http://docs.google.com/Edit?id=dfv9z9jq_4ckzvqkgx
Here is a website to view my term paper. I ended up doing my paper on John Donne's "The Flea" and Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress." I thought that these poems were a very good representation of the theme in our class that all literature is displaced myth, as each poem presents many familiar characteristics in comparison to mythology's Zeus. Also, these poems are some of the most famous of all poems, which represents the author's immortality. Art is immortality and is yet another one of our resonating themes. I hope you enjoy!
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Monday, November 24, 2008
The Controversy!
It is interesting to look into all of the controversiality surrounding The Golden Compass and Mormonism, even Catholicism for that matter! It seems crazy to me that people are trying to tell people that if you believe in God, then you are not allowed to partake in the enjoyment of such a wonderful story! I do not believe that reading or watching this story can make a person break away from their religion. I do not think that enjoying a fantastical story such as The Golden Compass is such a bad thing. Give me feed back! What do you think about this situation?
Helpful Terminology from Wiki
Alternate naming and other words
To enhance the feeling of being in a parallel universe, Pullman renames various common objects of our world with historic terms or new words of his own, often reflecting the power of the Magisterium (Pullman's version of the Roman Catholic Church) in Lyra's world. The alternative names he chooses often follow alternate etymologies, while making it possible to guess what everyday object or person he is referring to. Below are some of the significant renamings as well as new words the author has developed entirely on his own.
Æsahættr: (literally "God-destroyer") The formal name of the subtle knife; deemed the "last knife of all"
Anbaric: Electric. From anbar, Arabic for amber; the English word "electric" is based on the Greek ήλεκτρον (élektron), meaning "amber". Both words derive from the electrostatic properties of amber.
Atomcraft: Research into particle physics, specifically using uranium.
Brantwijn: Brandywine.
Cauchuc: Rubber and possibly also plastic, from the Native American word cauchuc or caoutchouc meaning the sap of the rubber tree.
Celestial geography: Celestial navigation.
Chapel: A scientific laboratory.
Chaplain: The head of a scientific laboratory.
Chocolatl: Sometimes hot chocolate, sometimes "a bar of chocolatl" (a chocolate bar). From chocolatl, the Nahuatl word for chocolate.
Chthonic Railway Station: An underground railway station. "Chthonic" is from Greek χθονιος (chthonios), meaning pertaining to the earth; earthy.
Cloud-Pine: A type of wood used by Witches for "flying" (akin to broomsticks in other literature)
Coal-silk: Nylon, a synthetic fibre made from coal, was invented as a substitute for natural silk.
Dæmon: The animal embodiment of a human's soul. It is prounounced 'demon'
Dust: Dark matter or dark energy (although as more of a "life force"); in the real world, particles which make up most of the mass of the universe, but which cannot be directly observed.
Experimental Theology: Physics. A term derived from the fact that the Magisterium (see above) controls scientific research in Lyra's world.
Electrum: An occasionally used Latin word for amber; see "anbaric" above.
Gyropter: A helicopter.
Fire-Mine: A geothermal vent in which the panserbjorne work in metallurgy; supposedly impenetrable to humans and witches.
Marchpane: Marzipan. In reality, "Marchpane" is an archaic word for "marzipan".
Naphtha: Oil (as in oil-lamp, rather than naphtha-lamp), a petrochemical like kerosene.
Night-ghast: A Nightmare (in the mythological sense).
Oratory: An individual church.
Ordinator: A computer (from the same root as ordinateur (French) and ordenador (Spanish)).
Philosophical: Having to do with the study of physics. In our own world, physics was once considered a part of philosophy.
Photogram: A photograph, more primitive than those in our own world but able to be developed in multiple ways.
Projecting lantern: A magic lantern used for photograms. (Pullman noted in Northern Lights's Lantern Slides addendum that he based the projector in the book on one his grandfather owned.[1])
Shadow (particle): See Dust.
(Experimental) Theologian: A physicist. From "Natural Theology" meaning science.
