Headlines
1) Air Canada except more delays and lost baggage than usual because of strike
2) Healthy man on welfare complain about foreigners taking all our jobs
3) MUN students need more health coverage, but MUN buys Battery Hotel?
4) Population of Newfoundlanders in Fort Mac. is larger than population for Newfoundlanders in Newfoundland
5) People of St. John's think Stephan Harper couldn't stink worse if he fell in the harbour
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Exam Questions
Question about poetry:
Define concrete poetry. In the poem Landscape by bp Nichol, discuss how the form of this concrete poem is also its content.
Concrete poetry- Poetry in which the meaning or effect is conveyed partly or wholly by visual means, using patterns of words or letters or other symbols.
The poem Landscape the form of the poem is also its content because the speaker writes, "along the horizon grew an unbroken line of trees. but the way it was written with no spaces between the words and with a line under the whole sentence. This is suppose to be giving the reader a visual effect. The line is suppose to be the horizon, and the words are suppose to be an unbroken line of trees.
Question about short story:
In the story Boys and Girls, the narrator tries to escape the gender role the other characters are trying to impose on her. Does she succeed or fail? Please Discuss.
The narrator tries to escape the gender role in the story Boys and Girls. She tries very hard, and for awhile I think that she was overcoming it, but in the end I think she ended up feeling like nothing she does is going to make difference that she don't want to be only thought of as a girl, but I think that just because she don't escape the way people think about her and in the end even the way she thinks of herself, she still doesn't stop doing the things that she loves to do.
Define concrete poetry. In the poem Landscape by bp Nichol, discuss how the form of this concrete poem is also its content.
Concrete poetry- Poetry in which the meaning or effect is conveyed partly or wholly by visual means, using patterns of words or letters or other symbols.
The poem Landscape the form of the poem is also its content because the speaker writes, "along the horizon grew an unbroken line of trees. but the way it was written with no spaces between the words and with a line under the whole sentence. This is suppose to be giving the reader a visual effect. The line is suppose to be the horizon, and the words are suppose to be an unbroken line of trees.
Question about short story:
In the story Boys and Girls, the narrator tries to escape the gender role the other characters are trying to impose on her. Does she succeed or fail? Please Discuss.
The narrator tries to escape the gender role in the story Boys and Girls. She tries very hard, and for awhile I think that she was overcoming it, but in the end I think she ended up feeling like nothing she does is going to make difference that she don't want to be only thought of as a girl, but I think that just because she don't escape the way people think about her and in the end even the way she thinks of herself, she still doesn't stop doing the things that she loves to do.
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
James Joyce's 'Araby' like his 'Eveline'"?
Similarities in the stories "Araby" and "Eveline"
The stories "Araby" and "Eveline" have a lot of similarities. Both stories are written by James Joyce and are set in Ireland. In both stories there is a dead priest who plays a small role.
In both stories the speakers seem to be in love or infatuated with someone. In the story "Eveline", Eveline is in love with, and wants to run away with Frank, and In the story "Araby" the speaker is in love with Mangan's sister. The speakers in both stories seem to be waiting for someone to take them away from their lives, to kind of rescue them from their lives.
Both the boy in "Araby" and Eveline seem like they both feel as if they are outsiders, but when the both get a chance to leave or change their lives in away neither of them takes he chance. When Eveline goes to leave with Frank, shev ends up breaking down and not leaving with him. She thinks about her love for her father and brother even though her father is abusive and she has had a lot of hardship, she still ends up saying home. The boy in Araby has second thoughts about buying Mangan's sister the gift he was going to buy her at the bazaar. In the end he breaks down as well and he does not buy her the gift.
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Essay Outline (Boys And Girls)
Essay Outline Boys And Girls
Paragraph One: Clearly state thesis statement
Paragraph Two: Two pieces of evidence to support the thesis/main point
Paragraph Three: Two pieces of evidence to support the thesis/main point
Paragraph Four: Two pieces of evidence to support thesis/main point
Paragraph Five: Restate thesis and conclude essay
A Detailed Outline
Paragraph One: Boys and Girls is a story about a girl who enjoys working outside with her father doing chores, but once she gets older, she realizes that her mother expects her to be inside doing housework with her, because she is a girl, and a girls place is in the house doing housework according to society. Woman are suppose to for-fill certain duties whether she wants to or not, souly because she is a woman.
