This Hamlet comparision paper has been the hardest of the papers yet. I don't know if it is the lack of time... the stress of finals week... or if it is just the fact that I have 18 credit hours of stuff cramming itself into my life. Monday is crazy day where each and every teacher has given me work that is due including Final exams and Crazy long papers and efolios on top of that, not to mention the suprise from a teacher that "hey now the final is going to be seated and your not allowed to have notes (even though I have allowed you to use them on EVERY OTHER EXAM...) this way I can shatter your "A" that you have maintained all semester :D
I can throughly say that I can not do this on my own and I thank the Lord for being there to keep me sane b/c without Him I would flatline :D
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
The poem I wrote for class called "Dear God"
Dear God,
Why? Why does it have to come to a tear falling from my eye?
Dear God,
What? What did I do to deserve this horrible fate, living in a world filled with hate?
Dear God,
How come I can’t turn a corner without seeing pain, without seeing someone just trying to gain the wealth to sustain their pleasure? How come husbands and wives can’t stay together?
Dear God,
When? When did all this confusion begin? Begin to fog, begin to cloud, begin to draw everyone into the same crowd?
Dear God,
Who? Who is it this world thinks they can turn to? To try to escape the judgment they will one day have to face? To me this world has become a disgrace.
Dear God,
I prayed for the world today, but what difference does it make anyway?
See there’s nothing I can do, but try to bring people to you.
Dear God,
I know you have armed me with the strength for the battle, because it says so in
Psalm 18:39.
Its time to go.
The battle awaits.
Its time to bring people to heavens gates.
By: Brittney DiCesare
Why? Why does it have to come to a tear falling from my eye?
Dear God,
What? What did I do to deserve this horrible fate, living in a world filled with hate?
Dear God,
How come I can’t turn a corner without seeing pain, without seeing someone just trying to gain the wealth to sustain their pleasure? How come husbands and wives can’t stay together?
Dear God,
When? When did all this confusion begin? Begin to fog, begin to cloud, begin to draw everyone into the same crowd?
Dear God,
Who? Who is it this world thinks they can turn to? To try to escape the judgment they will one day have to face? To me this world has become a disgrace.
Dear God,
I prayed for the world today, but what difference does it make anyway?
See there’s nothing I can do, but try to bring people to you.
Dear God,
I know you have armed me with the strength for the battle, because it says so in
Psalm 18:39.
Its time to go.
The battle awaits.
Its time to bring people to heavens gates.
By: Brittney DiCesare
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
How Do I Love Thee by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I thought that this poem was a great representation of what love can be. I can relate to specific lines in this poem including:
- For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
- I love thee freely, as men strive for Right.
- Smiles, tears of all my life!- and, if God choose, I shall love thee better after death.
These few lines grasp my soul so deeply. Not only has God allowed me to feel this way about His God given gift to me, Thomas, but He has shown me His greatness and His neverending greatness.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Class and this paper
I really think that Monday's class helped me a whole lot! Thank you Ms. Frailly for all your help!!
I think that my paper will finally have the completed touch once I put the ideas of everyone on to it :)
I think that my paper will finally have the completed touch once I put the ideas of everyone on to it :)
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Saturday, January 24, 2009
"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
In the story, "The Yellow Wallpaper", the main character, the unnamed narrator (John's wife), is telling her story through journal entries. She tells of this nervous condition that her husband (John, a physician) has diagnosed her with. She also tells about all the ways that John has basically taken over her life and treats her as incapable to take care of herself. He moves them to the country to a very nice house. Inside this house there is this room that is more like a nuthouse than a bedroom.
Inside this room there is this unsightly wallpaper that drives the woman crazy. She asks her husband to remove it, but he says that "nothing was worse for a nervous patient than to give way to such fancies."
Little did John know that this wallpaper would be such a problem and in the end would worsen his wife's condition.
In the narrators mind she sees this wallpaper as a representation of herself and her condition. When she first sees the paper it bothers her and she finds it repusive. At this point her condition has not bothered her too much and though she bothers her to have it, she is capable of carrying on fairly normally.
As the days pass by the wallpaper begins to agitate her more and more. She spends so much time studying the "irritating" wallpaper. At this point her condition has worsened and in her mind her husband is seeming to act more "queer[ly]" towards her.
