My Righetti Story

Righetti is a big school with crowded classrooms, crowded hallways, and a high populous student body. The days I’ve spent in Righetti travelling back and forth across the campus like an endless merry-go-round. I thought I was riding a carousel with no purpose. I soon realized that the rigorous core classes I was taking that required my time to walk, also took my time to learn. I don’t regret taking AP/Honors classes, I’m glad that they were challenging classes, which changed how I really think.

Freshman year, I thought the rest of my four years were only going to be focused around academics. Boy was I wrong. The clubs I joined, the community service I provided, collaborations, track & field, college trips, Wake-A-Thon events, teacher talks, and increasing friendships were the most important attributes of my high school years. Sophomore Year, I took the hardest class on campus (supposedly, I think AP Physics is the hardest class nowadays), AP World History and passed it’s AP exam with a score of 4. I was proud of myself, then convinced myself to take more AP courses that’ll definitely benefit me. Junior Year, realization overcame me. I didn’t learn anything from my classes and so I took the time to work with others to get ahead of the game. All in all, this was an easy year (except physics). Senior Year, growth, unfairness, time constraint, “I wish I can do things over again,” anticipation, and now are still going on.

AVID Class 2015, Spirit Day - Rock the Purple Wave

AVID. College bound students with smarticles is where people get together without falter. Half my story is shared with my AVID classmates. Ironically, we barely do much in the class, but my 4 years with the class share unforgettable memories that may be-could be-might be match to those of future experiences of college memories. It’s important to know where your friends come from and AVID is the place to know so.

AVID Class 2015, College Trip North California

Some students may be bad, some good, but Righetti shouldn’t be considered a school of bad hopes and false dreams. The school values students who want to learn and retain information. I could be considered a bad kid who is labeled to be bad from where I come from. Heck I hang around those kids, but they aren’t bad at all. Personally, I’m proud of who I am because honestly, I represent the kids with the same background as me. Righetti offers opportunity, any kinds of opportunity. Just think of one, it’ll be there.

To See More Righetti Stories: Check it here, http://wearerighetti.blogspot.com/

Overwhelmed Student 2014! Overwhelmed Student 2015?

This is the time of a teen's life where you question, "Man I kinda wish I can do over the things I've done or I wish I did more!" At the start of senior year, I was thinking, "Man this is gonna be an easy year." Boy was I wrong. I'm growing up to an adult (or at least that's where my age suggests) and all the things I'm doing is all in one place at one time. Being an AP, college bound, scholarship searching/applying, blogging, peacemaking, AVID presidential, clubbie, bboy wannabe, medicine-interested, overwhelmed student is............ And sometimes I lose sight of my goals with all the things going on. I have to risk study time for one subject to study for another. That's just the start of it all, but the one thing I'm acknowledging is not everything works out how I vision it.

P.S. I hate doing all-nighters.

I did learn a lot about growing up. I didn't realize this before, but I have to face the harsh world ahead of me. Assertive, demanding, bossy (at times), risking, learning and accepting mistakes are things for a person or more specifically a student who doesn't want to mess up more than usual when entering adulthood. The world is cruel and the history I live in is decisive with a click of a button from a mouse or keyboard. The previous breaks I've had before were all used in good use of being a kid and I cherished the moments gratefully. Now the breaks I have in future are going to take convincing and non-slacked off experiences.

#2015ComeAtMeBro

Literature Analysis #2

Reference to Literature Analysis URL

The Awakening by Kate Chopin

1. Edna Pontellier is entrapped in a chosen atmosphere of French signature households. At the beginning of the novel, Edna has not rightfully found herself free from the average housewife character. During the summer vacation, she becomes acquainted with a creole man of the same likewise age as her named Robert. The side character basically supports her role of becoming a woman with open thoughts and the true feeling of love. Edna sees the light she must follow while she is still capable of doing all the necessary things a woman can do at her young age and the following time period after the Civil War postwar years. Just as the title suggests, Mrs. Pontellier can finally awaken from reality and dream of things that has always interest her when she finally finds it.

2. Recognizing your potential for trying something new will always get you somewhere you've never thought would be possible. There's always a hidden attribute that you have to discover per se dubbed my opinion of the theme of The Awakening.

3. [In Continuum]

Characterization

1. Chopin describes the significance of Mr. Pontellier who acts as the money making, business man in the family. The father of the household is absent with discretion of leaving Edna to more thinking and pushing her path to leaving the family itself. Edna always wanted experience true love or rather more relationships she hadn't the chance to meet other people who met her standards as indirect characterization. Another example is the meaning of enjoying the company of others who feature a lack of opulence around Edna. One example of direction characterization is described by Edna's father, an ex-Confederate colonel with battle hardened attitude, but also cares about his daughter's choices.

2. [In Continuum]

Rage Containment

I can't do much with my small size when it comes to physical contact. And by physical contact, I get pushed around by dumb arses getting pushed by other dumb arses in waiting lines (lunch lines and bus lines, etc). All I think of for these kids is "please kids, go back to bloody elementary school and learn some discipline." I truly feel sorry for them, but at the same time I don't (TeeHee).

Sometimes I have the urge to fight. The right to defend myself indirectly, but I know it's not the subtle approach to deal with things. With all the things that have been going around at our school, my confidence level for these kids has gone to a down low. Talking to kids probably has a 10% chance of actually convincing them to be better. Time is of the essence and the issue here is how their time was used based on how they act around people. The sphere of bad influence is getting too out of hand. There should be more of a student ran committee that deals with intolerance and insubordination. Just my thoughts on the current situation.

