Write sentences with the following structure:
Periodic, Loose, Parallel, Inverted Order, Interrupted Order.
Write the following types:
Simple, Compound, Complex, Compound-Complex.
Label Each.
Periodic Sentece:
"That day, even after he got kicked in the shins and fell into a pile of dry leaves, he still managed to get to work on time."
Loose (Cumulative) Sentence:
"Johnson just sold his bike, after bargaining with Frankie for over two hours in the front lawn, baking in the hot afternoon sun."
Parallel Structure:
"What is the purpose of having breakfast, what is the purpose of having lunch, what is the purpose of having dinner, why bother eating at all, it just makes us fat!"
Inverted Order Sentence:
"Over the mountain, walks Jimmy the Squire."
Interrupted Order Sentence:
"Lincoln--a man who proved himself in the arena as a true warrior--fell victim to the black plague."
Simple Sentence:
"The kitten listened to music."
Compound Sentence:
"The kitten listened to music, despite the neighbours banging on the walls."
Complex Sentence:
"Although the kitten listened loudly to her music, the police made her quiet the noise down."
Compound-Complex Sentence:
"Although the kitten was arrested, the kitten had no regrets, and the neighbours slept soundly for the remainder of the night."
Tuesday, 4 September 2012
A Modest Proposal Précis
In Jonathan Swift's 1729 essay, A Modest Proposal, the notion of harvesting year-old human children is suggested as a solution to a nation's socioeconomic struggles. He explains the benefits in depth such as ridding the world of beggars, providing income for landlords who essentially 'own' the lower class, and allowing more food to go around for the rest of the country. He satirically proposes this in order to get the people to think about what his mirrored persona is saying, challenging others to come up with a better alternative in order to help the Irish people, aiding their situation. The audience should pick up the satirical tone of Swift's alter ego and think of it as a call to arms, pumping up a nation to take action and self-sufficiently fix itself.
Wednesday, 29 August 2012
Horror Movie ~~~-~~~ Graphic Organizer (Work in Progress)
"I think that we're all mentally ill; those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better--and maybe not all that much better, after all. We've all known people who talk to themselves, people who sometimes squinch their faces into horrible grimaces when they believe no one is watching, people who have some hysterical fear--of snakes, the dark, the tight place, the long drop... and, of course, those final worms and grubs that are waiting so patiently underground."
PARAPHRASE: I think that we all have some weird traits about us. Most are pretty good at hiding it, however some aren't, especially those who makes faces or talk to themselves.
Rhetorical Strategy or Style Element:
-Cumulative Sentences.
-Parallelism. (I suppose?)
-Death metaphor
Effect or Function: Introduction, simple thesis "I think that we're all mentally ill" presented, and elaborated on. Further, he is going to, in reference to the title, tell us "Why We Crave Horror Movies", or at least why he thinks that we do. Also sets up fear, perhaps of death or getting maimed and thrown into a freezer. (worms are icky.)Parallelism used, can perhaps drawn the line of the people inside the mental asylum, and the people outside, perhaps they are PARALLEL, and not too different from each other.
Side Note: I feel the phrase "not all that much better, after all." is a little awkward, maybe just because of how close together he uses the word 'all'. =/
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"When we pay our four or five bucks and seat ourselves at tenth-row center in a theater showing a horror movie, we are daring the nightmare."
PARAPHRASE: When we go to the movies, we are daring the nightmare. (Challenging your mind into bringing up a nightmare that night in your sleep...?)
Rhetorical Strategy or Style Element:
-Periodic Sentence
-Metaphor
Effect or Function: Daring nightmares to come, as well as putting oneself into the nightmare.
Speeds up reading and switches the tense. Order of the sentence (syntax ;D) is progressive, beginning with going to the movie theater, paying the money, and ending up in bed/asleep perhaps within a nightmare.
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"Why? Some of the reasons are simple and obvious. To show that we can, that we are not afraid, that we can ride this roller coaster. Which is not to say that a really good horror movie may not surprise a scream out of us at some point, the way we may scream when the roller coaster twists through a complete 360° or plows through a lake at the bottom of the drop. And horror movies, like roller coasters, have always been the special province of the young; by the time one turns 40 or 50, one's appetite for double-twists or 360-degree loops may be considerably depleted."
PARAPHRASE: Why? Simply, we want to prove we aren't scared. It doesn't mean that there won't be scary parts in the movie. Horror movies have often been like more often by younger people. As one matures, the appetite for horror movies drops.
