tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51518302785451817342024-03-13T03:58:51.329-07:00Daniel Rucker's Advanced Placement English Literature & Composition Blog Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06741445056224549727noreply@blogger.comBlogger88125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5151830278545181734.post-13565295701053485402014-06-02T18:27:00.000-07:002014-06-03T06:25:48.925-07:00Masterpiece Academy Question<br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The universe is delightfully evolving around us. Life, language, and the make up of our galaxy are all changing and expanding the </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: 0px;">diversity of the universe.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: 0px;">Something far less concrete than these - man’s view of the world - can also evolve, just like the connotation of the word </span><i style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: 0px;">espouse. </i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: 0px;">As students in this class, my classmates' and my views have evolved from a standard mundane appreciation of </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">learning to an espousal of learning. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"> From the beginning, we have had the freedom to customize this course to how we want it to be, much like one would customize an iPhone or a bedroom. This represented trust from Dr. Preston that we deserved, although it was unexpected, as all humans are individuals, and should be given the freedom to choose their surroundings. Sadly, we did not learn to completely honor this trust until the end of the year, when most of us realized that learning was for us, and we fully decided to do what we want to as a class.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"> Our time in this class has made us a hero, collectively. Our class embodies all of the positive aspects of modern society, as well as our ideals. We have athleticism, bravery, kindness, intellect, and many other traits that are epitomized by our society, to what heroes are. Due to the fact that we are a class of heroes, our journey throughout the year, which started in May-June of last year, and is now coming to a close, we have gone on a heroic journey. This journey started with the threshold of us creating our blogs, came to a climax with our masterpiece, and is now resolving, making our journey come full circle, as we are back home, due to the fact that we will return to traditional learning next year, and that the circular calendar year is over, and we have worked in this course from last June to this June. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"> Looking back on the year, our heroic journey was mapped quite neatly, with </span><i style="font-size: 12px;">Beowulf</i><span style="font-size: 12px;"> at the beginning of the year subtly foreshadowing the journey we had ahead of us; the acquiring of our heroic qualities, such as understanding, by reading texts such as </span><i style="font-size: 12px;">A Tale of Two Cities</i><span style="font-size: 12px;"> and </span><i style="font-size: 12px;">Great Expectations</i><span style="font-size: 12px;">, which gave us the quality of understanding and empathizing with the human condition; and ended with a course in Poetry which caused us to reflect upon what we have done this year. These reflections lead us to the climax of this year and our journey with the Masterpiece Academy presentations. We showed our reflection and appreciation of knowledge in a variety of ways, from Lisa's new-found understanding of empathy, Melissa's hard work and passion for the class trip to Yosemite, and Allyson's yearning for knowledge of the biological sciences. In all of these projects, we saw possibly the most important personal quality in modern society: passion. In every presentation, such as Edmond's writing, and Zach's desire to help people through physical therapy, we see passion. Passion for our masterpieces has drawn us together as a class, and made us finish our journey, as we had found the trait that we set out on our journey to find. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"> Personally, passion has not been incited in me by the course to learn more or otherwise, as I already had that, but it definitely has given me a passion towards humans, as I was inspired by the vast amounts of passion around me. I have always been passionate about learning, but seeing this passion in the people around me makes me passionate to better society for the people around me. I have begun to do this in a variety of ways. My favorite is suggesting songs and television shows for people to watch, as I full-heartedly believe in the healing quality that comedy and music provides through laughter and passion. Before, I have kept these techniques to heal myself to myself, but this class has inspired me to pass it forward. </span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06741445056224549727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5151830278545181734.post-337220776680723462014-04-29T20:25:00.000-07:002014-04-29T20:25:04.914-07:00Masterpiece: Connections<span style="font-size: large;">Everything on planet Earth is connected to one another, and although us humans like to separate everything into categories, like subjects, cultures, et cetera, the world does not do this. For instance, there are many things in Earth's many cultures that are very similar to aspects of other cultures. I question why these similarities arose, and try to find where they come form.</span><br />
