18. Ed-English. Chocolate lover. Daydreamer. Hates backstabber and flirts. i L♥VE: I'm Kharenz. 18 years breathing, a typical teenager. Currently madly inlove with Fernando Louis T. Ochoa.
Daydreamer| Professional Bathroom Singer| Speaks Fluent Sarcasm| Hates Flirts and Backstabbers|
I should never expect, demand nor assume.
I should know my limits, my role & where I stand.
I must not get too jealous, affected nor paraniod.
I must go with the flow and stay happy. :>
I can be a lover, a player or a flirt. But that's just not my style. I'm nothing but a good person with a naughty sweet innocent smile. :>
I am INEXISTENT, but in the eyes of those who understands, I EXIST.
I am BAD, but to people who learned to dig dip within me, I became the definition of GOOD.
I am NUMB, but to a few whom i learned to like and trust, I became the most SENSITIVE person they ever knew.
I am SiMPLE yet COMPLEX.
I would either be your FRIEND or ENEMY.
To others, I am nothing but to the lives I've touched I may be Everything. In whatever way you see me, I thank you deeply.
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TEAM BUILDING ACTIVITIES

Activity 1
Description:
A game that would stir thinking and imagination. Collaboration of ideas is very much needed and it has no room for failure. An excellent story may take place from it. Try and try until you succeed is risky.

Literary Theory: Hermeneutics, because all of the players can create their own version or interpretation of the story given but then there is only one or definite chronological event of the story being presented by the facilitator.

Activity 2
Description:
Teamwork is the name of the game. Don’t get nervous and have a good hold on your rope of FOCUS. You will sooner or later uncover DHL and FedEx cleverness in you.

Literary Theory: Hermenuetics, again because there would be different interpretations of the rules given by the facilitator, it depends on the understanding of the player, but then there is a definite/ correct way way of handling the bottle from the front up to finish line.

Activity 3
Description:
Are you responsible of your laundry? If not, well, be geared up to perform so. A hustle and bustle of uproar is waiting for you and your group in your activity.

Literary Theory:Marxism, because in this game other person must be on the top, others must be on the bottom. Just like in Marxism theory, there is social leveling.

Activity 4
Description:
Entertaining and Exciting Game is in the making once you started this game. Points demand for speed and speed demands time. Remember, Kiss-and-Tell is not permitted!

Literary Theory:Cognitive Cultural, because in this game the students must think of the best strategy on how they can pass the marshmallow to other other person without falling in the ground.

Activity 5
Description:
Have you seen Dr. Jose Rizal recently? Well, it’s been a while since I saw him and I assume he’s drowning at the moment. Save him from misery!

Literary Theory: Historicism, because in this game we must find the coins with the year indicated that the facilitator tells.

Activity 6
Description:
Never to be frightened of the dark because there’s constantly someone who will assist you throughout your journey in the chasm of confusion. Just be careful of what you step on.

Literary Theory:Marxism, since Marxism has a hierarchical structure, this game can be compared to that because of having a leader and a member. The leader acts as the manager of the group while the members are the followers.

Activity 7
Description:
The doctor is OUT! OMG! You have to save your group! You don’t need to be a doctor to save them! A heart jam-packed of determination could salt away your group from losing.

Literary Theory:Psychoanalysis Theory, since this theory somehow refers to the extensive use of logic, the game really needs critical thinking and logic on how to come up to the best strategy to finish the game in a faster way.

Activity 8
Description:
Be prepared to serve others as you take this challenge! But wait? How can you carry out the test if you can’t take a glimpse of them? It’s up to you now! Anyway, you have 4 senses left.

Literary Theory:Deconstruction theory, since this theory deals with the opposites, in this game we have done the opposites. We lose our sights, the faster way to finish the game is to rely more on our other senses.

Activity 9
Description:
Number 1 Rule of this Game: DON’T TOUCH ME! Never drenched me into the water. I’m sensitive to H20. I just have to cross the waves. Can you do that for me?

Literary Theory:Aestheticism, this theory deals with beauty and art and in this game we must do our best to project beauty in our movements that we will not drown the cup and the tissue in the pool.

Activity 10
Description:
It’s travel time! Be prepared to be with your cluster as you journey to the immense vastness with your “close up” position. Calm down but never slow down. Enjoy the ride!

Literary Theory: Structuralism, this theory relies more on structure rather than the meaning itself, we can apply this theory to this last game. The team must focus on the structure of the circle so we must not lose the ties of the laces on our feet and get to the finish line as fast as possible.