Rhetorical Strategy or Style Element:
-Cumulative Sentence.
-Some Parallelism.
-Roller-coaster metaphor
Effect or Function:
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"We also go to re-establish our feelings of essential normality..."
PARAPHRASE: We go to feel normal again. An ugly melting woman in some movie I've never heard of makes us happy that we will all never be that disgusting.
Rhetorical Strategy or Style Element:
-Allusions to movies and old personalities.
Effect or Function:
"And we go to have fun."
PARAPHRASE: And we go to have fun...
Rhetorical Strategy or Style Element:
-Short sentence, somewhat periodic (If it had to be one of the two.)
Effect or Function: Quick switch in topic, train of thought. Transitions into next paragraph, which starts with a rhetorical question.
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"Ah, but this is where the ground starts to slope away, isn't it?"
PARAPHRASE: This is where it gets tricky. (Isn't it?) This fun is odd. The fun of seeing other people mutilated and killed. Football is combat, horror movies are public lynching.
Rhetorical Strategy or Style Element:
Effect or Function: Begins to go into the morbid side of the essay, detailing the odd desires of people to see others hacked and slain.
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"It is true that the mythic, "Fairytale" horror film intends to take away the shades of grey..."
PARAPHRASE: It is true that the movies put us in a different mindset. It puts aside the manners and allows us to return to a childlike personality. Seeing things more simply. Perhaps these movies provide mental relief because allowing to think this way is rarely seen in the real world. We are given the right to feel whatever emotion we choose.
Rhetorical Strategy or Style Element:
-Oxymoron: "Fairytale Horror"
Effect or Function:
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"If we are all insane, then sanity becomes a matter of degree..."
PARAPHRASE: If we are all insane, some are definitely more than others. If your insanity makes you a mass murderer, you go to prison. However, if you talk to yourself and pick your nose, people will leave you alone, but you'll have no friends.
Rhetorical Strategy or Style Element:
Effect or Function:
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"The potential lyncher is in almost all of us..."
PARAPHRASE: We're all psycho. (Except saints and what not.) Routinely, the psychotic side needs to come out. Emotions and fear become a muscle that must be exercised. We exercise them so we do not get overwhelmed for the civil emotions such as love, friendship, etc. are better.
Rhetorical Strategy or Style Element:
Effect or Function:
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"When we exhibit these emotions, society showers us with positive reinforcement..."
PARAPHRASE: When we're nice, society rewards us. We learn this at an early age, such as when we're nice to a sibling, the adults are happy and reward candy. But if we're mean, death ensues and spankings are handed out. Get it? Hand-ed? Sorry... :(
Rhetorical Strategy or Style Element:
Effect or Function:
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"But anticivilization emotions don't go away, and the demand period exercise..."
PARAPHRASE: Bad emotions don't go away and they need to be released. Sick jokes are a part of our culture, even told by children. We still laugh at them even if we try to hide it. This confirms that if we share a brotherhood of man, we are also sharing an insanity. Not that it's a bad thing, but horror films are reactionary just like fairy tales.
Rhetorical Strategy or Style Element:
Effect or Function:
---~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~---
"The mythic horror movie, like the sick joke, has a dirty job to do..."
PARAPHRASE: Horror movies work like sick jokes. Appeals to the 'wrong' emotions in us. It's morbid, letting us loose from social constraints. Liberals hate horror movies. I however love them the worst they are.
Rhetorical Strategy or Style Element:
Effect or Function:
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"Why bother? Because it keeps them form getting out, man..."
PARAPHRASE:
Rhetorical Strategy or Style Element:
Effect or Function:
---~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~---
"As long as you keep the gators fed."
PARAPHRASE: (Don't really need to, do I?)
Rhetorical Strategy or Style Element:
-Twist ending.
-Short abrupt sentence.
-Comical.
-Gators being a (very slightly) extended metaphor.
Effect or Function: Ends the essay, little joke to leave the reader off with the knowledge of needing to "keep the gators fed" as in regularly engage in 'anticivilization' emotions to satisfy the 'lyncher' inside.
PARAPHRASE: I think that we all have some weird traits about us. Most are pretty good at hiding it, however some aren't, especially those who makes faces or talk to themselves.
Rhetorical Strategy or Style Element:
-Cumulative Sentences.
-Parallelism. (I suppose?)
