No Exit
Summary: I believe the summary of this book is how people torture us. This day and age we let people limit us and put negative thoughts in our heads. We choose to believe other people's opinions rather than just doing your own research and having your way of doing things or your opinions.
Theme: We don't believe in ourselves. We let other people control our actions, thoughts, and words by letting them fill our mind with garbage. Have self confidence.
Tone: The authors tone is very harsh. The way he describes the torture for Estelle, Garcin, and Inez is very cruel and hard. I think just being in one room with the same people everyday can kill a mam. Describing hell even when they don't want to is very harsh also.
Literary Elements:
Symbolism: Hell is supposed to be torture and awful but instead their hell is nice with couches and sofas. Also the torture chamber is just a drawing room.
Diction: The way the characters talk to each other and always bicker and fight is a interesting choice of diction.
Characterization: There are so many different ways of characterization and one is Garcin's lack of confidence. He always ask for other peoples opinions and approval. The protagonists are static because they don't stop the mind games going on by all of them. They go crazy without even realizing they can avoid it.
Sunday, March 30, 2014
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Essay Rough Draft: (1979)
Choose a complex and important character in a novel or a play of
recognized literary merit who might, on the basis of the character’s actions alone,
be considered evil or immoral. In a well-organized essay, explain both how and
why the full presentation of the character in the work makes us react more
sympathetically than we otherwise might. Avoid plot summary.
In Brave New World Huxley portrays John as an immoral person in many different ways. The most clear way was by naming him John the savage. As the book goes on it becomes more and more apparent that John is immoral by the World State's standards because he refuses premarital sex, he cares about death, is against the use of soma, and demands emotional commitment. The people within the society do not understand him because they are all told to believe in certain things from the day they are born, which leaves John to be an outsider due to their opposing beliefs. This ultimately leaves the reader no choice but to feel sympathetic towards him.
In the World State everyone is taught to believe in a certain way of living, anyone who believes different is looked at as immoral. John "the Savage" was looked at as immoral by the World State due to the fact that he was unable to adapt to their society and their beliefs. He didn't believe in the use of soma, the way people "have each other", and almost anything else the people of society believed in. At one point we even see him throw soma out of a window which is seen as immoral by the World State. Huxley uses indirect characterization by naming him John "The Savage", to show the reader right up front that he is an immoral character.
From the moment we meet John until the end of the book when we find out that he hung himself, we see that he is constantly punishing himself. For example, when John finds himself enjoying making tools while he is in the 'wilderness', he punishes himself for the fact of enjoyment. "But, John... I thought you were... I mean, aren't you?...", Lenina doesn't understand why John wont have her, even though he likes her. John punishes himself when he thinks of Lenina in an intimate way because he sees it as an impure thought. We can relate to John because he wants to be good, just like we do. Us as readers can't help but feel for him in this situation because he wants to be with her more than anything, but can't be due to the lack of emotional commitment on her part.
To someone that has not read the book john may seem like a normal guy, but to someone that has read the book and sees that Huxley is portraying the World Sate to be the "normal" civilization will note that John is immoral, due to the fact that he goes against all their beliefs. Huxley causes us to fully see John's immorality when he kills himself at the end of the book. No matter what angle you look at this, whether it's from the World State's or from your own personal view, the act of one committing suicide is seen as immoral.
John's character was created by Huxley to be the protagonist in the novel and in some ways make the World State seem less immoral. As the book goes on Huxley makes John seem more immoral and out of place. This is what causes us to feel sympathetic towards him, he becomes so lonely and frustrated that he turns to suicide. Huxley used that as a way to connect the readers life to the book because this sort of thing happens in the real world.
recognized literary merit who might, on the basis of the character’s actions alone,
be considered evil or immoral. In a well-organized essay, explain both how and
why the full presentation of the character in the work makes us react more
sympathetically than we otherwise might. Avoid plot summary.