Tokay: Is either an Anglicized form of tokaji (a famed wine of the Tokaj-Hegyalja region in Hungary), or a reference to Tokay d'Alsace, a name for pinot gris created in the Alsace region of France. The golden color of the wine in the book fits the latter definition.[2]
[edit] People and locations
The history of Lyra's world is also very different from our own; most obvious is the settlement of the New World in Lyra's universe was dramatically altered. Pullman underlines this and other variations by using archaic or alternate names for otherwise familiar people and regions.
Beringland: Northwest America, specifically Alaska and the Yukon Territories of Canada. Named for the explorer who first set out in the region, Vitus Bering
Brytain: A phonetically identical respelling of the region of Britain. It has echoes of "Brython", a word for ancient British people and the lands they inhabited.
Cathay: The medieval European name for China.
Corea: A phonetically identical respelling of the country Korea (used both in Cittàgazze and Lyra's world). This spelling was used prior to the current one, with a "K".
Eastern Anglia: East Anglia, particularly Lincolnshire, the region where John Faa's gyptians live; in Brytain it has remained fenland with the Dutch influence remaining strong.
Eireland: Ireland, as referred to in the Cittàgazze universe. Presumably a mixture of Ireland's Irish-language (Éire) and English-language names.
Gyptians: Boat-dwelling "Gypsies" (Roma). In reality, the word "Gypsy" is derived from "Egypt". Gypsies were once thought by "native" Britons to have come from Egypt due to their darker skin. Pullman is clearly referencing this etymological heritage. There are also references to the Dutch watergeuzen, (in the books, not as much in the movie) a kind of north-sea pirates. One hint to the Dutchness of the Gyptians is their preference for drinking "ginniver" (or Dutch) genever. Also, many Gyptians carry Dutch names like "Dirk Vries", "Raymond van Gerrit" and "Ruud and Nellie Koopman" and use Dutch terms such as "landloper" (a Dutch word literally meaning "land-walker").
Lake Enara: Lake Inari, a lake in Northern Finland. From Enare, the Swedish-language name for the lake.
Lascar: An East Indian. This is a real, though archaic, English word.
Mejico: Mexico, from the Mexican pronunciation.
Muscovite: A Russian; a reference to the Grand Duchy of Moscow.
New Denmark: Most likely the region occupied by the United States of America, east of New France. Lee Scoresby is described as a 'New Dane', although he is from the country of Texas.
New France: Includes Quebec, much of Eastern Canada, and the region bought by the United States in the Louisiana Purchase. A reference to the 17th and 18th century, during which the area around the St-Lawrence River and much of the North American Interior was called New France. (At its peak in 1712, the territory of New France extended from Newfoundland to the Rocky Mountains and from Hudson Bay to the Gulf of Mexico.) Lee Scoresby recalls the Battle of the Alamo as not being between the Mexican Army and Texians and Tejanos, but between French and Danish settlers.[3]
(Great) North Ocean: The North Atlantic Ocean combined with the European region of the Arctic Ocean.
Nipponese: The Japanese language and/or people. From Nippon ("land of the rising sun"), a Japanese-language name for Japan.
Norroway: Norway.[4]
Nova Zembla: Novaya Zemlya, a Russian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean
Panserbjørne (generally italicized): Armoured bears (as a whole race); a warrior race of sapient, talking polar bears, known for crafting powerful armour from meteoric iron
Peaceable Ocean: The Pacific Ocean, calqued from the Latin.
Roman: Specifically, the Latin language.
Skraeling: A Native American (specifically Inuit) person, particularly one from Greenland. Natives of Greenland were once named similarly by the Viking settlers of our world.
Samoyd:The Sami hunters of Northern Scandinavia.
Tartar: A Tatar; Nomadic Turkic, warrior people of the North, known for the practice of unusual spiritual rituals, including trepanning.
Texas: The homeland of Lee Scoresby and a separate nation from New Denmark which shares its southern border with Texas' northern one.
[edit] Pronunciation
The pronunciations given here are those used in the radio plays and the audio book readings of the trilogy (by Pullman himself).[5] The transcriptions surrounded by square brackets are in the International Phonetic Alphabet, as spoken in Received Pronunciation.