-Death metaphor
Effect or Function: Introduction, simple thesis "I think that we're all mentally ill" presented, and elaborated on. Further, he is going to, in reference to the title, tell us "Why We Crave Horror Movies", or at least why he thinks that we do. Also sets up fear, perhaps of death or getting maimed and thrown into a freezer. (worms are icky.)Parallelism used, can perhaps drawn the line of the people inside the mental asylum, and the people outside, perhaps they are PARALLEL, and not too different from each other.
Side Note: I feel the phrase "not all that much better, after all." is a little awkward, maybe just because of how close together he uses the word 'all'. =/
---~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~---
"When we pay our four or five bucks and seat ourselves at tenth-row center in a theater showing a horror movie, we are daring the nightmare."
PARAPHRASE: When we go to the movies, we are daring the nightmare. (Challenging your mind into bringing up a nightmare that night in your sleep...?)
Rhetorical Strategy or Style Element:
-Periodic Sentence
-Metaphor
Effect or Function: Daring nightmares to come, as well as putting oneself into the nightmare.
Speeds up reading and switches the tense. Order of the sentence (syntax ;D) is progressive, beginning with going to the movie theater, paying the money, and ending up in bed/asleep perhaps within a nightmare.
---~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~---
"Why? Some of the reasons are simple and obvious. To show that we can, that we are not afraid, that we can ride this roller coaster. Which is not to say that a really good horror movie may not surprise a scream out of us at some point, the way we may scream when the roller coaster twists through a complete 360° or plows through a lake at the bottom of the drop. And horror movies, like roller coasters, have always been the special province of the young; by the time one turns 40 or 50, one's appetite for double-twists or 360-degree loops may be considerably depleted."
PARAPHRASE: Why? Simply, we want to prove we aren't scared. It doesn't mean that there won't be scary parts in the movie. Horror movies have often been like more often by younger people. As one matures, the appetite for horror movies drops.
Rhetorical Strategy or Style Element:
-Cumulative Sentence.
-Some Parallelism.
-Roller-coaster metaphor
Effect or Function:
---~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~---
"We also go to re-establish our feelings of essential normality..."
PARAPHRASE: We go to feel normal again. An ugly melting woman in some movie I've never heard of makes us happy that we will all never be that disgusting.
Rhetorical Strategy or Style Element:
-Allusions to movies and old personalities.
Effect or Function:
"And we go to have fun."
PARAPHRASE: And we go to have fun...
Rhetorical Strategy or Style Element:
-Short sentence, somewhat periodic (If it had to be one of the two.)
Effect or Function: Quick switch in topic, train of thought. Transitions into next paragraph, which starts with a rhetorical question.
---~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~---
"Ah, but this is where the ground starts to slope away, isn't it?"
PARAPHRASE: This is where it gets tricky. (Isn't it?) This fun is odd. The fun of seeing other people mutilated and killed. Football is combat, horror movies are public lynching.
Rhetorical Strategy or Style Element:
Effect or Function: Begins to go into the morbid side of the essay, detailing the odd desires of people to see others hacked and slain.
---~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~---
"It is true that the mythic, "Fairytale" horror film intends to take away the shades of grey..."
PARAPHRASE: It is true that the movies put us in a different mindset. It puts aside the manners and allows us to return to a childlike personality. Seeing things more simply. Perhaps these movies provide mental relief because allowing to think this way is rarely seen in the real world. We are given the right to feel whatever emotion we choose.
Rhetorical Strategy or Style Element:
-Oxymoron: "Fairytale Horror"
Effect or Function:
---~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~---
"If we are all insane, then sanity becomes a matter of degree..."
PARAPHRASE: If we are all insane, some are definitely more than others. If your insanity makes you a mass murderer, you go to prison. However, if you talk to yourself and pick your nose, people will leave you alone, but you'll have no friends.
Rhetorical Strategy or Style Element:
Effect or Function:
---~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~---
"The potential lyncher is in almost all of us..."
PARAPHRASE: We're all psycho. (Except saints and what not.) Routinely, the psychotic side needs to come out. Emotions and fear become a muscle that must be exercised. We exercise them so we do not get overwhelmed for the civil emotions such as love, friendship, etc. are better.
Rhetorical Strategy or Style Element:
Effect or Function:
---~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~---
"When we exhibit these emotions, society showers us with positive reinforcement..."