The Last Judgment by Carel Kapek

This literary piece falls on the category of short story. Life is the central theme of the whole selection. The literary theory that can be applied to the selection is Psychoanalytic theory of Sigmund Freud. Psychoanalytic theory is the method of psychological therapy originated by Sigmund Freud in which free association, dream interpretation, and analysis of resistance and transference are used to explore repressed or unconscious impulses, anxieties, and internal conflicts, in order to free psychic energy for mature love and work. Or can be the theory of personality developed by Freud that focuses on repression and unconscious forces and includes the concepts of infantile sexuality, resistance, transference, and division of the psyche into the id, ego, and superego. Because the behavior of the characters in the story is due to their hidden and unconscious motives. The way he thinks, his actions and behavior is caused of her bad previous experiences in life.

The United Fruit Company by Pablo Neruda

“La United Fruit Company” by Pablo Neruda, laments the exploitation of the Latin American countries by North American companies. Neruda begins the poem with a biblical tone, lending the poem an epic or mythical feeling.

This religious language, juxtaposed against the names of icons of consumerism like Coca Cola, Ford Motors and The United Fruit Company reveals a sarcastic disdain towards the arrogance of the North. At the same time, Neruda weaves in the quasi-religious language of Democracy employed by the companies in popular culture to cover up their immoral behavior. The exploited Latin American countries are ‘baptized’ in the propaganda of the North as ‘Banana Republics’, euphemistic phrase, derogatory in the sense that it belittles the idea of democracy in Latin America as limited and primitive, almost cute, and conveys the not so subtle message that by selling off their natural resources, the ‘Banana Republics’ could be elevated from their primitive conditions towards a more modernized and democratic level of existence.

Neruda uses the image and language of fruit as an extended metaphor for the Latin American countries, using adjectives like ‘juicy’ and ‘sweet’. By describing the coastline of his country as the hips of a woman, Neruda likens the plundering of Latin America to the act of rape. For Neruda, the Latin American countries are like a fresh, virginal fruit, consumed by the north then carelessly cast aside to rot.
By invoking the memory of dead ancestors, over whose graves the North American companies erect their operations, Neruda both comments on the irreverent attitude of the northern companies towards the cultures and histories of the exploited lands, but also points to the history of imperial conquest that has manifested Latin American history from the time of the great indigenous empires like the Incas and Mayas, to the conquistadors of Spain.

The cavalier attitudes of companies like the United Fruit Company and Coca Cola are only the most recent iterations of the pattern of conquest and domination that has plagued Latin America since its earliest history:

LITERARY THEORY: MARXISM. Here, the biblical reference to the ‘crowns of Cesar’ (translated in the English version as ‘imperial crowns’) represents the United States. The ‘comic opera’ refers to the puppet governments set up by the CIA in Latin America to safeguard the interests of North American companies at the expense of the Latin American people. Neruda describes the orgy of blood and greed that ensued, portraying the bloody Latin American dictatorships supported by the United States as carnivorous flies, parasites that live off the suffering, rotting fruit of Latin America.

The repetition of the word ‘mosca’ (fly), combined with the alliteration of ‘zumban’ (buzzing noise of an insect) and ‘tumbas’ (tombs) creates a musical tone that amplifies the extended metaphor of Latin America as a fruit being consumed by parasites. Now, however, the fruit is rotting and putrid. Toward the end of his poem, Neruda’s sarcasm changes to lamentation as we witness the pillage of his country:

Sayaw ng Dalawang Kaliwang Paa

The plot was borne out of the poems of feminist poets Rebecca Anonuevo, Joi Barros, Merlinda Bobis, Ophelia Dimalanta, Ruth Elynia Mabanglo and Benilda Santos. Narrative cinema hasn’t historically been a great medium for the expression of poetry. They are two very different beasts, each one governed by its own specific set of rules. The film immediately disarms these concerns in its first ten minutes, in a blockbuster sequence that brilliantly melds poetic verse with cinematic language. The interplay between the two disciplines provides the space for a rather elegant display of exposition, revealing shades of information through tone and rhythm rather than speech.

The rest of the film isn’t as aggressively edited as those first ten minutes, but aside from one clunky scene near the end, it’s all still largely about showing, and not telling. The largest stretches of dialogue are reserved for analyzing poetry, keeping the tangled emotions of the characters just smoldering in the background. The film is more notable for its use of silence. This isn’t really so much a story about love as it is about longing. Love is often spoken, but longing is not. It resides in glances, and emerges in the free expression of movement in dance. The film is content with depicting that strange tragedy, and it finds beauty in the long silences that fill up its characters’ lives.

