tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37504229361773023312024-03-20T17:20:42.792-07:00Mr. O'Brien Form VI EnglishChallenging and nurturing mind, body, and spirit, we inspire boys and girls to lead lives of purpose, faith, and integrity.Mr. Kevin J. O'Brienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822444754777456215noreply@blogger.comBlogger88125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3750422936177302331.post-55751648636518197202014-05-01T10:36:00.000-07:002014-05-01T10:36:02.696-07:00Synthesis essay<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;">Many of the texts we have discussed this year in English
class address the idea of social hierarchy (whether it be gender, class, race,
or even within a family dynamic). </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">How do these social hierarchies present
themselves in relationships in the texts and support the meaning of the work as
a whole? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Issues to explore may include but are not limited to, parent child
relationships, greed, power and love.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Your thesis-driven essay must synthesize a total of THREE of
the texts we have read this year. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">ONE text must be from the first semester </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and
ONE must be <i>Jane Eyre.</i> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The third text
can be chosen from either semester.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
<!--EndFragment-->Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3750422936177302331.post-1882343436398267432014-04-30T07:50:00.001-07:002014-04-30T07:58:49.643-07:00For Exam Review...<br />
<b>HWK: Review (and maybe re-read <i>Heart of Darkness)</i></b><br />
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Bring your books to class tomorrow....<br />
<br />
And building on Shabri's brilliant idea in D-Block,<br />
think about how you can divide and conquer the texts...<br />
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And perhaps post helpful information on each text to the <a href="http://formvistudentshowcase.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">shared class blog</a>.<br />
<br />
#crowdsource<br />
<br />
#curate<br />
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#examreview<br />
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<br />
See previous posts, including: <a href="http://kobrienenglish12.blogspot.com/2014/04/senior-exam-review-guidelines.html" target="_blank">Exam Review Guide</a><br />
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<b>IN- CLASS Tomorrow:</b><br />
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I will have your <i>Heart of Darkness</i> In-Class Writes for you tomorrow.<br />
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We will discuss further Conrad's novella and your responses - please come with questions.<br />
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Then, you will be given the synthesis question tomorrow in class.<br />
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Department Rules do not allow me to discuss the question once you have it.<br />
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Be confident that once you review, you will be prepared for the exam.<br />
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<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3750422936177302331.post-41827468160522757262014-04-29T05:44:00.001-07:002014-04-29T06:35:44.477-07:00Tomorrow, Wednesday, April 30th - Your Ars Poetica is Due<div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">What is an "<a href="http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/text/ars-poetica-poems-about-poetry" target="_blank">Ars Poetica</a>"?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: founders_grotesk_textlight, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 24px;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: founders_grotesk_textlight, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 24px;">From </span><a href="http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/text/ars-poetica-poems-about-poetry" style="font-family: founders_grotesk_textlight, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 24px;" target="_blank">poets.org:</a><span style="font-family: founders_grotesk_textlight, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 24px;"> </span><br />
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Perhaps one of the most famous American examples is <a href="http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/archibald-macleish" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(211, 211, 211); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: black; text-decoration: none;">Archibald MacLeish</a>‘s "<a href="http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/ars-poetica" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(211, 211, 211); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: black; text-decoration: none;">Ars Poetica</a>":</div>
<blockquote style="font-family: founders_grotesk_textlight, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; line-height: 24px; margin: 1.26316em 30px;">
<pre style="font-family: 'Courier New', 'DejaVu Sans Mono', monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.26316em; margin-bottom: 1.26316em; margin-top: 1.26316em; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">A poem should palpable and mute
As a globed fruit,
Dumb
As old medallions to the thumb,
Silent as the sleeve-worn stone
Of casement ledges where the moss has grown—
A poem should be wordless
As the flight of birds.</pre>
</blockquote>
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Written in part as a response to the highly rhetorical nature of English poetry at the start of the twentieth century, MacLeish’s piece states the Modernist perspective:<br />
“a poem should not mean / but be.”</div>
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<div>
<b>My simple answer: A poem about poetry. </b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Write your poem about poetry. </span></b><br />
<b><br /></b>
<b>Does Poetry Matter? Can we assume that it does?</b><br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck">
Why Poetry Matters <a href="http://t.co/H81as4aLQ6">http://t.co/H81as4aLQ6</a> via <a href="https://twitter.com/HuffPostBooks">@HuffPostBooks</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23whypoetrymatters&src=hash">#whypoetrymatters</a><br />
— Why Poetry (@WhyPoetry) <a href="https://twitter.com/WhyPoetry/statuses/460730481177538560">April 28, 2014</a></blockquote>
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<b><a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/marianne-moore" target="_blank">Marianne Moore</a> begins her poem "Peotry" with an ironic statement: </b><br />
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<pre class="poembox" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Luxi Mono', FreeMono, monospace; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; text-align: left;"> <a href="http://wonderingminstrels.blogspot.com/2003/02/poetry-marianne-moore.html" target="_blank">I, too, dislike it</a>: there are things that are important beyond
all this fiddle.
Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one
discovers in
it after all, a place for the genuine.</pre>
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<a href="http://wonderingminstrels.blogspot.com/2003/02/poetry-marianne-moore.html" target="_blank">Read more</a> of Moore's "Poetry"<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">How do you define poetry? </span></b></div>
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I am not concerned about rhyme scheme or length.<br />
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I would like a thoughtful reflection in verse.<br />
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<div>
<b>Show us - don't tell us - what you think poetry <i>is</i>.</b><br />
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Consider incorporating some of these Elements of Poetry:<br />
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<iframe height="410" src="https://quizlet.com/41786050/flashcards/embedv2" style="border: 0;" width="100%"></iframe>
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<iframe height="410" src="https://quizlet.com/38942664/flashcards/embedv2" style="border: 0;" width="100%"></iframe>
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<b><br /></b>
<b><br /></b>
<b><span style="font-size: large;">Please bring a HARD COPY - and post to <a href="http://formvistudentshowcase.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">the showcase blog</a>. </span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Inspire your classmates one last time.</span></div>
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A few definitions of poetry you might appreciate - feel free to blend into your poem:<br />
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Consider how all writing is persuasive...<br />
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Sell us your definition of poetry.<br />
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Well worth watching this...<br />
<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/1OCAT0Uk5j0" width="560"></iframe>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3750422936177302331.post-77345877797285447942014-04-28T09:40:00.001-07:002014-05-01T12:36:50.653-07:00In Class Write Tomorrow<br />
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I will have some quotes, themes, and questions for you to write about in-class tomorrow.<br />
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Bring a pen or pencil.<br />
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Consider searching digital <i><a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/219/219-h/219-h.htm" target="_blank">Heart of Darkness</a></i> via "Find"<br />
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with possible keywords such as...<br />
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Obvious ones: Heart, Humanity, Wild/erness, Destiny and Darkness - for example:<br />
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iI2j82jCozs/U16l2FeZnUI/AAAAAAAAATg/ow0XGItFdOY/s1600/Screen+Shot+2014-04-28+at+3.01.28+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iI2j82jCozs/U16l2FeZnUI/AAAAAAAAATg/ow0XGItFdOY/s1600/Screen+Shot+2014-04-28+at+3.01.28+PM.png" height="177" width="400" /></a></div>
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Less obvious: Justice, Fear, Sorrow, Regret etc.<br />
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Here's the Biblical connection to Sepulchre, Sepulchral<br />
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Matthew 23:27-28</h3>
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New International Version (NIV)</div>
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<span class="text Matt-23-27" id="en-NIV-23946"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">27 </sup>“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like <b>whitewashed tombs</b>,<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-23946A" title="See cross-reference A">A</a>)"></sup> which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean.</span> <span class="text Matt-23-28" id="en-NIV-23947"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">28 </sup>In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">
<span class="text Matt-23-28"><br /></span>
<span class="text Matt-23-28"><span class="versiontext" style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #0092f2; font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">Yet in The <a href="http://biblehub.com/kjv/matthew/23.htm" style="color: #0092f2; text-decoration: none;">King James Bible</a></span><br style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto <b>whited sepulchres</b>, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead</span><i style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">men's</i><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"> bones, and of all uncleanness.</span></span></div>
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"I flew around like mad to get ready, and before forty-eight hours I was crossing the Channel to show myself to my employers, and sign the contract. In a very few hours I arrived in a city that always makes me think of a whited sepulchre. Prejudice no doubt. I had no difficulty in finding the Company's offices. It was the biggest thing in the town, and everybody I met was full of it. They were going to run an over-sea empire, and make no end of coin by trade... (7)<br />
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"I had no idea why he wanted to be sociable, but as we chatted in there it suddenly occurred to me the fellow was trying to get at something—in fact, pumping me. He alluded constantly to Europe, to the people I was supposed to know there—putting leading questions as to my acquaintances in the sepulchral city, and so on. His little eyes glittered like mica discs—with curiosity—though he tried to keep up a bit of superciliousness...(21)<br />
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"No, they did not bury me, though there is a period of time which I remember mistily, with a shuddering wonder, like a passage through some inconceivable world that had no hope in it and no desire. I found myself back in the sepulchral city resenting the sight of people hurrying through the streets to filch a little money from each other, to devour their infamous cookery, to gulp their unwholesome beer, to dream their insignificant and silly dreams. They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritating pretence, because I felt so sure they could not possibly know the things I knew. Their bearing, which was simply the bearing of commonplace individuals going about their business in the assurance of perfect safety, was offensive to me like the outrageous flauntings of folly in the face of a danger it is unable to comprehend. I had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I had some difficulty in restraining myself from laughing in their faces so full of stupid importance. I daresay I was not very well at that time...(65)</blockquote>
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An interesting article:<br />
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<a href="http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/conrad/pva52.html" target="_blank">White Lies and Whited Sepulchres in Conrad's <i>Heart of Darkness</i></a></h2>
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Here's a cool <a href="http://www.bookdrum.com/books/heart-of-darkness/9780140186529/map.html" target="_blank">interactive map</a> of all the places (locations referenced) in the novella.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: 21px;"><b>Friday</b> - Read to page 62.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: 21px;">For <b>Monday</b> - Finish the book - page 72.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: 21px;">This month/this year/ this life, what have you learned about poetry?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 16.0pt;">SENIOR
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essay on the course reading (includes fall text)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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your reviewing between now and the exam. Do a little bit of reviewing each day.
