Thursday, October 16, 2014
Hamlet and Me
Most heroes are over dramatized and unrealistic, like a perfect form of what everyone in society wants to be. Most times it is hard to relate to characters because of this and I have never felt like a character was being described to mirror me in every way. The closest was in Catcher in the Rye because the protagonist was really reflective of most adolescent thinking for the time period it was written which was not to long ago. however Hamlet and I seem to be the same person, as I read his thoughts and actions I feel like i know exactly what he is going to do next because we are so similar. Now the hamlet I relate to is very different from the Hamlet I have seem dramatized. I haven't seen a Hamlet yet that reflects my thoughts on his character.
Vocab #6
abase - verb cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of
abdicate - verb give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations
abomination - noun an action that is vicious or vile; an action that arouses disgust or abhorrence; a person who is loathsome or disgusting; hate coupled with disgust
brusque - adj. marked by rude or peremptory shortness
saboteur - noun someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks; a member of a clandestine subversive organization who tries to help a potential invader
debauchery - noun a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity
proliferate - verb cause to grow or increase rapidly; grow rapidly
anachronism - noun an artifact that belongs to another time; a person who seems to be displaced in time; who belongs to another age; something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred
nomenclature - noun a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline
expurgate - verb edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate
bellicose - adj. having or showing a ready disposition to fight
gauche - adj. lacking social polish
rapacious - adj. excessively greedy and grasping; devouring or craving food in great quantities; living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
paradox - noun (logic) a statement that contradicts itself
conundrum - noun a difficult problem
anomaly - noun (astronomy) position of a planet as defined by its angular distance from its perihelion (as observed from the sun); a person who is unusual; deviation from the normal or common order or form or rule
ephemeral - adj. lasting a very short time; noun anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form
rancorous - adj. showing deep-seated resentment
churlish - adj. having a bad disposition; surly; rude and boorish
precipitous - adj. characterized by precipices; extremely steep;done with very great haste and without due deliberation
abdicate - verb give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations
abomination - noun an action that is vicious or vile; an action that arouses disgust or abhorrence; a person who is loathsome or disgusting; hate coupled with disgust
brusque - adj. marked by rude or peremptory shortness
saboteur - noun someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks; a member of a clandestine subversive organization who tries to help a potential invader
debauchery - noun a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity
proliferate - verb cause to grow or increase rapidly; grow rapidly
anachronism - noun an artifact that belongs to another time; a person who seems to be displaced in time; who belongs to another age; something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred
nomenclature - noun a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline
expurgate - verb edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate
bellicose - adj. having or showing a ready disposition to fight
gauche - adj. lacking social polish
rapacious - adj. excessively greedy and grasping; devouring or craving food in great quantities; living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
paradox - noun (logic) a statement that contradicts itself
conundrum - noun a difficult problem
anomaly - noun (astronomy) position of a planet as defined by its angular distance from its perihelion (as observed from the sun); a person who is unusual; deviation from the normal or common order or form or rule
ephemeral - adj. lasting a very short time; noun anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form
rancorous - adj. showing deep-seated resentment
churlish - adj. having a bad disposition; surly; rude and boorish
precipitous - adj. characterized by precipices; extremely steep;done with very great haste and without due deliberation
Monday, October 13, 2014
Unphotographical Moment
Rainy day and tired from practice. Not depressed but not really looking forward to the rest of my day. Just kind of wanted to crawl in bed and sleep. I turn around to inspiration.
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
The point of Canterbury Tales is...
Canterbury tales is a story that removes the veil of society to society, it shows the imperfections through the characterization, the themes of the stories, and the narrator's tone, by doing this Chaucer shed a new light on the people and said out loud what everybody else was thinking.
