Mask Project Reflection
1.Socialization is how a society teaches people the values of there culture from the moment we are born. For example Depending on your culture you are thought weather you should greet somebody by giving them high five or kiss them on the cheek. Growing up as a kid my family was always moving around, before I turned seven I had lived in three different countries. This has been a positive for me because I do not feel as pressured to bend to the things that society tells us to comply to. Since I grow up this way I feel that I can be myself around others.
2.My essay is about how I have been socalised through the experence with my medical issuse that I had. On my mask I had to different symbols, for one of them I had a heart monitor, this was to symbolise the time that I have spent in and out of the hospital. The second symbol that I used was an eye, the top half was white and the bottom half was black. This was a representation of how even though the things that really suck are happening there is some good that can come out of it. The point of this project was to see how humans are affected by socialisation by studying human psychology and other resources.
3.The first steps that we took in writing our socialization essays was writing our four body paragraphs. We had to follow the TEA paragraph format. TEA stands for topic sentence, evidence, and analyses. The purpose of a topic sentence is to explain what the rest of the paragraph is going to be about. Evidence is used to back up the topic sentence, it could be a quote or an event that happened. Then you have to follow the evidence with analyses. Analyses is explaining how the evidence applies to you.
4.I am very happy with how my paper turned out in the end. I think that it was one of the best essays that I have written. one of the things that I am looking to improve upon is my presentation skills, so that way the presentations of learning will come easier for me.
1.Socialization is how a society teaches people the values of there culture from the moment we are born. For example Depending on your culture you are thought weather you should greet somebody by giving them high five or kiss them on the cheek. Growing up as a kid my family was always moving around, before I turned seven I had lived in three different countries. This has been a positive for me because I do not feel as pressured to bend to the things that society tells us to comply to. Since I grow up this way I feel that I can be myself around others.
2.My essay is about how I have been socalised through the experence with my medical issuse that I had. On my mask I had to different symbols, for one of them I had a heart monitor, this was to symbolise the time that I have spent in and out of the hospital. The second symbol that I used was an eye, the top half was white and the bottom half was black. This was a representation of how even though the things that really suck are happening there is some good that can come out of it. The point of this project was to see how humans are affected by socialisation by studying human psychology and other resources.
3.The first steps that we took in writing our socialization essays was writing our four body paragraphs. We had to follow the TEA paragraph format. TEA stands for topic sentence, evidence, and analyses. The purpose of a topic sentence is to explain what the rest of the paragraph is going to be about. Evidence is used to back up the topic sentence, it could be a quote or an event that happened. Then you have to follow the evidence with analyses. Analyses is explaining how the evidence applies to you.
4.I am very happy with how my paper turned out in the end. I think that it was one of the best essays that I have written. one of the things that I am looking to improve upon is my presentation skills, so that way the presentations of learning will come easier for me.
Mask Project Paper
Teddy Rodd
Humanities
Valium Vacation
“Henri, get down!” Henri was squirming from my Dad’s grasp as he went for another go, vaulting over the couch. After rescuing him from the Humane Society only hours before, he was overjoyed, tearing around the house at a million miles an hour, peeing on everything in sight. Much to my mother's dismay, we brought Henri the pug home with us. I sat on the floor with my eyes wide open. I had never seen so much energy and excitement coming from something so small. Because of my recent medical issues, my Dad had the idea of getting Henri to cheer me up. Throughout a two week period I was not able to keep any food down, and my system was slowly shutting down. Despite how sick I was feeling, I could do nothing but laugh when I was around him. I was like a sponge desperately soaking up all the joy that I could. Even though the upcoming doctor's appointment was looming over me, I forgot all the pain and worry for that moment as Henri spun in circles. I have been socialized positively from having cancer because it has brought me closer to other friends and family.
