Post1: Passage

* please choose one passage from the novel that is significant to you. why is this passage meaningful? Please type it into one of your entries and comment on what you think about the passage.

“I didn’t know that! Montage laughed abruptly.

“Bet I know something else you don’t. There’s dew on the grass in the morning.”

He suddenly couldn’t remember if he had known this or nor, and it made him quite irritable.

“And if you look”-she nodded at the sky-“there’s a man in the moon.”

He hadn’t looked for a long time.

This passage was significant for me, because it reminds me to take a time and look the environment around me. I have missed many precious things that looked so simple, because I was so tightened up with my school works and others. Dew on the grass and a man in the moon seem nothing. However, if we become like Clarisse, we can see the beauty of the raindrops, the feelings of the breeze in the middle of the winter, or the sound of the leaves of the garden trees rustling in the spring breeze. Maybe we were too ignorant of the beauty around us. It is amazing that Clarisse can find aesthetics in the middle of confusion and corruption. This is very meaningful to me and gives me a lesson that I should always be positive and thoughtful of what I have around me, instead of under estimating the world with negative statements all the time. During my break, I will try becoming my Clarisse and take time to study the beauty of nature and the society I live in.

Entry 3: DK WITH SUPER ABILITIES

If I could be any Greek god or goddess I would like to be an Eros who has an ability of flying. In addition I would also like to have an ability of throwing lightning bolts like Zeus the god of all goddess. This two amazing abilities will allow me to fly and throw lightning bolts at the same time. The main reason of desiring these abilities are because I can punish people who are self centered, greedy and bad. If I can get this abilities for sure; the first person to get strike by my lighting bolts will be Kim jung il the North Korean Dictator. I hate his way of treating people and how he controls them. However there are several more reasons why I want these abilities. First of all, ability of flying is very convenient, because I can travel to a place really fast and safe. For example, one of my biggest hates of being a dorm student is that I need to travel riding KTX. My first time riding KTX was fantastic and hilarious but after I got use to its speed it was no more fun and interesting. Therefore, when I get off the KTX in Taejeon station, I need to ride Taxi; I had no problems with riding a Taxi but taxi drivers in Tae jeon Station always seemed to have a problem with me. If I have the ability of flying I will never have to worry about riding taxi and KTX.
For my physical look I will choose Ares the god of war. In the Korean comic book about Greek Myth, Ares had the most amazing looking and he was once a boyfriend (kind of) of Aphrodite.

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Entry 2: Greek Monster

I decide to choose a monster related to Hermes. I researched about Argus. He is a giant with a hundred eyes, who was also called Panoptes. Hera put him to guard Zeus, because Zeus was making an affair with other gods and humans. But Zeus sent Hermes to kill the giant. This is now the interesting part how Hermes killed Argus. As I have mentioned before Hermes is very clever. So he decides not to attack Argus directly because he knew that Argus can see him from every side. So Hermes started playing his instrument to put Argus in to a sleep. After Hermes putting Argus into a sleep he cuts the head of Argus and that was how Argus got killed. After Argus got killed Hera feels sympathy for him and makes him in to a peacock. Argus was a really strong monster that even Zeus couldn’t kill easily. However the smartness of Hermes has successfully killed Argus. Before his untimely end, Argus went into the fight business. He had already killed a very tough ravaging bull and Echidna, although he had to hit her when she wasn't looking.

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Entry 1:Greek God

I researched about Hermes, the messenger of all gods. I decide to research about him because he was one of my favorites and I like the way he became god. According to the legend, Hermes was born in a cave on Mount Cyllene in Arcadia. Zeus had impregnated Maia at the dead of night while all other gods slept. When dawn broke amazingly he was born. After Maia giving birth to Hermes she wrapped him and went to sleep, however, Hermes free himself and went to the place of Apollo. This was where Apollo herds living. Hermes stole a number of the herd and drove them back to Greece. When he was on his way he caught a tortoise and made the first lyre. When he was back in cave he wrapped himself back into the swaddling bands and pretended nothing happened. When Apollo realized he had been robbed he protested to Maia that it had been Hermes who had taken his cattle. Maia couldn’t believe what happened because Hermes was still wrapped. As the argument went on, Hermes began to play his lyre. The sweet music enchanted Apollo, and he offered Hermes to keep the cattle in exchange of Hermes’s lyre. So that was how lyre became one of Apollo’s symbols and this is another reason why I like Hermes so much. On his age of 1 he started playing lyre and that was really cool and amazing to me. Zeus has watched all of Hermes work and decided to make him god. He gave him flying shoes; hat and staff, which eventually became Hermes’s symbol.

The personalities and character traits of Hermes and Hercules is very different, because the personality of Hercules is opposite of Hermes. Hermes uses his smartness to solve problems and he was extra clever. In addition, he was also very creative. Hercules mainly used his strong power to solve problems and he wasn’t that smart at all. After watching the Hercules (Movie) I have concluded that Hercules is dumb. However there is one thing that they have in common, they are both son of ZEUS the god of all goddess.

citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermes

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(we read Animal Farm)

Post 6 My Choice

My thoughts...

The book was hilarious and motivating it was also very educational. I think this book was fun out of the other book I read. It was really interesting. Also it was easier to see what kind of system and wrong human society we had. It made me think about all of the history and documentary movies I saw in Geography class (Miss Simpson!!), which I am glad that I watched through it and not slept through. Anyways it helped me to understand more about why people doesn’t like communism and why people tries to end them. This gave me a good picture of learning. This book was also very easy to understand because I understood the history of Stalin the Soviet Dictator. But if I understand and learn more about the history, than I might understand the true meaning of the book and open my eyes to more truth. I also got interesting information from other readers that the author’s name is not George Orwell. He faked his name so he doesn’t get caught writing about communism, believe it or not. However this book was miraculous and it was very significant because I usually don’t finish the book. I think I picked the right book for this time. It was exciting how animals are shown as viscous humanistic characters.

Post 5 Meaningful Passage

Please choose one passage from the novel that is significant to you. Why is this passage meaningful? Please type it into one of your entries and comment on what you think about the passage.

“The Seven Commandments

1. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.

2. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.

3. No animal shall wear clothes.

4. No animal shall sleep in bed.

5. No animal shall drink alcohol.

6. No animal shall kill any other animal.

7. All animals are equal.” (p. 43)

The seven commandments from the Animal Farm was the most unbelievable and wordless passage. I was speechless. I was irritated by the foolish act of humans. In our modern civilization, there are crimes everywhere we go. Killing and murdering are some of the main ones. I think that humans should consider changing their iniquitous image to a righteous image. Humans are worse than animals! What the HECK!!! (SRY)
Dirty, unjust, crazy are some of the words that can represent humans. In the point of view of animals they will think that we are incredibly awful. After reading the first two commandments, I thought that animals must have had a bad influence from humans to have such rules. What could humans have done to be enemies of animals? Putting the food supply reason on the side, I thought about other reasons. The rest of the commandments told me everything. In the book, the farmer was drunk all the time when the animals saw him. Because he was drunk, Mr. Jones often forgot to feed his animals. Every time he got money from selling his farm products, he used it for his alcohol enjoyment. Because selling pigs was what Jones did for their living, the animals thought of him as a murderer, separating family members of animals. I thought that the last commandment was made because humans treated the animals unfairly. For example, I hypothesized that the pigs were fed more because Jones wanted to sell them for money.Because humans showed sinful images to animals, animals have been influenced by creating rules to prevent what humans have done to them from happening. Us, humans should work on being on the “good” list of animals. No more killing! No more alcohols!