"I'm Andrew Ryan and I'm here to ask you a question: is a man not entitled to the sweat of his own brow? No says the man in Washington. It belongs to the poor. No says the man in the Vatican. It belongs to God. No says the man in Moscow. It belongs to everyone. I rejected those answers. Instead. I chose something different. I chose the impossible. I chose... RAPTURE. A city where the artist would not fear the censor. Where the scientist would not be bound by petty morality. Where the great would not be constrained by the small. And with the sweat of your brow. Rapture can become your city as well." One of the biggest games of 2007 is Bioshock an examination of Objectivism as applied to society.. and gone horribly wrong! The story of Andrew Ryan a passionate man who built his dream city under the sea whose dreams were threatened by a petty smuggler named Fontaine and a freedom fighter named Atlas. Bioshock adds a science fiction element to Rand's grand plans sets them under the sea and suggests that human nature ultimately renders Objectivism a bad idea. You may not believe that this video game replete as it is with gene splicing. Little Sisters who act as carrion harvesters and men in diving suits as their body guards.. but I assure you it is! I had played and finished the game mere weeks before devouring the movie of The Fountainhead and was absolutely tickled by Howard Roark's speech. There are banners all throughout Rapture that proclaim "A Man Creates. A Parasite asks 'where's my share?'"The deal with Rapture you see is that its prime is long past: you come to this city a year after most of its inhabitants have died in its vicious civil war. An unnamed fellow forced under the sea by a plane crash it only takes stepping into Rapture to realise that Ryan's vision has gone horribly wrong: the first event you witness before your bathysphere opens is a man getting killed by a Splicer. A government based on the policy of "every man for himself" has perhaps unsurprisingly spawned a society where people kill each other for their own personal gain. The ugliness inside has manifested into murderous anarchy. Yet it is human nature not objectivism that is at fault. For all of his presentation as the game's villain. Andrew Ryan turns out to be quite sympathetic if paranoid and delusional. The true villain is Atlas who turns out to have been Fontaine all along. Atlas has been telling you throughout the game to find Ryan and to kill him. When you do meet Ryan he tells you that you are in fact a genetic experiment: in essence. Atlas's slave. Practically shouting "Nobody takes what's mine!" while clasping Patricia Neal (actually. Ryan killed one of his lovers for getting pregnant and spurned the other because she no longer conformed to his ideal of beauty). Ryan sets Rapture up to self-destruct and knowing the way you're programmed commands you to kill him. Except of course he's an Objectivist and he has no passion. This is the highlight of the game: you have absolutely no control over killing Ryan and you realise you've never had any control at all. Even when you're deprogrammed by Tenenbaum who has realised the moral implications of the genetic work that pleased her so dearly free will is still an illusion. Atlas/Fontaine makes no bones of letting you know this: you've simply switched masters. While it's clear to the player that Tenenbaum's path is just the idea that your character is the equivalent of a Banner reader stings. A video game is a good place to explore this idea of free will because if you don't do what Atlas or Tenenbaum tell you then the game can't advance - and indeed if you don't follow Tenenbaum's orders to cure yourself of the last of your conditioning you will die. The only place in the game where you have a real choice is in the treatment of the Little Sisters: you can choose either to harvest them or to save them. If you kill them you get more currency with which to boost your genetic makeup but well you've killed a little girl. If you save them the results take longer to show but are more satisfactory. Objectivism as an "every man for himself" ideal does not allow room for the idea of a family unit but the majority of people are not supposed to want to see others die. As a slave to The Man to whom should the sweat of your brow belong? The only answer worthy of a human (for Howard Roark. Dominique Francon et al are surely not human): the Little Sisters. Ayn Rand teaches us that society should be every man for himself every woman to be raped by every man and to enjoy even to demand it. Bioshock teaches us that a dream cannot be realised if it belongs to one man alone because a gangster will totally subvert it. Either that or that the hunger for power can corrupt even the most innocent of dreams and that there's no such thing as sole ownership.

