Hamlet is well known for his confusion and his great changes that he completes throughout the play. Although we know nothing about him from before his father passes, we can assume from the reaction of the people around him that he was not a mad and angry man before. from the beginning to the end of the play, hamlet changes a great amount. Internally, his motives change, his personallity changes, and his mood changes. Hamlet was first so intent on going back to school and studying, but as he is asked to stay home, he learnsabout his fathers murder from the ghost, and starts to change. Startign to plan against his uncle, he completely forgets about school, and now has new priorities, putting all his concentration on the revenge of his father. Since this is now the only thing on his mind, all htese thoughts build up adn cause frusteration and anger towards the others around him, because of thier lack of knowledge or belief that the new king od Denmark had murdered old Hamlet. This frusteration in turn is taken too far and affects the way he acts around the people around him, soon leading to what seems to be madness.
His external change, on the other hand does not change as drastically as internal, instead he does not start dressing differently, nor look differently, the only change is that he his mad and crazy thoughts effect how he acts and talks to people so in turn affects how he presents himself, making it a physical external change.
The people around him notice these changes, Claudius for example starts to turn against his new step son, he does not liekthe way he is acting and finds it severely suspisiouse. With this he tries to exile him to england, and plot against him in a fight to his death.
Horatio is perhaps the only one that believed that Hamlet was not at all crazy, but trying to find revenge upon his fathers death. Because of this, Horatio seems to be the only one that Hamlet will speak to normally without anger, but with " love" that is seen by any other charachters throughout the play.
Hamlet's mother does not wish to believe that her son has gone mad, but after a certain point, she is no longer able to fight it. Still loving her son, she tried to help him in figuring out what has happened to him and what has gone wrong, but instead all she gets is a cold shoulder and resentment rises to her.
Finally Ophelia, his love, can take this new and strange behaviousr no longer, she can see the meliciouse plots adn madness in his face when she looks at him, and is frightened by the sudden change. This new personality of Hamlet, and his murdering of her father takes her over the edge and causes her to kell herself.
Friday, December 19, 2008
Activity 1.3
The reality of Hamlet throughout the play plays a great part in the actions and consequences that occur throughout the play. Hamlets reality is that his father dies, adn eh later learns that it was his uncle that had murdered him, the king of Denmark in order to get his crown. With this discovery, Hamlet immediately convinced that his uncle is terrible for doign such a thing, he plots to kill him to make sure he is sent right to hell. This reality causes many unnessicary deaths, and consequences to the many people that surround him.
Gerturde has just lots her husband king of Denmark, but to keep her royal status,she quickly marries her previouse husbands brother Claudius that is next in line for the crown. By doing this, she has done what she thinks is best for her family, keeping the royal blood, but takes no consideration towards her sons feelings towards this act. This reality of the queen in the end leads to her death, having trust the man that killed her previouse husband, leads her to her last sip of wine the kills he rmomentarily.
Claudius has a reality of revenge and anger, and "pay back". For Claudius, killing his brother was a way at the crown that he was neglected from. Doing this would crown him royalty, and get him a beautiful new wife. As he finds Hamlet start to ask strangely, he starts to plan on killing Hamlet, his nephew in order for him to be the only one that was suitable for the crown of Denmark. By doing this, he has caused much pressure on many of the people in his surroundings, he caused teh death of his new wife, his own death, the death of Leartese, and in the end successfully killing his main target Hamlet.
Poloneus seems to have a blinded reality. He is the last parent left for his two children, adn indends to keep them safe. As this protective father he finds his right in keeping her daughter away from to him who seems to be a maniac, his laughters love; Hamlet. As Ophelia tells him more and more about the situation she is in with Hamlet, he goes from giving her advice, to forcefull obliged parenting, and keeps her from seeing her love. This reality of Poloneus in the end causes teh death of himself by Hamlet, and the death of his own daughter that he was trying to protect. For she has gone mad from the thought of loosing everything that she once had.
Journal Reflection
By looking and comparing the different realities and consequences of them through the different characters in the play, we can see that the different family units cause different reactions in scociety. First, looking at the Royal family we can see how they do not comunicate with one another, all are very seporated form one another and because if this, they all end up dying because of melisiouse murder plots against others. While if ou look at Polonius, Leartes and Ophelia's family, we can see that they are much closer, protective, and concerned about eachother. Although they all die as well by the end of the play, they die for different reasons, they die for love and revenge on their family members, or they get caught in the way of the royal family's murderous plots.
Gerturde has just lots her husband king of Denmark, but to keep her royal status,she quickly marries her previouse husbands brother Claudius that is next in line for the crown. By doing this, she has done what she thinks is best for her family, keeping the royal blood, but takes no consideration towards her sons feelings towards this act. This reality of the queen in the end leads to her death, having trust the man that killed her previouse husband, leads her to her last sip of wine the kills he rmomentarily.
Claudius has a reality of revenge and anger, and "pay back". For Claudius, killing his brother was a way at the crown that he was neglected from. Doing this would crown him royalty, and get him a beautiful new wife. As he finds Hamlet start to ask strangely, he starts to plan on killing Hamlet, his nephew in order for him to be the only one that was suitable for the crown of Denmark. By doing this, he has caused much pressure on many of the people in his surroundings, he caused teh death of his new wife, his own death, the death of Leartese, and in the end successfully killing his main target Hamlet.
Poloneus seems to have a blinded reality. He is the last parent left for his two children, adn indends to keep them safe. As this protective father he finds his right in keeping her daughter away from to him who seems to be a maniac, his laughters love; Hamlet. As Ophelia tells him more and more about the situation she is in with Hamlet, he goes from giving her advice, to forcefull obliged parenting, and keeps her from seeing her love. This reality of Poloneus in the end causes teh death of himself by Hamlet, and the death of his own daughter that he was trying to protect. For she has gone mad from the thought of loosing everything that she once had.
Journal Reflection
By looking and comparing the different realities and consequences of them through the different characters in the play, we can see that the different family units cause different reactions in scociety. First, looking at the Royal family we can see how they do not comunicate with one another, all are very seporated form one another and because if this, they all end up dying because of melisiouse murder plots against others. While if ou look at Polonius, Leartes and Ophelia's family, we can see that they are much closer, protective, and concerned about eachother. Although they all die as well by the end of the play, they die for different reasons, they die for love and revenge on their family members, or they get caught in the way of the royal family's murderous plots.
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Debate report 2
The second day of Hamlet debates begins bright adn early first thing in the morning, sitting at the front, getitng ready to judge are Jennifer, Yanik and Nick. Today, these three will be judging whether or not Hamlet was crazy, Watching Kelsey Melissa and Jessica Barton, arguing that this famouse man is not crazy, while Mickey, Liddy, and Marry will try and convince them that he is.
Throughout this debate, Marry has her ears peeled for any falacy or rhetoric device that the opposing team may be dropping, these points can count when it comes down to the end, but why isnt the other team doing the same thing? Both teams are at eachothers necks, even in powerful arguments, and rebuttles, the against side uses quotes throughout the book, making it known that they have certainly read and understood the play, while the for side uses medical reasearch and journals to prove thier points.
As the debate falls upon the free for all, the arguments become very heated as each side tries to prove thier points trying to be heard over the other team. Julian a reporter comes into the debate ready to prove the points made by the against team, but is quickly turned down by Marry, her voice being heard over everyone, making sure that the debate is left between the two teams. With The freeforall over and the final arguments and conclusions, it is the judges turn to decide wich team has been the most convincing. After a few minutes discussion, the judges have made thier final decission and the team has wo nthe debate.
Throughout this debate, Marry has her ears peeled for any falacy or rhetoric device that the opposing team may be dropping, these points can count when it comes down to the end, but why isnt the other team doing the same thing? Both teams are at eachothers necks, even in powerful arguments, and rebuttles, the against side uses quotes throughout the book, making it known that they have certainly read and understood the play, while the for side uses medical reasearch and journals to prove thier points.
As the debate falls upon the free for all, the arguments become very heated as each side tries to prove thier points trying to be heard over the other team. Julian a reporter comes into the debate ready to prove the points made by the against team, but is quickly turned down by Marry, her voice being heard over everyone, making sure that the debate is left between the two teams. With The freeforall over and the final arguments and conclusions, it is the judges turn to decide wich team has been the most convincing. After a few minutes discussion, the judges have made thier final decission and the team has wo nthe debate.
Debate report 1
Friday december 11th, a shakesperean dibate was held at Rockland District High School. Wichin the following hour, the judges ( Seth, Colton, and Logan) would come to a decision on whether a modern or shakesperean tradgety is better. Teams to this debate are Dawson Justin and Ben for modern tragety, while the Shakespearean tragety is being fought by the Stephanie twins, Boucher and MacDonald, and Rebecca Ritchie. the rules to this debate was that every time one goes to make an argument, they would have to say " argument engage" and "disengage" when finished, the same must be done for rebuttles; after the rules were layed down, the debate was ready to begin. As the debate opens, Shtephanie Boucher starts with a very informed opening argument, one can tell that a certain team has done thier research. As the debate continues, the room begins to heat up with all the tension in the room, and with all this heat, as Justin Sweeny standy to make a rebuttle, he is overtaiken by the heat and must back down. Points are awarded to Dawson Lybert for his Shakesperean clothing, this small dressup might what decides teh winners if both teams continue with strong arguments as we started with.