In Brave New World Huxley portrays John as an immoral person in many different ways. The most clear way was by naming him John the savage. As the book goes on it becomes more and more apparent that John is immoral by the World State's standards because he refuses premarital sex, he cares about death, is against the use of soma, and demands emotional commitment. The people within the society do not understand him because they are all told to believe in certain things from the day they are born, which leaves John to be an outsider due to their opposing beliefs. This ultimately leaves the reader no choice but to feel sympathetic towards him.
In the World State everyone is taught to believe in a certain way of living, anyone who believes different is looked at as immoral. John "the Savage" was looked at as immoral by the World State due to the fact that he was unable to adapt to their society and their beliefs. He didn't believe in the use of soma, the way people "have each other", and almost anything else the people of society believed in. At one point we even see him throw soma out of a window which is seen as immoral by the World State. Huxley uses indirect characterization by naming him John "The Savage", to show the reader right up front that he is an immoral character.
From the moment we meet John until the end of the book when we find out that he hung himself, we see that he is constantly punishing himself. For example, when John finds himself enjoying making tools while he is in the 'wilderness', he punishes himself for the fact of enjoyment. "But, John... I thought you were... I mean, aren't you?...", Lenina doesn't understand why John wont have her, even though he likes her. John punishes himself when he thinks of Lenina in an intimate way because he sees it as an impure thought. We can relate to John because he wants to be good, just like we do. Us as readers can't help but feel for him in this situation because he wants to be with her more than anything, but can't be due to the lack of emotional commitment on her part.
To someone that has not read the book john may seem like a normal guy, but to someone that has read the book and sees that Huxley is portraying the World Sate to be the "normal" civilization will note that John is immoral, due to the fact that he goes against all their beliefs. Huxley causes us to fully see John's immorality when he kills himself at the end of the book. No matter what angle you look at this, whether it's from the World State's or from your own personal view, the act of one committing suicide is seen as immoral.
John's character was created by Huxley to be the protagonist in the novel and in some ways make the World State seem less immoral. As the book goes on Huxley makes John seem more immoral and out of place. This is what causes us to feel sympathetic towards him, he becomes so lonely and frustrated that he turns to suicide. Huxley used that as a way to connect the readers life to the book because this sort of thing happens in the real world.
Monday, March 10, 2014
Professional - Questions
- How long did it take for you to own your own business?
- What should i focus on most in college to be successful?
- What kinds of treatment, other than rehabilitation of muscles, do physical therapists do?
- What is a typical day like for a physical therapist?
- What can i do to become a successful physical therapist?
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Here is some motivation, I know its the end of the year and we could all use a little.
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Friday, February 28, 2014
Lit Analysis #2
Summary:Brave New World is a fictional novel that takes place in the future. Babies are not born, they are developed in test-tubes. They are developed to different standards of intelligence, the Alphas are the ruling class, then the Betas, Gammas, Deltas and Epsilons. They are all taught from the time they are born on to be content with their lives. When they aren't at work they spend their time in superficial pleasures, nobody thinks about or discusses anything serious. The famous american businessman Henry Ford is worshiped as God. There is no history, no culture, and no love. Bernard is an Alpha, but he is smaller than the average Alpha so he feels kind of inferior. He takes a trip with Lenina to a savage reservation that is fairly dirty, but is also free. He likes the idea of being free. He ends up bringing a kid named John back to his civilized and controlled world. John likes it and seem to be having fun at first, but doesn't not like that everyone acts the same like robots. John starts to destroy tons of the drug Soma that everyone uses. Bernard and Helmholtz are called in by the Director and are both exiled. John stays and moves into the mountains. After sometime John sees Lenina and starts whipping her and a crowd circles them and watches. Bernard is found in his house dead because he hung himself.
Theme: IndividualityIn this book society can be described as an effort to eliminate the individual from society. It means the conditioning of those people so that they don't really think of themselves as individuals. This sense includes both the joy of one's own talents and thoughts, and the sorrows of loneliness and isolation. These experiences of individuality are what are referred to as "the Human condition," and everything in the World State is designed to avoid anyone ever feeling individual in any way, either through sadness or joy.
