Research

So far what keeps reappearing is that in order for the brain to learn it all depends on ones attention span. However, most people can only give they're full attention towards something for only a matter of minutes.
So the best possible way for someone to learn includes 3 different things. Which is facts, narrative, and emotion. The teachers that incorporate the following the best are generally the most successful at having a smart class.
So by judging off of knowing this, you could say thats all you really need, but i shall continue. I am thinking about doing a mind map, but I am not quite sure, if I do its shall be posted on my blog right away!

Switching up the Big Question

From: the capability edge of the human brain

To: Depicting how the brain learns, what affects it/interest the brain to incline the want or ability to learn. 

Revised version of Big question

My Big Question

            Imagine a world in which there was no thought process. Where everyone one acted upon impulse and miraculously knew how to do certain things. Until one realizes how much of an anomaly that our brains act they way they do they then  cam began to respect the complexity of it. However though, have you ever actually wondered though the edge of capabilities our brain has?

        

After the ap test

I am currently working on my big question, the capability edge of the human brain. Also, I am helping collaborate on the effects of learning and how the brain learns or what makes it more acceptable to learn on Johns question. I am at the moment, well the last few moments I've been waiting for feed back from my authority figure on my big question on how I can expand my topic/understand more. My work will help benefit me first of all in just the aspect of accomplishing something of my very own that has more then one ounce of intellectual thought within it. It will also benefit johns website he is posting for the big questions. In order to accomplish this I just have to follow through eighth myndreams

MacBeth Lecture notes

I'm just a we bit spot on!

Out of all the tragedies Shakespeare has written, MacBeth turns out to be the closest in relationship to himself. Even though its just about the simple rise and fall of a man. What makes MacBeth different from his other tragedies is there are no humorous moments, or self reflection that take place in his the other 2 tragedies Hamlet and Romeo & Juliet. Actually, there maybe one dark humorous moment and that occurs in the scene of Porter, a bit argument-able in MacBeth, but that's about it. 

Before i get ahead of myself, what is a tragedy? A tragedy is where the main character(s) have a flaw that ultimately brings them to their own down fall. A tragedy will also reinforce values from the time period in which the book was written from. With that insight then the break down of MacBeth comes easily.

We see that in MacBeth with the advancement in isolation comes a decline in moral and mental health. However, it is resulted from MacBeth's own decisions. That bring him to his own demise. It is that unwise decision making though that draws in the audience. 

Why does MacBeth kill duncan? 

You could say Ambition, but thats to simple. MacBeth kills Ducan because of the witches prophecy. The witches prophecy however only told Hamlet what he already long desired. We assume Hamlet already had a desire to become king, because he does not question the witches like Banquo did. He accepts it and allows it to influence his decisions to come, like killing King Ducan. Which in case you didn't know violates everything his community believes in. 

Ambition and Immorality Create the tension in MacBeth. So here comes the MacBeth and Hamlet comparison.  In Macbeth, like in Hamlet MacBeth struggles to act upon his thinking. 

As for Lady MacBeth she has no conscious to rule over her. She's just a tool of destruction or in other words a self righteous hoe. Ultimately she ends up killing her self due to the lack of inner will and an over whelmed feeling of guilt for killing king Duncan, which reminded her of her dad.

Macbeth as a king..? Once Macbeth became king it was the classic slipper slope, downfall, demise, what ever you want to call it.

Macbeth

-Play begins with thunder and lightning and three witches.
-three witches are used to help with foreshadows and situational irony.
- Anon: Vamanos.
- No flexibility in iambic pantameter
- Characters: Machbeth, lady Macbeth, Duncan, Malcom, Sergeant, Lennox, Ross, 3 witches, Banquo, Macduff, Lady Macduff, Hecate, Fleance, Porter, Donalbain
- First insight on Macbeth is indirect characterization, we see that Macbeth is a gory blood lust warrior.
- Witches going to give Macbeth a message.
- Golgotha: A biblical name for where Jesus was crucified, used as an allusion in the play.
- Theres a role of masculine. Lady Macbeth affects Macbeths masculine, witches foreshadow this by calling her a sailor with nut in between her legs.
- At this point we do not know the intent of the witches.
- Banquo makes fun of Macbeth and calls him a women, which influences the audiences view on the role of which Macbeth will play.
- Macbeth is visited by the witches, they say he will become thane of crawdor and soon after a king. Banquo is like well what about me whats in my future, and the witches reply your future sons will be king.
- shortly after being visited by the witches Macbeth found out that the thane of crawdor is suppose to be executed due to treason committed against the throne by helping out the rebels and Macbeth starts to believe the witches prophesies.
- Macbeth then sends a letter to his wife explaining to her what happened and the witches.
- She decides that she will help convince Macbeth to kill Duncan.
- She comes up with a plan. To get the Servants drunk and then have Macbeth kill the king and blame the servants.
- Macbeth is virtually crazy, we see that he keeps hallucination a lot
- He almost chickens out, wife convinces him to try it and
- Hes successful with the killing of king Ducan.
- Ducans sons run away, one to england the other to scottland. People think they murder the king.
- Macbeth becomes paranoid of the witches prphecies telling Banquo his children will be king, so he orders the death of banquo and his son, banquos son surivies the attack.