After another argument made by Stephanie B, Ben stands up and calls a fallacy on her... Appeal to boredom? Ouch! Finishing her argument, Stephanie runns out of time and must be cut off. The modern tradgedy team starts to talk on and on, the counter team stands up, and calls them on speaking in circles, no points are being made, adn she seems to put her foot down. A judge does teh same, as at 1:56 Colton turns to dawson and sais " Common, what does this have to do with anything at all?" Dawson is forced to sit down and it is once again the other teams turn to rebuttle. This debate was almost over, when the Shakespearean side pulls out pictures of the opposing team drunk and passed out, pointing that they are just as much drunks as in thier tradgedies period meaning that they should be agreeing that shakespearean is better. Poisoning the well could ahve been called as a device used, but neither of the three men pointed it out, losing them a point to thier team. This was not the only dirty remark used by either teams, the modern team started to use sexist jokes about women in the kitchen... this did not get taken very well by the opposing team or any of the female reporters in the audience
Many points were lost due to fallacies adn rhetorical devices not being called, when in the end, Ben made a final statement " please let us end our misory". Having lost all of thier arguments to the strong points of teh Shakesperean side, the boys are ready for this debate to end. As the Judges tally up the points, it is quite clear to most wich team has won the judges over. At 2:30, a Shakesperean tradgedy was declared the better of the two.
After another argument made by Stephanie B, Ben stands up and calls a fallacy on her... Appeal to boredom? Ouch! Finishing her argument, Stephanie runns out of time and must be cut off. The modern tradgedy team starts to talk on and on, the counter team stands up, and calls them on speaking in circles, no points are being made, adn she seems to put her foot down. A judge does teh same, as at 1:56 Colton turns to dawson and sais " Common, what does this have to do with anything at all?" Dawson is forced to sit down and it is once again the other teams turn to rebuttle. This debate was almost over, when the Shakespearean side pulls out pictures of the opposing team drunk and passed out, pointing that they are just as much drunks as in thier tradgedies period meaning that they should be agreeing that shakespearean is better. Poisoning the well could ahve been called as a device used, but neither of the three men pointed it out, losing them a point to thier team. This was not the only dirty remark used by either teams, the modern team started to use sexist jokes about women in the kitchen... this did not get taken very well by the opposing team or any of the female reporters in the audience
Many points were lost due to fallacies adn rhetorical devices not being called, when in the end, Ben made a final statement " please let us end our misory". Having lost all of thier arguments to the strong points of teh Shakesperean side, the boys are ready for this debate to end. As the Judges tally up the points, it is quite clear to most wich team has won the judges over. At 2:30, a Shakesperean tradgedy was declared the better of the two.
Monday, December 15, 2008
Activity 1.5
By using Maslow's hierarchy, we are able to analyze and describe Hamlets personality. Maslow's hierarch is a pyramid in wich describes the phychological needs and how they are prioritized. The most important aspect of ones self is the physiological step. This consists of all the necesities that any human will need; things such like water, breathing, sleep and sex. The next greatest priority for humans according to Maslow is ones safety. The second greatest priority for humans security of our body, employment, family, health and the protection of what we have and cherish in our lives. The next one is the priority of love of ones family and friends, making sure that they beolng somewhere. The second last step to this perimid is to the esteme priority. It is what we make sure to have self esteme, confidence in what we do, and get respect for others and give respect to others. When finally the last part to this pramid is self-actualization. This is what keeps track of our morals, craticity and our spontanicity! As we move up this pyramid, the priorities lessen and lessen, for this phychological structure, we build from the bottom up.
By using all these stages, we are able to deconstruct the personality of the famous Hamlet. By choosing from Hamlets many extreme actions throughout the play, we are able to use the Maslow's hierarchy to find his reactions and see wich section of the pyramid he has satisfied.
Plotting his revenge on Claudius
At this thought, Hamlet has found out from the gohst of his father that he ws murdered by his uncle and unpon hearing this news, immediately starts to play a way to revenge his fathers death by killing his uncle, or his new step father if you prefer. This action and thought process, is using the safelt and loving adn belonging stages. As Hamlet has a great will to kill his uncle, he is doing this, as a way to keep his family safe, and restore his family to what it used to be. By killing his uncle, he thinks he is protecting his mother from his dirty slimeball of an uncle that web her only weeks after the barrial of her husband. Also while doing this he is returning his love and belonging to his family. Ever since the new king has been in power, hamlet has been called mentally insane, is nto respected by his new father, adn has even been exiled to england. By killing his uncle, he is creating a newsence of belonging once again to part of a family.
The murder of Polonius
This action is not planned and carefully thought out, instead it is a rushed decision, that ends in an inocent death. As he sits in his mothers room, the one and single thought that runs through his mind at all times throughout the play is killing the king. This act of spontianity could be placed in two different stages; the top one of self actualization, becuase it is a spontaniouse reation having to do with ones mortality ( to him killing the king is acceptible) or it coudl also be placed under physiological, for it was a primal thought of protection, no thought was put into the reaction, just as we do for breathing and our hearts beating.
Hamlets abrupt end to a relationship with Ophelia
This is a very simple situation to classify. As Hamlet is speaking with her, he is not shy adn coy, but loud and knows what he wants to say, this is part of the Esteem stage of this pyramid, making sure that even though he is broken inside, he is still respected by others, adn does nto loose his place in authority.
( i appologize for all the spelling errors it will be fixed asap)
Sunday, December 14, 2008
activity 1.4
Thesis: Was it the proper thing for her brother and Leartes to give Ophelia advice on what adn how to spend her life?
Reason: Leartes was trying to protect her being the only parent in this family, he has a stronger need to protect his daughter
Example: He tells her before anyhtign is said about the romance of Hamlet and Ophelia to stay clear of him that he is to be watched for. Being carefull that his daughter does nto get stuck in an unfortunate situation.
Example: When he finds out what Hamlet has done to his daughter, he forces her to go the the king and queen and read the note that he has written her.
Reason: Her father is the only parent in this family, and so he has become ver overprotective, creating an obediant atmosphere to grow up in. Her forced obedience affects teh way that she lives her life.
Example: Being so close to her father, she tells him everyhting that happens with her life. An example of this would be when she rushes into her fathers room and cries to him what Hamlet has done to her. This act shows he rlove and closeness to her father.
Example: She also obeys her father as he forces her to tell her lover that she can not see him any more. She never would have done this on her own, being underpressure to adn having he rlife controled for her.
Reason: All this advice, and forcefull obediencs has lead her down a path of madness and trouble rather then the path Leartes had intended her to go down.
Example: As she is ripped away fro the one she loves, she starts to go a little mad. All these little things that she is forced to do has finally brought her to a breaking pointleaving her mad and alone to melt in her problems.
Example: As she is getitng treated for her madness, this breaks her over the edge, and she can no longer take the lonelness, the pressure and theconstant obediance of her father adn brother anylonger. At this point she has nothign left to do but kill herself.
Conclusion: With all the forceull actions upon the father at this time when her lover gets ripped away, and her father dies, everything she knows is gone, adn so she has nothing left. The advice from her father was well given, but at teh wrong itme, and much too forecfull. for these terrible events to have not happened, lartease would ahve had to let go of his little girl just a bit more.
Reason: Leartes was trying to protect her being the only parent in this family, he has a stronger need to protect his daughter
Example: He tells her before anyhtign is said about the romance of Hamlet and Ophelia to stay clear of him that he is to be watched for. Being carefull that his daughter does nto get stuck in an unfortunate situation.
Example: When he finds out what Hamlet has done to his daughter, he forces her to go the the king and queen and read the note that he has written her.
Reason: Her father is the only parent in this family, and so he has become ver overprotective, creating an obediant atmosphere to grow up in. Her forced obedience affects teh way that she lives her life.
Example: Being so close to her father, she tells him everyhting that happens with her life. An example of this would be when she rushes into her fathers room and cries to him what Hamlet has done to her. This act shows he rlove and closeness to her father.
Example: She also obeys her father as he forces her to tell her lover that she can not see him any more. She never would have done this on her own, being underpressure to adn having he rlife controled for her.
Reason: All this advice, and forcefull obediencs has lead her down a path of madness and trouble rather then the path Leartes had intended her to go down.
Example: As she is ripped away fro the one she loves, she starts to go a little mad. All these little things that she is forced to do has finally brought her to a breaking pointleaving her mad and alone to melt in her problems.
Example: As she is getitng treated for her madness, this breaks her over the edge, and she can no longer take the lonelness, the pressure and theconstant obediance of her father adn brother anylonger. At this point she has nothign left to do but kill herself.
Conclusion: With all the forceull actions upon the father at this time when her lover gets ripped away, and her father dies, everything she knows is gone, adn so she has nothing left. The advice from her father was well given, but at teh wrong itme, and much too forecfull. for these terrible events to have not happened, lartease would ahve had to let go of his little girl just a bit more.
Activity 1.2
As we can see, the first of the two main families in the Shakesperian play of Hamlet is hamlet himselves family. This family starts off originaly being a perfect family or what we call a nuclear family. As the play moves on we lear that clausdius, hamlets uncle has murdered hamlets father, the king of Denmark. After this, Claudius marries his sister in law, now becomming the new king of Denmark. This beomes the big crisis of this family wich destroys thier appearance of a perfect nuclear family. After this occurs, Hamlet is discusted to find out this news of his fathers murder by his own uncle, and therefore insists on disobaying his wishes. Hamlet is also very discusted at his mother for marying his uncle, an almost insestuouse jest in such a short time after his fathers death. As a way to compe with these terrible crisese, Hamelt thinks of a way to get revenge on his fathers death, he plots a detailed plan to do so and murder his uncle.