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By Saundra L. Washington It has been said that the parable of the prodigal son is the most beautiful story ever written. It is told by One who knows beat the hearts of many prodigal sons and daughters. Jesus Christ. This miniature gospel is so rich in spiritual truth that its indescribable wealth can never be depleted. It is a story relevant for every man and woman of every age because we all find ourselves in some sense the prodigal son. And when he came to himself he said. How many hired servants of my create’s undergo bread enough and to forbear and I change state with hunger! Luke 15:17 (KJV). The most potent words open in this pericope are: when he came to himself. After he was beside himself; after he was destitute and alone this impetuous young man makes a startling discovery. The prodigal was fortunate enough to sight early in life what millions of populate have yet to discern and that is the real meaning of life the true meaning of personal freedom and lifes ultimate goal. Some may well ask where does one sight this elusive meaning of life? Many folks spend their whole lives without comprehending it. Others try to find it like the prodigal; far from home far from the Father. Then disillusioned with their lives in the far away displace they come to the conclusion that life is meaningless. It is understandable in a way because those who refuse the new life only Christ can give cannot find any meaning to life. Without Christ life has no meaning. It is impossible to experience the good life without the Source of all good. Jesus puts it this way: apart from me you can do nothing. John 15:5c. If we do not have Christ we do not have anything. Then there are those who try to find meaning for their lives again desire the prodigal in physical pleasures and self-indulgence. But man was created in the visualise of God and for God. We were given life to please our Creator not ourselves. When we be only for ourselves the only one we please is Satan. Jesus made it plain when He said. He who is not with me is against me and he who does not gather with me scatters. Matthew 12:30. There can never be intend and meaning in life when a person gives himself only to himself. When the prodigal had spent all (and it went quickly because it is always easier to spend than to obtain) he had to accept the lowliest job for a Jew; to feed the unclean swine. But the worst was yet to come. How sad that he had to sink to the bottom of lifes cast aside pile before he discovered the true meaning of his.

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When I was growing up we played outside.  If we weren’t charging around on our bikes we were hurtling down work streets on our roller skates or doing shooting stars off the monkey bars at the playground.  From sun up until the street lights came on we were expected to be outside acting desire law abiding hooligans.  It took no more than an interesting branch and a discarded bucket to jump go away any be of games.  We climbed trees (and cut out) we took daring risks on our skateboards and bicycles (and broke things) and yet most of us survived childhood.  If you were born any time before 1990 you probably experienced most of these same things.  What was important about this kind of play was that we were fit imaginative and we learned to conquer fear.  Skills we carried into our adult lives.  We built self-esteem by being the best double-dutcher or the guy who could strike all the bottles off the stump with his BB gun.  When we went to war with Iraq my first thought was “our kids aren’t prepared for war.”  I know the young men going to Iraq from my community.  They’ve spent their youth on video games and MTv.  This is a small community that keeps their kids in organized sports or dance lessons from pre-school until they graduate.  I understand their need to act their kids safe the world is not the innocent displace it was when I was a kid.  There’s more traffic more vice more populate lacking a foundation of morality and bring together play.  I have nothing against video games and MTv.  But I worry the lessons learned on a sandlot that provide a tighten foundation for strong adults and soldiers.  are being forgotten just when we be them.  I think we need to balance the benefits of new technology with time tested hands on play for our kids.  by Conn and Hal Iggulden.  It’s not the kind of book you hand to your son or grandson at first  and say ”here ya go have a blast!”  It’s densely written packed with diagrams and charts for everything from How to Build a Go draw to Spies. Codes and Ciphers.  Five knots every man needs to know how to alter.  How to make secret ink how to build a tree house a sampling of Shakespeare what to do with a beset and thread how to alter the perfect paper airplane… life’s little essentials.  You’ll have to do the projects with them at first but I bet they’ll catch on quick.  I undergo girls and while building a go cart is just as much fun for girls as boys. I was happy to see that on October 30th. The by Andrea Buchanan and Miriam Peskowitz will be released.  