Monday, December 14, 2009
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Blog Assignment 3 - Julius Caesar Act II and III
Brutus’ Nightmare
Diary, the dream I had last night was like no other I’ve had before. I don’t know if it was a sign from the gods or I am simply going mad. Whatever it is, I’m now certain on the choice of allegiance I’m about to make. This is my dream.
I opened my eyes and the whole world became clear. I got out of my bed, which strangely was in the middle of a street. Roman citizens gathered round me all smiling and laughing. I had know clue why they where doing this so I took another look at my bed and I jumped with fear. I saw a bloody human arm coming out from underneath my bed. I looked back at the citizens but they didn’t even notice, still seeming to have the time of their lives watching me and laughing with a maniacal joy. With great effort I managed to move the bed to reveal the gruesome body of Caesar, crushed by my bed and stabbed in the heart. He was coughing up blood like a fountain and making a low moan. I pulled out the knife from Caesar’s body but it was to no avail, even more blood started to come out of Caesar’s body. Scared for Caesar’s life I turned around and yelled to the citizens “Help, Caesar is dieing!” They suddenly stopped their laughing and to my horror, each one of them stuck out a long thick tongue, saliva flowing out their gaping mouths. Suddenly they all ran to Caesar chanting his name, had they not realized what they had become? They crowded around Caesar and when I saw what they where doing felt sick to my stomach. They started to feast on Caesar’s corpse, their giant tongues slurping up his blood. I couldn’t just watch my friend die so using the knife I stabbed one of the citizens in the back. I stepped away, horrified with what I’d done. Suddenly all of the citizen’s stopped their gorging. Then the citizen I stabbed turned his head one-hundred and eighty degrees to look at me. When I saw the citizen’s face I started to bawl. It was Caesar, they where all Caesar. The Caesar I had stabbed pulled out the blood soaked knife and stabbed the copse they were eating. Then in the blink of an eye, they disappeared. I crouched down beside the copse and started to laugh like a mad man. I had lost my mind, all reality was lost. The corpse wasn’t Caesar anymore, it was me. I had been eaten by the Caesars. The corpse opened its eyes and looked at me. It smiled and then whispered “Death to all but Caesar.”
Diary, the dream I had last night was like no other I’ve had before. I don’t know if it was a sign from the gods or I am simply going mad. Whatever it is, I’m now certain on the choice of allegiance I’m about to make. This is my dream.
I opened my eyes and the whole world became clear. I got out of my bed, which strangely was in the middle of a street. Roman citizens gathered round me all smiling and laughing. I had know clue why they where doing this so I took another look at my bed and I jumped with fear. I saw a bloody human arm coming out from underneath my bed. I looked back at the citizens but they didn’t even notice, still seeming to have the time of their lives watching me and laughing with a maniacal joy. With great effort I managed to move the bed to reveal the gruesome body of Caesar, crushed by my bed and stabbed in the heart. He was coughing up blood like a fountain and making a low moan. I pulled out the knife from Caesar’s body but it was to no avail, even more blood started to come out of Caesar’s body. Scared for Caesar’s life I turned around and yelled to the citizens “Help, Caesar is dieing!” They suddenly stopped their laughing and to my horror, each one of them stuck out a long thick tongue, saliva flowing out their gaping mouths. Suddenly they all ran to Caesar chanting his name, had they not realized what they had become? They crowded around Caesar and when I saw what they where doing felt sick to my stomach. They started to feast on Caesar’s corpse, their giant tongues slurping up his blood. I couldn’t just watch my friend die so using the knife I stabbed one of the citizens in the back. I stepped away, horrified with what I’d done. Suddenly all of the citizen’s stopped their gorging. Then the citizen I stabbed turned his head one-hundred and eighty degrees to look at me. When I saw the citizen’s face I started to bawl. It was Caesar, they where all Caesar. The Caesar I had stabbed pulled out the blood soaked knife and stabbed the copse they were eating. Then in the blink of an eye, they disappeared. I crouched down beside the copse and started to laugh like a mad man. I had lost my mind, all reality was lost. The corpse wasn’t Caesar anymore, it was me. I had been eaten by the Caesars. The corpse opened its eyes and looked at me. It smiled and then whispered “Death to all but Caesar.”
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Blog Assignment 2 - Julius Caesar Act I: Rome Tonight
Hi, I’m Gary Dart and this is (trumpet flourishes) Rome Tonight! Today on a very special episode of Rome Tonight we’re dedicating a whole episode to the arrest of Marullus and Flavius. That’s right folks, Marullus and Flavius have been silenced, talk about scandalous! But are they wronged political activitists or Tribune vandals who abused their powers? That is the question! Stay tuned to find out!