The second family to this would be the one of Polonius, his son Laertes, and his daughter Ophelia. This family is closest to the nuclear family stereo type. the father is a strong man, powerful and well respected by his children, he gives them great advice, and they follow without any great complications, unlike Hamlets family. In this family, the crisis is twisted upon the royal's Polonius is a single parent from what we are able to gather since the mother is never mentioned, Along as Ophelia is very much in love with little Hamlet. As all becomes mad, Polonius is murdered by hamlet, and with this, all chance of a nuclear family is destroyed. With all the presure of obaying her father, dealing with the strange of hamlet, and everythign that is surrounding her, Ophelia is unable to cope and dies mysteriously adn is found in her watery grave. While Laertes with his own rage of his father being murdred, plots upon the revenge for his father on Hamlet.
The second family to this would be the one of Polonius, his son Laertes, and his daughter Ophelia. This family is closest to the nuclear family stereo type. the father is a strong man, powerful and well respected by his children, he gives them great advice, and they follow without any great complications, unlike Hamlets family. In this family, the crisis is twisted upon the royal's Polonius is a single parent from what we are able to gather since the mother is never mentioned, Along as Ophelia is very much in love with little Hamlet. As all becomes mad, Polonius is murdered by hamlet, and with this, all chance of a nuclear family is destroyed. With all the presure of obaying her father, dealing with the strange of hamlet, and everythign that is surrounding her, Ophelia is unable to cope and dies mysteriously adn is found in her watery grave. While Laertes with his own rage of his father being murdred, plots upon the revenge for his father on Hamlet.
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Charles Lewis: Washington becomes second state to approve assisted suicide
Posted: November 05, 2008, 6:32 PM by Kelly McParland
Full Comment, U.S. Politics, Charles Lewis
Washington has become only the second state in the U.S. to make physician-assisted suicide legal and now joins just a handful of jurisdictions worldwide that allows the practice.
The measure, known as Initiative 1000, was approved by nearly 60% of voters Tuesday and mimics a similar law in Oregon passed 10 years ago.
It allows doctors to prescribe lethal medication to terminally ill patients. They cannot administer the medication, but can be present when patients take their lives.
Eileen Geller of the Coalition Against Assisted Suicide, and a hospice nurse, said proponents of the initiative made it sound that it was only the Roman Catholic Church providing funds.
“It was an occasion for Catholic bashing,” she said.
A Seattle newspaper said the pro-initiative forces raised more than US$5-million and the anti forces US$1.3-million. Ms. Geller said national groups wanted to use “Washington state’s initiative process to advance an experiment in assisted suicide so they could watch Washingtonians kill themselves to advance their agenda [of pushing this across the country] and eventually allow people to die for any reason at any time.”
The Washington State Medical Association also opposed the measure.
“Our doctors could not reconcile the act with their oath,” said Tom Curry, chief executive of the doctors’ organization.
Over the past 15 years, he said, there has been a tremendous improvement on palliative care.
It is not clear how doctors will respond to the new law, he added, but the association is asking physicians to be especially clear now about what options — including pain control — are available to patients.
Actor Martin Sheen, a religious Catholic known for supporting liberal causes, including the presidency of Barack Obama, also opposed to the measure. He made a TV commercial that warned the bill was “dangerous,” and would prey on the poor and the disabled.
Meantime, backers of the initiative charged the Catholic Church was pushing its weight around by forcing its agenda on non-Catholics.
“The Catholic Church is a right-wing extremist organization,” said Robb Miller, executive director of Compassion & Choices in Washington. “We were not Catholic-bashing, but pointing out what group was funding the other side.”
Mr. Miller said that voters in his state have had the benefit of seeing how things have worked in neighbouring Oregon for the past 10 years and how the objections of opponents are not true.
One main argument against I-1000 was that those without health insurance would be more likely to choose suicide as a way not to be a burden on their families. Oregon government statistics show that over 10 years only one patient who asked to die did not have insurance and most had a university degree.
For example, in 2006, of the 65 patients prescribed medication, 35 took it, 19 died from their disease and 11 were still alive at the end of the year. Three hundred patients have died since the law was passed.
Mr. Miller said many patients want the lethal drugs as more of a psychological insurance against the prospect pain. He himself managed to obtain lethal drugs in 1994 when he was diagnosed with cancer.
He said knowing the drug was there was a great comfort. He also said his partner suffered an agonizing death from AIDS in 1996, which also got him involved in the debate.
Moira McQueen, a moral theologian who heads the Canadian Catholic Bioethics Institute in Toronto, said people who oppose assisted suicide do not always do it from a religious perspective.
“I think this is a human issue, not a Catholic issue — though the Catholic Church and others have a clear stance on it. You don’t have to be talking about God all the time when it come to this issue. We can talk about it as being responsible for our community and the common good.
“We look after our babies when they’re born, it’s natural we look after dying. And we have the capacity to do it. If we didn’t we’d all be up the creek.”
National Postclewis@nationalpost.com
(1) Washington has become only the second state in the U.S. to make physician-assisted suicide legal and now joins just a handful of jurisdictions worldwide that allows the practice.
(2) It allows doctors to prescribe lethal medication to terminally ill patients. They cannot administer the medication, but can be present when patients take their lives.
(3) The Washington State Medical Association also opposed the measure.
(4) It is not clear how doctors will respond to the new law
(5) Over the past 15 years, he said, there has been a tremendous improvement on palliative care.
(6) One main argument against I-1000 was that those without health insurance would be more likely to choose suicide as a way not to be a burden on their families. Oregon government statistics show that over 10 years only one patient who asked to die did not have insurance and most had a university degree.
(7) “I think this is a human issue, not a Catholic issue
(8) Mr. Miller said many patients want the lethal drugs as more of a psychological insurance against the prospect pain.
(9) “We look after our babies when they’re born, it’s natural we look after dying. And we have the capacity to do it. If we didn’t we’d all be up the creek.”
Posted: November 05, 2008, 6:32 PM by Kelly McParland
Full Comment, U.S. Politics, Charles Lewis
Washington has become only the second state in the U.S. to make physician-assisted suicide legal and now joins just a handful of jurisdictions worldwide that allows the practice.
The measure, known as Initiative 1000, was approved by nearly 60% of voters Tuesday and mimics a similar law in Oregon passed 10 years ago.
It allows doctors to prescribe lethal medication to terminally ill patients. They cannot administer the medication, but can be present when patients take their lives.
Eileen Geller of the Coalition Against Assisted Suicide, and a hospice nurse, said proponents of the initiative made it sound that it was only the Roman Catholic Church providing funds.
“It was an occasion for Catholic bashing,” she said.
A Seattle newspaper said the pro-initiative forces raised more than US$5-million and the anti forces US$1.3-million. Ms. Geller said national groups wanted to use “Washington state’s initiative process to advance an experiment in assisted suicide so they could watch Washingtonians kill themselves to advance their agenda [of pushing this across the country] and eventually allow people to die for any reason at any time.”
The Washington State Medical Association also opposed the measure.
“Our doctors could not reconcile the act with their oath,” said Tom Curry, chief executive of the doctors’ organization.
Over the past 15 years, he said, there has been a tremendous improvement on palliative care.
It is not clear how doctors will respond to the new law, he added, but the association is asking physicians to be especially clear now about what options — including pain control — are available to patients.
Actor Martin Sheen, a religious Catholic known for supporting liberal causes, including the presidency of Barack Obama, also opposed to the measure. He made a TV commercial that warned the bill was “dangerous,” and would prey on the poor and the disabled.
Meantime, backers of the initiative charged the Catholic Church was pushing its weight around by forcing its agenda on non-Catholics.
“The Catholic Church is a right-wing extremist organization,” said Robb Miller, executive director of Compassion & Choices in Washington. “We were not Catholic-bashing, but pointing out what group was funding the other side.”
Mr. Miller said that voters in his state have had the benefit of seeing how things have worked in neighbouring Oregon for the past 10 years and how the objections of opponents are not true.
One main argument against I-1000 was that those without health insurance would be more likely to choose suicide as a way not to be a burden on their families. Oregon government statistics show that over 10 years only one patient who asked to die did not have insurance and most had a university degree.
For example, in 2006, of the 65 patients prescribed medication, 35 took it, 19 died from their disease and 11 were still alive at the end of the year. Three hundred patients have died since the law was passed.
Mr. Miller said many patients want the lethal drugs as more of a psychological insurance against the prospect pain. He himself managed to obtain lethal drugs in 1994 when he was diagnosed with cancer.
He said knowing the drug was there was a great comfort. He also said his partner suffered an agonizing death from AIDS in 1996, which also got him involved in the debate.
Moira McQueen, a moral theologian who heads the Canadian Catholic Bioethics Institute in Toronto, said people who oppose assisted suicide do not always do it from a religious perspective.
“I think this is a human issue, not a Catholic issue — though the Catholic Church and others have a clear stance on it. You don’t have to be talking about God all the time when it come to this issue. We can talk about it as being responsible for our community and the common good.
“We look after our babies when they’re born, it’s natural we look after dying. And we have the capacity to do it. If we didn’t we’d all be up the creek.”
National Postclewis@nationalpost.com
(1) Washington has become only the second state in the U.S. to make physician-assisted suicide legal and now joins just a handful of jurisdictions worldwide that allows the practice.
(2) It allows doctors to prescribe lethal medication to terminally ill patients. They cannot administer the medication, but can be present when patients take their lives.
(3) The Washington State Medical Association also opposed the measure.
(4) It is not clear how doctors will respond to the new law
(5) Over the past 15 years, he said, there has been a tremendous improvement on palliative care.
(6) One main argument against I-1000 was that those without health insurance would be more likely to choose suicide as a way not to be a burden on their families. Oregon government statistics show that over 10 years only one patient who asked to die did not have insurance and most had a university degree.