Alethiometer: al-eeth-ee-OM-et-er [ˌæliːθɪˈɒmɪtə]
Æsahættr: AS-hatter [ˈæshætə] ("God-destroyer")
Chthonic (see above): kuh-THON-ick [k(ə)ˈθɒnɪk] orTHON-ick [ˈθɒnɪk]. See chthonic for details.
Cittágazze: chee-TAH-gaht-s(z)ay (as Italian) [ˌtʃitaˈgatse]
Dæmon: DEE-mon [ˈdiːmən] (pronounced as "demon")
Iorek: YOR-ick [ˈjɔːɹɪk]
Iofur: YO-fur [ˈjəʊfʊə]
Kirjava: KEER-yah-vuh [ˌkiːrˈjɑːvə]
Lyra: LIE-ruh [ˈlaɪɹə]
Mulefa: moo-LAY-fuh [ˌmuːˈleɪfə]
Panserbjørne: PAN-ser-byurn-eh [ˈpænsəbjɜːnə] (written "Panserbørne" in early UK editions: "Armoured Bears")
Pantalaimon: pan-tuh-LIE-mon [ˌpæntəˈlaɪmən]
Salmakia: sal-MACK-ee-uh [ˌsælˈmækɪə]
Serafina Pekkala: SEH-ra-fee-nuh PEK-ka-luh ['sɛɹəfiːnə 'pɛkələ]
Tialys: tee-AH-lis [tɪˈɑːlɪs]
Torre degli Angeli: TOR-ay DAY-(y)-lee an-JEL-ee (as Italian) [ˈtɔrːe delɪ an'dʒelɪ] ("Tower of the Angels")
Xaphania: za-FAY-nee-uh [zəˈfeɪnɪə]
To enhance the feeling of being in a parallel universe, Pullman renames various common objects of our world with historic terms or new words of his own, often reflecting the power of the Magisterium (Pullman's version of the Roman Catholic Church) in Lyra's world. The alternative names he chooses often follow alternate etymologies, while making it possible to guess what everyday object or person he is referring to. Below are some of the significant renamings as well as new words the author has developed entirely on his own.
Æsahættr: (literally "God-destroyer") The formal name of the subtle knife; deemed the "last knife of all"
Anbaric: Electric. From anbar, Arabic for amber; the English word "electric" is based on the Greek ήλεκτρον (élektron), meaning "amber". Both words derive from the electrostatic properties of amber.
Atomcraft: Research into particle physics, specifically using uranium.
Brantwijn: Brandywine.
Cauchuc: Rubber and possibly also plastic, from the Native American word cauchuc or caoutchouc meaning the sap of the rubber tree.
Celestial geography: Celestial navigation.
Chapel: A scientific laboratory.
Chaplain: The head of a scientific laboratory.
Chocolatl: Sometimes hot chocolate, sometimes "a bar of chocolatl" (a chocolate bar). From chocolatl, the Nahuatl word for chocolate.
Chthonic Railway Station: An underground railway station. "Chthonic" is from Greek χθονιος (chthonios), meaning pertaining to the earth; earthy.
Cloud-Pine: A type of wood used by Witches for "flying" (akin to broomsticks in other literature)
Coal-silk: Nylon, a synthetic fibre made from coal, was invented as a substitute for natural silk.
Dæmon: The animal embodiment of a human's soul. It is prounounced 'demon'
Dust: Dark matter or dark energy (although as more of a "life force"); in the real world, particles which make up most of the mass of the universe, but which cannot be directly observed.
Experimental Theology: Physics. A term derived from the fact that the Magisterium (see above) controls scientific research in Lyra's world.
Electrum: An occasionally used Latin word for amber; see "anbaric" above.
Gyropter: A helicopter.
Fire-Mine: A geothermal vent in which the panserbjorne work in metallurgy; supposedly impenetrable to humans and witches.
Marchpane: Marzipan. In reality, "Marchpane" is an archaic word for "marzipan".
Naphtha: Oil (as in oil-lamp, rather than naphtha-lamp), a petrochemical like kerosene.
Night-ghast: A Nightmare (in the mythological sense).
Oratory: An individual church.