Do not leave review work until the day before the exam.</span></div>
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sure you can apply the terms to and explain how they work in the literature <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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relevant to the texts<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Philadelphia's <strong>black-white</strong> dissimilarity score is 73.7<span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, according to a study of 2010 Census data by professors <a href="http://www.s4.brown.edu/us2010/Data/Report/report2.pdf" sl-processed="1" style="color: #00709a; text-decoration: none;">John Logan and Brian Stults</a></span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> of Brown and Florida State University. A score above 60 on the dissimilarity index is considered very high segregation.</span></div>
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The red dots show white people, blue is black, orange is Hispanic, green is Asian, and yellow is other, according to maps of 2010 Census data by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/" sl-processed="1" style="color: #00709a; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Eric Fischer</a>.</div>
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<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3750422936177302331.post-7219082762415773832014-04-23T07:29:00.002-07:002014-04-23T10:03:31.088-07:00Homework - Read to page 50 in Heart of Darkness<span style="font-size: large;"><b>HWK: Read to page 50 - Finish Part II - in <i>Heart of Darkness</i></b></span><br />
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From Brainpickings: <a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/04/21/patti-smith-pratt-commencement/" style="color: #990000;">Patti Smith’s Advice on Life</a></h2>
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When you proceed on your course, never forget you are not alone. You have friends and family, but you also have you ancestors. Your ancestors sing in your blood. Call to them. Their strength through the ages will come into you. And then there are your spiritual ancestors. Call on them. They have set themselves up through human history to be at your disposal. Jesus, he said, <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+28%3A20&version=KJV" target="_blank">“I am with you always, even into the end of the world,</a>” <a href="http://allenginsberg.org/#!/" target="_blank">Allen Ginsburg</a>, <a href="http://www.whitmanarchive.org/" target="_blank">Walt Whitman</a> — they are with you. Choose the one you wish to walk with and he or she will walk with you. Don’t forget that you are not alone.</div>
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She ends by recounting the advice her father gave her, bringing it all back to the bigger point behind her seemingly silly dental care counsel:</div>
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When I left home, I asked my father what advice he could give me. My father was very intelligent, very well-read — he read all the great books, all the great philosophers. But when I asked his advice, he told me one thing: Be happy. It’s all he said. So simple. I’m telling you, these simple things — taking care of your teeth, being happy — they will be your greatest allies. Because when you’re happy, you ignite that little flame that tells you and reminds you who you are. And it will ignite, it will animate your enthusiasm for things — it will enforce your work.</div>
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Howe's poem "<a href="http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/21378" target="_blank">What the Living Do</a>" was recently anthologized in The Penguin Anthology of 20th-Century American Poetry. Howe discusses several of her poems, which deal with topics such as loss, love, spirituality, gender, sexuality and intimacy.<br /><br /><b>"Poetry holds the knowledge that we are alive and that we know we're going to die," says Howe. "The most mysterious aspect of being alive might be that — and poetry knows that."</b><br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3750422936177302331.post-87352434231621630532014-04-23T07:28:00.001-07:002014-04-23T07:31:15.123-07:00Giving Voice to Stories from Around the World<br />
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<a href="https://twitter.com/Ea1785">@Ea1785</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/NPR">@NPR</a> international correspondent Frank Langfitt '82 asks: "Who will be the hero of your own life?" <a href="http://t.co/cIJy06VCdL">pic.twitter.com/cIJy06VCdL</a><br />
— Kevin James O'Brien (@KOB14) <a href="https://twitter.com/KOB14/statuses/458602252601925632">April 22, 2014</a></blockquote>
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I hope you were impressed and inspired by <a href="http://www.npr.org/people/4569077/frank-langfitt" target="_blank">Frank Langfitt</a> and the stories he shared today.<br />
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Much was notable, and I hope EA has a video of his presentation (I hope to embed it in this post).<br />
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Read more of Frank Langfitt - for example enthralling <a href="https://www.blogger.com/@Ea1785%20@NPR%20international%20correspondent%20Frank%20Langfitt%20'82%20asks:%20%22Who%20will%20be%20the%20hero%20of%20your%20own%20life?%22%20pic.twitter.com/cIJy06VCdL%20%E2%80%94%20Kevin%20James%20O'Brien%20(@KOB14)%20April%2022,%202014%20%20I%20hope%20you%20were%20impressed%20and%20inspired%20by%20Frank%20Langfitt%20and%20the%20stories%20he%20shared%20today.%20I%20appreciated%20how%20he%20began%20with%20the%20first%20line%20from%20David%20Copperfield%20by%20Charles%20Dickens:%20Whether%20I%20shall%20turn%20out%20to%20be%20the%20hero%20of%20my%20own%20life,%20or%20whether%20that%20station%20will%20be%20held%20by%20anybody%20else,%20these%20pages%20must%20show.%20%20Read%20more:%20Best%20First%20Lines%20of%20Novels%20%20%20Much%20was%20notable,%20and%20I%20hope%20EA%20has%20a%20video%20of%20his%20presentation%20(I%20hope%20to%20embed%20it%20in%20this%20post).%20Read%20more%20of%20Frank%20Langfitt%20in%20Africa:%20thr%20%20One%20point%20that%20resonated%20to%20me%20was%20the%20way%20in%20which%20social%20media%20played%20a%20role%20in%20ending%20labor%20camps%20in%20China.%20Imagine%20a%20tweet%20retweeted%2030%20million%20times%20rescuing%20a%20woman's%20life.%20Meanwhile,%20Ellen's%20Oscar%20selfie%20-%20a%20team%20photo%20of%20Hollywood%20stars%20crashes%20Twitter.%20It%20makes%20me%20think%20that%20social%20media%20is%20a%20powerful%20tool%20and%20how%20we%20use%20it%20can%20say%20a%20great%20deal%20about%20our%20values%20and%20our%20culture.%20%20Yet%20there's%20more%20to%20the%20story%20-%20and%20the%20story%20goes%20deeper%20-%20and%20Frank%20Langfitt%20offers%20you%20that%20story.%20%20%20China%20Ends%20One%20Notorious%20Form%20Of%20Detention,%20But..%20http://t.co/6Afsxb4pwz%20%22The%20juxtaposition%20of%20luxury%20and%20authoritarianism...%22Frank%20Langfitt%20%E2%80%94%20Kevin%20James%20O'Brien%20(@KOB14)%20April%2022,%202014%20When%20Frank%20Langfitt%20spoke%20of%20values%20and%20truth%20-%20in%20journalism%20and%20in%20the%20world,%20we%20see%20values%20such%20as%20the%20stripes%20and%20truth%20not%20in%20abstract%20notions%20or%20grandiose%20ways%20-%20or%20even%20cynical%20cliche.%20We%20see%20the%20power%20of%20the%20pen%20not%20as%20an%20example%20of%20metonymy,%20but%20real%20power%20to%20change%20history,%20save%20lives,%20and%20make%20a%20difference%20in%20the%20world.%20%20One%20of%20the%20questions%20about%20decline%20of%20%22print%22%20journalism%20being%20in%20decline%20-%20like%20poetry%20-%20you%20can't%20make%20money%20or%20make%20a%20living%20with%20words%20or%20stories.%20While%20investigative%20journalism%20is%20expensive," target="_blank">three part series on Somali pirates</a>.<br />
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Today, one point that resonated with me was the way in which social media played a role in ending labor camps in China. Imagine a tweet retweeted 30 million times rescuing a woman's life. But also imagine being <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/nov/19/chinese-woman-labor-camp-retweeting" target="_blank">sent to a labour camp in China for retweeting</a>.<br />
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Meanwhile, Ellen's Oscar selfie - a team photo of Hollywood stars crashes Twitter. It makes me think that social media is a powerful tool and how we use it can say a great deal about our values and our culture.<br />
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When Frank Langfitt spoke of values and truth - in journalism and in the world - we see values such as the stripes and truth not in abstract notions or grandiose ways - or even cynical cliche.<br />
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We see the power of the pen not as an example of metonymy, but real power to change history, save lives, and make a difference in the world.<br />
