Trojan's Woman

Euripides’s tragedy “The Trojan Women” is a very interesting topic to play out in a movie because of the different positions the characters have on accusing Helen of being innocent or guilty. If you look on Helen side, acting as a damsel in distress, she can up to a certain point, be declared innocent because she was supposedly forced to do everything she did by the gods, or the men that had control over her. But if you really consider the facts, no woman is that innocent to do such things only for love or by force, there has to be other reasons hiding under her sleeve. She is seductive, and only looks out for herself, when she knows danger is coming she runs the other way leaving behind everything and everyone, and when she comes back she expects to be received with open arms. Queen Hecuba was right to let her explain because everybody deserves to be listened to; she is a wise woman, but also she is full of grief and anger. Helen is responsible for the death of all her loved ones and the destruction of her kingdom, she will obviously want to see her dead, but she isn’t blinded by that anger and lets her speak. And finally we have King Menelaus, Helens former husband. He listens to her but is not fooled by the reasons Helen gives to declare her innocence and does the correct thing to take her to Greece to be killed there, but there is always the possibility that Helen convinces the King hat she is innocent, considering her beauty and her intelligence she might get away with it, but we won’t know unless we see the whole movie. In this case, it is very difficult to really declare the innocence or guiltiness of Helen because the are many versions of the story, and the one you chose to believe, that will give you the answer on when ether killing Helen is the right thing to do. There is never a side that is a hundred percent right or wrong, but it’s the one we chose to believe.

Animal Storie

Duff, Fife, and Triona were playing a game of hide and seek. The woods in the glen were a great place to play. There were so many hiding places. Duff, a big, brown bear, ran and hid behind a boulder. It was brown like he was, so it was hard to see him. Fife, a raccoon, hid among a pile of sticks and twigs lying on the ground. He was nearly invisible. Triona counted to ten. "Here I come, ready or not," she called.

Duff and Fife giggled as the chipmunk looked for them. "I see you, Duff," she called. "You’re behind that boulder. Come out. You’ve been caught." Duff stood up. He was much bigger than the boulder and furrier too.

Triona ran through the woods, looking up into the trees and behind black currant bushes. "I see you, Fife. You’re hiding under those twigs and sticks. I can see your striped tail. Come out. You’ve been caught," she called. Fife stood up. He had to pull bits of twigs and dead leaves from his fur.

"It’s my turn to count," whined Duff. "I was caught first." Triona and Fife were about to run and hide when the three of them heard a loud roaring noise. "What was that?" Duff asked.

Fife looked at the bear. "I thought it was you. It sounds like a big animal, like a bear."

"It wasn’t me," Duff assured his friends.

ROAR! ROAR! ROAR!

"It’s coming closer. We’d better all hide," Triona squeaked. The three animals ran and hid behind the boulders. "Be very quiet so it doesn’t hear us," she warned.

ROAR! ROAR! ROAR!

"It’s coming into the woods," Fife gulped. "What if it’s a monster?" he whispered.

"Shhh, Fife. Don’t make any noises at all," Triona said.

Just then a highland cow came into the woods and stopped near the boulders. "Why, it’s only Lorna," Duff said.

"Lorna, why are you roaring like that? You’re not a monster and you’re not a lion. You’re supposed to moo," Fife said.

"Hee hee. I tried to scare you and see that it worked. I want to play hide and seek too," Lorna laughed.

Feeling relieved to see the cow, the others climbed out from behind the rocks. "Okay, Lorna, you can play, but you have to be the one who counts first," Duff said.

"That’s fine. You three go and hide and I’ll count," Lorna said. "MOO! One. MOO! Two……..MOO! Ten! Here I come."

They played hide and seek for hours. Lorna had a harder time hiding because she had big handlebar horns, but managed to have fun with the others.

Music Assigment

1. Beethoven - 6th Symphony - Pastoral
Fast or slow? slow
Loud or soft? Loud
What instruments are playing? 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets in B flat, 2 bassoons, 2 horns in F and B flat, 2 trumpets in C and E flat, 2 trombones, timpani and strings.
Are there voices? No
Does the music sound easy or difficult to play? Difficult
What is the music for – quiet listening, dancing, a big concert? Big Concert
Research: Beethoven was always a nature lover. He passed his days in the Springfield. The symphony was presented in a big concer in the Theater an der Wien de Viena, el 22 de diciembre de 1808.. The compositor say: “the 6th symphony express more feeling than pinture and sounds”. This symphony break the classic model having 5 movements instead of only 4.


