The movie opens with John having a delusion of a room-mate; Charles. We don’t even know it’s a delusion at first and we really see Charles bring John out of his shell. John needed someone to help him be a normal grad student and no one “real” was around, plus john was not really willing to put himself out there. So Charles represents John unwillingness to venture out which greatly contributed to his madness. Its ironic how until we find out that Charles is a dillusion, his role seems quite the opposite. He drinks with Charles to “drown the ice” between them. So are we to understand, after knowing that Charles was in fact a delusion, that John took up drinking on his own at least often? Did that contribute to his “Degenerative” state? Why don’t we know anything about before his schitzophrenia started? It leaves me with a lot of questions. It started around 1954 and so the fact that his delusions have to do with mcharthy and the red scare and the atomic bomb makes sense within the period but why did that specific delusion somehow get a hold of John? Or was he just conceited about his own genius? If that is the case, it says something about ego and genius. John could not handle being that brilliant and having no social life but he also could not handle having a social life. Something about him was missing and when people exist with great parts of themselves missing, this is when they are open to all sorts of toxins. Dillusions can be considered toxins and they were making john very sick but he was able to fight them and become the boss which on some level he must have been all along. He either let these dilusions in or created them. He did this all to himself. And that is a funny thing about madness. I like that this movie depicts a case of madness that is overcome. Because so often it is like a death sentence to life as you know it just like we see with what the doctor characters in the movie had to say with their hopeless attitudes. I think This movie shows that faith is more powerful than any diagnosis.
^i dunooo
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Break HW Questions; on Reading of Dorien Gray pgs 12-58
Reading Questions - Chapter 2
Write 3-4 sentences answering each question
Some people feel that the first scenes in The Picture of Dorian Gray rely on themes from Genesis 2-3 of the Hebrew Bible (Christian bibles refer to this as the Old Testament).
Read the following section from the Hebrew Bible
1) Which character is most like the snake/ha’Satan? Explain your ideas.
I Would say Harry. He is angry with society it
seems but he is such a hypocrit. And it’s a sin to be a hypocrit. He will say something and controdict himself in the next sentence. He is always saying how no man has right to judge and he is ALWAYS judging. He’s very into how nothing can be predetermined, how you must find out through experimentation but he has soo many theories rooted in who knows what. He also is using Dorian for an experiment to amuse himself. He sees that Dorian is (or was I guess) pure and had a beautiful energy and his interest are sucking that energy and corrupting the purity. He exposes Dorian to a lot of fascinating things that test Dorian’s goodness and this is so much like the nature of the devil.
2) Which character is most like Adam? Explain your ideas.
Dorian. Dorian is most like Adam because he gives into temptation. He is so new like Adam and Naïve that he has no caution. He eats up what Harry tells him. He basically believes everything Harry says and really seems to be under some sort of spell cast by Harry. He had no thoughts or cares about his own beauty and that changed almost with a snap of the fingers. Then he became sick at the thought that he would not be beautiful forever and wished the painting would age instead of him. When he realized this wish came true, first, before knowing that Sybil had killed herself, he decided to be good, he did not want any more ugliness on his painting or on him. Then once he learned that Sybil killed herself, and then Harry gave him a big head by talking about the beauty of this trajedy and how it said something grand about Dorian that Sybil had killed herself for her love for him, now he liked the idea of being able to commit sins and not having them show on his body or face but being able to hide them away in the painting. So he decided he would take advantage of this phenomenon much like Adam decided he would eat the forbidden fruit.
your ideas.
Dorian, for a similar reason that he is like Adam. He gives into temptation. Another way he is like eve is that he lets people push him around.
sections? Explain your ideas.
I would say the person who is most divine is Dorian but I would not say he is like god. I don’t think any human is like god. But some of us are very powerful/ have special powers. I do think Dorian is an angel of some sort or some sort of incarnated divine creature. I think this because he was able to do magic with his wish and because of the way he is physically is very angel like. Also, in the beginning, his naïve nature was like someone who is not used to the planet earth.
13-14 affect Dorian Grey? What “Fresh impulses” does the boy have?
First Dorian made a whole new expression. Lord Henry got him thinking about things that had never crossed his mind. He has to ask Henry to stop talking so he could ponder this upsetting information. It stirred him “like music”. Henry’s theories were the start of Dorian losing his ignorance which lead to him losing his innocence because the more he knew the more he wanted to experience and feel.
painting and what stops him?
Because Dorian gets mad after realizing that beauty does not last forever and the painting will always look the same (or so he thinks at that time) while he will slowly decay. He feels the painting will mock him. He says he will kill himself whens he finds hes growing old. He is jealous of the picture and everything whos beauty will not die. Basil blames this behavior on Henry (whos fault it is)They are all starting to bicker and Basil is hurt and offended that this is going on after all he put into the painting. So in order to stop the bickering and to stop Dorian’s nonsense and maybe also out of some spite, he threatens to slash the painting and he is about to but Dorian jumps up and stops him saying “it would be murder”. I think on some level Dorian already knew all about the spell he had just cast with his wish.
love with Sybil Vane in Chapter III?