Socialization is how society treats you and what it teaches you about values of a society. (Socialization is how society influences the way someone acts, and the decisions they make through…) For example, it teaches you how people dress and act. The cycle of socialization states,“most of the messages we receive about who to be, whom to “look up to” and “look down on,” what rules to follow, what roles to play, what assumptions to make, what to believe, and what to think will probably reinforce or contradict what we have learned at home” (Harro, 18). We are always being socialized by people around us. All of them are telling us things we should and shouldn't do. When you are young, you learn things like, “it’s wrong to murder someone,” or, “you shouldn't steal from others.” You also learn different stereotypes, For example boys have to play sports, or African Americans are more likely to commit a crime. The social media enforces all of these stereotypes with movies, TV, and the press as well. The youtube video what would you do enforces these ideas when it shows how people react to someone stealing a bike. In this video they have a caucasian steal a bike and nobody does anything, but when a African American steals the bike, everyone starts to call the cops.(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0kV_b3IK9M). When they interviewed the man who called the cops on the African American he claimed that he had nothing against African Americans. This shows that even though we have nothing against African Americans we are influenced by our society that African Americans are more likely to commit a crime. After having an illness, people will never treat you the same. Even if you recover and you tell others that you feel fine, they will still think it is not as safe for you to do the things that you would do before you got sick. “Approximately four thousand people are diagnosed with Astrocytomas each year with people under the age of twenty”(http://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancerbasics/cancer-prevalence). I am part of a very small and unlucky subculture. Sometimes, when I would go sledding at my house my parents would be much more worried about me, than about my big brother. This event has socialized me both negatively and positively. It has been positive because my parents being worried lets me know that they love me. But it also socialised me negatively because I don’t like feeling limited by my illness.
Throughout these challenging years my teachers have socialized me positively by helping me get my work done. Ms. Heather was the one who helped me the most to get through middle school by tutoring me for my three years at Mountain Middle. She wasn't just my teacher, she was also someone who I could have a meaningful conversation with. We would be having a conversation about things that interest us, like animals and backpacking, while we we were doing math at the same time. Until I went to Mountain Middle I didn't think of teachers as friends but as a robots that would spout out information. I was socialized when I was a kid into thinking this. “Mountain Middle School’s structure and programming is adapted from the highly successful High Tech High model, which emphasizes project-based learning” (http://www.mountainmiddleschool.org/). But after just a few months at Mountain I would sit with my humanities teacher, Mr Todd, and we would have real conversations. I am still connected with him to this day.
My sister also socialized me positively because she helped me get back on my feet after my medical issues. Even though all these things have happened she still treats me as though I never had cancer which I really appreciate. When I would come back from chemotherapy, Allie wouldn't ask what it was like, or how I feel. Instead, she would ask,“ Hey Teddy, do you want to go see a movie?” Instead she would tell me what she learned at school or anything else that would make me uncomfortable. This was one of the things that really helped me recover. Some people treated me as though I should be extremely careful of certain things that I did before my illness, like skiing and sledding and other activities like that. Even though they had no negative intent, I still found it a little demoralizing. One of the benefits of this illness was that it brought me closer to my family, especially my sister.
Being born as a boy in this society, we are socialized with the idea that I was supposed to be tough and not cry when I feel pain. When I was in the hospital pain was all that existed. I would try to keep a straight face and ignore the pain, not wanting people to see me as weak or a coward. Even though we usually don’t realize it, we are being affected by this stereotype. Every culture has their own stereotypes they have created. Stereotypes are usually based off of race, gender, class, and religion. We make these stereotypes about people because as humans, we love to categorise different things. When I returned from the hospital I was worried that people would treat me with hostility and judgment, but instead the community of Durango treated me with kindness and understanding. There are many organizations that helped me by helping Childrens Hospital. The corporation that helped me the most was the courage classic. “Courage Classic fundraising supports Children’s Fund for Children’s Hospital Colorado. Children’s Fund gifts allow the hospital to quickly improve the care we offer to every child who walks through our doors.”(http://www.couragetours.com/site/pp.asp?c=9pLILSPuEcLWH&b=8862653). Because I go there periodically I have been able to see the positive changes that have occurred because of all the fundraising for children’s hospital.
To sum it all up, having cancer has socialised me positively by opening up all kinds of cool opportunities, like getting to go to a ski camp up in Aspen. As well as when I got to do the Courage Classic up at Copper Mountain to raise money for Children’s Hospital. Having cancer gave me the opportunity to encourage all the other kids in the hospital, this being something I never would have been able to do before. Despite having to go through this experience, I have been socialized positively from having cancer because it has brought me closer to other friends, family, and the local community of Durango, Colorado.Throughout this point in time I have soaked up both the good and the bad, but when I look back at it I see that my sponge is filled with joy.