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Putting themselves in harms way, journalists like Frank Langfitt offer us stories that go beyond soundbites and headlines. I confess in Twitter age and 24 hour news coverage we are inundated with headlines, yet we rarely read further - and we question the integrity of the sources.<br />
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Frank Langfitt is a journalist worth following because as Rev. Squire said today, he gives voice to others that may not have a voice and he lives the EA Stripes.<br />
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China Ends One Notorious Form Of Detention, But.. <a href="http://t.co/6Afsxb4pwz">http://t.co/6Afsxb4pwz</a> "The juxtaposition of luxury and authoritarianism..."Frank Langfitt<br />
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One of the questions about decline of "print" journalism - like poetry - suggests that you can't make money or make a living with words or stories.<br />
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As Frank Langfitt mentioned, investigative journalism is expensive, but there will always be a demand for news - for stories - and I'd like to think there will be a demand for journalists with integrity.<br />
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SOTOMAYOR: When I was nominated by the president for this position, it became very clear to me that many people in the public were interested in my life, in the challenges I had faces, in the difficulties I had overcome. And I also realized that much of the public perception of who I was and what had happened to me was not quite complete. It was based more on assumptions rather than realities. </blockquote>
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I, too, sing America.</div>
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I am the darker brother.</div>
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They send me to eat in the kitchen</div>
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But I laugh,</div>
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And grow strong.</div>
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I’ll be at the table</div>
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I hope we can lean into our discomfort a little more and learn from one another.<br />
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<b>In-Class (in case you missed it):</b><br />
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Read <a href="http://www.nationalseedproject.org/SEED-Directors/peggy-mcintosh.html" target="_blank">Peggy McIntosh</a>'s essay, (clink link) "<a href="http://ted.coe.wayne.edu/ele3600/mcintosh.html" target="_blank">White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack</a>"<br />
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Consider your privileges as an EA student.<br />
Consider assumptions that are made about you since you go to EA.<br />
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<b>HWK: Read <i>Heart of Darkness</i> to page 40 (4/7th of 71 pages) </b><br />
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<b>D-Block drops Tuesday because of the speaker tomorrow.</b><br />
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<b>Please take your pick - and watch/read any (or all of) the following for Wednesday.</b><br />
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Watch Peggy McIntosh explain her journey into...<br />
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A historical example in the United States that illustrates what Peggy McIntosh refers to as "The Myth of Meritocracy": How does race impact home equity?<br />
Subsidy versus divestiture.<br />
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When considering this injustice, think about these infographics...<br />
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With changing demographics and inequality growing exponentially, why discuss race?<br />
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We are living in a more diverse country and more interconnected world.<br />
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We need to be aware of our history,<br />
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The ways America is changing, in seven charts <a href="http://t.co/NvZ3eOxuRN">http://t.co/NvZ3eOxuRN</a> <a href="http://t.co/8zQkObeTrH">pic.twitter.com/8zQkObeTrH</a><br />
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Watch this video on a changing America.<br />
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I know sometimes there is fear of saying something dumb<br />
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Have you said any of these "<a href="http://codac.uoregon.edu/files/2011/03/35-Dumb-Things-Handout.pdf" target="_blank">35 Dumb Things Well-Intended People Say</a>"?<br />
I have. The point is to acknowledge them and then open a conversation.<br />
Let's discuss soon.<br />
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Lastly, consider code switching in Key & Peele:<br />
How does humor defuse tension so we can talk about race candidly?<br />
And when does humor cross a line?<br />
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From Chris Abani's TED Talk "<a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/chris_abani_on_the_stories_of_africa" target="_blank">Telling Stories from Africa</a>":<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 17px;">Or is it, as <a href="http://kirbyk.net/hod/image.of.africa.html" target="_blank">Chinua Achebe persuasively argues</a>, a racist and deplorable book?"</span><br />
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<b>Read HEART OF DARKNESS to page 20 of 72 pages (thus 2/7 of the text).</b><br />
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And <b>Read the handouts: </b>From <i>Time</i> Magazine: "<a href="http://time.com/32618/microaggression-is-the-new-racism-on-campus/">'Microaggression' Is the New Racism on Campus</a>"<br />
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From <i>Teaching Tolerance</i>: "<a href="http://www.tolerance.org/magazine/number-40-fall-2011/feature/straight-talk-about-n-word">Straight Talk about the N-Word</a>"<br />
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<b>Here's some additional resources that will better inform our conversation.</b><br />
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What is code switching? Why does one switch codes?<br />
What role does context and audience play in code switching?<br />
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Code Switching: <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2013/04/13/177126294/five-reasons-why-people-code-switch" target="_blank">Defined on NPR</a> as "the practice of shifting the languages you use or the way you express yourself in your conversations"<br />
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Piling on<br />
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For more examples, check out: <a href="http://www.microaggressions.com/">The Microaggressions Project</a><br />
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Chinua Achebe writes of his own experience with a microaggression - long before there was the term:<br />
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In the fall of 1974 I was walking one day from the English Department at the University of Massachusetts to a parking lot. It was a fine autumn morning such as encouraged friendliness to passing strangers. Brisk youngsters were hurrying in all directions, many of them obviously freshmen in their first flush of enthusiasm. An older man going the same way as I turned and remarked to me how very young they came these days. I agreed. Then he asked me if I was a student too. I said no, I was a teacher. What did I teach? African literature. Now that was funny, he said, because he knew a fellow who taught the same thing, or perhaps it was African history, in a certain Community College not far from here. It always surprised him, he went on to say, because he never had thought of Africa as having that kind of stuff, you know. By this time I was walking much faster. "Oh well," I heard him say finally, behind me: "I guess I have to take your course to find out."</blockquote>
An older man, perhaps a fellow professor, makes assumptions about age, race, and history in the briefest of exchanges. One can imagine this is not an isolated incident - then or now. <br />
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READ MORE of Achebe's essay on <i><a href="http://kirbyk.net/hod/image.of.africa.html" target="_blank">Heart of Darkness</a></i> and then watch this video...<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Question:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 17px;">"Is Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" a masterpiece of art? </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 17px;">Or is it, as Chinua Achebe persuasively argues, a racist and deplorable book?"</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">Interesting <a href="http://youtu.be/Vr6UBofPZm4">Youtube lecture</a> that gives background, overview, and attempts to answer this question.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">Background on African colonization:</span></span></span><br />
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Poetry matters... since it allows voices, often marginalized, to be heard.