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The Firebird Myths:</b> firebirds are found in many cultures, and are often though to signify the sun, and rebirth, due to the sun's "birth" and "death" each day. The sun is also thought to be the basis of all rebirth ideologies and myths, from the Hindi caste system, to the resurrection of Jesus Christ.<br />
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There is a common myth about witches in groups of three throughout the different indo-european cultures, I wrote about them <a href="http://druckersrhsenglitcomp13.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-witches.html">here</a>.<br />
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Thousands of years ago in pre-christian Europe, there was a germanic goddess who is known as the germanic equivalent to Greek Hera. In northern regions, she was known as Frigg, in central Europe, she was known as Holda, and in the southern, alpine area of the germanic peoples' land, she was known as Perchta. Perchta had a very important task at the Yuletime celebration- to scare away the evil spirits that roamed Earth in the "darker half" of the year. The germanic people of the alpine regions would celebrate this in Yule celebrations by doing what Perchta did: dressing as a mutilated goat and scaring the spirits away. When the christians came and converted the germans to christianity, they forced them to give up their old beliefs, but some lived on- Yule as Christmas, Samhain as All Saints Day, and Perchta traditions as Krampus, St. Nick's companion, and punisher of naughty children. This also connects to the witches, as Baba Yaga myths first appeared in slavic areas in the alpine regions. Was the slavic fear of the germanic tradition of perchta what caused the Baba Yaga myths?<br />
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There is far more to these cross cultural connections than in just mythology. Almost every aspect of our culture is mirrored in other cultures, and there are far more connections between the people of earth than just culture, such as mathematical concepts, science, art, and simply how we think. I feel that it is due to human nature.<br />
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One fun example of similarity is the Sandwich! If you think, most cultures have a meat that is wrapped in bread, and they did this without communication: tacos, sandwiches, gyros, falafels, dumplings, and many many more...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06741445056224549727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5151830278545181734.post-46413930815021882692014-04-16T21:59:00.000-07:002014-04-16T21:59:04.205-07:00Macbeth Character MapNormally I do not use <a href="http://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/m/macbeth/character-map">Cliff Notes</a>, but this map was a very good representation of what I needed:<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06741445056224549727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5151830278545181734.post-86476295249115904742014-04-14T22:05:00.000-07:002014-04-14T22:05:02.992-07:00THE CROSSROADS BETWEEN SHOULD AND MUSTI am really not sure about this crossroads concept. I am a major planner, and I plan things years in advance so that I will not ever have to be caught off guard with a big decision. My mind is generally mad up in advance. I already know what my "must" is, and I follow it. If I did not, I would not be at all be as driven with my work. I tend not to do things that I do not consider musts, I just push them aside and out of my radar. They have nothing to do with what I want to do. This way, I truly only do what I want to do. I study out of school because I want to. I research because I want to. I take AP courses because I want to. Do you see me partying? No, because I do not want to. I am lucky to like what society wants me to do, so most people's shoulds are my musts.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06741445056224549727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5151830278545181734.post-1315118072643013392014-04-08T20:35:00.001-07:002014-04-08T20:35:17.230-07:0010 Commandments of AP Literature & CompositionHey, guys! I found this resource on the internet that someone was not showing us! I think it would be very helpful for all of you to read it!<br />
<a href="http://drprestonsrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/2012/02/10-commandments-of-ap-literature.html">http://drprestonsrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/2012/02/10-commandments-of-ap-literature.html</a><br />
Thank you for this resource, <a href="http://drprestonsrhsenglitcomp13.blogspot.com/">Dr. Preston</a>!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06741445056224549727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5151830278545181734.post-45426289989869766512014-04-08T20:33:00.000-07:002014-04-08T20:33:31.813-07:00AP Questions for Macbeth1) Pick a novel in which friends become enemies. Explain how the author uses characterization and the plot to make this happen.<br />