PARAPHRASE: When we're nice, society rewards us. We learn this at an early age, such as when we're nice to a sibling, the adults are happy and reward candy. But if we're mean, death ensues and spankings are handed out. Get it? Hand-ed? Sorry... :(
Rhetorical Strategy or Style Element:
Effect or Function:
---~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~---
"But anticivilization emotions don't go away, and the demand period exercise..."
PARAPHRASE: Bad emotions don't go away and they need to be released. Sick jokes are a part of our culture, even told by children. We still laugh at them even if we try to hide it. This confirms that if we share a brotherhood of man, we are also sharing an insanity. Not that it's a bad thing, but horror films are reactionary just like fairy tales.
Rhetorical Strategy or Style Element:
Effect or Function:
---~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~---
"The mythic horror movie, like the sick joke, has a dirty job to do..."
PARAPHRASE: Horror movies work like sick jokes. Appeals to the 'wrong' emotions in us. It's morbid, letting us loose from social constraints. Liberals hate horror movies. I however love them the worst they are.
Rhetorical Strategy or Style Element:
Effect or Function:
---~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~---
"Why bother? Because it keeps them form getting out, man..."
PARAPHRASE:
Rhetorical Strategy or Style Element:
Effect or Function:
---~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~---
"As long as you keep the gators fed."
PARAPHRASE: (Don't really need to, do I?)
Rhetorical Strategy or Style Element:
-Twist ending.
-Short abrupt sentence.
-Comical.
-Gators being a (very slightly) extended metaphor.
Effect or Function: Ends the essay, little joke to leave the reader off with the knowledge of needing to "keep the gators fed" as in regularly engage in 'anticivilization' emotions to satisfy the 'lyncher' inside.
Monday, 27 August 2012
Chapter (Numero Dos)
Cøøl Stuff
Close Reading - Close reading is the ability to locate the 'nutritional value' within a text so that you can read it multiple times without getting bored. This process involves understanding a text, finding the bigger picture/idea, writing about what you have read, and find examples to back up your interpretation.
Colloquialisms - A word or phrase that is not formal or literary, typically one used in ordinary or familiar conversation. (Dude, like wassup?)
"Just as we pay attention to more than the spoken words during a conversation, when we read closely, we look beyond the words on the page."
Diction - Choice of words
Syntax - Arrangement of words
Trope - Artful diction, containing many literary devices. (Book lists tropes to use many metaphors, similes, personifications, and hyperboles.)
Scheme - Artful syntax, containing certain arrangements not often found in some works. (Book lists schemes to include, parallelisms, juxtapositions, and antitheses.)
Metaphor - A comparison of two objects, without using 'like' or 'as'.
Simile - A comparison of two objects, using the words 'like' or 'as'.
Personification - Giving an inanimate/lifeless objects human traits or characteristics to enhance description.
Hyperbole - An exaggeration that isn't meant to be taken literally.
Parallelism - The use of successive verbal constructions that correspond in grammatical structure, sound, meter, meaning, etc.
Juxtaposition - The fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect.
Antitheses - A person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else/contrast/contradiction between two objects.
QUESTIONS ONE SHOULD ASK THEMSELVES WHEN ANALYZING DICTION:
- "Which of the important words in the passage (verbs, nouns, adjectives, and adverbs) are general an abstract? Which are specific and concrete?"
- "Are the important words formal, informal, colloquial, or slang?"
- "Are some words nonliteral or figurative, creating figures of speech such as metaphors?"
QUESTIONS ONE SHOULD ASK THEMSELVES WHEN ANALYZING SYNTAX:
- "What is the order of the parts of the sentence? Is it the usual (subject-verb-object), or is it inverted?
- "Which part of speech is more prominent -- Nouns or verbs?"
- "What are the sentences like? Are they periodic (Moving toward something important at the end) or cumulative (adding details that support an important idea in the beginning of the sentence)?"
- "How does the sentence connect its words, phrases, and clauses?"
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Annotation - Reading through a text/book/whatever and marking it up. Circling words, highlighting important parts such as thesis statements. The book says to do this in post-it notes if we're not allowed to write in our books, but I don't think that's a problem for us. (Thanks Fielding.)
Oxymoron - Contrasting ideas put together purposely.
Zeugma - A figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses (e.g., John and his license expired last week) or to two others of which it semantically suits only one (e.g., with weeping eyes and hearts)
Syllepsis - A figure of speech in which a word is applied to two others in different senses (e.g., caught the train and a bad cold) or to two others of which it grammatically suits only one (e.g., neither they nor it is working).