Ordinator: A computer (from the same root as ordinateur (French) and ordenador (Spanish)).
Philosophical: Having to do with the study of physics. In our own world, physics was once considered a part of philosophy.
Photogram: A photograph, more primitive than those in our own world but able to be developed in multiple ways.
Projecting lantern: A magic lantern used for photograms. (Pullman noted in Northern Lights's Lantern Slides addendum that he based the projector in the book on one his grandfather owned.[1])
Shadow (particle): See Dust.
(Experimental) Theologian: A physicist. From "Natural Theology" meaning science.
Tokay: Is either an Anglicized form of tokaji (a famed wine of the Tokaj-Hegyalja region in Hungary), or a reference to Tokay d'Alsace, a name for pinot gris created in the Alsace region of France. The golden color of the wine in the book fits the latter definition.[2]
[edit] People and locations
The history of Lyra's world is also very different from our own; most obvious is the settlement of the New World in Lyra's universe was dramatically altered. Pullman underlines this and other variations by using archaic or alternate names for otherwise familiar people and regions.
Beringland: Northwest America, specifically Alaska and the Yukon Territories of Canada. Named for the explorer who first set out in the region, Vitus Bering
Brytain: A phonetically identical respelling of the region of Britain. It has echoes of "Brython", a word for ancient British people and the lands they inhabited.
Cathay: The medieval European name for China.
Corea: A phonetically identical respelling of the country Korea (used both in Cittàgazze and Lyra's world). This spelling was used prior to the current one, with a "K".
Eastern Anglia: East Anglia, particularly Lincolnshire, the region where John Faa's gyptians live; in Brytain it has remained fenland with the Dutch influence remaining strong.
Eireland: Ireland, as referred to in the Cittàgazze universe. Presumably a mixture of Ireland's Irish-language (Éire) and English-language names.
Gyptians: Boat-dwelling "Gypsies" (Roma). In reality, the word "Gypsy" is derived from "Egypt". Gypsies were once thought by "native" Britons to have come from Egypt due to their darker skin. Pullman is clearly referencing this etymological heritage. There are also references to the Dutch watergeuzen, (in the books, not as much in the movie) a kind of north-sea pirates. One hint to the Dutchness of the Gyptians is their preference for drinking "ginniver" (or Dutch) genever. Also, many Gyptians carry Dutch names like "Dirk Vries", "Raymond van Gerrit" and "Ruud and Nellie Koopman" and use Dutch terms such as "landloper" (a Dutch word literally meaning "land-walker").
Lake Enara: Lake Inari, a lake in Northern Finland. From Enare, the Swedish-language name for the lake.
Lascar: An East Indian. This is a real, though archaic, English word.
Mejico: Mexico, from the Mexican pronunciation.
Muscovite: A Russian; a reference to the Grand Duchy of Moscow.
New Denmark: Most likely the region occupied by the United States of America, east of New France. Lee Scoresby is described as a 'New Dane', although he is from the country of Texas.
New France: Includes Quebec, much of Eastern Canada, and the region bought by the United States in the Louisiana Purchase. A reference to the 17th and 18th century, during which the area around the St-Lawrence River and much of the North American Interior was called New France. (At its peak in 1712, the territory of New France extended from Newfoundland to the Rocky Mountains and from Hudson Bay to the Gulf of Mexico.) Lee Scoresby recalls the Battle of the Alamo as not being between the Mexican Army and Texians and Tejanos, but between French and Danish settlers.[3]
(Great) North Ocean: The North Atlantic Ocean combined with the European region of the Arctic Ocean.
Nipponese: The Japanese language and/or people. From Nippon ("land of the rising sun"), a Japanese-language name for Japan.
Norroway: Norway.[4]
Nova Zembla: Novaya Zemlya, a Russian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean
Panserbjørne (generally italicized): Armoured bears (as a whole race); a warrior race of sapient, talking polar bears, known for crafting powerful armour from meteoric iron
Peaceable Ocean: The Pacific Ocean, calqued from the Latin.
Roman: Specifically, the Latin language.
