Donne Video Response

Here is my video response to the "No man is an island" forum for Moodle. Here is what I think of John Donne's poem "No Man is an Island". 

Of Studies

I thought this quote was the most significant because I believe that it has an important meaning behind it. While reading and studying are important, it is also crucial that we know exactly what information to understand and use. Some books are just meant to be "tasted" or skimmed through to see the idea (Horton 289). Other books are essential to understand and teach significant information that is applicable to life or "chewed and digested" (Horton 289). Sir Francis Bacon uses the words "tasted", "swallowed", and "chewed and digested" to show the different levels of books, from ones that should be taken lightly, to ones that must be taken seriously (Horton 289). Some books may be bad and have little pertinence, while books that contain wise knowledge and advice should be taken into consideration and clearly understood. For example, I would probably find a comic book interesting, but overall it has little importance to my knowledge and pertains little to my life, while a book on Biblical responses to current ethical situations might be extremely important and useful to me. So, the book I would choose to comprehend thoroughly and focus studying on would be the ethical book rather than the comic book. 

Works Cited

Bacon, Francis. "Of Studies." British Literature. Ed. Ronald H. Horton. Greenville, SC: BJU Press, 2003. 289. Print

Macbeth Analysis Outline

According to the play, being a traitor to one's kind is a crim worthy of death. If you were a leader in our country, would you have capital punishment? Why or why not? 

And if you would, list some crimes that would deserve to be punishable by death. 

Yes, I would have capital punishment if I was a leader in our country.

• Why would I have capital punishment?
• In Romans 13:4, it talks about God allowing his ministers (leaders/rulers). to use capital punishment.
• It protects the people from murderers and serves as a powerful consequence that prevents/"scares" others from deciding to in. However, I definitely do not believe that every sin is punishable by death.
• Limit Capital punishment
• I think that it is always better to pick life over death so capital punishment would be a desperate last resort option and only used if absolutely necessary. 
• These are the only crimes that I think are punishable by death.
• Murder
• Rape
• Rulers that abuse their power for evil to incflict harm on the innocent public to satisfy their selfish and wordly desires.
• Terrorism
• Even these sins I wouldn't consider punishable by death in certain situations where life in prinson or some other punishment may serve as a better alternative consequence.

I believe that Macbeth just got to greedy. He wanted to become king so he plotted to kill King Duncan. After he became king, his greed grew. This caused him to kill all those who posed a threat to the thrown. in the end he lost his family, he lost his freinds, and he lost his life just because of his greed. Greed was his motivation for capital punishment, which I strongly believe was wrong. 

Macbeth Reading Score

Here is the Wordle I created on the works of William Shakespeare.

WorksCited

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. Web. 20 Oct. 2010. <http://shakespeare.mit.edu/>.

Faerie Queene Animation

The Faerie Queene

This is my story outline of The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser.

Works Cited

Spenser, Edmund. "The Faerie Queene." British Literature. Ed. Ronald H. Horton. Greenville, SC: BJU Press, 2003. 182-191. Print

Faerie Queene Spoof

The Faerie Queene

This is a spoof I created of one of my favorite parts of The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser! This was just made for fun.

Works Cited

Spenser, Edmund. "The Faerie Queene." British Literature. Ed. Ronald H. Horton. Greenville, SC: BJU Press, 2003. 182-191. Print

Sonnet 75

Quotes are taken from Edmund Spencer's Sonnet 75. 

Works Cited

Spenser, Edmund. "Sonnet 75." British Literature. Ed. Ronald H. Horton. Greenville, SC: BJU Press, 2003. 181. Print


下村陽子. "Destiny Islands." Kingdom Hearts II Original Sound Track [Disc 2]. 

Picture Credit

http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2008/02/10/crazy-little-thing-called-love-2/

http://www.art.com/products/p10079596-sa-i1647310/danny-hahlbohm-christ-in-clouds.htm

http://www.braddock-body-process.com/renewal.html

http://www.hawaiipictures.com/pictures/index/module/media/category/gallery%7Cbeaches/pId/102/id/459/

http://www.longton-elim.org.uk/testimonypage.htm

Love Languages

I feel loved when...

The Five Love Languages

My Primary Love Language is Quality Time

My Detailed Results:
Quality Time:	12
Acts of Service:	7
Physical Touch:	5
Words of Affirmation:	4
Receiving Gifts:	2

Some of those questions I would have just left unanswered!

An Apology for Poetry

An Apology for Poetry on Prezi