Sunday, November 23, 2008
BEst of Week: Lear vs Edgar
WHen Lear encountered Edgar in the forest, Edgar was disguised as poor Tom, and acted like a crazy beggar. In response, Lear showed Tom comfort and appeared to be the more sane and stable figure in the scene. However, in scenes with other characters (not in disguise) Lear seemed like a mad old man. What was the significance? TomEdgar showed the extreme of insanity, but he was not actually crazy, and in the scene with LEar, he showed foreshadowing of what Lear could become, but when Lear took him under his wing, it showed that he hadn't yet completely lost it, but there was still much more left for LEar to suffer.
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Connection: King LEar's Family and Food
-inspired by the depressingly empty kitchen in my house-
KING LEAR is a tall glass of milk. Healthy, delicious, strengthening. But it takes a loooooong time for the whole glass to be drunk, and eventually the milk goes bad, it looks awful, tastes awful, and would give you an upset stomach. But let's say your mother told you to drink the whole glass and you have to put up with it anyways. Just like King Lear, even though everyone knew he was no longer an effective leader, was still being tolerated by his court.
Regan and Goneril are Twinkies. All sweet fluffy and golden on the outside. And filled with delightful sugary cream on the inside.. or at least that's what you think... Then someone tells you that the nice whipped cream, the love for their father that fills them up, is actually animal fat, nasty... makes you feel good at first... but it's really just perniciously filling up your arteries bite after bite until the twinkie takes you down.. and all you see is the pretty Hostess sign... Buy more delicious Twinkies!
Cordelia is a healthy onion with a really pretty-colored peel. At first, King Lear sees her standing out and thinks of her as his favorite. Then he asks her, "how much do you love me?" He peels a layer off the onion to discover more. And Cordelia the onion is real and true to him but still angers him greatly... like a natural healthy onion makes you cry. As much as you hate having to know the real tear-jerking onion, she's actually really good for you... but you have to digest what she said.
KING LEAR is a tall glass of milk. Healthy, delicious, strengthening. But it takes a loooooong time for the whole glass to be drunk, and eventually the milk goes bad, it looks awful, tastes awful, and would give you an upset stomach. But let's say your mother told you to drink the whole glass and you have to put up with it anyways. Just like King Lear, even though everyone knew he was no longer an effective leader, was still being tolerated by his court.
Regan and Goneril are Twinkies. All sweet fluffy and golden on the outside. And filled with delightful sugary cream on the inside.. or at least that's what you think... Then someone tells you that the nice whipped cream, the love for their father that fills them up, is actually animal fat, nasty... makes you feel good at first... but it's really just perniciously filling up your arteries bite after bite until the twinkie takes you down.. and all you see is the pretty Hostess sign... Buy more delicious Twinkies!
Cordelia is a healthy onion with a really pretty-colored peel. At first, King Lear sees her standing out and thinks of her as his favorite. Then he asks her, "how much do you love me?" He peels a layer off the onion to discover more. And Cordelia the onion is real and true to him but still angers him greatly... like a natural healthy onion makes you cry. As much as you hate having to know the real tear-jerking onion, she's actually really good for you... but you have to digest what she said.
Sunday, November 2, 2008
TED PRESENTATIONS... dun dun dunnn
Well, my group's (El Sistema: Changing Lives Through Music) presentation went pretty well. We got all our points across, no one talked like a computer, AND we finished RIGHT on time... :) !! I may be a little biased, but I think my group presented the best. So I don't have a lot to say about the final day about TED besides that... and "thank God it's over."
However, you'll hear a lot more about the preparation process right now... I always tend to leave stuff till the last minute (I work well under pressure), but it seemed like no one else in my group really did. Communication was not great. It was too new and foreign to use the google sites discussion board easily. To me, nothing beats talking face-to-face, and we only got to do that once before presentation day. We needed more times to meet with our whole group in class.
Also, to keep people from managing time poorly, a timeline/deadlines should have given this product more structure, because we really only had the intro to the project, ambiguous "TED work time" to do who-knows-what, and P-day. If we had concrete deadlines within the project, such as "Turn in a bibliography of the sources you tentatively will have used by the time TED is over" or "Have at least one task finished by (date)," I probably would have taken this project wayyy more seriously than i did.
Also, as awesome as the freshies in MY group were, it seemed as though the other groups' missed the point, so cutting out the two freshmen in each group (and having them watch the presentations to know what they'd be doing next year) would probably help. PLUS, with two fewer people, it's easier to work in a little group.
Clearly, TED isn't the best-planned-out project that's been done in academy, and it really is sorta annoying to be the guinea pig group, but it definitely has potential, with change. In otherwords, I REFUSE to go through that exact same thing again! :)
However, you'll hear a lot more about the preparation process right now... I always tend to leave stuff till the last minute (I work well under pressure), but it seemed like no one else in my group really did. Communication was not great. It was too new and foreign to use the google sites discussion board easily. To me, nothing beats talking face-to-face, and we only got to do that once before presentation day. We needed more times to meet with our whole group in class.
Also, to keep people from managing time poorly, a timeline/deadlines should have given this product more structure, because we really only had the intro to the project, ambiguous "TED work time" to do who-knows-what, and P-day. If we had concrete deadlines within the project, such as "Turn in a bibliography of the sources you tentatively will have used by the time TED is over" or "Have at least one task finished by (date)," I probably would have taken this project wayyy more seriously than i did.
Also, as awesome as the freshies in MY group were, it seemed as though the other groups' missed the point, so cutting out the two freshmen in each group (and having them watch the presentations to know what they'd be doing next year) would probably help. PLUS, with two fewer people, it's easier to work in a little group.
Clearly, TED isn't the best-planned-out project that's been done in academy, and it really is sorta annoying to be the guinea pig group, but it definitely has potential, with change. In otherwords, I REFUSE to go through that exact same thing again! :)
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