Skraeling: A Native American (specifically Inuit) person, particularly one from Greenland. Natives of Greenland were once named similarly by the Viking settlers of our world.
Samoyd:The Sami hunters of Northern Scandinavia.
Tartar: A Tatar; Nomadic Turkic, warrior people of the North, known for the practice of unusual spiritual rituals, including trepanning.
Texas: The homeland of Lee Scoresby and a separate nation from New Denmark which shares its southern border with Texas' northern one.
[edit] Pronunciation
The pronunciations given here are those used in the radio plays and the audio book readings of the trilogy (by Pullman himself).[5] The transcriptions surrounded by square brackets are in the International Phonetic Alphabet, as spoken in Received Pronunciation.
Alethiometer: al-eeth-ee-OM-et-er [ˌæliːθɪˈɒmɪtə]
Æsahættr: AS-hatter [ˈæshætə] ("God-destroyer")
Chthonic (see above): kuh-THON-ick [k(ə)ˈθɒnɪk] orTHON-ick [ˈθɒnɪk]. See chthonic for details.
Cittágazze: chee-TAH-gaht-s(z)ay (as Italian) [ˌtʃitaˈgatse]
Dæmon: DEE-mon [ˈdiːmən] (pronounced as "demon")
Iorek: YOR-ick [ˈjɔːɹɪk]
Iofur: YO-fur [ˈjəʊfʊə]
Kirjava: KEER-yah-vuh [ˌkiːrˈjɑːvə]
Lyra: LIE-ruh [ˈlaɪɹə]
Mulefa: moo-LAY-fuh [ˌmuːˈleɪfə]
Panserbjørne: PAN-ser-byurn-eh [ˈpænsəbjɜːnə] (written "Panserbørne" in early UK editions: "Armoured Bears")
Pantalaimon: pan-tuh-LIE-mon [ˌpæntəˈlaɪmən]
Salmakia: sal-MACK-ee-uh [ˌsælˈmækɪə]
Serafina Pekkala: SEH-ra-fee-nuh PEK-ka-luh ['sɛɹəfiːnə 'pɛkələ]
Tialys: tee-AH-lis [tɪˈɑːlɪs]
Torre degli Angeli: TOR-ay DAY-(y)-lee an-JEL-ee (as Italian) [ˈtɔrːe delɪ an'dʒelɪ] ("Tower of the Angels")
Xaphania: za-FAY-nee-uh [zəˈfeɪnɪə]
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
My Favorite Alice Chapter
My favorite Alice chapter is all of them. If I had to choose just one favorite chapter in this work of literary nonsense, I would have to pick Tweedledum and Tweedledee. It is interesting that in an imaginary world, there are characters telling Alice that she is in an imaginary world. Is Alice an imaginary image in wonderland, or is wonderland an imaginary image in Alice? Very tripy stuff! They tell her her tears aren't real, and that they aren't real! How could you know for sure though if you were in a situation like that? Mind boggling! Plus, I love "The Walrus and the Carpenter."
The guardian of beginnings and endings....
Beginnings and endings have been such an important part of this class!!! I give you...
In Roman mythology, Janus (or Ianus) was the god of gates, doors, doorways, beginnings and endings. His most prominent remnants in modern culture are his namesakes: the month of January, which begins the new year, and the janitor, who is a caretaker of doors and halls. (Courtsey of WIKI!)
Simpson's Version of the Flying Pig
Check out this version of flying pigs......
The Simpsons would be an example of an iconoclasm, or the breaking of images, but making aware the power of icons. Simpsons just uses satire and cynicism to do it!!!!
The Scariest Dream I have Ever Had
My grandpa passed away when I was a freshman in high school. He was the light of my life. I was the light of his, as I was his only grand child. He is responsible for getting me through college and has also allowed me to travel over the entire country. When he was alive, each summer we would go on vacation to places like Mexico, Washington D.C., Pensacola, FL., and many, many more.
The dream I will tell you about occurred when I was in my third year in college, so about 7 years after my grandpa passed away.