Grow the F**! up is all I can say.

(If only it were legal to take it out on the not so innocent)

"Out Beyond Ideas" Remix

Video Production: Erica Paculan
Masterminds behind remix: Marcel Dube (Marcel's Blog), Erica Paculan (Erica's Blog), Danielle Cadena (Danielle's Blog) and Jayce Alegre (My Blog)

Out Beyond Ideas vs. Summons

         Where many thoughts and feelings outline the basis of human understanding, some things can't be quickly done without doubt. We question roles and tasks in life that fit our social norms. But why does everything go smoothly without the need to find its significance? There are ideas out there that exceed our understanding. And then there are some things we go on throughout the day, later placing names on such daily errands. "Out Beyond Ideas" and "Summons" suggest the nature of living out those ideas and becoming a part of something new. But there are differences waking up from bed and waking up from a field. Dreams are also different from where they follow through. Both poems demonstrate a gradual class of determining our place in the world and what we live up to do.
         In "Summons," sleep is what we need to get by in a 24 hour day. Supposedly, adolescents are suppose to get 10 hours of sleep and adults need 8 hours. A 2 hour difference is still a big deal. The human mind and body can endure the rest of the day doing other things. This only occurs when eyes are open and the body is moving. But when a person is asleep, they have something they call dreams. Other occasions, horrifying dreams are nightmares, but dreams are the important part. People don't want to escape a dream. Defying reality is set in motion when one is not conscious from a deep sleep of mind boggling wonders. That's why "Summons" justifies the happenings of dreams and sleep. For "Out Beyond Ideas," the message for sleep means lying in a field and using open-ended ideas as dreams and wondering about the diversity of thinking can get to.

Intro to Poetry

Questions about "Out Beyond Ideas"

1. What is the significance of the title?
"Out Beyond Ideas" could be a resemblance of the world's thinking and the mindset set forth by all areas of culture.
2. What is the tone of the poem?
Tone is reminiscing and incredulous
3. What is your mood as you read it?
The poem seems morbid when I think about the souls beneath the field and symbolizing something other than the greater good.
4. Is there a shift? Where? From what to what?
I don't there is a shift. There's a straightforward response from what's right and what's wrong.
5. What is the theme of the poem?
Questions are sought to be answered, but the dead carry away those thoughts and beliefs with questions unanswered in a world they sought to belong to

The point of the questions is to get the gist of interpreting a poem. Readers have to acknowledge their stand point and pick the smallest things that make up the thousand different images. I understand that these questions asked make aims for simple wording and connotations of each line.

Masterpiece: Special Edition O.R.E. Coming Soon

I'm going to write a long, tedious, most-exhilarating (hopefully), could-be-confidential, controversial original research essay on time travel. I've seen most of the explanations that I had to comprehend in order to make sense of. I've seen and derived those experiences from entertainment into the reality of time travel. Come to think of it, I need to look into articles and novels about time travel. It's science, it's magnificent, and it is dangerous. Its probably the most dangerous weapon out there that I can think of. You know nukes can destroy the Earth, but changing the course of time and manipulating space itself is unbelievable. Just thinking about time travel hypes up for new adventures. So I think I'll be reporting and researching all the things I can gather about space time continuum. All you have to do now is think of the process as a complex foundation from a simple idea.

ORE stands for Original Research Essay (Something I made up

Hamlet Essay: The theme and the quote

Quote:
What is a man,
If his chief good and market of his time
Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more.
Sure he that made us with such large discourse,
Looking before and after, gave us not
That capability and god-like reason
To fust in us unused

Purpose:
In an essay that demonstrates your wild brilliance and for Pete's sake avoid plot summary at all costs, please explain how this quote contributes to your understanding of the tone and theme of Hamlet. Specifically: Which character speaks the line/s? At what point in the play/point? How do the words affect the character's own understanding, the other characters' understandings (if applicable), and the audience's understanding? Top shelf responses will include definitions of these literary elements, demonstrated understanding of the play's central message, tone, and characterization, and application of the concept of Performative Utterance.

     Any man can be at a disposition at any case that concerns his feelings of the past and the unjust events that are going to happen in the future. Hamlet has accounted for such experiences that he was at the brink of meeting his revenge without further hesitation. But as Hamlet looks back at the plans and schemes he's contrived, there was no other alternative than to see eye for eye with the one killer he calls king. "What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed?" is the basic necessity of standard living that Shakespeare emphasizes when talking about all the things Hamlet thought was just normal. Hamlet realized that it's not that simple to be a man, hence asking the question and specifically claiming the right that people deserve to be man when they think they're up to any task. Shakespeare takes on the tone and theme of man and his powers that revel his actions.
     Hamlet began to say the quote/beginning of the soliloquy of Act 4 when encountering Fortinbras's soldiers and captain. To say the least, the quote signifies man's decisions on the type of output he conceives is righteous. What the quote brings about to the tone of Hamlet is that a explanation of what life may be is actually misleading and can often lead to a tragic ending. Shakespeare ties in a satirical momentum for all characters of the play who realize that their powers are so limited that any outcome they desire is mistaken to believe in. Almost everyone in the play have made up their minds to a certain point, but the only one met outside the thinking of factual decisions is Hamlet. Thoughts and thoughts build up in Hamlet; making him a dynamic character who can't understand himself until brought to deductive reasoning. The quote manages to put Hamlet in a position to be a man, to be human who struggles at the most critical points. [In continuum]

I forgot to say...