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2) <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px;">In great literature, no scene of violence exists for its own sake. Choose a work of literary merit that confronts the reader or audience with a scene(s) of violence. In a well-organized essay, explain how the scene or scenes contribute to the meaning of the complete work. Avoid plot summary. (actual prompt from 1982 that I felt would work well)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px;">3) Pick a novel in which a character's actions make him commit similar actions in the future. Explain how this makes us sympathize the character, while at the same time making us </span><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">disagree with them.</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06741445056224549727noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5151830278545181734.post-74366204815076956922014-04-06T21:31:00.001-07:002014-04-06T21:31:33.622-07:00What about my masterpiece? I have been struggling with the whole masterpiece thing, as Dr. Preston wants us to do something, and I am just trying to learn a lot, not thinking that I have the skill set to do what I want to do yet, as I really want to learn about the world and research at a university and be a professor, while the people around me want to go into music and cooking and other things like that. I was trying to get by by studying the world, but I do not think that that will work as a masterpiece.<br />
Recently, a friend who has a rare and largely unknown disease that doctors are trying to learn about using this person as a test subject, as this person is the only one to have it. This person was wondering what the medications that helped their disease had in common, so I was given the list of medications, and am going to look at the structure and function of these medications to see what is actually helping or hindering this person's disease. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06741445056224549727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5151830278545181734.post-7973968261415305762014-04-06T21:24:00.000-07:002014-04-06T21:24:17.697-07:00Meet Macbeth In the opening of the play, Macbeth is introduced through indirect characterization by a soldier talking to his king. In how Macbeth was introduced, Shakespeare drew from the medieval germanic/norse epics in order to incite the time period in which the play takes place, and the culture it comes from. In this introduction, the audience learns about how brave a warrior Macbeth was, and how he slay the rebel leader, ending the Scots rebellion. Even though the audience is told of his great deeds, they are meant to be unsure about it, as the witches warned that things that might seem good would be bad. This meant that the witches also characterized Macbeth just as much as the wounded soldier at the beginning, but their lyrical way of talking gave their version of characterization a very nebulous tone, which meant that Shakespeare could tell what was going to happen, but be so roundabout about it that the audience only got a taste of what was to come. This characterization also tells the audience how Shakespeare felt about his character: he is initially good, but his deeds and remorse blur this line and make him spiral into insanity. Macbeth is shown as a valiant soldier and a ruthless killer, and these will stay with him until his death.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06741445056224549727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5151830278545181734.post-5274933234802850502014-04-06T21:04:00.001-07:002014-04-06T21:04:54.877-07:00YOU'RE ALWAYS A WOMAN TO MEMacbeth sees his wife as a person who is looking out for his best interests, and to be more exact their best interests as a couple. He sees her as a person who is trying to encourage him to do things that will better himself, and that will help him grow as a person. In actuality, though, Lady Macbeth is just a power hungry, back stabbing hag who wants to rule Scotland, and she does not really care about people, only her wants.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06741445056224549727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5151830278545181734.post-3028338535513791662014-03-31T21:26:00.001-07:002014-03-31T21:31:35.259-07:00The WitchesThe witches in Macbeth might seem very familiar to many of you. They might remind you of many things in your life, such as the faits from the Disney movie, Hercules.<br />
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The concept that our fate is controlled by beings is very common in Indo-european cultures. In the hindi culture, the gods Rta in the vedas control the fates of people. In Europe, this figure is often taken in the form of three evil witches. This includes the greek Moirai, the northern germanic norns, the germanic Matres and Matrones, the slavic Boba Yoga, and the greek Moirai. In these cultures, witches generally work in groups of 13, but these groups of three are the most common interculturaly, and all have the same purpose in culture. Shakespeare was drawing from this continuity in culture to give meaning the the three witches that he would not have to explain to his audiences (this same thing was done by Lloyd Alexander in The Black Cauldron). This means that the fates of Hercules are the same as Macbeth's witches, as they are the Moirai. <br />
Another continuity in cultures I found was that Christianity is ruled by the Holy Trinity - The father, the son, and the holy spirit. Does this draw from these same historical continuity? I am not exactly sure, as I have not studied the middle eastern cultures, from which the monotheistic religions like Christianity come, but if anybody does know, does this rule of three apply here too? What about in America and Africa? I wonder how far back this rule of three goes, please leave your knowledge in the comments!<br />
