4-year College Questions
1. What non-academic teaching did you learn in college?
2. if you choose not to go to college, where do you think you'd be right now?
3. What is something you regret about college?
4. How did you pay for college?
5. How much debt are you in? Do you think that amount of money was worth it?
6. If you could do it over, would you choose another school?
7. What is the work load like in college compared to high school?
8. How was the transition between home to college for you? What was the hardest part? How did you cope?
9. What's a negative aspect about college?
10. Do you think college prepared you for the real world?
11. How did you get involved with your school? orgs, greek life, clubs, ect? How did they help you?
12. What's the best advice you've gotten from anyone while in college or about college?
13. What stresses you out the most in college?
14. If you could would you change your major?
15. Do you regret not going to community college?
16. What are the professors like in college compared to high school teachers?
Community College Questions
1.Do you believe community college was a good choice for you? why?
2.What made you decide that community college was your choice instead of straight to a four year?
3.What is a positive about going to community college? What is a negative aspect of community college?
4.What type of programs are helping you stay on track with transferring?
Feel free to add a questions you want answered in the comments!
Friday, March 29, 2013
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
BNW ESSAY Draft 1
Prompt
Writers often highlight the values of a culture or a society by using characters who are alienated from that culture or society because of gender, race, class, or creed. Choose a play or novel (BRAVE NEW WORLD) in which such a character plays a significant role, and show how that character’s alienation reveals the surrounding society’s assumptions and moral values.
Pre-write
What the question is asking: show how character's alienation highlights values of a society or culture.
1. Because Bernard and John are alienated,they have an external point of view of society.
2. Bernard shows how the society is: conformist, prejudice towards people that do not fit in, judgmental
3. John shows how the society is: unnatural, materialistic, ignorant, controlling
Essay
Alienation in literature can be seen as a great tool for which to describe a certain society or culture. We see this in Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. Huxley allows the reader to judge the society through the eyes of John and Bernard, both outcasts but for different reasons. The individuality that they bring to the table, allows the reader to dissect and judge the society which rejects both outcasts.
John is different. This difference can be relatable because his character is most like the audience Huxley was writing to, not savages but also not extreme conformists. This in itself is a reason why readers can judge the BNW society. John shared values with the reader include creativity, monogamy, love, and nature. Through John we see that the society is unnatural because of the artificiality that it revolves around. He is disgusted by this just as the reader is. Because of his knowledge of Shakespeare, John values love, which is something that is unnecessary in the BNW culture because of its science and technology based culture. The reader can see this when he professes his love to Lenina and she's basically freaked out and really just wanted to have sex with him. The ignorance of the BNW society is also highlighted because of John's real knowledge and the creativity that comes with knowledge.
Because of the external point of view that Bernard also offers, readers are left with a greater understanding of the BNW society. Bernard feels most alive when he is defying authority and because of the way others react, we are left with the viewing the society as conformist and controlled. Because the society values community, individuality is left in the shadows. This is why Bernard is also left within those shadows because he values individuality or even forced to value it since he is alienated by the community of Alphas.
Through the eyes of outcasted individuals, a society's values and culture can be judged by the reader. John and Bernard both offer a fresh perspective in a society that really doesn't have a diverse range of perspectives because they don't value individuality. Other aspects are highlighted as valuable by the society like science, technology, conformity, sex, community, and ignorance. These values can be seen through the eyes of both Bernard and John because of their established individuality and their diverse values
Writers often highlight the values of a culture or a society by using characters who are alienated from that culture or society because of gender, race, class, or creed. Choose a play or novel (BRAVE NEW WORLD) in which such a character plays a significant role, and show how that character’s alienation reveals the surrounding society’s assumptions and moral values.
Pre-write
What the question is asking: show how character's alienation highlights values of a society or culture.
1. Because Bernard and John are alienated,they have an external point of view of society.
2. Bernard shows how the society is: conformist, prejudice towards people that do not fit in, judgmental
3. John shows how the society is: unnatural, materialistic, ignorant, controlling
Essay
Alienation in literature can be seen as a great tool for which to describe a certain society or culture. We see this in Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. Huxley allows the reader to judge the society through the eyes of John and Bernard, both outcasts but for different reasons. The individuality that they bring to the table, allows the reader to dissect and judge the society which rejects both outcasts.
John is different. This difference can be relatable because his character is most like the audience Huxley was writing to, not savages but also not extreme conformists. This in itself is a reason why readers can judge the BNW society. John shared values with the reader include creativity, monogamy, love, and nature. Through John we see that the society is unnatural because of the artificiality that it revolves around. He is disgusted by this just as the reader is. Because of his knowledge of Shakespeare, John values love, which is something that is unnecessary in the BNW culture because of its science and technology based culture. The reader can see this when he professes his love to Lenina and she's basically freaked out and really just wanted to have sex with him. The ignorance of the BNW society is also highlighted because of John's real knowledge and the creativity that comes with knowledge.