"Immigrants in Our Own Land" - Lockdown Necessary?

Inspired from "Immigrants in Our Own Land" to refer to the response the lockdown crisis hype.

Righetti is pretty much a piece of me. I spent four years of my life going to school there. I spent my time and effort focusing on enhancing my education and now I'm hearing, seeing, and feeling the hate that surrounds the community around RHS. Its pretty sad to say that this is my senior year and I have to deal with kids (and oh, do I emphasize kids) waste other students and potential learners from going on through their day normally. I just wonder what goes on with these kids' minds when it comes to respect, dignity, discipline, formality, and the coming of adulthood. I've had a hard time getting the best ideal college bound, dream school attributes there are and to think of the troubled ones barely passing to graduate high school. That's why I think of myself close to an optimistic immigrant.

In "Immigrants in Our Own Land," high school is just about everything to everyone who wants to move on in life as a post secondary school, but now the idea means nothing to ignorant kids. I must bring up news that the first lockdown Righetti had this year, there was a school shooting in Washington. And now, the second lockdown happened to be on the same day as the school shooting in Florida State University. One FSU student was actually shot at the back almost point blank by the shooter, but one thing that surprised him was that he didn't feel anything. His backpack was shot and inside carried a pierced book and a bullet. The moral of this story is that things that carry your life actually save you from dying of ignorance and literal sense. Education by learning is the book and this book saved this student's life.

For the police tirade, police protocol must be followed by officers and luckily that one underclassmen wasn't shot for resisting arrest. We see the compilation of police brutality lately, but this isn't the case. The girl or girls in the viral video happened to attack the officer, which resulted in 6 arrests. It was overkill to send in every officer and department in the area, but really, its all for safety precautions for all the bad news that has been going on.

Hamlet Act IV Scene IV, V, VI, VII

Scene IV

• To battle is to protect, defend one's country
• honor, loyalty, valor, semper fi, - a soldier's true values and morals for fighting
• way of the soldier
• Hamlet: "How all occasions learn do inform against me, And spurn my dull revenge!"
• Humans - only animals that consciously learn, go back to past and future experiences; conscious reflection and communication
• Actor vs. Captain emotions
• Acts of revenge on killing Claudius

Scene V

• Ophelia is crazed out of her mind between the conflicts of death and love
• King Claudius has both Laertes and Ophelia to deal  with because of Polonius's death
• -tries to diffuse the situation through power
• -reason by saying that the he is allied and friended with Lord Polonius
• find out who the bad guy is... king is planning to have more people on his side

Scene VI

• Hamlet avoids death and warns Horatio
• wishing to come back
• ditches Rosencrantz and Guildenstern en route to England

Scene VII

• King Claudius- saying that he does not persecute Hamlet because of obvious reasons
• to keep his kingly status and not despise the loyalist of Hamlet
• -too good to be in trouble
• -to punish Hamlet in means of the fault of the king
• -doesn't want to kill Hamlet because of mother-son relationship to Queen Gertrude

Hamlet Act IV Scenes I, II, III

Scene I

• The only party that is being threatened consists of King Claudius and Queen Gertrude
• Hamlet's suspicions arise at max levels and the ones who know about the Senior Hamlet murder are all aware of each other
• The King wants to send Hamlet to England where he can send someone to do his dirty work by killing him there
• -Killing him there means that no one in Denmark would suspect the King of treasonous acts
• -If Hamlet were put on trial in Denmark, people would actually believe him
• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are basically pawns playing on the wrong side of the playing field
• -have to abide by the king without losing their heads in the process
• It looks like the Queen goes along with the King, not thinking that Hamlet is her only son
• The King calls Hamlet a disease that won't go away

Scene II

• Hamlet finally acts as a prince for the first time
• He doesn't take orders from anyone of royal blood or guards in general
• Hamlet says that Polonius is with dead Senior Hamlet
• -the king is no one but an abstract idea
• Hamlet says "the son of a king" mentions his true authority

Scene III

• King Claudius says that he can do all the bad things and still become the top authority of the kingdom
• Hamlet is giving everyone in the room a hard time figuring out where the body is at
• In truth, Hamlet is tired of all the nonsense and suspects his demise soon
• Hamlet calls Claudius his mother in a sense that both of them committed a crime that is unforgivable to him

Hamlet (The Madman?) Essay

Since the his first appearance on Hamlet, Prince Hamlet showed his fierceness of madness at the first hearing of the king's coronation. William Shakespeare's Hamlet demonstrates a lively protagonist that nevertheless understands no one, not even himself at most times. Drawn by hate from the sight that King Claudius takes Queen Gertrude's hand in marriage, there's no way a son would not be mad at his mother for one month of mourning a father's death. The question for Prince Hamlet is whether he can overcome his madness or step over his limit of madness to the point of insanity. Act I was the first of many levels of complete and utter uncontrollable abilities that Hamlet considered justifiable. Hamlet overall is not subdued by madness, rather than emotional breakdown. For the rest of the play, Hamlet is decisive in his choices to develop a scheme to get back at his father's murderer, but the emotional capacity Hamlet must endure expresses madness externally.

