Examples from Shrek .

Exaggeration: To enlarge, increase, or represent something beyond normal bounds so that it becomes ridiculous and its faults can be seen

Ex: Exaggerating what she can get from the Fairy Godmother to convince her otherwise, away from Shrek.

Incongruity: To present things that are out of place or are absurd in relation to its surroundings

Ex: The animals rescuing Shrek and how they are talking, acting like humans, and helping Shrek escape by setting off bombs and scheming.

Reversal: To present the opposite of the normal order (e.g., the order of events, hierarchical order).

Ex: The medieval era, but making it modern by having their own Starbucks, Burger King, billboards, and seem like Los Angeles.

Parody: To imitate the techniques and/or style of some person, place, or thing

Ex: Scene 14 imitates the Red Carpet, and the Entertainment sitcom with Joan Rivers commenting on outfits. Imitated pepper spray with a pepper grinder.

Kindred Questions

1. I liked Sebastian's poem because it grasped me while reading it. The language and tone was touching. It has a meaningful tone and a deeper meaning behind it.

2. I like Christine's picture the most. She drew Dana and a hourglass with the world inside of it. She beautifully drew Dana, depicting her as this soft, beautiful, youthful woman and drew the hourglass with the world split in half running through it, as if it were the measures of "time".

3. My favorite quote was from Raul's poster and it said "you did almost come home. Your fear almost sent you home." I think this quote means that she's afraid to come back.. to wherever she left. This is significant because she's coming back "home", a place where she should feel safe, and never be fearful of. It tells us that Dana is scared of something at home. Maybe something she's insecure about.

4.

Slavery and America Today

Slavery no longer exists today in America, however its impacts are still very alive in society. Prejudice, racism, sectionalism, and nativism are all results of slavery. Some people in America think they are superior to other races and are often prejudiced towards them because of stereotypes.

Satire

satire |ˈsaˌtīr|nounthe use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues. See note at wit .

Parody, Irony, Sarcasm... Often about education (in the Simpsons)

Note to a Critical Friend Template

Note to a Critical Friend Template

Dear Cindy,

I would like to persuade the people to help veterans who are mistreated by the governments lack of efficiency to provide for them.

The greatest obstacles to this happening seem to be the lack of funding.

I am also worried about the lack of medical care from physical and mental injuries that take place during war.

What do you think of my reasoning?

Thanks for your help.

Sincerely,

Mailei Tydingco

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Blog Comments.

Kervin's video was hilarious! I like the way he addressed his topic and approached it in a way to make it enjoyable for his classmates.

Tia, Gaby, and Cristina's keynote slideshow incorporated great surreal photos. They really made me think about life, nature, and their true meanings.

Jasmine's keynote followed the video prompt really well. It was quick with transitions and had subtle humor(:

Minh, Joaquin, and Tiffany's scrapbook was great. It had great quotes and sayings. I also liked how they kept the quotes one in the same with the topics.

Michelle and Kat's photo collage was AMAZING. The idea of the many frames and great photos was intriueging. You could tell that everything in that project had a deeper meaning, whether it was the frame, the photos, the positioning of the photos.. etc.

Christine's collage represented civil disobedience really well. She had newspaper clippings and grasping photos of rebellions and great civil activist moments.

Dominic's nature journal was great. From it you could tell he actually went out to experience the nature of his neighborhood first hand.. (Exactly what Thoreau wanted!)

Mailei, Rahel, and Cindy Comic Strip.

Mailei, Rahel, and Cindy Annotated Bibliography

http://www.veteransforpeace.org/

This website, Veterans For Peace, is an official Non-Governmental Organization. It uses many personal experiences that were given by many soldiers and veterans. It want raise public awareness about the consequences and true costs of being a soldier at war, it also takes about how they have gained inner peace. Veterans For Peace is a neutral site.

http://www.nvf.org/

NVF serves the crisis management, informational, and referral needs of all U.S. veterans and their families. NVF is a non-profit organization that offers emotional support, a listening ear, and information about veteran services and resources available in your community and throughout the United States. NVF is run by veterans, for veterans and its sole purpose is to help veterans get help asap. NVF is a neutral informational site.

http://www.nvo.org/

A not-for-profit corporation chartered by the State of Delaware dedicated to the preservation and enhancement of Veterans Benefits. NVO is a biased site supporting resources for Veterans.

Mailei and Tre Literary Periods.

The colonial period was a more religious genre focused on daily life and politics, while the romanticism period was more emotional, imaginative, and based on individualism. The historical context of the colonial period was all about Christianity and Puritan values. The historical context of the romanticism period was about the Industrial Revolution and civil war.

The characteristics of transcendentalism are spiritualism, individualism, gothic, pain, evil, gloom, mystery, and true reality.

The historical context affects the periods by creating common general emotions and questioning towards what happening during that time.

Mailei, Cindy, Rahel's Glass Menagerie Study Guide.