MacBeth notes

- sought to please King James I (use to be King James the IV but then Queen Elizabeth died and became the I)
- not the usual Shakespeare play, intense and complex though.
-Shakespeare's chief source for Macbeth was Holinshed's Chronicles
- addresses a political agenda of King James I
- Background is important, go figure.
- King James was into witch craft and thought it was real. Wrote a book about demonology, which is why the book is weird)
- murderers everywhere
- Theme  - "what is a man"
- Lady Macbeth, apparently is crazy
- Who's the Third Murderer?
- MacBeth a homicidal crazy person?

Top Blogs

Katie Enstad: kerhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com

Trevor Hudgins: tjhrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com


Kelly Brickey: kabrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com


These are the top 3 blogs I picked as the best out of my peers. They are always up-to-date and if I want great insightful feed back on a subject I go to these blogs and it allows me to easily compare them with one another so I can decide what is creditable and what is not.

Literature Analysis Remix

http://youtu.be/zUF6w0axKtI

Poem Remix

                                        Edmund Spenser's "Amoretti: Sonnet 1"

  Happy ye leaves! whenas those lily hands,

Which hold my life in their dead doing might,

Shall handle you, and hold in love's soft bands,

Like captives trembling at the victor's sight.

And happy lines! on which, with starry light,

Those lamping eyes will deign sometimes to look,

And read the sorrows of my dying sprite,

Written with tears in heart's close bleeding book.

And happy rhymes! bathed in the sacred brook

Of Helicon, whence she derived is,

When ye behold that angel's blessed look,

My soul's long lacked food, my heaven's bliss.

Leaves, lines, and rhymes seek her to please alone,

Whom if ye please, I care for other none.

1. Dramatic Situation - Poet writing about his love for a women. Its sad, but happy in a sense that its meant for the women to read the poem.

2. Structure of Poem - Sonnet, iambic pentameter

3. Theme - Poet wants to be seen as if he sees his love.

4. Grammar and Meaning -

5. Important images/figures of speech - "Angles blessed look"

6. Important Words in Poem - "Leaves, Lines, and Rhymes" ,"helicon" (sacred site due to greek gods),

7.Tone - Sad from poets perspective, happy if read by the intended reader, His lover/lady

8. Literary Devices - imagery, metaphor,

9. Prosody - the flow of the poem makes it seem as if the poet were speaking from his heart, which in fact he is. The last 2 lines however sum up the whole poem.

• 3rd city, Manchester • First conceived the main idea of the story while acting with his children in a drama called the frozen deep • Assisted writing a play with his friend Willie Collins, The Frozen Deep inspired by the expedition for the North West passage • Met Termons, particularly Ellen, whom he left his wife and married for. • Lucy is equivalent to Ellen • 1857 was the year in which little doter was published • 1858 began series of public readings for profit in oppose to the charity readings • Became the greatest reader of the greatest writer of the age • May 1858 separated his wife Catherine • 30 April 1859 first two ch of Tale of Two Cities is published • London was extreme, a labyrinth, a maze • First visited Paris in 1844 • Rented Apartments • Falls in love with woman named Lucy and leaves his wife, women in Tale of Two cities named Lucie • Parallels between Dickens and the leads. Characters were to have initials CD and DC • London and Paris • Dickens brought to Paris as a child because of his father’s work- bad experiences, haunting and dark. “wretchedness and darkness, but also of great fascination.” • City of extremes in wealth and poverty- looked at it bleakly • Visited Paris later in his life, liked Paris when he first went there “most extraordinary place in the world” “novelty, novelty, novelty” • The period was good and evil, opening tells about this • Strikes connections between pre-revolutionary Paris and contemporary London • Inevitability of history • Mannette put into prison before Lucie was born • Sydney Carton puts himself into Charles Darneys place to die, sacrifices himself for love so that Darney and Lucie can live together because he loves Lucie