Hamlet makes out his moves by baiting other characters who are most dear such as Horatio, also compared to as a guard of maybe childhood friendship, to those of the prideful antagonist troubles, King Claudius. He also gets around to people he loves off the family ties such as Ophelia, but is very unsure of himself talking to her in a crazed manner or abusive indecency of a gentlemen when it comes to the letter and the playthrough of Hamlet's play within the play. However, Hamlet in Act 1 Scene II was well-acquainted with Lord Polonius until his suspicions arise to not trust anyone close to the King necessarily. The Prince's madness isn't drawn to attention until he spoke his ghostly father, Senior Hamlet, therefore he plays along without being audacious in finding out the truth soon enough. Hamlet hasn't been concerned at the consequences of being held prisoner or being killed within his own kingdom, but his mental breakdown initiated at the thought of hearing his mother fooled by unruly lust within the other part of the family. Queen Gertrude is half the reason Hamlet wants to go after in vengeance of his father. Betrayal struck Hamlet hard no matter what the deal was, he already lost both his mother and father and gained an unwanted father in return.

Other characters of the plot don't recognize the changing of tides the protagonist has to face. Hamlet's feelings aren't taken into consideration of how he really feels truly about the whole Uncle marry Sister-in-law relationship. There's a vacuum for power that Hamlet hadn't taken the chance to obtain because his sadness wasn't anticipated until the longing of the king's coronation. At the point where Hamlet accidentally kills off Lord Polonius, he still hadn't cared about who he killed, albeit it didn't change how he perceived to kill the king with such feeling or not. This "madness" might be facing could psychologically kill him if he knew the right reasons to kill. It definitely wouldn't do anything good for one man to stoop down at the level of the same murder, if not the same case of murder. Hamlet has needed to think about change before King Claudius is aware of some plot for crime.

Latest Hamlet News in Action (Discussion about Act III)

• Hamlet puts on a play to show proof (to himself only without raising suspicions) that King Claudius and Queen Gertrude has done some heinous and wicked acts against King Hamlet
• Hamlet on Ophelia's lap
• -Humor, but also doesn't censor the truth about Hamlet's acts for expectations of a women
• -I'm thinking whether Ophelia can stand for herself and raise the bar for defending her rights as a women, but instead is denying herself due to the respects of royalty
• -Hamlet wants to see Ophelia overcome her gaudy act of "not knowing" or blindsided truth
• -Innuendos everywhere for self-righteousness 
• American culture is conservative?
• I think not!
• "The power of the words being taken out of consideration"
• Has Hamlet gone crazy yet or this his prime time for psychological progress?
• Hint hint, Hamlet drags Polonius (when he's dead) like he's nothing but a big toy bear

Hamlet Act III Scene II

• Hamlet say to the player to act naturally
• -when directing
• -just be right/correct
• -from a nonprofessional to a professional
• -knows what he's doing, not a cranky martinet, director
• [To be Continued Notes]

Hamlet Act III Scene I

• Claudius - "Hamlet is a moody brat" by what the King thinks
• -also being crafty and mad (more angry)
• Lord Polonius give (orisons) prayer book
• Claudius simply confesses his murder for the first time of the whole play when Ophelia mentions something about being guilty of such discourse
• Hamlet questions Ophelia for trust and baits her for some treasonous act against him
• -says he's a bad guy if Ophelia still loves him
• -to Ophelia's love life to go to someone else
• -angry at one person to compensate for many others who denounced him
• Ophelia thinks that Hamlet is crazy (Hamlet's plan goes well)
• Claudius says wrongful things about Hamlet
• -thinks Hamlet is a threat indeed
• -his only feelings have been taken over by cautious intuition
• -Polonius says to put Hamlet to Scotland's Yard (England's prison)

Hamlet Act II Scene II

• Inside the castle room, mainly of the two royalties
• King Claudius and Queen Gertrude seek to find information from Hamlet by using characters Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
• Both people abide to the King's side
• King Claudius knows of Hamlet's disposition with his father's death and suspicions about breaking through
• Hamlet's mother has intentions about her son, but always sides with the king because of some complications
• The King intends on paying the men for the benefit of knowing what Hamlet is up to, deceptions
• Lord Polonius enters the castle room saying that Hamlet is crazed out of his mind
• Voltimund and Cornelius come back with news of future war with Norway, but also infers that Fortinbras has to pass by the king's country to be at peace
• When Lord Polonius explains the letter given from Hamlet to Ophelia in stating that all the expressive statements were in interest not madness
• The king agrees no matter what to Polonius's matters and conflicts even though its obvious to define the real relationship and plot of Hamlet in Hamlet
• Hamlet comes in to say that old men are weak in comparison to Lord Polonius
• Hamlet makes a lot of mockery and schemes against Polonius, knowing that he is acquainted with the man, still makes judgments based on keeping Hamlet's cool.
• The king's spies come in to talk to Hamlet as his friends at the same age or so
• Hamlet talks about his dreams, but doesn't give it away to his companions
• Hamlet knows about the suspicions of info takers
• The actors come to the scene in favor of Prince Hamlet
• Hamlet makes his own soliloquy about speaking and the treachery of murder 
• The first player also contrives a speech of some length as Hamlet's for practice