Paragraph Two: boys and girls you can see how society thinks about mens roles and womens roles in the comment, "one time a feed salesman came down into the pens to talk to him and my father said, "like to have you meet my new hired man." I turned around and raked furiously, red in the face with pleasure. "could of fooled me," said the salesman. "I thought it was only a girl."" also in the comment, "It was an odd thin to see my mother down at the barn. She did not often come out of the house unless it was to do something-hang out the wash or dig potatoes in the garden. She looked out of place."
Paragraph Three: In boys and girls you can see how the characters feel about the the different roles woman and men have when the speaker writes, "I heard my mother saying,"Wait till Laird gets bigger, then you'll have a real help."" This implying that the work she is doing is not real help because she is a girl. also this is shown when the speaker writes,"And then I can use her more in the house, I just get my back turned and she runs off. It's not like I have a girl in the family at all."
Paragraph Four: In girls and boys the speaker writes, "I girl was not, as I supposed, simply what I was; it was what I had to become. It was a definition, always touched with emphasis, with reproach and disappointment. Also it was a joke on me."
Another comment, "Girls don't slam doors like that. Girls keep there knees together when they sit down. And worse still, when I asked some questions, "That's none of a girls business."
Paragraph Five: In Boys and Girls the little girl is starting to grow up and realize that she is starting to be treated differently because she is a girl. She is made to do house work with her mother, instead of working outside with her father which is what she enjoys. She is starting to see that people expect her to obtain her roles in the house doing house work as a woman. She does not feel that her place is in the house, even though that what her mother and grandmother thinks, and in the end, that seems to be what her father thinks as well.
Paragraph One: Clearly state thesis statement
Paragraph Two: Two pieces of evidence to support the thesis/main point
Paragraph Three: Two pieces of evidence to support the thesis/main point
Paragraph Four: Two pieces of evidence to support thesis/main point
Paragraph Five: Restate thesis and conclude essay
A Detailed Outline
Paragraph One: Boys and Girls is a story about a girl who enjoys working outside with her father doing chores, but once she gets older, she realizes that her mother expects her to be inside doing housework with her, because she is a girl, and a girls place is in the house doing housework according to society. Woman are suppose to for-fill certain duties whether she wants to or not, souly because she is a woman.
Paragraph Two: boys and girls you can see how society thinks about mens roles and womens roles in the comment, "one time a feed salesman came down into the pens to talk to him and my father said, "like to have you meet my new hired man." I turned around and raked furiously, red in the face with pleasure. "could of fooled me," said the salesman. "I thought it was only a girl."" also in the comment, "It was an odd thin to see my mother down at the barn. She did not often come out of the house unless it was to do something-hang out the wash or dig potatoes in the garden. She looked out of place."
Paragraph Three: In boys and girls you can see how the characters feel about the the different roles woman and men have when the speaker writes, "I heard my mother saying,"Wait till Laird gets bigger, then you'll have a real help."" This implying that the work she is doing is not real help because she is a girl. also this is shown when the speaker writes,"And then I can use her more in the house, I just get my back turned and she runs off. It's not like I have a girl in the family at all."
Paragraph Four: In girls and boys the speaker writes, "I girl was not, as I supposed, simply what I was; it was what I had to become. It was a definition, always touched with emphasis, with reproach and disappointment. Also it was a joke on me."
Another comment, "Girls don't slam doors like that. Girls keep there knees together when they sit down. And worse still, when I asked some questions, "That's none of a girls business."
Paragraph Five: In Boys and Girls the little girl is starting to grow up and realize that she is starting to be treated differently because she is a girl. She is made to do house work with her mother, instead of working outside with her father which is what she enjoys. She is starting to see that people expect her to obtain her roles in the house doing house work as a woman. She does not feel that her place is in the house, even though that what her mother and grandmother thinks, and in the end, that seems to be what her father thinks as well.
