Final Reflection

The "Hamlet" presentation we worked on in English class had positive aspects and negative aspects. Primarily, the positive aspect throughout the presentation process occurred in the early stages of our project. We quickly identified what question we wanted to answer about "Hamlet": If the public found out what Claudius did, and then they also found out the Hamlet killed him, would they react in favor, or against, Hamlet? In order to answer the question, we used "Harry Potter" as the framing device. Our group was mostly effective and productive until this point. Conflicts of schedule and general distractions forced the script to be created by only two people. If all four people had been actively engaged during the creation process, the script would have been a lot more developed. As a result of this, the video displayed this underdeveloped thesis. Since, over the weekend, two members unfortunately could not help with the video recording, the individuals that were available had to bring in two friends from out of the class to assist. Their lack of experience in the group, through no fault of their own, held the video and script back. Effectively, the presentation and script would have been noticeably more in depth if the entire group that was assigned the project was actively engaged the whole time.

Final Memoir

Memoir Rough Draft

Hamlet Video Presentation

Hamlet Video Essay Style Model Analysis & Comparison/Contrast and Script

Heaven/Hell Journal

Costume & Character Comparison

Rebel Without a Cause Day

Casper the Friendly Ghost is the quintessential form of a rebel because he doesn’t conform to societal norms. Your average ghost tends to haunt buildings for millennia or cause havoc in the lives of people who are alive. When one thinks of a ghost, one normally imagines a tortured soul, left in the real world to disturb our peace. Casper is a rebel in the sense that he does the exact opposite. In his movie, he once said, “All I want’s a friend.”

A normal “scary” ghost would never say something like that.

Rebel Poem

dark love

It is a night of subtlety, a song of subtlety,
wolves vent their loneliness. The beautiful one
wakens.

Fog shrouds her walking form,
an everlasting desire.

Her silken hair cascades over
translucent ivory shoulders, and her
full red lips part slightly, to taste the
blood streaming from the
pale flesh beneath
her.

Now a night of new life,
I smile vaguely.

Memoir Topic Approval

Analysis of Across the Atlantic

• The surface culture component of the Iceberg View of Culture addressed in this memoir is crafts, as in the craft of business and the craft of professionalism

• The deep culture components of the Iceberg View of Culture addressed in this memoir is social interaction rate, rules of conduct, notions of modesty, and, most importantly, tempo of work. This is because my memoir is about my interactions with my new boss and how I prejudged him.

• The turning point of this memoir is when, I realized how much more efficient my boss was at the opportunity/investment proposal than I was. I realized that he was a dedicated individual even though he seemed too relaxed at work. This generally laid back attitude caught me off guard since that was not how I operated in the US. In the States I am always on my feet and moving quickly, but the culture shock that occurred when I started working in a foreign country truly encompasses the shift in my memoir.

• I knew I had changed after this point because I had a new opinion of my boss and I promised myself I would no longer "judge a book by it's cover". This revelation indicates the main turning point in the story.

Style Model Analysis

L’Épée de Damocles (Vehicular Manslaughter)

 • The surface culture component of the Iceberg View of Culture addressed in this memoir is how the stalker considers this action a game. She thinks of it as a competition with herself that she has to beat.

 • The deep culture components of the Iceberg View of Culture addressed in this memoir are the broken rules of conduct. It is not socially acceptable to stalk another person in this manner.

 • The turning point of the memoir is when Roxanne’s tone goes from that of stalking for love to stalking for murder. The memoir takes a dark turn near the end which is primarily why it is an entertaining one to read. If the story had not taken a turn for the violent, it would not be interesting.

 • The author shows he or she has changed after the turning point by admitting that she would run him over in her car. Although this point is at the end, there was no mention of harm earlier in the memoir. The only thought from the narrator was of general obsession.

 • A paragraph that demonstrates what I like about the authors writing style is: My eyes haven’t changed. My lips haven’t changed. If he remembered me, would he admit it or would he pretend he didn’t to try to feel me out, figure out my endgame? I wonder how long I would sit there. I wonder how long I could sit there. I wonder if I would tell him what I became, what I made of myself, what I made of myself despite him. I wonder if he would care, if it would matter. If I were in the same city as this man, following him in a car with dark, tinted windows, I wonder what I would do. I tend to drive with a heavy foot.

 • The devices the writer uses to create meaning in this excerpt is mostly figurative language and a quite a lot of rhetorical questions; all of the questions asked by the narrator open a door for the reader into the writer's head. They show the thought process of an insane stalker. They show how the obsession grows over time.

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