My special artifact is a 1003 innovative mallet. Even though I have multiple pairs of mallets, none of them hold the value to me like this one mallet does. I hold this specific mallet because it is the mallet that I was “knighted” with by my former captain, Joey, at the end of my sophomore year.
Excerpt from: 1003 Innovative
The reason I picked such a dark look for my glog is because Hamlet, as we all know, is a dark play. The main thing I wanted for people to get out of the blog is that revenge kills all, whether it be intentional or not. That is why I put the last scene of the play on my blog and the confucious quote. Hamlet took it to a literal meaning but revenge can kill more than just physically, but mentally too, destoying the bonds we make with people. In Hamlet, that also happened. I’m sure before revenge reared its ugly head that Hamlet and his mother had a wonderful relationship and so did Hamlet and Lareates. But revenge messed everything up.
In Elizabethan times there where many superstitions. And of course some dealing with ghost. They thought ghost had a mission going back to earth such as: to ask for a proper burial, warn the living about the future, or to avenge their death. Though many people of this time believed in ghost the church strongly denounced the existance of ghost and that they were really just devils in disquise.
My family, personally, has no ghost stories and we are not very superstitious, though we do believe in the existance of ghost. Many places that are believed to be haunted are old houses. Especially one that was near a battlefeild or had tenants there before that had a rough or tragic past. People are always fascinated with ghost because people want to know everything and ghost are something that’s unknown to us. Also, it strengthens the belief of life (or at least something) after death.
Dorothy – Is like you said, the “everyone” person who is going through life
Scarecrow – I see as a poor or middle class person who seems like he doesn’t have a brain when he does
Tinman – represents the industrial class of the time period which was getting new life at the time
Cowardly Lion – I see as some politicians cause they (even today) have big words and usually whimp out but sometimes in the end they do what they must
Tornado – A big change sweeping the land, bringing it to a bright, colorful future
Yellow Brick Road – the road of life
Wicked Witch – the devil
Emerald City – heaven
Media has a big impact on society but I think it is mainly society that puts the brunt of how to look on everyone. Yes media doesn’t help but even if we didn’t have media there would be self esteem issues. Back before they had wide stream media like tvs, radios, and internet people had self esteem issues. As you can see in this dove commecial (like the ones we saw in class) one girl didn’t have friends before she was “skinny” and then once she became anorexic she suddenly had more people talk to her. If we didn’t have media to look to for self images we would make them ourselves. Media just centralizes certain images as ideal. I am not saying that media doesn’t play a pretty big part, just that we also play a big part and we can’t forget that.
Here is another discussion board with self image media topic and comments.
Thomas More was born Febuary 4, 1478. He started his career as a lawyer but soon changed to a humanist scholar. As a scholar he reached very high political positions like High Chancellor. He also coined the word utopia. Though he was a scholar, he was very attached to the Cathlic Church and saw many protestants burned at the stake. For his loyalty to the Church, he refused to sign the Act of Supremacy that stated that King Henry VIII was leader of the church and was beheaded July 6, 1535
When he was 27 he married Jane Colt and produced 4 children (3 girls and a son). He taught his daughters just like his son (strange for the era) and said that women were just as intellegent as men ((smart man )). When Jane died he married almost immediatly to Alice. The produced no children but they were known to be very affectionate.
My Renaissance man would have to be Steve Irwin. I know many people poke jokes at how crazy and how funny his accent was but I saw him as a true renaissance man in bringing people’s attention to animals and animal conservation, even for the animals (such as alligators, snakes, creepy crawly things, etc.) that not many people had a very “nice” outlook on. Even though people saw him as an eccentric, australian, weirdo (which many people saw Einstin, Gallileo, and Leonardo DeVinci in their time as that), did he not get his point across? For all the years he has worked with animals he showed that the ones we thought before as of no use or just vicious and stupid that they were nothing like we thought and were amazing creatures. He didn’t even die from the creatures that we joked would kill him all the time. That’s why I picked Steve Irwin as my renassaince man.
I think Pride and Prejudice is a long boring movie about rich people who don’t always get what they want. I think think it is a fickle movie and that I can’t relate to it at all. It shows that upper class England in the early 19th centry had their heads where the sun don’t shine and didn’t care about anyone elses lives except their own. I think some form of it still exists today (or course) cause that type of greed can never be completly erased but I think rich people are at least a little better today. Yes, I realize some still aren’t but I think most aren’t that bad. They do still marry in their classes (you know upper) but usually there is no specific prefrence on job or money (cause they are all already rich). I know it might not make much sense to you guys but… I just don’t know how to explain it at the momment ((lol))
I think this blog stuff is going to be confusing but I like the idea. I have never used this type of blog site before and personally… never really have blogged before even on myspace and stuff. I think it might be hard to remember to check this thing cause I barely check my e-mail as it is. But I think this could be really fun. Untill we really start using it, then I will tell you if I dread or look forward to this blog stuff =)