Monday, February 25, 2013
Review of The Walking Dead
The Walking Dead is a T.V series developed by Frank Darabont. It is based on the comic book series of the
same name by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore, and Charlie Adlard. It is a thriller/drama series. The Walking Dead is about a plague that spreads through the world and turns the majority of the world into zombies. Some survivors come together and try to stay alive. The main character is Rick Grimes whom is the sheriffs deputy in the series. When the series starts, Rick awakens from a coma to find the world dominated by flesh-eating walkers(which is what the characters call the zombies), he goes to look for his family and meets up many other survivors along the way. The Walking Dead is intended for a young adult audience. It certainly suits the intended audience. This series is a very well made thriller/drama show. It keeps you on your toes all the way through the whole series. You don't want to take your eyes off the screen as the characters try to survive the conditions they have been forced to deal with. They try to find a safe place where they won't be eaten by the walkers or killed by other people looking to steal their supplies. I think this series is a great series that was written pretty perfectly.
Fan Fiction (Where are you going, Where have you been?
Connie stood barefoot on the linoleum floor, staring at him. "What do you want?" She whispered. "I want you," he said. Your coming with me Connie.
Connie didn't know what to do or say, she just stood there scared and confused. She thought, "what am I going to do? I have to do something, I can't just go with him."
Finally she spoke: "Alright Arnold, I'll come with you, but first can I go pack a small bag of some clothes and things? Then I will leave with you piecefully."
OK, be a good girl and go get your things quickly, then come straight outside to me.
Connie went into her bedroom which was just down the hall from the kitchen where she just left. She picked up a bag and some clothes to make it look like she was packing just in case Arnold broke his promess and did come into the house. What Arnold did not know, is that Connie has a house phone in her bedroom as well. Connie picked up the phone which was covered in last nights laundry and called her Aunt Tillie's house where her family was having a barbecue.
Aunt Tillie answered the phone, "Hello."
"Aunt Tillie help me! Theres a man here trying to take me out of the house.
Please send dad and mom home and call the cops. Please help me, I'm at home and theres a man here, hes going to take me away and kill me. I don't know whats hes going to do to me please just help me."
Tillie did not even get a chance to speak before Connie hung up. Connie was hiding the phone back under her clothes when Arnold yelled, "Connie, you had better hurry up my dear, before I come in there.
Connie came out with her bag. She told Arnold that she wanted to go get changed since she was wearing her lounging clothes. "I never knew I was going out any where today'" she told Arnold.
Connie was trying to by some time. She was trying to wait till the cops got there so she wouldn't be taken away from her home.
Well Connie hurry up and get dressed, you can leave your bag here with me.
Connie went into the bathroom with a change of clothes. As she was changing she noticed that the bathroom window was just big enough that she would be able to fit out it. Maybe I could get out the window and hen hid in the woods in the backyard until the cops or my family got here, Connie thought to herself.
She opened the window quietly and started making her way out the window, when she got out the window she ran into the woods as fast as she could. She looked for somewhere to hide that she would still be able to see when the cops got to her house. She could hear Arnold yelling that he was going to find her. Finally Connie found a good hiding place, high in a tree, where she could see her house but where no one could she her.
Arnold was still looking for her. His gold jalopy was still in the driveway.
Connie was scared that he was going to find her but she had to stay strong, her parents would be here soon and everything will be ok.
Connie waited and waited, and finally she seen her parents and two cop cars pull into her driveway. Connie climbed down out of the tree and ran as fast as she could out of the woods. Arnold say her and ran after her. He didn't know that cops were in the driveway, so when Connie ran out of the woods with Arnold running after her, she ran right into her mothers arms. Arnold stopped in his tracks, looking surprised, he tried to turn around and run but the cops got him and arrested him, along with his friend who was being hauled out of the jalopy by another cop.
Arnold was charged and put in jail and Connie was reunited with her family.
She was never happier to be with her family. She realized how important her family really is.
Connie didn't know what to do or say, she just stood there scared and confused. She thought, "what am I going to do? I have to do something, I can't just go with him."
