Monday, March 31, 2014

Meet Macbeth

Macbeth was first introduced in the story by other characters in the story talking about how glorious and what a great warrior he is. They talked about him killing a man (brutally cut him open vertically, decapitated him and put his head on a stake) and saving a the Sargeant. Other characters such as the witches also characterized him and foreshadowed his future of being a king with a kind of riddle/poem that confuses him on what they mean. Throughout the story the audience looks at Macbeth as a godless killing machine but ironically is nothing like that, he is just a soldier following orders. It's the way Shakespeare made him look before we actually got to meet him, it's like what everyone does from his time to our time they judge him without knowing, just hearing all the gossip (talking about the audience). So, Macbeth is a misunderstood character in the beginning in a tragic dramatic story

Macbeath soliloquy ( memorization due april 16 )

Macbeth: To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing

This is also a really cool analyzation of the soliloquy : http://www.enotes.com/shakespeare-quotes/tomorrow-tomorrow-tomorrow

Monday, March 10, 2014

My Masterpiece Idea

   For my project I want to have Biology include with music. Still I am not so sure with the music part of my plan. The only reason why is because I really don't know what to do with the music part of the project but the song that influenced both ideas for this project was "Inspire" by Gazzo. But still I wanted to make a song with biology included, I am still a little more on the just biology side. I have liked science since I was a kid.
   I remember as a 6 year old boy watching the Discovery channel I was always so fascinated by the animals, I loved learning about animals. I remember being so excited for a dinosaur movie or show. Seeing different animals and watching scientists study animals. I would go outside and actually study insects and birds, I would watch them eat and fly and live their life. It felt great and I somehow didn't get bored of watching them just eat. When I was fifteen years old I wanted to go out and explore some parts of my city and see if there was any other type of environment. My old friend actually took me outside of the city and I found the woods of the city. It wasn't much but to be honest it was really one of the most gorgeous. There was a flood in the woods and it was really cool because we actually spotted an otter, some turtles, and ducks. It was really cool, I felt like a Biologist in the wild! 
  I was planning on making a song, but right now I am a little lost on where I really want to go with this. IF you have any suggestions please comment and help me out.

Saturday, March 1, 2014

Lit. Analysis

1. Brave New World is a novel about a world where people are artificially made, and everyone is pre-destined to be part of a society that is meant for sufficiency and order. Everyone is in a certain class, everyone has a job, everyone is a subject to a government which they are embedded in like a code. Main character is Bernard who is an alpha but not like every other same and perfect alpha., he was shorter than every other alpha, he didn't enjoy all the activities that most liked to do. He was different mentally and physically. He asked a lot of questions, and was more curious than others. There were some flaws in the society, it has some secrets that lay behind the walls of the dystopian city. Something Bernard is going to find out soon enough.

2. The theme to this story was was to relate the story to our world on how everything was starting to become like The Brave New World. How The Alphas were racist to the Deltas and lower classes, and how brainwashed everyone is to even care about what really is going on outside of there world depending if its outside their country or their neighborhood.

3. The tone of the novel was serious and humorous.

"Oh, my Ford!", and in the beginning of the book there was a professor talking in about how they make artificially made babies in a very slow and boring lecture.