Teddy Rodd
Humanities
Valium Vacation
“Henri, get down!” Henri was squirming from my Dad’s grasp as he went for another go, vaulting over the couch. After rescuing him from the Humane Society only hours before, he was overjoyed, tearing around the house at a million miles an hour, peeing on everything in sight. Much to my mother's dismay, we brought Henri the pug home with us. I sat on the floor with my eyes wide open. I had never seen so much energy and excitement coming from something so small. Because of my recent medical issues, my Dad had the idea of getting Henri to cheer me up. Throughout a two week period I was not able to keep any food down, and my system was slowly shutting down. Despite how sick I was feeling, I could do nothing but laugh when I was around him. I was like a sponge desperately soaking up all the joy that I could. Even though the upcoming doctor's appointment was looming over me, I forgot all the pain and worry for that moment as Henri spun in circles. I have been socialized positively from having cancer because it has brought me closer to other friends and family.
Socialization is how society treats you and what it teaches you about values of a society. (Socialization is how society influences the way someone acts, and the decisions they make through…) For example, it teaches you how people dress and act. The cycle of socialization states,“most of the messages we receive about who to be, whom to “look up to” and “look down on,” what rules to follow, what roles to play, what assumptions to make, what to believe, and what to think will probably reinforce or contradict what we have learned at home” (Harro, 18). We are always being socialized by people around us. All of them are telling us things we should and shouldn't do. When you are young, you learn things like, “it’s wrong to murder someone,” or, “you shouldn't steal from others.” You also learn different stereotypes, For example boys have to play sports, or African Americans are more likely to commit a crime. The social media enforces all of these stereotypes with movies, TV, and the press as well. The youtube video what would you do enforces these ideas when it shows how people react to someone stealing a bike. In this video they have a caucasian steal a bike and nobody does anything, but when a African American steals the bike, everyone starts to call the cops.(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0kV_b3IK9M). When they interviewed the man who called the cops on the African American he claimed that he had nothing against African Americans. This shows that even though we have nothing against African Americans we are influenced by our society that African Americans are more likely to commit a crime. After having an illness, people will never treat you the same. Even if you recover and you tell others that you feel fine, they will still think it is not as safe for you to do the things that you would do before you got sick. “Approximately four thousand people are diagnosed with Astrocytomas each year with people under the age of twenty”(http://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancerbasics/cancer-prevalence). I am part of a very small and unlucky subculture. Sometimes, when I would go sledding at my house my parents would be much more worried about me, than about my big brother. This event has socialized me both negatively and positively. It has been positive because my parents being worried lets me know that they love me. But it also socialised me negatively because I don’t like feeling limited by my illness.
Throughout these challenging years my teachers have socialized me positively by helping me get my work done. Ms. Heather was the one who helped me the most to get through middle school by tutoring me for my three years at Mountain Middle. She wasn't just my teacher, she was also someone who I could have a meaningful conversation with. We would be having a conversation about things that interest us, like animals and backpacking, while we we were doing math at the same time. Until I went to Mountain Middle I didn't think of teachers as friends but as a robots that would spout out information. I was socialized when I was a kid into thinking this. “Mountain Middle School’s structure and programming is adapted from the highly successful High Tech High model, which emphasizes project-based learning” (http://www.mountainmiddleschool.org/). But after just a few months at Mountain I would sit with my humanities teacher, Mr Todd, and we would have real conversations. I am still connected with him to this day.
My sister also socialized me positively because she helped me get back on my feet after my medical issues. Even though all these things have happened she still treats me as though I never had cancer which I really appreciate. When I would come back from chemotherapy, Allie wouldn't ask what it was like, or how I feel. Instead, she would ask,“ Hey Teddy, do you want to go see a movie?” Instead she would tell me what she learned at school or anything else that would make me uncomfortable. This was one of the things that really helped me recover. Some people treated me as though I should be extremely careful of certain things that I did before my illness, like skiing and sledding and other activities like that. Even though they had no negative intent, I still found it a little demoralizing. One of the benefits of this illness was that it brought me closer to my family, especially my sister.
Being born as a boy in this society, we are socialized with the idea that I was supposed to be tough and not cry when I feel pain. When I was in the hospital pain was all that existed. I would try to keep a straight face and ignore the pain, not wanting people to see me as weak or a coward. Even though we usually don’t realize it, we are being affected by this stereotype. Every culture has their own stereotypes they have created. Stereotypes are usually based off of race, gender, class, and religion. We make these stereotypes about people because as humans, we love to categorise different things. When I returned from the hospital I was worried that people would treat me with hostility and judgment, but instead the community of Durango treated me with kindness and understanding. There are many organizations that helped me by helping Childrens Hospital. The corporation that helped me the most was the courage classic. “Courage Classic fundraising supports Children’s Fund for Children’s Hospital Colorado. Children’s Fund gifts allow the hospital to quickly improve the care we offer to every child who walks through our doors.”(http://www.couragetours.com/site/pp.asp?c=9pLILSPuEcLWH&b=8862653). Because I go there periodically I have been able to see the positive changes that have occurred because of all the fundraising for children’s hospital.