Because he discovered her sort of randomly one night at a low grade theater. She acted a different role every night of the week and she was a brilliant actress. He thinks her virtues are good enough to be seen by the world and he is determined to love her and make her a star. He becomes obsessed and goes every night. Henry has some sort of power of Dorian and so Dorian is just drawn to tell him everything.
Sybil perform in Chapter V?
Sybil’s acting is terrible and Basil, Henry and most of the audience leave long before the play is over. Dorian stays and then goes to find out what is wrong with Sybil.
event(s) in Chapter VI
Dragons were mentioned for the second time. This time it was a blue dragon bowl filled with yellow roses. Dragons are supernatural and they are also known to be the spirit guids of wizards. That’s just something small though. After Dorian sees the way the picture has changed then then feels bad for the way he treated Sybil and wants to make amends and marry her after all. So he pours his hear out in a letter. A little later, Henry comes by and tells Dorian that Sybil killed herself and he is barely upset. More relieved. Henry explains to Dorian how miserable he would have been if he had gotten married and goes on one of his rants about how it’s a beautiful trajedy and how Dorian is special to have had someone kill themselves for love of him. Dorian totally buys this all and his head gets even bigger. Dorian decides that the portrait will bare the burden of his shame. He decides to take advantage of this and he turns away from his insistance on having a pure soul.
I think Dorian is going to get more and more conceited do more and more bad, harmful and wrong things. I think Henry is going to ride on Dorian’s fame and continue to gas him up with all those theories and confuse him with all those contradictions and Basil is going to be sick with sadness. I think ish is gona go downnnnn. the waters r gona get rough!
Thursday, April 14, 2011
OOOH I HAD THE FEELING THE STORY WAS EDITEDDD FOR HOLLYWOOD STANDARDS SAKE;; (wikipedia info))
EARLY LIFE
Nash was born on June 13, 1928, in Bluefield, West Virginia. His father, after whom he is named, was an electrical engineer for the Appalachian Electric Power Company. His mother, Margaret, had been a school teacher prior to marriage. Nash's parents pursued opportunities to supplement their son's education with encyclopedias and even allowed him to take advanced mathematics courses at a local college while still in high school. Nash accepted a scholarship to Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) and graduated with a Master's Degree in only three years.[3]
Nash was born on June 13, 1928, in Bluefield, West Virginia. His father, after whom he is named, was an electrical engineer for the Appalachian Electric Power Company. His mother, Margaret, had been a school teacher prior to marriage. Nash's parents pursued opportunities to supplement their son's education with encyclopedias and even allowed him to take advanced mathematics courses at a local college while still in high school. Nash accepted a scholarship to Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) and graduated with a Master's Degree in only three years.[3]
Personal life
Per Nash's biography, from 1951 onwards, he had a liaison with a nurse, Eleanor Stier. She bore a child named John David Stier. Though Nash had thought of marrying her, he later decided against it and left them.
In 1951, Nash went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a C. L. E. Moore Instructor in the mathematics faculty. There, he met Alicia Lopez-Harrison de Lardé (born January 1, 1933), a physics student from El Salvador, whom he married in February 1957. She admitted Nash to a mental hospital in 1959 for schizophrenia; their son, John Charles Martin Nash, was born soon afterward, but remained nameless for a year because his mother felt that her husband should have a say in the name.
Nash and de Lardé divorced in 1963, though after his final hospital discharge in 1970 Nash lived in de Lardé's house. In 1994, Nash won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, following which he and de Lardé resumed their romantic relationship. They were remarried in 2001.
Schizophrenia
Nash began to show signs of extreme paranoia and his wife later described his behavior as erratic, as he began speaking of characters like Charles Herman and William Parcher who were putting him in danger. Nash seemed to believe that all men who wore red ties were part of a communist conspiracy against him. Nash mailed letters to embassies inWashington, D.C., declaring that they were establishing a government.[8][9]
He was admitted to the McLean Hospital, April–May 1959, where he was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. The clinical picture is dominated by relatively stable, often paranoid, fixed beliefs that are either false, over-imaginative or unrealistic, usually accompanied by experiences of seemingly real perception of something not actually present — particularly auditory and perceptional disturbances, a lack of motivation for life, and mild clinical depression.[10] Upon his release, Nash resigned from MIT, withdrew his pension, and went to Europe, unsuccessfully seeking political asylum in France and East Germany. He tried to renounce his U.S. citizenship. After a problematic stay in Paris and Geneva, he was arrested by the French police and deported back to the United States at the request of the U.S. government.
-------> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forbes_Nash,_Jr.
