Class Work, quotes.

Viola: "I am the man" (II.ii.25)
This line taken from Act II is one which expresses much surprise from Viola. She said this right after Malvolio had brought her the ring from Olivia and said that he was welome to return to Olivia's house as long as it was to express Orsino's love. Viola then begins to realize that Olivia has fallen in love for "Cesario". In the book the word man here means the one who she loves, so when translated this makes it incredibly easier to understand. She says it with such shock though when you watch the movie, meaning "I am the one she loves?!". This is where we see that things are starting to come tgether and might cause a prblem down the road for Viola and the Duke. This is all where the "love triangle" starts to develop.

Malvolio: "...and yet to crush it a little, it would bow to me..." (II.v.143-145)
This line was taken from the scene where Malvolio read aloud Olivia's letter in the garden. He comes across the letters "M.O.A.I." and begins to wonder what these letters could possibly mean to him in this letter. Realizing that "M" is the first letter and that "M" is also the first leter of his name, he thinks that the letters are meant to represent his name, since all of those letters are in his name. All he wants to do is "crush", figure out the letters to make him feel better and know that the letter is indeed about him. All he truly wants to do here is figure out the letter and "bow" to it and be greatful and happy that the letter written is truly about him.

Viola: "Then think you right. I am not what I am."
Olivia: "I would you were as I would have you be." (III.i.148-9)
These lines taken from when Olivia and Viola are together in the garden represent the constant confusion that is taking place with Viola. She cannot tell Olivia that she is a woman and cannot keep having Olivia tell her how much does in fact love her. She is trying to say nicely to her that I am not what I am, in the hopes that Viola will move on and stop telling her love fro Viola. It's kind of odd how the Duke and Olivia both have the same ideas toward love, in the sense that they cannot let person that thy do love go, and Olivia still cannot manage to love the Duke. This is how the love triangle begins to get so complicated, it involves the two most overbearing people who cannot let their loves go and one person who is just caught in the middle and does not know what to do. Olivia in this exceprt is also not picking up on what Viola is trying to tell her because she is telling him that she will accept him no matter what, that is how in love she is with him. When she tell her that he is not what she think she is, Olivia replies with the fact that she still loves him anyway. This all, I feel, is not going to end up working out well in the end.

Inkshedding

"She returns this ring to you, sir. You might have saved me my pains to have taken it away yourself." - Malvolio, pg. 52, Act 2, Scene 2, Line 5.

This quote taken from Shakespeare's play entitled "Twelfth Night", I feel has more behind it than is conveyed to us. This quote was spoken to Cesario (Viola) right after he had left the Olivia's house. It seems to be just a simple quote in which Malvolio is not thrilled over having to chase after Cesario and return his ring to him, but I feel that there is much more behind it. This quote is also spoken which much anger embedded in it. I would expect that since Malvolio works for Olivia, he would not be snipping at everything that she asks him to do. Even in the scene where she hands him the ring, I forgot what Malvolio's line was, but it would seem that he was upset that she actually made him go out of his way to return the ring to Cesario. If Malvolio does learn of the fact that Olivia is lying to him, then he will most likely be furious with her. Even when he took the ring from her to go and return it, he seemed quite ticked off that he had to return it. Finally when he found Cesario he was angry and rude to him, and actually threw the ring, when Cesario did not take it from him. One last note which I realized is when Cesario first arrived at Olivia's house, he was angry that he had showed up in the first place. My guess is that Malvolio is tired of always having to answer to the people who come and try and impress or share their love for Olivia and now Cesario seems just like a pest he cant get rid of. This might explain his constant anger and resentment towards anything that has to do with Cesario, and that riding a bike to catch up with him was the last straw. This is not all conveyed in the quote but it seems that all of this fuels his anger in the actual quote once he did catch up with Cesario.

Paper One Reflection: Do you mean what you write?

For me, writing the small object/large subject essay was...a lot of fun and kind of easy. I enjoyed writing it because it was from the heart and it was everything that I truly felt. most times when I write papers I do not agree with what I am writing, I merely write about a subject because it is what will sound best and what I can write the most about. In my experience teachers don't care about how you feel about a subject when you write a paper, its just how much you can write and how good you can make it sound. Thats why for me I liked this essay because I actually agreed with what I was writing. It all sort of seemed natural for me. It sure does beat writing for the "university", having to change my opinions to fit the format of the essay. Having to appear as though I have authority about something which I truly might not know too much about is common for me. I often will not express my true opinion in sacrifice for the better grade. So tell me, is writing papers all that special for students, or does it just teach us that what we feel doesn't truly matter, its just what you can write more about. Reading this some people might feel that his is a generalization I have made about my self and that I am assuming this of all. I'm confident however that if asked, It would not be to hard to find people with this very same outlook as me. This first paper was for me was from the heart. I wrote what I meant and I meant what I wrote.

Twelfth Night Act 1 Questions.....

