tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20893371652474858232024-03-19T15:47:33.479-07:00Multigenre Literacy in a Global Context Stephanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14751726383021823857noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2089337165247485823.post-30186996001699306032012-12-12T12:52:00.001-08:002012-12-12T12:52:12.517-08:00Reflection on the Class
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Once again another semester comes
to a close. I have really enjoyed the class with Professor Wexler at the helm. This
is the third time I have had a class in which Professor Wexler was the instructor.
His classes are free flowing with thought and all are welcome to participate. I
look forward to hearing what the other students are thinking. Sometimes the
class debates, and other times it is as though we are all walking together down
a pathway of discovery. I sometimes wonder if our class mentally ventures down
pathways that have never been thought of before. I have had so many intellectually
stimulating thoughts from these sessions that I never would have had if it
weren’t for this class and I am thankful for the experience.<o:p></o:p></div>
Stephanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14751726383021823857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2089337165247485823.post-32104623983882794642012-12-06T15:11:00.001-08:002012-12-12T12:38:06.845-08:00Babel Essay Final<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
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Harder<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">Utopian Babel on
a Global Scale<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">The movie <u>Babel</u>, which is directed
by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, wrenches at the very fabric of humanity. The
movie illustrates that even though human kind completely blankets the globe we
are all threads stitched together to create an eclectic quilt of diverse
colors, shapes, and ideas. The movie weaves a tale from far corners of the
globe and brings four groups together through the barrel of a gun. The story
follows the lives of four families from various cultures. The movie shows the
viewpoint of each family allowing for those that watch the film to get a strong
sense of the intricate emotions that take place between them. Many movies show
us only one side of the story, allowing for the viewer to comfortably make
judgments and choose the side that the author intended to be chosen. Babel is a
tale that leaves the viewer to struggle with judgment. There are so many
questions as to the responses made by the characters, the choices they made,
and the punishments they received. The audience viewing these situations, as
they unravel, is left to wonder about their own moral character: what choices
they would have made and what they perceive as justice. Now more than ever we
live in a global society. This is a world in which cultures swirl together to,
not only reveal our similar humanistic traits and traditions, but also our immovable
differences. Has the inevitable path to globalization enhanced our world or
will it lead us to an unavoidable demise? Have we confused globalization as a
necessary goal towards the achievement of a utopian society, or are we simply
fools chasing after what can never be attained? By taking a closer analysis of
the movie <u>Babel</u>, the meaning of utopia, and what it means to become a
global society, a better understanding of this ever changing complex world we
live in can be achieved.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">As we watch the film it is not difficult
to understand the emotions and experiences of this diverse list of characters.
Each of the characters is in search of their own personal utopia. The American couple
is in search of utopia in another land. A land, unknown to them, they are drawn
to through curiosity and the desire to experience another world. They are
fairly wealthy and have basically achieved what many may consider to be utopia.
They have two children, a house, cars, they are Americans, and they have more
freedoms than most in the world. They live at a level that many would hope for
themselves. Perhaps this is why the couple has chosen to seek out other places
on the globe: utopia never rests even once it is achieved. Utopia is complete satisfaction;
however, one humanistic quality is that we seem to be geared in a way which
never allows for us to be completely satisfied. We always want more things,
love, knowledge, money, laughter, power, and the list goes on, and on. Utopia
is a many sided undetermined shape that encapsulates every mental and physical
state that a human experiences, needs, and feels. When one or more sides are
satisfied, the other sides become more noticeable, and demanding, almost like
an itch that moves to a place on the body that is hard to reach. While reaching
to scratch the unyielding itch, the satisfied sides are no longer focused upon
and therefore begin to fall out of utopia. Finally reaching the itch, we find a
moment of satisfaction, and therefore we have scratched out another utopia. Thus
begins the process again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">If each of us has a different view of