Hamlet Act II Scene I

• At the Polonius Household
• Lord Polonius hires sir Reynaldo to spy and chat around with Laertes because of trust and dishonesty
• A father and son relationship isn't close in the Polonius household, especially around the whole family like Ophelia
• Lord Polonius thinks that he's all that and confident that he can obtain information doing so.
• Reynaldo has to try to be a friend who actually cares about Laertes problems
• Making familiar and cool conversations and stuff
• Lord Polonius is weary about Laertes lifestyles
• Ophelia comes in to say that Hamlet cares but only in some other meaningful way
• (Hamlet cares that Ophelia shouldn't be in his way of revenge)
• Polonius thinks that the letter is a sign of love, but fakes it in his own way

American Greetings

The international greet or welcome is the word "hello," but here in America, there are so many greetings that its so common and acknowledged to say without any confusion to the person you're speaking to. You can say they're slang/urban words or some that are plain; words that are hackneyed to the point that we're thinking "Cool, he/she actually responded for once!" Here are some words that you might be familiar with:

Yo
What Up
Sup
Homie
Foo
Fool
Hi
Hello
Hey
Bae
Bro
Brah
Bruh
Bruh Bruh
Dude
(Nicknames)
(Real Names [First])

What do you call your acquaintances in response to a "Hello"?

To Be or Not To Be

Hamlet: Act III Scene I

To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd? To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub
For in  that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled odd this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action. --Soft you now!
The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in the orisons
Be all my sins remember'd

What the soliloquy means from class discussion bit by bit:

• To live to die
• -Integrate soliloquy into our lives
• to act or not to act
• refrain old ways of thinking
• "whether tis noble..." suggests bad things happen to good people
• -external conflicts affecting Hamlet
• -war over opulence/wealth/luxury
• Death can be:
• metaphorical/literal
• to leave life from the productive way
• lack of enlightenment
• -"consummation":ending
• "there's the rub"-dilemma
• Something not known isn't good compared to know
• "curiosity killed the cat" - take the risk to know
• -become relieved or not but better to know them not to know
• "oppressor's wrong" - more power of us
• -more authority
• -"contumely"-rude speech
• -"insolence"-arrogance
• -"spurns"-scorn, to reject
• tragic - living a long life not doing anything that reveals who you are
• literal to metaphorical concerns of "bare bodkin:
• Murder = guilt
• Guilt = great way to treat one's behavior
• Hamlet is personally human by himself, with a company; he speaks different;y to other people
• -He tells more of his truth and hides his true character
• Struggle within himself to express himself
• "orisons" -prayers
• "mortal coil" - lost our mortal body
• "sins remembered" - being a man or not a man
• confidence in decisions

Hamlet: Act I Scene V

• Ghost Hamlet and Prince Hamlet meet in another part of the platform of the castle
• The ghost hints that it will later go to hell for the things he did in the previous life, kingly ways are wicked and subject to sins and such
• King Hamlet: " The serpent that did sting thy father's life now wears the crown"
• Uncle seduced mother of Hamlet from King Hamlet, stand alone carry all those virtuous moments away from the prior relationship
• Lust has taken Queen Gertrude, her guilt will consume her, eventually leading up to her death
• She'll be sent to heaven, dealt with the main man upstairs, a judgement to determine everything
• Hamlet knew there was something already sketchy with how things happened to be
• Ghost was poisoned in the ear by quicksilver by the King Uncle
• Ghost gives advice to Hamlet that Royalty should be determined by reason not emotion (in connection to Laertes, Polonius, and Ophelia)
• That it should not be his downfall to have his feelings defeat him on his journey to the throne
• Hamlet is thinking about the stuff he can do all these things now and then
• It's easier said than done
• Marcellus and Horatio now have to swear that something is going down between Hamlet and the King Claudius
• Hamlet: "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy
• Hamlet is going to act "nuts" so to say, knowing what's going on and has to keep a stable and diligent mindset; no lack of authority, mollify those in concern
• "The time is out of joint: O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!"

Hamlet: Act I Scene IV

• At the platform again where the three guards meet the ghost, fireworks and ornaments are going off as the high density of the air bites at the warmth of Hamlet, Marcellus, and Horatio
• Hamlet thinks of this "celebration" as wrongly presented and weak
• -the country shows that it can't take seriousness toward other kingdoms by celebrating a coronation over a dead king with the new king
• Hamlet's bad intentions are suspicious about the new changes around the kingdom and looks to the ghost for some last resort
• He comments about how the kingdom is not acknowledging its accomplishments, acknowledging a new era of corruption
• In this scene, the ghost comes in but speaks no word to the men
• Hamlet recognizes the Ghost, his father, the fallen king
• Basically saying "Hey dad, where have you been and what happened to you."
• Ghost asks Hamlet to come along and speak to him
• Marcellus hints at the fact that "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark"
• Hamlet wants the ghost to speak about the current situation
• Horatio worries about the Prince because this ghost can be deceitful

Hamlet: Act I Scene III

• Polonius Household - Laertes (Son of Polonius) and Ophelia (Daughter of Polonius), basically brother and sister
• In this scene, I thought that Ophelia just had to follow orders from both her father and brother
• -It seemed that she had no say in most of the say, when will her time come to talk to Hamlet?
• Laertes gives advice to Ophelia about Hamlet and his royal status
• -He says that she must accept Hamlet if he confesses his love to her, but beware of how his decisions might incur around the subject
• Ophelia takes on the lecture nonetheless, so calm in the text she is.
• Something is going on in her mind
• Polonius comes in telling his son that he should keep his thoughts only in his and not speak of it
• He mentions to beware of the words that come out of his mouth since judgement hath follow up
• Polonius states that men in France become opulent for doing stuff out of a stable nonchalant mind, no speech in doing so
• After Laertes leaves, Polonius asks what Ophelia and him were talking about.
• Polonius has intuitive skills with youngsters and their decisiveness at love
• He orders to not think of Prince Hamlet at a no reason to call or see to him

Literary Fiction and Empathy

How can reading fiction help you understand others? Use Hamlet as an example to explore your own thinking process and reactions to a character's innermost thoughts/struggles.