Dicken's Book

I choose to read Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. Due to the fact that I love a good mystery, I mean who ins't enticed by the unknown. Not only that, but I am intrigued by the way people react to certain things, such as money and a current situation. Which basically just about any book has. Great Expectations is about a boy Pip, who meets two people that will greatly influence his life. One is an escaped con who he is forced to aid, and Miss Haversham, a beautiful girl. All of a sudden though a "mysterious" person pays for him to travel and stay in London so he may learn how to be a proper gentlemen.

What does it mean to be indifferent?

Well let me tell you what it isn't first. Take race for an example, for centuries racism has been around and still is. We make up false imprecations and judge someone not for their actions and how they feel, but for what they look like. Often though we are found judging things by their appearance.  And it doesn't even have to be a person it could range from a rusted car that looks old to a bran new car that doesn't run.
Maybe one day in the future people will treat each other indifferently. That an African American will just be called American, a Latino American, would just be called an American, etc... you get the point. Hopefully it isn't achieved from everyone being blind, but although it would help.

My Big Question

How powerful is the human brain?
Resources:
              http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_brain
              http://www.psitek.net/pages/PsiTek-Subconscious-Programming-For-Maximum-Results2.html
              http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-limits-of-intelligence
              http://www.schizophrenic.com/news/schizophrenia-research/study-human-brain-ruled-small-group-powerful-%E2%80%9Cnetworked%E2%80%9D-areas
              http://www.lucidpages.com/branco.html
              http://www.goezine.com/Health-and-Fitness-articles/Mind-Power-How-Powerful-is-the-Human-Brain-35400.html
             http://www.goezine.com/Health-and-Fitness-articles/Mind-Power-How-Powerful-is-the-Human-Brain-35400.html
             http://www.newscientist.com/topic/brain
             http://letslivecoaching.com/your-powerful-brain.html

AP exam worthy essay

It is evident that the language in Hamlet differentiates from epics such as Beowulf and/or the Iliad. Hamlet is recognized through performative utterances and self over-hearing. Where as Beowulf, Gilgamesh, and the Iliad are distinguished for their illustration of the cultural values of their time era in which they were created. Another big factor that separates Hamlet from epics is the absence of a narrator.

 Due to the fact Hamlet does not have a narrator and is a play performative utterances and self over-hearing are a must. Performative utterances create the basis for the plot in Hamlet without it the characters would have no livelihood and obviously no plot. If self over-hearing were to disappear the audience would loose their connection to Hamlet in which the audience wouldn't see Hamlet's thought process like in the "To be or not to be" soliloquy  fundamentally ruining the play. As for Beowulf, all of his actions are told through another person; a narrator. In which performative utterances and self over-hearing are impossible to create.

Although they are from different eras Hamlet does however share a similar quality to Beowulf and the Iliad. It is the sense that they all seem to be selfish. Hamlet seeks revenge for his father and will do anything to attain it. Beowulf wants eternal glory and with the lost of his friends he achieves it, the same goes for Achilles in the Iliad. In the end they all achieve their goal, but at the cost of other lives and their own lives. This could be because of cultural values from 1000 a.d. to around 1599.

Another thing that separates Hamlet from the epics is language.  Hamlet is one of the first plays to be written in early Modern English. Where as Beowulf is written in Old English. This is due to the 600 year gap in between the two.

Hamlet, Beowulf, and the Iliad may be very different in sense of style and language, but they also share many small similarities. If Hamlet weren't a play the tragedy may look very similar to the epics. However there is such a huge gap in between them that the language has changed and literary works were sought to entertain large audiences. Making the tragedy and the epic very different.

2.0

A major concept I have learned from AP literature is that in order to take full advantage of our classes we need to use technology. Technology allows us to communicate as students outside class. With the use of the internet we now have not just other classmates, but other people around the world that can share with us their opinion or answer our questions. Times are changing and we need to adjust accordingly. If we don't use technology then were committing " a self afflicted public crucifixion."
Technology has changed. Here a video that shows it.

