Tragedy a greek word meaning (goat-song) and possibly refering originally to the sacrifice of a goat in the vegetation and fertility rituals assoc. Tragedy means a serious drama typically describing aconflict betweenthe protagonist and a suerior for ( as destiny) and having a sorrowfullor disasterous conclusion that elicits pity or terror. But to me tragedy means disaster something bad that hapened to someone or to meny people at the same time.
In the story of the great gatsby tragedy played a big role throghout the book. For example when Daisy ran over myrtal or when George shot Gatsby becaus Tom told him Gatsby owned the car that killed myrtal. Even when gatsbydied Daisy still stayed with Tom it's like she didn't even cair that Gatsby died for her and that's kind of like a tragedy too.
People well known use the word tragedy in a quote for example:
Oscar Wild who said "Their are only two tragedies in life : one is not getting what one wants ,and the other is getting it," He also said, "Always forgive your enemies-nothing annoys them so much."
Also their was James Earl Jones who said "one of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart thatyou can't utter."
the websites wher I found tragedy is Braintanote marrian webster, ans in google ( tragedy quots) as the key word. The word tragedy in french and latin means "Tragedia," and in greek is "Tragoidia."
Friday, June 1, 2007
Larry Smith Jr Final Exam Essay
The Giver/ Hero’s Journey
Larry Smith Jr
The Giver is a book about this small little town where there’s no color’s at all: just black and white. There’s no feelings in this town nobody cries: if you are born a twin then one of the twins will released meaning will die. You can make no decisions by your self you just go off what they tell you: there’s love either. Jonas is the hero of this book because once he turns twelve he receives a gift which is the receiver that job is very important because the things he learn about he cant tell nobody else he has the memories of everybody. Jonas has to take a pill and Jonas gave gibe a memory. The calling is that he was turning a twelve and now he had to be responsible young man with a big job because Jonas controls every one in their town. The mentor trained Jonas by giving him memories and made him realize how messed up the town was and made him want to run away the wanting of him running away was the transformation.
Larry Smith Jr
The Giver is a book about this small little town where there’s no color’s at all: just black and white. There’s no feelings in this town nobody cries: if you are born a twin then one of the twins will released meaning will die. You can make no decisions by your self you just go off what they tell you: there’s love either. Jonas is the hero of this book because once he turns twelve he receives a gift which is the receiver that job is very important because the things he learn about he cant tell nobody else he has the memories of everybody. Jonas has to take a pill and Jonas gave gibe a memory. The calling is that he was turning a twelve and now he had to be responsible young man with a big job because Jonas controls every one in their town. The mentor trained Jonas by giving him memories and made him realize how messed up the town was and made him want to run away the wanting of him running away was the transformation.
Daniel Willock
For all of you who have not read The Giver, by Lois Lowry, I highly recommend this book to read. For those who have read it I give my respect to them. This book is based on a theory of relativity or sameness. It takes place after many centuries have past when it was first adopted. It is a society of absolute sameness where rarely an unforeseen event occurs. Where their land is flat and everything is a shade of black and white. In this case the color black would represent the unknown or unseen
Jonas is the main character of this story. He goes through a so-called hero’s journey. Jonas starts his journey when he attends the ceremony of twelve. At this ceremony of twelve there is a procedure that a child goes through to determine his or her job. It is a cycle or the unity of their community. Jonas however, is skipped over and did not receive his title. He is in the threshold when everyone at the ceremony realizes at the ceremony realizes that Jonas has been skipped over. He believes that they had forgotten him and that his job maybe worse than any other job. He starts his decent when at the end of the ceremony the announcer states that she is sorry for the anxiety and focuses on Jonas. She tells the crowd that she has skipped Jonas for a very special reason. That he had been chosen to be the next receiver of dreams. This certain job was held as the highest honor. The receiver would receive memories of the past and was to counsel on tasks of great confusion to the community.
On the first day of his assignment Jonas was supposed to show up to a room behind the house of the old, which is a relatively large house. This room could be thought of as the abyss. The doors had locks on them, which was very unusual to him because there were hardly any locks on doors. This room puzzled him because when he was let in, there was a desk in the middle of it. On the right of this desk was another door with locks as well. The person at the desk requested permission to send Jonas in. when Jonas entered the room he was astonished to see a little screen in the corner of the room towards the ceiling with a speaker under it, as well as a little bed in the corner and shelf after shelf after shelf full of books. This is where his mentor lives out his lives. His mentor is the Giver of dreams. The giver mentors him on how to deal with the dreams and memories that he receives from him. The giver is aged in looks but not in actual age. The burden of all the memories has filled him with stress, pain, and anguish. Jonas begins to transform mentally and starts to put more thought into his dreams and thoughts. Jonas soon realizes that the way things are ran in his society is different and wrong from how they used to be decades before, he takes the initiative and decides that he would try to escape the unpleasant world lives in. one night he decides to leave and take a baby with him, named Gabe, who the society was going to release or put to death in a manor of speaking.
