Interaction 3

Ever since I dropped my purse, and lost the piece of paper with my number on it, that boy, Sean, has been calling me a lot lately. He's a nice kid, but he's still in high school and still kind of young. Right now, two years seems to be far apart. And to be quite honest, I'm not sure if I really want to be in much of a relationship right now. I'd feel tied down, and that's just not me. Maybe a ride on my street bike will do me some good.

Interaction 2

After I leave the hospital with a neon green cast on my left arm, I walk past a school where I bump into a boy named Sean. Sean was running out of the school when I bumped into him- apparently the principal caught him for doing something. We both round the corner and fall on top of each other. We would have talked for a while more, but he had to get away from the school grounds at the risk of being arrested on the campus. However, when I walked home, I remembered dropping my purse, which had a piece of paper with my number written on it, which I was supposed to have given to a friend. That piece of paper was gone now.

Interaction 1

Jill crashed on her street bike today at 2 in the morning; she broke her left arm. in the
ER she met Lizzy Sue, who is already shocked by society is almost terrified when she sees Jill's flaming red hair.

Jill

Jill is 19 and has moved to town after moving out of her parents' house as soon as she turned 18. Jill has a thing for dying her hair every color of the rainbow. She also loves to drag race on her street bike at 2 in the morning against anyone who is willing.

Cultural Revolution

• Cultural Revolution: The People's Republic of China was in a struggle for power with the Communist of China, which in turn brought People's Republic of China to the brink of Civil War
• Mao Zedong: A Chinese Marxist military and political leader and write who led the Communist Party of China
• Since he was a Marxist, Mao supported the Bourgeois, which was a social class which obtains income from ownership and trade in colonial assets
  
• Mao launched the Cultural Revolution in 1966 as an opposition to Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping, who said Mao should be removed from actual power
• Mao declared the Revolution over in 1966, although it was not officially marked as over in 1976 by the People's Republic of China
• Gang of Four: A group of Communist Party of China leaders in the People's Republic who were arrested and removed from their positions of authority in 1976- they were also blamed for the primary events of the Revolutions
  
• Counter revolutionary: anyone who opposes a revolution- usually after the revolution, as to try and reverse it
  

Antigone-The First Feminazi

Personally, I believe that it is true-women can be like snakes, or vipers, as they "slither around" when they cheat on their husband or boyfriend. However, men can "slither around" to; men cheat on their wives and girlfriends too. both men and women alike can be sleazy- nature does not specifically to one or the other sexes; it goes for both.
in society, women are seen as sleazy and men are jerks. Why? I do not know. Society just makes us out to be that way.
women have a stereotypical way acting, but that does mean that all women fit into this stereotype. Some women are more relaxed and "chill" while others are loud and obnoxious; simple as that. as far as the disloyal thing goes, both men and women can be disloyal, and some are. both can also be snakes. Men are more referred to as "snakes" while women are "bitches".
yes, it is sad that society puts us in these stereotypes, but it does.

What's in the bag response

I do not believe in fate, yet that of freewill. However, at rare times I do believe that things happen for a reason. As with religion, I do not believe that anyone or anything should have the right to control my life, let alone my entire existence. People do make careless decisions everyday, but that does not neccessarily make them decisions of fate. People do everything out of freewill. For example, is it fate if you drink Gatorade or Powerade at practice every day? No, I should think not. That is merely an action of freewill-because you prefer one thing over another. The one big recurring problem I have with fate is the fact that it means that our lives are entirely set out before us before we can even speak. If we were already born to be sinners, would it really matter how we lived our lives? What would be the point if we knew we were going to die condemned anyway

Although, life is not the easiest thing we encounter, it doesn't mean that fate made it hard or easy. Life is hard so we can grow and build from it. You control your own life. For example, if a person goes to school, studies hard, goes to college, and becomes very successful, it is because he or she got themselves there-it was not fate. Working hard to achieve anything in life does not make it fate at all. Working hard is the action of freewill. You do something because you want to or have to, not because it is your fate to.