Vocab #5
shenanigans- noun mischief; prankishness
ricochet - noun a glancing rebound; verb spring back; spring away from an impactschism - noun division of a group into opposing factions; the formal separation of a church into two churches or the withdrawal of one group over doctrinal differenceseschew - verb avoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear ofplethora - noun extreme excessebullient - adj. joyously unrestrainedgarrulous - adj. full of trivial conversationharangue - noun a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion; verb deliver a harangue to; address forcefullyinterdependence - noun a reciprocal relation between interdependent entities (objects or individuals or groups)capricious - adj. determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason; changeableloquacious - adj. full of trivial conversationephemeral - adj. lasting a very short time; noun anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged forminchoate - adj. only partly in existence; imperfectly formedjuxtapose - verb place side by sideperspicacious - adj. acutely insightful and wise; mentally acute or penetratingly discerningcodswallop - noun nonsensical talk or writingmungo-noun a low-grade wool from felted rags or waste.sesquipedelian-adjective given to using long wordswonky - adj. inclined to shake as from weakness or defect; turned or twisted toward one sidediphthong - noun a vowel sound that starts near the articulatory position for one vowel and moves toward the position for another
ricochet - noun a glancing rebound; verb spring back; spring away from an impactschism - noun division of a group into opposing factions; the formal separation of a church into two churches or the withdrawal of one group over doctrinal differenceseschew - verb avoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear ofplethora - noun extreme excessebullient - adj. joyously unrestrainedgarrulous - adj. full of trivial conversationharangue - noun a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion; verb deliver a harangue to; address forcefullyinterdependence - noun a reciprocal relation between interdependent entities (objects or individuals or groups)capricious - adj. determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason; changeableloquacious - adj. full of trivial conversationephemeral - adj. lasting a very short time; noun anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged forminchoate - adj. only partly in existence; imperfectly formedjuxtapose - verb place side by sideperspicacious - adj. acutely insightful and wise; mentally acute or penetratingly discerningcodswallop - noun nonsensical talk or writingmungo-noun a low-grade wool from felted rags or waste.sesquipedelian-adjective given to using long wordswonky - adj. inclined to shake as from weakness or defect; turned or twisted toward one sidediphthong - noun a vowel sound that starts near the articulatory position for one vowel and moves toward the position for another
Canterbury Character study
As I sit and think I am left with the question, who am I? I ask other people and they all tell me things about myself I don't even know existed. who knows me better than me, and if I don't know myself then who does? the questions slap me in the face and leave me with a bruise that will not heal until I find the answer, and so my journey begins.
Where does one go to find themselves? I guess that question can only be answered by the person who asks it, so I went somewhere I am most at ease with myself. In other words I stood up and sat back down in the most quite place that I could find. This solitude allows me to think ;to be myself. I wonder thoughts that are so deep that it would have astounded Aristotle, then I think callow thoughts that make me laugh with myself. while others may go crazy in this quite solitude, I celebrate by dancing with myself. At the end of my adventure i forget everything that I thought about and remember I have a place to be.
The silence has left and I am left wondering were it went, instead it is filled by light. Light from people or a person. Elmo tells me something and I laugh, then I tell him something and he laughs. Everything in that moment feels like it was irrelevant, and my whole life is defined by my reasons for laughing.
Time doesn't pass while the lights are on and my anxiety begins to take control the laughter turn into fatigue and I wish for the time that I could return to the silence.
From the crowd I hear words that make me dream. They are inspiration, passion, and my reason for living, I am suddenly reeled in again. My heart feels like a tightrope walker over a pit. As it walks fireworks explode and excitement emerges however, my heart fears falling from the tight rope to see what the fireworks look like.
I am lost.
My journey felt as if though it was coming to an end when I hit a dead end. As I try and find my way I find a beast of darkness. I fear its presence and I try to convince myself that it would define me. Then I wonder if maybe the light is what is defining me. I don't want to be defined. I am alive, I am changing, I evolve, I grow, I believe, I achieve, I think. So I walk across the tightrope between dark and light choosing to not be defined by either, but to come up with my own definition.
As I make my way back to my path I realize that the answer had been with me all along. I am what I want to be, and I am always changing. Not even I can define myself. My journey ends and all that is left is the trail that shows who I really am.
Where does one go to find themselves? I guess that question can only be answered by the person who asks it, so I went somewhere I am most at ease with myself. In other words I stood up and sat back down in the most quite place that I could find. This solitude allows me to think ;to be myself. I wonder thoughts that are so deep that it would have astounded Aristotle, then I think callow thoughts that make me laugh with myself. while others may go crazy in this quite solitude, I celebrate by dancing with myself. At the end of my adventure i forget everything that I thought about and remember I have a place to be.
The silence has left and I am left wondering were it went, instead it is filled by light. Light from people or a person. Elmo tells me something and I laugh, then I tell him something and he laughs. Everything in that moment feels like it was irrelevant, and my whole life is defined by my reasons for laughing.
Time doesn't pass while the lights are on and my anxiety begins to take control the laughter turn into fatigue and I wish for the time that I could return to the silence.
From the crowd I hear words that make me dream. They are inspiration, passion, and my reason for living, I am suddenly reeled in again. My heart feels like a tightrope walker over a pit. As it walks fireworks explode and excitement emerges however, my heart fears falling from the tight rope to see what the fireworks look like.
I am lost.
My journey felt as if though it was coming to an end when I hit a dead end. As I try and find my way I find a beast of darkness. I fear its presence and I try to convince myself that it would define me. Then I wonder if maybe the light is what is defining me. I don't want to be defined. I am alive, I am changing, I evolve, I grow, I believe, I achieve, I think. So I walk across the tightrope between dark and light choosing to not be defined by either, but to come up with my own definition.
As I make my way back to my path I realize that the answer had been with me all along. I am what I want to be, and I am always changing. Not even I can define myself. My journey ends and all that is left is the trail that shows who I really am.
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