Questions

On page 258, Mr. Pip and Herbert are talking with Mr. Wopsle, and his friend Mr. Waldengarver, and the owner, at the theater. The owner of the theater tells Mr. Waldengarver," The last Hamlet as I dressedmade the same mistakes in his reading at rehersal, till I got him to put a large, red wafer on each one of his shins." I am wondering what would be the equivalent of a wafer, that he is refering to, in the present day?

Great Expectations

This picture reminds of Pip and Hebert's relationship. In the short time they have known each other in London, they have become the best of friends. They have been practically inseparable and are very close. The two ropes are their lives and the prominent rope is Herbert because he is the one to initiate the friendship, by greeting Pip in a cheerful and very friendly way.

Great Expectations: The First Stage

In the quote, Pip is refering to his first visit with Miss Havisham. She shows him the finery and Estalla refuses to play with hhim "because he is commen". This permently changes him because after his experiance among Estella and Mrss Havisham, he starts to see himself as commen and residing in a commen society. He becomes ashamed of his home, his sister and Joe and doesn't want Estella to see him there under any curcumstances. Also, when he starts apprenticing Joe in the forage, he downcast and reluctent and only stays at the forage because he doesn't want to hurt Joe. Suddenly Pip doesn't want to live the dreams he had dreamed before his visit.

A similar experience I had was in 2004. I was eight years old and my family and I lived in Spokane. I was raised in a christion home, so every sunday we would go to church. One Sunday, the paster was telling us about how everyone needs Jesus. He said that we needed him because we are all sinners. Even if we live the best life and do all the good works in the world, we are still seperated from God because he can only be around prefection. However, he longed to be with us and to spend eternity with us. So God sent his one and only son to die for us to forgive us from our sins. After three days he rise his son up from the dead and conqured death once and for all. He showed that he was supreme, and that is when I gave my life to Christ. That moment changed my life forever. Now I was living for a whole new mission: to endwell Christ on this life and I could not go back to my old ways. Of corse, I am only human and I often make mistakes and don't often endwell Christ even though that is my goal and my disire.

The Importance of Being Earnest Essay Colaberation

My first point is about how they are genuinely in love and I wrote on how they are defing the culture by really being in love and how they love each other over all the thousands of poeple in the world, let alone in London.

The I wrote about how their relatioinship was based on high expectations because it was a better topic to write on than the nieveness. I wrote on how it is not very likely that before she knew about him that there is not very likely that someone was even named Ernest or that he would be a likable person.

That Gwendolyn could fall in love with an Ernest is unlikely plus it is based on lies. Ernest doesn't even exist in the begining of the play. Jack isn't willing to tell Gwendolyn the truth about his name and if they lived in this century, their relationship would be doomed because of lack of trust.

I will also add in how Jack and Gwendolyn are the only couple in the play who genuinely love each other and are open about it. Maybe Oscar Wilde put this relationship in the play to tell his readers what he thinks marrige should be about.

The Importance of Being Earnest

The research we did on the Victorian era enhanced my understanding of the play because it made me understand the differences of the culture. One thing I learned was just how badly women were treated back then. Gwendolyn is always being scolded by Lady Bracknell about how she can't make a choice on who she marries. Lady Bracknell said that Algernon could decide for himself, who he is to marry, but never even considers letting Gwendolyn choose who she wants to marry.

Another thing I learned was just how conceited and selfish the upper class really is. When learning about the Victorian theater I found out the upper class expected the lower class to separate themselves from the upper class by a balcony. there even were separate entrances so the rich would never have to come in contact with the poor. This is shown in the play by Lady Bracknell. She isn't interested in Miss Cardew until she finds out Cecily has "a hundred thirty thousand pounds in the funds".

The upper class also cares a lot about society and who your family is. When Lady Bracknell learns that Jack has no family relations he knows of, she doesn't let him marry Gwendolyn. The Victorian Research enhanced my under standing of this because it says that the people liked their social classes clearly defined. Also, the Victorian age was all about who has the most money. If someone doesn't have any rich parents who will or have left them a large fortune then they are looked down on and refused.

Poem about Animal Farm

Napoleon takes over,
It's been his whole plan.
And now that he's there
How can he keep the animals down?

How about lying?
That is his best plan.
The animals can't read very well, they won't know.

The poor animals,
they thought there was a ban
against humans and trading,
but here he is, Mr. Whymper,
here to bargain and trade.
Is it really a necessity for him to be there as Napoleon says
or can he please leave this farm forever?

Unfortunately, the pigs want more privileges.
They reside in the farm house,
and sleep in beds like men.
A rule has been broken,
but the pigs don't want the other animals to know.
Napoleon is willing to lie and kill to keep his secrets.
So to the wall of rules, he sends Squealer
to add two words to the anti-bed rule: with sheets

The other animals won't know.
They can't read or write very well.
The pigs can lie all they want
and the rest of the animals can't do anything about it!

Now Napoleon is the law:
what he says goes.
Some of the animals rebel and its "off with their heads!"
The poor animals have no hope,
as again, Napoleon hides his sin by adding words to the commandments.
This time the new words are: without cause.

The other animals won't know.
They can't read or write very well.
The pigs can lie all they want
and the rest of the animals can't do anything about it!

Now that the pigs are in the house,
they have access to whiskey.
They are now drunk and many have hangovers,
but, remember,
recoded on the barnyard wall it clearly states,
"No animal shall drink alcohol".

The pigs sent Squealer to cover their tracks,
so, tipsy with alcohol, he climbed up the ladder
and fell down with a tumbling smack!
But eventually he records the words he wants to write:
in excess.

The other animals won't know.
They can't read or write very well.
The pigs can lie all they want
and the other animals can't do anything about it!

And later on,
when Napoleon has complete control,
he and the other pigs start walking on two legs
and later wear some clothes from the farmhouse.
what can the other animals say?
They know he is breaking two specific rules,
but they have absolutely no power or say.
I wish I could free the suffering animals.

Poetry Out Loud Preformances

I watched the performance of "Unknown Girl in the Maternity Ward", by Anne Sexton, being preformed by young woman named Amanda Fernandez. The way she preformed it, I could picture the emotions behind the story. Her voice was loud and clear. She had very clear diction and was interesting to watch. The performance was very theatrical, almost like an actress piece instead of a narrator piece, but I think it worked well for this piece.

For me, the meaning of the poem is of a a woman who made a mistake and now she must pray the price with the lost of the child. Throughout the poem the woman shows disgust towards the man who left her and it is presented by Amanda's voice getting louder and angry as she mentions him. Also the woman doesn't want get rid of her baby which is illustrated By the tenderness in Amanda's voice when she recites that part of the poem. How she says it makes me almost want to cry She effectively demonstrated the meaning of the poem.