Free fallin' response

In Oedipus Rex, freewill does not appear anywhere within the context. For example, Oedipus filled the prophecy of his birth precisely as planned without even knowing it. Although he believed that he had stopped it, Oedipus, controlled by fate, apparently had no say within the fate he was to live for.

Page 995; lines 132-138:
"Oh never to have come here
With my father's blood upon me! Never
To have been the man they call his mother's husband!
Oh accurst! Oh child of evil,
to have entered that wretched bed-
the selfsame one!
More primal than sin itself, this fell to me."

This small passage shows how cruel fate can be. Can one be sure of the belief in faith when it can be so mean and unforgiving?-let alone condemning? If the idea of fate is so true, than does that mean that we are born sinners? Ready to go to Hell before we can even walk? In my personal opinion, that whole ordeal of fate is just something that people should have to abide by. In the passage I have chosen, it tells of the horrible prophecy that Oedipus carried out. All of the anguish and despair he feels are able o just appear in these few words-having to curse oneself? Why should anything have such power to control one's fate?

Oedipus Writings

Part 3

1. page 961; line 10 "...I, Oedipus, who bear the famous name...."
page 964; line 134 " Then once more I must bring what is dark to light."
2. The external conflict is the plague that has overtaken the city. Oedipus is viewing children who have fallen victim to this play. He believes that he must once again rise up and save the town. Not a large conflict, but it is the one taking place at the time.
3. Imagery gives the reader a more vivid picture of either what is going on or what is being described (such as an event, landscape, etc.).
4. motifs: fear and dread-the prophecy being fulfilled or has already been fulfilled
reluctance-to tell the truth to the Oedipus, the true killer
an ongoing reference to blindness-the old man seer and the truth
5. They are singing about god and asking whether or not he will heal them or bring them to rest or will he bring more misfortune. They also pray to Athena to bring all the grief yo an end. Towards the end of the song, they tell of the plague and what it has brought upon the city.

Part3

1. page 968; lines 81-83, page 968 lines 68-70 (role)
page 969; lines 104-105, page 969 lines 131-135 (internal conflict)
2. Teiresias infers that Oedipus is the murderer, and he also infers of how he slept with his own mother. Oedipus is appalled by all of this and orders the old seer away. Overall, the conflict is Oedipus not coming to face with the truth.
3. page 970; "You child of endless night! You cannot hurt me or any other man who sees the
sun."
page 969; "The man who dared that act will fear no curse."- unknown to Oedipus, he is the
very man who killed the king
page 969; lines 102-104-Teiresias is telling of how dreadful the knowledge of the truth is and
how he shouldn't have come. this truth, known to us, is that Oedipus killed his father, King
Laos-he's the killer he's been looking for.
page 972; lines 238-245-Tieresias is telling of the prophecy that was fulfilled by Oedipus
(which he believed he missed) and we know indeed that he did not.
5. page 964; line 140 " But for my own sake, to be rid of evil." Oedipus truly has no evil to rid
himself of. However, he does not know of the evil that he killed his own father and married his
mother-he is not aware of the evil that he committed in fulfilling his prophecy.
6. They are singing of how the prophecy came true and how Oedipus must be strong, unknowing that the gods are coming for him-because of the evil he committed (his prophecy). It also sings of the blind old seer, Teiresias, who came and revealed such a wild tale of truth-and now Laios' death was "stained" on Oedipus. It also questioned if it was the truth and if they should believe Oedipus, their "great lord criminal."

MLK

The big deal about MLK is what he stood up for-rights for African Americans everywhere. He stood up in protest on a matter that any one out of the black community wanted anything to do with. This risky protesting and standing out by standing up proved to MLK to be fatal, as he was assassinated. Today, there are still leaders for causes and such, but their really has not been one quite as powerful and moving as Martin Luther King Jr.. I don't know if it's because that there are not such important issues affecting a single group of people everywhere, or if there just is not a need for a leader of such high stature. However, I do think that the time will come when such a leader is called upon again. MLK has accomplished more than an eternity's worth for African Americans across the United States, let alone the world. Although it does not seem as obvious, Luther has done something for the white man as well; he has shown him the ways of brotherhood. I also believe that another one of his intentions as well was to help racist people see the realer side of their segregated reality.