Tone: IronicHuxley is writing about how humanity always seeks pleasure instead of pain, and then shows examples of how makes society just a bunch of sheep's. Only the outcasts can really think outside of the box, but even then, it's limited. Only someone who is truly not from that society can think beyond.
Literary Techniques:
Figurative Language: "Ford, we are twelve; oh, make us one, Like drops within the Social River; Oh, make us now together run As swiftly as thy shining Flivver."
Irony: "What's the matter?' asked the Director. The nurse shrugged her shoulders. 'Nothing much,' she answered. 'It's just that this little boy seems rather reluctant to join in the ordinary erotic play."
Alliteration: "There, on a low bed, the sheet flung back, dressed in a pair of pink one-piece zippyjamas, lay Lenina, fast asleep"
Metaphor: "In a few minutes there were dozens of them, standing in a wide circle round the lighthouse, staring, laughing, clicking their cameras, throwing (as to an ape) peanuts, packets of sex-hormone chewing gum..." "The ape had spoken; there was a burst of laughter and hand-clapping."
Similie: "He woke once more to external reality, looked round him, knew what he saw-knew it, with sinking sense of horror and disgust, for the recurrent delirium of his days and nights, the nightmare of swarming indistinguishable sameness.Twins, twins.... Like maggots they had swarmed defilingly over the mystery of linda's death."
Theme: IndividualityIn this book society can be described as an effort to eliminate the individual from society. It means the conditioning of those people so that they don't really think of themselves as individuals. This sense includes both the joy of one's own talents and thoughts, and the sorrows of loneliness and isolation. These experiences of individuality are what are referred to as "the Human condition," and everything in the World State is designed to avoid anyone ever feeling individual in any way, either through sadness or joy.
Tone: IronicHuxley is writing about how humanity always seeks pleasure instead of pain, and then shows examples of how makes society just a bunch of sheep's. Only the outcasts can really think outside of the box, but even then, it's limited. Only someone who is truly not from that society can think beyond.
Literary Techniques:
Figurative Language: "Ford, we are twelve; oh, make us one, Like drops within the Social River; Oh, make us now together run As swiftly as thy shining Flivver."
Irony: "What's the matter?' asked the Director. The nurse shrugged her shoulders. 'Nothing much,' she answered. 'It's just that this little boy seems rather reluctant to join in the ordinary erotic play."
Alliteration: "There, on a low bed, the sheet flung back, dressed in a pair of pink one-piece zippyjamas, lay Lenina, fast asleep"
Metaphor: "In a few minutes there were dozens of them, standing in a wide circle round the lighthouse, staring, laughing, clicking their cameras, throwing (as to an ape) peanuts, packets of sex-hormone chewing gum..." "The ape had spoken; there was a burst of laughter and hand-clapping."
Similie: "He woke once more to external reality, looked round him, knew what he saw-knew it, with sinking sense of horror and disgust, for the recurrent delirium of his days and nights, the nightmare of swarming indistinguishable sameness.Twins, twins.... Like maggots they had swarmed defilingly over the mystery of linda's death."
Monday, February 24, 2014
Brave New Essay
Fifty years from now the world that we have grown up in will probably seem outdated due to the production of new technology. In Huxley’s Brave New World, the society includes many of the same principles that we can compare to our everyday life. Our present world does not seem to compare to that of Brave New World, but many similarities exist. When you think about it, the fact that our world has similarities to this book, can be kind of frightening. Some of the similarities in the book and our own world include the decrease in peoples pain tolerance, teaching through technology, and segregation.
Huxley introduces the drug soma, which compares to the painkillers that currently exist in our world today. The drug makes the user unaware of his surroundings. People have turned to the use of pain relievers even when they are not needed. Thus causing the pain tolerance to decrease; most people think that as soon as they feel some kind of pain they should automatically turn to painkillers. It seems like life in Brave New World cannot function without the drug soma, and i think this is slowly starting to take place in our world.