Finally she spoke: "Alright Arnold, I'll come with you, but first can I go pack a small bag of some clothes and things? Then I will leave with you piecefully."
OK, be a good girl and go get your things quickly, then come straight outside to me.
Connie went into her bedroom which was just down the hall from the kitchen where she just left. She picked up a bag and some clothes to make it look like she was packing just in case Arnold broke his promess and did come into the house. What Arnold did not know, is that Connie has a house phone in her bedroom as well. Connie picked up the phone which was covered in last nights laundry and called her Aunt Tillie's house where her family was having a barbecue.
Aunt Tillie answered the phone, "Hello."
"Aunt Tillie help me! Theres a man here trying to take me out of the house.
Please send dad and mom home and call the cops. Please help me, I'm at home and theres a man here, hes going to take me away and kill me. I don't know whats hes going to do to me please just help me."
Tillie did not even get a chance to speak before Connie hung up. Connie was hiding the phone back under her clothes when Arnold yelled, "Connie, you had better hurry up my dear, before I come in there.
Connie came out with her bag. She told Arnold that she wanted to go get changed since she was wearing her lounging clothes. "I never knew I was going out any where today'" she told Arnold.
Connie was trying to by some time. She was trying to wait till the cops got there so she wouldn't be taken away from her home.
Well Connie hurry up and get dressed, you can leave your bag here with me.
Connie went into the bathroom with a change of clothes. As she was changing she noticed that the bathroom window was just big enough that she would be able to fit out it. Maybe I could get out the window and hen hid in the woods in the backyard until the cops or my family got here, Connie thought to herself.
She opened the window quietly and started making her way out the window, when she got out the window she ran into the woods as fast as she could. She looked for somewhere to hide that she would still be able to see when the cops got to her house. She could hear Arnold yelling that he was going to find her. Finally Connie found a good hiding place, high in a tree, where she could see her house but where no one could she her.
Arnold was still looking for her. His gold jalopy was still in the driveway.
Connie was scared that he was going to find her but she had to stay strong, her parents would be here soon and everything will be ok.
Connie waited and waited, and finally she seen her parents and two cop cars pull into her driveway. Connie climbed down out of the tree and ran as fast as she could out of the woods. Arnold say her and ran after her. He didn't know that cops were in the driveway, so when Connie ran out of the woods with Arnold running after her, she ran right into her mothers arms. Arnold stopped in his tracks, looking surprised, he tried to turn around and run but the cops got him and arrested him, along with his friend who was being hauled out of the jalopy by another cop.
Arnold was charged and put in jail and Connie was reunited with her family.
She was never happier to be with her family. She realized how important her family really is.
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Plunderverse Sonnet 18
Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when alteration finds,
or bends with the remover to remove:
O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, through rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
But this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
Let true minds
Admit Love love
remove
s ever-fixed mark
That shaken;
star wander
s th e
fool
Within his
brief hours and weeks
of doom.
h e proved
no man ever loved.
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when alteration finds,
or bends with the remover to remove:
O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, through rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
But this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
Let true minds
Admit Love love
remove
s ever-fixed mark
That shaken;
star wander
s th e
fool
Within his
brief hours and weeks
of doom.
h e proved
no man ever loved.
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Cocaine To Cope
Cocaine To Cope
As I lie awake for hours,
I think about all the lies.
I think about things that happened
that make me want to die.
As I start to loose my memory more
and my mind gets more messed up.
I feel the cocaine hit my brain
I hear the ringer, feel the rush.
I know that half its my fault
with the amount of drugs I do
but when that needles in my vein
the pain stops coming through.
At least the drug is sometime
away from the memories of my passed,
because it haunts me everyday
and will till the very last.
I wish my head wasn't filled with anguish
all the fucking time
Makes me need to take that shot
and makes me want to die.
Someday it will be all over
and then I can just sleep.
My mind will shut up talking,
Once I'm buried six feet deep.
Cocaine To Cope is a twenty four line poem composed of six quatrains, each follows an abcb rhyme scheme. The rhyme scheme and the words of the poem give the poem a depressed and painful tone. The speaker is trying to mask her feelings and memories of painful things that happened in her passed, by using drugs while she waits for the day that she can sleep forever.
