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• As You Like It – Journal Entry 5
  on Apr 18, 2013 in Uncategorized As You Like It Duke Senior Ganymede Orlando Rosalind Shakespeare William Shakespeare
  Rosalind, disguised as Ganymede, tells Orlando “Believe then, if you please, that I can do strange things.  I have, since I was three year old, conversed with a magician, most profound in his art and yet no damnable.”  Her magic amount to her a...
• As You Like It – Journal Entry 4
  on Apr 17, 2013 in Uncategorized As You Like It Celia Ganymede Oliver Orlando Rosalind Touchstone
  At the end of act four, we witness Oliver’s conversion from a hateful to loving brother as he tells Celia “ ‘Twas I, but ‘tis not I.  I do not shame To tell you what I was, since my conversion So sweetly tastes, being the thing I am.”  Th...
• As You Like It – Journal Entry 3
  on Apr 16, 2013 in Uncategorized Celia Duke Frederick Hypocrisy Oliver Rosalind
  The best word to describe Duke Frederick’s behavior in scene one of act three is hypocrite. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, a hypocrite is defined as “a person who acts in contradiction to his or her stated beliefs.” In...
• As You Like It – Journal Entry 2
  on Apr 15, 2013 in Uncategorized Adam Celia Oliver Orlando Rosalind Touchstone
  After Celia and Rosalind decide to run away and seek refuge at the Forest of Arden with the help of Touchstone at the end of Act 1, I got curious and anxious to find out how that part of the story will develop. Will they find Rosalind’s father,...
• Journal Entries
  on Apr 14, 2013 in Uncategorized As You Like It Literature Shakespeare Taming of the Shrew William Shakespeare
  As you all probably already know, I’m taking a Shakespeare class this semester. One of our numerous assignments is reading one-act per day, and then writing a journal entry about it based on the professor’s study guides. The plays we are...
• As You Like It – Journal Entry 1
  on Apr 14, 2013 in Uncategorized Abel Adam Cain Cain Abel God Lord Rosalind
  The opening of this play suggests the biblical episode of Cain and Abel. According to the Hebrew bible version, Adam knew his wife Eve intimately, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain. She said, “I have had a male child with the LORD’...
• Midterm – Long answer
  on Mar 27, 2013 in Uncategorized
  Puritans believed in the idea of pre-destination, meaning that God chooses, before their birth, those whom he wished to save and those whom he wish to condemn. They believed that Adam brought sin and death into this world by eating the apple from the...
• Midterm – Short Answer
  on Mar 22, 2013 in Uncategorized Annabel Lee Edgar Allan Poe Poetry
  The quote “And so, all the night tide, I lie down by the side/ Of my darling – my  darling — my life and my bride, / In her sepulcher there by the sea – / In her tomb by the sounding sea” is from the poem Annabel Lee by...
• Midterm
  on Mar 22, 2013 in Uncategorized
  I just got my midterm for my Historical Approach to American Literature back. It consisted of one short answers and one longs answer questions. The short answer consisted of a brief analysis of a quote the professor provided along with the name of t...
• My first poem
  on Mar 19, 2013 in Uncategorized Annabel Lee Art Creative writing Edgar Allan Poe Literature Poetry
  After reading Edgar Allan Poe’s “Annabel Lee“, a bunch of Emily Dickson’s poems, a book I got at the library about English love ballads, and doing research of elements of gothic fiction, I had a moment of inspiration (which...

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