I also wonder if this has anything to do with the strength of the triangle. The triangle has long been known to be the strongest of the figures, and is an engineering shape used throughout the history of man: ancient nomadic structures resembled triangles, all pyramids use triangle, et cetera. I feel this is what our american fore-fathers also drew upon to create a stable government, as the three branches form a stable triangle of checks and balances. Did ancient cultures put our fates in the hands of three people for this reason?<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06741445056224549727noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5151830278545181734.post-90212855451660903712014-03-27T20:56:00.001-07:002014-03-27T20:56:56.738-07:00SEEKING MENTORTo get a mentor, I will need to ask many questions, such as if they will look at my work, and if they could give me suggestions. Luckily, I think that it will not be to difficult to find a mentor, as everyone in my field works at a university, and thus has a university email.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06741445056224549727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5151830278545181734.post-11738034722951657952014-03-12T20:37:00.000-07:002014-03-12T20:37:20.370-07:00The DifferenceIn AP Physics, we are learning about the difference between Electric potential, Electric potential energy, and Electric potential difference. Here are two links to places that explain this:<br />
<a href="http://www2.cose.isu.edu/~hackmart/electrical_potential_genphys.pdf">http://www2.cose.isu.edu/~hackmart/electrical_potential_genphys.pdf</a><br />
<a href="http://ubpheno.physics.buffalo.edu/~dow/lectures/phy102/ch19_print.pdf">http://ubpheno.physics.buffalo.edu/~dow/lectures/phy102/ch19_print.pdf</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06741445056224549727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5151830278545181734.post-34971383329405130302014-03-12T19:04:00.001-07:002014-03-12T19:04:53.759-07:00MST3K Mr B Natural<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/r9ZO2-zozg4" width="459"></iframe>)<br /><br />
This is a great video for people in marching band to watch!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06741445056224549727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5151830278545181734.post-34037632278774861382014-03-11T21:07:00.004-07:002014-03-11T21:07:58.217-07:00UC Acceptance DatesI have been following a UC information blog, and it has been very accurate. To day it released a <a href="http://askmssun.livejournal.com/312367.html">list of dates when each UC will send out its decisions</a>! Good luck, only ten days until the most important one!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06741445056224549727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5151830278545181734.post-39993594149454724332014-03-10T17:34:00.001-07:002014-03-10T17:34:46.084-07:0010 QuestionsI have already been talking to experts in the fields that I am currently studying, and I have also been talking to experts about college, so I am just going to state questions that I have already asked.<br />
1) How difficult is it to transition from UCLA to Cambridge.<br />
2) What is it like working as a university professor?<br />
3) What are your current studies?<br />
4) What kind of music do you like?<br />
5) What could I read to help me learn about this topic?<br />
6) Have you seen, or do you know anything about the cricket club at UCLA?<br />
7) Please tell me about your time at UCSD.<br />
8) What inspired you to research this subject?<br />
9) Could you look at my [random project or area of study], and give me feedback on it?<br />
10) What is your favorite thing about what I am asking you about?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06741445056224549727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5151830278545181734.post-80629648081359929682014-03-08T22:02:00.000-08:002014-03-08T22:02:38.452-08:00Cosmos: A Personal Journey<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="background-color: #ededed; color: #000002; font-family: inherit; line-height: 21px;">Again, I felt that I wanted to expand upon my </span><a href="http://druckersrhsenglitcomp13.blogspot.com/2014/03/in-class-brave-new-world.html" style="background-color: #ededed; color: #6a6a6a; font-family: inherit; line-height: 21px; text-decoration: none;">earlier post</a><span style="background-color: #ededed; color: #000002; font-family: inherit; line-height: 21px;"> about humanity that stemmed from a discussion about </span><i style="background-color: #ededed; color: #000002; font-family: inherit; line-height: 21px;">Brave New World</i><span style="background-color: #ededed; color: #000002; font-family: inherit; line-height: 21px;">. This time, I would like to expand on the importance of Carl Sagan's original Cosmos to progress my argument about human nature. </span><br />
<a name='more'></a><span style="background-color: #ededed; color: #000002; font-family: inherit; line-height: 21px;">This time, it is the </span><span style="color: #000002;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">argument that human nature does not change. Sagan, in a few of his episodes, notably episode 11: The </span></span><span style="line-height: 21px;">Persistence</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 21px;"> of Memory, and episode </span><span style="line-height: 19px;">13: Who Speaks for Earth?, explains the collective view of us as a race. He </span></span><span style="line-height: 19px;">addresses</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 19px;"> the fact that we are not as different as we would like to think, and to somebody who had never encountered humans before, we would be difficult to distinguish from one another. Although he did not say this, a