Reading fictional stories in novels or for five solemn minutes helps me understand social behavior in a more clearer way than reading in a nonfictional story. Putting more detail on the character such as dialogue, indirect/direct characterization, tone, metaphors, and all other literary elements create a staircase in learning one person as oneself progresses. Like Hamlet, we could relate him to a movie star/character, but really, we want to know how he's going to handle all the feelings inside of him. I wonder at the fact that he keeps a plain expression, a noble stance at the people he likes and the people he dislikes. Audiences know that with a switch in dialogue or a whole other scene, Hamlet struggles to find his destiny of revenge. Since revenge isn't the case his father wants, young Hamlet makes decisions based on merciful output if so. Readers like to see a character fight a conflict they know will end bad enough.

I as a reader know that empathizing a character's innermost thoughts/struggles is what makes us human. Fiction brings in human qualities that haven't been expressed in nonfiction, per se, it's deeper to connect to one who has ambitions and goals.

This is what Collaboration feels like...

Hamlet: Act I Scene II Notes

• A switch for King Hamlet's concerns turns to other matters in a happier tone
• King Cornelius is making a speech about his brother's death
• On that note, I think the reason he got in power than the young Hamlet is by marrying Old Hamlet's wife
• Cornelius mentions Fortinbras, not the one who died, but the young son
• Suspicions arise because Cornelius claims that young Fortinbras has something to do with it and also talks about how his life and riches were taken away by old Hamlet
• The King also talks to his comrades about their presence
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Hamlet: Act I Scene I Notes

• Four guards in total are taking shifts at the castle of Elisnore
• Francisco is the first guard to appear and has guarded the platform since the striking of midnight
• Bernardo enters the scene to take on the night shift, while at the same time Horatio and Marcellus march in
• The characters mention their ethnicity to be Danes, which meant that this play is based in Denmark.
• Marcellus and Bernardo talk about a certain silhouette that has been haunting their presence
• Horatio doesn't believe them at first and then realizes what they are mentioning
• The ghostly figure resembles the old King Hamlet, even though the Old King Hamlet is still alive at the time
• Bernardo and Marcellus encourage Horatio to demand the ghost to talk, but instead (thinks) the ghost leaves in offence
• The ghost appears at the most audacious moment during the night which meant something in the future, a foreshadowing
• The two other guards want to hear the story of the Old King Hamlet by Horatio
• -  At first the play was in simple conversations, transitions to fret, and then a long monologue by Horatio for explanations
• Ghost re-enters the scene and still does not say anything
• The guards demand the ghost to speak until the rooster crows to indicate that its morning
• The ghost disappears without a single word even when the guards try to strike at it
• The guardsmen worry about the ghost's presence because if it didn't speak to them, it must talk to his son Hamlet.

Essay #4 Canterbury Tales: Transmedia Characters

Prompt: How do Geoffrey Chaucer's inspirations and use of literary techniques in Canterbury Tales  suggest the importance of both honoring and questioning literary and social traditions?

As humans, people of every trait and character, simplify life by putting labels on things. There are signs and symbols that represent what they are. Well, those signs and symbols remind people of certain things, for say, stereotyping. It is without a doubt a culture based on the looks of individuals and the association they are based off, mainly appearance and social trends. Political attributes to nothing of the cause of what a person might be, but the group of people that are of the same ethnicity or societal means. Characters in the long poem, The Canterbury Tales, were not only defined by their class, but how they differentiated from their stereotypical social standing. Geoffrey Chaucer enabled these characters to act different and live a lifestyle with meaning. One character in particular stood out from the rest. He abides from his culture to make amends to a new one, an evolving one indeed. He was a monk who carried his own duties and righteousness by living outside of the monastery. Chaucer greatly emphasized the narrator to meet a different perspective of the monk, which of course meant that Chaucer made a great deal of deriving the necessary literary tools to explicate labels without labeling.

Chaucer's ideas weren't his original ideas for implementing a tale of characters. He took in account for an inspiration literary piece called Boccaccio's Decameron, which was basically the same set of plotting Chaucer used to explain his characters'. 

All Chaucer did was remixed into his version, but in a simple Modern English format. Colloquial language is what Chaucer intended for, since he wanted to create something new out of something already created. Readers take in consideration that everyday talk and rabble rousing among words is what gets a conversation going, especially if its about putting a label on a certain character.

Understanding one another and each other's situations is the human right to learn new things everyday. The narrator is astounded by the presence of the monk. He's not the usual monk, but he is considered a monk by whatever the narrator thinks is worthy to be a monk-like person. Anyone can be different by whatever they carry. A burden at must, maybe, but a burden that can be changed quite quickly at the tale of a diversifying monk. This monk in Canterbury Tales just wanted to break his monastery ties and live a life where he can survive on his own and defend his property.