The intricate dance choreography is ably captured by the film’s graceful cinematography, and it’s more than ably performed by the film’s cast. Jean Garcia delivers one of the most impressive acting performances of the year. She is reserved and complex, and she’s able to fill the film’s silences with a wealth of history and emotion. Paulo Avelino and Rocco Nacino hold up their end of the bargain as well. Their characters are broader, but they still handle them with grace and restraint. The two especially shine in the dance sequences, where their body language expresses more than words ever can.

If there’s an abundance of romanticism that happens in the film, it is mostly focused on poetry, dance, and art rather than the non-love affair between the two male leads. Dennis, Marlon, and Karen are transfigured into a means of conveying a love affair with the arts, lovingly enunciating each word in every poem, every turn and sleight of hand evoking a torrent of emotions any of them will never get to say.

Richard Cory by Edwin Robinson

In “Richard Cory”, Edwin Arlington Robinson uses irony, simplicity, and perfect rhyme to depict the theme of the poem. The rhyme in “Richard Cory” is almost song-like, and it continues throughout the whole poem. The theme of the poem is that appearances are deceiving. The poem is about a man who everyone thinks is a “gentleman from sole to crown”, who then commits suicide. Irony is used in the poem very skillfully to show that appearances may be deceiving. When reading the poem, you get caught up in the song-like rhythm and it intensifies the effect of the tragedy. You think that everything is going perfectly, and that the poem is going to have a happy ending until you get to the last two lines, which are, “And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,/ Went home and put a bullet through his head.” When Richard Cory kills himself at the end of the poem, it is as shocking to the reader as it is to everyone else in the poem who assumed him to be the all around perfect guy. It is ironical that the man who everyone else thought was “perfect”, was missing something, and took his life .

“Richard Cory" is a tragic poem. While others looked on with envy at what appeared to be a perfect life, Richard Cory was drowning from a lack of contentment, fulfillment, meaning, purpose, and love. He had it all, yet happiness was still out of his reach. What is it to gain the world, yet forfit your soul? Wealth, status, and success cannot satisfy. Health, friendships, and intimate relationships cannot bring satisfaction. Only true and unconditional love can bring purpose, meaning, and fulfillment.

The suicide of Richard Cory is not, or ought not to be, a surprise. It is an inevitability, predetermined by the subjugation of selfhood. Even more significantly, however, the subjugated self reclaims itself in the act of suicide. Not that the poem recommends suicide as a way of asserting individuality. Rather, it observes an extreme gesture in an extreme case. To see the poem in this way is to see it as neither bitter nor negative, at least not entirely so. We read ill if we cannot see that Richard Cory is granted an oblique triumph at the end, for he has refused to suppose himself made happy by what “everyone” supposes will make him everyone happy. In short, Richard Cory’s self emerges neurotically perhaps; still it emerges triumphant over the imposed role of “success.”

Other techniques reinforce this contrast. There is the metaphor of a hero who can set one’s blood to racing (“he fluttered pulses”). In a sight image, Cory “glittered” in light, while the townspeople “waited” for their own “light,” perhaps a symbol of the happiness of which they felt deprived. Symbolically, they hate what they have (they “cursed the bread”) and must do without what they feel they need (“went without meat”). Sound imagery builds the tension of the poem, with its hidden and open miseries; in the beginning every sound is soft. Cory is “quietly arrayed”, there is the quiet beat of fluttering pulses, the curses of discontented people, and “one calm summer night.” But then there is the loud climatic sound of a gunshot.

There is a frequent use of alliteration, another technique related to sound, as well. There is, for example, the repetition of the “p” of, “we people of the pavement” which connects the speaker to the streets. There is much use of the “w” and “th” sounds in lines such as, “In fine, we thought he was everything/To make us wish that we were in his place.” Through such sound devices, as well as through sight imagery, symbols and images, the poet enhances his contrast between a town’s illusions and its sudden awakening to reality.

The style of “Richard Cory” expresses the poem’s meaning simply and clearly. The language is easily understood and the sentence structure uncomplicated. Robinson also uses the first person point of view so the reader participates in the poem as one of the townspeople, thus emphasizing the irony of the ending couplet even more.

Conveying its ironic message through simple language, “Richard Cory” is an effective poem. It expresses an emotion that many of us feel: envy for those we think lead happier lives that we do. And it reveals the foolishness of such envy and the secret pain and sorrow in an individual’s life.

This theme of the individual in isolation is common to the work of Edward Arlington Robinson. Many of his poems, such as “Miniver Cheevy,” “Mr. Flood’s Party,” and “Bewick Finzer,” describe individuals who cannot fulfill their dreams or who consider themselves failures.