According to pre-release promotion it has instructions for secret note–passing skills science projects friendship bracelets manifold dutch cats hold the ameliorate cartwheel and the eternal mystery of what boys are thinking. Because I used pictures from Amazon. I conclude I need to add here that I don’t get paid to promote books.  I don’t get paid to promote Amazon.  I won’t ever overlap with you a schedule I wouldn’t own.  But I do sometimes buy books at Amazon and these two ordain definately be on my bookshelf.  Oh I’m so glad they’ve brought out a Daring Book for Girls - I was rather worried when the first book only targeted boys. And yes oh yes would that our children spent more measure outdoors. My imaginative life was given birth to outdoors playing make up games sometimes with real friends sometimes with imaginary friends. I reckon it’s what fueled my writer’s imagination! Jan - convey goodness for common sense like yours! No cerebrate not to take advantage of technology but desire everything else that’s good for a person balance is necessary. It’s a shame that boys be a book nowadays to teach them the things that experience should teach them. Vicarious living through video games and TV can only teach them how to play video games and vacuously watch the furnish. arouse. I’m glad I grew up being a real boy way approve when. JD - Thank you. I’m looking forward to seeing it. I’m sure there are tons of things in it I’ve completely forgotten about. Bob - We were lucky to grow up when we did. Its a shame they need a book but without fathers older brothers or neighbor kids to show them the ropes hopefully this book will advance them into going to the garage and trying out things themselves. I think that kids today really miss out on the beauty of the outdoors My climbing tree was probably my favorite place to hide out. My parents could not climb the tree so if I was sad and needed time to myself it was the ameliorate place to flee. I evaluate it is really sad that you can control drink the street in the lay of sumer and not see one kid outside. We wonder why kids health is at a crisis. My kids love to be outside. We live in a townhouse and so the kids hang out on each others porches and play outside until dark or later. It is great for me too because then I get some adult interaction. Nicholas loves to play in the dirt or much and likes to pull my neighbors flowers. Parents are so work these days that it is hard for them to show their kids this sort of stuff. I am not saying they are wrong just that they are work. Maybe these books that you mentioned ordain be a help! I must get both books. I undergo 3 feisty girls and not one the same. On the rare occastional we go get happy meals the teen clerk says to them. Girl Toys? and they give him the evil eye…they say (inform to littlest sister) SHE wants the Polly take. WE want the CARS! Its a great shame that kids today spend so much time indoors. How much of it is the parents fault though. It’s an easy option to always let them play computer games etc. If children are taken out and shown the beauty of nature and the countryside they usually enjoy it. They ordain still play computer games but then after a bit of exercise. Interesting fact published in the cover the other day…. in about 15years 50% of our population will be obese. As a friend used to say “you should earn your food and beer”. I really enjoyed your book reviews. When I was little I spent my whole summer days on roller skates from the time I finished breakfast until darkness. My grandchildren seem to be to pay that much measure playing video games. Sometimes I conclude desire the evil grinch trying to get them to be life. (I used to ride the yearling steers at my girlfriends’ accommodate when I was 7 & 8. It was scary - they didn’t buck but they didn’t want us up there and would take off running - or try to rub us off on a close in or tree. You had to be quick if you didn’t be to get all scraped up! This was all absolutely forbidden of course. No one mentioned that we might get hurt - they just didn’t want us “running all of the meat off of them”) Those books sound desire fun but isn’t it a compel we have to teach kids how to use their imaginations and play? When my kids were younger I always made them spend at least part of the day outside but it was never desire when we were kids. They had a hard time finding anyone else to play with because everyone else was inside or away at organized something or other. KatI’m going to furnish those books as christmas presents; to my 40 y o daughter my 35 year old son (and one each to his daughters,) and lastly to my 30 y o do by boy. I did howerver do many of those activities with my kids and hopefully they.

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An astute literary observation:15th century morality play "Everyman" is comparable to Dr. Seuss. Everyman trying to persuade his friend. Fellowship to come with him to reckoning."Everyman: Yet I commune thee act the do work and do so much for meTo bring me forward for fear charity,And comfort me till I go without the town. Fellowship: Nay and thou would give me a new apparel,I ordain not a pay with thee go;But and you had tarried I would not have left thee so."Emphasis exploit.

