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.

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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

Character Study II

The journey from start to finish is not an issue for many people these days. But it always seems the progression of the journey constitutes for the biggest problem. You want things to end right away, an ending finalizing happiness. Well, I couldn't find that happiness in my young roaring twenties. The glorious age to have fun, have balance, and have a life. That's what I thought my dreams were suppose to be until I got evicted from my apartment, dumped by the bae (girlfriend), and fired from my job. I only had a few savings left in the account. They still needed to be paid for loans and taxes. I lost all my inspiration in just a short period of time and still cannot find my happiness.

On a drive to the grocery store, I saw a homeless man waving a sign saying 'Spare Change?'. I didn't really have pocket money and damn was I getting poorer by the second. As I gathered the treasured supplies outside the store, I noticed that the man was still there, but with a different sign. It said 'Don't be like me, help wherever and obtain it'. I couldn't get that off my mind. 

I was able to stay at my friend's house for some time. Man, I still was jumbling that message around in my head. Could this kind of situation be me? "Bro! What we eating tonight? I hope you're the best cook in town." Gordie walks in with a wide smile. "Naw bra, I could probably get ready some macaroni or some eggs and shiz if you want." I replied. "Fine by me, I'm staaarrrrvvving." We sat there by the table, pondering our daily thoughts. "Yo, what's with that mysterious face you got going on?" "Me?" "Yeah you. Who else do you think I'm asking in this empty kitchen with only two people in it?" He had a point, I felt dumbfounded, for a second. "Man, you know I've always wanted to do a project and stuff, something that flares content and positive attitude." "Hahaha, which you don't have, but really what are you thinking about?" I've had this idea of filming a homeless man for like a week or so and learn about his past." "And where do you have time for that? Payments man, money, the dough is what you need to clear your past." Damn Gordie was right for once, but I still wanted to discover how things would happen to a single person without a home. Gordie stops munching on his dish, "You know what, I'll support you for now because your luck has ran out for awhile and I think that I could get something good out of this, a documentary maybe, I mean you're in a massive debt anyways, why not experience a homeless life." "Dude! That's a great idea! I'll pay you back in whatever I could do." "Naw man, as long as you're chill with me, our broship is tight bra, you hear me." "Yeah man I naw mean!"

Gordie bought me an average camera, video and picture intended. I got myself a mini notebook to keep track of stories. The biggest challenge for me was leaving the electronics. I kept my watch to keep time anyways but everything else that required electricity and bills were left behind. I started out walking through the crooked streets of LA.