He returns to the place where his memories remind him of. Some think he finds a city where sameness doesn’t rule. Personally I believe that at the end of the journey he returns to where all others who seek the impossible and succeed in their own way. He returns to the memories in which he believed in so much. His journey ends with his death; seeking something that may no longer exist. Jonas reminds us that we need to hold onto our beliefs until the very end. That we should follow what we believe is truly right and pure. To also deal with the difficulties along the way.
Jonas is the main character of this story. He goes through a so-called hero’s journey. Jonas starts his journey when he attends the ceremony of twelve. At this ceremony of twelve there is a procedure that a child goes through to determine his or her job. It is a cycle or the unity of their community. Jonas however, is skipped over and did not receive his title. He is in the threshold when everyone at the ceremony realizes at the ceremony realizes that Jonas has been skipped over. He believes that they had forgotten him and that his job maybe worse than any other job. He starts his decent when at the end of the ceremony the announcer states that she is sorry for the anxiety and focuses on Jonas. She tells the crowd that she has skipped Jonas for a very special reason. That he had been chosen to be the next receiver of dreams. This certain job was held as the highest honor. The receiver would receive memories of the past and was to counsel on tasks of great confusion to the community.
On the first day of his assignment Jonas was supposed to show up to a room behind the house of the old, which is a relatively large house. This room could be thought of as the abyss. The doors had locks on them, which was very unusual to him because there were hardly any locks on doors. This room puzzled him because when he was let in, there was a desk in the middle of it. On the right of this desk was another door with locks as well. The person at the desk requested permission to send Jonas in. when Jonas entered the room he was astonished to see a little screen in the corner of the room towards the ceiling with a speaker under it, as well as a little bed in the corner and shelf after shelf after shelf full of books. This is where his mentor lives out his lives. His mentor is the Giver of dreams. The giver mentors him on how to deal with the dreams and memories that he receives from him. The giver is aged in looks but not in actual age. The burden of all the memories has filled him with stress, pain, and anguish. Jonas begins to transform mentally and starts to put more thought into his dreams and thoughts. Jonas soon realizes that the way things are ran in his society is different and wrong from how they used to be decades before, he takes the initiative and decides that he would try to escape the unpleasant world lives in. one night he decides to leave and take a baby with him, named Gabe, who the society was going to release or put to death in a manor of speaking.
He returns to the place where his memories remind him of. Some think he finds a city where sameness doesn’t rule. Personally I believe that at the end of the journey he returns to where all others who seek the impossible and succeed in their own way. He returns to the memories in which he believed in so much. His journey ends with his death; seeking something that may no longer exist. Jonas reminds us that we need to hold onto our beliefs until the very end. That we should follow what we believe is truly right and pure. To also deal with the difficulties along the way.
Mauricio Torres- Final Exam Essay
The Great Gatsby a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a great example of the “American Dream”. The American dream is a greatly misunderstood in my opinion. Yes the American dream is to do well in life whether it is physical, mentally socially or even in the typical economic form but it is all in a destructive form.
The reason I say that the Great Gatsby is a good example is that it does express the destructive form. Gatsby also illustrates another key factor to the American dream and it is that he reinvented himself. He turned himself from a poor army boy to a rich businessman. He went as far as to change his name so that he could change as much possible of himself.
The destructiveness of Gatsby is that the only thing he wanted was Daisy but the only was he was able to get to Daisy was by becoming rich any way possible, which was his strong connections with Meyer Wolfsheim in his strongly suggested illegal practices. Another great example of the destructiveness of the book is the way Daisy and Ton exploited everyone they meet and without regards could at any one moment throw them away as if they were trash and go on living their lives. Tom exploited Daisy and Myrtle. Myrtle cheated on George. Daisy too was having and affair with Gatsby. And lastly Nick who was is suppose to be the innocent one was looking for a reason to leave his girl back home (even if it was a ridiculous reason) to get together with the pretty tennis player Jordon.
All this together is why I believe that American dream is to become what you want at any ones expense which is clearly illustrated by this book.
The reason I say that the Great Gatsby is a good example is that it does express the destructive form. Gatsby also illustrates another key factor to the American dream and it is that he reinvented himself. He turned himself from a poor army boy to a rich businessman. He went as far as to change his name so that he could change as much possible of himself.
