Qtr1Vocab+Sarah

=Blog Posts =  []  http://never2good2betrue.wordpress.com/2009/08/30/music-piracy/
 * Sarah's Blog**
 * 8/29/2009 Saturday**

http://never2good2betrue.wordpress.com/2009/09/06/internet-restrictions-in-korea/
 * 8/5/2009 Saturday**

=**Vocabulary** =  PART I- Vocabulary PART II- Vocabulary PART III- Vocabulary

=Sentences =  PART I- Sentence

=Assignments =  **8/23 Blogs of Others that I found to be interesting:** http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/ http://loyalkng.com/ Loyal King is a somewhat famous blog, known for its information and updates on all kinds of “humor” section, including movies, music, celebrities...etc. I always found this blog interesting because it contains lots of pictures and videos, along with detailed, yet concise explanations of each event.

 =<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Writings <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> = <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> **-Imitating Borges' Style** Here i bring the personal part of my recollection to the light. I must say that I owe the discovery of this fantastic restaurant to my stimulating appetite of the chicken salad. The decision of whether or not to visit this restaurant, I rest to all my readers’ appetites (if not feeling hunger or thirst). Let it suffice for me to recall or mention the following facts, although with a mere brevity of words only a mere fraction of the restaurant’s can be described. The fact is the one bite of the chicken can satisfy your mouth. About a week ago, there was a controversy over whether the price of this delicious plate of chicken salad is overpriced or suitable. The latter is most likely. How could one do other than to admire the well-roasted chicken on top of the lettuce, to the savory dish that can blow your mind away? It is useless to answer that you can deny the temptation of this delicious lunch. The truth is that the dish is worth every penny. Enchanted by its spectacular taste, humanity forgets over and again that chicken salad is a mere dinner but rather sees it as a gift from the Lord.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> =<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Book Report- __The Picture of Dorian Gray__ = <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> *Oscar Wilde's most famous work, //The Picture of Dorian Gray//, depicts the beautiful young man's fall in to the pit of corruption. The climax of the novel occurs when Dorian kills the painter of his portrait. At this pint, the readers realize that Dorian has sank to the deepest morass of evil. The major conflict of the novel is<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"> the inner conflict of Dorian who must must try to reconcile himself to the bodily decay and dissipation that are recorded in his portrait after giving up his soul to live as a youth forever. The resolution is given with the death of Dorian, which occurs when Dorian descends into London’s opium dens and stabs his portrait, thereby killing himself. The novel runs in a chronological plot, starting from the days when Dorian is truly naive and young and leading to the days when Dorian becomes corrupt and immoral.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">a. identify climax, major conflict, resolution or denoument, what type of plot (see page of literary terms)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">b. comment about setting
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">c. identify one major symbol and one minor.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">d. discuss two characters. Label as round or flat, dynamic or static. Are they archetypal or foils?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">e. Open to the exact middle. What page? Write one paragraph about how this one page relates thematically, symbolically, or other (just not all plot) to the rest of the book.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">f. Tell me one thing other that really only someone who has read the book will get.


 * The plot of the novel takes place in London of 19th century. The setting and the time line brings an odd joy to the readers for Dorian's actions and situations are often affected by the significant trends of the time.


 * //The Picture of Dorian Gray// also contains many symbols. One of the major symbol of the novel is, of course, Dorian's portrait. The picture symbolizes the state of Dorian's soul for it dissipates and decays as Dorian loses his morality. A minor symbol would be Lord Henry's "opium-tainted cigarette," which represents his corrupted lifestyle that also influences Dorian.


 * The first character is a dynamic character who constantly faces changes through out the novel, Dorian Gray. In the beginning of the novel, Dorian is a young, naive man with extraordinary good looks. Under the influence of Lord Henry Wotton who lives a scandalous and hedonistic life, Dorian slips into a lift of dissolution and scandalous behavior. On the other hand, Basil is a foil character who adds to showing Dorian's fall. Basil is an artist who paints Dorian's portrait, and is constantly concerned about Dorian's welfare for he admires him as a friend and an inspiration for his art. After Dorian falls into his shameful lifestyle, Hallward implores him to reform his ways- and incurs Dorian's wrath. When Dorian kills Basil, Dorian's murder marks the final stage of Dorian's corruption, successfully portraying Basil's role as a foil character.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> *Opening A Page in the Book: Quote below taken from-- (pg.88) "Do you think my nature so shallow?" cried Dorian Gray angrily. "No; I think your nature so deep." "How do you mean?" "My dear boy, the people who love only once in their lives are really<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect--simply a confession of failure. Faithfulness! I must analyse it some day. The passion for property is in it. There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up. But I don't want to interrupt you. Go on with your story." - <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[This is a conversation between Dorian and Lord Henry, the hedonist par of the novel. This is another important conversation that they have that leads Dorian to an indulgent, pleasure-seeking life style. Their conversation also foreshadows Dorian's betrayal of the first woman that he loves, and creates a question on Oscar Wilde's understanding of fidelity and love's definition.] **Yes**

I wasn't too sure what to write for this part, but I think only a person who has really read the book will understand that Basil's interest in Dorian is beyond a love that arouses from their friendship. When a reader just reads the summary, it seems that Basil is just a good friend of Dorian. But as I was reading the book, I realized that Oscar Wilde (who was bisexual himself) may be incorporating the theme of homosexuality through Basil's love for Dorian. Basil's feelings for Dorian is queer from the very beginning of the novel in that Basil subjects his inspiration and admiration to Dorian, which, when he describes to his friend Henry, sounds much greater than just appraisal of Dorian's beauty. **Yes, I agree.** 12/12
 * One thing that the person who has really read the book will get: