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Monday, January 24, 2011
Look Peter, the sky... What a lovely day...
http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Anne_Frank.aspx
This is a link to a site that basically gives the biography of Anne Frank. I haven't checked, but I would put money on the idea that a ton of people have used Anne Frank for this blog, all probably saying something along the lines of, "She was so inspirational. To suffer like that and remain so optimistic the whole time. It's admirable." and they're not wrong. And I'm not tying to say that they are, but I chose an article on Anne Frank for a different reason. I've admired her for a long time. Ever since I saw Clovis High's production of "The Diary of Anne Frank" in 7th grade, I've been completely enthralled with her story. Just last year we were required to choose a contemporary monologue for my Advanced Drama class; I chose one of Anne's from the play. It was such and inspiration to do some research on her, and learn more than what I knew off the top of my head and dig deeper into her story. Not only do I admire her optimism, but also her complete sense of being self-aware, and aware of the people around her. For typical teenagers, especially in unsavory situations, that's a very difficult thing to do. We become self centered and unempathetic to those around us. Also her ability to articulate how she felt and the struggles she went through, inwardly and otherwise, is remarkable. Personally, I find it very hard to articulate exactly how I feel and why, usually because I have this narrow view of the world around me, and cannot see what may be truly affecting me, unlike Anne. Her story of success in hope, and living for it, like that of Art's father's(whose name escapes me at the moment) encourage the rest of us to try and do the same. To suffer and struggle with our day to day hardships, and live for the future, and to not only for a better world, but make OUR world a better one, one person at a time.
This is a link to a site that basically gives the biography of Anne Frank. I haven't checked, but I would put money on the idea that a ton of people have used Anne Frank for this blog, all probably saying something along the lines of, "She was so inspirational. To suffer like that and remain so optimistic the whole time. It's admirable." and they're not wrong. And I'm not tying to say that they are, but I chose an article on Anne Frank for a different reason. I've admired her for a long time. Ever since I saw Clovis High's production of "The Diary of Anne Frank" in 7th grade, I've been completely enthralled with her story. Just last year we were required to choose a contemporary monologue for my Advanced Drama class; I chose one of Anne's from the play. It was such and inspiration to do some research on her, and learn more than what I knew off the top of my head and dig deeper into her story. Not only do I admire her optimism, but also her complete sense of being self-aware, and aware of the people around her. For typical teenagers, especially in unsavory situations, that's a very difficult thing to do. We become self centered and unempathetic to those around us. Also her ability to articulate how she felt and the struggles she went through, inwardly and otherwise, is remarkable. Personally, I find it very hard to articulate exactly how I feel and why, usually because I have this narrow view of the world around me, and cannot see what may be truly affecting me, unlike Anne. Her story of success in hope, and living for it, like that of Art's father's(whose name escapes me at the moment) encourage the rest of us to try and do the same. To suffer and struggle with our day to day hardships, and live for the future, and to not only for a better world, but make OUR world a better one, one person at a time.
Monday, September 13, 2010
The ship were no stronger than a nutshell and as leaky as an unstanched wench.
During Act I, Scene ii of William Shakespeare's The Tempest, we initially meet Prospero and his daughter Miranda. Prospero is immediately identified as manipulative through his words and dictation that he chooses to use around certain people. He tells Miranda after she confides in him she is upset by the storm the ship has been through to, "Have comfort. The direful spectacle of the wrack, which touched the very virtue of compassion in thee, I have with such provision in mine art so safely ordered that there is no soul— No, not so much perdition as an hair betid to any creature in the vessel—Which thou heard’st cry, which thou sawst sink." Here Prospero admits to contriving the lie of the storm through his words, to his daughter. He is sympathetic out of preotection and fatherly love to Miranda, yet when he speaks to Ariel after she asks him about taking a year off her sentence, he becomes angry and calls her names. She is in his service as a slave, so when she asks for compassion and an early release he yells at her reminding her of the condition she was in when he saved her, saying, she had "...Groans of ever angry bears. It was a torment did make wolves howl and penetrate the breasts to lay upon the damned, which Sycorax could not again undo. It was mine art, when I arrived and heard thee, that made gape the pine and let thee out." He uses elaborate and descriptive language to manipulate how Ariel feels about him and her service with him, so she'll stop asking about the year he promised to her. Prospero is very conscious of the way he speaks and particular words he uses to reform the ways people think about him, and the situations surrounding him. He has such a way with words as to convince all that he knows all, and is the one person to have the utmost respect for.
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Various loveliness.
This is what I did this weekend. I went to my friend's brithday party, and ran around barefoot for the better part of an hour. The theme was The Amazing Race, and as you can see, we were the Orange team. And we had Sean on our team... for those of you who know Sean.... yeah. His expression sums it all up. In the end though, we came in third. Go Orange team!
This is just here for the heck of it. And it makes me laugh everytime I see it, and I felt the need to share that joy with the world. For those of you totally not cool kids, this was backstage during last year's musical, Anything Goes.
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