Ummm My Asian Duo! lol that would be Amy Tu & Cindy Mei! They may hate/dislike me for whatever reasons, but i like to consider them my friends =) they've helped me out a lot this year already (thank you Cindy =D) and we've had some interesting conversations too (haha Amy). Not only this year in this classroom, but last year & outside of the classroom we've helped each other out; whether the response was a NO! w/no explanation, they still gave me their feedback which in turn helped me out. I honestly am not sure whether they think of me the same as i think of them, but i think they can at least call me a friend if not at the minimum an acquaintance. Acquaintance or friend, they can still count on the benefit of me considering them as a friend; and that benefit would be, which applies to all the people I consider my friend, is that matter what, i will be there if you need me. I’ am a person you can always count on. I feel I’m too nice sometimes. Like I got my friends who don’t deserve this benefit but they’re still my friend & I will risk life & limb for them because I care for them nonetheless, same goes for yous =); I got your back, if you ever need help for anything i'll vest all the power in me to help you out =)...most of the time at least and if my schedule allows it =) haha
I consider all my friends my family, regardless of what THEY may consider me. So believe it or not I’m Thankful for yous; my Asian Duo of [Mei]hem xD haha
So Cindy Mei, Amy Tu, if you ever need me; i'll be there! (just look over your shoulders, honey! xD [Michael Jackson haha])
-your friend,
Carlos =)
Monday, November 29, 2010
HOTSG Essays. Question 1 & 4
Essay 1:
Appearance vs. Reality
In the novel that the class has recently finished reading, The House of the Seven Gables, there appears to be a recurring theme. That theme would be Appearance vs. Reality. There most certainly are numerous examples, situations, characters, etc that present the theme, Appearance vs. Reality, throughout the book. Such an example would be The Judge’s Smile, which is perhaps the scariest and evilest thing in The House of the Seven Gables. Judge Jaffrey Pyncheon is the cousin of Clifford & Hepzibah. Throughout the entire book, the Judge Pyncheon maintains this smile; this is no ordinary smile that he maintains. Yes, it is a fake smile but it as perhaps the most powerful, deceiving smile known to man. For it head the powers. Oh the powers it head; the smile had hypnotic powers, so hypnotic and deceiving it was, that it ought to have been a weapon. With this powerful fake smile, he was able to deceive all. No matter how angry he would become, like he did in Chapter 14 when Hepzibah once more (and for the last time) refused to let Judge Pyncheon see Clifford, that deceiving smile would remain; the narrator knows it, the reader knows it, Hepzibah know it, EVERYBODY knows it. What? That Judge Pyncheon was seething anger, ready to explode at this point during Chapter 14, but he maintained his cool, largely because that smile remains. Part of what made that smile so devious, was the fact that it seemed to have a mind of its own; which would make sense in a way, if the smile had its own mind, conscious. It could explain how Judge Pyncheon was able to maintain the smile; the smile would simply maintain itself by the smile’s own will. And what better way to represent Appearance vs. Reality than with a greatly deceiving smile that never disappears and has a mind of its own, obscuring the true identity and person that Judge Jaffrey Pyncheon is.
Essay 2:
Phoebe & Holgrave’s Love
It shall be assumed that you have completed reading The House of the Seven Gables. Fair Enough? At the end of the story, or at least in the closing pages/chapter, Holgrave declares his love to Phoebe. Phoebe is hesitant at first to admit she loves him too, but inevitably she declares her love for him too. For anybody who saw this coming, deserve a round of applause. Them declaring their love for each other did not seem to make sense; or at least that the establishment of their loved did not seem to tie in with the story or have any relationship except that two important characters have fallen for each other. However, if you look deeper into this you will see their love represents something more than “two important characters have fallen for each other” and actually, their love represents a very important symbol if you will and major part of the resolution of the book. Everyone, one would presume, can agree that the main theme to this book is that your family’s past is carried on with you and in the generations to come, or as properly and “fancily” worded on SparkNotes the internet; The Sins of One Generation Are Visited on the Next. Meaning the sins of your ancestors will be carried out through the following generations. So what their love represents is the breaking of this godforsaken curse/theme. Their love represents the beginning, if not end, of the curse of the Pyncheons and the feud between the Maule’s & the Pyncheons; since Holgrave is a Maule & Phoebe a Pyncheon. Their love marks the hopeful end to the terrible past of the horrible relations between their families during earlier times. It symbolizes that there may finally be peace between the Pyncheons & the Maule’s making the Pyncheons no longer cursed! This being said, the discovery of the meaning of Phoebe & Holgrave’s love is the conclusion and/or resolution to everything the book gave to us.
Appearance vs. Reality
In the novel that the class has recently finished reading, The House of the Seven Gables, there appears to be a recurring theme. That theme would be Appearance vs. Reality. There most certainly are numerous examples, situations, characters, etc that present the theme, Appearance vs. Reality, throughout the book. Such an example would be The Judge’s Smile, which is perhaps the scariest and evilest thing in The House of the Seven Gables. Judge Jaffrey Pyncheon is the cousin of Clifford & Hepzibah. Throughout the entire book, the Judge Pyncheon maintains this smile; this is no ordinary smile that he maintains. Yes, it is a fake smile but it as perhaps the most powerful, deceiving smile known to man. For it head the powers. Oh the powers it head; the smile had hypnotic powers, so hypnotic and deceiving it was, that it ought to have been a weapon. With this powerful fake smile, he was able to deceive all. No matter how angry he would become, like he did in Chapter 14 when Hepzibah once more (and for the last time) refused to let Judge Pyncheon see Clifford, that deceiving smile would remain; the narrator knows it, the reader knows it, Hepzibah know it, EVERYBODY knows it. What? That Judge Pyncheon was seething anger, ready to explode at this point during Chapter 14, but he maintained his cool, largely because that smile remains. Part of what made that smile so devious, was the fact that it seemed to have a mind of its own; which would make sense in a way, if the smile had its own mind, conscious. It could explain how Judge Pyncheon was able to maintain the smile; the smile would simply maintain itself by the smile’s own will. And what better way to represent Appearance vs. Reality than with a greatly deceiving smile that never disappears and has a mind of its own, obscuring the true identity and person that Judge Jaffrey Pyncheon is.
Essay 2:
Phoebe & Holgrave’s Love
It shall be assumed that you have completed reading The House of the Seven Gables. Fair Enough? At the end of the story, or at least in the closing pages/chapter, Holgrave declares his love to Phoebe. Phoebe is hesitant at first to admit she loves him too, but inevitably she declares her love for him too. For anybody who saw this coming, deserve a round of applause. Them declaring their love for each other did not seem to make sense; or at least that the establishment of their loved did not seem to tie in with the story or have any relationship except that two important characters have fallen for each other. However, if you look deeper into this you will see their love represents something more than “two important characters have fallen for each other” and actually, their love represents a very important symbol if you will and major part of the resolution of the book. Everyone, one would presume, can agree that the main theme to this book is that your family’s past is carried on with you and in the generations to come, or as properly and “fancily” worded on SparkNotes the internet; The Sins of One Generation Are Visited on the Next. Meaning the sins of your ancestors will be carried out through the following generations. So what their love represents is the breaking of this godforsaken curse/theme. Their love represents the beginning, if not end, of the curse of the Pyncheons and the feud between the Maule’s & the Pyncheons; since Holgrave is a Maule & Phoebe a Pyncheon. Their love marks the hopeful end to the terrible past of the horrible relations between their families during earlier times. It symbolizes that there may finally be peace between the Pyncheons & the Maule’s making the Pyncheons no longer cursed! This being said, the discovery of the meaning of Phoebe & Holgrave’s love is the conclusion and/or resolution to everything the book gave to us.
Sunday, November 21, 2010
I am plow
first off, this blog is late (a week late)because i moved in to a new apartment during the 4 day weekend and have been living there without electricty/internet/cable. so yea, i'm at my grandma's house typing this.
"I'm Mr. Plow, thats my name, that name again is Mr. Plow"-Homer Simpson haha lol
I am a plow...i would say i am in one sense but would hope im not in another. I would say i' like a plow in the sense of what they do. i will take on the burdens that people dont want to do/do things that make other peoples' lives easier; especially my friends. Isnt that what plows do? clear the roads to make things easier for us. One may agrue they do that to make things safer but that's the point! They're there for the benifit of the community...like me. I always(unfortunetly)or the majority of the time put others before me. So yes, in that light, i am a plow.
However i would not want to be associated as a plow if it were in this sense: someone who just pushes things out the way; doesn't care bout nothing, antisocial possibly. Fair enough right? Basicaly some negative look based from what plows do. just thought i'd put that out there.
I am a plow in the terms of the first mentioned manner.
Carlos out!
"I'm Mr. Plow, thats my name, that name again is Mr. Plow"-Homer Simpson haha lol
I am a plow...i would say i am in one sense but would hope im not in another. I would say i' like a plow in the sense of what they do. i will take on the burdens that people dont want to do/do things that make other peoples' lives easier; especially my friends. Isnt that what plows do? clear the roads to make things easier for us. One may agrue they do that to make things safer but that's the point! They're there for the benifit of the community...like me. I always(unfortunetly)or the majority of the time put others before me. So yes, in that light, i am a plow.
However i would not want to be associated as a plow if it were in this sense: someone who just pushes things out the way; doesn't care bout nothing, antisocial possibly. Fair enough right? Basicaly some negative look based from what plows do. just thought i'd put that out there.
I am a plow in the terms of the first mentioned manner.
Carlos out!
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Change in the Classroom?
Lets see, what i'd like to change (but will NEVER happen)is for the class to star later lol i only say this because i go 2nd-8th. since they didnt give me my 7th class, i'd much rather start 3rd & end 9th. So thats that. Other than that there's nothing much i'd change. I absolutely love how we start with a journal entry every morning. I dont like to write about anything that doesn't interest me (i.e an essay on contrasting the society in a book from ours. However, all the topics interest me (as i'm sure they're intended to). So i like this a lot b.c i can wake my brain up from the lack of sleep from the night before & getting thinking with some thought provoking stuff. I like it even more that we not only right about it, we have the opportunity to discuss the topic, we wrote about, with the class. So there really isn't anything to change about the classroom. WAIT! Yes, maybe the classroom could possibly assign less reading every night. It might just be me, but i feel the assigned reading is too much. it may actually not be, but with the busy schedule i have, reading it's up the majority of the already small amount of time i have to do my homework. just saying. but yea, besides that, it's all good! :D
Monday, November 1, 2010
American lit topics so far ?
Salem: 1692 was a very difficult time in Salem, Massachusetts. It started with a group of girls displayed bizarre behavior. Thus the town concluded it had been invaded by the devil. The first to be accused of witchcraft was Tituba, a slave; she was accused by the girls. then one thing lead to another as a core member of the puritan society was accused of witchcraft. The town went mad as they believed the devil was after anyone. By the end of it, 19 people were hanged, i stoned to death, & 13 dead in prison. The only thing that brought an end to this was the fact the the accused were becoming people that were of higher stature & also many others who confessed and had their lives spared were now taking back there confessions also brought an end.
Puritans: The Puritans were basically Christians of the extremist type. Anything that wasn't approved by god was punishable; and any misfortunes you may have been dealing with (i.e death of family, poor land, etc) was your fault; you were being punished directly by god himself for your sins. They also believed the devil was as real as god. They believed they all had to think the same & believe the same, others who thought different were sinners. They had to live their lives by the bible and 10 commandments. It was law to observe the sabbath and basically all things that would be extreme with religion would be true.
REAL House of Seven Gables: was built in 1668 by john turner. They lived there for 3 generations. The land was then bought by Captain Samuel Ingersoll in 1782. When he dad at sea he left the house to his daughter, Susanna. Susana is the cousin of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Nathaniel Hawthorne: He was born in Salem, Massachusetts. William Hathorne, his great-X3-grandfather was the first to come from England & was a hardcore Puritan living in Salem; he became an important member there as a judge, becoming infamous for his harsh sentencing. William 's son, Nathan's great-great-grandfather, John Hathorne, was one of the judges who oversaw the Salem Witch Trials. For this reason, Nathan changed his name from Hathorne to Hawthorne. In his literature, he liked to right that suggest that guilt, sin, and evil are the most inherent natural qualities of humanity; referring a lot to Puritan lifestyles.
Conclusion?:
They all tie together, Hawthorne connects to the witch trials. His older ancestors had everything to do with it. Some of his older family were judges that sentenced people to death & what not. Those two have everything to do with the Puritans. It was because of the Puritans that the Witch Trials began. Their beliefs & extreme ways were what caused the trials. Hawthorne's cousins lived in the house of 7 gables which may have been the inspirations for his book (has to be). They're all tied together through witches & family
Puritans: The Puritans were basically Christians of the extremist type. Anything that wasn't approved by god was punishable; and any misfortunes you may have been dealing with (i.e death of family, poor land, etc) was your fault; you were being punished directly by god himself for your sins. They also believed the devil was as real as god. They believed they all had to think the same & believe the same, others who thought different were sinners. They had to live their lives by the bible and 10 commandments. It was law to observe the sabbath and basically all things that would be extreme with religion would be true.
REAL House of Seven Gables: was built in 1668 by john turner. They lived there for 3 generations. The land was then bought by Captain Samuel Ingersoll in 1782. When he dad at sea he left the house to his daughter, Susanna. Susana is the cousin of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Nathaniel Hawthorne: He was born in Salem, Massachusetts. William Hathorne, his great-X3-grandfather was the first to come from England & was a hardcore Puritan living in Salem; he became an important member there as a judge, becoming infamous for his harsh sentencing. William 's son, Nathan's great-great-grandfather, John Hathorne, was one of the judges who oversaw the Salem Witch Trials. For this reason, Nathan changed his name from Hathorne to Hawthorne. In his literature, he liked to right that suggest that guilt, sin, and evil are the most inherent natural qualities of humanity; referring a lot to Puritan lifestyles.
Conclusion?:
They all tie together, Hawthorne connects to the witch trials. His older ancestors had everything to do with it. Some of his older family were judges that sentenced people to death & what not. Those two have everything to do with the Puritans. It was because of the Puritans that the Witch Trials began. Their beliefs & extreme ways were what caused the trials. Hawthorne's cousins lived in the house of 7 gables which may have been the inspirations for his book (has to be). They're all tied together through witches & family
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