us (times 3)
And meet me at the back of the blue bus
Doin' a blue rock on a blue bus
Doin' a blue rock. C'mon, yeah
Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill.
This is the end, beautiful friend
This is the end, my only friend
The end
It hurts to set you free
But you'll never follow me
The end of laughter and soft lies
The end of nights we tried to die
This is the end!
(Lyrics URL: http://www.alwaysontherun.net/doors.htm#k)
-Did women really need men?
-Sex seemed to be "running" men's' lives
-Through life, pain, miseries; it would be better to be dead. (Sophocles)
-Love of people
-Metamorphoses- love life "I shall have life!"
18) Ashley- Homeric Hymns (Demeter version)
-Women's introduction into the right of passage
-Issues of women being relationships, fertility, death
-Issues of men being war, etc...
-Both men and women needing to be part of heroic quests
-Human oppression = based on individual personalities
-In conclusion, we all need to have characteristics of men and women
-Final though: Poem titled Tiger Lily written by Ashley
19) Melissa- Scapegoat
-39,000 books with keyword scapegoat when "scapegoat" is googled
-Renee Girard - Scapegoat (Bacchae of Euripides)
-"The secret to success is knowing who to blame for your failures."
-5 ways to avoid being a scapegoat. (Symmetrization's)
1) Avoid being the new guy in town.
2) Be on time...
3) Avoid winning the game...
4) Avoid being different in any way.
5) Avoid being well liked
-"A good scapegoat is nearly as welcome as a solution to the problem."
20) Brian- Scapegoats
-Loved the Ace Ventura: Pet Detective excerpt
-Dolphins in the Superbowl...Finkle messing up the winning kick!
-Brian's scapegoat experience in Harrison Hall
-The notion of "scapegoating" is the best example of the past possessing the future.
-Scapegoating is the best wall humanity can relate to each other. WE ALL make mistakes, we all "scapegoat."
21) Alex- 5 conflicts of Antigones in relation to classic movies
-5 movies
1) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest = individual vs. society
2) Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs = old vs. young
3) Raiders of the lost Ark = gods vs. humans
4) Frankenstein = dead vs. living
5) My Fair Lady = men vs. women
22) Danielle- Triple Goddess
1) One person with three different characteristics. Maybe birth, love, and death.
2) Three different people as one. Ex. Mother, daughter, and grandmother.
-White Goddess by Robert Graves
Triple crescentTriple goddess23) John - science fiction is an extension of mythology.
24) Serita- The Doors and their Jim Morrison comparison to Dionysus.
-Mission to see the world in a different light.
-Morrison used drugs, but whatever!
-Open mindness
-The End From Oedipus.
-Freedom
-To become a classic, you must invoke the classics.
The End
This is the end, beautiful friend
This is the end, my only friend
The end of our elaborate plans
The end of everything that stands
The end.
No safety or surprise
The end
I'll never look into your eyes again
Can you picture what will be
So limitless and free
Desperately in need of some stranger's hand
In a desperate land
Lost in a Roman wilderness of pain
And all the children are insane
All the children are insane
Waiting for the summer rain
There's danger on the edge of town
Ride the King's highway
Weird scenes inside the gold mine
Ride the highway west, baby
Ride the snake
Ride the snake
To the lake
To the Lake
The ancient lake, baby
The snake is long
Seven miles
Ride a snake
He's old
And his skin is cold
The west is the best
The west is the best
Get here and we'll do the rest
The blue bus is calling us
The blue bus is calling us
Driver, where are you taking us?
The killer awoke before dawn
He put his boots on
He took a face from the ancient gallery
And he walked on down the hall
He went into the room where his sister lived
And then he paid a visit to his brother
And then he walked on down the hall
And he came to a door
And he looked inside
Father
Yea son?
I want to kill you
Mother, I want to...
C'mon baby, take a chance with us (times 3)
And meet me at the back of the blue bus
Doin' a blue rock on a blue bus
Doin' a blue rock. C'mon, yeah
Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill.
This is the end, beautiful friend
This is the end, my only friend
The end
It hurts to set you free
But you'll never follow me
The end of laughter and soft lies
The end of nights we tried to die
This is the end!
(Lyrics URL: http://www.alwaysontherun.net/doors.htm#k)
Session 2 of Individual Presentations
10) Me: Janet-My Terpsichore. Dance is my life and first love of my life. Janet was my inspiration to dance, therefore, Janet was the Terpsichore of my story. (Coincidentally, Terpsichore is the muse of dance.)
-Terpsichore, Muse of Music and Dance by Jean-Marc Nattier (Picture below)
(Here is the URL to a YouTube video of this song performed by Kansas: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB17uWuBrL0)
12) Jared- Calvin (Comic strip) vs. Antigones
-Many times the Comic Calvin and Hobbes represents the 5 conflicts of society as in Antigones.
14) John: (Metamorphoses) Catcher in the Rye and the 5 conflicts of Antigone
15) William - Immortality
-The way people remain immortal, is through the stories they tell. If you want to be immortal, not necessarily in the flesh and breathing state but your sole, TELL STORIES!
16) Mick - Walkabout - a book that references all the stuff we talked about.
-Through walking, you gain knowledge. Your brain is on constant thinking mode.
-Terpsichore, Muse of Music and Dance by Jean-Marc Nattier (Picture below)
(Here is the URL to a YouTube video of this song performed by Kansas: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB17uWuBrL0)
12) Jared- Calvin (Comic strip) vs. Antigones
-Many times the Comic Calvin and Hobbes represents the 5 conflicts of society as in Antigones.