Assumptions only makes the person inevitable to remind oneself more than once. Chaucer was basically teaching his readers that, yes you can be these type of people, but you can also be another type of person, the one not seen in society by name calling. Questioning one's social status is best to be considered or reconsidered to the public of an ever so changing world.

Unphotographable Phiction

Not long ago...okay maybe long ago in my early days as a youngster. One boy with one family at a not-so-but-it-felt isolated beachfront. Nothing but clear waters, islands where ever I turn. It looks remote by the looks of it, but it's part of the Philippines anyhow. The sand is like a pile of hot coals. Nevertheless, I head over to the translucent water and can actually see my feet. Its warm. Is this what the Caribbean Islands feel like? No, this moment was way better. The unlimited rays of energy hits me from the top of my head. I hit the shade, running from the luminosity and decided to find my family in the cottage. Everyone's asleep and together. Maybe I should take a nap too, it was a long day indeed. Facing the ceiling and hands overlapping behind my head, I thought to myself, "I could live here forever."

Vocabulary #6

abase - verb cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of, to reduce or lower; degrade

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

Narrative:

Essay #4 Canterbury Tales: Transmedia (Prewrite)

Humans have judged their surroundings, judged others, and even judged themselves. Its no false conception to see the value of man degrade by what they think in the definition of judgments. As history takes the toll of making excuses for people's character, it was either race goes with this or that. Books came along and somewhat changed the perceptions of most people. Nowadays, people have access to the internet, where networking contains no privacy and so individuals are truly seen behind the curtain by just a few words written in 140 characters or a Facebook status. It used to be different back then in Geoffrey Chaucer's time, when observations explained in Canterbury Tales were based on a bemused narrator. The narrator expected nothing more about the common man and his mission to find their own piece. One of the characters would experience networking with an interested face if it were introduced back in his heyday. An unusual character like the monk would change his cultural appearance based on the new things he is offered through media and isn't defined by what he is labeled

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but the content of their character," is what Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. enterprised for everyone to be equally satisfied with who they are and not based on malicious polemic.

Hit That Like Button

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The Tale of a Canterbury Tale

Questions found here: http://drprestonsrhsenglitcomp14.blogspot.com/2014/10/october-1.html

The squire is defined as a runner up Knight. He's young in his own square space, hoping to live up to meet his future maiden. Rise to arms is the motto he lives for, a code that he must follow. A son figure by heart and follows his father's footsteps. The squire is basically an adolescent who treads to find his place in the world while overseeing his rightful place in the social chain. Chaucer's choice in telling this tale involves a family, father and son. The squire is just a youngster that Chaucer enjoys to see because of the availability to be free with his own mindset while being taken into the hands of a guardian. Its not only for protection, but the benefits of being an upcoming knight and how one can learn about difficulties. Chaucer makes it clear that he is satirizing the society within this tale since a tale of a squire is a quest for progression. Its clear for future knights to become servants of their own cause and standardize their right to defend one's country.

Geek Squad Better Be Hirin'!

So today I came home, ensuring myself not do something productive because relaxing is vitalizing. I walk into the living room, expecting nothing much. Boy I was wrong. My parents did something to the TV, leaving me to do work. Doogie do work, since it was a hassle to fix a screen and system that automatically turns the volume to 0. This corrupt television was being relentless because I tried methods of manual turn-off, disconnecting cords, and combating the darn thing with the up volume button. Nothing worked at this point, so I headed to my deedy friend the internet.

Man's best search engine, Google, helped me find out that I didn't have to struggle with this problem. I sought out a solution, one that need panel removing and cutting wires. If you have problems with this volume problem, all you have to do is counteract the system by disconnecting the wire that is connected to the volume control board hooked up to the IR interface and TADA. My first technical work I had to do that resolved in success. Geek Squad better be hirin'!

Canterbury Outline

Just answering questions found here to help me gain guidance in writing essays. Not required but helpful if stuck.

1. The tale of the monk kept his faith, abide from what he follows by principles. He's significant in his own way (tale of the Canterbury Tales) because he doesn't meet the average standards of a typical monk who lets go of material things.

2. The monk is a above a middle aged man, heavy, and goes along his merry way. He owned his own personal servants and carried a sword clashed to the ruling of hunting. A survivalist and ambitious to find game.

3. Chaucer's diction and syntax creates the overall tone of being easily pleased and observant, with the respect that he doesn't criticize the Monk's new way of life. Chaucer is also bemused with the idea that the Monk is actually going to the Canterbury pilgrimage in search for something or a new transverse way of life.

4. Satire/irony - Monk follows his own guidelines, another unspoken destiny

5. Religious/Spiritual - Monk is not stereotyped into a religious base character

6. Not Labeled by others, stereotyping

7. Experiences of the monk making hunts, selling his catch for prizes, whether they are for his own fortunes. Monk's choices affect his character's future.

8. The tale of the character would be the same because the Monk seems to be an everyday person, a weary traveler who finds her own path and decides to survive on his own.

9. Description of character, juxtaposition of a new monk

10. Using these techniques will properly initiate a more distinct attitude of the tale and the context of the Monk.

The Point of Canterbury Tales Is...

There is a mood of reluctance whenever people feel the need to judge on such character. One tale defines the need that he isn't what he is or what he is labeled to be. The monk is that one person who finds his own peace in immersing himself with the new evolving culture around him.