To sum it all up, having cancer has socialised me positively by opening up all kinds of cool opportunities, like getting to go to a ski camp up in Aspen. As well as when I got to do the Courage Classic up at Copper Mountain to raise money for Children’s Hospital. Having cancer gave me the opportunity to encourage all the other kids in the hospital, this being something I never would have been able to do before. Despite having to go through this experience, I have been socialized positively from having cancer because it has brought me closer to other friends, family, and the local community of Durango, Colorado.Throughout this point in time I have soaked up both the good and the bad, but when I look back at it I see that my sponge is filled with joy.
Teddy Rodd
Artist Statement
The first symbol on my mask was a heart monitor, I did this symbol to so how I had been socialised through different health issues that I had experienced. I was positively socialised by mt medical issues because it brought me closer to friends and family. My second symbol that I used was two black and white eyes, this was supposed to symbolize how good things can come out of the bad things. Some of the painful things that I had to go through have socialised me positively, because it opened up a bunch of opportunities for me to help the other kids in the hospital by participating in fundraisers. Over all I have been socialised both positively and negatively.
Artist Statement
The first symbol on my mask was a heart monitor, I did this symbol to so how I had been socialised through different health issues that I had experienced. I was positively socialised by mt medical issues because it brought me closer to friends and family. My second symbol that I used was two black and white eyes, this was supposed to symbolize how good things can come out of the bad things. Some of the painful things that I had to go through have socialised me positively, because it opened up a bunch of opportunities for me to help the other kids in the hospital by participating in fundraisers. Over all I have been socialised both positively and negatively.
Brave New World:
"Our task in this project was to recreate a scene from the book Brave New World in a graphic novel form. Most students were paired into teams of authors and artists, though several worked alone and handled both aspects of the task. The authors wrote a paper analyzing one of the main characters in the novel and used noun-phrase apposites and concessive theses to make their arguments. Artists focused on key choices of moment, frame, image, word,and flow in creating a graphic novel about the chosen scene. Our exhibition featured both an art show of our graphic novels, and a seminar discussion about Brave New World."
Artist statement
My graphic novel takes place during the eighteenth and final chapter. John left the BNW society and went to a light house by the ocean so that he could live in peace and quiet. One day he was punishing himself by whacking himself repeatedly with his whip, when a reporter drove by and wrote a news story on what he saw. When the paper reached the public, people began to swarm to the lighthouse by the thousands. The volume rose and fell with the sounds of the helicopter rotors and people, chanting, “we want the whip, we want the whip.” In the distance John saw a lone helicopter approaching the lighthouse, drowning out the chanting of the mob. Out stepped Lenina, a nervous smile on her face uncertainty reaching towards him. In his anger he attacked her hitting her over and over again with his corded whip. That night after the crowd had cleared John hung himself in the arch of the light house later to be found by one of the first spectators to arrive at the lighthouse hoping to see the whipping stunt.
My graphic novel shows a good choice of frame in the scene where it does a close up shot of John’s face revealing how he feels. A good choice of moment that I had would be when he was whipping Lenina and it just kind of marks the pinnacle of the chapter. A good choice of image was in the first panel when it shows the scenery of the light house. A good choice of word that I had was when John reflects on what he had done. The part in my graphic novel that had the most flow would be the last three panels, because it is not scattered but one series of emotion.
In my graphic novel it was hard to depict what was going on in the story without using large amounts of panels. I think that flow is one of the most important aspects of a graphic novel, because if it skips around and there are gaps in it no one will understand what is going on. Another challenge that I had was making large crowds of people but still giving their faces detail. To make sure that all of the characters turned out right on the final draft I would draw the person out several times so they would look right.
My graphic novel takes place during the eighteenth and final chapter. John left the BNW society and went to a light house by the ocean so that he could live in peace and quiet. One day he was punishing himself by whacking himself repeatedly with his whip, when a reporter drove by and wrote a news story on what he saw. When the paper reached the public, people began to swarm to the lighthouse by the thousands. The volume rose and fell with the sounds of the helicopter rotors and people, chanting, “we want the whip, we want the whip.” In the distance John saw a lone helicopter approaching the lighthouse, drowning out the chanting of the mob. Out stepped Lenina, a nervous smile on her face uncertainty reaching towards him. In his anger he attacked her hitting her over and over again with his corded whip. That night after the crowd had cleared John hung himself in the arch of the light house later to be found by one of the first spectators to arrive at the lighthouse hoping to see the whipping stunt.