2. Los Saicos - Demolicion
Fast or slow? Fast
Loud or soft? Loud
What instruments are playing? 1 Drum, 1 guitar, 1 bass and 1 microphone
Are there voices? Yes
Does the music sound easy or difficult to play? Easy
What is the music for – quiet listening, dancing, a big concert? Dancing
Research: The Saicos is a garage band rock and proto punk band formed in 1964 in Lima, considered precursor punk. Despite its short existence, was one of the most successful groups of their Tima. was the first band to record in South America and one of the first to write Their own songs in Spanish. had a visceral and aggressive style yet really fun. of his best known singles are "Demolition", which has become an anthem Peruvian rock and eventually music and appreciation for the band spreads worldwide.



3. Carlos Montoya, Farruca
Fast or slow? Fast
Loud or soft? Loud
What instruments are playing? Guitar
Are there voices? No
Does the music sound easy or difficult to play? Difficult
What is the music for – quiet listening, dancing, a big concert? Quiet listening
Research: was a prominent Flamenco guitarist and a founder of the modern-day popular Flamenco style. His unique style and successful career, despite all odds, have left a great legacy for modern day Flamenco. It is because of his pioneering work in popular Flamenco music that have allowed other great modern groups to take hold in all parts of the world. A few of his video recordings can still be found on YouTube.


4. Wesley Willis, “Rock’n’Roll McDonald’s”
Fast or slow? fast
Loud or soft? loud
What instruments are playing? Piano, Bass, Drums, syntotizer, microphone
Are there voices? Yes
Does the music sound easy or difficult to play? No
What is the music for – quiet listening, dancing, a big concert? Dancing
Research: Wesley Willis (May 31, 1963 – August 21, 2003) was an American singer-songwriter and visual artist from Chicago, known for his simple but unique music, with emphasis on his humorous, bizarre, and frequently obscene lyrics. A diagnosed chronic schizophrenic, Willis gained an enormous cult following in the 1990s. In addition to his large body of solo musical work, Willis fronted the punk rock band the Wesley Willis Fiasco. He was also a visual artist long before his forays into music, and produced hundreds of intricate, unusual, colored ink-pen drawings, most of them of Chicago streetscapes and CTA buses




5. Frank Sinatra, “I’ve Got the World on a String”
Fast or slow? Slow
Loud or soft? Soft
What instruments are playing? Microphone,
Are there voices? Yes
Does the music sound easy or difficult to play? Difficult
What is the music for – quiet listening, dancing, a big concert? quiet listening
Research: "I've Got The World on a String" is a 1932 popular song composed by Harold Arlen, with lyrics written by Ted Koehler. It was written for the 1932 Cotton Club Parade.It was introduced by Cab Calloway and Bing Crosby. It was also recorded by Frank Sinatra in 1953. It reached #14 on Billboard's most played list.

Flood Assingments

What are important similarities between the stories?

1. They mention the number 7 a lot.
2. There where a ship or an ark to save the humans, and the animals (witch were the same).
3. They principal characters were warned by their gods about the flood.

What are important differences between the stories?

1. Not all the character were an important person on the culture. Example: in the Chinese story the guy was a king and in the other the characters were normal people.
2. In the bible 3 bird were send to check if the flood passed away and in the other only 2

What are the gods like in the different stories?

They are mean because they want to kill all the humans and only warned one family because they were the chosen ones to restore the earth

What is the importance of animals in the stories?

They were really important because when the flood passed away they can obtain natural sources to survive

What was difficult to understand about the stories? 

The types of words that they were using, they are so old that some words that they mention aren't mentioned in the present 

Why do Utnapishtim, Noah, Deucalion, and Manu deserve to survive when other people will die in floods? 

 Because they are all forgiven by the gods, apparently they are decent people how deserve to survive and become the need habitants of earth.  

Stonehenge

  Stonehenge is one of the little amount of the prehistoric art left in the United Kingdom. People from around the world like archaeologist, scientific and even normal people like you and me love this buildings, But the rare thing about Stonehenge is that no one know exactly why the were built. Some theories say that the were use as a place for sacrifice people, other ones say that was a place to connect to the gods, but no one know exactly their function. 


  The construction of this buildings was divided by 3 steps:

1. The circular bank was made. it is the one that gives it the circle form from the exterior. This is so awsome because they don't have the tools that now day we have to make circles, but without our tools the still made a perfect circle!
2. When the circle was done, the architects started putting big rocks in for of "post and lintel" making wide circles in the inside.
3. Finally they put the Bigger rocks in an interior circle.

  They used a mortise and tenon technique. This really took my attention because the people that built this were so intelligent! With this tecnique they built perfect circles and all the details of this place. this guys made this magnific pice of art whit really basic things. and its so impressive that we can still see Stonehenge, that the time dont destroy this place is just amazing, and we are so lucky that we can have it because it give us clues of how our ancestors lived.