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Watch Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's TED Talk (she quotes Achebe). Here's a favorite quote with an egregious assumption:<br />
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<span class="talk-transcript__fragment" data-time="640000" id="t-640000" style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Custom', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">I recently spoke at a university where</span><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Custom', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="talk-transcript__fragment" data-time="642000" id="t-642000" style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Custom', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">a student told me that it was</span><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Custom', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="talk-transcript__fragment" data-time="644000" id="t-644000" style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Custom', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">such a shame</span><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Custom', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="talk-transcript__fragment" data-time="646000" id="t-646000" style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Custom', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">that Nigerian men were physical abusers</span><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Custom', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="talk-transcript__fragment" data-time="649000" id="t-649000" style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Custom', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">like the father character in my novel.</span><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Custom', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="talk-transcript__fragment" data-time="652000" id="t-652000" style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Custom', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">I told him that I had just read a novel</span><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Custom', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="talk-transcript__fragment" data-time="654000" id="t-654000" style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Custom', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">called American Psycho --</span><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Custom', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="talk-transcript__fragment" data-time="656000" id="t-656000" style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Custom', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">(Laughter)</span><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Custom', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="talk-transcript__fragment" data-time="658000" id="t-658000" style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Custom', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">-- and that it was such a shame</span><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Custom', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="talk-transcript__fragment" data-time="660000" id="t-660000" style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Custom', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">that young Americans were serial murderers.</span><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Custom', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="talk-transcript__fragment" data-time="663000" id="t-663000" style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Custom', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">(Laughter)</span><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Custom', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" mozallowfullscreen="" scrolling="no" src="http://embed.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story.html" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="640"></iframe>
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Also consider how geography along with a single story shapes the way see the world.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-left;"><a href="http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/maps/mapafrica.html" target="_blank">1646-47 Robert Dudley (1574-1649) </a></b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-left;"></span><br />
<i style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-left;">Carte seconda Generale d'Affrica.</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-left;"> </span></td></tr>
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Mr. Kevin J. O'Brienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822444754777456215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3750422936177302331.post-48395197731499544422014-04-14T12:22:00.001-07:002014-04-14T12:22:24.968-07:00Day of Silence Poem - Due MondayClick: <a href="http://whypoetrymatters.blogspot.com/2014/04/day-of-silence-poem-due-monday.html?spref=bl">Why Poetry Matters: Day of Silence Poem - Due Monday</a>:<br /><br />
After Friday's class - see previous post - I would like you to respond in verse.<br /><br />
WRITE a thoughtful POEM that incorporates words, th...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3750422936177302331.post-1727753604744207052014-04-14T12:21:00.001-07:002014-04-14T12:21:33.292-07:00Words Matter: the Day of Silence<a href="http://whypoetrymatters.blogspot.com/2014/04/words-matter.html?spref=bl">Why Poetry Matters: Words Matter: the Day of Silence</a>: Welcome to class. Today is GLSEN Day of Silence April 11th, 2014 Open a new window to TodaysMeet.com/DayofSilenceEA or just click here ...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3750422936177302331.post-40127597254044473032014-04-09T06:38:00.001-07:002014-04-09T06:38:04.725-07:00Why Poetry Matters: Do you know any poets?<a href="http://whypoetrymatters.blogspot.com/2014/04/do-you-know-any-poets.html?spref=bl">Why Poetry Matters: Do you know any poets?</a>: A student asked me in class the other day if I knew any poets. Personally? I replied. Not to name drop, but I realized I've taken for granted...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3750422936177302331.post-68990056524180044202014-04-07T12:08:00.000-07:002014-04-07T12:12:30.310-07:00If you missed class Friday, you missed a good one...<b>In-Class: Writing Exercise - </b><a href="http://literarydevices.net/pathetic-fallacy/" target="_blank">Pathetic Fallacy</a><br />
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<b>PART I: Write for 5-7 minutes</b><br />
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Imagine a house at the end of a long treelined driveway. You have just been dropped of to see a special someone - perhaps, a significant other. You have traveled a great distance and it's been a long time since you last saw this person. Again, imagine means use your imagination: this person can be fictional.<br />
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Describe the weather and the nature that surrounds you. Use your senses.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="http://inside.episcopalacademy.org/drum/forste-grupp/web_2006/martel-PI/Literary_terms_martel.htm" target="_blank">GOATVOK</a></span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="http://inside.episcopalacademy.org/drum/forste-grupp/web_2006/martel-PI/Literary_terms_martel.htm" target="_blank"> (imagery)</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"> G = gustatory (taste)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"> O = organic (internal sensation)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">A = auditory (sound)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"> T = tactile (touch) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">V = visual<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"> O = olfactory (smell)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"> K = kinesthetic (movement)</span></div>
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Create a narrative. Be conscious of the tone, mood, and atmosphere.<br />
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Feel free to write prose or verse. Consider this a brainstorming, pre-writing exercise to one of your possible future poems.<br />
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<b>PART II: Write for another 5-7 minutes; however, </b>this time, your significant other no longer wishes to see you - and never see you again. Why? That's your story.<br />
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Again, focus on the weather and nature as you take the same walk from the front door to the end of the drive. What do you notice now? Connect your feelings, thoughts, and emotions to your surroundings. How do you see your environment differently?<br />
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Notice how the tone, mood, and atmosphere changes.<br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck">
Pathetic Fallacy w/ examples: Macbeth to Keats <a href="http://t.co/Ytmamtxi35">http://t.co/Ytmamtxi35</a> What is the difference between Pathetic Fallacy and Personification?<br />
— Mr. O'Brien (@kobenglish14) <a href="https://twitter.com/kobenglish14/statuses/453216655146229760">April 7, 2014</a></blockquote>
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Great Resource: <a href="http://literarydevices.net/">Literary Devices</a> - Definition and Examples of Literary Terms<br />
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<b>HOMEWORK FOR TUESDAY: </b><br />
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<b>1. Search YouTube and post to the <a href="http://formvistudentshowcase.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">class blog</a> a contemporary spoken word poet.</b><br />
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<b>2. Hold on to your written response to the WSJ Op-Ed article, "<a href="http://whypoetrymatters.blogspot.com/2014/04/april-fools-day-day-late-and-year-later.html" target="_blank">The Poetic Justice of April 1</a>"</b><br />
<b>In the future, you will have to write a long <a href="http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20035" target="_blank">Ars Poetica</a>. </b><br />
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<b>3. S</b><b>ome of you still need to post your poem to the class blog. </b><br />
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<b>Do not post a poet from <i>Louder Than a Bomb. </i></b></div>
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<b><i>If you missed class Monday, you may want to watch: </i></b><br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">
Adam Gottlieb, Poet Breathe Now (+playlist): <a href="http://t.co/ynf5lDNLAi">http://t.co/ynf5lDNLAi</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/louderthanabomb">@louderthanabomb</a> on Netflix <a href="http://t.co/dL2rmKuTZf">http://t.co/dL2rmKuTZf</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23whypoetrymatters&src=hash">#whypoetrymatters</a><br />
— Why Poetry (@WhyPoetry) <a href="https://twitter.com/WhyPoetry/statuses/445151350029307904">March 16, 2014</a></blockquote>
We will watch this documentary in class this week.<br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/81hXGdFF6TQ" width="560"></iframe>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3750422936177302331.post-84943955109925433942014-04-02T10:59:00.000-07:002014-04-02T11:25:56.619-07:00Day 2 of Poetry<br />
<b>In class: Writing Exercise</b><br />
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With gratitude to writer <a href="http://carmenmariamachado.com/author/carmenmariamachado/">Carmen Maria Machado</a>, please write <a href="http://carmenmariamachado.com/2014/02/18/one-hundred-fears/">a list of 100 Fears</a> - number them.<br />
No, they need not be in order.<br />