good </span></span><span style="line-height: 19px;">analogy</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 19px;"> to this would be that generally, we can not tell the </span></span><span style="line-height: 19px;">difference from one of a certain species of animal from another of that species, as we have not been around them enough. We can in dogs because we are around them every day, but generally, people would not be able to go out into a field of zebra, and immediately be able to distinguish one from another. Jane Goodall can distinguish chimps from one another, as she has been around them so often, but you would have a difficult time doing that, as you have not. Another example is siblings. We can usually tell siblings apart, as we have been around humans enough, but their genetics are so close to each other that they look very similar. If somebody who did not know the human race came to us, they would see all the same, as we have very similar genetic sequences to one another. Another reason that we are not different than one another is the similarity in culture from one culture to another. Each culture has its own music, dances, agricultural practices, sandwich and pancake, and even though we see a big difference from one to another, they are very similar in the grand scheme of things. Most of these happened without interaction either. Take the sandwich for instance. England and the rest of Europe had a traditional sandwich, but there are meat wrapped in bread meals from all cultures, such as the burrito from Mexico, the Baozi from China, the falafel from the middle east, and the various dumplings and sandwiches from other areas of the world. All of these were invented years ago, on all parts of the world, with no interaction from one culture to another. This pops up in various other ways- the seven cradles of civilization (similar time period, no contact), Darwin and Wallace (natural selection, discovered in India and the Galapagos), Newton and Leibniz (Calculus in England and Germany), and what else do we have to blame than human nature? Humans all over the world thing the same if we let them. We are one species, and because we are so similar, we should be nice to one another. </span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06741445056224549727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5151830278545181734.post-26356817726773905952014-03-08T21:37:00.001-08:002014-03-08T21:37:40.753-08:00The Gods Must Be CrazyI felt that I wanted to expand upon my <a href="http://druckersrhsenglitcomp13.blogspot.com/2014/03/in-class-brave-new-world.html">earlier post</a> about humanity that stemmed from a discussion about <i>Brave New World</i>. The Gods Must Be Crazy is a South African cult film released in 1980, that shows the interactions between the Bushmen of Africa, and the South African city dwellers.<a name='more'></a> The point of the movie is to show the downside of our "civilized" ways, and to show that the bush people are the truly civilized people. When the city people go on a safari in the Kalahari Desert, they do not know how to survive, or what to do in any circumstance, as they have been bred in a society of greed and safety. They are so stressed about everything in life, and have huge problems that span from work, to social problems, to problems with greedy people like Guerrillas. On the other hand, the bush people live a happy life. They know the land around them, and do not need to build things like bridges and buildings, and do not need to terraform, or go to school for the first half of their lives to figure out how to do these things, they learn about the land around them through day to day experience, and through watching their parents. They do not have any great worries, and are able to survive off of their own will. If the city dwellers were left in their position, they would not be as well off. The first major disturbance in the lives of the Bush people is when a Coca-cola bottle is dropped from a plane into one of their cities, and it ignites the greed of South Africa. The quest of Xi, a bushman, is to take that bottle to the end of the Earth and throw it off in order to have life go back to normal. While he goes about this quest, he meets a wide variety of people, and although these people act like they are better than him, and think of him as uncivilized, he is the only person in the movie who is truly civilized and smart, as he is a good person, and knows how to survive. He also is the only one who understands that materials are not as important as people. This connects to <i>Brave New World</i>, as it shows that the hunter gather society is truly the way humans are meant to live, and that it is more human to grow up in one of these villages than in a modern town, as we were evolutionarily adapted for one, and the other was created by us and has made us machines for society, and not the humans who have existed for the past 100,000 years, and who still exist today. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06741445056224549727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5151830278545181734.post-57743491666677383522014-03-08T21:17:00.000-08:002014-03-08T21:18:13.151-08:00In Class: Brave New WorldIn class we decided to show that we had read <i>Brave New World</i> by posting about it:<br />
The biggest thing that I got from this book was how society and human nature do not change. This morning, I talked to my father for about two hours about the world, and how we view it, and I wish that I had this conversation to put up on this blog, as it was very enlightening for a variety of reasons. <br />