*commercial for Al Kazard’s real scimitars*
And we’re back! So, Marullus and Flavius’ silencing, how’d it all go down? Well let’s start back at square one. Yesterday at the feast of Lupercal, the two tribunes walked down the streets and saw all of these common folk standing, worshiping Caesar. This infuriated Marullus and Flavius who’d thought these men of trade had forgotten all about good ol’ Pompey and how he did a lot of great things for Rome and how he used to be loved by all Romans. Marullus and Flavius, being confused by the gathering of workmen basking in the glory of Caesar, asked the common folk what they could possibly be doing outside and away from their workspace. Well, not exactly. We have reports of Marullus and Flavius calling the common folk a variety of different insults and general slander. Please take heed, the following works are graphic and explicit, younger audiences, pregnant women and people with serious heart conditions should block their ears. They referred to the people as idle creatures, naughty knaves, saucy fellows, blocks and worse than senseless things! We even have word that Flavius told the men to cry into a river until it overflows! These men truly are despicable, but did they deserve their punishment? Stay tuned for the real reason Flavius and Marullus where arrested.
*Fjord chariots, build tough, Fjord tough.*
Now for the moment you’ve all been waiting for the real reason Flavius and Marullus got arrested. After slandering the people, Flavius and Marullus devised a plan to rid the streets of Caesar posters! Can you believe it? They actually went as low as to rip Caesar’s banners off the walls of houses and buildings! They of course were caught and like all criminals should be, were put away for vandalism. Now this is just me but I think they are Tribune vandals who abused their powers and deserve their sentence. Good night everyone.
*commercial for Al Kazard’s real scimitars*
And we’re back! So, Marullus and Flavius’ silencing, how’d it all go down? Well let’s start back at square one. Yesterday at the feast of Lupercal, the two tribunes walked down the streets and saw all of these common folk standing, worshiping Caesar. This infuriated Marullus and Flavius who’d thought these men of trade had forgotten all about good ol’ Pompey and how he did a lot of great things for Rome and how he used to be loved by all Romans. Marullus and Flavius, being confused by the gathering of workmen basking in the glory of Caesar, asked the common folk what they could possibly be doing outside and away from their workspace. Well, not exactly. We have reports of Marullus and Flavius calling the common folk a variety of different insults and general slander. Please take heed, the following works are graphic and explicit, younger audiences, pregnant women and people with serious heart conditions should block their ears. They referred to the people as idle creatures, naughty knaves, saucy fellows, blocks and worse than senseless things! We even have word that Flavius told the men to cry into a river until it overflows! These men truly are despicable, but did they deserve their punishment? Stay tuned for the real reason Flavius and Marullus where arrested.
*Fjord chariots, build tough, Fjord tough.*
Now for the moment you’ve all been waiting for the real reason Flavius and Marullus got arrested. After slandering the people, Flavius and Marullus devised a plan to rid the streets of Caesar posters! Can you believe it? They actually went as low as to rip Caesar’s banners off the walls of houses and buildings! They of course were caught and like all criminals should be, were put away for vandalism. Now this is just me but I think they are Tribune vandals who abused their powers and deserve their sentence. Good night everyone.
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Blog Assignment 1 - Silent Reading Book Introduction
Blog Assignment 1 - Silent Reading Book Introduction
Good Copy
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1. The book I am using for my silent reading assignment is Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins. Suzanne Collins has written a number of books ranging from children's books like Gregor the Overlander, to more advanced fictions like Catching Fire and its prequel, The Hunger Games. But before that, she was a writer for children's television shows. Collins lives in Connecticut with her family and 3 feral kittens that she found on the street.
2. Catching Fire is an awesome book about North America in the future and how one city called The Capitol rules over 12 districts with an iron fist and uses The Hunger Games to keep fear fresh in the district’s hearts. Each year the hunger games are held and all twelve districts must send two unwilling teenagers to fight to the death on live TV for the capitol’s amusement. Now usually only one person can survive the games but this year Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Milark from district twelve have both cheated there way out of the hunger games, both surviving what was thought un-survivable. The president of the capitol is furious because there actions where rebellious to the capitol causing; as the year went by, some of the other districts started to rebel too. The president wants them dead, so the next year he makes the next theme of the 75th hunger games special, so that all of the previous winners have to go back and fight again! Will Katniss and Peeta survive yet again? Or will they both die at the hands of the cold-blooded killers that won the previous years? Read the book and see!
3. The setting of this story is a post-nuclear war North America. You can feel the death and despair that plagues the twelve districts as they have to work for the Capitol because they lost this horrible war. The districts are poverty filled communities that are completely controlled by the Capitol with them having to give all of their goods away to better the Capitol's economy they have hardly anything to keep themselves alive!When you read this book you can really sense the hopelessness the people that live in the districts feel. Most houses are falling apart while the people who live in theses houses only really use them to sleep because the Capitol works them like mules. The people in the capitol, however, live in a utopian society and don’t have to work for anything. All of these things make the world of catching fire all the more hopeless and dismal.
4. The protagonist of this story is Katniss Everdeen. She lives in the twelfth district and has just won the Hunger Games along with Peeta Milark. Two personality traits I’d give her are empowered and positive. First of, Katniss lives with her little sister and her mother. Since her father had died, she had provided for the family because her mother was sick of depression from his death which kind of made her the leader of the family. Something else that makes her empowered is her hunting ability. She is quite skilled with a bow and arrow because throughout her life, she has had to hunt and trap animals to help feed her family. This helped her a lot in the games because she could spot someone in hiding and take someone down with a bow and arrow easily. I also think that because of her hunting, she was not only physically strong, but years of gutting animals meant that her mind could handle a lot of disturbing things. This brings me to my second trait for Katniss. Though all of her horrible injuries like killer bee stings, terrible burns and even psychological torture, Katniss remained determined to survive the games. She held on to her sanity through everything the Capitol threw at her and came out alive. Even in the first book The Hunger Games when her father died she could have ended up like her mom and wilted away but she pushed through those hard years and kept her and her family alive, that’s positive.
5. I’d say Catching fire is one of my favourite books of all time but I strongly suggest that you read the first book in the trilogy, The Hunger Games. This is also a book is also very well written and the plot will make alot more sense if you read it first like it was intended to be read. I just love the action suspense and thrills that both of these books deliver and think they are both amazing. So what are you waiting for? Buy those books NOW!
Good Copy
http://www.hungergamestrilogy.com/fansite/
1. The book I am using for my silent reading assignment is Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins. Suzanne Collins has written a number of books ranging from children's books like Gregor the Overlander, to more advanced fictions like Catching Fire and its prequel, The Hunger Games. But before that, she was a writer for children's television shows. Collins lives in Connecticut with her family and 3 feral kittens that she found on the street.
2. Catching Fire is an awesome book about North America in the future and how one city called The Capitol rules over 12 districts with an iron fist and uses The Hunger Games to keep fear fresh in the district’s hearts. Each year the hunger games are held and all twelve districts must send two unwilling teenagers to fight to the death on live TV for the capitol’s amusement. Now usually only one person can survive the games but this year Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Milark from district twelve have both cheated there way out of the hunger games, both surviving what was thought un-survivable. The president of the capitol is furious because there actions where rebellious to the capitol causing; as the year went by, some of the other districts started to rebel too. The president wants them dead, so the next year he makes the next theme of the 75th hunger games special, so that all of the previous winners have to go back and fight again! Will Katniss and Peeta survive yet again? Or will they both die at the hands of the cold-blooded killers that won the previous years? Read the book and see!
3. The setting of this story is a post-nuclear war North America. You can feel the death and despair that plagues the twelve districts as they have to work for the Capitol because they lost this horrible war. The districts are poverty filled communities that are completely controlled by the Capitol with them having to give all of their goods away to better the Capitol's economy they have hardly anything to keep themselves alive!When you read this book you can really sense the hopelessness the people that live in the districts feel. Most houses are falling apart while the people who live in theses houses only really use them to sleep because the Capitol works them like mules. The people in the capitol, however, live in a utopian society and don’t have to work for anything. All of these things make the world of catching fire all the more hopeless and dismal.
4. The protagonist of this story is Katniss Everdeen. She lives in the twelfth district and has just won the Hunger Games along with Peeta Milark. Two personality traits I’d give her are empowered and positive. First of, Katniss lives with her little sister and her mother. Since her father had died, she had provided for the family because her mother was sick of depression from his death which kind of made her the leader of the family. Something else that makes her empowered is her hunting ability. She is quite skilled with a bow and arrow because throughout her life, she has had to hunt and trap animals to help feed her family. This helped her a lot in the games because she could spot someone in hiding and take someone down with a bow and arrow easily. I also think that because of her hunting, she was not only physically strong, but years of gutting animals meant that her mind could handle a lot of disturbing things. This brings me to my second trait for Katniss. Though all of her horrible injuries like killer bee stings, terrible burns and even psychological torture, Katniss remained determined to survive the games. She held on to her sanity through everything the Capitol threw at her and came out alive. Even in the first book The Hunger Games when her father died she could have ended up like her mom and wilted away but she pushed through those hard years and kept her and her family alive, that’s positive.
5. I’d say Catching fire is one of my favourite books of all time but I strongly suggest that you read the first book in the trilogy, The Hunger Games. This is also a book is also very well written and the plot will make alot more sense if you read it first like it was intended to be read. I just love the action suspense and thrills that both of these books deliver and think they are both amazing. So what are you waiting for? Buy those books NOW!
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
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