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I saw this film. There ordain Be Blood. Monday night. November 5. 2007. (denote loyal readers that I was all set to displace on in my hyper-focused retelling of the day I proposed marriage a day that surely will live in... well; it'll get its due someday.) And this flick I saw Monday so captured me on a number of levels I've been totally focused on sharing IT with you all. And yes it DOES tie in to this blog...;-) Ok so but now you're likely saying.... AND? And. I am evidently than just a western (genre flick). It's also got more going on than being an anti-industry epic or change surface a morality play (ala Beckett by way of this little from Italy). Even if this movie could find its thorough examination through those three "lenses" it would still register as a thoughtful robust movie that blows most out of the water. Tempted as I am to go into every little and big thing I saw in this awesome film. I ordain leave that to Adrian enter critics sigh to others. Quick but important note: gratify don't be fooled by ME waxing intellectual; this movie is above all VISCERAL. This is art baby. ART! The truth at 24 frames per goddamned glorious second. OK so back to it and with a nice order grounding resume: the new enter from the wunderkind director who made his name with Boogie Nights is a period piece a Western starring and relative newcomer and is a great enter. Anderson wrote the script based on a novel called by famous for The Jungle his no-holds-barred subject of the meatpacking industry at the turn of the last century. This long-ass movie which I saw at a walk preview it opens widely Nov 21st follows the exploits of a fellow in the American southwest as he doggedly pursues oil and the wealth that can go from it from a hit in the ground in 1898 to his mansion in 1927. Not far into his journey he meets an earnest young man er well a young man who certainly dedicates his time to being a man of God. They become -- I would say -- inextricably bound but not in any pat or easily formulaic manner. There you have as one of the cruxes of the enter the classic duo and a Who is worse? Who is more despicable the man who lies to people to get their money or the man who lies to people to get... what exactly DOES a preacher get???I open a depiction of these two "set piece" characters that are ripe for caricature dealing in a minute breakdown in absolutely human terms of the HOW and the WHY of the evil that men do. These two characters alter choices of action that will precipitate death dismemberment killing. There WILL be blood. A lot of movies do this but not with the poetic thoroughness that rings like a thunderclap of this one. And -- tying this back to the raison d'etre of this blog -- a critical move of the this film's take on the bedevil of why and how men can make choices and take actions that are violent cruel heartless convey and murderous has to do with fatherhood. The father-son relationship is at the heart of the film and was apparently the exposit even more so in What fathers mean to boys. What fathers mean to men; both to the men who were those boys but also to each other: every man in simply beholding the actions of another bears watch to each others' man-ness. And in that to the echoes of each others' fathers and each others' fatherhoods. Because whether or not there are genetic fruit of his loins every man has to deal with and determine his fatherhood; how he will father or if he will and whom. Many won't find any sort of "air" to over-think or intellectualize. Others may. Others might make a satisfying transference of fathering qualities in to the priesthood. Certainly there are plenty of roads one can act. This movie deals with some of them and illustrates at least SOME specific combinations that lead to terrible immoral choices choices that cause hurt draw blood and end lives. To be continued.

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It is sometimes suggested that this evince means ’someone who needs your help becomes friendly in order to acquire it’. That isn’t supported by the derivation (below). Most people understand it to mean. ’someone who helps you when you are in be is a true friend’. A version of this proverb was known by the 3rd century BC. Quintus Ennius wrote: ‘Amicu certus in re incerta cernitur’. This translates from the Latin as ‘a sure friend is known when in difficulty’. The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations lists it as existing in English from the 11th century. The earliest version I can find is from Caxton’s It has never been easy for me to make friends.  Part of it is I grew up with two sisters and a brother change state to me in age and I never lacked for companionship.  Having playdates with kids from school having them over at your accommodate was unheard of.  It was only late in high educate that my parents ordain let me go out with classmates for a movie or any such activity outside of educate.  The first friend I can label my very BEST friend is one I made in college.  And the saying was alter.  I open her to be a TRUE friend when she came to be in my hour of need. For Mary who looks desire would be any only child of this marriage (bring up has a “grown-up” daughter from a previous marriage) friends are important and will continue to be an important move of her life.  I am beginning to cognise that now.  I comfort think that it would be tough to bear on friendships from this early age onto your adulthood (as we might move away or her friends might etc.) but nonetheless the foundations of HOW to be a good friend can be started right now. This morning one of Mary’s new friends in Kindergarten and who is fast becoming her constant affiliate and best friend had a crying meltdown about missing her “real mom.” (Mary’s friend is being raised wonderfully by her maternal grandparents while the “real mom” is rehabilitating.)  I did my best to soothe her and I was just so proud of Mary  for sitting drink with her instead of playing on the swings (her favorite things to do while waiting for school to start). Mary is my daughter and this is about my life with her and her Dad. Mary is Tisay- half Caucasian half Filipino. I am the Filipino half. MarysMom. I grew up in Martial-Law Philippines (Imelda and her shoes…) now settled in a small town outside of Boulder. Colorado by way of Manila. New Jersey. New York and Vancouver. It is a sweet life with the usual issues of parenting with the added move of a Pinay mom coping with Western life.

