jadenbane's Journal

Subject:	English Exam Questions
Time:	5:20 pm.

ENG 4U
May 2006
In-Class Essay Topics
20% of Final Grade

Students will be given one of the questions below on the day of writing to complete in class.

No notes, dictionaries or aids of any kinds may be used.

Please answer neatly in pen on foolscap using one side of the page and writing every other line.

Be sure to make specific references to the literature in developing your answer.

Answers are evaluated according to the rubric shown in class.

Your teacher will specify which works you may use in your answer:

King Lear, Handmaid's Tale, Antigone, Oedipus, Frankenstein

"Justice will prevail." Evaluate the application of this statement by referring to two of the works your teacher specifies.

"The most enviable of human gifts is the ability to reason clearly." Evaluate the application of this statement by referring to two of the works your teacher specifies.

"Freedom is the key to happiness." Evaluate the application of this statement by referring to two of the works your teacher specifies.

Comments: Read 4 or Add Your Own.

Subject:	I <3 Roy.
Time:	11:44 pm.

I don't really know what to say about Roy Mcdonald, there are just so many different ways to talk about him. I think of him at once as my grandfather, my teacher, my friend, and my coworker. Roy and I share no blood ties, no scholastic ties, no social ties, and no professional ties; when you look at it we're just two guys who bump into each other. But that doesn't mean he isn't important to me; Roy is probably one of the most important people in my life.

Fifty one years my senior Roy is probably one of my closest friends. Since we met, we've been having coffee semi regularily, and we've started getting together on a triweekly basis. When we get coffee I'm not sure we really talk, or chat; for some reason confer seems to be the verb of choice.

I'm sorry I can't finish this right now...
( See... )

Comments: Read 3 or Add Your Own.

Subject:	ENGU 4U ILRP ESSAY OUTLINE
Time:	9:30 pm.
Mood:	tired.
Music:	Astor Piazzolla - Verano Porteno - Summer In Buenos Aires.

Name: Jaden Bane

Author: Franz Kafka

Story #1: Kafka, F. "The Judgement" Collected Stories. Trans. Willam and Edwin Muir
               New York: Random House 1993

Story #2: Kafka, F. "The Stoker" Collected Stories. Trans. Willam and Edwin Muir
               New York: Random House 1993

Secondary Source #1: Levi, Mijal: Kafka and Anarchism
                New York: Revisionist Press 1972.

Secondary Source #2: Poltizer, Henry: Franz Kafka: Parable and Paradox
                New York: Cornell University Press 1966.

Proposed Thesis: Kafka feels man is powerless to the beauraucratic machines around him, cs he is a slave to a higher authority. Need to indicate how he shows this (stage of progression or stylistic means.) (Are these complementary statements? Is the "higher authority," the "beuraucratic machine?")

EXCELLENT/SOLID GOOD POTENTIAL / [REFINING NEEDED] WEAK / INAPPROPRIATE / UNCLEAR
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Topic Sentence #1: Georg's father is a depressing figure who opresses Georg. Which part of the thesis does this support?

Supporting Points:

First paragraph of "The Judgement" is free open ?
When Georg enters his father's room he is stunned by its darkness 'meaning' what ?
Georg describes his father an enormous man, giving him an over powering personality indirectly not quite clear

Critical Support:

"Yet nowhere do we find any indication Old Bendemann could have forgiven his son."
"When Georg enters [his father's room] he is struck by the darkness that revails the room produced and reflects claustrophobia."
Pathetic Fallacy

Topic Sentence #2: Georg when told to drown himself does not question 'the Jedgement' but submits to it, since he considers his father's rule absolute.

Supporting Points:

Georg kills himself expediently
He never questions the judgement
He still respects his father

p #'s

Critical Support:

Old Bendemann hold absolute absolute power only for this one son." (Politzer, p. 62)

Topic Sentence #3: Georg and The Stoker are both victims of impersonal or unreasonable opression.

Supporting Points:

Georg is opressed by his Father
The Stoker is opressed by his Roumanian Chief Engineer Schubal
Neither give exact causes why

You'd need to show the impersonality or unreasonableness to prove your point."

