Just Add Water

At one point in time, there was water. Water is essential to the product to make it whole, but just how essential is it?

Excess Greed and Waste

Excess waste or greed looks like that one uncle during Thanksgiving who keeps going back for seconds, and thirds and fourths. He doesn't realize that there isn't a surplus of food and there are a lot of other people that want to eat. This selfish mentality is exactly what excess waste and greed looks like. Your uncle will eat and eat and eat, making a huge mess along the way. A mess that he will not be forced to clean up.

“Collaborative Learning and the Conversation of Mankind”

To better help students understand the material they are learning comes the technique of collaborative learning. Collaborative learning is when two or more people learn together and collaborate ideas. In the article "Collaborative Learning and the Conversation of Mankind," Kenneth A. Brufee states how many students did not want to receive offered help on their work. "These programs failed because undergraduates refused to use them. Many solutions to this problem were suggested and tried, then mandated programs that forced students to accept help they evidently did not want." It is pointless to force somebody to do something they do not want to do. I would suggest that these schools show the students the consequences of not asking questions to things they do not understand.

Collaborative learning is an excellent idea to help students learn to their full potential. By working with other students, one gathers different ideas and perspectives from different people to work with and form their own judgement. Having an array of different ideas allows room for broadening ones own horizons and seeing things from another point of view. Not only will this aid in the educational side of learning, but also the social. Working with another peer instead of a superior such as a teacher will allow the students to feel more comfortable. It will also take the pressure off of them so that they can fully express their ideas and not worry about saying the wrong thing.

Communication is a very essential tool to learning and understanding. The article states "To the extent that thought is internalized conversation, then, any effort to understand how we think requires us to understand the nature of conversation; and any effort to understand conversation requires us to understand the nature of community life that generates and maintains conversation." Having a basic conversation with another person is an easy way to broaden ones horizons. Such ideas as collaborative learning and peer tutoring makes learning and understanding material that much easier.

Hass and Jones

Both Haas and Jones' poems demonstrate how language is a slippery vehicle. The usage of the words presented in each of the poems shows nature in the making. In Rodney Jones' poem Hubris at Zunzal he says "No image like the image of language." Words are used to present an image in the readers head. Each and every word holds a power influence over whomever is reading them. Both of these authors use the imagery of language to portray their different ideas. For Robert Haas, the lack of language paints a more vivid image for the reader. As much as he tries to describe in essence how beautiful the trees are, he cannot find the proper word to describe them. Haas and Jones present the same idea from opposite sides of the spectrum. On one side, Haas' side, language is a slippery vehicle because there are somethings in life that cannot be described solely using words. On the other end of the spectrum is Jones who presents the idea that language provides its own sense of imagery.

Shakespeare Concordance

The data I retrieved was found in Act II and Act IV. The context at which Shakespeare the particular theme of sport is when they are referring to the game of love.

The data I retrieved supports my first thoughts on Shakespeare's obsessive use of the particular image doesn't necessarily relate back to my initial thought about sport. When I hear the word, I thought of physical activity and competition; but reading more into it, Shakespeare uses figuration to support sport into a game of love and a competition between people to win the heart of another.

Quote 3

Viola: Then think you right. I am not what I am.
Olivia: I would you were as I would have you be. (III.i.148-9)

Olivia is professing her love for Cesario, but he isn't returning the favor because underneath the disguise, it is Viola. The line Viola says can be taken two ways; as she is not in love with Olivia or that she isn't really the man she thinks she is. This almost seems as a desperate plea made by Olivia because she so desperately wants Cesario to love her back. She wants the feelings she feels for him to be separated, but they are not. Cesario is just the mess anger of the man that truly loves Olivia, yet Olivia ends up falling for Cesario instead.

Quote 2

Malvolio: ...and yet to crush it a little, it would bow to me... (II.v.1434-145)

This quote takes place while Malvolio is reading the letter that was supposedly from Olivia. He is so blinded by his own ego that in this quote he is trying to convince himself that this letter was actually meant for him. Malvolio over analyzed this letter to fit his want, which is that Olivia is falling in love with him. By the end of reading this letter, Malvolio is truly convinced that Olivia is in love with him just as much as he is in love with her.