(7) “I think this is a human issue, not a Catholic issue
(8) Mr. Miller said many patients want the lethal drugs as more of a psychological insurance against the prospect pain.
(9) “We look after our babies when they’re born, it’s natural we look after dying. And we have the capacity to do it. If we didn’t we’d all be up the creek.”
Standardizing Arguments
Ninth-graders at work
In the United States, it is the day after the presidential election,. In Canada, it is the day that parents of ninth-graders take their kids to work.
The tradition was started in Ontario in the early 1990s by The Learning Partnership, a non-profit champion of public education. Take Our Kids to Work Day has since gone national, and today some 250,000 students are expected to participate with their parents (or someone else's parent) at 75,000 workplaces across the country.
Workplaces of all kinds are involved, from newsrooms to bank branches, from hospitals to police stations, and from training facilities for carpenters and electricians to the Ontario Legislature and city hall. Some employers have special programs geared for the students; others just let them shadow their parents.
The goal, says Veronica Lacey, president of The Learning Partnership, is to stress the importance of career choices for the students. As early as Grade 9, they start deciding what courses to take in order to achieve their career goals.
But over time, adds Lacey, "the day has evolved into something deeper and more significant." Students get to see just how hard their parents work for a living. They come away with a new respect for hard work and a realization that "all work is honourable."
The Star salutes the students and parents participating today in Take Our Kids to Work Day.
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/530789
red - reason
green - Thesis
purple – conclusion
(1) But over time, adds Lacey, "the day has evolved into something deeper and more significant." Students get to see just how hard their parents work for a living
(2) In Canada, it is the day that parents of ninth-graders take their kids to work.
(3) Take Our Kids to Work Day has since gone national, and today some 250,000 students are expected to participate with their parents (or someone else's parent) at 75,000 workplaces across the country.
(4) Some employers have special programs geared for the students; others just let them shadow their parents.
(5) to stress the importance of career choices for the students. As early as Grade 9, they start deciding what courses to take in order to achieve their career goals.
(6) The Star salutes the students and parents participating today in Take Our Kids to Work Day.
In the United States, it is the day after the presidential election,. In Canada, it is the day that parents of ninth-graders take their kids to work.
The tradition was started in Ontario in the early 1990s by The Learning Partnership, a non-profit champion of public education. Take Our Kids to Work Day has since gone national, and today some 250,000 students are expected to participate with their parents (or someone else's parent) at 75,000 workplaces across the country.
Workplaces of all kinds are involved, from newsrooms to bank branches, from hospitals to police stations, and from training facilities for carpenters and electricians to the Ontario Legislature and city hall. Some employers have special programs geared for the students; others just let them shadow their parents.
The goal, says Veronica Lacey, president of The Learning Partnership, is to stress the importance of career choices for the students. As early as Grade 9, they start deciding what courses to take in order to achieve their career goals.
But over time, adds Lacey, "the day has evolved into something deeper and more significant." Students get to see just how hard their parents work for a living. They come away with a new respect for hard work and a realization that "all work is honourable."
The Star salutes the students and parents participating today in Take Our Kids to Work Day.
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/530789
red - reason
green - Thesis
purple – conclusion
(1) But over time, adds Lacey, "the day has evolved into something deeper and more significant." Students get to see just how hard their parents work for a living
(2) In Canada, it is the day that parents of ninth-graders take their kids to work.
(3) Take Our Kids to Work Day has since gone national, and today some 250,000 students are expected to participate with their parents (or someone else's parent) at 75,000 workplaces across the country.
(4) Some employers have special programs geared for the students; others just let them shadow their parents.
(5) to stress the importance of career choices for the students. As early as Grade 9, they start deciding what courses to take in order to achieve their career goals.
(6) The Star salutes the students and parents participating today in Take Our Kids to Work Day.
Bdelygmia - Rhetorical Device
Bdelygmia
Definition: Is a ramble on, or expression of hate towards a person or thing.
Why would it be useful to use? Bdelygmia is used all the time, and people just don’t notice it. If you were arguing a point, for say that broccoli was bad, you could use bdelygmia by naming all of its defects, and bad things about it instead of naming the good things about it. For example you could say that broccoli tastes bad, looks funny, is green which looks like grass, and who eats grass? Its hard, and the little flower things on the end get stuck in your teeth. By doing this you did not say anything in good about it, even though we all know there are benefits to eating broccoli, but the point was proven.
Example:
Mel: Wow im looking forward to this winter so much I love this season!
Megan: What why would you say that any other season is better then winter, its cold and you slip everywhere, its always dark, and the sun barely ever shines through the grey clouds.
- This would be a bdelygmia because Megan obviously dislikes winter, and to prove her point, she lists many of its bad qualities.
Example 2:
Megan: Wow Mel have you heard this new song by Eminem? I love it its so pump up!
Mel: No, and I don’t want to hear it, I hate rap music, all they do is talk while a beat plays in the back, its such a sexist style of music and all the songs are so depressing about drugs and death.
- Mel finds all the bad qualities of this style of music and uses them in her discussion to persuade Megan that Rap is terrible music, she does this by using bdelygmia.
Media Example:
In the media, this rhetorical device is used all the time between brand names like Lysol and Oust, but this can most commonly be found in the Canadian elections. As you see the many commercials for each primminister , there is always a few for the Liberal party that point out all the bad parts to the Conservatives, making that Party look bad, and trying to make the watchers vote for the Liberals. These Commercials are perfect examples of Bdelygmia, pointing all the flaws of others out to prove their point, and win over voters.
Definition: Is a ramble on, or expression of hate towards a person or thing.
Why would it be useful to use? Bdelygmia is used all the time, and people just don’t notice it. If you were arguing a point, for say that broccoli was bad, you could use bdelygmia by naming all of its defects, and bad things about it instead of naming the good things about it. For example you could say that broccoli tastes bad, looks funny, is green which looks like grass, and who eats grass? Its hard, and the little flower things on the end get stuck in your teeth. By doing this you did not say anything in good about it, even though we all know there are benefits to eating broccoli, but the point was proven.
Example:
Mel: Wow im looking forward to this winter so much I love this season!
Megan: What why would you say that any other season is better then winter, its cold and you slip everywhere, its always dark, and the sun barely ever shines through the grey clouds.
- This would be a bdelygmia because Megan obviously dislikes winter, and to prove her point, she lists many of its bad qualities.
Example 2:
Megan: Wow Mel have you heard this new song by Eminem? I love it its so pump up!
Mel: No, and I don’t want to hear it, I hate rap music, all they do is talk while a beat plays in the back, its such a sexist style of music and all the songs are so depressing about drugs and death.
- Mel finds all the bad qualities of this style of music and uses them in her discussion to persuade Megan that Rap is terrible music, she does this by using bdelygmia.
Media Example:
In the media, this rhetorical device is used all the time between brand names like Lysol and Oust, but this can most commonly be found in the Canadian elections. As you see the many commercials for each primminister , there is always a few for the Liberal party that point out all the bad parts to the Conservatives, making that Party look bad, and trying to make the watchers vote for the Liberals. These Commercials are perfect examples of Bdelygmia, pointing all the flaws of others out to prove their point, and win over voters.
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Biased sample
A Biased Sample
A biased sample is a logical fallacy based on statistics. This happens when a group of people’s opinions are cut out and not included, or when the survey has been asked to a not so random population. The selection of the surveyed has been flawed, or purposefully flawed.
A syllogism is an argument that is proposed by two others, such as if no black rabbits are friendly, and there are no old rabbits, you would conclude that there are no black old friendly rabbits. This same thing can be brought into the biased sample. For example, if we were to have a bag full of marbles and out of the 100 marbles in the bag, 90 of them are green. If we were to pull a single marble out of the bag, it would be safe to assume that our marble would also be green.
Proportion Q of the sample has attribute A
Therefore Q of the population has A
As a whole the Biased sample does not have a Latin translation, but while looking I found that “sample” can be translated into Latin can be translated into exemplum, so it would then become Biased Exemplum, but as a whole there is not direct translation into Latin.
This would become a very useful tool when in a debate. By forming a survey and only asking a certain group of people to fill it out, you are able to control the outcome of the survey. This would become a valid piece of information, and proof towards the point that you are trying to make, even though this survey has not been sent to a full range of different people. It becomes your secret vantage point.
Examples of a biased sample would be:
Example 1: if you have asked all your friends at school that don’t drive where they want their prom to be, down town or close to where we live, and soon the results come in as the second option of closer to home. This is a bias sample because the whole student body wasn’t asked their opinion, only the ones that would need rides had been asked, and in turn has given an unfair survey.
Example 2: People that travel a lot were given a survey while flying to fill out about air transportation satisfaction; this will be a biased sample because we do not know the opinion of those who don’t fly. They may not fly because the flight is too turbulent and they don’t like that, or how they were treated poorly once and have never gone back, whole the people on the plane that travel often will most likely give a decent rating to the airline.
An example from popular child’s movie that many can relate to would be from beauty and the beast. As Belle leaves the castle to go and help her sick father, she has learnt that the beast has a kind and gentle soul, and all the appliances in the castle know this as well. But as Belle has returned to the town, the townsmen have all been convinced that the Beast is a terrible thing and must be destroyed before he hurts anyone. This becomes a biased sample because the townsmen do not take into consideration the opinion of everyone living in the castle or of Belle herself that has experienced What the Beast is like herself. They have cut a whole side of the opinion of the “survey” off, and in turn getting the results that they were looking for
A biased sample is a logical fallacy based on statistics. This happens when a group of people’s opinions are cut out and not included, or when the survey has been asked to a not so random population. The selection of the surveyed has been flawed, or purposefully flawed.
A syllogism is an argument that is proposed by two others, such as if no black rabbits are friendly, and there are no old rabbits, you would conclude that there are no black old friendly rabbits. This same thing can be brought into the biased sample. For example, if we were to have a bag full of marbles and out of the 100 marbles in the bag, 90 of them are green. If we were to pull a single marble out of the bag, it would be safe to assume that our marble would also be green.
Proportion Q of the sample has attribute A
Therefore Q of the population has A
As a whole the Biased sample does not have a Latin translation, but while looking I found that “sample” can be translated into Latin can be translated into exemplum, so it would then become Biased Exemplum, but as a whole there is not direct translation into Latin.
This would become a very useful tool when in a debate. By forming a survey and only asking a certain group of people to fill it out, you are able to control the outcome of the survey. This would become a valid piece of information, and proof towards the point that you are trying to make, even though this survey has not been sent to a full range of different people. It becomes your secret vantage point.
Examples of a biased sample would be:
Example 1: if you have asked all your friends at school that don’t drive where they want their prom to be, down town or close to where we live, and soon the results come in as the second option of closer to home. This is a bias sample because the whole student body wasn’t asked their opinion, only the ones that would need rides had been asked, and in turn has given an unfair survey.
Example 2: People that travel a lot were given a survey while flying to fill out about air transportation satisfaction; this will be a biased sample because we do not know the opinion of those who don’t fly. They may not fly because the flight is too turbulent and they don’t like that, or how they were treated poorly once and have never gone back, whole the people on the plane that travel often will most likely give a decent rating to the airline.
An example from popular child’s movie that many can relate to would be from beauty and the beast. As Belle leaves the castle to go and help her sick father, she has learnt that the beast has a kind and gentle soul, and all the appliances in the castle know this as well. But as Belle has returned to the town, the townsmen have all been convinced that the Beast is a terrible thing and must be destroyed before he hurts anyone. This becomes a biased sample because the townsmen do not take into consideration the opinion of everyone living in the castle or of Belle herself that has experienced What the Beast is like herself. They have cut a whole side of the opinion of the “survey” off, and in turn getting the results that they were looking for
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Phyco Analytic Criticism for " The Wizard of Oz"
Psycho Analytic Criticism Found In the Wizard of Oz
In Freud’s analysis of the self, he explains that there are three alternating and governing
psyches. The Id controls ones immediate wants, needs and urges, the Superego follows rules,
reason and is the moral and the Ego acts as the mediator between the two. In the film “The
Wizard of Oz”, all three mindsets are represented by different characters. As the twister
approaches Dorothy’s home town of Kansas City, she has gotten to the house too late to make it
into the cellar with her aunt and uncle; the only place to go is into her house and try and hide
from the storm about to hit. As the storm arrives, the violent winds descend upon her, sending
her to the world of Oz. Dorothy remembers the events of the day: the terrible trouble Toto has
gotten into as well as the unfairness of life. She dreams of a magical world, one that is perfect and
fair, somewhere “over the rainbow”. Since this is in itself quite impossible, her brain, when
knocked from the winds of the storm, creates an alternate world in which the mindsets of the Id,
Ego, and Superego are set loose to create a story that externally demonstrates the internal
process of how the Freudian mindsets balance themselves.
Both in and out of the world of Oz, Dorothy exerts a strong sense of Id as she deals with
situations that she encounters. She knows what she wants, wants it done as soon as possible,
and will do anything she can to get it. As the movie starts, Dorothy has just gotten herself and
her dog into a terrible position. Her neighbour will be coming over at any moment to pick up
Toto and take him away. As she thinks of this, she only has one thought concerning its solution:
all she wants is somewhere where there will be no troubles and where “the dreams that you
dare to dream really do come true.” This desire represents her sense of Id shining through.
Before her mind begins to rid itself from the tension built up from the suppression of the id by
the ego and super ego, Dorothy even tries running away, leaving with a complete stranger in
order to escape. At this point the Id is in control and has pushed back the two other mindsets.
As she enters the World of Oz, Dorothy’s character does not change. Although she has
changed wants, and needs, she still goes after her one and only want to get home. When she had
tried running away from home, the wizard that she had met along the way had mentioned to her
that he could see her aunt sick and upset that she had left. Immediately upon hearing this she
wants to be home to help her family. This want gets transferred over to the world of Oz and
follows her through until the end of the movie. The famous quote “there’s no place like home” is
quite significant to the distinction of her id; it has stayed strong throughout her entire trip until it
has finally been realized.
Oz is a world made-up by Dorothy’s mind as a way to relieve the tension building up by
her suppressed Id in the real world. As such, the different parts of the mind have emerged
“disguised” as characters she meets in Oz on her journey back home. Her superego is
represented as three friends she meets as she follows the path of the yellow brick road: the Lion,
the Scarecrow, and the Tin Man. The superego is the part of the mind that follows the rules, and
is the part of the mind that causes one to be timid and shy, almost the opposite of the Id, and
represents all morals of the mind. As the three new friends travel on their journey to the great
wizard, each one exerts a certain characteristic of this mind set, all having their own insecurities.
The scarecrow is the first character that Dorothy meets on her adventure. She meets
him in a corn field where she finds that he is very sad and disappointed in himself because he is
only made of straw. His one wish is to have a brain so that he could be able to think thoughts like
others around him. This shows a great prominence in the superego of the scarecrow; his self-
consciousness due to his “lack” of a brain prevents him from respecting himself. This is a quality
of the Superego.
The Tin man is the next to be met on their long journey. He is also missing a very
important element that controls emotion. The Tin man decides to go along for the trip because
he wishes to gain a heart. When he is first introduced, he does not have much self respect, and
his lack of a heart makes him feel as if he is not able to connect with people properly.
The Lion, the third and final friend they pick up travelling along the yellow brick road,
has a Superego that is the most prominent of all three of Dorothy’s new friends. As Dorothy, the
Tin man and the Scarecrow cross through a deep dark forest, they meet up with the Lion as he
jumps out from behind bushes and tries to scare them. His lack of courage reverses the effect,
and instead he manages to scare himself. His lack of courage sends is dismaying as he is too shy
to approach others for fear that he will be rejected and ridiculed because of his handicap. All
three friends display timid behaviour, shyness and want to follow all rules on their way to the
Emerald city. These missing links demonstrate their evident superego. It is possible to see how
Dorothy’s mind has used them as a way to represent the Superego as her mind tries to counter
her strong Id.
As the journey comes to an end, the travelers reach their destination of the Emerald
City. Having gone through the long and testing journey, they have finally made it to the Wizard
of Oz, and think that all their wishes will be granted as they enter to see him. This is where the
Ego in Dorothy’s mind is expressed. The ego is the part of the mind that is the reasoning or
balance, telling the Id that it can get what it wants, but it must wait until it is right, or moral.
Having a wish granted by the wizard is not quite as easy as expected. The Wizard
demonstrates many of the characteristics of the ego, especially when they arrive and first meet
him. Unlike what they all thought, the wizard refuses to grant their wishes as soon as they
arrive, but instead tells them that he will only grant their wishes if they can return with the
Witch’s broom, proving that they have killed her. This is exactly what the Ego does in the brain:
it tells the Id that it must wait to get what it wants, but in turn it reassures that it will eventually
get it. The Wizard tell the travelers that they must first go and retrieve the Wicked Witch’s
broom before he will answer their wishes, displaying a perfect parallel to the Freudian mind set.
Finally, the Wizard of Oz uses intimidation to try and scare Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the
Tin Man, and the Lion away by pretending he is a large floating head. This creates fear in the
traveling four. This form of intimidation causes a delay in asking for what they want as they
must first muster up the courage to ask him. This delay is a small form of ego which Dorothy’s
mind has created in her “dream” to show how the three mindsets are reacting to control one
another, with the ego acting as the moderator.
The mind works in many ways. In the film “The Wizard of Oz” the representation of the
separate Freudian mindsets are able to lead Dorothy in the right direction. They lead her in a
way in which she is able to see how all the mindsets work together to teach her a lesson of
friendship, understanding, and the way of life; a lesson that remains with her after her return
from the other side of the rainbow.
Saturday, October 18, 2008
silly silly
sorry sir when i posted my essay it would not let me do indents nor double spaces or tabs, so i was able to double space it but i will hand in a hard copy on monday with " proper form" .
Thursday, October 16, 2008
English essay
Every day as the people of our world expand the technology, and find new and easier ways
to assist one’s self in everyday tasks or daily life, it affects the future of our race. We see these
advantages in technology as aids and a good thing, but do we realize that having too much help,
in the end teaches you nothing? As technology advances throughout time, all the extra help will
cause laziness and in turn this will cause a domino effect. Therefore having a loss of will power
and determination will cause creativity and wonder to diminish. We can see this slowly start to
happen in today’s society, but the new forms of humans, Eloi and Morlocks in novel “The Time
Machine” by H.G. Wells are examples of extreme cases of what this could all lead to. In the
future all is given to them, it is not necessarily an aid to human kind, but brings a disadvantage
onto the human race. Having everything done for them and making life too easy creates no will
power and creativity ceases to continue, making the Elois lazy, eventually reversing the effects
of evaluation, and returning our old ancestors characteristics and instincts to the
Morlocks.
As the technology advances as time moves on, by the year 802701 having everything
given to you as an Eloi, or upperworlder has become natural and expected. They do not worry
about how their clothes get made, about buying or selling items or where their food comes from.
These humans have had their lifestyle and personalities altered into non-caring, lazy, and short
attention spanned race.
