GREAT EXPECTATIONS - Collaborative Working Group

My collaborative working group for Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is Vanessa, Chase, Mirah, and Me.
My assignment for the book is chapters 45-59.
In the end of the book Pip has obtained much wealth and social class and him and Estella end up together as they leave the garden hand in hand.

Allegory of the Cave

1- Allegory of the Cave represents how our future is enlightened or unenlightened.

2- Imagery elements : very descriptive . Example- the certainly did see both small and great.

3- Enlightenment/Education -  calls to question authority. Example - but is not this unjust? 

4- Cave Dwellers - quote: "to them the truth would be nothing but the shadows of the images.

5- What shackles my mind today in this society is homework and stress.

6- freed prisoner vs. cave prisoner - free referring to their mind is free.

7- 2 contexts: enlightened thinking or unenlightening thinking (dark).

8- to get free: arithmetic knowledge should not be given up.

9- I agree that there is definitely a difference between appearance and reality. People who "have it all" are normally mentally unsure of themselves.

10- Reality and appearance can be the same in physical appearance and personality type.

WE HANG TOGETHER

Inter-organized relationships can be competitive, interdependent or a combination of the two.

It is useful to consider inter-organizational relations in terms of both competition and collaboration.

Strategic alliance has evolved.

HAMLET REMIX - A POEM

A Poem 

Hamlet Has Hairy thoughts

And As An Affect of this

Yells Yucky words 

Lachrymosing over Losing

Everything of his fathers Ectype

Yahrzeit Young king Hamlet

Hamlet Essay

One of the main themes in Hamlet is his inner self loathing. He is beat up over his fathers death which is causing him to be anxious. He doesn't know who for sure who to blame for sure for his fathers death. The performance utterance in Hamlet states that Hamlet is a play about a man who could not make up what is real in his mind not about a man that could not make up his mind, which I suppose is very accurate statement about Hamlet. 

Hamlets indecisiveness affects the other characters by his mom having Rosencratz and Guilderston watch over him. It changes the plot because the antagonist is constantly changing. This compares to my own self overhearing because I often find myself  "thinking to much". This story makes me reflect on the times I'my life where I have been indecisive and how stressful being confused can be. 

Remix Resources

I learned from the remix resources that a remix is a way to change something. Whether it be taking old literature and making it more upbeat and easier to understand OR it could be taking a modern rap song and remixing it into a country song (REPLAY the song).

A Poetic Inquiry

My Big Question:

There is a quote that I have always remembered. I forgot who its by, and I don't remember where I first heard it but it is -- "the problem is you think you have time" -- This is relevant to my "big question" because my Big Question is: WHY DOES TIME GO BY SO FAST? ...  I have always wondered why time goes by so fast when you are enjoying yourself (summer break, vacation, hanging out with friends) but goes by so slow when you are not enjoying yourself. Does your mind totally forget about the aspect of time while you are having fun or does it just forget about it because its unchangeable? Why is it so much more relevant in your thoughts while you are not enjoying yourself?

Sonnet Choice:

Sonnet 12 by William Shakespeare

When I do count the clock that tells the time,

And see the brave day sunk in hideous night;

When I behold the violet past prime,

And sable curls, all silver'd o'er with white;

When lofty trees I see barren of leaves,

Which erst from heat did canopy the herd,

And summer's green all girded up in sheaves,

Borne on the bier with white and bristly beard;

Then of thy beauty do I question make,

That thou among the wastes of time must go,

Since sweets and beauties do themselves forsake,

And die as fast as they see others grow;

And nothing 'gainst Time's scythe can make defence

Save breed, to brave him when he takes thee hence.

Relation:

I choose this sonnet because it relates to my big question since they are both about time. My question was why does time go by so fast and in this sonnet it says : Then of thy beauty do I question make,

That thou among the wastes of time must go, which wonders the the same thing about the beauty of where time goes.  

Sonnet Analysis #1

•little sound, little song

•two different kinds 

Petrarch 

Shaksperian

•1 8 lines

  1 6 lines 

Tools that Change the Way We Think

The internet and technology changes the way I think because it makes me comfortable in the way that I know I have unlimited resources available about anything I would ever want to know. I personally think that the internet has empowered people and has made the general public smarter people because of unlimited resources. Before the internet if anyone (professors or students) wanted to obtain information they had to go to the library and read a text book or an encyclopedia. Now if you want to get information you can get it on your cell phone in seconds. Never in a million years did people think we could run an AP English class off of the internet where we learn and get to be more creative then a class taught with pen and paper.