1) If we were to create an autobiographical play about our family, we all agreed we would make a comedy. As characters we would use all of our family members and to represent them we would use loving, caring, welcoming, humorous, and crazy characters. We also all agreed that we would gladly share the play with our family(:

2) We believe that the title The Glass Menagerie is symbolism for protection or safe-keeping. Knowing that glass is very delicate and fragile, we guessed this because maybe Laura wants to keep her animals safe, away from harm. Glass is also see through, so while she's keeping her animals safe, she can also look at them and watch over them.

3) World War II was happening during the early 1930's. The war affected people's lives during that time because it creates fear in people and could often change social and political systems for countries (which affects everyone's daily life). It could affect the Wingfield's because maybe a family member was at war and adjusting their daily lives without them is a struggle.

4) We think that in the 1930's televisions were big, black and white, had knobs and antennas. Jim was probably thinking of improving t.v by quality wise, within the picture; either making it color or more clear. If we were to work in an industry that we think would be successful in the future, it'd be environmental friendly appliances. To make this industry greatly impact the world, it'd probably take at least 10 years.

5) For a family of 3 to live on a monthly sum of roughly around $300 would be extremely difficult. Making ends meet seem almost impossible with a pay like this one, especially if you would have to supply for others in a family.

6) Women's rights and opportunities have greatly changed since the 1930's. If she were living in today's times, she would not be as limited to jobs or things she was back then. Women nowadays aren't as limited, for most are able to equally take inititative with what they want as men.

7) To get out and explore different experiences outside of San Jose is something we would all love to pursue. Other places can bring very beneficial changes and perspectives to your life, for they make you see the world and life in new ways that you wouldn't be able to realize if you were stuck in one place for long. This is a dream for all of us and pursuing it is something we all plan on doing! &It all starts with COLLEGE (:

Civil Disobedience Project.

Group: Cindy, Rahel, Mailei

3 Themes: 1)Teen Pregnancy, 2)Animal Mistreatment, 3)Disabled Veterans 4)Drug Abuse

Articles

1)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35448556/

2)

http://circuswatchwa.org/cruelty.htm

3)

http://www.dav.org/

4)

http://drugabuse.gov/nidahome.html

Mailei and Julianna's Common Theme.

The common words within our wordle were freedom, government, hope, faith, negro, white, conscience, etc. In our opinion, from these words, we believe the common theme is about human rights and history. These words are very powerful and meaningful towards the success of human nature and our society today. They all connect because they support the main theme of striving for a better country and what we've done to achieve this.

Favorite Presentation

I really enjoyed Jessika, Rachel, and Julianna's presentation. I thought that they did a good job connecting to the story and putting in their own creative spin on the project. Their keynote showed personality and the way they related to the characters was easy to understand.

As far as improvement on our keynote, I think that we could've completed the questions more thoroughly. For my question, I had a personal opinion so when it came to recording, I winged most of it. I think it would've been more complete and professional if I actually wrote things down in a paragraph.

Teenage Suicide

http://medicalcenter.osu.edu/patientcare/healthcare_services/mental_health/mental_health_about/children/suicide/Pages/index.aspx

The reason I think teens consider suicide is because when you're a teenager, you find yourself in very emotional stages. Stages of stress, happiness, angriness, and sadness. We go through tons of feelings everyday and find ourselves torn of multiple decisions. The pressures of being a teen have huge affects as well. Being a teen, we are constantly reminded of how we have so much potential and opportunity, and need to make things right because its the "time of our lives" that we can never get back. All of these things combined make us feel this need to please others and please ourselves. Feeling things like this get us overly emotional because we find ourselves hopeless, and lost. With no where to turn, because no matter what there's always something new coming up, something more for us to worry about, someone new for us to think about, or just something in general. This feeling that nothing will ever work itself out and that we always have to constantly think about something and be prepared is a lot on a young mind. The pressure seems so much at times, and it leads to wanting ways out... or in other words; death.

Crucible Test

Human Conflict

1.

Puritan Society, a facade of a one-sided truth.

Upholding this "perfect life"

Strong beliefs are easily broken.

2.

Contradictory at most,

Humans will remain human.

Do only sinners and failures only exist ?

3.

Abigail, young and naive.

Driven by selfishness,

Escapes her reality.

4.

Never once a bit innocent,

Until the end..

When hysteria set her free.

5.

Proctor, he was only just a man.

If flaws are inevitable,

Shouldn't forgiveness be as well?

6.

To serve your full purpose in life,

Means to die a good man.

In the end, who's judgement really matters?

7.

Danforth, with a heavy heart and mind.

Yet, left with a heavy decision.

Was weighed down by circumstance.

8.

Choices are made to be right..

However, they mean much more if they please the right people.

Who do I please in this life ... You? Myself? God?

9.

Morals, preset by God.

Guide hearts and frame minds.

Different minds.

10.

To satisfy with civil beings,

The clash is inevitable.

Who's right and who's wrong ?

11.

What matters most ..

Life on Earth? The Afterlife?

12.

Final judgement awaits.

Your sins ready for punishment..

13.

If so, what do you pick ?

Life or Death.

Live a lie, or die for one..