what utopia is, then how can it be achieved without true meaning? So what is
utopia? The American Heritage Dictionary defines utopia as “an ideally perfect
place, in its social, political, and moral aspects” (Dict.). From an article
called “The Politics of Utopia” written by Fredric Jamison we learn another
viewpoint of utopia. The article suggests “that utopias are non-fictional, even
though they are also non-existent” (Jamison 54). This seems to link utopia to not be a
place, but it is more equivalent to a state of mind. Jamison also suggests that
“something is to be said for the proposition that the fear of utopia is
intimately linked with the fear of aphanisis, or loss of desire” (Jamison 53). This
equates utopia to existing as an emotion or feeling rather than to an actual
place.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">So what is Utopia? Even if one were to
achieve utopia would they even know that they had achieved it? Adam and Eve were
said to have lived in utopia, but as long as the human mind is not completely
satisfied, utopia cannot be fully experienced or achieved. In other words, as
long as there remain any questions, doubts, or curiosity, utopia can never be
fully achieved. In the movie <u>Babel</u> the Sheppard boys with the rifle
loved each other, but were in a competition that is as old as the first
brothers that walked the Earth. Their goal to achieve utopia was to be
recognized as the dominant brother and they placed a great importance on this
competition. Although they were pitted in this rivalry of brothers that is as
old as the story of Cain and Abel, they had many moments together that may have
satisfied a different utopian quest. There is a brief scene in the movie <u>Babel</u>
where the two Sheppard boys are standing together; their arms fully extended,
with smiles on their faces. They stand side by side in a sustained updraft that
blows back their hair and supports their weight. They trustingly lean into the
wind, and for this moment in time they share something together that is
priceless. They look at each other and seem to realize this experience is
theirs, and at this time and place they share a moment of utopia. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Globalization is civilization on a global
scale. So is globalization a good thing for humanity? This is a question that
can lead great minds to madness. It seems that globalization would be a natural
step for humanity to not just survive, but advance. Humans have always counted
on groups to develop, survive, and even thrive in this unpredictable and
dangerous world. However, throughout recorded history we have seen what happens
when a group becomes too big. Rome, for example, was one of the most powerful
nations ever known. However, when Rome reached a certain size it imploded in on
itself. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">In the more recent past we see
colonialism. Was this an attempt at globalization? With so many cultures,
beliefs, and traditions how can we agree on one particular way of life?
Wouldn’t a dominant culture have to take the top rung of society’s ladder to
maintain some kind of order in the land? There is no way that all nations
around the globe would willfully participate in becoming a state to a global
nation. The only thread that brings the entire globe together besides humanity
itself seems to be capitalism. Capitalism is far from perfect but in a world of
seven billion people there is no other way to sustain these numbers. If
capitalism can be improved and used as a vehicle to bring humanity together to
form a more perfect society doesn’t that therefore bring us all one more step
closer to utopia?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">Globalization, in some
ways, is a vision that brings all humanity together. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, the Earth is not big enough to
sustain the growth that humanity has been experiencing. According to the US
Bureau of the Census, in my lifetime alone, the Earth’s population has doubled.
Eventually humans will have to venture into space for the next phase of existence.
Once humanity has spread throughout the solar system, we will once again be
separated, not just by oceans, and boarders, we will be separated by light
years. If humanity survives long enough to achieve such lofty visions then
further speculation perhaps illustrates that humanity will always develop in
separate tribes that may never fully understand one another in a way that a
utopian society demands. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">In the world in which
we live today we can reach out to every corner of the globe. In the movie <u>Babel,</u>
we see people from the four corners of the globe being capable of forever
changing and affecting each other’s lives in the short span of a two hour
movie. Only one hundred years ago these people from the four corners of the
globe could have lived a lifetime and never seen an individual from a thousand
miles away. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The world is much smaller
than it used to be. We are going to need technologies to expand faster than our
population. It could be argued that the engine of technology is capitalism.
Capitalism funds entrepreneurs, businesses, and invention. It feeds the hungry,
supports the family, strengthens education, and builds powerful nations. On the
other hand some hold strong negative views of capitalism. An article by Randy
Martin titled, “Where did the future go?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>seems to hold some very negative views of capitalism. In the article,
Martin states that “the past was littered with the corpses of colonialism,
slavery and genocide” and seems to put the blame on “those…who could secure a
seat on the bus” on a “trip…to a market utopia” (Martin). Martin then states
his beliefs with a tone one may recognize to be a form of academic elitist
sarcasm by saying “</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
fortunate would be freed from work in the form of retirement and leave the
earth secure in the knowledge that their kids would do better than they had. The
passage of biological time between generations would be reinscribed as upward
mobility” (Martin). Martin is quick to imply that those who may achieve a goal
of financial stability for future family generations to come are in some way
incredibly selfish, and greedy by suggesting that they have forgotten,” most of
the world’s peoples–still awaiting their moment of development to come” for
they “never got to live the dream, or pursued another under the banner of
socialism” (Martin).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Martin’s
article dovetails nicely into the topic of the movie <u>Babel</u> for capitalism is the
springboard of a globalization with negative outcomes. Martin could argue that
the four families from the film were negatively impacted solely due to the
expansion of this evil weed known as capitalism. These families’ lives were
altered by one of the biggest money makers on the globe…guns. If there was no
money to be made on guns then perhaps they wouldn’t make them. If they didn’t
make guns then the woman would never have been shot on the bus while driving
through the desert on her vacation. However, it’s more than just guns because
its capitalism that bought the ticket, which built the plane that brought her there
which built the bus that, took her through a land where she probably should not
have gone in the first place. Martin would probably use some very big words in
a confusing string of mind-numbing “babal” to make an opinionated speculation
sound like fact to make his point that this disastrous stream of events is the
direct cause of capitalism. Most people would probably see that these lives
in the movie were simply affected by an accident that set into motion a sequence of mishaps
that lead to each family from the film to have their own personal conclusion.
None of which resembles anything like a utopia.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
movie <u>Babel</u> illustrates our rapidly developing global society with great
detail, exposing our similarities and differences. It is our similarities that
give us hope that one day our humanity will allow for us to harmoniously live together.
However, it is our differences that will forever keep us apart. No one knows humanities
destiny, but some things we can be sure of, and one of those is that we shall
never achieve an absolute utopia, but we can only strive for moments that
resemble it. </span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">American Heritage Dictionary.</span></i><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"> Houghton Mifflin: n.p., 2000. Print.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">Jameson, Fredrick. “The
Politics of Utopia”. The New Left Review 25. Jan.-Feb. 2004.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><a href="http://moodle.csun.edu/file.php/37095/http_www.newleftreview.pdf"><span style="color: blue;">http://moodle.csun.edu/file.php/37095/http_www.newleftreview.pdf</span></a>>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Martin, Randy. “Where Did The Future Go?”. Logos 5.1, winter 2006. Web. Dec.
12, 2012. <o:p></o:p><br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>< <a href="http://www.logosjournal.com/issue_5.1/martin.htm"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.logosjournal.com/issue_5.1/martin.htm</span></a>>.<o:p></o:p><br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">
<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">United States. U.S. Bureau of the Census, Current
Population Projections. <i>World Population <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1950-2050</i>. Negative Population Growth,
n.d. Web. 12 Dec. 2012. <http://www.npg.org/facts/world_pop_year.htm>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Stephanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14751726383021823857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2089337165247485823.post-35428530746570920982012-11-02T13:50:00.000-07:002012-11-02T13:50:02.022-07:00Group Project Super Hero Creations
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have a group project for class to teach 8th graders new media and how to
implement it in constructive ways. We chose a super hero creator for the
students to utilize so they can develop a super hero or villain. Create a scenario
for the characters to be in. To create a story line for the new characters to
exist. This is to develop creative writing skills in an interesting way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Financio<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Height: 5’ 10’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Weight: 185lbs<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mission: To stop monetary waste, and find best investments for every
single cent to grow from which in turn helps to create good jobs, and give
people the financial security and freedom they may choose to have.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Weakness: High interest rate credit cards, loans from China, Big
Government wasteful spending, the sight of burning or wasting money make him
weak and vulnerable to attack.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Strengths: High closes on Wall Street, Strong Dollar, Good
Investments<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Story Example:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">A villain is burning money that he just robbed from a bank! Financio is getting weaker. He is
almost too weak to fight! Quick read him the closing numbers on Wall Street
for today because it’s up 200 points!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Finacio’s strength returns and he stops the bank robbers from burning
the money. He captures them and returns the remaining money to the bank.
Financio tells the bank owner how to safely invest in two upstart companies
in need of a loan. Two weeks later four hundred people are hired at the new
upstart companies. Now they can feed their families and pay for their kids to
go to college! Thanks Financio!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Height: 5’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Weight: 500 lbs<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Unusual muscle density gives his short stature great weight.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Only person born on planet Jupiter. Parents were stranded there for
fifteen years. They were smashed by their own weight under the gravitational pull
of Jupiter. Their son Girth was unaffected and rescued years after his
parents had past. On Earth Girth is very strong and his bones are stronger
than titanium.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Weakness: eyesight<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Stephanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14751726383021823857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2089337165247485823.post-22714824663716849682012-09-27T11:15:00.001-07:002012-09-27T17:00:30.360-07:00Project Poem<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Start at The End</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">A thousand thoughts threaded through the theory<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Winters wild winding wind weaves one weary <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">All aware unfair without care they dare<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Gather to speak what needs to be spoken<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Awaken the weak grow strong once woken<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Troubling time tunnels turning churning soil<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Cool fresh water springs, freeze up, and then boil<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Suffering defeat, at feat, vipers coil <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Gone and Never to be heard from again<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Searching for kindness and only find sin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">To start at the end is where to begin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">But all have left and forgotten what’s right</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Cowardly fools their eyes see without sight<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">And run to darkness to hide from the light</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Timed</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Mow lawn, get mail, take out trash, write poem</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">The Clock tick tock in the corner tock tick<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Feed Kids, change baby, wash clothes, write poem</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">The clock tick tock in the corner tock tick<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Clutter on the island, Dishes fill sink</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Six trash cans sit in the hot sun and stink</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Weeds grow high in vegetable garden<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Aging man feels his arteries harden<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Try to get it all done, impossible</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">The Clock tick tock in the corner tock tick</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Chased every moment, throughout the days and nights<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">The Clock tick tock in the corner tock tick</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">So much to get done, to get through the day<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">And when it is all finished, write a poem<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span>Stephanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14751726383021823857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2089337165247485823.post-48707990544352449452012-09-21T17:14:00.002-07:002012-09-21T19:42:52.746-07:00The Beatles Eleanor Rigby Remix<table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: currentColor; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184;">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Ah,
look at all the lonely people<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Ah,
look at all the lonely people<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Eleanor
Rigby, picks up the rice<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">In
the church where a wedding has been<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Lives
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Waits
at the window, wearing the face<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">That
she keeps in a jar by the door<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Who
is it for?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">All
the lonely people<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Where
do they all come from?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">All
the lonely people<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Where
do they all belong?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Father
McKenzie, writing the words<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Of
a sermon that no one will hear<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">No
one comes near<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Look
at him working, darning his socks<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">In
the night when there’s nobody there<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">What
does he care?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">All
the lonely people<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Where
do they all come from?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">All
the lonely people<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Where
do they all belong?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Ah,
look at all the lonely people<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Ah,
look at all the lonely people<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Eleanor
Rigby, died in the church<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">And
was buried along with her name<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Nobody
came<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Father
McKenzie, wiping the dirt<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">From
his hands as he walks from the grave<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">No
one was saved<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">All
the lonely people<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">(Ah,
look at all the lonely people)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Where
do they all come from?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">All
the lonely people<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">(Ah,
look at all the lonely people)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Where
do they all belong?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: windowtext windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: solid solid solid none; border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt 0px; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.75in;" valign="top" width="360">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Ah,
look at all the grown up people<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Ah,
look at all the grown up <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>people<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Eleanor
Rigby, Picks up her toy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">From
a box and it breaks on the scene<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Let’s
out a scream<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Wanting
another, sad little face<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Waits
and sit as she glares at the door<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Always
wants more!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">All
the grown up people<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">When
will you sing this song?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">All
the Grown up people<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">How
can we get along?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Eleanor’s
father, gets home from work<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Then
goes straight to the fridge grabs a beer<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">No
one comes near<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Look
at him drinking, let’s out a belch<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Friday
night TV light unaware<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Sits
in his chair<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">All
the grown up people<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">When
will you sing this song?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">All
the Grown up people<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">How
can we get along?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Ah,
look at all the grown up people<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Ah,
look at all the grown up <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>people<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Eleanor
Rigby, cries for a toy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">To
enjoy and there’s no one to blame<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">No
new toy came<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Eleanor’s
Father, was not alert<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">And
got hurt and falls fast to the floor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">He
drinks no more<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">All
the grown up people<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">(Ah,
look at all the grown up people)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">When
will you sing this song?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">All
the grown up people<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">(Ah,
look at all the grown up people)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">How
can we get along?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
Stephanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14751726383021823857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2089337165247485823.post-47219617853972583542012-09-21T16:16:00.001-07:002012-09-21T16:16:12.139-07:00Reflection
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;"> Reflections from yesterday’s
class ran through my head all night. Our assignment was to choose a song and
basically make a parody of it. I had some trouble choosing a song, but other
students seemed to shine on this particular task. Some of the students
literally sang their parodies to the music of the actual song. It was a really
fun class and I was very impressed with some of the work that was presented.
Some students wrote poems and other wrote parodies. The class is beginning to
bind with one another and by the end of the semester many will be good friends.
I am looking forward to the topics from the Myth and Knowing book. The
classroom is a great place for discussion and debate, but it is difficult to be
creative in a room full of people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Stephanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14751726383021823857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2089337165247485823.post-65091037422340671502012-09-20T12:56:00.001-07:002012-09-21T16:03:04.458-07:00Shelley the Eternal Traveler<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">Eternal Traveler<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqelf4xmqfjrKRn_DFBIJL1TyyzgqtblxQKEwkkwbqW0KASv3uDKTz_9eNik5GQCCDE7xyl44ApPsT_FW8k-gKom3ZnG5HbUA36DVhxy2VJCESuJ1OL4FNAnDHFNSuty1NyjxSNjrjjdLC/s1600/Shelley.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqelf4xmqfjrKRn_DFBIJL1TyyzgqtblxQKEwkkwbqW0KASv3uDKTz_9eNik5GQCCDE7xyl44ApPsT_FW8k-gKom3ZnG5HbUA36DVhxy2VJCESuJ1OL4FNAnDHFNSuty1NyjxSNjrjjdLC/s320/Shelley.jpg" width="245" /></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">The
sonnet Ozymandias was written by a poet by the name of Percy Shelley (1792
-1822). The poem was published in a newspaper called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Examiner</i> in 1818 when Shelley was only twenty-six.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2089337165247485823#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[1]</span></span></span></span></span></a> Shelley
lived a very brief life, but he has and interesting story. Percy was the
“eldest son” and first in line to “inherit not only his grandfather’s
considerable estate but also a seat in Parliament”.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2089337165247485823#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[2]</span></span></span></span></span></a> He
attended Eton College for six years starting in 1804 where he learned the love
for the written word.<span class="MsoFootnoteReference">2</span> He was first
published in 1810. Shelley then began his education at Oxford, but his stay
there is short and he is expelled for writing and distributing a pamphlet
titled “The Necessity of Athiesm”.<span class="MsoFootnoteReference">2</span> This
pamphlet caused a “complete break between Shelley and his father” and he was
cut off from the family fortune.<span class="MsoFootnoteReference">2</span> This
did not stop Shelley and within two years he was back on his feet.<span class="MsoFootnoteReference">2 </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
married the author of “Frankenstein”, hobknobed with Lord Byron, and wrote
numerous popular reads. Shelley mentions an “ancient traveler” in his sonnet
Ozymandias, but when Shelley himself, attempted to “sail from Leghorn to La
Spezia, Italy”, he was caught in a storm, his schooner, the Don Juan sank, and
Percy Shelley drowned. Ozymandias is one of his more visible works read to this
day. There are many observances to be made on the structure, the history, and
the message this poem holds. The poem Ozymandias, has travelled through time, been
read by countless minds, and interpreted, inspired, and looked upon as a
repeating prophecy in this endless expanding and contracting world in which we
exist. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ozymandias<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By Percy Bysshe Shelley<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">10
(1) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I met a traveler from an antique
land<br />
10 (2) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who said: "Two vast and
trunkless legs of stone<br />
10 (3) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stand in the desert. Near them on
the sand,<br />
10 (4) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Half sunk, a shattered visage
lies, whose frown<br />
10 (5) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command<br />
10 (6) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tell that its sculptor well
those passions read<br />
10 (7) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless
things,<br />
10 (8) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The hand that mocked them and
the heart that fed.<br />
10 (9) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And on the pedestal these words
appear:<br />
10 (10) `My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:<br />
10 (11) Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'<br />
10 (12) Nothing beside remains. Round the decay<br />
10 (13) Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,<br />
10 (14) The lone and level sands stretch far away".</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3YAEFSibR4ltyzjLatFpqCQWZFS7IwWUUE2HNCDGIKxyoL9XpldIZ5ExRO735oL4tErwOf3IhYAn3d2VapkdrXuErc_fjbPRS60JZOCC4e-KThhRwL22QXT7DL55vxGnH_LA4l8l_tvFc/s1600/Ancient.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3YAEFSibR4ltyzjLatFpqCQWZFS7IwWUUE2HNCDGIKxyoL9XpldIZ5ExRO735oL4tErwOf3IhYAn3d2VapkdrXuErc_fjbPRS60JZOCC4e-KThhRwL22QXT7DL55vxGnH_LA4l8l_tvFc/s320/Ancient.jpg" width="236" /></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">This
may be one of the faces of a “traveler from an antique land”.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2089337165247485823#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[3]</span></span></span></span></span></a>
His name is Diodorus Siculus and he was a historian from Greece that was
thought to have lived within one hundred years before Jesus Christ. Siculus
wrote for over thirty years a history of the world encyclopedia called the
Bibliotheca Historica.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2089337165247485823#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[4]</span></span></span></span></span></a> It
is presumed that Percy Shelley had read Siculus’s work and it perhaps inspired
him to use the name Ozymandias.<span class="MsoFootnoteReference">4</span>The
poem Ozymandias contains fourteen lines, but what is really interesting is that
Shelley was able to keep ten syllables in each line. This fourteen line iambic
pentameter poem is called a sonnet and was a popular practice in Shelley’s
time. <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2089337165247485823#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[5]</span></span></span></span></span></a>
The number of syllables per line in a poem is known as syllabic verse.<span class="MsoFootnoteReference">5</span> Syllable count became a useful tool for
English speaking poets because English can become very “awkward” due to its
“heavily stressed” form. By using syllabic count patterns, “the masters could
count the syllables” to “produce admirable cadences”.<span class="MsoFootnoteReference">5</span>The poem uses a limited amount of rhyme like
a light seasoning on a delicious meal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">The
tone throughout Ozymandias is cold and straight forward, as though the traveler
was the voice of justice pronouncing a sentence, carried out by the scolding
hand of God. The head of the sculpture of Ozymandias is broken off from the
body and rest “half sunk” into the sand:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">“Near them on the sand,<br />
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown<br />
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">This
image of the head of Ozymandias barely sticking up out of the sand evokes a
scene from Dante’s Inferno from the “lowest region of Hell”<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2089337165247485823#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn6;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[6]</span></span></span></span></span></a>.
This place in Hell is called “Antenora, the second ring” from the “Ninth Circle
of Hell”.<span class="MsoFootnoteReference">6</span> This is where “those who
betrayed their country and party stand frozen up to their heads” in a solid
lake of ice for eternity. Antenora is where “Dante meets Count Ugolino, who
spends eternity gnawing on the head of the man who imprisoned him in life”. <span class="MsoFootnoteReference">6 </span>Ozymandias’s eyes are forever wide open and
fixated on those that stand before him to read the arrogant inscription at the
base of his statue that reads:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">“`My name is
Ozymandias, King of Kings:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">Look on my
works, ye mighty, and despair!'”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">This
is Ozymandias’s Hell. His head unable to move, his eyes unable to shut, and his
words lay before him, to be read by unknown travelers for eternity. It’s almost
as though his own arrogant words and ego is forever to “gnaw” on his head.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">A
poetic technique that seems to encapsulate Ozymandias’s full meaning is
Shelley’s use of irony. The sonnet Ozymandias is fairly straightforward with
its story line. It is the story of a traveler that comes across a land where a
great civilization once stood. With this great civilization, comes a powerful
ruler who is blind to the possibility of his kingdom’s demise. The arrogant inscription
at the base of Ozymadias statue fully illustrates the use of tragic irony.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">The
use of imagery by Shelley is incredible. Shelley is able to clearly open the reader’s
mind to a place where all senses come to life, as if entranced by a vivid
dream. When reading the sonnet, one can imagine the wasteland where the
traveler has been. Shelley is able to do this without a long detailed
description. From Shelley’s masterful use of brief description, one can imagine
this wasteland of sand swirling through the air, the hot sun relentlessly
pounding down upon one’s head, unable to quench the persistent thirst weakening
all the internal mechanisms that enable one to keep moving forward. This vivid
dream unfolds into a deeper one. The reader squints the eyes to see through the
swirling sand and begins to see what once had been. The blowing sand subsides,
stone walls rise and the statue of Ozymandias is once again to its original
glory. The sound of people, the smell of livestock, and the great civilization once
again stands before the reader. Just as quickly as grand vision fully develops,
it collapses upon itself and the swirling sand once again stings the eyes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">This
sonnet tells the story of a civilization that, at one point and time, was one
of the most powerful in the world. However, this story can be applied to many
seemingly impervious civilizations in human history. It is a story that repeats
itself over and over again. From civilization’s very beginnings, great nations
expand and contract, never learning, always forgetting, becoming overzealous,
or complacent, and then crumble upon their own weight, to be buried by the
sands of time. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">Where will the great nations of today stand two
thousand years from now? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Works Cited</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">Deutsch,
Babette. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Poetry Handbook: A Dictionary of
terms</i>. 4<sup>th</sup> ed. Harper Perennial. 1974. Print.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;"><a href="http://www.jstor.org.libproxy.csun.edu/action/doBasicSearch?Query=au%3A%22Johnstone+Parr%22&wc=on"><span lang="EN" style="color: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Parr</span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, Johnstone. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;"><a href="http://www.jstor.org.libproxy.csun.edu/stable/3719355?&Search=yes&searchText=ozymandias&list=hide&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoAdvancedSearch%3Fq0%3Dozymandias%26f0%3Dall%26c1%3DAND%26q1%3D%26f1%3Dall%26acc%3Don%26wc%3Don%26Search%3DSearch%26sd%3D%26ed%3D%26la%3D%26jo%3D%26&prevSearch=&item=5&ttl=588&returnArticleService=showFullText"><span lang="EN" style="color: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Shelley's "Ozymandias" again</span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. <i>The Modern
Language Review</i>, Vol. 46, No. 3/4 (Jul. - Oct., 1951), pp. 441-442</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">Poets.org. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Percy Bysshe Shelley</i>. © 1997 -
2012Academy of American Poets. </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/179></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Shelley, Percy.
Poem of the Week. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ozymandias</i>.
PotW.org.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1996. <</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;"><a href="http://www.potw.org/archive/potw46.html"><span lang="EN" style="color: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">http://www.potw.org/archive/potw46.html</span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">Sparknotes.
Inferno:</span><span class="ft"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Dante</span></span><span class="ft"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">
Alighieri. 2012. <</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/inferno/summary.html></span></div>
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Poem of the Week. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ozymandias</i>.
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Poem of the Week. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ozymandias</i>.
PotW.org.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1996. <</span><a href="http://www.potw.org/archive/potw46.html"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.potw.org/archive/potw46.html</span></span></a><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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"Ozymandias" again</span></span></a><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">. <i>The Modern
Language Review</i>, Vol. 46, No. 3/4 (Jul. - Oct., 1951), pp. 441-442<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Deutsch, Babette. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Poetry Handbook: A
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">7 Climbing up on
Solsbury Hill<br />
7 I could see the city light<br />
7 Wind was blowing, time stood still<br />
7 Eagle flew out of the night<br />
7 He was something to observe<br />
7 Came in close, I heard a voice<br />
7 Standing stretching every nerve<br />
7 Had to listen had no choice<br />
10 I did not believe the information<br />
10 I just had to trust imagination<br />
7 My heart going boom boom boom<br />
7 "Son," he sa-id "Grab your things, <br />
6 I've come to take you home."<br />
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8 To keep in silence I resigned<br />
8 My friends would think I was a nut<br />
7 Turning water into wine<br />
7 Open doors would soon be shut<br />
7 So I went from day to day<br />
7 Tho' my life was in a rut<br />
7 "Till I thought of what I'd say<br />
7 Which connection I should cut<br />
10 I was feeling part of the scenery<br />
10 I walked right out of the machinery<br />
7 My heart going boom boom boom<br />
7 "Hey" he sa-id "Grab your things<br />
6 I've come to take you home."<br />
(Back home.)<br />
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7 When illusion spin her net<br />
8 I'm never where I want to be<br />
8 And liberty she pirouette<br />
7 When I think that I am free<br />
7 Watched by empty silhouettes<br />
8 Who close their eyes but still can see<br />
7 No one taught them etiquette<br />
7 I will show another me<br />
9 Today I don't need a replacement<br />
10 I'll tell them what the smile on my face meant<br />
7 My heart going boom boom boom<br />
9 "Hey" I sa-id "You can keep my things, <br />
6 They've come to take me home."</span></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;">What does this song mean to me? I first heard this song as a young
teenager and some of its meaning has change through the years but the many
mental images it conveys are still bright, magical, and clear as they were
then. The “city” in the song represents my world, complex, confusing, busy, and
swirling with nervous energy, splitting my attention into countless
directions as I try to hold it all together in the shape of a perfect orb. There have been times in my life that I believed I
must be in the wrong place, living the wrong life I am meant for, but it’s
the only life I know. Its hard to step away, but I realize I’ve got to find myself, be who I am, and get
the most out of life without letting it take the most out of me. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;">Break away, climb the hill and turn to look and see myself from a
distance. The strangling stress subsides to a soothing sound of silence. Subtle
cooling breeze picks up to a gusting wind and “time stood still”. My eyes
begin to water and squint peering out into the dark night sky. The wind suddenly slows
and sleeps. The sound of large wings flap, the cry of an eagle that flies
close. I hear a comforting voice letting me know it’s time to come “home” and I follow.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;">The song invokes a dream and the entranced listener is teleported to
the top of this hill and is able to reflect on their life. So many of us at
one time or another fall off course, and some fall deep making it almost
impossible to climb that hill of reflection. Taking a moment to stand at the
top of the hill and look upon your world may give you a more clear
perspective on life. When life is in complete control it has the power to
devour the soul. It drains one’s inspiration and locks the eyes to only see
what it requires. Life is uncontrollable, but not all of it. The best
we can do is to responsibly get out of it what we can. Remember to take a
moment every now and then to climb the hill, look back, reflect, have faith,
and choose the path that finally takes you home.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;">The song has three versus at thirteen lines a verse. The song follows
a 7/10 beat in the first verse.<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"> <span lang="EN">According to a comment on the website <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Songfacts</i>,“Gabriel used an unusual 7/4 time signature on this
song”. Also, “More instruments are added on each verse”. <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2089337165247485823#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a>
Peter Gabriel has said in an interview with <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sounds</i> magazine, "That 7/4 rhythm works well because it
feels like a normal rhythm but isn't quite right. It's not like a clever
rhythm, just a bit odd. It'll be interesting to see how people dance to
it."<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2089337165247485823#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a></span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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the song is about a religious epiphany, others equate it with a soldier at
war, and some have mentioned its connection with UFO sightings.</span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2089337165247485823#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN" style="color: white; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"> Peter Gabriel
said that he wrote the song during his break from the band Genesis (with Phil
Collins).<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2089337165247485823#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a></span> A song, a poem, a
painting, a story all mean different things to different people. The intention
of those that created the pieces has their interpretation through their
inspiration. However, the core of the inspiration for its creation cannot
dictate how it will inspire. Those that connect with it create their own
personal experience and therefore the meaning branches out into endless
streams that flow and connect.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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dramatic, inspiring song and still to this day every time I hear it my heart goes boom, boom,
boom!<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-size: large;"></span><br />Stephanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14751726383021823857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2089337165247485823.post-89355359900916166082012-09-06T13:51:00.002-07:002012-09-06T17:59:45.681-07:00What am I doing here?
Post an introduction to the blog. Introduce yourself to potential readers and discuss what role you feel media technology should play in teaching, at any level. Have you witnessed any particularly effective or ineffective uses of media technology as a student?
In this blog I hope to discover new understanding for myself and perhaps others that read this as well. Thoughts are the building blocks to understanding and I intend to use this blog to organize my thoughts that develop throughout the semester.
Media technology should play a large role in teaching. Media is an extension of humanity allowing for knowledge to quickly translate into a students mind. Media allows for human senses to harmonize by incorporating visuals like a silent recognizable expression to subtle sounds added to an environment. Media has the power to captivate and is a powerful tool for teachers.
I have seen a number of ineffective power point presentations. I have had classes in which the teacher was just learning how to use Moodle and there was much confusion.As I carry my forty-five pound book bag across campus in direct sunlight on a 98 degree summer day I cannot understand why the books have not been digitized. All of my books from first grade on could easily fit onto a quarter pound iPad.Also many classes could easily be online leaving many the option to stay home.I would propose the paperback books all come with a digital source as well. The book could stay at home, the digital version brought to class. Stephanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14751726383021823857noreply@blogger.com1