I chose to right about the story the Beauty and the Beast by Jeanne-Marie LePrince Beaumont. I want to prove that reasoning is developed within everyone and it is up to the person on how they use their skills. I talked about how God gives a conscious to humans because he wanted them to be able to make choices instead being bestial.
I am struggling making it flow or if this is the story I really want to right about!
I have really enjoyed your class so far besides the fact that you kick us out if we forget something most of us are not there to screw you over and sometimes are life is so overwhelming that we forget minor things . . .we are human. I really liked the grammar guides because of the vocabulary words they are coming in handy when I am righting other papers to make me sound at a higher academic level. I also like the group discussions we do on the stories, this really helps me see things that others did and why they felt that way.
Monday, February 28, 2011
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Beauty and the Beast
Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont – “Beauty and the Beast”
This article was very interesting it was completely different from the movie.
Setting
1. 1.Beast’s Castle
– located deep within the forest
2. 2.Beauty’s Bedroom (Apartment)
- Where Beast tried to convince Beauty to marry him, he did this every night at nine o’clock.
- Foreshadowing – The Beast’s secret of the cure for the curse that is on him.
3. Merchants house
- Beauty’s father
- Located in country near Beast’s castle
- Learn all about Beauty and her much she loves and devotes her life to her father.
Point of View
- 3rd person omniscient
· The author is telling the thought of many characters throughout the story
~ Examples: Beauty, Beast, Beauty’s Sisters, & the father
Comparison: Movie to the Story
| Bell - only child Father - Inventor | Beauty - five siblings Father - merchant |
| Beast – mean, rude, in the beginning – changed over time | Beast – Nice, caring, understanding, considerate and loving from the very beginning |
| Rose – symbol of Beast’s life left | Rose – used to get Beauty to stay with him forever. |
| People also cursed into objects | No one in the house but the Beast |
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Cuba
After reading the story We came all the Way from Cuba So You Could Dress Like This? by Archy Obejas was a very interesting story but I didn't like how the author jumped around from present, past, and future she is very hard to follow but otherwise it was an eye opener. She makes sure the reader understands how life was for her the doubts the questions the idea of what if she would have stayed in Cuba would her life be different. She wanted to go back to Cuba but her father forbid her to even think about that because they brought her over the America for her to have a better future for herself.
When her father dies she realizes there are things she never told him but she seems okay with him being gone because I believe now she feels like she can live her own life not one constantly being overlooked by her father. She is allowed to experience the life in Cuba if she chooses or just to live life with out the pressure of her father's perfect dream.
When her father dies she realizes there are things she never told him but she seems okay with him being gone because I believe now she feels like she can live her own life not one constantly being overlooked by her father. She is allowed to experience the life in Cuba if she chooses or just to live life with out the pressure of her father's perfect dream.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Racism
I enjoyed our discussion today I think racism is such an issue in the world today but like you said we live in such a sheltered area that we do not recognize what is going on world wide. I try not to be judging or stereotypical but it sometimes happens now after today I realize how much it is going on around me.
People are different all around us even within our own race. I wish people could get past the skin color to really get to know people and to give them that chance at an equal opportunity. I know a lot of people of different color than myself and all I see is people/ friends. I know that we as White Americans ruined the lives of many different races that we took away everything they knew and loved and made them become something completely different and we didn't care about their feelings or opinions on the matter.
I think class today was very good and something we should do again because everyone needs to know the importance of treating every person with respect no matter the color or the past of that color they as a person are created equally by God and deserve to be treated like a person not a slave or an inferior being.
People are different all around us even within our own race. I wish people could get past the skin color to really get to know people and to give them that chance at an equal opportunity. I know a lot of people of different color than myself and all I see is people/ friends. I know that we as White Americans ruined the lives of many different races that we took away everything they knew and loved and made them become something completely different and we didn't care about their feelings or opinions on the matter.
I think class today was very good and something we should do again because everyone needs to know the importance of treating every person with respect no matter the color or the past of that color they as a person are created equally by God and deserve to be treated like a person not a slave or an inferior being.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Fake Twitter Accounts
Fake Twitter Accounts are causing a great deal of problems, because they are able to go in an impersonate someone of higher authority. "I love that we have no idea who is behind them, and that's part of the fun" people today have no respect for others they love to make drama happen just to see what will make of the situation. I have had friends before who would like to get on each others facebook when that certain person wouldn't be around just so they could make up something to allow drama and rumors to spread. If we as a society do nothing with the continuing spread of technology then who knows what will be happening in the future. I am not saying that technology is bad by any means I just believe that technology needs to be watched and better protected so others can not just destroy one person's life.
I also think that when people are making twitter accounts for Chuck Norris and Sara Palin they need to be treated as vandalizing because they are taking their lives and destroying them. With these accounts people are hiding behind their text and not confronting people with their problems and I believe that is a great problem with our society today.
I also think that when people are making twitter accounts for Chuck Norris and Sara Palin they need to be treated as vandalizing because they are taking their lives and destroying them. With these accounts people are hiding behind their text and not confronting people with their problems and I believe that is a great problem with our society today.
Friday, February 11, 2011
The Metamorphesis
After I have reread The Metamorphesis from what we discussed in class it started to make more sense to me but I really didn't enjoy reading a book where a man turns into a bug. I though it was a very depressing story where this man was a very hard working person who really cared about his family and when he got changed into a bug they pretty much deserted him. He was trapped in his very small room with nothing to exciting ever happening and eventually he felt like such a pain to his family that he gave up on life and died.
I think that happens a lot in the world today when people just stop having the drive to live when they feel no one else cares or understands them. They like Gregor just quite eating and eventually let go and die.
I think that happens a lot in the world today when people just stop having the drive to live when they feel no one else cares or understands them. They like Gregor just quite eating and eventually let go and die.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Sources
Barratt, Andrew. “The X-Factor in Zamyatin’s “We.””MHRA 80.3 (1985): 659-672. Web 1 Feb. 2011.
Hutchings, William. “Structure and design in a Soviet Dystopia: H.G. Wells, Constructivism, and Yevgeny Zamyatin’s “We.”” UP 9.1 (1981-1982): 81-102. Web 1 Feb. 2011.
Leatherbarrow, W. J. “Einstein and the Art of Yevgeny Zamyatin.” MHRA 82.1 (1987):142-151. Web 1 Feb. 2011.
Zamyatin, Yevgeny. We. Trans. Natasha Randall. Modern Library: New York, 2006. Print
I know they should be at a Hanging set up but it wouldn't let me space them over!!!
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