In Brave New World they use hypnopaedia practices to educate the society on how to live, just like technology is constantly feeding us with information today. Hypnopaedic practices, a voice under the pillow constantly plays and feeds information to the person sleeping telling them how to live life. This relates to how the technology today is always feeding us with new information at the click of a button. Hypnopaedia causes the society in Brave New World ti live the way the government wants them to live. We try to live life the most perfect way we possibly can, just like in Brave New World. Hypnopaedia tells people how to live their life in Brave New World, and in our society, advertisements and television try to tell us how to live ours.
Social discrimination doesn't seem as notable in our lives as it does in Brave New World, it still exists. Brave New World consists of five social classes; Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons. The higher classes look down upon people from the lower classes. They do not appreciate all the hard work that the working class does because hypnopaedia has taught them not to. In our society we are divided into four major classes; the wealthy, middle-class, blue-collar workers, and the homeless. The wealthy class in our society may not look down upon the people in the classes below them, but they would probably not want to trade places with them. Some may not see this as segregation because they have become so used to the society that they do not notice these things. Just like in Brave New World, our society does not acknowledge all that the working class does for us because we sometimes take what we have for granted.
Many similarities exist between our society and the Brave New World society which I personally do not think is a very good thing. This novel may make some people a little uneasy because Huxley has shown us our world from a different perspective, even though the circumstances in Brave New World seem ridiculous. When you look closely are they really that different? In Brave New World, love may not seem prominent because of the fact there is a lack of personal relationships. People express their love for someone by wanting to be with them. Whereas in our society, we express our love through affection and compassion. The circumstances in Brave New World show relevance to situations today, just in ways we may not realize after first glance.
Huxley introduces the drug soma, which compares to the painkillers that currently exist in our world today. The drug makes the user unaware of his surroundings. People have turned to the use of pain relievers even when they are not needed. Thus causing the pain tolerance to decrease; most people think that as soon as they feel some kind of pain they should automatically turn to painkillers. It seems like life in Brave New World cannot function without the drug soma, and i think this is slowly starting to take place in our world.
In Brave New World they use hypnopaedia practices to educate the society on how to live, just like technology is constantly feeding us with information today. Hypnopaedic practices, a voice under the pillow constantly plays and feeds information to the person sleeping telling them how to live life. This relates to how the technology today is always feeding us with new information at the click of a button. Hypnopaedia causes the society in Brave New World ti live the way the government wants them to live. We try to live life the most perfect way we possibly can, just like in Brave New World. Hypnopaedia tells people how to live their life in Brave New World, and in our society, advertisements and television try to tell us how to live ours.
Social discrimination doesn't seem as notable in our lives as it does in Brave New World, it still exists. Brave New World consists of five social classes; Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons. The higher classes look down upon people from the lower classes. They do not appreciate all the hard work that the working class does because hypnopaedia has taught them not to. In our society we are divided into four major classes; the wealthy, middle-class, blue-collar workers, and the homeless. The wealthy class in our society may not look down upon the people in the classes below them, but they would probably not want to trade places with them. Some may not see this as segregation because they have become so used to the society that they do not notice these things. Just like in Brave New World, our society does not acknowledge all that the working class does for us because we sometimes take what we have for granted.
Many similarities exist between our society and the Brave New World society which I personally do not think is a very good thing. This novel may make some people a little uneasy because Huxley has shown us our world from a different perspective, even though the circumstances in Brave New World seem ridiculous. When you look closely are they really that different? In Brave New World, love may not seem prominent because of the fact there is a lack of personal relationships. People express their love for someone by wanting to be with them. Whereas in our society, we express our love through affection and compassion. The circumstances in Brave New World show relevance to situations today, just in ways we may not realize after first glance.
I Am Here
I think this semester I started out kinda slow, I think due to the break, but I feel like I have stepped my game up since then. I have not started working on my senior project yet, I'm still trying to decide what I'd like to do it on. I am currently looking into finding connections to physical therapists that own businesses to see what they did to become so successful.
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