As the Time Traveler arrives to the future, the Eloi (upper world
humans) rush him into a large dining room for a feast. As they feast upon fruit, The Time
Traveler must learn the language of the people in order to communicate with these new people.
As he attempts to understand and learn this new language, he realizes that the Eloi’s attention
span shortens very quickly, and he can only learn in short spans of time before they all get bored
and switch their attention to something different:" At first my efforts met with a stare of
surprise or inextinguishable laughter, but presently a fair-haired little creature seemed to grasp
my intention and repeated a name. They had to chatter and explain the business at great length
to each other, and my first attempts to make the exquisite little sounds of their language caused
an immense amount of amusement. However, I felt like a schoolmaster amidst children, and
persisted, and presently I had a score of noun substantives at least at my command; and then I
got to demonstrative pronouns and even the verb "to eat." But it was slow work, and the little
people soon tired and wanted to get away from my interrogations, so I determined, rather of
necessity, to let them give their lessons in little doses when they felt inclined. And very little
doses I found they were before long, for I never met people more indolent or more easily
fatigued.” (Wells, 35)
These people are only able to concentrate on certain things for short spans of time, because of
the lack of need, wonder, discovery and imagination is gone. This has happened in cause of the
technology of the time doing everything for them, because there is no need for any of these
reactions, the Eloi do not bother to use them.This behaviour continues to show as the story
develops, these humans have no worries of finding a mate to create offspring and reproduce,
everything is perfectly controlled and in turn lose the emotion of affection, and attachment
towards anyone else. "It happened that as I was watching some of the little people bathing in a
shallow, one of them was seized with a cramp, and began drifting downstream. The main current
ran rather swiftly, but not too strongly for even a moderate swimmer. It will give you an idea,
therefore, of the strange deficiency in these creatures, when I tell you that none made the
slightest attempt to rescue the weakly crying little thing which was drowning before their
eyes.”(Wells, 56)
As the world is perfectly controlled, leaving no need to find someone, for a life mate, nor have
anyone to be raised by, leaves no reason for the maternal instinct to develop. If this does not
develop, one cannot become emotionally attached to anything, this is the reason for the little
Weena to be left on her own to fend for herself.
If a life is already planned out and is in a perfectly controlled environment, would there be a
point in making life more difficult than it has to be, by forming complicated languages when it
will not be used to its fullest? The Eloi use a language made of very simple terms and phrases
making it very easy to catch onto once they have given you enough time to be taught it. This
lack of communication in the upper world, does not differ very much from the one of the
underworld with the Morlocks behaviour. The Eloi are not the only ones to have lost their
personal skills, the Morlocks have also changes over the years, by being separated from the
outside world, and there is no need for as much interaction. As the time traveler starts to learn
the upperlanders language, he realizes that it is very simple, not containing structured
sentences, being very easy, much like a caveman might speak.
Over the years as less is needed, the language of the humans has become simpler, consisting of
short sentences and simple grammar, The time traveler discovers this as he spends more time
in the future:"I made what progress I could in the language, and, in addition, I pushed my
explorations here and there. Either I missed some subtle point, or their language was
excessively simple-almost exclusively composed of concrete substantives and verbs. There
seemed to be a few, if any, abstract terms, or little use of figurative language. Their sentences
were usually simple and two words, and I failed to convey or understand any but the simplest
proportions." (Wells, 51)
A complicated language is now of no use to these people, having everything at the tips of their
hands ready for them to use, only simple requests are needed.
As the Morlocks have lived in complete darkness for hundreds of years, they have become a
very aggressive species, not used to other contact form the above world, nor anything else; they
have lost all modern human social skills."I stood in the dark, a hand touched mine, lank fingers
came feeling over my face, and I was sensible of a peculiar unpleasant odour. I fancied I heard
the breathing of a crowd of those dreadful little beings about me. I felt the box of matches in my
hand being gently disengaged, and the other hands behind me plucking at my clothing. The
sense of these unseen creatures examining me was indescribably unpleasant." (Wells, 63)
These actions demonstrate how the complete darkness has affected this species. As they are not
able to see much they must use their other scenes to get a feel of their surroundings. As because
of this, they have lost the perception of personal space, and consideration for others around
them, very similar to the Eloi from above.
All these new ways of living, has turned back the time on the species behaviour. Being forced
underground, the new found innocence of the upper world, and the incredible advance in
technology has been a great factor upon this. Now the human race has inherited many or the
characteristics as ancestors from when the world started, as well as many animals such like the
dinosaurs.
The Morlocks have been the ones to serve the Eloi over the years, their technically inclined
skills have brought them underground to take care of the sewage, electricity, ventilation etc.
After being stuck underground for so many years, their lack of social skills have renewed their
fun of killing animals for fun, as men started to do as time first begun. "The upper world people
might once have been the favoured aristocracy, and the Morlocks their mechanical servants; but
that had long since passed away. The two species that had resulted from the evolution of man
were sliding down towards, or had already arrived at, an altogether new relationship. The Eloi,
like the Carolingian kings, had decayed to a mere beautiful futility. They still possessed the earth
on the sufferance, since the Morlocks, subterranean for innumerable generations, had come at
last to find the day lit surface intolerable. And the Morlocks made their garments, I inferred, and
maintained them in their habitual needs, perhaps through the survival of an old habit of service.
They did as a standing horse paws with his foot, or as a man enjoys killing animals in sport,
because ancient and departed necessities had impressed it on the organism."(Wells, 77)
The Morlocks have been imbedded with the idea that having to make everything for the Eloi
with return for nothing is a normal part of life, but with being forced into the ground at all times
to do so, they must find a way to eat. Over the years this has lead to the feasting of their same
race. The Eloi end up paying for the work they get done for them.
The Morlocks characteristics continue to resemble the ones of our ancestors further back
in time, as there is a lack of food underground increases; these people have resorted to eating
their own species as a way to survive. This resembles many of the tribes around our modern
world that have practiced cannibalism; eating their own species as tradition or way of life.
"The place, by the by, was very stuffy and oppressive, and the faint halatus of freshly-shed
blood was in the air. Some way down the central vista was a little table of white metal, laid with
what seemed a meal. The Morlocks at any rate were carnivorous!" (Wells, 72)
The Eloi pay the price for having everything given to them, as a way to pay, the Morlocks will
take them for meat. Eating to stay alive, and as a way to repay them for forcing them
underground all these years. This way of live has made the Morlocks resort to how animals from
the past have eaten their own kind. A perfect example of this would be the dinosaurs, although
they were all dinosaurs, there were many species of them, and they would feed upon each other.
With the great change in technology, and its effect on the evolution of the human kind, as a result
has caused a great change in the behaviour and mind set of humans. As all the technology has
developed over the many years, it has been able to assist and do things for the humans in many
ways. After years and years of everything being done for them, they have lost their will power to
do things on their own, their language has become simpler, in a form much shorter and easier to
speak in the lack of need to have an intricate conversation. The accessibility to this vast amount
of technology, in a perfectly controlled environment causes the brain to be used less, which as
evolution continued, the humans adapted to their lifestyle, turning back their minds to have
many characteristics of our earths ancestors.
Wells, H.G.. The Time Machine. 2002. New York: Scholastic inc., 1895.
(Burgess Introduction)
to assist one’s self in everyday tasks or daily life, it affects the future of our race. We see these
advantages in technology as aids and a good thing, but do we realize that having too much help,
in the end teaches you nothing? As technology advances throughout time, all the extra help will
cause laziness and in turn this will cause a domino effect. Therefore having a loss of will power
and determination will cause creativity and wonder to diminish. We can see this slowly start to
happen in today’s society, but the new forms of humans, Eloi and Morlocks in novel “The Time
Machine” by H.G. Wells are examples of extreme cases of what this could all lead to. In the
future all is given to them, it is not necessarily an aid to human kind, but brings a disadvantage
onto the human race. Having everything done for them and making life too easy creates no will
power and creativity ceases to continue, making the Elois lazy, eventually reversing the effects
of evaluation, and returning our old ancestors characteristics and instincts to the
Morlocks.
As the technology advances as time moves on, by the year 802701 having everything
given to you as an Eloi, or upperworlder has become natural and expected. They do not worry
about how their clothes get made, about buying or selling items or where their food comes from.
These humans have had their lifestyle and personalities altered into non-caring, lazy, and short
attention spanned race.
As the Time Traveler arrives to the future, the Eloi (upper world
humans) rush him into a large dining room for a feast. As they feast upon fruit, The Time
Traveler must learn the language of the people in order to communicate with these new people.
As he attempts to understand and learn this new language, he realizes that the Eloi’s attention
span shortens very quickly, and he can only learn in short spans of time before they all get bored
and switch their attention to something different:" At first my efforts met with a stare of
surprise or inextinguishable laughter, but presently a fair-haired little creature seemed to grasp
my intention and repeated a name. They had to chatter and explain the business at great length
to each other, and my first attempts to make the exquisite little sounds of their language caused
an immense amount of amusement. However, I felt like a schoolmaster amidst children, and
persisted, and presently I had a score of noun substantives at least at my command; and then I
got to demonstrative pronouns and even the verb "to eat." But it was slow work, and the little
people soon tired and wanted to get away from my interrogations, so I determined, rather of
necessity, to let them give their lessons in little doses when they felt inclined. And very little
doses I found they were before long, for I never met people more indolent or more easily
fatigued.” (Wells, 35)
These people are only able to concentrate on certain things for short spans of time, because of
the lack of need, wonder, discovery and imagination is gone. This has happened in cause of the
technology of the time doing everything for them, because there is no need for any of these
reactions, the Eloi do not bother to use them.This behaviour continues to show as the story
develops, these humans have no worries of finding a mate to create offspring and reproduce,
everything is perfectly controlled and in turn lose the emotion of affection, and attachment
towards anyone else. "It happened that as I was watching some of the little people bathing in a
shallow, one of them was seized with a cramp, and began drifting downstream. The main current
ran rather swiftly, but not too strongly for even a moderate swimmer. It will give you an idea,
therefore, of the strange deficiency in these creatures, when I tell you that none made the
slightest attempt to rescue the weakly crying little thing which was drowning before their
eyes.”(Wells, 56)
As the world is perfectly controlled, leaving no need to find someone, for a life mate, nor have
anyone to be raised by, leaves no reason for the maternal instinct to develop. If this does not
develop, one cannot become emotionally attached to anything, this is the reason for the little
Weena to be left on her own to fend for herself.
