Dishonesty sometimes holds a major role in humor, like some people may use sarcasm but others can just lie straight off and make humorous remarks that can turn into gossip. Being dishonest is one of the things comedians do, they make up stories and can also make stuff up about someone in the crowd if they are on stage and making jokes. But dishonesty is at its worst in the way of social institutions, like marriage for example, a married man lies about whether or not he is married just to pick someone up. Or maybe dishonesty can be used for religion and social class, dishonesty works in the same way for both, one can lie about ones class/religion in order to not be discriminated against, like a group of people who are a higher class and are all a different religion.
Also as Wilde shows in his play, The Importance of being Earnest, Wilde shows how high class citizens in the 19/18th century acted out their lives and their pursuit of pleasure. Wilde is showing a satirical view on high class people where they pursuit only pleasure and do not work at all, they always make an excuse to skip work. Take Algernon as an example, he actually tells people he needs to be somewhere to "miss an appointment" where no one in modern day society would say that. Wilde has shown how back then people had just viewed life, in the play life, as a big pleasure, maybe they didn't actually view it that way, but in the play, they were dishonest everyday just to pursue pleasure.
Friday, January 28, 2011
Sunday, January 9, 2011
AF Evaluation
1. Melanie (Power Point): Melanie did a very good job at separating and reorganizing all the components of the novel and who did what parts. I also liked how she gave a separate section for Clover and Boxer where she described them and how boxer was betrayed for his loyalty.
2. Sean (Comic): Sean shows in his comic how each animal eventually notices their own ignorance and sees the selfishness of the pigs.
3. Zach (Song): I like how Zach actually wrote what he thought each part meant instead of just posting the video and letting everyone think of what it meant for themselves. He describes the tune as a somber representation of the corruption of power.
4. Alena (Movie Trailer): Alena described her understanding of the book creatively, The way the book was portrayed was easily understood and I like how they had a doll for every character in the book (or almost every).
5. Will (Comic): In my opinion I say will rushed his comic or didn't spend enough time on it, I don't think he tried at all to portray what had happened, but at least you saw that the pigs came into power even though you don't know how.
6. Leah (Comic): I like how Leah actually described what the pigs meant, that portrays most of the book and shows how the pigs don't actually mean most of what they say.
7. Kayla (Social Pyramid): Kayla did her project very creatively, I think it was one of the most original projects, she describes how each candidate-for-leader's views were and who would be in what sort of class, it was very well done.
8. Sara (Picture): Sara had a nice view of things where the pigs were all nice and cuddly up on the hilltop living lives nice and well when the animals are down on the bottom in the rainy area, it shows how bad the lives had become since Napolean came into power.
9. Katie (Picture): The picture was very creative, have to be honest, wasn't very well made but it was very creative, I could see clearly though at how Napolean was easily tricked into taking fake money.
10. Olivia (Haiku): I don't really understand the point of her haiku, it was like we get that Jones was despised but what comes after? I actually get the last line but the middle one doesn't make too much sense with the rest of it in my mind.
I think my animal farm project could have been a lot better, it was too rushed and I should have taken A LOT more time on it, but when I was doing it all I could think about is it being done. Now I kind of regret it and I know I should have spent more time on it, also I saw some of the ones were done in less time than mine, they weren't really all that great, they didn't portray the literary elements as well as I did, but I didn't portray as well as most people.
2. Sean (Comic): Sean shows in his comic how each animal eventually notices their own ignorance and sees the selfishness of the pigs.
3. Zach (Song): I like how Zach actually wrote what he thought each part meant instead of just posting the video and letting everyone think of what it meant for themselves. He describes the tune as a somber representation of the corruption of power.
4. Alena (Movie Trailer): Alena described her understanding of the book creatively, The way the book was portrayed was easily understood and I like how they had a doll for every character in the book (or almost every).
5. Will (Comic): In my opinion I say will rushed his comic or didn't spend enough time on it, I don't think he tried at all to portray what had happened, but at least you saw that the pigs came into power even though you don't know how.
6. Leah (Comic): I like how Leah actually described what the pigs meant, that portrays most of the book and shows how the pigs don't actually mean most of what they say.
7. Kayla (Social Pyramid): Kayla did her project very creatively, I think it was one of the most original projects, she describes how each candidate-for-leader's views were and who would be in what sort of class, it was very well done.
8. Sara (Picture): Sara had a nice view of things where the pigs were all nice and cuddly up on the hilltop living lives nice and well when the animals are down on the bottom in the rainy area, it shows how bad the lives had become since Napolean came into power.
9. Katie (Picture): The picture was very creative, have to be honest, wasn't very well made but it was very creative, I could see clearly though at how Napolean was easily tricked into taking fake money.
10. Olivia (Haiku): I don't really understand the point of her haiku, it was like we get that Jones was despised but what comes after? I actually get the last line but the middle one doesn't make too much sense with the rest of it in my mind.
I think my animal farm project could have been a lot better, it was too rushed and I should have taken A LOT more time on it, but when I was doing it all I could think about is it being done. Now I kind of regret it and I know I should have spent more time on it, also I saw some of the ones were done in less time than mine, they weren't really all that great, they didn't portray the literary elements as well as I did, but I didn't portray as well as most people.
Friday, January 7, 2011
Animal farm project
This picture represents the order of the story where at first it was Old Major talking about his dream and what the revolution is going to be about, or that it will be coming up. The next is a picture of the animals chasing away the humans and taking the farm away from them. After the humans were chased the animals created new rules and that is what the next picture represents. So on and so forth they live out their lives in peace and prosperity until the windmill gets destroyed by heavy wins and discourages all the animals. That is when the beginning of the troubles started, Napolean started being more of a dictator, and then from then on he started ruling the farm by changing rules, then near the end where the animals got to be just as bad or worse than when they started. Being conned out of most things, getting tricked, and Napolean making agreements with the Humans ruined the purpose of the revolution.
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