Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Value of learning/Value of life

Okay so my week to be is pretty stuffed with this class and some personal stuff, in class is going to be a little confusing because we have no idea what were doing the rest of the week and that's the good and the bad of this class. The one thing we did get assigned is answering the activity questions in this section called the value of life, the reading I chose was Hamlets famous "to be or not to be" soliloquy. Everything I type from this sentence on has to do with the value of life through Hamlet.
  
Activity 1
My thoughts about being alive is that it's a luxury. People always wish that a passed loved one could be "Alive" to enjoy the memorable moments that they have encountered since the passing. Humans that aren't dying are enjoying the luxury of being of being alive, its plain and simple. How do you assign value to life? I've never been so stumped by a question in my life until reading this one, then I realized that there isn't a right or wrong answer to this. We can assign value to life anyway that we desire, no one is the same and everyone has different values and different meanings of value. In life, the little things can be just as challenging as the big things( little problems/ big problems) only because the little things can cause a snow ball effect and just keep getting bigger and bigger. Steve forgot to bring his note cards to Spanish and didn't write the words down so that he could study,forgetting those note cards made him a little behind. "I will do it when I get home" is what Steve told his teacher, instead Steve didn't do the homework and watched T.V. In class he's slap dashing everything together and trying to slide by, test time comes around and he fails the test. Steve's parents are disappointed and ground him, the snow ball will catch up to you and it sucks when it hits you. Now lets try and focus on the good things about life such as your first family vacation, your first date, your first high school dance and your first car, the list can go on and on, I enjoy life everyday. The way i value life is simple, live to make life the meaning you want it to be, you could choose to devote your life to charity and volunteer work for many communities or you could devote your life to making money and being successful, its yours choice and its all up to you.
Activity 3
1. I have little experience when dealing with Hamlet, but I've read Romeo&Juliet sophomore year.
2.The page format and annotations are placed awkwardly, but that is what makes the play beautiful and so well known.
3.I noticed that his writing is very similar to how people may write and interpret poetry that is also very compact.
Activity 4
1. A tragedy could be classified as a devastating event or a really sad story that involves a lot of death. Any type of theme that demoralizes the meaning of happiness can be found in tragedy's, outcomes such as death, regret and sorrow are also well known in tragedy's.
2.Shakespheres language is very difficult to understand and its filled with unfamiliar words and hard to understand phrases.
3.When i dont understand something I usually have to re read the parts that don't make sense to me or eventually ask someone to help.
4. I believe that the question is asking if he should be the person that he isn't write now or stay neutral and be the same person he is. I think that by killing his uncle and continuing on with his life he chose to be the different person.
Activity 7
1. Hamlet asks the central question of soliloquy in the first line, "to be or not to be".
2. In greater detail he restates the  question  through lines 2-5
3. Hamlet doesn't really answer his own question, he struggles to come to a conclusion about either acting and changing his life or to be neutral. Then Hamlet starts talking about what happens when you remain neutral and talks about the fear of what comes after death.
4. In his speech he asked two more questions, why anyone would put up with the suffering humans endure in life when they have the means to escape and then the second one Hamlet suggest that fear of the unknown causes us to bear the burdens owe have.
5. when Ophelia enters the room it cuts off Hamlets thoughts and then destroys the suspense that has been building up to find out the answer to his question because he never finishes his thoughts. Nick has the other part of my questions and Elias did what is a life worth

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