<a name='more'></a> One thing that we did talk about through was this fact about human nature not changing, and how society too does not really change. In this discussion, 5 works - <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_gods_must_be_crazy">The Gods Must Be Crazy</a></i>, <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Time_Machine">The Time Machine</a></i>, <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World">Brave New World</a></i>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_(book)"><i>1984</i></a> and <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage">Cosmos: A Personal Voyage</a></i> - were brought up to display this fact that for the almost 100,000 years our species has existed, there has not really been much change and that we are the same people as our ancestors from a tenth of an epoch ago. What we mentioned about this novel, is that on the surface, it shows the "savages," to be just that - savages. Huxley was truly using them to juxtapose the world state, and just show that the true savages where the people in the society, and that these so called "savages" were the only true humans, as they were the ones who had pain, desires, ethics, and religion. They were not the brainwashed machines of the society. In this, Huxley also showed us that people do not change. As a culture, if you let us, we will go back to our roots as a hunter gatherer society. This same sentiment was explored in the late nineteenth century by the authors of the Naturalist movement, who said that if we were taken from cities, we would fend for our selves, and once again become one with nature. A good example of this is when Buck in Call of the Wild by Jack London essentially becomes a wolf, because he has been completely set apart from his life as a pet in California. It was also stated by Locke and the other enlightenment thinkers, as they came up with the idea of god-given or natural rights. These rights, all though seemingly very radical, were not new views, but the old views of pre-societal humans, who lived without a government over them. With the advent of government, this idea was washed out of our society, and we were stretched, like a rubber band, so far from this original idea, that we completely forgot about it, but during the enlightenment, human nature allowed us to remember this past idea, and the "rubber band" of society snapped back into place. This is exactly what Huxley shows with his "savages." While the rest of society has betrayed human nature, they have become machines, while the humans who were not de-personified snapped back into their position as a hunter gatherer society that ran of simple religion. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06741445056224549727noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5151830278545181734.post-25701052855905052872014-03-08T20:50:00.002-08:002014-03-08T20:50:49.777-08:00Resource of the Day: Cambridge Department of PharmacologyThis site greatly helped me understand what I have in store at Cambridge in four years, and what I will need to do to be accepted into the department: <a href="http://www.phar.cam.ac.uk/">http://www.phar.cam.ac.uk</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06741445056224549727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5151830278545181734.post-13121215303806139032014-03-08T20:46:00.002-08:002014-03-08T20:46:51.413-08:00BenchmarkAlthough I still do not completely understand this project still, I am going to give you an update on what I am doing, and what is to come with this project. So far, I have generally been studying the my plans after college. While most people are starting ventures that are in their general field of study for later in life, I cannot do this, because I intend to go into Pharmacology, which you can really only do with many years of higher level schooling. As this will be my way to change the world in the future, I must study everything I can now, so that I will be ready for the schooling ahead of me. I have reached out to many of the people I listed earlier in the post "<a href="http://druckersrhsenglitcomp13.blogspot.com/2014/02/super-5.html">Super 5</a>," and the ones who wrote back have been very helpful, especially a man named Daan Frenkel.<br />
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Dr. Frenkel is a professor of chemistry at Cambridge University, and a former professor of chemistry at the University of California, Los Angeles. I reached out to him asking about how university will be like next year, as I intend to go to UCLA, and about transitioning from UCLA to getting a Doctorate at Cambridge. While he could not help me with UCLA life, as he worked there 35 years ago, and he could not tell me much about my Doctorate program at Cambridge, he did direct me to a graduate scholarship for Cambridge Graduate students who do not hail from England, called the Gates Scholarship. This is a very prestigious scholarship, with many broad criteria, but I feel that I fit the criteria well, as I am on a mission to cure cancer in the US, and the world, and they are looking for people who see a large problem in the country of origin, and are hoping to find a fix to it. This also makes me a good match for another criteria, which is why should I go to Cambridge, and it is because Cambridge has chosen the battle against cancer as one of its key research focuses. While researching this scholarship, I was also able to find the website of the Cambridge department of Pharmacology, where I intend to go, and I know know what I will have to do over the next four years in order to prepare myself for Cambridge. <br />
For information about UCLA student life, I have been blessed to have many friend and family who go to the university, or are graduates from there. I have learned a great deal about the school from them, and many visits I have had to the campus. One example of these was an exchange I had over Facebook last night with a good friend of mine, <a href="http://rtownerhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/">Ryland Towne</a>. He is currently at the university, and I had heard about the cricket club at UCLA, so I asked him what he knew about it. Many things like this have happened with a variety of people I know who have greater connections with the campus than me.<br />
As I know it is important to be a well rounded person, I have been studying various other things, such as history that is not covered in school, literature, music, and science. I have gotten a lot of help with this from Dr. Melchert at UCLA, who as pointed me in the right directions for Indoeuropean studies. I am gradually learning German, both the language and ancient culture of the gremanic peoples as a whole, and have started on the slavs a bit, studying their culture and learning their alphabet. Many people have helped me with these studies, and as I would like to thank them all here, there are to many to list, so I will and have, thank them in person. <br />
I also have an experiment I am writing to direct my studies on the human race, but this is top secret, so keep quiet. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06741445056224549727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5151830278545181734.post-29349119048059033392014-02-28T21:12:00.001-08:002014-02-28T21:12:19.585-08:00Lit Analysis: Macbeth<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">1. The book opens upon witches talking about Macbeth. They meet Macbeth, and they tell him that he will be king of Scotland, and the Thane of Cawdor, and they tell his friend Banquo that he will father a long line of kings. we learn that Macbeth has done well in battle, and for this, King Duncan made Macbeth the Thane of Cawdor. After a while of being Thane, Lady Macbeth gets Macbeth to kill King Duncan, and she blames it on the king’s servants.</span></div>
<a name='more'></a> The prince Malcolm hears about this, and flees to Ireland. Macbeth is worried that Banquo knows the truth, so he tries to get him and his son, Fleance murdered, but Banquo is the only one murdered, and his son escapes. Macbeth starts a downward spiral into madness, as he is haunted by his friend, and a new prophesy that says that he will not die until Birnam Wood comes to his home, and that he can only be killed by a man who is not born naturally, and that he should watch out for Macduff. Macbeth killed more people, and his wife committed suicide. Macduff and Malcolm build an army, and using Birnam Wood branches to hide themselves, besiege Macbeth’s castle. Macduff who was born through c-section kills Macbeth, and Malcolm kings Macduff.<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">2. The theme of the play is that power corrupts. Macbeth got a little power, and wanted more and more, driving him mad, and Macduff gains power in a similar way to Macbeth, starting another cycle of this, which will presumably be stopped by Fleance, who will come back and be the first in a long line of kings, in accordance to the witches’ prophecy to Banquo.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">3. Sinister, and looking to a dark future. The two examples of prophecy in the story point to the looking to a dark future, as the witches make it dark by conotation, and the constant death and insanity throughout the novel make it sinister, like when Macbeth kills King Duncan.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">4. Iambic pentameter is used throughout the work, as it is a Shakespeare play. Foreshadowing is used in the witch prophecies, especially the second, as it is said in such a nebulous manner. Soliloquies are scattered throughout the play, such as the “Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow” soliloquy. Symbolism is used, as macbeth is used to symbolize the corrupt leaders of history. Synecdoche is used when the witches refer to the branches of the trees as the whole forest. Metaphor is used in this line Macbeth delivers: </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“O full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife.” Irony is used, in that Macbeth is trying to gain power to be happy, but ends up going crazy and ruining his life in the process. Foil is used, as Banquo foils Macbeth in some scenes, and in others, the opposite happens. The text is full of allusions, especially to Italic mythology. Personification is used by Macbeth when he claims that his knife was screaming.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">1. Macbeth is directly characterized by his actions when he is with the witches for the first time, but also characterized indirectly when we see that he has been promoted to Thane before we actually meat him. Banquo is characterized directly when he is with the witches and Macbeth, as we can see his actions. King Duncan is indirectly characterized when Macbeth and Lady Macbeth talk about him.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06741445056224549727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5151830278545181734.post-11202060253230271642014-02-27T20:21:00.001-08:002014-02-27T20:21:16.699-08:00Super 51) <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Ayoade">Richard Ayoade</a> - can help with my interest in arts, as he as an exceptional British Comedian, who acts in some of my favorite shows, such as The IT Crowd, and who wrote and directed my favorite movie Submarine. He was a member of The Footlights, and I would like to contact him in the hopes of getting to know more about Cambridge University.<br />
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2) <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Melchert">Craig Melchert</a> - a UCLA professor of linguistics and Indo-European studies, whom I have had some correspondence with. He is able to help me with my studies of Indo-European cultures.<br />
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3)<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jones_(biologist)">Steve Jones</a> - a biology professor at University College London. I saw an interdisciplinary (evolution in biology and linguistics) lecture by him that fascinated me. He can definitely help me with my scientific studies.<br />
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4)<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Heritage">John Heritage</a> - another UCLA professor, but this time, a professor of sociology. As my experiment deals with sociology, he could be of help. One of his studies in sociology is the study of how drugs are prescribed, and the psychological effects of drugs, which could help me in my future in pharmacology. He also went to Leeds University, which could help me, as I would like to know more about going to graduate school in England.<br />
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5)<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daan_Frenkel">Daan Frenkel</a> - the chemistry department head at Cambridge University. He could help me as he is a professor of physical chemistry, which is a field that I intend to study in the near future. He also has worked at both UCLA and University of Cambridge, which are the two schools that I intend to go to.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06741445056224549727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5151830278545181734.post-65946117898586183512014-02-25T21:49:00.001-08:002014-02-25T21:49:01.518-08:00LaunchI still cannot tell people what I am doing to start out my general study of everything that I can study, but I am currently writing the beginning of it. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06741445056224549727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5151830278545181734.post-27708384552025468812014-02-24T16:32:00.000-08:002014-02-24T16:32:29.062-08:00I, Jury... iJury The two big things that I got from reading other people's essays is that I really need to make my introductions and conclusions more smooth, as it really makes or breaks an essay. I also feel that I need to summarize less in my writing.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06741445056224549727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5151830278545181734.post-11648536445529669092014-02-23T14:47:00.001-08:002014-02-23T14:48:25.133-08:00Brave New World AP Essay 1<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The first sign of tension between Bernard’s society and his feelings is shown in his discussions in the third chapter of the novel, where he disagrees with his peers about viewing the people around him as items, believing that they are something more. His inner thoughts are conflicting with his society, as he knows that individuals are not important in his day and age, but he feels that people are more than that. He knows that people have the capability to reason and have feelings for one another. Although we can see that he wants to be an individual, he decides not to be, and treats other people like they are not, mostly due to the pressure to be meaningless from the World State and the people around him. This dichotomy between his actions and feelings is important, as it is something that people experience every day. We know that it is the right thing to report people for doing the wrong thing, but we do not because we like our social status. We are constantly going against are better judgement to please the world around us, just like Bernard. </span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Finally, Bernard’s job as a hypnopaedia specialist further shows his importance in making <i>Brave New World</i> a meaningful story. Bernard knows that what The World State is making him do is wrong, but he can not go against it, as the incentives to do it, along with the consequences to not do it make not preforming hypnopaedia extremely difficult for Bernard. This is meaningful, as the audience will connect with this. When a teacher gives you unimportant work for the sake of doing work, a student will do it so they can get good grades and dodge having a parent be mad at you. This also surfaces in the 1999 movie Office Space, as the main character, Peter Gibbons, is forced to come to work on the weekend. Although this is a movie, the movie became popular as many people found many similarities with their life and that of Peter, just like how people find Bernard’s life like theirs in this way.</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>All in all, Bernard’s inner conflict caused by his inability to go against his culture makes him a human in a story full of people who are essentially biotic machines. Huxley’s emphasis on Bernard’s subtle differences from the people around him make his character important by connecting him to his audience, making <i>Brave New World</i> a meaningful novel. Bernard’s inability to act on his thoughts connects to everyone in some sort of way.</span></div>
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