Practice Essay

I have to be completely honest, with all the other stuff I have for this long weekend, I still have not even started at the practice essay for our final. Even though I know it is for our own benefit.

Hopefully I can have it up soon.

Sorry for the delay,
Amara Sharp

Fox in Socks:Speed Round

I CAN READ:

FOX IN SOCKS

 

Fox in Socks

 

Please ignore the wind and cars passing by, I filmed this on Wednesday and outside was the quietest place at my house!

Anyways the final time was 3:40.8



THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX

Blogger's Note:
Over the past 13 years of my primary and secondary education, I have noticed that if there are deep questions within the text, then it simply works best sometimes  to just answer those.

Pre Play:

• I originally believed that the title for this blog post was to be "Thinking Inside the Box" which I found incredibly ironic yet appropriate for this blog post concerning the play "No Exit" by Jean Paul Sartre, due to the fact that this play takes place in a single solitary room, and yet features existentialist thinking.
• Existentialism:  sense of disorientation and confusion in the face of an apparently meaningless or absurd world.
• Jean Paul Sartre-Only five feet tall (Finally taller than somebody!) Sartre.org seems to be a comprehensive website about his life and importance in the existentialist movement, also based on the spelling of several of the words including theater-theatre and how I seem to be reading the website in a British accent, this website is probably from England. And here is a large work from Stanford's Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

In Play Questions:

• Think about the play you have chosen as your hell...-My hell is a hospital waiting room. White and those crazy florescence lights. Sanitized and empty while chairs. All that you hear is the ticking of a clock and the steps of the Doctor echo on the cheap tile, but the door never opens to call out your name. And you are stuck waiting  for white feels like bad news in the pit of your stomach. For eternity, without end. Oh and the people you hate most of all, are sitting next to you.
•  Could hell be described as too much of anything without a break?-Yes, that could be one way of describing it. Too much of a good thing is usually a bad thing.
• How does Sartre create a sense of place through dialogue?-It is almost as if dialogue is both closed and roundabout. Just like the room. The dialogue, in my opinion, represents the existentialist view of disorientation and confusion which creates meaninglessness within the play. Which actually, reflects the idea of the closed setting of the play.
• Weird, version I printed out only has the tree questions (it was from Lisa's response to your post)

Plato and Sartre:
Plato-Escape the cave and your ignorance through knowledge and learning.
Sartre-Hell is the people around us, existentialist ideas including life is absurd.

(more to come)

ALLEGORY OF THE CAVE SONNET

A Quick Word About Sonnets:

To be quite Honest

I do not like Sonnets

O' look a Haiku!

 

ALLEGORY OF THE CAVE SONNET (English Styled Sonnet):

 

We reside within the caves of our demise

Ever dark, and forever lost

Our insular prison just a disguise
For the truth that we have lost

The world we know is not the truth
It is hidden beyond our eyes
yet while we search for the truth
It will replace the lies

There is hope beyond this dark cave
Hope for truth and life
But if we are ever to move beyond these graves
We must first end our strife

Learning is our only hope
But first we must we willing
Knowledge is how we cope
because the truth is fulfilling

Now we can leave the dark caves inside,
and step  into the light outside

-Yeah, this was bad and my rhyming schemes are desperate at best; but at least my Haiku is enjoyable! 



BRAIN WITH 10 LEGS, 10 HANDS, 40 FINGERS, 10 THUMBS...

The infamous back corner and I consisting of Whitney Houg, Rachel Nolan, Sarah Stevens, Breanna Timmons and I, decided to go against the grain this time and pick a book not assigned by Dr. Preston (with his permission of course!). We chose the book "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller and picked up our copies from the library last Friday. To be completely honest, each member of our group reads at different speeds and paces. Our main goal for this book is to simply finish by December 1, earlier would be better, but we are giving extra time until December 1 to account for busy schedules and college applications.  Knowing our group, we will probably arrange a coffee or smoothie run if needed to catch up and clarify parts of the book, although we will have to play that by ear.

Anyways, that is all we have planned so far! Check back soon for some "Catch-22" related posts.