My graphic novel shows a good choice of frame in the scene where it does a close up shot of John’s face revealing how he feels. A good choice of moment that I had would be when he was whipping Lenina and it just kind of marks the pinnacle of the chapter. A good choice of image was in the first panel when it shows the scenery of the light house. A good choice of word that I had was when John reflects on what he had done. The part in my graphic novel that had the most flow would be the last three panels, because it is not scattered but one series of emotion.
In my graphic novel it was hard to depict what was going on in the story without using large amounts of panels. I think that flow is one of the most important aspects of a graphic novel, because if it skips around and there are gaps in it no one will understand what is going on. Another challenge that I had was making large crowds of people but still giving their faces detail. To make sure that all of the characters turned out right on the final draft I would draw the person out several times so they would look right.
Self assessment:
In my graphic novel the most challenging part was making the multitudes of people in detail, expressing their emotions and what they look like in the book. When you would look in the book for the details of the characters appearances you usually would not find much more than their hair or eye color. For instance when I was looking for details on the character Lenina I found out that she had brown hair purple eyes and very pale. But even with these details I still had to create the majority of the character from scratch. Another complication that I faced was trying to create the pale skin tone for Lenina with out it just being white. After a while I gave up on that and just gave here the average skin tone that the rest of the characters had.
Out of all my panels the one that I am the most proud of would be my second to last one on the final page. In this panel it shows the most emotion and graphic weight by use of eyebrow placement, as well as shape and size of eyes. On my first try I made John cross eyed by accident so I had to go back through again and shift his pupils by a little bit to fix that. I am definitely the most proud of this panel.
When I first started this project I wasn't expecting much more of myself then making a bunch of stick figures with some speech bubbles. So to avoid this I spent the next couple of nights studying different types of cartoon facial expression and hair styles so when I started to make my graphic novel it came really easily to make all of the other characters. After all the work that I have put into it I am very proud of what I have accomplished.
In my graphic novel the most challenging part was making the multitudes of people in detail, expressing their emotions and what they look like in the book. When you would look in the book for the details of the characters appearances you usually would not find much more than their hair or eye color. For instance when I was looking for details on the character Lenina I found out that she had brown hair purple eyes and very pale. But even with these details I still had to create the majority of the character from scratch. Another complication that I faced was trying to create the pale skin tone for Lenina with out it just being white. After a while I gave up on that and just gave here the average skin tone that the rest of the characters had.
Out of all my panels the one that I am the most proud of would be my second to last one on the final page. In this panel it shows the most emotion and graphic weight by use of eyebrow placement, as well as shape and size of eyes. On my first try I made John cross eyed by accident so I had to go back through again and shift his pupils by a little bit to fix that. I am definitely the most proud of this panel.
When I first started this project I wasn't expecting much more of myself then making a bunch of stick figures with some speech bubbles. So to avoid this I spent the next couple of nights studying different types of cartoon facial expression and hair styles so when I started to make my graphic novel it came really easily to make all of the other characters. After all the work that I have put into it I am very proud of what I have accomplished.
Midsummer's Night Dream:
Teddy Rodd:
Final humanities essay:
In “Midsummer's Night Dream” the authority figures can be compared to authority figures in the real world. Authority figures in both “Midsummer's Night Dream” and the world try to force us to do their bidding through fear of what will happen to us if they do not do what we are told. This analysis demonstrates that Shakespeare thought that all he was writing about in his play were probably not far from the truth of the authority figures of his time.
In the play “Midsummer's Night Dream,” the highest authority figure in Athens is Theseus, who uses fear methods to control Hermia. He tells her that she has three options: she can marry Demetrius, she can be a nun for the rest of her life, or she can be executed if she chooses to love Lysander. Egeus declares“I beg the ancient privilege of Athens. As she is mine, I may dispose of her—Which shall be either to this gentleman Or to her death”(Shakespeare, Act I, Scene I) Egeus is very firm in his opinion throughout the entire play. Egeus is against his daughter ever marrying Lysander; the only reason that they are allowed to wed in the end is by Theseus’ consent. During this time period your parents were able to do with you whatever was their will, and if you questioned them they had the right to kill you. It was the duty of the father to make sure if he had a daughter that she marries the person that will bring the most wealth into their family. Not the most happiness to their daughter. Lysander and Demetrius are both respectable suitors but Egeus wants his daughter to marry Demetrius. Shakespeare never really explains what Egeus has against Lysander.