"Another great way to interact with a text is to keep a Dialectical Journal, or double-entry notebook!"
Awesome...
Graphic Organizer - Another way of organizing thoughts on a piece. This is done by breaking down each section and dividing it up for concise analysis.
Anaphora - Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines.
Hortative sentences - Language that urges or calls to action. <------
Antimetabole - Repetition of words in reverse order.
Archaic Diction - Old-fashioned, moldy, gross-smelling, outdated words typically found in writings of the past.
Asyndeton - The omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence.
Imperative Sentence - Commanding, forceful sentences to initiate action.
Metonymy - Figure of speech that says on thing is another in order to explain by comparison.
Rhetorical question - A question that is employed for the effect of rhetoric and not for the purpose of actually getting an answer.
Close Reading - Close reading is the ability to locate the 'nutritional value' within a text so that you can read it multiple times without getting bored. This process involves understanding a text, finding the bigger picture/idea, writing about what you have read, and find examples to back up your interpretation.
Colloquialisms - A word or phrase that is not formal or literary, typically one used in ordinary or familiar conversation. (Dude, like wassup?)
"Just as we pay attention to more than the spoken words during a conversation, when we read closely, we look beyond the words on the page."
Diction - Choice of words
Syntax - Arrangement of words
Trope - Artful diction, containing many literary devices. (Book lists tropes to use many metaphors, similes, personifications, and hyperboles.)
Scheme - Artful syntax, containing certain arrangements not often found in some works. (Book lists schemes to include, parallelisms, juxtapositions, and antitheses.)
Metaphor - A comparison of two objects, without using 'like' or 'as'.
Simile - A comparison of two objects, using the words 'like' or 'as'.
Personification - Giving an inanimate/lifeless objects human traits or characteristics to enhance description.
Hyperbole - An exaggeration that isn't meant to be taken literally.
Parallelism - The use of successive verbal constructions that correspond in grammatical structure, sound, meter, meaning, etc.
Juxtaposition - The fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect.
Antitheses - A person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else/contrast/contradiction between two objects.
QUESTIONS ONE SHOULD ASK THEMSELVES WHEN ANALYZING DICTION:
- "Which of the important words in the passage (verbs, nouns, adjectives, and adverbs) are general an abstract? Which are specific and concrete?"
- "Are the important words formal, informal, colloquial, or slang?"
- "Are some words nonliteral or figurative, creating figures of speech such as metaphors?"
QUESTIONS ONE SHOULD ASK THEMSELVES WHEN ANALYZING SYNTAX:
- "What is the order of the parts of the sentence? Is it the usual (subject-verb-object), or is it inverted?
- "Which part of speech is more prominent -- Nouns or verbs?"
- "What are the sentences like? Are they periodic (Moving toward something important at the end) or cumulative (adding details that support an important idea in the beginning of the sentence)?"
- "How does the sentence connect its words, phrases, and clauses?"
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Annotation - Reading through a text/book/whatever and marking it up. Circling words, highlighting important parts such as thesis statements. The book says to do this in post-it notes if we're not allowed to write in our books, but I don't think that's a problem for us. (Thanks Fielding.)
Oxymoron - Contrasting ideas put together purposely.
Zeugma - A figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses (e.g., John and his license expired last week) or to two others of which it semantically suits only one (e.g., with weeping eyes and hearts)
Syllepsis - A figure of speech in which a word is applied to two others in different senses (e.g., caught the train and a bad cold) or to two others of which it grammatically suits only one (e.g., neither they nor it is working).
"Another great way to interact with a text is to keep a Dialectical Journal, or double-entry notebook!"
Awesome...
Graphic Organizer - Another way of organizing thoughts on a piece. This is done by breaking down each section and dividing it up for concise analysis.
Anaphora - Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines.
Hortative sentences - Language that urges or calls to action. <------
Antimetabole - Repetition of words in reverse order.
Archaic Diction - Old-fashioned, moldy, gross-smelling, outdated words typically found in writings of the past.
Asyndeton - The omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence.
Imperative Sentence - Commanding, forceful sentences to initiate action.
Metonymy - Figure of speech that says on thing is another in order to explain by comparison.
Rhetorical question - A question that is employed for the effect of rhetoric and not for the purpose of actually getting an answer.