This list is for your eyes only - between you and you.<br />
I will check to see that you have a list of 100.<br />
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The list serves as a <b>brainstorming exercise</b> to your homework...<br />
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<b>Homework for Thursday: Write a Poem</b><br />
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Write a poem based on one or more of your fears.<br />
PLEASE TYPE and PRINT a HARDCOPY BEFORE CLASS.<br />
<i>(We will workshop in small groups in class Thursday)</i><br />
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No required form.<br />
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Yes, you must have the courage to share your poem with your classmates.<br />
Be not afraid - to be vulnerable.<br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">If you have not watched it yet, you may appreciate this TED by Brene Brown, <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_on_vulnerability">The Power of Vulnerability</a>.</span><br />
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Consider the tone of your poem - see list of adjectives below.<br />
Can you create a shift in tone at the end?<br />
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While there is no minimum length, it should be long enough to include various elements of poetry.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Adjectives to describe tone:</span></b><br />
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Admiring Afraid Aggravated Aggressive Agitated Allusive Angry Apathetic Apologetic Appreciative Argumentative Arrogant Assertive Assured Audacious Authoritative Awestruck Bilious <br />
Bitter Bland Blithe Bombastic Boring Brash Breezy<br />
Calm Cantankerous Casual Caustic Cheerful Childish Coarse <br />
Cold Colloquial Complacent Complimentary Condescending Confessional Confiding Confused Consoling Contemptuous Contentious Contented Contradictory Critical<br />
Cross Cynical <br />
Dejected Deliberate Depressed Desperate Detached Disagreeable Disappointed Disgusted Disinterested Dismissive Doleful Dour Dramatic Dreamy Dutiful <br />
Ecstatic Elegiac Encouraging Enthusiastic Euphoric Excited <br />
Facetious Fanciful Fearful Fervent Frenetic Friendly Flippant Frivolous <br />
Galvanizing Giddy Grateful Gracious Gregarious <br />
Happy Harsh Hating Haughty Hesitant Humble Hollow Horrific Humorous Hurt <br />
Illusory Impassive Impish Indignant Innocent Inquisitive Instructive Ironic<br />
Joking Joyful <br />
Laconic Lighthearted Loud Loving <br />
Macabre Manipulative Melancholy Miserable Mocking Modest Morbid <br />
Naïve Negative Nervous Nihilistic Nostalgic <br />
Objective Obsequious Opprobrious <br />
Panegyric Paranoid Passive Patronizing Peaceful Pedantic Penitent Persuasive Phlegmatic Pleading Pleasant Poignant Politic Pretentious Prosaic Proud Provocative Punctilious <br />
Quaint Querulous Questioning Quiet Quotidian <br />
Restrained Ribald Romantic Rancorous Raucous <br />
Saccharine Sad Salacious Sarcastic Satiric Scornful Seductive Sentimental Serious Sharp Shocking Silly Sly Smug Somber Soothing Sour Superficial Superior Supportive Surprised Sweet Sympathetic Tautological Tempestuous Terse Tired Tortuous Truculent <br />
Uneasy Uninterested Upset Urgent <br />
Vehement Vexed Vibrant Vitriolic <br />
Wanton Whimsical WistfulWry<br />
Zany Zealous <br />
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<b><u>POEMS READ IN CLASS TODAY:</u></b><br />
Jane Kenyon, "Otherwise"<br />
Donald Hall's untitled poem<br />
Billy Collins, "Why I Don't Keep a Gun in the House"<br />
W.S. Merwin, "For the Anniversary of my Death"<br />
Langston Hughes, "<br />
<br />Mr. Kevin J. O'Brienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822444754777456215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3750422936177302331.post-1683388139142987792014-04-01T09:26:00.004-07:002014-04-01T10:06:42.809-07:00National Poetry Month: Day 1 What makes a poem a poem?<br />
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What makes a poet?<br />
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Poetry Terms Reviewed:<br />
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Ars Poetic: First Draft<br />
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Does poetry matter?<br />
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<b>HOMEWORK:</b><br />
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1. Go to the library and checkout a book of poetry by one poet - no anthologies or collections.<br />
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2. Read a bunch of poems.<br />
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3. Pick one out to share on the class blog for Friday.<br />
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<a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/billy-collins" target="_blank">Billy Collins</a>, "<a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/176056" target="_blank">Introduction to Poetry</a>"<br />
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<a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/marianne-moore" target="_blank">Marianne Moore</a>, "<a href="http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15654" target="_blank">Poetry</a>"<br />
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<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3750422936177302331.post-43481386161347706282014-03-19T07:59:00.003-07:002014-03-20T12:24:20.278-07:00What's Next?Congrats on finishing your essays and completing your journey with Jane Eyre.<br />
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I look forward to talking one last time after break once I have had a chance to read your essays.<br />
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I appreciate the intellectual curiosity in wrestling with schools of theory, JSTOR essays, and the primary text as created your own argument. Again, more on this later.<br />
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The big question: Now what?<br />
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Going into this year, I wanted to see if we could connect two different novels and writers:<br />
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<i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Heart-Darkness-Joseph-Conrad-ebook/dp/B0084AMNWQ/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1395240898&sr=1-1&keywords=heart+of+darkness" target="_blank">Heart of Darkness</a></i> (1902) by Joseph Conrad. Free <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/117837.Heart_of_Darkness" target="_blank">Ebook</a>.<br />
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<i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Mrs-Dalloway-20th-Century-Fiction-ebook/dp/B007V73VNS/ref=tmm_kin_title_0" target="_blank">Mrs. Dalloway</a></i> by Virginia Woolf. Free <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14942.Mrs_Dalloway" target="_blank">Ebook</a>.<br />
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Both have great film connections:<br />
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<i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0274558/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1" target="_blank">The Hours</a></i> and<br />
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<i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078788/" target="_blank">Apocalypse Now</a>.</i><br />
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The problem is time... and admittedly interest. At this point, I am wary of discussing two short novels that few, in fact, read. Email me your thoughts.<br />
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FYI - Thus far, everything we've read has been required. Now it's my call. I am excited about the possibilities that I have outlined, but that means little if you're not interested. Think about it. Now's your chance...<br />
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By the way, April is poetry month - and I am presently infatuated with <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Why-Poetry-Matters-ebook/dp/B003VYBPWY/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1395241137&sr=1-1&keywords=why+poetry+matters" target="_blank">Why Poetry Matters</a></i>.<br />
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You might enjoy this documentary:<a href="http://www.louderthanabombfilm.com/" target="_blank"> Louder Than a Bomb</a>.<br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/siskeljacobs" target="_blank">YouTube Channel</a> - On Netflix and Amazon Prime.<br />
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So more on this soon.<br />
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P.S. A few good lines...<br />
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/2877220-heart-of-darkness" target="_blank">Quotes</a> from <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Heart-Darkness-Joseph-Conrad-ebook/dp/B0084AMNWQ/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1395240898&sr=1-1&keywords=heart+of+darkness" target="_blank">Heart of Darkness</a></i> (1902) by Joseph Conrad. Free <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/117837.Heart_of_Darkness" target="_blank">Ebook</a>.<br />
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<br /><br /><br /><br />As Kayla suggested in her Chapel talk, perhaps, life - the world - is meaningless, that is except for the meaning we choose to give it. <div>
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I find reading rewarding, inspiring, even enlightening. I hope you do too. </div>
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3750422936177302331.post-18286235539284093542014-03-18T05:23:00.000-07:002014-03-18T05:31:41.038-07:00Saint John in India<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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This clip below reminds me of Saint John's mindset during the Imperial <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Empire" target="_blank">British Empire</a>.<br />
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The <b>British Raj</b> (<i>rāj</i>, lit. "reign" in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindi" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Hindi">Hindi</a>)<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Raj#cite_note-2" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[2]</a></sup> was the British rule in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_subcontinent" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Indian subcontinent">Indian subcontinent</a> between 1858 and 1947.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-oed2008-british-raj_3-0" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Raj#cite_note-oed2008-british-raj-3" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[3]</a></sup> The term can also refer to the<i>period</i> of dominion.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-oed2008-british-raj_3-1" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Raj#cite_note-oed2008-british-raj-3" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[3]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Raj#cite_note-4" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[4]</a></sup> The region under British control, commonly called '<b>India'</b> in contemporary usage, included areas directly administered by the United Kingdom<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Raj#cite_note-5" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[5]</a></sup> (contemporaneously, "British India") as well as the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princely_states" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Princely states">princely states</a> ruled by individual rulers under the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramountcy" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Paramountcy">paramountcy</a> of the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Crown" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="British Crown">British Crown</a>. The region was less commonly also called the <b>Indian Empire</b>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-6" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Raj#cite_note-6" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[6]</a></sup> As India, it was a <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Nations_members#1920:_founder_members" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="League of Nations members">founding member</a> of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Nations" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="League of Nations">League of Nations</a>, a participating nation in the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_Olympics" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Summer Olympics">Summer Olympics</a> in 1900, 1920, 1928, 1932, and 1936, and a founding member of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="United Nations">United Nations</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="San Francisco">San Francisco</a> in 1945.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-mansergh-UN-SanFrancisco_7-0" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Raj#cite_note-mansergh-UN-SanFrancisco-7" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[7]</a></sup></div>