- Individual vs Society
- Old vs Young
- Dead vs Living
- Gods vs humans
- Men vs. women
14) John: (Metamorphoses) Catcher in the Rye and the 5 conflicts of Antigone
15) William - Immortality
-The way people remain immortal, is through the stories they tell. If you want to be immortal, not necessarily in the flesh and breathing state but your sole, TELL STORIES!
16) Mick - Walkabout - a book that references all the stuff we talked about.
-Through walking, you gain knowledge. Your brain is on constant thinking mode.
Session One of Individual Projects
1) Allison: Lysistrata
-Why can women strike on men?
-Can this strike be reversed? Men strike on women?
-Modernization
-Patriarichal society
* On the test: What character from Ovid did Allison's character represent?
2) Chase: Jesus vs Dionysus
-Why can women strike on men?
-Can this strike be reversed? Men strike on women?
-Modernization
-Patriarichal society
* On the test: What character from Ovid did Allison's character represent?
2) Chase: Jesus vs Dionysus
3) Hannah: Lysistrata
-Modern examples of Lyistrata
-Poems comparing women to the sea, to a dog, and a bee.
4) Brittany: Grandmother's Story on the phone, Minnie Mouse photograph, Bob the rat.
- Breaking rule...it happened in the past and it happens now. Why is breaking the rules so acceptional sometimes? Why is breaking rules a part of literature and life?
5) Megan: There is love in all the stories tha we read.
- Cupid and Psyche = confusion and love
6) Jesse: I loved the acting in this presentation! Very awesome!
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7) Jan: Comparison of Dionysus to the Virginia tech assassin
8) Brittini: Roles of women in our books
- Comparison of women figures in classic lit books to popular figures.
9) Barbara: story of the old woman in the park, classical literature stories, ducks, grandson's.
Sunday, April 29, 2007
Our Group Presentation
Stichomythia - Ross, Jan, John, Danielle, Allison and Me
Relating George Bush to each...
1) Lysistrata
2) The Bacchae
3) Antigones
Well you have already seen our group presentation therefore I will only include the introductions of each piece that I wrote. I think by reading them you will understand what our presentation was kind of about.
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Lysistrata
It was a cold and bitter day for President George W. Bush when Cindy Sheehan, an outraged mother victimized by the death of her son whom died in Iraq and first lady Laura Bush, were injected with a dose of Lysistrata. They were out to stop the president and Dick Cheney from supporting the war. But how were they going to stop these two bull-headed politicians? In this stichomythic and comical representation of Laura Bush: The New Age Lysistrata, George W. will be played by…
The Bacchae
Earlier today Barbara Bush, President Bush’s mother and her friends went to a Democrat Rally. Once there, they all got very drunk on mimosa’s and extremely dry martinis. Coincidentally, George W. went to spy on his mother and the other evil doers. Upon discovering the spy, Barbara and her friends mistook George W. for a rat and sparagmosed him. In The Bacchae Retelling, Barbara will be played by….
The scene opens with Barbara bringing the supposed rat home to show her husband, George Sr.
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Relating George Bush to each...
1) Lysistrata
2) The Bacchae
3) Antigones
Well you have already seen our group presentation therefore I will only include the introductions of each piece that I wrote. I think by reading them you will understand what our presentation was kind of about.
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Lysistrata
It was a cold and bitter day for President George W. Bush when Cindy Sheehan, an outraged mother victimized by the death of her son whom died in Iraq and first lady Laura Bush, were injected with a dose of Lysistrata. They were out to stop the president and Dick Cheney from supporting the war. But how were they going to stop these two bull-headed politicians? In this stichomythic and comical representation of Laura Bush: The New Age Lysistrata, George W. will be played by…
The Bacchae
Earlier today Barbara Bush, President Bush’s mother and her friends went to a Democrat Rally. Once there, they all got very drunk on mimosa’s and extremely dry martinis. Coincidentally, George W. went to spy on his mother and the other evil doers. Upon discovering the spy, Barbara and her friends mistook George W. for a rat and sparagmosed him. In The Bacchae Retelling, Barbara will be played by….
The scene opens with Barbara bringing the supposed rat home to show her husband, George Sr.
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The Golden Ass
Cupid and Psyche
QUE BONITA!!! (That's "what beautiful" in Spanish.)
(There is no real "moral of the story" in the Metamorphoses. But if you need one: 1) Shit happens and 2) Things change.)
Lucius changes into an Ass. New version of Mr. Ed. (Not really, but sort of.)
-Transformations or "Metamorphoses" of Lucius.
THE ONLY MORAL OF THE STORY IS THE STORY!
-Experience the story by reading the story itself.
~Same as in the Golden Ass...life isn't a picnic for an Ass.
*Black Swan Green
Hyrosgomos - sacred marriage
*Romeo and Juliet and Braveheart
~Fairytale=degenerate myth.
The best aphrodisiac is storytelling.
QUE BONITA!!! (That's "what beautiful" in Spanish.)
(There is no real "moral of the story" in the Metamorphoses. But if you need one: 1) Shit happens and 2) Things change.)
Lucius changes into an Ass. New version of Mr. Ed. (Not really, but sort of.)
-Transformations or "Metamorphoses" of Lucius.
THE ONLY MORAL OF THE STORY IS THE STORY!
-Experience the story by reading the story itself.
~Same as in the Golden Ass...life isn't a picnic for an Ass.
*Black Swan Green
Hyrosgomos - sacred marriage
*Romeo and Juliet and Braveheart
~Fairytale=degenerate myth.
The best aphrodisiac is storytelling.
Storytelling
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