Sargon+Hamad

Humor
The news can be oh so depressing and sad. That's why i turn to Colbert to help me laugh at it!

Click the Link and enjoy!

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/407249/january-30-2012/colbert-super-pac---the-chase

Hamlet Blog #4
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Personal Response:

And so Hamlet ends. In the end everyone died all because he could not decide what do. if only he had killed Claudius earlier. On the other hand this is a key part in the play. since the whole thing was about deciding what to do, now we finally get an answer. Its sad though, i feel as if he only managed to do so because he was dying and so he had nothing to loose.

=Essential Question: =

Where do we draw the line between sanity and insanity? To what extent do we trust the insane?

His sanity has been almost like a roller coaster throughout the play. Goes down, then up, then down, and so on. But i guess he really wasn't. He seemed so normal towards the end (besides killing his uncle). I only liked the idea because it made more sense, because why else would you let it drag on so long and let people die and not avenge your dad? because your afraid your uncle would go to heaven? Dose it matter in the end? I doubt it. They all died.



Hamlet Blog #3
Personal Response:

The famous "To be, or not to be" speech. As we decrypted that ancient chines language we got to the heart of the play and saw how Hamburger really felt. What I thought was a man questioning his sexuality turned out to be a soliloquy of him pondering the pros and cons of weather or not to live or die (oddly enough). Hamburg eventually chickened out because he was too scared of what the afterlife was like.

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=Essential Question: =

Where do we draw the line between sanity and insanity? To what extent do we trust the insane?

ok, so we can all agree that Hamster is crazy at this point. He still wants revenge for his dad and puts his life and everyone eases at risk. If he wanted to kill him so badly he would have when he was praying. But noooooooo he though that he would go to heaven because he was doing a noble thing. Is that even in Christianity?! where dose it say you can get away with murder if you just apologies? Hammer has completely lost it.

With that logic i present the following scenario:

king Claudius: Where am I?

God: The after life son. You were killed.

KC: Oh that's right...damn it hamlet....well i guess this is where you pass judgment right?

G: (bursts into laugh) Judgment? hahaha! what judgment? no kiddo, you go down satires.

KC: What?! why?!

G: Well lets see here (flips through paper) says here you poised your brother wile he slept, took his crown AND his wife in the same month, put his son through misery, spied on him, then tried to kill him, which lead to the death of his mother, his girlfriend, various other individuals, and himself...

KC: So no heaven?

G: Nope.

KC: Man, I'm sorry.

G: Your sorry? well why didn't you say so?? go right on in!

KC: :D



Passage:
To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis Nobler in the mind to suffer The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune, Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles, And by opposing end them: to die, to sleep No more; and by a sleep, to say we end The heart-ache, and the thousand Natural shocks That Flesh is heir to? 'Tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished

Personal response:
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This week we payed close attention to the Ghost in Hamlet, an important point in the story which serves to introduce the plot and the theme of revenge. To me I've always wondered...why a ghost? like why not a loyal servant of the king that saw? or a guy who used to work for Claudius but felt supper bad about what he did and came to tell the truth? I still am not sure really what to think of it. just sayin.

=<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Essential Question: =

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Where do we draw the line between sanity and insanity? To what extent do we trust the insane?

I always thought that the ghost was just to show how unstable Hamlet is in his situation. Hamlet seems little loony, why else couldn't Gertrude see it later on? maybe its weather the person has come to terms with his fathers death, and since Gertrude is happy with his brother (ew) It explains why she couldn't, as for the two guards at the beginning, I don't think they were very conflicted by his death so they have no problem with seeing him.

Im sure y'all remember him:



<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Passage:
It waves me still. You shall not go, my lord. Hold off your hands. Be ruled; you shall not go. Unhand me, gentlemen. I say, away! Go on; I'll follow thee. // Exeunt Ghost and HAMLET //
 * HAMLET **
 * MARCELLUS **
 * HAMLET **
 * HORATIO **
 * HAMLET **

Blog #1
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Personal response:

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Hamlet is one of those plays that are portrayed everywhere. Not just in parodies or as a reference but in day to day pop culture. That's one of the reasons why looking forward to this unit. for example: My brother and I where playing a video game when he was visiting once, called LA Noire, when the main character picked up and started to investigate a toy skullsh-headsh-figure and with a chuckle said, "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio". I asked Adonis if that was from a Shakespeare play, he told me “no that’s the guy from CSI Miami”. But I was so sure after you hear his name countless times in pop culture….IF I ONLY READ THE THING! I lost $5 that day.

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Essential Question:
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Where do we draw the line between sanity and insanity? To what extent do we trust the insane?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">well i guess it just depends on the man/woman and their past and their motive. Hamlet acts crazy in order to try and learn about his fathers death but then we think he went crazy for real. I still don't know for sure. For a graving and depressed man to try and act mad is as healing as a remedy of drugs to a meth head in rehab. in the end even though he still got his revenge, I dint think e was fine in the head.



<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">My Favorite Passage:


 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">HAMLET **

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Let me see.

//<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Takes the skull //

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> of infinite jest. . . Prithee, Horatio, tell me one thing.


 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">HORATIO **

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">What's that, my lord?


 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">HAMLET **

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Dost thou think Alexander looked o' this fashion i'

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> the earth?


 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">HORATIO **

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">E'en so.


 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">HAMLET **

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">And smelt so? pah!

//<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Puts down the skull //


 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">HORATIO **

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">E'en so, my lord.


 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">HAMLET **

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">To what base uses we may return, Horatio!


 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">HORATIO **

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">'Twere to consider too curiously, to consider so.


 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">HAMLET **

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">O, that that earth, which kept the world in awe,

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> Should patch a wall to expel the winter flaw!