Elizabeth: The Golden Age is a very nice movie that we watched during our movie watching session. Queen Elizabeth died virgin as she was not married in her entire life. the only man she loved didn't really love her and married her lady in waiting.
although Queen Elizabeth's personal life seems like a mess, but her social life was very much fine. although she never gave birth to anyone but she was a motherly character for her people. she took car eof them with great effort.
i admired the way she brought herself. she look so diplomatic and beautiful eventhough she was old. the way she solved the problems she faced was very matured.
Queen Elizabeth loves her country too much to bring in her personal revenge into her responsibility as a queen. she released the man that cheated her when his service is needed in order to save Britain from France. she behaved profesionally. her love for her citizens brought her to the batllefield to fight France herself. she is a good example on how people should separate their personal life and social life and she gave us the morale value of personal revenge should be brought into social life.
Tuesday, March 31
Teiresias and his blindness...
Teiresias is a legendary prophet who appears in lots of ancient Greek plays and stories. Teiresias also has an appearance in Oedipus Rex as a prophet and becomes the man who creates the conflict in the story.
Do you wonder how a blind man can see all the truth that happens in the state? Well, maybe we should look back at how Teiresias became blind to know how he got the gift of foreseeing events.
It is said that Teiresias became blind because he saw Athena bathing once and she sprinkled water on his face and he became blind. This happened when he was 7 years old. Chariclo, his mother, prayed to Athena to forgive her son but Athena could not reverse her curse but she bestowed him with the power of understanding the voices of the birds and a staff that will guide him in his life; he could walk just like people with eyesight with the staff.
The second myth about Teiresias's blindness is that he saw two snakes mating when he was 7 years old and he hit them with a stick. he was turned into female after he hit the snake. Again after 7 years, she saw mating snakes again and she hit them with her staff and become man again. As a result of his experiences, Zeus and Hera asked him to setle the question which sex experience more pleasure during intercourse. Zeus claimed it was women; Hera claimed it was men. When Teiresias sided with Zeus, Hera struck him blind. Since Zeus could not undo what she had done, he gave him the gift of prophecy.
Both these myths contradicts each other but one thing we can be sure of is that Teiresias was blinded by Hera (Athena).
Do you wonder how a blind man can see all the truth that happens in the state? Well, maybe we should look back at how Teiresias became blind to know how he got the gift of foreseeing events.
It is said that Teiresias became blind because he saw Athena bathing once and she sprinkled water on his face and he became blind. This happened when he was 7 years old. Chariclo, his mother, prayed to Athena to forgive her son but Athena could not reverse her curse but she bestowed him with the power of understanding the voices of the birds and a staff that will guide him in his life; he could walk just like people with eyesight with the staff.
The second myth about Teiresias's blindness is that he saw two snakes mating when he was 7 years old and he hit them with a stick. he was turned into female after he hit the snake. Again after 7 years, she saw mating snakes again and she hit them with her staff and become man again. As a result of his experiences, Zeus and Hera asked him to setle the question which sex experience more pleasure during intercourse. Zeus claimed it was women; Hera claimed it was men. When Teiresias sided with Zeus, Hera struck him blind. Since Zeus could not undo what she had done, he gave him the gift of prophecy.
Both these myths contradicts each other but one thing we can be sure of is that Teiresias was blinded by Hera (Athena).
Thursday, March 26
Does drama help TESL?
Taking the course Teaching the Language of Drama is very much useful to my area of study (TESL). Reading plays help me to understand the revolution of English language from the classic English where people use thee and thou as in Shakespearean works and modern English that we use in our daily life now. I could also identify the differences in English language used in different countries and ethnic groups. The African American uses different kind of slang and the Americans uses different slang just like the British who uses totally different slang. The varieties of English language that I learn will help me a lot when I step into the teaching world as students who watch movies or hear songs from different countries might adapt to the slang of their favourite artist and as a language teacher I must be able to recognize those slangs and teach students to use Queen’s English.
Literature trains me to not have a fixed perception about something as a character or story line might change anytime in a play. Fixed perception will make us miss the transformation of a character or story line and be totally lost at the end of the play. This value of not having a fixed perception on something is very important as I am going to become a teacher in the future. Teachers should not have fixed perception on students as it will restrict them to help in students’ development.
As I am minoring in English literature, this course helps me to develop my skills in paying more attention to details of a literary work rather than just reading it for fun. This course has been a great help for me to improve myself as a literature student and also to prepare myself as a teacher.
In my opinion, after 12 weeks of studying this course, I didn’t find any aspect of lectures or tutorials unrelated or useless to the area of my study. I totally gained a lot of new skills from this course which is very important for teachers.
Taking EDU3217 has been a great experience until now. The contents of the course are very much educational as I learnt lot of new ways to analyse a literary work. This newly developed skill in me make me very curious to know about some plays more so I often browse for study guides and analysis done by others to know more about the play. I believe I cannot interpret the plays much different from what I have learnt in this course. All my reading of study guides and analysis papers came to the same interpretation that I have learnt.
Literature trains me to not have a fixed perception about something as a character or story line might change anytime in a play. Fixed perception will make us miss the transformation of a character or story line and be totally lost at the end of the play. This value of not having a fixed perception on something is very important as I am going to become a teacher in the future. Teachers should not have fixed perception on students as it will restrict them to help in students’ development.
As I am minoring in English literature, this course helps me to develop my skills in paying more attention to details of a literary work rather than just reading it for fun. This course has been a great help for me to improve myself as a literature student and also to prepare myself as a teacher.
In my opinion, after 12 weeks of studying this course, I didn’t find any aspect of lectures or tutorials unrelated or useless to the area of my study. I totally gained a lot of new skills from this course which is very important for teachers.
Taking EDU3217 has been a great experience until now. The contents of the course are very much educational as I learnt lot of new ways to analyse a literary work. This newly developed skill in me make me very curious to know about some plays more so I often browse for study guides and analysis done by others to know more about the play. I believe I cannot interpret the plays much different from what I have learnt in this course. All my reading of study guides and analysis papers came to the same interpretation that I have learnt.
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