Character Study III - Lop

A night where things go down and the college life for a freshman is worth while. For the newcomer, Jayce endured the most outrageous thing he's done since his stay at UCLA. It was party wild and everyone loved his "off the sober" side. By noon the next day, Jayce never had such a great night. He looked around in his dorm, smelling the smell of booze in the morning. But it wasn't him who smelled like a bootlegger, it was his roommate, all wasted and such. Jayce looked around at his bedside. Books and books, notebooks, a battery-dead laptop, a lamplight, pens and pencils scattered around his bedside. "Huh, I was probably dreaming about the party life." He went to the bathroom mirror and glanced over his bearded face that defined his all nighter spirit. Finals is 10 days from now and one year of college is already stressing out the young, ambient man. "Man I need to take a break." All of a sudden his sister calls him up, later inviting him to stay at her house in Las Vegas for awhile. "You know what Ate (big sister in Tagalog), I'm coming over because I need your advice on a lot of college stuff and it's totally bumming me out, literally!" Jayce then began to pack all of his stuff, 3 days worth of necessities. Friends were needed for this trip and the only closest one he can find was his friend Susel. 

Susel accepted his request to come on the trip because she was also stressing out with school. The two packed their belongings and accouterments in Jayce's 2009 Yaris and ventured off under the 80 degree sun into the desert freeway. Like the Mojave wasn't a killer anyway, speeders on the drive were honking at the homies. "Man, I'm going with the flow of the traffic, you.... ugh simpletons, I have no patience for these people," Jayce said in justification. The Yaris began to speed up a little, or maybe a little more than the limit. "Haha, take that you... oh man." Looking at his blindside mirror, he sees flashing lights of blue and red and sirens going off. The car pulls off to the side of the freeway with the CHP cruiser following behind. Within the blue car, two hearts pulsify intensely. Jayce looks at Susel, who at once was cautious at going at first and is now petrified by the fact that  the officers are coming to the door. "Don't worry Susel, I saw this once on a Youtube video about Gabriel Iglesias's dealings with the police." The officer behind the Yaris begins to step out of his car. Jayce hurries to his phone, goes on Youtube and plays the COPS theme song "Bad Boys" by Inner Circle. He connects his phone into his car and bumps the stereo as loud as he can. "If only if I had speakers and subwoofers." Susel was cracking up, but he could see in her eyes that she was still worried about the situation. When the officer finally reached the window, Jayce lowered down the song. 

"What can I do for you Officeeerrrrr Buckshank?" "It's actually Officer Ozamataz Buckshank and a Stanford Grad for your information."  The officer had a slight smile on his face that he couldn't resist not giving off. "Well, do you know how fast you were going?" A smart alec as he could be and as independent as he was, Jayce responded with remark "Uhhhh not fast enough sir,"

Green Eggs and Hamlet

A) What do you know about Hamlet, the "Melancholy Dane"?
I don't know anything about Hamlet necessarily, but I hear from my fellow colleagues that Hamlet is just like the Disney Movie: The Lion King. I've watched the Lion King and it was basically based off the story line of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Prince grows up to be Prince, but runs away from the life of nobility because of the death of his father by his uncle and the struggle of revenge.

B) What do you know about Shakespeare?
Shakespeare was a playwriter and actor during the England Renaissance in mid-16th century and early 17th century. He wrote plays based on his inner knowledge of things and royalty. He got to write plays for the King of England, which was one of the Henry's at the time. Shakespeare was highly criticized about his work ethic, his personal life, his sexuality, and his stay-at-home deep thinking away from playwriting. Shakespeare's work was popular then and is now recognized more broadly than ever before.

C) Why do so many students involuntarily frown when they hear the name "Shakespeare"?
I see a lot of students involuntarily frown at the name "Shakespeare." What I hear from them is nonsense and cynical statements that prejudge the man. They only think about how tedious a play must be to read, but I think that students don't envision a deeper connection with the plays and the universal theme that Shakespeare is trying to emphasize.

D) What can we do to make studying this play an amazing experience we'll never forget?
Well the Lion King was the closest thing to Hamlet and since most kids now are 90's kids who like to watch old 90's movies based on Disney, we can relate that experience and how both pieces connect in similar ways. We could also reenact the play in order to develop a deeper meaning of the play and focus on recuperating life's concerns of betrayal and taking action.

Vocabulary #5

shenanigans - noun mischief, prankishness; deceit; trickery

ricochet - noun a glancing rebound; verb spring back; spring away from an impact

schism - 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 differences

eschew - verb avoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear of

plethora - noun extreme excess

ebullient - adj. joyously unrestrained

garrulous - adj. full of trivial conversation

harangue - noun a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion; verb deliver a harangue to; address forcefully

interdependence - 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; changeable

loquacious - adj. full of trivial conversation

ephemeral - adj. lasting a very short time; noun anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form

inchoate - adj. only partly in existence; imperfectly formed

juxtapose - verb place side by side

perspicacious - adj. acutely insightful and wise; mentally acute or penetratingly discerning

codswallop - noun nonsensical talk or writing, nonsense rubbish

Mungo - noun a low grade wool from felted rags or waste

sesquipedalian - adj. given to using long words; (of a word) containing many syllables

wonky - adj. inclined to shake as from weakness or defect; turned or twisted toward one side

diphthong - noun a vowel sound that starts near the articulatory position for one vowel and moves toward the position for another

Narrative: Teens are usually the ones who pull off such ridicule shenanigans