When they enter the forest, the authority figures become Titania and Oberon who still force things to happen to them but it was what most of the lovers wanted. The one who didn’t want it was Demetrias because he did not really love Helena she was forced upon him by magic. Hermia wanted Lysander, Lysander wanted Hermia, Helena wanted Demetrius, and Demetrius wanted Hermia. Oberon tells Puck, his loyal servant, to put a drop of a magical flower juice in Demetrius’s eyes so he falls for Helena. After several mishaps it ends up with Lysander and Hermia together, and Helena and Demetrius together. Then when the couples return to the real world Theseus changes his mind when he realizes that Demetrius no longer loves Hermia. “But, my good lord, I wot not by what power” But by some power it is—my love to Hermia, Melted as the snow”(Shakespeare, act 4, scene 1, page 8) This unknown force was the flower juice that Robin Goodfellow or Puck placed on his eyes. “Fair lovers, you are fortunately met. Of this discourse we more will hear anon.— Egeus, I will overbear your will. For in the temple by and by with us These couples shall eternally be knit.”(Shakespeare act 4, scene 1, page 8) In this part of the play there is a major change of the authority figures opinion on the young couples. It is often discussed whether Helena and Demetrius would have gotten together in the end anyways without the help of Oberon And Titania the two authority figures. I think that if the fairies had not intervened, Helena would not have been with Demetrius and Hermia and Lysander probably would have been executed for their disobedience. By resisting the authority figures the lovers become free to make their own choices.
Authority figures in both a “Midsummer's Night Dream” and North Korea try to force us to do what they want through fear of what will happen if we do not obey. Do North Koreans really care for Kim Jong Un or is just what they force people to say through fear methods to say and do during the rare times that we have eyes on the ground inside North Korea? One example of this was shown in a documentary called inside North Korea. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxLBywKrTf4) In this film a group of American doctors travel to North Korea to help people that have contracted a very common illness in North Korea called cataracts, one of the people with them had a hidden camera so they could get the footage that they wanted. Cataracts can be caused by high blood sugar lack of eye protection from the sun. Seven hundred twenty eight out of one hundred thousand people have a surgery each year to remove cataracts. Because of all the things that these people have to go through you would think the they would hate their leader. But in the documentary after the “American” doctors cured their eyes each and every one of them would go up to the picture of Kim Jong un and thank him for what he had done for them. Then they would ask what they could give him in return even though Kim Jong had done nothing to help them. He is the cause of their poverty.
From the moment that they are born a love for their great leader is ingrained into them so deeply through fear that they must love Kim Jong un that the people of North Korea would never consider doing anything to stand against Kim Jong un. Everyone else he keeps in line through fear of what might happen to them or their families if they do not do as they are told. If anyone defects their family and friends are either killed or put in concentration camps. Because Kim Jong un keeps control through fear there will never be enough people that have the courage to oppose him. A small group of people would not be enough to over through him; it would have to be the problem with removing a leader from power in a country is that they will always have a child to take their place as leader. Sometimes what happens is a larger country like America for example comes in and removes the old leader, then establishes a new leader. But often when this happens the person that is chosen either lacks the needed experience, or is even more evil than the last leader. Some countries are so corrupt there often seems to be no hope for them. In North Korea the authority figure Kim jong un suppresses the people below him and they follow along obediently.
In these two different scenarios Midsummer's Night Dream and North Korea they both have the same problem. Authority figures are forcing them to do something that they both do not want to do. In Midsummer's Night Dream the lovers goals are accomplished by the help of the authority figures in the forest Oberon and Titania. But in North Korea I am not even sure what the people hope for because whenever we do get someone in there to ask the people questions Kim jong un personal enforcers are always watching to make sure that they never say anything negative about North Korea. Verses in Midsummers Nights Dream where as long as they do what they are told in the end the authority figures do not care what they think of them. (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/9191998/What-North-Koreans-really-think-of-Kim-Jong-un.html) In this article it talks about how there is a secret phone line in North Korea where people could express how they felt about their new leader. "He is a four-star general aged 28," observed a trader, Im Seong-taek. "When did he do his time in the army to get those stars? It's nonsense." A farmer in the far north of the country said: "He doesn't seem to be much use. A young person with his belly sticking out looks lazy."
