Photo Post: Great Expectations

This photo represents how Pip is improving his social standing by leaving his village, family and everyone he knows behind to go to London. Pip suddenly feels that he is above others because he is going to be"brought up as a gentleman", something the photo also clearly communicates.

Great Expectations

In this quote Pip is referring to his visit with Miss. Havisham and saying it is a moment that would change the rest of his life. During the short time he was with Miss. Havisham and Estella that day he saw a different way of living, something far outside his common day-to-day life. Pips view of life has widened: he sees the possibilities outside his small village, outside his intended profession. Unfortunately he also sees himself through new eyes; he recognizes his own commonness, his ignorance and extreme sensitivity. An incredible sense of shame in himself and his surroundings begins inside of him after he discovers how others live.

I cant remember the day my chain started and I'm pretty sure that the formation of my character cant be traced back to a single day either. My character is made up of more things than can ever be contained in twenty-four hours. Even a single year that changed my character is hard to find; memorable things happened to me all through grade school that make me who I am. The most meaningful experience happened when I was six and I took ballet at the community center and I absolutely loved it, it was the highlight of my week. Problem was, I was horrible at it and all the other girls in the class never let me forget it. It was almost tragic that I was bad at the thing that made me the happiest. I'd like to say that I this taught me not to let peoples opinions affect me but that's not what it taught me. I learned that what people say can change your whole outlook on something forever and that if you never try at anything you never have to fail at anything.

The Importance of Being Earnest Essay

So I'm writing about the biggest and most serious lies that are told in the play. This is going to go after Ahlora's paragraph and before the conclusion. My first concrete detail is that Algernon creates an invalid friend Bunbury. My CM is to point out that Algy has done this to escape unpleasant things that happens in his life. The second CM is that he uses the lie of Bunbury to lie to people, for example Algernon tells his Aunt Augusta that Bunbury is why he cant have dinner with her.
The second CD is disturbingly close to the first; Jack has told the people in the country that he has a younger brother called Ernest. My first commentary is about how and why Jack uses Ernest to leave the country and go to town. The second is about the differences between how Jack and Algy use the person they have created. My final CD is how Jack and Algy both pretend to be named Ernest. A CM for this is that they both do this to woo the women they love and if this makes the lies any less severe. The last CM is that by pretending to be named Ernest they are doing possibly the least earnest thing ever.
I'm having some trouble thinking of a good transition from Ahlora's paragraph to mine so if you think of anything that would be nice.

Animal Farm Comic

Jackson Hille "Forgetfulness"

Jackson Hille recites Forgetfulness by Billy Collins. The strongest aspects of his performance were his pose, body language, inflection and dramatization of the piece. The way he inflects the different lines of the poem and animate his face and body movements convey the hilarity of the poem and his understanding that this was a more lighthearted piece. He paused at just the right dynamic points to let the jokes and meaning sink in.

Like I said the poem is more lighthearted and funny, less dramatic or significant like some others. The author is making fun of the innocuous things you used to know that have since slipped away from the mind. I think that if the reciter used a different tone and inflection you could take the poem as a serious reflection on forgetfulness instead.

Motif: Mockingbird

In the beginning of the year I thought I had a fairly good idea of what motif was. I didn't. I had one dictionary.com definition I got for the glossary we had to do to get in to Honors, I called it good and ran with it. Actually I learned what motif is when we began comparing what we said in our glossary definitions and combined them together to get a slum idea of of what it was. I finally 'got' what motif is when we read To Kill a Mockingbird and I realized it was a hidden thing that recurred in the book.

The motif in To Kill a Mockingbird is the mockingbird and how killing it is a sin. The mockingbird never does harm to anyone and represents innocence in the novel. The motif comes up when major events that showcase themes in the novel happen and the mockingbird fleshes it out and brings out the deeper meaning in the important events. An example is the Robinson case, the mockingbird is Tom and this bring out the theme of injustice v. justice.

Symbolism Extra Credit

Some back round information on this jellyfish picture before I go in to its symbolism; the Irukandji is 2.5 centimeters in diameter and has venom powerful enough to cause excruciating muscle cramps in the arms and legs, severe pain in the back and kidneys, headaches, nausea, restlessness, sweating, vomiting, high heart rate and blood pressure, often leading to a stay in the hospital. The point is its a mean SOB in a fragile unassuming shell.

During the dramatic reading I was Judge Taylor. He's getting nigh onto seventy years old, he appears to sleep during long court sessions and rules his court room with the proverbial iron fist. Like the jellyfish his bark is worse then his bite(like how I mix dog metaphors with jellyfish?).