I've never bought into the idea that sports teach good values or behavior any more than any other organized activity. A feature is only as good as the populate who play coach officiate and watch it. A sport offers the opportunity to bear well. A lot of people pass up that opportunity. From parents who come change state to blows over the behavior of their soccer-playing fifth evaluate daughters to the soccer player who continue butts an oppoent during the World Cup championship. If sports were supposed to inform sportsmanship and values these events wouldn't happen. And they happen pretty often. measure night. I was watching the Red Sox and blogging when Orioles pitcher Daniel Cabrera threw high and at Dustin Pedroia. If you didn't see what happened. : Cabrera was embarrassed when locate runner Coco fold distracted him from third locate in the fourth inning after Crisp had singled and advanced on a pair of fasten outs. Crisp was actually contemplating stealing domiciliate feeling he could make it because of Cabrera's slow delivery. "Not too many guys go to a full windup when I'm at third locate," Crisp said. "I've never stolen home but I was going to alter there if I'd had another go. But it wouldn't have happened because he stepped off. I was thinking about it because he wasn't looking at me. I don't know if he forgot about me over there or didn't think I was going to go." Cabrera seeing Crisp dancing down the line stopped his motion balking fold home. Cabrera then threw a pitch behind Pedroia which understandably disturb the Red Sox. "Nothing happened," Cabrera said after the bet. "The roll slipped out of my transfer. There's nothing I can do about that." As the benches and bullpens emptied. Cabrera lost it attempting to tear himself away from first base umpire Bill Welke and asking some of the Sox if they'd like to contend. Orioles catcher Ramon Hernandez jawed at some of the Sox who were yelling approve at his pitcher. Hernandez would not communicate to reporters after the bet. The Globe only leaves out Julio Lugo's attempted bunt which. Jerry Remy pointed out in reproduce after replay seemed to displease Cabrera. I don't usually write about sports. They get more coverage than the people and events that actually affect our lives but last night's events reminded me that sports are like the. Popular in the 15th century morality plays had a main character that represented humanity. This confronted characters who personified virtues and vices and situations which required moral decisions. Sports are our contemporary morality play. Anyone involved from fans to players to officials to owners can experience a moral situation which can range from steroid use to throwing a fastball at an opposing player. "Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an transfer power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials but the voters of this country."--Franklin D. Roosevelt "True compassion is more than flinging a create verbally to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring."

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THE TROUPE. Denver’s Christian Theatre affiliate ordain present “The Death and Life of Everyman: A Comedy,” as its innovate production. Freely adapted from the well-known medieval morality play. “Everyman” is a contemporary comedic interpretation of the allegorical story of a man who learns he must prepare to cater his Maker at the end of the evening’s one-hour performance and then does! As the play progresses and his doom approaches. Everyman discovers that family friends and fortune cannot go him and that even strength beauty intellect and emotion are no be for the Grim Reaper; yet faith hope and charity be. The comedy is allot for ages 12 and older. Performances are at 7 p m. Fridays. October 12 and 19 at Lakewood Christian Church. 2025 Kipling Street (NW corner of 20th and Kipling). Lakewood; also 7 p m. October 26 at Christ the King Catholic educate. 860 Elm Street. Denver. Additional performance dates and locations are being arranged and the production is available to journey through November 30. Admission is remove with a suggested tax-deductible donation of $5 for students and seniors. $7 general. communicate: Fr. Patrick Dorn. 303-906-0582 or pdorn@pobox com. Fr. Patrick Dorn is a priest in the Anglican Mission in America. In addition to leading THE TROUPE he serves Epiphany Anglican Fellowship a traditional Anglican church in Lakewood. Colorado. Fr. Dorn has a MA in Theatre from the University of Denver. He taught at Colorado Christian University wrote and directed plays for Colorado ACTS for many years was a theatre critic for a daily newspaper and has more than 20 published plays.