In “Midsummer's Night Dream” they can openly say that they do not want to do something but as long as they still do what they are told in the end they are not in any danger. The lovers found their way out with a little bit of magic and the help of other worldly beings but North Korea is still the same as ever. To finalize my point authority figures in both midsummer's night dream and the world try to force us to do their bidding through fear of what will happen if they do not do what they are told.
End of the year project reflection:
During this project we studied the play a Midsummer's Night Dream written by William Shakespeare. In this project we learned how to compare and contrast the characters from Midsummer’s Night Dream and Romeo and Juliet, which was called finding the persons foil. We also learned how to create a play. You had to memorize your lines, learn our blocking, know how to pronounce our words. Finally we had to make an essay on a topic of your choice involving some of the content that we learned this semester. I wrote mine on how authority figures in Midsummer’s Night Dream and the world try to control us through fear methods.
Throughout this project the thing that I enjoyed the most was working on the play. Doing my production role costume design. And playing my part as Peter Quince.
The most difficult thing for me during the project was learning Iambic Pentameter. We had to get different sentence and speak them in Iambic Pentameter. One example that Matt used to help us with this was that Iambic Pentameter matched the beating of a human heart. “Bump bump, bump bump.” I found this difficult and very tedious.
During this play I did not start with that high of a role but towards the end I started doing both custom design and helping with the set design as well as making sure everyone had the stuff that the needed to go on stage. I really had to help out right before the play started, I was running around getting people in their costumes doing last minute touches on the stage turning on the lighting.
Why people would want to hold onto these pieces of work from four hundred years earlier I think it is because all of his plays are written on topics that are still written about even now days. Love rebellion authority figures suppressing the weak are all topics that the public eye has been drawn into for the past thousand years and will probably always be drawn to.
Final humanities essay:
In “Midsummer's Night Dream” the authority figures can be compared to authority figures in the real world. Authority figures in both “Midsummer's Night Dream” and the world try to force us to do their bidding through fear of what will happen to us if they do not do what we are told. This analysis demonstrates that Shakespeare thought that all he was writing about in his play were probably not far from the truth of the authority figures of his time.
In the play “Midsummer's Night Dream,” the highest authority figure in Athens is Theseus, who uses fear methods to control Hermia. He tells her that she has three options: she can marry Demetrius, she can be a nun for the rest of her life, or she can be executed if she chooses to love Lysander. Egeus declares“I beg the ancient privilege of Athens. As she is mine, I may dispose of her—Which shall be either to this gentleman Or to her death”(Shakespeare, Act I, Scene I) Egeus is very firm in his opinion throughout the entire play. Egeus is against his daughter ever marrying Lysander; the only reason that they are allowed to wed in the end is by Theseus’ consent. During this time period your parents were able to do with you whatever was their will, and if you questioned them they had the right to kill you. It was the duty of the father to make sure if he had a daughter that she marries the person that will bring the most wealth into their family. Not the most happiness to their daughter. Lysander and Demetrius are both respectable suitors but Egeus wants his daughter to marry Demetrius. Shakespeare never really explains what Egeus has against Lysander.
When they enter the forest, the authority figures become Titania and Oberon who still force things to happen to them but it was what most of the lovers wanted. The one who didn’t want it was Demetrias because he did not really love Helena she was forced upon him by magic. Hermia wanted Lysander, Lysander wanted Hermia, Helena wanted Demetrius, and Demetrius wanted Hermia. Oberon tells Puck, his loyal servant, to put a drop of a magical flower juice in Demetrius’s eyes so he falls for Helena. After several mishaps it ends up with Lysander and Hermia together, and Helena and Demetrius together. Then when the couples return to the real world Theseus changes his mind when he realizes that Demetrius no longer loves Hermia. “But, my good lord, I wot not by what power” But by some power it is—my love to Hermia, Melted as the snow”(Shakespeare, act 4, scene 1, page 8) This unknown force was the flower juice that Robin Goodfellow or Puck placed on his eyes. “Fair lovers, you are fortunately met. Of this discourse we more will hear anon.— Egeus, I will overbear your will. For in the temple by and by with us These couples shall eternally be knit.”(Shakespeare act 4, scene 1, page 8) In this part of the play there is a major change of the authority figures opinion on the young couples. It is often discussed whether Helena and Demetrius would have gotten together in the end anyways without the help of Oberon And Titania the two authority figures. I think that if the fairies had not intervened, Helena would not have been with Demetrius and Hermia and Lysander probably would have been executed for their disobedience. By resisting the authority figures the lovers become free to make their own choices.
