Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Colonization

  1. Write a well-developed paragraph explaining what you believe is the most important message of “The Rabbits.” You will be sharing your paragraph with your table group.
The symbol of the story is the colonization of the Australian by the Europeans. I think that the most important message of "The Rabbit" is that colonization is bad and that it could destroy peoples life even though you are not meant to ruin their lives. I believe that there are good and bad things about colonization, like the chance of seeing new animals and new foods. Then again there are the bad things like the stuff that makes you sick like pollution, junk food etc etc.

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Duet

In our passage Cassius is talking to brutus, this was right after Caesar told Antony to shake Calpurnia's hand so that she could get pregnant.They are talking about how caesar will become too powerfull and how he will take advantage of his power. This passage is very impornatent to the story because it is when Brutus is being asked to join the conspirators and that it shows how honorable Brutus is and why he thought that things would go as he planned out, it also shows how maipulative Cassius is. Another reason this passage is meaningful would be because, if we did not have this Part in the scene we would not know who Brutus was and how he joined in and if brutus loved caesar or not. It also gives us a bad impresion of caesar so that we dont like him because he is descrbed as cocky and hod-headed and all full of hubris. I will be doing this perfomace as a duet with rachel hutchinson CASSIUS

Will you go see the order of the course?

BRUTUS
Not I.

CASSIUS
I pray you, do.

BRUTUS
I am not gamesome: I do lack some part
Of that quick spirit that is in Antony.
Let me not hinder, Cassius, your desires;
I'll leave you.

CASSIUS
Brutus, I do observe you now of late:
I have not from your eyes that gentleness
And show of love as I was wont to have:
You bear too stubborn and too strange a hand
Over your friend that loves you.

BRUTUS
Cassius,
Be not deceived: if I have veil'd my look,
I turn the trouble of my countenance
Merely upon myself. Vexed I am
Of late with passions of some difference,
Conceptions only proper to myself,
Which give some soil perhaps to my behaviors;
But let not therefore my good friends be grieved--
Among which number, Cassius, be you one--
Nor construe any further my neglect,
Than that poor Brutus, with himself at war,
Forgets the shows of love to other men.

CASSIUS
Then, Brutus, I have much mistook your passion;
By means whereof this breast of mine hath buried
Thoughts of great value, worthy cogitations.
Tell me, good Brutus, can you see your face?

BRUTUS
No, Cassius; for the eye sees not itself,
But by reflection, by some other things.

CASSIUS
'Tis just:
And it is very much lamented, Brutus,
That you have no such mirrors as will turn
Your hidden worthiness into your eye,
That you might see your shadow. I have heard,
Where many of the best respect in Rome,
Except immortal Caesar, speaking of Brutus
And groaning underneath this age's yoke,
Have wish'd that noble Brutus had his eyes.

BRUTUS
Into what dangers would you lead me, Cassius,
That you would have me seek into myself
For that which is not in me?

CASSIUS
Therefore, good Brutus, be prepared to hear:
And since you know you cannot see yourself
So well as by reflection, I, your glass,
Will modestly discover to yourself
That of yourself which you yet know not of.
And be not jealous on me, gentle Brutus:
Were I a common laugher, or did use
To stale with ordinary oaths my love
To every new protester; if you know
That I do fawn on men and hug them hard
And after scandal them, or if you know
That I profess myself in banqueting
To all the rout, then hold me dangerous.

Flourish, and shout

BRUTUS
What means this shouting? I do fear, the people
Choose Caesar for their king.

CASSIUS
Ay, do you fear it?
Then must I think you would not have it so.

BRUTUS
I would not, Cassius; yet I love him well.
But wherefore do you hold me here so long?
What is it that you would impart to me?
If it be aught toward the general good,
Set honour in one eye and death i' the other,
And I will look on both indifferently,
For let the gods so speed me as I love
The name of honour more than I fear death.

CASSIUS
I know that virtue to be in you, Brutus,
As well as I do know your outward favour.
Well, honour is the subject of my story.
I cannot tell what you and other men
Think of this life; but, for my single self,
I had as lief not be as live to be
In awe of such a thing as I myself.
I was born free as Caesar; so were you:
We both have fed as well, and we can both
Endure the winter's cold as well as he:
For once, upon a raw and gusty day,
The troubled Tiber chafing with her shores,
Caesar said to me 'Darest thou, Cassius, now
Leap in with me into this angry flood,
And swim to yonder point?' Upon the word,
Accoutred as I was, I plunged in
And bade him follow; so indeed he did.
The torrent roar'd, and we did buffet it
With lusty sinews, throwing it aside
And stemming it with hearts of controversy;
But ere we could arrive the point proposed,
Caesar cried 'Help me, Cassius, or I sink!'
I, as Aeneas, our great ancestor,
Did from the flames of Troy upon his shoulder
The old Anchises bear, so from the waves of Tiber
Did I the tired Caesar. And this man
Is now become a god, and Cassius is
A wretched creature and must bend his body,
If Caesar carelessly but nod on him.
He had a fever when he was in Spain,
And when the fit was on him, I did mark
How he did shake: 'tis true, this god did shake;
His coward lips did from their colour fly,
And that same eye whose bend doth awe the world
Did lose his lustre: I did hear him groan:
Ay, and that tongue of his that bade the Romans
Mark him and write his speeches in their books,
Alas, it cried 'Give me some drink, Titinius,'
As a sick girl. Ye gods, it doth amaze me
A man of such a feeble temper should
So get the start of the majestic world
And bear the palm alone.

Shout. Flourish

BRUTUS
Another general shout!
I do believe that these applauses are
For some new honours that are heap'd on Caesar.

CASSIUS
Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus, and we petty men
Walk under his huge legs and peep about
To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
Men at some time are masters of their fates:
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
Brutus and Caesar: what should be in that 'Caesar'?
Why should that name be sounded more than yours?
Write them together, yours is as fair a name;
Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well;
Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with 'em,
Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar.
Now, in the names of all the gods at once,
Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed,
That he is grown so great? Age, thou art shamed!
Rome, thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods!
When went there by an age, since the great flood,
But it was famed with more than with one man?
When could they say till now, that talk'd of Rome,
That her wide walls encompass'd but one man?
Now is it Rome indeed and room enough,
When there is in it but one only man.
O, you and I have heard our fathers say,
There was a Brutus once that would have brook'd
The eternal devil to keep his state in Rome
As easily as a king.

BRUTUS
That you do love me, I am nothing jealous;
What you would work me to, I have some aim:
How I have thought of this and of these times,
I shall recount hereafter; for this present,
I would not, so with love I might entreat you,
Be any further moved. What you have said
I will consider; what you have to say
I will with patience hear, and find a time
Both meet to hear and answer such high things.
Till then, my noble friend, chew upon this:
Brutus had rather be a villager
Than to repute himself a son of Rome
Under these hard conditions as this time
Is like to lay upon us.

CASSIUS
I am glad that my weak words
Have struck but thus much show of fire from Brutus.

BRUTUS
The games are done and Caesar is returning.

CASSIUS
As they pass by, pluck Casca by the sleeve;
And he will, after his sour fashion, tell you
What hath proceeded worthy note to-day.

Re-enter CAESAR and his Train

BRUTUS
I will do so. But, look you, Cassius,
The angry spot doth glow on Caesar's brow,
And all the rest look like a chidden train:
Calpurnia's cheek is pale; and Cicero
Looks with such ferret and such fiery eyes
As we have seen him in the Capitol,
Being cross'd in conference by some senators.

CASSIUS
Casca will tell us what the matter is.


Monday, January 31, 2011

Reflection Domino

1. I learn best when...
Since i am an L profile i learn best through movement and i need to move while im am thinking so that i can get things in my head more easily. It makes it easier for me to do a project when examples are given to me and metaphors are used.

2. I need to..
I need to be able to think to my self and sit somewhere where i will not be distracted easily because usually my profile gets distracted easily. Also seating in front of the class so that i can see better.

3. The strategies that would help me in my learning...
Things that could help my learning would be taking notes instead of doodeling and not listening. Also bite something while i am listening so that i dot get distracted, or do something with my hands.

4. I would like my teachers to know this about me...
that when sometimes when i do my homework it takes me a long time to start it because i get stuck in how to start it, and when i cant see what it is going to look like in the end i cant start it and it stresses me out.

Thursday, October 28, 2010

renaissance Art


The Oil on wood painting "Allegory of sight" made in 1618 by Bruegel the elder, reflects what is happening in the renaissance because it is showing things that happened in the renaissance. Like in the renaissance they started to pay more attention to art and knowledge and in the painting you can see a globe and a lot of drawings. So the Globe might show that they liked learning about the world and the mysteries that it contains. I think this picture shows how in the renaissance they started to look at things more carefully, because most of the paintings in the painting a re of famous people and it also has a telescope and the telescope is used to look through it and in the renaissance they started to look at things better the planets and the human body they started to try things not once but many times. I think that the painting in the art show this because there are loads of paintings so they might have tried the same techniques on the paintings.

Monday, September 27, 2010

Driving Forces of the Renaissance

Bankers of York

Bankers of York, from the Ordinances of their Guild, 1595-96.

A driving force that was more crucial to creating the Renaissance's explosion of idea were, the Guilds, because If it was not for the guilds trade could not have happened because there wouldn't have been anyone to make the materials and things for trading.

Monday, May 31, 2010

this is what i believe and ill stand by it


In my life, I’ve been told stories that are amazing, completely astonishing and every story had different subjects. Those stories have made me believe that no matter what happens in life, love will always conquer everything. I believe this because; in the stories my mom has told me, there was always an evil guy, and they were usually evil because they had no one to love, or they had been rejected. Then when that has been changed and replaced with love they would put away their evilness and be kind.

Another reason I believe in this, is because when I read the story of Anne Frank, my teacher had told me that for punishment. If the Jews didn’t do as they were told, they would make the kids shoot their own father. Of course, it was hard for them I mean to shoot the person who cared for them when they were born, who was like a hero to you. My teacher even told me that, sometimes they were not able to do it. Also in WWII, when the Jewish people ran away to keep save some people tried hiding them, its like love between humans not because it is wrong but because we are all the same. I believe and always believe in this.

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Game 1066 reflection


The game is basically about the fights between William and Harold and Harrald, it was also about defeating the other team and winning so that you could keep england.What i enjoyed most about this game was the fact that you needed a strategy, and that i was the one to control everything. I also enjoyed it because i learned a lot about it, i learned that you must never put the king at the front of a war because he most probably will die.

In hastings there were two kings and both of them were fighting for the throne of england, the kings were William and Harold, so the battle of hasting was a battle that lasted 6 hours. At the end William won. I think this game is really valuable because its like hwat if harold had won and all of that stuff.