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The system of governance was instituted in 1858, when the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_rule_in_India" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Company rule in India">rule</a> of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="East India Company">British East India Company</a> was transferred to the Crown in the person of<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Victoria" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Queen Victoria">Queen Victoria</a><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-8" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Raj#cite_note-8" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[8]</a></sup> (and who, in 1876, was proclaimed <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_of_India" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Emperor of India">Empress of India</a>), and lasted until 1947, when the British Indian Empire was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_of_India" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Partition of India">partitioned</a> into two sovereign <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Dominion">dominion</a> states, the <i><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_of_India" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Union of India">Union of India</a></i> (later the Republic of India) and the <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_of_Pakistan" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Dominion of Pakistan">Dominion of Pakistan</a></i> (later the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, the eastern half of which, still later, became the People's Republic of Bangladesh). At the inception of the Raj in 1858, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_Burma" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Lower Burma">Lower Burma</a> was already a part of British India; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Burma" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Upper Burma">Upper Burma</a> was added in 1886, and the resulting union, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_rule_in_Burma" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="British rule in Burma">Burma</a>, was administered as a province until 1937, when it became a separate British colony, gaining its own independence in 1948.</div>
Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3750422936177302331.post-5888360025021003322014-03-13T12:26:00.002-07:002014-03-13T12:26:28.987-07:00Food for thought...Rigor Redefined<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">from Tony Wagner, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.</span></span></h2>
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What are the 7 survival skills you need to thrive </h2>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">According to Tony Wagner in "<a href="http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/oct08/vol66/num02/Rigor-Redefined.aspx" target="_blank">Rigor Redefined</a>":</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Today's students need to master seven survival skills to thrive in the new world of work. And these skills are the same ones that will enable students to become productive citizens who contribute to solving some of the most pressing issues we face in the 21st century.</span></h2>
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To compete in the new global economy, companies need their workers to think about how to continuously improve their products, processes, or services. Over and over, executives told me that the heart of critical thinking and problem solving is the ability to ask the right questions. As one senior executive from Dell said, “Yesterday's answers won't solve today's problems.”</div>
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Ellen Kumata, managing partner at Cambria Associates, explained the extraordinary pressures on leaders today. “The challenge is this: How do you do things that haven't been done before, where you have to rethink or think anew? It's not incremental improvement any more. The markets are changing too fast.”</div>
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Teamwork is no longer just about working with others in your building. Christie Pedra, CEO of Siemens, explained, “Technology has allowed for virtual teams. We have teams working on major infrastructure projects that are all over the U.S. On other projects, you're working with people all around the world on solving a software problem. Every week they're on a variety of conference calls; they're doing Web casts; they're doing net meetings.”</div>
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Mike Summers, vice president for Global Talent Management at Dell, said that his greatest concern was young people's lack of leadership skills. “Kids just out of school have an amazing lack of preparedness in general leadership skills and collaborative skills,” he explained. “They lack the ability to influence.”</div>
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Clay Parker explained that anyone who works at BOC Edwards today “has to think, be flexible, change, and use a variety of tools to solve new problems. We change what we do all the time. I can guarantee the job I hire someone to do will change or may not exist in the future, so this is why adaptability and learning skills are more important than technical skills.”</div>
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Mark Chandler, senior vice president and general counsel at Cisco, was one of the strongest proponents of initiative: “I say to my employees, if you try five things and get all five of them right, you may be failing. If you try 10 things, and get eight of them right, you're a hero. You'll never be blamed for failing to reach a stretch goal, but you will be blamed for not trying. One of the problems of a large company is risk aversion. Our challenge is how to create an entrepreneurial culture in a larger organization.”</div>
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5. Effective Oral and Written Communication</h3>
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Mike Summers of Dell said, “We are routinely surprised at the difficulty some young people have in communicating: verbal skills, written skills, presentation skills. They have difficulty being clear and concise; it's hard for them to create focus, energy, and passion around the points they want to make. If you're talking to an exec, the first thing you'll get asked if you haven't made it perfectly clear in the first 60 seconds of your presentation is, ‘What do you want me to take away from this meeting?’ They don't know how to answer that question.”</div>
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Summers and other leaders from various companies were not necessarily complaining about young people's poor grammar, punctuation, or spelling—the things we spend so much time teaching and testing in our schools. Although writing and speaking correctly are obviously important, the complaints I heard most frequently were about fuzzy thinking and young people not knowing how to write with a real voice.</div>
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6. Accessing and Analyzing Information</h3>
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Employees in the 21st century have to manage an astronomical amount of information daily. As Mike Summers told me, “There is so much information available that it is almost too much, and if people aren't prepared to process the information effectively it almost freezes them in their steps.”</div>
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It's not only the sheer quantity of information that represents a challenge, but also how rapidly the information is changing. Quick—how many planets are there? In the early 1990s, I heard then–Harvard University president Neil Rudenstine say in a speech that the half-life of knowledge in the humanities is 10 years, and in math and science, it's only two or three years. I wonder what he would say it is today.</div>
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7. Curiosity and Imagination</h3>
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Mike Summers told me, “People who've learned to ask great questions and have learned to be inquisitive are the ones who move the fastest in our environment because they solve the biggest problems in ways that have the most impact on innovation.”</div>
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Daniel Pink, the author of <i>A Whole New Mind</i>, observes that with increasing abundance, people want unique products and services: “For businesses it's no longer enough to create a product that's reasonably priced and adequately functional. It must also be beautiful, unique, and meaningful.”<sup><a href="http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/oct08/vol66/num02/Rigor-Redefined.aspx#fn1" name="ref1" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; color: #1178bb; text-decoration: none;">1</a></sup> Pink notes that developing young people's capacities for imagination, creativity, and empathy will be increasingly important for maintaining the United States' competitive advantage in the future.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">1. Google the following :</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/722/01/" target="_blank">Literary Theory and Schools of Criticism</a></span></h2>
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<li style="padding-top: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Moral Criticism, Dramatic Construction (~360 BC-present)</span></li>
<li style="padding-top: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Formalism, New Criticism, Neo-Aristotelian Criticism (1930s-present)</span></li>
<li style="padding-top: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Psychoanalytic Criticism, Jungian Criticism(1930s-present)</span></li>
<li style="padding-top: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Marxist Criticism (1930s-present)</span></li>
<li style="padding-top: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Reader-Response Criticism (1960s-present)</span></li>
<li style="padding-top: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Structuralism/Semiotics (1920s-present)</span></li>