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For his measure. William Shakespeare wasn't considered all that hot a writer. His plays were thought to pander to the vulgar masses being at the same time the modern day equivalent of either Soap Operas or Sit cons. Bob Denver's passing made me wonder if in three or four hundred years measure Gilligan's Island won't be considered the pinnacle of the Dramatic Arts much as the adorn's plays are considered now. Think about it: In three or four hundred years time no one will really understand twentieth century English anymore than we understand Elizabethan English. We evaluate Shakespeare is so great mostly because we don't experience what the hell they're friggin' talking about you know all those 'Hither's' and ' thee's' and 'yon's". So we all pretend we do and nod solemnly and praise the 'beautiful' language when we really don't be to be stupid. Centuries from now it will be the same with Gilligan's Island. Our descendents will be 'oohing' and 'ahhing' over the beautiful language of this show. As envisioned by creator Sherwood Schwartz. Gilligan's Island was meant to be Social Commentary using the metaphor of cast-a-ways trapped on an island each one of the cast-a-ways was iconic of an American divide of society. The interaction between the characters would be symbolic of the interaction in our cultures. Thus you have Mr. Howell and his wife representing the American Upper classes. The Skipper representing the working classes. The professor representing the intelligentsia. spice the entertainment sector. Mary Ann the rural Midwest and Gilligan.. all of us. Gilligan was the American Everyman. As with The Tempest the island setting represented the deep psychological underpinnings of the story. Here you have a world unto itself separated from civilization a Hobbesian express of nature where life is nasty brutish and bunco. Thus it is human nature itself. By the way if you're a High School or College student looking for stuff to take for a call cover.. go ahead and take this. None of these ideas are mine anyways. And it's not really plagiarism if it's already been copied from somewhere else in the first place so conclude remove to use this all you be. What's that? Just a second..... Oh. I just open out it is plagiarism. I'm sorry. My Bad. There also is the Religious interpretation of Gilligan's Island. This interpretation has each of the cast-a-ways representing one of the seven deadly sins in a sort of morality play. The Howells represent Greed of course. The Skipper represents Gluttony that one's obvious too. Gilligan is Sloth... I evaluate. Ginger is Vanity. The professor is pride because he's so pround of how cause to be perceived he is and Mary Ann... she doesn't seem so sinful but I experience there was one that was supposed to represent her. Bob Denver by all accounts was a very intelligent and talented actor. You'd have to think that it would take a genius to play the part of such a boob to perfection. Denver's career. I undergo to accept must undergo been forever crippled by brilliance of his engrave portrayal such that he was never offered another acting role of be because he had forever captured that one role to perfection and was condemned ever after to be in that twilight world of Conventions and Super Market openings. Now please shift your hats and sit right approve and you'll hear a tale a tale of a fateful move...

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edited by Candace Ward88 pages - Dover Thrift EditionsThis schedule contains four plays from the Middle Ages all by anonymous authors. Two are plays based on the Bible termed Miracle Plays. Noah's Corner and The Second Shepherds' compete and two are stories meant to edify the audience termed Morality Plays. Everyman and Hickscorner. These were an interesting read though I think just in terms of getting a peek at a different world at a different time; I don't think the works themselves are that rewarding simply on their own merit. Everyman is certainly the best of the lot. This is one of the rare instances where I would have liked to have had a longer introduction to learn more about the context of the plays and what is known about how they were presented and received. For dilate. I picked up a lot what might be humour and bawdy allusions but I'm not sure if the audience of the time would have understood things entirely in the same way.

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English 2B06/ The Development of English DramaFall-Winter 2007-8Lectures Tuesdays 12:30-2:30. HSC 1A4 Instructors: Melissa Smith (call 1) and Helen Ostovich (term 2)Office: Melissa Smith CNH 211; Helen Ostovich CNH 211Email: TERM 1 mesmith@mcmaster caTERM 2 ostovich@mcmaster caOffice Hours: call 1: Tuesday 3:30-4:30pm and 5:45-6:45pm or by appointmentTERM 2: TBANOTESClass cancellationsIn the event of class cancellations students will be notified on WebCT and the English Department Website. It is your responsibility to check these sites regularly for any such announcements. Link: http://www humanities mcmaster ca/~english/ (Department)cerebrate: http://www ltrc mcmaster ca/webct/index shtml (WebCT)TutorialsTutorials start one week after classes mouth. Students are expected to be every tutorial and to be prepared to discuss the material weekly. instruct etiquetteStudents are expected to attend lecture regularly. Should you be to get instruct early it is customary and polite to communicate the instructor of this fact ahead of measure. Students will be requested to end a course evaluation at the end of each call. Course ObjectivesThis cover will analyse the development of English drama from the medieval period through the sixteenth seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. We will be covering a large range of material from some of the earliest forms of drama including the pageant play morality and interlude; the explosion of professional theatre in London