Cirtical Support:

"In dark allusions he blanes the conditions, 'the way things run', for a fate from which, we are made to feel, he will never be able to escape." (Polizter, p130)

Topic Sentences: 4 [3] 2 1
Supporting Points: 4 [3] 2 1
Critical Support: [4] 3 2 1
Excellent / Solid Satisfactory Needs Improvement Very Weak

Topic sentences need to tie clearly to the thesis.

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Time:	8:14 pm.
Mood:	creative.
Music:	Raglan Baroque Players - Concerto No. 2 In A Major.

A year and a bit ago Derek and I came up with a game, an obsequiously arithmetic game. Since the game's rules have been layed down once or twice in various notebooks, and then been promptly forgotten, I'll make an attempt at putting down an authoritative edition of the rules.

Six Handed Suicide

A trick-taking game for two players. The object being to collect as many points as possible.

A standard deck of 52 cards is dealt out between the two players, giving 26 cards per player. Each opponent takes two cards from their opponent and reserves these as a personal kitty of cards. This leaves 24 cards per player, their deck. Each player's deck is to be played in tricks of four card hands, and thus the game's name (4 cards / trick * 6 tricks = 24 cards.)

Each trick is played out as follows.

Both players takes four cards from the top of their decks. Then each player chooses a single card from their hand which their opponent has to 'match.' Matching a card consists of using up to three of the remaining cards in your hand to get a value less than or equal to the numerical value of the card being matched; if a player cannot put down a combination of cards which is lower than the card being matched their "trick" is zero, and their hand is discarded. However, if a player can match the value a card, they subtract the value of the cards put down from the card being matched. Then the difference of the cards is subtracted from the total in their hand and this is their "trick." Once both players have tried to match, the player with the highest trick subtracts the lower player's trick from their own and adds this value to their score. This is done six times, and then each player reveals their kitty and uses all the cards in their hand to attempt a "match." Whoever has collected the most points from tricks wins.

The only special case is when someone plays the king of hearts. Usually it is used as a trick card which your opponent has to match, however it is considered unmatchable and the person playing it simply adds the value of their hand to their score.

Ex. 1

Player A recieves a hand of 8♠ 4♥ 3♣ J♦
Player A puts down: 8♠

Player B recieves a hand of J♠ 9♠ 2♣ A♦
Player B puts down: 9♠

B Plays
Player A has to match 9♠ and Player B has to match 8♠. Neither can get exactly on the card they have to match so Player A plays 4♥ 3♣. This means that for the trick A has a difference of 9♠ - (4♥+3♣) = 2 and since B can only play 2♣ they'll have a difference of 8♠ - 2♣ = 6. This gives A a trick of J♦ - 2 = 9 and B a trick of (J♠ + A♦) - 7 = 18. Since B's trick is higher B adds (18 - 9) = 9 to their total.

Comments: Read 1 or Add Your Own.

Time:

10:31 pm.

So, I've got this assignment to do. I have to write a monologue about something ,to be delivered by a character, ya-da ya-da ya-da! Anyway. I would like this extremely rough draft edited and I though why not ask RQ? It's five hundred words nothing big. But there are rules, you've got to:

You've got to edit everything (spelling, grammar, word choice) You can't just rip through it and correcting everthing though - I need you to write in little comments [in brackets] so that my teacher can see someone has edited it. Now don't worry about being kind -Russ said he wanted to shoot me in the head and my teacher loved it. So pretty simple:
-Correct it
-Write [comments] throughout
-Send it back. Feel free to post your edits as comments!

Have to! (Note this is amazingly rough!)

( The Mini-Monologue )

And a pretty good example of what I'm looking for

( Edits. )

Comments: Read 2 or Add Your Own.

Time:	11:59 pm.
Mood:	pissed off, angsty, desiring an escape.

Five bucks says this is going to sound completely moronic, but I think I have too much creative energy. I want some of it out. It is amazingly frustrating, this "gift" isn't paying its rent or doing me any good and just keeps banging around my brain all day.So I say someone should come over drill and put a hole in my head and suck out the precious brain juices that are seriously impeding my abilities to do anything.

P.S. Mom? Dad? Why the fuck didn't you guys just sign me up for music lessons like every other fucking backseat accident that was destined to attend Central? Christ!

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