Wednesday, 22 August 2012
News Assignment ~ Norway
Norway Massacre Gunman gets a Prison Cell bigger than most New York Apartments
Sources: (Fox News, Sky News, & sjtrem.com)
Pictures (Along with Descriptions)
Article
Other Article (More Pictures)
At around July 22, 2011 Anders Breivik was arrested for killing 77 and injuring an estimated number of 209 people. (Sollid) (http://www.sjtrem.com/content/20/1/3)
"Those hoping Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik will spend the rest of his days in a cramped cell will be disappointed when he is sentenced on Friday." (Sky News)
Indeed, he will in fact live pretty comfortably in a three-room private cell secluded from other prisoners. However, it is said that there is computer access, television, a treadmill, daily newspapers, and a private study. He was transported to the Ila Prison outside of Oslo, the site of a Breivik car-bombing that killed 8 people and wounded several more, on Wednesday, August 22nd; awaiting his sentencing on Friday the 24th. Each part of his three-room cell measures roughly 86 square feet and is only temporary. According to Prison officials, they hope to reach a point where they can transport Breivik into the other section of the institution and let him interact with the other inmates. It is there where he can gain access to a school, teaching Kindergarten through high-school classes, and advanced college-level courses. In addition, he will have access to a gym, a library, and a job at a prison store.
That's the goal however, but experts are still trying to determine his mental stability, which may or may not lead to even more burdens for the prison system to handle. If deemed mentally insane, there will be an entire psychiatric ward built just for Breivik with up to seventeen staff members hired just to treat one man.
Granted this does not involve America, so my future tax-dollars and those of people I know and care for are not of concern. Nonetheless, I've never really been a proponent of allowing prisoners, especially mass-murderers, such amenities as overly-spacious living arrangements, let alone a computer and a treadmill. Children in less-fortunate parts of Norway would easily benefit from computers donated to the school systems, or exercise equipment to promote healthy lifestyles in Norwegian youth. To put it simply, the priorities appear to be in need of a rework. It needs to be straightened out, as Norwegian citizen Thomas Indreboe points out in the Sky News article, "To do that for just one person, when there are other things in Norway that need to be taken care of, like elderly care and roads and such things - The money could have been spent on other things."
Sources: (Fox News, Sky News, & sjtrem.com)
Pictures (Along with Descriptions)
Article
Other Article (More Pictures)
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| Anders Breivik on the right |
At around July 22, 2011 Anders Breivik was arrested for killing 77 and injuring an estimated number of 209 people. (Sollid) (http://www.sjtrem.com/content/20/1/3)
"Those hoping Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik will spend the rest of his days in a cramped cell will be disappointed when he is sentenced on Friday." (Sky News)
Indeed, he will in fact live pretty comfortably in a three-room private cell secluded from other prisoners. However, it is said that there is computer access, television, a treadmill, daily newspapers, and a private study. He was transported to the Ila Prison outside of Oslo, the site of a Breivik car-bombing that killed 8 people and wounded several more, on Wednesday, August 22nd; awaiting his sentencing on Friday the 24th. Each part of his three-room cell measures roughly 86 square feet and is only temporary. According to Prison officials, they hope to reach a point where they can transport Breivik into the other section of the institution and let him interact with the other inmates. It is there where he can gain access to a school, teaching Kindergarten through high-school classes, and advanced college-level courses. In addition, he will have access to a gym, a library, and a job at a prison store.
That's the goal however, but experts are still trying to determine his mental stability, which may or may not lead to even more burdens for the prison system to handle. If deemed mentally insane, there will be an entire psychiatric ward built just for Breivik with up to seventeen staff members hired just to treat one man.
Granted this does not involve America, so my future tax-dollars and those of people I know and care for are not of concern. Nonetheless, I've never really been a proponent of allowing prisoners, especially mass-murderers, such amenities as overly-spacious living arrangements, let alone a computer and a treadmill. Children in less-fortunate parts of Norway would easily benefit from computers donated to the school systems, or exercise equipment to promote healthy lifestyles in Norwegian youth. To put it simply, the priorities appear to be in need of a rework. It needs to be straightened out, as Norwegian citizen Thomas Indreboe points out in the Sky News article, "To do that for just one person, when there are other things in Norway that need to be taken care of, like elderly care and roads and such things - The money could have been spent on other things."
Jamaica Kincaid Question
Throughout the essay, Kincaid presents concrete objects as having larger symbolic significance--her father's felt hat, to name one of many examples. Find as many of these as you can; then, choose several that you think are particularly important to analyze in detail. What does this technique contribute to the overall meaning of the essay.
- Father's Hat
- Map of England
- England-style breakfast
- History
- Silverware
- Weather
- Streets + People they're named after
- Monuments
- White Cliffs of Dover
I feel the England-style breakfast that the Antiguans eat every morning can be a symbol pointing towards the overtaking or invasion (not the best of words) of the country. The Antiguans are not normally used to eating such a large amount of food first thing in the morning, they prefer to eat small portions, if at all. This keeps them from getting tired, yet big breakfasts associated with England, nods towards the imperialistic nature of the world superpower. England is 'hungry' and consumes all of its territories of resources and lifestyles of the original inhabitants.
The History of England that Jamaica is taught/forced to memorize is a symbol of the English pride. The pride they feel in their history and their way of doing things puts them on a pedestal above all others. They feel inundated with power and much like Manifest Destiny, they feel to have been 'chosen' to revitalize the places and territories they 'capture' by introducing their way of thinking, their customs, and making the local people royal subjects. Next, the children lose the history of their people are taught the English's history and their view, what Kincaid noted as "the forceful view" (6).
- Monuments can also have a much similar symbolism in the essay, as they are literally more symbolic in purpose. However they come to be better used as benches or places where students eat their lunches, which becomes the whole attitude of the Empire. A new civilization, a new island conquered and ready to become one with the country of England, yet shortly after the people are treated poorly and cultivated into people they were never meant to be and viewed by European English (as opposed to "Antiguan English") as nothing more than slaves/others/consumers/who cares?
The Weather is something that Kincaid explores humourously with some sarcasm. She tells that the sky is always grey and depressing, rain is always pouring down, and at night "wonderful things happen" such as people running mad desperately trying to escape the rain. It seems like she is taking the words that have been told to her by those who praise England and/or those taught to praise England and satirically repeating them with the true vision of England tacked on behind. Can come to symbolize the dark, depressed status that the Empire has in store for further colonization of these communities; a bleak outlook of the future.
- Father's Hat
- Map of England
- England-style breakfast
- History
- Silverware
- Weather
- Streets + People they're named after
- Monuments
- White Cliffs of Dover
I feel the England-style breakfast that the Antiguans eat every morning can be a symbol pointing towards the overtaking or invasion (not the best of words) of the country. The Antiguans are not normally used to eating such a large amount of food first thing in the morning, they prefer to eat small portions, if at all. This keeps them from getting tired, yet big breakfasts associated with England, nods towards the imperialistic nature of the world superpower. England is 'hungry' and consumes all of its territories of resources and lifestyles of the original inhabitants.
- Monuments can also have a much similar symbolism in the essay, as they are literally more symbolic in purpose. However they come to be better used as benches or places where students eat their lunches, which becomes the whole attitude of the Empire. A new civilization, a new island conquered and ready to become one with the country of England, yet shortly after the people are treated poorly and cultivated into people they were never meant to be and viewed by European English (as opposed to "Antiguan English") as nothing more than slaves/others/consumers/who cares?
The Weather is something that Kincaid explores humourously with some sarcasm. She tells that the sky is always grey and depressing, rain is always pouring down, and at night "wonderful things happen" such as people running mad desperately trying to escape the rain. It seems like she is taking the words that have been told to her by those who praise England and/or those taught to praise England and satirically repeating them with the true vision of England tacked on behind. Can come to symbolize the dark, depressed status that the Empire has in store for further colonization of these communities; a bleak outlook of the future.
On Seeing England for the First Time...
In the essay, "On Seeing England For The First Time" (1991) author Jamaica Kincaid subtly hints that the colonization of Carribbean cultures by the English empire devalues the people, metaphorically brainwashing them into deifying the British way of life. Kincaid brings up events from her past, such as her father's hat wearing habits where he "must have seen and admired a picture of an Englishman wearing such a hat in England, and this picture that he saw must have been so compelling that it caused him to wear the wrong hat for a hot climate most of his long life." (2). She regales the reader with her tales of her youth; often about her father's hat, her mother's desire for her to eat properly, and the entire family's morning ritual of engulfing a large breakfast, in order to depict the colonial effect on the population while providing a counterargument from her young persona. Kincaid addresses a large portion of her homeland Antigua, as well as other settlements in the region, to not exalt the English way of life and realize the industrialization of an environment and assimilation of a culture, with an increasingly-hostile, yet underlying "wake-up" message.
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