The paper has now awakened more than just her sight, but also her sense of smell. She says that it has a "yellow smell". At this point her condition is taking over her senses and messing with her mind. She is beginning to loose control.
Now the time of day and night causes the paper to transform. She believes that there is a woman creeping around in the paper who is trying to get out. She believes that during the day the woman escapes and that she can see her creeping about, all around the house. At night the woman is trapped in the midst of the horrid paper. At this point, the narrator sees herself as the woman in the paper. She wants to be free of this condition and all that comes with it. She longs to just escape and leave this all in the past.
Finally the wallpaper has consumed her total existence. She must let the woman escape. She locks the door and begins to tear the wallpaper down all around her. Now consumed by the wallpaper woman her craziness has been unleashed. At this point, she has given up her fight and has become what she so strongly wanted to be free of.
That is why the narrorator and the wallpaper are one in the same.
Inside this room there is this unsightly wallpaper that drives the woman crazy. She asks her husband to remove it, but he says that "nothing was worse for a nervous patient than to give way to such fancies."
Little did John know that this wallpaper would be such a problem and in the end would worsen his wife's condition.
In the narrators mind she sees this wallpaper as a representation of herself and her condition. When she first sees the paper it bothers her and she finds it repusive. At this point her condition has not bothered her too much and though she bothers her to have it, she is capable of carrying on fairly normally.
As the days pass by the wallpaper begins to agitate her more and more. She spends so much time studying the "irritating" wallpaper. At this point her condition has worsened and in her mind her husband is seeming to act more "queer[ly]" towards her.
The paper has now awakened more than just her sight, but also her sense of smell. She says that it has a "yellow smell". At this point her condition is taking over her senses and messing with her mind. She is beginning to loose control.
Now the time of day and night causes the paper to transform. She believes that there is a woman creeping around in the paper who is trying to get out. She believes that during the day the woman escapes and that she can see her creeping about, all around the house. At night the woman is trapped in the midst of the horrid paper. At this point, the narrator sees herself as the woman in the paper. She wants to be free of this condition and all that comes with it. She longs to just escape and leave this all in the past.
Finally the wallpaper has consumed her total existence. She must let the woman escape. She locks the door and begins to tear the wallpaper down all around her. Now consumed by the wallpaper woman her craziness has been unleashed. At this point, she has given up her fight and has become what she so strongly wanted to be free of.
That is why the narrorator and the wallpaper are one in the same.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
The Lame Shall Enter First by Flannery O'Conner
While reading, "The Lame Shall Enter First", One idea kept popping into my head. The story on the surface seemed to be about helping out the less fortunate and the strain that selfishness puts into a relationship. Sheppard appears to be this caring man who wants nothing more than to see Rufus Johnson better himself and his own son, Norton, to learn selflessness through his own selflessness.
Sheppard in all reality had the need of being needed. After losing his wife, he senses a longing for someone or something else that he can support. He couldn't find fufillment for his need in his son, Norton, so he choose the neediest person of all, Rufus. He feels that if he can change this boys life, then there is nothing he can't do. Sheppard believes that he knows everything and the outcome that follows. He truly wants to help Rufus, but it is his need that compells him to do so.
In the end, it is Sheppard's selfishness that causes him to lose both his battle with Rufus and everything that he holds dear to himself. Sheppard spent so much time looking at the bad and distasteful traits that others posessed, that he didn't realize the hippocrite that he had become. So it was Sheppards need to be needed that pushed his most loved posession over the edge.
Sheppard in all reality had the need of being needed. After losing his wife, he senses a longing for someone or something else that he can support. He couldn't find fufillment for his need in his son, Norton, so he choose the neediest person of all, Rufus. He feels that if he can change this boys life, then there is nothing he can't do. Sheppard believes that he knows everything and the outcome that follows. He truly wants to help Rufus, but it is his need that compells him to do so.
In the end, it is Sheppard's selfishness that causes him to lose both his battle with Rufus and everything that he holds dear to himself. Sheppard spent so much time looking at the bad and distasteful traits that others posessed, that he didn't realize the hippocrite that he had become. So it was Sheppards need to be needed that pushed his most loved posession over the edge.
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