I wonder what really went down with the whole hospitalization and medication and schizophrenia thing. I wonder because the US requested him back!? My questions are a lot about where those delusions came from? If he was so brilliant maybe someone would be using him for some secret government something. Who ever that person was definitely would not be the one everrr coming clean to any piece of the public let alone Hollywood. But if they were really just delusions, he was just unjustly conceited? haha. ohhh hollywood making everything look soo cute *EYE ROLL. He was was so paranoid specifically about the red scare and the Russians and all those Mcarthy era paranoias. It was 1954 so it makes sense but I wonder why how those delusions stuck with him somehow, where did they come from? It wasn't even that he was paranoid at first. He "imagined" being employed by a secret sect of the government. For all we know this movie was total propaganda and they paid him off. Maybe they didn't even have to pay him off. Because he won the nobel peace prize. That was his pay off. After the government abused him they decided to confuse him more. So now he has to smile and be nice for the lying hollywood lenses right? Plus they made him so much more dreamy than he really is in the depiction. He was paranoid about all guys with red ties (in real life)!? They totally didn't depict him the way he really was in the movie. And in the movie his wife stayed by his side. She almost sold him out then she came back up the stairs and we were like ohh yes she is a ride-or-die. But in real life, not that their love isn't amazing and real (cause they're back together to this day since 2001) but it was not such a "perfect love story" like it reallllllly seemed like. It really was to the point where it was unrealistic. As i watched i was like wow thats amazing.....and it wasn't even really like that... and she did have him committed and they got divorced and all that. They also neglected to mention that his wife, who's real name is Alicia Lopez-Harrison de Lardé (She's Alisha in the movie...) is Latina, Lopez! *shaking my head...By the way, there is not one single non-white person in the whole movie. And if that was back in the 50's at Princeton and she was a student, thats definitely not irrelevant that she is a person of color. I mean granted she is very light but still. WOW. So much more to the story! The Angles reeeeek like propaganda. I bet he was way more abusive than they showed too. Like how did that baby stay the same age for two years? I bet that boy was around to see way more insanity than they allowed us to see. And he (John) was in jail! He seeked political freedom in Europe! hmmm! There was something real to his "delusions" at someee point! I'm convinced. They cut out soo much... <-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------just some tid-bits & thoughts/rantings. Assignment on its way
Thursday, April 7, 2011
HEY GUYSSSSS
never ignore clear signs :):):)
i dont believe this quiz actually determines anything for sure
<table border=1><tr><td> <table> <tr> <td colspan=2 align=center><b>Right Brain/ Left Brain Quiz</b></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan=2 align=left>The higher of these two numbers below indicates which side of your brain has dominance in your life. Realising your right brain/left brain tendancy will help you interact with and to understand others.</td> </tr> <tr nowrap><td valign=top align=right>Left Brain Dominance: </td><td align=left><img src="http://www.intelliscript.net/test_area/questionnaire/bar_graph.gif" width=36 height=12 alt="6">(6)</td></tr><tr nowrap><td valign=top align=right>Right Brain Dominance: </td><td align=left><img src="http://www.intelliscript.net/test_area/questionnaire/bar_graph.gif" width=66 height=12 alt="11">(11)</td></tr> <tr> <td colspan=2 align=center><font size=1><a href="http://www.intelliscript.net/test_area/questionnaire/questionnaire.cgi?q=questionnaire_ini">Right Brain/ Left Brain Quiz</a></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr></table>
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Monday, April 4, 2011
"How Wandered Alice Beacme Warrior Alice and Why" Summary
This Article by Kristina Aikens addresses Alice's strong and fearless personality. We see this all throughout the story; Alice is on a bold exploration mission. Aikens talks about how Alice, all through the century and counting since she was introduced to us in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has become a mascot for those of us who consider ourselves outside of the norm. Aikens also delves into Alice’s extremely paradoxical manner. Alice in some ways is very feminine in a traditional sense when it comes to her appearance. At the same time, she is nothing like what a “young girl should” be like because of the way she addresses authority and just her manners in general; “Alice is rash, impetuous, highly argumentative and often rude…” says Aikens. Not only all this but Alice has no trouble declaring herself the heroine when she realizes she is in the middle of something like a fairy tale and a book should be written about her. So she decides she will one day be the one to write it, taking charge. And Then she ends up way to big for the Rabbit’s domestic home which Aikens suggests is a symbol that Alice does not fit into the traditional role she is expected to fill as a woman as keeper of the home. Aikens talks about how “curiosity is a tricky trait”; one must be active at the rights times and passive at the right times. A questioner and an observer. Alice has it in her, all of it. “her willingness to go anywhere or try anything, no matter how stranger or absurd or even potentially dangerous is the character’s most appealing and beloved attribute”, says Aikens. There is some dispute that Alice’s lack of control does not lend itself to the concept of feminism but the author concludes that all the paradoxes within Alice make her a complex female character that is a true depiction of the potential within a woman’s power. Then Aikens goes into how Alice and her story have become mascots also for those who experiment with drugs. This is because Alice’s adventure definitely has a lot to do with questioning reality and traveling to alternate realities which are themes that also saturate the drug culture. Also, all Alice’s substance intake is often compared to drugs. The author likes Tim Burton’s remake of Alice in Wonderland because there is no question that Alice is “The Alice”, the only one who can do what she can do. In the end she partners with her father in business and real steps her foot into the “male world” with force.
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