The destructiveness of Gatsby is that the only thing he wanted was Daisy but the only was he was able to get to Daisy was by becoming rich any way possible, which was his strong connections with Meyer Wolfsheim in his strongly suggested illegal practices. Another great example of the destructiveness of the book is the way Daisy and Ton exploited everyone they meet and without regards could at any one moment throw them away as if they were trash and go on living their lives. Tom exploited Daisy and Myrtle. Myrtle cheated on George. Daisy too was having and affair with Gatsby. And lastly Nick who was is suppose to be the innocent one was looking for a reason to leave his girl back home (even if it was a ridiculous reason) to get together with the pretty tennis player Jordon.
All this together is why I believe that American dream is to become what you want at any ones expense which is clearly illustrated by this book.
The Giver- Hero's Journey JOHN HERRERO
You can find the hero's journey in the story the giver. The Giver is about a very advanced community that is very simplistic at the same time is full of complex rules.There are many people in this community one of them named Jonas. Jonas at first is the same as the other kids in the community but after the ceremony o0f twelve everything changes. Jonas has been chosen to be the Receiver of memories. The initiation happenswhen Jonas Recieves His First Memory during one of his classes. he gets visions of a world other than his own.When the creation happens is also when Jonas begins to show noticable changes. The giver is Jonas' mentor throught his entire journey. The Giver over time creates a new Jonas.After all his training Jonas now has a calling. His calling is to let his community know about the outside world. Later as the story goes on he has another calling which is to save another life. This is where Gabriel comes in. When Jonas leaves with Gabriel on his bike. He undoubtedly goes into the abyss which is a mystery to him.
Dania Reyes Final Exam Essay
I've been going over it through in my mind. Over, over, over, and over again. I have made a definite that it is a brilliant idea, not brilliant but genius. I will be the solution to pollution.
As to the pollution in our world that causes an illness so malicious and unexpected it creeps with no warning. We first have to get rid of everything that causes the world to be polluted with this illness. We would have to get rid of every sing bit of gold, silver, and anything that is valuable that will make your mind polluted. Even money. Dispose of material pocessions that cause harm to yourself and others.
This pollution causes death between famillies and friends. It will drive you crazy without you knowing how much it affects you.
To be succesful in getting rid of this illnes completely, destroying the material that causes the obssesion. It drives you to make such terible deeds or even think them.
As to the pollution in our world that causes an illness so malicious and unexpected it creeps with no warning. We first have to get rid of everything that causes the world to be polluted with this illness. We would have to get rid of every sing bit of gold, silver, and anything that is valuable that will make your mind polluted. Even money. Dispose of material pocessions that cause harm to yourself and others.
This pollution causes death between famillies and friends. It will drive you crazy without you knowing how much it affects you.
To be succesful in getting rid of this illnes completely, destroying the material that causes the obssesion. It drives you to make such terible deeds or even think them.
Daniel Ramirez Final Exam Essay
In the Giver you could say that the families in that book are functional, well to them. They wake up every morning and do everything perfect you could say. Everyday thay do the same thing.
Everything is chosen for the people. The little girls have to wear ribbons on their hair or else they well get in trouble. The boys and girls have certain year when they get bikes aswwell. When kids turn to 12, a job is chosen for them based on what they did everyday. Before they are assigned a job they have to do community service.
to the people that are reading the book, this is not right. The families don't believe in love, there is no sex, and their families are chosen (includes: Wife, husband, kids nad how many).Having wet dreams and thinking of the oppisite sex well get you in trouble, you well have to take a pill if that happends.
If a laborer has twins, the heaviest twin survives and the other get killed. By the way they have no feelings and have no problem with that. The old people get killed aswell. They get advise from one person "The Giver" that knows our ways. The people don't follow the advise because they think the people wouldn't function in our ways.
Everything is chosen for the people. The little girls have to wear ribbons on their hair or else they well get in trouble. The boys and girls have certain year when they get bikes aswwell. When kids turn to 12, a job is chosen for them based on what they did everyday. Before they are assigned a job they have to do community service.
to the people that are reading the book, this is not right. The families don't believe in love, there is no sex, and their families are chosen (includes: Wife, husband, kids nad how many).Having wet dreams and thinking of the oppisite sex well get you in trouble, you well have to take a pill if that happends.
If a laborer has twins, the heaviest twin survives and the other get killed. By the way they have no feelings and have no problem with that. The old people get killed aswell. They get advise from one person "The Giver" that knows our ways. The people don't follow the advise because they think the people wouldn't function in our ways.
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