The Use Of Force by William Carlos Williams

The story evokes with great immediacy a number of important issues about doctoring: the predicament of having quickly to assess a medical/social situation in an unfamiliar, even hostile environment; the doctor’s impressive powers of observation; his concern to do the right thing medically; the anxiety of the sick child’s parents; the power that the doctor wields; the dark side of human nature which may allow such power to surface in unsavory ways and which the professional, like any rational person, has under most circumstances learned to control.

The technique and style of Williams’s stories have often been compared to that of Gertrude Stein, Sherwood Anderson, early Ernest Hemingway, and D. H. Lawrence.

The Use of Force,” which has been interpreted variously in terms of its implications about violence, practical applications in the field of medical ethics, sexual connotations, psychological aspects, and autobiographical factors.

A formalist critic reading William Carlos Williams’s “The Use of Force” might consider how the story begins and ends, contrasting its opening matter-of-fact objective description with its concluding shift of perspective and heightening of language. A formalist perspective would typically include observations about the relations among the characters, particularly with the doctor, who is clearly an outsider, invited in among them only because of the sick daughter. Character relations are of paramount interest in Williams’ story since a conflict occurs between the doctor and his patient, one that is resolved only through the use of force. The relations between the doctor and the parents are equally interesting, since their surface behavior contrasts with their feelings about each other.

Other aspects of the story of interest from a formalist perspective would include the writer’s use of the first-person narration, especially the way the narrator’s thoughts are made known to readers. A formalist critic might ask what difference it would make if the story were told in the third person, or if the narrator’s ideas were to be voiced in direct dialogue.

Team Building Activity

If there is a literary theory that can be applied in our team building activity, I think it is Feminism and Cognitive-cultural theory.

Why Feminism?

Let us define first feminism. Feminist theory, which emerged from these feminist movements, aims to understand the nature of gender inequality by examining women’s social roles and lived experience; it has developed theories in a variety of disciplines in order to respond to issues such as the social construction of sex and gender. Some of the earlier forms of feminism have been criticized for taking into account only white, middle-class, educated perspectives. This led to the creation of ethnically-specific or multiculturalist forms of feminism.

I can apply the Feminism theory for the group who got 1st place in the activity is mostly composed of female. this only shows that, women can do anything they want especially if they are determined and motivated.

Why Cognitive-cultural?

I can apply cognitive cultural theory in most of the challenges in a way that all of the challenges requires critical thinking especially in the last station that we have gone to. We are given 10 different pictures and all we have to do is arrange that so we can form a story that is similar to the story of the facilitator.

We cannot guess it right for the pictures doesn’t make sense. But after all the brainstorming and critical thinking, we have come up with a story that is similar to the facilitator’s story.

Water, is taught by thirst. by Emily Dickinson

Water, is taught by thirst.
by Emily Dickinson

Water, is taught by thirst.
Land — by the Oceans passed.
Transport — by throe
Peace — by its battles told
Love, by Memorial Mold
Birds, by the Snow.

The speaker states that when we don’t have certain things like water, land, or love and peace, we tend to realize how much we cherish those certain things. In other words, we tend to cherish things when they are gone.

It is really all about opposites. The first two lines are clearly different, but then the 3rd and and 5th are opposites. Talks about feeling great pain, then embracing it and expressing love towards the subject (most likly the person who died) The last line is another opposite revelent to nature to keep doing repitition.

The poem in the first line talks about the world and the unlucky people who do not have the advantages we have. The second line is talking about Land and how it cannot thrive without the ocean. The third line expresses the emotion that Emily probally had that came and then had gone. Fourth line maybe means that we all want peace in the world and that fighting is no way to recieve it. In the Fith line it means after one dies we remember them and cherish their memories and will forever love them. The Sixth I believe is talking about the weather and how birds migrate and change

Fire and Ice by Robert Frost. (For Literary Criticism)

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

As the title implies, “Fire and Ice” is a poem of contrasts, a poem of extremes.

The use of techniques such as repetition, meter and rhyme are what are commonly used in the poem. The structural elements might include the line, couplet, strophe and stanza.

It would be very easy to prove that the main theme of the Robert Frost poem, “Fire and Ice,” is the destructive nature of emotions run amok. Hate or love—if not controlled can consume us.

The “fire” option may represent the passions —- greed, anger, lust, yelling, confrontation. Any of these can destroy a relationship (or a world).

On the other hand, the “ice” —- chill in relationship, ignoring the other, not communicating, perhaps even hatred —- these would do just as well in destroying a relationship (or a world).

Kharenz Grace D. Dulay

Bsed - English III-1