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Tools That Change the Way We Think

Please read the following passage and respond to the questions below. Write your answers as a comment to this post. Then, cut/paste both the passage and your thoughts to your own blog in a post entitled, "Tools That Change the Way We Think." 

"Back in 2004, I asked [Google founders] Page and Brin what they saw as the future of Google search. 'It will be included in people's brains,' said Page. 'When you think about something and don't really know much about it, you will automatically get information.'

'That's true,' said Brin. 'Ultimately I view Google as a way to augment your brain with the knowledge of the world. Right now you go into your computer and type a phrase, but you can imagine that it could be easier in the future, that you can have just devices you talk into, or you can have computers that pay attention to what's going on around them and suggest useful information.'

'Somebody introduces themselves to you, and your watch goes to your web page,' said Page. 'Or if you met this person two years ago, this is what they said to you... Eventually you'll have the implant, where if you think about a fact, it will just tell you the answer."

-From In the Plex by Steven Levy (p.67)


Answer this not-so-simple question: How does extensive Internet/media/technology use change the way you think? Focus on your memory, your ability to concentrate, your sense of time and priorities, and the subjects/topics that interest you most. If you find "thinking about your thinking" difficult to assess, try the following strategies: compare yourself with older people who did most of their formal learning before smart phones and 2.0 existed; compare yourself with contemporaries who don't use those tools much today; read up on what education leaders and thinkers have to say about generational differences in thinking (and remember to cite your sources).

My Response:

The extensive use of Internet, media, and/or technology is awing depending on the eye of the beholder. As long as people don't abuse it, then there should be no problem using it. People should be glad that we have all this information within just clicks away from us. And I truly think its amazing that if I want to learn how to play the harmonica that I can find video's explaining how to step by step in just a matter of seconds. In oppose to signing up for lessons that I have to pay 30 bucks for. I personally can think just fine while using the internet and most of the time when I am looking up a subject it gives me new ideas to think about and those new ideas eventually lead me to look up more.
I think its funny how people keep saying things were so much better in the past in terms of technology affecting our way of life, because if you continue to look back in the past then the present will pass you up and you will soon be lost in between what should be and what is. What I mean by this is, you have to learn to co-exist because we are only moving forward.

In Search Of

From watching Eli Pariser's TED talk on Filter Bubbles made me realize that filter bubbles are almost used on just about any site. I didn't even know this was happening until it was brought upon my attention from Dr. Preston today. And to be honest I feel a bit appalled. The internet should allow us to think for our selves. It shouldn't be able to think for us. To stop this from happening we can try and manipulate the filters the search engine uses to whatever fits us best at the moment.
I didn't find much to change in the filter on the google search engine except for putting in specific words gave me different results.
With the new search I found out that Shakespeare lived during the Elizabeth age and The English Renaissance. I also found out that Williams father was a tenant farmer. After reading up a lot more I noticed that it seems as if Shakespeare stole a lot of plots from original stories.

Notes on Hamlet

In the beginning of the play I never really knew if Hamlet would ever be able to cope with the death of his father and the fact that he knows his uncle murdered his father. And now I just think Hamlet is just simply a genius. He seems to want everyone to know he is crazy, including the reader and/or audience. I think that Hamlet will ultimately revenge his father under any circumstances now.

Who Was Shakespeare?

 William Shakespeare is commonly known through out people that speak English. He is easily one of the greatest writers. However is appearance, birthday, and even identity are all uncertain due to the fact that records were not made around the mid 1500s to early 1600s. Shakespeare is thought to be born in 1564 as a 3rd child. Married Anne Hathaway in 1582 when he was 18. William had 3 kids, one died at age 11. He moved to London in 1588. Then went on to become part of a theartrical company, The Lord Chamberlain's Men. From here William built the Globe Theatre where he found much profit. Shakespeare died in 1608.
- Search Engine, Google.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/merchant/shakespeare.html.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare.   
http://shakespeare.about.com/od/shakespeareslife/a/Biography.htm


When we began to read Hamlet I could not understand the context at all. And now that were further into the book and have broken down so many acts and scenes during the class period I am beginning to realize what Shakespeare is trying to convey to the reader with each word. Its weird how things that were common sense during the mid 1500s are not nearly close to the common sense we know today. To give an example a bodkin. A bodkin was commonly known as a dagger through out the people. Where no one in my class had a clue to what a bodkin was.