1. Who is Olivia?

2. What happened that Viola's brother drowned?

3. Why does Viola's dad know Orsino?

4. What is a kinsman?

5. Where did the fool come from?

6. Why is the fool going to be hung?

How We Revise.....

I do not revise in the way that we are using it in class today. When I sit down to write my paper, I do not move long in my wriitng until I am completely satisfied with what I have already written down. I guess you could call this my revision process. I revise as I write and do not wait until the end. When I sit down to write I will generally finish the entire paper at once so I can just let all of my ideas flow from me to my computer screen. I hate having to go back over my paper and revise it because it is a waster for me since I revise as I write. The only time that I might have to go back over my paper a second time is when I really mess up and confuse facts or write something that is totally wrong in a research paper. Other than that I do not go back to revise because what I have down are my true thoughts and I don't like being told to go back and change my thoughts.
Revision for me is like building a house, you cannot move on to the next part until you have solid foundations in everything that you have already done. It is critical that you go from start to finish so that everything flows together. It is stupid in my mind to go back and change the beginning or middle of an essay without having to change the entire essay. Once a house is built, it's nearly impossible to go back and change things in the foundation and structure of the house. If the roof is on, are you going to tell a contractor to go back and fix the foundation??

Torreya Taxa.....what?

The article that was assigned to us was entitled "To Take Wildness In Hand" and was written by Michelle Nijhuis focused around climate change as mentioned in the beginning of this piece. "Beset by a mysterious disease, overabundant deer, feral hogs, drought, and perhaps a stressful climate, the adult trees were reduced to a handful of mossy trunks, rotting in riverside ravines." What stood out to me most in her claim was that she was toying with the idea of it being climate change. I felt there was heavy sarcasm there, which becomes more evident throughout the rest of the article, by telling us there was a possibility of the loss of population being a result of climate change. 99% of the articles written about our environment are about climate change, why? Because everything else falls to the way side and appears as unimportant to people.
The main arguments in this article all revolved around one specific type of tree and how its loss of population due to climate change should be handled. The Torreya Taxifalia is a species of tree located in the Florida Panhandle area and is currently facing a drastic problem. The species has been suffering heavy population losses and many feel that it is due largely to global warming. What this means is that the Torreya Taxifalia have been living in this somewhat cooler part of Florida, and since yearly temperatures have been rising in almost every part of the globe, the trees now need to be moved out of this area and into a cooler climate. The article also covers most of the issues around how we help out these trees, mainly how we are going to move them and seems to deal with a moral issue of whether or not we should move these trees. The argument for moving these trees ourselves is that by the time these tress migrate north to the southern appalachian mountains (the new desired location) it will be too late and the climate will have changed even more. The argument for moving these trees is that it is our responsibility to save these trees if we are able to before they all eventually die off. It seemed to me that the last person in the article made it feel like we were not so much as saving the trees but fixing/covering up our own mistakes (global warming).
The warrant for this article I feel is that the author assumes that we know about global warming and the problems that we are facing with our environment. The author never bothered to dwell into what global warming is and its effects.
This article for me kind of touched me in a moral sense because it dealt with the ideas of whether or not it is right to move thr trees or to let them naturally migrate towards their new desired location. Personally I think that if we have the ability to move and saves these trees from extinction then it is our duty to do so. WE cannot just let the trees die off due to OUR mistake. Global Wamring is our problem and we need to do everything to fix what is going wrong because of it.

Call Of Duty?

"Virtual Iraq" is an article written by Sue Halpern which focuses around the new technological treatment of PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder). The story in this article focuses around mainly one patient, "a marine I'll call Travis Boyd". The article begins by telling of his background and deployment in Falluja, Iraq. From there we being to learn about the PTSD that he suffered after his second deployment in Iraq. "I'd avoid crowds, I'd avoid driving, I'd avoid going out at night." PTSD had taken over Travis' life. This was all until he began to use a new experimental treatment for this disorder. It is called Virtual Iraq. It is a video game type setting in which the user would feel as though they were back in the army. The creators tried to make it as real as possible by adding in all of the details that were told to a counselor during a session with the patient. The whole point of this type of treatment was to fully immerse the patient back into what they had now feared. However it is not what people sometimes refer to as the sink or swim method, which is where you would fully immerse someone into there fears and have them find a way of conquering them. Through the Virtual Iraq method, and since PTSD is such a sensitive matter, the counselors are able to gradually increase the on screen effects for the soldiers to experience. Overwhelming the patients at one time can have a serious effect on them considering their level of PTSD already. "When it was over, I'd go home and cry" says Boyd of the early treatments using Virtual Iraq. It was so much for him to handle that the counselors and not simply just jump into treatment without first assessing his condition. "One time I mistakenly clicked my mouse and all of a sudden a bullet came flying out, and I had to tell the patient that I was sorry and didn't mean to do that" says Rizzo, one of the founders of Virtual Iraq. This is exactly why all of the counselors using this treatment program need to be extremely careful, one small mistake could set a patient over the edge of depression when it comes to this.
Contrast this now. Call of Duty, the famous war like video game. This could almost be the Virtual Iraq treatment program. It is merely representation of the war. Personally I think that it could be considered a kind of slap in the face to soldiers out there especially after reading that last quote. It shows to me how that simple button that he pressed to fire a bullet on screen could make a patients condition even worse, where as we the game players press the button so many times without even thinking about what the war is really like. Call of Duty seems to be very realistic and can almost offer a fake sense of war because you see it as just a game where as a soldier might not even be able to look at the game anymore because of the PTSD that he now suffers from. I feel that it takes away from the credit that we give soldiers because we are able to have a representation of it right in front of us in out own living room.
Back to the treatment. It is designed to be life like for these soldiers to allow them to face their fears on different levels. Describing one scenario from the treatment, Boyd tells us"Inside were two insurgents, one on his knees with his hands tied behind his back, the other dead on the ground. A baby was crying. I moved on." What stood out to me most was the fact that a baby was crying and he was able to move on. This is all to show to us how he was progressing in his treatment. Still I found it incredible how much detail was put into this program. In the end however he was able to successfully complete the treatment and now lives a normal life with his wife. He tells us at the end of the article how he is now able to talk about his experiences once again. This reminded me of one of the ending clips from the WWI movie "All Quiet On The Western Front" in which the main character returns home from war and is asked to speak about how glorious it was to serve and fight for his country. He does not in fact do this, being in front of a large group of young volunteers for the war when asked to speak he tells all of them how terrible it was for him and everyone else over in Europe, (which was very well documented throughout the film) and that they should not go and fight. The whole time when he does talk to these students he is very irritable and also quite shakey. Thinking back on this clip it seems that the main character had developed PTSD from WWI.
The one thing that Carroll assumes trough all of this which I have to disagree with is that we will take to the video game treatment very rapidly because, as he claims, we grew up on them. This might not be the case for all and cannot be one of the reasons backing up your theory for the treatment, otherwise I feel this was a very well written and extremely engaging article.

High Tech Trash or stupid waste?

The article that was assigned to us was entitled "High-Tech Trash" and was written by Christopher Carroll. The article focused what truly does happen when we as consumers throw away our old computers, tv's and other types of electronic devices. As he points out so perfectly at the end of the article "out of sight, will not stay out of mind for long", and this is exactly what he has done. Probably for a good couple of years, ever since the integration of computers into households, this action of taking computers and dumping them into developing countries has been happening unknown to the rest of the world. WE as consumers in America and other well developed nations are quite content with how we are able to live and throw away our garbage without having to worry about it build up in our backyards. This is not the case for the developing nations of the world at all. It is quite the opposite for the inhabitants of these nations and they are the ones who probably produce the least amount of garbage as a whole. We living in these over developed and advanced nations dump most of our "e-waste", as Carroll calls it, into these less developed nations. The ramifications of this dumping has tremendous health effects on the inhabitants. When the products are dumped and left to rot away on the ground they will often leach out chemicals into the soil, ruining and/or potentially poisoning the people grow their own food because it is all that they have. They cannot simply get in the their cars, which they probably don't even have in the first place and drive down the block to the supermarket to get dinner. These people rely on their crops for their food and by dumping all of these products there, we are hurting them. These would be just the immediate effects felt by the inhabitants, imagine what we will find out years down the road from now what the long term health effects are of these products. What else is worse, and on a side note illegal, that these inhabitants of the third world nations do is that they will take the computer chips and other pieces of electronic equipment and burn them in order to obtain the minerals and metals that are inside. We cannot blame them for doing this, they do not know better and probably have never seen a computer before unless it is lying in a land fill in their town. But what happens from burning them is that this is another way to release toxic chemicals which they will in turn be breathing in. This is a way for them to make money but it is a never ending cycle of poor health conditions spiraling out of control for these poor people.
We cannot however place all of the blame on the waste companies, a great deal f it lies with us and the companies who make the "e-waste". WE as consumers need to be more aware of where our garbage goes, and not just simply forget about it once the sanitation worker picks it up in the morning. There are multiple ways that I have heard of online through which yu are able to safely dispose of your electronics. How reliable these sites are or not I am not sure, but it cannot hurt to look for some alternative measures to discard of your old electronics. It the beginning of Caroll's article he puts blame on the computer companies because they are the ones who constantly develop new programs and ways for the computer that you bought today to be obsolete tomorrow. And since we as the consumers are living in this technological age where everything needs to be faster, whenever a new computer comes out, we jump for it. Look at the new iPad that apple announced the other day. I can bet that there will be aline out the door and about 4 hours long at the apple store when that product is released. Al it is is a big iPod, nothing more, just new. This is what Carroll is trying to convey to us, that we must stop buying more electronics because they are at our disposal and start worrying more about how we dispose of our electronics.