Authority figures in both a “Midsummer's Night Dream” and North Korea try to force us to do what they want through fear of what will happen if we do not obey. Do North Koreans really care for Kim Jong Un or is just what they force people to say through fear methods to say and do during the rare times that we have eyes on the ground inside North Korea? One example of this was shown in a documentary called inside North Korea. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxLBywKrTf4) In this film a group of American doctors travel to North Korea to help people that have contracted a very common illness in North Korea called cataracts, one of the people with them had a hidden camera so they could get the footage that they wanted. Cataracts can be caused by high blood sugar lack of eye protection from the sun. Seven hundred twenty eight out of one hundred thousand people have a surgery each year to remove cataracts. Because of all the things that these people have to go through you would think the they would hate their leader. But in the documentary after the “American” doctors cured their eyes each and every one of them would go up to the picture of Kim Jong un and thank him for what he had done for them. Then they would ask what they could give him in return even though Kim Jong had done nothing to help them. He is the cause of their poverty.
From the moment that they are born a love for their great leader is ingrained into them so deeply through fear that they must love Kim Jong un that the people of North Korea would never consider doing anything to stand against Kim Jong un. Everyone else he keeps in line through fear of what might happen to them or their families if they do not do as they are told. If anyone defects their family and friends are either killed or put in concentration camps. Because Kim Jong un keeps control through fear there will never be enough people that have the courage to oppose him. A small group of people would not be enough to over through him; it would have to be the problem with removing a leader from power in a country is that they will always have a child to take their place as leader. Sometimes what happens is a larger country like America for example comes in and removes the old leader, then establishes a new leader. But often when this happens the person that is chosen either lacks the needed experience, or is even more evil than the last leader. Some countries are so corrupt there often seems to be no hope for them. In North Korea the authority figure Kim jong un suppresses the people below him and they follow along obediently.
In these two different scenarios Midsummer's Night Dream and North Korea they both have the same problem. Authority figures are forcing them to do something that they both do not want to do. In Midsummer's Night Dream the lovers goals are accomplished by the help of the authority figures in the forest Oberon and Titania. But in North Korea I am not even sure what the people hope for because whenever we do get someone in there to ask the people questions Kim jong un personal enforcers are always watching to make sure that they never say anything negative about North Korea. Verses in Midsummers Nights Dream where as long as they do what they are told in the end the authority figures do not care what they think of them. (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/9191998/What-North-Koreans-really-think-of-Kim-Jong-un.html) In this article it talks about how there is a secret phone line in North Korea where people could express how they felt about their new leader. "He is a four-star general aged 28," observed a trader, Im Seong-taek. "When did he do his time in the army to get those stars? It's nonsense." A farmer in the far north of the country said: "He doesn't seem to be much use. A young person with his belly sticking out looks lazy."
In “Midsummer's Night Dream” they can openly say that they do not want to do something but as long as they still do what they are told in the end they are not in any danger. The lovers found their way out with a little bit of magic and the help of other worldly beings but North Korea is still the same as ever. To finalize my point authority figures in both midsummer's night dream and the world try to force us to do their bidding through fear of what will happen if they do not do what they are told.
End of the year project reflection:
During this project we studied the play a Midsummer's Night Dream written by William Shakespeare. In this project we learned how to compare and contrast the characters from Midsummer’s Night Dream and Romeo and Juliet, which was called finding the persons foil. We also learned how to create a play. You had to memorize your lines, learn our blocking, know how to pronounce our words. Finally we had to make an essay on a topic of your choice involving some of the content that we learned this semester. I wrote mine on how authority figures in Midsummer’s Night Dream and the world try to control us through fear methods.
Throughout this project the thing that I enjoyed the most was working on the play. Doing my production role costume design. And playing my part as Peter Quince.
The most difficult thing for me during the project was learning Iambic Pentameter. We had to get different sentence and speak them in Iambic Pentameter. One example that Matt used to help us with this was that Iambic Pentameter matched the beating of a human heart. “Bump bump, bump bump.” I found this difficult and very tedious.
During this play I did not start with that high of a role but towards the end I started doing both custom design and helping with the set design as well as making sure everyone had the stuff that the needed to go on stage. I really had to help out right before the play started, I was running around getting people in their costumes doing last minute touches on the stage turning on the lighting.
Why people would want to hold onto these pieces of work from four hundred years earlier I think it is because all of his plays are written on topics that are still written about even now days. Love rebellion authority figures suppressing the weak are all topics that the public eye has been drawn into for the past thousand years and will probably always be drawn to.