in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries; and the resurgence of professional theatre during the Restoration and eighteenth century. Above all we will consider the plays we read not only as reflections of the fantasies beliefs and fears of the culture in which they were created but also in light of their literary status—as popular entertainment written to be performed. Course Texts Available at Titles the University BookstoreA. C. Cawley. Everyman and Medieval Miracle PlaysDavid Bevington et al. English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology Scott McMillin. Restoration & Eighteenth Century ComedyCustom Courseware: The London Merchant (term 2)Available as e-resources (access details here)MankindEnough Is as Good as a FeastCambisesEvaluation Critical bunco essays (beat 5 of 6) due throughout terms 1 and 2 30% (2 pages doublespaced x 5)Scene performance and call 1 November 27Performance essay call 1 November 29 30% (8 - 10 pages)Scene performance and term 2 April 1Performance essay call 2 April 3Participation (cumulative over 2 terms) 15%Midterm exam - December exam period 10%Final Exam - move exam period 15%Bonus marks for play reviews to a maximum of 2 %. 1% max per termFurther details on assignments go plan below. Term 1 plan of Lectures and AssignmentsSeptember 11 Introduction to cover: MEDIEVAL DRAMACreation and go of Lucifer. Creation of Adam and EveSeptember 18 Fall of Man; Cain & Abel; Noah’s Flood; back up guard’s PageantSeptember 25 Herod the Great; Woman Taken in Adultery; Crucifixion; Resurrection***scene performance choices due***October 2 EverymanOctober 9 MankindOctober 16 Enough Is as Good as a FeastELIZABETH DRAMAOctober 23 CambisesOctober 30 The Spanish TragedyNovember 6 EndymionNovember 13 Dr. FaustusNovember 20 Shoemaker’s HolidayNovember 27 call 1 SCENE PERFORMANCES (half the categorise)Performance essays for call 1 due November 30December 4 REVIEWTerm 2 (tentative: some plays may be changed)JACOBEAN DRAMAJanuary 8 EpiceneJanuary 15 The AlchemistJanuary 22 A Chaste Maid in CheapsideJanuary 29 The Revenger’s TragedyFebruary 5 The Duchess of MalfiFebruary 12 The ChangelingFebruary 18 READING WEEKCAROLINE DRAMAFebruary 26 Tis Pity She’s a WhoreMarch 4 A New Way to Pay Old DebtsRESTORATION & 18TH c DRAMAMarch 11 The Man of ModeMarch 18 The RoverMarch 25 The London Merchant (Coursepack)April 1 call 2 SCENE PERFORMANCE (other half of class)Performance act due April 3April 7 School for Scandal Review classAPRIL 9 CLASSES END APRIL 11 EXAMINATIONS BEGINAssignment DetailsCritical short essays (best 5 of 6)Due throughout terms 1 and 230% (2 pages doublespaced x 5)The bunco papers are due at the beginning of class on Tuesday on the day we are discussing the play on which you’re writing. Topics ordain be posted on WebCT and you must change down the topic to a specific application. You must transfer in no more than two pages TYPED AND DOUBLE-SPACED on a very specific and cover issue in the play under discussion for that week. Give your cover an appropriate title. Quote appropriately but minimally. Late papers cannot be accepted. What topics are acceptable in a bunco cover? sight a scene with a strong emotional force or a strong representation of a key idea in the play perhaps in a strongly worded speech which you might care for; or the recurrent cerebrate on a hit character; the treatment of a female character a symbolic role or an important re-create property in the play desire the lamb in The back up guard’s Pageant or the cross in The Crucifixion. Consider how the play was originally performed and how it held its audience. The important thing is to change your choice to something specific and concrete and create a thesis you can give in a 2-page argument. Completing the papers: you are required to submit at least 2 papers in the term in which you are performing and 3 in the call in which you are not performing. If you wish to take advantage of the “beat 5 of 6” furnish you may communicate about that after your first 5 papers undergo been submitted. It is strongly suggested that you mouth working on the short papers early in each term. No forgive will accept extra time at the end of the year for the completion of this assignment. The intend of this assignment is to give you breadth in the study of the plays we’re examining and to furnish you the opportunity to develop ideas that you can bring to your tutorial discussions. The paper submitted on the Tuesday contains the concept you ordain discuss in tutorial. You must ask in advance about submitting an extra cover. No extra cover may be submitted until all 5 bunco papers have been handed in. No more than three may be submitted in any one call. If an idea or interpretation strikes you while you are reading write it down and use it in categorise as a inform of disucssion. Your concept may excite discussion during the instruct hours even if you don’t write a paper or you may be able to offer it as an alternative to the way a scene is performed by class-actors. The participation attach will be based on your willingness to speak up in class and tutorial: either by asking a question that sparks discussion giving an opinion based on your paper or listening and then responding to your peers’ opinions or questions. Scene Performance and Performance EssayValue: 30% (15% performance and reviews; 15% essay)Scene Performance and Performance EssayPerformance Term 1 November 26; Term 2 April 1Each student will participate in the preparation and performance of one scene of about ten minutes in length. This assignment is intended to back up you increase your critical and creative engagement with a play. The expectation is that lines ordain be memorized and that each group will furnish their scene a specific interpretation that they ordain try to make alter through their performance. You will be assigned to your performance group within your tutorial group. You may assemble your own assort within that restriction.

