Comparative Essay

          Imagine a sound just outside the field of your peripheral vision, or an action that inspires or outrages you. Being a slave from the "Allegory of the Cave", your response to this event would be bewildering. On the other hand, Estella from "No Exit", would now how to take this response and show it through her emptions. Their response reflects the characterization, theme, tone, and general philosophy of the author, Plato and Sartre, who created the characters.

Thinking Outside The Box

1) Think about the place you have chosen as your hell. Does it look ordinary and bourgeois, like Sartre's drawing room, or is it equipped with literal instruments of torture like Dante's Inferno? Can the mind be in hell in a beautiful place? Is there a way to find peace in a hellish physical environment? Enter Sartre's space more fully and imagine how it would feel to live there endlessly, night and day:

My hell would be a place where I was all alone with no one to talk to. It would be white walls with a sharp painful sound of silence. The mind can be in hell in a beautiful place because the mind is a very powerful thing and once it takes control, it doesn't matter where you are. There is in fact a way to find peace in a hellish physical environment, but usually the people put in hell aren't able to find it. I couldn't even imagine living in hell endlessly night and day. It would be like dying painfully over and over again, which I have never experienced.

Allegory of the Cave Sonnet

Living in a cave is like a life without water
People don't understand what they don't know
Where outside there is sun and it is hotter
Being enlightened helps people to grow

Our senses of what is real, our minds will conceal
Plato explains that we have become blinded
To those captured inside they think it's surreal
Bound in shackles they aren't open minded

When one becomes free, his ideas are shifted
Trying to shine light has but none effect
Our comfort deems more important than was gifted
Our skins tells our thoughts it should reject

Humans were only raised with a sheltered mentality
It's our decision to ensure it doesn't stay our finality

Plato Study Questions for Allegory of the Cave

The Allegory of the Cave in located here.

1. According to Socrates, what does the Allegory of the Cave represent?

The Allegory of the Cave represents an extended metaphor that is to contrast the way in which we perceive and believe in what is reality.

Mind Maps

The websites that I found for mind maps are located below.

http://www.smartdraw.com/specials/ppc/mindmapping.htm?id=31671&gclid=CMeW3KKd4roCFU-CQgodY30AlQ

http://www.mindmup.com/

We Hang Together

These notes are on The Roles of Interdependence in Strategic Collaboration. This article is found here.

Interdependence-The key to any strategic alliance, community partnership, or interpersonal collaboration.

"To deal with unforeseen contingencies, the partners must make decisions jointly."

We depend on each other for our existence and survival.

"The distinction between fighting the absence of a valuable resource versus attracting, cultivating, and depending upon the resource itself is critical."

Poetic Inquiry

My big question was.... What would the world be like now without electronics? Would we all be different and how would we be different?

Recipe to You
By: Jenna G

We eat, we sleep, we get up and repeat.
Never to care to add a little spice;
And pick up our sticks to play a drum beat
Or roll your life by playing with the dice.

Our life is a result of what we make
Add sugar and spice plus everything nice;
It should turn out to be a grand big cake.
Don’t forget love, it will double the price.

Homemade cookies always beat the store bought brands;
So reach for the stars and shoot for the moon
Don’t be afraid to take hold of your hands
Turn that spoon like you a flying baboon.

Ingredients are only up to you;
There is no book or even a how-to.

• I chose this sonnet, because without technology our life is still our life and this is how we should take it head on. I got this sonnet here.

Sonnet Analysis #1

• Sonnets come from the Italian word meaning little sound; little song.
• A poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
• A Petrarch is divided into an octect and a sixtect.
• A Shakespearian is divided into three quatrians and a cuplet.

Hamlet Remix

        Actions speak louder than words. Whose to say they both can't take on the same degree of impact. The term performative utterance suggests that there is a division between what is said and what is done. When you read "Hamlet", by William Shakespeare, you find that the way Hamlet speaks constitutes action in itself. He is able to impact the characters and the plot of the play, by his use of words, actions and inability of self expression.

Hamlet Essay

         Actions speak louder than words. Whose to say they both can't take on the same degree of impact. The term performative utterance suggests that there is a division between what is said and what is done. When you read "Hamlet", by William Shakespeare, you find that the way Hamlet speaks constitutes action in itself. He is able to impact the characters and the plot of the play, by his use of words, actions and inability of self expression.

Vocabulary #9

1) Aficionado: enthusiast: somebody who is enthusiastic and knowledgeable about something

2) Browbeat: intimidate, typically into doing something, with stern or abusive words

3) Commensurate: corresponding in size or degree; in proportion