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
A couple paragraphs of an essay about tone
In the poem, "My Papa's Waltz" The boy has an ironic attitude toward his father which gives the poem an ironic tone. The speaker of the poem is a grown man looking back on his childhood as a boy with his father. The poem has an ironic tone because the speaker writes this poem that in one way seems like the boy and his father are romping around and dancing together, but when you read this poem closely, you can see how the language and the way some sentences are written are telling a different story, a story of a father who was rough or even violent with his boy when he was drunk.
In "My Papas Waltz", the speaker says, "But I hung on like death, such waltzing was not easy." I can not see a reason a boy should have to hold on like death for such activities as a waltz, Waltzing is usually fun and easy and there wouldn't be a reason to hang on like death. These statements are very ironic. Even the words in this poem are dark and ironic. For example, the words death and not easy. Theres nothing in this poem that gives an impression that the boy is happy or having a good time.
In "My Papas Waltz", the speaker says, "But I hung on like death, such waltzing was not easy." I can not see a reason a boy should have to hold on like death for such activities as a waltz, Waltzing is usually fun and easy and there wouldn't be a reason to hang on like death. These statements are very ironic. Even the words in this poem are dark and ironic. For example, the words death and not easy. Theres nothing in this poem that gives an impression that the boy is happy or having a good time.
Monday, January 21, 2013
F***ing Sonnets
Dad
Fathers day is such a special day
I'm so happy to share it with you
I'm so happy things worked out this way
I don't know what I'd do without you.
I know at times we had it rough
and you thought that i might be dead and gone
I'm sorry that I acted so damn tough
but things got better as our lives went on
I'm so glad you've been there for me Dad
Always there to give me the push I need
You picked me up when things were so so bad
and made my life a bit more easy
I can say that you were the best father
I'm sorry for not being the best daughter
I believe that the form did have an influence on the subject matter of the poem I wrote. I think that the form feels to me more serious. I tried to use poetic language, but I find it hard to write a poem with so many restrictions. I would have been able to use a lot more poetic language if I was writing free verse or other types of poems that are not so restricted. I find it hard to be able to say exactly what I need to say, or let the reader know exacly what I want them to know when a poem can only be 14 lines and so on.
Fathers day is such a special day
I'm so happy to share it with you
I'm so happy things worked out this way
I don't know what I'd do without you.
I know at times we had it rough
and you thought that i might be dead and gone
I'm sorry that I acted so damn tough
but things got better as our lives went on
I'm so glad you've been there for me Dad
Always there to give me the push I need
You picked me up when things were so so bad
and made my life a bit more easy
I can say that you were the best father
I'm sorry for not being the best daughter
I believe that the form did have an influence on the subject matter of the poem I wrote. I think that the form feels to me more serious. I tried to use poetic language, but I find it hard to write a poem with so many restrictions. I would have been able to use a lot more poetic language if I was writing free verse or other types of poems that are not so restricted. I find it hard to be able to say exactly what I need to say, or let the reader know exacly what I want them to know when a poem can only be 14 lines and so on.
Creative
1)Haiku
My Beauty
She is beautiful
Like the petals of a rose
The love of my life
2)Limerick
Sue
There was an old lady named Sue
Who decided to go to the zoo
She got a massive fright
from the monkey that night
and now she don't have a clue.
3) The form of my writing influcenced my content because when writing a haiku, the form has a more serious feel to it. The form of a limerick has a more sing song form, making it hard to write a serious limerick. Thats why most limericks are funny.
My Beauty
She is beautiful
Like the petals of a rose
The love of my life
2)Limerick
Sue
There was an old lady named Sue
Who decided to go to the zoo
She got a massive fright
from the monkey that night
and now she don't have a clue.
3) The form of my writing influcenced my content because when writing a haiku, the form has a more serious feel to it. The form of a limerick has a more sing song form, making it hard to write a serious limerick. Thats why most limericks are funny.
Monday, January 14, 2013
Critical Approaches For Interpreting Literature
English 1080 Jan
13/13
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