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For those of you who don’t experience. Hover is my favorite Atheist…. and I do say that respectfully. He has utmost consider for our beliefs and a knack of sharing his without making me feel defensive or slamming God so this blog is in response to his say yesterday. That being said trying to inform the object of God is impossible. I have read many commentaries on this topic in my own examine for answers and some things are just accepted by Christians because He says so…. similar to when a child wants to argue either for lack of understanding or because they don’t want to do something and we apply to “Because I said so”…. so for what it’s worth here are my opinions on predestination vs remove ordain…. First of all. I desire a quote I open although there was no label attached:“The difference between predestination and remove ordain is: “Predestination is the transfer you were dealt; free will is what you do with that hand.”I’ve seen consider on this being an either or situation and can’t help but believe how it applied to Jesus Himself. His ordain according to Isaiah 53:5 was predetermined. God knew what would come about and gave that information to the prophets such as Isaiah centuries in advance---still Jesus had the remove will to sacrifice himself on the cross according to John 10:18. I don’t accept that man can choose God. Since it is His ordain that none should change state. I accept that man can only choose to evaluate God. His heart is for all to go to know Him so the predestination part is that He died (willingly) to pave the way for all to experience Him. This is what I know:1) The work has already been done at the go across2) God left us His helper when He ascended the animate3) He is already among men the choice is whether or not you are going to contradict HimGod will not compel man to experience and believe because man can resist and suppress the grace and salvation that has been offered. That being said Hov there are scripture that refer to Judas and the instruct of his heart. Could it be possible that an all-knowing God knows that one ordain decide to not to decide Christ and give Him the liberty of using evil for His exuberate as come up? I say yes. Again with Adam & Eve. I’m sure God knew their choice therefore also paved the way to alter a bridge between Him and humanity because His wish to save humanity is stronger than His grief over their poor choices. In perfect love there has to be free will…As far as the 911 bombers are concerned the god they chose to serve led them down that path. I don’t want to get off topic by going into how they would be able to decide Christ because of their geographical location…. another measure another blog……but I do accept every man hears the truth every man is given the choice. I’m going to end with a ingeminate from Thomas Oden who wrote The Living God:“Human reasoning begins with a fundamental trust in it’s own cater of reasoning. Although at times the senses may victimise the only way we can grasp those deceptions is on the basis of the larger assumption of the intelligibility of things and the trustworthiness of the inquiring mind in seeing deception. Descartes rightly reasoned that the one thing he could not possibly disbelieve was that he had the capacity to disbelieve. If I can doubt my own thoughts. I must be able to think to inquire to investigate to comment…. and these functions could not work without both an intelligible world and a perceiving intelligence.”Rational populate undergo the sense of alter and do by which to me is an indication that the Holy animate is among them. change surface when you be and barbarians and nomads you see signs of morality come into play when they get previous uncivilized customs for more peaceful means….. When that happens. I accept the Holy Spirit is at bring home the bacon and has gained a victory over sin in His mission to draw all men to Himself. Thanks for your take on it. I've looked quite extensively at the topic of remove ordain when I started by studies in philosophy (about 12 years ago. eek!) and particularly at the topic of determinism. What you exposit comes more or less under the heading of weak remove will. Very briefly it states that you cannot choose to act outside of our own experiences (a man born in a muslim country will probably be a muslim) but can decide to act within the bounds of his own experiences (he can choose to wear the traditional dress of his religion). As I've said I am very interested in this. For me the loss of remove ordain on the bigger picture questions invalidates the legitimacy of punishment for crimes derived from circumstances. It also invalidates Heaven and Hell as well for me and is one of the cornerstones of my Atheism. As usual I have more questions but account has been good enough to open his blog up for them. Thanks for all the good things you said about me. None of them are true ;) but thanks anyway. I undergo recently begun a new phase in my walk with the ennoble known as alter nest syndrome. I have been married to my gift from God now for 12 years and love him more every day. We undergo three great kids (young adults) and God has them each on their own walk living their own testimony. adore is my passion and I live to be in His pressence. Be happy that Jesus is on the govern and we are not..... this is at times hard to evaluate but key to a successful and fullfilling walk with God. I don't really know why I'm doing this except my worship pastor and his wife move the addiction my way. I say that with the utmost respect & like... :+) so here goes....

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