The dream was placed on a cruise ship. All of my mom's side of the family was there. It was our usual summer vacation with my grandpa Ray, Aunt Jane, Uncle Corky, Aunt Dena, and Uncle Jim, and my mom. My grandpa had just turned ninety the October before the summer we were in at the moment. Grandpa and I were exploring the cruise ship and he collapsed. I was trained in CPR and first aid from being a lifeguard that summer, so I began to revive him. I used a defib machine to shock his heart. Then I began to do CPR on him to get him to start breathing on his own again. With my family surrounding us, he began to breath again, but was still unconscious. But my final thoughts before my dream ended were fearful. I was scared that I waited too long to revive him and that he would have immense brain damage and would live as a vegetable the rest of his life. The dream ended and I woke up crying.
When I woke up crying, my instinct kicked in and I called my mom. She was taken back by the detail in my dream. It eerily paralleled the actual death of my grandpa. When he died he was on his way back to Chicago from Montana. It was a family tradition for him to come to Montana every year for Christmas. The last Christmas he was here, he was very sick. He had been sick for quite some time though. He told the doctors that he had really bad heart burn. He also had this idea that if vets could figure out what was wrong with animals without them talking, doctors could figure out what was wrong with him without him having to tell them. It is clear that the doctors never really understood the full extent of my grandpa's medical condition. Anyways, grandpa made it back home and went straight to the hospital. He was in there for about two weeks and passed away suddenly. The doctors were stunned because the morning of his death, he was playing games of a family card game called thirteen with my aunt and uncle. Nothing seemed to be wrong. He went into cardiac arrest and died of a stroke. When they did an autopsy of him, they found that he had been having mini-strokes for a long time and that serious heart damage had already been done before his heart attack.
When my mom and I were talking about all of this, it was very strange. I have never experienced any dream with such vivid detail and similarities compared to my life. The dream was telling me that it was a good thing that my grandpa died when he did, as his autopsy also revealed that he had cancer throughout his entire body. He would have had a miserable life ahead of him if he would have made it out of the stroke. It gives me the chills to think about this dream still...
The dream I will tell you about occurred when I was in my third year in college, so about 7 years after my grandpa passed away.
The dream was placed on a cruise ship. All of my mom's side of the family was there. It was our usual summer vacation with my grandpa Ray, Aunt Jane, Uncle Corky, Aunt Dena, and Uncle Jim, and my mom. My grandpa had just turned ninety the October before the summer we were in at the moment. Grandpa and I were exploring the cruise ship and he collapsed. I was trained in CPR and first aid from being a lifeguard that summer, so I began to revive him. I used a defib machine to shock his heart. Then I began to do CPR on him to get him to start breathing on his own again. With my family surrounding us, he began to breath again, but was still unconscious. But my final thoughts before my dream ended were fearful. I was scared that I waited too long to revive him and that he would have immense brain damage and would live as a vegetable the rest of his life. The dream ended and I woke up crying.
When I woke up crying, my instinct kicked in and I called my mom. She was taken back by the detail in my dream. It eerily paralleled the actual death of my grandpa. When he died he was on his way back to Chicago from Montana. It was a family tradition for him to come to Montana every year for Christmas. The last Christmas he was here, he was very sick. He had been sick for quite some time though. He told the doctors that he had really bad heart burn. He also had this idea that if vets could figure out what was wrong with animals without them talking, doctors could figure out what was wrong with him without him having to tell them. It is clear that the doctors never really understood the full extent of my grandpa's medical condition. Anyways, grandpa made it back home and went straight to the hospital. He was in there for about two weeks and passed away suddenly. The doctors were stunned because the morning of his death, he was playing games of a family card game called thirteen with my aunt and uncle. Nothing seemed to be wrong. He went into cardiac arrest and died of a stroke. When they did an autopsy of him, they found that he had been having mini-strokes for a long time and that serious heart damage had already been done before his heart attack.
When my mom and I were talking about all of this, it was very strange. I have never experienced any dream with such vivid detail and similarities compared to my life. The dream was telling me that it was a good thing that my grandpa died when he did, as his autopsy also revealed that he had cancer throughout his entire body. He would have had a miserable life ahead of him if he would have made it out of the stroke. It gives me the chills to think about this dream still...
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