Because of the external point of view that Bernard also offers, readers are left with a greater understanding of the BNW society. Bernard feels most alive when he is defying authority and because of the way others react, we are left with the viewing the society as conformist and controlled. Because the society values community, individuality is left in the shadows. This is why Bernard is also left within those shadows because he values individuality or even forced to value it since he is alienated by the community of Alphas.
Through the eyes of outcasted individuals, a society's values and culture can be judged by the reader. John and Bernard both offer a fresh perspective in a society that really doesn't have a diverse range of perspectives because they don't value individuality. Other aspects are highlighted as valuable by the society like science, technology, conformity, sex, community, and ignorance. These values can be seen through the eyes of both Bernard and John because of their established individuality and their diverse values
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Brave New World Ch. 4-6
Chapter 4
-Bernard is introduced: characterization in the conversation with Lenina.
---Not confident with woman
---Awkward and Self-conscience
-The Epsilon repeats and repeats "roof" as if it is the only word in his vocabulary...its the most important one.
-Sexual references start once Henry and Lenina are in the Helicopter.
---I really don't want to put examples but the text can be found on page 61-62
-"Like aphides and ants..." literally and figurative.
---They are beneath her in status and she sees them as small insects.
Part 2
-Bernard's point of view: we still get the same characterization from (awkward, out of place) and this part even reinforces his lonesomeness, or individuality.
Helmholtz Watson: opposite of Bernard but they both feel like outcasts, they bond over this thought
Chapter 5
-SOMA: drug that makes reality foggy and promotes sexuality.
-Henry and Lenina go through what seems like a regular day in the life of a BNW Alpha. Golf, soma, sex and contraceptives.
-Okay now about this cult. When they pass around the cup, they all try to prove themselves to each other by being committed to the culture.
---Sex is a religion essentially.
Chapter 6
-I think the most important part about this chapter is the fact that Bernard feels like his own person.
---individuality is found in a society that doesn't allow you to be yourself, its all about community.
---he finds himself within nature which is something that different religions and cultures promote in order to "find yourself". This is what (I think) Bernard felt when he looked at the ocean.
-My question is why he takes a lot of soma and has relations with her right after the individuality part?
-He asked director for permission to go with Lenina but the subject brings up emotions within the director which he doesn't like so he tries to threatin
-Bernard is introduced: characterization in the conversation with Lenina.
---Not confident with woman
---Awkward and Self-conscience
-The Epsilon repeats and repeats "roof" as if it is the only word in his vocabulary...its the most important one.
-Sexual references start once Henry and Lenina are in the Helicopter.
---I really don't want to put examples but the text can be found on page 61-62
-"Like aphides and ants..." literally and figurative.
---They are beneath her in status and she sees them as small insects.
Part 2
-Bernard's point of view: we still get the same characterization from (awkward, out of place) and this part even reinforces his lonesomeness, or individuality.
Helmholtz Watson: opposite of Bernard but they both feel like outcasts, they bond over this thought
Chapter 5
-SOMA: drug that makes reality foggy and promotes sexuality.
-Henry and Lenina go through what seems like a regular day in the life of a BNW Alpha. Golf, soma, sex and contraceptives.
-Okay now about this cult. When they pass around the cup, they all try to prove themselves to each other by being committed to the culture.
---Sex is a religion essentially.
Chapter 6
-I think the most important part about this chapter is the fact that Bernard feels like his own person.
---individuality is found in a society that doesn't allow you to be yourself, its all about community.
---he finds himself within nature which is something that different religions and cultures promote in order to "find yourself". This is what (I think) Bernard felt when he looked at the ocean.
-My question is why he takes a lot of soma and has relations with her right after the individuality part?
-He asked director for permission to go with Lenina but the subject brings up emotions within the director which he doesn't like so he tries to threatin
Thursday, March 7, 2013
Oedipus Rex- March Lit Anal
I'm not fond of reading plays but because I T.A. for Mrs. Karamitsos, who is teaching her freshman about Greek and Roman Myths, I thought hey why not! As I read it, I have to repeat some parts and I get really frustrated but I want to get through it!
Friday, March 1, 2013
BRAVE NEW WORLD (II & III)
“Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book."
― Patti Smith
What a crazy, interesting world Huxley has presented us. The books and nature part is very scary to me in that it is basically happening to us now. Our technology is slowly distancing us from the beauty of nature and books are becoming used less and less. To be honest, the only reason I go out into nature is because of softball and if it wasn't for that I would probably not leave the house, which really scares me. As for books, although I really like them, others in my generation are proud of not reading any books for fun. We are constantly looking for pleasure instead of for information and knowledge, essentially what the world that Huxley created but his is obviously much more extreme. Maybe he wrote the book not only to predict but also save the future generations from this kind of society. I read and article that said "Satires tend to tire with time, but not Brave New World: It still manages to offend. Last year American librarians ranked it among the top 10 novels that readers wanted to see banned." Are we scared of being show our faults in extreme cases? Isn't ironic that we're trying to ban books, just as Huxley's society banned them?
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