If a life is already planned out and is in a perfectly controlled environment, would there be a
point in making life more difficult than it has to be, by forming complicated languages when it
will not be used to its fullest? The Eloi use a language made of very simple terms and phrases
making it very easy to catch onto once they have given you enough time to be taught it. This
lack of communication in the upper world, does not differ very much from the one of the
underworld with the Morlocks behaviour. The Eloi are not the only ones to have lost their
personal skills, the Morlocks have also changes over the years, by being separated from the
outside world, and there is no need for as much interaction. As the time traveler starts to learn
the upperlanders language, he realizes that it is very simple, not containing structured
sentences, being very easy, much like a caveman might speak.
Over the years as less is needed, the language of the humans has become simpler, consisting of
short sentences and simple grammar, The time traveler discovers this as he spends more time
in the future:"I made what progress I could in the language, and, in addition, I pushed my
explorations here and there. Either I missed some subtle point, or their language was
excessively simple-almost exclusively composed of concrete substantives and verbs. There
seemed to be a few, if any, abstract terms, or little use of figurative language. Their sentences
were usually simple and two words, and I failed to convey or understand any but the simplest
proportions." (Wells, 51)
A complicated language is now of no use to these people, having everything at the tips of their
hands ready for them to use, only simple requests are needed.
As the Morlocks have lived in complete darkness for hundreds of years, they have become a
very aggressive species, not used to other contact form the above world, nor anything else; they
have lost all modern human social skills."I stood in the dark, a hand touched mine, lank fingers
came feeling over my face, and I was sensible of a peculiar unpleasant odour. I fancied I heard
the breathing of a crowd of those dreadful little beings about me. I felt the box of matches in my
hand being gently disengaged, and the other hands behind me plucking at my clothing. The
sense of these unseen creatures examining me was indescribably unpleasant." (Wells, 63)
These actions demonstrate how the complete darkness has affected this species. As they are not
able to see much they must use their other scenes to get a feel of their surroundings. As because
of this, they have lost the perception of personal space, and consideration for others around
them, very similar to the Eloi from above.
All these new ways of living, has turned back the time on the species behaviour. Being forced
underground, the new found innocence of the upper world, and the incredible advance in
technology has been a great factor upon this. Now the human race has inherited many or the
characteristics as ancestors from when the world started, as well as many animals such like the
dinosaurs.
The Morlocks have been the ones to serve the Eloi over the years, their technically inclined
skills have brought them underground to take care of the sewage, electricity, ventilation etc.
After being stuck underground for so many years, their lack of social skills have renewed their
fun of killing animals for fun, as men started to do as time first begun. "The upper world people
might once have been the favoured aristocracy, and the Morlocks their mechanical servants; but
that had long since passed away. The two species that had resulted from the evolution of man
were sliding down towards, or had already arrived at, an altogether new relationship. The Eloi,
like the Carolingian kings, had decayed to a mere beautiful futility. They still possessed the earth
on the sufferance, since the Morlocks, subterranean for innumerable generations, had come at
last to find the day lit surface intolerable. And the Morlocks made their garments, I inferred, and
maintained them in their habitual needs, perhaps through the survival of an old habit of service.
They did as a standing horse paws with his foot, or as a man enjoys killing animals in sport,
because ancient and departed necessities had impressed it on the organism."(Wells, 77)
The Morlocks have been imbedded with the idea that having to make everything for the Eloi
with return for nothing is a normal part of life, but with being forced into the ground at all times
to do so, they must find a way to eat. Over the years this has lead to the feasting of their same
race. The Eloi end up paying for the work they get done for them.
The Morlocks characteristics continue to resemble the ones of our ancestors further back
in time, as there is a lack of food underground increases; these people have resorted to eating
their own species as a way to survive. This resembles many of the tribes around our modern
world that have practiced cannibalism; eating their own species as tradition or way of life.
"The place, by the by, was very stuffy and oppressive, and the faint halatus of freshly-shed
blood was in the air. Some way down the central vista was a little table of white metal, laid with
what seemed a meal. The Morlocks at any rate were carnivorous!" (Wells, 72)
The Eloi pay the price for having everything given to them, as a way to pay, the Morlocks will
take them for meat. Eating to stay alive, and as a way to repay them for forcing them
underground all these years. This way of live has made the Morlocks resort to how animals from
the past have eaten their own kind. A perfect example of this would be the dinosaurs, although
they were all dinosaurs, there were many species of them, and they would feed upon each other.
With the great change in technology, and its effect on the evolution of the human kind, as a result
has caused a great change in the behaviour and mind set of humans. As all the technology has
developed over the many years, it has been able to assist and do things for the humans in many
ways. After years and years of everything being done for them, they have lost their will power to
do things on their own, their language has become simpler, in a form much shorter and easier to
speak in the lack of need to have an intricate conversation. The accessibility to this vast amount
of technology, in a perfectly controlled environment causes the brain to be used less, which as
evolution continued, the humans adapted to their lifestyle, turning back their minds to have
many characteristics of our earths ancestors.
Wells, H.G.. The Time Machine. 2002. New York: Scholastic inc., 1895.
(Burgess Introduction)
Friday, October 10, 2008
Essay outline!
So here is the main idea of what i am going to be writing for my isu outline, i have a feeling some of my quotes are going to change though. :D
"The Time Machine" ISU Essay Outline
Thesis: As technology advances throughout time, it is not necessarily an aid to the human kind, but brings a disadvantage onto the human race. Having everything done for us and making life too easy creates no will power and creativity like the world of today, making the human race lazy, eventually reversing the effects of evaluation, returning our old ancestors characteristics.
Reason: As the technology advances, having everything given to the humans, turns their lifestyle and personality into non-caring, lazy, and short attention spanned race.
Example: As the Time Traveler arrives to the future, the Eloi ( upper world humans) rush him into a large dining room for a feast. As they feast upon fruit, The Time Traveler must learn the language of the people. As he starts to learn, the Eloi’s attention span shortens, and he can only learn in short spans of time.
" At first my efforts met with a stare of surprise or inextinguishable laughter, but presently a fair-haired little creature seemed to grasp my intention an repeated a name. They had to chatter and explain the business at great length to each other, and my first attempts to make the exquisite little sounds of their language caused an immense amount of amusement. However, I felt like a schoolmaster amidst children, and persisted, and presently I had a score of noun substantives at least at my command; and then I got to demonstrative pronouns, and even the verb " to eat." But it was slow work, and the little people soon tired and wanted to get away from my interrogations, so I determined, rather of necessity, to let them give their lessons in little doses when they felt inclined. And very little doses I found they were before long, for I never met people more indolent or more easily fatigued."
Example: Weena (an Eloi from the future) while bathing in a creek starts to drown, none of the others try and help her or pay any attention to her cries of help. The style of life that they have learnt to follow does not concern others, and have no attachment to others.
"It happened that as I was watching some of the little people bathing in a shallow, one of them was seized with a cramp, and began drifting downstream. The main current ran rather swiftly, but not too strongly for even a moderate swimmer. It will give you an idea, therefore, of the strange deficiency in these creatures, when I tell you that none made the slightest attempt to rescue the weakly crying little thing which was drowning before their eyes. When I realized this, I hurriedly slipped off my clothes, and wading in at a point lower down, I caught the mite and drew her safe to land.’
Reason: If everything is given to you and done already, is there a point in learning a more difficult language, or have to interact with as many people. Because everything is already done for them, they do not find the need for personal skills.
Example: As the time traveler starts to learn the upper landers language, he realizes that it is ver simple, not containing structured sentences, being very easy, much like a caveman might speak.
"I made what progress I could in the language, and, in addition, I pushed my explorations here and there. Either I missed some subtle point, or their language was excessively simple-almost exclusively composed of concrete substantives and verbs. There seemed to be a few, if any, abstract terms, or little use of figurative language. Their sentences were usually simple and two words, and I failed to convey or understand any but the simplest proportions."
Example: As the Morlocks have lived in complete darkness for hundreds of years, they have become a very aggressive species, not used to other contact, form the above world, nor anything else, they have lost all original human social skills.
"I stood in the dark, a hand touched mine, lank fingers came feeling over my face, and I was sensible of a peculiar unpleasant odour. I fancied I heard the breathing of a crowd of those dreadful little beings about me. I felt the box of matches in my hand being gently disengaged, and the other hands behind me plucking at my clothing. The sense of these unseen creatures examining me was indescribably unpleasant."
Reason : All these new ways of living, being forced underground, the new found innocence of the upper world, has turned back the time on the species behavior. Now the human race has inherited many or the characteristics as ancestors from when the world started, as well as animals such like the dinosaurs.
Example: The Morlocks ( from underground) have become servants for the eloi, making them everything, only because of their lack of socialization they have renewed their fun of killing animals for fun just like men used to.
"The upper world people might once have been the favored aristocracy, and the morlocks their mechanical servants; but that had long since passed away. The two species that had resulted from the evolution of man were sliding down towards, or had already arrived at, an altogether new relationship. The Eloi, like the Carlovingian kings, had decayed to a mere beautiful futility. They still possessed the earth on the sufferance, since the Morlocks, subterranean for innumerable generations, had come at last to find the daylit surface intolerable. And the Morlocks made their garments, I inferred, and maintained them in their habitual needs, perhaps through the survival of an old habit of service. They did as a standing horse paws with his foot, or as a man enjoys killing animals in sport, because ancient and departed necessities had impressed it on the organism."
Reason: The Morlocks eat their own species like dinosaurs ate different dinosaurs, these Morlocks eat a different type of human.
"The place, by the by, was very stuffy and oppressive, and the faint halatus of freshly-shed blood was in the air. Some way down the central vista was a little table of white metal, laid with what seemed a meal. The morlocks at any rate were carnivorous!"
"The Time Machine" ISU Essay Outline
Thesis: As technology advances throughout time, it is not necessarily an aid to the human kind, but brings a disadvantage onto the human race. Having everything done for us and making life too easy creates no will power and creativity like the world of today, making the human race lazy, eventually reversing the effects of evaluation, returning our old ancestors characteristics.
Reason: As the technology advances, having everything given to the humans, turns their lifestyle and personality into non-caring, lazy, and short attention spanned race.
Example: As the Time Traveler arrives to the future, the Eloi ( upper world humans) rush him into a large dining room for a feast. As they feast upon fruit, The Time Traveler must learn the language of the people. As he starts to learn, the Eloi’s attention span shortens, and he can only learn in short spans of time.
" At first my efforts met with a stare of surprise or inextinguishable laughter, but presently a fair-haired little creature seemed to grasp my intention an repeated a name. They had to chatter and explain the business at great length to each other, and my first attempts to make the exquisite little sounds of their language caused an immense amount of amusement. However, I felt like a schoolmaster amidst children, and persisted, and presently I had a score of noun substantives at least at my command; and then I got to demonstrative pronouns, and even the verb " to eat." But it was slow work, and the little people soon tired and wanted to get away from my interrogations, so I determined, rather of necessity, to let them give their lessons in little doses when they felt inclined. And very little doses I found they were before long, for I never met people more indolent or more easily fatigued."
Example: Weena (an Eloi from the future) while bathing in a creek starts to drown, none of the others try and help her or pay any attention to her cries of help. The style of life that they have learnt to follow does not concern others, and have no attachment to others.
"It happened that as I was watching some of the little people bathing in a shallow, one of them was seized with a cramp, and began drifting downstream. The main current ran rather swiftly, but not too strongly for even a moderate swimmer. It will give you an idea, therefore, of the strange deficiency in these creatures, when I tell you that none made the slightest attempt to rescue the weakly crying little thing which was drowning before their eyes. When I realized this, I hurriedly slipped off my clothes, and wading in at a point lower down, I caught the mite and drew her safe to land.’
Reason: If everything is given to you and done already, is there a point in learning a more difficult language, or have to interact with as many people. Because everything is already done for them, they do not find the need for personal skills.
Example: As the time traveler starts to learn the upper landers language, he realizes that it is ver simple, not containing structured sentences, being very easy, much like a caveman might speak.
"I made what progress I could in the language, and, in addition, I pushed my explorations here and there. Either I missed some subtle point, or their language was excessively simple-almost exclusively composed of concrete substantives and verbs. There seemed to be a few, if any, abstract terms, or little use of figurative language. Their sentences were usually simple and two words, and I failed to convey or understand any but the simplest proportions."
Example: As the Morlocks have lived in complete darkness for hundreds of years, they have become a very aggressive species, not used to other contact, form the above world, nor anything else, they have lost all original human social skills.
"I stood in the dark, a hand touched mine, lank fingers came feeling over my face, and I was sensible of a peculiar unpleasant odour. I fancied I heard the breathing of a crowd of those dreadful little beings about me. I felt the box of matches in my hand being gently disengaged, and the other hands behind me plucking at my clothing. The sense of these unseen creatures examining me was indescribably unpleasant."
Reason : All these new ways of living, being forced underground, the new found innocence of the upper world, has turned back the time on the species behavior. Now the human race has inherited many or the characteristics as ancestors from when the world started, as well as animals such like the dinosaurs.
Example: The Morlocks ( from underground) have become servants for the eloi, making them everything, only because of their lack of socialization they have renewed their fun of killing animals for fun just like men used to.
"The upper world people might once have been the favored aristocracy, and the morlocks their mechanical servants; but that had long since passed away. The two species that had resulted from the evolution of man were sliding down towards, or had already arrived at, an altogether new relationship. The Eloi, like the Carlovingian kings, had decayed to a mere beautiful futility. They still possessed the earth on the sufferance, since the Morlocks, subterranean for innumerable generations, had come at last to find the daylit surface intolerable. And the Morlocks made their garments, I inferred, and maintained them in their habitual needs, perhaps through the survival of an old habit of service. They did as a standing horse paws with his foot, or as a man enjoys killing animals in sport, because ancient and departed necessities had impressed it on the organism."
Reason: The Morlocks eat their own species like dinosaurs ate different dinosaurs, these Morlocks eat a different type of human.
"The place, by the by, was very stuffy and oppressive, and the faint halatus of freshly-shed blood was in the air. Some way down the central vista was a little table of white metal, laid with what seemed a meal. The morlocks at any rate were carnivorous!"
Monday, October 6, 2008
Essay #1 Thesis
After finally finishing the time machine ( not that it was a very long book) i found many similarities between the people of the future. For my essay i will use a cpmparisson of the people of the future, and how it relates to the people of today. How the future of technolog can in turn bring us back, reverse the effects of evolution, and back to how human life began. ..... so thats kinda what i had in mind, hopefull it works out!
Thursday, September 11, 2008
How are my essay books and projects comming along you ask?
So i figured that i should update my blog with whats going on in my gr twelve english world. so the criticism project is going pretty good, have the main ideas of our topic and weve seporated out the work evenly within the group. Today we finished our lesson plan, planning it in order from beginning to end of class labeling names for differnt time periods. So thats goin' good hopefully it will stay like that! :) Essay books on the other hand are becoming a pain in the rear! the library at school didnt have either of my books and the rockland ligrary is closed till mid october :S and are no where to be found in any ottawa book stores so mail shipping here i come. Hpeed reader ooo yeah! lol hmm so thats about it, ill end this there. :)
Sunday, September 7, 2008
Accountability Agreement
Accountability Agreement
Focus: What do you want to accomplish in this class or during this year?
1. I would like to be able to write in different styles and manners, to be able to choose from a variety of ways.
2. I would like to keep my average at an 80% or higher.
3. I would like to have a greater appreciation for different styles of writing, particularly poetry.
Contributions: What contributions will you make to this class or to the school this year?
1. I would like to be active in class discussion and contribute my thoughts on different topics.
2. I will try to help others if they are having trouble and i know the answer.
3. I will be on time/ punctual for class and assignment dates.
Accountabilities: For what will you be held responsible?
1. I will be accountable for my work to be handed in on time.
2. I will complete my work with clarity and understanding of the topic.
3. I will make sure to update my blog regularly.
4. I will be accountable for being in class everyday and on time, catching up on work if i am away.
Supports: What help, and from whom, will you need in order to achieve your accountabilities?
1. I will need support from Mr. Paul Murry
2. Family
3. Sara VC
4. Cassy Osins
Measurements: How will you know what success looks like?
1. When I have made a goal for myself like above for an 80% average or more and i achieve that, I will know that I have succeeded.
2. When I get 4+ on assignments.
3. When I meet general goals that I set for myself.
4. When I know that I have tried my best and have done the most that I could to get the best mark that I could.
Consequences: How should you be rewarded if you succeed? How should you be punished?
1. A nice day of pampering I’m thinking J
2. (Consequence) get a bad mark on my assignment.
3. (Consequence) Get dibs on those nice shiny chairs in the quiet room of a detention.
4. I nice little comment on nice red pen on my paper (or after my blog) :P
Focus: What do you want to accomplish in this class or during this year?
1. I would like to be able to write in different styles and manners, to be able to choose from a variety of ways.
2. I would like to keep my average at an 80% or higher.
3. I would like to have a greater appreciation for different styles of writing, particularly poetry.
Contributions: What contributions will you make to this class or to the school this year?
1. I would like to be active in class discussion and contribute my thoughts on different topics.
2. I will try to help others if they are having trouble and i know the answer.
3. I will be on time/ punctual for class and assignment dates.
Accountabilities: For what will you be held responsible?
1. I will be accountable for my work to be handed in on time.
2. I will complete my work with clarity and understanding of the topic.
3. I will make sure to update my blog regularly.
4. I will be accountable for being in class everyday and on time, catching up on work if i am away.
Supports: What help, and from whom, will you need in order to achieve your accountabilities?
1. I will need support from Mr. Paul Murry
2. Family
3. Sara VC
4. Cassy Osins
Measurements: How will you know what success looks like?
1. When I have made a goal for myself like above for an 80% average or more and i achieve that, I will know that I have succeeded.
2. When I get 4+ on assignments.
3. When I meet general goals that I set for myself.
4. When I know that I have tried my best and have done the most that I could to get the best mark that I could.
Consequences: How should you be rewarded if you succeed? How should you be punished?
1. A nice day of pampering I’m thinking J
2. (Consequence) get a bad mark on my assignment.
3. (Consequence) Get dibs on those nice shiny chairs in the quiet room of a detention.
4. I nice little comment on nice red pen on my paper (or after my blog) :P
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