<li style="padding-top: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Post-Structuralism/Deconstruction (1966-present)</span></li>
<li style="padding-top: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">New Historicism/Cultural Studies (1980s-present)</span></li>
<li style="padding-top: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Post-Colonial Criticism (1990s-present)</span></li>
<li style="padding-top: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Feminist Criticism (1960s-present)</span></li>
<li style="padding-top: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Gender/Queer Studies (1970s-present)</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 16px;">2. <a href="http://formvistudentshowcase.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Post to the showcase blog</a> - three interesting points about any of the above.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">What did you learn? </span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">What will your classmates find enlightening? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 16px;">3. Explore <a href="http://www.jstor.org/" target="_blank">JSTOR</a> - search: Jane Eyre + a School of Criticism - </span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">i.e. Structuralism, Marxist, Feminist...</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #323232; line-height: 18px;"> Click </span><a href="http://inside.episcopalacademy.org/drum/acads/librarysystem/annenupper/new%20reference%20page/ref%20docs/Login%20Instructions%20for%20JSTOR.pdf" style="background-color: white; color: #898989; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #323232; line-height: 18px;"> for EA login info.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 16px;">4. Post to the showcase blog: one essay with link that you find interesting...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 16px;">What is the thesis? Post it. Copy and Paste</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 16px;">Can you identify the school of criticism? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 16px;">I found these points interesting...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 16px;">1. Cornell's <a href="http://sct.cornell.edu/" target="_blank">School of Criticism & Theory</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">2. What does Literary Theory look like in college or grad school? Here's a couple examples: </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"> a syllabus from <a href="http://www.english.upenn.edu/~jenglish/Courses/571-f95-syl.html" target="_blank">Penn</a>'s English 571</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"> Harvard's Literary Theory <a href="http://english.fas.harvard.edu/faculty_cat/literary-theory/" target="_blank">Professors</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 16px;">3. Why use JSTOR - an online archive of scholarly journals?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 16px;">Because we are looking to delve deeper than <a href="http://thereadingzone.wordpress.com/2013/05/07/the-critics-and-the-criticized-or-should-writers-write-reviews/" target="_blank">internet criticism</a>...</span><br />
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3750422936177302331.post-14556291191597998152014-03-10T05:09:00.000-07:002014-03-10T19:02:05.210-07:00Final Test Review....<b>You will have to write about FIVE of the following passages - one paragraph for each passage:</b><br />
<b><br /></b><b>Include the Speaker, Audience, Context (what happens before and after the passage?), </b><br />
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“I dreamt another dream, sir: that Thornfield Hall was a dreary ruin, the retreat of bats and owls. I thought that of all the stately front nothing remained but a shell-like wall, very high and very fragile-looking. I wandered, on a moonlight night, through the grass-grown enclosure within: here I stumbled over a marble hearth, and there over a fallen fragment of cornice. Wrapped up in a shawl, I still carried the unknown little child: I might not lay it down anywhere, however tired were my arms—however much its weight impeded my progress, I must retain it. I heard the gallop of a horse at a distance on the road; I was sure it was you; and you were departing for many years and for a distant country. I climbed the thin wall with frantic perilous haste, eager to catch one glimpse of you from the top: the stones rolled from under my feet, the ivy branches I grasped gave way, the child clung round my neck in terror, and almost strangled me; at last I gained the summit. I saw you like a speck on a white track, lessening every moment. The blast blew so strong I could not stand. I sat down on the narrow ledge; I hushed the scared infant in my lap: you turned an angle of the road: I bent forward to take a last look; the wall crumbled; I was shaken; the child rolled from my knee, I lost my balance, fell, and woke."<br />
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Mr. Rochester continued, hardily and recklessly: “Bigamy is an ugly word!—I meant, however, to be a bigamist; but fate has out-manoeuvred me, or Providence has checked me,—perhaps the last. I am little better than a devil at this moment; and, as my pastor there would tell me, deserve no doubt the sternest judgments of God, even to the quenchless fire and deathless worm. Gentlemen, my plan is broken up:—what this lawyer and his client say is true: I have been married, and the woman to whom I was married lives! You say you never heard of a Mrs. Rochester at the house up yonder, Wood; but I daresay you have many a time inclined your ear to gossip about the mysterious lunatic kept there under watch and ward. Some have whispered to you that she is my bastard half-sister: some, my cast-off mistress. I now inform you that she is my wife, whom I married fifteen years ago,—Bertha Mason by name; sister of this resolute personage, who is now, with his quivering limbs and white cheeks, showing you what a stout heart men may bear. Cheer up, Dick!—never fear me!—I’d almost as soon strike a woman as you. Bertha Mason is mad; and she came of a mad family; idiots and maniacs through three generations! Her mother, the Creole, was both a madwoman and a drunkard!—as I found out after I had wed the daughter: for they were silent on family secrets before. Bertha, like a dutiful child, copied her parent in both points. I had a charming partner—pure, wise, modest: you can fancy I was a happy man. I went through rich scenes! Oh! my experience has been heavenly, if you only knew it! But I owe you no further explanation. Briggs, Wood, Mason, I invite you all to come up to the house and visit Mrs. Poole’s patient, and <i>my wife</i>! You shall see what sort of a being I was cheated into espousing, and judge whether or not I had a right to break the compact, and seek sympathy with something at least human. This girl,” he continued, looking at me, “knew no more than you, Wood, of the disgusting secret: she thought all was fair and legal and never dreamt she was going to be entrapped into a feigned union with a defrauded wretch, already bound to a bad, mad, and embruted partner! Come all of you—follow!”<br />
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Some time in the afternoon I raised my head, and looking round and seeing the western sun gilding the sign of its decline on the wall, I asked, “What am I to do?”</div>
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But the answer my mind gave—“Leave Thornfield at once”—was so prompt, so dread, that I stopped my ears. I said I could not bear such words now. “That I am not Edward Rochester’s bride is the least part of my woe,” I alleged: “that I have wakened out of most glorious dreams, and found them all void and vain, is a horror I could bear and master; but that I must leave him decidedly, instantly, entirely, is intolerable. I cannot do it.”</div>
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But, then, a voice within me averred that I could do it and foretold that I should do it. I wrestled with my own resolution: I wanted to be weak that I might avoid the awful passage of further suffering I saw laid out for me; and Conscience, turned tyrant, held Passion by the throat, told her tauntingly, she had yet but dipped her dainty foot in the slough, and swore that with that arm of iron he would thrust her down to unsounded depths of agony.</div>
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“No; you shall tear yourself away, none shall help you: you shall yourself pluck out your right eye; yourself cut off your right hand: your heart shall be the victim, and you the priest to transfix it.”</div>
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I rose up suddenly, terror-struck at the solitude which so ruthless a judge haunted,—at the silence which so awful a voice filled.</div>
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Reader, it is not pleasant to dwell on these details. Some say there is enjoyment in looking back to painful experience past; but at this day I can scarcely bear to review the times to which I allude: the moral degradation, blent with the physical suffering, form too distressing a recollection ever to be willingly dwelt on. I blamed none of those who repulsed me. I felt it was what was to be expected, and what could not be helped: an ordinary beggar is frequently an object of suspicion; a well-dressed beggar inevitably so. To be sure, what I begged was employment; but whose business was it to provide me with employment? Not, certainly, that of persons who saw me then for the first time, and who knew nothing about my character. And as to the woman who would not take my handkerchief in exchange for her bread, why, she was right, if the offer appeared to her sinister or the exchange unprofitable. Let me condense now. I am sick of the subject.</div>
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“Mr. Rivers,” I said, turning to him, and looking at him, as he looked at me, openly and without diffidence, “you and your sisters have done me a great service—the greatest man can do his fellow-being; you have rescued me, by your noble hospitality, from death. This benefit conferred gives you an unlimited claim on my gratitude, and a claim, to a certain extent, on my confidence. I will tell you as much of the history of the wanderer you have harboured, as I can tell without compromising my own peace of mind—my own security, moral and physical, and that of others.</div>
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“I am an orphan, the daughter of a clergyman. My parents died before I could know them. I was brought up a dependant; educated in a charitable institution. I will even tell you the name of the establishment, where I passed six years as a pupil, and two as a teacher—Lowood Orphan Asylum, ---shire: you will have heard of it, Mr. Rivers?—the Rev. Robert Brocklehurst is the treasurer.”</div>
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“And since I am myself poor and obscure, I can offer you but a service of poverty and obscurity. <i>You</i> may even think it degrading—for I see now your habits have been what the world calls refined: your tastes lean to the ideal, and your society has at least been amongst the educated; but <i>I</i> consider that no service degrades which can better our race. I hold that the more arid and unreclaimed the soil where the Christian labourer’s task of tillage is appointed him—the scantier the meed his toil brings—the higher the honour. His, under such circumstances, is the destiny of the pioneer; and the first pioneers of the Gospel were the Apostles—their captain was Jesus, the Redeemer, Himself.”</div>
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Meantime, let me ask myself one question—Which is better?—To have surrendered to temptation; listened to passion; made no painful effort—no struggle;—but to have sunk down in the silken snare; fallen asleep on the flowers covering it; wakened in a southern clime, amongst the luxuries of a pleasure villa: to have been now living in France, Mr. Rochester’s mistress; delirious with his love half my time—for he would—oh, yes, he would have loved me well for a while. He <i>did</i> love me—no one will ever love me so again. I shall never more know the sweet homage given to beauty, youth, and grace—for never to any one else shall I seem to possess these charms. He was fond and proud of me—it is what no man besides will ever be.—But where am I wandering, and what am I saying, and above all, feeling? Whether is it better, I ask, to be a slave in a fool’s paradise at Marseilles—fevered with delusive bliss one hour—suffocating with the bitterest tears of remorse and shame the next—or to be a village-schoolmistress, free and honest, in a breezy mountain nook in the healthy heart of England?</div>
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“Relinquish! What! my vocation? My great work? My foundation laid on earth for a mansion in heaven? My hopes of being numbered in the band who have merged all ambitions in the glorious one of bettering their race—of carrying knowledge into the realms of ignorance—of substituting peace for war—freedom for bondage—religion for superstition—the hope of heaven for the fear of hell? Must I relinquish that? It is dearer than the blood in my veins. It is what I have to look forward to, and to live for.”</div>
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“Miss Oliver is ever surrounded by suitors and flatterers: in less than a month, my image will be effaced from her heart. She will forget me; and will marry, probably, some one who will make her far happier than I should do.”</div>
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I stopped: I could not trust myself to entertain, much less to express, the thought that rushed upon me—that embodied itself,—that, in a second, stood out a strong, solid probability. Circumstances knit themselves, fitted themselves, shot into order: the chain that had been lying hitherto a formless lump of links was drawn out straight,—every ring was perfect, the connection complete. I knew, by instinct, how the matter stood, before St. John had said another word; but I cannot expect the reader to have the same intuitive perception, so I must repeat his explanation.</div>
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“My mother’s name was Eyre; she had two brothers; one a clergyman, who married Miss Jane Reed, of Gateshead; the other, John Eyre, Esq., merchant, late of Funchal, Madeira. Mr. Briggs, being Mr. Eyre’s solicitor, wrote to us last August to inform us of our uncle’s death, and to say that he had left his property to his brother the clergyman’s orphan daughter, overlooking us, in consequence of a quarrel, never forgiven, between him and my father. He wrote again a few weeks since, to intimate that the heiress was lost, and asking if we knew anything of her. A name casually written on a slip of paper has enabled me to find her out. You know the rest.” Again he was going, but I set my back against the door.</div>
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Now, I did not like this, reader. St. John was a good man; but I began to feel he had spoken truth of himself when he said he was hard and cold. The humanities and amenities of life had no attraction for him—its peaceful enjoyments no charm. Literally, he lived only to aspire—after what was good and great, certainly; but still he would never rest, nor approve of others resting round him. As I looked at his lofty forehead, still and pale as a white stone—at his fine lineaments fixed in study—I comprehended all at once that he would hardly make a good husband: that it would be a trying thing to be his wife. I understood, as by inspiration, the nature of his love for Miss Oliver; I agreed with him that it was but a love of the senses. I comprehended how he should despise himself for the feverish influence it exercised over him; how he should wish to stifle and destroy it; how he should mistrust its ever conducting permanently to his happiness or hers. I saw he was of the material from which nature hews her heroes—Christian and Pagan—her lawgivers, her statesmen, her conquerors: a steadfast bulwark for great interests to rest upon; but, at the fireside, too often a cold cumbrous column, gloomy and out of place.</div>
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He laid his hand on my head as he uttered the last words. He had spoken earnestly, mildly: his look was not, indeed, that of a lover beholding his mistress, but it was that of a pastor recalling his wandering sheep—or better, of a guardian angel watching the soul for which he is responsible. All men of talent, whether they be men of feeling or not; whether they be zealots, or aspirants, or despots—provided only they be sincere—have their sublime moments, when they subdue and rule. I felt veneration for St. John—veneration so strong that its impetus thrust me at once to the point I had so long shunned. I was tempted to cease struggling with him—to rush down the torrent of his will into the gulf of his existence, and there lose my own. I was almost as hard beset by him now as I had been once before, in a different way, by another. I was a fool both times. To have yielded then would have been an error of principle; to have yielded now would have been an error of judgment. So I think at this hour, when I look back to the crisis through the quiet medium of time: I was unconscious of folly at the instant.</div>
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I stood motionless under my hierophant’s touch. My refusals were forgotten—my fears overcome—my wrestlings paralysed. The Impossible—<i>i.e.</i>, my marriage with St. John—was fast becoming the Possible. All was changing utterly with a sudden sweep. Religion called—Angels beckoned—God commanded—life rolled together like a scroll—death’s gates opening, showed eternity beyond: it seemed, that for safety and bliss there, all here might be sacrificed in a second. The dim room was full of visions.</div>
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What agony was this! And the man seemed resolved to protract it.</div>
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“He is stone-blind,” he said at last. “Yes, he is stone-blind, is Mr. Edward.”</div>
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I had dreaded worse. I had dreaded he was mad. I summoned strength to ask what had caused this calamity.</div>
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“It was all his own courage, and a body may say, his kindness, in a way, ma’am: he wouldn’t leave the house till every one else was out before him. As he came down the great staircase at last, after Mrs. Rochester had flung herself from the battlements, there was a great crash—all fell. He was taken out from under the ruins, alive, but sadly hurt: a beam had fallen in such a way as to protect him partly; but one eye was knocked out, and one hand so crushed that Mr. Carter, the surgeon, had to amputate it directly. The other eye inflamed: he lost the sight of that also. He is now helpless, indeed—blind and a cripple.”</div>
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“I’ll tell you, if I can, the idea, the picture these words opened to my mind: yet it is difficult to express what I want to express. Ferndean is buried, as you see, in a heavy wood, where sound falls dull, and dies unreverberating. ‘Where are you?’ seemed spoken amongst mountains; for I heard a hill-sent echo repeat the words. Cooler and fresher at the moment the gale seemed to visit my brow: I could have deemed that in some wild, lone scene, I and Jane were meeting. In spirit, I believe we must have met. You no doubt were, at that hour, in unconscious sleep, Jane: perhaps your soul wandered from its cell to comfort mine; for those were your accents—as certain as I live—they were yours!”</div>
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Reader, it was on Monday night—near midnight—that I too had received the mysterious summons: those were the very words by which I replied to it. I listened to Mr. Rochester’s narrative, but made no disclosure in return. The coincidence struck me as too awful and inexplicable to be communicated or discussed. If I told anything, my tale would be such as must necessarily make a profound impression on the mind of my hearer: and that mind, yet from its sufferings too prone to gloom, needed not the deeper shade of the supernatural. I kept these things then, and pondered them in my heart.</div>
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“You cannot now wonder,” continued my master, “that when you rose upon me so unexpectedly last night, I had difficulty in believing you any other than a mere voice and vision, something that would melt to silence and annihilation, as the midnight whisper and mountain echo had melted before. Now, I thank God! I know it to be otherwise. Yes, I thank God!”</div>
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“Thank you, John. Mr. Rochester told me to give you and Mary this.” I put into his hand a five-pound note. Without waiting to hear more, I left the kitchen. In passing the door of that sanctum some time after, I caught the words—</div>
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“She’ll happen do better for him nor ony o’t’ grand ladies.” And again, “If she ben’t one o’ th’ handsomest, she’s noan faâl and varry good-natured; and i’ his een she’s fair beautiful, onybody may see that.”</div>
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I wrote to Moor House and to Cambridge immediately, to say what I had done: fully explaining also why I had thus acted. Diana and Mary approved the step unreservedly. Diana announced that she would just give me time to get over the honeymoon, and then she would come and see me.</div>
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As to St. John Rivers, he left England: he went to India. He entered on the path he had marked for himself; he pursues it still. A more resolute, indefatigable pioneer never wrought amidst rocks and dangers. Firm, faithful, and devoted, full of energy, and zeal, and truth, he labours for his race; he clears their painful way to improvement; he hews down like a giant the prejudices of creed and caste that encumber it. He may be stern; he may be exacting; he may be ambitious yet; but his is the sternness of the warrior Greatheart, who guards his pilgrim convoy from the onslaught of Apollyon. His is the exaction of the apostle, who speaks but for Christ, when he says—“Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow me.” His is the ambition of the high master-spirit, which aims to fill a place in the first rank of those who are redeemed from the earth—who stand without fault before the throne of God, who share the last mighty victories of the Lamb, who are called, and chosen, and faithful.</div>
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St. John is unmarried: he never will marry now. Himself has hitherto sufficed to the toil, and the toil draws near its close: his glorious sun hastens to its setting. The last letter I received from him drew from my eyes human tears, and yet filled my heart with divine joy: he anticipated his sure reward, his incorruptible crown. I know that a stranger’s hand will write to me next, to say that the good and faithful servant has been called at length into the joy of his Lord. And why weep for this? No fear of death will darken St. John’s last hour: his mind will be unclouded, his heart will be undaunted, his hope will be sure, his faith steadfast. His own words are a pledge of this—</div>
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“My Master,” he says, “has forewarned me. Daily He announces more distinctly,—‘Surely I come quickly!’ and hourly I more eagerly respond,—‘Amen; even so come, Lord Jesus!’”</div>
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